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Manchester United manager 'furious' and will not stay at club ahead of Jose Mourinho arrival
Louis van Gaal is said to be seething with how news of his imminent sacking by Manchester United was leaked immediately after the FA Cup final triumph over Crystal Palace on Saturday,rolex oyster perpetual submariner date imitation, and will reject any role that the club offer him in order to leave completely.
Jorge Mendes, the agent of Jose Mourinho,rolex submariner imitation, is expected to arrive at Old Trafford on Tuesday to negotiate a deal that will see the former Chelsea manager sign a three year contract. Van Gaal arrived at United's Carrington training base as normal on Monday, as he is yet to be told anything by the club, and it's reported by The Times that he does not yet know if he will be sacked or not.
It's added that Van Gaal only became aware of the reports that confirmed Mourinho will take over when his wife,fake mens rolex submariner, Truus, informed him at Wembley in the immediate aftermath of the FA Cup final win.
Van Gaal admitted on Sunday that "it's over",imitation rolex submariner used, although United quickly moved to play down suggestions that the Dutchman was talking about his tenure at United and stated he was instead referring to the season. Regardless, Van Gaal's fate appears to be sealed, with the Independent confirming on Saturday evening that Van Gaal will be replaced this week.
Van Gaal will be paid for the final year of his contract, with the 64 year old in line to receive a 5.4m compensation package for the final 12 months that he will fail to see out. United have moved to distance themselves from reports that they have already paid Mourinho a 4m payment in order to keep himself available, with reports in Spain suggesting that the sum was given to the Portuguese on 1 May with a similar amount due on 1 June.
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Louis van Gaal is said to be seething with how news of his imminent sacking by Manchester United was leaked immediately after the FA Cup final triumph over Crystal Palace on Saturday,rolex oyster perpetual submariner date imitation, and will reject any role that the club offer him in order to leave completely.
Jorge Mendes, the agent of Jose Mourinho,rolex submariner imitation, is expected to arrive at Old Trafford on Tuesday to negotiate a deal that will see the former Chelsea manager sign a three year contract. Van Gaal arrived at United's Carrington training base as normal on Monday, as he is yet to be told anything by the club, and it's reported by The Times that he does not yet know if he will be sacked or not.
It's added that Van Gaal only became aware of the reports that confirmed Mourinho will take over when his wife,fake mens rolex submariner, Truus, informed him at Wembley in the immediate aftermath of the FA Cup final win.
Van Gaal admitted on Sunday that "it's over",imitation rolex submariner used, although United quickly moved to play down suggestions that the Dutchman was talking about his tenure at United and stated he was instead referring to the season. Regardless, Van Gaal's fate appears to be sealed, with the Independent confirming on Saturday evening that Van Gaal will be replaced this week.
Van Gaal will be paid for the final year of his contract, with the 64 year old in line to receive a 5.4m compensation package for the final 12 months that he will fail to see out. United have moved to distance themselves from reports that they have already paid Mourinho a 4m payment in order to keep himself available, with reports in Spain suggesting that the sum was given to the Portuguese on 1 May with a similar amount due on 1 June.
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Lady Sainsbury
Lady Sainsbury, who has died aged 101, was, with her husband Sir Robert Sainsbury,replica cartier calibre, a well known sponsor and patron of the arts; in 1973 the couple gave the bulk of their collection to the University of East Anglia in Norwich,copy calibre de cartier chronograph, commissioned the then little known architect Norman Foster a personal friend to design an art gallery on the campus, and worked with him to produce the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, which opened in 1978.
The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (ALAMY)
Lisa Sainsbury and her husband were pioneering collectors in many fields. Guided by an instinctive emotional response to sculptural form, they provided financial support and friendship for Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon at a time when the artists were largely unknown. They also shared an appreciation of non western art and antiquities, amassing a collection of figurative work, sculpture, pottery and textiles from cultures ranging from Ancient Greece to tribal Africa and from the Americas to contemporary Japan. When the Sainsbury Centre opened, what it revealed to the public was not only a private collection of the best artists of the 20th century but also a redefinition of what art might be.
Lisa Sainsbury developed a particular interest in studio ceramics. Beginning with the purchase of a vase by Lucie Rie in the 1950s, she amassed a considerable collection of more than 400 modern pots, including whole bodies of work by Hans Coper,fake calibre cartier, Rie and Rupert Spira. The Lisa Sainsbury Ceramic Collection is now regarded as a showcase of modern British studio ceramics.
The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (ALAMY)
The Sainsburys initial gift to UEA featured several hundred works, but they continued to acquire for the university and to make endowments for running costs and for new departments, including the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas and the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. The institute was funded by the sale in 1998 (for 4,291,500) of their first joint art purchase, the Portrait of Baranowski by Modigliani, which they had acquired in 1937 for 1,000. The centre library was named in Lady Sainsbury honour in recognition of her enthusiasm for the project.
Extraordinarily, even though their collection contained works by Francis Bacon, alongside Degas, Picasso, Modigliani, Moore and Giacometti, for many years the Sainsburys set themselves an annual purchasing budget of just 1,000, rising to 2,000 in the mid 1950s. Spotting talent early meant they bought cheaply. Giacometti drawings were purchased for 5 apiece; a Picasso sketch for 85. Their 13 Bacons, now worth many millions of pounds, cost a total of just 8,000. forget how unknown it was possible for people to be, Lisa Sainsbury observed.
Yet they never bought to make a profit. should think of it as if you were spending the money on a party. That was my husband great view, Lisa Sainsbury recalled. think of art as an investment. If things do become valuable, you jolly lucky.
Lisa Ingeborg Van den Bergh was born in England on March 3 1912, the daughter of Simon Van den Bergh, a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris. The Van den Berghs were a notable Dutch Jewish margarine manufacturing dynasty and Lisa and her future husband were second cousins through Robert Sainsbury mother Mabel (ne Van den Bergh). His grandfather, John Sainsbury (1844 was the founder of the family food retailing empire.
Lisa was brought up in cultivated circles in Paris, Geneva and London, though she once confessed that before her marriage she had little interest in art: a girl my father dragged us round museums and told us what we had to like and what we shouldn and that put me off for a while. But when he was very old, my father said: 'I read an article about Soutine and I think he someone you and Bob should buy I said, as a matter of fact, you eat with us regularly and there been a Soutine in the dining room all this time.
Robert Sainsbury had already begun collecting when the couple married at a London registry office in 1937. Shortly after their marriage they moved into No 5, Smith Square, Westminster, their home until 1994, when they moved to Dulwich. Until the 1970s they also kept a house at Bucklebury in Berkshire.
During the Second World War, Robert Sainsbury coordinated the company food supply activities as part of the war effort, while Lisa, with their eldest daughter Elizabeth, sailed to Canada, where in 1940 she gave birth to a son, David (now Lord Sainsbury of Turville,calibre cartier fake, the former science minister). Leaving the children with friends, Lisa returned to London to work as a medical social worker at St Thomas Hospital. Another daughter, Celia, was born in 1945, followed by Annabel in 1948.
From 1937 Bob and Lisa, as they were known in the art world, began what he referred to as a unplanned voyage of discovery in the world of art. For 30 years, with his elder brother Alan, Robert would steer Sainsbury from a local grocer into a supermarket giant. In the process, they became one of Britain richest families. Robert became chairman of the company in 1967, but it was for his services to the arts that he was knighted the same year. As well as buying art he took up a number of posts at museums and art galleries both in Britain and abroad.
Becoming friends with the artists they supported was always one of the Sainsburys greatest pleasures. Henry Moore was godfather to their son David; Alberto Giacometti drew Elizabeth and David; Francis Bacon (whose bank account Robert guaranteed ) did three portraits of Lisa Sainsbury, who recalled that: was most enjoyable sitting for him if you survived the paint. He lived in complete squalor and there was paint everywhere.
However Lisa admitted that to begin with many of their friends were baffled by the Sainsburys taste for Bacon screaming popes, howling dogs and haunted, tortured human figures. were wildly anti Bacon. They would say, 'How can you live with this awful man, it has put me off my food. It amused the couple that by the 1970s some of the same people who had criticised them for buying ghastly monstrosities were now lauding them for their taste and perspicacity.
In later life, however, Lisa confessed that she herself had much the same negative reaction to artists such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin: and I used to wonder if we were getting too old. But we decided no, it was just sensationalism.
The UEA was not the only beneficiary of the Sainsburys generosity. They made major donations to hospitals and to Kew Gardens, where they funded a orchid conservation project. Lisa Sainsbury was particularly interested in the hospice movement. She established her own charitable foundation to train nurses to help the dying deal with ethnic, religious and spiritual issues and supported many hospices, including St Christopher the world first purpose built hospice, established in 1967 by her friend, Cicely (later Dame Cicely) Saunders.
Lady Sainsbury was awarded an honorary degree by the UEA in 1990 and an honorary fellowship in 2003. The same year she was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, in recognition of her lifelong contribution to the promotion of Japanese culture in Britain.
Lady Sainsbury, who has died aged 101, was, with her husband Sir Robert Sainsbury,replica cartier calibre, a well known sponsor and patron of the arts; in 1973 the couple gave the bulk of their collection to the University of East Anglia in Norwich,copy calibre de cartier chronograph, commissioned the then little known architect Norman Foster a personal friend to design an art gallery on the campus, and worked with him to produce the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, which opened in 1978.
The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (ALAMY)
Lisa Sainsbury and her husband were pioneering collectors in many fields. Guided by an instinctive emotional response to sculptural form, they provided financial support and friendship for Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon at a time when the artists were largely unknown. They also shared an appreciation of non western art and antiquities, amassing a collection of figurative work, sculpture, pottery and textiles from cultures ranging from Ancient Greece to tribal Africa and from the Americas to contemporary Japan. When the Sainsbury Centre opened, what it revealed to the public was not only a private collection of the best artists of the 20th century but also a redefinition of what art might be.
Lisa Sainsbury developed a particular interest in studio ceramics. Beginning with the purchase of a vase by Lucie Rie in the 1950s, she amassed a considerable collection of more than 400 modern pots, including whole bodies of work by Hans Coper,fake calibre cartier, Rie and Rupert Spira. The Lisa Sainsbury Ceramic Collection is now regarded as a showcase of modern British studio ceramics.
The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (ALAMY)
The Sainsburys initial gift to UEA featured several hundred works, but they continued to acquire for the university and to make endowments for running costs and for new departments, including the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas and the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. The institute was funded by the sale in 1998 (for 4,291,500) of their first joint art purchase, the Portrait of Baranowski by Modigliani, which they had acquired in 1937 for 1,000. The centre library was named in Lady Sainsbury honour in recognition of her enthusiasm for the project.
Extraordinarily, even though their collection contained works by Francis Bacon, alongside Degas, Picasso, Modigliani, Moore and Giacometti, for many years the Sainsburys set themselves an annual purchasing budget of just 1,000, rising to 2,000 in the mid 1950s. Spotting talent early meant they bought cheaply. Giacometti drawings were purchased for 5 apiece; a Picasso sketch for 85. Their 13 Bacons, now worth many millions of pounds, cost a total of just 8,000. forget how unknown it was possible for people to be, Lisa Sainsbury observed.
Yet they never bought to make a profit. should think of it as if you were spending the money on a party. That was my husband great view, Lisa Sainsbury recalled. think of art as an investment. If things do become valuable, you jolly lucky.
Lisa Ingeborg Van den Bergh was born in England on March 3 1912, the daughter of Simon Van den Bergh, a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris. The Van den Berghs were a notable Dutch Jewish margarine manufacturing dynasty and Lisa and her future husband were second cousins through Robert Sainsbury mother Mabel (ne Van den Bergh). His grandfather, John Sainsbury (1844 was the founder of the family food retailing empire.
Lisa was brought up in cultivated circles in Paris, Geneva and London, though she once confessed that before her marriage she had little interest in art: a girl my father dragged us round museums and told us what we had to like and what we shouldn and that put me off for a while. But when he was very old, my father said: 'I read an article about Soutine and I think he someone you and Bob should buy I said, as a matter of fact, you eat with us regularly and there been a Soutine in the dining room all this time.
Robert Sainsbury had already begun collecting when the couple married at a London registry office in 1937. Shortly after their marriage they moved into No 5, Smith Square, Westminster, their home until 1994, when they moved to Dulwich. Until the 1970s they also kept a house at Bucklebury in Berkshire.
During the Second World War, Robert Sainsbury coordinated the company food supply activities as part of the war effort, while Lisa, with their eldest daughter Elizabeth, sailed to Canada, where in 1940 she gave birth to a son, David (now Lord Sainsbury of Turville,calibre cartier fake, the former science minister). Leaving the children with friends, Lisa returned to London to work as a medical social worker at St Thomas Hospital. Another daughter, Celia, was born in 1945, followed by Annabel in 1948.
From 1937 Bob and Lisa, as they were known in the art world, began what he referred to as a unplanned voyage of discovery in the world of art. For 30 years, with his elder brother Alan, Robert would steer Sainsbury from a local grocer into a supermarket giant. In the process, they became one of Britain richest families. Robert became chairman of the company in 1967, but it was for his services to the arts that he was knighted the same year. As well as buying art he took up a number of posts at museums and art galleries both in Britain and abroad.
Becoming friends with the artists they supported was always one of the Sainsburys greatest pleasures. Henry Moore was godfather to their son David; Alberto Giacometti drew Elizabeth and David; Francis Bacon (whose bank account Robert guaranteed ) did three portraits of Lisa Sainsbury, who recalled that: was most enjoyable sitting for him if you survived the paint. He lived in complete squalor and there was paint everywhere.
However Lisa admitted that to begin with many of their friends were baffled by the Sainsburys taste for Bacon screaming popes, howling dogs and haunted, tortured human figures. were wildly anti Bacon. They would say, 'How can you live with this awful man, it has put me off my food. It amused the couple that by the 1970s some of the same people who had criticised them for buying ghastly monstrosities were now lauding them for their taste and perspicacity.
In later life, however, Lisa confessed that she herself had much the same negative reaction to artists such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin: and I used to wonder if we were getting too old. But we decided no, it was just sensationalism.
The UEA was not the only beneficiary of the Sainsburys generosity. They made major donations to hospitals and to Kew Gardens, where they funded a orchid conservation project. Lisa Sainsbury was particularly interested in the hospice movement. She established her own charitable foundation to train nurses to help the dying deal with ethnic, religious and spiritual issues and supported many hospices, including St Christopher the world first purpose built hospice, established in 1967 by her friend, Cicely (later Dame Cicely) Saunders.
Lady Sainsbury was awarded an honorary degree by the UEA in 1990 and an honorary fellowship in 2003. The same year she was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, in recognition of her lifelong contribution to the promotion of Japanese culture in Britain.
Kitsilano Coast Guard Base officially reopens,fake cartier watches ballon bleu
With little fanfare, the Canadian Coast Guard base in Kitsilano reopened on Sunday, three years after the controversial closure of the facility by the federal government.
A simple "We're Back" sign hung from the tower of the Vanier Park facility as staff began the process of getting the base up and running after it was closed due to federal cutbacks by the Stephen Harper government.
"There has been an overwhelming show of support by the public, people waving and giving us the thumbs up and saying welcome back," said Simon Jesshope, the officer in charge of the Kitsilano Coast Guard base.
The Kitsilano base has three crew members on duty right now and within weeks Jesshope said they will have four shifts of three crew members working around the clock. The inside of the building has had a renovation and by June the facility is expected to be finished,cartier de calibre replica.
As they move into the busy boating season, Jesshope said they are ready to handle any emergency on the water. "We have 24 hour a day search and rescue capability," he said.
Three boats are tied to the base's dock, one a pollution response vessel and two rigid hull inflatables for search and rescue work.
The cutter Osprey was sold after the base was closed in 2013. But Jesshope said the two inflatables they use are adequate for their type of work. "These two vessels are more than capable to handle any weather," he said.
The Liberal government had promised to reopen the Kitsilano Coast Guard base if elected. Following an oil spill by a cargo boat, the federal government also committed to upgrading the base's pollution response equipment.
Jesshope said another boat for search and rescue work is on its way. "It is a busy port," he said of the waterfront they cover.
When the Kitsilano base was shut down,copy cartier watches ballon bleu, concern was raised about the response time in case of emergencies. With the closure, many of the distress calls were handled from the Coast Guard base at Sea Island in Richmond.
Bill Tieleman, a spokesman for the Union of Canadian Transportation Employees said they are concerned whether there will be enough staff and the right boats to handle the busy volume of calls. "There is no cutter here if you have serious weather," he said of the loss of the Osprey. epaper, Digital Access, Subscriber Rewards), please input your Print Newspaper subscription phone number and postal code.
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With little fanfare, the Canadian Coast Guard base in Kitsilano reopened on Sunday, three years after the controversial closure of the facility by the federal government.
A simple "We're Back" sign hung from the tower of the Vanier Park facility as staff began the process of getting the base up and running after it was closed due to federal cutbacks by the Stephen Harper government.
"There has been an overwhelming show of support by the public, people waving and giving us the thumbs up and saying welcome back," said Simon Jesshope, the officer in charge of the Kitsilano Coast Guard base.
The Kitsilano base has three crew members on duty right now and within weeks Jesshope said they will have four shifts of three crew members working around the clock. The inside of the building has had a renovation and by June the facility is expected to be finished,cartier de calibre replica.
As they move into the busy boating season, Jesshope said they are ready to handle any emergency on the water. "We have 24 hour a day search and rescue capability," he said.
Three boats are tied to the base's dock, one a pollution response vessel and two rigid hull inflatables for search and rescue work.
The cutter Osprey was sold after the base was closed in 2013. But Jesshope said the two inflatables they use are adequate for their type of work. "These two vessels are more than capable to handle any weather," he said.
The Liberal government had promised to reopen the Kitsilano Coast Guard base if elected. Following an oil spill by a cargo boat, the federal government also committed to upgrading the base's pollution response equipment.
Jesshope said another boat for search and rescue work is on its way. "It is a busy port," he said of the waterfront they cover.
When the Kitsilano base was shut down,copy cartier watches ballon bleu, concern was raised about the response time in case of emergencies. With the closure, many of the distress calls were handled from the Coast Guard base at Sea Island in Richmond.
Bill Tieleman, a spokesman for the Union of Canadian Transportation Employees said they are concerned whether there will be enough staff and the right boats to handle the busy volume of calls. "There is no cutter here if you have serious weather," he said of the loss of the Osprey. epaper, Digital Access, Subscriber Rewards), please input your Print Newspaper subscription phone number and postal code.
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Do people win supercar giveaways
You know those supercar giveaways at the airport you think nobody ever wins? Actually, they do. We meet the man behind it and some of the winners
BOTB CEO William Hindmarch single handedly setup the car competition business in 1999He first operated out of Heathrow terminal 4 with a Porsche he had to wash with bottles of EvianNow thousands of people play his spot the ball contest online every week for a range of 150 luxury carsThe reactions of all 52 winners a year are captured on camera and posted to YouTube and FacebookBy
Best of the Best, or BOTB, was set up by CEO William Hindmarch in 1999, and it's a business concept that's historically been rife with conspiracy, skepticism and very little trust.
But through the powers of social media, the walls of doubt surrounding the supercar giveaway company have started to crumble.
'It all started when I secured a spot in Heathrow terminal 4, as it was then, and managed to get hold of a black Porsche,' William explained to This is Money at a recent meeting.
'It arrived on a transporter at 11pm the night before we were due to open but it was covered in that orange sand we sometimes get when there's been a southern wind.
'Somehow I managed to get it into the airport on my own before it dawned on me that it needed to be washed. The only taps were in the toilets but the bucket I had wouldn't fit in the sinks. So I had to spend 20 on bottles of Evian from a machine to clean it with.
'I had about an hour of sleep and went back and started selling. At that moment I thought, am I wasting my time and is anyone ever going to buy a ticket?'
They did, and since then the company has flourished into a 60 employee strong force, though with a little help from YouTube.
'IT'S THE ONLY TIME I'M GOING TO GET A CHANCE TO OWN AN ASTON MARTIN'
Job: Director of a commercial flooring company
Car won: Aston Martin Vantage (in Feb 2016)
Do you still own it?'Yes. I thought about taking the cash that was offered instead but I asked myself, when will you get the chance to own an Aston Martin again? My daily driver is a Ford Fiesta van, so I drive two very different cars now. The Vantage sounds fantastic and goes like stink I'll keep it for a while.'
How often do you enter BOTB?'Every week,cartier watches tank fake. The wife says I need to win her a Range Rover Evoque. I was a pixel away from winning again this week.'
That's because the emotional reaction of one new lucky car winner is now documented on the video site for all to see each week, and it's had a monumental effect on the legitimacy of the giveaway competition people have doubted for years.
'Video has had a massive impact and social media really has become our friend,' William said as he details the first instance the video camera came out.
'We recorded it and put it on social media,cartier ballon bleu gold copy. He's taken BOTB from a one man operation at Heathrow to an online competition that's entered by thousands each week
How it worksIf you're unfamiliar with how the competition works, it is,fake cartier santos 100 mens watch, and always has been, a game of 'spot the ball'.
As gambling laws dictate, any competition entered where a winner is drawn purely out of chance is illegal, so the process has to have an element of skill in this case, placing a marker where you think a football was in a photograph before it was cleverly edited out.
You can do this online or at one of the branded booths at the airports and shopping centres BOTB operates in.
But it's not a case of revealing the balls true location after the weekly competition has ended. Not even William knows where it is,cartier de calibre copy, as the photographer who snaps the shots at amateur matches in Ireland Photoshops it out.
Instead, it's up to a group of judges to work out where they think the ball is, making the entire concept skill based. This expert panel has to have some credentials, though that's why it includes up to eight referees and former Arsenal and England legend, Sol Campbell.
Job: Project manager at a software company
Car won: Range Rover Sport (in June 2014)
Do you still own it?'No, a lorry driver wrote it off. I wasn't too unhappy about it though, as I really wanted a Jaguar F Type and had been playing to win one for some time. So I used the insurance pay out to buy one. Since then we've had our first child and I needed a family car, so I traded it in for an Audi A8.'
You know those supercar giveaways at the airport you think nobody ever wins? Actually, they do. We meet the man behind it and some of the winners
BOTB CEO William Hindmarch single handedly setup the car competition business in 1999He first operated out of Heathrow terminal 4 with a Porsche he had to wash with bottles of EvianNow thousands of people play his spot the ball contest online every week for a range of 150 luxury carsThe reactions of all 52 winners a year are captured on camera and posted to YouTube and FacebookBy
Best of the Best, or BOTB, was set up by CEO William Hindmarch in 1999, and it's a business concept that's historically been rife with conspiracy, skepticism and very little trust.
But through the powers of social media, the walls of doubt surrounding the supercar giveaway company have started to crumble.
'It all started when I secured a spot in Heathrow terminal 4, as it was then, and managed to get hold of a black Porsche,' William explained to This is Money at a recent meeting.
'It arrived on a transporter at 11pm the night before we were due to open but it was covered in that orange sand we sometimes get when there's been a southern wind.
'Somehow I managed to get it into the airport on my own before it dawned on me that it needed to be washed. The only taps were in the toilets but the bucket I had wouldn't fit in the sinks. So I had to spend 20 on bottles of Evian from a machine to clean it with.
'I had about an hour of sleep and went back and started selling. At that moment I thought, am I wasting my time and is anyone ever going to buy a ticket?'
They did, and since then the company has flourished into a 60 employee strong force, though with a little help from YouTube.
'IT'S THE ONLY TIME I'M GOING TO GET A CHANCE TO OWN AN ASTON MARTIN'
Job: Director of a commercial flooring company
Car won: Aston Martin Vantage (in Feb 2016)
Do you still own it?'Yes. I thought about taking the cash that was offered instead but I asked myself, when will you get the chance to own an Aston Martin again? My daily driver is a Ford Fiesta van, so I drive two very different cars now. The Vantage sounds fantastic and goes like stink I'll keep it for a while.'
How often do you enter BOTB?'Every week,cartier watches tank fake. The wife says I need to win her a Range Rover Evoque. I was a pixel away from winning again this week.'
That's because the emotional reaction of one new lucky car winner is now documented on the video site for all to see each week, and it's had a monumental effect on the legitimacy of the giveaway competition people have doubted for years.
'Video has had a massive impact and social media really has become our friend,' William said as he details the first instance the video camera came out.
'We recorded it and put it on social media,cartier ballon bleu gold copy. He's taken BOTB from a one man operation at Heathrow to an online competition that's entered by thousands each week
How it worksIf you're unfamiliar with how the competition works, it is,fake cartier santos 100 mens watch, and always has been, a game of 'spot the ball'.
As gambling laws dictate, any competition entered where a winner is drawn purely out of chance is illegal, so the process has to have an element of skill in this case, placing a marker where you think a football was in a photograph before it was cleverly edited out.
You can do this online or at one of the branded booths at the airports and shopping centres BOTB operates in.
But it's not a case of revealing the balls true location after the weekly competition has ended. Not even William knows where it is,cartier de calibre copy, as the photographer who snaps the shots at amateur matches in Ireland Photoshops it out.
Instead, it's up to a group of judges to work out where they think the ball is, making the entire concept skill based. This expert panel has to have some credentials, though that's why it includes up to eight referees and former Arsenal and England legend, Sol Campbell.
Job: Project manager at a software company
Car won: Range Rover Sport (in June 2014)
Do you still own it?'No, a lorry driver wrote it off. I wasn't too unhappy about it though, as I really wanted a Jaguar F Type and had been playing to win one for some time. So I used the insurance pay out to buy one. Since then we've had our first child and I needed a family car, so I traded it in for an Audi A8.'
Mann among men
Michael Mann has a modus operandi as distinctive as any master criminal He a hard boiled sensualist: half muckraker and half fabulist. If he had been born 100 years ago, he have followed Jack London path, not just into bare knuckled journalism but also into transcendent evocations of the beautiful and the wild.
Talking to Mann is as surprising as it is stimulating. His unfettered intuition and exquisite awareness compel your rapt attention. It as if you tuning your radio dial to a brainy, original talk show host on a faint college town station you strain not to miss his special code words and hard won observations. You feel Mann gets extraordinary commitments from actors like James Caan in (1981) or Tom Noonan and Brian Cox in (1986) or Daniel Day Lewis in Last of the Mohicans (1992) because he catches them up in his enthrallment with his material.
When I listen to tapes of the marathon interview sessions I held with him five years apart, one before the release of and the other before the release of they sound as if they halves of an ongoing conversation, whether he discussing his past or the projects then at hand. He grew up near Patch, one of the roughest areas of Chicago. ( was very aggressive, it was very masculine and it was very heterosexual. He still has a flat A accent. my neighborhood, he once told me, who carried around a camera would be considered a By his count, only 13 of his high school graduating class of 365 went on to college, Mann included. It was at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he majored in English, that movies first got their hooks into him. Pabst coruscating study of urban vice, Joyless Street (1925). By the time he graduated from college, Mann knew he wanted to make movies. But he didn like the curricula of most American film schools: was like vocational training. You not supposed to do films; you supposed to do a show reel. in film and did what he thought he should do two and a half minute, fully symbolic statements on the nature of reality that shame you 10 years later. Mann stayed on in London for about six years, filming documentaries and TV commercials and working as an assistant production supervisor for Twentieth Century Fox. Having been part of the Madison campus radical days, he began to feel the contradictions of his position: would make money on commercials and try to put it to use on my own projects. Some material I filmed on the Paris student riots wound up on NBC Tuesday because NBC own people couldn get close to the radical leaders. You never resolve these contradictions. He learned how to write by toiling on and Hutch structure,replica van cleef arpels clover necklace, nothing beats the melodrama of episodic TV. He graduated to what he calls Rolls Royce of TV shows, Story, and created the hit series before embarking on his 1979 movie directing debut, Jericho Mile a prison film unlike any other.
It was made for television, but on Jericho Mile, Mann crystallized all his trademark techniques. First he absorbed whatever information he could find about prison subcultures. He tapped into the essence of big house pride in the sports pages of the prison newspapers: seemed to be doing great, probably because if you criticized anyone in an article your ass would be grass. Then he put that data at the service of his artifice. The story centered on a convict (Peter Strauss) who based his integrity on becoming a world class runner. Mann was able to get around the claustrophobia built into jail house movies by placing the bulk of the action (filmed at Folsom Prison) in the exercise yard. Each racial and ethnic group had its own turf blacks dominating the weight lifting area, Hispanics the handball court. Add a music track that spun off from for the Devil and Expectations and you had a movie that externalized the prisoners state of mind and conjured up what Mann called Technicolor. likes to talk about a movie coding a swirling double helix of image and sound, character and story, fantasy and fact. His first theatrical feature, floats on a neon lit Styx into the heart of the underworld. The camera descends in a downpour to nighttime Chicago, where, operating with a precision that suggests telepathy, the thief (Caan) guides a drill that seems to liquefy as it chews into a vault containing diamonds. In this asphalt Hades the heist technology is out of Wars and the underworld bureaucracy is Byzantine. When a don persuades Caan to work full time on mob sponsored heists, the thief hopes to make some big scores and ease off. Instead, the don, in his own icy phrase, ends up the paper on the thief life. What better metaphor could there be for the constrictions of modern America than having an organization the government, a credit card company or the mob the paper on you?
Mann perennial attempt to infuse elemental tales like with allegory and atmosphere led him far astray in Keep (1983), a vampire movie set in Nazi occupied Romania. But again and again, he broken through to the mass audience in the medium that masters of moviemaking usually abjure: the weekly TV series. In the mid when asked to produce an MTV style cop show, Mann exploited the breakthroughs he achieved in Jericho Mile and and came up with the phenomenon of Vice. With avant garde vehicles and clothing, pastel backdrops to bloodletting and guest appearances by hard news celebrities like G. Gordon Liddy as well as rock icons like Glenn Frye, Mann turned the urban schizophrenia of the into an influential style. (To Mann,van cleef & arpels copy necklace, of course, this style was primarily expression of place and content, the milieu the guys are moving through. The series used its soundtrack the way urbanites use Walkmans and car radios either to articulate surrounding chaos or to provide a defiant counterpoint.
Returning to the movies, Mann audaciously adapted Thomas Harris first Hannibal Lecter novel, Dragon. In he soldered an FBI search for a serial killer to an eerie exploration of the murderer mind and awkward elements of family melodrama. When Mann follows the point of view of the killer as he moves from a van to a bedroom, where he shines a light in the face of a sleeping wife and mother, the director (who also served as a camera operator) puts fear and loathing in your belly. He twists the knot further when the FBI manhunter retraces the killer steps and analyzes the bloodstains on the walls and floor. Mann conveys all the horror of a serial killer using murder as a means of aesthetic expression. And Brian Cox is a sardonic, chilling Lecter he talks with terrifying blandness and looks like a bleached Bela Lugosi.
Simultaneously, Mann set up another groundbreaking TV series, Story (1986) a show about cars with fins and cops with teeth. In Mann words, he a guy with a sense of justice: has his own cosmic sense of right and wrong. And that makes him a hell of a cop in 1963. It doesn make him one hell of a cop in or In the pilot (the series high point), the trail of a dangerous new criminal crew leads Farina to a cocky Irish kid (David Caruso) who happens to be the son of the hero surrogate parents. It a headlong story of neighborhood connections and betrayals done in an explosive mix of styles: The serious guys wear fedoras and the punks go out in ducktail haircuts; Del Shannon melds with Johnny Mathis on the sound track; age old Sicilian traditions unravel in a suburban estate fitted out with space age decor. The show V 8 engine pickup powered a vision of a hyper masculine culture the virile pop Zeitgeist of Mann adolescence on its eve of destruction.
Nothing Mann has done has lacked intrigue, even when he returned to familiar territory in the ultra contemporary (1995). This cops vs. crooks epic pitted an untouchable target, master thief Robert De Niro, against an irresistible force,replica van cleef and arpels necklace alhambra, police lieutenant Al Pacino. It suggested new arenas of stressed out yuppie fantasy. De Niro is prudent and code abiding, Pacino manic and instinctive. They play out a macho version of sense and sensibility in a vicious, morally booby trapped universe. Ultimately, these doppel heroes are too limited to propel a near three hour saga, and their domestic scenes are as stilted as the ones in Still, the movie does capture a fresh urban fatalism. In exhilaration is out. The freedom that high stakes crime can buy has little to do with esprit; it about practicing an illicit craft and living according to your own rules, which can be even more restrictive than society For the characters, excitement comes from seeing a calculation work or an educated guess pay off. For the spectators, it comes from catastrophe.
In 1992, Mann voluptuous wide screen retelling of that fictional war horse of the French and Indian War, Last of the Mohicans, proved the breadth of his vitality and talent. Once again, Mann immersed himself in data, drawing not just on James Fenimore Cooper original 1826 novel and on Philip Dunne script for the 1936 Randolph Scott version, but also on the diaries of the comte de Bougainville and histories and essays by Francis Parkman and Simon Schama. Most important, he enlisted Daniel Day Lewis to play Nathaniel Poe (aka Hawkeye),van cleef arpels copy alhambra necklace, the Indian raised white scout who tries to save the English maiden he loves from the Huron massacre of the British retreating from Fort William Henry. Using virtuoso guerrilla and survival skills for his own ethical purposes, he the noblest expression yet of the Michael Mann hero. Last of the Mohicans reinvents the legend of the honest, all capable frontiersman in a way that honors whites and Indians alike. It no more yet no less moving than, say, Mr. Lincoln, and it leaves you guessing at what wonderment the filmmaker will create for us next.
Michael Mann has a modus operandi as distinctive as any master criminal He a hard boiled sensualist: half muckraker and half fabulist. If he had been born 100 years ago, he have followed Jack London path, not just into bare knuckled journalism but also into transcendent evocations of the beautiful and the wild.
Talking to Mann is as surprising as it is stimulating. His unfettered intuition and exquisite awareness compel your rapt attention. It as if you tuning your radio dial to a brainy, original talk show host on a faint college town station you strain not to miss his special code words and hard won observations. You feel Mann gets extraordinary commitments from actors like James Caan in (1981) or Tom Noonan and Brian Cox in (1986) or Daniel Day Lewis in Last of the Mohicans (1992) because he catches them up in his enthrallment with his material.
When I listen to tapes of the marathon interview sessions I held with him five years apart, one before the release of and the other before the release of they sound as if they halves of an ongoing conversation, whether he discussing his past or the projects then at hand. He grew up near Patch, one of the roughest areas of Chicago. ( was very aggressive, it was very masculine and it was very heterosexual. He still has a flat A accent. my neighborhood, he once told me, who carried around a camera would be considered a By his count, only 13 of his high school graduating class of 365 went on to college, Mann included. It was at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he majored in English, that movies first got their hooks into him. Pabst coruscating study of urban vice, Joyless Street (1925). By the time he graduated from college, Mann knew he wanted to make movies. But he didn like the curricula of most American film schools: was like vocational training. You not supposed to do films; you supposed to do a show reel. in film and did what he thought he should do two and a half minute, fully symbolic statements on the nature of reality that shame you 10 years later. Mann stayed on in London for about six years, filming documentaries and TV commercials and working as an assistant production supervisor for Twentieth Century Fox. Having been part of the Madison campus radical days, he began to feel the contradictions of his position: would make money on commercials and try to put it to use on my own projects. Some material I filmed on the Paris student riots wound up on NBC Tuesday because NBC own people couldn get close to the radical leaders. You never resolve these contradictions. He learned how to write by toiling on and Hutch structure,replica van cleef arpels clover necklace, nothing beats the melodrama of episodic TV. He graduated to what he calls Rolls Royce of TV shows, Story, and created the hit series before embarking on his 1979 movie directing debut, Jericho Mile a prison film unlike any other.
It was made for television, but on Jericho Mile, Mann crystallized all his trademark techniques. First he absorbed whatever information he could find about prison subcultures. He tapped into the essence of big house pride in the sports pages of the prison newspapers: seemed to be doing great, probably because if you criticized anyone in an article your ass would be grass. Then he put that data at the service of his artifice. The story centered on a convict (Peter Strauss) who based his integrity on becoming a world class runner. Mann was able to get around the claustrophobia built into jail house movies by placing the bulk of the action (filmed at Folsom Prison) in the exercise yard. Each racial and ethnic group had its own turf blacks dominating the weight lifting area, Hispanics the handball court. Add a music track that spun off from for the Devil and Expectations and you had a movie that externalized the prisoners state of mind and conjured up what Mann called Technicolor. likes to talk about a movie coding a swirling double helix of image and sound, character and story, fantasy and fact. His first theatrical feature, floats on a neon lit Styx into the heart of the underworld. The camera descends in a downpour to nighttime Chicago, where, operating with a precision that suggests telepathy, the thief (Caan) guides a drill that seems to liquefy as it chews into a vault containing diamonds. In this asphalt Hades the heist technology is out of Wars and the underworld bureaucracy is Byzantine. When a don persuades Caan to work full time on mob sponsored heists, the thief hopes to make some big scores and ease off. Instead, the don, in his own icy phrase, ends up the paper on the thief life. What better metaphor could there be for the constrictions of modern America than having an organization the government, a credit card company or the mob the paper on you?
Mann perennial attempt to infuse elemental tales like with allegory and atmosphere led him far astray in Keep (1983), a vampire movie set in Nazi occupied Romania. But again and again, he broken through to the mass audience in the medium that masters of moviemaking usually abjure: the weekly TV series. In the mid when asked to produce an MTV style cop show, Mann exploited the breakthroughs he achieved in Jericho Mile and and came up with the phenomenon of Vice. With avant garde vehicles and clothing, pastel backdrops to bloodletting and guest appearances by hard news celebrities like G. Gordon Liddy as well as rock icons like Glenn Frye, Mann turned the urban schizophrenia of the into an influential style. (To Mann,van cleef & arpels copy necklace, of course, this style was primarily expression of place and content, the milieu the guys are moving through. The series used its soundtrack the way urbanites use Walkmans and car radios either to articulate surrounding chaos or to provide a defiant counterpoint.
Returning to the movies, Mann audaciously adapted Thomas Harris first Hannibal Lecter novel, Dragon. In he soldered an FBI search for a serial killer to an eerie exploration of the murderer mind and awkward elements of family melodrama. When Mann follows the point of view of the killer as he moves from a van to a bedroom, where he shines a light in the face of a sleeping wife and mother, the director (who also served as a camera operator) puts fear and loathing in your belly. He twists the knot further when the FBI manhunter retraces the killer steps and analyzes the bloodstains on the walls and floor. Mann conveys all the horror of a serial killer using murder as a means of aesthetic expression. And Brian Cox is a sardonic, chilling Lecter he talks with terrifying blandness and looks like a bleached Bela Lugosi.
Simultaneously, Mann set up another groundbreaking TV series, Story (1986) a show about cars with fins and cops with teeth. In Mann words, he a guy with a sense of justice: has his own cosmic sense of right and wrong. And that makes him a hell of a cop in 1963. It doesn make him one hell of a cop in or In the pilot (the series high point), the trail of a dangerous new criminal crew leads Farina to a cocky Irish kid (David Caruso) who happens to be the son of the hero surrogate parents. It a headlong story of neighborhood connections and betrayals done in an explosive mix of styles: The serious guys wear fedoras and the punks go out in ducktail haircuts; Del Shannon melds with Johnny Mathis on the sound track; age old Sicilian traditions unravel in a suburban estate fitted out with space age decor. The show V 8 engine pickup powered a vision of a hyper masculine culture the virile pop Zeitgeist of Mann adolescence on its eve of destruction.
Nothing Mann has done has lacked intrigue, even when he returned to familiar territory in the ultra contemporary (1995). This cops vs. crooks epic pitted an untouchable target, master thief Robert De Niro, against an irresistible force,replica van cleef and arpels necklace alhambra, police lieutenant Al Pacino. It suggested new arenas of stressed out yuppie fantasy. De Niro is prudent and code abiding, Pacino manic and instinctive. They play out a macho version of sense and sensibility in a vicious, morally booby trapped universe. Ultimately, these doppel heroes are too limited to propel a near three hour saga, and their domestic scenes are as stilted as the ones in Still, the movie does capture a fresh urban fatalism. In exhilaration is out. The freedom that high stakes crime can buy has little to do with esprit; it about practicing an illicit craft and living according to your own rules, which can be even more restrictive than society For the characters, excitement comes from seeing a calculation work or an educated guess pay off. For the spectators, it comes from catastrophe.
In 1992, Mann voluptuous wide screen retelling of that fictional war horse of the French and Indian War, Last of the Mohicans, proved the breadth of his vitality and talent. Once again, Mann immersed himself in data, drawing not just on James Fenimore Cooper original 1826 novel and on Philip Dunne script for the 1936 Randolph Scott version, but also on the diaries of the comte de Bougainville and histories and essays by Francis Parkman and Simon Schama. Most important, he enlisted Daniel Day Lewis to play Nathaniel Poe (aka Hawkeye),van cleef arpels copy alhambra necklace, the Indian raised white scout who tries to save the English maiden he loves from the Huron massacre of the British retreating from Fort William Henry. Using virtuoso guerrilla and survival skills for his own ethical purposes, he the noblest expression yet of the Michael Mann hero. Last of the Mohicans reinvents the legend of the honest, all capable frontiersman in a way that honors whites and Indians alike. It no more yet no less moving than, say, Mr. Lincoln, and it leaves you guessing at what wonderment the filmmaker will create for us next.
Manchester United kids make mark for King Louis
LONDON There have not been many days in another season of massive under achievement when Manchester United supporters roared their appreciation for manager Louis van Gaal,van cleef and arpels clover copy necklace.
But he had them laughing out loud on Sunday and cheering a team selection in the best traditions of the squads of yesteryear known as the Busby Babes and Fergie's Fledglings.
The normally austere Dutchman's comic moment came as he attempted to demonstrate how Ander Herrera had been fouled by throwing himself to the ground in front of an astonished fourth official.
The crowd loved it,clover imitation necklace van cleef, although Van Gaal felt obliged to apologise.
"My emotion was a little bit too high,vca copy necklace," he told Sky Sports, "So I apologised to the ref and linesman and fourth official."
One of the many criticisms of the veteran coach has been that he has failed to understand treasured United traditions, including adventurous attacking football and the promotion of home grown players.
It has been the lack of excitement, as much as underwhelming results, that have caused speculation that Van Gaal will lose his job at the end of the season, despite having a contract until 2017.
Sunday's team selection may have been largely out of necessity with a dozen senior players unavailable but the Dutchman threw three youngsters in for league debuts against title challengers Arsenal.
He reaped rewards when 18 year old Marcus Rashford scored twice and added an assist in the 3 1 win, a return that gave the Manchester born striker four goals in four days.
Tim Fosu Mensah, 18, and James Weir, 20, were brought on as substitutes and with Adnan Januzaj, 21,replica van cleef and arpel clover necklace, Memphis Depay, 22, and Jesse Lingard, 23, all involved, United fans saw a glimpse of a brighter future for the first time since Alex Ferguson retired three years ago.
As England international Michael Carrick said, a third win in seven days, with 11 goals scored, has given the side new confidence going into games against Watford and West Bromwich Albion.
United are also through to a home FA Cup quarter final against West Ham United and play arch rivals Liverpool in the last 16 of the Europa League.
But will it be enough to save Van Gaal?
British media have reported that United have been in touch with Jose Mourinho's representatives about succeeding him.
The Sunday Times said the United board were split over appointing Mourinho, adding that it wants to put a director of football in place for the first time.
While it seems highly unlikely that Van Gaal's squad can make up a 12 point gap to win the Premier League, they are only three points behind Manchester City in the chase for a Champions League place, which could also be achieved by winning the Europa League.
Should United finish the campaign with a trophy and Van Gaal is still be in charge next August, he might look back at a Sunday in late February when Old Trafford warmed to him as a turning point.
LONDON There have not been many days in another season of massive under achievement when Manchester United supporters roared their appreciation for manager Louis van Gaal,van cleef and arpels clover copy necklace.
But he had them laughing out loud on Sunday and cheering a team selection in the best traditions of the squads of yesteryear known as the Busby Babes and Fergie's Fledglings.
The normally austere Dutchman's comic moment came as he attempted to demonstrate how Ander Herrera had been fouled by throwing himself to the ground in front of an astonished fourth official.
The crowd loved it,clover imitation necklace van cleef, although Van Gaal felt obliged to apologise.
"My emotion was a little bit too high,vca copy necklace," he told Sky Sports, "So I apologised to the ref and linesman and fourth official."
One of the many criticisms of the veteran coach has been that he has failed to understand treasured United traditions, including adventurous attacking football and the promotion of home grown players.
It has been the lack of excitement, as much as underwhelming results, that have caused speculation that Van Gaal will lose his job at the end of the season, despite having a contract until 2017.
Sunday's team selection may have been largely out of necessity with a dozen senior players unavailable but the Dutchman threw three youngsters in for league debuts against title challengers Arsenal.
He reaped rewards when 18 year old Marcus Rashford scored twice and added an assist in the 3 1 win, a return that gave the Manchester born striker four goals in four days.
Tim Fosu Mensah, 18, and James Weir, 20, were brought on as substitutes and with Adnan Januzaj, 21,replica van cleef and arpel clover necklace, Memphis Depay, 22, and Jesse Lingard, 23, all involved, United fans saw a glimpse of a brighter future for the first time since Alex Ferguson retired three years ago.
As England international Michael Carrick said, a third win in seven days, with 11 goals scored, has given the side new confidence going into games against Watford and West Bromwich Albion.
United are also through to a home FA Cup quarter final against West Ham United and play arch rivals Liverpool in the last 16 of the Europa League.
But will it be enough to save Van Gaal?
British media have reported that United have been in touch with Jose Mourinho's representatives about succeeding him.
The Sunday Times said the United board were split over appointing Mourinho, adding that it wants to put a director of football in place for the first time.
While it seems highly unlikely that Van Gaal's squad can make up a 12 point gap to win the Premier League, they are only three points behind Manchester City in the chase for a Champions League place, which could also be achieved by winning the Europa League.
Should United finish the campaign with a trophy and Van Gaal is still be in charge next August, he might look back at a Sunday in late February when Old Trafford warmed to him as a turning point.
Inside the Video Game Industry
The video game industry is home to a cast of characters as quirky, rebellious and diverse as the world they create. Like anyone who owns a television, CliffyB is well versed in the importance of reinvention in holding the public eye. He turns before the mirror in the men's room. White suit, white snakeskin shoes, hair bleached white to match. Looking good, he thinks, although, in truth, his arms and legs are gangly under his suit, his chest thin beneath a black shirt and tie, and his hair, capping a somewhat sallow complexion, is more brassy blond than white.
Ten years ago, CliffyB was that kid on the school bus who got Coke poured on his head and gum smeared in his hair. Back before he was transformed into a pimp suit wearing game designer, Cliffy was an acne riddled, miserable at home, small town kid, filled with unbridled fury at his low status in life a feeling that years later left him sympathizing terribly, albeit secretly, with videogame fans Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the iconic misfits who in 1999 shot up their classmates, their cafeteria, and then themselves at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. It still brings tears to Cliffy's eyes to think about it not only the horror of the kids who lost their lives, but also how deeply, awfully alone Harris and Klebold most have been to do such a thing. Cliffy thinks he knows exactly how they felt. He still refers bitterly to the hysteria that swept the country afterward as "geek profiling."
"Yeah, but who has the last laugh now?" Cliffy says about his old high school tormenters. "They're all working at gas stations. And look at me." Arms spread wide in his ill fitting white suit.
Indeed, that was then, and this is now. At twenty six years old, CliffyB is a nine year veteran of the industry, lead designer at Epic Games and co creator with Digital Extremes of the smash success first person shooter franchise Unreal. This is the year that sales of videogames in the United States have surpassed movie box office receipts, a stamp of success the industry believes is its passport to legitimacy. People who haven't thought about videogames since their Space Invaders days more than a decade ago are saying to one another over coffee and the Times: Did you know the videogame industry made $6.35 billion dollars this year? Ads for Sony, Nintendo, Electronic Arts, and Xbox are beginning to creep from cable channels like MTV2, Nickelodeon, and TechTV onto prime time slots on the networks. Billboards for hit games such as Grand Theft Auto III are vying with movies for space on city street corners. Nongamers around the world are awaking, startled, to the ascendance of a medium about which they know little or nothing.
The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3 as gamers call it, is the yearly event of the International Digital Software Association, the industry's chief trade group. The gathering was founded in 1995 when videogames got too big to remain an adjunct of the Consumer Electronics Show. E3 is where game publishers, console makers, and related companies show their upcoming wares to retailers and industry press. As CliffyB likes to say, videogames used to be like porn: everyone's got a stack under their bed, but no one admits it. In 2001, however, as young men everywhere are pulling their consoles and games out from under the bed, E3 has come to stand for something much bigger than just a trade show. In 2001, it stands as proof that videogames are here and aren't going away any time soon.
The enormous lobbies and hallways of the Los Angeles Convention Center, where E3 is held, are tiled with wall sized monitors, banners of all sorts, and constellations of loudspeakers. The noise is deafening, and the bleating and blinking they emit is potentially epilepsy inducing. Crouched like a spider beneath its web, a full scale model of the futuristic Lexus from Spielberg's Minority Report guards the escalator to the main convention hall, and a matrix of sixteen or so huge flat panel screens tease passersby with the images from the videogame of the yet to be released movie. The demos loop over and over, Tom Cruise endlessly fighting off jetpack wearing attackers. On a wall across the aisle, a digitalized Ewan McGregor is firing up his light saber above a display for a litany of upcoming Star Wars game releases. Though Lucasfilm's digital counterpart LucasArts has been around for more than a decade, in 2001 most movie studios and production houses are just discovering the advantages of tag teaming their blockbusters with videogames.
On the expo floor, the game companies have gone all out. There are fifteen foot tall dungeons and faux Grecian temples surrounded by pillars of red billowing silk that give the impression of flames. There's a small skate ramp in the South Hall replete with professional skaters promoting the newest installment of the multimillion dollar franchises Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Tony Hawk's Underground. The king himself, Mr. Hawk, occasionally steps out from the VIP section to monitor the proceedings, sporting the goofy smile of a tycoon who at heart remains an enthusiast.
When Cliffy gets out of his panel discussion, he chats a bit with reporters and other industry folk outside the meeting room. He bounces on the toes of his snakeskin shoes, excited, as if he can't quite believe he's here himself. Then he heads down to the expo floor.
Cliffy lives for videogames. Time spent on the Nintendo Entertainment System, playing with Mario and Donkey Kong, are some of his fondest childhood memories. His preteen years were spent on the PC with Doom and Quake, and then SimCity and the Ultima series. By the time he was a teenager, he was making games of his own on a souped up PC in his bedroom. Cliffy has never had any formal game design training until recently the very idea of formal training in game design would have been considered absurd. Nevertheless, Cliffy's been making games professionally since he was seventeen years old. After sending one of his games in a Ziploc bag to a publisher in California, Cliffy found himself a professional game designer before he had even graduated high school.
Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo, the three console makers of the moment, as well as three of the biggest software publishers in the business, dominate the South and West Convention Halls, respectively. Each company has an inner sanctum, erected the day before, complete with passageways and little rooms where executives take meetings and give interviews over plates of melon and grapes. Like a solar system with a collection of satellites, each company is surrounded by its subsidiaries, divisions, and allies. Cliffy checks out a couple of displays, and soon spots dozens of people he knows other designers, gaming journalists,vca copy necklace, fans of his. People know Cliffy because he makes a point of being known. He accepts panel spots, poses for photographs, and even has a Web site called CliffyCam that lets you watch him while he works, or allows you to rifle through a collection of his photographs, including a prominent one of him in a big fuzzy bunny suit.
After a few minutes of meeting and greeting, CliffyB turns to a friend with the exhausted but excited look of a congressman just returned from a visit with his constituency. Cliffy explains to a reporter that a rumor has been spreading through the convention center like a virus, growing until the grumbling on the subject has become another layer of noise on the expo floor a rumor that there's been a moratorium on the Booth Babe.
The Booth Babe is a time honored tradition of E3 to the extent that a tradition less than a generation old can make such a claim and the Booth Babe issue has everything to do with what videogames have been, and what they're trying to become. Despite the rumored moratorium, Booth Babes appear to be everywhere you look. There's a woman dressed as Lara Croft, the long legged, gun toting archaeologist hero of Eidos's Tomb Raider. (Angelina Jolie played her in the movie version of the game.) There are women in tiny pieces of chain mail positioned outside elaborate gothic sets, women wandering the show rooms in pink latex bikinis. A group of them outside the South Hall are tossing Hawaiian leis around the necks of pale young men, cooing "Want to get lei'd?" There would appear to be many, many scantily clad young women, but, apparently, there aren't as many in 2001 as there used to be. And once the rumor takes hold, a dearth of Booth Babes is perceived by one and all, and the judgment of every male queried is that there are not nearly as many as there should be. "Ban the Booth Babe?" you hear in the hallways. "Come on!" People know this is the year the industry is making its big push for the mainstream, and they clearly understand that they aren't to alienate anyone with acts that could be perceived as depraved or immature or in any way foster the general impression of videogame makers as crazed, violent, or immoral freaks. But on the Booth Babe issue, the conventioneers are like dieters looking forward to being thin yet balking at the idea they must disavow pizza.
CliffyB, statesmanlike, sums up the general feeling. "Give me a break," he says. "The Booth Babe is an institution. If people don't have a sense of humor, f 'em!"
The irony is that while it's true Douglas Lowenstein, president of the Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA), hardly wants to project an image of pimply faced boys taking Polaroids with chain mail clad young women, he's the last one to hear the rumor. To his knowledge there's been no official moratorium on the Booth Babe. He's certainly issued no such edict. Perhaps the vendors are cleaning up their act on their own, he muses. Perhaps it's been entirely imagined, or perhaps it's a fantasy that became a reality once enough people believed it. Amidst the chaos and clamor of the sprawling video game shantytown set up by the corporations on the floor of the convention, it's easy to see how that could happen.
Lowenstein is a slender man in his mid fifties who favors thin polo neck sweaters tucked into pleated trousers. He's going bald and has a beak nose. Were his posture to worsen, he would somewhat resemble Mr. Burns from The Simpsons. Yet, there's something natty about him he's polished and professional looking in a way most people in the videogame industry are not. He shakes Cliffy's hand as they pass in the hall. Lowenstein has his own speech to give. lobbyist who's had his work cut out for him, trying to transform America's perception of the videogame from that of an artifact of an ailing society to a respectable and fun entertainment product. He's named the 2001 conference "Touch the Future," and, like Cliffy's attempts to vanquish his Coke wielding demons, he's determined to flip the whole paradigm once and for all. He wants 2001 to be the dawn of a new era. He kicks off E3 with an enthusiastic and statistic filled address.
"Seven years ago," he says, "videogames were played mostly by teenage boys, usually in the basement or the bedroom. No longer. Today, videogames are mainstream entertainment: they're played by people of all ages; they're played by people of all tastes; and they've become as important a part of our culture as television and movies. . . . They're in the center of the home, they're on the Internet, they're in movies, they're in schools, they're on cell phones; they're on PDAs and airplanes; and they're even in medical research labs. In short, videogames are everywhere."
He chuckles a little, along with his crowd, when he says, "Of course, politicians are still grumbling about videogame violence." It's as if he and the audience were high schoolers, sniggering at a hopelessly out of date teacher tramping the halls with toilet paper trailing from his shoe.
Lowenstein is clearly thrilled he finally has the luxury of laughing off angry politicians. economy as a whole during the same time period, and more than double the rate of either the film industry or the computer hardware business. The average age of a gamer has finally exceeded eighteen years "Please, please, can we put that stereotype to rest once and for all!" Lowenstein mock pleads. It's predicted that by 2005, videogame consoles will have penetrated 70 percent of all American homes, giving it one of the fastest adoption rates of any consumer appliance in history. The PlayStation 2 alone, for example, made it into 10 million homes its first year on the market, something it took the telephone thirty five years to accomplish.
Ubiquity is what the industry has been after for years, and ubiquity seems to be what it is finally getting. One study, from investment analysts at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, has just concluded that the potential market for videogames had grown from 20 million people in 1980 to 96 million in 2001 and is now growing exponentially 106 million people in 2005 and onward, as every baby born takes to the videogame habit.
"Fun. That's what this . . . industry is about," Lowenstein says. Then he reads from a May 2001 article by Bob Schwabach for the New York Times: "'The videogame industry has been on the threshold of seizing dominance in entertainment for several years,'" he quotes. " 'Ultimately it will. It's inevitable. . . . I don't see any way out of this.'"THE FOLLOWING YEAR, 2002, CliffyB's plans for industry dominance aren't panning out quite as he'd hoped. At E3 2001 he'd been riding high on the recent release and resounding success of Unreal Tournament. But in the spring of 2002 at the International Game Developers Conference, the release of his next title, Unreal 2,van cleef and arpels clover copy necklace, is still seven months away, and Cliffy has taken to muttering "you're only as good as your last game."
If you didn't know that Cliffy introduced a new look at every industry gathering, you might not recognize him right away at the 2002 Game Developers Conference. This year, CliffyB's hair is brown and brushed into his face 88 la early ER George Clooney. He's wearing a silky shirt and a stiff black leather jacket; a heavy silver chain lies around his neck. Cliffy is well scrubbed and moussed, like someone from New Jersey going to a Manhattan dance club. He's hanging out by the bar of the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California, which serves as the headquarters for the Game Developers Conference. It's March,replica van cleef and arpels butterfly necklace, almost exactly one year after the rumored Booth Babe moratorium, and attendance at the GDC, an event as different from E3 as San Jose is from Hollywood, is strong. E3 may be for the companies, but GDC is for the developers. For an industry on the verge of reaching cultural critical mass, it's hard to imagine that a tight sense of community could be maintained among developers, but Alan Yu, the bald, hip twenty nine year old organizer of the event, is doing his best to make that happen. He has a dream of a videogame community that crosses cultural, geographical, and company lines. He's lured designers from as far away as Japan, Hong Kong, Italy, Scotland, France, and England. E3 may shock and awe with its eye popping display of the electric sprawl of the videogame industry, but GDC opens a portal into the hearts of those who keep it thriving.
Every year, in early March, just before the mad scramble in the months leading up to E3 begins, twelve thousand or so game developers from around the world descend on this four block stretch of downtown San Jose. They fill up every hotel in the area, every meeting room in the convention center, and every ballroom in the Fairmont Hotel.
They crowd into seminars ranging from programming with geometric computations,van cleef arpels imitation necklace, to composing interactive music, to managing online societies, to understanding female gamers. There are educators from universities such as Stanford, MIT, and University of Michigan who want to know how to create degrees in game making and videogame theory. There are business people from wireless companies hot on the trail of multiplayer games that can be played over cell phones. And there are others, like Peter Molyneaux of Lionhead Studios (Black White and Fable) who are acknowledged masters of this strange universe. GDC is a place where it's possible for the lowest coder to rub elbows with the likes of Will Wright, maker of the most popular PC game of all time, The Sims, or Raph Koster, the visionary leader of the current charge into massively multiplayer online gaming, or even Jonathan "Seamus" Blackley, the man behind the Xbox.
The video game industry is home to a cast of characters as quirky, rebellious and diverse as the world they create. Like anyone who owns a television, CliffyB is well versed in the importance of reinvention in holding the public eye. He turns before the mirror in the men's room. White suit, white snakeskin shoes, hair bleached white to match. Looking good, he thinks, although, in truth, his arms and legs are gangly under his suit, his chest thin beneath a black shirt and tie, and his hair, capping a somewhat sallow complexion, is more brassy blond than white.
Ten years ago, CliffyB was that kid on the school bus who got Coke poured on his head and gum smeared in his hair. Back before he was transformed into a pimp suit wearing game designer, Cliffy was an acne riddled, miserable at home, small town kid, filled with unbridled fury at his low status in life a feeling that years later left him sympathizing terribly, albeit secretly, with videogame fans Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the iconic misfits who in 1999 shot up their classmates, their cafeteria, and then themselves at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. It still brings tears to Cliffy's eyes to think about it not only the horror of the kids who lost their lives, but also how deeply, awfully alone Harris and Klebold most have been to do such a thing. Cliffy thinks he knows exactly how they felt. He still refers bitterly to the hysteria that swept the country afterward as "geek profiling."
"Yeah, but who has the last laugh now?" Cliffy says about his old high school tormenters. "They're all working at gas stations. And look at me." Arms spread wide in his ill fitting white suit.
Indeed, that was then, and this is now. At twenty six years old, CliffyB is a nine year veteran of the industry, lead designer at Epic Games and co creator with Digital Extremes of the smash success first person shooter franchise Unreal. This is the year that sales of videogames in the United States have surpassed movie box office receipts, a stamp of success the industry believes is its passport to legitimacy. People who haven't thought about videogames since their Space Invaders days more than a decade ago are saying to one another over coffee and the Times: Did you know the videogame industry made $6.35 billion dollars this year? Ads for Sony, Nintendo, Electronic Arts, and Xbox are beginning to creep from cable channels like MTV2, Nickelodeon, and TechTV onto prime time slots on the networks. Billboards for hit games such as Grand Theft Auto III are vying with movies for space on city street corners. Nongamers around the world are awaking, startled, to the ascendance of a medium about which they know little or nothing.
The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3 as gamers call it, is the yearly event of the International Digital Software Association, the industry's chief trade group. The gathering was founded in 1995 when videogames got too big to remain an adjunct of the Consumer Electronics Show. E3 is where game publishers, console makers, and related companies show their upcoming wares to retailers and industry press. As CliffyB likes to say, videogames used to be like porn: everyone's got a stack under their bed, but no one admits it. In 2001, however, as young men everywhere are pulling their consoles and games out from under the bed, E3 has come to stand for something much bigger than just a trade show. In 2001, it stands as proof that videogames are here and aren't going away any time soon.
The enormous lobbies and hallways of the Los Angeles Convention Center, where E3 is held, are tiled with wall sized monitors, banners of all sorts, and constellations of loudspeakers. The noise is deafening, and the bleating and blinking they emit is potentially epilepsy inducing. Crouched like a spider beneath its web, a full scale model of the futuristic Lexus from Spielberg's Minority Report guards the escalator to the main convention hall, and a matrix of sixteen or so huge flat panel screens tease passersby with the images from the videogame of the yet to be released movie. The demos loop over and over, Tom Cruise endlessly fighting off jetpack wearing attackers. On a wall across the aisle, a digitalized Ewan McGregor is firing up his light saber above a display for a litany of upcoming Star Wars game releases. Though Lucasfilm's digital counterpart LucasArts has been around for more than a decade, in 2001 most movie studios and production houses are just discovering the advantages of tag teaming their blockbusters with videogames.
On the expo floor, the game companies have gone all out. There are fifteen foot tall dungeons and faux Grecian temples surrounded by pillars of red billowing silk that give the impression of flames. There's a small skate ramp in the South Hall replete with professional skaters promoting the newest installment of the multimillion dollar franchises Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Tony Hawk's Underground. The king himself, Mr. Hawk, occasionally steps out from the VIP section to monitor the proceedings, sporting the goofy smile of a tycoon who at heart remains an enthusiast.
When Cliffy gets out of his panel discussion, he chats a bit with reporters and other industry folk outside the meeting room. He bounces on the toes of his snakeskin shoes, excited, as if he can't quite believe he's here himself. Then he heads down to the expo floor.
Cliffy lives for videogames. Time spent on the Nintendo Entertainment System, playing with Mario and Donkey Kong, are some of his fondest childhood memories. His preteen years were spent on the PC with Doom and Quake, and then SimCity and the Ultima series. By the time he was a teenager, he was making games of his own on a souped up PC in his bedroom. Cliffy has never had any formal game design training until recently the very idea of formal training in game design would have been considered absurd. Nevertheless, Cliffy's been making games professionally since he was seventeen years old. After sending one of his games in a Ziploc bag to a publisher in California, Cliffy found himself a professional game designer before he had even graduated high school.
Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo, the three console makers of the moment, as well as three of the biggest software publishers in the business, dominate the South and West Convention Halls, respectively. Each company has an inner sanctum, erected the day before, complete with passageways and little rooms where executives take meetings and give interviews over plates of melon and grapes. Like a solar system with a collection of satellites, each company is surrounded by its subsidiaries, divisions, and allies. Cliffy checks out a couple of displays, and soon spots dozens of people he knows other designers, gaming journalists,vca copy necklace, fans of his. People know Cliffy because he makes a point of being known. He accepts panel spots, poses for photographs, and even has a Web site called CliffyCam that lets you watch him while he works, or allows you to rifle through a collection of his photographs, including a prominent one of him in a big fuzzy bunny suit.
After a few minutes of meeting and greeting, CliffyB turns to a friend with the exhausted but excited look of a congressman just returned from a visit with his constituency. Cliffy explains to a reporter that a rumor has been spreading through the convention center like a virus, growing until the grumbling on the subject has become another layer of noise on the expo floor a rumor that there's been a moratorium on the Booth Babe.
The Booth Babe is a time honored tradition of E3 to the extent that a tradition less than a generation old can make such a claim and the Booth Babe issue has everything to do with what videogames have been, and what they're trying to become. Despite the rumored moratorium, Booth Babes appear to be everywhere you look. There's a woman dressed as Lara Croft, the long legged, gun toting archaeologist hero of Eidos's Tomb Raider. (Angelina Jolie played her in the movie version of the game.) There are women in tiny pieces of chain mail positioned outside elaborate gothic sets, women wandering the show rooms in pink latex bikinis. A group of them outside the South Hall are tossing Hawaiian leis around the necks of pale young men, cooing "Want to get lei'd?" There would appear to be many, many scantily clad young women, but, apparently, there aren't as many in 2001 as there used to be. And once the rumor takes hold, a dearth of Booth Babes is perceived by one and all, and the judgment of every male queried is that there are not nearly as many as there should be. "Ban the Booth Babe?" you hear in the hallways. "Come on!" People know this is the year the industry is making its big push for the mainstream, and they clearly understand that they aren't to alienate anyone with acts that could be perceived as depraved or immature or in any way foster the general impression of videogame makers as crazed, violent, or immoral freaks. But on the Booth Babe issue, the conventioneers are like dieters looking forward to being thin yet balking at the idea they must disavow pizza.
CliffyB, statesmanlike, sums up the general feeling. "Give me a break," he says. "The Booth Babe is an institution. If people don't have a sense of humor, f 'em!"
The irony is that while it's true Douglas Lowenstein, president of the Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA), hardly wants to project an image of pimply faced boys taking Polaroids with chain mail clad young women, he's the last one to hear the rumor. To his knowledge there's been no official moratorium on the Booth Babe. He's certainly issued no such edict. Perhaps the vendors are cleaning up their act on their own, he muses. Perhaps it's been entirely imagined, or perhaps it's a fantasy that became a reality once enough people believed it. Amidst the chaos and clamor of the sprawling video game shantytown set up by the corporations on the floor of the convention, it's easy to see how that could happen.
Lowenstein is a slender man in his mid fifties who favors thin polo neck sweaters tucked into pleated trousers. He's going bald and has a beak nose. Were his posture to worsen, he would somewhat resemble Mr. Burns from The Simpsons. Yet, there's something natty about him he's polished and professional looking in a way most people in the videogame industry are not. He shakes Cliffy's hand as they pass in the hall. Lowenstein has his own speech to give. lobbyist who's had his work cut out for him, trying to transform America's perception of the videogame from that of an artifact of an ailing society to a respectable and fun entertainment product. He's named the 2001 conference "Touch the Future," and, like Cliffy's attempts to vanquish his Coke wielding demons, he's determined to flip the whole paradigm once and for all. He wants 2001 to be the dawn of a new era. He kicks off E3 with an enthusiastic and statistic filled address.
"Seven years ago," he says, "videogames were played mostly by teenage boys, usually in the basement or the bedroom. No longer. Today, videogames are mainstream entertainment: they're played by people of all ages; they're played by people of all tastes; and they've become as important a part of our culture as television and movies. . . . They're in the center of the home, they're on the Internet, they're in movies, they're in schools, they're on cell phones; they're on PDAs and airplanes; and they're even in medical research labs. In short, videogames are everywhere."
He chuckles a little, along with his crowd, when he says, "Of course, politicians are still grumbling about videogame violence." It's as if he and the audience were high schoolers, sniggering at a hopelessly out of date teacher tramping the halls with toilet paper trailing from his shoe.
Lowenstein is clearly thrilled he finally has the luxury of laughing off angry politicians. economy as a whole during the same time period, and more than double the rate of either the film industry or the computer hardware business. The average age of a gamer has finally exceeded eighteen years "Please, please, can we put that stereotype to rest once and for all!" Lowenstein mock pleads. It's predicted that by 2005, videogame consoles will have penetrated 70 percent of all American homes, giving it one of the fastest adoption rates of any consumer appliance in history. The PlayStation 2 alone, for example, made it into 10 million homes its first year on the market, something it took the telephone thirty five years to accomplish.
Ubiquity is what the industry has been after for years, and ubiquity seems to be what it is finally getting. One study, from investment analysts at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, has just concluded that the potential market for videogames had grown from 20 million people in 1980 to 96 million in 2001 and is now growing exponentially 106 million people in 2005 and onward, as every baby born takes to the videogame habit.
"Fun. That's what this . . . industry is about," Lowenstein says. Then he reads from a May 2001 article by Bob Schwabach for the New York Times: "'The videogame industry has been on the threshold of seizing dominance in entertainment for several years,'" he quotes. " 'Ultimately it will. It's inevitable. . . . I don't see any way out of this.'"THE FOLLOWING YEAR, 2002, CliffyB's plans for industry dominance aren't panning out quite as he'd hoped. At E3 2001 he'd been riding high on the recent release and resounding success of Unreal Tournament. But in the spring of 2002 at the International Game Developers Conference, the release of his next title, Unreal 2,van cleef and arpels clover copy necklace, is still seven months away, and Cliffy has taken to muttering "you're only as good as your last game."
If you didn't know that Cliffy introduced a new look at every industry gathering, you might not recognize him right away at the 2002 Game Developers Conference. This year, CliffyB's hair is brown and brushed into his face 88 la early ER George Clooney. He's wearing a silky shirt and a stiff black leather jacket; a heavy silver chain lies around his neck. Cliffy is well scrubbed and moussed, like someone from New Jersey going to a Manhattan dance club. He's hanging out by the bar of the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California, which serves as the headquarters for the Game Developers Conference. It's March,replica van cleef and arpels butterfly necklace, almost exactly one year after the rumored Booth Babe moratorium, and attendance at the GDC, an event as different from E3 as San Jose is from Hollywood, is strong. E3 may be for the companies, but GDC is for the developers. For an industry on the verge of reaching cultural critical mass, it's hard to imagine that a tight sense of community could be maintained among developers, but Alan Yu, the bald, hip twenty nine year old organizer of the event, is doing his best to make that happen. He has a dream of a videogame community that crosses cultural, geographical, and company lines. He's lured designers from as far away as Japan, Hong Kong, Italy, Scotland, France, and England. E3 may shock and awe with its eye popping display of the electric sprawl of the videogame industry, but GDC opens a portal into the hearts of those who keep it thriving.
Every year, in early March, just before the mad scramble in the months leading up to E3 begins, twelve thousand or so game developers from around the world descend on this four block stretch of downtown San Jose. They fill up every hotel in the area, every meeting room in the convention center, and every ballroom in the Fairmont Hotel.
They crowd into seminars ranging from programming with geometric computations,van cleef arpels imitation necklace, to composing interactive music, to managing online societies, to understanding female gamers. There are educators from universities such as Stanford, MIT, and University of Michigan who want to know how to create degrees in game making and videogame theory. There are business people from wireless companies hot on the trail of multiplayer games that can be played over cell phones. And there are others, like Peter Molyneaux of Lionhead Studios (Black White and Fable) who are acknowledged masters of this strange universe. GDC is a place where it's possible for the lowest coder to rub elbows with the likes of Will Wright, maker of the most popular PC game of all time, The Sims, or Raph Koster, the visionary leader of the current charge into massively multiplayer online gaming, or even Jonathan "Seamus" Blackley, the man behind the Xbox.
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