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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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Mi gondoskodunk a kutyknak, mert szeretjk ket. Hogy idsebb korukban, idsebb kutyk akarat volna klnbz ellts szksges. Az els dolog gondolkodni az, mikor a kutya lesz a vezet? ltalban ris tenyszt kutyk kor gyorsabban, mint a kisebb tenyszt kutyk. Ez a tmakr hasznos s lnyeges informcit, hogy segtsen megrizni az idsebb kutya, egszsges s boldog.
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Kutya nvekedsvel tulajdonosok kifejezetten kell tartaniuk bizonyos vltozsok s a lehetsges betegsgek, amelyek akkor fordulhat el, a gyorsan nvekv kutyk. Az egyik leggyakoribb jele biceg, s a kapcsold, a csontok s a csontok nvekedse szmos problma okozhatja. Az egyik leggyakoribb kutya csont betegsg az Panosteitis vagy "Pano". Panosteitis is nevezik felnvs fradozs s vndor lb sntts. A sntasg tarthat nhny htig naponta. Pano jellemzi, vltoz lb sntasg; egyik lbt fogja meggygytani, akkor egy msik hatssal lehet. Vannak nem hossz tv htrnyokkal a pano, de mg mindig szksge van elg s megfelel petsafe s figyelmet, hogy megakadlyozzk az ilyen betegsgek.
Panosteitis gyakran jr egytt nagy tenyszt kutyk, s ltalban akkor fordul el a kutyk 5 12 hnapok bl kor, br megllaptst nyert, a kutyk olyan rgi, mint 5 v. Pano leggyakrabban befolysolja a frfiak arnya 4:1. Nknl leggyakrabban rintett krl az els h. E betegsg nem tekinthet rszben genetikai, hiszen oly sok nmet juhsz kutyk elterlt hoz ez. Azonban szmos egyb tnyez sszefggsbe hoztk a pano: dita, vrusos betegsgek, autoimmun problmkat, hyperestrogen s rrendszeri problmk. Egyb lehetsges okok kz tartozik a tpllkozsi zavarokat, immunolgiai betegsg, anyagcsere betegsg s ms vrusok. Ms szval senki sem tudja, mi okozza. Bizonyos klinikai jelek voltak hossz csves csont fjdalom, vltoz lb sntasg, lz, tvgytalansg, levertsg. A kzs tnetek a Pano a eltolhatjk a vgtag vgtag sntts, fjdalom, lz s tvgytalansg.
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Ott is ismert mdszer bl megakadlyozs Panosteitis; azonban sok llatorvos hisz, a betegsg mg tovbb rontja a kalria ds trend s a over supplementation a kalcium s a foszfor. gy egy felntt kplet, vagy egy nagy fajta nvekeds kplet dita mdostsa javasolt. A kutya az sszeget, amely nem sztnzi, elhzs, vagy tlsgosan gyors nvekeds kell etetni. Kalcium s vitamin kiegsztk is el kell kerlni.
Emberek, akik rdekldnek a fenti cikkben albb felsorolt kapcsold cikkek is rdekel:
Porkolb hoz eltarts kutytok vezet, egszsges s boldog
Mi gondoskodunk a kutyknak, mert szeretjk ket. Hogy idsebb korukban, idsebb kutyk akarat volna klnbz ellts szksges. Az els dolog gondolkodni az, mikor a kutya lesz a vezet? ltalban ris tenyszt kutyk kor gyorsabban, mint a kisebb tenyszt kutyk. Ez a tmakr hasznos s lnyeges informcit, hogy segtsen megrizni az idsebb kutya, egszsges s boldog.
A gyors Intro a kis kutya fajtk
Az ember legjobb bartja jn ban minden klnbz mretben. Azonban birtokl egy picurka tenyszt birtokol elnyei messze fellmljk a testk mrete. Kicsi kutya tenyszt van azonban nagyon vltozatos gy a karakter s a fizikai tulajdonsgok. Teht itt van, mire van szksge,van cleef replica alhambra necklace, tudni, hogy amikor hasznlatbavtele vagy gondolkodik egy vkony kisllat.
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Breads From Anna
Gluten Dairy Soy Corn Free Mix
Yeast Free Mix
Pie Crust Mix
Pumpkin Bread
Gifts of Nature
Sandwich Bread
All Purpose Mix
GF Oats
Gluten Free Essentials
Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix
Chipotle and Lime Rice Side
Meatloaf Starter Mix
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The second time our son took him to the beach and because he left his ball home he threw sticks for him. As you can imagine blue heelers don't do anything by half measures it is full pelt or nothing. We rushed him to the vet and after explaining what had happened he thought the stick may have been used to stab a poisonous fish or something. It was the only explanation any of us could come up with.
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Dogs need to be buckled up into their own seat belt like humans, they need your help with this.
My husband tells Titan to grab his thongs. And off he runs and brings one. My husband then says get the other one and away Titan runs and brings the other one. Sometimes he gets an odd shoe, but hey we can't be too fussy.
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We were camping in our caravan next to a lake. One afternoon my husband was having a nap and I was sitting outside reading a book and Titan started snapping under our van. I couldn't work out what he was doing. Then when I crawled underneath I spotted the problem. I freaked out and screamed to my husband. Tiger snake Titan is trying to get it.
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Titan is such a smart dog and what he did last night goes to prove this more than ever. I have to tell you this story although you may not believe me but it is true.
My husband turned off the TV and told me he was going to bed. As usual I was typing on my computer. Suddenly the power went off and it was pitch black. No moonlight or anything just complete blackness,copy van cleef alhambra necklace. My husband asked where the torches were and I said in the cupboard. He found his way to the cupboard and found one.
The power was out in the whole street. So my husband returned inside with the help of his torch and walked towards the kitchen. Then he called to me, you gotta see this! I followed him, and standing there as pleased as punch was Titan (our blue heeler) tail wagging profusely with our other torch in his mouth.
We could not believe it. How did he know we needed the other torch? He must have gone to the cupboard and found it. These cupboards had press release catches so he opens them easy. He seems to sense when we want things, it is not the first time he has done this, although I believe this one takes the cake. And yes he got a treat for being so smart.
We just cannot understand how he does it, although he does do heaps of things for us. I took him to obedience school as a pup. I did this to have a little bit of control over him, because as a pup he was a real terror. He chewed up our whole cane lounge. Chewed the newly upholstered cushions on the lounge and dug holes everywhere. As we both worked I blamed most of this on boredom, and being left home on his own. Beware when placing pellets in your garden as they can kill your dog. There are some more improved snail pellets on the market these days that dogs will not eat. Make sure you buy those ones.
Dangers of throwing sticks for your dog
The second time our son took him to the beach and because he left his ball home he threw sticks for him. As you can imagine blue heelers don't do anything by half measures it is full pelt or nothing. We rushed him to the vet and after explaining what had happened he thought the stick may have been used to stab a poisonous fish or something. It was the only explanation any of us could come up with.
Then a few years later he developed a large lump on his neck. Luckily it was benign. They operated and after a long while they removed most of it. But they could not get it all as it was right on his jugular vein. Again he was saved, thank goodness. So he has sure had his ups and downs. This same protective true mate, gets our mail from the letterbox, helps to carry in the shopping. He is pretty gentle with it although one day he decided to shake a loaf of bread and we had to rescue it. Since then we just give him things in solid packets. But he runs in with it and then back out to the car for something else.
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Dogs need to be buckled up into their own seat belt like humans, they need your help with this.
My husband tells Titan to grab his thongs. And off he runs and brings one. My husband then says get the other one and away Titan runs and brings the other one. Sometimes he gets an odd shoe, but hey we can't be too fussy.
This wonderful dog would protect either one of us with his life. We know that for sure and certain. Even when we are playing around he lets us know in no uncertain terms. He growls letting us know he is watching us.
Beware of snakes
We were camping in our caravan next to a lake. One afternoon my husband was having a nap and I was sitting outside reading a book and Titan started snapping under our van. I couldn't work out what he was doing. Then when I crawled underneath I spotted the problem. I freaked out and screamed to my husband. Tiger snake Titan is trying to get it.
I grabbed Titan,copy van cleef butterfly necklace. Luckily for him the snake was stretched out and where he was snapping was in the middle so it didn't bite him. We tried to get rid of it. Eventually the rangers came and after two hours they got it out. Oh boy I was freaking out. I hate snakes,copy van cleef clover necklace sale. We were very grateful to the rangers that is for sure they took it away and let it go somewhere else thank goodness.
When Titan wants to sit on one of our lounge chairs at night, he sits in front of it and waits. If we take no notice he will whimper,copy necklace van cleef arpels, and when we say ok, he jumps up and make himself comfortable.
I hope I am not boring you with this but honest to goodness. could give you literally hundreds of little snippets of things he does for us, and we think the world of him. Not that you can tell I suppose.
Oh, Just one more thing. When we were traveling around Australia, we met so many people that would come up to us and ask about Titan. They would share all their stories about their wonderful Blue or Red Heelers. In thirteen months we never met one of those dog owners that had a bad word to say about Heelers. They all said how wonderful Blue Heeler dogs are. And it is true.
Blue Heelers would give their lives for their owners if they could. So I think it is time to say "Drink up! And cheers to Titan, hopefully we will have this blue heeler dog for another ten years!"
Last reunion for war heroes who came home to fight the fascists
They returned from war hailed as heroes. But the demobbed British Jews who won medals defeating Hitler were horrified to see fascist salutes on the streets of Britain.
Oswald Mosley, whose British Union of Fascists preached anti Semitism before the war, was released from internment in 1946. His Blackshirts, dressed like Nazi stormtroopers, were revived. Jewish houses were daubed with the letters PJ Perish Judah. Jews were beaten and taunted in the streets: "Not enough Jews were burned in Belsen." Something had to be done.
In April 1946, 43 men and women war heroes including Gerry Flamberg, who won the Military Medal at Arnhem, and Tommy Gould, a submariner who won the Victoria Cross formed the 43 Group.
Morris Beckman, another founder member,van cleef long necklace fake, now 88, explained. We decided that as trained troops we would 'out fascist the fascists'."
Last week, around 40 of the surviving street fighters who fought British fascism to a standstill in a five year guerrilla war held a last reunion to consider their achievements.
At a Jewish cultural centre in west London they displayed memorabilia, including Mosley's prized personal standard and some of the graffiti that appeared on synagogues.
Mr Beckman recalled bloody battles in Ridley Road market, in what was then a Jewish area of Hackney, in east London. Mosley would stand on a van, nicknamed "the Elephant" because of its two massive ear like loudspeakers, and stir up crowds with talk of the "alien" menace. "We would salt the crowd with groups who would fight among themselves, the police would be diverted and two wedges of commandos, the tough guys ex marines, guards and paras would make for the platform and overturn it."
By 1947 the group had more than 1,000 members: mainly in London,van cleef and arpels necklace butterfly fake, but also in Manchester, Birmingham, and Newcastle.
Maurice Podrow, 81, who was still in the RAF when he joined the group, admitted that at the time he was "very violent". "At a meeting at Hyde Park Corner we couldn't get at Mosley, so we picked on this big South African, one of his right hand men,vca sweet alhambra necklace fake," he said. "I was pictured on the front of the Daily Mail punching him. My wing commander wasn't very pleased."
He wore a Polish army belt with a thick brass buckle "sharpened so it was a four sided blade". Knuckledusters, coshes, steel capped boots and knives were used on both sides. The Blackshirts threw potatoes studded with razor blades.
Prominent Jews such as the boxing promoter Jack Solomons,van cleef black necklace fake, who could not be seen to support street fighting, sent donations. Every month the comedian Bud Flanagan sent a cheque for 30. Mr Beckman added that the actor Sydney Tafler helped the cause by mimicking Mosley's hate rhetoric on a recording played to a group of Jewish businessmen. "They reached for their chequebooks, some of them donating 1,000."
The group even considered kidnapping Mosley, stripping him and dumping him in Piccadilly Circus. Some non Jewish supporters helped by infiltrating Mosley's headquarters so the group knew in advance of his next meetings. Mr Beckman estimates that hundreds of meetings were broken up as a result. With support for Mosley dwindling, the 43 Group was disbanded in 1950.
The group was not without its critics, however. Some said its tactics perpetuated fascism and suggested that by ignoring Mosley his support would have faded sooner. But Mr Beckman is insistent: "In 1946 there were only two countries in Europe that allowed fascist parties us and Franco's Spain.
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They returned from war hailed as heroes. But the demobbed British Jews who won medals defeating Hitler were horrified to see fascist salutes on the streets of Britain.
Oswald Mosley, whose British Union of Fascists preached anti Semitism before the war, was released from internment in 1946. His Blackshirts, dressed like Nazi stormtroopers, were revived. Jewish houses were daubed with the letters PJ Perish Judah. Jews were beaten and taunted in the streets: "Not enough Jews were burned in Belsen." Something had to be done.
In April 1946, 43 men and women war heroes including Gerry Flamberg, who won the Military Medal at Arnhem, and Tommy Gould, a submariner who won the Victoria Cross formed the 43 Group.
Morris Beckman, another founder member,van cleef long necklace fake, now 88, explained. We decided that as trained troops we would 'out fascist the fascists'."
Last week, around 40 of the surviving street fighters who fought British fascism to a standstill in a five year guerrilla war held a last reunion to consider their achievements.
At a Jewish cultural centre in west London they displayed memorabilia, including Mosley's prized personal standard and some of the graffiti that appeared on synagogues.
Mr Beckman recalled bloody battles in Ridley Road market, in what was then a Jewish area of Hackney, in east London. Mosley would stand on a van, nicknamed "the Elephant" because of its two massive ear like loudspeakers, and stir up crowds with talk of the "alien" menace. "We would salt the crowd with groups who would fight among themselves, the police would be diverted and two wedges of commandos, the tough guys ex marines, guards and paras would make for the platform and overturn it."
By 1947 the group had more than 1,000 members: mainly in London,van cleef and arpels necklace butterfly fake, but also in Manchester, Birmingham, and Newcastle.
Maurice Podrow, 81, who was still in the RAF when he joined the group, admitted that at the time he was "very violent". "At a meeting at Hyde Park Corner we couldn't get at Mosley, so we picked on this big South African, one of his right hand men,vca sweet alhambra necklace fake," he said. "I was pictured on the front of the Daily Mail punching him. My wing commander wasn't very pleased."
He wore a Polish army belt with a thick brass buckle "sharpened so it was a four sided blade". Knuckledusters, coshes, steel capped boots and knives were used on both sides. The Blackshirts threw potatoes studded with razor blades.
Prominent Jews such as the boxing promoter Jack Solomons,van cleef black necklace fake, who could not be seen to support street fighting, sent donations. Every month the comedian Bud Flanagan sent a cheque for 30. Mr Beckman added that the actor Sydney Tafler helped the cause by mimicking Mosley's hate rhetoric on a recording played to a group of Jewish businessmen. "They reached for their chequebooks, some of them donating 1,000."
The group even considered kidnapping Mosley, stripping him and dumping him in Piccadilly Circus. Some non Jewish supporters helped by infiltrating Mosley's headquarters so the group knew in advance of his next meetings. Mr Beckman estimates that hundreds of meetings were broken up as a result. With support for Mosley dwindling, the 43 Group was disbanded in 1950.
The group was not without its critics, however. Some said its tactics perpetuated fascism and suggested that by ignoring Mosley his support would have faded sooner. But Mr Beckman is insistent: "In 1946 there were only two countries in Europe that allowed fascist parties us and Franco's Spain.
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Dorothy Lamour
Hollywood's "sarong girl" Dorothy Lamour made no claims to be a great actress, but few stars of the screen's vintage years are regarded with greater affection. She is remembered with such warmth for three reasons: as star of a string of jungle pictures, clad in the sarong that was to become her trademark; as one of the four most popular pin ups of the Second World War (along with Betty Grable, Lana Turner and Rita Hayworth); and as co star with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope of the phenomenally successful "Road" films only the James Bond movies have been more profitable as a lengthy sequence. Taking her stepfather's surname Lambour, she moved to Chicago and worked in a department store as an elevator girl while trying to break into show business. Singing in a talent contest she was spotted by the band leader Herbie Kaye, who signed her as vocalist and changed her name to Lamour.
In 1935 they were married. Kaye's former college chum Rudy Vallee introduced Lamour to the owner of the famed New York nightspot the Stork Club and she was signed to sing there. This led to more club work, radio performances and her screen debut in a two reel short, The Stars Can't Be Wrong (1936). Moving to Hollywood for a regular spot (billed as "the sultry songstress of the airwaves") on NBC Radio, she was given a screen test by Paramount and cast in The Jungle Princess (1936). As a naive native girl, with only a tiger and a chimpanzee as friends, she rescues a stranded hunter (Ray Milland) who teaches her English and saves her from villainous natives. Lamour introduced a song hit, Frederick Hollander and Leo Robin's "Moonlight and Shadows", and clothed only in a sarong, her long black hair caressing her shoulders, scored an instant hit with the public, who made the modest film a surprising smash hit.
Lamour's next role was a supporting one in Swing High, Swing Low (1937) but her song in it, "Panamania" , was another hit. In Mamoulian's High, Wide and Handsome (1937) she again had a minor role but sang Kern and Hammerstein's "The Things I Want". The director John Ford, preparing to film The Hurricane for the producer Sam Goldwyn, suggested Lamour for the role of Samura, daughter of a native chief, and Goldwyn traded his contract star Joel McCrea with Paramount to secure her. She again scored a great personal success and had another hit song with her recording of the film's theme tune, "The Moon of Manakoora".
Paramount, now convinced that Lamour and a sarong were a winning combination, starred her in Her Jungle Love (1938), as a native girl who rescues a stranded aviator (Milland again). He teaches her English ("What is this word Kiss'?" she asks him) and rescues her from crocodiles, an earthquake and a power crazy villain. Though Lamour's jungle films were fantastic and formulaic they were colourful, amusing pieces of pure escapism which the public loved.
Now a top star, Lamour was borrowed by Fox to star with Tyrone Power in the gangster melodrama Johnny Apollo (1940), singing two fine songs with lyrics by Frank Loesser, "This is the Beginning of the End" and "Dancing for Nickels and Dimes", the latter perform ed in a fetching urchin outfit that Lamour hated. Paramount next put her back in the jungle for Typhoon (1940) with Robert Preston, another enormous hit.
Then came one of the most fortuitous pieces of casting in screen history. George Burns and Gracie Allen also rejected it before the producer William LeBaron thought of Hope and Crosby, who already had a well publicised comic feud going on their respective radio shows. The tropical setting made Lamour the perfect choice for heroine. Retitled Road to Singapore (1940), the first of a legendary series went into production. "I was trying to follow the script but just couldn't get my lines out," she said later. "Finally, I realised that I should just get the general idea of a scene rather than learn the words by heart, then go along with the boys." Said Hope, "Dottie is one of the bravest gals in pictures. She stands there before the camera and ad libs with Crosby and me knowing that the way the script is written she'll come second or third best, but she fears nothing."
The mixture of ad libs, asides to the audience and irreverent in jokes plus the songs of Crosby and Lamour and wisecracks of Hope made the films irresistible. Though not initially planned as the first of a series, the film was swiftly followed by Road to Zanzibar (1941), which was even funnier and had the New York Post commenting: "Dorothy Lamour, ceasing her feverish efforts to become An Actress, begins to shine in a new light."
Lamour next partnererd Hope in Caught in the Draft (1941), proving again what an admirable foil she was becoming as she adopted a bemused,copy alhambra style necklace, somewhat acerbic reaction to Hope's frantic shenanigans. She was reunited with her Hurricane co star Jon Hall in the vividly coloured Aloma of the South Seas (1941), singing "White Blossoms of Rah ni" and dealing with the wicked high priests and an erupting volcano in another box office hit.
She followed this with one of the finest wartime musicals, The Fleet's In (1942), playing an aloof night club singer whose heart is melted by William Holden, and introducing the Victor Schertzinger Johnny Mercer standard "I Remember You".
Road to Morocco (1942) is considered by many the best of the "Road" films, its surreal pleasures incuding a talking camel and a version of the hit tune "Moonlight Becomes You" in which the three stars sing with each other's voices.
Lamour's role opposite Crosby in Dixie (1943), a loose biography of the minstrel star and composer Dan Emmett, was a disappointing one in which she had no song solos, but in And The Angels Sing (1944), she introduced the Johnny Burke Jimmy Van Heusen standard, "It Should Happen to You".
During the war, besides being a favourite pin up of the forces, Lamour made many tours to promote the sale of war bonds. Road to Utopia (made in 1944 but released two years later) was another gem, this time set in the Yukon during gold rush days. Lamour had a further hit song with the Burke Van Heusen "Personality" though she stormed off the set one day after waiting hours in costume for her leading men then finding they had gone to play golf. "They always joked about my temperament after that," she stated, "but they never did that to me again!"
Two demanding roles in an adaptation of John Steinbeck's scathing portrait of wartime hypocrisy A Medal for Benny (1945) and in Claudette Colbert's former role in an ineffectual remake of Midnight entitled Masquerade in Mexico (1945) exposed Lamour's thespian limitations, but in My Favourite Brunette (1947) she again proved a splendid foil for Hope, while in the all star Variety Girl (1947) she engagingly partnered tough guy Alan Ladd as he made his singing debut duetting "Telahassee".
When Paramount had announced that Road to Utopia would be the last of the series they received over 75,000 letters of protest, so in 1947 Road to Rio was released, another hit though it would mark the end of Lamour's golden period. Paramount were shedding many of its stars including Lamour, and as a freelance her films and performances met with mild response, though Slightly French (1949) was an amusing farce in which Lamour got laughs as a carnival dancer masquerading as a French cabaret star.
In 1950 and again in 1958 she triumphed at the London Palladium (the audience roaring its approval when she donned her sarong) and in 1952 played in two major films. She was a circus performer in De Mille's The Greatest Show on Earth a small part but it included a brief Hawaiian song and dance and Road to Bali, the sixth film in the series. Night clubs and television were now her main professional outlets,alhambra pendant necklace fake, but she was once more international news in 1961 when Hope and Crosby announced that they would be making Road to Hong Kong but (at Crosby's insistence) with a younger leading lady.
The public outcry that ensued led to Lamour being offered a cameo role which, with the encouragement of Hope, she accepted. In a generally dire film, Lamour was to have the brightest moment when, asked by the two stars to help them hide from gangsters, she listen to their summary of the plot so far then replies, "OK, boys, I'll hide you." "From the gangsters?" they ask. "No," she says, "From the critics."
Her feeling for Crosby was cool after this,copy alhambra van cleef necklace, particularly when he failed to use her in publicising the film. John Ford gave her a small role in Donovan's Reef (1963) and in 1967 she had a great success with a lengthy tour of Hello, Dolly on stage. She published an autobiography, My Side of the Road, in 1980 and continued to appear in clubs and nostalgic stage shows (including a charity show in London a few years ago) until ill health forced her retirement.
Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton (Dorothy Lamour), actress: born New Orleans 10 December 1914; married 1935 Herbie Kaye (marriage dissolved 1939), 1943 William Ross Howard (died 1978; two sons); died Los Angeles 22 September 1996.
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Hollywood's "sarong girl" Dorothy Lamour made no claims to be a great actress, but few stars of the screen's vintage years are regarded with greater affection. She is remembered with such warmth for three reasons: as star of a string of jungle pictures, clad in the sarong that was to become her trademark; as one of the four most popular pin ups of the Second World War (along with Betty Grable, Lana Turner and Rita Hayworth); and as co star with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope of the phenomenally successful "Road" films only the James Bond movies have been more profitable as a lengthy sequence. Taking her stepfather's surname Lambour, she moved to Chicago and worked in a department store as an elevator girl while trying to break into show business. Singing in a talent contest she was spotted by the band leader Herbie Kaye, who signed her as vocalist and changed her name to Lamour.
In 1935 they were married. Kaye's former college chum Rudy Vallee introduced Lamour to the owner of the famed New York nightspot the Stork Club and she was signed to sing there. This led to more club work, radio performances and her screen debut in a two reel short, The Stars Can't Be Wrong (1936). Moving to Hollywood for a regular spot (billed as "the sultry songstress of the airwaves") on NBC Radio, she was given a screen test by Paramount and cast in The Jungle Princess (1936). As a naive native girl, with only a tiger and a chimpanzee as friends, she rescues a stranded hunter (Ray Milland) who teaches her English and saves her from villainous natives. Lamour introduced a song hit, Frederick Hollander and Leo Robin's "Moonlight and Shadows", and clothed only in a sarong, her long black hair caressing her shoulders, scored an instant hit with the public, who made the modest film a surprising smash hit.
Lamour's next role was a supporting one in Swing High, Swing Low (1937) but her song in it, "Panamania" , was another hit. In Mamoulian's High, Wide and Handsome (1937) she again had a minor role but sang Kern and Hammerstein's "The Things I Want". The director John Ford, preparing to film The Hurricane for the producer Sam Goldwyn, suggested Lamour for the role of Samura, daughter of a native chief, and Goldwyn traded his contract star Joel McCrea with Paramount to secure her. She again scored a great personal success and had another hit song with her recording of the film's theme tune, "The Moon of Manakoora".
Paramount, now convinced that Lamour and a sarong were a winning combination, starred her in Her Jungle Love (1938), as a native girl who rescues a stranded aviator (Milland again). He teaches her English ("What is this word Kiss'?" she asks him) and rescues her from crocodiles, an earthquake and a power crazy villain. Though Lamour's jungle films were fantastic and formulaic they were colourful, amusing pieces of pure escapism which the public loved.
Now a top star, Lamour was borrowed by Fox to star with Tyrone Power in the gangster melodrama Johnny Apollo (1940), singing two fine songs with lyrics by Frank Loesser, "This is the Beginning of the End" and "Dancing for Nickels and Dimes", the latter perform ed in a fetching urchin outfit that Lamour hated. Paramount next put her back in the jungle for Typhoon (1940) with Robert Preston, another enormous hit.
Then came one of the most fortuitous pieces of casting in screen history. George Burns and Gracie Allen also rejected it before the producer William LeBaron thought of Hope and Crosby, who already had a well publicised comic feud going on their respective radio shows. The tropical setting made Lamour the perfect choice for heroine. Retitled Road to Singapore (1940), the first of a legendary series went into production. "I was trying to follow the script but just couldn't get my lines out," she said later. "Finally, I realised that I should just get the general idea of a scene rather than learn the words by heart, then go along with the boys." Said Hope, "Dottie is one of the bravest gals in pictures. She stands there before the camera and ad libs with Crosby and me knowing that the way the script is written she'll come second or third best, but she fears nothing."
The mixture of ad libs, asides to the audience and irreverent in jokes plus the songs of Crosby and Lamour and wisecracks of Hope made the films irresistible. Though not initially planned as the first of a series, the film was swiftly followed by Road to Zanzibar (1941), which was even funnier and had the New York Post commenting: "Dorothy Lamour, ceasing her feverish efforts to become An Actress, begins to shine in a new light."
Lamour next partnererd Hope in Caught in the Draft (1941), proving again what an admirable foil she was becoming as she adopted a bemused,copy alhambra style necklace, somewhat acerbic reaction to Hope's frantic shenanigans. She was reunited with her Hurricane co star Jon Hall in the vividly coloured Aloma of the South Seas (1941), singing "White Blossoms of Rah ni" and dealing with the wicked high priests and an erupting volcano in another box office hit.
She followed this with one of the finest wartime musicals, The Fleet's In (1942), playing an aloof night club singer whose heart is melted by William Holden, and introducing the Victor Schertzinger Johnny Mercer standard "I Remember You".
Road to Morocco (1942) is considered by many the best of the "Road" films, its surreal pleasures incuding a talking camel and a version of the hit tune "Moonlight Becomes You" in which the three stars sing with each other's voices.
Lamour's role opposite Crosby in Dixie (1943), a loose biography of the minstrel star and composer Dan Emmett, was a disappointing one in which she had no song solos, but in And The Angels Sing (1944), she introduced the Johnny Burke Jimmy Van Heusen standard, "It Should Happen to You".
During the war, besides being a favourite pin up of the forces, Lamour made many tours to promote the sale of war bonds. Road to Utopia (made in 1944 but released two years later) was another gem, this time set in the Yukon during gold rush days. Lamour had a further hit song with the Burke Van Heusen "Personality" though she stormed off the set one day after waiting hours in costume for her leading men then finding they had gone to play golf. "They always joked about my temperament after that," she stated, "but they never did that to me again!"
Two demanding roles in an adaptation of John Steinbeck's scathing portrait of wartime hypocrisy A Medal for Benny (1945) and in Claudette Colbert's former role in an ineffectual remake of Midnight entitled Masquerade in Mexico (1945) exposed Lamour's thespian limitations, but in My Favourite Brunette (1947) she again proved a splendid foil for Hope, while in the all star Variety Girl (1947) she engagingly partnered tough guy Alan Ladd as he made his singing debut duetting "Telahassee".
When Paramount had announced that Road to Utopia would be the last of the series they received over 75,000 letters of protest, so in 1947 Road to Rio was released, another hit though it would mark the end of Lamour's golden period. Paramount were shedding many of its stars including Lamour, and as a freelance her films and performances met with mild response, though Slightly French (1949) was an amusing farce in which Lamour got laughs as a carnival dancer masquerading as a French cabaret star.
In 1950 and again in 1958 she triumphed at the London Palladium (the audience roaring its approval when she donned her sarong) and in 1952 played in two major films. She was a circus performer in De Mille's The Greatest Show on Earth a small part but it included a brief Hawaiian song and dance and Road to Bali, the sixth film in the series. Night clubs and television were now her main professional outlets,alhambra pendant necklace fake, but she was once more international news in 1961 when Hope and Crosby announced that they would be making Road to Hong Kong but (at Crosby's insistence) with a younger leading lady.
The public outcry that ensued led to Lamour being offered a cameo role which, with the encouragement of Hope, she accepted. In a generally dire film, Lamour was to have the brightest moment when, asked by the two stars to help them hide from gangsters, she listen to their summary of the plot so far then replies, "OK, boys, I'll hide you." "From the gangsters?" they ask. "No," she says, "From the critics."
Her feeling for Crosby was cool after this,copy alhambra van cleef necklace, particularly when he failed to use her in publicising the film. John Ford gave her a small role in Donovan's Reef (1963) and in 1967 she had a great success with a lengthy tour of Hello, Dolly on stage. She published an autobiography, My Side of the Road, in 1980 and continued to appear in clubs and nostalgic stage shows (including a charity show in London a few years ago) until ill health forced her retirement.
Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton (Dorothy Lamour), actress: born New Orleans 10 December 1914; married 1935 Herbie Kaye (marriage dissolved 1939), 1943 William Ross Howard (died 1978; two sons); died Los Angeles 22 September 1996.
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Kate Middleton appeared in public for the first time in more than three months yesterday as she and William attended his friend Harry Meade's wedding.
Speculation that the Royal couple are about to announce their engagement was fuelled when they walked through the porch of the church together.
A source at St Peter and St Paul's church in Northleach, Gloucestershire, said: 'When they turned up together and went through the front where there were obviously photographers, no one could believe it. It's very unusual and very significant.'
Yesterday was the first time that Kate, 28, had stepped out with William since July 10, when she watched him play polo at the Beaufort club in Gloucestershire.
Sources say she has been kept in the background ahead of an engagement announcement. In recent months Kate and William, also 28, have been living as man and wife on the island of Anglesey, in Wales, where he is training as a search and rescue pilot.
Friends say they are 'road testing' married life. Yesterday was the eleventh wedding of friends that Kate has attended in the past five years seven of them with William, her boyfriend of eight years.
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Jecca, whom William met when he first visited the Craigs' estate at 16, was also at the wedding.
A young William was said to have been so besotted with heiress Jecca that they staged a mock engagement ceremony when he returned to work in Kenya during his gap year.
William's three old flames: From left Olivia Hunt, Jecca Craig and Rose Farquhar at the wedding
William's other old flames, Rose Farquhar and Olivia Hunt, were also at the ceremony. Rose, daughter of Captain Ian Farquhar, Master of the Beaufort Hunt, was William's first serious girlfriend, dating him shortly after he left Eton.
Then when he was in his first year at St Andrews University, where Kate also studied, he reportedly dallied with Olivia. The relationship fizzled out and she went on to date William's best friend William Van Cutsem.
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Last week The Mail on Sunday revealed that the Royal Mint is making a commemorative coin in anticipation of a wedding.
The mould of the coin, featuring William and 'Catherine' is in the early stages of design. Several caterers and events organisers are also known to be compiling plans ahead of an announcement.
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'No one bothers them in Anglesey. They are left to their own devices and they love the freedom and nature up there,' said a friend.
'They plan to make Wales their home for the next couple of years.' St James's Palace said: 'Only Prince William and Kate Middleton know what their plans are.'
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Kate Middleton appeared in public for the first time in more than three months yesterday as she and William attended his friend Harry Meade's wedding.
Speculation that the Royal couple are about to announce their engagement was fuelled when they walked through the porch of the church together.
A source at St Peter and St Paul's church in Northleach, Gloucestershire, said: 'When they turned up together and went through the front where there were obviously photographers, no one could believe it. It's very unusual and very significant.'
Yesterday was the first time that Kate, 28, had stepped out with William since July 10, when she watched him play polo at the Beaufort club in Gloucestershire.
Sources say she has been kept in the background ahead of an engagement announcement. In recent months Kate and William, also 28, have been living as man and wife on the island of Anglesey, in Wales, where he is training as a search and rescue pilot.
Friends say they are 'road testing' married life. Yesterday was the eleventh wedding of friends that Kate has attended in the past five years seven of them with William, her boyfriend of eight years.
Happy and relaxed looking William and Kate sent a ripple of excitement through the congregation at the village church when they arrived together to see showjumper Mr Meade, 27, marry primary schoolteacher Rosie Bradford,van cleef mother of pearl earrings replica, 30.
Mr Meade is also a friend of Prince Harry, who was not at the wedding. The Prince had been criticised for wearing a Nazi uniform at Mr Meade's 22nd birthday party.
Kate, in a stunning royal blue dress,replica van cleef and arpels clover earrings, sported tanned legs from the recent Kenyan safari she and William have enjoyed at the family home of his former girlfriend Jecca Craig.
Jecca, whom William met when he first visited the Craigs' estate at 16, was also at the wedding.
A young William was said to have been so besotted with heiress Jecca that they staged a mock engagement ceremony when he returned to work in Kenya during his gap year.
William's three old flames: From left Olivia Hunt, Jecca Craig and Rose Farquhar at the wedding
William's other old flames, Rose Farquhar and Olivia Hunt, were also at the ceremony. Rose, daughter of Captain Ian Farquhar, Master of the Beaufort Hunt, was William's first serious girlfriend, dating him shortly after he left Eton.
Then when he was in his first year at St Andrews University, where Kate also studied, he reportedly dallied with Olivia. The relationship fizzled out and she went on to date William's best friend William Van Cutsem.
Kate wore a chunky silver band on her small finger yesterday. When she was seen in July,replica van cleef and arpels alhambra earrings, she wore nothing. But previously she has worn a delicate silver band with a stone on her middle finger. It had been rumoured that William and Kate became engaged during a trip to Balmoral last month.
But Palace aides yesterday dismissed that as 'categorically untrue'. A source close to the couple said: 'They have had ups and downs and come through rough patches. But Kate dotes on William and he adores her. They really are the perfect match and they will certainly be married soon.'
Last week The Mail on Sunday revealed that the Royal Mint is making a commemorative coin in anticipation of a wedding.
The mould of the coin, featuring William and 'Catherine' is in the early stages of design. Several caterers and events organisers are also known to be compiling plans ahead of an announcement.
When he does eventually marry,replica vans earrings, William wants to stay out of the limelight and is said to be keen to continue living on Anglesey where he and Kate enjoy peace and quiet.
'No one bothers them in Anglesey. They are left to their own devices and they love the freedom and nature up there,' said a friend.
'They plan to make Wales their home for the next couple of years.' St James's Palace said: 'Only Prince William and Kate Middleton know what their plans are.'
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Wij hebben gekozen voor een achtbaan met een heuveltje. Je kunt je eigen ontwerp maken door meerder vierkanten op of naast elkaar te plaatsen.
Bevestig twee stroken flexibel hout over de satprikkers. Houd tussen de stroken de ruimte vrij zodat de wielen van het karretje op de stroken kunnen rijden. Zorg ervoor dat de twee stroken op elke plek gelijk lopen. Dit is belangrijk anders zal het karretje niet goed rijden. Om op elke plek dezelfde afstand te houden, gebruikten wij een mal die precies even breed was als de wielen.
Bevestig nog een extra strook op de twee stroken van de vorige stap. Gebruik ook hier weer de mal. Bevestig deze stroken heel precies, want op deze stroken gaat het karretje rijden. Als de ruimte te groot of te klein is, zal het karretje niet goed rijden.
Step 9: Eindresultaat
Zie hier het eindresultaat.
Zet het karretje bovenaan en laat hem los. Zie hem naar beneden rijden,replica vans earrings.
Wat voor cijfer hebben jullie gekregen voor deze enorme inspanning en knutsel vreugde?PS: En wat een BRILJANT idee om de I ook in het Nederlands te plaatsen : DWe hebben de g krachten berekend met formules. We hadden eerst het plan om de g krachten te meten met een versnellingsmeter, maar dit bleek niet te werken.