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Crane maintained that the Atari policy of relying on mangled adaptations of arcade games would result in a glut of cheap, unappealing games, which became one of the contributing factors to the Video Game Crash of 1983.
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* Atomic Rooster and Vincent Crane site, maintained by his widow Jeannie Crane and dedicated to his memory
They are all cranes once owned by the Western Pacific Railroad and two of them, a small, self-propelled Burro Crane and a large, 200-ton capacity Industrial Brownhoist crane, are maintained in operable condition.
Crane and Atari
In late 1979, Miller left Atari with three other programmers, David Crane, Larry Kaplan and Bob Whitehead.
Crane started his programming career at Atari, making games for the Atari 2600.
After meeting co-worker Alan Miller in a tennis game, Miller told Crane about a plan he had to leave Atari and found a company that would give game designers more recognition.
From this meeting, Crane left Atari in 1979 and co-founded Activision, along with Miller, Jim Levy, Bob Whitehead, and Larry Kaplan.
Crane and policy
David Crane the first Chief Prosecutor of the Sierra Leone tribunal, chose to interpret the statute so that the tribunal's policy was to prosecute those who recruited the children rather than the children themselves no matter how heinous the crimes they had committed.
With the appointment of Crane as co-head of the commission, it set about to issue a report to inform U. S. policy makers.
Unfortunately, in 1937, the Newspaper Enterprise Association syndicate, which employed Crane and owned the strip, introduced a new policy requiring Sunday pages designed so the panels could be rearranged into different formats.
Crane and on
Just as Hart Crane had little influence on anyone except very reactionary writers -- like Allen Tate, for instance, to whom Valery was the last word in modern poetry and the felicities of an Apollinaire, let alone a Paul Eluard were nonsense -- so Dylan Thomas's influence has been slight indeed.
The Blue Crane is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds ( AEWA ) applies.
* Blue Crane videos, photos & sounds on the Internet Bird Collection
The film was based on the fourth novel in a pentalogy, known in China as the Crane Iron Pentalogy, by wuxia novelist Wang Dulu.
He initially worked for Hewitt Crane on magnetic devices and miniaturization of electronics ; Engelbart and Crane became lifelong friends.
Friends ( stylized as F • R • I • E • N • D • S ) is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004.
Frasier hosts The Dr. Frasier Crane Show on talk radio station KACL ( named for the initials of the show's creators, Angell, Casey and Lee ).
Also of interest are the High Lighthouse ( 1818 ); the unusual Treadwheel Crane ( late 17th century ); the Electric Palace Cinema ( 1911 ), one of the oldest purpose-built cinemas to survive complete with its original projection room and ornamental frontage still intact and operational ; the Old Custom Houses on West Street ; and a number of Victorian shopfronts.
Grammer is most widely known for his two-decade portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the hit NBC sitcoms Cheers, Wings, and Frasier.
His 20-year run playing Dr. Frasier Crane ties a length set by James Arness in playing Marshall Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke from 1955 to 1975 and Richard Belzer in playing Det.
They are located on Garnet street in close proximity to the local Wallace James shop, St Peter's Primary School, Gastronomica bar, Docklands General Store and Crane Wharf.
The Monte Vista Crane Festival takes place in March, centering on the wildlife refuge located six miles ( 10 km ) south of town.
Tourist attractions suggested by National Geographic Traveler include the Monte Vista Crane Festival in March, Los Caminos Antiguos, a regional road network, the Luther Bean Museum at Adams State University and the Firedworks Gallery on Main Street in Alamosa for regional history and art, the El Charro Café on Sixth Street and Calvillo's on Main Street for regional Mexican food.
Crane fly, with a pair of halteres visible behind the wings as appendages, about as long as the animal's antenna ( biology ) | antennae, with knobs on the end
** Crane ( railroad ), a crane suited to use on railroads
* Crane shot, a shot taken with a camera mounted on a crane in motion pictures
Crane would later write that his father, Dr. Crane, " was a great, fine, simple mind " who had written numerous tracts on theology.
Dr. Crane died on February 16, 1880, at the age of 60 ; Stephen was eight years old.
Putting more emphasis on his writing, Crane began to experiment with tone and style while trying out different subjects.
Later that summer, Crane met and befriended author Hamlin Garland, who had been lecturing locally on American literature and the expressive arts ; on August 17 he gave a talk on novelist William Dean Howells, which Crane wrote up for the Tribune.
Crane and arcade
* Crane Game, a " claw " type redemption arcade game
Crane and games
In September 2001, Miller rejoined David Crane at Crane's company, Skyworks Technologies, a leading developer of custom branded online games ( advergames ) for Fortune 100 companies, where he served as Vice President of Business Development for four years.
Merchandisers such as the Claw Crane are more recent electronic games in which the player must accomplish a seemingly simple task ( e. g. remotely controlling a mechanical arm ) with sufficient ability to earn a reward.
Both games were designed and written by David Crane and published by Activision.
Crane and would
Dr. George W. Crane, a medical columnist, thinks it would.
Crane had fun with this, tossing in an occasional " ker-splash " or " lickety-wop " along with what would become the more standard effects.
Upon a fresh boot, the command history was supposedly empty, but if the user typed a single space followed by a backspace, then hit CTRL-A, the names of the authors would be displayed: ' by K. Kaplan, L. Crane, R. Doggett '.
This area would become the setting for several short stories that would be posthumously published under the title Stephen Crane: Sullivan County Tales and Sketches.
Believing nothing honest and unsentimentalized had been written about the Bowery, Crane became determined to do so himself ; this would become the setting of his first novel.
Although Munroe would later say Crane " was not a handsome man ", she nonetheless admired his " remarkable almond-shaped gray eyes.
Harry Crosby and his wife Caresse would establish the Black Sun Press in Paris in 1927, publishing works by such future luminaries as D. H. Lawrence, Archibald MacLeish, James Joyce, Kay Boyle, Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Dorothy Parker and others.
A number of writers whose works he would later publish also served in the ambulance corps, including Ernest Hemingway, Malcolm Cowley, and Hart Crane.
During the two Zaca expeditions Beebe was accompanied by his longtime assistant John Tee-Van as well as Jocelyn Crane, a young carcinologist who had first worked for Beebe at Nonsuch Island in 1932, and who would subsequently be among Beebe's most cherished associates for the rest of his life.
Like Hollister before her, Crane would eventually become Beebe's lover during the long expeditions that Beebe made without Elswyth's companionship.
Crane promised that if she still didn't like it in 10 years, he would replace it.
Conceivably, they might be considered distinct species already, a monotypic G. canadensis and the Greater Sandhill Crane G. pratensis, which would include the other populations.
These and the migratory Greater Sandhill Crane proper form a group of lineages that diverged much more recently from a range in the southern U. S. and maybe northern Mexico, where they would have been resident.
In 1978, shortly before the general election, Crane announced that he would be a candidate for the Republican nomination for president.
At the time of his announcement, Crane expressed doubts that Reagan would run again ( after two failed attempts for the nomination in 1968 and 1976 ), and intimated that, should Reagan run, he would likely drop out.
It was created by Marta Kauffman and David Crane the team who would later create the TV show Friends.
In “ The Critical Monism of Cleanth Brooks ,” Crane writes that under Brooks ’ s view of a poem ’ s unity being achieved through the irony and paradox of the opposing forces it contains, the world ’ s most perfect example of such an ironic poem would be Albert Einstein ’ s equation E = mc < sup > 2 </ sup >, which equates matter and energy at a constant rate ( Searle ).
Crane had fun with this, tossing in an occasional " ker-splash " or " lickety-wop " along with what would become the more standard effects.
A site in the Crane Brook Valley was selected to be dammed in order to create a reservoir which would provide water to the new stretch of canal.
Then Mrs. Tripp called Bob Crane, a composition professor, and asked if he knew anyone who would like to try Javanese Gamelan.
They would sometimes themselves be targeted by a bird, Crazylegs Crane, and would in turn always out-smart him.
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