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November 20, 2013
Animal Research Facilities: Georgia
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What to Do About Wild Turkeys
Once a rare sight, wild turkeys are now commonly found in urban and suburban areas, where they're not always welcome. But killing problem turkeys is not the answer. There are more effective, non-lethal ways to get rid of unwanted wild turkeys.
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All Animals Magazine Media Kit, 2014
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November 19, 2013
Animal Rescue Team Staff
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November 19, 2013
Data on U.S. Research Institutions and Universities that Buy Class B Dogs and Cats
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November 19, 2013
New Jersey Still Needs a Vote to Ban Cruel Gestation Crates
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November 18, 2013
Pet Food Safety
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November 18, 2013
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November 15, 2013
Canadian Seafood Boycott Highlights
The Humane Society of the United States implemented a boycott of Canadian seafood in an effort to end the Canadian commercial seal hunt once and for all.
November 15, 2013
Sweet Potato Jerky for Dogs
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Traveling with Your Pet: What to Pack and How to Prepare
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Wildlife Policy Interns—Wildlife Protection
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November 15, 2013
Old Dogs (and Cats), Still Great Tricks
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November 15, 2013
Thank You for Pledging to Protect Seals!
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November 15, 2013
Chefs for Seals
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November 14, 2013
Safe Stalls Horse Rescue Network
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November 14, 2013
Iowa Agriculture Council
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November 13, 2013
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November 13, 2013
Dissection Campaign Packet
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Biography (Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Margaret Eleanor "Peggy" Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, on November 18, 1939, the second of three children of Margaret Dorothy (Killam) and Carl Edmund Atwood. Her father was an entomologist who conducted research in the bush country of Quebec and Ontario. Therefore, Atwood spent many of her summers at the family cottage exploring the Canadian wilderness until her family would return to Toronto for the school year. This connection to and exploration of the natural world would have a dramatic effect on her later writing.
Atwood's passion for the creative arts began at a young age. Between the ages of eight and sixteen, she was more interested in painting and designing clothing than in writing. She jokingly calls this time her "dark period" because beyond these years, she was devoted to writing; however, she would go on to illustrate some of her books of poetry and to win respect as a painter.
Atwood wrote for the school paper during her teens at Leaside High School and contributed to the school magazine Clan Call. From 1957 to 1961, she attended the University of Toronto, where she pursued her B.A. in English. During her undergraduate career, she formed a bond with teacher and critic Northrop Frye. Her mentor introduced her to the poetry of William Blake, which would subsequently impact her own poetry. Even the titles...
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Biography (Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Atwood is a multitalented writer with a flare for sardonic humor. In her novels, poetry, and short stories, she makes bold stylistic choices which resonate with the reader. Her concerns with feminist issues, with the struggle between humankind and the natural world, and with Canadian nationalism are inherent in her work. She is a voice of magnitude in her native land and a critic of Canadian matters of trade, culture, and foreign policy. Atwood's pieces are studied in many secondary schools and universities worldwide. She has won a variety of prestigious awards throughout her career.
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Biography (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on November 18, 1939. She grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. Following graduation from Victoria College, University of Toronto, she attended Radcliffe College at Harvard University on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, receiving a master's degree in English in 1962. She taught at a number of Canadian universities and traveled extensively. In the early 1990's Atwood was a lecturer of English at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver. She later settled in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson and their daughter, Jess.
Atwood's output was steady in fiction and particularly in nonfiction. She made successful forays into the fields of script writing for film and musical theater, and she also produced notable novels. It is her prolific, passionate essay and article writing on a variety of national and international social issues, however, of which human rights is her central concern, that made her a bellwether of Canadian opinion. Her involvement with world political and social issues became evident in her vice leadership of the Writers' Union of Canada and her presidency of the International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, and Novelists (PEN), where she waged a vigorous battle against literary censorship. Her association with Amnesty International prompted an increasingly strong expression of her moral vision.
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Biography (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on November 18, 1939, the second of Carl Edmund Atwood and Margaret Killam Atwood's three children. At the age of six months, she was backpacked into the Quebec wilderness, where her father, an entomologist, pursued his special interests in bees, spruce budworms, and forest tent caterpillars. Throughout her childhood, Atwood's family spent several months of the year in the bush of Quebec and northern Ontario. She did not attend school full time until she was twelve.
Though often interrupted, Atwood's education seems to have been more than adequate. She was encouraged by her parents to read and write at an early age, and her creative efforts started at five, when she wrote stories, poems, and plays. Her serious composition, however, did not begin until she was sixteen.
In 1961, Atwood earned her B.A. in the English honors program from the University of Toronto, where she studied with poets Jay Macpherson and Margaret Avison. Her M.A. from Radcliffe followed in 1962. Continuing graduate work at Harvard in 1963, Atwood interrupted her studies before reentering the program for two more years in 1965. While she found graduate studies interesting, Atwood directed her energies largely toward her creative efforts. For her, the Ph.D. program was chiefly a means of support while she wrote. Atwood left Harvard without writing her doctoral thesis.
Returning to Canada in 1967,...
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Biography (Identities & Issues in Literature)
Margaret Atwood achieved fame with provocative novels and challenging poems while still a young woman. By age fifty she was acclaimed worldwide for her poetry, fiction, criticism, and essays. Quotable and frequently abrasive, she became a media celebrity as well. Two concerns remained foremost in her work: the self-realization of women and the cultural independence of Canada. To celebrate Canada was also to venerate its environment and respect the habitat of wild animals.
Atwood's early years provided broad experience of North American life. The daughter of a University of Toronto scientist, she accompanied her father on field trips into the Quebec bush. After undergraduate work in Ontario, she attended Radcliffe on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. Since matrimony was expected of her generation and class, she dutifully married a Harvard student, whom she later divorced. Returning to Canada, she taught at several major universities.
In 1970, Atwood met the Canadian novelist Graeme Gibson, who was to be her permanent companion. Their daughter Jess was born in 1976, and a farm near Alliston, Ontario, became their home. Atwood and Gibson emerged as major figures in the lively Canadian literary scene. They were also untiring advocates of freedom for writers everywhere and spoke for Amnesty International.
Atwood's critical survey of...
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Biography (Critical Survey of Poetry: British, Irish, & Commonwealth Poets)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born into a family that encouraged inquiry and discovery. An important stimulus to her intellectual curiosity was certainly the family's yearly sojourns in the remote bush of northern Ontario and Quebec, where Atwood's father, an entomologist, carried out much of his study and research. It is likely that this environment shaped Atwood's ironic vision and her imagery. Atwood's writing, especially her poetry and her second novel, Surfacing, are permeated with her intimate knowledge of natural history and with her perception of the casual brutality with which the weak are sacrificed for the survival of the strong.
Studying between 1957 and 1961 for her undergraduate degree in English at Victoria College, University of Toronto, Atwood came under the influence of Canadian poet Jay MacPherson and especially of Northrop Frye, one of the twentieth century's preeminent critical theorists. They encouraged Atwood's early poetry and directed her toward biblical and mythological symbol and archetype, still strong forces in her writing.
Between 1961 and 1963, Atwood pursued graduate studies in English at Harvard University, receiving her M.A. in 1962. In 1963, she met fellow graduate student James Polk, whom she married in 1967, when after a period of working, writing, and teaching, Atwood returned to Harvard to pursue a Ph.D. (beginning thesis work on the English metaphysical romance). In Canada, however,...
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Biography (Magill's Survey of World Literature, Revised Edition)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, on November 18, 1939, the daughter of Carl and Margaret Killam Atwood. In 1945, her father, who was an entomologist specializing in forest insects, moved the family to northern Ontario, the bush country that is featured in many of her works. Though the family returned a year later to Toronto, Atwood in later years would often visit the rural parts of Ontario and Quebec and spend a considerable amount of time at her country place. She attended high school in Toronto, and when she began writing at the age of sixteen, she had the encouragement of her high school teachers and one of her aunts. While attending Victoria College of the University of Toronto, she read Robert Graves's The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth (1948), which she claims "terrified" her because, while women are at the center of Graves's poetic theory, they are inspirations, not creators, and are alternately loving and destructive. This view of women writers did not daunt the aspiring writer, who has since helped to "correct" Graves's view and has focused much of her writing on women's issues and the themes of identity and empowerment.
After graduating from Victoria College in 1961, the same year that Double Persephone (1961), her first volume of poems, appeared, she attended Radcliffe...
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Biography (Magill's Survey of World Literature, Revised Edition)
As novelist, poet, literary critic, editor, and spokesperson for women's rights, Margaret Atwood is an international figure whose ideas and beliefs about consumerism, environmental damage, censorship, militarism, and gender politics pervade her writing. Though most of her work is set in Canada and reflects the survival theme that she claims is distinctly Canadian, her dissection of human relationships transcends national boundaries. She focuses on geographical and emotional landscapes in which her protagonists journey, usually to nature or to the wilderness, in order to shed civilization's influence, confront themselves, rediscover their true identities, and survive. Atwood's style, regardless of the genre, is poetic in that her delight in language is revealed through puns, metaphors, allusions, and ambiguous words and phrases that resonate with meaning. Though there is pessimism and despair in her work, there is also a wry sense of humor that is almost inevitably satiric.
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Biography (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood is Canada's foremost contemporary writer of novels, poetry, and literary criticism. She was born in Ottawa in 1939 to Margaret Killam Atwood and Carl Edmund Atwood, an entomologist. Her father's university position and scientific research were responsible for his family's dual life, spent both in Toronto and in the bush country of Quebec. After attending public school in Toronto, she enrolled at Victoria College, University of Toronto, where in 1961 she received her B.A. in English language and literature and was awarded the E. J. Pratt Medal for Double Persephone, a book of poetry.
After intermittent graduate study at Harvard University, where she was profoundly influenced by the myth criticism of Northrop Frye, she returned to Canada, where the acclaimed The Circle Game established her as one of Canada's leading poets. While she continued to publish poetry regularly, she increasingly turned her attention to fiction, beginning with The Edible Woman, a novel that is concerned with the male-female relationships she had already explored in her poetry. In 1972, she published her second novel, Surfacing, perhaps her best fictional work, and Survival, a book of literary criticism that not only charted Canadian literary history but also identified survival as the most important...
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Biography (Novels for Students)
Margaret Atwood is often referred to as Canada's greatest living writer. She was born on November 18, 1939, in Ottawa, Ontario. She wrote her first story when she was six. Atwood's father, Carl Edmund Atwood, is an entomologist and her mother, Margaret Dorothy Killam Atwood, is a dietician. In 1945, her family moved to Toronto, where she graduated from high school and afterward attended Victoria College. While there, she studied under Northrop Frye, another famous Canadian author and literary critic, and the poet Jay MacPherson. Upon graduating from college, Atwood won the first of many literary prizes. The E. J. Pratt Medal was awarded to her for her self-published book of poems, Double Persephone. She then went to the United States, where she earned her master's degree at Harvard.
In 1966, Atwood won another prestigious honor, The Governor General's Award, for yet another collection of poetry, The Circle Game. In 1967, Atwood married Jim Polk; they divorced in 1977. Atwood's first novel, The Edible Woman, was published in 1969. By the 1970s, Atwood's published works secured her a position as one of Canada's rising stars in both poetry and fiction.
To date, Atwood has written twelve books of poetry, four children's stories, four nonfiction books, and ten novels. Alias Grace was her ninth novel. Atwood has also written scripts for television and has edited several collections promoting Canadian writers. Many of her works have been translated into foreign languages and published in other countries, where she enjoys a wide readership. Two of her novels, Surfacing and The Handmaid's Tale, have been made into movies.
Atwood's ability to win awards began early in her career and has not diminished throughout her career. One of the most coveted was the Booker Prize, which she won for Blind Assassin in 2000.
Besides her writing and editing skills, Atwood has also taught at numerous universities: York University in Toronto, New York University, and the University of Alabama–Tuscaloosa. Atwood is also a rather humorous cartoonist, especially when based on the experience she has gathered while promoting her works on book tours. (See her website.) Atwood is also prone to travel all over the world, giving lectures on literary themes or on her experiences as a writer. She is active in several organizations, such as Amnesty International.
Atwood is married to Graeme Gibson, another Canadian writer. They have three grown children. In 2004, Atwood was living in Toronto.
Biography (Novels for Students)
Margaret Atwood was born November 18, 1939, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to Carl Edmund (an entomologist) and Margaret Dorothy (Killam) Atwood. As she was growing up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto, she spent a great deal of time in the woods where, like the narrator of Surfacing, she developed an enthusiasm for environmental issues. She began writing when she was six-years-old. By the time she became a teenager, she had written poems, short stories, and cartoons for her high school newspaper, and she had decided that she wanted to devote her life to writing. She earned an undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto in 1961 and her master's degree from Radcliffe College in 1962. After completing her education, she taught at several universities including the University of British Columbia, the Sir George Williams University in Montreal, and York University in Toronto. She and her husband, writer Graeme Gibson, live with their daughter Jess in Toronto.
Atwood has received much acclaim and several awards for her writing, including the Canadian Governor General's Award, Le Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France and the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature. She has written more than thirty volumes of poetry, nonfiction and fiction, including children's books and short stories. Her work has been published in more than twenty-five countries. In addition to her best-selling novels and collections of poetry, Atwood gained recognition for Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, (1972) a ground- breaking critical analysis of Canadian literature and a proposal for Canadian writers to focus on native traditions in their works rather than identifying with Great Britain or the United States. Her works also include the best-selling novels Alias Grace and The Robber Bride.
Biography (Novels for Students)
Margaret E. Atwood, born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1939, spent most of her early years in the wilderness areas of Northern Quebec. She lived with her family in a log cabin that had no electricity, no running water, and no television or radio. It was in this isolated setting that she learned to entertain herself by reading books like those by the Brothers Grimm and Edgar Allan Poe.
Not until she was eleven-years-old, when her family moved to Toronto, did she attend school full-time. In Geraldine Bedell's "Nothing but the Truth Writing between the Lines," Atwood reportedly said that upon her introduction to city life, as contrasted with her own unconventional childhood, all social groups seemed to her "equally bizarre, all artifacts and habits peculiar and strange." This outsider view plus her early and intense fascination with literature may have been responsible for pulling her toward writing, for by the time she graduated from high school, her graduation yearbook declared that Atwood's intentions were to write the great Canadian novel.
In 1961, the same year Atwood graduated from the University of Toronto, she was awarded the E. J. Pratt Medal for her collection of self-published poems titled Double Persephone. Five years later, while she was enrolled as a graduate fellow at Harvard University, she won the Canadian Governor General's Award for another early collection of her poems, The Circle Game.
Atwood described this time of her life in a speech she delivered at Hay on Wye, Wales, in 1995:
After two years at graduate school at the dreaded Harvard University, two broken engagements, a year of living in a tiny rooming-house room and working at a market research company which was more fun than a barrel of drugged monkeys and a tin of orange-flavoured rice pudding, and after the massive rejection of my first novel, and of several other poetry collections as well, I ended up in British Columbia, teaching grammar to Engineering students at eight-thirty in the morning in a Quonset hut. It was all right, as none of us were awake.
Atwood sent her first novel, The Edible Woman, to a publisher who subsequently lost it. Four years later, after Atwood won her awards for poetry, this same publisher took her out to lunch and promised to publish her novel. When Atwood asked him if he had read it, he answered no. As fate would have it, the timing of the book's publication (1969) matched a resurgent interest in women's rights and feminism, thus promoting a concurrent interest in The Edible Woman.
Over the years, Atwood has written, among other things, several books of poetry, novels, short stories, children's stories, a radio play, and a play for television. She is known internationally as a champion of Canadian literature.
Internationally acclaimed as a poet, novelist and short story writer, Margaret Atwood has emerged as a major figure in Canadian letters. Using such devices as irony, symbolism, and self-conscious narrators, she explores the relationship between humanity and nature, the dark side of human behavior, and power as it pertains to gender and politics. Popular with both literary scholars and the reading public, Atwood has helped to define and identify the goals of contemporary Canadian literature and has earned a distinguished reputation among feminist writers for her exploration of women's issues. -- Margaret Atwood CriticismRecommended Resources
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Biography (Novels for Students)
Margaret Atwood is one of the best-known Canadian writers of our day. She is certainly one of the most prolific authors in North America, having produced over twenty volumes of poetry and just as many books of fiction (including novels and short story collections), as well as important essays, dramas, and children's books. Recognition for her work has included winning the Governor-General's Award twice, as well as the Coles Book of the Year Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Harvard University Centennial Medal.
She was born in Ottawa in 1939 and grew up in suburban Toronto. Her father was an entomologist, and during her childhood, Atwood, showing as much ability in science as she did in writing, believed that she would follow in his footsteps in the field of biology. Her talent as a writer became apparent early: in high school, she contributed poetry, short stories, and cartoons to the school newspaper. Her first volume of poetry was published the same year that she graduated from Victoria College, University of Toronto, and five years later her second book of poetry was given one of Canada's most coveted prizes, the Governor-General's Award. Since the 1960s she has taught at several Canadian and American universities, usually through honorary guest fellowships, and she has produced a tremendous body of work.
Throughout her writing career, critics have often categorized Atwood's works as "feminist," a label that she has avoided because...
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Biography (Novels for Students)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born on November 18, 1939, in Ottawa, Canada. Her father, Carl Edmund Atwood, was a forest entomologist; her mother, Margaret Dorothy (Killam) was a graduate in home economics from the University of Toronto.
Atwood spent her earliest years in Ottawa during the winters and the rest of the year in northern Quebec and Ontario. In 1946, her father took up a position as professor at the University of Toronto, and the family moved to Toronto.
In 1957, Atwood became a student of English at Victoria College, University of Toronto. In 1961, after graduation, she studied English at Radcliffe College, Harvard University, and was awarded a master's degree in 1962. She then went on to doctoral studies at Harvard until 1963. The following year she taught English literature at the University of British Columbia. Her first collection of poetry, The Circle Game (1966), won the Governor General's Award.
Since then, Atwood has published poetry, novels, short stories, children's literature, and nonfiction and has taught in many Canadian and American universities. Her poetry includes The Animals in That Country (1968), The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970), You Are Happy (1975), Two-Headed Poems (1978), Interlunar (1984), and Morning in the Burned House (1995). Her novels are The Edible Woman (1969); Surfacing (1972); Lady Oracle (1976); Life before...
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Biography (Short Stories for Students)
Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on November 18, 1939. She started reading and writing at an early age and was particularly drawn to the Brothers Grimm fairy tales because of their active female characters. Greek mythology and its themes of metamorphosis, rebirth, and transformation further excited the young girl's imagination. Atwood's father was an entomologist and an avid nature lover. The young Atwood spent much time discovering nature in the wilds of Canada while she was growing up, a fact that is evident in much of her writing. In the book Conversations, Atwood discussed the impact her father's work had on her: "The most transformative thing you can study is insects. They change from one thing into another, and the thing they change into bears no relation to what they were before."
As a high school student in Toronto, Ontario, in the 1950s, Atwood began to take writing seriously. In school, she studied mostly British writers, and the idea of a particularly Canadian literature was not common, a fact that she has successfully sought to change throughout her career. After receiving a degree from the University of Toronto in 1961, Atwood came to the United States to study at Radcliffe and Harvard. Cultural differences between Canada and the United States first became an issue when she was attending Harvard University. She discovered that many Americans had only the vaguest notion of Canada.''They seemed to want to believe that...
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Margaret Atwood was born on November 18, 1939, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Her childhood was divided between the city and the country. Her family spent the school year in Ottawa and Toronto, where her father taught entomology or worked for government agencies, and summers in northern Quebec and Ontario where her father conducted research. These early experiences away from urban society encouraged Atwood to read and develop her imagination.
As a child, Atwood composed and illustrated poems, which she collected into small books. She wrote prose and poetry for her high school's literary magazine. While attending Victoria College, University of Toronto, from 1957 to 1961, she wrote for the newspaper and the dramatic society. As a young poet, she was an active member of the literary scene, which included giving readings at coffeehouses and contributing reviews, poems, and parodies to the college newspaper.
In the year of her graduation from Victoria College, Atwood won the E. J. Pratt medal for a group of poems. She also won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to study English at Radcliffe College, which is part of Harvard University. She received her M. A. from Harvard in 1962 and began to work toward her Ph.D. However, in 1963, she left Harvard and returned to Canada to focus her attention on Canadian literature. She taught English from 1964 to 1965 at the University of British Columbia, then returned to Harvard and eventually completed all the...
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He leaves a wife and two stepdaughters. His wife, Sharon, posted a note on Facebook, thanking her friends for their condolences.
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Landsberry, who joined the Marines after he graduated from high school in Reno in 1986, had an associate's degree in law enforcement and a bachelor's degree in education, according to a statement from the Guard. He began teaching in 2001, the same year he enlisted in the Guard, the statement said.
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Not sure if this is standard, but make it to where instead after posting or creating a new topic it goes to the forum listing, it goes back to the topic.
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That's been built in for years. I never understand why people want this feature however, it's always made more sense to take me back to the topic listing (I just saw the post I made, why do I need to see it again?)
For just yourself, you can configure it from Profile > Look and Layout Preferences > Return to topic after posting
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LOL Arantor... there was a huge debate in the dev board about this where a bunch of the devs and others insisted that "return to post" should be the default setting...
I argued exactly the same point and they said something like "well, I want to review what I just posted..."
Never made any sense at all to me.
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I made it the default in Wedge for that exact reason, even though I still personally don't understand the fascination with seeing what you just posted.
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Topic: Double Fine Adventure raises $1m on Kickstarter Posted: 10 Feb 2012 at 12:36am |
I don't know if many of you are in to the old point-and-click adventure games from the 90s, but a new one is being made by Double Fine productions. They just raised $1m on Kickstarter in about 24 hours.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure Thought this might be interesting to some :) |
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I have installed and sometimes I like to play around Monkey Island I, II, III, Sam and Max, The Dig, Full Throttle, Gabriel Knife, Zork the Nemesis, 7Sins, The day of the tentacle, and much others ^^
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Day of the Tentacle is one of my alltime favorites! I backed this yesterday, I only wish I had a spare 10k or even 150k lying around those donation rewards sound amazing (they have a few listed at www.doublefine.com that aren't listed on kickstarter)
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They are fun but I don't have the patience. I've played Grim Fandango and some of the Myst games, and more recently those "escape the room" flash games, but never without a walkthrough >_<
But yeah, I saw many tweets about this. I don't know how it begun, but at some point they caught the attention of the media (i believe rock, paper, shotgun said something about it) and it got really popular really fast |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 10 Feb 2012 at 2:45am | |
Something like $11 a second so far!
Monkey Island were absolutely amazing games. I think they did Maniac Mansion as well? I found that too hard though lol. Edited by Tom - 10 Feb 2012 at 2:46am |
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//smart-ass-mode Tim Schafer used to work for LucasArts until 2000. Maniac Mansion is the first SCUMM-based adventure from LucasArts, published 1987, and the head of that one was Ron Gilbert. Tim started working for LucasArt in 1989, assisting Ron Gilbert and taking his position, as Ron left LucasArt. Day of the tentacle is a kind of sequel to Maniac Mansion, btw. //smart-ass-mode off |
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Point-and-click adventure games are my favourite genre. Looking forward to this :)
Now, how much to pledge....... |
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I liked the whole kickstarter concept from the start. A mate off mine got hired by a band to draw a music video which got funded by kickstarter. So yes it does work for smaller projects too..
Only downside is (or at least used to be) people can only pay with credit card which is not as common to own in europe as it is in the USA i guess. Obviously we are not going to get that sort of cash lolz.. ..yet! The above mentioned bands request on kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/807719988/pieces-an-animated-music-video-by-ken-flagg-and-em The final vid: http://youtu.be/rcGS11Bx6aM Edited by UberDark - 11 Feb 2012 at 2:53pm |
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Ashley, I was trying to reproduce a Adventure game using C2, but it was difficult because the lack of options around Z order, when you're doing "perspective worlds".
I think Our next big spot (or behavior) need to have some focus in that Z Ordering things, but that's another talk, for another hour ^^ About the Maniac Mansion, You can play it inside the The Day of The Tentacle, inside a bedroom, on that old computer looking like a CP500 ^^ |
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Gender | Girls |
Colour | Pink |
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Frame Size | 10.5" |
Inside Leg Measurement | 620 mm (Saddle height) |
Suspension | None |
Pedals | Y |
Assembly | Minimal assembly required |
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Rear Brakes | Y |
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Cassette (Rear Gear) | Single speed |
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