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Utility and emergency response officials prepared for the worst Friday as Hurricane Sandy churned northward, readying for nearly a foot of rain, hurricane- or tropical storm-force winds, and power outages that could number in the hundreds of thousands.
As Gov. Martin O'Malley declared a state of emergency Friday to ready relief supplies and mobilize the National Guard, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. officials hurried to muster 2,000 out-of-state utility workers. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and county government leaders urged residents to prepare. State energy regulators hastily called a meeting to prevent problems that arose in recent power outages, while portable electricity generators quickly disappeared from hardware store shelves throughout the region.
Forecast models continued to shift Sandy's projected track late Friday, with the storm's outer bands at least two days away, though the National Hurricane Center still predicted that the storm's center would strike the Delmarva Peninsula late Monday and head northwest through Baltimore. Regardless of where the storm's center arrives, meteorologists expect the massive cyclone to inflict hundreds of millions of dollars of damage over at least half a dozen states, including Maryland.
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BGE officials aim to have the necessary crews ready before Sandy arrives. About 800 are committed to the utility and are en route from Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana and as far away as Texas and New Mexico, officials said. A much shorter window of warning from the July 29 derecho made it difficult for the utility to gather the 1,500 needed workers, and some outages lasted a week.
Crews will begin repairing outages when winds calm to below 25 mph, officials said.
"While our crews will be in place and our staging site equipped before the arrival of the storm, the projected high winds and heavy rain may result in extended power outages," Jeannette M. Mills, BGE's chief customer officer, said in a statement.
Some utility customers immediately took the warnings seriously — portable generators were in high demand and short supply at local hardware stores.
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The Maryland Public Service Commission called a last-minute meeting Friday to address a problem that arose during the aftermath of the derecho, when county officials around the state said they were unable to obtain specific outage locations from utilities. Commissioners agreed that electric utilities could release customer information to emergency-management officials trying to follow up with residents who lost power — particularly those with serious illnesses.
The PSC said utilities may release customers' names, addresses, telephone numbers and special-needs information to government emergency-management agencies only if the data is kept confidential and destroyed soon after power is restored. If the utility has already asked customers whether they want their information shared, as Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative has, it can't pass on information about the people who said no.
The decision applies only to the incoming storm, though PSC Chairman Douglas R.M. Nazarian said he expects the regulatory agency will discuss later how utilities should handle government appeals for power outage information at a customer level. The commission held the hearing in response to a last-minute request from BGE, which asked whether it should release information.
"Hopefully this won't have to get used," Nazarian said of the plan. But whether Sandy hits Maryland or not, "we will continue to think about this for the next one."
Separately, the commission also issued an order forbidding utilities from levying a charge that drew ire from customers after the derecho. The billing mechanism allowed utilities to collect small amounts from customers during the first 24 hours after a major storm even if the customers lacked power. In the order, commissioners called the policy "demoralizing to customers, who perceive an intrinsic unfairness in paying for service they did not receive."
Hurricane Sandy was already causing transportation disruptions Friday as transit officials were working to prepare for the storm.
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Passenger Chris Ann Szep, a vice president at Cecil College, described in an email the dash to stay beyond the grasp of the growing storm that has left passengers anxious to return home as soon as possible.
The ship, which left Baltimore last Saturday, spent just four hours at Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean on Wednesday before steaming north ahead of the storm. Instead of going to the Bahamas, the captain turned for Cape Canaveral, Fla., only to decide that it was too dangerous to stop there Thursday, Szep wrote.
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Baltimore Sun reporters Edward Gunts, Jamie Smith Hopkins, Andrea Siegel and Candy Thomson contributed to this article.


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The Haxe Magic
This page is reserved for experienced users who want to know about Haxe underground Magic. Use these resources with care; they may change between versions.
Sometimes low-level libraries need to access platform-specific magic functions. You need to be inside an untyped block in order to use them. In general, you should only use these magic functions if you're writing a low-level library. Most of the time, you should be able to stick to the Haxe standard library.
Some of this information is also available in order to help you better understand how Haxe works on different platforms.
Initialization Magic
On all platforms, all types are first registered. Then the
Boot.__init() method is called that triggers some platform-specific initialization code.
Then, all
static function __init__ method body code is generated. This can contain some initialization code for specific classes when they are included in the project. Note that try/catch() exception blocks cannot be used inside
__init__ methods and that static variables have not yet been initialized; these functions should only be used to perform very low level initializations.
After that, we can start initializing class static variables. In the end, the main method is called if specified on the commandline.
Boot Magic
Boot class of each platform stores some platform-specific initialization code (method
__init) and platform-specific subtyping checks (method
__instanceof). This second method is used for
try..catch blocks since we need to dynamically check the exception type when filtering it. The
Std.is method is a crossplatform wrapper for this method.
AVM1 and AVM2 (Flash) Magic
Several Flash - specific keywords are defined and enclosed between double underscore symbols.
__new__(cl,p1,p2,p3...)Flash 6 to 9: makes a
newoperation on the class with constructor parameters. It's useful since you can have any expression in place of
__keys__(o)Flash 9: will build an Array containing all enumerable properties of the object
o(using some kind of optimized ActionScript
__arguments__Flash 6 to 9: is a special identifier to access the
argumentsspecial local variable of Flash.
__typeof__(o)Flash 6 to 9: is the same as ActionScript's
typeof(o), and
__instanceof__(o,cl)is the same as ActionScript's
o instanceof cl. Both are used to implement
__global__Flash 9: gives access to the object that contains all the runtime classes and other "global" or, "top-level" properties defined by Flash Player, like the "trace" function and more. These properties are looked-up from wherever in running scripts, they are the root scope of any variable lookup Flash Player performs. See the "Top Level" package in "ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference" at Adobe LiveDocs, for more information.
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//Valid references untyped __global__["undefined"]; untyped __global__["uint"]; //basic type untyped __global__["flash.display.DisplayObject"]; //DisplayObject native class (Class object)
__as__ (e, t)Flash 9
__delete__(o, f)Flash 6 to 9
__eval__(e)Flash 6 to 8
__gettimer__()Flash 6 to 8
__geturl__(e1, e2)Flash 6 to 8
__instanceof__(e1, e2)Flash 6 to 8
__in__ (e,f)Flash 9
__is__(e, t)Flash 9
__keys__(e)Flash 9
__random__(e)Flash 6 to 8
__trace__(e)Flash 6 to 8: Native flash trace
Neko Magic
Neko has what are called builtins, which are documented here. You can access all Neko builtins by replacing the $ character by the __dollar__ prefix. It will be compiled as the corresponding call.
var o : {} = untyped __dollar__new(null);
If you want to extend Haxe with C libraries, you can read the Neko C FFI Documentation and view the
haxe/std/neko/Socket.hx source for an example of interfacing a Neko Library with Haxe.
In Neko, Arrays and Strings are not objects. This means that the neko basic array and the neko basic string are wrapped within object classes (sources are
neko/NekoArray__.hx and
neko/NekoString__.hx; these classes replace
Array and
String by copying them - see
The neko basic string is stored in the
__s field of a
The neko basic array is stored in the
__a field of an
Array but can be bigger than the actual array. You can use the
__neko() method to retrieve a copy of the neko array correctly resized.
So, this means that in the interface Haxe code, you want to do this:
static var _set_text = neko.Lib.load("systools","clipboard_set_text",1); static public function setText( text : String ) : Void { // we access the neko-string directly _set_text(untyped text.__s); } static var _get_text = neko.Lib.load("systools","clipboard_get_text",0); static public function getText() : String { // we need to convert the neko-string to a Haxe string like this: return new String(_get_text()); }
For more information about this, you can also have a look at the implementations of
neko.Lib.nekoToHaxe and neko.Lib.haxeToNeko that do some conversions
between Haxe and Neko values.
Every class has two additional static fields,
__construct__ and
MyClass.new(p1,p2,p3) is the equivalent of Haxe
new MyClass(p1,p2,p3). The
__construct__ method stores the class constructor code which performs some initializations.
If a class has a method named
__compare that takes a single argument and returns an
Int, that function will be used by
Reflect.compare when comparing two objects that are both of that type.
JavaScript Magic
var s = untyped __js__("Navigator.plugin[\"Shockwave Flash\"]");
Other JS magic identifiers:
__instanceof__(o,cl): Same as
o instanceof clin JS.
__typeof__(o): Same as
typeof oin JS.
__strict_neq__(a,b): Same as
a === band
a !== bin JS.
Php Magic
There are four magic identifiers in php:
__php__("php code")construct enables you to directly embed Php code into your Haxe code.
__call__("function", arg, arg, arg...)calls a php function with the desired number of arguments and returns whatever the php function returns.
__var__(global, paramname)has been introduced to easily get the values from global vars.
__physeq__(val1, val2)Strict equals test between the two values. Returns a Bool.
var value:String = "test"; untyped __php__("echo '<pre>'; print_r($value); echo '</pre>'; "); // translates to // $isFalse = false === $value; var isFalse = untyped __physeq__(false, value); // returns a NativeArray with values [1,2,3] var value = untyped __call__("array", 1,2,3); // To get the value of $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] you can write the following // (note that the dollar sign is omitted) var value : String = untyped __var__('_SERVER', 'REQUEST_METHOD')
C# Magic
__cs__ construct enables you to directly embed C# code into your Haxe code. Use with care !
var str:String = "test untyped"; var s = untyped __cs__("System.Console.WriteLine(str)");
Java Magic
__java__ construct enables you to directly embed Java code into your Haxe code. Use with care !
var str:String = "test untyped"; var s = untyped __java__("java.lang.System.out.println(str)");


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The problem with Bravo is that he tries too much when he should just be bowling line and length sometimes, without the variety.


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I'm a novice but I do understand a good bit about the basics of the language. My problem is that I have a bunch of source code files that I want to be able to import into an IDE so that I can figure out what the author was doing by inserting breakpoints and playing with the code. The author of the code has provided the source free and with his blessing, but he has left the project far behind and would not be interested in helping.
I have installed NetBeans and Eclipse and even JCreator. NetBeans and Eclipse both fail to run the code after importing with a huge number of errors. If there is interest, I can provide additional information on the errors I'm getting, but due to the large number of them, I felt it would not be advisable to try to include them here. I figure I probably screwed up in importing the project and in no small part due to my lack of knowledge about how the whole process of building and compiling a project with a large number of files works. I've also wondered if since the code is a bit dated (2004), that may have something to do with the errors... I just don't know.
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The java code has been compiled by the creator into a Windows executable file. It is a cryptogram solver (written by EOlsen) and runs very fast. (WinDeCrypto). I've written a solver in Perl and have worked extensively modifying a C# program written by a friend. They both work fairly well, but cannot come near the success level and speed of WinDeCrypto. There are things going on with this program that I just can't grasp at my current Java skill level. I'm heavy into solving cryptograms manually, but have become obsessed over the past few years with figuring out machine solving methods.
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There are 18 files in the project directory and 24 files in 5 subdirectories so it's not a small project by any means...
Again... please don't be offended by my request. I know I've got a long way to go in learning what I need to know and I'm not looking for an easy answer, just some guidance and any help I can get.
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Bring Your KDE Application to the Masses with Bretzn
Apart from being a tasty Bavarian bread-snack, Bretzn is the code-name for a collection of technology aimed at solving a problem which has existed in software development for a very long time: How do you get your applications to your users?
This is particularly a question for the many developers of KDE applications that are not part of KDE's six monthly Software Compilation releases. These developers must either provide binaries for a range of distributions themselves or hope that distribution volunteers will do the packaging for them.
However, there are already a number of services that can help to solve these problems. We have build services (such as the openSUSE Build Service) that allow the easy creation of binaries for many different Linux distributions (with other platforms in the work!), we have Open Collaboration Services (OCS) which allows easy, socially networked publishing of packages both to and from central software download sites such as openDesktop.org and KDE-Apps.org and we have powerful integrated development environments (IDEs) such as Qt Creator, KDevelop and Eclipse.
Until now these technologies and tools made up mostly isolated islands and it seemed an obvious choice to try bridging them. A project aiming to do just this began in August 2010 and was first publicly announced by Frank Karlitschek at the openSuse Conference in Nuremberg in late October: Project Bretzn would make it possible, with a few clicks, to publish software projects directly from the IDE - and it would all happen before the end of the year!
Connecting the Dots
Project Bretzn, then, is not a single piece of software, but rather an attempt to fill in the holes which exist in what is already there. As it stands, the project has produced two core pieces of software:
Moreover, a KDE client to download and install applications is being developed (find info here). The screenshot shows a first prototype!
Most importantly, all this has the distinction of being open: not only is the source code for the software above freely available as you would expect, but the web API created as the communications layer between those two components is free and open, and indeed a part of the Open Collaboration Services specification as of version 1.6.
Publishing Renewed
The best software is that which gets out of your way to let you do your work, and Bretzn was designed with this principle in mind. What this means is that when you are ready to publish your software, you call up the tool and enter the required information only once: if the same information is required for multiple publishing sites, it is only entered once. The source archive is created for you when you select which folder contains your source code, and you only need to select the targets you wish to build for to get binaries for your application.
Even with the build services, building the binary packages does take a while. Therefore, Bretzn was designed to not require you to follow this process in its entirety. It is rather conceived as a system in which you create the build jobs and then simply close the plugin and let the build service work while you continue working yourself.
When publishing the software, you will normally have to give notice to many people and organizations if you wish the software to be publicized. Through Bretzn, this information can be pushed to people as the publishing happens. Information can be shared through the social networking features of the Open Collaboration Services on the sites the application is published to. For example, users may be subscribed to updates about a single application, or to activities performed by a friend, which are for example the publishing of applications.
Who Is Working on Bretzn?
The project is a collaboration between h i v e 01, Open-SLX and Nokia, and specifically it has been the task of Sebastian Kügler, Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen and Frank Karlitschek to get the project working. Over the last four months, they have been working tirelessly to construct the bridges which make up the Bretzn project, both in software by writing the code, and socially by speaking with a lot of people about the goals of the project to find out just what is needed, as well as making those whose systems Bretzn bridges aware of what they have been doing.
And, It Is Available Right Now
Though the majority of the code has been developed in the open, the various bits of code have now been officially released:
We invite you, as developers of KDE software, to use the results of this project and bring your software to the world using Bretzn. Presently, the Bretzn plugin is only available for Qt Creator, but since all of this software is released under free licenses the team hopes to see Bretzn integrated into other IDEs, particularly KDevelop. Furthermore, help is welcomed in improving the core software as well as providing plugins to support other buildservices or work with more social networks like identi.ca and facebook.
Further Information
You can find more information about Bretzn and download it at the Social Desktop website.
Man, this is looking beautiful. I really hope that it *is* as easy to use as the video makes it seem. If so, we're really in for a wild ride as more and more apps become available faster, across more distro's getting more users testing and filing bugs on the latest versions and picking up more fans.
Heck, even if it does nothing but make the magnificent OBS easier / more intuitive to use it could be a revolution. My only questions:
1. There's a spot for RPM spec files, what about deb spec files?
2. I'm guessing the "Launh build" button is missing a letter "c" ;)
3. That demo image, omg... is that... a *video* on the app page! wooooooot! \(^O^)/
Great work, all involved. This looks like it's going to be one rocking project that will benefit us all. Can't wait to see how Gluon blends into this new app-distributing world when it gets up to speed!
By Bugsbane at Wed, 2011/02/02 - 7:06am
Deb is probably coming soon, it's supported on OBS... Windows might come some day too :D
By Jos Poortvliet at Sat, 2011/02/05 - 4:30pm
wooaaah! definitely going to
wooaaah! definitely going to try this out :)
thanks for making the world a better place for small developers ;)
By mxttie at Wed, 2011/02/02 - 10:28am
What I really hope to see is the KDE App Store being cross-platform, i.e. the same gui and infrastructure used to distribute our Windows and Mac apps. Behind the scenes it can be using whatever technical system is required to install the required libs and dependencies, but we need to make the user installation experience on both those platforms this easy.
The Windows installer does a miraculous job, but it's just too techie for the average consumer, but with the KDE App Store as the front end, well, World Domination springs to mind :-)
By odysseus at Wed, 2011/02/02 - 7:48pm
It seems great
Yeah, it seems so great. But as my English is not so well. I may not understand it clearly. Also I could not see the video.
By Zhan, Haoxi at Thu, 2011/02/03 - 6:19am
It's not KDE specific - it's a cross-desktop, cross-platform, cross-IDE initiative... And it'll integrate with the native package management as much as possible. Depending on the exact implementation it'll probably just add a repository for your distro in the background.
By Jos Poortvliet at Sat, 2011/02/05 - 4:31pm
Love it!
I think the work you are doing is amazing! I will have to try it out!
One question though, would it be possible to use this kind of infrastructure on a local Intranet? Install all the necessary services on local servers and preform internal deployment etc.
I'm thinking from the commercial point of view, if we could market this as being an easy way for people to deploy their applications we might see an uptake in businesses writing cross-platform applications using Qt/KDE. One could even licence build service servers for non open source use which would fund the open source development.
Just a though.
By Andrew Manson at Fri, 2011/02/04 - 2:11pm
This whole thing is part of a
This whole thing is part of a larger cross-distro application installation discussion: http://news.opensuse.org/2011/01/26/app-installer-meeting-or-more-collab...
It all builds on FOSS and open spec systems so having it in-house should work. Also commercial apps would work too...
By Jos Poortvliet at Sat, 2011/02/05 - 4:33pm
Package manager
So, this is a publishing mechanism?
The end-user installation process would still be through their standard installation manager (e.g. a package manager on Linux), right?
By C at Fri, 2011/02/04 - 2:53pm
Basically distro's want to
Basically distro's want to use this as their new app installation tech. For KDE, Bretzn writes an app - for GNOME something is in the works too, see http://news.opensuse.org/2011/01/26/app-installer-meeting-or-more-collab...
By Jos Poortvliet at Sat, 2011/02/05 - 4:34pm
Hi! The plugin-code (http://qt.gitorious.org/+obs-creator/qt-creator/buildserviceplugin/trees...) seems not to contain a lot of QtCreator-specific stuff, the plugin-class seems to be the onliest one using QtCreator-includes and it just modifies the GUI. Is that correct? So it should be very simple to port it to KDevelop? Btw: Why is there a QtCreator-fork for this plugin? Couldn't there simply be a single repository at git.kde.org containing only this plugin?
By The User at Sun, 2011/02/06 - 9:27pm
correct ...
Yes, the plugin part is rather small, and well-encapsulated. The UI logic itself uses libattica and the buildservices project management. I haven't looked into integrating it into KDevelop, but it should indeed be very easy to adapt to other IDEs. That's not entirely coincidential. :)
The reason to keep this code in a Gitorious git repo is that the headers for building the actual plugin are not installed to the system (I understand that the Qt Creator devs want to retain some flexibility with respect to source and binary compatibility. There are also dependency between plugins, which makes things slightly more complicated. (I've kept those to a minimum in the Buildservice plugin.) So for now, you have to build it inside the Qt Creator repo.
By Sebastian Kügler at Wed, 2011/02/09 - 12:24am


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It's about time you got around to digitising those prized Full House video tapes you have stashed in the attic. Buffalo's PC-SDVD/U2G dongle is one of the most efficient ways we've seen, connecting to your VHS player and PC.
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Bush wrote the rap during training camp, specifically for the talent show that all rookies have to participate in, a rite of passage if you will around NFL circles. Both composer and lyricist of the tune, Bush said he wrote the song about his own life and how he's fought to get where he's at right now but in it, he used football as a metaphor. The song is played during pregame warm-ups at MetLife Stadium but rookie linebacker Demario Davis told The Jets Blog that the team often plays it on the road in the locker room to get themselves ready for the game.
"I've been playing music for a while; I don't even really know how or when I first fell in love with music," Bush told The Jets Blog. "I guess in high school, it started when someone bet me that I couldn't learn how to play the guitar and I did. Then one day, I started to teach myself the piano. From there it has only grown."
The lyrics for "Jet Life Dreams" took 45 minutes to write and everything was produced and generated on his laptop. So far, it has been a hit as the song has nearly 5,500 listens on the popular SoundCloud.com music download website not to mention the fans who enjoy it at the stadium on Sunday – and his own teammates.
Music has always been of interest for Bush and runs in the family; his cousin has produced hip hop and R & B songs and is currently in a rock band. Bush doesn't remember the first song he wrote but with a laugh says "It was probably about a girl."
He's looking forward to the offseason when he can compose more music and he's got a new partner as a sounding board, Darrelle Revis. The man known as "Revis Island" is a big music fan "and loves to listen to music, all types" Bush said.
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The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a national nonprofit with more than 10,000 doctor members, named Deerfield as one of 2 grand prize winners of the 2013 "Golden Carrot Award" this week. The award goes to schools that offer healthy plant-based menu options. The award came with a $2500 grant that Director of Food Services, Michael McCarthy, will use to continue nurturing a culture of healthy eating at Deerfield.
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Between Captain America and the Guardians of the Galaxy, 2014 has been a great year for superheroes! It's not stopping anytime soon, either. Marvel is going to be hitting hard in 2015 with the next Avengers movie, Age of Ultron, as well as a reboot of The Fantastic Four and a new story about one of the original Avengers, Ant-Man. Then, DC is already poised to respond with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016, which is going to be kicking off a whole new series of Justice League movies.
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Super suit up!
"Honey, where's my super suit?" – Fro-Zone, 2004
Birthday parties are better in costume, and every superhero needs to conceal their secret identity, after all! Party guests will love dressing up in their favorite superhero costumes, from Batman and Batgirl to Spider-Man and more. No superhero is complete without a cape, either, and accessories like Thor's mighty hammer are always great ideas to add in. After the party is over, these costumes will fit fantastically in any play room!
Create your own easy DIY superhero masks.
As an easy DIY alternative to full-on costumes for every child, you can make up some fun felt superhero masks for the guests to wear. These were created by Jessica of CutesyCrafts.com, where the complete tutorial for the mask-making technique is shown, complete with free printable templates. Create your very own Justice League or band of Avengers to keep the party safe!
Make cute superhero gift bags.
Credit goes to Keeping Up With The Laughlins for this amazing DIY party idea. To start off, purchase some plain paper gift bags in varying colors. Then, with some colored construction paper, build up the design of each superhero's costume! Captain America gets a silver star, Wolverine gets some black triangular stripes, etc. You can even make this into a fun hands-on party activity and let the kids create their own heroes.
Prepare an epic assortment of superhero party favors.
Of course, you need to fill those gift bags with something! We have tons of different superhero party favors to choose from (shown above: Avengers Assemble). Select your child's favorites, from candies to fun trinkets like glow sticks and disc shooters, and you're good to go.
Use comic book pages as a creative way to serve snacks.
Comic Con Family has some great printable comic book patterns that you can download and easily turn into ice cream cone wrappers. Paper cones can also be used to display finger foods like popcorn and pretzels – to set the cones up without spilling them everywhere, poke some large holes in a piece of Styrofoam and nestle them inside.
Throw up the superhero signal!
Evite has a bunch of different designs of superhero invitations on their website that you can use to announce your special occasion in style. With such a wide variety, you're guaranteed to find something that works perfectly with your party's color scheme, whether you're planning for boys or girls. You can also choose to send them in print or via email, too.
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It takes a special kind of genius to transform frustration, insecurity, anxiety, clumsiness and outright failure into something so sympathetic and universal that literally hundreds of millions of people embrace your creative output as part of their lives. Comedians, of course, have mined the humor inherent in personal debasement for years — although, with an awful lot of "confessional" comedy, one has to dig through mountains of wretched, indulgent material before finding a nugget of self-revelation that feels even remotely sweet-natured or genuinely vulnerable.
Charles M. Schulz, on the other hand, spent decades weaving stories around the central characters in his legendary comic strip, Peanuts, that somehow managed to feel both emphatically G-rated and, whether the reader was a kid or an adult, profoundly, recognizably true. Working in a medium — the newspaper comic strip — that, by its very nature, is among the most transient creative endeavors ever devised by human beings, Schulz conceived a marvelously undramatic world of flawed, generally kind-hearted youngsters muddling through as best they could, and then spent the next half century exploring that world and its inhabitants as compassionately as, say, Faulkner explored Yoknapatawpha County.
Charlie Brown; Snoopy (and his siblings); Peppermint Patty; Lucy; Linus; the soulful Schroeder; the beloved, never-seen "Little Red-Haired Girl"; the ever-popular Pig-Pen: for generations of readers — and, later, for viewers of the classic Halloween and Christmas TV specials — these and other characters were, and remain, as companionable as old friends.
Here, on the anniversary of the October 2, 1950, debut of Peanuts as a daily newspaper comic strip, LIFE.com presents a series of photos — none of which originally ran in LIFE magazine — of Charles M. Schulz at home and at play with his family in 1967.
There have been flashier comics, and there have been more impressive illustrators and more psychologically complex comic strip characters and more dramatic storytellers in the genre than Charles M. Schulz. But there was never a more influential comic strip than Peanuts, and there was never one more consistently, wonderfully engaging for so many decades.
It's not easy keeping both kids and adults entertained day after day, week after week, for years on end. But that's just what Charles M. Schulz did with Charlie Brown and the gang. All things considered, that's not too shabby a legacy for a shy kid from Minnesota who, from an early age, just really loved to draw.


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Giants offense shut down by Dodgers' Ryu
Scuffling Sandoval could drop in batting order; Adrianza gets three hits
SAN FRANCISCO -- Pablo Sandoval's sinking offensive production might also cause him to descend in the Giants' batting order.
Manager Bruce Bochy isn't making Sandoval a scapegoat, since several other Giants are struggling to hit. San Francisco batted .167 (5-for-30) with runners in scoring position during its three-game series vs. the Dodgers and mustered four hits in seven innings off starter Hyun-Jin Ryu during Los Angeles' 2-1 victory Thursday.
But Bochy seems to sense that Sandoval could be hampered by stress, with the prospect of free agency -- and a potentially lucrative financial windfall -- looming after this season. So Bochy might attempt to relieve the third baseman's tension by dropping him from the No. 3 spot.
Sandoval stroked a game-winning single Wednesday night but couldn't sustain that momentum. He went 0-for-4 Thursday and struck out in his last two plate appearances as his batting average dwindled to .175.
"Maybe I'll drop him down in the order, try to take some pressure off him," Bochy said. "He's a good hitter."
Asked if he thought Sandoval was preoccupied by his impending free agency, Bochy said, "I certainly hope not. He and I have talked about it. His job is to play the game."
Sandoval, who has insisted on multiple occasions that he's not dwelling on economics, reacted calmly when asked how he'd feel about occupying a lower berth in the batting order.
"Fine, fine," Sandoval said. "[Bochy's] the manager."
Unfortunately for Bochy, he can't put every slumping Giant in the bottom half of the order. Buster Posey's in a 1-for-19 skid and is batting .259. Hunter Pence singled twice Thursday, hiking his average from .183 to .206. Second baseman Brandon Hicks hit .158 on the homestand. Joaquin Arias, the top infield backup who has played 11 games, is batting .167.
"We started off kind of hot, then kind of leveled out," Posey said. "When we get everybody clicking on all cylinders, it should be good stuff."
If Bochy moves Sandoval around in the batting order, Posey also could be switched, perhaps to the third spot. Posey said that it "doesn't really matter" where he hits.
The Giants' 10-6 start has minimized any sense of urgency they might feel about their collective tailspin. In fact, Los Angeles had to survive more late-inning rallies from the Giants to prevent them from recording a three-game sweep.
AT&T Park became the scene of rollicking theater in the eighth inning, when former Giants closer Brian Wilson entered the game to protect Los Angeles' 2-0 edge. Absorbing loud booing from the pro-Giants crowd, Wilson allowed a leadoff double to Ehire Adrianza, who went 3-for-3 off the bench. Pence walked with one out. But Wilson ended the threat by fanning Sandoval and coaxing Posey's harmless fly to center.
The Giants actually put the tying and winning runs on base in the ninth inning against Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen, whose wild-pitched third strike to Michael Morse gave San Francisco a leadoff baserunner. Two outs and a Gregor Blanco walk later, Adrianza's bloop single to left field scored Brandon Belt and averted the Giants' second shutout defeat in five days. The unfazed Jansen induced pinch-hitter Brandon Crawford's fly to left field.
As a result of the mini-rally, the Giants played their seventh consecutive game decided by one run. According to STATS, that hasn't occurred in franchise history since Aug. 11-17, 1910, when the New York Giants endured eight consecutive one-run affairs.
"They play the game of baseball the right way," Wilson said of the Giants. "We play each other extremely close, extremely tight."
Giants starter Madison Bumgarner (2-1) struck out six in 4 1/3 innings, indicating that he had decent stuff. But he experienced several prolonged confrontations with Dodgers hitters, escalating his pitch count to 99 by the time he was removed from the game.
Bochy and Bumgarner suggested that plate umpire Seth Buckminster's strike zone wasn't advantageous to the Giants left-hander.
"For some reason the outside corner was hard for [Bumgarner] to get," Bochy said almost matter-of-factly.
Said Bumgarner, "I felt like I made some pretty good pitches in big situations."
Ryu consistently threw excellent pitches. He didn't allow a runner to reach scoring position after the first inning. The left-hander's performance contrasted sharply with his previous appearance against the Giants, who raked him for eight runs (six earned) and eight hits in two innings on April 4.
"I think Ryu was pretty good today," Posey said. "He did a good job of pitching off his heater and everything kind of came out [of his hand] looking the same."


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Sunday, November 7, 2010
Posted by Rot at 10:28 AM
Labels: corn stalks, halloween 2010, photoshoot, props, Pumpkin Sentinels
6 comments:
- Husk's Dad said...
I must say that of all your things, I love this scenario. The sentinels conversing as they come through the fields. A story waiting to be told of where they have been or where they are going and what they would be saying. I would like to see this on a card. Good design and great photography.
- November 7, 2010 at 12:19 PM
- Jay's Shadow said...
Love these....
- November 7, 2010 at 12:27 PM
- Darkrose Manor said...
Beautiful! You and Bean both have an incredible eye for photography. You are truly artistes!
- November 7, 2010 at 12:30 PM
- Goneferalinidaho said...
I really like the second photo, they look like what might be a bunch of "normal" pumpkins except for that huge evil smile stretching up.
- November 7, 2010 at 2:22 PM
- Rot said...
- November 7, 2010 at 4:54 PM
- T.D.R. said...
I like the night shot.
- November 10, 2010 at 1:38 PM
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- 6 tablespoons butter, softened
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
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- 1/4 teaspoon each baking soda, salt and ground cinnamon
- 1 cup grated carrots
- 1/2 cup each raisins and chopped pecans
- In a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add egg and vanilla; mix well. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Gradually add to creamed mixture until blended. Stir in carrots, raisins and pecans.
- Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 325° for 12-15 minutes or until edges are lightly browned and cookies are set. Cool for 2 minutes before removing to wire racks.
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I forgot to add that using a small cookie scoop ( about 1") & heaping each scoop, I got 39 -2" cookies. If you used the raisins or pineapple you would get even more!
Jun 16, 2012
I just made these cookies to serve to guests at my B&B. I had been looking for something that would be diabetic friendly & I thought these sounded good. I did change a few things tho to make them even better for diabetics & a bit more healthy.I used a mixture of brown sugar & splenda (1/2c brown sugar & 1/4 c splenda), 1c unbleached all purpose flour & 1/2c Whole wheat flour,3/4 tsp cinnamon & 1/4 tsp nutmeg. I also left out the raisins to lower the sugar count. They turned out great, except I like my carrot cake more spicy, so next time I will try at least a tsp of cinnamon & maybe a bit more nutmeg. I would also like to experiment with the fat & cholesterol content by using 1/2 unsweetened applesauce for the butter & egg whites for the eggs. I almost always substitute some applesauce for the fat & use egg whites, but I was in a hurry & needed them to turn out the 1st time! some unsweetened, drained crushed pineapple instead of the raisins might be nice too! Hmmmmm!!!
Dec 25, 2008
I made these cookies for the first time and they turned out great!! They taste just a little cake and my boyfriend says all they need is that cream cheese frosting.... but then that would defeat the purpose of them being low fat, they are not overly sweet and they taste really good, I will definitely make them again. I am diabetic so I didnt feel guilty eating them. YUM!!!
Jul 8, 2008
I have made these delicious cookies several times. I have to triple the recipe because my two boys love them so much. The cookies have always turned out great, light and yummy. Perhaps the other reviewer's baking soda or baking powder was 'off'?
Jun 20, 2008
I made these cookies and they were terrible. They did not rise, and did not cook all the way through. thanks


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Location: Gold Coast Australia
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 3:44 am
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David - the news about your daughter in law is wonderful.
CB - I'm sorry for your friend, but hope her treatment will be successful.
As for my first day back at work - I"M SO TIRED!! I think I'll need an afternoon sleep before dinner.
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:32 am
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See I'm so tired I forgot my manners. I meant to say thank you for all your kind thoughts. Thank you.
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Location: the Netherlands
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:44 am
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Everybody- Thanks for your kind words!
It's true, if people only share the good things in life and never the struggles you tend to feel youre the only one who doesnt have a perfect life sometimes. In our society admitting that something is wrong still is sort of taboo and people always tend to say everything is great when you ask them how they are. So thumbs up for CB for starting this thread!
And even though there are stories of illness or other troubles, I still see at least a spark of happiness in each one. This makes me think its sooooo important to celebrate the good sides of life, especially with the ones who are dear to you. I recently lost a good friend of mine, already an elderly lady and she died in her sleep without ever being ill before (thats the way to go, isnt it?). I just saw her the day before she died, we had tea and lots of cookies and a big laugh and I am just so grateful I have this to look back upon.
Rainey- Ill try to think of something Dutch which is good enough to share with you. The basic Dutch menu consists of potatoes, meat and veggies on the side, nothing culinary shocking. Or in wintertime, they mash the potatoes and veg together and call it stamppot. I say they because my family is part Italian so we ate a lot of pasta, gnocchi etc. Something nice with stammpot though is a regional specialty from the south called zuurvlees (sour meat- actually not sour at all but some vinegar is used to get the stewing meat nice and soft). Variations of this dish occur throughout the country under the name stoofvlees, draadjesvlees and hachee. The recipe we use here in the south is of no use to you because it requires peperkoek to bind the sauce, but theres also a lovely recipe with bread and mustard which Ill translate for you.
Another part of the Dutch menu stems from the spice trade in the 18th century, since then the use of exotic spices, especially in cookies etc. is widespread. On the 5th of December we celebrate the birthday of st. Nicholas (Sinterklaas in Dutch) who brings presents to the children. Sound familiar? However, he comes on a steam boat from Spain and is accompanied by chimneysweep-helpers in brightly coloured suits called Zwarte Piet (black Pete) who deliver the presents to the children at night. Sinterklaas arrives a few weeks before the 5th of December. Actually this year, hes coming tomorrow! (Saturday the 18th that is). In the weeks before the 5th children can put a shoe in front of the fireplace (preferably with a carrot or some hay for Sinterklaass horse) and maybe, if theyve been good, Sint or Piet puts in a toy or some pepernoten (pepper-nuts), small nut-sized sweet cookie-like thingies flavoured with mixed spices. Or the first letter of your name in chocolate. Hes a great guy!
Besides the pepernoten there are several other nice things that are baked for Sinterklaas that you might find interesting. Ill dig up some recipes and post them in the recipe-section.
An al-time favourite of mine is gevulde speculaas- two layers of spiced, slightly soft cookie-dough filled with marzipan. Ohh, or amandelstaaf- marzipan rolled in flaky pastry, served warm. I loooove marzipan.
Great, isnt it, how nice food can always put this big smile upon your face! I wish you all the strength to deal with lifes blows, the joy that can be found in sharing the good things in life with the ones you love and the comfort that comes from sharing the bad things.
Enjoy everything while it lasts.
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Location: Richmond, VA, usa
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 3:20 pm
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Glad to get everyone's updates....we are trying to master empty nesting & my husbands schedule change (he only works weekends.....as u can see, we have no social life) It is nice to have him around during the week though & a lot more gets done around the house. Our son just got his first "real" job as a trainer at a Gold's gym so he may soon be able to pay for a few things himself. Our daughter is in Paris this year as a teaching assistant (english)....she also located a wonderful situation to be a semi au pair (demi pair??) for a family in return for a room near Montparnasse...I am really wanting to visit, but need to make some $$ first so I have signed up to be a substitute teacher but the paperwork is taking eons....so for now I am home with my 2 very old doggies (18 & 14) and 3 cats.....I hope u all have a wonderful Thanksgiving (neither child will be home so I am trying to lasso some neighbors to eat the huge bird I bought)
Make me half the person my dog thinks I am.
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Location: Heaven, actually.
Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 2:48 am
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Although I am one of the new ones, I thought it would be alright to post my two cents as well, if nobody minds.
I am headed to meet my boyfriend's parents tomorrow, for a week of giving thanks in Arkansas, of all places. Being the Adventure Girl that I am, it sounds like a nice, serene time, half working, half playing, half sleeping (we hope!).
We have been in the midst of a lot of changes. Brian has just been through a company buyout and is not interested in working for the new ownership conglomerate. He is finding it a limited market for jobs in Montana and we are trying to not leave for greener pastures right now, if we can help it. He is interviewing by phone next week.
I am four months into a new hospital and trying to learn how to do open heart surgery, which is like learning to walk all over again for someone my age. Its stressful and I do not have the constant exposure I need to become proficient in a short enough time frame to please the perfectionist in me. I was also asked today to be Momma Hen to a new student, once a week, to bring them up right into the world of surgery. Its a test of my skills both tactile and communication. Its the big league, in a sense, and I am honored and nervous at the same time.
It is coming on my second winter here in MT and it is brutal and long to say the least. Last year I trashed my knee out in the snow and wound up on dry dock, having surgery myself, and sitting out until spring. I dread the minus teens temperatures, the lack of things to climb without getting frostbite, and the icy darkness. I am better suited to rain like I had in Portland (my last home) than the frigid wind. I have a feeling I will be curling up inside my new stove this winter...
I get to cook Thanksgiving for my BF's family this year- my first time cooking in a hundred years or so. It should be a total gas...!
Its been great to get to know names in the past few weeks online, and knowing a little about the lives associated with the C&Z-ers is very, very pleasurable. I find myself rooting for people on a daily basis!
Thanks for this thread, its been such a joy!
There is only one way to die- With a full stomach and a good tan.
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 4:59 am
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So many illuminations. Life is so strange. It's a good night for a meteor shower.
I feel like Mary Poppins on my new job. Everyone buzzes around me.
My husband declared last week, following years of self-doubt and negative self-talk that he believes he may be a great photographer yet.
He wants to start an artists collective. So do I!
Did anyone ever hear from Gingerpale?
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Location: England
Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:50 am
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Ooh, ooh, tomorrow I get to meet Madame Shawshank!!! ...ahem, excited, moi?!! he said with sorry attempt at coolness....! I am mucho excited. Excited with a side salad of excited and excited sauce! We meet outside the National Gallery in London, facing Trafalgar Square... ready to have a day and a bit.
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Location: buried under a pile of books somewhere in Adelaide, South Australia
Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 11:31 am
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Griffin, you'll have a wonderful day. Give Madame and Sieg big hugs from me!
Doing what you like is freedom
Liking what you do is happiness
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Location: England
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:29 pm
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Hugs were given, tho' I didn't see your post having left home at 5 in the morning for London!
Oh what a day... what a wonderful perfect day... sigh!
Confusion comes fitted as standard.
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Joined: 28 Mar 2006
Posts: 154
Location: North of Auckland, New Zealand
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:59 am
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First of all, thanks everyone for sharing...it's lovely to read about other people, and the things they have done, the things they have experienced, the people they have met etc.
Myself - well, I recently found out that the unit we are renting (and love living in) has been sold. The house wasn't even listed on the market :sigh:
Anyway, we will be moving into the loft above the garage at my mother's place, which will be great as we will be able to save LOTS of money (for travelling) while Sy is at uni (again).
And, I'm slowly winding up the busiest month of birthday baking. In my family alone, there has been 9 birthdays, and I am Chief Birthday Cake/Cupcake Maker. The last ones I made were beach themed, for the two "beach bums" who "thankfully" combined their birthdays.
Now I just have a month of baking for Christmas! :sigh:
Love and huggles for ALL
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Location: kingston, ny
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 11:18 pm
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This seems like the best place to post this. My very favorite-est teacher ever has a son who is going to be performing at Carnegie Hall this week along with the INPRAVDA group! World reknown cellist and fiddler, Slava Moroz (his mom, Natalia Gutman) and his wife Olga Dyachkovskaya will also be playing. This young man has had many ups and downs (he has bipolar disorder), but music is his passion! As I'm sure you can imagine, she's super duper excited.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:50 am
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That is very exciting indeed! We can't wish life's lows on anyone but we sure can join in wishing them the highs that only people who struggle can know. How wonderful to have this opportunity to know of such a triumph!
I often think that our society invents "new" concepts like "bipolar" to distract us from how narrow the road has become. In another era such people would have an opportunity to apprentice with the people who would treat them as individuals and know that everyone has something wonderful inside them looking for the person to show them how to develop it.
Cheers to your teacher and her/his son!
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. -- Garrison Keillor
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A survey of some 300 nonprofits conducted in May found these top causes for insomnia:
- How to attract new supporters—64%
- How to connect and better engage with existing supporters—59%
- Getting funding—57%.
But marketing strategy concerns had a significant showing on the list. Thirty-four percent of principals said having a more integrated communication strategy "kept them up at night"; 22% worried about making their marketing dollars go further; and 20% were concerned about how to measure the impact of marketing campaigns.
The survey found that nonprofits still rely largely on e-mail marketing, with 86% finding it to be an effective marketing tool for their organization. Also considered effective were the organization website (80%), in-person interactions (73%) and events (70%).
Fifty-eight percent of respondents said social media marketing was an important tool for nonprofits. Of those nonprofits that favored social media marketing, 88% of principals said Facebook was the most effective channel. Trailing significantly behind were Twitter (5%), LinkedIn (3%), Google+ (1%) and YouTube (1%).
While a majority of nonprofits value social media marketing, more than half said they wanted guidance in its use. And a little more than a third wanted help with e-mail marketing and their website.
Of note, nonprofit respondents thought 73% of their supporters were likely to recommend their organization to a friend or colleague—a dynamic Constant Contact said could be greatly amplified with the use of social media marketing.
"I think there's a real opportunity here to educate nonprofits on not only the basic 'how-tos' of social media but also the longer view benefits of social media sharing," Alec Stern, the firm's vice president for strategic market development, said in a statement.
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The survey found that the health of nonprofits appeared stable or growing:
- 67% expected membership/funding for the year to be more than last year, while 7% expected it to be less
- 49% had seen an increase in membership/funding so far this year, while 12% had seen a decrease
- 55% had adequate cash flow.
With growth come challenges, though. Fifty-one percent of nonprofits had increased the number of service offerings, 46% faced increased operating costs, and 35% needed more staffers but were unable to hire.


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