Westbrook's ice floe, also known as the ice disk, on January 14.
The ice disk in Westbrook, Maine, has been vandalized.
New Jersey resident Christopher Angelo said he wants to make it into "a giant peace sign" with his axe and chainsaw.
He didn't. But he did cut a gash through the floe's center.
A Westbrook police department captain said it isn't against the law to chop up the ice disk.
A man from New Jersey vandalized Maine's famous 300-foot-wide ice disk in Presumpscot River Thursday, saying he wanted to turn it into a peace sign.
The enormous ice floe has been floating in Westbrook, Maine, since January 14. It's mesmerized residents with its ethereal beauty, and inspired conspiracy theories about aliens.
The disk stopped spinning earlier this month. Christopher Angelo, a New Jersey resident, took the opportunity to climb aboard and transform it for his own ends, trying to carve a peace sign out of it with a chainsaw and ax.
"I'm an arborist, I'm a tree climber, it makes me uniquely qualified to do this because I use chainsaws, ropes, I'm making a giant peace sign," he told WGME. "I want it to spin around so bad, and create that visual for people to see of peace making the world go around in Westbrook."
Angelo has a history of staging public stunts, according to the Portland Press Herald. After Hurricane Sandy in 2013, he climbed aboard rides at damaged theme parks.
Angelo didn't succeed in carving out a peace sign, but he did cut out chunks and create a long crack through the center. The city of Westbrook has a time lapse recording showing the damage.
"It isn't against the law to chop river ice," Westbrook Police Department Captain Sean Lally told the Portland Press Herald. "Unusual? Yes. Why someone would come here from New Jersey to chop up an ice disk is beyond me. I do know that the river will continue to flow and the Maine winter is far from over, so Mr. Angelo might want to seek long-term accommodations if he intends to defy Mother Nature."
Meanwhile, a second, smaller ice disk has formed. In Baxter State Park, there's one that's around 40 feet across. It's still spinning.


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On 18th May, 2013, Dartmouth CC arrived in Middletown, RI to challenge long-term cricketing colleagues and on-field rivals the St. Columba�s cricketing club in a 2-day test-type match. Beautiful conditions and a scenic location near the Newport beaches promised a great game of cricket. It was to be the last game of the season for Dartmouth CC, and also Captain Awais Malik�s farewell game.
Dartmouth won the toss and put in St. Columba�s to bat. Openers Sai and Vimal put together 52 runs in and were beginning to get settled when Sai played a low-full toss from Awais Malik to mid-off in the 18th over, where Pawan Dhakal completed a comfortable catch. The next batsman Francois was bowled by Chris Scholtz after scoring only 5 runs, and was shortly followed to the pavilion by Vimal who was caught and bowled by Awais. Batsmen Salman and Farrukh were dismissed by Prajeet Bajpai and Awais Malik respectively without having made significant contributions, and these quick dismissals meant that it was up to Chetu and Captain Abid to make something of the SCCC innings.
Benefitting from a few early missed opportunities, the two batsmen put together a remarkable partnership which lasted until Abid was bowled at 92 by Faizan Kanji. Although the SCCC captain narrowly missed out on a century, he nevertheless put up a first-rate contribution. Chetu kept the innings together for a little while longer and helped his team reach a total of 342, scoring 79 runs in the process. Dartmouth Captain Awais Malik took 5 wickets in a marathon bowling performance where he held up the bowling consistently from one end for almost the entirety of the St. Columba�s innings.
Dartmouth came in to bat with a little less than two hours of play left in the day. Openers Chris Scholtz and Rahul Khakurel attempted to play out the new ball but Rahul was caught off Vimal�s bowling and SCCC made an early dent in the Dartmouth side. Playing in unfamiliar conditions and under failing light, Dartmouth lost another three quick wickets. Hassan Kiani and Faizan Kanji got a partnership going and Hassan scored a couple of boundaries before closing the face of his bat early to bowler Santosh who took the resulting catch. The day ended with the fall of another wicket and Dartmouth hoping to recover from heavy losses at 42 for 6.
The next morning, another wicket brought Khizer Hussain to the crease. Taking off from his innings against Harvard, he raced to a half-century off 35 deliveries, hitting bowlers all around the park and picking up four sixes and four fours in the process. Faizan, who had reliably held up the innings while his partner broke loose from the other end, took the onus of improving upon the Dartmouth score after Khizer�s dismissal. Scoring crafty boundaries and a six over cover, he put together a last-wicket stand with Waleed to bring Dartmouth to a score of 130 all out. At this point, SCCC decided they would try to score some quick runs in a second innings and put further pressure on Dartmouth.
Dartmouth�s bowlers rose spectacularly to the challenge, however, and never allowed the opposing team a start in their second innings. Opening bowlers Awais and Prajeet took early wickets and a direct hit from Khizer meant St. Columba�s were three wickets down for 17 runs. Batsmen Stephen and Sreekanth came in trying to score as quickly as possible but pressure from the bowlers forced SCCC to declare with only 87 runs on the board. Awais and Khizer picked up the final wickets to convince their opponents that they couldn�t extract any further runs from a resurgent bowling side.
With little time left in the day, Dartmouth decided to play out for a draw. Although the side lost four wickets, a much more comfortable batting performance meant that Prajeet Bajpai and Pawan Dhakal were settled comfortably at the crease when rain halted play late on Sunday evening with about 2 hours left in the day. Shortly after, it became apparent that there was not much hope for a result and the captains decided to call the game a draw.
While forced to recover from early mistakes, Dartmouth saw its share of successes in the game� particularly during the side�s bowling performance in the second innings. Playing as a new team against the much more experienced St. Columba�s Cricket Club, Dartmouth players showed promise for a strong future for the club. The game in Rhode Island closed off a successful season with the team at its most active in years. Dartmouth Cricket Club certainly has much to thank Captain and President Awais Malik for as he graduates this year from the college, after having tirelessly spearheaded the club�s cause during his time as an undergraduate. An enthusiastic Dartmouth side now hopes to return for its next successful season beginning Fall 2013.


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What is THCA Crystalline and How it is Made
As the marijuana market across Europe and the US continues to mature, newer processes and technologies have brought forth a barrage of innovative products for medical and recreational use.
With competition all around, manufacturers are striving hard to find new ways of impressing and wowing their consumers. For a fact, cannabis users today are more demanding and sophisticated than ever, willing to pay top cash for the highest potency product.
Enter THCA – tetrahydrocannabinolic acid – the non-psychoactive cannabinoid found in raw, live cannabis. Over time, the THCA in the cannabis plant turns into THC via a slow and natural process.
The Cannabis Concentrates Market – Driven by Potency and Purity
When it comes to the cannabis concentrates consumer market, two of the key driving factors are potency and purity. Pharmacists and chemical engineers have been working hard and conducting research to create the latest concoctions in the hashish market – constantly pushing the envelope in terms of what's possible with cannabis isolations and extractions.
So, you're looking for the purest, strongest, most unadulterated product on the market, is that right? Is it possible to isolate pure cannabinoids into a packaged product fit for consumption? Unless, you've been nice and cosy under a rock for the last few years, yes, it is totally possible.
Professional extractors now deliver a crystal-like cannabis isolate composed of THCA, which is often called THCA "crystalline" or the other way around; e.g. Crystalline THCA.
All You Need to Know about THCA Crystalline
Engineered by a team of researchers and pharmacists at Guild Extracts, the crystalline extract contains 99.997% THCA. As far as we know, majority of raw cannabis extracts today typically have anywhere between 50% and 80% purity.
Since the Guild Extracts team claim to have been the first ones to produce such a pure THCA crystalline extract, this would mean that it's currently "the undisputed" strongest and purest hashish in the world. Furthermore, with an error margin of just 0.003%, we doubt if it can get any purer than this. Given its uniqueness and mind-boggling purity, it has gained quite a lot of popularity among EU consumers – in fact, so much so that it sells for a cool €170 per gram.
So what exactly is THCA? "Fondly" referred to as tetrahydrocannabinolic acid among geek circles and pot literates, it is a cannabis compound that, thanks to adequate research, has immense therapeutic potential.
You may have already heard of THC as a recreational or medical pot user, but THCA is not to be confused with the former as it has very distinct properties. And, unlike THC, the latter is a non-psychoactive cannabis that's found in raw cannabis. Once the plant dies, the THCA gradually starts to convert to THC. Bring heat into the mix, and you can further expedite this process via decarboxylation – a fancy schmancy term for what follows when a flower is smoked or vaporised.
Research confirms that THCA is among one of the most prominent cannabinoids naturally found in raw, living cannabis plants. The second one is CBDA (cannabidiolic acid), although not relevant to this article, but just an FYI.
THCA is a precursor to its pharmacologically active and commonly consumed analogue: THC. Just to reiterate what we shed light on earlier, as a living cannabis plant starts to wither during the last stages of senescence, the unstable cannabinoid precursors gradually "decarboxylate" to become active. When a cannabis plant is finally harvested and dried, heat processes further decarboxylate cannabinoids into the active compounds to form THCA.
Cannabis contains hundreds of both active and inactive compounds that tend to take a variety of shapes and structures. The molecular composition of THCA, when viewed under a microscope, looks a lot like a crystalline formation that has latticed and rigid structures. And once these structures are completely isolated to form visible compounds, they resemble crushed rock salt or snowflakes.
Factually speaking, isolated THCA is the purest form of concentrate currently available with a potency of 99.9%. To elaborate a little more on this, what this basically means is it has no traces whatsoever of fats, lipids, flavonoids, terpenes or anything else left over from the raw plant. It is due to this reason that THCA isolates have no colour, flavour or aroma, for that matter.
Even though the specific process used to create THCA crystalline is a well-guarded one, processors have shared just enough information to provide a gist of how the complicated preparation is made.
How is THCA Crystalline Made?
It's probably fair to say that majority of folks around the world have never ever experienced what it's like to consume the purest grade hash currently available. Today, THCA crystalline is considered the "holy grail of hashish potency". Here's how it's made:
The cannabinoids isolation and collection process begins with an extract. In addition to primary cannabinoids, these extracts have a variety of components including lipids, fats, flavonoids and terpenes. Since these compounds must be removed for the cannabinoids to be isolated, a series of washes and separations are required.
The initial wash and extraction is usually done using hydrocarbon hexane and acetic acid, which can be thought of as a kind of super-concentrated vinegar. When mixed together, the two chemical solvents can effectively get rid of plant impurities and particulates.
Now these chemicals need to be removed – the slurry is loaded into a rotary evaporator, which is often called a "rotovap" – these are designed to carefully and gently separate solvents from compounds via a mix of slow heat introduction and pressure as well as rotational motion.
After completing this step, the remaining cannabinoids need to go through additional isolation via a separation process referred to as "preparative chromatography". This type of chromatography is very useful for separating a group of compounds as they are passed through different mediums at varying speeds. To properly isolate cannabinoids using this method, more chemicals are required, which can be easily filtered out through another round of rotovap.
Important to note is the fact that crystalline THCA is still inactive as it does not share the same psychotropic properties as THC, if it were to be ingested in its current state, that is.
Therefore, the final cannabinoid isolation stage revolves around preparing the product for human consumption. So far, all that we have left are pure cannabinoids and perhaps just a few impurities in trace amounts.
These remaining impurities and particulates can be removed using solvents like pentane and methane via dedicated mixing and separation processes – each solvent is added and then subsequently removed using the rotovap.
Now that the final separation is complete, what you're left with is 99% pure crystalline cannabinoids ready for consumption.
What's the Best Way to Consume Crystalline THCA?
In order for the crystalline THCA to "lock'n'load" and deliver its intoxicating effects, it needs to be heated. However, keep in mind that since THCA has therapeutic and medicinal uses even though it is inactive, it can still be taken in its raw form through different methods.
For example, crystalline cannabinoids can be ingested orally as they can be mixed in while preparing food or even portioned into capsules and pills. They are very easy to dose because they are so pure.
However, those looking to rapidly "activate" those crystalline cannabinoids would want to consume it through vaporisation and dabbing. By ingesting THCA through these two methods, decarboxylation occurs almost immediately, breaking down the inactive and acidic cannabinoid into THC.
You might come across certain pure THCA extracts which have been enhanced through additional terpene blends. Processors do this because crystalline THCA has almost no flavour. By combining cannabinoids with a variety of terpenes, users can have a more robust and varied experience, not just by way of added flavour but also more nuanced effects.
Good to Know: Crystalline THCA Benefits and Uses
Plenty of research and anecdotal evidence suggests that THCA offers many benefits such as:
Antiemetic – to treat nausea and appetite loss which may prove useful for cancer patients
Neuriprotective agent – to treat neurodegenerative diseases
Anti-inflammatory – to treat arthritis and lupus
Anti-proliferative – which may lower the risk of prostate cancer by preventing malignant cells from spreading
Other studies have concluded that patients have reported feeling less pain and muscle spasms, and reduced episodes of insomnia. THCA may also treat people with auto-immune disorders. Also among its most profound positive effects might be assisting users on a psychiatric level to reduce stress and too much anxiety.
A major advantage of THCA as far as medical applications are concerned, is that if it is consumed without the heat or pressure applied (decarboxylation), patients can still enjoy the positive effects without feeling "high".
Speaking of Which – What is the High Like?
When consuming a substance like pure THCA, you may have to sacrifice a few things which are found in, say, a conventional joint or bong, such as the flavour or aroma. Since most processors selling pure extracts would not want to "muddy up" the product in any way, it's quite likely that it will have zero terpenes. So what this basically means = no flavour or aroma.
Some users who have had the privilege of trying out crystalline THCA have said that it tastes like snowflakes, which is pretty much your standard tap water taste. Also, bear in mind that the high you experience will not be the typical cannabis high because you're experiencing just one cannabinoid.
However, once you've tried it, the high may catch you by surprise. Majority of users have described the high as "clear and fresh" energy that made them feel more energetic. Perhaps, it may prove to be a bit too clear and fresh for some users, because those who have used it describe the high as more "medical" than the near-psychedelic high regular hashish is known for.
Depending on the purpose you want to use THCA for, you may or may not feel noticeably high, but you will definitely feel something – after all, the product has nearly twice the purity of what most pot smokers have experienced.
So depending on your mindset and pot-smoking preferences, you may not be able to comprehend the high during the first few doses. You might find it to be a little more "medical" than desired but perhaps that is a good thing.
One thing is for sure – any recreational consumer is going to find it mighty difficult to go back to getting mixed and impure highs from regular joints because crystalline THCA is truly some next-level stuff.
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Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz. The strip's original run extended from 1950 to 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. Peanuts is among the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being". At the time of Schulz's death in 2000, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of around 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages. It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States, and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion.

Peanuts focuses entirely on a social circle of young children, where adults exist but are rarely seen or heard. The main character, Charlie Brown, is meek, nervous, and lacks self-confidence. He is unable to fly a kite, win a baseball game, or kick a football held by his irascible friend Lucy, who always pulls it away at the last instant. Peanuts is a literate strip with philosophical, psychological, and sociological overtones, which was innovative in the 1950s. Its humor is psychologically complex and driven by the characters' interactions and relationships. The comic strip has been adapted in animation and theater.

Title

Peanuts had its origin in Li'l Folks, a weekly panel cartoon that appeared in Schulz's hometown newspaper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, from 1947 to 1950. Elementary details of the cartoon shared similarities to Peanuts. The name "Charlie Brown" was first used there. The series also had a dog that looked much like the early 1950s version of Snoopy.

Schulz submitted his Li'l Folks cartoons to United Features Syndicate (UFS), who responded with interest. He visited the syndicate in New York City and presented a package of new comic strips he had worked on, rather than the panel cartoons he submitted. UFS found they preferred the comic strip. When UFS was preparing to syndicate the comic strip as Li'l Folk, that is Li'l Folks without an 's', Tack Knight who authored the retired 1930s comic strip Little Folks sought to claim exclusive rights to the title being used. Schulz argued in a letter to Knight that the contraction of Little to Li'l was intended to avoid this conflict, but conceded that the final decision would be for the syndicate. A different name for the comic strip became necessary after legal advice confirmed that Little Folks was a registered trademark. Meanwhile, the production manager of UFS noted the popularity of the children's program Howdy Doody. The show featured an audience of children who were seated in the "Peanut Gallery", and were referred to as "Peanuts". This inspired the decided title that was forced upon Schulz, to his consternation.

Schulz hated the title Peanuts, which remained a source of irritation to him throughout his life. He accused the production manager at UFS of not having even seen the comic strip before giving it a title, and he said that the title would only make sense if there was a character named "Peanuts". On the day it was syndicated, Schulz's friend visited a news stand in uptown Minneapolis and asked if there were any newspapers that carried Peanuts, to which the newsdealer replied, "No, and we don't have any with popcorn either", which confirmed Schulz's fears concerning the title. Whenever Schulz was asked what he did for a living, he would evade mentioning the title and say, "I draw that comic strip with Snoopy in it, Charlie Brown and his dog". In 1997 Schulz said that he had discussed changing the title to Charlie Brown on multiple occasions in the past but found that it would ultimately cause problems with licensees who already incorporated the existing title into their products, with unnecessary expenses involved for all downstream licensees to change it.

History

1950s

The strip began as a daily strip on October 2, 1950, in seven newspapers: the Minneapolis Star, a hometown newspaper of Schulz (page 37, along with a short article); The Washington Post; Chicago Tribune; The Denver Post; The Seattle Times; and two newspapers in Pennsylvania, Evening Chronicle (Allentown) and Globe-Times (Bethlehem). The first strip was four panels long and showed Charlie Brown walking by two other young children, Shermy and Patty. Shermy lauds Charlie Brown as he walks by, but then tells Patty how he hates him in the final panel. Snoopy was also an early character in the strip, first appearing in the third strip, which ran on October 4. Its first Sunday strip appeared January 6, 1952, in the half-page format, which was the only complete format for the entire life of the Sunday strip. Most of the other characters that eventually became regulars of the strip did not appear until later: Violet (February 1951), Schroeder (May 1951), Lucy (March 1952), Linus (September 1952), Pig-Pen (July 1954), Sally (August 1959), Frieda (March 1961), "Peppermint" Patty (August 1966), Franklin (July 1968), Woodstock (introduced March 1966, officially named June 1970), Marcie (July 1971), and Rerun (March 1973).

Schulz decided to produce all aspects of the strip himself from the script to the finished art and lettering. Schulz did, however, hire help to produce the comic book adaptations of Peanuts. Thus, the strip was able to be presented with a unified tone, and Schulz was able to employ a minimalistic style. Backgrounds were generally not used, and when they were, Schulz's frazzled lines imbued them with a fraught, psychological appearance. This style has been described by art critic John Carlin as forcing "its readers to focus on subtle nuances rather than broad actions or sharp transitions." Schulz held this belief all his life, reaffirming in 1994 the importance of crafting the strip himself: "This is not a crazy business about slinging ink. This is a deadly serious business."

While the strip in its early years resembles its later form, there are significant differences. The art was cleaner, sleeker, and simpler, with thicker lines and short, squat characters. For example, in these early strips, Charlie Brown's famous round head is closer to the shape of an American football or rugby football. Most of the kids were initially fairly round-headed. As another example, all the characters (except Charlie Brown) had their mouths longer and had smaller eyes when they looked sideways.

1960s
The 1960s is generally considered to be the "golden age" for Peanuts. During this period, some of the strip's best-known themes and characters appeared, including Peppermint Patty, Snoopy as the "World War One Flying Ace", Frieda and her "naturally curly hair", and Franklin. Peanuts is remarkable for its deft social commentary, especially compared with other strips appearing in the 1950s and early 1960s. Schulz did not explicitly address racial and gender equality issues so much as assume them to be self-evident. Peppermint Patty's athletic skill and self-confidence are simply taken for granted, for example, as is Franklin's presence in a racially integrated school and neighborhood. (Franklin's creation occurred at least in part as a result of Schulz's 1968 correspondence with a socially progressive fan.) The fact that Charlie Brown's baseball team had three girls on it was also at least ten years ahead of its time. The 1966 prime time television special Charlie Brown's All Stars! dealt with Charlie Brown refusing sponsorship of his team on the condition he fire the girls and Snoopy, because the league does not allow girls or dogs to play.

Schulz threw satirical barbs at any number of topics when he chose. His child and animal characters satirized the adult world. Over the years he tackled everything from the Vietnam War to school dress codes to "New Math". One strip on May 20, 1962, even had an icon that stated "Defend Freedom, Buy US Savings Bonds." In 1963 he added a little boy named "5" to the cast, whose sisters were named "3" and "4," and whose father had changed their family name to their ZIP Code, giving in to the way numbers were taking over people's identities. Also in 1963, one strip showed Sally being secretive about school prayer, in reference to the Supreme Court decisions on it that year. In 1958, a strip in which Snoopy tossed Linus into the air and boasted that he was the first dog ever to launch a human parodied the hype associated with Sputnik 2's launch of Laika the dog into space earlier that year. Another sequence lampooned Little Leagues and "organized" play when all the neighborhood kids join snowman-building leagues and criticize Charlie Brown when he insists on building his own snowmen without leagues or coaches.

Peanuts touched on religious themes on many occasions, especially during the 1960s. The classic television special A Charlie Brown Christmas from 1965, features the character Linus van Pelt quoting the King James Version of the Bible (Luke 2:8–14) to explain to Charlie Brown what Christmas is all about (in personal interviews, Schulz mentioned that Linus represented his spiritual side). Because of the explicit religious material in A Charlie Brown Christmas, many have interpreted Schulz's work as having a distinct Christian theme, though the popular perspective has been to view the franchise through a secular lens.

During the week of July 29, 1968, Schulz debuted the African American character Franklin to the strip, at the urging of white Los Angeles schoolteacher Harriet Glickman. Though Schulz feared that adding a black character would be seen as patronizing to the African American community, Glickman convinced him that the addition of Black characters could help normalize the idea of friendships between children of different ethnicities. Franklin appeared in a trio of strips set at a beach, in which he first gets Charlie Brown's beach ball from the water and subsequently helps him build a sand castle, during which he mentions that his father is in Vietnam. In this series, Franklin never occupies the same panel as Sally; however, he would do so later in the strip.

1970s–1990s
In 1975, the panel format was shortened slightly horizontally, and shortly thereafter the lettering became larger to compensate. Previously, the daily Peanuts strips were formatted in a four-panel "space saving" format beginning in the 1950s, with a few very rare eight-panel strips, that still fit into the four-panel mold. Beginning on Leap Day in 1988, Schulz abandoned the four-panel format in favor of three-panel dailies and occasionally used the entire length of the strip as one panel, partly for experimentation, but also to combat the dwindling size of the comics page.

Schulz drew the strip for nearly 50 years, with no assistants, even in the lettering and coloring process.

In the late 1970s, during Schulz's negotiations with United Feature Syndicate over a new contract, syndicate president William C. Payette hired superhero comic artist Al Plastino to draw a backlog of Peanuts strips to hold in reserve in case Schulz left the strip. When Schulz and the syndicate reached a successful agreement, United Media stored these unpublished strips, the existence of which eventually became public. Plastino himself also claimed to have ghostwritten for Schulz while Schulz underwent heart surgery in 1983.

In the 1980s and the 1990s, the strip remained the most popular comic in history, even though other comics, such as Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes, rivaled Peanuts in popularity. Schulz continued to write the strip until announcing his retirement on December 14, 1999, due to his failing health.

2000: End of Peanuts

The final daily original Peanuts comic strip was published on Monday, January 3, 2000. The strip contained a note to the readers of the strip from Schulz and a drawing of Snoopy, with his trusty typewriter, sitting atop his doghouse deep in thought. Beginning the next day, a rerun package premiered in papers that had elected to pick it up (see below). Although Schulz did not draw any daily strips that ran past January 3, he had drawn five Sunday strips that had yet to run. The first of these appeared six days after the last daily, on January 9.

On February 13, 2000, the day after Schulz's death, the last-ever new Peanuts strip ran in papers. Three panels long, it begins with Charlie Brown answering the phone with someone on the other end presumably asking for Snoopy. Charlie Brown responds with "No, I think he's writing." The next panel shows Snoopy sitting at his typewriter with the opening to a letter addressed to "Dear Friends". The final panel features a large blue sky background over which several drawings from past strips are placed. Underneath those drawings is a colorized version of Schulz's January 3 strip, with a slightly longer version of the note to readers that he included in that particular strip. It reads as follows:

Many other cartoonists paid tribute to Peanuts and Schulz by homages in their own strips, appearing on February 13, 2000, or in the week beforehand. The comic was reprinted the day after that, but only had the farewell letter. After Peanuts ended, United Feature Syndicate began offering the newspapers that ran it a package of reprinted strips under the title Classic Peanuts. The syndicate limited the choices to either strips from the 1960s or from the 1990s, although a newspaper was also given the option to carry both reprint packages if it desired. All Sunday strips in the package, however, come from the 1960s.

Peanuts continues to be prevalent in multiple media through widespread syndication, the publication of The Complete Peanuts, the release of several new television specials (all of which Schulz had worked on, but had not finished, before his death), and Peanuts Motion Comics. Additionally, BOOM! Studios has published a series of comic books that feature new material by new writers and artists, although some of it is based on classic Schulz stories from decades past, as well as including some classic strips by Schulz, mostly Sunday color strips.

Universal Uclick's website, GoComics.com, announced on January 5, 2015 that they would be launching "Peanuts Begins", a feature rerunning the entire history of the strip from the beginning in colorized form. This was done to honor the 65th anniversary of the strip's debut.

Characters

Charlie Brown

Charlie Brown is a young boy. He is the main character, acting as the center of the strip's world and serving as an everyman. While seen as decent, considerate, and reflective, he is also awkward, deeply sensitive, and said to suffer from an inferiority complex. Charlie Brown is a constant failure: he can never win a ballgame; he can never successfully fly a kite. His sense of determination regardless of the certainty of failure can be interpreted as either self-defeating stubbornness or admirable persistence. When he fails, however, he experiences pain and anguish through self-pity. The journalist Christopher Caldwell observed this tension between Charlie Brown's negative and positive attitudes, stating: "What makes Charlie Brown such a rich character is that he's not purely a loser. The self-loathing that causes him so much anguish is decidedly not self-effacement. Charlie Brown is optimistic enough to think he can earn a sense of self-worth." Schulz named Charlie Brown after a colleague of his while working at Art Instruction, whose full name was Charlie Francis Brown.

Readers and critics have explored the question as to whether Schulz based Charlie Brown on himself. This question often carried the suggestion that the emotionally sensitive and depressed behavior of Charlie Brown drew from Schulz's own life or childhood experiences. Commenting on the tendency of these conclusions being drawn, Schulz said in a 1968 interview, "I think of myself as Charles Schulz. But if someone wants to believe I'm really Charlie Brown, well, it makes a good story." He explained in another interview that the comic strip as a whole is a personal expression, and so it is impossible to avoid all the characters presenting aspects of his personality. Biographer David Michaelis made a similar conclusion, describing Charlie Brown as simply representing Schulz's "wishy-washiness and determination". Regardless, some profiles of Schulz confidently held that Charlie Brown was based on him.

Snoopy

Snoopy is a dog, who later in the development of the strip would be described as a beagle. While generally behaving like a real dog and having a non-speaking role, he connects to readers through having human thoughts. Despite acting like a real dog much of the time, Snoopy possesses many different anthropomorphic traits. Most notably, he frequently walks on his hind legs and is able to use tools, including his typewriter. He introduces fantasy elements to the strip by extending his identity through various alter egos. Many of these alter egos, such as a "world-famous" attorney, surgeon or secret agent were seen only once or twice. His character is a mixture of innocence and egotism; he possesses childlike joy, while on occasion being somewhat selfish. He has an arrogant commitment to his independence but is often shown to be dependent on humans. Schulz was careful in balancing Snoopy's life between that of a real dog and that of a fantastical character. While the interior of Snoopy's doghouse is described in the strip as having such things as a library and a pool table and being adorned with paintings of Wyeth and Van Gogh, it was never shown: it would have demanded an inappropriate kind of suspension of disbelief from readers.

Linus and Lucy

Linus and Lucy are siblings; Linus is the younger brother, and Lucy is the older sister.

Lucy is bossy, selfish and opinionated, and she often delivers commentary in an honest albeit offensive and sarcastic way. Schulz described Lucy as full of misdirected confidence, but having the virtue of being capable of cutting right down to the truth. He said that Lucy is mean because it is funny, particularly because she is a girl: he posited that a boy being mean to girls would not be funny at all, describing a pattern in comic strip writing where it is comical when supposedly weak characters dominate supposedly strong characters. Lucy at times acts as a psychiatrist and charges five cents for psychiatric advice to other characters (usually Charlie Brown) from her "psychiatric booth", a booth parodying the setup of a lemonade stand. Lucy's role as a psychiatrist has attracted attention from real-life individuals in the field of psychology; the psychiatrist Athar Yawar playfully identified various moments in the strip where her activities could be characterized as pursuing medical and scientific interests, commenting that "Lucy is very much the modern doctor".

Linus introduces intellectual, spiritual and reflective elements to the strip. He offers opinions on topics such as literature, art, science, politics and theology. He possesses a sense of morality and ethical judgment that enables him to navigate topics such as faith, intolerance, and depression. Schulz enjoyed the adaptability of his character, remarking he can be "very smart" as well as "dumb". He has a tendency of expressing lofty or pompous ideas that are quickly rebuked. He finds psychological security from thumb sucking and holding a blanket for comfort, referred to as his "security blanket". The idea of his security blanket originated from Schulz's own observation of his first three children, who carried around blankets. Schulz described Linus's blanket as "probably the single best thing that I ever thought of". He was proud of its versatility for visual humor in the strip, and with how the phrase "security blanket" entered the dictionary.

Peppermint Patty and Marcie

Peppermint Patty and Marcie are two girls who are friends. They attend a different school than Charlie Brown, on the other side of town, and so represent a slightly different social circle from the other characters.

Peppermint Patty is a tomboy who is forthright and loyal and has what Schulz described as a "devastating singleness of purpose". She frequently misunderstands things, to the extent that her confusion serves as the premise of many individual strips and stories; in one story she prepares for a "skating" competition, only to learn with disastrous results that it is for roller skating and not ice skating. She struggles at school and with her homework and often falls asleep in school. The wife of Charles Schulz, Jean Schulz, suggested that this is the consequence of how Peppermint Patty's single father works late; she stays awake at night waiting for him. In general, Charles Schulz imagined that some of her problems were from having an absent mother.

Marcie is bookish and a good student. Schulz described her as relatively perceptive compared to other characters, stating that "she sees the truth in things" (although she perpetually addresses Peppermint Patty as "sir"). The writer Laura Bradley identified her role as "the unassuming one with sage-like insights".

Supporting characters

In addition to the core cast, other characters appeared regularly for a majority of the strip's duration:
 Sally Brown is the younger sister of Charlie Brown. She has a habit of fracturing the English language to comical effect. She reacts negatively to school and homework due to dealing with dogmatic memorization and obeying ambiguous instructions. She otherwise confidently delivers speeches in oral exams, using wordplay and puns while framing her topics with theatrics and suspense.
 Schroeder is a boy who is fanatic about Beethoven. In this relatively innocent role, he serves as an outlet for the expressions of other characters. He most recognizably appears in the strip playing music on his toy piano, as the catcher on Charlie Brown's baseball team and the romantic foil to Lucy's unrequited affections.
 Pig-Pen is a boy who is physically dirty, normally appearing with a cloud of dust surrounding him. Schulz acknowledged that the scope of his role is limited, but he continued to make appearances because of his popularity with readers.
 Franklin is an African American boy who first appeared at the suggestion of a reader. Since it was Schulz's intention to achieve this without being patronizing, he is a relatively normal character who mainly reacts to the oddness of other characters.
 Woodstock is a bird and Snoopy's friend. He entirely communicates through peeps, forcing readers to guess what he says. Schulz said that Woodstock is aware that he is small and inconsequential, a role that serves as lighthearted existential commentary on coping with the much larger world.
 Spike is Snoopy's brother who lives alone in the California desert.

Several early characters faded out of prominence during the strip's run. For example Shermy, Patty and Violet were core characters during the initial years of the strip. By 1956, Patty and Violet's roles were described only as an extension to Lucy's, and Shermy, who was initially Charlie Brown's closest friend, was then described merely as "an extra little boy". In 1954, Schulz attempted to introduce Charlotte Braun, who was essentially a female version of Charlie Brown but with an excessively loud voice; poor reaction to her humorless personality led to Schulz killing her off in 1955. Similarly Frieda, a girl with "naturally curly hair", was introduced in 1962, but was already being phased out by the late 1960s after her comic value had seemed to have rapidly run its course; and after 1975, she made only background appearances. Conversely, Rerun, the youngest brother of Linus and Lucy, had only limited visibility after his introduction in 1973, but became a foreground character by the middle of the 1990s.

Reception
Schulz received the National Cartoonists Society Humor Comic Strip Award for Peanuts in 1962, the Reuben Award in 1955 and 1964 (the first cartoonist to receive the honor twice), the Elzie Segar Award in 1980, and the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. A Charlie Brown Christmas won a Peabody Award and an Emmy; Peanuts cartoon specials have received a total of two Peabody Awards and four Emmys. For his work on the strip, Schulz has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (as does Snoopy) and a place in the William Randolph Hearst Cartoon Hall of Fame. Peanuts was featured on the cover of Time on April 9, 1965, with the accompanying article calling it "the leader of a refreshing new breed that takes an unprecedented interest in the basics of life."

The strip was declared second in a list of the "greatest comics of the 20th century" commissioned by The Comics Journal in 1999. The top-ranked comic was George Herriman's Krazy Kat, a strip Schulz admired (and in fact was among his biggest inspirations), and he accepted the ranking in good grace, to the point of agreeing with it. In 2002 TV Guide declared Snoopy and Charlie Brown tied for 8th in its list of the "Top 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time", published to commemorate its 50th anniversary.

Schulz was included in the touring exhibition "Masters of American Comics". His work was described as "psychologically complex", and his style as "perfectly in keeping with the style of its times."

Despite the widespread acclaim Peanuts has received, some critics have alleged a decline in quality in the later years of its run, as Schulz frequently digressed from the more cerebral socio-psychological themes that characterized his earlier work in favor of lighter, more whimsical fare. For example, in an essay published in the New York Press at the time of the final daily strip in January 2000, "Against Snoopy", Christopher Caldwell argued that Snoopy, and the strip's increased focus on him in the 1970s, "went from being the strip's besetting artistic weakness to ruining it altogether".

Legacy

Robert L. Short interpreted certain themes and conversations in Peanuts as consistent with parts of Christian theology and used them as illustrations in his lectures on the gospel, as explained in his book The Gospel According to Peanuts, the first of several he wrote on religion, Peanuts, and popular culture.

Giant helium balloons of Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and Woodstock have been featured in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City since 1968. This was referenced in a 2008 Super Bowl XLII commercial for Coca-Cola, in which the Charlie Brown balloon snags a Coca-Cola bottle from two battling balloons (Underdog and Stewie Griffin).

Snoopy has been the personal safety mascot for NASA astronauts since 1968, and NASA issues a Silver Snoopy award to its employees or contractors' employees who promote flight safety. The black-and-white communications cap carrying an audio headset worn since 1968 by the Apollo, Skylab, and Space Shuttle astronauts was commonly referred to as a Snoopy cap.

The Apollo 10 lunar module's call sign was Snoopy, and the command module's call sign was Charlie Brown. While not included in the mission logo, Charlie Brown and Snoopy became semi-official mascots for the mission. Charles Schulz drew an original picture of Charlie Brown in a spacesuit that was hidden aboard the craft to be found by the astronauts once they were in orbit. This drawing is now on display at the Kennedy Space Center.

The December 1997 issue of The Comics Journal featured an extensive collection of testimonials to Peanuts. Over 40 cartoonists, from mainstream newspaper cartoonists to underground, independent comic artists, shared reflections on the power and influence of Schulz's art. Gilbert Hernandez wrote, "Peanuts was and still is for me a revelation. It's mostly from Peanuts where I was inspired to create the village of Palomar in Love and Rockets. Schulz's characters, the humor, the insight ... gush, gush, gush, bow, bow, bow, grovel, grovel, grovel ..." Tom Batiuk wrote: "The influence of Charles Schulz on the craft of cartooning is so pervasive it is almost taken for granted." Batiuk also described the depth of emotion in Peanuts: "Just beneath the cheerful surface were vulnerabilities and anxieties that we all experienced, but were reluctant to acknowledge. By sharing those feelings with us, Schulz showed us a vital aspect of our common humanity, which is, it seems to me, the ultimate goal of great art."

Cartoon tributes have appeared in other comic strips since Schulz's death in 2000 and are now displayed at the Charles Schulz Museum. On May 27, 2000, many cartoonists collaborated to include references to Peanuts in their strips. Originally planned as a tribute to Schulz's retirement, after his death that February it became a tribute to his life and career. Similarly, on October 30, 2005, several comic strips again included references to Peanuts and specifically the It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown television special. On November 26, 2022, several cartoonists included references to Peanuts and Charles Schulz in their strips to celebrate his 100th birthday.

Peanuts on Parade is St. Paul, Minnesota's tribute to Peanuts. It began in 2000, with the placing of 101  statues of Snoopy throughout the city of Saint Paul. The statues were later auctioned at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. In 2001, there was "Charlie Brown Around Town", 2002 brought "Looking for Lucy", and in 2003, "Linus Blankets Saint Paul". Permanent bronze statues of the Peanuts characters are found in Landmark Plaza in downtown St. Paul.

A Peanuts World War I Flying Ace U.S. commemorative postage stamp was released on May 17, 2001. The value was 34 cents, first class.

In 2001, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors renamed the Sonoma County Airport, located a few miles northwest of Santa Rosa, California, the Charles M. Schulz Airport in his honor. The airport's logo features Snoopy as the World War I Flying Ace (goggles/scarf), taking to the skies on top of his red doghouse (the Sopwith Camel). A bronze statue of Charlie Brown and Snoopy stands in Depot Park in downtown Santa Rosa.

Books
The Peanuts characters have been featured in many books over the years. Some represented chronological reprints of the newspaper strip, while others were thematic collections such as Snoopy's Tennis Book, or collections of inspirational adages such as Happiness Is a Warm Puppy. Some single-story books were produced, such as Snoopy and the Red Baron. In addition, many of the animated television specials and feature films were adapted into book form.

The primary series of reprints was published by Rinehart & Company (later Holt, Rinehart and Winston) beginning in 1952, with the release of a collection simply titled Peanuts. This series, which presented the strips in rough chronological order (albeit with many strips omitted from each year) continued through the 1980s, after which reprint rights were handed off to various other publishers. Ballantine Books published the last original series of Peanuts reprints, including Peanuts 2000, which collected the final year of the strip's run.

Coinciding with these reprints were smaller paperback collections published by Fawcett Publications. Drawing material from the main reprints, this paperback series began with The Wonderful World of Peanuts in 1962 and continued through Lead On, Snoopy in 1992.

Charles Schulz had always resisted republication of the earliest Peanuts strips, as they did not reflect the characters as he eventually developed them. However, in 1997 he began talks with Fantagraphics Books to have the entire run of the strip, which would end up with 17,897 strips in total, published chronologically in book form. In addition to the post-millennium Peanuts publications are BOOM! Studios restyling of the comics and activity books, and "First Appearances" series. Its content is produced by Peanuts Studio, subsequently an arm of Peanuts Worldwide LLC.

The Complete Peanuts

The entire run of Peanuts, covering nearly 50 years of comic strips, was reprinted in Fantagraphics' The Complete Peanuts, a 26-volume set published over a 12-year period, consisting of two volumes per year published every May and October. The first volume (collecting strips from 1950 to 1952) was published in May 2004; the volume containing the final newspaper strips (including all the strips from 1999 and seven strips from 2000, along with the complete run of Li'l Folks) was published in May 2016, with a twenty-sixth volume containing outside-the-daily-strip Peanuts material by Schulz appeared in the fall of that year. A companion series, titled Peanuts Every Sunday and presenting the complete Sunday strips in color (as the main Complete Peanuts books reproduce them in black and white only), was launched in December 2013; this series will run ten volumes, with the last expected to be published in 2022.

In addition, almost all Peanuts strips are now also authoritatively available online at GoComics.com (there are some strips missing from the digital archive). Peanuts strips were previously featured on Comics.com.

Anniversary books
Several books have been released to commemorate key anniversaries of Peanuts:
 20th (1970) – Charlie Brown & Charlie Schulz — a tie-in with the TV documentary Charlie Brown and Charles Schulz that had aired May 22, 1969
 25th (1975) – Peanuts Jubilee
 30th (1980) – Happy Birthday, Charlie Brown
 30th (1980) – Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Me
 35th (1985) – You Don't Look 35, Charlie Brown
 40th (1990) – Charles Schulz: 40 Years of Life & Art
 45th (1995) – Around the World in 45 Years
 50th (2000) – Peanuts: A Golden Celebration
 50th (2000) – 50 Years of Happiness: A Tribute to Charles Schulz
 60th (2009) – Celebrating Peanuts

Adaptations

Animation

The strip was first adapted into animation in The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show. A TV documentary, A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1963), featured newly animated segments but this did not air due to not being able to find a channel willing to broadcast it. It did however shape the team for A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), a half-hour Christmas special broadcast on CBS. It was met with extensive critical success. It was the first  of a set of Peanuts television specials (second counting the 1963 documentary), and forms a selection of holiday-themed specials which are aired annually in the US to the present day, including It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966), and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973). The animated specials were significant to the cultural impact of Peanuts; by 1972, they were remarked as being "among the most consistently popular television specials" and "regularly have been in the top 10 in the ratings". Many of the specials were acquired by Apple TV+ in 2020. The first feature-length film, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, came in 1969, and was one of four which were produced before the comic strip ended. A Saturday morning television series aired in 1983, each episode consisting of three or four segments dealing with plot lines from the strip. An additional spin-off miniseries, This Is America, Charlie Brown, aired in 1988, exploring the history of the United States.

The characters continue to be adapted into animation after the comic strip ended in 2000, with the latest television special It's the Small Things, Charlie Brown  made in 2022. A series of cartoon shorts premiered on iTunes in 2008, Peanuts Motion Comics, which directly lifted themes and plot lines from the strip. In 2014, the French network France 3 debuted Peanuts by Schulz, a series of episodes each consisting of several roughly one-minute shorts bundled together. The latest feature-length film, The Peanuts Movie, was released in 2015. Two Peanuts Apple TV+ series, Snoopy in Space and The Snoopy Show, both premiered in 2019 and 2021, respectively. The characters also make a guest appearance in Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special in 2020.

Series
Peanuts animated specials (1965–2022)
The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show (1983–1985)
This Is America, Charlie Brown (1988–1989)
Peanuts Motion Comics (2008)
Peanuts (2014–2016)
Snoopy in Space (2019–present)
The Snoopy Show (2021–present)

Film
A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)
Snoopy Come Home (1972)
Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977)
Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) (1980)
The Peanuts Movie (2015)

Music
The album A Charlie Brown Christmas was recorded in 1965, the original soundtrack from the animated television special of the same name. It was performed by the jazz trio led by pianist Vince Guaraldi. It enjoys enduring critical, commercial, and cultural success; employing a sombre and whimsical style, songs such as Christmas Time Is Here evoke a muted and quiet melody, and arrangements such as the traditional carol O Tannenbaum improvised in a light, off-center pace. The album has continued popularity to the present day; writer Chris Barton for the Los Angeles Times praised it in 2013 as "one of the most beloved holiday albums recorded", and Al Jazeera described it as "one of the most popular Christmas albums of all time". The album was added to the national recording registry of the Library of Congress in 2012, being regarded as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important".

The American rock band The Royal Guardsmen recorded four novelty songs from 1966 to 1968 as tributes to Snoopy. The first song was released as the single Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron (1966), based on the storyline of Snoopy sitting atop his dog house imagining himself as a World War I pilot, battling the German flying ace The Red Baron. The band would later release two more similar songs in 1967, Return of The Red Baron and Snoopy's Christmas. In 1968 they recorded Snoopy for President.

Theater

The characters first appeared in live stage production in 1967 with the musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, scored by Clark Gesner. It is a collection of musical sketches, where the characters explore their identities and discover the feelings they have for each other. The play was performed off-broadway, as well as later being performed as a live telecast on NBC. The play continued to have other professional performances, in the London West End, and later a Broadway revival, while also being a popular choice of musical by amateur theater groups such as schools.

A second musical premiered in 1975, Snoopy! The Musical, scored by Larry Grossman with lyrics by Hal Hackady. A sequel to You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Snoopy! is also a collection of musical sketches, though focused on Snoopy. It was first performed in San Francisco, and eventually off-Broadway for 152 performances.

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Snoopy!!! The Musical were both further adapted as animated television specials, respectively, in 1985 and in 1988. Going in the opposite direction from animation to live production, is the 2016 A Charlie Brown Christmas, based on the animated television special of the same name. It is considered a generally faithful readaptation, although it features the additional characters Woodstock and Peppermint Patty who did not exist in the strip when the original was made.

Licensing

Advertising and retail

The characters from the comic have long been licensed for use on merchandise, the success of the comic strip helping to create a market for such items. In 1958, the Hungerford Plastics Corporation created a set of five vinyl dolls of the most famous characters (Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, and Schroeder); they expanded this line in 1961 to make the dolls slightly larger and included Sally and Pig-Pen. An early example of the characters appearing in promotional material was strips and illustrations drawn by Schulz for the 1955 instructional booklet for the Kodak Brownie camera, The Brownie Book of Picture Taking. Another early campaign was on behalf of Ford Motor Company; magazine illustrations, brochure illustrations, and animated television spots featuring the characters were used to promote the Ford Falcon from January 1960 into 1964. Schulz credited the Ford campaign as the first time where licensing the characters earned "a lot of money". However, he expressed a dislike of illustrating the adverts, describing it as "hard work" and would have preferred to dedicate equivalent effort to drawing the Sunday format strips.

Some licensing relationships were maintained long-term. Hallmark began printing greetings cards and party goods featuring the characters in 1960. In the late 1960s, Sanrio held the licensing rights in Japan for Snoopy. Sanrio is best known for Hello Kitty and its focus on the kawaii segment of the Japanese market. Beginning in 1985, the characters were made mascots and served as spokespeople for the MetLife insurance company, with the intention to make the business "more friendly and approachable". Schulz justified the licensing relationship with MetLife as necessary to financially support his philanthropic work, although refused to openly describe the exact details of the work he was financing. In 2016, the 31-year licensing relationship with MetLife ended.

In 1999, it was estimated that there were 20,000 different new products each year adorning a variety of licensed items, such as: clothing, plush toys of Snoopy, Thermos bottles, lunch boxes, picture frames, and music boxes. The familiarity of the characters also proved lucrative for advertising material in both print and television, appearing on products such as Dolly Madison snack cakes, Chex Mix snacks, Bounty paper towels, Kraft macaroni cheese and A&W Root Beer.

The sheer extent to which the characters are used in licensed material is a subject of criticism against Schulz. Los Angeles Times pointed out that "some critics [say] Schulz was distracted by marketing demands, and his characters had become caricatures of themselves by shilling for Metropolitan Life Insurance, Dolly Madison cupcakes and others." Schulz reasoned that his approach to licensing was in fact modest, stating "our [licensing] program is built upon characters who are figuratively alive" and "we're not simply stamping these characters out on the sides of products just to sell products" while also adding "Snoopy is so versatile he just seems to be able to fit into any role and it just works. It's not that we're out to clutter the market with products. In fact anyone saying we're overdoing it is way off base because actually we are underdoing it".

Games
The Peanuts characters have appeared in several video games, such as Snoopy in 1984 by Radarsoft, Snoopy: The Cool Computer Game by The Edge, Snoopy and the Red Baron for the Atari 2600, Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular (1989, Nintendo Entertainment System), Snoopy's Magic Show (1990, Game Boy), Snoopy Tennis (2001, Game Boy Color), Snoopy Concert which was released in 1995 and sold to the Japanese market for the Super NES, and in October 2006, a second game titled Snoopy vs. The Red Baron by Namco Bandai for the PlayStation 2. In July 2007, the Peanuts characters appeared in the Snoopy the Flying Ace mobile phone game by Namco Networks. In November 2015, Snoopy's Town Tale was launched for mobile by Pixowl, featuring the entire Peanuts gang along with Snoopy and Charlie Brown.

In 1980 (with a new edition published in 1990), the Funk & Wagnalls publishing house also produced a children's encyclopedia called the Charlie Brown's 'Cyclopedia. The 15-volume set features many of the Peanuts characters.

In April 2002, The Peanuts Collectors Edition Monopoly board game was released by USAopoly. The game was dedicated to Schulz in memory of his passing.

Amusement parks

In 1983, Knott's Berry Farm, in Southern California, was the first theme park to license the Peanuts characters, creating the first Camp Snoopy area and making Snoopy the park's mascot. Knott's expanded its operation in 1992 by building an indoor amusement park in the Mall of America, called Knott's Camp Snoopy. The Knott's theme parks were acquired by the national amusement park chain Cedar Fair Entertainment Company in 1997, which continued to operate Knott's Camp Snoopy park until the mall took over its operation in March 2005. Cedar Fair had already licensed the Peanuts characters for use in 1992 as an atmosphere, so its acquisition of Knott's Berry Farm did not alter the use of those characters.

Snoopy is currently the official mascot of all the Cedar Fair parks. It was previously used in all of the park logos but it has since been removed. Cedar Fair also operated a Camp Snoopy area at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom, Worlds of Fun, and Valleyfair featuring various Peanuts-themed attractions until 2011. There is still a Camp Snoopy area at Cedar Point and Knott's Berry Farm.

In 2008, Cedar Point introduced Planet Snoopy, a children's area where Peanuts Playground used to be. This area consists of family and children's rides relocated from Cedar Point's sister park Geauga Lake after its closing. The rides are inspired by Peanuts characters. The area also consists of a "Kids Only" restaurant called Joe Cool Cafe (there is a small menu for adults). In 2010, the Nickelodeon Central and Nickelodeon Universe areas in the former Paramount Parks (California's Great America, Canada's Wonderland, Carowinds, Kings Dominion, and Kings Island) were replaced by Planet Snoopy. In 2011, Cedar Fair announced it would also add Planet Snoopy to Valleyfair, Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom, and Worlds of Fun, replacing the Camp Snoopy areas. ″Carowinds″ Planet Snoopy was rethemed to Camp Snoopy. Planet Snoopy is now at every Cedar Fair parks beside Knott's Berry Farm, Carowinds, Michigan's Adventure.

Also, the Peanuts characters can be found at Universal Studios Japan in the Universal Wonderland section along with the characters from Sesame Street and Hello Kitty, and in the Snoopy's World in Hong Kong.

Exhibition
An exhibition titled Good Grief, Charlie Brown! Celebrating Snoopy and the Enduring Power of Peanuts opened at Somerset House in London on 25 October 2018, running until 3 March 2019. The exhibition brought together Charles M. Schulz's original Peanuts cartoons with work from a wide range of acclaimed contemporary artists and designers who have been inspired by the cartoon.

Ownership
On June 3, 2010, United Media sold all its Peanuts-related assets, including its strips and branding, to a new company, Peanuts Worldwide LLC, a joint venture of the Iconix Brand Group (which owned 80 percent) and Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates (20 percent). In addition, United Media sold its United Media Licensing arm, which represents licensing for its other properties, to Peanuts Worldwide. United Feature Syndicate continued to syndicate the strip, until February 27, 2011, when Universal Uclick took over syndication, ending United Media's 60-plus-year stewardship of Peanuts.

In May 2017, Canada-based DHX Media (now WildBrain) announced that it would acquire Iconix's entertainment brands, including the 80% stake of Peanuts Worldwide and full rights to the Strawberry Shortcake brand, for $345 million. DHX officially took control of the properties on June 30, 2017.

On May 13, 2018, DHX announced it had reached a strategic agreement for Sony Music Entertainment Japan to acquire 49% of its 80% stake in Peanuts Worldwide for $185 million, with DHX holding a 41% stake and SMEJ owning 39%. (SMEJ's consumer products division has been a licensing agent for the Peanuts brand since 2010.) The transaction was completed on July 23. Two months after the sale's completion, DHX eliminated the rest of its debt by signing a five-year, multi-million-dollar agency agreement with CAA-GBG Global Brand Management Group (a brand management joint venture between Creative Artists Agency and Hong Kong-based Global Brands Group) to represent the Peanuts brand in China and the rest of Asia excluding Japan.

References

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 Peanuts at GoComics.com
 Peanuts Turns 60  – slideshow by Life

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Simon Roberts (1974) is a British photographic artist whose work deals with our relationship to landscape and notions of identity and belonging. He originally studied a BA Hons Degree in Human Geography at the University of Sheffield, a subject which has helped inform his subsequent arts practice. Often employing expansive tableaux photographs, his approach is one of creating wide-ranging surveys of our time, which examine contemporary economic, cultural and political landscapes.
His work has been exhibited widely with solo shows at the National Media Museum in Bradford (UK), the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma (Italy), and the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow (Russia). Recent group exhibitions include Observers: British Photography and the British Scene (From the 1930s to Now) at Galeria de Arte do SESI in São Paulo (Brazil); and Unfamiliar Familiarities: Outside Views on Switzerland, at Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur (Switzerland). His photographs reside in major public and private collections, including the George Eastman Museum, the Art Collection Deutsche Börse, and the Wilson Centre for Photography.
Roberts was recently made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society; and in 2010 was, in the capacity of official Election Artist, commissioned by the House of Commons Works of Art Committee to produce a record of the 2010 UK General Election. He has published three monographs: Motherland (Chris Boot, 2007), We English (Chris Boot, 2009), and Pierdom (Dewi Lewis, 2013), and his work has been reproduced in many publications.


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Starling Bank receives Banking Licence and announces Faster Payments
Starling Bank receives banking license from the regulator.
Confirms plan to become direct participant of 24/7, real-time Faster Payments Scheme through New Access Model.
Unveils new brand identity, aiming to go fully live by end of 2016.
Starling Bank today received its UK banking license, with restrictions, from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA).
"We are delighted to have the confidence and support of the regulator, to move forward and introduce a new style of banking," said Anne Boden, CEO, Starling Bank.
"Traditionally, customers have spread their finances over various accounts, loans and cards. Starling Bank will deliver a new level of control over spending and saving, using data and insights to deliver an unrivalled banking experience with the convenience of doing everything from one account.
"For the past year, our team has been focused on building our product and technology from the ground up. Our absolute aim is to empower people to better manage their finances with an incredible app, purpose-built for those who happily manage their lives on their phone."
Also today, Starling Bank unveiled its new brand identity and launched its new website, and announced it will join Faster Payments, the UK's 24/7 real-time payment service, later in the year.
"Starling Bank is on track to be the first next generation bank to connect directly to the Faster Payments system. This will allow us to offer the best possible payments experience to our customers and partners," said Anne.
Craig Tillotson, Chief Executive of Faster Payments, said Starling Bank's customers and partners would see the benefits of real time, 24/7 payments.
"Directly accessing Faster Payments is the only effective way for any bank to offer true real-time payments 24 hours a day, 365 days a year – we are delighted that Starling Bank have confirmed their intention to join using our new access model.
"The rapid increase in customer demand for real-time payments and banking means it is our responsibility to facilitate access to our world-leading service to all types of payments service providers. We are proud to fulfil our role as a vital enabler of payment innovation for consumers, businesses and the economy in general and we look forward to continuing our work to help Starling Bank be amongst the first of the new generation of banks to implement real time payments for their customers."
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'It's been a long time coming'
Pro angler David Williams wins FLW tourney on Smith Lake
From Staff, Wire Reports
LEWIS SMITH LAKE – Pro David Williams of Maiden, North Carolina , brought a 13-pound, 13-ounce, limit of bass to the weigh-in stage Sunday to win the FLW Tour at Lewis Smith Lake presented by T-H Marine with a four-day cumulative total of 20 bass weighing 64 pounds, 9 ounces.
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David Williams of Maiden, N.C., hoists the trophy after winning the FLW Tour event on Lewis Smith Lake. The win was the first on the FLW Tour for Williams, who finished the four-day tournament with 64 pounds, 9 ounces.
Daily Mountain Eagle - Ron Harris
Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2018 12:05 am
For his dominant showing on the water this week, Williams earned $102,700 and moved up to No. 4 in the Pennzoil Marine Angler of the Year race.
"It's an incredibly tough field of anglers and each one dreams of winning one of these tournaments. To win one in my first year on Tour is pretty special," said Williams, who earned his first career Tour-level win and is now likely to qualify for the Forrest Wood Cup. "It's been a long time coming and its extra special when you really have to work for it."
During the tournament, Williams said he was able to rack up the majority of his weight fairly quickly each morning, catching both largemouth and spotted bass.
"I had no idea I'd lead from start to finish – I didn't really have that great of a practice," he said. "I had one good area and didn't really realize how many fish were in there. But, I was able to milk it for four days. It was pretty incredible."
One advantage Williams said he had was in the similarity of Smith Lake and lakes back home in North Carolina.
"Lewis Smith Lake fishes a lot like our lakes back home, and that's the reason I think that I did well," he said.
Linda Lewis, president of the Chamber of Commerce of Walker County, said the tournament went about as well as it could, despite rain the first day of competition.
"Look how well our lake has come over the years," Lewis said. "And these guys fishing here and the staff at the FLW Tour are a great group to work with. We've been so pleased with the outcome of this tournament."
The final 10 pros, and their winnings, were:
1st - David Williams, Maiden, N.C., 20 bass, 64-9, $102,700
2nd - John Cox, DeBary, Fla., 20 bass, 59-12, $30,000
3rd - Cody Meyer, Auburn, Calif., 20 bass, 59-2, $25,000
4th - Matt Arey, Shelby, N.C., 20 bass, 57-6, $20,100
5th - Jordan Osborne, Longview, Texas, 20 bass, 54-10, $19,000
6th - Jason Reyes, Huffman, Texas, 20 bass, 54-8, $18,000
7th - Clent Davis, Montevallo, Ala., 20 bass, 52-2, $17,000
8th - Matt Becker, Finleyville, Pa., 20 bass, 51-12, $16,000
9th - Todd Auten, Lake Wylie, S.C., 20 bass, 50-9, $15,000
10th - Jimmy Reese, Witter Springs, Calif., 20 bass, 50-5, $14,000.


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The Death Labyrinth in 'Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio'
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio gives lessons in mortality from death creatures possibly more unsettling than those in Hellboy II and Pan's Labyrinth.
By Hector DeJean / 12 December 2022
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
In Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Guillermo del Toro presented a stunning Angel of Death (designed by sci-fi/fantasy author Wayne Barlowe), a four-winged giant with a sightless skull-like face whose wings bore rows of eyes. Del Toro's latest production (fully titled Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio) also bears a stunning embodiment of death, this time a masked sphinx credited to artist Guy Davis and others, also with the quartet of eye-possessing wings which, according to the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel, is the correct number for the higher tier of angels.
Del Toro's adaptation of the 1881 book by Carlo Collodi isn't any more faithful to its source material than Disney's version. Still, it is recognizably the story of the world's most famous wooden boy, and it's a stunning work of stop-motion animation infused with a very particular del Toro vision.
One of the most jarring changes to this telling of Pinocchio is that del Toro's version is set in Italy under Mussolini, founder of the National Fascist Party. Del Toro has previously set stories in fascist eras—The Devil's Backbone (2001) and Pan's Labyrinth (2006) are set during the Spanish Civil War and directly afterward, in the years following the victory of Franco's fascist Falange. Mussolini appears as a character in this Pinocchio, a gnomish cretin voiced by Tom Kenny, SpongeBob SquarePants himself. However, the innocent wooden boy's encounters with fascism—which become increasingly disturbing throughout Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio—aren't even the darkest parts of this story.
The story opens with Ewan MacGregor as Sebastian J. Cricket narrating the tale of Italian woodworker Geppetto (David Bradley), the loving father of a boy named Carlo (Gregory Mann). Tragedy takes Carlo away from his father, leaving Geppetto destroyed by grief. One night in a drunken fit, he hammers together a distorted wooden effigy of the boy he lost. As in the 1940 Disney film, Pinocchio, a blue fairy grants the puppet life, but here the 'wood sprite' (voiced eerily by Tilda Swinton, also doing the voice of Death) is an otherworldly seraph with a motionless mask over her face, and once again with four wings dotted with eyes—not a Hollywood granter of wishes but an Old Testament bringer of ancient arcana.
Pinocchio, also voiced by Gregory Mann, arises on his own power and gleefully begins smashing Geppetto's workshop and possessions to bits. Pinocchio, it is clear, is far from a perfect child, and even the constant counsel of Sebastian won't be enough to keep him from regularly parading into disasters. The audience also gets Pinocchio's view; he's an energetic new arrival eager to engage with everything while also perplexed by many things around him—often understandably (he's less than a couple of days old before he has questions about fascism, grief, and death, and no one seems to have answers). In one scene in a church, he asks why people in the congregation adore one wooden boy—a carving of Christ on the cross—while they treat him with fear and disdain.
It's around this point that Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio starts to turn into real del Toro territory. After Pinocchio is hit by a car, we cut to four half-skeletal rabbit pallbearers taking his soul into the underworld—it's an image even more unsettling than the creatures in Hellboy II or that eyeless cannibal in Pan's Labyrinth. Pinocchio subsequently meets the leonine Death and learns that since he isn't really alive—he isn't a real boy—he can't really die. Death is such a frequent theme in Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio that it could easily be seen as the main one, especially toward the end.
Given another chance at life, he causes new headaches for Geppetto by skipping school and joining a traveling carnival run by Count Volpe, a perfect combination of stop-motion puppetry and an actor's vocal performance, this one provided by Christoph Waltz.
Soon the wooden boy encounters Mussolini, ditches the carnival, winds up training in a military camp for Italian fascist youth, and ends up in the gullet of a monstrous fish that resembles the WWII naval mines menacing the sea. This is the same fish that swallowed Geppetto, who was searching throughout Italy for his wayward creation/son.
When Pinocchio tells lies, his nose does indeed grow (and branch out and sprout), but Del Toro isn't interested in drilling lessons in proper behavior into a young audience. Pinocchio's misguided actions and the occasional cruelty of his friend Candlewick (Finn Wolfhard) – he tricks Pinocchio into setting his own feet on fire – are driven by the patriarchal characters that try to pummel a code of conduct into the puppet. In del Toro's telling, those characters are conspicuously allied with the Italian fascists.
Pinocchio prefers performing on stage over going to school —he is a living marionette, after all. Meanwhile, Candlewick's childhood in a nation awash in master race gibberish has traumatized him. For all the trouble that Pinocchio's rushing around and colliding with everything causes Geppetto and others, it's the most genuine expression of who he is. He's not quite as set on becoming a real boy here as he was in the Disney version because he's already real enough. Still, there are lessons to learn, and he's got Death itself as a teacher, giving him hints about the operation of the cosmos.
Again, the animation is astounding—there's a wonderful moment when Geppetto awakes, hungover, on the day Pinocchio has come to life, and there's a weave in his step that causes his foot to hit the remains of a bottle on the floor. Del Toro's crew shows extreme care in not only showing these puppets in fluid motion and action but also in revealing the engaging details that make them distinct characters. Characters occasionally burst into song, cute little numbers that make little difference in the story. Geppetto sings to Carlo, and that song reappears in a different form when Pinocchio appears on the stage. Comically, in many scenes, Sebastian J. Cricket begins a tune only to be interrupted by another character talking or an action scene before he gets to the second verse – a brief moment of levity amidst the danger and naivity.
There is enough fabulous character design, physics-defying animation, and general del Toro oddity to Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio to capture his special effects fans and hold them to this stop-animation format. As the film approaches its conclusion, one wonders if its constant reminders of life's end aren't there to terrify but are instead partial answers to the questions an innocent Pinocchio and a more world-weary Geppetto were asking at the beginning.
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Ever since it's release in 1972, the Polaroid SX-70 has been heralded as one of the greatest instant cameras ever made. But our friends over at MiNT decided to push that even further, refitting an SX-70 with an all-new motherboard, electric eye lens and a refurbished leather exterior. Not only that, they created a manual control Time Machine device which lets you choose from 16 different shutter speeds, as well as B and T modes, allowing you to create long exposures and light paintings. Top that off with the ability to shoot with both 600 and SX-70 film, and it's hard to see how they could have improved it any more.
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INCOMPETENCE? State Department Penetrated in "Serious" Cyber Attack
State Department officials have learned that the department was the victim of a "serious" cyber attack weeks ago, potentially jeopardizing classified information and American military secrets.
Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich reported that the State Department became aware of the breach on Saturday, which reportedly occurred several weeks ago.
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The State Department has been hit by a cyber attack, and notifications of a possible serious breach were made by the Department of Defense Cyber Command.
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) August 21, 2021
Western governments have blamed groups affiliated with Iran and China for cyber attacks on corporations previously. The hack reportedly hasn't effected State Department efforts to transport Afghan migrants to the United States.
The State Department is thus far unwilling to blame any specific actors for the hack, presumably waiting to report details to the incident to Congress to comply with a federal rule requiring "major" cyberattacks to be reported within seven days.
"The Department takes seriously its responsibility to safeguard its information and continuously takes steps to ensure information is protected. For security reasons, we are not in a position to discuss the nature or scope of any alleged cybersecurity incidents at this time."
The attack is the latest in a series of cyberattacks targeting federal American governmental institutions. Despite frequent insistence from liberal bureaucrats that the Russian Federation is exclusively responsible for the hacking, there's little evidence to suggest Putin's government would conduct an operation that would surely be met with retaliation from American government counterparts.
The situation continues to develop, and Big League Politics is monitoring for further updates.
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