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I thought about bumping this thread a week or so ago. It is a pity it has been suffering a slow, agonising death as it used to be really good in here.
No September figs for me yet. They usually turn up the week of sale day so maybe later this week. I am interested to read the last mini comic as I have read there is some controversy but I haven't read any of the spoilers yet.


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A North Carolina teen says her senior picture was pulled from the school yearbook because she posed with her 3-month-old son.
Seniors at Wheatmore High School in Trinity, N.C., were told to pose with something that represents them or is an achievement, The Associated Press reported.
Caitlin Tiller, 17, chose her son, Leelin.
"I picked my son because he's helped me be a better person," she told Yahoo! Shine. "By having him, I grew up quickly but I learned how to be responsible."
But Tiller said the photo was pulled from the yearbook two days before it went to print after school officials told her it promoted teen pregnancy.
They gave her a chance to submit an alternate photo, but she refused.
"I said if Leelin can't be in the photo, then I won't be either," Tiller told Yahoo! "The adviser said, 'That's your choice. Then you won't be in the yearbook' and hung up on me."
Randolph County Schools Superintendent Donald Andrews told The Associated Press the yearbook's practice has been to include photos only of graduating students, though family and friends could appear with seniors in advertisements.
Tiller graduated early and has started college, working part-time at McDonald's to support her son.
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Before a recent trip to the Middle East, I took requests from friends there for American items not easily procured in those parts. My pirated booty included eight jars of Arrowhead Mills Organic Creamy Valencia peanut butter, several contraband American television-series box sets and maple syrup. When my lost luggage was pronounced MIA, I panicked a little. Would I ever see my favorite shoes again? Would they confiscate my stash of sensationalistic political literature? When the suitcase was finally delivered to my hotel, it was 10 pounds lighter and of all the precious, rumpled contents, only the peanut butter was missing.
My mother's taste for clandestine fluffernutter sandwiches is the casualty of an immigrant childhood, wherein her tireless mother sent six kids to school with hearty, but purportedly embarrassing, garlic-scented lunches. My mother longed instead for bland, odorless American food; bologna, Wonder Bread, Miracle Whip. As a youngster, my daily lunches consisted of pita bread, damp and disintegrating after a morning-long sunbath in the recesses of a paper bag, spread plainly with Planters-brand peanut butter and the rank bouquet of an off-gassing banana; thus, that iconic item, peanut butter, seemed a thing of the past once my lunch bag days were behind me.
Then, in my late teens, I was presented, at the behest of a chef, a sandwich of whole wheat bread, freshly-ground peanut butter, sliced bananas and honey. Natural peanut butter, it seemed, was grainily intense, nothing like the commercial stuff I'd been reared on, which was thick with hydrogenated fats that gave it the waxy texture of canned cake frosting. This sandwich was mind-bendingly good.
Ah, peanut butter: perhaps the only protein adored by vegans and the meat-and-potatoes crowd alike. It's arguably the indispensable fabric of the American gastronomical quilt.
Here in Santa Fe, the most glorious celebration of this blessed union of flavors can be found on a good day at Harry's Roadhouse (96 Old Las Vegas Hwy., 505-989-4629), in a banana layer cake, towering and resplendent, with dark chocolate ganache and peanut butter frosting.
As a kid, the only candy that interested me involved peanut butter—candy that's mysteriously consistent and easy to spot from afar by its orange packaging: peanut butter M&M's, peanut butter Twix, hefty Colt's Bolts and, of course, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. At Chocolatesmith (1807 Second St., 505-473-2111), the peanut butter fingers (and the Pecos Peanut Butter—the same bar with a spine-tingling lick of ancho and chipotle) put to shame their drugstore equivalents—the Butterfinger or its close relative Clark bar.
In The Ultimate Peanut Butter Book, writers Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough make admirable headway as far as the myriad uses for America's favorite spread go. There are others out there whose innovation and obsession is breaking peanut butter into new territory. PB Loco and Peanut Butter and Co. both make dark and white chocolate-blended trans-fat-free peanut butters that can be ordered online, as well as variations with everything from sun-dried tomatoes and sun-ripened apricot to chocolate-chip cookie dough and cinnamon-raisin. A signature sandwich at one of PB Loco's café's contains Asian Curry Spice peanut butter, cucumbers and pineapple.
I discovered my bliss, however, in a creation suggested in an online food forum when I lived across the street from an Indian bakery: hot fresh naan, peanut butter, sriracha, chopped cilantro, shaved red onion, squeeze of lime and a fried egg with a runny yolk.
What would the world be without boiled peanuts? Gado-gado? African groundnut stew? Peanut butter and chutney sandwiches? Tune-Up Café's (1115 Hickox St., 505-983-7060) Nutella and peanut butter sandwich cookies? The peanut butter gelato ice cream sandwiches at Cafe Cafe (500 Sandoval St., 505-466-1391)?
?Approximately 75 percent of American kitchens have peanut butter in them. Commercial peanut butter is not highly perishable, and I remember noticing aisles of supermarkets in Inuvik, a small town in the Canadian Arctic, stacked with displays of the tubbed Kraft product.
Small plastic containers of the stuff are also a ubiquitous mainstay of Québécois diners, where it is nestled in with the butter and margarine. Peanut butter's value as a relatively stable product has not gone unnoticed. To the advantage of many, Plumpy'nut, a peanut butter-based food formulated by French scientist André Briend, is now being used for famine relief.
Inspired by Nutella, it tastes like sweetened peanut butter, but it packs a caloric and nutritional punch. Project Peanut Butter distributes Plumpy, as it's often called, to malnourished Malawian children in more than 20 nutritional rehabilitation centers; the rehabilitation rate is 89.9 percent. Unfortunately, about 1 percent of the US population is allergic to peanuts; The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America estimates that peanut allergy is the most common cause of food-related death.
Sometimes I'll ask someone if they like peanut butter, and they'll say that they prefer some other nut butter—almond, usually. That's all well and good, but it's not the same thing. Working for peanuts? Sounds good to me.


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South Fayette mulls design elements for new school
Design aspects of the new South Fayette Intermediate Elementary School were discussed at a committee meeting of school directors on Jan. 15.
Tricia Monaco, interior designer at Eckles Architecture, presented samples of fabrics, paint and flooring school directors could consider for the new building, which is set to open next fall. Monaco talked about the color schemes that may be used for the STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) rooms in the new school. She also showed the board drawings of what the STEAM rooms could look like, featuring brightly-colored walls, soft seating and brightly-colored flooring. The design of the rooms was inspired by the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University.
Monaco also brought samples of the furniture, including desks and chairs, that the board could choose from for the new building. She discussed the design of the flooring for one of the STEAM rooms, which was called the LEGO room, which featured precision-cut VCT tiles in primary colors. Superintendent Dr. Bille Rondinelli said that the floor may not end up with the custom tiles because of cost and the fact that the tiles would have to be precision-cut.
"The purpose of these (STEAM) rooms is to inspire students," said intermediate elementary school Principal Greg Wensell. Bob Naugle of Eckles Architecture added that they are really looking to have the STEAM rooms stand out in the school. "We want that wow factor," Naugle said, calling the STEAM rooms the "showplace of the building."
Board members stressed that no decision has been made on the design of any of the rooms in the new building and further discussion will have to be held.
Joe Brennan of P.J. Dick updated the board on the progress of construction of the new school. He said they are about a year into the project and are looking for it to be finished in July. The total balance to finish the project is about $10.8 million, Brennan said.
Brennan added the door frames and windows are being installed and the masonry on the outside of the building should be completed in about a month. He added that about 90 percent of the roof is complete and the main gas line has been installed. Ceramic tile work will begin in the restrooms in about two weeks and the kitchen framing has begun.
Brennan talked about a change order that the board will consider approving at its next meeting. The change order is for $7,601, but since the project has had a negative $2,000 in change orders, the net of the change order is about $5,500. The change order is for magnetic door hold-opens for the doors in the school, so that the doors may be open in the stair wells, allowing students to freely use the stairs without having to constantly open the doors.
The magnetic door hold-opens are fire-rated, Brennan said, so that the doors will automatically close if the fire alarms sound. Bob Naugle of Eckles said the magnetic pieces should have been included in the original design. "We recommend that they be there," he said. He added that because the change order was a design omission, Eckles will charge the district a fee on it.
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October 03, 2013
Guest DJ: Thirty Seconds To Mars
Posted Wednesday, October 2nd 2013 @ 12am
Listen to Thirty Seconds To Mars' Guest-DJ'd station on iHeartRadio
LA-based rock band Thirty Seconds To Mars is currently on tour in support of their fourth studio album, LOVE LUST FAITH + DREAMS, which was released in May. The band, made up of brothers Jared and Shannon Leto and Tomo Miličević, recently performed at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas in September, where they wowed the crowd with an unexpected cover of Rihanna's hit with Mikky Ekko, "Stay."
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Thirty Seconds To Mars teamed up with iHeartRadio to Guest DJ a radio station that's perfect for them. In addition to their own work, the station includes music from such iconic bands as U2 and Depeche Mode as well as bona fide pop stars liek Rihanna and up-and-comers like Lorde. Check out the band's top ten tracks, accompanied by Jared Leto's explanation of why they were chosen, below.
"Let's start with a big one," Jared tells iHeartRadio. "What do you say about that song except it's a classic, it's beautiful, it's big, it's bombastic... but it's also so brilliant. Wonderful song, very meaningful. Very touching. Bono and the boys really delivered, obviously a classic here."
2. Nine Inch Nails, "Closer."
"A song that I probably will play when I walk down the aisle. A song that's really touching and meaningful, and if you run out of Viagra and Red Bull, put on 'Closer' from Nine Inch Nails. It's a great one, I love it, a personal favorite."
3. "Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode.
"A really wonderful song, a great band. We played a show with them not too long ago... that was interesting to play with the legends themselves. Enjoy."
4. Cyndi Lauper "Time After Time."
"The next song is a tear jerker, so grab a hanky, put your underwear back on. 'If you fall I will catch you and oh I'll be waiting, Time after time. Time after time.' Don't pretend you don't love it... you do, you do. You do, I'm forcing you, you do. It's hypnosis. Cyndi Lauper, 'Time After Time.'"
5. Prince "When Doves Cry."
"What prom would be complete without it? I don't know. I never went to the prom, I was on the streets smoking crack. You're under the bleachers, you know you're doing all kinds of things for the first time and... you have a good time. Whatever happens, happens and it's a blast."
6. Lorde "Royals."
"The next song and appropriately, Lorde, who's young enough to be hanging out under the bleachers and a very big talent as well. Great song, I saw her play not too long ago in Los Angeles, she was wonderful."
7. Rihanna, "Stay."
"The Queen herself, not only beautiful, but talented as well and an amazing voice. A great song - bit of a tear jerker - and an interesting little duet."
Thirty Seconds To Mars covered this song at the iHeartRadio Music Festival. Check it out!
8. Thirty Seconds To Mars, "City Of Angels."
"A love letter to that bizarre town, Los Angeles. That town that we went to and made our dreams come true. It's a really personal song - probably the most personal song that we've ever had - and we just shot a video for it, we are editing it now, it will be out very very soon."
9. Boston, "More Than A Feeling."
"If you ever have the blues, this is a song that will lift you up out of the deep, dark ghetto of sadness and make you feel like a $2 bill."
10. Kanye, "Blood On The Leaves."
"We picked this song 'cause we presented Kanye at the MTV awards - where we actually won Best Rock Video. Just throwing that out there, humble brag. So that was a great night, and we thought that he gave a clever, interesting, inspiring performance."
Last words from Jared:
"Goodnight kids, be safe, put that shoe horn away, heat that can of tuna and remember if your touchin' it, be gentle, you can hurt yourself."
Listen to Thirty Seconds To Mars' Guest-DJ'd station on iHeartRadio
Photo: Shelby Case
Source: iHeart Radio.
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Great playlist! Beside MARS, my favs are U2 and Cindy Lauper, who I love very much!
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Dr. Barbara O. Schneeman is the U.S. Agency for International Development's first Higher Education Coordinator for this administration. In this role, Dr. Schneeman will work with the higher education community to improve awareness of USAID opportunities and increase engagement avenues for the agency. She will champion higher education as a tool to solve development challenges and drive economic growth.
The U.S. Agency for International Development Associate Administrator Mark Feierstein is in Panama City, Panama, to attend the Seventh Summit of the Americas.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Assistant Administrator for Asia Jonathan Stivers will travel to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz Republic to oversee U.S. assistance programs, meet with USAID staff, government officials, implementing partners and civil society leaders.
Simple antibiotic regimens for newborns with severe infections - such as pneumonia and sepsis - in lower income countries is as effective as the standard course of twice daily injections and hospitalization over the course of a week, according to research conducted in Bangladesh, Nigeria, Kenya, and Democratic Republic of Congo.
On Thursday, April 2, experts will share new evidence to be published in The Lancet and The Lancet Global Health with the potential to save thousands of newborn lives with low cost, effective and commonly available antibiotics. Almost a quarter of the three million neonatal deaths annually are the result of severe infections like sepsis - a fast progressing life-threatening illness in newborns that requires rapid treatment. Newborn sepsis can be difficult for families and even clinicians to recognize in newborns, who rapidly decline without timely and appropriate treatment.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Acting Assistant Administrator for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Thomas H. Staal and USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance's Director Jeremy Konyndyk will accompany U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power who will lead the U.S. Delegation to attend the third High-Level International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria in Kuwait City, Kuwait on March 31.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Assistant to the Administrator for Africa Eric Postel will accompany Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield to Nigeria on March 27, 2015.
The White House announced that the U.S. Government will make up to $800 million available to support a New Development Partnership with Afghanistan. The initiative will help Afghanistan achieve self-reliance and reinforce our commitment to results and accountability by linking funds to specific reforms in combating corruption, promoting rule of law, strengthening women's rights, and enhancing private sector growth.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Assistant Administrator for Asia Jonathan Stivers will travel to Burma and Vietnam to meet with government officials, a wide range of civil society organizations, and business leaders in both countries.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Acting Assistant Administrator for the Bureau of Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Thomas H. Staal will travel to Sendai, Japan from March 14 to 18 to participate in the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. Staal will lead the U.S. delegation composed of eight U.S. government agencies and participate in high level events and meetings with leaders from foreign governments, international organizations, non-governmental organizations and major groups.
Officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), including Chief Innovation Officer Steven VanRoekel and Executive Director of the U.S. Global Development Lab Ann Mei Chang, will deliver a presentation at South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive in Austin, Texas on March 13. The presentation provides an overview of how USAID has mobilized science, technology, and innovation in the fight against Ebola and how this approach can be used to address other pressing challenges in the developing world. The presentation will feature a live demonstration of a new protective health care worker suit, a winner of USAID's Fighting Ebola: A Grand Challenge for Development.
Today at the Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (MFA-NL) announced the third call for groundbreaking innovations underSecuring Water for Food: A Grand Challenge for Development. This $12.5 million global call for proposals has an increased focus on cutting-edge, advanced technologies and business models, as well as innovations that prioritize the engagement of women. As part of USAID's new Middle East Water Security Initiative, an additional $2.5 million will be available for innovations implemented in the MENA region.
The White House announced a new initiative today to expand its efforts to help adolescent girls worldwide get a quality education through an initiative called "Let Girls Learn." The new initiative will elevate existing programs and public-private partnerships, seek out new ones, and challenge organizations and governments to commit resources to lift up adolescent girls across the globe.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) today announced Ariel Pablos-Mendez as Child and Maternal Survival Coordinator, to focus on the goal of ending preventable child and maternal deaths. Katie Taylor, who has served as interim Coordinator, is named Deputy Coordinator.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced the $18.7 million Education Crisis Response program today to assist the Government of Liberia in restoring basic education in the Ebola-affected country and help return children to school safely. The program was announced today while Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf visited with staff from USAID.
The U.S. President's Malaria Initiative, led by the U.S. Agency for International Development and implemented together with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), launched its next six-year strategy to further reduce malaria deaths and substantially decrease malaria illness, toward the long-term goal of elimination at the White House today.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Acting Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia Susan Fritz will travel to Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia from February 20 - March 5. Acting Assistant Administrator Fritz's visit will include meetings with government officials, civil society, international partners, and USAID staff in these countries.
This Thursday, February 12, Dr. Rajiv Shah will deliver his final speech as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) at an event hosted by the American Enterprise Institute and the Center for American Progress. For the past five years Administrator Shah has led USAID in its mission to end extreme poverty and promote resilient, democratic societies. During this time Administrator Shah has led key development initiatives, including Feed the Future, Power Africa, the U.S. Global Development Lab, and efforts to end preventable child and maternal deaths. Administrator Shah will discuss his tenure at USAID with John Norris of the Center for American Progress and Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced today additional nominees for awards in the Fighting Ebola: a Grand Challenge for Development. A collaborative expert review identified 12 innovations that can reinforce the response to current and future Ebola outbreaks.
Our nation's life-saving response to the worst Ebola epidemic in history represents an impressive display of American values, commitment, and ingenuity. Even as the headlines have slowed, the tireless work of thousands of frontline health care workers and disasters responders has not. In a year marked by an unprecedented number of humanitarian crises—from South Sudan to Syria— we remain committed to providing help in an emergency, regardless of danger or difficulty. It is one of the most profound expressions of who we are as the American people.
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It's a Saturday night and eight New Mexico food bloggers have driven from as far away as Pie Town, New Mexico, to discover what's good to eat in the state capital. They have been promised a rollicking evening of orgiastic gluttony and the mission is launched at the Dragon Room. It is here that I have ventured to guess some of the best bar food in town is to be found.
The Dragon Room is the single remaining authentic dive bar in downtown Santa Fe. Open since 1944, it is unceremoniously devoid of props, though its whimsical label may not seem too far-fetched upon first impression. More like a dungeon than a lair, brass monkeys hang from the chandeliers and the windows let in no light.
Now privately owned by Dave and Christie Garrett of the Garrett Hotel Group (Inn of the Five Graces), both The Pink Adobe and its bar, the Dragon Room, have undergone a complete renovation in body and spirit. Gone are the popcorn, the suspiciously long bathroom waits and the shady exchanges of whatsits. Still, there are the wobbly bar stools with no footrests (more annoying than it sounds). There are new bancos, a new bar, new chandeliers and a fresh coat of paint, but it's the combined efforts of Chef Michael Roybal and omnipresent Chef de Cuisine Michael Meisel, whose red-blooded brilliance courses the veins of the place, that has given new life to the whole operation.
The bloggers are hungry to discover the Pink Adobe burgers ($12) I have raved about. They are a tough bunch who have instilled gustatory trust in me, so I'm scared. Nobody can resist the lure of the specialty margaritas, though these colorful permutations of the Silver Coin, including the Black Dragon (with Chambord, $12) and the Pink Dragon (with Prickly Pear, also $12), will be too sweet for some tastes.
Eventually, the burgers arrive. What they lack in fanfare they make up for in height. Ground fresh from New York strip steaks destined for the greatness that is the Steak Dunigan (of which a 7-ounce half-portion is available in the bar, $20), the Dragon Room's burger may have ruined me for all others. Served on a toasted English muffin and topped with Pink Adobe sauce, sweet green chile relish, Swiss cheese, bacon, sautéed mushrooms and strips of roasted green chile that offer a delicious solution to the problem of a soggy bun, it comes with fries and sides of lettuce, tomato, red onion and avocado. In the spirit of a true addict, I'm of the belief that everything at the Dragon Room is improved by the addition of Pink Adobe sauce, a mayonnaise-based ambrosia much greater than the sum of its parts; order an extra side of it for your fries.
Thankfully, everyone loves the burger and my credibility remains intact.
Although the full dinner menu is available in the bar, it's the bar menu that has captured my heart. The indomitable Gypsy stew ($8) is classically served with green chile cornbread, and the green chile stew ($8) shows restraint by comparison. But if it's stew you're after, look no further than the French onion soup ($8), which is a revelation; a profusion of butter-rich broth and jammy caramelized onions. The Pink Adobe salad ($6) is a simple production, but the rubbery little doorstopper of bread that sits atop the greens is inexplicable and defiant. For sharing, the cheese plate ($8) is fine, but the hummus ($6) is excellent—musky with cumin and not at all grainy.
Recent additions to the menu include the excellent buffalo nachos ($12) and the halibut fish and chips ($12), which are served hot and crisp—I only wish the pieces of fish were big enough to temper the substantial crunch of batter in each bite. The dish is accompanied by house-made tartar sauce and aioli, but I can't help asking for some of my beloved Pink Adobe sauce.
Crab cakes ($12) are good, if you must have crab cakes in Santa Fe. The BBQ ribs ($12) hit the spot, but the fried chicken ($15) is extraordinary and promptly rid me of my prejudice against the concept of eating fried chicken while seated indoors after dark. The chicken is first marinated for 24 hours in buttermilk and then in hot sauce for another 24 before being fried in vegetable oil. The sides, mashed potatoes, gravy and coleslaw, are at once blandly soothing and forgettable, but the accompanying hush puppy is quite inedible. Then again, she who attempts to tackle a hush puppy after packing away a couple of starters and a helping of fried chicken most likely gets what she asked for.
There are 22 wines by the glass available, and all—with the exception of Veuve Cliquot Brut Yellow Label Champagne ($25)—range from $7 to $15.
Desserts are all $8. I have a special fondness for the inordinately salty crème brûlée and the Dragon Room's unfussy brownie, but Rosalea's Legendary French Apple Pie, served with rum hard sauce and vanilla ice cream, is justly famous. The lemon tart, though tasty, lacks snap.
The Dragon Room is a place known by all and frequented by few. If you haven't visited since The Pink Adobe's yesteryear, then you may not know that its golden era has only just begun.
Dragon Room at The Pink Adobe, 406 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-7712, Bar menu served every day from noon-9:30 pm.


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HOUSTON – Free-agent safety Ed Reed is on the verge of becoming a Houston Texan, according to multiple reports.
CBSSports.com reported Wednesday night that a deal was in place, and the NFL Network quoted Reed as saying he was headed to Houston "unless something changes." Neither Reed nor his agent, David Dunn, immediately returned phone messages left by the Associated Press.
The Texans wouldn't confirm the reports, but it looks as if their bold, public courtship of Reed paid off.
Last Thursday, Reed flew to Houston aboard owner Bob McNair's private jet and Reed spent two days meeting with coaches and management. Reed and his representatives left town without a deal and the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens were reportedly making a pitch to retain him.
But the Texans apparently won out, reviving an otherwise disappointing free-agency period. Houston has lost safety Glover Quin to Detroit and tight end James Casey and linebacker Connor Barwin to Philadelphia since free agency began.
Reed, a nine-time Pro Bowl selection, had dinner with Texans star receiver Andre Johnson and center Chris Myers, his former college teammates at Miami. Johnson said afterward that he was confident Reed would join the team and after a tense week of waiting for Reed to make up his mind.
Reed has played all 11 of his NFL seasons in Baltimore, where he's the franchise leader in interceptions with 61. His 1,541 return yards with those pickoffs is an NFL career record. He was the NFL defensive player of the year in 2004 and an eight-time All-Pro.
Reed's departure would be one more crippling blow to the Ravens, who've been gutted since winning the Super Bowl.
They traded receiver Anquan Boldin to San Francisco for a sixth-round pick and linebacker Ray Lewis retired and joined ESPN. When free agency began, linebacker Paul Kruger signed with Cleveland and linebacker Dannell Ellerbe left for Miami. Baltimore also released safety Bernard Pollard, a former Texan, and Philadelphia signed cornerback Cary Williams.
Titans sign Pollard: The Tennessee Titans have agreed to a one-year contract with safety Bernard Pollard, the second safety the team has added in free agency this offseason.
The Titans announced the deal Thursday.
A seven-year veteran, Pollard spent the past two seasons with Baltimore. The 6-foot-1 Pollard also has played with Kansas City and Houston starting 85 of his 105 career games with nine interceptions, nine sacks, 10 forced fumbles and seven recovered fumbles.
General manager Ruston Webster says Pollard is a physical and experienced safety who was a key player as the Ravens won the Super Bowl. Webster says that adding both Pollard and George Wilson gives the Titans more options and improved depth at safety.
The Titans gave up a franchise-worst 471 points last season.
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PetitParser for Smalltalk, Java and Dart
I am happy to announce initial ports of PetitParser to Java and Dart. The repositories contain complete and usable ports of the original Smalltalk implementation, unit tests and example grammars.
The three implementations are very similar in their API and the supported features. If possible, I tried to adapt common practices and features of the target language. In this blog post I like to point out some differences and design decisions I took.
Production rules
In Smalltalk, the parser that accepts identifiers looks like this:
parser := #letter asParser , (#letter asParser / #digit asParser) star.
In Java the same parser looks like this:
Parser parser = letter().seq(letter().or(digit()).star());
Instead of the custom operators I use nested function calls. It is visually not as readable as the Smalltalk version, but still it is quite to the point.
In Dart the definition of the identifier parser is similar:
var parser = letter().seq(letter().or(digit()).star());
Even though Dart allows one to overload the standard operators I decided not to use this feature: The fixed set of operators and the fixed operator precedence is simply too confusing.
Production actions
To attach a production action to a number parser in Smalltalk one writes:
parser := #digit asParser plus flatten ==> [ :input | input asNumber ].
Due to the lack of closures the Java solution gets a bit bulky. Hopefully this issue will finally be fixed with Java 8. The type declarations are quite nice as documentation of input and output values of the production action:
Parser parser = digit().plus().flatten().map(new Function<String, Integer>() { @Override public Integer apply(String input) { return Integer.valueOf(input); } });
Luckily Dart has closures, and furthermore we can skip the type declarations:
var parser = digit().plus().flatten().map((input) => Math.parseInt(input));
Composite grammars
For the definition of complex grammars with possibly recursive rules you subclass
CompositeParser in all three implementations:
The details of the Smalltalk implementation are explained in this blog post. Production rules are defined as methods and instance-variables of the same name. The parser constructor initializes all production rules to dummy parsers that are eventually replaced by the actual definitions using reflection. As a real-world example have a look at this JSON grammar.
The Java solution is very similar to the one in Smalltalk. To make things a bit more Java-ish, methods are annotated with
@Production to mark them as a production. In the future, I plan to avoid the use of inner classes for production actions by introducing new annotation called
@Action. Again there is a JSON grammar to look at.
Due to the (current) lack of reflection in Dart I had to come up with something else. For Dart I introduced a DSL that allows one to define productions, reference productions, redefine productions and assign production actions to existing productions. The implementation is simple and I like it much better than the others. The JSON grammar in Dart is pretty concise.
Comparing the performance of the implementations is interesting. For this preliminary evaluation I took the XML parser and parsed 2000 times a medium sized XML file. This is the ranking:
- Java: 815ms (Java HotSpot 64-Bit 1.7)
- Smalltalk: 4069ms (Pharo 1.3 on Cog)
- Dart: 6156ms (Dart SDK version 13851, M1)
Dart: 7048ms (Dart SDK version 8638)
Dart: 14332ms (Dart SDK version 8344)
Interestingly Java is doing really well, even if I use auto-boxed characters everywhere and didn't care to optimize the implementation yet.
The Smalltalk implementation is about 4 times slower. With this implementation I worked the longest and I doubt that it can be optimized further.
Dart lost this evaluation, but I am sure that the code can be further improved. I am suspecting that a problem is that Dart has no notion of characters and needs to represent them as integers or single character strings. Also, in Dart there is no efficient way to figure out if a character is a whitespace, a letter or a digit.
To do this correctly I had to fall back to regular expressions, which likely kills an otherwise fast VM. The latest implementation works directly with character codes.
To sum up, the three implementations are open-source and available in their respective public repositories:
- Smalltalk: http://scg.unibe.ch/research/helvetia/petitparser
- Java: https://github.com/renggli/PetitParserJava
- Dart: https://github.com/renggli/PetitParserDart
I am happy to take patches or suggestions on how to improve the Java or Dart version.


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Mt. Lebanon teacher gets probation for 'sexting' student
A former Mt. Lebanon teacher, Jason Greenawalt, 33, of Brookline, entered a guilty plea Aug. 18, in Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, to a felony charge of criminal use of communication, and a misdemeanor count of corruption of minors.
Greenawalt was suspended without pay by the Mt. Lebanon School District May 20.
He was sentenced immediately after his plea to three-years probation, and was ordered to have no contact with the victim. He will not be required to register as a sexual offender through Megan's Law.
Greenawalt was initially charged by police with a felony count of unlawful contact with a minor. However, that charge was dropped in exchange for his plea.
Greenawalt exchanged messages beginning with a then Mt. Lebanon High School sophomore that he had directed in musicals in his job as a music educator, police said. The texting continued until the boy graduated in 2012. There was no physical contact.
"Mr. Greenawalt was immediately removed from the classroom when the district first learned of the allegations in early March, 2013," said Cissy Bowman, district spokeswoman. "His employment has since been terminated."


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BP School Board meeting gets heated on contract milestone
1,000 days, 1,000 nights
Things turned nasty during the public comment portion of the March 26 Bethel Park School Board meeting, which fell on the same day the 1,000 day milestone was reached in the stalled contract negotiations between the district and the Bethel Park Federation of Teachers.
"For 17 years I loved my job and felt I was making a difference," Jim Pierson, a high school teacher told the board. "But, that was before the 1,000th day of being frozen at step 14 (of the pay scale)."
The district's 375 teachers have been working under the terms of a contract that expired nearly three years ago. Despite numerous negotiating sessions, non-binding arbitration and a six-week teacher strike, the two sides have failed to reach an agreement. Both sides have said that the major sticking points are salaries, benefits, class size and teacher schedules.
"Now when I walk into my classroom in the morning and look at my students, I think 'these kids' parents, or at least the elected officials that represent these kids' parents, hate me,'" Pierson said. "Should I have taken a vow of poverty?"
Pierson added that he felt he was being "punished" by the school board and the residents. "I have become a discouraged, disaffected and imbittered teacher," he said.
Jonathan Gentile, also a teacher, expressed his dissatisfaction with the inability of the union and the district to negotiate a contract. "There's only so much I can take," said Gentile. "Contracts should be a priority."
District bus drivers are also working under an expired contract and contracts will soon be up for at least two additional district employee unions.
"I am very upset by what I heard," Brenda Paysure fired back. "If you hate being in the classroom you need to quit. Walk out, do something else."
Paysure said the teachers had no compassion for her son, a student who went through the six-week strike at the beginning of contract talks. "You have a lot of nerve coming here and whining about something," she said.
Denise Dillion, another parent, echoed Paysure's comments about how the strike had affected the students and added that parents and other residents would like the negotiations to be more transparent. Dillion also asked if the negotiation sessions could be open to the public.
"I've never heard of a single instance of engaging in negotiations in public," said Solicitor Michael Brungo. "I tend to think it would be counterproductive."
Board President Donna Cook said board members have been told not to make public comments about the ongoing talks, and she felt it was wrong that federation members could attend public meetings and talk about negotiation issues.
"I am shocked to hear these comments," said Cook. "There is nobody in this community or on this board that is trying to punish teachers. We are doing our best."
Other board members brought up the issue of the effect of the union's demands on the district's finances.
"If you want to know where the money goes, show up (at budget meetings)," said Russ Spicuzza.
Board member and retired teacher Cynthia Buckley concurred. "Not one person on this board is out to punish the teachers," said Buckley. "We have a fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayers. What do you want us to do? Where is your love for the children? Did you become a teacher to make a zillion dollars?"


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President Obama remembered Nelson Mandela as a ''man who earned his place in history through struggle and shrewdness, persistence and faith" at a memorial in South Africa Tuesday, which, despite rainy weather, was attended by tens of thousands, including several Hollywooders.
Bono and Charlize Theron were among the mourners as well as 60 heads of state and other politicos from around the globe, including Michelle Obama, Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton, and George W. and Laura Bush. They listened as the president of the United States told the people of South Africa, "The world thanks you for sharing Nelson Mandela with us. His struggle was your struggle. His triumph was your triumph. Your dignity and your hope found expression in his life. And your freedom, your democracy is his cherished legacy."
"We will never see the likes of Nelson Mandela again,'' noted Obama, who has called Mandela one of his inspirations.
Bono, whose band U2 provided the song "Ordinary Love" for the upcoming movie "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom," had a rich history with the South African activist and former president, who died Thursday after a long illness at the age of 95. In 2002, they worked closely together on the leader's 46664 anti-AIDS initiative. Bono (along with the late Joe Strummer and Dave Stewart) wrote a song about the politico, which was sung at the close of a benefit concert on Robben Island, South Africa, the next year. Bono has also attended several galas for Mandela's foundation.
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In a first-person essay that he wrote for the Irish Times, Bono, who attended the memorial with wife Ali Hewson, said, "As an activist I have pretty much been doing what Nelson Mandela tells me since I was a teenager. He has been a forceful presence in my life going back to 1979, when U2 made our first anti-apartheid effort. And he's been a big part of the Irish consciousness even longer than that."
Theron, who was born in South Africa, waved and blew a kiss to the crowd, which was largely jubilant and celebratory. When she first met Mandela in 2004, she memorably burst into tears as she told him, "You inspired me, I love you so much."
In a statement following Mandela's death, she said, "My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in Peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever. … "There will never be words to say what I'm feeling right now. I am saddened to the depths of my soul. Truly."
The steady and sometimes heavy rain didn't seem to dampen the spirits of the mourners at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. People huddled together closely under rain coats and blankets. But they also danced, blew vuvuzela plastic horns, sang songs, and remembered the giant of a man named Mandela.
Meanwhile, Mandela was also remembered from afar. While The Game didn't make the trek to Africa for the memorial, he remembered him in his own way — with a tattoo.
"The finished 'Nelson Mandela' lookin out of the prison bars," the rapper wrote on Monday, along with a pic of his new art. "Done on my side. 7 hour sitting."


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Added to the 33 universities already on board, this expansion nearly doubles the reach of Coursera. "We're already the largest MOOC [Massive Open Online Courses] platform in the world by almost any metric you could choose," said CEO and co-founder Andrew Ng said. "I see this as a sign that universities all around the world are signing on to this mission of offering the best education to everyone, for free."
In reality, the pattern may be more to offer a taste of the best education for free. At Penn State and the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), one motive for participating is that Coursera could serve as a recruiting tool, although representatives from both universities promised not to make it a hard sell.
"It's more like, this is who we are, these are kind of things we do, and here's a taste of it. And we'd love to know if you want more," said CalArts provost Jeannene Przyblyski. Also, working with Coursera is bound to be exciting, she said. "It's hard to avoid the MOOCs being in the news. It is sort of a great experiment in education, and as an art school, we are dedicated to experimentation. That's more interesting to us than putting classes online, which isn't rocket science on some level."
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Penn State has more of a century of experience in distance education, starting with correspondence courses, which it considers part of its mission as a land grant university to educate the whole community. Its World Campus has been offering online courses for credit (tuition charged) since 1998.
Still, Penn State recognized that Coursera's success represented something new and that the university might be "at a long-term disadvantage by not participating in that space," said Cole Camplese, director of education technology services at Penn State.
"What's new is that these courses often have 20,000, 30,000, 40,000 students, these ridiculous numbers -- a year ago, you wouldn't have dreamed that would take place," Camplese said. "Many of our faculty have expressed such deep interest in this. A decade ago, it was hard to get faculty to rally around online delivery of material, but that has tipped. Now, faculty has embraced technology, by and large, and they've come out in droves to embrace this. They'd like to be part of a revolution that opens up access to 40,000 people -- which is more than they might teach and touch in their entire careers at a university."
"I've not seen excitement like this among the staff, all the way up through top faculty, in my 15 years at this university," he added.
Working with Coursera should not undermine the Penn State World Campus because the two models are very different, Camplese said. "We have this really powerful online campus we do charge tuition for; [it's] very high quality. Sections are small, and it's a real classroom experience." Coursera's MOOCs give up the intimacy of small classes, instead creating learning communities more reliant on peer-to-peer discussion where students answer each other's questions and evaluate each other's work, with the professor stepping in occasionally as questions bubble up from the group.
Penn State's initial offerings will also be relatively short courses of 6 to 12 weeks, "so it's not a full three-credit experience like you'd get in a classroom," Camplese explained. However, some of these courses might entice students into pursuing a more complete course of study. For example, one of the MOOC offerings will be an introduction to geospatial analysis, using geographic information system software from ESRI, which could lead directly into a World Campus or on-campus program on the same material.
Also on Thursday, the MOOC edX announced the doubling of its program from 6 to 12 universities and the addition of its first international partners. Launched by Harvard and MIT, edX is a non-profit. Coursera is organized as a for-profit company, currently following the Web startup pattern of building its audience and infrastructure for scale, with a business model to be nailed down later.
For all its success, Coursera's momentum faltered recently with the train wreck of a course on "Fundamentals of Online Education" that had to be suspended after the third day because of confusion over the professor's plan to organize online projects among the students.
"That's part of the price you pay when you try experiments, try to prove things," Ng said. "The instructor, to her credit, was being very innovative and trying some new ideas, but some of the specific ideas didn't work out."
The New York Times also editorialized this week about The Trouble With Online College, although its target was less MOOCs than the idea that online education is the future of higher education.
Ng acknowledges Coursera is a long way from offering a complete university education for free. "We're not a university, and we will not become one," he said. However, Coursera has recently made progress establishing a path to obtaining college credit for students who do well in these online courses. That makes the service an important resource for working adults who may not have the time or the budget to pursue their education any other way, he said.
The MOOC courses can also be a resource for on-campus students, enabling a "flipped classroom" model where lectures are delivered online and classroom time is used for discussions or exercises best conducted in person. "For most classes, substantially the same material can be used for both audiences," he said. As a Stanford professor whose course in artificial intelligence is one of Coursera's most popular offerings, Ng uses the material in just that way. However, the two classes are different, he said. The on-campus students at Stanford work with him on projects that he evaluates -- providing the kind of personal attention he can't deliver to a class of 100,000.
Ng is also excited about Coursera's international expansion and the availability of courses to students who don't speak English. New courses are coming in French, Spanish, Chinese, and Italian.
The map below shows the locations of all Coursera's institutions, with new partners indicated by red pins.
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PT ices State College; advances to PIHL finals
For the third time in three years, Peters Township (19-4) will compete for the Penguins Cup. The Indians advanced to the PIHL Class AAA championship match set for 9 p.m. March 20 at the Consol Energy Center after they blanked State College, 3-0, in a semifinal clash at the RMU Island Sports Center.
"It's good to be there," said PT head coach Rick Tingle. He added, "and, this was the perfect kind of game to go into Consol with."
He noted the Indians' 7-3 triumph over Central Catholic in the quarterfinals. "Our last game was not a real good, gut-wrenching, low-goal scoring game that you want in a playoff or will help you in a final."
Indeed for PT's opponent in the PIHL final will be battle-tested. The Indians play the winner of the other semifinal clash between North Allegheny and Bethel Park for the championships.
Of the BP-NA clash, Tingle said that it would be fun to watch but both were good. "Both are real good, well-coached teams that are defensive juggernauts. Either one would be tough."
PT proved tough enough against State College. After a scoreless first period, the Indians edged ahead on an unassisted goal by Keenan Witmer at 2:35 of the second stanza.
"We wouldn't have planned on it," said Tingle of getting the game-winning goal from the junior forward. Tingle noted, however, it was a pleasant "surprise."
Alexander Debolt surprised the Little Lions (16-8) with his early, third-period strike. Adam Alavi and Trevor Recktenwald assisted the goal at 13:54. Reckentwald, off an assist from Alavi, scored an empty-net goal at 16:14.
PT fired off 25 shots on goal against Zachary Woytowich while Brian Baker turned back all 15 shots he faced for the Indians.
"Brian had the kind of game he needed to have at this time," Tingle said. "But, we haven't seen his best yet."


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- Your Permissions Obligations as Author
- When Permissions Are Necessary
- When Permissions Are Not Necessary
- Understanding Creation, Ownership, Permissions
- NAEYC's Permission Policy
- How to Obtain Permissions
The great majority of the typical book manuscript is original material created by the author(s) for that particular project. But very often authors also find it useful to incorporate "pre-existing" material—that is, text, tables/charts, figures/diagrams, photographs, or artwork that has already appeared elsewhere. Sometimes the material has already been published (e.g., in a book, on a Web site, etc.) and sometimes it has already been disseminated in an unpublished medium (e.g., in a conference session handout, as a PowerPoint presentation in a workshop, etc.).
We welcome your inclusion of pre-existing material in your manuscript, as long as the use is legal, ethical, and conforms to NAEYC's permissions policies as described below.
- This guide primarily addresses including pre-existing written material (i.e., narrative text, text tables, text figures, poetry, song lyrics, etc.) and pre-existing artwork.
- For more about photography permissions, see our Photograph Submission Guidelines.
Your Permissions Obligations as Author
As do most publishers, NAEYC's Author Agreement asks you to assure us ("warrant") that your entire manuscript is legal and ethical for NAEYC to publish.1 In signing the Agreement you are asserting that the content of your manuscript is your own creation and you are its owner except for material owned by others that you possess the legal and ethical right to include. Per the Agreement:
Further, you are accepting as your responsibility the task of obtaining any needed permission (although as described later in this guide, NAEYC is prepared to do a lot of that work for you, including paying reasonable fees). Per the Agreement:
"To the extent that any pre-existing works are contained in the Work submitted under this agreement, the Author shall be solely responsible for obtaining, if necessary, appropriate and documented permissions."
When Permissions Are Necessary
The permissions issue always arises when you want to include another person's material verbatim (i.e., exactly the same as the original) or in a form so similar to the original that readers won't likely notice that it's different (e.g., verbatim except for a few words or phrases).
Permission is also an issue if you want to include a lot of another person's material—and the definition of "a lot" varies. For example, permission is always required if you want to include any portion of a poem regardless of length, or a part of someone's artwork; it might be required if you want to include a couple of paragraphs from a journal article.
Moreover, while it definitely is always appropriate to credit the other person as the source of the included material in whatever form, credit is not necessarily sufficient to make the inclusion ethical or legal.
More on all this below in "Understanding Creation, Ownership, and Permissions."
When Permissions Are Not Necessary
Permission is not required when you merely describe or discuss in your own words someone else's ideas, concepts, or findings. For example, you might want to cite the person's work in your text, but you do not need permission from Howard Gardner to write about "multiple intelligences" or from Vivian Gussin Paley to describe how to use "story acting" in the classroom.
However, you do want to be careful not to seem to appropriate another person's unique and original ideas as being your own. Portraying someone else's material as your own is not a permissions issue per se. It is plagiarism, which ethically and legally is much more serious. The safest route to avoiding plagiarism is to acknowledge the origin of the ideas, either by attribution informally in your text (e.g., "As conceptualized by Howard Gardner ...") or formally with an in-text citation (e.g., "see Paley 1993") and an entry in your references list.
Understanding Creation, Ownership, and Permissions
You as an author can legally and ethically include pre-existing material in your NAEYC manuscript under three conditions: (1) You are the copyright owner of the material. (2) Your inclusion of the material is covered under the Fair Use doctrine. (3) The copyright owner of the material has granted you explicit permission to include it. Each of these is discussed below.
Allowed by Copyright Ownership
If you are the legal owner of the pre-existing material, you can include it in your NAEYC manuscript without worrying about permissions.
From the moment a writer or artist fixes text or an image in a unique, permanent form (by writing it down, drawing it, photographing it, etc.), that person becomes the creator of that material, be it text, tables, figures/diagrams, artwork, photographs, etc. The creator typically also becomes the owner of the material at this moment of "fixing."
But the creator of the material is not always also the copyright owner of the material.… Even if you are the creator you are not the owner (a) if you signed over your rights to your material to another party, such as a publisher, or (b) if creating the material was a part of performing your job as an employee. If either (a) or (b) is true, your publisher or employer, respectively, is the legal owner of the material that you created. In either case, even if you were the creator, you will need to obtain permission from the copyright owner (your publisher or employer) to include that material in your NAEYC manuscript.
The exception to this rule is if inclusion of the material is covered by the Fair Use doctrine.
Allowed by Fair Use
Even if you are not the copyright owner of the pre-existing material, you still can legally include it in your manuscript without worrying about permissions if inclusion meets the requirements of the "Fair Use" doctrine.
The Fair Use doctrine of U.S. copyright law permits you to include—with proper attribution to the source, of course—limited portions of material owned by someone else without first having to obtain the copyright owner's permission, under certain conditions. The law2,3 sets out four factors to be considered in determining whether or not a particular inclusion is Fair Use:
"Purpose and character of the use"
Inclusion of the pre-existing material for the purpose of commentary, criticism, teaching, scholarship, or research is more likely to be considered Fair Use.
"Nature of the copyrighted work"
Was the original material a poem or song lyrics … PowerPoint slides … drawing or photograph … research report … scholarly article … email message? It is easier for factual, informational, published works to be considered for Fair Use than creative, fictional, or unpublished ones.
"Amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole"
Using an amount that is relatively small and that is less central to the work as a whole is more likely to qualify as Fair Use. Using an amount that is relatively large or that is the heart of the work is less likely to qualify as Fair Use. This factor relates closely to the nature of the work (above).
"Effect of the use on the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work"
A use that will make the original less valuable in the marketplace is less likely to be considered Fair Use.
From this you can see that the answer to whether including pre-existing material in your manuscript is allowed under the Fair Use doctrine is, it depends. Ultimately, serious disagreements over Fair Use can be resolved only in the courts. To avoid that unpleasant prospect, publishers, colleges and universities, and other information distributors typically develop their own in-house policies. And NAEYC is among them, as described below in the section "NAEYC's Permissions Policy."
- "Purpose and character of the use"
Allowed by Permission of the Owner
If you are not the copyright owner of the pre-existing material, and if inclusion is not covered under the Fair Use doctrine, then you must get explicit permission from the copyright owner of the pre-existing material before NAEYC will publish that material in your manuscript.
How to obtain that explicit permission is described in the last section.
NAEYC's Permissions Policy
NAEYC has its own policy about where Fair Use ends and the need to obtain explicit permission from a copyright owner begins.
NAEYC always requires written permission before we will include any of the following pre-existing material owned by someone else:
- Text excerpt of more than 150 words
- Any table, figure, or chart
- Any photograph4—Model releases are required
- Any work by children5—Written permission from the child's parent or guardian is required
- Any poetry or song lyrics not in the public domain—e.g., permission is required to reprint the lyrics of a song written by Raffi, but not for "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
The permission process detailed below is fairly straightforward. First, a request detailing your intended use of the pre-existing material as a part of your manuscript is sent to the copyright owner. A response can take a few weeks to several months, depending on the owner. The owner will either deny or grant permission, sometimes with stipulations and/or a permissions fee. Once the terms have been met, the written permission document becomes part of the manuscript's permanent, legal documentation.
How to Obtain Permissions
- Determine what pre-existing material in your manuscript requires permission. Do this as you write, or after the manuscript is complete. During editing, we will be thinking about this, too. Make a photocopy of each of the original source material.6
- Identify who owns the copyright for the material. For published material, a good place to begin looking for the identity of the owner is on a credits or copyright page in the original book or other publication that was your source for the material.
Prepare a letter requesting permission to use the material in your manuscript. Attached is a sample NAEYC permissions letter for you to follow. We will provide you with the information about your project, such as estimated page count and price.
- Draft your own letter, following the language in the sample. You would fill in the specifics of your request in the shaded areas.
At the bottom of the letter, provide a model credit line for the copyright owner to review. You may modify one of the following:
For material from a publication:
Used by permission from L. McGee & D. Richgels, Designing Early Literacy Programs: Strategies for At-Risk Preschool and Kindergarten Children (New York: The Guilford Press), pp. 121-22. Copyright © 2003 by The Guilford Press.
For original artwork or photography:
Copyright © 2000 by Betsy Lewin. Used by permission.
For previously published artwork, it may be necessary to obtain publisher permission rather than artist permission:
By Betsy Lewin. Copyright © 2000 Scholastic. Reprinted by permission.
- Attach a photocopy of the material you want to use to your letter. If you are reprinting text verbatim, photocopy those pages from the original. If you are adapting it, enclose the pertinent pages from your manuscript to show how you intend to re-purpose the original text.
- Send permission requests as early as possible once your manuscript has been accepted by NAEYC. Permissions can take many weeks, especially from large publishers. Ask permission for any material you think you might end up using. It is more difficult to obtain permission late in the editorial process; so even if later we decide not to include the material in your book, it is always better to be prepared and ask for permission up front.
- When the signed permission letter or other contract comes from the copyright owner, forward the original to NAEYC. (Make sure to keep a photocopy for your files.) NAEYC will process the agreement and will pay reasonable reprint fees on your behalf.
- When you send your manuscript package to NAEYC, make sure to keep a copy of everything for yourself—i.e., photocopies of any originals, contact information on the copyright owners, and copies of any releases and permissions you may have already obtained.
- Help! … Contact NAEYC if you need help with permissions—to track down a copyright owner, for example. Other areas where we can be useful are helping you with photography model releases and with parental permission forms for children's artwork.
Download all 5 of the Guidelines for Writing a Manuscript (PDF).
1. This guide is offered for general reference only. It is not intended to substitute for legal advice from a qualified attorney who is expert in the field of publishing and copyright law, should you have questions or concerns about your specific project.
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2. Section 107, as quoted in U.S. Copyright Office Circular 92, "Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code."
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3. For more on the Fair Use doctrine, visit the U.S. Copyright Office. Other good resources are The Chicago Manual of Style and The Copyright Book: A Practical Guide, by William S. Strong.
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4. NAEYC usually supplies the photographs and often the illustrations or other artwork used in NAEYC's publications. Authors are not responsible for obtaining permissions for such material that NAEYC provides. However, if you have photos or illustrations you want to submit for publication, review NAEYC's Photograph Submission Guidelines.
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5. Written permission from each child's parent or guardian is required whenever you want to reprint any work by children or any photographs of children individually or as part of a group shot. These permissions from parents or guardians must be obtained by you; NAEYC cannot be responsible for making these personal contacts.
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6. Whether pre-existing material you want to include in your book requires permissions, is covered under Fair Use, or belongs to you but has already been published elsewhere—whenever your manuscript includes reprinted material, we like to get a photocopy of the original. As part of standard editorial work on every manuscript during production, NAEYC editors will fact-check the accuracy of each reprinted selection (exact quote, adaptation of text, etc.) against this original.
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Rondeelu Maximilian of Haverford is not some long-departed, bewhiskered European nobleman whose exploits are recounted in some yellowed tome on a back shelf in a used bookstore.
Rather, Rondeelu Maximilan of Haverford is just 7 months old and weighs in at 14 pounds but is already well-traveled. The cat, of the Maine Coon breed, has already logged journeys to several cat shows, including the annual exhibition sponsored by the Western Pennsylvania Cat Fanciers at the Iceoplex at Southpointe Saturday and Sunday.
Rondeelu Maximilian's owner, Sarah Earls of Indianapolis, estimated that she visits two cat shows per month. The shows, like baseball card shows or fan conventions, mix camaraderie and commerce, as folks who find the siren call of the cat's meow irresistible gather to buy goods, get their cats judged and catch up with fellow feline aficionados who venture from show to show.
"It's a whole little world," Earls said. "We love it. It keeps us out of the bingo halls."
There were 164 caged cats who passed through the doors of the Iceopolex over the show's two days. Most were carefully appraised by judges who also ride the cat-show circuit and, according to Gene Darrah, who hails from Alliance, Ohio, and has 34 years of judging under his belt, the whole cat is scrutinized, from their bones and legs to their coat. Most are placed on a small platform on a table, which is sprayed with disinfectant after each cat appears. They are shown off, with the more unusual or cute generating smiles and oooohs and aaaahs from spectators. Ribbons were then given to the cats that placed in each category.
It's believed the first cat show happened in London July 13, 1871, with 160 cats being displayed. The first official cat show on these shores happened at New York's Madison Square Garden in 1895.
Alexis Chontos of West Mifflin stopped by the show, even though she and her husband no longer have cats – "You get to be too busy," she said. Nonetheless, Chontos has remained interested in cats and the people she knows from years of going to cat shows.
"Cats never go out of your blood," she said.
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I was sitting, this morning, thinking and meditating. Trying to place myself in a calming, quiet, peaceful place. As I silently breathed in God's air and exhaled all stress, these thoughts came to me and I decided to share them with you. I am a firm believer in the power and the magic of "love". I believe that we are created from love, and therefore that love capacity resides in each and every one of us. When I meet and/or speak to someone, I determine to see, meet and speak to that
I know many of you have been wondering about my absence, so I thought that I would pop in to write this blog to share with all of you. Right now, I am facing a challenge as I've been diagnosed with breast cancer. This diagnosis has been an upheaval in my life and a traumatic one for all of my family and friends. As you can imagine, I have not been able to function properly since the diagnosis. As such, I have not been here because I felt so useless and unable to provide much support, comfort,
Hello WHL Family;
As we all know, stress is one of our biggest enemies and I know that, with the holidays upon us, many of us are feeling (and dealing with) additional stress. Wherever there is stress, we often find that there is also a bit of anger, some resentment, and often feelings of powerlessness.
I just want to remind everyone that the truth is: No one, but ourselves, has authority over how we feel. In all stressful situations, we have the choice of how we will react to them.
Hello WHL Family; It is October, again. October 2011 marking 12 yrs since the loss of my sweet Lauri. I suspect that this October will be a rather difficult month for me because I have had so many health challenges heretofore and now the stress of having to acknowledge another birthday that my sweet daughter is not here to celebrate; well, it is not helping my physical health at all.
I know that my health deteriorates each and every year at this time and, intellectually, I have made that
Dear WHL Family;
It has been quite a while since I posted a Blog. However, I just wanted to share some of my thoughts about faith, love, and loss.
Each year, around the holiday season, I and my family fall into a dark abyss from October until January. These months represent our daughter's (Lauri's) birthday month..Thanksgiving without her, the anniversary of her passing (12/10), her wedding anniversary (12/13), and finally Christmas and New Year's without her.
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A Washington man arrested Friday for allegedly trying to break into a automated teller machine now faces more charges after he and his girlfriend reportedly stole money from Walmart, Trinity Point, while she was working at the store.
David James Lewis, 23, of 55 W. Katherine Ave., and Amanda D. Sonson, 23, of 421 E. Wheeling St., Washington, were each charged by South Strabane Township police with theft and criminal conspiracy.
Township police Detective Ken Torboli said that Lewis would use his bank card in a transaction and request $20 in cash back. Sonson instead would allegedly give him anywhere from $50 to $200, he added.
Police were contacted by a loss prevention officer for the store on Nov. 1. Store personnel had conducted an investigation and determined Sonson was involved in a series of thefts while working the cash register. Lewis would purchase an inexpensive item and then select the cash back option. She would then give him the additional cash above what he requested, police said.
An audit of her register by Walmart revealed the missing cash amounts. Video surveillance also confirmed the findings.
The alleged thefts reportedly happened in 15 transactions at the store. The loss to Walmart was $2,340.
Sonson told police that she and Lewis needed the cash because they were having problems paying the bills.
Lewis was arrested by Washington police after they reportedly caught him using a knife to try and break into the ATM at First Niagara Bank, West Beau Street. While processing him, police learned he also allegedly broke into machines at the East Maiden Street Car Wash.
He was scheduled be arraigned today via video from the Washington County Jail before District Judge Jay Weller on the new charges filed by South Strabane police. He has been in jail on $15,000 bond since his arrest. The charges against Sonson will be sent by summons.
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Bethel Park millage rate increase lower than expected
The Bethel Park School Board on June 25 approved a $76.11 budget for the 2013-2014 school year, which includes a millage increase that is less than district administrators had originally calculated.
Board members approved a millage increase of 0.45 mills, making the district millage rate 21.86.
The current tax rate is 21.41 after the revenue neutral adjustment necessary because of the Allegheny County reassessments.
The budget was approved by a vote of 6-1, with board members David Amaditz and Russ Spicuzza absent. Board member Ronald Sustich voted against the millage rate and made a motion to set the rate at 21.99.
Sustich said he was concerned that the district is using $255,000 from the fund balance to balance the budget. He said he is concerned that if the state restructures the funding of school districts away from property taxes that the district would be stuck with that rate.
Other board members however, refused to second the motion and said they are confident that the state will stay with the current funding structure.
Dr. Tim Campbell said he did not find using .4 percent of the fund balance to be risky.
"I don't think we should burden the taxpayers," said Campbell. "I don't think we should raise folks taxes on what ifs."
District officials also said that costs fluctuate during the school year and it is possible that the district might not have to use the allocated portion of the fund balance.
Board members began the meeting by formally signing a new four-year contract with the district transportation union and thanking union members, whose contract includes wage freezes and the members picking up more of their healthcare costs.
"We are trying to be fiscally responsible," said Campbell. "The transportation workers understood that and dealt with it."
The district is currently in negotiations with the teachers union, which has been working under a contract that expired nearly three years ago.
At a previous meeting, Leonard Corazzi, district budget director, explained that the finance department had built possible salary increases generated by possible settlement of the contract into budget, but he declined to discuss specifics. The district also had to formulate the budget upon calculations of revenue that might be generated or lost due to tax assessment appeals that have not yet been settled, explained Matthew Howard, district business manager. In other business, the board lowered the prices for all-sports passes for athletic events.
Howard has said the administration believes the lower prices will lead to more people purchasing them.
Vicki Flotta, district communications director, said the price for the adult passes was lowered from $110 to $100 and the student passes fell from $50 to $30.