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Year Rnd DT OvPck RdPck Signed Name Pos WAR G AB HR BA OPS G W L ERA WHIP SV Type Drafted Out of
20162576529YHunter Owen (minors)RF4YrIndiana State University (Terre Haute, IN)
20152575722YLogan Hill (minors)RF4YrTroy University (Troy, AL)
20142576126YErik Forgione (minors)SS4YrUniversity of Washington (Seattle, WA)
20132574913YJustin Maffei (minors)CF4YrUniversity of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
2012257668YJosh Smith (minors)LHP4YrWichita State University (Wichita, KS)
2011257521NJosh Martin (minors)RHP4YrSamford University (Birmingham, AL)
2010257472YCasey Sadler (minors)RHP-0.2710.000.0007116.461.430JCWestern Oklahoma State College (Altus, OK)
2009257454NAaron LaFountaine (minors)OFHSJohn W. North HS (Riverside, CA)
2008257442YBrian Leach (minors)RHP4YrUniversity of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, MS)
2007257584YKeanon Simon (minors)OF4YrOklahoma State University (Stillwater, OK)
2006257404YAdam Simon (minors)RHP4YrSan Diego State University (San Diego, CA)
20052575111NMichael Wanamaker (minors)RHPHSNyack HS (Nyack, NY)
20042574211YKevin Miller (minors)RHP4YrBucknell University (Lewisburg, PA)
2003257358NMatt Downs (minors)RHP0.525452720.230.702JCShelton State Community College (Tuscaloosa, AL)
2002257331NMatt Cundiff (minors)RHPHSCooper City HS (Cooper City, FL)
2001257448NRobert Coomer (minors)RHPJCJohn A Logan College (Carterville, IL)
20002574919YNate McLouth (minors)2B6.310453257101.247.742HSWhitehall HS (Whitehall, MI)
1999257528YAaron Story (minors)LHPHSLawrence County HS (Lawrenceburg, TN)
19982574815NThom Ott (minors)RHPHSGreenbrier Christian Academy (Chesapeake, VA)
1997257528NJesse Daggett (minors)CJCCollege of the Canyons (Santa Clarita, CA)
1996257261YMichael Gresko (minors)LHPJCMercer County Community College (West Windsor, NJ)
19952568510YJohn Canetto (minors)3B4YrCoastal Carolina University (Conway, SC)
19942569011NPete Zamora (minors)LHPHSCapistrano Valley HS (Mission Viejo, CA)
19932571022YMatt Ryan (minors)RHP4YrUniversity of Mississippi (Oxford, MS)
19922570723NSteve Connelly (minors)RHP0.23003001.933.000HSWoodrow Wilson HS (Long Beach, CA)
19912566924YKenny Fairfax (minors)RHPHSGeibel Catholic HS (Connellsville, PA)
1990256675YTroy Hooper (minors)RHP4YrShorter College (Rome, GA)
19892565218YDave Watson (minors)LHPJCYavapai College (Prescott, AZ)
19882564213YGreg Sims (minors)OF4YrSt. Leo College (St. Leo, FL)
1987256322YKeith Raisanen (minors)OF4YrBirmingham-Southern College (Birmingham, AL)
1986256211YJeff Banister (minors)C0.11101.0002.0004YrUniversity of Houston (Houston, TX)
1985256326YBob Benkert (minors)C4YrWilliam Paterson University (Wayne, NJ)
19842563112NJoel Smith (minors)OFHSJones County HS (Gray, GA)
19832562410NPerry Franklin (minors)3BHSJunction City HS (Junction City, AR)
1982256287NMike Walker (minors)SSHSCerritos HS (Cerritos, CA)
19812563313NGeoff Magnuson (minors)OFHSEastmont HS (East Wenatchee, WA)
19802563820NJoe Cipolloni (minors)CJCPhoenix College (Phoenix, AZ)
19792563315NJoey Farrill (minors)RHPHSA. Crawford Mosley HS (Lynn Haven, FL)
19782560914NVince Pellegrini (minors)RHPHSFather Judge HS (Philadelphia, PA)
19772562416NFulton Walker (minors)OFHSMartinsburg HS (Martinsburg, WV)
19762558517YLeonard Spicer (minors)OFHSWalton-Verona HS (Verona, KY)
19752558215NPaul Tasker (minors)CHSDunedin HS (Dunedin, FL)
1974255467NAlbert Kissner (minors)RHPHSHamden HS (Hamden, CT)
19732557618YJoseph Piscotty (minors)OF4YrUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New York (Buffalo, NY)
19722558920YMichael Gonzalez (minors)RHPHSKelly HS (Chicago, IL)
19712559319NDavid Naberezny (minors)SSHSOliver HS (Pittsburgh, PA)
19702559613NRon Hooks (minors)OFHSFar Rockaway HS (New York, NY)
19692558610YScott Dwyer (minors)2BHSLuther Burbank HS (Sacramento, CA)
1968255629YGary Conboy (minors)RHPJCGenesee Community College (Batavia, NY)
19672548914NDave Rose (minors)RHPHSSan Carlos HS (San Carlos, CA)
19662549515YDouglas Stanley (minors)OF4YrWest Virginia University (Morgantown, WV)
196525487YRoger Banze (minors)RHPHSFrancis Howell HS (St. Charles, MO)

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52 matching player(s). 5 played in the majors (9%). Total of 6.9 WAR, or 1.4 per major leaguer.

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On June 1, the National Symphony Orchestra RB invites to the "French Night" concert at the "Bashkortostan" State Concert Hall. It will feature works by French composers of the 19th — first half of the twentieth century. For the first time in Ufa the Suite from the «Alborada del gracioso» by Ravel will be performed. Symphonic poem "Dance of Death" by C. Saint-Saens will be performed by the winner of international and national competitions Ilshat Muslimov (violin).

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Cornwall Council has had 100 informal requests for solar farms. Four formal applications have been granted and eight are pending.

Developers want to take advantage of a guaranteed premium price paid for renewable energy.

George Eustice, MP for Camborne and Redruth, said the tariff should be aimed at domestic solar panels.

"The government has sent very strong signals to the industry that they don't want all this money spent on large-scale arrays.

"I think they would be happy to see a few of them as pilot projects, but they don't want to see all the money go that way," he said.

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Julian German, Cornwall Council cabinet member for the environment, said: "My opinion and the council's is that there won't be a change to the feed-in tariff before April 2012.

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Peru profile - Timeline

A chronology of key events:

1532-33 - Spanish conquistadores led by Francisco Pizarro defeat the Incas whose empire subsequently becomes part of the Vice-royalty of Peru with its capital in Lima.

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1780 - Failed revolt against Spanish led by Tupac Amaru II, who claimed to be descended from last Inca emperor.

1821 - General Jose de San Martin captures Lima from Spanish and proclaims Peru independent.

1824 - Peru is last colony in South America to gain independence from Spain.

1836-39 - Peru and Bolivia join in short-lived confederation.

1849-74 - Some 80,000-100,000 Chinese workers arrived in Peru to do menial jobs such as collecting guano.

1866 - Peruvian-Spanish war.

1879-83 - Peru and Bolivia are defeated by Chile during the Pacific War in which Peru loses territory in the south to Chile.

1924 - Victor Raul Haya de la Torre sets up nationalist American Revolutionary Popular Alliance (APRA) in exile in Mexico.

1941 - Brief border war with Ecuador. Under the 1942 Rio Protocol Ecuador cedes some disputed territory to Peru.

Political see-saw

1945 - Civilian government led by centre-left APRA comes to power after free elections.

1948 - Military government led by General Manuel Odria installed following coup.

1963 - Peru returns to civilian rule with centrist Fernando Belaunde Terry as president.

1968 - Civilian government ousted in coup led by General Juan Velasco Alvarado, who introduces populist land reform programme and carries out large-scale nationalisations.

1975 - Velasco ousted in coup led by General Morales Bermudez.

1980 - Peru returns to civilian rule with re-election of Fernando Belaunde as president.

Shining Path, or Sendero Luminoso, guerrillas begin armed struggle.

1981 - Peru fights border war with Ecuador over Cordillera del Condor, which a 1942 protocol had given to Peru.

1982 - Deaths and "disappearances" begin to escalate following army crackdown on guerrillas and drug traffickers.

1985 - APRA candidate Alan Garcia Perez wins presidential election and begins campaign to remove military and police "old guard".

1987 - New Libertad movement led by writer Mario Vargas Llosa blocks plans to nationalise banks as Peru faces bankruptcy.

1988 - Peru seeks help from International Monetary Fund; Shining Path guerrilla campaign intensifies.

Fujimori era

1990 - More than 3,000 political murders reported.

Independent centre-right Alberto Fujimori elected president on anti-corruption platform.

Severe austerity and privatisation programmes launched as inflation reaches 400%.

1992 - Fujimori suspends constitution with army backing.

Shining Path leader arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment.

New single-chamber legislature elected.

1993 - New constitution adopted, enabling Fujimori to seek re-election.

1994 - Some 6,000 Shining Path guerrillas surrender to the authorities.

1995 - Fujimori re-elected to second term; people convicted of human rights abuses pardoned.

1996 - Tupac Amaru guerrillas seize hostages at Japanese ambassador's residence in a four-month siege.

1998 - Border agreement with Ecuador.

Bribery scandal

2000 September - Intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos embroiled in scandal after being caught on video apparently trying to bribe an opposition politician.

2000 November - Peruvian human rights ombudsman's office says 4,000 people had "disappeared" since 1980 in war against left-wing rebels.

2000 November - Congress sacks Fujimori and declares him "morally unfit" to govern; head of Congress Valentin Paniagua sworn in as interim president.

2001 March - Judge orders former president Fujimori, who has since fled to Japan, to face charges of dereliction of duty.

2001 April - New heads of the army, air force and navy sworn in after their predecessors resign over links to former president Fujimori.

2001 May - President of Supreme Court and nine senior judges dismissed over alleged links with fugitive former intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos. Deputy treasury minister resigns over allegations that he was instrumental in paying Montesinos $15m to leave Peru.

Toledo elected

2001 June - Presidential elections: centre-left economist Alejandro Toledo defeats former president Alan Garcia. Toledo is Peru's first president of native Indian origin.

2001 June - Former intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos is apprehended in Venezuela, flown back to Peru and held in a top-security prison.

2001 September - Supreme Court judge issues international arrest warrant for former president Alberto Fujimori, who is in self-exile in Japan.

2002 March - Nine people killed by bomb blast near US embassy in Lima - seen as attempt to disrupt forthcoming visit by President George W Bush.

Truth commission

2002 April - Truth and Reconciliation Commission begins public hearings about alleged atrocities committed during civil war of 1980s and 1990s.

2002 June - Violent protests against the privatisation of two power companies. President Toledo puts the sale on hold.

2002 July - Lawmakers accuse exiled former president Alberto Fujimori of treason.

Former intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos sentenced to nine years in prison for corruption.

2003 March-May - Vladimiro Montesinos sentenced to further five and eight-year jail sentences for abuse of power, embezzlement.

2003 August - Truth and Reconciliation Commission's inquiry into atrocities during 20-year war against Shining Path rebels concludes that an estimated 69,280 people were killed.

Toledo under pressure

2004 June - Former intelligence head Vladimiro Montesinos sentenced to further 15 years in jail for corruption, embezzlement, conspiracy.

2004 August - Inauguration of major gas pipeline project connecting jungle gas field with Lima.

2005 January - Four-day failed uprising by nationalist army reservists in the south: six people are killed and the interior minister resigns over the incident.

2005 May - Congressional commission finds President Toledo guilty of electoral fraud. Prosecutors say his party forged many of the signatures it used to register for the 2000 poll. Congress later votes not to impeach the president.

2005 July - Government begins to compensate guerrilla war victims; $800m is earmarked for the purpose.

2005 November - Former President Fujimori is arrested in Chile, after arriving there from Japan, pending extradition proceedings.

2005 December - Peru and the US reach a free trade agreement.

President declares a state of emergency in six central provinces after suspected Shining Path guerrillas kill eight police officers.

Garcia's election win

2006 June - Presidential elections: Alan Garcia, a former president, celebrates victory after a second round of voting. His rival, nationalist candidate Ollanta Humala, emerged as the front-runner in the first round.

2006 October - Former Shining Path rebel leader Abimael Guzman is sentenced to life in prison.

2007 April - Parliament grants emergency powers to President Garcia, allowing him to rule by decree on issues related to drug trafficking, organised crime.

2007 August - Earthquake hits coastal areas, killing hundreds and destroying churches and houses.

2007 September - Chile extradites former president Alberto Fujimori to Peru to face human rights and corruption charges.

2007 December - Fujimori goes on trial for the murder of 25 people killed by an army death squad during his rule. In a separate case he is sentenced to six years in jail for illegally ordering the search of an apartment.

2008 October - Cabinet resigns after members of the governing Apra party are implicated in a corruption scandal involving bribes for oil contracts. President Garcia appoints Yehude Simon, a leftist regional governor from outside the ruling party, as the new prime minister.

2009 April - Former President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in jail for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.

Amazon clashes

2009 June - At least 54 people are killed in clashes in the Amazon between security forces and indigenous people protesting against land ownership laws opening up oil and gas resources to foreign companies.

PM Yehude Simon resigns in response to the violence, after brokering talks with the protesters which lead to the repeal of the land laws.

2009 July - Trade unions and left-wing opposition groups hold nationwide protests against the government's pro-free trade policies.

President Garcia appoints a new prime minister, Javier Velasquez Quesquen, and replaces seven other ministers in a cabinet reshuffle aimed at restoring confidence in the government.

2009 October - Relations with Chile are strained by a Chilean military exercise staged close to the two countries' disputed border.

2009 November - Ties with Chile become even more tense after a Peruvian air force officer is accused of spying for the Chilean military.

Peru apologises for the first time to its citizens of African origin for centuries of "abuse, exclusion and discrimination".

2010 May - Peruvian indigenous leader Alberto Pizango is freed on bail pending trial a day after he was detained upon his return home from almost a year in exile. He is accused of inciting protests against planned oil and gas exploration in Peru's rainforest that turned deadly.

2011 January - Opening of controversial road connecting Brazil's Atlantic coast with Peru's Pacific seaboard.

2011 June - Ollanta Humala wins presidential elections in the run-off.

2011 December - Emergency declared in the north following protests against a proposed gold mining project.

2012 February - Shining Path rebel Comrade Artemio - one of the original central committee - is captured.

2012 April - Shining Path rebels capture, and later free, some 36 gas workers in the south.

Mine protests

2012 May - State of emergency declared in the southern province of Espinar, near Cusco, after anti-mining protests turn violent.

2012 July-September - Emergency declared in northern provinces to quell violent protests against the Conga mine project, which opponents argue will cause pollution and destroy water supplies.

President Humala appoints Juan Jimenez Mayor prime minister after Oscar Valdes quits over the death of five Conga protesters. Emergency is allowed to lapse in September.

2012 November - The last of the artefacts taken from Machu Picchu by US archaeologist Hiram Bingham are returned to Peru under a 2010 agreement. Mr Bingham brought the site to international attention in 1911.

2013 June - The last of the original Shining Path rebel leaders, Florindo Flores alias Comrade Artemio, is sentenced to life in prison on charges of terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering.

2013 June - President Humala rejects a request to pardon the jailed former leader Alberto Fujimori on humanitarian grounds.

2013 September - UN report says Peru has become the world's main grower of coca leaves - the raw ingredient for cocaine.

Border ruling

2014 January - The United Nations' highest court rules on the maritime border dispute with Chile, awarding Peru parts of the Pacific Ocean but keeping rich fishing grounds in Chilean hands.

2014 July - Prime Minister Rene Cornejo resigns following allegations that an advisor offered money to discredit a political opponent. Ana Jara is appointed the sixth prime minister in fewer than three years.

2014 September - The Peruvian government appoints a commission to investigate illegal logging along the Peru-Brazil border in the Amazon rainforest, following the murder of four indigenous leaders.

2015 March - Peru withdraws its ambassador from Chile in a row over military espionage.

Prime Minister Ana Jara resigns after losing a vote of confidence in Congress over allegations that leading figures in business and politics were spied on.

2015 August - Congress approves legislation allowing the air force to shoot down small planes suspected of carrying illegal drugs.

2016 April - Pedro Kuczynski wins presidency, defeating Keiko Fujimori - daughter of jailed former president Alberto Fujimori.

2016 July - Emergency declared in half the country to deal with outbreak of Zika virus.


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Light-beam 'twins' take data farther

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Image caption Optical fibres carry huge amounts of data for their size, but data appetites grow ever more voracious

An idea similar to that of noise-cancelling headphones has proved useful in increasing the data-carrying properties of light.

Researchers reporting in Nature Photonics suggest putting not one beam of light down a fibre, but a pair, each a kind of mirror image of the other.

When recombined on the receiving end, the noise that the signals gather in the fibre cancels out.

These paired beams can travel four times farther than a single one.

The team used the technique to send a signal of 400Gb/s - four times faster than the best commercially available speeds - down 12,800km of optical fibre, farther than even the longest trans-oceanic fibre link.

What limits the distance a given light signal can go is how much power is in the beam. But the higher the power, the more the light actually interacts with the material of the fibre, rather than merely passing through it.

That adds "noise" to the beam that limits the fidelity with which data can be transmitted.

What is needed is a way to undo this noise, and one idea is known as phase conjugation.

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Light waves, just as sound waves and waves on the sea, consist of a pattern of peaks and troughs that can be manipulated to represent data. The "phase conjugate" of a beam is, in a sense, simply one in which every peak becomes a trough and vice versa.

This is effectively the same thing that noise-cancelling headphones do: generating the inverse of incoming sound so that the two cancel out.

Ideas exist to make use of phase conjugation to "undo" the noise that fibre links add, but they involve adding devices midway along the links' length - sometimes, in the middle of an ocean floor.

"Sometimes you may send data from London to New York, sometimes you may send it from London to Paris. The links are changing and you cannot keep sending people to the middle of the link," said lead author on the new research Xiang Liu of Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, US.

What Dr Liu and colleagues instead suggest is creating a pair of phase-conjugate beams, each carrying the same data.

And as Dr Liu explained to BBC News, the noise that each gathers is equally a mirror image of that on the other.

"At the receiver, if you superimpose the two waves, then all the distortions will magically cancel each other out, so you obtain the original signal back," he said.

"This concept, looking back, is quite easy to understand, but surprisingly, nobody did this before."

If the noise on the beams can be undone, the power can be ramped up - making data go literally further.

But since fidelity can be maintained, there can be less of the repetition of information in a given beam that is used for error correction. So the phase conjugation method is also a way to get higher data speeds.

"Nowadays everybody is consuming more and more bandwidth - demanding more and more communication," Dr Liu said.

"We need to solve some of the fundamental problems to sustain the capacity growth."

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Best Books for Kindergarten Children in kindergarten and those getting ready for their first school experience will appreciate these stories about the world at large. Whether learning about animals or with animals as a lovable backdrop to real world lessons, these titles are sure to please little book lovers.

Hit the Ball Duck  by Jez Alborough
Duck and friends go out one day with a bat, a ball and a glove to play!

1–2–3 Peas!   by Keith Baker
Busy little peas engage in their favorite activities as they introduce the numbers from one to 100.

No Two Alike  by Keith Baker
Follows a pair of birds on a snowflake-filled journey through a winter landscape, where everything everywhere, from branches and leaves to forests full of trees, is unique.

Itty Bitty by Cece Bell
Itty Bitty may be a very, very tiny dog, but he finds a way to make a home in the big, big world.

How Do You Feel?   by Anthony Browne
A young chimp describes a variety of emotions he experiences.

Hurry! Hurry!   by Eve Bunting
All the animals of the barnyard community hurry to greet their newest member, who is just pecking his way out
of an egg.

Little Bear’s Little Boat   by Eve Bunting
When Little Bear can no longer fit into his boat he finds someone else who can use it.

10 Little Rubber Ducks   by Eric Carle
When a storm strikes a cargo ship, ten rubber ducks are tossed overboard and swept off in ten different directions.

Get Up and Go!  by Nancy Carlson
Text and illustrations encourage readers, regardless of shape or size, to turn off the television and play games, walk, dance, and engage in sports and other forms of exercise

Five Little Monkeys Reading in Bed  by Eileen Christelow
Mama has said it is time for "Lights out! Sweet dreams! No more reading in bed,” but her five little monkeys cannot resist treading just a few more books to one another.

Llama, Llama Time to Share   by Anna Dewdney
"Llama Llama doesn't want to share his toys with his new neighbors. But when fighting leads to broken toys and tears, Llama learns that it's better to share"

Rrralph   by Lois Ehlert
The narrator describes discovering how Ralph the dog can talk, appropriately saying words such as "roof," "rough," "bark," and "wolf."

If You’re a Monster and You Know It   by Ed & Rebecca Emberley
Monsters sing their own version of this popular song that encourages everyone to express their happiness through voice and movement.

Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!  by Candace Fleming
After planting the garden he has dreamed of for years, Mr. McGreely tries to find a way to keep some persistent bunnies from eating all his vegetables.

And Then It’s Spring  by Julie Fogliano
Simple text reveals the anticipation of a boy who, having planted seeds while everything around is brown, fears that something has gone wrong until, at last, the world turns green.

Don’t Worry Bear   by Greg Foley
A caterpillar reassures a worried bear that they will see each other again when the caterpillar emerges from its cocoon.

Two Little Monkeys   by Mem Fox
A rhyming tale about two little monkeys who are hiding from a leopard.

Yucky Worms    by Vivian French
While helping Grandma in the garden, a child learns about the important role of the earthworm in helping plants grow.

Blue Chameleon by Emily Gravett
The chameleon is feeling blue because he’s lonely, so he goes and visits a yellow banana, pink cockatoo, swirly snail, brown boot, and so on. Each time, not only does he change his color to match the object or animal, but he also contorts himself into a shape that matches them.

Orange Pear Apple Bear  by Emily Gravett,
Explores concepts of color, shape, and food using only five simple words, as a bear juggles and plays.

Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes
As he hops along a little rabbit wonders what it would be like to be green as grass, tall as fir trees, hard as rocks, and flutter like butterflies.

Old Robert and the Sea-Silly Cats   by Barbara Joosse
Sailor Old Robert lives a solitary existence until some performing cats come into his life.

This Is Not My Hat  by Jon Klassen
A tiny minnow wearing a pale blue bowler hat has a thing or two up his fins in this underwater light-on-dark chase scene.

Hurty Feelings   by Helen Lester
It looks like trouble when Fragility, a hippopotamus whose feelings are easily hurt, meets Rudy, a rude elephant,
on the soccer field.

Bats at the Ballgame   by Brian Lies
Two teams of bats play an exciting nighttime baseball game.

Sleep Like a Tiger  by Mary Logue
At bedtime a young girl asks "Does everything in the world go to sleep?

Up, Tall and High  by Ethan Long
Through illustrations and simple text, birds demonstrate the meanings of the words up, tall and high.

Otis and the Puppy  by Loren Long
When a puppy gets lost while playing hide and seek on the farm, Otis the friendly little tractor must face his fear of the darkness in order to help his new friend.

Hattie Hippo   by Christine Loomis
"Meet Hattie, an adorable little hippo who loves to dance, swim, play hide-and-seek, and host tea parties for her  friends!"

Bulldog’s Big Day by Kate McMullan
While looking for a job, Bulldog tries being a firefighter, a window washer, a sign painter, and a bookseller before finding just the right job for himself.

I’m Fast!  by Kate McMullan
Two trains race each other on the way to Chicago.

Pig Pig Meets the Lion  by David McPhail
A friendly lion escapes from the local zoo and Pig Pig wants to keep him.

Waddles   by David McPhail
Waddles, a very plump and furry raccoon, helps his best friend Emily, a duck, hatch and raise her ducklings, and discovers what makes him truly happy.

The Sleep Sheep   by Anna McQuinn
When Sylvie cannot fall asleep and her mother suggests that she try counting sheep, the sheep do not cooperate.

Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat Are You Going to Sleep  by Bill Martin
A young cat is distracted by many things while getting ready for bed at night.

Bug Patrol  by Denise Mortensen
Captain Bob of the Bug Patrol keeps a watchful eye on bugs everywhere.

What Puppies Do Best  by Laura Numeroff
Describes the many activities puppies enjoy, from wake-up kisses to goodnight kisses, before identifying what they do best.

Jellybeans & the Big Art Adventure  by Laura Numeroff
The Jelly Beans--four friends who like to do such different things as paint, play soccer, read, and dance--paint a mural on an outside wall of Mrs. Petunia Dinkley-Sneezer's candy shop that depicts them each doing what they love best.

Stuff  by Margie Palatini
Edward cares more about his possessions than spending time with his friends, until he becomes trapped in his house full of “stuff,“ hungry and bored.

Perfect Pet   by Margie Palatini
After Elizabeth's parents do not agree with her various suggestions for the perfect pet, she discovers a solution.

Tiny Little Fly   by Michael Rosen
With a tramp and a roll and a swat, Great Big Elephant, Great Big Hippo, and Great Big Tiger try to capture Tiny Little Fly as he teases each one in turn.

All Around the Seasons   by Barney Saltzberg
Illustrations and rhymes celebrate what makes each season special, from baby chicks in the spring through a snowman in the winter.

Uh-Oh, Dodo!  by Jennifer Sattler
Meet Dodo! He loves an adventure. He is always willing to try new things. He enjoys making new friends. But not everything turns out the way Dodo expects. Even a walk with his Mama turns into a topsy-turvy day of discoveries, challenges, and surprises. Good thing Dodo has a sense of humor! He's one curious, fun-loving, original bird.

A Big Boy Now   by Eileen Spinelli
When a young rabbit takes the training wheels off his bike, he learns something surprising about his dad.

Demolition  by Sally Sutton
Illustrations and rhyming text show the enormous and powerful machines that are used to demolish a building so that a playground can be built.

Hop, Hop, Jump!  by Lauren Thompson
Rhyming text, accompanied by labeled illustrations that identify parts of the body, encourages readers to wiggle and twist, stomp and zigzag, and hug and shrug.

The Loud Book   by Deborah Underwood
From the blare of an alarm clock in the morning to snores and crickets in the evening, simple text explores the many loud noises one might hear during the course of a day.

The Kiss Box  by Bonnie Verburg
As they prepare for a short separation, Mama Bear and Little Bear find a way to reassure each other while they are apart.

Captain Small Pig  by Martin Waddell
Small Pig and his friends Old Goat and Turkey spend the day in a rowboat on a lake.

Super Hungry Dinosaur  by Martin Waddell
Hal and his little dog Billy deal with a dinosaur's monstrous hunger. Billy's mom makes him a super dinner which saves everyone from being eaten by the dinosaur.

The Perfect Hug  by Joanne Walsh
In simple rhyming text the reader will explore many different kinds of hugs in the search for the perfect one.

Kisses for Daddy   by Frances Watts
At bedtime, Baby Bear is grumbly and refuses to give Daddy a big bear kiss until his father demonstrates many other types of animal kisses.

Kiss Kiss!   by Margaret Wild
Baby Hippo is in such a rush to play one morning he forgets to kiss his mama, but strangely all the jungle noises seem to remind him.

Listen to My Trumpet   by Mo Willems
When Piggie plays her new trumpet for Gerald, the elephant decides he must be honest in his response.

Horseplay   by Karma Wilson
A farmer tries to change the behavior of his rowdy horses who play all night and sleep all day.


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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

First EQ Tutorial tuesday on how to modify a layout from a magazine

I got quite a few requests for EQ tutorials, so here we go :-)
(I am planning on doing one every other tuesday)
I thought of this idea for the first one, a GOOD reason to purchase EQ7.

Do you ever look at a quilt in a magazine and maybe thing it's UGLY or you want it smaller or larger??

This will be the tutorial today, how to take a magazine layout and change it around.

You have to look at the magazine and either copy the blocks or search in EQ for them, it also helps to read the directions a bit to figure out how a block was constructed
since I can't pick a layout at random from the magazine, I'll pick my OWN, the "it's a hootie" owl quilt from McCall's sept/Oct 2012 issue on page 40
here's my EQ sketch ( I decided to do a green border instead, but you get the idea)
Easily you can go into EQ and change the colors around to be more baby girl colors, like this one.o
You click the "spraycan" and pick a color in the palette and hold down CTRL button and click on a color in the quilt and the everything that was maybe BLUE now changes to purple or whatever color you picked and in a few clicks you can change the quilt to a different layout quickly.

You can also go to Connecting threads and download a fabric collection file (FAB file)- more about that here

Under the LAYOUT bottom tab you can also change the layout of the quilt, first I had a 5 x 5 layout, now I changed it to 5 x 7 layout. (you'd have to fill in the missing blocks)

Then you'd get THIS layout!

You can of course also change the block size, here I had it at 7", but on the LAYOUT screen you can easily make it bigger or smaller.
At the bottom of the screen in the right corner it will tell you the finished quilt size.
Easy Peasy :-)
Have fun.... feel free to suggest other tutorial ideas.

Michele said...

Great tutorial idea and you explained it so easy. I know that when I do ger EQ I'll be referring back to this for quite a while. Thanks bunches.

Angela said...

You did not say how you get a magazine design into your EQ program. Do you have to draw the magazine block, quilt, etc. and then alter it?

Linda J said...

What an adorable design and congratulations on having it accepted by a quilting magazine!

Because I make donation quilts for children, I have used EQ for years to work with the available fabrics I have on hand or to re-size the patterns in books and magazines to fit my size requirements. In fact my current project was drawn up for that very reason. She talks about fabric placement that is NOT my choice and it gets confusing with out my visual printout.

THX for sharing your tutorial and also mentioning how to do change out the fabric palette from CT!

Linda J
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Cyn ;-) said...

Very nice tute, Bea. As a fairly new EQ7 user I appreciate the step-by-step instructions you shared. Excellent. Thanks again... I am so thrilled you will be doing this on a regular basis. I have added you to my blogroll.

Hannah said...

Please explain more on how to take a magazine design and import it to EQ7.

Petite sewer said...

It would be nice to start at the beg inning- how to put the quilt into eq especially if the block and borders aren't in EQ to begin with. There are lots of shortcuts to drawing blocks that aren't obvious instead of spending an hour to draw line after line.


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You need to come to Pile gate, the entrance to the Old Town, from there walk across the drawbridge into the main plaza Stradun, turn right by the fountain and walk down the street parallel to the Stradun until you see a sign for Baracuda pizzeria on the right hand side. You will have reached Nikole Bozidarevica street. You will see a large green door on the right side and tables of the pizzeria are on the left. The apartment is on the top floor on the left hand side (white doors). Please note that all arrivals should be previously arranged with us as there may not be anyone at the property at the time of arrival.


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Author: Mike C   (Authenticated as Mike C)
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This is probably an error in the census data. In fact, the SSA specifically mentions that some female names could have been accidentally recorded as male names on this page:

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Date: February 2, 2006 at 3:34:38 PM
first of all - great site!!! i love to wonder in the names.

could you please tell me how do i peonounce that name (what is the meening of that little mark above the letter A in the name?)

thanks, Yaron from Israel.

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Grayson is a name that has started to grow on me. I have seen it used for both boys and girls and it is starting to be used more often.
-- Anonymous User  4/26/2006
A famous bearer is As the World Turns actor Grayson McCouch who plays Dusty Donovan.
-- Anonymous User  5/4/2006
I think it is a very youthful name and when you are young it is a very popular name to most people but when you get older you might wish you did not have that name because it is so youthful.
-- lauren neaves  6/24/2006
I have a (female) cousin named this but she spells it Graycen. I thinks it's pretty and more feminine that way. It works for both genders.
-- pink_floyd_fan  7/23/2006
Ooooh it's sooper doooper kewt. It is frigging depressing as is the "feminine" Gracen.
-- Anonymous User  9/30/2006
I really like this, but only masculine and with the original spelling.
-- Anonymous User  4/3/2007
Really handsome name. I usually don't like names that end in -son because of the gender confusion, but I really like this one.
-- jasmineenimsaj  3/4/2008
Grayson is such a cute origanal name but as you get older, it seems babyish and playful. My brother is named Grayson.
-- alexandria145  5/21/2008
As a surname, Richard "Dick" Grayson. Dick is best known as the first Robin, sidekick to Batman and founding member of the Teen Titans, but he has since grown up and now goes by "Nightwing".
-- FMRadio  6/14/2008
The only 2 Grayson's I've met were a boy, and a girl. I don't really care for it, it sounds like "greasin".
-- Chrila96  9/19/2010
This is a city in Georgia, between Athens and Atlanta.
-- kazoopilot  6/27/2011
I suppose it's an okay name for males. Not terrific, but not horrible. On a girl, however, the name is hideous and tacky. How can it be a feminine name when it has a very obvious masculine meaning: "SON of the steward"? Unless your daughter is also your son, I suggest you back away. If you really like the sound of this, go with Grace.
-- Black_X  10/7/2011
A famous bearer is Grayson Perry (born 1960), a British artist.
-- AnastasiaE  9/27/2012
Alan Grayson is a Florida congressman.
-- watermia  2/22/2013
I love this name, but the meaning bothers me for some reason.
-- Skylar_Arianna  5/22/2013
177 people actually named their DAUGHTERS Grayson in the US in 2012.
-- Oohvintage  7/17/2013
Yuck. This name is too modern and tryndee for my tastes. It sounds tacky and unpleasant. I don't understand why it's so popular all of a sudden. Why not just still to good old Jason?
-- Anonymous User  8/20/2013
My aunt named her daughter this. I'm going to guess that it won't always be seen as a purely masculine name.
-- Anonymous User  5/9/2014
Way too trendy and you take the R out and you are left with 'Gay son'

At least use the Greyson spelling.
-- Anonymous User  9/7/2014
I agree with the anonymous user above me. Grayson does bring to mind, Gay son. If you must use this name, for the sake of your son regardless of him being gay or straight, use the Greyson spelling. He will later thank you. I personally think there are far better names out there anyway.
-- Anonymous User  6/5/2015
I disagree completely that the -son ending alone makes this name strictly masculine. Think about Allison or Madison. I think it sounds nice for both genders.
-- Rainefaye  8/23/2015
Famous bearers include the fictional character Richard "Dick" Grayson, the alter-ego of the superheros Robin/Nightwing from DC Comics Batman series.
-- Oasis  9/20/2015
This name is a bit of a guilty pleasure to me, mainly because I associate it with Dick Grayson, aka the superhero Robin. However, I also admit that I find it to be rather childish and too much of an obvious trendy name. On a girl it just looks like you're trying too hard to give her an original name, and failed miserably due to the obvious masculinity of the sound and meaning. I prefer the much simpler color name Gray, which actually CAN be used on any gender.
-- RoseTintsMyWorld  5/11/2016
A trendy surname plucked out of the phone book. It really is an annoying trend, and I can't see why this one in particular is racing up the top 100. It doesn't even sound good in my opinion.

That being said, if you're going to use this name, please use it on a boy. It's bad on a boy but hideous on a girl; look at the obviously masculine meaning.
-- YITYNR  6/5/2016
The name Grayson was unfortunately given to 168 girls born in the US in 2015.
-- HerculePoirot  6/16/2016
Grayson Dolan, internet personality and twin brother of Ethan Dolan, has this name.
-- Anonymous User  10/3/2016
Wait, parents are actually naming their daughters Grayson?! Grayson is a boy's name and doesn't sound feminine AT ALL!
-- Luvbug86  10/8/2016
My DAUGHTER is Grayson. I loved the name the first time I heard it. No need to be so negative and mean.
-- Scrappingirl  10/30/2016

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Spanish archaeologists have unearthed a 3,600-year-old mummy in the ancient city of Luxor, Egypt's Antiquities Minister says.

Mohammed Ibrahim said in a statement that the rare find in a preserved wooden sarcophagus dates back to 1600 BC, when the Pharaonic 17th Dynasty reigned.

He said the mummy appears to belong to a high official. The sarcophagus is engraved with hieroglyphs and decorated with inscriptions of birds' feathers.

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One of Northern Ireland's newest bands are set to release their debut album on Monday.

Portadown-based Microlip formed after a chance encounter in 2008 and produced a single called Man Of Steel to commercial success.

The pop and rock outfit will unveil their album Silver Lining.

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Michael Jackson's mother sat in court as a police detective testified that she told him the family had tried drug interventions for the singer, believing he was addicted to painkillers.

But Detective Orlando Martinez said Katherine Jackson told him her son refused any help, saying he did not have a drug problem.

The testimony came under questioning by lawyers for concert promoter AEG Live, which is being sued by Katherine Jackson for negligence in the star's death.

The detective, who took the lead investigating Michael Jackson's June 25 2009, death, said he first interviewed his mother at the hospital. But six months later, he decided to go back to her and check out "some things regarding family meetings about addiction".

He said it was then that she told him about several attempts by the family to hold interventions and get Jackson into rehab. "Mrs Jackson said the family tried to help him but he would have nothing to do with it," Mr Martinez said. "She had asked Michael if he was taking any drugs, and he denied it." He added Katherine Jackson told him she believed her son was taking medicine for back pain and might have become addicted.

"What did Mrs. Jackson tell you?" asked AEG lawyer Marvin Putnam. "The family attempted several interventions," said the witness. "She had talked to her son about drugs herself." She said the efforts produced no results, Mr Martinez said, because "he denied having a problem".

Katherine Jackson also told the detective the first time she ever met Dr Conrad Murray was at the hospital the day her son died. Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter after giving the anaesthetic propofol to the pop star. Bottles containing painkillers also were found in the singer's bedroom.

Earlier, Mr Martinez said that five days before Jackson died, his manager called the singer's doctor, told him Jackson was sick, and implored him to have blood tests done, according to a voicemail played in court. The message left by Frank Dileo was retrieved by police from Murray's mobile phone. "I'm sure you're aware he had an episode last night," the message said. "He's sick. ... We gotta see what he's doing."

Plaintiff's lawyer Brian Panish acknowledged outside court that the episode occurred on the day Jackson was told by Kenny Ortega, the director of his This is It concert, to go home from a rehearsal because he was pale and shivering. Panish suggested that if Dileo was aware of the incident, so were AEG executives. Jurors were not given any further details on the episode.

Katherine Jackson's lawsuit claims AEG did not properly investigate Murray. AEG denies it hired the doctor, and it is likely to blame Jackson for insisting on having Murray as his doctor because of his dependence on propofol, which Jackson used to sleep. The company alleges Jackson was addicted to numerous drugs.

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Most of us look to the New Year as if it was always set in stone on January 1, yet the New Year used to be celebrated in most British dominions on March 25 until the Gregorian calendar was introduced in 1752.

The Biblical, or Hebrew, New Year also began in Spring. A vestige of England's Spring New Year is still with us in the form of the tax year beginning in April. The pagan links to the New Year in the Spring involve the Equinox.

In Church circles, January 1 liturgically marked the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ. The Romans dedicated the day to Janus, from whence we get the word "January". This year, the Gregorian calendar will be 2016 and the Biblical (Hebrew) calendar, which Jesus observed, will be 5776, dated from Creation.

We have a New Year in January, but that has not always been so. If Yeshua (Jesus) were to return, He'd likely recognise the calendar He used in Nazareth - not the one set in place by Pope Gregory XIII, or the holidays and weekdays named after pagan deities.

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It's not very often I agree with the SDLP and/or the Liberal Democrats, but on this occasion, as an honorary life member of Belfast's Queen's University Ulster Unionist Association and a member of the UK Independence Party's constitutional affairs policy group, I should like to commend both Dominic Bradley (SDLP MLA for Newry and Mourne) and Lembit Opik (MP for Montgomeryshire and Liberal Democrat spokesman for Northern Ireland) for their robust defence of the Armagh Observatory.

Following a recent visit to the Observatory by members of the Assembly's Culture, Arts and Leisure Committee, Mr Bradley was reported as saying: " The observatory has worldwide status ... and it is disturbing to learn that the current funding situation is presenting a risk to its survival. In this, the 300th anniversary year of the observatory's foundation, it would indeed be ironic if this were to materialise. It is unacceptable that this prestigious facility has to scrape around to get enough funding to survive."

By the same token, Mr Opik (son of the famous astrophysicist Ernst Julius Opik who worked at the observatory from 1948 to 1981) has tabled Early Day Motion 1226 in the House of Commons: 'This House applauds the Armagh Observatory's considerable contribution to astronomical research and its very high international standing; believes the Observatory is one of the world-class scientific institutions in the British Isles; is very concerned about the funding shortfall currently facing the Armagh Observatory; fears that if this shortfall is not met, the observatory could close in 2009; and calls on the Government to ensure that the future funding of Armagh Observatory is secured to guarantee the on-going operations of one of the world's great seats of learning and research into the field of astronomy.'

As an Englishman by birth — who lives less than 20 miles from the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Herstmonceux (a somewhat shorter distance than I am from the Armagh Observatory) — and an Ulsterman by adoption, I nevertheless acknowledge the contribution which the Armagh Observatory makes to the scientific world as a whole and wish to put on record my support for calls from MLAs and MPs in all parties and none to safeguard its future.

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Muhammad was a feminist. He stood for equal rights for women. To many people, feminist means something negative. And so when I am called a feminist, they think that's derogatory--but by feminism, I mean equal rights for men and women.

When I was at the Islamic Society of North America convention last year selling my first book, there were a lot of women who wanted to buy the book. Many of them wore the head cover, and it wasn't an issue to them that I don't. But there were also young, traditional men and some older traditional men--they were a minority for sure--but they would come up and say, "Why aren't you wearing a cover? And how can you expect me to buy a book when there's a picture of you on the front and you're not wearing a cover?" And I would say, "Look, you don't have to buy the book." Meanwhile, a rumor got spread around that on a certain page of my book I wrote that the head cover is not required. So throughout the convention, young men would come up in groups of two or three and pick up the book and go right to this one page. Don't they have something better to do then to be skulking around the ISNA bazaar and gossiping to each other, "Oh my God. That author says the hijab is not required"?

Are most Muslim women covered in America?
No. Most Muslim women are not covered. I was doing an interview about hijab and the head scarf on CNN once, and they said that about 10 percent of Muslim women in America wear the head cover. I have no idea where they got that number. But based on what I've seen, I would say that statistic is pretty accurate.

But when you go to an event like ISNA, there's a lot of peer pressure to wear the head cover, because literally every woman is wearing the head cover. Probably out of all the women wearing the head cover there, less than half actually wear it every day. But it's an unspoken thing among Muslim women that when you're going to an Islamic event, you cover your head because everyone else there is going to be covered, and the men are going to expect you to be covered.

Now certainly in a mosque, when you're praying, both men and women are supposed to cover their hair. Men are supposed to wear a prayer cap and women are supposed to wear a scarf, so in the mosque I cover my hair, no question about that. But I don't think in daily life it's required.

It's more of an Arab custom. But there are South Asian women (like me) who do wear it. And South Asia's had phases back and forth, wearing it, not wearing it. Here in America, the young women who wear it, say, in college, feel that it's their way of protest. Some of them feel that it's a feminist thing. It's their way of protesting judgment based on their appearance--which I really respect. If I were to wear it, it would be for that reason.

Why do you so firmly believe Muslim women don't have to wear hijab?
I don't feel the Qur'an is asking us to. I think the Qur'an asks us to be modest in our appearance, and I think you can be modest wearing regular clothes, Western clothes. I think this is pretty modest [looking down at her shirt and jeans]. But I think it's also stylish.

One could argue you're wearing tight jeans.
I don't think they're that tight. I have tighter. [Laughs.] Modesty comes from within. I have been to ISNA conventions where all the women except me and my sister are wearing the head cover, but we're the only ones wearing loose clothes. All the ones wearing the head cover in our age group are wearing tight pants and showing cleavage in their blouses.

For women to wear the hijab and then say, "OK, we're covered, we're fine" is a bit disingenuous. Women aren't that dumb. If we want to be stylish and want to wear tight clothing, then we'll just cover our hair and still wear whatever we want to wear. But I think if you're going to do it, you should be doing it to show devotion to God, not to just satisfy the local imam or the elders at the ISNA convention because of peer pressure. You could have your hair covered and still be flirting with somebody. A lot of flirtation is talking, eyes, hand motions, and the way you walk. All those things are more important than whether your hair is covered or not.
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If elected, General Wesley Clark would be America's first modern Christian "seeker" president. What comes through clearly in his intimate Beliefnet interview is that he has been on a lifelong spiritual search, trying in place after place to find the right match with his personality, values and emotional needs. At various points in his life, he was influenced heavily by Methodists, Baptists, Jews, Catholics and Presbyterians, and his quest seems not to be over.

There are parts of the interview-the first of a series with the candidates--that will no doubt strike readers as idiosyncratic, such as the fact he became alienated first from both Protestantism and then Catholicism as a result of the anti-military comments of individual clergy. Some Catholics may scoff--or be offended by--Clark's statement that he remains a Catholic even though he goes to a Presbyterian church.

But in many ways, Clark is a prototypical modern American Christian. He shops for faith. His decisions are based not only on family considerations, region and theology but spiritual fit--the type of music, quality of the sermons, or the message of the preacher. His faith seems both deep and, at the same time, not fixed to a particular affiliation.

When Clark was almost four, his father Benjamin Kanne, a Chicago alderman and lawyer, died suddenly of a heart attack, prompting the family to move back to Little Rock where his mother had family. Clark's mother, Veneta, was a Methodist but gave the young boy the choice of where to go to church.

Five-year-olds are not likely to choose a church on the basis of its views on salvation or premillennial tribulation theory. "I remember the Methodist church in Chicago had these beautiful stained glass windows," Clark recalls. "I saw a church in Arkansas that had those beautiful stained glass windows and it was right across the street from this barber shop that had a miniature barber's chair complete with the razor strap and everything."

So he chose the church with the pretty windows across from the barber shop with the cool chair. That's how Clark became a Baptist.

Remarkably, week after week the five-year-old went to Emmanuel Baptist church. His religious life, he said, was of "tremendous comfort" in dealing with the death of his father. As he got older, they switched to Pulaski Heights Baptist Church and his connection to his faith grew even deeper. In high school, he would often go to both the morning and evening Sunday services. He was in the Baptist training union and the Royal Ambassadors.

His spiritual path veered after he met Gertrude Kingston, whom he would later marry. She was a Roman Catholic from Brooklyn who was quite insistent on sticking with her church, so Clark would occasionally attend Mass with her.

When he was in England as a Rhodes Scholar, Clark tried worship services offered by two Protestant churches, one Baptist and one Methodist. He hated them, not because of their theology but for their approach to the Vietnam War. "In both cases the sermons were anti-American military and full of wildly overstated claims about how bad the American military was. My West Point roommate was serving over there-he was killed during that period. I wasn't about to go to a church like that who didn't respect my friends who believed they were praying to the same God and serving their country." In an interview with Slate, Clark also said he preferred the structured nature of the Catholic Church.

Around that same time, some relatives visited him and gave him startling news. His father had been Jewish. Clark says he was mostly excited by the news, as it filled out some missing pieces to his family puzzle. But he confronted his mother.

"I don't understand why you didn't tell me."

His mother started to cry. "Wesley," she said. "You just had enough problems. You didn't need one more. You'd lost your father. You came down to Little Rock. You were in fights a lot. You had a Chicago accent. You just didn't need one more problem." She was convinced that self-identifying as a Jew would bring nothing but trouble because "she'd seen the prejudice in Chicago." Once the family secret was out, Clark's mother explained the discrimination she and his father had experienced. "There were restaurants they couldn't go to. There were clubs they couldn't belong to. There were resorts they couldn't go to vacation to. There were friends they didn't really have. This was a prejudiced society."

Kanne's parents had fled Russia, reportedly to avoid pogroms. According to The Jewish Week, Clark told a Brooklyn yeshiva (a religious school for observant Jews) in 1999, "I am the oldest son, of the oldest son, of the oldest son - at least five generations, and they were all rabbis." In hindsight, Clark says, he always had an inexplicable affinity for Jews. "It was a funny thing," he says. "It was the way they thought, the way they talked, I just felt a certain familiarity. So when I found my father was Jewish, a lot of pieces just seem to slip into place the right way."

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John McClaughry : Economic and personal freedom in Vermont

Most of us believe that "freedom" is a good thing — that we deserve to pursue our ends without unjust interference from others, so long as we don't use our freedom to diminish that of others. We believe the state we live in ought to conscientiously protect the freedom of its citizens, limiting their individual freedom only when it is clear that its exercise would result in greater harm to society as a whole.

But governments today regularly, sometimes aggressively, interfere with our freedoms. Two scholars at the libertarian Cato Institute have put together a Freedom Index of the fifty states using some 150 variables. It identifies those states most, and least, protective of three dimensions of freedom: fiscal, regulatory, and personal.

Any such exercise involves weighting a large number of factors. The Cato scholars readily admit that others could select different factors and different data to measure them, and that relative value of each data set necessarily depends on subjective weighting choices. What illustrates "freedom" for libertarians will not resemble the "freedom" conceived by socialists.

The Cato report, published at, thoughtfully provides the spread sheets whereby a reader can select his or her own data and weightings. "Our index of freedom," the authors write, "should be understood to represent each state's relative respect for freedom, as reflected in the value enjoyed by the 'average' person who would otherwise be deprived of the freedoms we measure...However, each individual will value different policies differently, and for that reason, again, we encourage readers to apply their own weights and personalize the freedom index."

Having said all that, let's look at how Vermont ranks, and how it compares with our neighbor New Hampshire. The Cato scholars derive their overall rankings by weighting fiscal freedom at 29.8 percent, regulatory freedom at 38.7 percent, and personal freedom at 27.4 percent. Overall, New Hampshire ranks first; Vermont ranks 40th.

In the fiscal policy category (taxation, debt, government employment), New Hampshire is a rousing first in the nation; Vermont is 47th. Curiously, Vermont ranks 50th — dead last — for its high level of state taxation, and 1st for its low level of local taxation. Why? Because since the passage of Act 60 in 1997, all public pre-K-12 education spending has become state spending. New Hampshire is 2nd lowest in state spending and 39th in local spending.

In regulatory policy (land use, environment, labor market, licensing, etc.), Vermont ranks 32nd, and New Hampshire only slightly more free at 29th.

In personal rights (incarceration, marriage equality, cannabis, alcohol, tobacco, gun rights, etc.) Vermont and New Hampshire are neck and neck at 10th and 9th respectively. Vermont's 14th ranking for "educational freedom" is based on its school choice history, although New Hampshire (8th) comes out slightly better because of its easier regulation of independent and home schooling.

Vermont's only unique first is in a category called "gun rights." New Hampshire comes in at 5th. Vermont, says the report, "is one of the lowest states for alcohol freedom, with a state monopoly over wine and spirits retail and beer wholesaling. It is one of the better non-initiative states for cannabis, with decriminalization and a reasonably broad medical law. However, maximum penalties are rather high, [and] high-level possession is a felony." (The index deliberately omits abortion and death penalty.)

Readers may, and certainly will, take issue with some of the data selected to illustrate the various components of freedom. Nonetheless, the Cato report is useful for refocusing our attention on the moral value of freedom and the opportunities for expanding it at the state level.

A key conclusion of the report is that "Americans cannot expect personal freedom to endure without high levels of economic freedom all three types of freedoms discussed in this index support one another."

The 18th century pioneers who founded this little republic intensely believed in freedom.. We would do well to recapture their passion for it.

— John McClaughry is vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute (

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