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Business Cycle Accounting for Argentina Utilizing Capital Utilization
We use a variation on the business cycle accounting method of Chari, Kehoe and McGrattan (CKM) to study the business cycle in Argentina from 1972 to 2006. The method uses real data together with the equilibrium conditions of a prototype growth model to measure four wedges that are explained by the variables of the model. These wedges can be viewed as distortions from a perfectly competitive economy and represent the result of a set of policies and institutions which affect productivity and factors input. The accounting procedure allows us to analyze the Argentine economy over a time period that has been subjected to several structural breaks that can be associated with different economic regimes. CKM show that a large class of economic models, including those with various additional features (e.g., financial frictions, nominal rigidities, entrepreneur decisions, and monetary shocks) are equivalent to a prototype growth model with time-varying wedges. Institutions, public policies, fiscal, monetary, income and labor policies affect the four wedges and therefore affect the allocations of capital and labor, net exports and productivity in the economy. In their standard model for business cycle accounting, CKM use four wedges that are explained by four variables of the model. In our paper we emphasize the evolution of labor and capital wedge as well as that of factor productivity. The growth accounting technology provides an alternative window through which we can decompose the economic history of a country. The narrative of economic history frequently points out that particular policies were favorable to one or another factor or that much of the evolution of the period was based on Solow residuals or total factor productivity. The growth accounting technique allows us to decompose the business cycle and growth of Argentina into a net export component, a total factor productivity component, and components that functions as taxes on labor and on capital. Determining which wedges are most important for explaining the Argentine business cycle is a first step towards determining which frictions are most important in generating a productive RBC model of Argentina, especially if these models are to be used for forecasting or for analyzing monetary policy and monetary transmission channels. This paper makes two contributions to the literature. First, we provide a method for extracting the wedge that functions as a capital tax by adding to the model capital utilization as a household decision variable and then applying the data on capital utilization to the wedge extraction process. Applying the model to Argentina, we find that all four wedges are important in explaining the evolution of output over this period (although net exports is the least important). With this method, the wedge for the tax on capital makes a substantial contribution in the explaining the business cycle of Argentina (while the earlier method resulted in very little explanatory power for the capital wedge for the United States). This result may come from the method or may come from the greater importance that the capital wedge has in Argentina. Notable is the large negative correlation between total factor productivity wedge and the capital tax wedge. The second contribution is applying this method to Argentina and comparing the results of the growth accounting technique to the narrative history. The major political subperiods can be charaterized by the relative importance of each wedge.
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Volume (Year): 1 (2008)
Issue (Month): 50 (January - March)
Pages: 97-125
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- V. V. Chari & Patrick J. Kehoe & Ellen R. McGrattan, 2002. "Business cycle accounting," Working Papers 625, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
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- Neumeyer, Pablo A. & Perri, Fabrizio, 2005. "Business cycles in emerging economies: the role of interest rates," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 52(2), pages 345-380, March.
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Vital Records
The University of Kentucky hosts a very valuable death, marriages, and divorce index online at http://ukcc.uky.edu/~vitalrec/. The data were obtained from the Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics.
Death records are available from two searchable databases, one on deaths from 1911-1986, and the other including death information from 1987-1992. Names may be searched by surname, plus or minus the given name, and with or without a five-character county code for place of death or residence at time of death. Searches stop when 35 individuals are returned, so it is very helpful when searching common surnames to use given names and/or place information as well.
Marriages and divorces may also be searched from 1973-1993, by either the wife's or husband's name. The data returned from a successful marriage search includes both the groom's name and wife's maiden name, race, county(ies) of residence, and the county and date of marriage. Divorce information available includes both the husband's and wife's name, race, and county(ies) of residence, the date and county of divorce, and the year of the marriage.
The information obtained in these death, marriage, or divorce records will help Kentucky researchers locate vital statistics on their family members, as well as providing specific information that is useful in ordering certified copies of these documents from the Kentucky Cabinet of Health or appropriate county offices. For more information on ordering Kentucky vital records, see http://chfs.ky.gov/dph/vital/.
Early Kentucky Tax Lists 1792-1840
If a person owned land, rented land, or had livestock (even just a horse) in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, then they had to pay taxes. Women, free Blacks, and veterans can be found on these tax lists. The taxes for all land owned was done in the county of residence, regardless of if you owned land in the neighboring counties.
Disappearing from the tax lists did happen. If a person died, his widow could appear in the next tax list, unless she had already died. Or he may have moved across county lines. Alternatively, county lines may have shifted such that a family or an entire town "moved" into another county.
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London (ANI): Music icon Madonna is making sure that son David Banda has someone of his own colour in the house by adopting a baby girl named Mercy from Malawi. Despite the controversy caused by Madonna"s adoption of toddler David, she has been given the go-ahead to adopt the 13-month old orphan who she calls 'her smiling angel". Determined to avoid the wrangling that went on when she took David home, Madge has told her her lawyer in Malawi, Alan Chinula, to "cover all legal bases" before she collects Mercy next April, reports The Sun.
A close family source revealed that the singer was ecstatic about adding another baby to the family. "Madonna"s over the moon that she"s been told she can take Mercy. She didn"t want another complicated adoption," the paper quoted the source, as saying. "Mercy is a beautiful baby girl. She"s so joyful and happy and giggles every time she"s picked up. Madonna just loves the way she claps her hands and laughs constantly. She has huge, dancing eyes. Madonna calls her her smiling angel," the source added. Madge will file papers in February, a month after David"s adoption is finalised. The singer"s camp has however declined to comment about Mercy.


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Woman's Presents, Christmas Ham Taken By Thieves
Just days before Christmas, a burglar robbed a north Columbus woman of everything – including her grandchildren's gifts and her Christmas dinner.
Jacqueline Manter said that the base of her Christmas tree had been filled with wrapped toys until a Grinch stole them from her Broad Meadows Boulevard apartment while she was at work on Saturday night.
Manter said that her 1-year old granddaughter and her 4-year-old grandson were supposed to spend the night at her house opening presents.
"I had to call and cancel that, because I don't have anything to give my grandkids or my children," Manter said. "I just couldn't believe it. The guy approached me when I was coming in and said he noticed that my window was open."
Manter said that she immediately came into the bedroom of her apartment, because she felt a chill and said that she noticed a locked window had been forced open. She said that is how the burglar got into her home.
"I'm devastated," Manter said. "It's sickening. I just don't understand why people do this."
Thieves not only got away with presents, they also left with her TV and her Christmas dinner ham.
"I work hard. I worked 70 hours a week through the holidays, just so I could have a good Christmas for my kids, and now it's gone and ruined," Manter said.
According to Manter, police took a report but were not able to pull any fingerprints from her apartment.
She said that she now is concerned for other families this holiday season.
"I'm sure they're out there getting as many people as they can, and that's your concern," Manter said. "They need to be stopped. We hear it all the time. Every day, somebody is getting robbed."
Police said that they were asking residents to remain extra vigilant during the holiday week. They asked that residents keep an eye on their neighbors, reporting suspicious activity to Columbus police at 614-645-4545.
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And it's real, and it's real, one more time
Commenting on US healthcare reform over at Joe's blog reminded me that I recently watched a BBC Horizon documentary called Pill Poppers, about our increasing appetite for, and dependence on, medication. They interviewed various people addicted to prescription or over-the-counter drugs, such a painkillers containing codeine. These typically don't contain enough codeine to have any effect on their analgesic power (beyond what the aspirin or ibuprofen in each tablet is already providing) but do contain enough to get you addicted.
Our government may be too scared of the power of the big pharmaceutical companies to take them on by trying to ban over-the-counter codeine, but it's perfectly happy to propose to ban mephedrone (a qat derivative, so I suppose it's like privet in a pill)(yecch). Once again, the sane advice of the chair of the Independent Committee on Drugs - the same guy who when he was the government's own advisor warned them not to recriminalise cannabis use - is ignored. Because who wants independent scientific advice when it's so much easier to listen to political appointees who are constantly lobbied by the tabloid press to fight a "War On Drugs"?
So the government takes a firm line on making legal drugs illegal, but only if they're pleasurable and not addictive. If they reduce you to a dependent mess but donlt make you feel good they;lre OK.
Hands up if you remember this song, which kept running through my head as I watched the Horizon documentary.
While Anna Wayland doesn't have Buffy Sante-Marie's amazing voice, she does the whole song in this clip:
For me, the saddest lines in the whole song are these:
But, if I die tomorrow, still one thing I've done,
I've heeded the warning that I got when I was young.
My one satisfaction, it comes when I think
That I'm livin' my life without bendin' to drink.
Not just sad in themselves, but a perfect analogy for our government's missing the point and warning against all the wrong things through ignorance.
Someone once wrote in to Broadside magazine to say that when he'd first heard the song he'd thought the refrain was "It's real", while the published lyrics (following on from the line "I'll reel and I'll fall and I'll rise on codine") gave it as "It's reel", which he felt was a far less powerful image. Buffy Sainte-Marie said that in fact she'd had both meanings in mind, in a kind of poetic pun, so that it would be more accurate to think of the refrain as "And it's reel/real, and it's reel/real, one more time". So now you know.


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Genres: Young Adult
Pages: 432
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Sydney has always felt invisible. She's grown accustomed to her brother, Peyton, being the focus of the family's attention and, lately, concern. Peyton is handsome and charismatic, but seems bent on self-destruction. Now, after a drunk-driving accident that crippled a boy, Peyton's serving some serious jail time, and Sydney is on her own, questioning her place in the family and the world. Then she meets the Chatham family. Drawn into their warm, chaotic circle, Sydney experiences unquestioning acceptance for the first time. There's effervescent Layla, who constantly falls for the wrong guy, Rosie, who's had her own fall from grace, and Mrs. Chatham, who even though ailing is the heart of the family. But it's with older brother Mac—quiet, watchful, and protective—that Sydney finally feels seen, really seen, at last. Saint Anything is Sarah Dessen's deepest and most psychologically probing novel yet, telling an engrossing story of a girl discovering friendship, love, and herself.
Until I started blogging I hadn't heard of Sarah Dessen – blasphemous I know. Clearly I needed to get butt in gear but where to start?? Some would say the beginning, some random but I went with the latest – Saint Anything.
Sydney is dealing with the after effects of her brother, who severely injured someone in a drunk driving accident and is now serving time in prison. He had previously been in and out of trouble something which also affected Sydney. She switched schools, has to make new friends, try and deal with her parents and her brother's creepy friend Ames who is always around.
"That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are."
I really liked Sydney. I totally felt with her in her situations. Her mother was so preoccupied with her brother, even while in prison, and her father was just kind of hands off that she got overlooked a lot. She was also a tiny bit awkward which I totally get. She did, however, have what I thought was big but believable growth throughout. She started being more outgoing with her new friends at her new school, being more forward with Mac and pushed her wants and needs with her parents, even if they ignored them.
Her mother was one of those characters I would have liked to smack some sense into. She was so obsessed with her brother and planning vistits, and trying to reach out to other parents there to set up dinners and all sorts of odd things. At some point I think Sydney compared it to her acting like she was in prison PTA. And the father – I mean step up and say something instead of ignoring it. He did kind of show up at the end at least.
"You only really fell apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together."
Layla was amazing. She loved french fries and has crazy rules and intricate eating preparations for them. She had me there! BUT she was also an amazing friend for Sydney. She was super perceptive to what Sydney was feeling and always tried to help out and was protective. Also the rest of her family, including her mother, was a place Sydney felt comfortable just being. Mrs. Chatham was definitely a place for Sydney to sound off her feelings at and get a good honest view from a mother without judgment. I really like their exchanges.
"Now that I'd been real and fist to someone, I never wanted to be invisible again."
Then there was Mac, Layla's brother. I loved him. He was quiet but not in a creepy way. More in a takes it all in way. I thought the relationship with Sydney was adorable and took a realistic path. It was slow and they started out as friends. You knew he was a winner by the way he treats his family especially his mother.
One of my biggest lessons in this book is one I believe strongly – TRUST YOUR GUT. If you think something or in this case someone is creepy or weird or just not right than you are probably right. Here pretty much everyone but SYdney's parents and her brother could tell that her brother's friend who hangs around the family, Ames, is a super creeper. She doesn't tell her parents her feelings (dumb dumb move) which allows him to constantly be around. He was super creepy. I am not sure how many times I have or can use that word but that's what he was so I'll say it again – CREEP, CREEPER, CREEPY!!
SIDE NOTE I loved how the title and the cover related back to the story.
"The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything."
So I am a Sarah Dessen virgin no longer. I really enjoyed this book, its story and characters. This will certainly not be my last Sarah Dessen either!


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The rap mogul says people should record a new song instead of remixing Michael Jackson's 'We Are the World' which he claims untouchable like 'Thriller'.
Knowing that many people wonder why he preferred not to contribute to recent "We Are the World" remake project, Jay-Z shared his insight, stating he has an "interesting take on that [matter]." The rapper explained that nothing, even if it's filled with star-studded ensemble, could ever come close to the original song.
"I know everybody is gonna take this wrong: 'We Are the World,' I love it, and I understand the point and think it's great. But I think 'We Are the World' is like [Michael Jackson's] 'Thriller' to me," he told MTV at the annual "2 Kings" dinner during NBA All-Star weekend. "I don't ever wanna see it touched."
"I'm a fan of music. I know the plight and everything that's going on in Haiti. I applaud the efforts: [Millions have been raised] through text [donations] to Haiti. So I appreciate the efforts and everything, but 'We are the World' is [musically] untouchable like 'Thriller' is untouchable. Some things are just untouchable. It was a valiant effort, but for me, it's gonna be untouchable."
In further statement, Jay-Z said he loves the idea of making a new song instead of revamping the classic song. "As everyone knows, I have tremendous respect for Quincy Jones. Of course, I think he's genius, as everyone else does. [But] I think it's time for us to make a new [song]. I tried to do that with 'Stranded,' [the song Jay, Rihanna and U2's Bono and The Edge premiered at the 'Hope for Haiti Now' telethon]. I didn't try to make 'We Are the World,' but I tried to make our take on how we felt."


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Compassionate commerce
In the days of the Buddha, people generously supported monks and nuns. They gave them food, clothing, medicine, land, and buildings. And the monks and nuns taught — freely. Many people nowadays, thinking back to that arrangement, say "meditation should be free" or "it's wrong to charge for Dharma (Buddhism) classes."
Of course the Dharma was never free! It was free at the point of delivery, in that monks didn't charge for classes. But enough people supported the monastics for them to be able to do that. It's that half of the equation that gets forgotten when people are saying, in effect, "give me meditation — and don't charge me!"
Unfortunately, this rarely works as a business model these days. There are exceptions. For example, I used to run a retreat center where we had no charges for retreats, but only "suggested donations." A few people couldn't pay much, and sometimes they couldn't pay anything. Some people were able to give more than the suggested donations. It all balanced out, although we had at least one scary year that I can recall. But because those of us who lived there were paid next to nothing (at one point I got room and board and $25 a week in my pocket), things worked out.
We tried a similar experiment here on Wildmind a few years ago. We ran meditation classes. We told people roughly how much they should pay if they wanted to cover the cost of the class. And we told them they could pay whatever they wanted. A disappointingly large number of people opted to pay nothing. They wanted someone to work with them every day, coaching them in meditation, and were quite happy not to give that person anything in return.
I'm sure those people, in their everyday lives, tip their waitresses and busboys the going 15% or 20%. But those are people they can see, and there are the subtle emotional exchanges that go on in face-to-face encounters. Those people know that they'd be (literally) looked at with disapproval if they didn't tip. And so they go along with giving the tip. But on a shopping cart on the internet, there are no dirty glances. The shopping cart accepts $100 or $1 with the same bland, preprogrammed response. So we sadly had to give up our experiment in offering courses for donations. It just didn't work, or at least we couldn't get it to work.
So we charge for classes. We're always willing to be flexible, of course, and we accommodate people who have little or no money. We've had meditation students from developing nations who have access to a computer but for whom any sum in dollars is a fortune. We've had meditation students from rich nations who've been disabled or unemployed. We don't turn people away. It seems to work. I'd rather we could find a way to do classes by donation, but that's hard over the internet.
The other thing we do is to run an online store. We sell some CDs and MP3s of our own meditation teaching, and we sell a few other goods. Recently we started selling malas (meditation rosaries) made by a Buddhist inmate who is earning some money to help him get set up after he's released from prison in 15 months or so. He's a good guy. Do feel free to support him.
We sell a few ritual and decorative items. Your buying those things helps us to make meditation materials available free of charge. We have hundreds of pages of meditation instruction available free on this site. It also helps us to do things like go into prisons and teach inmates how to turn their lives around.
Buying something from our store is the modern equivalent of giving food, clothing, and shelter to the monks. It's a compassionate activity; a gesture of support and encouragement. Plus you get nice guided meditations or rosaries! And we in turn try to be compassionate with our commerce, accommodating those of limited means, and giving up our time to teach bricks-and-mortar classes and retreats, with no payment in return.


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Enhancing school quality
Published: Jul 19, 2013
If you should check some of the most prominent Caribbean newspapers you would find that recently much is being written about the quality of education in Caribbean schools; and the relevance of this education for the workplace and the society at large.
Anthony Griffith, a former senior lecturer in education at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, recently wrote an article in the newspaper the Nation News titled "Schools in need of upgrade".
In it, he advocates that the focus should be on enhancing the use of technology and electronics to improve teaching and learning, and the quality of administration in the schools. He further observes that most, if not all of the schools in his country are acutely in need of more effectively functioning computer labs offering more regular and organized access by a greater number of students to the Internet. Also, he says that, in some schools, teachers face challenges in getting classroom learning materials copied or printed for their students and some are forced to copy, or print, these materials at their own expense.
The former senior lecturer again states that the quality and level of technical instruction in secondary schools in his country needs to be upgraded, and that a tertiary level institution of technology, offering training in a number of technical areas, would be critical to this upgrading. He then questions how many of his country's schools have, or can claim to have, a real genuine library or resource center, and notes that access to quality learning resources is critical to student success.
These observations by Griffith are not new. Indeed, I had thought that many of the issues he raised had been solved. But it seems that where education in the Caribbean is concerned, nothing really changes significantly. We would have thought that the use of various types of technology in the schools generally was common. But this seems not to be the case. Indeed Griffith is right that the enhanced use of technology improves teaching and learning, and school management. But the educator does not say what kind and quality of technology, and what outputs would result.
The constant cry in many Caribbean schools is access by a greater number of students to the Internet and, of course, the problem of relevant teaching and learning materials has persisted, where teachers, in many instances, have to copy and print materials at their expense. Yet, society expects good results from the schools. I have known of some tertiary institutions that deny students access to the Internet, even though these students have access in their homes.
Technology in many institutions is regarded as a status symbol, rather than an educational tool. It makes learning easier and economizes on time. It also facilitates research into areas of knowledge that most teachers do not have, if they are not with it, and this makes the formal textbook as we know it of limited use since in many areas the information is more current and is more readily shared.
Technology in the classroom also places the student on par with the teacher, knowledgewise, and with different programs for different areas knowledge acquisition and use become easier. It also makes better management of information through storage, retrieval and the updating and better organization of such information. Schools should therefore allocate a high percentage of their resources to its upgrading and use.
On the issue of the quality and level of technical instruction in secondary schools, and the need to upgrade it, I agree with Griffith. I have known of persons who say their area is technical education, but lack content and methodology. And some overseas examination bodies have complained that the depth and expanse of knowledge required were lacking in the performance of students whose papers they saw.
Also, it is not clear what students in these technical areas would be able to do on leaving their institutions, what their level of performance is and where they could be placed in the workplace based on the qualifications they bring to it. Furthermore, there seems to be a disconnect between the school and the workplace as to what is required. Some instructors also have never had experience of working on a worksite. They only have formal book knowledge and cannot relate it to the practical area concerned. Some even have difficulty processing and interpreting the knowledge. In this case, both the school and its clients are disadvantaged. The educational institutions need to remedy these issues if school quality is to be enhanced.
Again, I agree with the writer of the article that a tertiary level institution offering programs in the various areas of technology would be able to fix the technology deficit in schools, and so upgrade their programs. And the question posed by the article concerning how many schools have, or can claim to have, a real genuine library or resource center is a valid one. A quality school with quality learning programs is essential to a quality education. We can't expect students to perform to expectations if the schools are not provided with the educational assets to make this happen.
In addition to having various modern technologies, the quality school needs to have professional teachers who are well qualified in their area. Their subject concentration should be broad, including a number of courses relating to the same area. And they should be trained in how to teach at the secondary level. They should be able to challenge students, enriching their critical faculties, and encourage them to be creative, and innovative. In addition, the quality school requires its teachers to be kind, gentle and caring persons, who do not shout at or threaten students.
Any challenges should be approached through professional counseling, since each educator would be required to be a professional counselor as well. And the environment of the school should be pleasant, welcoming and people centered; its management efficient and professional, and it should be representative of the kind and quality of positive values that operate in the wider society itself.
• Oliver Mills is a former lecturer in education at the University of the West Indies Mona Campus. He holds an M.Ed degree from Dalhousie University in Canada and an MA from the University of London. He is a past permanent secretary in education with the government of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Published with the permission of caribbeannewsnow.com.


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A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of being invited to a cooking lesson and lunch with four awesome bloggers and Fast Ed (Halmagyi) as seen on Better Homes and Gardens, to talk about eggs! Thanks to Australian Eggs. Egg-xellent. (Oh yeah, I just had to throw that in).
Left to right: Marissa, Me, Tenille, Ed, Lisa and Seana.
I'll be the first to admit I am no whizz in the kitchen, and you probably won't find me watching a cooking show unless I've lost the remote. Eggs are something I usually put into whatever I'm cooking, and they rarely star as the main. Mostly because I figure the kids won't eat them, ok a couple of them will eat them but hey I have to cook for eight three times a day – everyone is having the same thing kids! But I'm getting off track. Back to my first ever cooking lesson, it was much more interesting than I thought it was going to be. I came away knowing things about eggs I had no idea about before, and yay for me I was able to successfully do this stuff at home!
Getting down to the business of cooking eggs, Ed whipped us up a Frittata which was damn good. I went home and recreated them for the inlaws the very next day. Grab the recipe below.
On to dessert. Ed put us to work in the kitchen, where we made cinnamon spiced zucchini bread, and educated us on some egg facts, a lot of which were news to me. Did you know that eggs are high in protein, and a high protein diet is recommended for weight loss. And there are different uses for fresh and slightly old eggs? I didn't. Fresh eggs are best used for poaching and frying, because they hold their shape in the pan. Older eggs can be used for boiling and scrambling, in fact using an older egg to boil is better as it is harder to get the shell off a fresh egg.
Do you know how hold a knife properly? I was given an education on how it is done. Yes it probably was a very good idea to lean back a bit there Tenille 😉
More eggy facts and recipes can be found at www.eggs.org.au or www.eggsaseasyas.com.au So there you have it, eggs! I've been introducing egg recipes into the dinner menu for the kids these past few weeks, and they're doing well, especially if I tell them they are egg cakes 😉
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The United States Coast Guard (USCG) was born on August 4th, 1790 as what was then known as the 'Revenue Marine' and, later, the 'Revenue Cutter Service'. Its duties have always involved policing American waters in an effort to curtail various smuggling operations into and out of the United States as well as enforcing maritime laws while protecting vital regions. At the time of its inception, the USCG stood as the only armed surface fleet in service with America (the Navy Department was not formed until 1798). It was not until 1915 that the Revenue Cutter Service and the Life-Saving Service were melded together to become the 'United States Coast Guard' that we know today.
The USCG operates under the banner of the Department of Homeland Security in times of peace. During wartime, by order of the President, the USCG falls under management of the United States Navy (USN) and, as such, has ranks (or 'rates') that follow very much in line with those as offered by the USN (with the exception of the 'Seaman' recruit rank and some insignia colors).
Women first made their mark in the USCG in the 1830s and USCG members were active participants (and award recipients) during the famous D-Day landings at Normandy, France on June 6th, 1944. Today, the USCG operates small- and medium-class surface ships, rescue helicopters, fixed-wing surveillance aircraft and several UAVs.


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The 500L is only available with front-wheel-drive. Even the Mini is only available with all-wheel-drive at the top of lineup. Neither car is a faithful design follower of the iconic original; the Fiat less so. Neither car is particularly quick. Both cars feature highly stylized interiors, neither of which is roomy like a proper SUV. By Mini standards, the Countryman isn't pretty. By car standards, the Fiat is ill-proportioned.
Regardless of their stark differences and apparent similarities, it's safe to project approximately 20,000 annual U.S. sales for the 500L, based on the Mini Countryman's total. Fiat USA will likely sell around 43,000 500s in 2012.
If the 500L can find 20,000 buyers in 2013 while selling another 43,000 500 hatchbacks, where does this position the Fiat brand?
Strictly judged by volume, Fiat would only barely be trailing Mini. Fiat would be selling nearly as many cars as Volvo and would be selling twice as many vehicles as Porsche.
Even if the 500L becomes a 20,000-units type of vehicle, Fiat won't sell 20,000 in what will be an abbreviated 2013 launch year. Yet we can still expect to see Fiat's 2013 year-end volume climbing at least 40% even if the 500 posts no year-over-year sales increase.
Check out historic monthly and yearly sales figures for the regular Fiat 500, Mini Cooper range, Mini Countryman, and any other vehicle or brand by making your selection at GCBC's Sales Stats home. U.S. brand rankings, where Fiat ranked 29th in October and Mini ranked 24th, can be accessed here.


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Gregory J. Redding ,
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington
Dr. Redding received his medical degree from Stanford University after obtaining a Bachelor's Degree in Biology at the University of California in San Diego. He completed his pediatric residency at Harbor General/UCLA and his pediatric pulmonary fellowship at the University of Colorado. In 1980, he developed the Pediatric Pulmonary Sectio. In 1992 he becameChief of the Pulmonary and Sleep Division. He is a Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Pediatric Pulmonary Training Center grant. Dr. Redding is committed to improvement in children's health and health care through research, training , and clinical excellence.
Dr. Redding is a nationally recognized expert and leader in pediatric pulmonary medicine; he has received the Edwin L. Kendig Award for lifetime achievements in pediatric pulmonary medicine from the American Academy of Pediatrics. His clinical scope is broad, though he is specifically interested in children with thoracic deformities/scoliosis, interstitial lung diseases, and asthma.
Dr. Redding's many research interests, include the pathogenesis of chronic lung disease in developing countries, disorders of the thoracic cage and their treatments, and interstitial lung disease in children. His philosophy on training and education is to assure independent and critical thinking and the application of physiologic principles to clinical problems. He mentors and actively promotes the success of all members and trainees within the Pulmonary Division.
Department of Pediatrics: http://depts.washington.edu/pedspulm/bioredding.htm
Associate Director
Maida Lynn Chen ,
Maida Lynn Chen, MD, is director of the Pediatric Sleep Center and attending physician at Seattle Childrens Hospital and associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She earned her MD at Northwestern University and completed a pediatrics residency at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center. She completed her pediatric pulmonary fellowship at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, with special focus on respiratory control and sleep medicine.
Her clinical interests center on sleep disorders in infants, children and adolescents. Her research interests focus on respiratory control disorders and sleep-disordered breathing in special-needs populations, including those with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, obesity and craniofacial anomalies. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Thoracic Society, American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Society.
Department of Pediatrics: http://depts.washington.edu/pedspulm/biochen.htm
Nursing Faculty
Marijo M. Ratcliffe ,
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Interests: providing pulmonary specialty direct care to children with chronic pulmonary conditions and their family from infancy through teen years. Teaching advanced practice students in both the clinical and classroom arena to promote understanding of basic anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology of pulmonary conditions & management to plan for and facilitate the child's development with a chronic condition. Facilitate/provide: family education, specialty provider partnership with Primary Care Provider and school/daycare, research collaboration, Quality Improvement programs, advocacy for legislation, systems and policies to support CSHCN.
Jennifer Sonney ,
PhD, ARNP, PPCNP-BC
UW SoN Faculty Profile: https://nursing.uw.edu/person/jennifer-sonney/
Gail Kieckhefer ,
PhD, ARNP
PPC Nursing faculty Consultant
School of Nursing: https://nursing.uw.edu/about/faculty-staff/faculty-profile/gail-kieckhefer
Carla Salldin ,
PPC Family/Parent Consultant
A part of my work with the Pulmonary Training Center is to help families bring their voice to the faculty and trainees, enhancing partnerships and improving educational outcomes and to strengthen the foundation of incorporating Family-Centered Care principals into their work through this family partnership. I recruit families to host a healthcare trainee in their home, where the family may bring the trainee to their child's school, have a dinner outing or a park adventure. I encourage families to participate and become advisors in an arena that is comfortable to them, to think about a partnership in their child's healthcare and community settings. Families are a valuable asset to improving systems, education, advocacy, at any level, from the Dr. Visit to the national stage of policy making. Find your passion and speak up.
My passion is to bring families and professionals together to enhance outcomes of Family-Centered Care through education and partnership building.
Nutrition Faculty, PPC and Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities
Mari Mazon ,
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Center on Human Development and Disability (CHDD), University of Washington
Mari Mazon completed her Master of Science in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Washington, where she also trained as a LEND nutrition trainee. She currently provides nutrition services at the CHDD Child Development Clinic, PKU Clinic, and Biochemical Genetics Clinic, and at Kindering, an early intervention center serving families in Bellevue and Bothell. As part of the nutrition Training Grant she receives from the Washington State Department of Health, she organizes training and continuing education opportunities for WA state registered dietitian nutritionist who work with children with special health care needs (CSHCN).
School of Public Health: http://sph.washington.edu/faculty/fac_bio.asp?url_ID=Obara_Mari
Social Work Faculty
Wendy Phipps ,
Social Worker | Pulmonary Clinic, Seattle Children's Hospital
Wendy received her BA in Psychology and Masters of Social Work from the University of Washington. She has been working as a medical social worker for over 10 years, with primary focus in Oncology and Pulmonary.She has a commitment to education and has served as a practicum instructor for the past 7 years.
Janice Sabin ,
PhD, MSW
Research Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, at the University of Washington.
Dr. Sabin's area of expertise is racial/ethnic health care disparities with an emphasis on understanding mechanisms and pathways that lead to unequal treatment in health care. Dr. Sabin is one of the earliest investigators in the nation to apply the science of unconscious bias to health care disparities research. She has designed and implemented original research as principal investigator or co-investigator in academic medicine, the Indian Health Service, the Washington State community mental health system, and with national samples. Her research includes examining patient-provider communication in real-world clinic visits in Baltimore, pediatricians' racial bias/discrimination in treatment decisions for African American and white patients, racial/weight bias among providers in the Indian Health Service, provider bias toward people with mental illnesses, and community based participatory research with African American and American Indian/Alaska Native people to develop culturally appropriate health education materials. She has developed interactive, web-based health disparities education materials for physicians and other providers. Dr. Sabin is affiliated faculty with the University of Washington, School of Medicine (UWSOM), Center for Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education: http://faculty.washington.edu/sabinja/index.html
Administrator, Pediatric Pulmonary Center Grant
Kelly Foong ,
Division Administrator, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, University of Washington
Kelly Foong is the Division Administrator for Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics. She has been with the University of Washington since 2000 and on the Pediatric Pulmonary Center (PPC) grant since 2012.
Laura Mansfield ,
Sr. Program Coordinator, Pediatric Pulmonary Center
Phone: 206.987.5644
Tony Jijina ,
Research Assistant, Pediatric Pulmonary Center
Breanna Kinghorn ,
Bre earned her MD and completed her pediatric residency at the University of Washington. Bre was a Seattle Children's Hospital regional pediatric hospitalist and Urgent Care physician for one year, and then practiced as an inpatient pulmonary hospitalist at Seattle Children's Hospital for two years prior to her fellowship. Her current research interests include pediatric non-CF bronchiectasis as well as pediatric interstitial lung disease.
Erin Mackintosh ,
Dr. MacKintosh completed her medical degree at the University of California, San Diego after time as a Biomedical Engineer designing implantable medical devices and accessories. She joined Seattle Children's Hospital for her pediatric residency and two years as an inpatient Pulmonary Hospitalist prior to pulmonary fellowship. Her professional interests include respiratory management of critically ill children and the use of technology to improve comfort and breathing for kids with chronic illness.
David Panek ,
David earned his MD at the Keck School of Medicine of USC in Los Angeles and completed his pediatric residency at the University of Vermont Children's Hospital in Burlington, Vermont. He is currently a first year pediatric pulmonary fellow at Seattle Children's Hospital with professional interests in cystic fibrosis, bronchoscopy, airway anomalies, and sleep medicine.
Laura Ellington ,
Laura received her medical degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. She completed her residency in pediatrics at the University of Washington and stayed on as a chief resident for an additional year. She has done global health research in Peru, and her professional interests include improving respiratory care for pediatric patients in low resource settings.
Long Term Trainee
Kaitlin Hoban ,
Kaitlin is a third year Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Student at the University of Washington. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of Portland and returned home after graduation to work as an RN at Seattle Children's Hospital. She has five years of experience working on the inpatient acute care Medical Unit seeing a variety of diagnoses. While she enjoys caring for patients of all specialties pulmonary is her passion, particularly patients that have tracheostomies. These patients require extensive partnering with families to educate and train them to care for their complex child at home.
Lisa Froling ,
Lisa Froling is from Plantation, Florida. She graduated from the University of Central Florida with a Bachelors in the Science of Nursing and a minor in Military science. After graduation she commissioned into the United States Army as a second lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps for 4 years. Lisa's experience is in the acute and critical care inpatient setting. However, primary and preventative care is her passion, and she is now is a second year Pediatric Nurse Practitioner student at the University of Washington.
Lisa along with her husband enjoy going on annual humanitarian health care missions. She has provided care in: Haiti, The Dominican Republic, and Nepal. She has a specific interest in the quality of life in patients and families with Cystic Fibrosis and in the development of public and community health initiatives to reduce the number of asthma related hospitalizations. She looks forward to working with an interdisciplinary team and developing the necessary skills to provide the best care possible for the pediatric population.
Alexis Russell ,
Alexis Russell is from Tacoma, Washington. She graduated from Pacific Lutheran University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. After graduation she began working as a registered nurse at Tacoma General emergency department. Her main career goal has been to work in pediatrics and she is now a third year Pediatric Nurse Practitioner student at the University of Washington.
Alexis has a specific interest in children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and how this genetic disorder affects their pulmonary function, sleep, and overall quality of life. She looks forward to working more with this population through the pulmonary fellowship to develop skills to provide evidenced-based, quality care to these children.
Elizabeth Andes ,
Liz is currently a third-year Master's of Social Work student at the University of Washington. She has worked in refugee resettlement for the past 6 years as a medical caseworker, helping families with complex medical and mental health needs access care. Liz is an avid hiker and a proud Sounders fan.


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Miley Cyrus Flashes Her Bra Post-Workout (PHOTOS)
Pop star Miley Cyrus is famous for her kinda inappropriate on-stage outfits but she may soon be known for her inappropriate off-stage outfits.
The 17-year-old singer was spotted leaving her gym in West Hollywood in a very confusing workout ensemble. The "Can't Be Tamed" songbird was spotted wearing a revealing white tank top riddled with holes, a lace-y black bra, and baggy gray sweatpants. Okay, so the old tank top and sweat pants seem perfectly fine, but the skimpy bra probably doesn't provide the best, er, support for a gal who is working out.
Perhaps next time Miley will remember to bring a gym bag because it looks like she had some trouble juggling her phone, Fiji water bottle, and car keys as she made her way for her car.
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Four-year-old Parker Bruesewitz appears to be enjoying his ride during the mutton busting contest at Saturday afternoon's performance of the 47th annual Falcon Frontier Days Rodeo at UW-River Falls Lab Farm No. 1. competitors from 14 collegiate rodeo clubs competing in the Great Plains Region of the NIRA took part in three performances last Friday and Saturday. The rodeo is the oldest and only collegiate rodeo held east of the Mississippi and is sponsored by the UW-RF Rodeo Club.


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Bioequivalence Study of Topiramate Tablets 25mg Under Fasting Conditions
This study has been completed.
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The objective of this study was to compare the single-dose relative bioavailability of Ranbaxy and Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical (Topamax®) 25 mg topiramate tablets following a 50 mg dose under fasting conditions.
|Drug: Topiramate
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: Open Label
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|Comparative, Randomized, Single Dose, 2-Way Crossover Relative Bioavailability Study of Ranbaxy and Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical (Topamax®) 25 mg Topiramate Tablets Following a 50 mg Dose in Healthy Adult Males Under Fasting Conditions
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Drug Information available for: TopiramateU.S. FDA Resources
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Bioequivalence evaluation of Topiramate 25mg tablets
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|September 2001
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|October 2001
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- 2000 mL of blood in 270 days,
- 2500 mL of blood in 1 year,
- Subjects who had participated in another clinical trial within 28 days of study start.
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The Night Skies of Yosemite National Park
After spending three summers shooting time-lapse of Yosemite's night skies, I finally got around to putting them all together for a new episode of Yosemite Nature Notes. When I bought a Canon 5D Mark II back in 2009, it was the first camera that I'd ever owned that allowed me to shoot astro time-lapse, so I began capturing the wonders of the universe that can be seen from Yosemite National Park. Like many shooters, I often focused on the incredible "clouds" of the Milky Way near Sagittarius, often puting a rock or a tree in the foreground for interest. Eventually, I realized that these types of images were becoming pretty generic, so by 2011 I began to focus on the bigger landscape of the park, trying to create shots that really said "Yosemite." Taking advantage of a 50% waxing moon about a week before full, the moonlight would set on Half Dome or other landforms, illuminating the landscape and yet still providing enough darkness to see the stars.
After my Moonbows episode came out in 2011, I used YouTube's powerful analytics to learn that viewers found the time-lapse shots of photographers more interesting than the actual moonbows, so I then decided to include more people and telescopes at the Glacier Point Star Parties. Finally, in August of 2012, I got my last interviews, picked up a few more Star Party shots, and with the help of climbing-bum/editor Jeff Lodas, knocked out the edit in about a week.
So far, this episode has been a smash hit, with over 100,000 views in its opening week, more than any previous episode has experienced. It may take a while before it breaks 4 million like Frazil Ice, but I do feel that this is one of the strongest episodes yet.
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Great episode Steve. I really wish I had known about all these great photo techniques when I lived in the valley. Do you know if there are any sites out there that someone can learn to do night photography like that? I'd really love to learn more before the next time I have a chance to head up to the valley.
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"There's a really great rapport between AMP and Australia Post; we've had a relationship for over 160 years, so there should be!" - Ajit Thillainathan, AMP's Head of Product Alliances, Banking & Wealth Management Products
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Australia Post processes and scans all AMP mail, improving delivery to staff and providing better service to AMP's customer base. AMP has integrated its systems with the Australia Post Digital MailBox and anticipates that using this digital communications platform will result in a material cost saving, while deepening customer engagement. "Lost" shareholders are relocated by comparing data against the Movers Database. AMP is the default superannuation fund provider for Australia Post's franchise employees, and the two organisations are constantly testing new collaborations and products.
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It looks like the EA Road and Track team have made things better with the release of the 3rd game in the trilogy. Improved graphics including brilliant light sourcing adds to the wonder behind this excellently-executed game. Your opponets AI is much improved and really keeps you on your toes as you're weaving in and out for position. If you want something fast and furious that offers you the chance of driving in a high-speed police chase where they use every trick in the book to drive you off the road, this is your baby.
I bought this game after hearing it was actually good but after playing it fr a while i realised it wasn't. It simply isn't as good as Gran Turismo or Ridge Racer in every category. The graphics are poor and it stutters. The choice of cars is poor compared to Gran Turismo 1 or 2. The choice of tracks is poor compared to all other racing games. The multiplayer mode is boring as is the challenge mode. The only good points i can pull out of it are the police chase mode and you can drive a mercedes f1 car. But NFS 4 has these so get that if any.
In this long anticipated second sequel many things have changed. Firstly the graphics are very good here and with the cars being modelled well it looks very realistic and is a thrill to play as the handling and sense of speed are amazing. You can choose from one of 8 tracks to race on and one of many cars to race in each looking and handling differently. The gameplay is always fast and furious and with lengthy tracks you're going to need patience as well as speed. Great for fans of the first 2 offerings and people new to the series will fall instantly in love with it!


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In the moment i'm in the middle of the course "Scriptwriting and book adaptation: TV series development and TV special" at the french animation school La Poudriere. It's an amazing place to study, each week we have professionals coming to us and helping with advices, workshops and one-to-one sessions. I'll write about our work more in details in the next post, when we will finish our pitching bible. Meanwhile i'll share this cute green monster with you!
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Tennessee power plants have landed the state on a list of the top 25 producers of greenhouse gas emissions from carbon monoxide, according to a report released today.
The state ranked No. 21 for the emissions of the greenhouse gas that has been under scrutiny in recent months by federal regulators, according to the report released by Ceres, a nonprofit energy research group.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected next month to release new guidelines to curb carbon emissions at existing power plants. It's part of a two-step process that the Obama administration is taking to stem climate change. Last September, the EPA announced limits on carbon emissions for new plants.
While Ceres has produced the report since 1997, Mindy Lubber, the president of the nonprofit, said attention on air emissions have grown in recent years.
"We've never released it as such a critical and opportune time," Lubber said in a conference call.
Electricity producers across the country have already be able to cut carbon emissions 13 percent between 2008 and 2012, Lubber said.
"The power sector has already begun to de-carbonized through increased investment in natural gas, renewables, and increased efficiency," Lubber said.
While some industry observers have warned of job losses and reduced economic activity as a result of the EPA's new carbon rules, Lubber said electricity producers have always founds ways to innovate and meet stricter standards.
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The report drew a straight line between carbon pollution and electricity production at coal-fired power plants. The report found that the Tennessee Valley Authority, the state's largest electricity producer, ranked fifth in both overall coal electricity production and emissions of carbon monoxide.
The federal utility is amid a $1.1 billion project to cut certain emissions other than carbon at its coal-burning power plant near Gallatin by as much as 96 percent.
Despite ranking in the top half of states for total carbon emissions, Tennessee's coal plants looked more favorable when comparing emission rates. In that list, the state was 32nd. Meanwhile, comparing emissions rates of all fossil energy produced, the state ranked 16th.
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Raiders captain David Shillington has encouraged hooker Travis Waddell to ''take control'' during his unexpected recall to the NRL, while former Queensland Origin player Ben Ikin says veteran Shaun Berrigan could be the solution to Canberra's dummy-half dilemma.
Two months into the NRL season and uncertainty still shrouds the Raiders' hooking role.
Glen Buttriss had seemingly stamped himself as the club's premier No.9, starting the past five games for the Raiders.
But an untimely knee injury to Buttriss in last Sunday's loss to the Cronulla Sharks has opened the door for Waddell to have yet another crack at dummy-half.
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Although he has played in the centres for the Raiders, from hooker Berrigan won the Clive Churchill medal as player of the grand final in Brisbane's 2006 NRL premiership. Ikin, who played with Berrigan at Brisbane, said he wouldn't let the Raiders down.
''While it's easy to say you can't win a grand final without a quality half, I think the hooker's become as important, if not more important, to a successful footy side,'' Ikin said.
''Dummy-half is such an important position because it's the smarts of your number nine that allows your forward pack to get the roll on to allow anything to happen.
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Samuel Stone (July 18, 1602 – 20 July 1663) was a Puritan Minister.
Stone was born in the town Hertford, in the county of Hertfordshire, England. In 1620, he left Hertford to study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from where he graduated in 1624. He was ordained on July 8, 1626 at Peterborough and a year later became curate at Stisted, Essex. In 1633, Samuel Stone and Thomas Hooker sailed across the Atlantic on a ship named the Griffin. They arrived in Boston on the 4th of September of the same year, and a few weeks later, Samuel Stone became Teacher of Church. In 1644, he became a Freeman.
In 1636, Stone and Hooker led their congregation from New Towne (now Cambridge, Massachusetts) and established a new colony at House of Hope (a Dutch fort and trading post), making peace with the local Indians and renaming the town they called Saukiog as Hartford, after Stone's birthplace - they thus became the town's founding fathers.
REV. Stone was twice married. By his second wife, Elizabeth Allyn, who he espoused in 1641, he had four (4?) surviving children -- a son Samuel and four daughters, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Mary and Sarah. Stone published "A Congregational Church, a Catholike Visible Church" London 1642, 4to, in answer to Samuel Hudson's Visible Catholick Church (1645, 4to) and left two works in manuscript: a catechism and a confustation of the Antinomians. (Winthrop's History of New England, ed 1853, i 108,109,115,142,235; Mather's Magnalia, ed 1853 i 434-8; Walker's first church in Hartford, passim; Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, v. 703).
Samuel Stone, grantee, bought land in district 376, 379, and 380 in February 1639, from John Stone, Mr. Wylilys, and Thomas Hooker. He sold land that same month in district 45, 330 (grantee not listed) and to John Marsh in District 376. On 6 May 1663 he sold land in district 122 (grantee not listed). June 1673 he sold land to George Gardner in district 358, and same month vol 1 pg 31, buyer not listed. January 9 1681 Samuel Stone is grantor in dist. 527; May 26 1683 in dist. 308 and Aug 31 1683 dist. 570 -- his last sale. In 1699 vol. 1 pg 197 is records grantor Samuel Stone, Est to John Roberts and Caleb Stanley.
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