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The Heart of the Hunter
by Natalie-Nicole Bates
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After a devastating accident, Barret Atkins has accepted a quiet, solitary existence. His life is turned upside down, when he finds the badly injured Kansas Smith, left for dead in a case of mistaken identity. As Kansas begins to recover, Barret must face some deep scars of his own. When the couple begin to fall for each other, their lives spin into a revival of past hurts, jealousies, and betrayals, causing Barret to put a halt to their budding relationship.
Barret's hesitation causes his best friend-turned vicious rival, Duncan Craig, to pursue a friendship with Kansas. Where will this leave Barret? Can they all hold on long enough to escape Kansas's attacker, and will they ever conquer their own inner demons intent on keeping them apart.
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Natalie-Nicole Bates is a book reviewer and author.
Her passions in life include books and hockey along with Victorian and Edwardian era photography and antique poison bottles. Natalie contributes her uncharacteristic love of hockey to being born in Russia.
She currently resides in the UK where she is working on her next book and adding to her collection of 19th century post-mortem photos.
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In 1966–just before Medicare and Medicaid
were launched–47 million Americans were uninsured. By 1975,
the United States had reached an all time low of 21 million without
coverage. Now, according to the Census Bureau's latest figures,
we're back where we started, with 47 million uninsured in 2006–up
2.2 million since 2005. But this time, most of the uninsured
are neither poor nor elderly.
The middle class is being priced
out of healthcare. Virtually all of this year's increase was
among families with incomes above $50,000; in fact, two-thirds
of the newly uncovered were in the above-$75,000 group. And full-time
workers accounted for 56 percent of the increase, with their
children making up much of the rest.
The new Census numbers are
particularly disheartening for anyone hoping for a Massachusetts
miracle. In the Commonwealth, 651,000 residents are uninsured,
65 percent more than the figure used by state leaders in planning
for health reform. Their numbers came from a telephone survey
done in English and Spanish. But that misses people who lack
a land-line phone–43.9 percent of phoneless adults are uninsured,
according to other studies.
It also skips over the 523,000
non-English speakers in Massachusetts whose native language isn't
Spanish (e.g. Portuguese, Chinese, or Haitian-Creole), another
group with a high uninsurance rate. In contrast, the Census Bureau
goes door-to-door for its survey and has translators for almost
every language. It gets a more complete picture.
In sum, Massachusetts health
reform planners have been wishing away a quarter of a million
uninsured people. Recent Patrick administration claims that health
reform is succeeding are based on cooked books. According to
the state's figures, almost half of the previously uninsured
gained coverage under the health reform bill by July 1. But according
to the Census Bureau, the new sign-ups amount to less than one-quarter
of the uninsured. Moreover, it's likely that much of that gain
has already been wiped out by shrinking job-based coverage–a
longstanding and nationwide trend.
Why has progress been so meager?
Because most of the promised new coverage is of the "buy
it yourself" variety, with scant help offered to the struggling
middle class. According to the Census Bureau, only 28 percent
of Massachusetts uninsured have incomes low enough to qualify
for free coverage. Thirty-four percent more can get partial subsidies–but
the premiums and co-payments remain a barrier for many in this
near-poor group.
And 244,000 of Massachusetts
uninsured get zero assistance–just a stiff fine if they don't
buy coverage. A couple in their late 50s faces a minimum premium
of $8,638 annually, for a policy with no drug coverage at all
and a $2,000 deductible per person before insurance even kicks
in. Such skimpy yet costly coverage is, in many cases, worse
than no coverage at all. Illness will still bring crippling medical
bills–but the $8,638 annual premium will empty their bank accounts
even before the bills start arriving. Little wonder that barely
2 percent of those required to buy such coverage have thus far
signed up.
While the middle class sinks,
the health reform law has buoyed our state's wealthiest health
institutions. Hospitals like Massachusetts General are reporting
record profits and enjoying rate increases tucked into the reform
package. Blue Cross and other insurers that lobbied hard for
the law stand to gain billions from the reform, which shrinks
their contribution to the state's free care pool and will force
hundreds of thousands to purchase their defective products. Meanwhile,
new rules for the free care pool will drastically cut funding
for the hundreds of thousands who remain uninsured, and for the
safety-net hospitals and clinics that care for them. (Disclosure–we've
practiced for the past 25 years at a public hospital that is
currently undergoing massive budget cuts.)
Health reform built on private
insurance isn't working and can't work; it costs too much and
delivers too little. At present, bureaucracy consumes 31 percent
of each healthcare dollar. The Connector–the new state agency
created to broker coverage under the reform law–is adding another
4.5 percent to the already sky-high overhead charged by private
insurers. Administrative costs at Blue Cross are nearly five
times higher than Medicare's and 11 times those in Canada's single
payer system. Single payer reform could save $7.7 billion annually
on paperwork and insurance profits in Massachusetts, enough to
cover all of the uninsured and to upgrade coverage for the rest
of us.
Of course, single payer reform
is anathema to the health insurance industry. But breaking their
stranglehold on our health system and our politicians is the
only way for health reform to get beyond square one.
Dr. Steffie Woolhandler
and Dr. David Himmelstein
co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program and are primary
care doctors at Cambridge Hospital.

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I just wanted to remind you of this project I made for Christmas last year. This is one of my favourite patterns ever and I am so looking forward to filling them up with goodies for our tree again. You can find the pattern here.
Lots of love,
Monday, October 26, 2015
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
How to Crochet a Mini Christmas Wreath
With Christmas creeping up (at least in the world of handmade as there is only so much 'making' time until December), I thought it would be fun to add a festive project to the Lakeside Cabin from "Let's Go Camping! Crochet Your Own Adventure". A wreath for the door. Of course, once I made that, the caravan (also in the book) looked bereft. Now, I can't stop making mini decorations....
p.s. please ignore the paint on my fingers in the photos.
gold or silver 4ply yarn
embroidery thread (or 4ply yarn) in red and green (or white)
Abbreviations (US terminology)
ch = chain
st/s = stitch/stiches
ss = slip stitch
sc = single crochet
sk = skip
N.B. All rounds are worked in continuous spirals
Round 1. Using 2.5mm crochet hook and gold yarn, ch10. Ss back into the first ch to form a loop.
Round 2. Working over the 10ch loop rather than into it, crochet 12sc evenly distributed around the loop. Ss back into the first sc. (12)
Round 3. *1sc, 2sc into the next st. Repeat from * until end of round. (18)
Round 4. *2sc, 2sc into the next st. Repeat from * until end of round. (24)
Round 4. *3sc, sk one st. Repeat from * until end of round. (18)
This will cause the wreath to start curving back around like a donut.
Round 5. *2sc, sk one st. Repeat from * until end of round. (12)
Fasten off leaving a long tail to sew the first and last round together through the central hole.
For the French Knots
Secure the thread to the wreath then wrap the needle anywhere between 1 - 4 times.
Place the tip of the needle back through the wreath and draw through the wraps.
After a few french knots have been embroidered, thread the needle with green yarn and scatter some straight stitches to create leaves. Continue on with french knots until you think "Wahoo".
At this stage, my wreath is so new I have it stuck to the caravan with a needle. However, because it's going onto the door temporarily, I will fastsen it on with small pieces of double sided sticky tape - then it will be easy to remove after Christmas.
The Lakeside Cabin wreath was made with a gold base and white embroidery thread for the french knots.
If you are feeling particularly festive, you could attach a brooch back and wear it on your shirt!
Let me know in the comment section below if you have any questions.
Lots of love,
Kate. xxx
Monday, October 12, 2015
Monday Morning
The boys are back at school today. The holidays have been wonderful but there is such a sense of joy that floods through my being when they hop onto the school bus ready to fill their minds with all sorts of things (mainly at lunchtime when they hang out with their friends).
As you've probably picked up over the past few years, I'm not one for housework. But there is something almost mystical about that moment when you sweep and the floor stays looking sparkly for more than 5 minutes. I'm having a moment aren't I!
Anyhoo - I wanted to show you the watercolour above that my neighbour Dominique painted for my birthday.
And that's me, blue hair and all, balancing on my own pair of stilts. I did have blue hair for the first half of this year but now it's blond. I like to think it's been captured for eternity in this painting. Look at the tiger's expression!
My dogs were looking a little sheepish this morning being used to store pav hats and birds so I had to take a photograph of them. Poor little things.
And I couldn't not show you my wisteria wisteriaring away. It's a glorious spot for a cup of tea or glass of wine.
And my first bunch of roses. Yip, yip, wahoo!
Lots of love,
Kate. xxx
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Birthday Presents!
I am feeling utterly spoilt today after a wonderful birthday yesterday. Hugo (9) and I were at the local market last week when I spotted a salad sprouting kit which I thought was wonderful. Hugo stowed it away, later explaining it to Jonno. And together, they made one just for me! Archie (12) snuck away an enormous and very much forgotten glass jar I had filled with odds and ends and turned it into the most beautiful terrarium. So I am feeling very fortunate. I'm so glad they already have that ethos we all cherish in blogland, of making something special for someone you love.
So today Hugo and I are going to start sprouting some seeds he bought. Very exciting..... watch this space!Lots of love,
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Mexico City – Last week, Mexican President Felipe Calderon gave the fifth state of the nation speech since his (many say fraudulent) election in 2006. He didn't have an easy time finding a positive spin for the escalating toll exacted by his war on drug gangs – 50,000 dead, mostly innocent civilians, in the last five years. Making his job even more difficult, just days earlier, the war's bloody cost was highlighted when 52 people, mostly working women and retirees on their lunch hour, were burned to death in a fire set by the Zetas in a Monterrey casino. Since then, Mexican newspapers have exposed a web of corruption linking businessmen, narcos and politicians from Calderon's own party in the enormous proliferation of gambling houses over the last several years.
Mexican casinos don't attract the wealthy, who congregate instead in Mexico City's rich neighborhoods, filled with glittering restaurants and shiny Hummers, patrolled by bodyguards to prevent the frequent kidnappings. Casinos are the refuge of Mexico's working poor, who hope a miracle of luck will pull them from the abyss of falling incomes and disappearing jobs.
That truth didn't make it into Calderon's improbably rosy assessment. But it did bring over 50,000 Mexicans into the capital's main square, the zocalo, where they publicly ridiculed the gulf between his speech and their reality. Humberto Montes de Oca, international secretary of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME), denounced Calderon for "trying to justify what he's done to the country. The people gathered here," he declared, "are the ones who've suffered under him. We know the way things really are. You can see the consequences of this terrible government in our lack of security and public safety and our economy. The truth is that he's destroying our country."
Humberto Montes de Oca.
The SME has been occupying over half the huge square at the city's heart since May, and they've been at war with Calderon since the government fired the union's 44,000 members in October of 2009. The national company that employed them, the Power and Light Company, provided electrical service for central Mexico, where a majority of the population live. Calderon dissolved it by executive fiat and brought in soldiers and police to expel the workers from the generating stations.
A fired electrical worker.
Successive governments have sought to privatize the electrical grid, although such a move is barred by the Mexican constitution. The union repeatedly mobilized the opposition of hundreds of thousands of city residents and prevented it, at least until that October. Once the company was dissolved, the government declared the union nonexistent (a decision later overturned by the courts, but ignored by Calderon). Over the last two years, this fight over the privatization of electricity and the smashing of one of Mexico's oldest and most democratic unions, has become a symbol of the administration's war on unions.
Protesters fill the zocalo, listening to speakers condemn the government.
Other unions have also felt the government's wrath and came to protest in the zocalo. One was the Mexican miners' union. In Cananea, a tiny mountain town south of Arizona with one of the world's largest copper mines, miners have been on strike for four years. The mine's owner, Grupo Mexico, belongs to the Larrea family, political allies of Calderon who contributed heavily to his election. This year, he repaid the debt. In the face of court decisions upholding the workers' right to strike, the government brought heavily armed police into Cananea and reopened the struck mine.
Striking miners from Cananea.
Hundreds of ex-employees of the country's national airline, Mexicana, joined miners and electrical workers as they marched into the zocalo. This year, the administration forced the company into bankruptcy and thousands of pilots, stewards and ground crew members suddenly found themselves out on the street. Their union charges that the bankruptcy was a sham. Instead, they say, Calderon's cronies stood to gain from the airline's eventual privatization. Meanwhile, the wealthy families who own Mexico's mushrooming private airline industry won the removal of their biggest competitor, at the cost of thousands of jobs.
Unemployed workers from Mexicana Airlines.
The hundred organizations that cooperated in organizing the zocalo protest called their rally the National Day of Indignant Mexicans. Their purpose was to present an alternative to the "official" picture painted by Calderon, and to call for a different direction for the country. They charged that, in five years, the number of Mexicans in poverty has grown by ten million, that working income has dropped by a third and that three million more people find themselves jobless. The crisis has hit especially hard at young people, who are the fastest growing segment of the population. Seven million of them can't find work and have no money to go to school.
"No blood, no hunger!"
Calderon's policies, which have produced these results, are part of a program of economic liberalization opening Mexico to private, domestic and especially foreign capital. Former Mexico City Mayor Manuel Lopez Obrador, who ran against Calderon five years ago and, most people believe, defeated him, says these reforms have been "imposed on Mexico from outside over the last two decades, including labor law reform, energy reform, fiscal reform and education reform." By outside, Lopez Obrador means from the colossus of the north – the US. In the wake of the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994, Mexico underwent a terrible economic crisis in which it lost a million jobs in a single year. The Clinton administration bailed out the government and its bondholders and, in the end, Mexico lost its financial system to Wall Street and London banks. Since then, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have indirectly written Mexico's economic policies.
Angry farmers protest corn dumping by US companies.
"At the same time," Lopez Obrador charges, "the fight against inequality and poverty is not on the national agenda." In 2010, Mexico had 53 million people living in poverty, according to the Monterrey Institute of Technology. Half the country's population lives in poverty and almost 20 percent in extreme poverty. Some estimate that there are more workers in the economy's informal sector than in the formal one. Even for those working, according to the Bank of Mexico, 95 percent of the 800,000 jobs created in 2010 paid only $10 a day. Yet, in a Tijuana or Juarez supermarket, a gallon of milk can cost even more than it would on the US side. In a recent diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks, the US government admits, "The net wealth of the 10 richest people in Mexico – a country where more than 40 percent of the population lives in poverty – represents roughly 10 percent of the country's gross domestic product." Carlos Slim became the world's richest man when a previous president, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, privatized the national telephone company and sold it to him. Ricardo Salinas Pliego, who owns TV Azteca, is now worth $8 billion, and Emilio Azcárraga Jean, who owns Televisa, is worth $2.3 billion. Both helped Calderon get elected in 2006.
Veterans of Mexico's social upheaval.
This is what the zocalo protesters want to change and why they call themselves "indignant Mexicans." Next year, in July, that chance will come again, as the country goes to the polls to elect a new president. The Constitution prohibits re-election, but Calderon's National Action Party will undoubtedly nominate a candidate who will defend the government's record and call for more of the same. Mexico's old ruler, the Party of the Institutionalized Revolution (PRI), has the support of many wealthy interests who have abandoned Calderon and is growing stronger after a decade in the political wilderness. It criticizes the president, but in practice, its representatives in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate propose and vote for the same policies.
Ismail Lopez, a retired electrical union member.
Lopez Obrador has fought with Mexico City's current Mayor Marcel Ebrard and other factions in the left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) over both his own future candidacy and his insistence on a total rejection of the government's policies and direction. Every week. he travels back and forth across Mexico, holding rallies in town after town, building a political coalition he insists isn't a new party, but could be an electoral base for change.
In the zocalo, Obrador had a lot of support, but many unions and popular organizations don't want to simply collapse into campaigning for a political party or its candidates. According to Montes de Oca, "We're in a building process. We're trying to speed that up, but we also need to consolidate our base and make it broader. What we really need is a social movement strong enough to force a change."


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One Man's Swamp Is a Fish's Nursery
Grad student examines otoliths (fish ear bones) to protect critical areas for juvenile coral reef fish
A parade of schoolmaster snapper swims by me, their neon yellow fins directing traffic. Echoing in the background is the rhythmic crunch of striped parrotfish nibbling on coral polyps. I'm chasing brightly colored coral reef fish through turquoise waters during a childhood vacation to the Cayman Islands. Back on land, the hotel I just left begins construction of a new tennis court where a mangrove swamp had flourished.
Like most tourists, I've come for the main show: magnificent coral reefs and the rainbows of fish that dance through them. As I diligently scour the reef for every fish on my checklist, I never stop to question where those fish came from or how they got there. Who would have guessed that it's what goes on behind the scenes, in mangrove swamps like the one my hotel just paved over, that keeps the main show on coral reefs going.
Mangroves are like nursery schools for many of the "celebrity fish," such as snappers, parrotfish, and barracuda, that attract millions of tourists to the Caribbean each year. Amid the mangroves' tangled undersea roots, juvenile coral reef fish are well-fed and protected from bullies and predators until they mature and can migrate out to populate coral reefs. These valuable nurseries are disappearing at an alarming rate, and so are the fish they support. It's ironic: The sweltering, mosquito-filled mangroves being so eagerly destroyed may be more important to tourism than the tennis courts and martini bars that replace them.
Scientists estimate we've already lost 30 to 60 percent of the world's mangroves. Meanwhile, more than 70 percent of all reefs are threatened by human activities—from farming and fishing to boating and coastal development. Coral reefs offer people living resources, from fish to ecotourism, worth more than $375 billion each year, according to the United Nations Environment Program. Such dollar figures emphasize the need for management practices such as marine reserves to protect these reefs and their resident fishes.
Which swamps should we protect?
It's been more than a decade since my childhood vacation to the Cayman Islands, and I'm still diving in the Caribbean. This time, however, it's as a Ph.D. student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program. I study the migration of schoolmaster snapper from their juvenile nurseries in mangroves to coral reefs. Unfortunately, we can't save all of the mangroves. My goal is to determine which mangroves and how many mangroves need to be included in marine reserves to safeguard coral reef fish for generations to come.
One of the biggest obstacles to protecting coral reef fish is identifying which juvenile nurseries supply the most fish to coral reefs. Let's suppose there were several schools that had fantastic teachers and ample resources. However, no one knew which of these schools graduated the most students into successful adults. That's the problem we are facing right now with coral reef fish. I am developing a method, using chemical tags in the ear bones of coral reef fish, to identify which juvenile nurseries are supplying fish to the adult populations on coral reefs.
Tracking the movements of marine animals has led to incredibly inventive techniques that would make Sherlock Holmes proud. Scientists studying big animals such as whales, sharks, and giant tuna can use sophisticated electronic tags that beam data directly to their offices via satellite as these animals make spectacular ocean migrations.
The fish I study are far too small for that: If I put such tags on a juvenile snapper, it would sink to the bottom like a rock. To find out where my fish have traveled, I need something a little more subtle.
Chemical clues in fish's ear bones
Studying biology and chemistry as an undergraduate at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, gave me the idea to approach ecological questions such as fish migration from a chemical perspective. Mangrove swamps contain carbon, oxygen, and sulfur with distinctive stable isotopes—natural, nonharmful variations in elements that act like a unique chemical address. Following the old adage "you are what you eat," the tissue of snappers living and feeding in a mangrove system get imprinted with that mangrove system's stable isotope values, like a chemical address label.
The tissue I'm interested in is called an otolith. It's an ear bone made of calcium carbonate and protein that helps fish maintain their balance. As the fish grows, its otoliths form sequential rings, much like a tree trunk, corresponding to different times in the fish's life. The chemical makeup of each ring tells us where the fish had been living during that period of time—a fishy chemical address book.
Over the past two years, I have been figuring out how to decipher the chemical addresses stored in otoliths using stable isotope chemistry. As it turns out, some of the smallest compounds may tell the biggest stories. I am identifying specific compounds in otoliths whose stable isotope signatures will say, "This fish grew up in a mangrove system before it migrated out to the coral reef."
The non-tropical side of research
It all starts with some very small fish and some even smaller otoliths. Armed with a scalpel and microscope, I carefully remove the delicate otoliths, each smaller than a grain of rice. I subject the otoliths to a series of chemical processes to identify compounds that reflect the chemical address of the nursery in which that fish lived. This typically involves countless hours injecting samples into a Gas Chromatograph-Combustion-Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer.
This often-temperamental machine tells me the stable isotope values of the otolith material. I match these values to those of the potential nursery habitats to determine where that fish spent its juvenile life. If I do this enough times, I'll be able to say how important those mangrove swamps are to supporting coral reef fish populations.
I used to think studying coral reef fish would be all fun in the sun. However, for every day I spend in a wetsuit under the golden sun of the tropics, there are at least 10 more in a white coat under the fluorescent glow of a windowless lab. I've often run samples for 72 hours straight with only 20-minute naps in my office chair, using my keyboard as a pillow, to keep me going.
A little sleep deprivation is well worth it if it means I can provide the scientific basis to design marine reserves that protect coral reef fishes. With dynamite fishing on reefs and the demolition of mangroves to construct tennis courts, it's not surprising that coral reefs and mangroves have become some of the most degraded environments on Earth. I hope my research will guide the conservation of coral reef fishes, so that by the time my children take a Caribbean vacation, they can pack their snorkels as well as their tennis rackets.
Kelton McMahon's research is funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the Ocean Life Institute at WHOI, and an International Society for Reef Studies/Ocean Conservancy Fellowship. This article was written during a science writing course for graduate students at WHOI, supported by funds from The Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor of Oceanography.
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- The Secret Lives of FIsh An article on otolith research from Oceanus magazine
- Tracking Fish to Save Them from Oceanus magazine
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Josiah Gardner ABBOTT, Congress, MA (1814-1891)
ABBOTT Josiah Gardner , a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Mass., November 1, 1814; attended the Chelmsford Academy, Concord, Mass.; graduated from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1832; LL.D., Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., 1862, teacher; lawyer, private practice; member of the Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1836; member of the Massachusetts state senate, 1841-1842; aide to Massachusetts Governor Marcus Morton, 1843; master in chancery, 1850-1855; member of the Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1853; justice of the superior court, Suffolk County, Mass., 1855-1858; overseer of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1859-1865; several times was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for United States Senator; declined an appointment to the supreme court bench in 1860; declined the Democratic nomination for attorney general in 1861; successfully contested as a Democrat the election of Rufus S. Frost to the Forty-fourth Congress (July 28, 1876-March 3, 1877); was not a candidate for renomination in 1876; member of the Electoral Commission created by the act of Congress approved January 29, 1877, to decide the presidential election of 1876; died on June 2, 1891, in Wellesley Hills, near Boston, Mass.; interment in St. Mary's Cemetery, Newton Lower Falls, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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Buttram History, Family Crest & Coats of ArmsButtram is a name of ancient Norman origin. It arrived in England with the Norman Conquest of 1066. Buttram is a name that comes from the Germanic personal name Bertram, which is composed of the elements berht, meaning "bright" or "famous," and hrabn, meaning "raven." [1] Early Origins of the Buttram familyThe surname Buttram was first found in Northumberland where "William de Bertram, the son or grandson of the Norman soldier, founded the Augustinian Priory of Brinkburn. His descendants - the Bertrams of Mitford castle, were potent feudal lords, distinguished in the Scottish wars and baronial contests. The last male heir, Roger Bertram, second Baron Bertram, died 1311." [2] Bertrannus was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086. [3] The History of Northumberland lists Richard Bertam as holding lands there in 1168 and Berteram le Barbur was listed in the Hundredorum Rolls of Shropshire in 1273. [4] Another source gives more details about the early influence of the family, specifically in the parish of Mitford. "This manor, in the time of the Saxons, belonged to the family of Mitford, and at the Conquest was part of the possessions of John, lord of Mitford, whose only daughter, Sybil, was married by the Conqueror to Sir Richard Bertram, son of the lord of Dignam, in Normandy. The family of Bertram became very numerous, and acquired large estates in this part of the kingdom, which they retained till the reign of John, when, taking part with the barons against that monarch, their castle here, and also the town, were burnt, and the lands laid waste, by the Flemish allies of the king; the barony, becoming forfeited to the crown, was bestowed upon Philip de Hulcoates. The possessions were subsequently restored by Henry III. to the Bertrams; but after the death of Roger de Bertram in 1242, his son and successor being taken prisoner among the insurgents at Northampton, the castle and estates were seized by the king, and never regained. The castle was taken and dismantled by Alexander, King of Scotland, in 1318." [5] Nunriding a township, in the parish of Mitford, was anciently called Baldwineswood and was home to Roger Bertram who during the reign of Henry II, gave the lands to the Benedictine convent of Hallystone. [5] Another branch of the family was found at Earsdon in Northumberland. "Sir John Bertram, Knt., who died in 1449, possessed of 16 messuages, 14 cottages, 8 acres of meadow, 494 of arable land, 400 of wood, and 300 of moor, in 'Eresdon.'" [5] Early History of the Buttram familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Buttram research. Another 216 words (15 lines of text) covering the years 1168, 1296 and 1482 are included under the topic Early Buttram History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Buttram Spelling VariationsAnglo-Norman names tend to be marked by an enormous number of spelling variations. This is largely due to the fact that Old and Middle English lacked any spelling rules when Norman French was introduced in the 11th century. The languages of the English courts at that time were French and Latin. These various languages mixed quite freely in the evolving social milieu. The final element of this mix is that medieval scribes spelled words according to their sounds rather than any definite rules, so a name was often spelled in as many different ways as the number of documents it appeared in. The name was spelled Bertram, Bartram, Battram, Berttram, Beartram, Beertram, Bertrim, Bertrem, Berttrim, Berttrem, Barttrem, Bartrim, Bertrame, Bartramn, Bartramm, Bertramm, Bortram, Bortrem and many more. Early Notables of the Buttram familyMore information is included under the topic Early Buttram Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Buttram RankingIn the United States, the name Buttram is the 12,675th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. [6] Migration of the Buttram familyBecause of the political and religious discontent in England, families began to migrate abroad in enormous numbers. Faced with persecution and starvation at home, the open frontiers and generally less oppressive social environment of the New World seemed tantalizing indeed to many English people. The trip was difficult, and not all made it unscathed, but many of those who did get to Canada and the United States made important contributions to the young nations in which they settled. Some of the first North American settlers with Buttram name or one of its variants: John Bertram, who settled in Virginia in 1650; Peter Bertram, who landed in America in 1709; Thomas Bertram, who settled in Texas in 1836. Another Thomas settled in Georgia in 1821.
The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto. Motto: J'avance Motto Translation: I advance.


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On Mars the surface winds accelerate to higher speeds than those on Earth. These winds can be whipped to an extreme during the frequent Martian global dust storms. The first weather measurements made from the surface of Mars were performed by the Mars Pathfinder mission. These measurements provided some real data about the strength of Martian winds.Sand grains from the surface are picked up by the winds and accelerated to high speeds. This leads to a gouging and chipping effect which contributes toward sand erosion of the surface by wind. The rocks found by the Mars Pathfinder lander provided plenty of evidence for sand erosion by wind. Winds are very important to the erosion of Martian rock, and makes the process a little different than on Earth.


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Metan will be the exclusive representative in China for 130 episodes of each series, both produced by TeleNext Media for Procter & Gamble Productions. MIPCOM marks the first time the shows will be available for China.
Metan's president, CEO and founding partner, Larry Namer, said, "GUIDING LIGHT and AS THE WORLD TURNS, two of the most successful TV programs ever produced in the U.S., have captured the hearts of North American audiences for decades. We're delighted to be the first to introduce these award-winning programs to audiences in China. We feel strongly that the series' compelling story lines, relatable characters and program quality will have great appeal to audiences in China."
Power's VP of Asia and the Middle East, George Sakkalli, commented, "China's vast television and new media market has great potential. Metan's unique approach and commitment will ensure that Power's content reaches many millions of Chinese viewers. I am delighted that Power has been able to introduce these much loved soaps to China."
Brian T. Cahill, the senior VP, managing director for TeleNext Media, added, "For a combined 123 years, GUIDING LIGHT and AS THE WORLD TURNS have been the gold standard of contemporary serial entertainment. We proudly support the partnership between Power and Metan that will make this perennially engaging entertainment available to the Chinese audience for the first time."
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This year also marks the launch of the Chris and Vicky Cornell Foundation, which helps the most vulnerable children. One dollar of every ticket sold on the tour will be donated to the Foundation, and a portion of the proceeds will benefit ChildHaven's Creative Music Therapy Program Expansion. Visit childhaven.org for more information on ChildHaven and the program.
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The soundtrack, which has ridden on the success of the film and its lead single "Let It Go," sold 106,000 copies last week, according to figures compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The album has sold 2.6 million copies since its release in November.
Classical crossover violinist Lindsey Stirling's "Shatter Me" debuted on the chart at No. 2 with 56,000 in sales.
Singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne's "Supernova" landed at No. 3 with 40,000 in sales on its first week on the chart, followed by Christian collective Passion's live album, "Passion: Take It All," which sold 30,000 in its debut week.
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Dr. Oswaldo Trelles holds a B.S. degree in industrial engineering from the Universidad Catolica of Peru and a M.Sc. degree in Computer Sciences from the Polytechnical University of Madrid (Spain). He got his Ph.D. degree working on Parallelization of Biological Sequences Analysis Algorithms on Supercomputers. Recently he got a M.Sc. degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of Malaga (Spain). Currently he is working as Associated Professor in the Department of Computer Architecture in the University of Malaga where he also teaches Fundamental and Design of Operating Systems and Parallel applications in bioinformatics; in the Computer Science faculty. His main interests in research include parallel paradigms for distributed and shared memory parallel computers, data mining and automatic knowledge discovering in biological and biomedical data and architecture for integration of data and services in the bioinformatics field. His group which is both an academic and research group has been involved in the last twelve years in giving solutions to bioinformatics and biomedical issues linked to life sciences. The group provides a multidisciplinary top level scientific environment embracing more than 30 research and research-related staff with long experience of interfacing with biologists and medical researchers. The group has medical and biological expertise, is competent to bridge data and also has in-house computer support. Its staff is trained to link between teams specialised in bioinformatics and in biomedical sciences. As reference, the group leaded by Dr. Trelles implements the service and data integration platform of the National Institute of Bioinformatics in Spain (Note 5). Their main lines of research are focused in providing a multidisciplinary environment where concrete and demanding biological data analysis problems should be solved by a combination of experimental and computational approaches. On the experimental side we deal with medical and biological researchers that provide with structural, evolutionary and functional information in the genomic and proteomic field. On the computational side our goal goes from the development of new tools, their optimization and the use of high performance computing to deal with hard computing problems. In this talk Dr. Trelles will present an overview of the bioinformtics problems addresed in his group, starting from the proposal of high performance computing solutions in the field of sequence analysis and datamining techniques, and walking throught biological video analysis, gene-expression software to arrive to the integration of bioinformatics distributed services and data. Rather than a detailed review of specific techniques developed or used in the research group, the speech will be focused in the general description of the working environment in the group with the aim to identify common lines of interest.Invited by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sepp Hochreiter
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President Trump tweets video with 'white power' chant, then deletes it
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted approvingly of a video showing one of his supporters chanting "white power," a racist slogan associated with white supremacists. He later deleted the tweet and the White House said the president had not heard "the one statement" on the video.
The video appeared to have been taken at The Villages, a Florida retirement community, and showed dueling demonstrations between Trump supporters and opponents.
"Thank you to the great people of The Villages," President Trump tweeted. Moments into the video clip he shared, a man driving a golf cart displaying pro-Trump signs and flags shouts 'white power." The video also shows anti-Trump protesters shouting "Nazi," "racist," and profanities at the Trump backers.
"There's no question'' that President Trump should not have retweeted the video and "he should just take it down," Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., told CNN's "State of the Union." Scott is the only Black Republican in the Senate.
Shortly afterward, President Trump deleted the tweet that shared the video. White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a statement that "President Trump is a big fan of The Villages. He did not hear the one statement made on the video. What he did see was tremendous enthusiasm from his many supporters."
The president's decision to highlight a video featuring a racist slogan comes amid a national reckoning over race following the deaths of George Floyd and other Black Americans. Floyd, a Black Minneapolis man, died after a white police officer pressed his knee into his neck for several minutes.
Protests against police brutality and bias in law enforcement have occurred across the country following Floyd's death and there has also been a push to remove Confederate monuments, an effort President Trump has opposed.
President Trump's tenure in office has appeared to have emboldened white supremacist and nationalist groups, some of whom have embraced his presidency. In 2017, President Trump responded to clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, between white nationalists and counter-protesters by saying there were "very fine people on both sides."


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It is the best weather in Dallas nowadays but cold weather is coming this weekend so get ready Dallas folks!
We have a fun weekend ahead from Bugs Bunny Symphony to Oktoberfest…
It is that time if the year, Southlake Oktoberfest is this weekend at Southlake Town Square.
This is one of the great things to do this weekend with kids. You will enjoy nice beer options, live music, weenie dog races, sports zone while kids playing in the bounce house or playing with other kids.
Oktoberfest in Southlake address is 1256 Main Street Southlake, TX 76092, it starts October 5th 5pm to 11pm, October 6th 10am to 11pm and October 7th noon to 5pm.
Either you like beer or not you will fun at the town of Southlake old German Beer Festival with your family this weekend in Dallas…
State Fair of Texas still waiting for your visit this weekend form car shows to delicious deep fried everything… Remember to try fried snickers or ice cream so delicious!
Check out the midway rides, pig races, Texas Star Ferris Wheel, which is the largest in the north America, car shows, livestock showcases, , garden expo, cooking demonstrations, and a lot of more stuff that you can do with kids.
State Fair of Texas Hours 10am to 9pm, the last day of the State Fair of Texas is October 21st.
State Fair is still having the best concerts staging in Dallas…Texaco Country Showdown at the State Fair of Texas; Chevrolet Main Stage has a concert October 5th at 5.30pm and 8.30pm.
If you are more in to Art Festivals, Cottonwood Art Festival is one of the best in Dallas with juried art show. More than 240 artists, 2D and 3D mixed media, ceramics, photography, sculpture, wood wall arts end more. If you are looking to see something unique, do not miss this art festival, especially if you are looking to buy new art piece for your collection, because you can purchase most of them.
This great event is open for kids, they have their special creative corner, where they can decorate or paint. Cotton wood Art Festival is one of the fun things to do with kids this weekend in Dallas. You will enjoy a lot of food options while appreciating the local band concerts.
Cottonwood Art Festival hours October 6th 10am to 8pm and October 7th 10am to 5pm.
Cottonwood Art Festival is in Cottonwood Park address is 1321 W. Beltline Road, Richardson TX 75080 , Parking is FREE…
There are a lot of concerts in Dallas this weekend but Warner Bros. Presents Bugs Bunny at the Symphony is one of the most unique one that you will appreciate with kids. You love to hear actual Looney tunes with this impulsive show with your kids. Cartoon play on a big screen with live symphonic versions of familiar beats by Rossini, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, and more…The exquisite concert is marking the 100th birthday of animator Chuck Jones who brought most loved characters from Pepe Le Pew to Marvin Martian. After the Sunday Show, kids have chance to hang out and take pictures with Looney Tunes characters.
Warner Bros. Presents Bugs Bunny at the Symphony hours October 5th 8pm, October 6th 8pm and October 7th 2.30pm at Meyerson Symphony Center address is 2301 Flora Street, Dallas TX 75201
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Just today, I returned a library copy of "The Snakehead: an Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream" by Patrick Radden Keefe. It's yet another of this year's American Library Association's Notable Books.
I appreciate how the Notables list introduces me to a wide variety of nonfiction. "The Snakehead" is about human smuggling, specifically the smuggling of people from China to the United States. The story begins with a description of a ship running aground off of the Rockaway Peninsula in 1993. The police officers who spot the ship hear screams, and realize that its passengers are jumping into the ocean. The ship, the Golden Venture, is engaged in smuggling over 300 people into the United States. It's just a tip of the iceberg of human smuggling detailed in this book. Keefe focuses on a group of smugglers from Fujian Province in China, operating primarily out of New York's Chinatown. In particular, he follows the career of a woman known as Sister Ping.
Sister Ping runs a business in Chinatown and considers herself a pillar of the community. But it's impossible to be engaged in this kind of smuggling without being involved in some remarkably dangerous relationships with gangs and the underworld. U.S. law enforcement must wait a long time to pull together the information to convict her.
Although primarily the story of SIster Ping, the book broadens in scope to include how political angles such as China's population policies September 11 impact the destiny of people entering the United States illegally. Keefe also explores the international scope of smuggling, showing how just one country that doesn't enforce immigration and identity laws allows human smuggling to around the world. Behind all of this is a sense that people are willing to sacrifice mightily to enter our country.
I began the book feeling a strong sense of story here, but as I progressed, I felt that Keefe lost the plot thread of Sister Ping. Had he been able to sustain that narrative, the book would have enjoyed a stronger sense of story. As it is, it's a perfectly acceptable nonfiction book on a topic of interest.
I happened to be reading the novel, "Await Your Reply" by Dan Chaon at the same time I was reading this. I'm often surprised by the connections among otherwise unrelated titles. Both of these books revolve around people who use multiple identities. Both raise the question of what we're willing to give up in order to thwart the law, and the degree to which we're willing to sacrifice friends and family in the process.
I'd recommend "Snakehead" to people interested in China and to those interested generally in politics and current events.


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Infant Crying
Topic Overview
Babies cry to communicate that they are hungry, wet, tired, too warm, too cold, lonely, or otherwise uncomfortable. When you respond promptly to these cries, you help your baby feel confident and safe. After your baby's need is met, the crying usually stops. The more consistently you respond to your baby when he or she is upset, the greater chance that your baby will cry less at age 1 and show less aggression at age 2.footnote 1
Letting a newborn baby "cry it out" usually makes the situation worse and the crying more intense. It is often harder and takes longer to calm an extremely upset baby than one who has just started to cry.
Crying patterns
Most babies cry the most during the first four months of life.
Starting at about 2 weeks of age, your baby may cry for no apparent reason and can be hard to console. Many babies have a fussy time of day, often during the late afternoon to early evening when they are tired and unable to relax. This crying is a way for your baby to release the tension that naturally develops from a full day of stimulation. These episodes can last up to 2 to 3 hours. During this time, the baby needs extra attention. Realize that your baby may continue crying no matter how much comfort is given. Although this behavior is normal, it can be very stressful for you, especially when you are already feeling overwhelmed. If you can identify a pattern, it may help to carry and hold your baby before the anticipated crying period and after it begins. You can also plan for extra help. For example, a few times a week, have a friend or relative come over and take over for you during the expected fussy time.
The average amount of time a baby cries peaks at around 6 weeks of age. Crying spells shorten as your baby's nervous system matures and as you become better able to recognize and meet your newborn's needs.footnote 2
Babies may cry more when they sense family tension or caregiver stress and anxiety. Talk to your doctor if you feel anxious about things in your life.
An extreme type of crying in a baby between 3 weeks and 3 months of age is called colic. Although it is upsetting for parents and caregivers, colic is normal for some babies. Caregivers are not to blame. It's hard for a baby with colic to stop a crying episode after it has begun, despite your attempts to soothe and console your baby. It is common to feel scared or frustrated when you cannot get your baby to stop crying. But remember that colic is normal—and temporary. Your baby will grow out of it.
Colic is not caused by pain or illness. If you think your baby is crying because he or she is hurt or sick, call your doctor.
Current as of: December 12, 2018
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:Susan C. Kim, MD – Pediatrics & Kathleen Romito, MD – Family Medicine & John Pope, MD, MPH – Pediatrics
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Barclays could be generating as much as £340 million a year through gambling on the price of key commodity crops like coffee, sugar and wheat, the Ecologist has learnt.
By creating funds to allow investors to speculate on the price of food, in the same way they would invest in the shares of a company, Barclays and others are able to bet on the price of food. However, food commodity trading is leading to higher and more volatile prices, say campaigners, which affect poor families in the less industrialised world the hardest as they can't afford basic foods and also make it more difficult for farmers to plan and invest.
A World Bank report in February showed an extra 40 million people had been pushed into poverty as a result of rising food prices since June 2010.
An analysis of Barclays' involvement in food speculation, commissioned by the campaign group World Development Movement (WDM) - and seen by the Ecologist - has found it to be the dominant figure in the UK both in terms of the estimated volume of trading and risk it is allowing its traders to take.
Rapid growth in speculation
From a position of relative obscurity, Barclays Capital, the investment arm of the high-street bank, has rapidly increased its involvement in commodity trading and become not only the market leader in the UK but the third biggest trader globally, behind Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
It boasts on its website to having had a 'rapid' expansion in its commodities division in recent years and says, 'if you are seeking exposure to commodities as an asset class, we can offer you an extensive and innovative suite of products'. According to the WDM report these products include the risky proprietary trading or 'prop trading' where traders aim to make money by betting on particular outcomes in the prices of an asset. Barclays is also known to have developed products that allow pension funds and other financial players to bet on food prices, opening up the market to even more speculation.
'Barclays are proud to be the UK's number one food gambler,' says WDM food campaigner Heidi Chow. 'They are not only making large amounts of profit from pushing up food prices but they are also actively finding new ways for other financial institutions such as pension funds to further flood the food markets with speculative cash, making a serious situation even worse.'
In a previous report, WDM highlighted how the price of coffee jumped by 20 per cent in three days in 2010, after a trader called the bluff of hedge funds that had made millions by selling coffee contracts and betting on the price to fall. This left hedge funds scrambling to buy actual coffee beans, and the price shot up from the extra demand.
Aggressive risk-taking
Barclays Capital has refused to explain the extent of its involvement in food commodity trading but the report says it is 'generally regarded to be a lot more aggressive in risk-taking than other UK banks'. An analysis of its risk-taking by the report placed it third behind Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley over the past two years – an indication of the huge profits it is generating. 'Put another way, if the commodities division was not a highly profitable enterprise, Barclays Capital would not let it take such risk,' says the report.
Investment banks are notoriously secretive about the revenues and profits they make from commodity speculation although US investment bank Goldman Sachs was estimated to have made more than $1 billion from commodities trading in 2009. The WDM report estimates that Barclays could be making as much as £340 million a year from food speculation.
High-street customers
The report says customers of the high-street Bank may unwittingly be financing this commodity speculation. 'If the money being lent to the Barclays group is predominantly steered into the investment banking division to finance riskier activities, the investment banking division could be benefiting from lower rates of financing than it otherwise would if it were a standalone business. 'This is to say that low risk retail banking activities could be perceived as 'subsidising' the trading activities of the investment bank, including the commodity trading activities,' it says.
A spokesperson for Barclays Capital, who was shown a copy of the report, refused to confirm or deny how much profit it makes from trading in food commodities. Ahead of Barclays AGM next month, WDM is planning protests at Barclays high street branches to expose the bank's involvement in pushing up food prices around the world. It wants the UK to back EU plans to reform its rules governing investment trading and curb 'excessive commodity price volatility'.
'Excessive speculation must be reigned in. We are calling for the government to stand up to the banks and back vital European legislation that will curb this greedy behaviour for the good of us all,' says Heidi Chow.
Useful links
WDM campaign 'Stop Barclays Betting on Hunger'
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