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July 15, 2016. New Legislation, Which Will Help Children Find Homes Through Adoption, and Which Is Supported by the Center for Adoption Policy, Introduced.
We are delighted to post today's press release:
"U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (Mo.) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), co-chairs of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption, yesterday introduced the Vulnerable Children and Families Act. The measure would help more children living without families or in institutional care find permanent homes by enhancing U.S. diplomatic efforts around international child welfare and ensuring that intercountry adoption to the United States becomes a more viable and fully-developed option.
"Every child deserves the opportunity to grow up in a safe, loving home regardless of where they are born," Blunt said. "Sadly, millions of children living without families throughout the world are denied that opportunity, leaving them at greater risk than children living in family-based care. There are many families in the United States and around the world that are fighting for the chance to welcome a child into their homes. This bill aims to provide more children in need with the permanent care and stability that will help them grow into healthy, productive adults."
The United Nations Children's Fund estimates that 13 million children across the globe have lost both parents and as many as eight million children are living in institutional care. Despite the clear need for more permanent homes for these children, the number of international adoptions into the United States has decreased by 72 percent since 2004.
Klobuchar added, "As Hennepin County attorney and as the Senate co-chair of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption, and from a state with a strong tradition of adoption, I know the power of adoption. We can and must do more to provide vulnerable children, especially those who have been in institutional care, with the opportunity to be adopted into safe and nurturing homes. This bipartisan legislation will strengthen our relationships with nations across the world, while also making a difference in the lives of many families."
Rep. Kay Granger (Texas) plans to introduce the House companion bill.
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The legislation is supported by the National Council for Adoption, American Academy of Adoption Attorneys, Christian Alliance for Orphans, Saddleback Church, Harvard Law School Child Advocacy Program, Bethany Christian Services, Nourished Hearts, Center for Adoption Policy, and Gladney Center for Adoption.
May 16, 2016. Coming Legislation. We hope to have news soon of new legislative initiatives which will help better the situation of unparented children without permanent, loving homes. We look forward to being able to share this information with you as soon as we can.
May 12, 2016. Government and Other Notices: Mexico. The Department of State has informed the adoption community that the Mexican National Welfare System, or Sistema Nacional para el Desarollo Integral de la Familia (DIF Nacional), which is in charge of authorizing U.S. accredited Adoption Service Providers (ASPs) to provide adoption services in intercountry adoptions involving Mexico, is drafting new ASP authorization regulations. Furthermore, the DIF Nacional's offices are being restructured which will affect the timing of the new regulations. An ASP must have a valid authorization for it to provide services involved in an intercountry adoption with Mexico. However, DIF has stated that this restructuring will not affect DIF's review of prospective adoptive parents' dossiers. More Information.
May 11, 2016. The Good News About Transracial Adoption. A new study has confirmed what parents of transracially adopted children long have believed: children who are adopted transracially "are capable of developing a solid sense of identity and family regardless of the racial composition of their families." Moreover this study found that parents of transracially adopted children were more likely to speak about race, which is generally alleged not to be the case and that Asian adoptees were more likely to help others than white adoptees. More Information.
May 10, 2018. Bill to Remove the term "Oriental" heads to President Obama. Legislation originally sponsored by Representative Grace Meng (D-NY) which would remove the inappropriate word "Oriental" from federal laws has passed both houses of Congress and heads to President Obama's desk. The President is expected to sign the measure shortly. References to "Oriental" still appear in U.S. laws and as Meng says, "The word 'Oriental' is a derogatory and antiquated term and the passage of this legislation will soon force the United States government to finally stop using it," In 2009, when Meng was a member of the New York state legislature, she was instrumental in getting a similar law passed which changed official New York terminology. More Information.
May 9, 2016. Adoptee Citizenship Bill Needs Support. As we have been discussing, S.2275, the Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2015, needs more Congressional Sponsors. Senator Amy Klobuchar introduced into the Senate but the legislation needs to be introduced into the House of Representatives. This is not an immigration bill nor does it have anything to do with children who have not been adopted by U.S. parents. This is a bill designed to fix a glitch in the procedure which enables foreign born children adopted by U.S, parents to achieve U.S. citizenship. Supporters of the bill include Kevin Vollmers with the group Gazillion Strong, a multimedia storytelling organization in Minneapolis. "This is a human rights issue," said Vollmers, who is a Korean adoptee with U.S. citizenship. "There are folks who are tying this in with anti-immigration sentiment ... Regardless of what people think about anti-immigration or immigration, this question is fundamentally about adoptions. Vollmers' organization and others are holding a national day of action later this month in support of the bill. More Information.
May 5, 2016. Indiana Installs First Baby Boxes. The first two safe haven baby boxes have been installed in Indiana. These are climate controlled environments with security systems next to fire departments. If a baby is left there, emergency workers will know immediately and can get to the baby in minutes. Every state has a "safe haven" law which allows birth mothers to leave their babies in police stations, fire departments or hospitals without fear of criminal penalties. More Information.
May 4, 2016. Gay Adoption Now Legal in All Fifty States. The deadline has passed for Mississippi to appeal a federal court ruling which struck down Mississippi's ban on gay adoption. While this result was expected, as it follows from the Supreme Court's 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges which held that banning gay marriage is unconstitutional, we want to celebrate the fact that all qualified parents may adopt children who need a permanent loving family. What a wonderful revolution we have witnessed. More Information.
May 3, 2016. International Surrogacy Options Decline. During the last decade increasing numbers of would-be parents traveled to Nepal or India for surrogacy procedures. Sometimes home countries banned surrogacy, making international options the only possible ones. Other times, the motivation for interantional surrogacy was cost--the expense of surrogacy in either country was far less than in the United States. But following a number of controversial cases, Nepal and India have banned foreign surrogacy. Same-sex couples have the hardest time since they are banned from some of the few open international surrogacy programs, such as Ukraine. More Information.
May 2, 2016. Disappointed. We were disappointed to learn that the Intercountry Adopting Stakeholder Meeting schedule for today was postponed. The topic to be discussed was Supervised Foreign Providers and Forms N-600/N600K. Since the passage of the Universal Accreditation Act in 2012, completing intercountry adoptions for non-Hague adoptions has become increasingly difficult, especially as regards supervising providers. We welcome any Department of State guidance and look forward to learning of a new date for this meeting.
April 26, 2016. Please Do Your Post-Placement Reports. Many Countries of Origin require adoptive parents to file post-placement reports with them for years after the adoption of a child. We now learn that Kazakhstan officials are actively seeking out missing PPRs from U.S. parents who adopted from that country between 1999-2010. One adoptive parent writes: "There are hints that at least some of the officials are interested in the possibility of opening up again to US adoption, but the PPRs have become a symbolic stumbling block." Although this effort can be difficult, adoptive parents must remember that they did agree to provide PPRs and the lack of PPRs remains a (not the) reason why Kazakhstan adoption to the United States has not resumed. For more information please go to the FRUA Facebook page.
April 25, 2016. State Department Warns Families Against Adopting From the Congo (DRC). The Department of State has issued an alert strongly urging new families not to begin the process of adopting a child from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. While some pipeline families have been able to bring their children home, the exit permit suspension for children adopted by foreigner remains in effect. While DOS has pledged to continue to work with the DRC on creating a viable international adoption program, there are no guarantees that such a program will be created. More Information.
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then I tested it again my Garmin Zümo 550 and the Forerunner 305 and the Suunto was the least precise one. If you need it for keep tracking of your path and precision is not necessary, it is a nice gadget. I am sure new models should improve accuracy.
Great concept and features, but hugely disappointing in execution. Battery indicator is very unreliable, along with the battery itself, meaning you will lose power at seemingly random times. Easily takes well over 5 minutes to lock on and get a reading, assuming you are nowhere near any overhead cover- which adds exponentially to the time. Several of the ones we purchased fell apart after a month or so of wear. It should be noted that Suunto does honor it's warranty promises and will repair, but several broke soon after repair, and not much use if you are not in a position to mail your watch back and wait for mail.
Overall, this is a neat but entirely unreliable product. Great for weekend warriors or novelty use, but does not warrant the asking price and cannot be relied upon in touh environments. Worth maybe $200, would not pay anything over that.
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dte, yr, id, v1, v2 and has daily date values. I would like to include dummy variables for
id and for
yr where
dte is the date. If i try to use
plm and specify the index as
index=c("id, "yr") and do a
within model with any sort of
effects I get the error that
(yr, id) is not unique, which is true since my data is daily.
I then decided to simply do this by making
yr a factor and using
lm(v1 ~ factor(yr) + v2 - 1, data=df)
However, this seems to run out of memory. I have 20 levels in my factor and
df is 14 mil rows which takes about 2 gigs to store, I am running this on a machine with 22 gigs dedicated to this process. I then decided to try things the old fashioned way: create dummy variables for each of my years
t1 to
t20 by doing:
df$t1 <- 1*(df$yr==1)
df$t2 <- 1*(df$yr==2)
df$t3 <- 1*(df$yr==3)
and simply compute:
solve(t(x) %*% x) %*% t(x) %*% y
This runs without a problem and produces the answer almost right away. What is it in the
lm function that is making this regression impossible to run and requires so much memory?
EDIT: I am specifically curious what is it about lm that makes it run out of memory when I can compute the coefficients just fine?


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I don't know how it escaped me, but this is the first I've heard of Rapturepalooza, which comes from Chris Matheson, the same screenwriter that gave us Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. It's about two teens who battle their way through a religious apocalypse on a mission to defeat the Antichrist, who is in love with Anna Kendrick's character (as he should be). John Franis Daley plays the boyfriend; Craig Robinson is the foul-mouthed Satan; and lots of the best contemporary comedians round out the cast: Rob Corddry, Ken Jeong, Paul Scheer, Rob Heubel, and Tyler Labine.
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The young man, a medical student in front of me in line for coffee, was telling his friend why he wants to be a doctor and specialize in gynecology:
"I hear you can make a lot of money just seeing a woman for 2 minutes."
I hoped he didn't hear me gasp. On second thought, I hope he did.
Who wants a doctor just in it for the money and who has such disregard for patients?
There's nothing wrong with practical considerations like money. And it's true, specialists often make twice as much as a primary-care physician. But with all the frustrations any doctor deals with nowadays — time constraints, excessive paperwork and insurance forms — is money enough?
As Dr. Michelle Au writes in her book, "This Won't Hurt a Bit (and other white lies)," "There are much easier ways to earn money — growing and selling your hair for high-end wigs comes to mind," not to mention the years of your life you must invest to become a practicing doctor: four years of medical school; residency for an additional three to seven years; and a fellowship, sometimes two.
That's seven to 10 not fun, carefree years.
"You spend those fetal-doctor years indoors under fluorescent lighting, nose pressed into books filled with inscrutable diagrams and endless acronyms while everyone in the world, including some of your patients, appears to behaving more fun than you." And you make little or no money.
After these years of being "largely awake and caffeinated to an almost toxic degree, ... you will end up in hundreds and thousands of dollars of debt," she writes.
Indeed, after all that and then working in their field, many doctors do question their career choice.
A Forbes article titled "Why Do So Many Doctors Regret Their Job Choice?" points to the annual Medscape/Web M.D. survey that shows dissatisfaction among U.S. doctors rising. Out of 24,000 doctors from 25 specialties, only 54 percent said they would choose medicine again as a career. This figure is down from last year's 69 percent.
Medicine is not an easy profession.
Yet, the number of medical schools and medical school enrollment has risen. Even so, the pool of doctors has not kept pace with the population and the needs of the aging baby boom generation, an article in The New York Times says.
This is the case especially for lower-paying primary-care physician jobs. The American Medical Association predicts a shortage of 35,000 to 40,000 primary care physicians by 2025.
Medical students "have long been deterred from going into primary care not only for economic reasons but for reasons connected to professional prestige," says Travis Singleton, senior vice president of the consulting firm Merritt Hawkins & Associates in another Forbes article.
If considering a medical career, what's your motivation — money and prestige?
Without more, might you, too, regret your choice?
As with any profession, first find out what the work is really like. Sit down and talk to people who deal with the daily frustration. But also talk to the people who despite that can explain why they got into it and why they want to do nothing else.
Look for people like Dr. Danielle Ofri, who wrote in The New York Times about the things that never get old: "The awe of discovering the human body. The honor of being trusted to give advice. The gratitude for helping someone through a difficult illness."
Even in the most prestigious and high-paying careers, some days will be downright rotten.
That's why a career choice needs to be about more than money and prestige.
It needs to harken back to deeper roots — in the case of medicine, the desire to help people. Whatever your career choice, on bad days those deeper roots are what will keep you going.
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I have observe lately about the "promote this ad" though not that affected but why we need to pay to promote using the free social media network facebook?
Interesting article. So, according to the author, FB is fighting spam. Which is a completely silly statement. Promoted posts won't change a thing about spam. It's always about who knows whom and who has the biggest wallet to pay a company that started by giving you everything for free.
As long as you pay, you will get featured. It doesn't matter who does what.
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I closed my Farcebook account permanently weeks ago and I don't miss it at all. I got totally pi$$ed off with adverts, promoted posts, and blatant fraudulent posts " Jim likes Premier Inns" (when I know Jim hates Premier bloody Inns).
G+ is a lot better. Not perfect. Better.
G+ is a lot better. Not perfect. Better.
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+Keith Salway that's exactly why I closed mine. I also didn't sign up to that when FB started. The other issue was the real people I wanted to stay in touch with never used it enough to warrant having FB.
I guess people just don't play chess anymore. Anyone who thinks this isn't part of Facebook's revenue stream end-game strategy is fooling themselves. As far as the official statement from Facebook, I invite everyone to search for sound bites from Nixon, Clinton and Enron for a good representation of the value of "official statements."
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If Warren Buffett were to assemble a basket of European stocks, what would he pick? Pankaj Patel, head of global quant research at Credit Suisse, has devised a screen based on Buffett's admired philosophy. Patel has assessed the Berkshire Hathaway brka -0.318118948824343% Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Cl B U.S.: NYSE USD144.14 -0.46 -0.318118948824343% /Date(1469480538370-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2259580 AFTER HOURS USD144.1 -0.04 -0.027750797835437768% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 224326 P/E Ratio 14.497797268210256 Market Cap 356521241281.136 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 648278 More quote details and news » (ticker: BRKA) boss's investment strategy and run the rule over large-cap European stocks to derive his selection. It includes watchmaker Swatch Group (SWGAY), apparel maker Burberry brby.ln 1.9825072886297377% Burberry Group PLC ADR U.S.: OTC USD17.49 0.34 1.9825072886297377% /Date(1469485202000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6524 P/E Ratio 16.883869099333914 Market Cap 7562204651.0861 Dividend Yield 4.4354030874785595% Rev. per Employee 355844 More quote details and news » (BRBY.U.K.) and drug producer Shire (SHP.U.K).
The results offer a few surprises. In the developed markets of Western Europe, just 16 stocks make the grade. Of those, only five are found in Euro-zone countries, but none in Germany, Europe's best-performing market this year so far. Five are listed in the United Kingdom and seven in Northern Europe, including four in Denmark. Five stocks are in the health-care sector, which outperformed all others in Europe last year.
Crédit Suisse scoured Europe's markets for companies that met criteria that it identifies with Buffett's approach: a consistently strong return on equity, low financial leverage, and an improving profit margin over the past two years. Companies also were screened out if their earnings were affected more than 10% by pension problems or stock options.
What else is on the list? The companies range from well-known names like advertising group Publicis pub.fr 1.5100671140939597% Publicis Groupe S.A. ADR U.S.: OTC USD18.15 0.27 1.5100671140939597% /Date(1469485199000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 33001 P/E Ratio 16.503000545553736 Market Cap 16172237922.3618 Dividend Yield 2.4414545454545453% Rev. per Employee 136595 More quote details and news » (PUB.France) and pen maker Société BIC bb.fr 1.3750954927425516% Societe BIC France: Paris EUR132.7 1.8 1.3750954927425516% /Date(1469486128000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 46487 P/E Ratio 20.923998738568276 Market Cap 6274577692.58952 Dividend Yield 2.1477015825169556% Rev. per Employee 201732 More quote details and news » (BB.France) to the lesser-known, such as tire maker Nokian Renkaat nre1v.he 2.6053215077605323% Nokian Renkaat Oyj ADR U.S.: OTC USD18.51 0.47 2.6053215077605323% /Date(1469485200000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 699 P/E Ratio 30.798668885191347 Market Cap 4942868863.58656 Dividend Yield 4.581442463533225% Rev. per Employee 339772 More quote details and news » (NRE1V.Finland), enzymes producer Novozymes (NVZMY), medical-equipment manufacturer Coloplast (COLOB.Denmark) and William Demant Holding wdh.ko 0.7429420505200595% William Demant Holding A/S Denmark: OMX DKK135.6 1 0.7429420505200595% /Date(1469483973000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 206813 P/E Ratio 25.48872180451128 Market Cap 35814613586.5345 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 987226 More quote details and news » (WDH.Denmark), a hearing-aid company.
BHP Billiton (BHP) is there, too, and it looks like a good bet. The mining giant's earnings suffered a dip in the fiscal first half, due to rising costs and falling commodity prices but demand for its products should remain strong. Its shares, which closed in London on Thursday at 1,902 pence ($30.21), have dropped about 22% in the past year. They currently trade at 8.1 times forecast 2012 earnings. Brokerage Jefferies rates the stock at Buy with a 2,500-pence price target.
AstraZeneca (AZN) makes the cut, too, even though drug-patent expiries continue to eat away at its revenue, and its pipeline of new medicines is sluggish. Its shares have slipped about 3% since the start of the year and trade at about 7.1 times forecast 2012 earnings, reflecting investors' concerns, but its 6.4% dividend yield offers some comfort. Crédit Suisse analysts rate AstraZeneca at Underperform, with a 2,600-pence price target. The stock closed Thursday at 2,777 pence.
Another health-care pick is diabetes-drug maker Novo Nordisk (NOVOB.Denmark). The stock has gained about 26% in the past 12 months and currently trades at an estimated 23 times 2012 earnings, which looks lofty.
The European basket of picks based on Buffett's principles would have outperformed the MSCI Europe index in eight of the past nine years, says Patel. That just might be good enough for the sage himself.
SPAIN'S BORROWING COSTS escalated after a disappointing government-bond auction served as a reminder that the sovereign-debt crisis is far from over. The yield on Spain's 10-year bond spiked up to 5.74% Thursday, compared with below 5% a month ago, after a tepid response from investors to a bond sale a day earlier. The latest flare-up comes as a result of Spain's revision last month of its deficit target. It is bad news for Spain and for neighboring Portugal, whose borrowing costs spiked, too.
Portugal will find it tougher to roll over its debt next year. The European Central Bank's long-term refinancing operations have eased liquidity, but they haven't addressed insolvency.
Spain's equities continued their downward spiral. Its benchmark IBEX index is the only major market in the red in 2012. The Stoxx Europe 600 index closed Thursday at 259.07 points, down 1.6% on the week.
Stock-market weakness spells bad news for the euro, which has been resilient. However, Spain's auction debacle came a day ahead of gloomy economic data from Germany and the U.K. The common currency, which traded Thursday at $1.3064, could test $1.25 by midyear.
Tough Times
Most European markets fell last week, led by Italy.
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Kathy hurried through the cold hallway to her bedroom. The bathroom had felt like a meat locker. Even though Kathy's stepfather, Tom, had assured her it wasn't going to be cold enough for the pipes to freeze while the power was out, she felt like she was going to freeze solid. She scurried into her bedroom and dived under the blankets, shivering in her sweats and socks and her stepfather's old sweatshirt. She usually slept nude, something that had made her feel sexy and just a little bit like a bad girl when she'd started. Now she had a hard time sleeping if she was wearing anything.


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Hoster Tully
by Jonathan Standing ©
| Lord Paramount of the Trident
Lord of Riverrun
|House Tully
|In or between 237 AC and 240 AC[1]
|In 299 AC, at Riverrun
|Lady Minisa Whent
| A Game of Thrones (appears)
A Clash of Kings (appears)
A Storm of Swords (appears)
A Feast for Crows (mentioned)
A Dance with Dragons (mentioned)
Hoster Tully is the Lord of Riverrun and head of House Tully. With Minisa Whent he fathered Catelyn, Lysa, and Ser Edmure. He is also the brother of the Blackfish, Ser Brynden Tully.
Appearance and Character
- See also: Images of Hoster Tully
In his youth Hoster was tall and broad, with blue eyes and brown-red hair. As he grew older, he became portly.[2] When he was younger, Hoster was never one to stay still. He was always traveling somewhere.[3] During the timeline of the books, he is an old man who has been sick for the last two years, and has lost much weight.[3]
Hoster's armor is silver plate-and-mail, while his cloak and surcoat are blue and red. The crest atop his greathelm is a silver and bronze trout.[4] When he was younger he often rode a brown gelding.[5]
According to semi-canon sources, Hoster Tully served in the War of the Ninepenny Kings, making friends with Petyr Baelish's father, which led to Peytr being fostered at Riverrun.[6] Some time after the war, Hoster tried to betroth his war hero brother, Brynden, to Bethany Redwyne, but Brynden would have none of it. This began a decades-long feud between the two.[7]
Hoster's wife, Minisa Whent, gave birth to four sons and two daughters, though only Catelyn, Lysa, and Edmure survived infancy. Minisa died in childbirth with her fourth son, who also died shortly after. Minisa's death deeply saddened Hoster, who never fully recovered. Marriage continued to be a theme of Riverrun when Hoster forbade his younger daughter, Lysa, from marrying Petyr Baelish,[8] and ordered her to abort Petyr's child.[9] Hoster tried to arrange a betrothal between Lysa and the squire Jaime Lannister, to no avail,[10] and declined Lord Tywin Lannister's offer to marry Lysa to Jaime's younger brother, Tyrion.[11]
On the eve of Robert's Rebellion, Hoster's elder daughter, Catelyn, was engaged to Brandon Stark, the heir to Winterfell. After Brandon was killed in King's Landing by fiat of the Mad King, Aerys II Targaryen, Hoster joined the rebellion, fighting in the Battle of the Bells where he was wounded by the Hand of the King, Lord Jon Connington.[12] He married Catelyn to Eddard Stark, Brandon's younger brother, and Lysa to Jon Arryn, Lord of the Eyrie, cementing House Tully to the rebel leadership. Several of his bannermen, such as the Mootons, Goodbrooks, Rygers, and Darrys, remained loyal to the Targaryens, so Hoster attacked them, putting at least one village of House Goodbrook to the sword.[13]
Because Walder Frey's levies arrived after the decisive Battle of the Trident was fought during the rebellion, Hoster has since referred to his bannerman as the Late Lord Frey.[3] Hoster did not attend the wedding of Walder to his seventh wife, Annara Farring, which is resented by Lord Walder.[14]
Hoster once invited Arianne Martell to meet Edmure, but the offer was declined by her father, Doran Martell, Prince of Dorne.[15]
In 296 AC, Lord Tully fell ill.[3]
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A Game of Thrones
With the Lannisters threatening his borders and lands, Hoster keeps his illness a secret, with his son Ser Edmure taking many of his duties. When marauders under Ser Gregor Clegane attack the riverlands in retribution for Catelyn's capture of Tyrion Lannister, Hoster insists that the matter be brought before the Iron Throne so that Lord Tywin Lannister cannot pretend that a counterattack was unprovoked.
Hoster is bedridden when Riverrun is besieged by the army of Jaime Lannister and Edmure is captured. After Brynden the Blackfish and Hoster's grandson, Robb Stark, breaks the siege in the Battle of the Camps, Catelyn visits her father, who is still lucid. Robb is declared King in the North in Riverrun's Great Hall.[2]
A Clash of Kings
Hoster reconciles with his brother, Brynden.[16] Hoster's mind continues to slip more and more; he constantly loses track of events and time happening all around him.[17]
A Storm of Swords
During his last weeks, Hoster is only able to mutter a few feverish words and does not recognize his children. By this time his son Edmure has assumed control of Riverrun in his stead. He often speaks in his delirium of Lysa and her aborted pregnancy, initially bewildering Catelyn with his references to "Tansy" and "the blood". Though Catelyn and Edmure write to Lysa asking her to visit her father before his death, she never responds to the ravens.[18] Hoster dies in 299 AC and is succeeded by his son, Edmure.
At his funeral Hoster's body is put in a boat and set down the Red Fork by his liege lord, King Robb Stark, and six of his bannermen: Lord Jonos Bracken, Lord Tytos Blackwood, Lord Karyl Vance, Lord Jason Mallister, Ser Marq Piper, and Lothar Frey, who replaces Ser Desmond Grell at the last minute upon Robb's request. Hoster's armor, shield, hunting horn, and a wooden sword are added to the boat. As part of the funeral custom a flaming arrow is fired to light the sails as the boat travels downriver, but Lord Edmure misses three shots in his grief. Brynden, seeing this, takes the bow from his nephew's hands and succeeds in lighting the sail before the boat disappears downriver.[4]
Quotes about Hoster
|Catelyn: He says he is too sick to fight.
Brynden: I am too old a soldier to believe that. Hoster will be chiding me about the Redwyne girl even as we light his funeral pyre, damn his bones.[2]
|Lord Hoster looked as noble as a king, my lady. [4]
- Jeyne Westerling to Catelyn Stark
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References and Notes
- ↑ See the Hoster Tully calculation.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 71, Catelyn XI.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 28, Catelyn V.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 35, Catelyn IV.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 63, Catelyn X.
- ↑ So Spake Martin: US Signing Tour (Half Moon Bay, CA), November 18, 2005
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 34, Catelyn VI.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 40, Catelyn VII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 2, Catelyn I.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 33, Jaime V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 19, Tyrion III.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 29, Arya V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 43, Arya VIII.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 59, Catelyn IX.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 40, Princess In The Tower.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 7, Catelyn I.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 39, Catelyn V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 14, Catelyn II.