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The territory of the Hwicca was assessed at 7000 hides in the Tribal Hidage, giving it a similar sized economy to the kingdoms of Essex and Sussex.
Hwicce is Old English for trunk or chest, cognate with the modern hutch, though the reasons for its adoption are unknown. The name survives in Wychwood in Oxfordshire, Whichford in Warwickshire, Wichenford and Wychbury Hill in Worcestershire and the modern Wychavon district (also Worcestershire).
The territory of the Hwicce roughly corresponded to the Roman civitas of the Dobunni. The area appears to have remained largely British in the first century or so after Britannia left the Roman Empire, but pagan burials and place-names in its north-eastern sector suggest an inflow of Angles along the Warwickshire Avon and perhaps outher routes, who may have exacted tribute from British rulers.
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle there was a battle at Dyrham in 577 in which the West Saxons under Ceawlin killed three British kings and captured Gloucester, Cirencester and Bath. West Saxon occupation of the area did not last long, however, and may have ended as early as 584 and the Battle of Fethan leag, though certainly by 603 when, according to Bede, Saint Augustine attended a conference of Welsh bishops "at St. Augustine's Oak on the borders of the Hwicce and the West Saxons" thereby confirming that the Hwicce and West Saxons were separate. The Angles strengthened their influence still further over the area in 628, when (says the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle), the West Saxons fought the (Anglian) Penda of Mercia at Cirencester and afterwards came to terms. Penda had evidently won, but he had probably forged an alliance with local leaders, for the former Dobunnic polity did not immediately become part of Mercia. Instead it became the allied or client kingdom of the Hwicce.
The first probable kings of whom we read were two brothers, Eanhere and Eanfrith. Bede notes that Queen Eafe "had been baptised in her own country, the kingdom of the Hwicce. She was the daughter of Eanfrith, Eanhere's brother, both of whom were Christians, as were their people. From this we deduce that Eanfrith and Eanhere were of the royal family and that theirs was a Christian kingdom.
It is likely that the Hwicce were converted to Christianity by the British Church, rather than the mission from Pope Gregory I, since Bede was well-informed on the latter and does not mention the conversion of the Hwicce. Though place-names show that Anglo-Saxon settlement was widespread in the territory, the limited spread of pagan burials suggest that British Christianity survived the influx, as do two eccles place names. There are also probable British Christian burials beneath Worcester Cathedral and St Mary de Lode, Gloucester. So it seems that incoming Anglo-Saxons were absorbed into the existing Church. The ruling dynasty of the Hwicce were probably key figures in the process. Perhaps they sprang from intermarriage between Anglian and British leading families.
By a complex chain of reasoning, we can deduce that Eanhere married Osthryth, daughter of Oswiu of Northumbria and had sons by her named Osric, Oswald and Oshere. Osthryth is recorded as the wife of Æthelred of Mercia. An earlier marriage to Eanhere would explain why Osric and Oswald are described as Æthelred's nepotes — usually translated as nephews or grandsons, but here probably meaning stepsons.
Osric was anxious for the Hwicce to gain their own bishop, S51, but it was Oshere whose influence was seen behind the creation of the see of Worcester in 679–80. Presumably Osric was dead by that time. Tatfrid of Whitby was chosen as the first bishop of the Hwicce, but died before ordination, so he was replaced by Bosel. A 12th-century chronicler of Worcester comments that Worcester was selected as the seat of the bishop because it was the capital of the Hwicce.
Oshere was succeeded by his sons Æthelheard, Æthelweard and Æthelric. At the beginning of Offa's reign we find the kingdom ruled by three brothers, named Eanberht, Uhtred and Aldred, the two latter of whom lived until about 780. After them the title of king seems to have been given up. Their successor Æthelmund, who was killed in a campaign against Wessex in 802, is described only as an earl.
The district remained in possession of the rulers of Mercia until the fall of that kingdom. Together with the rest of English Mercia it submitted to King Alfred about 877–883 under Earl Æthelred, who possibly himself belonged to the Hwicce.
No contemporary genealogy or list of kings has been preserved, so the following list has been compiled by historians from a variety of primary sources. Some kings of the Hwicce seem to have reigned in tandem for all or part of their reign. This gives rise to an overlap in the dates of reigns given below. Please consult individual biographies for a discussion of the dating of these rulers.
|Kingdom conquered by Penda of Mercia.
|mid-7th century
|mid-7th century
|Brother of Eanhere.
|active 670s
|Entombed in Gloucester Cathedral.
|active 690s
|Brother of Osric. Died before 716.
|active 709
|Son of Oshere. Issued charter with Æthelweard.
|active 709
|Son of Oshere.
|active 736
|Son of Oshere.
|active 750s
|Not recorded after 759.
|active 750s - 779
|active 750s - 778
|Assimilation of the Hwicce into Mercia is completed.
|c. 796-802
|Died in battle 802.
|fl. 804
|Son of Æthelmund. His will of 804 requests burial at Deerhurst.
|Father of Leofric, Earl of Mercia
|Built Odda's Chapel at Deerhurst for the soul of his brother Ælfric. Buried at Pershore. The area of his jurisdiction probably did not include the Hwicce.
Æthelmod granted land to Abbess Beorngyth in October 680 and was probably a member of the royal family.
Osred (c. 693) was a thegn of the Hwicce, who has been described by some historians as a king.


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It ranges from Beanie babies to shrek 3/holidays to Super Bowl and other misc. educational stuff
I may go into the Buy/Sell/Trade with these.Most of my old stuff I had, was either given to a younger realitive or still around just misplaced.
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"Kids Behind Bars," airing Sunday, visits a New Mexico juvenile center that is emphasizing counseling and education as a result of a legal settlement with the ACLU.
"Kids Behind Bars," airing Sunday, visits a New Mexico juvenile center that is emphasizing counseling and education as a result of a legal settlement with the ACLU.
The PBS documentary show looks at a California policy of getting tough on juvenile crime through the perspective of one young offender.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder announced today new guidance for states and localities that is meant to improve the education of youths in juvenile detention facilities and protect their civil rights.
"15 to Life: Kenneth's Story" follows a prisoner's effort to be resentenced after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down such harsh penalties.
Many believe that girls of color face the same challenges as their male peers and that it makes little sense to exclude them from the White House initiative.
Oregon and Virginia will each receive $5,000 grants to reform school discipline policies in each state, with the goal of making them less punitive and exclusionary.
A new report provides suggestions for ways schools can reform harsh discipline practices and better support behavior problem management.
A student's statements to an assistant principal about drugs had to be suppressed in court because the student was not given a Miranda warning, a court ruled.
At a U.S. Senate hearing, speakers outlined how bad behavior at school, once handled in house, is now triggering juvenile arrests that derail students' education.
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Issue release date: August 2005
|Section title: Original Paper
The Posterior Probability of Linkage Allowing for Linkage Disequilibrium and a New Estimate of Disequilibrium between a Trait and a MarkerYang X.a, b · Huang J.a, c, e · Logue M.W.a, e · Vieland V.J.a, d, e
aCenter for Statistical Genetics Research, Departments of bBiostatistics, cStatistics and Actuarial Science, dPsychiatry, and ePublic Health Genetics, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Received: 3/3/2005
Accepted: 4/29/2005
Published online: 8/19/2005
Issue release date: August 2005
Number of Print Pages: 10
Number of Figures: 2
Number of Tables: 8
ISSN: 0001-5652 (Print)
eISSN: 1423-0062 (Online)
For additional information: http://www.karger.com/HHE
The posterior probability of linkage (PPL) statistic has been developed as a method for the rigorous accumulation of evidence for or against linkage allowing for both intra- and inter-sample heterogeneity. To date, the method has assumed linkage equilibrium between alleles at the trait locus and the marker locus. We now generalize the PPL to allow for linkage disequilibrium (LD), by incorporating variable phase probabilities into the underlying linkage likelihood. This enables us to recover the marginal posterior density of the recombination fraction, integrating out nuisance parameters of the trait model, including the locus heterogeneity (admixture) parameter, as well as a vector of LD parameters. The marginal posterior density can then be updated across data subsets or new data as they become available, while allowing parameters of the trait model to vary between data sets. The method applies immediately to general pedigree structures and to markers with multiple alleles. In the case of SNPs, the likelihood is parameterized in terms of the standard single LD parameter D′; and it therefore affords a mechanism for estimation of D′ between the marker and the trait, again, without fixing the parameters of the trait model and allowing for updating across data sets. It is even possible to allow for a different associated allele in different populations, while accumulating information regarding the strength of LD. While a computationally efficient implementation for multi-allelic markers is still in progress, we have implemented a version of this new LD-PPL for SNPs and evaluated its performance in nuclear families. Our simulations show that LD-PPLs tend to be larger than PPLs (stronger evidence in favor of linkage/LD) with increased LD level, under a variety of generating models; while in the absence of linkage and LD, LD-PPLs tend to be smaller than PPLs (stronger evidence against linkage). The estimate of D′ also behaves well even in relatively small, heterogeneous samples.
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Number of Figures : 2, Number of Tables : 8, Number of References : 34
Human Heredity (International Journal of Human and Medical Genetics)
Vol. 59, No. 4, Year 2005 (Cover Date: Released August 2005)
Journal Editor: Devoto, M. (Wilmington, Del.)
ISSN: 0001–5652 (print), 1423–0062 (Online)
For additional information: http://www.karger.com/hhe
Received: 3/3/2005
Accepted: 4/29/2005
Published online: 8/19/2005
Issue release date: August 2005
Number of Print Pages: 10
Number of Figures: 2
Number of Tables: 8
ISSN: 0001-5652 (Print)
eISSN: 1423-0062 (Online)
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Ma'akouda – The Moroccan "French Fry"
Moroccan Food January 10, 2012 Amanda Mouttaki 8
It was after a long morning on the beach of Essaouira that we stumbled into the medina to find something for lunch. Well equipped with a list of requests from the rest of the family we found a "snak" stand to place a very large order. It was during this last visit to Morocco that I danced with the idea of vegetarianism having had my fill and then some of meat and chicken. When we went out to eat I was constantly opting for an option without meat. So as we stood placing order after order I glanced into the display case to see what I thought were falafel. My eyes lit up. But when I asked I found out they were not falafel..they were ma'akouda or potato pancakes.
I had never had ma'akouda, nor had I seen them before this visit. I am sure that they can be found in snack shops around the country but for me they will always be synonymous with Essaouira. They were everywhere! Now I have no way of know if this is true but they reminded me a lot of potato latkes, the famous Jewish potato pancake. During the 19th century Essaouira's Jewish population was about 40% of the total population. There has been a Jewish population in Morocco for the past 2,000 years, reaching 250,000+ people at one point. Israel has a population that is about 15% claiming Moroccan Jewish ancestry. It could certainly be that this was a dish influenced by the Jews of Essaouira.
These potato fritters can be eaten alone or as they are most often, made into a sandwich. They are incredibly easy to make and are sure to please your family. I chose to make this a gluten-free recipe but you can easily make it with regular all-purpose flour.
- 1/2 lb Yukon Gold or another soft potato
- 1 Tbsp cumin
- 1/2 Tbsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp onion powder or 1/4 of a chopped onion
- 1 tsp minced garlic or garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup gluten-free flour
- vegetable oil for frying
- 1 cup gluten free flour for dusting
- frying pan
I like to use a soft skin potato so that I can keep the skin on (that's where all the nutrients are!). Scrub them well and then place in a pan. Boil the potatoes until soft, remove from heat and allow to cool. Mash.
Add the spices and egg, mixing well. Begin to add the flour slowly, mixing while you go. The dough should be slightly sticky but should not stick to your hands. You may need to add more than the 1/2 cup of flour. Heat the oil to medium. Begin making small balls with the potato mixture. The size is really up to you. Flatten each ball and dust with flour. Add the patties to the oil, making sure not to crowd the pan. Brown on both sides, remove from oil and drain on a paper towel.
Eat warm with your favorite condiment (harissa is tasty!) or make into a sandwich. Traditionally the ma'akouda sandwich is made on a baguette stuffed with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, olives, spicy Moroccan mustard and mayo.
JeremyDecember 2, 2014 #1 Author
It probably has nothing to do with latkes. "Latkes" are an Ashkenazi (German/European Jewish) thing. Moroccan Jews ate other things for Passover
Trish MorattoMarch 15, 2012 #6 Author
Why don't you live closer to me? I want to come hang out in your kitchen!
katyJanuary 10, 2012 #8 Author
Yup, you can get them anywhere. Though I have to say, I have seen them over and over as street food, though never ONCE as a meal or snack served in people's homes. It sort of reminds me of sfenj or a lot of sandwiches in general.


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Obama looks at border governor for homeland spot
WASHINGTON Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, President-elect Barack Obama's top choice to run the Homeland Security Department, is tough on illegal immigration, child abuse and Republicans.
A former federal prosecutor, state attorney general and twice-elected governor of Arizona, Napolitano would bring a wide skill set to what many have called the hardest job in government.
If confirmed by the Senate, she would take over the newest and third-largest department in Obama's Cabinet.
The Homeland Security Department, formed after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, includes divisions that protect the borders, develop new radiation detection equipment, study and test infectious diseases, enforce immigration and maritime laws, protect the president and other dignitaries, coordinate disaster response, work to keep terrorists off of airplanes and other forms of transportation, and monitor and prevent cyber-intrusions.
Under the scrutiny of more congressional oversight than any other federal department, Homeland Security has weathered a run of controversies including its handling of emergency response during and after Hurricane Katrina, its involvement in a scuttled deal that would have allowed a Dubai company to manage certain U.S. ports, its mismanagement of large government contracts and its delayed implementation of key, post-9/11 security programs.
Napolitano, 50, an early Barack Obama supporter, is no stranger to Washington controversy either.
As a private attorney in Phoenix in 1991, Napolitano was part of the legal team representing Anita Hill, a former Equal Employment Opportunity Commission colleague of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, whom Hill had accused of sexual harassment. Her work on that case postponed Napolitano's own Senate confirmation as U.S. attorney but did not derail Thomas' confirmation as a Supreme Court Justice. At the time, some Republicans suggested she coached a witness for Hill into changing testimony. Napolitano refused to answer questions about that on grounds it would violate the lawyer-client confidentiality agreement.
She was the Clinton-appointed U.S. attorney for Arizona when the Justice Department decided against prosecuting Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain's wife, Cindy, for stealing prescription drugs from her medical charity, but she took no part in that case because she was awaiting Senate confirmation, on which McCain was to vote.
Napolitano's not known as a great orator; when she does speak, she takes care to be grammatically correct. She usually introduces herself on the phone as "Janet Napolitano," not "Gov. Napolitano."
Single and a breast cancer survivor, Napolitano is a basketball fan, plays tennis and regularly visits her brother and his family in California.
People who work with her say she has a strong temper on occasions. She can be both brusque and evasive when fending off reporters' questions she doesn't want to answer. She is known for her partisanship and has patronized and belittled critics, such as Republican legislators.
Napolitano earns $95,000 a year as governor. Her assets last year included a trust and a retirement account worth at least $100,000 each, a personal financial report she filed with the state earlier this year showed. Arizona doesn't have a governor's mansion; Napolitano lives in a condominium her trust purchased in 2004 for $165,000. If Napolitano becomes a Cabinet secretary, she will have to disclose her assets in greater detail than the state requires.


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A Prairie Home Companion comes to Lubbock, TX
A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor heads to Northwest Texas for its first-ever live broadcast in Lubbock — Saturday, April 27, from the City Bank Auditorium. Special guests include Lubbock's own The Flatlanders as well as country singer-songwriter Ashley Monroe.
The Royal Academy of Radio Actors — Sue Scott, Tim Russell (the man of many voices), and sound-effects wizard Fred Newman — will be on hand, along with the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, led by pianist Richard Dworsky. Count on the Prairie Home classics — Guy Noir, Private Eye and The Cowboys, along with show "sponsors" Powdermilk Biscuits and Ketchup — and Keillor will share all the latest News from Lake Wobegon during his signature monologue. Check the Prairie Home website, www.prairiehome.org, for more details.
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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, California – Born with no arms, courageous Filipina American achiever and inspirational speaker, Jessica Cox, will soon have her story told in a documentary. Power ng Pinoy TV is holding a benefit event to complete funding for Jessica Cox' documentary "Right Footed", on Saturday, September 22, 2012 at 5:30 p.m. at Fort McKinley Restaurant in South San Francisco.
Cox holds the Guinness World Record for being the first armless person to get an FAA pilot certification and the title of first armless taekwondo blackbelter, among others. The proceeds of the event will help fund her inspiring documentary movie called "Rightfooted" which chronicles her life, struggles and success.
The lithe longhaired beauty has become an international inspirational keynote speaker. She is recognized and highly respected in the Filipino community and others whom she has touched by her resourcefulness, resiliency and graciousness.
Prowave Media, which is underwriting the documentary, also produces Power ng Pinoy, a weekly 30-minute TV program that features inspirational and success stories of Filipino movers and shakers. Produced in a documentary format, Power ng Pinoy introduces and salutes successful individuals, groups and corporations that continue to make a difference in the lives of Filipinos in the US and in the Philippines. Some of the popular celebrities they've covered are Cheryl Burke and Mayor Joe Esteves of Milpitas.
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jay, i dont know abotu chung being the only consistent player, when on the field, wilfork, dowling and fletcher have been consistently good on d.


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Backup Exec 10d compress problem
I have Backup exec 10d with Agent for Exchange, Agent for SQL, Remote agent. Autoloader with 4 slots device lto3 400/800
My problem is that I have 500GB data, and 300GB of it its word excel and powerpoint docs. the backup job need 2 tapes on on e its writes 400gb and on the other it writes 100GB.
The compress option id selected.
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Some data is compressed already, and won't be compressed again. In this case, it's kind of the best you can get.
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Begin your own guild, hire grunts, train them, hire staff, upgrage base, research new tech and do missions. The idea is quite similar to Jagged alliance game and Fallout tactics with many new ideas - you build up your own squad as finances allow and strive to become better by training and gaining XP and gear. With your squad you can selected individual missions or negotiate with towns for them to become under your protection and pay tribute. This is main source of money in the game and is very much required to build up your faction. The wasteland has many rival factions which at the start of the game remain neutral towards you but as your rebutation grows the evil aligned factions such as Caesars Legion and raiders will declare a war upon you and try to siege your towns and attack your base. You can decide your self wheather to go war against the good and neutral factions to gain the towns controlled by them to your self. This mod will take place in completely new game world. WIP
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Truck sounds good . I take it , it has duals?
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That does sound nice,,,
LOL watch in the reflection of the truck, you can see the house get blasted with debris. I went outside today to hop in the truck, looked at the side of the house and it is covered in black water from this exhaust video. Don't think anybody will notice :)
have you ever had your truck dynoed or got any track times? sounds pretty mean man!
The old owner had it dynoed at 300.83rwhp with 407ft lbs torque. I'll try to find the sheet. That was before the headers. As far as track times we'll find out next April!
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In a surprise move, the probe into Sunanda Pushkar's mysterious death was transferred back to the South district Police on Saturday from the Crime Branch, two days after it was moved to the latter.
Top sources said that the case was moved to South district Police to ensure continuity in the investigation.
Senior police officials, however, did not respond to question as to why the case was first handed over to the Crime Branch if the Delhi Police wanted to ensure continuity in the probe.
The probe into the high-profile case was transferred to the Crime Branch on Thursday considering its "sensitive nature" and "complexities" involved.
Earlier in the day, Sunanda's brother Rajesh came out in strong defence of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, saying it was "unimaginable" that he could harm Sunanda and sought an end to the rumours that were hurting the family.
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Sunanda, was found dead in a five-star hotel in South Delhi on January 17 a day after her twitter spat with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar over an alleged affair with Mr. Tharoor.
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The arrival of January has also meant the reopening of the courts for the new year.
For a three week period over Christmas and New Year the courts generally shut down, stop listening to application hearings, cancel bailiffs' appointments and not set any new evictions over this period.
So much like everywhere else in the country, the return to work in January can be particular gruelling. The courts go into overdrive to clear the backlogs which have accrued.
Our solicitors will work their way through the instructions we have been sending them during the closure period.
All of which generates huge workloads for my area as we try and process all this litigation action. The customers we will be speaking to, generally state they have no money as they have spent it all at Christmas.
We would point out that their mortgage needs to be paid at all times of the year. Christmas is a fixed date and regardless of Christmas they haven't paid anything all year anyway so we can't view this as excuse to not pay their mortgage.
This doesn't make it any more pleasant. Especially with snow falling, the temperature dropping faster than a Liverpool striker in the penalty box and the general manically depressed state of the economy. All in all, a pretty depressing start to the year.
The suicide hotspot of December continues into January and we find the number of court hearings rise anyway as people are generally referred to them to avoid repossession more than at any other time of year.
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John Harrigan: Weasel bloodlust, lots of guns and hungry pigs of the woods
It was a pine marten, a reader said, certain after he'd seen it and looked it up. And the very next day a man stopped me outside Ducret's Store, a sporting goods emporium in Colebrook, and said pretty much the same thing. "Cute little feller," he said. "Cute" to me was a bit of a stretch. Weasels are cute, and martens and their cousins the mink are nice to look at, but lethal.
A mink will, out of bloodlust, kill off an entire chicken coop, biting their necks. Oh, okay, so will a weasel. But weasels, being diminutive, can be cute.
Two weasels once accompanied me on a snowshoe trip, whirling around my feet as I slogged up an old stone wall on the east side of Deadwater. And a house weasel, a welcome guest on account of solving the mice problem, used to run, upside down, on the rafters in the main cabin at Clarksville Pond, eagerly accepting treats from proffered forks.

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A while back, a reader sent me an anguishing note about seeing his dog disemboweled by a coyote, a note that has haunted me ever since. Coyotes can be a love-hate relationship. They inhabit a niche left by our persecution of the wolf. While I love to go out and try to call them in from my rooftop deck on a warm evening, I have no illusions about their habits.
On the last Sunday evening in April, I let my dog Millie out to take care of business and then, just for the fun of it, made my best coyote cry. In came Millie, like a flash. She'd been fooled by my cry, but displayed the better instinct.

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The "gun violence" debate is shrill and devoid of facts and depressing. There is a wide gap of reality and common sense, I think, between urban environs and countryside.
Nobody wants to address what to do about 300 million guns, 200 million of them handguns, loose in the nation. Oh, they'll just go away. "Background checks" on private sales? Right. How?
Criminals and thugs will not be bothered with laws. Calling 911 to save your bacon or your family's lives is simply not a viable option. Even in the cities the response time is too late. That leaves those 15 percent of us living on 85 percent of the land, the countryside, in even greater jeopardy. What preserves sanity in the face of all this is assertion and cohesion.
No group seems to have a handle on how many crimes are prevented because of people having quick access to guns, probably because most such cases are not reported. But it is surely in the hundreds of thousands per year.
Big Media continue to get this story wrong. No "permit" (yet) is required to own a firearm. No "license" is needed to carry a firearm, obvious or concealed. If it's to be carried concealed and loaded, yes. Is this rocket science?
I have around a dozen guns. Some are heirlooms, and all have a story. Although some are cherished, in the end they are nothing more than tools in the toolbox to me. Do I keep one handy and ready? You bet. Calling 911 is not an option.

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"Hunting the Snow-Line," I think, would be a pretty good title for a book, the book that at this rate I'll never get to write, unless I make it to The Home, warm and comfy with three squares a day.
As I think I mentioned in this space a couple of weeks ago (See? Ready for The Home), at this time of year we see hawks and other birds of prey hunting the snow-line as it recedes northward, just as they hunted it on its southward march last Fall.
An old friend stopped me in the parking lot at LaPerle's IGA just the other day, and remarked on how many hawks he'd been seeing. "Hunting the snow-line," I offered, and he said "Wow, I never thought about it that way," and I should have said "Neither did I, until about the age of forty," but didn't.

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Last week I wrote about seeing a bear sitting down in Landaff, gorging on an ant-heap, and wondered about energy spent versus energy obtained.
And there in this past issue of Hawkeye was longtime CO Doug Galenski, in "North of the Notches," with this:
"Bears are very efficient in that they will figure out the easiest way to obtain the maximum amount of calories."
Doug's right. Not for nothing did the French voyageurs call them "cochons de bois" - pigs of the woods. A bear will peel an RV apart like an onion to get at food inside.
Which is why we do not leave so much as a morsel in our hike-in camp. Every bit of food not consumed is carried out, because there's nothing that'll ransack and wreck a camp like a hungry bear, although raccoons are a close second.

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The results of the last election of 2004 could foretell the first serious defeat for the Bush Administration's agenda in the new Congress. The election, a December runoff for an open US House seat representing Louisiana's Cajun country, was supposed to be an easy one for Republican Billy Tauzin III. After all, he was the son of a retiring congressman, who had the support of the entire state and national GOP establishment in a district that had just backed Bush by a comfortable margin. Pitted against Tauzin was Democrat Charlie Melancon, a former legislator without a big name or big-name backers. But Melancon had an issue: He promised to do everything in his power to block Congressional approval of the proposed Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Melancon said that while Louisiana may have taken hits from the ten-year-old NAFTA, "CAFTA could be a knockout we may never recover from." And, he promised, "when I'm in Congress, no one will need a petition to guarantee my vote against trade deals that are bad for Louisiana's workers."
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While the new Congress was being sworn in, fair-trade activists from across the country gathered in Washington to plot strategy and begin lobbying. The coalition is broader than in the past. Traditional critics of free-trade pacts, like the AFL-CIO and Global Exchange, are on board, but so are a growing number of green groups--the Sierra Club, for example, is warning that CAFTA rules blocking barriers to trade could undermine the ability of local governments to protect the environment. And solidarity organizations like the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador and Witness for Peace, as well as religious groups with histories of involvement in Central America, argue that CAFTA will do far more for the bottom lines of multinational corporations than it will ever do for the poor in Latin America.
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THE FOUR THOUSAND FANS who filled the Austin Music Hall for Bob Dylan's two performances in October can thank the state's premier concert promoter, Pace Entertainment, for bringing the rock legend to Texas for the second time in twelve months. Of course, they paid for the privilege—a top ticket price of $50, as a matter of fact. But hey, we're talking Bob Dylan here! Besides, compared with the $100 top for 1994's Eagles reunion tour, another Pace show, Dylan was a bargain.
The times, they are definitely a-changin'. The concert- and theater-going experience has been irrevocably altered for millions of people as a result of the phenomenal success of Houston-based Pace. Founded in 1966 by Houstonians Allen Becker, an insurance salesman, and Sidney Shlenker, a banker, Pace has built a live entertainment empire that produced or presented more than 4,500 events, sold 13 million tickets, and had revenues of $150 million last year; Pace also owns an interest in twelve amphitheaters across the country. Chances are that any Texan who attends live events—from the recent Kiss concert tour to Miss Saigon at this year's state fair in Dallas to this winter's truck and tractor pull at the Astrodome—has seen a Pace production. Beyond Texas, magician David Copperfield's Dreams & Nightmares, currently playing to sold-out houses on Broadway, is a Pace co-production. Just how big a deal is Pace? So big that despite one of the worst seasons in the history of concert tours this past summer, the company grossed almost $10 million more this year than in 1995.
But while Texans are being treated to more big shows than ever, the box office isn't the only place where we're paying a price, according to some critics. As the economics of concert promotion have changed and corporations—including Pace—have consolidated their positions, smaller promoters, venues, and artists have gotten squeezed, ultimately affecting what is seen onstage. "The corporate entities aren't there for the music or the bands. They're there to sell the parking, popcorn, Cokes, and beer," Moss Jacobs, a talent booker for Los Angeles—based promoter Goldenvoice, complained during a panel discussion sponsored by the Los Angeles Music Network last April. "They don't care about the music and they are slowly putting smaller promoters out of business." But Pace president and CEO Brian Becker, the elder of company chairman Allen Becker's two sons, dismisses Jacobs' assertion as naive. The industry is "consolidating because the inefficiencies require consolidation," he says, going on to challenge anyone to show him where artistic creativity is being stifled. "Independent labels are being started every day."
Allen Becker, who's 64, came of age in the entertainment industry when it was still "a real street business," he says. The son of a shoe salesman from Brenham and a homemaker from Galveston, he was born and reared in Houston. After graduating from the University of Texas in 1954 with a degree in marketing, he signed on for a two-year stint in the Air Force and then went to work for the Kansas City Life Insurance Company, selling more than $1 million worth of policies in his first year on the job. But by the time the Astrodome opened in 1965, he was ready for a change. "I think it was a lark," he recalls. "We said, 'Hey, this is an opportunity. Why don't we do something?'" Becker and Shlenker spent the next decade producing all kinds of motor-sports events, including motorcycle jumping and races, as well as a few concerts. Shlenker was bought out in the late eighties, and Becker's 37-year-old son, Gary, now runs Pace Motor Sports.
Opportunity knocked again in 1975 when the New Orleans Superdome opened and Pace—now expert at producing events under domes—was awarded a contract by the State of Louisiana to produce the grand-opening entertainment. There Allen Becker met Louis Messina, the son of a New Orleans boxing promoter who had come up through the ranks of concert promotion, and together they founded Pace Concerts, which Messina now oversees. Becker recalls having to take acts that were "financial losers"—including Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in the early days—to clubs and music halls in small cities like Harlingen and McAllen to get the rights to promote the bigger acts in large cities. "We had to pay our dues to get into the business," he remembers. By 1978 Pace had become a well-established Texas promoter. "They carved that from the ground floor," says Ray Waddell, who covers the concert-touring industry for Amusement Business, a trade magazine. "They came in and kind of took over the Texas market." One casualty of Pace's rise was now-defunct Concerts West, which was the largest concert promoter in Texas in the seventies.
The highly fragmented concert game, populated by independent promoters who thrived on guts, instinct, and talent, was coming under the control of accountants and business school graduates. "We had a different perspective: paying the bills, for example," says forty-year-old Brian Becker, who graduated from Stanford University and has a master's in business administration from UCLA.
After establishing a beachhead in the Texas music business, Pace began to branch out. Brian joined the family business in 1982 and, together with partner Miles Wilkin, started Pace Theatrical Group. Today, it's the largest U.S. presenter of touring Broadway musicals and plays, with an office and a staff of twenty in New York's Theater District. "We built the national touring business," says Allen. Indeed, Pace has brought Broadway to the masses and replaced the old bus-and-truck tours with expensive productions of megahits like Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, and Miss Saigon.
"The road is Pace's lifeblood," says Scott Zeiger, the 37-year-old president of Pace Theatrical Group. The company's relationship with Andrew Lloyd Webber—the most commercially successful composer and producer Broadway has ever known—has been key. Pace has presented every one of Webber's shows, from Cats to Sunset Boulevard, in its touring markets and was one of the original investors in Sunset Boulevard. Together with local arts organizations, including the Society for the Performing Arts in