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Top 10 Tales of Late Musicians and Marijuana
byMark Miller
Photo by Steve Eichner/WireImage
With the sad passing of so many genre defining, boundary crossing, groundbreaking musicians in the last two years, in our fly-by-night culture, it's often difficult to fully appreciate and properly commemorate all these great artists—especially when it comes to their adventures with weed.
Pot touched on the careers of every musician who made this list—and even a couple who didn't. Music and marijuana is really a multi-generational phenomenon, spanning the father of rock 'n' roll to a guru of grunge. Of course, cannabis had greater meaning for some more than others on this list—but isn't that always the case with anything in life?
In compiling this list, we selected those who possessed a positive weed outlook, which is why the legendary Prince—who died April 21 of 2016 after overdosing on killer opioid fentanyl—did not make the cut, due to his anti-pot protestations. On the song "Purple Freak" Prince sadly sang, "Don't need no reefer"—but perhaps if he had turned to pot instead of deadly opiates, he'd be alive and toking today!
And then there's George Michael, who passed away this past Christmas due to heart disease. Michael's relationship with the weed was so complex and frankly, bizarre, it would take an entire article to delineate. Fortunately, we have one right HERE.
But for those musicians included below, their stories are indicative of the influence of cannabis on their lives, careers, or at least the wide world of weed that surrounded them while they were still with us.
Some of these artists were inspired by pot, others entrapped by its mindless prohibition, but each has a unique THC tale.
So fire up some bud that opens your mind, check out our linked musical suggestions—or put on your own mixtape of some, or all—while reading this countdown of these dearly departed rockers and rollers, as you come to realize the ubiquitous role marijuana has always played in shaping music and the culture that imbues it.
10. CHRIS CORNELL
The shocking, out-of-nowhere, early-morning May 18 suicide of Soundgarden front-man Cornell may have been fueled by use of unpredictable psychoactive prescription drugs, such as Ativan. Personally, Cornell didn't have a rep as a smoker—though his ganja grunge fans were legion—perhaps seeking to preserve his golden throat. But that's not to say Cornell didn't appreciate West Coast weed, as his comments at this 2008 San Francisco show attest.
Smelling a "lot of real strong weed" just outside the venue, Cornell jokingly declared that concertgoers didn't even have to continue getting stoned, because the "pot is just too damn strong around here!" The crowd squealed their agreement about the "strong" part, but kept right on smoking anyway.
Also, back in the day, Cornell served as a first rate "pot lookout," as DJ Riz Rollins explained at Cornell's wake held at KEXP studio at the Seattle Center, during the afternoon of May 18. Rollins recalled that at the now-defunct Seattle club The Off Ramp, he wanted to puff weed in a bathroom, but in those pre-legal years, such activities were not as acceptable. But Cornell came to the reefer rescue, obliging to serve as look-out while Rollins blazed. He offered Cornell a hit, and though Chris passed, he did fulfill his duties as dank sentry while Rollins got ripped.
9. PHIFE DAWG
When Malik "Phife Dawg" Taylor died in March 2016 at the too-young age of 45 from complications of diabetes, it had many old school fans recalling his years as a member of introspective hip-hop combo A Tribe Called Quest.
Phife Dawg also appeared on "Weed #2", from trippy rap group De La Soul's year 2000 album, Art Official Intelligence. As broken down by Wired, the audio's skit premise is that magic marijuana called "Ghost Weed" bestows the ability upon anyone who smokes to perfectly impersonate their favorite rapper, and Dawg does a freestyle where he "pretends" to be some guy mimicking Phife's distinctive voice and flow.
The author of "Johnny B Goode" died this past March of cardiac arrest at age 90.
John Lennon once said, "If you tried to give rock 'n' roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry." That statement was a tribute to Berry's seminal role in creating the structure and lead guitar dynamics of rock in the mid-1950's—and the genre of music that seemed to go so well with weed.
Flash forward almost half-a-century, when Berry was busted for possession of pot and hash, with 62 grams of weed confiscated during a July 1990 raid on Berry's rural residence near St. Louis, Missouri. Per the Associated Press, Berry officially denied the weed was his as part of a plea bargain to get probation on a misdemeanor charge. It's possible that Berry liked to personally indulge in the chronic—until he got caught.
Regardless if he actually smoked or not, there's a cannabis strain actually named "Chuck Berry"—a predominantly indica-dominant that combines an Afghani landrace with, you guessed it, BlackBerry.
7. LEONARD COHEN
The enigmatic Cohen departed this material plane last November at age 82, when he died in his sleep at his L.A. residence after suffering a bad fall due to his struggles with cancer.
To help deal with the disease's constant pain, Cohen indulged in medicinal cannabis for healing energy while recording his swan song album, the critically lauded You Want It Darker, released a mere three weeks before his passing.
Cohen's son Adam produced the album and shared with CBC how he and his father, "would put on a song and listen to it on repeat just like teenagers with the help of medical marijuana." The healing weed helped bring "joy and jubilance" to Cohen and the creative process, as is indicative on the finished product.
6. GREGG ALLMAN
Here's a story where pot—and other drugs—actually contributed to the breakup of the band. The organist and soulful crooner of Southern rock—and jamband—groundbreakers the Allman Brothers Band, is sadly, the most recent casualty on this list, having succumbed to complications of liver cancer on May 27.
Per Ultimate Classic Rock, the ABB bio Midnight Riders tells the story of the Allman's connection to the "Dixie Mafia," which dealt all kinds of drugs both deadly (heroin, cocaine and PCP) and benign (weed). But all that changed in March 1971, when ABB and their suppliers rolled into a Jackson, Alabama truck stop and a rightfully suspicious cop busted the dealers—and the band. Gregg, who freaked out over being held in a cell, started crazily climbing the bars until calmed down by his brother and ABB slide guitarist extraordinaire, the late great Duane Alllman.
Gregg and the rest of the band were released after one night, and they made a plea bargain to escape incarceration. Along with that, ABB stopped playing Alabama. Gregg's testimony against road manager Scooter Herring, who got 75 years in prison for narcotics distribution, was viewed as a betrayal by other ABB members and the band was shattered in 1976, until Gregg reformed ABB with two new members in '78.
5. DAVID BOWIE
Bowie became the "Thin White Doobie" for a night on March 21, 1976, when he and his crew were busted for 182 grams of weed (6.4 ounces). While that was a sizable stash, keep in mind Bowie and crew were on tour. Though known for dabbling in harder drugs like cocaine, apparently Ziggy "Starbud" and his entourage got stoned with the best of them.
Per the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, after performing on Saturday March 20, Bowie and three others were arrested early the next morning by four raiding vice squad detectives in his three-room suite at the Americana Rochester Hotel. Among those arrested was James Osterberg, Jr.—aka punk pioneer Iggy Pop. Bowie was charged with a Class C felony, and despite the stress of it all, took a very stylish mugshot only Ziggy could pull off. He posted bail of $2,000 each for his entourage and drove off to his next show in Springfield, Massachusetts (the "Starman" ironically feared flying).
Bowie appeared in court on March 25, 1976, using his given name of David Jones, again looking very '70's glam-fabulous, and generally ignoring his gathered fans. Though he was said to be "very flattered" by their response, along with the catcalls of six hookers awaiting arraignment. Bowie/Jones pleaded, "Not guilty, sir," and the charges were ultimately dismissed. Though at the time, Bowie said the incident would not affect his return to the town, he never played Rochester again. And now he never will.
4. MERLE HAGGARD
The co-creator of the country-based "Bakersfield Sound" passed away on April 6, 2016–his 79th birthday. Haggard's pot story is like George Michael's—except blissfully in reverse, as Merle went from opposing pot to helping create a strain!
As delineated by Rolling Stone, during the height of the counterculture in 1969, Haggard released "Okie from Muskogee" in which he proudly declared, "We don't smoke marijuana." But like much of America, over time, Haggard came to be enlightened on the wonders of weed, and he expressed regret over being associated with the trite values of "Muskogee."
Haggard was personally partial to sativa strains, for their stimulating effects that helped get him through a grueling tour schedule of over 100 live shows annually.
With the help of his family, he cultivated medicinal marijuana on his 280-acre ranch in Northern California. Haggard also got stoned with another country legend, Willie Nelson, as the two recorded an album together, which included the song, "It's All Going to Pot," aptly released on April 20, 2015 as Haggard came musically full circle with cannabis.
Per Westwood, even after his death, Haggard continues making an impression upon the world of weed, as the "Merle's Girls" sativa strain he personally developed—and named for a girl's soccer team he once sponsored—was marketed by the Colorado Weed Co. in September 2016.
3. GLENN FREY
Frey's death was particularly tragic—and underscores the dangers of prescription drugs—as he passed from complications of the medication he was taking for rheumatoid arthritis in January 2016.
Frey and his band The Eagles reflect the mellow 1970's stoner groove when weed wasn't quite as mind-blowing as it is today with 30 percent THC strains. And one of the quintessential anthems of that era was "Take It Easy," composed by Frey and another ambassador of mellow '70's rock—Jackson Browne—while they were jamming and getting baked together, according to Leafly.
Per the Rolling Stone, while the Eagles were recording their 1974 breakthrough album On The Border, the famed producer Glyn Johns prohibited any drug use—even pot—in the studio. This presented a challenge for super-stoner Frey, who had to ditch the confines of the studio with bassist Randy Meisner to get high between takes,
Frey readily admitted: "It really irritated (Johns) that Randy and I would sneak off and smoke weed. He'd tell me, 'You smoke grass and then you don't say what's on your mind when it comes to mind. Now it's a week later and you're talking about something that you should have ironed out seven days ago. And that's juvenile…'"
"What can you say?" Frey asked rhetorically, "You're busted."
Yet Frey's creative juices were certainly enhanced by the clandestine cannabis sessions, which produced strong Border songs like the title track and classic sing-along, "James Dean."
And never doubt Frey being a life-long stoner. As teenager friend Bob Seger recalled when he and Frey were in a heady band called Mushrooms together in Detroit, they once got busted smoking weed in Frey's basement—by Glenn's own mother!
2. PAUL KANTNER
Paul Kantner ranks high on this list for many reasons, including being the co-founder of a band that shared the name of a makeshift roach clip, as a "Jefferson Airplane" is a burnt match split into two to securely hold those tiny ends of joints that would otherwise burn delicate fingers. Even if the band name might have other origins, per Band Naming, everyone on Earth thinks they're named for homemade paraphernalia.
Kantner passed in January 2016 at age 74 of multiple organ failure.
Cannabis was part and partial to Kantner's radical "revolutionary artist" persona of the late 60's and early 70's—before cocaine took over the scene. For just one example, Kantner was fond of leaving joints in telephone booths (remember those?) located in government buildings, presumably in hopes of "turning on" politicos. When asked about it in a 1970 Rolling Stone interview, Kantner did not back down an inch: "I'll probably escalate. Leave bales of marijuana strewn across cities." And being the consummate pothead, Paul did not forget the munchies, as he added, "Also leaving just tons of food on people."
Kantner was likewise an unabashed believer in the transformative powers of pot. In a late 1970's interview in High Times-ripoff publication Head magazine (reprinted online in 2016 by Potent), he disclosed, "Grass made me a whole man," as before he became a stoner, Paul was "painfully shy."
Kantner also originated selective strain usage ,which is commonplace today; he had what he referred to as his "day dope," Mexican strains that were "brighter, zippier, higher." While stronger strains like Thai were for when he really wanted to get ripped.
Kantner also recalled getting busted for weed in Hawaii in 1970 in an incident he described as a "Keystone Kops kind of thing." After a local Hawaiian newspaper reporter wrote that Kantner had been smoking a "log-sized" joint during an interview, this prompted the local narcs to monitor and then bust the house Jefferson Airplane was renting while touring the Islands.
1. DAVID PEEL
Was David Peel into marijuana? Hell, this guy was marijuana—about as close as a person may have ever gotten to personifying pot; at least, the wild, joyous, creative, spontaneous side of weed.
The author of infectious sing-along pot anthem, "I Like Marijuana," died of a heart attack in New York City this past April. To list all of Peel's pot adventures would take up an article twice the length of this, but among the highlights was his playing the historic December 10, 1971 "Free John Sinclair" rally for a Michigan pot prisoner, which included a performance by John Lennon.
His first street band was David Peel and the Banana Trippers, a dated reference to the hippie myth that smoking banana peels somehow got you stoned (which is false; bananas don't contain any combustible psychoactive chemicals). Peel and his next band Lower East Side were heard jamming in on the streets of NYC in 1968 by an Elektra Records executive, Danny Fields, who was captivated by their folk-punk rawness.
Per Celeb Stoner, Peel and band subsequently signed with Elektra and their first album was not only called Have a Marijuana, it proudly displayed a pot leaf on the cover. Before High Times, Cheech & Chong and today's hip-hop pot scene all brought marijuana closer to the mainstream, Peel broke ground with his audacious pot support at a time when the nation was much more divided over weed.
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Cannabis Pilot Program Kicks Off in Switzerland
Selected participants will be able to purchase weed for recreational use in Basel—a first for Switzerland.
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The romanticization of Pablo Escobar has turned Colombia into a narco-tourism hotspot, much to the chagrin of those who live there.
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Ohio drivers are going to have to prove they weren't high.
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Back in Brussels
December 29, 2009 by mzawel 2 Comments
It's always fun coming back to a foreign city that you've already visited. My last trip to Brussels was a little more than two years ago. A lot has happened in my life since then but this city looks and feels about the same. In some ways, it's comforting.
After a coffee and chocolate filled croissant, it was time to brave the masses and head onto Grand Place, the city's tourist-clogged central square. It's the top attraction for a reason though. The buildings, including the Town Hall, date back to the early 15th century and have been lovingly maintained; the entire area is an UNESCO World Heritage Site. Somehow, despite the disgusting crowds, it's still difficult not to be completely struck by this place.
Even after multiple visits, I'm still trying to figure out how the train and subway ticket systems effectively work in Europe. It's essentially all on an honor system – you buy tickets, self-stamp them and board the cars. Apparently, tickets can be checked at any point although that probably never happens. Could this ever work in the States? And if not, why?
By the time I'd come up with an answer, my subway doors opened and I'd arrived at the Atomium. This wild looking monument was constructed for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. The interconnected spheres form a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times.
The line to get in was long but moved quickly. Escalators and stairs allowed visitors to move between the various pods in which exhibits had been set up.
Soon, a steady rain started to fall — signaling my time to head home. Back at the hotel, there was massive consumption of free Wi-Fi and sauna, as well as some sink laundry. With a big day of travel in front of me, it was an early night.
Tomorrow, it's onward to Russia.
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From the diamond capital to Europe's capital
December 28, 2009 by mzawel Leave a Comment
Even a giant Nespresso couldn't get me out of bed this morning. Thankfully, listening to the BBC techno introduction several times got me pumped up and ready to move.
There wasn't much of a plan for today. So, map in hand, it was off to the Old Town, which was one of the most impressive that I've seen. The City Hall dates back over 400 years to 1576; the Grote Markt was in equally pristine shape with beautifully designed and maintained buildings surrounding the central square. Towering overhead was the 16th century Cathedral of our Lady.
The waterfront area, bordering the Schelde River, was only a few blocks away. The promenade was deserted, offering picturesque views of the old city juxtaposed against the working port.
After some lunch, it was time to move onto Brussels, a short 30-minute commuter train ride west. Home to the European Union, this city has been coined the "Capital of Europe." A lousy cab driver brought me to my accommodation here, the Dominican, a small boutique hotel across from the Opera House and within a few minutes walk to the Grand Place.
For dinner, a small bistro down the street served up a tasty bowl of mussels in a white wine, garlic herb broth. And unlike last night's fries, none remained.
The world's diamond capital
After seeing Alex and Peter off this morning from Schipol Airport — which was a madhouse in the wake of the security scare earlier this week — it was off to book a train ticket to Belgium. My first stop in this country was Antwerp, perhaps best known as the "Diamond Center of the World." It rings about $23 billion annually and is second only to London as an outlet for raw and industrial diamonds.
It was about an hour and half ride here into the glittering train station. Generally, Europe showcases some pretty remarkable train stations. Antwerp, however, really pushes the envelope. The building rises high in the sky and features ornately carved marble walls. Its quite the introduction to showy Antwerp.
My hotel, the Park Inn, was just across the square. It was a relatively new modern and quiet hotel with an unbeatable location and price — just $70 bucks for the night.
Post-nap, it was getting late but there was still time to visit Rubenshuis, the former home of painter Peter Paul Rubens. The rooms had been reconstructed as they would have appeared in the late 16th century; it turns out also that Rubens, far from being a starving artist, actually amassed a nice little fortune by selling his paintings. And his pad, stuffed with tons of art and beautiful ornamental gardens, reflected his success.
Back at the hotel, it was time to hit to the gym and sauna. Post work-out, there was only one thing on my mind: fries. A place on the corner dished up a huge plate covered in ketchup, mayo and sweet onions.
Delicious as they were, it was hard to even put a dent in them.


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teaching, Wikipedia
I've just finished teaching my module on Wikipedia and medieval history. It's a short course for MA students, taught through five two-hour seminars. I started this module in early 2018, as I think the first of its kind in the UK; it's now run three times, with the support and advice of the brilliant Wikimedia UK team.
It's evolved quite a lot from where it started: from what was basically a 'normal' medieval MA course with a Wikipedia dimension, to a course that's more squarely focused on Wikipedia itself, and its implications for those concerned with the (medieval) past.
There's quite a lot of interest these days in teaching with Wikipedia, so in case it's useful for anyone thinking of running such a module, I've attached my course guide. Comments and suggestions for improvement would be very welcome!
Wikipedia and Medieval History (pdf)
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https://twitter.com/staatsarchiv_zh/status/1147521814563872768 )
Public history, teaching
November 11, 2019 Charles West	12 Comments
It's with some hesitation that I write this blog. It's not really my field, and the topic is angrily contested; many historians have chosen to keep their heads down and concentrate on their teaching and research at a busy time of year. But the 'Anglo-Saxon' debate raises important questions for those who study the medieval past, and for historians more broadly.
At its simplest, the debate concerns the value of 'Anglo-Saxon' as a label for the culture, society and politics of southern and eastern Britain before the Norman Conquest. It has been argued by scholars such as Dr Mary Rambaran-Olm (for instance, here) that the label is irredeemably racist and must therefore be abandoned, not just because of its modern appropriation by far-right groups, but because of its history since the Reformation. Proponents of this view add that its continued use actively discourages BAME scholars from entering and remaining in the field; some hold moreover that its abandonment should be merely the beginning of reforms required to dismantle a structurally racist system of knowledge production in the modern university.
Those making these arguments have met with awful racist abuse online, and I applaud the courage of Dr Rambaran-Olm and others in facing it.
Others in the debate have pointed out that the label 'Anglo-Saxon' was abundantly attested in sources from the time (especially those written on the continent) and so cannot easily be dismissed or ignored, have called for more thorough assessment of the term's early modern and nineteenth-century use by specialists of these periods, and have raised concerns about abandoning commonly-used labels to extremists. (There's a useful summary by Michael Wood here.)
One of the issues is a significant UK/US dissonance. In America and other English-speaking countries, the term 'Anglo' or even 'Anglo-Saxon' is often used as an ethnic label – indeed, that is apparently its normal usage outside the academy. In the UK, this usage can certainly be found; but it is a marginal one, and for the most part the label today is used with reference to the historical period, whose traces remain evident in place-names and even standing buildings. In standard UK usage, Hadrian the African, for instance, who came from North Africa and became abbot in Canterbury (d. 709), is just as much part of Anglo-Saxon history as the Venerable Bede.
To be clear, this does not mean that the UK is less racist than America, just that different countries with different histories are differently racist. Where the far right in America uses a language of 'Anglo-Saxon', the far right in the UK, and especially in England (the largest of the four nations of the UK), primarily employs a language of exclusionary Englishness (e.g. the English Defence League). It's maybe partly for that reason that BAME people living in England are much less likely to consider themselves English than white people living in England, often preferring instead the label British. To talk about the 'early English' or the 'Old English' instead of the 'Anglo-Saxons', as has been mooted, might help combat racism in the US, but might inadvertently feed it in England.
There is a wider issue here, which is about the best way for historians to combat fascism in all its forms: an acute question in 2019. For me, the key is to write good, accurate and engaging history that does not oversimplify past complexities, that respects the integrity of the historical sources in the search to understand the past as best as possible for its own sake – and that challenges both the distant past's direct relevance to contemporary politics, and anyone's claim exclusively to own it.
When extremist groups appeal to the early Middle Ages in their efforts to reshape the contemporary world, historians should point out where they are wilfully and grotesquely misreading the evidence: after all, the appropriate and sensitive use of evidence is what historical training and historical ethics are all about.
But historians should also, and I would argue above all, point out that the past is not an instruction manual or a model for the present. Whatever your reading of it, early medieval history was a very long time ago: it is or ought to be largely irrelevant for contemporary political issues, whether in England or America or anywhere else. The main problem with 21st-century fascists pretending to be medieval Anglo-Saxons or Vikings is not that they have misread Bede or Gildas: it is that they are fascists.
Edited 11.11.19 to remove 'if one looks hard enough' after 'this usage can certainly be found', to avoid any unintended implication that racists need to be sought out.
What is a History lecture for?
November 12, 2018 Charles West	4 Comments
Once upon a time, a typical History degree in the UK would be taught through a combination of lectures and small-group teaching. The small-group teaching would be based on discussion of reading done in advance. To enable all the students to do the reading, libraries would stock multiple copies of relevant books, next to little cardboard boxes of offprints – authorised photocopies – for reading in the library, not for borrowing.
This all sounds rather quaint in the era of digital reproducibility. When JSTOR first appeared, lecturers publicly lamented that students no longer learned how to use library catalogues, but they privately welcomed the way it abolished the old access problems. Every student could read the same chapter or article in preparation for the small-group discussion, and a course could be easily updated if something new and brilliant came out.
Now, though, reproduction technologies are being applied not just to the reading but to the lectures, through lecture capture.
UK students and university administration alike often see lecture capture as progress with no downsides. You can listen to your lecture again and again, at your leisure, whenever and however suits you. Staff concern about dropping attendance is countered by the benefit the technology clearly offers to students who unavoidably miss a lecture through illness, family emergency, or other commitments, quite apart from university 'business continuity' if a lecturer falls ill or is otherwise unavailable.
But these debates, though important, are missing a key point: reproducing something inevitably changes the original in some way.
This year, a number of engaged students have politely emailed me, weeks after a lecture, to ask for references to things I referred to in passing in a lecture – and not just book titles (which I naturally provided), but for page numbers. In essence, they are asking for my lecture's footnotes. And that's perfectly understandable. Digital reproduction means the lecture has become a resource, not an event. Now that students can listen to it again and again, their expectations of the lecture have changed. It is now effectively a recited text.
Does this matter? As it happens, most of my lectures are texts, since I tend unfashionably to write them out in full. Is there any reason I shouldn't simply upload them as texts, so all the students can read them for themselves? Why not treat undergraduate lecture series as oral textbooks?
That might be where we're going. But there are two issues. The first is that if we expect lectures to receive the kind of scrutiny that published texts come under (especially if they end up on the internet, which these days is more likely than not), lecturers will have to spend rather longer on writing them, and changing their nature: polishing them up, equipping them with footnotes, and removing those wry quips that might sound awkward taken out of context.
The second is deeper-rooted. I think most History lecturers don't want their students to 'learn' their lectures by dint of repetition: these lectures aren't e-How videos, teaching a historical data-set to be repeated back in an exam. That's because a History degree, at heart, isn't primarily about rote learning lots of details about the past – it's about learning how to construct, for yourself, reasoned and persuasive arguments on the basis of incomplete evidence. Undergraduate lectures are generally intended to introduce students to a wider body of historical literature, to help guide them through it; they are not supposed to stand in for that literature in itself, or to give the answer for the exam. But that is what uniform lecture capture presents their role to be.
In other words, as lecture capture becomes ever more prevalent and normal, there is the risk that undergraduate lectures become obstacles to the kind of learning that History degrees are intended to inculcate. It may be historians would be better off replacing them with 20-minute screencasts to be viewed in advance, and 'flipping the lecture'. Ironically, rather than bringing lectures into the 21st century, could lecture capture end up killing them off?
*Update* 13.11.2018
To my slight surprise, a few people have read this blog as just an(other) attack on lecture capture. But I wasn't arguing straightforwardly for or against (and I specified the advantages of LC for many students, though I accept I ought to have mentioned disabled students explicitly).
My focus was rather on how LC changes the nature of a lecture – in disciplinary terms, it effectively makes it into a secondary source – and how this has pedagogical (as well as workload) implications. Actually, I suspect many students have long considered lectures to be secondary sources, rather than guides to them, so in that sense LC is just bringing a latent issue to the fore, but in a way that merits reflection.
Making use of LC technology in an imaginative and properly thought-through way could improve teaching, but perhaps not in a way which leaves the standard lecture-based teaching model intact (whether that's a good or a bad thing).
church, Hincmar, kingship, teaching, translations
Carolingian queens – coronation ordines
October 12, 2018 Charles West	Leave a comment
"Curiously, the earliest documented [coronation ordo] is for a queen, Judith in 856" – Jinty Nelson.
The coronation ritual by which the Frankish princess Judith was initiated into her marriage with the West Saxon king Aethelwulf has often been studied by historians of queenship and Anglo-Frankish contacts and connections. It has not however been translated into English before, as far as I know. This blog is therefore to make available my own draft translation of this important text, on the day of a modern royal wedding to boot. It's rather rough and ready (& not polished enough for formal publication), so comments are welcome.
To provide some context, I've also translated a slightly later coronation ritual for another Frankish queen, Ermentrude. This ceremony, which took place in 866, did not mark the beginning of Ermentrude's marriage to Charles the Bald – they had been married since 842, and in fact Judith was one of their children. The liturgy is preceded by a short text which offers an explanation as to why Charles (and Ermentrude?) arranged the event, decades into their married life. Further research on this by Zubin Mistry is forthcoming in the journal Early Medieval Europe.
Medieval coronation orders are strange sources. Composed largely of prayers, interspersed with citations from and references to the Bible, they can seem difficult to make much of (and to translate into English, too). However, these two rituals were written for specific occasions, and it may be possible to detect traces of how they were tailored to those occasions. They were also written by the same person – Archbishop Hincmar of Reims. That makes a comparison even more telling: how did Hincmar adjust and adapt his material, according to the political and theological imperatives of the moment?
One final point. It's often assumed that marriages such as these were political affairs, not affairs of the heart. Perhaps. But Hincmar at least hoped that one wouldn't exclude the other, since alongside praying for eternal life, freedom from 'the stain of adultery' and plenty of offspring, he also hoped Ermentrude and Charles would persevere amore coniugali sincero: 'in sincere conjugal love'. Unfortunately, Charles's efficiency in negotiating a remarriage to a woman named Richildis merely days after Ermentrude's death in 869 suggests this prayer may not have been fully answered.
Translation of the Judith and Ermentrude consecration ordines (pdf)
Hincmar, HST 3154, kingship, teaching, translations, Vikings
A kingdom on a knife edge
February 12, 2018 Charles West	Leave a comment
The Treaty of Verdun of 843 is (or used to be) famous, as the moment when the Frankish empire of Charlemagne was divided amongst his heirs. It can be argued that this division can still be traced in modern European political borders.
But at the time, the treaty was seen as no more than provisional. And one of the most spectacular attempts to reverse it was the invasion of western Francia by the eastern Frankish king, Louis 'the German', in 858. In the end the western king, Charles 'the Bald', managed to hold on to power – but it appears to have been a close-run thing, and in the winter of 858 the whole political framework of the Frankish world teetered in the balance.
One of the reasons Charles clung on was that his northern Frankish bishops did not desert him (though Archbishop Wenilo of Sens made a different decision). Instead, the northern bishops met at the royal palace of Quierzy from where they sent a remarkable and wide-ranging letter to the invader Louis, in which they offered him advice on what his priorities should be as a king. Managing royal lands, tackling the Vikings, supporting the church – all these ought to be higher up his agenda than taking over his own brother's kingdom. Above all, he should be wary of listening too much to (secular) counsellors who might not have his best (spiritual) interests at heart.
Here's a translation of this source as a pdf (it's also available on the Hincmar translation website, since Archbishop Hincmar of Reims was its leading author). It's the first result of a regular collaborative Latin translation class with PhD students (Harry Mawdsley, Richard Gilbert, and Robert Heffron) at the Department of History here in Sheffield. We hope it's useful.
Image: adapted from Wikipedia.
Charles the BaldHincmarLouis the GermanQuierzy 858
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'Our dearest wife and son' – King Lothar II's charters
January 31, 2018 Charles West	Leave a comment
One of the problems of studying the Frankish kingdom of Lotharingia – the 'lost' kingdom between France and Germany – is that the main narrative sources for the time were written outside its borders: they are external perspectives, looking in. It is this that makes the charters issued by Emperor Lothar I and by his son King Lothar II (855-869) so important, as 'internal' evidence. A full book-length study of the former by Elina Screen is in hand; this short blogpost focuses on the latter, all available in a high-quality and open-access edition.
Only thirty-six charters from Lothar II's nearly fifteen-year reign survive (including a handful of originals with images available online).[1]. This isn't an enormous number, either in absolute terms or compared to the 139 from his father's admittedly larger kingdom. But the charters nevertheless provide a great deal of useful information, in this as in other early medieval contexts.[2]
For instance, we know that issuing a charter was a ceremonial act, by which a king demonstrated his authority. Where it took place mattered, then, as the scene for the expression of royal power. Lothar II issued charters at sixteen different locations, including palaces, monasteries and cities. Plotting these locations on a map creates a view of Lothar's kingdom defined not by its borders but by its centres of power – a king's eye view of his kingdom, as it were (see the map above, showing how his kingdom spanned five modern countries).
His great-grandfather's palace of Aachen towers above all the others, as the site for almost a third of Lothar II's charters. But the charters also show change in his rule: for instance, the grants he issued in and around Lyon mark Lothar's takeover of most of the kingdom of his younger brother, Charles of Provence, in 863.
Many charters also mention important political figures at the time, allowing us to reconstruct something of their careers. It's striking that the first two of Lothar's charters, both issued in 855, accord a prominent position to Hubert, the brother of Lothar's first wife Theutberga. Hubert is described in the first of the two as an influential courtier ('our beloved adviser Hubert'). Hubert then however disappears – only to crop up again in 868, but this time as a dead rebel whose property had been confiscated.
Another important figure at Lothar's court was Archbishop Gunthar of Cologne. Although deposed by the pope in 863, Gunthar tried to cling on, and a document from 866 suggests that in that year Lothar II supported him. It states that Gunthar, though longer an archbishop, was now the gubernator et rector of the church – we might say 'manager' – and was making efforts to keep the Cologne clergy onside, with Lothar's help.
But as so often with Lothar II, it's his marriage that attracts the eye. Here's an English translation (pdf) of one of the most evocative of his charters, granting property to a convent in Lyon and issued in the early summer of 863. This was just a few weeks after a council at Metz had confirmed, with the approval of papal legates, that he could be married to his mistress Waldrada. And sure enough, in this charter Waldrada is given a prominent place, as Lothar's 'dearest wife'; and their son Hugh gets a mention too. Issued on the occasion of Lothar's successful acquisition of part of his deceased brother's kingdom, and when all his marital problems seemed behind him, the charter may have marked the apogee of his reign.
King Lothar II's charter for St Pierre-les-Nonnains
Unfortunately, a few months later Pope Nicholas I stepped in to annul the Metz council, and threatened Lothar with excommunication unless he returned to his wife Theutberga. Waldrada vanishes from the charters. She reappears only in early 869, as 'our beloved' (without any reference though to her marital status). At that point, Lothar probably hoped that the new pope Hadrian, who had succeeded to the intransigeant Nicholas, might be more open to negotiation. But fate decided otherwise, since Lothar himself died, still a young man, just a few months later. The 863 charter survives, then, as a poignant reminder of what might have been, for Lothar, Waldrada, Hugh – and indeed for European history more broadly.
[1] Two of these originals can be viewed online at the Marburg Lichtbildarchiv website, Zugangsnummern 4743 and 11400. For the rest, see the amazing Abbildungsverzeichnis der europäischen Kaiser- und Königsurkunden's page for Lothar II.
[2] See for instance the database of Charlemagne's charters (including 'private' as well as royal documents): http://www.charlemagneseurope.ac.uk/
Lothar IILotharingiaTheutbergaWaldrada
HST 3154, teaching
In Praise of Gobbets
September 26, 2016 Charles West	Leave a comment
As the teaching year begins, one of the routine tasks historians in many UK institutions face is explaining to puzzled students (and sometimes new colleagues too) what we mean by "gobbets".
This is a venerable and (I suspect) distinctly British form of examination in which students are provided with a series of text extracts or images, and expected to write something about them in a short period of time: typically, 20 minutes for each extract (or 'gobbet'). They are sometimes labelled old-fashioned – but in fact they're ideally suited to the 21st-century classroom.
As an example, here's a gobbet that we'll be studying in my class:
"The holy Roman Church, as the mother and teacher, nurse and instructress of all churches, is to be consulted about all doubtful and obscure things which concern the continuity of the right faith or the dogmas of piety, and her healthful admonitions are to be kept".
– Hincmar of Rheims, De Divortio, 860
How might one 'respond' to or comment on this gobbet? Well, a good response might:
observe that this, the opening line of the treatise by Hincmar of Reims, suggests the pope should be consulted: this signals Hincmar's cautious fence-sitting, for fear of being proved wrong at this early stage of the controversy over King Lothar II's marriage;
pick up on the 'doubtful and obscure things', an issue that lay at the heart of the treatise and the divorce scandal as a whole;
connect this passage to Hincmar's often fraught relation with the papacy, noting how in this passage he framed papal authority as primarily pedagogical (and that in practice he recommended holding a general council rather than going straight to the pope);
and could finish by noting that the Roman church indeed did end up being consulted in the case, and that Pope Nicholas made great efforts to ensure that his 'healthful admonitions' were kept.
These are just the comments that spring to my mind as I write this blog: quite certainly other interesting things could be said about the content, context and significance of this short passage.
You'll notice that these comments are all quite specific, and probably won't make much sense unless you already know quite a lot about the history of Lothar II's divorce (as all right-thinking people should). That's because the strength of the gobbet examination is that it blends assessing precise historical knowledge of the sources with interpretative creativity. You can't bluff your way through them; but it's not a test of how much you know, it's a test of how you use that knowledge to make a point based on exactly what's in front of you. If your commentary could apply to *any* extract from the text in question, then it's probably too generic. Good responses tend to pick on the precise wording of the extract to make observations grounded in a wider knowledge; the best can surprise and enlighten even the person who chose the extract in the first place.
According to legend, gobbets go back to Victorian period civil service exams: that may be so, but they seem to be coming back into fashion. In some ways that's not surprising. After all, the contemporary world is all about "discontinuous reading", it's all about the fast-paced analysis of screenfuls of text. If the gobbet examination didn't already exist, we'd have to invent it.
And if gobbets are in this way surprisingly "aligned" with the wider world, they're also neatly aligned with history as it's practised today: rigorous but imaginative source analysis is after all at the heart of all historical writing worth its salt. No wonder gobbets are a jewel in the crown of final year examinations, alongside other assessment forms such as dissertations: they're an excellent means of simultaneously assessing – and promoting – both knowledge of a broad range of historical sources and a methodological sophistication in historical interpretation, all with reference to the particular as well as the general. And isn't all that still at the heart of what historians actually do?
Update Feb 2018: Jonathan Healey has pointed out on Twitter that as part of a court case, there is now a judicial discussion of a gobbet paper, with the priceless opening observation that 'The word "gobbet" does not generally evoke a pleasant picture or a comfortable feeling'. I'm optimistic that my students wouldn't agree!
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Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) is the science of behavior. Behavior analysis is the process of systematically applying a set of principles to evidence based interventions to decrease behaviors that are barriers to learning and increase behaviors that are socially relevant to the individual.
ABA is a set of principles, not any specific intervention. The evidence-based interventions utilized in "ABA Therapy" apply the principles of ABA. ABA interventions are FUN! We believe strongly that learning should be fun in all environments. As our therapists build relationships with your child, we can contrive a lot of opportunities for engagement. Our goal is to present learning opportunities 1-2 times a minute.
Therapy targets are based on a skills assessment that is completed before services begin. These goals are outlined in a treatment plan. Treatment plans often include skill acquisition goals and behavior reduction goals, in addition to a recommendation for the quantity of hours of service, parent education, and supervision. Goals often focus on building functional communication skills in order for your child to get their needs met. Some developmental targets might include imitation, early play skills, ready to learn skills, and learning to learn skills.


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import * as assert from 'assert';
import { PathHandlerMap } from '../..';

describe('PathHandlerMap.lookup', () => {
    let m: PathHandlerMap;

    beforeEach(() => {
        m = new PathHandlerMap();
        m.add('/about', 'GET', () => { });
        m.add('/user_info/:username', 'GET', () => { });
        m.add('/post/:year/:month/:day', 'GET', () => { });
        m.add('/page/*', 'GET', () => { });
    });

    it('static node', () => {
        let node = m.lookup('/about');
        assert.notEqual(node, null);
        assert.equal(node!.signature, '/about');
    });

    it('param node', () => {
        let node = m.lookup('/user_info/:username');
        assert.notEqual(node, null);
        assert.equal(node!.signature, '/user_info/:');

        node = m.lookup('/post/:/:/:');
        assert.notEqual(node, null);
        assert.equal(node!.signature, '/post/:/:/:');
    });

    it('any node', () => {
        let node = m.lookup('/page/*');
        assert.notEqual(node, null);
        assert.equal(node!.signature, '/page/*');
    });

    it('not found', () => {
        let node = m.lookup('/user');
        assert.equal(node, null);

        node = m.lookup('/page/about');
        assert.equal(node, null);
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Oculus server could not be reached. EDIT : tried again and it works.
You can also check VRTK : https://github.com/thestonefox/VRTK It contain a lot of object interaction related scripts.
SteamVR works with oculus too so a lot of games on steam have oculus support.
Hi The network issues are still the most frustrating side of the game, it take forever to have 4 players and it retry P2P connexion for too long.
If each elements have its own layer, it should works. It worked for me using meshmixer and blender.
some of us do, but i don't, doesn't seems to be related.
Yes, i restart Medium every time i need to do this.
rms8080 said: if one of your posts your examples I can probably show you how to work around that crash i'll try. The .obj is huge Edit : only 60MB when compressed. Currently uploading.
File attached, it may be a huge mess with the millions of reboot i did in the past 5 hours to enable xhci.


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Hygrotus thermarum is een keversoort uit de familie waterroofkevers (Dytiscidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1928 door Darlington.

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Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/ctu-files-unfair-labor-practice-complaint-seeks-mediation/)
CTU files unfair labor practice complaint, seeks mediation
By Melissa Sanchez | May 7, 2015
Photo courtesy of Shutterstock
The CTU says CPS is not bargaining in good faith and plans a public organizing campaign around contract talks.
Just a day after revealing that CPS has asked for 7-percent pay cuts, the Chicago Teachers Union filed an unfair labor practice charge against the district and has indicated it will step up a public organizing campaign around contract negotiations.
The CTU is accusing the Board of Education of bargaining in bad faith and is seeking formal mediation, according to the charge filed with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board.
In a statement issued late Wednesday, CPS Interim CEO Jesse Ruiz said the district had not yet reviewed the complaint and was unable to comment specifically on its content. Ruiz repeated the district's position that it faces a $1.1 billion budget deficit and said he wanted to work with teachers to lobby Springfield "to increase state funding for education and reform a broken system that forces Chicago residents to pay twice for teacher pensions."
The union's charge says the district has refused at least three formal requests for mediation "despite the lengthy period of bargaining and lack of agreement on any substantive matters." Bargaining teams have been meeting regularly since November, although union officials say conversations over the first several months were focused on more technical matters. The union presented its first contract proposals in late March.
During a press conference after its monthly House of Delegates meeting at the International Union of Operating Engineers building near Chinatown, CTU President Karen Lewis said the "board has rejected our education-based programs that have no cost."
Lewis said it was too early to talk about a strike — as took place in 2012 — because there are still several other steps the union must go through before it gets to that point.
Union attorney Robert Bloch said formal mediation and fact-finding would have to take place before any sort of strike vote, as per state law. "In 2012 we agreed that mediation would begin Feb. 1 and formal fact-finding would begin by April 1 if we didn't have a deal," he said. "The statute requires that we go through a process when we're negotiating a contract, but CPS won't agree on anything."
Later in the evening, at an event for Harvard University alumni in downtown Chicago, Board President David Vitale told a reporter he hadn't seen the unfair labor chargebut described contract negotiations as productive. Asked whether he was worried about another strike, Vitale said: "Always."
Stepping up public pressure
During the CTU press conference, union leaders explained the unusual way they learned the district was asking for 7 percent pay cuts from teachers. The demand came in the form of comment bubbles in a Word document that contained the union's own contract proposals, said CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey.
Under the section of the contract proposal titled "Pension Pick Up," somebody on the CPS bargaining team apparently wrote: "The Board has run out of options. It proposes to eliminate pension pick-up going forward and to make teachers and PSRPs [paraprofessionals] responsible for the payment of the entirety of the employee's portion of the pick-up."
The union received the Word document at least a week ago but only made the details public this week. Sharkey said the union follows a process to inform members of contract negotiations before going to the public.
CPS "picks up" 7 percent of the 9 percent salary contribution teachers make to their pensions, part of a contract deal signed in the early 1980s. The district also pays 7 percent of the 8.5 percent employee contribution for non-teacher employees. This year the district budgeted about $174 million for those pension costs.
Lewis said the union "will do whatever we have to to stop this." Delegates at the meeting indicated that the union is now shifting its attention to internal and community organizing efforts to raise energy around contract negotiations and setting the groundwork for a possible strike in September or October.
Asked whether the union was telling members to start saving money for a potential strike, Sharkey said, "We're telling our rank-and-file to get ready for a fight. We're not scared of a fight."
The union is sponsoring three "community contract forums" in the next month to "discuss aspects of the negotiations that will impact students, families, communities and educators alike," according to a flier given to delegates. The first such meeting, sponsored by the group Parents 4 Teachers, takes place May 19 in Lincoln Square. The Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, known as KOCO, and Blocks Together are sponsoring other forums.
In addition, the union is planning a downtown "rally for a fair contract" on June 9. During the 2012 contract negotiations, thousands of teachers hit the streets in May for a major rally that energized many for the seven-day strike that took place later that fall.
The union is also hosting trainings for "contract action teams" across the city starting this weekend at Amundsen High School. The union wants to set up teams in each school building.
Rejected proposals
The union has not yet submitted any proposals regarding salary, although Sharkey said a proposal asking for salary increases is coming. "We're going to make a very reasonable salary increase offer. Obviously cost of living goes up. It's expensive to live in the city," he said.
A CTU contract bulletin distributed to delegates on Wednesday indicates the district has rejected a number of CTU proposals, including:
A library for every school;
Allowing teachers to bank sick days;
Limiting compliance paperwork to a level that can be completed during teacher prep time designated as principal-directed;
Hiring restorative justice coordinators;
Parental leave for four weeks.
In addition, the bulletin indicates the board "refuses to even bargain" over proposals, including:
Limiting standardized testing;
$15 minimum wage for all CPS and subcontracted employees;
A moratorium on school closings, turnarounds and reconstitutions;
Removing police presence in school where no written plan mandates their presence.
About Melissa Sanchez
Melissa Sanchez is a reporter for The Chicago Reporter. Email her at msanchez@chicagoreporter.com and follow her on Twitter at @msanchezMIA.
More by Melissa
CPS wants 7 percent pay cuts, union 'insulted'
With an aggressive proposal of a 7 percent pay cut for teachers and others, CPS is trying to shift its burden of pension pick-up costs to employees, union officials say. The district faces a $1 billion-plus deficit next year, largely due to pension costs from pension borrowing.
Teach Plus fellows suggest CPS, CTU consider peer evaluations
A survey of 375 teachers found that most of them believe peer evaluations would be helpful or very helpful. But slightly less than half would be open to having their peers weigh in on formal job evaluations.
Teachers won't get contract extension from CPS, talks prepare to heat up
As expected, CPS officials say they just can't afford to offer teachers a contract extension that would include a 3 percent raise costing about $105 million.


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Q: Facebook post UI after approval for v2 Recently a change is observed in the Post UI for images. It shows caption and link name on the image besides showing the same in the RHS of the image. Post snippet is attached. I tried using large image but even then post shows caption on the image itself. How can I avoid showing caption and other stuff on the image?
I am using following metatags:
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    <meta property="og:video:width" content="600" />
    <meta property="og:video:type" content="application/x-shockwave-flash" />
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Home Politics Local Super Tuesday: Sen. Bernie Sanders "Theory of the Case," on young black...
Super Tuesday: Sen. Bernie Sanders "Theory of the Case," on young black voters will be tested in the South today with North Carolina being a key state to watch
It is Super Tuesday with 14 states going to the polls today and while the biggest prizes are California and Texas all eyes should be on North Carolina where we can find out early if it is Biden or Sanders who gets the Black vote advantage. Former Vice President Joe Biden is coming off a huge win in South Carolina fueled by his overwhelming support from Black voters that boosted his big win and propelled him back into the Democratic Presidential Nomination race.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders remains the frontrunner in the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination leading Biden in delegates by nine and the former Vice President leads in total votes. However, after tonight things will change and with former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be on the ballot making for some very interesting Super Tuesday showdowns.
But here is why North Carolina is so important to the campaign of Sen. Sanders. His theory of the case has been thus far that he attracts a large number of younger black voters and that they help lead him to victory in the Tar Heel state.
The latest North Carolina polling that was released by Meredith College prior to Saturday's Biden win in South Carolina had Biden has roughly double Sanders' support among blacks – 32% to 17%, with Bloomberg, following close behind at 16%. The numbers aren't far from Sanders' 2016 performance, when he carried just 19% of black primary voters, while 80% backed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who easily won the state.
A quick look at Sanders numbers in South Carolina showed that he had 14 percent of the vote among all Black voters in 2016 and in 2020 he clocked in at 16 percent – only a 2 percent net gain. The Sanders camp quickly points out that South Carolina is a more conservative and also that in Nevada their candidate scored big with both the Blacks and Hispanics.
However, I still contend that since Nevada was a caucus state and that while Sen. Sanders did score well with Black as well as Hispanic voters, they were all part of unions. So my question is was their support for the Vermont senator based on what he was doing for their unions or because they support his many Progressive positions?
In poll after poll from California to Florida there are two main issues that both Black and Hispanic voters want addressed and they are number one beat President Donald Trump and two is health care.
Making this even more important is that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could result in all of Obamacare being thrown out, bringing the future of the law to the forefront as a central campaign issue.
The decision to take up the case, announced on Monday, before the resolution of litigation in the lower courts will give Democrats ammunition with which to attack Republicans on the issue of healthcare. President Trump has not provided a backup plan for the law, which increased the number of insured by 20 million, should it be invalidated in court.
The signature piece of landmark legislation put forth by President Barack Obama is supported by a stunning ten to one ratio among Black and Hispanic's over Medicare for All.
Clearly there are plenty of other issues that both voting blocks are concerned about but by far the main two listed above hold the highest priority.
Let me be clear and that is the Black vote is as diverse and as issue oriented as any voting block in the United States. Black voters and lawmakers have voiced their support for all of the candidates in the Democratic Presidential Candidate field.
But they are the key to sending a Democrat to the White House in 2020 and whomever wins the nomination must lock down that support long before the fall comes.
So look for Sen. Sanders theory of the case on the Black voters being put to the test first and foremost in North Carolina, with Alabama, Tennessee, Virginal and Texas all not far behind.


There's so much excitement that comes with a present. There in front of you is a box of wrapped up hopes. Is it the one thing you want, that illusive object you've longed for all this time? Will it meet your expectations or exceed them? Will the moment of ownership be as good as this moment of anticipation?
You unwrap it, hurrah it's what you've always wanted! The subtle hints have paid off congratulations you own the object of your desires. You give it a cursory look and then put it to one side. Then you move on as there more things to open, more surprises await.
Clearly, successful collecting really should be about making yourself happy, using the resources (be it time or money) in a way best suited to achieving a set goal. Perhaps I should take a leaf out of Pete's book and remind myself to enjoy what I have rather than immediately wanting more, focus on the joy of each new discovery each new purchase. Much like presents, it should really be about taking pleasure in what's unwrapped for a little bit before opening up the next box.


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Mike Pettine Thinks Billy Cundiff Has Big Leg, Wasn't Worried About Devin Hester Lurking In End Zone (x2)
by RickyAutomatic on Nov 25, 2014 • 6:58 am No Comments
The 2014 Cleveland Browns have now played four different games that ended on a last-second field goal. They are 2-2 on such occasions. They have been blown out by two sub-.500 teams from the AFC South. They rank in the bottom half of the NFL in team defense (DVOA), and team offense (weighted offense). They have suffered a rash of injuries to key players, particularly on the defensive side of the ball. Their starting quarterback just threw three of the most inexplicable interceptions you will ever see in a game, prior to leading an equally head-scratching game-winning drive. He ranks 32nd in the league in completion percentage (55.9%). That's right, Geno Smith, Kirk Cousins, Mike Glennon and Derek Carr all have higher completion percentages than Brian Hoyer.
It is, then, impossible to explain how the Browns are 7-4, especially when you consider a series of events like the one we are here to talk about. Said events illustrate two other problems the Browns have: Billy Cundiff is a bad kicker with absolutely no range, and head coach Mike Pettine does not seem to have figured this out.
Trailing 14-13 with just under a minute remaining in the first half on Sunday, the Browns started a drive at their own 20-yard-line. They moved the ball all the way to Atlanta's 42 before finally burning their first timeout, with just three seconds remaining. Pettine had let precious seconds tick away on at least two separate occasions during this drive, forcing his team to eventually settle for this 60-yard field goal attempt by Billy Cundiff:
Don't worry, though, folks: Mike Smith was not content being the second-worst head coach in the Georgia Dome on Sunday, so he called a timeout prior to the snap, meaning Devin Hester would not get to take that ball 109 yards the other direction, and Mike Pettine would get to change his mind and send his offense back out there to instead attempt a Hail Mary. Because we all know what happens when you send a group of offensive linemen, a punter, and a kicker onto the field to defend a dynamic kick returner bringing it out of his own end zone. It looks something like this:
So, yeah. You wouldn't do that, Mike, would you? I mean, we just saw Billy push that one out to the right and about five yards short, didn't we? Mike…?
Just crazy. Completely bizarre that the second field goal attempt would be worse than the first, especially considering that Cundiff's career long is 56 yards (IN 2005 NO LESS), and he has connected on exactly 29.6% of his field goals that measured 50 yards or more during his not-so-illustrious career. But you know what? According to Pettine, Cundiff came over to the sidelines between the two attempts and told him that he "pulled off the first one a bit" because he knew Smith was going to call a timeout. And Pettine believed him!
You know what makes me even more upset than Pettine stupidly thinking Billy Cundiff can kick field goals he may or may not be able to kick in practice? The fact that Pettine did exactly one thing to counter the SLIGHT POSSIBILITY that the all-time greatest kick returner in NFL history would have a chance to return Cundiff's impending miss: he replaced one of his linemen with a tight end. That's it. And then he noted these "personnel changes" in his postgame press conference.
These were the players on the field for Cundiff's first attempt:
From left to right: Billy Winn (DL), Mitchell Schwartz (OL), Paul McQuistan (OL), Ryan Seymour (OL), Christian Yount (LS), John Greco (OL), Joe Thomas (OL), Joel Bitonio (OL), Jim Dray (TE), Spencer Lanning (P), and Billy "Bigfoot" Cundiff (K).
This was the "personnel" on the field for the second field goal attempt:
From left to right: Jim Dray (TE), Mitchell Schwartz (OL), Paul McQuistan (OL), Ryan Seymour (OL), Christian Yount (LS), John Greco (OL), Joe Thomas (OL), Joel Bitonio (OL), Gary Barnidge (TE), Spencer Lanning (P), and Billy "Bigfoot" Cundiff (K).
So, Barnidge came in for Billy Winn and Jim Dray moved over to the right side. I think it is important to note that there is a very good chance Billy Winn is actually faster than Gary Barnidge. He is certainly better at tackling. But regardless, in case you did not know this: seven 300-pound white guys, two tight ends, a punter and a kicker are a fool-proof method for tackling a full-speeded Devin Hester.
Well, what happened, you ask? Did they not tackle him? We already watched, and yes, Hester sprinted around all of those slow dudes, turned the corner, and was somehow contained long enough by Lanning and Cundiff that rookie Joel Bitonio was able to blind-side Hester into the ground, thus ending the half. I find it hard to believe that is the way Pettine drew it up when he substituted Barnidge for Winn.
If Bitonio had not made that tackle, we would be having a much different conversation today. Pundits would be decrying Pettine's decision to essentially launch a kick-off in Devin Hester's direction with a coverage unit made up of large, immobile players. And if the Browns had not pulled out a miraculous, last minute, game-winning drive to beat the Falcons, we would be talking about how Mike Smith somehow out-coached Mike Pettine, or how all three of Brian Hoyer's interceptions were either terrible decisions or terrible throws, or both (Hoyer's ineptitude is a story for another time, though). And maybe we should be talking about these things. Maybe we should be talking about how the Browns are extremely fortunate to be 7-4. Maybe we should be talking about Billy Cundiff's inability to kick field goals that are not chip shots.
Maybe I need to shut up and enjoy the ride. Who knows?
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Home Film Festival Sundance Film Festival 2008
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Courtney Hunt receiving accolades from Quentin Tarantino
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