i can't speak to the possibility of tHe MuLtItRaCkS surfacing, but teologically I'm fine with CtC era Clash gravitating towards the Joe solo archives. It fits well enough and loses a lot of the political baggage that comes with arguing whether In the Pouring Rain is a Real Clash song or whatever.
BEYOND THE PALE IS A CLASH SONG.
With the release of Joe Strummer 001 it seems a line has been drawn and that The Clash catalogue officially ends with Combat Rock!
Warner/Chappell owning the publishing rights to CTC material means they're treating it as Joe Strummer solo material and makes it seem more likely that we may see more of it released in better condition than ever before, which is huge!
Can they wrest the multitracks from Bernie? That is the million dollar question.
A *SQUONK* synth is still a *SQUONK* synth, no matter how much cleaned up it is in the mix. Multitracks are only as good as what get vomited onto each source track...so when each captured sound is pure 100% vomit there's literally no remix on earth that can turn Fingerpoppin' into non-abomination.
Just a good balance of vocals and instruments would improve CtC tenfold. Then you consider the removal of the bootboy choir. There may be real backing vocals on the multitracks.
I tend to lean towards CtC being a lost cause. I'd rather have it re-imagined. If they could get Joe's vocals (and possibly even the period correct backing vocals) and then have Paul, Nick, and Pete record proper music over the vocals - maybe using the Lucky 8 demos as a guide. Heck, they could even invite Vince if they wanted to. I just don't see how salvage the existing material into anything I want to listen to.
Mick won't touch it out of respect for Joe. Same as with the Rat Patrol tracks...and even more so because he wasn't involved with CtC.
I mean, Westway to the World ended with the US Festival. Most bios cover 83-85 as kind of an illegitimate afterthought. Essential was the exception.
I assumed whenever someone clamors for the multitracks, they mainly mean Joe's vocal tracks. Then I'm sure some musicians on this board could even do a decent job reconstructing the songs the way they were played live.
Yes, that exactly what I mean when I say multitracks. The rest of it is a trainwreck really, even the guitars. Some bass might be worth keeping if you could actually hear it.
Noting that the 7'' of This Is England from the box set is credited to Strummer/Rhodes and released via Oddball (Bernie's label) I imagine they needed Bernie's permission to release it. I wonder if there is more stuff other than what was found in Joe's garden shed archive.
I would still like Pete, Nick and Vince to rework the music for CtC with Joe's vocals especially Pete who is a fine drummer and was all but written out of the album with drum machines..Having Mick involved in production would be a nice touch. But Mick doesn't belong on those tracks. I hope we get to more demos in the quality of those included with the 001box set then we can remains the album ourselves. It's so wrong to write it out of the Clash history books. Like it or loathe it it still exists and always will do.
I would still like Pete, Nick and Vince to rework the music for CtC with Joe's vocals especially Pete who is a fine drummer and was all but written out of the album with drum machines..Having Mick involved in production would be a nice touch. But Mick doesn't belong on those tracks. I hope we get to hear more demos in the quality of those included with the 001box set then we can remains the album ourselves. It's so wrong to write it out of the Clash history books. Like it or loathe it it still exists and always will do.
I would still like Pete, Nick and Vince to rework the music for CtC with Joe's vocals especially Pete who is a fine drummer and was all but written out of the album with drum machines..Having Mick involved in production would be a nice touch. But Mick doesn't belong on those tracks. I hope we get to hear more demos in the quality of those included with the 001box set then we can reimagine the album ourselves. It's so wrong to write it out of the Clash history books. Like it or loathe it it still exists and always will do.


Giving Marijuana to Pets: The Right Thing to Do?
I've seen people give marijuana to pets as if it was a harmless joke.
They'd blow marijuana smoke into the nostrils of a cat or dog, or they'd give their pets edible marijuana.
Sometimes it was iguanas, snakes, guinea pigs, gerbils, bunnies, or other "exotic" animals people keep as pets.
From what I've seen, cats dislike it when you blow marijuana smoke in their face. They have a natural fear of smoke.
Dogs are a different story.
Dogs often sit passively while people blow marijuana smoke into their respiratory system. Or they eagerly gobble up edible marijuana treats.
Then they get uber-excited, goofy, out of control, bark randomly, walk funny, or rush over to their food bowl.
If they ate too much edible marijuana, they became lethargic or disoriented, just like humans do under the same conditions.
Sometimes they got sick, and even vomited.
It all seemed like harmless fun back then, but things have changed when it comes to people giving marijuana to pets.
For example, some people, even veterinarians, use marijuana as a medicine for pets and farm animals.
Non-human animals get arthritis, cancer, depression, and other ailments just like we do, and have cannabinoid receptor systems just like we do.
Some vets, pet owners, scientists, and for-profit companies are experimenting with using medical marijuana edibles, teas, and non-alcohol tinctures, often high in CBD, to help relieve pain, inflammation, spasms, anorexia, cancer tumors and other medical problems in non-human animals.
High-CBD commercial pet products on the market so far have no scientific documentation to prove they're useful (CBD is an abbreviation for the cannabinoid called "cannabidiol").
In some cases, they're sourcing CBD from industrial hemp rather than high-potency marijuana.
Hemp isn't an efficient source of cannabinoids, and CBD by itself doesn't provide the benefits provided by the complete suite of cannabinoids and terpenoids marijuana plants produce.
One thing is for sure, manufacturers making CBD products for pets are good at marketing and getting media attention.
If your Golden Retriever or other pet has an illness such as a fast-moving cancer caused by Monsanto Round-Up sprayed on your yard or from other causes, a veterinarian might put your pet on powerful pain-killers, steroids, or even chemotherapy.
Those standard interventions have serious negative side-effects, so what's the harm in trying medical marijuana, which when used properly has zero negative side-effects?
THC found exclusively in marijuana has been shown to have anti-cancer effects, including the ability to shrink tumors.
Anti-marijuana people in legalized marijuana states like Colorado and Washington claim veterinarians and police are seeing more and more cases of pets overdosing on marijuana.
They allege an epidemic of pets finding people's marijuana medibles, bubblehash, BHO, cannabis tinctures, other dab materials, then eating the marijuana materials, and getting seriously ill, vomiting, falling down, going into a coma, or even (in rare cases) dying.
If you assumed that marijuana opponents are pushing this issue as yet another way to say marijuana shouldn't be legal, or to put ludicrous regulations on marijuana edibles, you're right.
And they're pushing for new laws that specifically single out marijuana growers and users for extra jail time, fines, and other punishment for giving marijuana to pets– even if pets get hold of marijuana without their owner's knowledge.
Thing is, if you have a sick, old, or terminally ill pet, especially one who isn't eating, is having debilitating muscle spasms, or is in chemotherapy, medical marijuana might be the best medicine.
You should ask your veterinarian before giving marijuana to pets.
Just remember that as with doctors in general, most veterinarians are old school, afraid of cannabis prohibition, and often ultra-conservative when it comes to giving marijuana to pets.
A couple of years ago, I'd have recommended you talk to California medical marijuana veterinarian Dr. Doug Kramer, aka the "VetGuru," the only veterinarian to gain international attention for publicly advocating medical marijuana for pets.
Unfortunately, Dr. Kramer died recently, at age 36…a terrible tragedy on so many levels.
One thing we should focus on is what is the animal going to experience. After all, marijuana is a powerful medicine, aphrodisiac, and intoxicant.
Your pets can't tell you explicitly that they consent to using marijuana, nor can they tell you if it makes them feel better or worse.
If you're engaged in a massive cannabis smoking session and your pets are in the room, they might be getting stoned from second-hand marijuana smoke.
The issue of consent is important. Doing things to animals is such a pervasive meme in our society that we don't accord animals much respect when it comes to what they want.
We lack accurate insight whether giving marijuana to pets makes them feel good, bad, or indifferent, because they can't explicitly tell us.
How can we know for sure that our pets are consenting to being dosed with marijuana?
I've even seen instances when people gave veterinarian-prescribed pharmaceutical medicines to pets, and it obviously made the animals ill.
In fact, I've seen at least one case where a dog was vomiting because of a veterinary pharmaceutical, but when the dog was given a whole-cannabis tincture, the vomiting stopped.
I've also noticed that pet owners have recognized that smoke presents problems for animals, so they're giving their animals vaporizer vapor rather than combusted cannabis smoke.
Most reasonable people would say if you have a cancer-ridden dog who starts eating again after days of not eating because medical marijuana helped stimulate the dog's mood and appetite, go for it.
But until veterinarians, pet owners, and scientists figure out marijuana affects pets, giving marijuana to pets has to be done with care and sensitivity.
I recommend giving marijuana to pets only in consultation with a veterinarian.
Use lab-tested, dose-controlled, whole-marijuana derived organic cannabis tinctures sold through a dispensary.
Administer a very tiny dose and then carefully observe your pet. Tune in to your empathy, and focus on your pet's feelings.
Here's a poignant pet marijuana story from the website of the world's premier animal advocacy organization: PETA (aka People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).
"This was the situation I was recently in when my kitty of 11 years, Monkey, was diagnosed with intestinal cancer. The tumor was not operable, and the vet believed that the best course of action was to keep her feeling as good as we could for as long as possible. The cancer has caused her to lose a lot of weight, and she was having trouble sleeping. I decided to mix a little cannabis oil in with her wet food and was astounded at the difference. She started acting like a kitten again, able to eat and play. She slept and purred and acted like herself again. Even though I ended up losing her to cancer several months later, in that time I got to enjoy her for the kitty she was, not watch her slowly disappear before my eyes. I had shared with my vet that I was giving her these treatments. My vet was supportive, and as a medical-marijuana patient in the state of California, I had access to the medicine that she needed. It was through researching this treatment that I discovered that medical marijuana for animals was not a new concept and was not as "out there" as I had originally thought.
There is evidence that marijuana was used to treat horses by the Ancient Greeks through a treatment called Berlin Hippiatrica, which involves placing a mixture of herbs, including marijuana, on a horse's wounds. A modern version, a poultice called Lame Away, was developed by Brian Walker and Ed Breslin in California, inspired by Walker's daughter, who rides horses. After seeing inflammation problems that were not helped by traditional pain medications and alternative therapies such as chiropractors, Walker made a salve that included THC-A, the nonpsychoactive form of the chemical THC, which is found in marijuana. The effect on the horses was astounding, and Lame Away was born. The product line now includes the poultice, plus a salve for wounds and an internal tincture to maintain health, all made with THC-A so that they are not psychoactive. But topical preparations and nonpsychoactive versions of marijuana are not the only products being investigated by vets.
Giving marijuana to pets could be the most compassionate thing you can do in some circumstances.
Do it ethically, with awareness and compassion. Your pet may well get value from Nature's kindest plant.


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Q: When trying to install jar in local repository using maven I do not have this SFTP jar in my Nexus Repo & I have add it's dependency into the POM file but now i want to install this JAR in my local repository so that i can use it in my project. But getting access is denied even though i opened command prompt with Administrator rights.
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A: Mostly likely the -Dfile=your.jar is not correct, check your argument (FYI it was omitted from your posting).
Here is an example:
mvn install:install-file -DlocalRepositoryPath=repo -DcreateChecksum=true
 -Dfile=[your-jar] -Dpackaging=jar
 -DgroupId=[...] -DartifactId=[...] -Dversion=[...]

See: Can I add jars to maven 2 build classpath without installing them?
And: https://maven.apache.org/general.html#importing-jars

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A breach of contract occasions potential damages traditionally measured in the form of three remedies: "expectation," "restitution," or "reliance." The goal of the expectation remedy, which is the most common measure of damages for a breach of contract and is popularly said to confer the "benefit of the bargain," is to put the non-breaching party in as good of a position as he or she would have been in had the breaching party performed the contract.
When a breaching party has defectively performed a contract, for instance, the non-breaching party can recover the cost of remedying the defective performance, i.e., the cost of completion. In a breach of contract lawsuit for the delivery of personal property at a fixed time and place, the proper measure of damages is the contract price subtracted by the market price at the place and time of delivery. By comparison, the proper measure of damages for the failure to complete a construction contract is the cost of completion subtracted by the amount that remains unpaid under the contract.
Restitution remedies are designed to prevent "unjust enrichment." They represent the interest of a non-breaching party in recovering the value that was conferred upon the breaching party through the effort to perform a contract. In other words, restitution seeks to restore what was lost to the non-breaching party or to make the non-breaching party whole again.
Reliance remedies, finally, aim to put the non-breaching party in as good a position as he or she was in before the promise or agreement was made. Whereas expectation damages are "forward-looking" and consider what position the non-breaching party would have been in had the contract been performed, reliance damages are "backward-looking" and consider what position the non-breaching party would have been in had the contract never been contemplated.
These are not the only remedies available when a breach of contract occurs, but they are the most widely recognized and commonly implemented of such remedies.
An earlier version of this piece appeared here in The Alabama Lawyer.
As a staff attorney to Chief Justice Roy S. Moore, I read several briefs and petitions each day. I have noticed that certain grammatical errors are systemic among attorneys. Some errors are excusable; others aren't. Here are seven errors that are inexcusable.
A. Give the document to whoever requests it.
B. Give the document to whomever requests it.
A. Whoever arrives first will get a copy.
B. Whomever arrives first will get a copy.
STEP ONE: Imagine a blank space where you wish to use whoever or whomever.
Example: Give the document to ______ requests it.
STEP TWO: Split the blank space to create two sentences; then fill in the blanks with the pronouns he or him.
Example: Give the document to him. He requests it.
STEP THREE: Whenever you fill in the blank space with a him/he combination, use whoever. As we have already seen, the previous sentence should read, "Give it to whoever requests it." Whenever you fill in the blank space with a him/him combination, use whomever.
STEP ONE: You should hire ______ Pete recommends.
STEP TWO: You should hire him. Pete recommends him.
STEP THREE: You should hire whomever Pete recommends.
STEP ONE: This letter is to ______ wrote that brief.
STEP TWO: This letter is to him. He wrote that brief.
STEP THREE: This letter is to whoever wrote that brief.
STEP ONE: The prize is for _____ wins the contest.
STEP TWO: The prize is for him. He wins the contest.
STEP THREE: The prize is for whoever wins the contest.
STEP ONE: The lawyer made a good impression on ______ he met.
STEP TWO: The lawyer made a good impression on him. He met him.
STEP THREE: The lawyer made a good impression on whomever he met.
STEP ONE: The lawyer tried to make a good impression on ______ was there.
STEP TWO: The lawyer tried to make a good impression on him. He was there.
STEP THREE: The lawyer tried to make a good impression on whoever was there.
Him is objective, so whom is proper.
Improper: Who did you meet?
He is subjective, so who is proper.
Improper: Whom do you think murdered the victim?
Improper: Whom was supposed to finish that brief last week?
Improper: Justice Brown is the man who I voted for.
I used to practice at a mid-sized law firm in Atlanta. Tasked with reviewing the writing of all associate attorneys at the firm, one partner became hardheaded about two words: "as such." He always struck through the word "therefore" and replaced it with the words "as such." He did this so often that I finally decided to correct him. I was tired of watching him substitute a grammatical error for a sound construction.
When I spoke up, he got defensive. "As such means 'therefore,'" he said.
He is the president of the university; as such, he is responsible for allocating funds to each department.
This is a matter of law; as such, it is subject to de novo review.
Theft is a crime; treat it as such.
In these examples, "as such" properly refers back to a definite antecedent.
"As such" appears regularly in legal writing. Whenever I see this construction misused, I think about that partner in Atlanta and become agitated.
"As such" is a simple construction; as such, it entails a simple application. Don't be shy about calling out your colleagues when you see them misuse this construction, even if you are a "lowly" associate. You might just save them—and the partners—from embarrassment.
Although many rules govern the use of colons, I want to focus on this one: Never place a colon between a preposition and its object or between a verb and its complement. Likewise, never place a colon after such words or phrases as especially, including, or such as.
He was convicted of several crimes, including: first-degree robbery, arson, third-degree burglary, and second-degree forgery.
Some affirmative defenses are: statute of frauds, waiver, statute of limitations, and contributory negligence.
She enjoys the sites, especially: the courthouse, the town square, and the memorial.
No colon is necessary in these sentences.
Attorneys generally understand subject-verb agreement. A verb must agree with its subject in number. That is, a singular subject must take a singular verb; a plural subject must take a plural verb. The following words, however, give attorneys trouble: neither, nor, either, each, and number. What follows should clarify how to make these nouns agree with a verb.
Neither Mel's clients nor his associate ___ going to the meeting tomorrow.
When you pair neither and nor as conjunctions linking two nouns, choose the noun closest to the verb and let that noun determine whether you use is or are. In the example above, associate is closest to the verb. Associate is singular, so the proper verb is is.
Neither of the partners ___ attending the meeting.
Neither is singular and the subject of the sentence. It requires a singular verb: is. The verb is not are if the plural noun (partners) is not the subject. Partners is not the subject; it is part of a prepositional phrase.
___ either of you available to take his deposition tomorrow?
Either is singular and the subject of the sentence. It requires a singular verb: is. The verb is not are if the plural noun (you) is not the subject. You is not the subject; it is part of a prepositional phrase.
Each of you ___ contributed valuable insights to the case.
The pronoun each is the subject of the sentence. Each is singular and requires a singular verb: has. Many attorneys will write have because they think that each is plural or that the verb must modify the plural noun you. You is part of a prepositional phrase and cannot serve as the subject of the sentence.
The number of thefts ___ increasing.
Number can be singular or plural depending on the context. Here, number is used with the definite article the. Therefore, the singular verb (is) applies. In most cases, if number is used with the indefinite article a, then the plural verb (are) applies.
Only is one of the most regularly used words in the English language. It is also one of the most regularly misused modifiers. Below are examples of how attorneys misuse only in petitions and briefs. I have altered the language in these examples to conceal the identity of the authors.
This sentence implies that the appellant does nothing—nothing at all—but reference the reason why the appellee did not seek counseling. The appellant does not eat, sleep, think, talk, love, feel, or breathe. The only thing he does is reference the reasons why the appellant did not seek counseling. He must be a robot. The author of this sentence intended to say the following: "The appellant references only the reason why the appellee did not seek counseling." This revised sentence means that, of all the reasons from which he could have chosen, the appellant referenced only one. The appellant could have referenced other reasons, but did not.
Attorneys are educated; we tend to avoid using language if we aren't certain about its grammatical soundness. But something about the foregoing rules baffles us.
The rules, though, are easy. What's difficult is overcoming habits and industry-wide error. If you aren't certain about a rule, don't just ask your colleagues for the solution. And don't take your colleagues' suggestions at face value. Consult a good, reliable grammar book. Doing so will improve your writing and possibly raise the quality of writing among the entire profession.
The following review originally appeared here at The Southern Literary Review just over a year ago. Click here to view the original version in PDF.
John Hollway and Ronald M. Gauthier have written a thriller. Unlike other thrillers, Killing Time: An 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom (Skyhorse Publishing, 2010) is not fiction. It is, in the authors' words, "a true story" told in "narrative style." There's an old saying: reality is stranger than fiction. Here's a book that proves reality is not only stranger than fiction but also, in some cases, more terrifying.
The plot is as chilling as it is plain. Or perhaps it is chilling because it seems plain. An unknown man murders an Italian-American hotelier named Ray Liuzza. Police, witnesses, and prosecutors mistake the killer for an innocent man: John Thompson, a twenty-two-year-old African American. The crime occurs outside Ray's apartment. The year is 1984. The city is New Orleans. What follows is the bulk of the book: a police investigation, arrest, trial, sentencing, conviction, appeal, and so forth.
Using court transcripts, depositions, media reports, interviews, letters, and other records, Hollway and Gauthier piece together a stunning story of power, law, race, and justice. The result is a book that increasingly calls into question the instrumentalities of our criminal justice system, redeemed, at last, by two Philadelphia lawyers, Michael Banks and Gordon Cooney, who undertake Thompson's case pro bono and who spend millions of dollars in foregone legal fees.
Richard Miles spent years in prison after being wrongly convicted and sentenced to 80 years. He lives in Texas and speaks about false imprisonment.
Richard, thanks for doing this interview. You and I have gotten to know each other through email correspondence. I believe you first contacted me after reading my review of Dorothy and Peyton Budd's Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held Onto Hope (Dallas, TX: Brown Books Publishing Group, 2010). You are one of those twelve men. Tell us how you became part of the book. What do you think of the book, now that you've seen the final product?
The first time anyone heard of or read anything about Richard Ray Miles was in The Dallas Morning News. I remember that morning as if it was yesterday. To be arrested for murder and attempted murder, at the age of 19, was a horrific experience, but to wake up Monday morning and read that I was the shooter, in a murder I didn't commit, tore out my insides. Mr. Mendenhall, my fight for innocence was not just for me—I knew I was innocent—but for my mom and dad. I didn't want the story to be the last thing that my father—a minister in the neighborhood who had to hear accusations about his son—to read. So, when the book Tested was completed, it was like a dream come true: now Dallas residents could read about MY INNOCENCE.
You've been through a lot. Would you mind telling us your story? Start wherever you want to start.
I was born in Dallas to Thelma Malone and Richard Miles. My parents split when I was young, but not long after my mom met William Lloyd and married him. I was probably about five when that happened, so to say I was without a father is false. My dad, William, became a minister when I was still young, so I grew up in a very strict, religious household. Going to church every day was not out of the ordinary. For the most part, my older sister, two younger brothers and I had a very good upbringing.
As far as schooling goes, I was very smart and interested in learning. I went to an academy for middle school and then to Skyline High School, which was one of the most prestigious schools at the time. When I made it to Skyline, I began to feel something different. I felt that my parents were way too strict on me. As young children do, I began to rebel—nothing too extreme, but rebellious nevertheless. I was kicked out of Skyline at the end of 11th grade and was transferred to Kimball. Kimball and Skyline were two totally different places to learn. To be more precise, Kimball was a Hood School; its reputation preceded itself.
By the time I got into Kimball and got ready to take my senior exams, I got a reputation for coming to school drunk. Mind you, I was not a drinker, so any little thing was not good. The long and short is that I made it all the way to the 12th grade, but did not graduate. I left home a little after that, never to be in the streets or in a gang because I was working at McDonalds, and I actually liked the idea of having a job. All that changed when my friend came to pick me up from my parents' house. He asked me about selling drugs. I had never been introduced to that, and by mere peer pressure, my entire life was turned around.
I struggled on the streets for probably one year, but that was enough to experience a life I will never return to. On May 15th, I was walking home, not knowing there was a shooting miles away, and I got picked up for a murder and an attempted murder. I have never shot a gun in my life, nor ever thought about stealing or tried to steal someone's things by force. So, I knew I would be going home soon. The whole interrogation lasted probably five or six hours. Because my friend had driven me home and wasn't with me when I was walking and got picked up, I gave the detective phone numbers of people who could identify my whereabouts. My friend had gone to his girlfriend's place. That's why I was walking by myself. All in all, I gave the detective four phone numbers of people who could verify my whereabouts and confirm that I was not the shooter. The detective left and came back about an hour later. He said, "Your story checked out, but you killed that man, and you're going to prison." I was lost at that point.
I stayed in the county jail for 17 months before I went to trial. I was given a court-appointed lawyer. In August 1995, I had a jury trial.
There were ten witnesses, nine of whom said I was not the shooter. No weapon was ever found, and the fingerprints that were retrieved were neither mine nor the victims'. One person who was shot testified that I did not look like the shooter, and my alibis came as well. Nevertheless, I was found guilty of murder and attempted murder and sentenced to 80 years in prison.
After I had sent out numerous letters and spent 14 years in prison, I was contacted by an organization out of Princeton, New Jersey, that picked up my case and found in the police record an anonymous phone record received before I went to trial. This record mentioned the real shooter as well as other confidential information. This stuff had never been turned in. Based on that and other exculpatory evidence, I was released in October 2009; I was the first non-DNA release under District Attorney Craig Watkins.
Despite the fact that the courts had not proven consistently helpful in their quests for freedom, British West Indian slaves frequently consulted them in order to invoke the rule of law and pursue their rights. Several Caribbean historians have documented the ways in which slaves in the West Indies participated in formal legal arenas almost from the initial days of colonization and claimed the courts as one of their own forums for resolving disputes and asserting those few rights written into the various parliamentary acts intended to ameliorate the conditions of the enslaved and passed in England and its Caribbean colonies from 1788 onward. Indeed, slaves in the West Indies participated in the courts systems as plaintiffs as well as defendants more frequently than previously thought. And although the courts were certainly used by those in power to oppress slaves, women, children, and the poor, as well as to "legitimate [the] blatantly repressive regime" of slavery, they nevertheless provided a forum for those who did not write the laws in question to use the courts to ensure the legal protection of their "natural rights" (Lazarus-Black, "John Grant's" 154). Thus, in another of the seemingly endless paradoxes inherent to the British imperial slave system, slaves—objects of property, yet human subjects—could, in certain situations, use the courts in the West Indies and in England on their own behalf, as legal agents to affirm their status as legal subjects deserving of the law's unbiased protection, and judgment.
Jonathan Board lives in Northern Appalachia with his wife and three children. A graduate of West Virginia University College of Law, he has also attended Harvard Extension School, Fairmont State University, and the University of Cincinnati. Beyond legal commentary, he enjoys civic and community volunteerism, theological and ethical discourse, technologies, and athletic coaching.
The Erie doctrine vexes law students year after year. For that reason, Mr. Board created this flow chart to help struggling law students through their Civil Procedure courses.
The truth is that no law student in America receives competent training in the art of advocacy. […] Generations of students [have been produced] who at graduation were utterly unqualified to do anything except what their professors did—study the law.


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Anthony D. Smith: in memoriam
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Anthony D. Smith has died. One of the most outstanding scholars in nationalism studies has left us. NISE would like to offer its condolences to his family and friends.
Please find here a personal contribution by NISE Associated Member Eric T. Woods:
"Like so many others who were fortunate to have learned at the feet of Professor Anthony Smith, the renowned scholar of nations and nationalism, I feel a deep sense of mourning at his passing. Among his many qualities, I particularly recall his sincere generosity, his capacity for empathy, his thoughtfulness, his uncanny attention to detail, and, of course, his love of lively debate and discussion. The latter always seemed to provoke in him a small smile and a twinkle in his eye, especially once the debate really began in earnest. It left me with an impression of man who not only loved his craft, but truly loved life.
Although Anthony had already retired by the time I arrived at the LSE to pursue a PhD under his former student Dr John Hutchinson, he was still very much an active presence. Anthony made sure to attend every meeting of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) – a research association he founded with several PhD students in order to provide a locus for the burgeoning field of nationalism studies. Anthony made himself available for all of our queries, from banal questions about the ASEN budget, to requests that he intervene in our late-night debates over the historicity of ethnicity and nationalism. Similarly, almost until his passing, Anthony was ever the energetic and discerning Editor-in-Chief and of Nations and Nationalism, a world leading journal founded by him.
It is difficult to overstate Anthony's legacy in the study of nations and nationalism. Not only did he introduce a novel approach to understanding these phenomena; through his magisterial overviews, he also created the very framework from which subsequent scholars in the field have engaged in research and debate. Anthony's original contribution to the field, referred to as ethno-symbolism, provided a robust challenge to received wisdom, providing the necessary trigger for new insights and understanding. His approach, however, was always in the process of becoming, undergoing a subtle evolution over the course of his many books and scholarly articles. Looking across Anthony's oeuvre leaves the distinct impression that much more was still to come. Succeeding generations of scholars are now left with the daunting task of carrying forward this legacy.
But as much as Anthony was a great scholar and mentor, I will also forever recall him for his boundless empathy. This year I experienced a terrible tragedy with the loss of my wife and son. In the midst of my shock and grief, Anthony wrote me a letter which seemed to say all the things I needed to hear. I can't count how many times I have re-read his letter. I planned to visit Anthony and, over tea, let him know how much that letter meant to me. Sadly, I didn't realise that Anthony had already become so ill, and that it was too late. I shall never forget his generosity in the face of mortality. For me, this is the greatest of his teachings."
Eric T. Woods and A.D. Smith at the ASEN-conference 'Nationalism & Globalisation' in 2009
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Student Raises $28,600 For Homeless Man Who Offered To Pay Her Taxi Home
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Dominique Harrison-Bentzen wanted to get home after a (pre-pandemic) night out, but she'd lost her bank card and couldn't afford a taxi home.
A man experiencing homelessness swooped in to save the day with an extraordinary act of kindness — and his good deed ended up being rewarded many times over.
Robbie to the rescue
The night had wound down for Harrison-Bentzen, a then 22-year-old student at the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom, and she needed to get home. But she noticed something was missing — she'd lost her bank card and was out of cash.
All of a sudden, a homeless man named Robbie approached her with an offer to pay for her taxi ride home.
"I suddenly realized that I had no money and a homeless man approached me with his only change of £3 ($4 USD)," she told the Guardian. "He insisted I took it to pay for a taxi to make sure I got home safe."
Harrison-Bentzen declined the offer, but after she got home she decided to do something to repay Robbie.
So, she set up a donation page and asked people to donate £3 — the cost of a taxi ride — to help Robbie get back on his feet.
"I was touched by such a kind gesture from a man who faces ignorance every day, so I set on a mission to find him," Harrison-Bentzen wrote on Facebook.
"The more I spoke about him the more kind gestures I learned, such as him returning wallets untouched to pedestrians and offering his scarf to keep people warm."
Harrison-Bentzen added that Robbie had been homeless for just seven months and can't get work because he doesn't have an address.
"So that's when I decided to change Robbie's life and help him, as he has helped many others."
Dominique Harrison-Bentzen said.
The goal was to help Robbie find permanent accommodation, but it ended up going much further. The campaign went viral and pulled in over £21,000 ($28,600 USD).
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Harrison-Bentzen and Robbie decided to help other homeless people and local charities as well.
"This is not only going to change Robbie's life, but [the lives of] an incredible amount of homeless people in Preston," Harrison-Bentzen, who slept out in the street for 24 hours as part of the fundraiser.
"Yes, we were cold and yes, we were hungry, but people endure that 365 days of the year, so for 24 hours we didn't complain."
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One of the kittens a week ago, cute and almost ready to adopt out.
My wife's cousin Jean called me a few days ago and said she was raising a litter of stray kittens. Last week they were doing great and looked like they were almost ready to adopt out. But just when she was ready to turn them over to a rescue group, all four had suddenly developed patchy areas of crusty skin and hair loss. After a few questions, I confirmed what I think she was already thinking – they almost certainly had ringworm. What a disaster! The kittens were now not adoptable. Any treatment would be long and difficult. And worst of all, the kittens might have given her ringworm.
Interestingly, in spite of the name, ringworm is not caused by a worm, and rarely has a ring type appearance in pets. Ringworm is caused by a group of fungi called dermatophytes that feed on keratin in skin, hair, and nail tissue. We most commonly see ringworm in kittens, mainly strays that have been rescued. The typical appearance is patchy areas of hair loss with scaly skin especially around the head, face and feet. In some cases, the lesions are very difficult to notice, sometimes nothing more than a few broken off hairs.
The same kitten this week with hair loss and inflamed, scaly skin over the left eye.
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Diagnosis can often be made by shining a black light over the suspicious areas. The most common ringworm, caused by Microsporum canis, will fluoresce an unmistakable bright green when present. Other species of fungal infections will not fluoresce and a culture of hair, skin, or nail tissue will have to be set up. After up to a week or more, a sample of the fungal growth can be taken and examined under the microscope to confirm the diagnosis.
Fortunately, although some fungal infections are notoriously difficult to treat, ringworm generally responds very well to treatment. Special dips, often with oral antifungal medications, are usually successful in clearing the infection. The dips have a very unpleasant odor, somewhat like rotten eggs, and must be allowed to dry on the patient leaving the bad smell both in the air and on the patient. These must be continued once or twice a week for several weeks. Although we rarely need to in kittens, in some severe cases of ringworm, clipping the hair is recommended to make the dip more effective. Response can be slow, often requiring 4-6 or more weeks of treatment.
Ringworm is contagious to not only other pets, but also people. Extreme care must be taken when handling ringworm patients to avoid getting infected. While any age group can be infected, the fungus is most likely to spread to kittens, puppies, and children so extra precautions must be taken to keep ringworm patients away from the young. Adults, however, are not immune as I was reminded a few years ago. Washing your hands after handling ringworm is usually adequate, but apparently I missed a spot. Not long after treating a ringworm patient, I developed a beautiful example of the classic ringworm lesion on my hand. Topical treatment with an antifungal cream cleared it up, but it took close to a month to resolve. A reminder that wearing gloves is probably the smart thing to do around a known ringworm case.
Cleaning the environment is an important part of preventing the spread of ringworm. Once a pet had been diagnosed, the premises should be thoroughly vacuumed and cleaned of any possible infected hairs and fungal spores. This would include any areas the pet could have been, including floors, carpets, beds, and furniture. Treatment of outdoor areas is not generally useful unless there is maybe some patio furniture the pet could have lounged in.
A classic ringworm lesion on my hand a few years ago.
As previously mentioned, ringworm cases usually have happy outcomes if the patient is in good health otherwise. After our phone conversation, Jean brought in her litter of stray kittens and when we put a blacklight on them they "lit up like a Christmas tree", confirming ringworm. No further diagnostic tests were needed so we immediately started treatment. All four kittens were dipped in a Lime Sulfur dip and allowed to drip dry. They were started on generic terbinafine, an oral antifungal medicine for people but used commonly in animals. Jean and husband John are now keeping them much longer than expected to continue the weekly dips and oral medicine until the kittens are free of ringworm and adoptable in a month or so. And fortunately, at least for now, they have not found any suspicious spots on themselves.


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Some years ago when I was an undergraduate just beginning to think seriously about poetry, I met Adrienne Rich. In fact, I picked her up from her hotel and drove her through downtown Boston to the UMass Boston campus for her lecture. It was my mentor and friend Askold Melnyczuk who was coordinating the reading series, and though I'd just met him that semester in his introduction to fiction writing class, he saw in me enough poetic promise to send me to chauffer Ms. Rich through the mid-day traffic nightmare that is Boston proper.
At the time I was driving a small Hyundai Accent, a relic from my high school days when it was the only car I could afford, and I needed a car living out in Framingham where I attended an alternative private school. Which was why I'd went to UMass Boston in the first place, actually. No grades, no transcript, a local state school seemed my best option, and even that took a lot of conversation about how they could possibly evaluate my application. I was advised to take a summer course on campus so they'd have at least one grade to judge my admissibility by. I took Introduction to Creative Writing. I (thankfully) remember very little of what I wrote for that class, but I do know that it must have been angst-ridden self-absorbed drivel. What really stuck with me was the reading assignments, from the Norton Anthology of Contemporary Literature. A poem by Diane Ackerman, "sweep me through your many-chambered heart" which for years I recited to myself daily. Suddenly I was aware of not what was said but how it was said. And that made all the difference.
Two years later, after being admitted to UMass Boston (with the original intention to transfer somewhere "better") and turning down an admission to a much fancier "writing-focused" undergraduate program in upstate New York, I was firmly embedded in the urban, working-class, diverse, mature writing community on campus. The Joiner Center Writer's Workshop brought in poets like Martín Espada and Yousef Komunyakka; Askold brought in poets like Kevin Young and Tomas Sayers Ellis. I developed a new awareness of writing in the world, that writing didn't have to be exclusively interior, or that interiority could become so much more. The personal, political.
It was then I met Adrienne Rich. I can't call her Adrienne, we only had the briefest of encounters and it seems too personal to use her first name. Still, when I called her Ms. Rich she laughed. I picked her up in front of her hotel in Downtown Boston, on Commonwealth Ave. overlooking the Mall, part of Boston's Emerald Necklace, a system of parks, fens, and rivers running through the city and, according to Wikipedia, "the only remaining intact linear park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, America's first landscape architect."
If I remember correctly, and likely I don't, she was waiting for me on a bench outside the hotel. It was a lovely spring day. I knew it was her because I'd looked her up, and read as much of her poetry as I could in the previous few weeks, since Askold had told me I'd be given the honor of escorting her to campus. Other students were going to be escorting her on campus, sitting with her at the organized lunch. But I would be the first UMass Boston student she'd meet on this visit. I'd have the most time alone with her. I should use it well.
Adrienne Rich was an award-winning poet and essayist. A pioneer feminist, gay-rights and anti-war activist.
I remember her being diminutive, surprisingly so. I remember her having a little difficulty walking, but not too bad, she said. She got into my car, double parked in the valet spot so she would have the smallest distance to cross. I remember turning it on, her commenting on the fact that I drove stick, chatting about that, about Boston, about how things have changed. I remember knowing the route I would take, knowing approximately how long I had, knowing that I had an obligation to impress her, on behalf of UMass Boston, that I had an obligation to get the most out of this encounter.
I remember silence. I remember wanting to talk with her about "Diving Into The Wreck," about how reading it made me shiver with the memory of my own descents into water, into the world. I remember knowing that nothing I could say could really stick and hold. That whatever it had been that shook me when I read "The Art of Translation" had to do with her reaching into a tangle of associations I couldn't even unravel and pulling. And pulling out from herself and out from me the sense that what I thought, what I experienced mattered, not despite my gender or politics but because of it. I remember wanting to tell her that she'd changed me, changed my writing, changed my view of the world and of art within it.
We arrived about twenty minutes later to campus, where I was to drop her off at the Healey Library basement. Lunch was on the 11th floor of the library, with views of Boston Harbor and Marina Island from the brick and concrete compound that was our campus, built in the 70s and capable of being entirely locked down in case of a student riot. The students never rioted. There are three ways into the Healey Library, which has its main entrance on its second floor. A set of concrete stairs suspended over the central brick plaza of the campus leading into the glass catwalk that connects all the buildings, because the snow and ice in the winter get whipped around by the wind off the ocean. Adrienne Rich couldn't possibly be asked to climb a flight and a half of windy, concrete stairs.
The other way to get to the main entrance was from the catwalk itself, coming from the Administration building, recently converted into classrooms when Admissions and the Registrar and Financial Aid all moved over to the brand-new Campus Center, a shining white and glass building facing towards rather than away from the sea. Or from the Science building, one in which I spent almost no time at all. Both required a substantial walk in the catwalk, too far for Adrienne Rich to do comfortably.
So the only choice was through the basement, into the service elevator the facility managers used to bring the trash down to the loading dock. The garage had been closed for repairs – one of the problems of using poured concrete at the ocean was that the salt air ate away at structures. The garage may or may not be safe any longer. Students joked that it was closed because that's where Jimmy Hoffa's body had been disposed of, entombed among the concrete pillars in the yellow-light darkness of the UMass Boston parking garage. A joke that referred to the University's supposed mob-ties, since William T. Bulger had been the president of the entire UMass system since 1996. His brother, Whitey, was arrested just last year after a 16-year man hunt by the FBI. He'd been living in a rent-controlled apartment in California.
We needed special permission to drive into the dilapidated garage, and we had it. I had practiced this before, walking through the library with T. Michael Sullivan, the coordinator of the Joiner Center's Writing Workshop. We started on the 11th floor: "This is where we'll have lunch." and took the back elevator down to the Upper Level, which was 2 floors beneath the 2nd floor entrance to the library, where the doors opened into the damp dark of the abandoned garage. Michael lit a cigarette, sipped his coffee, and we stood there contemplating the cracked concrete. "You can park anywhere," he said.
When Adrienne Rich and I parked in front of the elevator, Michael and Askold and two other students were there already, waiting for us. I helped her out of the car, carried her bag of books, Askold offered her his arm to help navigate the pocked cement floor. We climbed into the elevator and rode it to the light, airy glassed-in room on the 11th floor. Before we exited the elevator, Adrienne Rich thanked me, she gave me a slight, tentative hug.
I sat at a table far from her at lunch. I'd already had my allotted access to her. I sat in the front row for the reading, waited at the end of the line for her to sign my book afterwards. Askold had said she might not sign everyone's book, depending on how her hands felt. But she persevered, I'd say over 50 copies, each one possible torture for her arthritic hands. Her commitment to us, her readers at this urban working-class state school, was palpable. She had said she would only sign one book per person, and though I had brought two, I only asked her to sign the copy of her collection of essays Arts of the Possible for my mother, a first-wave feminist and scholar.
I was the last person in line, though her escorts for the rest of the day were hovering behind her, waiting to move on to the next event, a private dinner with faculty. I thanked her for coming to UMass Boston. She saw that I was holding a copy of the recently-released Fox and asked me if I didn't want her to sign it, to me, as well. Her hand shook and she wrote "For Erica -" at the top and her name at the bottom of the title page.
It is this copy of Fox I opened again today, to think of her in that moment, kind and generous, open and brilliant, a luminous figure with the sun glaring in from the ocean through the windows behind her. Her shaking hand. Her tentative embrace.
by Erica Mena on March 29, 2012
Categories: Poetry • Tags: adrienne rich, askold melnyczuk, Diving Into The Wreck, essays, feminist, Fox, Martín Espada, poet, poetry, UMass Boston
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Gracias, querida Erica, por hacerme partícipe de esta noticia de una manera tan emotiva y bella. Aunque sea triste, quizás es bella por lo mismo.
sarahwsalter
I join you in mourning her passing and in noting her immense stature as a poet.
This is really wonderful. Thank you for sharing this experience. Many of the recollections of Rich that I have read today mention the great physical effort she put into signing books for her readers. She was special.
Russ Cayer
I read your piece on chauffeuring Adrienne Rich. I know the campus well, and the city, too. Small world. Best regards, Russ
E Mena
Small world, indeed! Thanks for reading it.


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William Marshall Swayne (December 1, 1828 – May 1, 1918) was a sculptor and writer who lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Biography
William Marshall Swayne, commonly known as Marshall Swayne was born on December 1, 1828 in Pennsbury Twp., Chester Co. He was married to Mary S. Barnard in 1850 and had 8 children. At the suggestion of Supreme Court justice Noah Haynes Swayne William Marshall was
appointed to the United States Treasury Department by president Abraham Lincoln. Swayne had a farm in East Marlborough Township, Pennsylvania, and later lived in Kennett Square. He died on May 1, 1918.

Artistic career
Swayne was a self-taught artist who sculpted many figures from history and from life including General Anthony Wayne, Salmon P. Chase, Edwin M. Stanton, William H. Seward, Andrew Johnson, Bayard Taylor, General George Meade, Sam Houston, and John Hickman.

Bust of Lincoln
Swayne did several sculptures of Lincoln including a bust of the President while he posed for him and recited poetry to visitors. Lincoln said of the sculpture, "I have sat for several to model my likeness, but I like yours best."

The Division of Government, Politics, and Reform at the National Museum of American History (NMAH) houses a copy of Swayne's bust of Abraham Lincoln. It was donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1940 by Swayne's heirs through Richard B. Swayne and Marion Swayne Richter.  It is bronzed plaster and is 30" high by 19" wide.  It is marked, "W.M. Swayne, Scpr. June 8, 1864."

The sculpture was last on view in 1999 when it was lent to the Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for an exhibition titled "Lincoln from Life."
Swayne also made several smaller copies of this bust that were given to family, friends, and president's. It is reported that 10 were made. President Fillmore was one among the ten that received a copy of Swayne's famous bust.

See also
Wager Swayne
Noah Haynes Swayne

Further reading
Lincoln lore: Issues 1487–1558, WILLIAM MARSHALL SWAYNE The Man Who Made A "Mud Head" of Lincoln – Austin Warren, Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Lincoln Historical Research Foundation – 1962

References

External links
Entry for William Marshall SWAYNE, The Pennocks of Primitive Hall website, Gedpage Version 2.20 ©2000 on 25 December 2010 notes

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People from Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
Writers from Pennsylvania
1828 births
1918 deaths
20th-century American sculptors
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Home News Seventh Annual YMCA Buck Leadership Award Recognizes Two Local Young Adults
Holding their certificates and standing with YMCA Senior Director, Paul Zeger (far right) are Margaret Schrayer of Princeton, NJ and Justin Wisniewski of Lawrenceville, NJ, who were selected as recipients of the YMCA's 2017 Buck Leadership Award.
Seventh Annual YMCA Buck Leadership Award Recognizes Two Local Young Adults
More than two hundred campers, at the Princeton Family YMCA's Discovery Camp and M.V.P. Sports Camp, joined together during the final weeks of camp for this summer, for the presentation of the seventh annual YMCA Alexander K. Buck Leadership Award. Those selected to receive the surprise honor were Margaret Schrayer of Princeton, NJ and Justin Wisniewski of Lawrenceville, NJ.
Annually the award is presented to two YMCA camp counselors — one young man and one young woman — who best exemplify and reflect the leadership qualities, character and passions of the late Alexander "Whip" K. Buck, a longtime Princeton resident and former trustee and supporter of the YMCA, and the YMCA mission.
The qualities and characteristics include demonstrating the YMCA core values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility; showing humility and kindness to others; serving as a good citizen; possessing an infectious spirit of fun and adventure; valuing the natural environment and encouraging others to do the same; demonstrating a balance of spirit, mind and body as a well-rounded individual; learning from his or her mistakes; and putting others first.; and, finally, being "a good friend to all."
Margaret Schrayer, age 18, daughter of Carol Tate and David Schrayer of Princeton, joined the Princeton Family YMCA's summer camp this year, although she has worked as a swim instructor, life guard, and coach prior to becoming a counselor. This summer, she contributed her talents in a variety of ways, working with children of all ages and abilities. Her dedication to working with children, and her friendliness, positive attitude, and creativity embodies the true meaning of a camp counselor. Margaret is a graduate of Princeton High School and, this fall, will attend the University of Georgia, where she plans to study statistics and computer science (a self-proclaimed mathlete!)
Justin Wisniewski, of Lawrenceville, age 25, graduated from Lawrence High School and completed his B.A. in Psychology at Messiah College. Since graduating, he has worked in education, currently with the East Windsor School District as an education assistant and serves as a site director for the Princeton Family YMCA at the Orchard Hill Elementary School in Montgomery. Justin is devoted to working with children and enjoys camp as a tool to teach teamwork and values to children.
Both Margaret and Justin are truly "friends to all" and served as exemplary role models to their peers and to the campers. Each received a plaque and certificate in recognition of their achievement.
For many young people, the YMCA often serves as a first introduction to working life. Nationwide, the Y provides millions of young adults with their first paid employment experiences, helping chart their course to a successful future through positive skill building and training.
About the Y: The Y is one of the nation's leading nonprofit strengthening communities through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. Across the U.S., 2,687 Ys engage 21 million men, women and children – regardless of age, income or background – to nurture the potential of children and teens, improve the nation's health and well-being and provide opportunities to give back and support neighbors. Anchored in more than 10,000 communities, the Y has the long-standing relationships and physical presence not just to promise, but to deliver, lasting personal and social change. www.princetonymca.org
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Q: i have react custom hook error with typescript I have this error in VScode:
Argument of type 'Animal[]' is not assignable to parameter of type 'string'.
my custom hook file(useLocalHost.tsx) is:
import React, { useState, useEffect, SetStateAction, Dispatch } from "react";
import { Animal } from "@frontendmasters/pet";

function getSavedValue(key: string, initialValue: string) {

  const savedValue = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem(key) || '{}');

  if (savedValue) {
    return savedValue;
  }

  return initialValue;
}

export default function useLocalStorage(key: string, initialValue: string) {
  const [value, setValue] = useState(() => {
    return getSavedValue(key, initialValue);
  });

  useEffect(() => {
    localStorage.setItem(key, JSON.stringify(value));
  }, [value]);
  return [value, setValue] as [Animal[], Dispatch<SetStateAction<Animal[] | null>>];
}

my search file (searchParams.tsx) is:
import React, { useState, useEffect, useContext, FunctionComponent } from "react";
import pet, { ANIMALS, Animal } from "@frontendmasters/pet";
import useDropdown from "./useDropdown";
import { RouteComponentProps } from '@reach/router';
import SearchResult from "./SearchResult";
import useLocalStorage from "./useLocalStorage";
import ThemeContext from "./ThemeContext";

const SearchParams: FunctionComponent<RouteComponentProps> = () => {
  const [location, updateLocation] = useState("Seattle, WA");
  const [breeds, updateBreeds] = useState([] as string[]);
  const [pets, updatePets] = useState([] as Animal[]);
  const [animal, AnimalDropdown] = useDropdown("Animal", "dog", ANIMALS);
  const [breed, BreedDropdown, updateBreed] = useDropdown("Breed", "", breeds);
  const [prevPet, setPrevPet] = useLocalStorage([] as Animal[], "");
  const [theme, setTheme] = useContext(ThemeContext);

  async function requestPets() {
    const { animals } = await pet.animals({
      location,
      breed,
      type: animal,
    });
    setPrevPet(animals);
    updatePets(animals || []);
  }

  useEffect(() => {
    updateBreeds([]);
    updateBreed("");
    pet.breeds(animal).then(({ breeds }) => {
      const breedStrings = breeds.map(({ name }) => name);
      updateBreeds(breedStrings);
    }, console.error);
  }, [animal]);

  useEffect(() => {
    updatePets(prevPet);
  }, []);

I know that the error comes from the type of prevPet put I don't know what type it should be
there is more in searchParams.tsx but I think it's not needed

A: Your getSavedValue function has bugs in it.
const savedValue = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem(key) || '{}');

I think this should be
const savedValue = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem(key) || {});

Otherwise the return type of your function can be an object or a string (when nothing was in the storage).
Also, savedValue will never be falsy, so you will never return initialValue.
Moreover, you call the hook with the params in the wrong order.
Here is a typed alternative:
import React, { useState, useEffect } from "react";

function getSavedValue<T>(key: string, initialValue: T): T {
  const stored = localStorage.getItem(key);

  if (stored) {
    return JSON.parse(stored) as T;
  }

  return initialValue;
}

export default function useLocalStorage<T>(key: string, initialValue: T) {
  const [value, setValue] = useState<T>(() => getSavedValue(key, initialValue));

  useEffect(() => {
    localStorage.setItem(key, JSON.stringify(value));
  }, [value]);

  return [value, setValue] as const;
}

You can use it like this :
const [prevPet, setPrevPet] = useLocalStorage<Animal[]>("key", []);


The mission of Colonial's Sports Ministries is influenced by passages such as Ephesians 4:12-16 which lays out a critical mission of the church. Leaders are to step forward "for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ." Sports Ministry provides excellent opportunities to edify the body through fellowship and to evangelize the community through outreach programs. Colonial Sports Ministry exists to glorify God by using sports to teach life principles and Biblical truths that point athletes to His Son, Jesus Christ.
Our sports ministry offers a variety of sports for all ages from 4 years old to adults. For a complete listing of what specific sports Colonial Sports Ministry offers please visit our WEBSITE.
This spring we will be providing leagues for children's soccer (4-18), machine pitch baseball (8-13), t-ball (5-7), men's basketball, soccer, and softball along with martial arts, archery, and open adult volleyball. Registration is currently open and the leagues fill up quickly, so be sure to register soon if you wish to participate. More information on the individual leagues can be found on our website.
Registration is currently open for our Special Need's sports program. This spring the children will be playing t-ball.


Maximize giant clam production from the hatchery to provide sufficient numbers of juveniles for extensive lagoon mariculture operations, with the view of providing background and extension training to potential operators.
Conduct and evaluate giant clam lagoon mariculture operations on different reef sites on the islands in conjunction with training potential farmers.
Assess, on a small scale, the viability of the "hanging technique" for giant clam lagoon ranching.
Establish an additional giant clam nursery for DMWR broodstock and seed clams.


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Q: Invalid blending results across all browsers with HTML5 canvas Summary
When repeatedly drawing anything (apparently with a low alpha value) on a canvas, regardless of if it's with drawImage() or a fill function, the resulting colors are significantly inaccurate in all browsers that I've tested. Here's a sample of the results I'm getting with a particular blend operation:

Problem Demonstration
For an example and some code to play with, check out this jsFiddle I worked up:
http://jsfiddle.net/jMjFh/2/
The top set of data is a result of a test that you can customize by editing iters and rgba at the top of the JS code. It takes whatever color your specify, RGBA all in range [0, 255], and stamps it on a completely clean, transparent canvas iters number of times. At the same time, it keeps a running calculation of what the standard Porter-Duff source-over-dest blend function would produce for the same procedure (ie. what the browsers should be running and coming up with).
The bottom set of data presents a boundary case that I found where blending [127, 0, 0, 2] on top of [127, 0, 0, 63] produces an inaccurate result. Interestingly, blending [127, 0, 0, 2] on top of [127, 0, 0, 62] and all [127, 0, 0, x] colors where x <= 62 produces the expected result. Note that this boundary case is only valid in Firefox and IE on Windows. In every other browser on every other operating system I've tested, the results are far worse.
In addition, if you run the test in Firefox on Windows and Chrome on Windows, you'll notice a significant difference in the blending results. Unfortunately we're not talking about one or two values off--it's far worse.
Background Information
I am aware of the fact that the HTML5 canvas spec points out that doing a drawImage() or putImageData() and then a getImageData() call can show slightly varying results due to rounding errors. In that case, and based on everything I've run into thus far, we're talking about something miniscule like the red channel being 122 instead of 121.
As a bit of background material, I asked this question a while ago where @NathanOstgard did some excellent research and drew the conclusion that alpha premultiplication was to blame. While that certainly could be at work here, I think the real underlying issue is something a bit larger.
The Question
Does anyone have any clue how I could possibly end up with the (wildly inaccurate) color values I'm seeing? Furthermore, and more importantly, does anyone have any ideas how to circumvent the issue and produce consistent results in all browsers? Manually blending the pixels is not an option due to performance reasons.
Thanks!

Edit: I just added a stack trace of sorts that outputs each intermediate color value and the expected value for that stage in the process.

Edit: After researching this a bit, I think I've made some slight progress.
Reasoning for Chrome14 on Win7
In Chrome14 on Win7 the resulting color after the blend operation is gray, which is many values off from the expected and desired reddish result. This led me to believe that Chrome doesn't have an issue with rounding and precision because the difference is so large. Instead, it seems like Chrome stores all pixel values with premultiplied alpha.
This idea can be demonstrated by drawing a single color to the canvas. In Chrome, if you apply the color [127, 0, 0, 2] once to the canvas, you get [127, 0, 0, 2] when you read it back. However, if you apply [127, 0, 0, 2] to the canvas twice, Chrome gives you [85, 0, 0, 3] if you check the resulting color. This actually makes some sense when you consider that the premultiplied equivalent of [127, 0, 0, 2] is [1, 0, 0, 2].
Apparently, when Chrome14 on Win7 performs the blending operation, it references the premultiplied color value [1, 0, 0, 2] for the dest component and the non-premultiplied color value [127, 0, 0, 2] for the source component. When these two colors are blended together, we end up with [85, 0, 0, 3] using the Porter-Duff source-over-dest approach, as expected.
So, it seems like Chrome14 on Win7 inconsistently references the pixel values when you work with them. The information is stored in a premultiplied state internally, is presented back to you in non-premultiplied form, and is manipulated using values of both forms.
I'm thinking it might be possible to circumvent this by doing some additional calls to getImageData() and/or putImageData(), but the performance implications don't seem that great. Furthermore, this doesn't seem to be the same issue that Firefox7 on Win7 is exhibiting, so some more research will have to be done on that side of things.

Edit: Below is one possible approach that seems likely to work.
Thoughts on a Solution
I haven't gotten back around to working on this yet, but one WebGL approach that I came up with recently was to run all drawing operations through a simple pixel shader that performs the Porter-Duff source-over-dest blend itself. It seems as though the issue here only occurs when interpolating values for blending purposes. So, if the shader reads the two pixel values, calculates the result, and writes (not blends) the value into the destination, it should mitigate the problem. At the very least, it shouldn't compound. There will definitely still be minor rounding inaccuracies, though.
I know in my initial question I mentioned that manually blending the pixels wouldn't be viable. For a 2D canvas implementation of an application that needs real-time feedback, I don't see a way to fix this. All of the blending would be done on the CPU and would prevent other JS code from executing. With WebGL, however, your pixel shader runs on the GPU so I'm pretty sure there shouldn't be any performance hit.
The tricky part is being able to feed the dest canvas in as a texture to the shader because you also need to render it on a canvas to be viewable. Ultimately, you want to avoid having to generate a WebGL texture object from your viewable canvas every time it needs to be updated. Maintaining two copies of the data, with one as an in-memory texture and one as a viewable canvas (that's updated by stamping the texture on as needed), should solve this.

A: Oh geez. I think we just stepped into the twilight zone here. I'm afraid I don't have an answer but I can provide some more information at least. Your hunch is right that at least something is larger here.
I'd prefer an example that is drastically more simple (and thus less prone to any sort of error - I fear you might have a problem with 0-255 somewhere instead of 0-1 but didnt look thoroughly) than yours so I whipped up something tiny. What I found wasn't pleasant:
<canvas id="canvas1" width="128" height="128"></canvas>
<canvas id="canvas2" width="127" height="127"></canvas>

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var can = document.getElementById('canvas1');
var ctx = can.getContext('2d');
var can2 = document.getElementById('canvas2');
var ctx2 = can2.getContext('2d');

var alpha = 2/255.0;

ctx.fillStyle = 'rgba(127, 0, 0, ' + alpha + ')';
ctx2.fillStyle = 'rgba(127, 0, 0, ' + alpha + ')'; // this is grey
//ctx2.fillStyle = 'rgba(171, 0, 0, ' + alpha + ')'; // this works

for (var i = 0; i < 32; i++) {
      ctx.fillRect(0,0,500,500);
      ctx2.fillRect(0,0,500,500);
}

Yields this:

See for yourself here:
http://jsfiddle.net/jjAMX/
It seems that if your surface area is too small (not the fillRect area, but the canvas area itself) then the drawing operation will be a wash.
It seems to work fine in IE9 and FF7. I submitted it as a bug to Chromium. (We'll see what they say, but their typical M.O. so far is to ignore most bug reports unless they are security issues).
I'd urge you to check your example - I think you might have a 0-255 to 0-1 issue somewhere. The code I have here seems to work just dandy, save for maybe the expected reddish color, but it is a consistent resultant color across all browsers with the exception of this Chrome issue.
In the end Chrome is probably doing something to optimize canvases with a surface area smaller than 128x128 that is fouling things up.

A: Setting globalCompositeOperation to "lighter" (the operation where overlapping pixels values are added together, it is not the default operation for many browsers) yields same color and results in ie9, chrome 14 and latest firefox aurora:
Expected: [126.99999999999999, 0, 0, 63.51372549019608]
Result: [127, 0, 0, 64]

Expected: [126.99999999999999, 0, 0, 63.51372549019608]
Result: [127, 0, 0, 64]

http://jsfiddle.net/jMjFh/11/
edit: you may learn what the different composite operations mean here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Canvas_tutorial/Compositing#globalCompositeOperation
for example, "copy" was useful to me when I needed to do fade animation in certain parts of a canvas


Alright. The patterns are changing again as always. In fact we're in quite a state of fluctuation, generally speaking. We have the Sun entering Sagittarius, which is a nice fire sign. It can bring more focus or more drive and more energy into your life and I would say use focus: think of the archer aiming at the bull's eye and achieving that goal.
So you want to zero in energetically on what is your most important bull's eye at this point. It might be your spiritual growth, it might be emotional balance, it might be a physical healing. Maybe a change in attitude. Maybe a very specific goal like just getting through the upcoming holiday, or whatever it is. So use that Sun in Sag for your focus.
Also starting to take note of the comet Ison a bit more because it is affecting the nature or the psyche to a fairly good degree now. We have some other reverberations going on in the galaxy that tend to irritate emotions or elevate mood swings.
So anything that you can do to calm your nervous system, it might be like a, I'm quite fond of the audios at Brainsync.com – that's brain s-y-n-c dot com, the work of Kelly Howell. And you can work with that or something similar where you just listen with your headphones on and your ear buds in to help balance the brain.
If you do healing work yourself, do maybe tapping or healing codes or any tools that you currently have that help just keep your energy field calm. And then I would say do expect others around you to be – if they don't do their inner work - they're probably going to be losing control of their emotions. So be careful, especially if you're in a dangerous situation there., you may need to flee for safety.
Alright then. So Sun in Sag; keep your focus and keep your calm.


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