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BAR Book Forum: Tracy Sharpley-Whiting's "Bricktop's Paris" and Magdalena J. Zaborowska's "Me and My House"
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
Our authors explore the Black experience in Europe, past and present, and mine the deep reservoir of wisdom that is James Baldwin.
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week's featured authors are T. Denean Sharpley-Whitingand Magdalena J. Zaborowska. Sharpley-Whitingis Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of French and African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her book is Bricktop's Paris: African American Women in Paris between the Two World Wars.
Zaborowska is Professor of Afroamerican and American Studies and the John Rich Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan.Her book is Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France.
Tracy Sharpley-Whiting's Bricktop's Paris
Roberto Sirvent: How can your book help BAR readers understand the current political and social climate?
"Today's Europe is very different from the interwar years—openly hostile, inhospitable, and terribly xenophobic."
Tracy Sharpley-Whiting: The book deals with the migration of black women to Paris in the interwar period (between the first and second wars in the 20thcentury). France, particularly Paris, was considered a very hospitable place for black women to pursue their dreams of becoming artists, writers, to forge political alliances, and/or merely live freely unfettered by race-gender, as these women had dealt with the sometimes, murderous discrimination at home in the US. I don't necessarily know if the same impulses exist among African American women today to migrate/expatriate—even temporarily to France—but it seems we are in another interesting period of migration, of African women, in particular, from West African countries, notably, Nigeria, who are searching for economic opportunities in Europe and finding less than optimal conditions. Most of these economic migrants are ensnared in sex trafficking—meeting a need that Europe itself wants to deny culpability in cultivating. Today's Europe is a very different Europe—openly hostile, inhospitable, and terribly xenophobic. Given the history of Europe's underdevelopment of Africa, I consider this migration a forced one as well though many social scientists and the average European would like to view the migration as a purely voluntary one. One also has to account even today for the ways in which African Americans in Europe have very different social-cultural capital than others of the diaspora.
What do you hope activists and community organizers will take away from reading your book?
I would hope one would see the forging of diasporic alliances at work. While many of the women were creative types in the traditional sense of arts and letters and Paris allowed them to develop their talents without constraint—except for monies—they were also very much involved in international networks and a Black Internationalist project. And when they returned to the US, many like, say Augusta Savage, Selma Burke, and Gwendolyn Bennet, sought to create art programs in their communities, in HBCUs, giving back what they learned in Europe, bringing those networks into contact and common cause with Blacks in the United States. What they continue to teach us is art and literature are political, are catalysts for social change.
We know readers will learn a lot from your book, but what do you hope readers will un-learn? In other words, is there a particular ideology you're hoping to dismantle?
That France was/is colorblind. And that the African American storyisthe story of Black folks in the context of France and Europe, in general. It is very easy to get swept up into that notion. I recently read a story from an African American writer in the New York Times about Paris/France as a safe haven for African Americans, etc. It was highly nostalgic, the romanticized vision of France, without accounting for then and now French imperialism, its "civilizing missions," slavery, etc. I so wanted to send the author a copy of God's Bits of Wood, the film Black Girl as well as Aimé Césaire Discourse onColonialism. Again, the tendency is to not carefully scrutinize the African American experience as unique in comparison to those who have lived under the boot of French oppression.
Who are the intellectual heroes that inspire your work?
Of course, as an organic intellectual, Ada "Bricktop" Smith was a major inspiration for the work—as were the other black women discussed therein like Martinicans Paulette and Jane Nardal. But so was Du Bois who was eager to experience the world and France meant something special to him, in particular. I think David Levering Lewis and Thadious Davis really know how to tell a story so I found great inspiration in their critical biographies. I didn't come to the research and writing thinking I'd find Josephine Baker intellectually inspiring. Interesting. Creative. A woman who pushed the envelope of sexuality. All of that—yes. We are from the same city—Saint Louis. So, there was a connection already there. But the more I researched her, the more I realized the depths of her anti-racist commitments once you got past the banana skirts.
In a broader frame of my intellectual heroes, I am quite taken with historians—even if Césaire called them novelists of history. Darlene Clark Hine, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, and Pierre Nora; among them, as well as Aimé Césaire, Jacques Derrida, Alexandre Dumas, Euzhan Palcy, Ousmane Sembene, and the Walters—Rodney and Mosely.
In what way does your book help us imagine new worlds?
The book allows you to travel in place, I think. You can imagine these communities; Paris as a center for the Black diaspora in the interwar period. It's a very productive time for black intellectuals. Politically, they were in Europe challenging colonialism and imperialism just after peace meetings in Versailles. Artistically, they were throwing down the gauntlet around representation, aesthetics, and blackness—all of which are politically-laden. They were thought of as dangerously internationalist. What a compliment! Their concerns about European empire-building, their desires to reclaim African art (primarily from West Africa) as aesthetically on par with that of the old European art masters troubled ideologies of racial, political, and cultural superiority tied to anti-Black racism. These were heady times and I absolutely understand why that New York Times writer was nostalgic at least for the robustness of the international exchange. And yes, a different sense of freedom. He was and would never be in danger of being gunned down by the police, accosted at restaurants, etc. In France, those are the privileges of Americanness. It can be exhausting to always live on guard. And yet, we can't allow that freedom to cloud the real of the banlieue, of the béké class in Martinique, etc. But I do think everyone deserves to have certain aesthetic, indeed, human experiences. I think the book allows the reader to imagine the power of place is remarkable. My hope is we continue to be bold and internationalist in our visions of Black freedom struggles, that we travel to experience the power of place.
Magdalena J. Zaborowska's Me and My House
"This book shows Baldwin as an ancestor and teacher, and as an elder whom we might finally be ready to embrace."
Magdalena J. Zaborowska: Me and My House tells the story of the genius that was James Baldwin and brings its readers closer to his fierce individuality, his passion for social justice, and his deep concern for the national house, or as he used to say, "these not so united states." Baldwin knew well that being splintered and divided pervaded American historic reality. Separating families, selling children or parents away by slaveowners, yanking kids out of their mothers' arms to take them to boarding schools where being Lakota or Sioux was beaten out of them comprised the tragic experience of Native peoples, African Americans, and some immigrants. Astonishingly and perversely, it is being justified to this day as pious and righteous because of some mythic notion of American "greatness." More than ever, we must remember now that "we are history," as Baldwin claims, and that we must face the reality of the current administration's gleeful embrace of dictatorial, white supremacist rule. Such rule demands and thrives in divided societies, and if needed, creates their divisions by means of inadequate educational systems and disinformation campaigns that foster ignorance and fear, and that demonize whoever the regime would like to serve as the "other" of the moment in order to manipulate voters.
I hope that my book makes James Baldwin more accessible and approachable as a human being, and as someone who shared our longing for a safe place we could call home. It shows him as an ancestor and teacher, and as an elder whom we might finally be ready to embrace and from whom we might finally learn the hard truth about who we are as Americans of all hues, identities, and persuasions. Had he lived today, he would have been talking about current erasure of democracy and vengeful return of nationalism and xenophobia all over our world. He would be reminding us of the thousands of black and brown bodies floating dead in the Mediterranean, reenacting for a new century, and new geopolitics, a ghastly version of the Middle Passage. He would have led marches and spoken to encourage the brave teenagers who protest against gun violence in schools and cowardly submission and hypocrisy of politicians taking money from the NRA.
I would like the activists and organizers to turn to his writings and his revolutionary humanism, to mine his wisdom, and take it to all those who have not found it yet. (A word of caution: Reading Baldwin in the age of sound bites, even shorter attention spans, and dictatorship of the selfie requires serious work and intellectual willingness to be challenged, if not changed. You cannotencapsulate any of his ideas in 140 characters; you have to fight for who you can become thanks to his literary witnessing. That's what great literature has always done, and that's why we find his writings so relevant to our racially and politically troubled moment today.)
"Had he lived today, he would have been talking about current erasure of democracy and vengeful return of nationalism and xenophobia all over our world."
If I could bring Baldwin's domestic life and creative strivings closer to activists and organizers, I'd be thrilled, for I believe that we take courage and learn from material circumstances of the lives we admire. My research has also helped me see that, no matter how many solitary hours he spent wrestling with his writing, Baldwin needed and relied on other people to be there so he could accomplish his work. Many of those who helped and inspired him were women, some magnificent and very famous like Maya Angelou, Nina Simone, Lorraine Hansberry, or Josephine Baker. Many we have never heard of, and so I describe a few of them in my book. They were his teachers, friends, protectors, and confidantes, like Yvonne Roux, who listened to him read his work out loud and advised him how to shape the voice of a nineteen-year old black pregnant woman in his 1974 novel, If Beale Street Could Talk; she translated his 1960's play, Blues for Mister Charlie into French; she always heard out his frequent love trouble. A white female schoolteacher, whom he lovingly remembers as "Bill" Miller, first encouraged him to read and write; a cook whose name was Valerie prepared great meals for him and his entourage at his house, while Yvonne's little daughters, Pitou and Hélène, treated his abode as their own and the man as family. There was also a Muslim worker, who appears in his last unpublished play as "Mohammed," and who took care of his gardens and orchard, and about whom he hoped to write a book called No Papers for Mohammed, and many others.
I say all of this to the politically engaged young people, who are our only hope to right this world (my son Cazmir is among them), to remind them that Baldwin would have wanted them to embrace coalitions and not exclude anybody who would aid them, no matter their gender, race, religion, sexuality or social and citizen status.
Very much so! Like Baldwin I believe in familial ties binding all people and thus giving us tremendous power. Please, know that this is not some superficial Kumbaya statement but another acknowledgement of the hard lessons about our humanity that he has forged for us. He called this power "love" or "saying yes to life"; at times, he called it "battle" and "war" or a "growing up." Most important, he always acknowledged how hard it was to embrace such an approach – as hard, indeed, as embracing all of humanity the way each of us longs to be seen and held – a whole person at a time. Yet he insisted that it was the only one that could bring about lasting change. He writes in his last published essay, "To Crush the Serpent," "Complexity is our only safety and love is the only key to our maturity. And love is where you find it."
Born black and queer, and in dire poverty, Baldwin experienced the injustices of the U.S. national house acutely and personally, and wrote about them courageously and brilliantly. He was often derided for doing so on both sides of the color line, where his being out as homo- and bi-sexual was not rewarded. As he reminded his beloved younger brother David once, he never "kissed ass," and chose to relentlessly witness facts and tell most inconvenient truths, including those about himself.
"He never 'kissed ass,' and chose to relentlessly witness facts and tell most inconvenient truths."
In light of this, then, if your group's or movement's identity is based on excluding someone else, the way that black nationalists in U.S., and Solidarity leaders in Poland (where I grew up) kept women and queers and trans folk out of sight and silent, for example, then you are not really democratic and you are not really fighting for equality. As with sexism, homo- and trans-phobia, or classism, please, know that racism never works alone, and you cannot have your cake and eat it. So, yes, and always yes, to #BlackLivesMatter but no to excluding people from events, victimizing them for their art or speaking out because of what they look like, what language they speak or don't, how they gender-identify, where they are from, not to mention whom they love.
Who are the intellectual heroes that inspire your work? In what way does your book help us imagine new worlds?
In addition to Baldwin, who shall forever remain number one, I've always admired the works of Ann Petry and Gwendolyn Brooks, brave and relentless in probing the ways in which racism has been shaping Americans of all hues and social standings. The bold takes on love, eroticism, and female warriors by Wonder Women Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich were early inspirations, and so were the works of Gish Jen, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, and Alice Walker, as well as those by several Jewish women I write about in my first book – Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, and Eva Hoffman. Octavia Butler's, Louise Erdrich's, and Jeanette Winterson's novels have been constant companions in recent years, as have been those by Zadie Smith, Caryl Philips, or Zofia Naukowska, Chimimimanda Ngozi Adichi, and Olga Tokarczuk. As you can see, I consider writers the intellectuals of the highest order, while I also acknowledge the influence of more academically oriented ones like Edward Said, Julia Kristeva, Eve Sedgwick, Paul Gilroy, Barbara Christian, or Stuart Hall. There are simply too many to name…
I love this question and thank you for giving me a chance to answer it, though I am not exactly sure how to do so ... I think many of us dream of new worlds or of the new us (and U.S.), but only some of us have the courage, strength, and imagination to truly work on and fight for these things as leaders. As I write in My and My House, despite his frail health and small frame, Baldwin was a giant of a fighter and leader, and has left us a legacy worth defending and passing on to the next generations. What he has taught me, to wax personal for a moment (but also to admit that this book is very important to me), has been imprinted on how I live and how I imagine a future that Cazmir and his peers will build, it throws shade on who I love, and how I see myself and others. For what has really saved my life, as Baldwin would have put it, is the realization that anything important and worth having requires a lot of work and total commitment, and that most of the time we are loathe to do it. Like all of us, I've had my failures and some triumphs; like all my teachers, heroes, and leaders, like Baldwin, most of all, I've believed that I can do it, that we all can do it, beginning with our own hearts and minds; that we can remake this world into a more just and humane place.
Roberto Sirvent is Professor of Political and Social Ethics at Hope International University in Fullerton, CA. He also serves as the Outreach and Mentoring Coordinator for the Political Theology Network. He's currently writing a book with fellow BAR contributor Danny Haiphong called American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror.
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Make a Day of It: Events to Visit on Your Way to Allies for Art at browngrotta arts
September 29, 2022 arttextstyle0 Comment
On your way to see Allies for Art: Work from NATO-related countries at browngrotta arts (October 8-16, 2022)? Here are some other venues of interest in browngrotta arts' neighborhood or nearby.
1. Aldrich: 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone
Through January 8, 2023.
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
South Gallery, left to right: Grace Bakst Wapner, Calving, 2020; Stella Zhong, Every Other Chopped, 2021; Merrill Wagner, Inlet, 2010. Photo by Tom Grotta
Aldrich: 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone (https://thealdrich.org/exhibitions/52-artists-revisiting-a-feminist-milestone) celebrates the fifty-first anniversary of the historic exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists, curated by Lucy R. Lippard and presented at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in 1971. 52 Artists showcases work by the artists included in the original 1971 exhibition, alongside a new roster of 26 female identifying or nonbinary emerging artists, tracking the evolution of feminist art practices over the past five decades. 52 Artists encompasses the entirety of the Museum (approx. 8,000 sq. ft)—the first exhibition to do so in The Aldrich's new building which was inaugurated in 2004.
2. From the Pen to the Knife
From October 15 – November 27, 2022
Westport MoCA
19 Newtown Turnpike
Marion Christy, Untitled. Photo courtesy of the artist
From The Pen To The Knife features the watercolor paintings of Marian Christy. Christy was a pioneer of the Knifed Watercolors® style, a process that creates original watercolors using only palette knives and puddles of paint.
3. Grace Farms
365 Lukes Wood Rd.
Grace Farms. Photos by Tom Grotta
Always a rejuvenating place to visit, Grace Farms is a scenic 80-acre cultural and humanitarian center in New Canaan, Connecticut. Schedule a tour or make a reservation for one of Grace Farms' unique events. Visitors must schedule a visit in advance. Admission is free. (https://gracefarms.org/visit/)
4. Leaves: The Endangered Species of New England
Through December 1, 2022.
Fairfield University Art Museum, Bellarmine Lawn
1073 North Benson Road
Fairfield, Connecticut 06824
(https://www.fairfield.edu/museum/leaves/)
Alan Sonfist, Leaves: The Endangered Species of New England (Installation view), 2011, aluminum, on loan from the artist.
The leaves installed on the Bellarmine lawn are on loan to the Fairfield University Art Museum for the next year from the American artist Alan Sonfist (b. 1946), best known as a pioneer of the Land or Earth Art movement. These four larger-than-life aluminum sculptures of leaves were created in 2011 and represent several of New England's most beloved native trees: the American Beech, the American Chestnut, the Burr Oak, and the Sugar Maple. The sculpted leaves act as reminders to honor and protect the trees, and as a warning that failure to do so could result in their extinction.
The museum is working with the Biology Department, the Environmental Studies Program and the artist, around a series of programs to be presented in the spring of 2022 to highlight these sculptures, along with climate change and endangered species.
5. Yale Art Gallery: Three New Thematic Displays of Asian Art
1111 Chapel Street (at York Street)
(https://artgallery.yale.edu/news/three-new-thematic-displays-asian-art)
Detail: Sultan Tughril III, from a Manuscript of Hafiz-i Abru's Majma' al-tawarikh. Photo: Yale University Art Gallery.
Yale Art Gallery's collection of Asian art comprises nearly 8,000 works from East Asia, South Asia, continental Southeast Asia, Iran, Iraq, and Turkey and spans the Neolithic period to the 21st century. Highlights of the collection include Chinese ceramics and paintings, Japanese paintings and prints, and Indian and Persian textiles and miniature paintings. Due to the sensitivity of these artworks to light and climate, they are rotated out roughly every six months.
On view through November are three new thematic displays of Asian Art including: Understanding an Eighteenth-Century Indian Album which brings together several manuscript pages featuring exquisite paintings of musical modes, given to Yale in 1939 and 1940. Second, Chinese Painting between War and Revolution, 1830–1950 highlights the vibrancy and experimentation with Western and Japanese visual traditions that characterized Chinese painting during the tumultuous period between the Opium War (1839–42) and the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Finally, celebrating the varied rendering of cherries in paintings, woodblock prints, lacquer, and metalwork, Sakura: Cherry Blossoms explores the longstanding Japanese fascination with the beauty of this delicate blossom as a symbol for the ephemeral nature of life and its pleasures.
Have great trip! We look forward to seeing you at browngrotta arts:
Allies for Art: Work from NATO-related countries
Saturday October 8, 11 -6
Sunday, October 9, 11-5
Monday, October 10 to Saturday October 15, 10 – 5
Sunday, October 16, 11 to 6
276 Ridgefield Road
Make a Day of It: Events Near browngrotta arts
Coming to Wilton, CT to see browngrotta arts' next exhibition, Crowdsourcing the Collective: a survey of textiles and mixed media art (May 7 – 15)? We have three nearby exhibitions to recommend if you want to make a day of it.
1) Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski: Portal Pieces
https://thealdrich.org/exhibitions/amaryllis-dejesus-moleski-portal-pieces
Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski: Portal Pieces is the third installment of Aldrich Projects, a single artist series that features a singular work or a focused body of work by an artist every four months on the Museum's campus. Sited in the Leir Atrium, Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski presents two large-scale works on paper: Graduation Day, 2021, and The Guardians, 2015. These two works on paper are part of an ongoing mythology that spotlight marginalized histories and femme power. Invigorated by lived and imagined experience, DeJesus Moleski's utopian storylines speak to struggle, redemption, repair, and reinvention. Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski: Portal Pieces will be on view at The Aldrich January 6 to May 15, 2022.
2) Spectrum: Renewal
Carriage Barn Arts Center
Waveny Park
681 South Avenue (Route 124)
Spectrum is a juried exhibition of original, contemporary artwork by local and regional artists, and includes submissions in all media. Guest juror, James Barron, a specialist in modern and contemporary American and European art, reviewed original works that speak to the theme of RENEWAL.
Renewal is the driving force in life — an essential process in nature, relationships, well-being and spirituality. The exhibit will take viewers on a visual journey, revealing how artists have experienced the challenges and upheavals of recent events, and expressions of renewal and hope for the future.
Renewal will be on view from April 29th to May 22nd. The Carriage Barn will be open Wednesday through Saturday 10 am – 3 pm and Sundays 1 – 5 pm.
3) Adger Cowans: Sense and Sensibility
Fairfield University Art Museum, Bellarmine Hall Galleries
https://www.fairfield.edu/museum/adgercowans/
Adger Cowans (American, b. 1936) is a celebrated photographer whose wide-ranging work includes the civil rights movement, jazz musicians, landscape, and artistic studies of the human form, water, and light. He is also one of the founding members of Kamoinge, a Black photographers collective whose mission is to 'Honor, document, preserve and represent the history and culture of the African Diaspora with integrity and respect for humanity through the lens of Black Photographers.'
This exhibition, curated by Halima Taha, presents Cowans's use of photography to articulate the beauty within the human condition and the world we live in with over fifty images from his illustrious career.
The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. The exhibit is up from January 28 – June 18, 2022.
We look forward to seeing you at Crowdsourcing the Collective at browngrotta arts in May. Save your space here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/crowdsourcing-the-collective-a-survey-of-textiles-and-mixed-media-art-tickets-292520014237
Exhibition Dates/Hours
Opening & Artists Reception
Saturday, May 7th: 11AM to 6PM (300 Visitor Cap)
Remainder of the exhibition
Sunday, May 8th: 11AM to 6 PM (40 visitors/hour)
Monday, May 9th – Saturday, May 14th: 10AM to 5PM (40 visitors/hour)
Sunday, May 15th: 11AM to 6PM (40 visitors/ hour)
276 Ridgefield Road Wilton, CT 06897
Eventbrite reservations strongly encouraged • We will follow current state and federal guidelines surrounding COVID-19 • As of March 1, 2022, masks are not required • We encourage you to wear a mask if your are not vaccinated or if you feel more comfortable doing so • No narrow heels please (barn floors)
Make a Day of It – Other Venues to Visit on Your Way to Japandi at browngrotta arts
September 8, 2021 arttextstyle0 Comment
Coming to Wilton, CT to see browngrotta arts' next exhibtion, Japandi: shared aesthetics and influences (September 25 – October 2)? We have four nearby exhibitions to recommend if you want to make a day of it.
Tim Prentice: After the Mobile (installation view), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, March 29, 2021 to October 4, 2021, Courtesy of Prentice Colbert, Photo: Jason Mandella
1)Tim Prentice: After the Mobile
https://thealdrich.org/exhibitions/tim
After the Mobile is a two-part solo exhibition by artist Tim Prentice (b. 1930), known for his innovative work in the field of motion in sculpture. Prentice has been a resident of Connecticut since 1975, and After the Mobile marks his first solo museum exhibition since 1999. The exhibition will feature 20 indoor works, five outdoor works, and a video portrait of the artist. The indoor exhibition is on view through October 4, 2021; the outdoor installation on view from September 19, 2021 to April 24, 2022. Interesting note: The title of the exhibition refers to Alexander Calder, a former Connecticut resident who in the 1930s adopted the term mobile at the urging of Marcel Duchamp to describe his balanced, moving wind-driven constructions.
Carrie Mae Weems, All the Boys (Profile 2), 2016, archival pigment on gesso board. Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery
2) Carrie Mae Weems: The Usual Suspects
Fairfield University Art Museum
Walsh Gallery
September 18 – December 18, 2021
https://www.fairfield.edu/museum/exhibitions/current-exhbitions/index.html
In Carrie Mae Weems: The Usual Suspects, Weems focuses on the humanity denied in recent killings of black men, women, and children by police. She directs our attention to the constructed nature of racial identity—specifically, representations that associate black bodies with criminality. Our imaginings have real—often deadly—outcomes. Blocks of color obscure faces just as our assumptions around race obscure individual humanity. Through a formal language of blurred images, color blocks, stated facts, and meditative narration, Weems directs our attention toward the repeated pattern of judicial inaction—the repeated denials and the repeated lack of acknowledgement.
3) Between the Ground and the Sky
Ashley Skatoff: Lost Ruby Farm, Norfolk, CT
Through October 17, 2021
Monday & Tuesday | Gallery Closed
Wednesday-Sunday | 12PM-4PM
(6.6 miles)
Between the Ground and the Sky through October 17, 2021 features photography from the Who Grows Your Food initiative, an intimate photographic journey celebrating the beloved farms and farmers associated with the Westport Farmers' Market. The centerpiece of the exhibition is more than 50 large-scale photographs, both color and black and white, of local farms by Anne Burmeister and Ashley Skatoff, two local accomplished photographers. The photographs tell a compelling and visually arresting story of the importance of local farms and farmers.
On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale catalog
4) On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale
September 10, 2021–January 9, 2022
(35.2 miles)
https://artgallery.yale.edu/exhibitions/exhibition/basis-art-150-years-women-yale
On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale showcases and celebrates the remarkable achievements of an impressive roster of women artists who have graduated from Yale University. Presented on the occasion of two major milestones—the 50th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College and the 150th anniversary of the first women students at the University, who came to study at the Yale School of the Fine Arts when it opened in 1869—the exhibition features works drawn entirely from the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery that span a variety of media, such as paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photography, and video.
Enjoy your trip ! We look forward to seeing you at Japandi.

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Die United States Merchant Marine (USMS) wurde 1939 im Rahmen der Bestimmungen des 1936 vom US-Kongress beschlossenen Merchant Marine Act als US-Handelsmarine gegründet. Aufgabe dieser Organisation war es, Männer darauf vorzubereiten, als Offiziere und Besatzungsmitglieder in  Friedenszeiten auf zivilen Schiffen und im Verteidigungsfall auf Kriegsschiffen der United States Navy ihren Dienst zu tun.

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Auf Plakaten und Werbepostern wurden Seeleute von der War Shipping Administration angeworben, die die U.S. Merchant Marine bilden sollten. Für Matrosen bzw. Seeleute mit Erfahrung betrug die Ausbildungszeit drei Monate, für sogenannte Neulinge sechs Monate. Die jungen Männer mussten ein Mindestalter von 19 Jahren haben. Man sah ihre Ausbildung als mitentscheidend dafür an, den Krieg gewinnen zu können. Es meldeten sich tausende junge Männer für die neue amerikanische Handelsflotte, die  unter den wachsamen Augen des entsprechenden Personals ausgebildet wurden, um dann entsprechend ihren Fähigkeiten eingesetzt werden zu können. Ihr Aufgabenbereich lag vor allem darin, Kriegsmaterial (Bomben, Munition, Waffen, Fahrzeuge, Flugzeuge, Benzin, aber auch Lebensmittel und andere Materialien) auf dem Seeweg an die Truppen zu liefern. So wurde es auch im Merchant Marine Act von 1936 festgeschrieben. Für die Landesverteidigung sei es erforderlich, dass die Vereinigten Staaten eine bestens ausgestattete Handelsmarine mit den besten und geeignetsten Schiffen hätten.

Die Organisation hatte die Aufgabe, die Entwicklung und Aufrechterhaltung einer angemessenen und ausgewogenen amerikanischen Handelsmarine sicherzustellen, um den Handel der Vereinigten Staaten zu fördern und so zur nationalen Verteidigung beizutragen.

Diese während des Zweiten Weltkrieges stark ausgelastete Organisation wurde inzwischen weitgehend aufgelöst und/oder in andere Bundesstellen integriert, teilweise waren/sind die Unteroffiziere auch weiterhin als Verwaltungsbeamte und Lehrer in ihrer Funktion, die sie in der  U.S. Merchant Marine Academy einnahmen, in  anderen maritimen Akademien tätig.

Oscarnominierung
Die United States Merchant Marine wirkte an dem 1942 erstellten Dokumentarfilm A Ship Is Born mit und wurde für diese Produktion mit einer Nominierung für den Oscar in der Kategorie "Bester Dokumentarfilm" bedacht.  Der Film wurde von Warner Bros. gedreht.  Der Oscar ging an folgende vier Dokumentarfilme:
 Schlacht um Midway – U.S. Navy
 Kokoda Front Line! – Australian News and Information Bureau
 Moscow Strikes Back – Artkino Pictures
 Vorspiel zum Krieg – United States Office of War Information

Der Film ist public domain und kann im Internet Archive angeschaut werden.

Siehe auch
 United States Maritime Service
 United States Maritime Commission

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Propaganda im Zweiten Weltkrieg
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The blocking of the Suez Canal helped the owners of oil tankers overcome the problem of their losses, Bloomberg reports. On Wednesday, March 24, the profit of supertankers amounted to $626 per day. The owners of such vessels have received profit for the first time since February 2, the agency wrote citing data from the Baltic Stock Exchange.
On March 23, the giant container ship Ever Given blocked one of the most important sea routes in the world - the Suez Canal. Experts believe that the ship almost as long as the Empire State Building will stay there for weeks. If true, it will be the longest stop in the work of the Suez Canal since the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli wars.
The Suez Canal is an important artery for oil deliveries from the Middle East to Europe and the United States. It is also used for the transportation of oil products, including fuel oil, to Asia. The US Energy Information Administration estimates that the Suez Canal route accounts for ten percent of world's oil shipments and eight percent of liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments. As of March 25, as many as 185 ships are waiting to cross the canal.
Before the blocking of the Suez Canal, shipowners suffered daily losses of more than $6,000 for two weeks. After OPEC+ countries extended their cuts in production and exports of raw materials in February, traffic volumes decreased, which caused an increase in the number of vessels available for charter and a drop in prices. The blockage of the canal has led to an increase in the cost of shipping in all directions.
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If Only Hillary Had Won . . .
By Victor Davis Hanson
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Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters following the 2016 presidential election in Manhattan, November 9, 2016.	 (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
Leakers and lawbreakers rewarded with Clinton-administration jobs — and the American public none the wiser about deep-state corruption
There are lots of possible counterfactuals to think about had Hillary Clinton won the presidency as all the experts had predicted.
The U.S. embassy would have stayed in Tel Aviv. "Strategic patience" would likely still govern the North Korea dilemma. Fracking would be curtailed. The — rather than "our" — miners really would be put out of work. Coal certainly would not have been "beautiful." The economy probably would be slogging along at below 2 percent GDP growth.
China would be delighted, as would Iran. But most important, there would be no collusion narrative — neither one concerning a defeated Donald Trump nor another implicating a victorious Hillary Clinton. In triumph, progressives couldn't have cared less whether Russians supposedly had tried to help a now irrelevant Trump; and they certainly would have prevented any investigation of the winning Clinton 2016 campaign.
In sum, Hillary's supposedly sure victory, not fear of breaking the law, prompted most of the current 2016 scandals, and her embittering defeat means they are not being addressed as scandals.
For example, why would FBI director James Comey have been so foolish as to ask for a FISA warrant request without fully informing the judge of the compromising details of the Steele–Fusion GPS dossier? Or why would Attorney General Loretta Lynch have been so reckless as to meet with Bill Clinton in a stealthy jet rendezvous on an Arizona tarmac when her department was concurrently investigating his spouse?
But those are precisely the wrong questions, given the Washington careerist mind. The right one is "Why not?" — in the context of the overwhelming likelihood that Hillary Clinton would not only be elected president but also would follow the well-known Clintonian habit of punishing both enemies and neutrals while rewarding friends, the more obsequious, the better.
Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin thought they were taking zero risks in lying to FBI investigators when they claimed that they had no idea about Clinton's unlawful private server, even though they had, in fact, discussed the server in emails and used it themselves when sending emails. But why should they have cared, given Trump's certain looming defeat and the fact that Andrew McCabe was somehow involved or would be involved in running, or rather massaging, the investigation? Their only real danger might have been telling the truth to FBI investigators: that both they and Hillary had known precisely what she was doing. For telling the truth, both Mills and Abedin would soon have faced career-ending payback from a President Clinton.
Both Brennan and James Clapper would have been seen as useful team-player holdovers, given their eagerness to lie under oath and to spread the dirt of the Steele dossier.
A President Hillary Clinton would have appreciated Loretta Lynch's quasi-legal efforts to ossify the email investigations of Clinton's unlawful server. Indeed, in the swampiest sense, Lynch took a good gamble that the odds would pay off handsomely for her obeisance, with either a continuance of her tenure as attorney general, or perhaps soon a future Supreme Court nomination.
Why would CIA Director John Brennan leak information about the Steele dossier to the likes of old blabbermouth and conniver Senator Harry Reid, or be involved in unmasking surveilled Americans? Again, why not? He would still be CIA Director Brennan, or so he imagined, and rewarded for his yeoman work in eroding the chances, however small, of a Trump presidency. Both Brennan and James Clapper would have been seen as useful team-player holdovers, given their eagerness to lie under oath and to spread the dirt of the Steele dossier to the intelligence communities and media.
What about Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe, the Ohr couple, and all the other FBI and DOJ officials who have now resigned, been reassigned or fired, or are currently in legal jeopardy or under suspicion? At the time of their transgressions, they certainly did not believe they had done anything wrong in lying, conniving, or obstructing. Rather, they were wisely investing their deep-state careers in the sure Clinton victory. Had Clinton been elected, what now seems illegal would have been appreciated as bullet points on a résumé making the case for promotion. Such apparatchiks would have been reminded that Team Clinton players were always rewarded for past — and future — administrative-state service.
Indeed, Page and Strzok texted basically that between March and July 2016, signaling both their certainty that Hillary Clinton would win and their need to make even more certain that the couple was integral in ensuring the inevitable. Illicit love apparently carries with it a bit of melodrama, but nonetheless here is a brief potpourri:
Strzok: God, Hillary should win 100,000,000-0.
Page: This man cannot be president.'
Page: I cannot believe Donald Trump is likely to be an actual, serious candidate for president.
Page: Wow, Donald Trump is an enormous d*uche.
Page: She just has to win now. I'm not going to lie, I got a flash of nervousness yesterday about Trump.
In other words, Clinton would win. But, just in case, she needed a little help from these government fixtures who were more than willing to do what they could: "I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy's office — that there's no way he gets elected — but I'm afraid we can't take that risk." Or, as Strzok summed up on August 15, 2016. "It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40." Dying before 40 was apparently more likely than Trump's getting elected.
Poor James Comey proved the careerist par excellence, always shape-shifting, usually a day late and a dollar short in calibrating his reinventions to meet the needs of perceived electoral politics. His disastrous 2016 series of press conferences exonerating Clinton, then sort of not exonerating her, then finally re-exonerating her reflected his self-created predicament of wanting soon to preen to President Clinton that he had stopped the email investigation and cleared her — but had adroitly paid lip service to legal niceties so as to enhance even more her viability as one who'd been fully investigated and exonerated. And Comey might well have pulled that contortion off, pointing out to a dubious President Clinton that she was, after all, President Clinton and her emails ancient history.
The hapless Comey recently confessed in his self-incriminating book:
Assuming, as nearly everyone did, that Hillary Clinton would be elected president of the United States in less than two weeks, what would happen to the FBI, the justice department or her own presidency if it later was revealed, after the fact, that she still was the subject of an FBI investigation?
What would happen in other words to FBI Director James Comey if he was independent and autonomous and had a higher loyalty to the law? Or what actually did happen to President Donald J. Trump when he was assured by Comey he was not the subject of an FBI investigation when, in fact, he was subject of that and a lot more?
Comey elaborated:
It is entirely possible that, because I was making decisions in an environment where Hillary Clinton was sure to be the next president, my concern about making her an illegitimate president by concealing the restarted investigation bore greater weight than it would have if the election appeared closer or if Donald Trump were ahead in all polls. But I don't know.
Here, Comey reminds us that not only was his warping of the law likely to help ensure a Clinton presidency, but it also would have been properly appreciated. Since when do FBI investigators factor in polls when they investigate evidence?
Under a President Clinton, we the American people (as opposed to Vladimir Putin) would have had no idea in 2018 of a Christopher Steele dossier, other than the mysterious residual leaks from it that would have hounded a defeated Donald Trump into ignominious retirement. Indeed, Steele would probably have gone back into deep retirement until the 2020 Clinton reelection campaign and another call from Fusion GPS to reproduce something like its 2016 winning blueprint.
Under a President Clinton, we would still believe that FISA courts are unimpeachable bulwarks of democracy. No one would now know anything about past requests for unmasking and leaking to the press the names of surveilled American citizens.
As for the crew at Fusion GPS, they would probably be a presidentially authorized A-team, winking and nodding to the press about how their opposition research had sunk the loser Trump — the same way that the 2012 Obama reelection team publicly bragged about how they'd successfully mined Facebook data.
Under a President Clinton, we would still believe that FISA courts are unimpeachable bulwarks of democracy. No one would now know anything about past requests for unmasking and leaking to the press the names of surveilled American citizens. Rod Rosenstein or Sally Yates would remind Clinton aides of their key roles in ensuring that FISA court surveillance of Donald Trump accounted for the damaging leaks that had ensured his defeat. Samantha Power would have had no need to request over 250 unmaskings as she played secret agent from her perch as UN ambassador.
The Podesta brothers would still be A-list Washington operators. During a Clinton administration, Devin Nunes, who would likely still be seeking the truth behind the illegality in the 2016 campaign, might have been under FISA-ordered surveillance himself, or would have shared the deep-state fate of the jailed videomaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, or might have become one of the victims of Lois Lerner's residual henchmen at the IRS.
The coffers of the Clinton Foundation certainly would be expanding exponentially. Robert Mueller might have been brought back in now and then for his sober and judicious work in finding no wrongdoing in the Uranium One deal.
And Donald Trump? He would be mocked and ridiculed as he barked at the moon that his wires had been tapped in Trump Tower — as the truth became insanity, and insanity the truth.
NRO contributor Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author, most recently, of The Case for Trump.	@vdhanson


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package com.fsck.k9.activity.compose;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import android.content.AsyncTaskLoader;
import android.content.ContentResolver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.provider.ContactsContract;
import android.provider.ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email;
import android.provider.ContactsContract.Contacts;
import android.provider.ContactsContract.Contacts.Data;

import com.fsck.k9.R;
import com.fsck.k9.mail.Address;
import com.fsck.k9.view.RecipientSelectView.Recipient;
import com.fsck.k9.view.RecipientSelectView.RecipientCryptoStatus;

public class RecipientLoader extends AsyncTaskLoader<List<Recipient>> {
    /*
     * Indexes of the fields in the projection. This must match the order in {@link #PROJECTION}.
     */
    private static final int INDEX_NAME = 1;
    private static final int INDEX_LOOKUP_KEY = 2;
    private static final int INDEX_EMAIL = 3;
    private static final int INDEX_EMAIL_TYPE = 4;
    private static final int INDEX_EMAIL_CUSTOM_LABEL = 5;
    private static final int INDEX_CONTACT_ID = 6;
    private static final int INDEX_PHOTO_URI = 7;

    private static final String[] PROJECTION = {
            ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email._ID,
            ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME_PRIMARY,
            ContactsContract.Contacts.LOOKUP_KEY,
            ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA,
            ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TYPE,
            ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.LABEL,
            ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTACT_ID,
            ContactsContract.Contacts.PHOTO_THUMBNAIL_URI
    };
    private static final String SORT_ORDER = "" +
            ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TIMES_CONTACTED + " DESC, " +
            ContactsContract.Contacts.SORT_KEY_PRIMARY;

    private static final int INDEX_EMAIL_ADDRESS = 0;
    private static final int INDEX_EMAIL_STATUS = 1;

    private static final String[] PROJECTION_CRYPTO_STATUS = {
            "email_address",
            "email_status"
    };

    private static final int CRYPTO_PROVIDER_STATUS_UNTRUSTED = 1;
    private static final int CRYPTO_PROVIDER_STATUS_TRUSTED = 2;

    private final String query;
    private final Address[] addresses;
    private final Uri contactUri;
    private final Uri lookupKeyUri;
    private final String cryptoProvider;

    private List<Recipient> cachedRecipients;
    private ForceLoadContentObserver observerContact, observerKey;

    public RecipientLoader(Context context, String cryptoProvider, String query) {
        super(context);
        this.query = query;
        this.lookupKeyUri = null;
        this.addresses = null;
        this.contactUri = null;
        this.cryptoProvider = cryptoProvider;
    }

    public RecipientLoader(Context context, String cryptoProvider, Address... addresses) {
        super(context);
        this.query = null;
        this.addresses = addresses;
        this.contactUri = null;
        this.cryptoProvider = cryptoProvider;
        this.lookupKeyUri = null;
    }

    public RecipientLoader(Context context, String cryptoProvider, Uri contactUri, boolean isLookupKey) {
        super(context);
        this.query = null;
        this.addresses = null;
        this.contactUri = isLookupKey ? null : contactUri;
        this.lookupKeyUri = isLookupKey ? contactUri : null;
        this.cryptoProvider = cryptoProvider;
    }

    @Override
    public List<Recipient> loadInBackground() {
        List<Recipient> recipients = new ArrayList<>();
        Map<String, Recipient> recipientMap = new HashMap<>();

        if (addresses != null) {
            fillContactDataFromAddresses(addresses, recipients, recipientMap);
        } else if (contactUri != null) {
            fillContactDataFromEmailContentUri(contactUri, recipients, recipientMap);
        } else if (query != null) {
            fillContactDataFromQuery(query, recipients, recipientMap);
        } else if (lookupKeyUri != null) {
            fillContactDataFromLookupKey(lookupKeyUri, recipients, recipientMap);
        } else {
            throw new IllegalStateException("loader must be initialized with query or list of addresses!");
        }

        if (recipients.isEmpty()) {
            return recipients;
        }

        if (cryptoProvider != null) {
            fillCryptoStatusData(recipientMap);
        }

        return recipients;
    }

    private void fillContactDataFromAddresses(Address[] addresses, List<Recipient> recipients,
            Map<String, Recipient> recipientMap) {
        for (Address address : addresses) {
            // TODO actually query contacts - not sure if this is possible in a single query tho :(
            Recipient recipient = new Recipient(address);
            recipients.add(recipient);
            recipientMap.put(address.getAddress(), recipient);
        }
    }

    private void fillContactDataFromEmailContentUri(Uri contactUri, List<Recipient> recipients,
            Map<String, Recipient> recipientMap) {
        Cursor cursor = getContext().getContentResolver().query(contactUri, PROJECTION, null, null, null);

        if (cursor == null) {
            return;
        }

        fillContactDataFromCursor(cursor, recipients, recipientMap);
    }

    private void fillContactDataFromLookupKey(Uri lookupKeyUri, List<Recipient> recipients,
            Map<String, Recipient> recipientMap) {
        // We could use the contact id from the URI directly, but getting it from the lookup key is safer
        Uri contactContentUri = Contacts.lookupContact(getContext().getContentResolver(), lookupKeyUri);
        if (contactContentUri == null) {
            return;
        }

        String contactIdStr = getContactIdFromContactUri(contactContentUri);

        Cursor cursor = getContext().getContentResolver().query(
                ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_URI,
                PROJECTION, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTACT_ID + "=?",
                new String[] { contactIdStr }, null);

        if (cursor == null) {
            return;
        }

        fillContactDataFromCursor(cursor, recipients, recipientMap);
    }

    private static String getContactIdFromContactUri(Uri contactUri) {
        return contactUri.getLastPathSegment();
    }

    private void fillContactDataFromQuery(String query, List<Recipient> recipients,
            Map<String, Recipient> recipientMap) {

        ContentResolver contentResolver = getContext().getContentResolver();

        query = "%" + query + "%";
        Uri queryUri = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_URI;
        String selection = Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME_PRIMARY + " LIKE ? " +
                " OR (" + Email.ADDRESS + " LIKE ? AND " + Data.MIMETYPE + " = '" + Email.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE + "')";
        String[] selectionArgs = { query, query };
        Cursor cursor = contentResolver.query(queryUri, PROJECTION, selection, selectionArgs, SORT_ORDER);

        if (cursor == null) {
            return;
        }

        fillContactDataFromCursor(cursor, recipients, recipientMap);

        if (observerContact != null) {
            observerContact = new ForceLoadContentObserver();
            contentResolver.registerContentObserver(queryUri, false, observerContact);
        }
    }

    private void fillContactDataFromCursor(Cursor cursor, List<Recipient> recipients,
            Map<String, Recipient> recipientMap) {

        while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
            String name = cursor.getString(INDEX_NAME);
            String email = cursor.getString(INDEX_EMAIL);
            long contactId = cursor.getLong(INDEX_CONTACT_ID);
            String lookupKey = cursor.getString(INDEX_LOOKUP_KEY);

            // already exists? just skip then
            if (recipientMap.containsKey(email)) {
                // TODO merge? do something else? what do we do?
                continue;
            }

            int addressType = cursor.getInt(INDEX_EMAIL_TYPE);
            String addressLabel = null;
            switch (addressType) {
                case ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TYPE_HOME: {
                    addressLabel = getContext().getString(R.string.address_type_home);
                    break;
                }
                case ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TYPE_WORK: {
                    addressLabel = getContext().getString(R.string.address_type_work);
                    break;
                }
                case ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TYPE_OTHER: {
                    addressLabel = getContext().getString(R.string.address_type_other);
                    break;
                }
                case ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TYPE_MOBILE: {
                    // mobile isn't listed as an option contacts app, but it has a constant so we better support it
                    addressLabel = getContext().getString(R.string.address_type_mobile);
                    break;
                }
                case ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.TYPE_CUSTOM: {
                    addressLabel = cursor.getString(INDEX_EMAIL_CUSTOM_LABEL);
                    break;
                }
            }

            Recipient recipient = new Recipient(name, email, addressLabel, contactId, lookupKey);
            if (recipient.isValidEmailAddress()) {
                Uri photoUri = cursor.isNull(INDEX_PHOTO_URI) ? null : Uri.parse(cursor.getString(INDEX_PHOTO_URI));

                recipient.photoThumbnailUri = photoUri;
                recipientMap.put(email, recipient);
                recipients.add(recipient);
            }
        }

        cursor.close();
    }

    private void fillCryptoStatusData(Map<String, Recipient> recipientMap) {
        List<String> recipientList = new ArrayList<>(recipientMap.keySet());
        String[] recipientAddresses = recipientList.toArray(new String[recipientList.size()]);

        Cursor cursor;
        Uri queryUri = Uri.parse("content://" + cryptoProvider + ".provider.exported/email_status");
        try {
            cursor = getContext().getContentResolver().query(queryUri, PROJECTION_CRYPTO_STATUS, null,
                    recipientAddresses, null);
        } catch (SecurityException e) {
            // TODO escalate error to crypto status?
            return;
        }

        initializeCryptoStatusForAllRecipients(recipientMap);

        if (cursor == null) {
            return;
        }

        while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
            String email = cursor.getString(INDEX_EMAIL_ADDRESS);
            int status = cursor.getInt(INDEX_EMAIL_STATUS);

            for (Address address : Address.parseUnencoded(email)) {
                String emailAddress = address.getAddress();
                if (recipientMap.containsKey(emailAddress)) {
                    Recipient recipient = recipientMap.get(emailAddress);
                    switch (status) {
                        case CRYPTO_PROVIDER_STATUS_UNTRUSTED: {
                            if (recipient.getCryptoStatus() == RecipientCryptoStatus.UNAVAILABLE) {
                                recipient.setCryptoStatus(RecipientCryptoStatus.AVAILABLE_UNTRUSTED);
                            }
                            break;
                        }
                        case CRYPTO_PROVIDER_STATUS_TRUSTED: {
                            if (recipient.getCryptoStatus() != RecipientCryptoStatus.AVAILABLE_TRUSTED) {
                                recipient.setCryptoStatus(RecipientCryptoStatus.AVAILABLE_TRUSTED);
                            }
                            break;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        cursor.close();

        if (observerKey != null) {
            observerKey = new ForceLoadContentObserver();
            getContext().getContentResolver().registerContentObserver(queryUri, false, observerKey);
        }
    }

    private void initializeCryptoStatusForAllRecipients(Map<String, Recipient> recipientMap) {
        for (Recipient recipient : recipientMap.values()) {
            recipient.setCryptoStatus(RecipientCryptoStatus.UNAVAILABLE);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void deliverResult(List<Recipient> data) {
        cachedRecipients = data;

        if (isStarted()) {
            super.deliverResult(data);
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onStartLoading() {
        if (cachedRecipients != null) {
            super.deliverResult(cachedRecipients);
            return;
        }

        if (takeContentChanged() || cachedRecipients == null) {
            forceLoad();
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onAbandon() {
        super.onAbandon();

        if (observerKey != null) {
            getContext().getContentResolver().unregisterContentObserver(observerKey);
        }
        if (observerContact != null) {
            getContext().getContentResolver().unregisterContentObserver(observerContact);
        }
    }
}

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RED SNAP'R offers a complete line of fence controllers: mains-powered, battery-operated and solar-powered. State-of-the-art electronics and solid-state circuitry are utilised in the designs. All units are tightly enclosed in rugged, watertight ABS cases that won't rust, corrode or crack, even when subjected to harsh weather and operating conditions.
In practice, most problems which occur with electric fences are caused by poor earthing. In order for the animal to receive a shock, there must be a good current flow from the pulsed output terminal of the energiser to the animal, and back to the earth terminal. Therefore, it is imperative that the earth terminal is well and truly earthed. Never use your waterpipes, windmill, or a household earth rod for your electric fence earth, because there is a definite risk of shock under certain conditions.
One of the best systems for adequate earthing consists of a series of galvanised steel posts driven at least 1.5 metres into the ground, and positioned at least 3 metres apart, in a straight line. The posts are to be connected to each other, and to the earth terminal of the energiser, using galvanised or brass nuts and bolts. Alternatively, you could use a length of galvanised water pipe instead of the steel posts, but it is harder to drive in and is more difficult to connect satisfactorily to the earth wire .
• Is mains power available? It is generally preferable to use mains power when it is available. Mains energisers are easier and more economical to run as there are no batteries to maintain.
• The condition of your fence...A fence that may be subjected to leakages such as heavy weed growth, overhanging foliage, or poor insulation, will require a more powerful energiser to effectively power your fence than under normal conditions.
The response of different types of animals will vary with the size of the shock. The appropriate shock should be designed to bring about the desired reaction from the animal that you wish to control. Often the coat of the animal provides effective insulation in which case a higher voltage shock is necessary to overcome the insulation (eg. sheep). "Educated" animals do not require as large a shock as do animals encountering electric fencing for the first time.
It is essential that your electric fence is properly insulated along its full length. Insulators are designed to take all wire types, tape and rope on wood, steel and fibre glass posts. The RED SNAP'R range of insulators offers you the most versatile line.
Plastic insulators are easy to use, offer optimum insulation, and are relatively inexpensive. Good quality plastic insulators such as those manufactured by RED SNAP'R are U.V. resistant and are made from virgin polyethylene. Therefore, they offer a long service life.
Fences for strip grazing come in many forms. Most commonly they are fully portable and consttructed of single wire. All the components of this fence are easily installed and can be moved by hand quite efficiently.
The overall layout of your electric fence system deserves careful planning, because the amount of care taken at the planning stage will determine the amount of time you have to put in to checking and maintaining your fence in the future.
It is better to have several short runs of fence leading out from the energiser, rather than one long run.
5. Testing for voltage drops along the fence to identify short circuits. Walking the fence line with a portable radio tuned off the station and on high volume is a quick and easy way to locate any electrical leakage (you hear the pulse).
3. Increasing the duration of the pulse.
Watts as a measure of performance seems to be a more accurate way of measuring the performance as it would exclude the time (pulse width).


You see the words "college" and "university" a lot when you read about places in higher education. And it can be confusing.
The difference between a college and a university is a matter of size. UC Davis is, in fact, a large university — a university made up of four colleges that teach both undergraduates and graduates.
Our majors and academic programs are organized within these colleges.
Similar to the way young wizards are assigned into the four houses at Hogwarts, students at UC Davis are assigned into our four undergraduate colleges: the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the College of Biological Sciences, the College of Engineering, and the College of Letters and Science. When you apply to UC Davis, you choose a major, which automatically places you into one of these colleges.
For many students, knowing which college they belong to doesn't become important until they need to see an advisor, have a petition signed to drop a class or take medical leave.
Get in the know and avoid last-minute panic attacks when you need help with your major, but don't know where to go. Here's a quick tutorial on how your major determines your college, and why that matters.
For example, if you want to major in biotechnology, the major is administratively housed in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. But if you decide to change majors, say to microbiology, the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences would help you move to the College of Biological Sciences, where microbiology is housed.
What it means to belong to a "college" varies significantly from one UC campus to another. On some sister campuses, the college you select determines your general education requirements or your campus living community. Some UC campuses let you change colleges, others only let you change majors.
What happens if you are undeclared?
At UC Davis, you apply to a major. If you're accepted, we'll place you in the corresponding college. The only exception to this is that if you decide to enroll as "undeclared." UC Davis will then ask you to select a college. For example, you can be "undeclared" life sciences major within the College of Biological Sciences, or "undeclared" in the humanities or fine arts within the College of Letters and Science.
I know, bureaucracy can be confusing.
Robin DeRieux is a senior writer for the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences whose three sons have all attended UC campuses. She rides her bike to UC Davis no matter rain, sleet or snow. Well so far, there hasn't been any sleet or snow.


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SENSE OF PLACE - SRI LANKA
Sri Lanka (/sriːˈlɑːŋkə/, /sriːˈlæŋkə/ or i/ʃriː ˈlɑːŋkə/;[6][7] Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකාව, śrī laṃkāva, Tamil: இலங்கை, ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in the northern Indian Ocean off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent in South Asia. Known until 1972 as Ceylon (/sɨˈlɒn/, /seɪˈlɒn/, or /siːˈlɒn/), Sri Lanka has maritime borders with India to the northwest and the Maldives to the southwest.
Sri Lanka has a documented history that spans over 3000 years.[8] Its geographic location and deep harbours made it of great strategic importance from the time of the ancient Silk Road[9] through to World War II.[10] Sri Lanka is a diverse country home to many religions, ethnicities and languages.[11] It is the land of the Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamils, Moors, Indian Tamils, Burghers, Malays, Kaffirs and the aboriginal Vedda.[12] Sri Lanka has a rich Buddhist heritage, and the first known Buddhist writings were composed on the island.[13] The country's recent history has been marred by a thirty-year civil war which decisively but controversially[14] ended in a military victory in 2009.[15]
Esala Perahera (the festival of the tooth) is the grand festival of Esala held in Sri Lanka. It is very grand with elegant costumes. Happening in July or August in Kandy, it has become a unique symbol of Sri Lanka. It is a Buddhist festival consisting of dances and nicely decorated elephants. There are fire-dances, whip-dances, Kandyan dances and various other cultural dances. The elephants are usually adorned with lavish garments. The festival ends with the traditional 'diya-kepeema'.


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Q: Is "distance" an ordinal variable? I have an independent variable (distance between two stimuli) with 6 levels, but the levels are not equally spaced (e.g. 10, 15, 25, 35, 45, 60 pixels). The distance between two stimuli is important for me (I want to compare the performance in 10 pixels to performance in 60 pixels).
I am confused because I know that ordinal variables are typically non-numeric, and that the differences between points in the scale are not meaningful. But I also know that interval scale is where the differences between points on the scale are measurable and exactly equal.
If the differences between the points were equal, I would think that the variable is on an interval scale, but now I am not sure.
Would this variable be ordinal in this case?

A: Welcome to the site, @greenscientist.
As I understand it, pixels can only take whole number values, so in that sense they are a discrete, numerical variable.
However, the distance between your two stimuli could, theoretically, take any positive value - i.e. it is a continuous variable in the range of values greater than or equal to 0. The pixels are just a structure that you've imposed, in the values of distance that you've been able to set up your experiment to measure. So I think you can analyse this as you would a continuous variable.
You could turn your measured pixel values into an ordinal variable if you wanted to, but the pixel values themselves are not ordinal, and you'd be throwing away information about the distance between the points.

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Two merchants, with two diferent approaches, asked Rabbi Araham Mordchai of Sadigora for his opinion about investing in wheat futures.
Two merchants came to Rabbi Avraham Yaakov, the Sadigura Rebbe, to ask his advice and his blessing for their advantageous outcome at the Wheat Fair being held in their country. Each entered the Rebbe's room separately and asked his question in his own way. The first asked simply whether it was worth his while to invest in the wheat business or not.
"Do not engage in any wheat business at present," the Rebbe answered.
The second man did not satisfy himself with a simple query, but went into the details of the proposed investment and its probable success.
"If things are as you say," answered the Rebbe, "be blessed and successful!"
Each of the merchants acted according to the Rebbe's advice. The first refrained from engaging in the wheat trade, while the second invested his money in the purchase of wheat. His business did not prosper, however, and his investment was lost.
Later, when this second individual had occasion to see the Rebbe again, he poured out his bitterness over the great financial loss he had suffered. "Why didn't the Rebbe advise me to keep out of the wheat business, as was the case with my friend?"
"Let us understand things as they happened," the Sadigora replied. "Your friend came to me with a question. He himself did not know what was best for him, and he trusted my advice as the whether to do business or not. Because he was waiting for my answer, I responded in the way that G-d told me to answer, with the first notion that entered my head. The man did as I suggested, and, in the merit of his faith, was saved from financial disaster.
"You, on the other hand," continued the Rebbe, "tried to explain to me how the business works and what tremendous profits you anticipated from it. Not being a wheat merchant myself, I weighted the information you had given me and was forced to advise you in accordance with that information.
"After all, if I were to advise you in contradiction to my logical understanding of what you had told me, I would be categorizing myself as a tzadik, whose first instinct derives from Divine Inspiration -- and how is a person allowed to see himself as a holy man?
"It is only when a person believes with complete faith in a tzadik and is convinced that his ideas are indeed divinely inspired, that G-d helps him in the merit of his faith, and gives the tzadik the correct answer even if he knows nothing about the world of business."


Use with HANS devices which set up for post clip anchors, containing the metal clasps at the end of the tether instead of the sewn loops for quick clip attachments. For use with SA helmets not containing a built-in M6 nut washer. Fully SFI compliant, though FIA standard 8858-2010 only approves helmets with the nut washer built into the helmet, making use of these anchors not FIA compliant.


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Dr. Randy Randleman has a passion for children — his children, your children, Oklahoma's children. Some of those children are adults now, and they need Randy just as much as they did as kids.
Oklahomans need Randy at the state Capitol fighting for them on the big and little issues, fighting for education funding, tackling budget issues, making tough choices right and left. Legislation that's good for District 15 is where Randy's heart and vote will be.
"If it's good for my neighbors, then it will get my vote. I'm a conservative, but if it's good for America and if it's good for Oklahoma, that's what comes first," he said. "It's not about party and it's not about partisanship."
There never has been a more important time to have the expertise of a renowned child psychologist govern in the Oklahoma House of Representatives. Dr. Randleman would like to see mental health issues on the forefront of minds in Oklahoma City, and not see them as an afterthought.
"I see a lot that needs to be done in the mental health arena, in school systems, in discipline and curriculums. We need mental health clinics inside schools. We need to help teachers understand how to discipline difficult children while keeping consistency in all classrooms," he said.
This has been Randy's life work.
"I have worked with troubled and challenged kids for my entire life to help restore hope and find a path for success," he said. "Helping humanity succeed is my life's mission."
Randy earned his associate degree at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M, his bachelor's degree at The University of Tulsa, a master's degree in counseling at Northeastern State University, and was certified in school psychology and psychometry at Oklahoma State University. He earned his Ph.D. at OSU in a combined program focusing on school and clinical psychology. His dissertation was on managing aggressive children in the classroom.
Randy is certified as a teacher, counselor, principal, psychometrist, school psychologist and superintendent.
As a mental health expert and foremost authority on classroom management and discipline, Randy has worked in 155 school districts and 135 head start centers across Oklahoma. Before earning his Ph.D., he coached basketball and taught biology, chemistry, accounting, anatomy and physiology in Morris. He was a psychometrist and assisted the special education director in Bixby Public Schools. He worked as a psychologist in Jenks Public Schools. Dr. Randleman helped develop an alternative education program that received national awards.
Randy may be a doctor, but he came from very humble beginnings. He can communicate in ways sorely needed in the Legislature today. Randy doesn't meet a stranger. His friends are farmers, lawyers, teachers, and mothers and fathers of some of Oklahoma's most troubled youth.
Randy grew up in Wilson, north of Henryetta, with two brothers and a sister. His father was the disciplinarian and his late mother was the prayer warrior.
"My mother was a great support of whatever I did. My father could do almost anything, and consequently I learned to overhaul cars, build houses, farm, ranch, run electrical wiring, you name it."
Randy's wife, Jennifer, a school psychologist, said Randy never is idle. In his "free" time, he's straightening the garage, working on the all-terrain vehicle, moving dirt on a bulldozer, or teaching dance lessons.
Outdoor activities are very much a part of the Randleman lifestyle, from wakeboarding to jet skis, from golf to hunting. Once a year all of the Randlemans, including Randy's brothers and sister, five children, three grandchildren and many others gather for a reunion on Eufaula Lake.
Randy and Jennifer also love to travel. They attend Community Culture Church where their son is pastor.
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TORONTO, ONTARIO, January 15, 2018 – MPX Bioceutical Corporation (the "Company" or "MPX") (CSE: MPX, OTC:MPXEF) today announced that further to its press release dated August 22, 2017, it has entered into a definitive agreement with Panaxia Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. ("Panaxia") through its wholly-owned subsidiary Salus BioPharma Corporation ("Salus BioPharma"), a company engaged in the business of development and production of pharma grade cannabidiol medicinal products, medicinal preparations and medicinal accessories (the "CBD Products").
Panaxia will provide the capital and equipment to build out and equip the manufacturing facility and will supply the non-active ingredients and compounds for formulation and packaging. The CBD Products will be produced at MPX-operated locations under licenses owned or managed by the Company or a subsidiary thereof. Salus BioPharma will provide Panaxia with the raw cannabidiol materials for final product assembly, as well as be responsible for marketing of the CBD Products which will be sold through the Health for Life ("HFL") dispensaries managed by MPX and through HFL's wholesale channels to other licensed dispensaries in Arizona.
The agreement also provides Salus BioPharma with exclusivity for the production and marketing of pharma-grade cannabinoid products through MPX-operated dispensaries in Arizona, Maryland, Massachusetts and Nevada with a right of first refusal in any other U.S. State, other than California, Colorado and New Mexico.
The construction of the first production facility at Health for Life's Mesa North Arizona location is still in the permitting phase. Once approved, the installation can progress rapidly and production of additional CBD Products are expected to commence in Arizona in the Second Quarter of 2018 with the launch of seven pharma-grade CBD Products. The CBD Products are all proprietary, having been developed for specific medical indications and conditions in accordance with Good Manufacturing Procedure approval from the Israeli Department of Health, part of the Ministry of Health.
MPX continues to expand its U.S. footprint, and has recently acquired management companies that provide operational and other services to two dispensaries and one production license in Maryland. The Company also leases a property in Owen Sound, Ontario, for which an application to Health Canada has been made for a cannabis production and sales license. In addition, the Company will continue its efforts to develop its legacy nutraceuticals business.
About Panaxia Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
Panaxia is a manufacturer of pharmaceutical dosage forms incorporating cannabinoids as an active ingredient. The company is part of a larger group of companies which have manufactured pharmaceuticals for more than 40 years. Together, the group produces more than 300 different conventional medication products, with a wide range of indications from sore throat lozenges to dermal fillers. The group sells into more than 25 countries and is very R&D oriented. Panaxia Pharmaceutical Industries has been developing and manufacturing pharmaceutical products based on cannabis derivatives since 2010.


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CBRE Arranges 2,000-SF Retail Lease at Chimney Rock Shopping Center in Somerset County, NJ
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Profile by Sanford Joins Roster of Major Retailers at Whole Foods-Anchored Center in Bound Brook, NJ
In a transaction arranged by CBRE, Profile by Sanford (Profile), a weight loss program rooted in science and research, inked a 2,000-sq.-ft. retail lease at Chimney Rock Shopping Center in Bound Brook, New Jersey. Profile is the latest tenant to join a roster of high-profile national retailers at Regency Center's 218,000-sq.-ft. development, anchored by Whole Foods.
The CBRE team of John Hanlon and Ellada Davidova represented Regency Centers in the lease negotiations. CBRE is currently marketing the last two remaining end-cap spaces, comprised of 2,560 sq. ft. and 2,650 sq. ft. The average asking rent is $65-per-sq.-ft.
"The Profile commitment, which follows new lease signings by Lands' End, Club Pilates, Paris Baguette and Med First Primary & Urgent Care, is yet another sign of the tremendous success Chimney Rock has experienced since its inception by Regency Centers," said Mr. Hanlon, Senior Vice President. "Currently, the complex is home to many of the nation's most well-recognized retailers, and we look forward to completing new deals for the last two available spaces."
Developed by Regency Centers, the preeminent national owner, operator and developer of thriving shopping centers located in affluent and densely populated trade areas, Chimney Rock Shopping Center is located in Somerset County, one of the wealthiest counties in the United States. The center boasts an abundance of high-profile retail tenants, including Cost Plus World Market, Nordstrom Rack, Saks Off Fifth, The Container Store, Whole Foods and Verizon Wireless, among others.
Marc Shein of NAIDB represented Profile in the lease negotiations.
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NASA's Chandra Sees Eclipsing Planet in X-rays for First Time
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Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/K. Poppenhaeger et al; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss
For the first time since exoplanets, or planets around stars other than the sun, were discovered almost 20 years ago, X-ray observations have detected an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star.
It's an Alien Blue World—But Nothing Like Earth
Artist's conception of exoplanet HD 189733b—a "deep blue dot" reminiscent of Earth from a distance. Image Credit: NASA / ESA / M. Kornmesser
The planets and moons in our Solar System come in a wide variety of colors, and the natural beauty can be breathtaking. Now, the true color of a much more […]
Hubble Space Telescope Reveals Evidence of Farthest Known Planet From Its Star
By Emily Carney, on June 14th, 2013
A gap in the protoplanetary disk of dust and gas whirling around TV Hydrae uncovered evidence of an unseen, growing planet, according to astronomers studying Hubble data. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Debes (STScI), H. Jang-Condell (University of Wyoming), A. Weinberger (Carnegie Institution of Washington), A. Roberge (Goddard Space Flight Center), G. Schneider […]
Sifting Through the Atmospheres of Far-off Worlds
By NASA, on May 25th, 2013
This image shows the HR 8799 planets with starlight optically suppressed and data processing conducted to remove residual starlight. The star is at the center of the blackened circle in the image. The four spots indicated with the letters b through e are the planets. This is a composite image using 30 wavelengths […]
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Discovers Tiny Worlds
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NASA's Kepler mission has discovered a solar system that is home to the smallest planet yet found orbiting another star like our Sun. The system is approximately 210 light-years away in the Constellation Lyra. Image Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
The Kepler Space Telescope mission has encountered a tiny planetary system orbiting a star much like […]


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Spot the Horse was inspired by an antique fee sack. Most of the motifs on this sampler were found on this wonderful piece of American Folk Art. It was quite common for each farm to have their own feed sacks printed so they could bring the sacks to the grainer to have filled and insure they picked up the same sacks each time.
This awesome primitive design was stitched on 35 ct Havana linen, using one strand of Needlepoint Silk threads over two linen threads. A conversion chart for using DMC floss is provided.


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package pprof

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"os"
	"time"

	"github.com/containerd/containerd/defaults"
	"github.com/pkg/errors"
	"github.com/urfave/cli"
)

type pprofDialer struct {
	proto string
	addr  string
}

// Command is the cli command for providing golang pprof outputs for containerd
var Command = cli.Command{
	Name:  "pprof",
	Usage: "provide golang pprof outputs for containerd",
	Flags: []cli.Flag{
		cli.StringFlag{
			Name:  "debug-socket, d",
			Usage: "socket path for containerd's debug server",
			Value: defaults.DefaultDebugAddress,
		},
	},
	Subcommands: []cli.Command{
		pprofBlockCommand,
		pprofGoroutinesCommand,
		pprofHeapCommand,
		pprofProfileCommand,
		pprofThreadcreateCommand,
		pprofTraceCommand,
	},
}

var pprofGoroutinesCommand = cli.Command{
	Name:  "goroutines",
	Usage: "dump goroutine stack dump",
	Action: func(context *cli.Context) error {
		client := getPProfClient(context)

		output, err := httpGetRequest(client, "/debug/pprof/goroutine?debug=2")
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		defer output.Close()
		_, err = io.Copy(os.Stdout, output)
		return err
	},
}

var pprofHeapCommand = cli.Command{
	Name:  "heap",
	Usage: "dump heap profile",
	Action: func(context *cli.Context) error {
		client := getPProfClient(context)

		output, err := httpGetRequest(client, "/debug/pprof/heap")
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		defer output.Close()
		_, err = io.Copy(os.Stdout, output)
		return err
	},
}

var pprofProfileCommand = cli.Command{
	Name:  "profile",
	Usage: "CPU profile",
	Action: func(context *cli.Context) error {
		client := getPProfClient(context)

		output, err := httpGetRequest(client, "/debug/pprof/profile")
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		defer output.Close()
		_, err = io.Copy(os.Stdout, output)
		return err
	},
}

var pprofTraceCommand = cli.Command{
	Name:  "trace",
	Usage: "collect execution trace",
	Flags: []cli.Flag{
		cli.DurationFlag{
			Name:  "seconds,s",
			Usage: "trace time (seconds)",
			Value: 5 * time.Second,
		},
	},
	Action: func(context *cli.Context) error {
		client := getPProfClient(context)

		seconds := context.Duration("seconds").Seconds()
		uri := fmt.Sprintf("/debug/pprof/trace?seconds=%v", seconds)
		output, err := httpGetRequest(client, uri)
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		defer output.Close()
		_, err = io.Copy(os.Stdout, output)
		return err
	},
}

var pprofBlockCommand = cli.Command{
	Name:  "block",
	Usage: "goroutine blocking profile",
	Action: func(context *cli.Context) error {
		client := getPProfClient(context)

		output, err := httpGetRequest(client, "/debug/pprof/block")
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		defer output.Close()
		_, err = io.Copy(os.Stdout, output)
		return err
	},
}

var pprofThreadcreateCommand = cli.Command{
	Name:  "threadcreate",
	Usage: "goroutine thread creating profile",
	Action: func(context *cli.Context) error {
		client := getPProfClient(context)

		output, err := httpGetRequest(client, "/debug/pprof/threadcreate")
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		defer output.Close()
		_, err = io.Copy(os.Stdout, output)
		return err
	},
}

func getPProfClient(context *cli.Context) *http.Client {
	dialer := getPProfDialer(context.GlobalString("debug-socket"))

	tr := &http.Transport{
		Dial: dialer.pprofDial,
	}
	client := &http.Client{Transport: tr}
	return client
}

func httpGetRequest(client *http.Client, request string) (io.ReadCloser, error) {
	resp, err := client.Get("http://." + request)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	if resp.StatusCode != 200 {
		return nil, errors.Errorf("http get failed with status: %s", resp.Status)
	}
	return resp.Body, nil
}