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The Folklore and Fashion of Japanese Netsuke
By Maribeth Keane and Ben Marks — February 4th, 2011
For diminutive objects, Japanese netsuke are an enormous subject, as this interview with Christine Drosse so amply shows. Drosse is a Curatorial Administrator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, whose Pavilion for Japanese Art is home of the museum's collection of netsuke, 150 of which are on permanent view. A netsuke collector herself, Drosse also writes a column called "Netsuke Basics from A to Z," which is published in the quarterly "International Netsuke Society Journal." To learn more about netsuke, visits LACMA's online exhibition "Netsuke of the Meiji Period."
When men wore kimono in the 17th century, they had hanging containers and pouches called sagemono and stacked containers called inrō in which to carry small personal items. The containers hung by a cord that was attached to a small carving which was slipped underneath the kimono sash at the hip. This carving was called a netsuke and its mass would prevent the cord of the hanging container from slipping out from beneath the sash.
Initially, the container cords were tied to small readily available items such as pieces of wood, root, coral, or shell. Such were the origins of netsuke in Japan. Gradually these small functional toggles developed into what most of us know today as netsuke.
Netsuke were used by men. They held things like tobacco pouches, money pouches, and small multi-tiered containers called inrō.
Inrō were typically rectangular in shape and made of lacquer, with up to five compartments that stacked neatly onto one another. In such a container one could hold medicine or a seal and ink. The entire inrō would hang from a cord attached to a netsuke.
Collectors Weekly: Were inrō carved, too?
Drosse: They could be. Tobacco boxes were made of wood and were carved much more frequently than was the case with inrō. Inrō were made of wood or ivory as well, in which case they would likely have had carved designs on them. Most of the carving, however, was reserved for netsuke and the small sliding bead called an ojime.
An ojime was another functional part of the ensemble. The cord would be threaded through the ojime so that when the bead was slid down toward the container, it prevented the lid or top section of the inrō from opening.
Collectors Weekly: Can you tell us about LACMA's netsuke collection?
A wooden horse from the early 1800s, carved by Kano Tomokazu, has inlaid eyes.
Drosse: The museum's netsuke collection was a gift from Raymond and Frances Bushell. Mr. Bushell was a lawyer who lived in Japan after World War II. At that time, netsuke were very inexpensive and easy to come by in Japan. Mr. Bushell began his collection while living there and over the course of the next few decades amassed a collection that must have numbered over a thousand.
The oldest netsuke in the collection are probably from the early 18th century, maybe the late 17th. Dating netsuke is a not an exact science. There are a number of things to look for. An important factor is evidence of wear. Cord holes that have seen a great deal of use will have soft edges and are commonly misshapen. The rest of the netsuke will also have a soft feel to it from rubbing against the kimono. These visual clues help in dating a netsuke.
In the mid- and late 19th century, artists started carving netsuke that were more naturalistic. The hair of animals such as dogs and rabbits was rendered with tiny incised lines. You don't see that in late-17th or early-18th century pieces. Early pieces also did not have inlaid eyes. For the most part the carving on early pieces was carried out just enough to convey the subject matter. Early pieces often portrayed Chinese themes and motifs such as dragons, immortals, and mythical beasts including kirin, baku, and Chinese lions.
Collectors Weekly: Would you say the early ones were more utilitarian than artistic?
This immortal carrying a toad is from the first half of the 19th century and was carved by Naitō Toyomasa.
Drosse: Yes. Though carvers sought to create aesthetically pleasing pieces and no doubt consumers enjoyed visually attractive carvings, the functional role of netsuke was of primary importance in the early period of their use. That changed though in the 19th century.
In the mid-19th century, after 250 years of self-imposed isolation Japan's new government opened Japan to the West. Visitors from America and Europe soon arrived and discovered netsuke, which became instant favorites. As souvenir-hunters became their main clientele, netsuke carvers created works catering to their love of detail and ornamentation.
For example, before tourism the cord holes in netsuke were simple and unadorned. However, once netsuke started being collected by Westerners, the carvers started decorating the holes. They would line them with stained ivory or carve decorative borders around them. Such touches appealed to foreign tastes so carvers incorporated them into their works.
The impact of foreigners on netsuke production could be felt in other ways as well. It was foreigners who brought to Japan clothing with pockets. The Japanese began wearing trousers and jackets and in time no longer had use for netsuke. Netsuke consequently went from functional to decorative objects. This was in the mid-to-late 19th century.
Collectors Weekly: Japanese men simply stopped wearing kimonos?
Drosse: Eventually, yes. Over the course of the latter decades of the 19th century, the Japanese integrated many Western things into their daily lives. One of the things that they adopted was Western clothing. As more and more Japanese traded their kimono for trousers, the need to carry hanging containers slowly diminished to the point where inrō, pouches, and the like became obsolete. The introduction of cigarettes, likewise, eliminated the need to carry pipes, pipe cases, and tobacco pouches or boxes.
Collectors Weekly: Beyond their level of detail, how else did netsuke change for the tourist market?
Here, chrysanthemums and a butterfly are inlaid in ivory, tortoiseshell, and mother of pearl.
Drosse: Early netsuke were very compact—if there had been anything sticking out from the piece like an arm or a dog's tail, it could break off, or it might tear the kimono. That wasn't an issue when it came to netsuke made for the export market because Westerners didn't wear them.
Around the mid-19th century, carvers began to make pieces called okimono which translated essentially means 'standing thing.' These carvings were basically netsuke without holes. Artists designed netsuke with a flat or wide bottom so they would stand up and could be placed in a cabinet or upon a shelf. Though older netsuke were not made as decorative display items, later works catered to Western tastes for delicate figurine-like objects.
Collectors Weekly: How do scholars categorize netsuke?
Drosse: There are a number of types of netsuke. They are distinguished primarily by their form.
The oldest netsuke were probably just rings, about 2 or 3 inches in diameter, resembling a bracelet. Men's sashes in those days were narrower, narrow enough to thread through this ring. One ring could have several hanging containers tied to it.
A stained and inlaid ivory catfish from the 19th century.
Most of these early ring-style netsuke were very simple. Some were more elaborate, shaped like a dragon whose body and long neck and tail create a loop, or a group of monkeys holding one another's tails. You don't see these early ring netsuke very often.
Katabori are the most popular type of netsuke with collectors. They are basically miniature in-the-round sculptures which range in height from about 1 ½ to 2 ½ inches. The manjū is named after the traditional Japanese favorite sweet rice cake which is shaped like a small bun. Manjū netsuke are carved primarily on their surface.
The kagamibuta, which means 'mirror lid' is similar in shape to the manjū. It is made of a bowl upon which is placed a metal lid, which is what the word 'mirror' in its name refers to. The ryūsa is also usually shaped like a manjū, except that rather than limiting the carving to the outer surface, ryūsa have designs executed by cutting through the material and created a pierced effect. Dragons amid swirling clouds are the type of design typically found in ryūsa netsuke.
Sashi are very narrow netsuke, between four and six inches long. They are designed to be inserted between one's sash and kimono. The cord would be attached at the top so that the entire netsuke except the top would be hidden beneath the sash. For example, if a sashi was carved like a dragon, the creature's body would be under the sash and its head would be looking out over the top of the sash. There would be some kind of opening—perhaps the dragon's mouth?—that would hold the cord.
A type of netsuke similar to the sashi is the obihasami. The obishasami, however, has a hook at the bottom which would hold the lower edge of the sash. I haven't seen sashi or obihasami that are very old. They seem to have developed later.
Finally there are mask netsuke that, for the most part, are miniature versions of masks used in Japanese theater. Most of them were carved of wood but some were also made of pottery and porcelain.
Collectors Weekly: How did netsuke motifs evolve?
Naitō Toyomasa carved this kappa creature riding a turtle in the first half 19th century.
Drosse: The earliest netsuke had Chinese motifs—China had always been an important source of inspiration for the Japanese. From the early 17th through the mid-19th century, the Dutch were the only other people that the Japanese interacted with. Carvers apparently favored the Dutch as netsuke subjects with their big noses, round eyes, curly hair, and beards. Tall standing Dutchmen are most common in 18th-century netsuke.
Most other netsuke motifs from that period are traditional—plants and animals from nature, subjects from folklore and legends, deities and religious figures, and zodiac animals. Subjects found in netsuke increased greatly in the 19th century as foreign goods, books, and imagery were introduced into Japan. It was during this time that new subjects entered carvers' repertoire.
Collectors Weekly: What are some of the other netsuke whose subjects are derived from Japanese folklore?
Though famous for his oxen, 18th-century artist Tomotada carved other animals, such as this ivory tiger and her cub.
Drosse: There's a creature called a tengu that lives in rivers and is prone to attacking unaware travelers as they walk through wooded areas. There's another animal called a kappa that has a small bowl-like indentation on the top of its head that is filled with water. It is the water from which he draws his power so if attacked, one merely need push him over so that the water spills out. There are countless tales like these that are found in netsuke.
Another very popular netsuke motif is that of the tongue-cut sparrow. The tale tells of a hurt sparrow who is found in the woods by a kind man who cares for it and nurtures it back to health. The sparrow, it turns out, is magical and brings great treasure to the man in return for this kindness. The man's neighbor sees this and hatches a plan to make herself rich too. She steals the bird and demands that it give her a box of treasure as it had done her neighbor. The bird presents the woman with a large covered box. However, upon opening the box, instead of riches she finds a host of ghoulish and terrifying creatures. This story warns of the consequences of greed.
Then there's the story of Tekkai sennin, a wandering immortal who could depart his body temporarily by blowing his spirit from his mouth. In netsuke one will often see Tekkai sennin with his head raised and his mouth blowing out his spirit. There are few netsuke, however, that represent the departing spirit. In those that do, the spirit being released is depicted as a stream of air or perhaps little clouds with a tiny figure on it. Tekkai sennin is not a rare subject in netsuke but a Tekkai sennin shown with its spirit is unusual.
Collectors Weekly: What can you tell us about the carvers?
A seal carved as a Southeast Asian-style lion from the 17th century.
Drosse: Based on the quality of some pieces I've seen, I would say that some netsuke were made by amateurs who probably carved them for their own use or perhaps to sell on occasion. The netsuke that most collectors today seek out were made by fairly well known and certainly talented individuals who carved netsuke for a living.
Most serious present-day collectors know these artists names and the types of netsuke or motifs they favored. Thought not all were famous during their own time, by the 19th and 20th century, when netsuke collecting became a worldwide phenomenon, most collectors would have been familiar with the top netsuke carvers' identities.
Some of the names we know today include Shuzan, Masanao, Tomotada, Mitsuhiro, and Kokusai. Shuzan was probably one of the earliest netsuke carvers. Kokusai worked much later, in the mid-late 19th century. Masanao and Tomotada worked in the 18th century. Masanao carved a number of dogs, Tomotada is famous for his oxen. He carved single oxen as well as pairs with a mother and calf.
Some collectors focus on a particular carver. There were carvers who produced a large number of works such a Masanao of Kyoto, Kokusai, Mitsuhiro, and Masatoshi to name just a few.
Collectors Weekly: Were artists limited by their materials?
This is baku, the monster that eats nightmares, in ivory, from the 18th century.
Drosse: Sometimes. In pre-modern Japan sections of the country were somewhat secluded due to the country's mountainous terrain and the difficulties that travel presented. Artists and craftsmen living in a particular area often produced similar wares and used similar materials—those that were available locally. In regards to netsuke, the availability of materials very much shaped netsuke production in certain regions.
Elephant-ivory is associated with 18th century netsuke made in Kyoto and Osaka. Both cities were major trade centers, which meant carvers working in these areas would have had greater access to imported goods than carvers living farther away.
Native trees were an important source of wood for carvers. Which region used a particular type of wood depended on where the trees grew in abundance. In the mountainous area of Nagoya carvers used cherry wood. In Hida, yew was the wood of choice.
Deer antler was another native material that was abundant and found favor with carvers from the Tokyo neighborhood of Asakusa in the 19th century. Ceramic netsuke primarily came from areas around Hirado and Kyoto which were known for pottery production.
Collectors Weekly: What are some of the more unusual materials you've seen used?
Drosse: Some of the more standard materials used in netsuke were elephant ivory, boars tusks, various native and imported woods, tree nuts and peach pits, lacquer, and pottery and porcelain. Netsuke made of glass are less common, as are works in cloisonné. Petrified sea pine looks like black coral and is very hard but was also occasionally used by carvers.
Carvers also used teeth. Though opinions often differ as to exactly what animal a particular tooth may have come from, there is no doubt that it is a tooth. There are netsuke made of the dried claws of birds or the jaws of small animals with all the teeth. Netsuke made of preserved animal parts are not very common.
Collectors Weekly: So netsuke were not always carved?
Drosse: No, actually, they weren't. There are lacquer netsuke for example which have a wood or papier-mache like substrate over which the lacquer was applied. The finished design is done using different lacquer techniques and sometime inlays of other materials and requires no carving. Some pieces like the round-shaped manjū were turned on a lathe. Most ceramic netsuke were cast from molds though some of these may have had a bit of carving to refine the finished design or add details. Even though netsuke can be produced by any number of methods, people generally understand netsuke to be carvings.
Collectors Weekly: We've been talking about the functionality and design of netsuke, but did they also telegraph social status?
Drosse: Yes. Life in Edo-period Japan was highly regulated. Among other things, the government enacted countless edicts and laws limiting people's ability to display personal wealth. Certain colors and designs were seen as ostentatious and therefore banned. One way in which people circumvented the rules was through the use of netsuke and sagemono. The motif on an inrō or the clever pairing of netsuke, ojime, and inrō was a way to display one's knowledge, taste, wealth, or status in the community.
Collectors Weekly: When did you first get interested in netsuke?
An early-19th century stained wood carving of a snail on well bucket, by Shigemasa.
Drosse: I was over at a friend's house and he had a couple of books on netsuke. I started looking at the pictures and thought they were nice. However, when I realized how small they actually were my interest was piqued. I wanted to learn more about them.
I've always liked wooden things, natural things. As a kid I collected miniature things. I also love the fact that netsuke have been used, that somebody carried something with them 100 or 200 years ago. They are like pieces of history and I like that connection. I guess netsuke just appealed to me on a variety of levels. I bought one, and then another, and then another, and that was it. Most collectors will tell you that as you get more pieces and you learn more about them you just get more and more into it. I guess that's my story as well. But I wasn't looking for any of that; I wasn't looking to get involved in anything, really. It just happened.
Collectors Weekly: What are some of your favorite pieces in your personal collection?
Drosse: I have an ivory Dutchman that's pretty unique. He's in a pose, screaming or something. I'm not sure what he's doing but he's very interesting looking. There are a lot of Dutchman netsuke. Most of them are in ivory. Typically they're tall and thin and they wear a hat and have shoes on and the kind of fitted leggings that were worn in the 18th century, with a coat that went to their knees. Often they are carrying a gun, a chicken, or a dog. The one that I have is really unusual and I fell in love with it.
Collectors Weekly: What advice do you have for someone who is thinking of starting a netsuke collection?
Ishikawa Rensai carved this ivory and inlaid piece depicting lotus blossoms and a bird in the mid-to-late 19th century.
Drosse: Take it slow. Try to see as many real, authentic pieces as you can. Go to a museum. You can't handle netsuke in a museum but you can be reasonably sure that what you're looking at is real. There are a ton of fake netsuke out there that are represented as being old. People who don't know any better buy them.
I'd also go to auctions, even if you aren't ready to bid. They have previews during which you can handle the pieces so you can tell what real wear feels like versus fake wear and what the color of truly old ivory looks like versus the color of ivory that's been made to look old.
It's all about knowledge, so do what you need to do to learn. Talk to dealers. Read books. Don't start out with the most expensive piece you can find. And when you do buy your first piece, show it to someone you trust and ask them, "How did I do? What do you think?" Every netsuke collector has made mistakes, so be prepared to learn from them and move on.
(All images courtesy the Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
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August 6th, 2011 at 1:07 pm Patti Walters Says:
I have 3 netsuke purchased in the 80's when I had more money than sense from a store in the World Trade Center. I liked them because they were tiny, beautiful and I had just returned from a business trip to Japan and was enthralled with all things Japanese. I realize now that they are probably not worth what I paid for them but can you tell me if older netsuke in ivory had very pale colors in the design?
February 16th, 2015 at 11:46 am chris Says:
Was looking for help in identifying my netsuke kappa egg with rats just what to kbow the age and the origin if someone could help would be mych appreciated
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1. D.C. officials oppose block of assisted suicide law Bowser, council chair rip Congress, By Ryan M. McDermott, The Washington Times, January 23, 2017, Pg. A12.
Two of the District's top officials on Friday voiced opposition to congressional calls for upending the city's recently approved assisted suicide law.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser chided Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma and Rep. Brad Wenstrup of Ohio, both Republicans who this week offered companion resolutions to block the city's Death with Dignity Act — for "attempting to sidestep the democratic process in order to impose their personal beliefs" on D.C. residents.
Ms. Norton expressed specific frustration with Mr. Langford: "I have worked successfully with him on federal matters affecting the District, including reforms and improvement to the D.C. courts," she said in a statement.
Mr. Wenstrup, a physician by trade, said the city's law makes the federal government culpable for promoting assisted suicide.
"If Congress fails to act on this, it will imply tacit federal approval of physician-assisted suicide — and I firmly believe that is not the right path," he said in a statement.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the Utah Republican who heads the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which oversees the District, earlier in the week said he wanted to block the measure.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/13/bowser-norton-hit-lawmakers-assisted-suicide-law/
2. Still waiting on the pope's promises: A new book details the Catholic Church's tolerance of abuse, By Editorial Board, The Washington Post, January 23, 2017, Pg. A12.
ON THE MOST explosive and morally subversive challenge facing the Roman Catholic Church — clerical sexual abuse of children, and the bishops who tolerate it — Pope Francis has said the right things but done too little. Even now, 15 years after the explosive revelations of church complicity in enabling and covering up the predations of American priests who damaged so many young lives, not a single bishop has been explicitly held accountable and stripped of his title.
The pope's sluggish, inadequate and compromised stance in the face of this outrage is the subject of a new book, "Lust," by a respected Italian journalist, Emiliano Fittipaldi. The book, published last week, is an indictment not just of a papal policy that has failed to live up to its ringing promises about "zero tolerance" for clerical sexual abuse, but of Francis's papacy.
The pope himself has made some strong statements about clergy sex abuse and taken a few symbolic steps to underscore his compassion for victims, in one case meeting with victims of sexually abusive priests in Philadelphia. But his deeds to establish real accountability have been hollow. He tried and failed to establish a special tribunal to hold negligent bishops accountable, then issued a decree saying it was unnecessary since the Vatican already was empowered to remove them from office if they turned a blind eye to sex abuse in their dioceses.
Now, seven months later, there is little indication that bishops, the church's princelings, are truly being held to account.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/still-waiting-on-the-popes-promises/2017/01/22/35975784-de95-11e6-918c-99ede3c8cafa_story.html?
3. The Legacy of Roe v. Wade extends beyond abortion, By Lucia Silecchia, Crux, January 22, 2017.
The loss of millions of lives to abortion is not the only casualty of Roe. Rather, the callous acceptance of — and, in some quarters, celebration of — the right to abortion has also planted the seeds for a broader disrespect for vulnerable human life.
Those seeds are now bearing bitter fruit in the way in which the lives of those who are disabled, ill and elderly are being treated in fact and in law.
The new legislative year brings the question of physician-assisted suicide to the legislative docket of several states, which will consider whether or not the lives of those who are ill, elderly or otherwise vulnerable should be protected or not.
These legislative proposals that are brewing would allow physician-assisted suicide with such scant safeguards that they would be laughable if they were not tragic. However, the arguments in favor of these legislative initiatives have their roots directly in the soil of Roe.
They reflect Roe's legacy that some lives are worth defending and others are not. In the context of abortion, an infant who is eagerly anticipated by loving parents is celebrated, fought for, and loved months before birth. Yet, a similar infant who is not so fortunate and who is not wanted is easily discarded as a matter of right.
In the context of those who are ill, those who have access to health care, a loving, supportive family, treatment for pain, and access to emotional and psychological care are encouraged to fight against deadly diseases.
However, those who are impoverished, who believe that they burden loved ones, or who are not well treated for physical and emotional pain, are given the opportunity to end their lives. In many cases, they are encouraged to do so by circumstances in which insurance may cover the costs of their suicide but not their medical treatment.
In the context of those with disabilities, a similar inconsistency reigns.
Contrary to common perception, it is not physical pain that drives the decision to take advantage of physician-assisted suicide. It is fear of being a burden or losing autonomy that tops the list. More importantly, an exaggerated sense of personal autonomy belies the fact that the individual is not the only one with an interest in his or her life.
Autonomy notwithstanding, the world is the poorer for all those who have not been born. The world is the poorer when those who are not young and strong are devalued. And the world is at risk when autonomy is allowed to justify the taking of life. Indeed, autonomy is often restricted when far lesser things are at stake than life itself.
They reflect Roe's legacy that legal requirements, procedural protections, and seemingly detailed guidelines can legitimize acts that, for the vast majority of human history, were recognized as wrong. Perhaps they reflect the way in which Roe can dull the conscience into believing that legality can create legitimacy and that a society can satisfy itself that there can be a regulated, rational way to do a wrongful act.
https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2017/01/22/legacy-roe-v-wade-extends-beyond-abortion/
4. Two missed opportunities for real reform on sex abuse, By John L. Allen Jr., Crux, January 21, 2017.
Two stories broke this week regarding the Church's clerical sexual abuse scandals, one in Italy and the other in the States, and in different ways, each speaks to a missed opportunity.
In Italy, a book came out titled Lussuria: Peccati, Scandali e Tradimenti di una Chiesa Fatta di Uomini ("Lust: Sins, Scandals and Betrayals of a Church Made of Men") by journalist Emiliano Fittipaldi, one of the five defendants in last year's "Vatileaks 2.0" trial pivoting on leaked documents from a papal commission on Vatican finances.
In the States, a former employee of the Survivors Network for Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), the country's best-known advocacy organization for survivors of clerical abuse, has sued the group, charging that in reality it's a commercial operation funded by kickbacks from lawyers who sue the Church.
At one level, Fittipaldi's book is off-putting because of its sloppiness with facts. He describes Cardinal Timothy Dolan as "head" of the U.S. bishops, a position he hasn't held since 2013. He calls Pell the "right hand man" of Pope Francis, something any observer of the Vatican these days knows to be clearly exaggerated.
More basically, the problem is that Fittipaldi caricatures the real situation in the Church.
Anyone being honest has to concede that Catholicism has made enormous progress over the last decade and a half. For example, vast resources have been invested in developing state-of-the-art abuse prevention and detection programs, to the extent that many other institutions are now scrambling to catch up.
Scores of abusers have been weeded out of the priesthood, including more than 400 in the last year of Benedict XVI's papacy alone. Dioceses in many parts of the world have adopted stern "zero tolerance" policies, suspending any priest facing a credible abuse allegation and turning the case over to civil police and prosecutors to investigate.
To read Fittipaldi, however, you would never know any of that happened.
In the SNAP lawsuit, former employee Gretchen Hammond describes an organization founded for noble purposes, but which has lost its way in a near-fanatical quest for money.
"SNAP does not focus on protecting or helping survivors – it exploits them," says the lawsuit, filed Jan. 17 in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.
"SNAP routinely accepts financial kickbacks from attorneys in the form of 'donations.' In exchange for the kickbacks, SNAP refers survivors as potential clients to attorneys, who then file lawsuits on behalf of the survivors against the Catholic Church."
Once she began raising these concerns, Hammond says, she was subject to workplace reprisals that led to serious health issues, and eventually she was fired.
In the meantime, another longstanding issue with SNAP and similar organizations doesn't require a legal proceeding to establish: The fact that they're often incapable of telling the good guys from the bad. To take the most obvious example, if Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston is your idea of a problem bishop, as SNAP has repeatedly asserted, then something's gone seriously wrong.
https://cruxnow.com/analysis/2017/01/21/two-missed-opportunities-real-reform-sex-abuse/
5. Unlikely pro-life voice brought to you by 'SNL' skit, By Kathryn Jean Lopez, Times Standard, January 21, 2017, 7:40 PM.
A skit on that comedy show [Saturday Night Live] ended with Anthony telling a group of modern women that "abortion is murder," providing an unlikely gift to Foster's group [Feminists for Life], which aims to educate women about nonviolent alternatives to abortion.
"Sometimes 'SNL' gets it right," Grazie Christie, a doctor in Miami and senior fellow with the Catholic Association, tells me. She saw in the sketch the "superficial banality of modern feminism is in full display." About Anthony she said: "The suffragist struggled to change a society where women could not divorce a drunk and abusive husband, vote, speak in public, own separate property when married or be joint guardians of their children. The millennials, affluent and liberated heirs to the fruits of her labor, argue about taxi fare and whether to eat on the train or grab takeout."
Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life Foundation, which every January sponsors a large annual gathering celebrating life and protesting the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, says, "Given the many conflicting messages these days about what it means to be a woman, to be a feminist, I appreciated the skit and its humorous poke at a sound-bite culture that is lacking a deeper understanding of the inherent dignity and vocation of woman. I appreciated that the skit depicted Susan B. Anthony's stance on respecting and protecting life from conception."
http://www.times-standard.com/opinion/20170121/unlikely-pro-life-voice-brought-to-you-by-snl-skit
6. Women's March Erects a Pro-Life Barrier, By Ashley E. McGuire, Real Clear Politics, January 21, 2017.
As a young woman living in Washington, D.C., I could easily attend the Women's March on Saturday if I wanted to.
Except that I am not invited, despite my unambiguous status as a member of the female sex. That's because I am pro-life. As the organizers of the march made clear in a statement earlier this week, the Women's March's on Washington "platform is pro-choice" and "has been since day one."
Indeed, by excluding roughly half of American women from the "Women's" March, the event revealed in one tweet why feminism's numbers hover around a pathetic one in four who claim the label for themselves. One recent poll found that as few as 18 percent of Americans consider themselves a feminist. Today's women simply are not interested in being treated like a special interest group at the service of the abortion industry.
So while the Women's March may proudly tout its anticipated 200,000 participants, organizers are stuck with the reality that their event is tainted by the same exclusivity and elitism that helped produce an electoral rebuke of those very values. If the organizers want to see a real force to be reckoned with, they should return to the National Mall a week later, when thousands and thousands of young people, a huge swath of them women, will be marching too.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/01/21/womens_march_erects_a_pro-life_barrier_132860.html
7. Pope Urges Trump to Show Concern for Poor, Be Guided by Ethical Values, By Reuters, January 20, 2017, 1:39 PM.
Pope Francis urged U.S. President Donald Trump to be guided by ethical values and as he took office on Friday, saying he must take care of the poor and the outcast during his time in office.
"At a time when our human family is beset by grave humanitarian crises demanding farsighted and united political responses, I pray that your decisions will be guided by the rich spiritual and ethical values that have shaped the history of the American people and your nation's commitment to the advancement of human dignity and freedom worldwide," Francis said in a message sent to Trump minutes after he was inaugurated.
"Under your leadership, may America's stature continue to be measured above all by its concern for the poor, the outcast and those in need …," Francis said in the message released by the Vatican.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2017/01/20/us/politics/20reuters-usa-trump-inauguration-pope.html
8. Social doctrine is about solidarity, Catholic leaders insist, By Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency, January 20, 2017, 11:08 AM.
Catholics must fight the societal ills of contempt, poverty, and unemployment through solidarity, recent speakers at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. insisted.
"The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost," Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, quoted the Gospel of Luke in his Jan. 17 address to Catholic University students on "bringing America together."
"We're sought. We seek others," he continued. "If we want to change public policy and we want to change American culture, it's not good enough to burn a bunch of money to help poor people. What are you going to do today to need somebody at the peripheries of society?"
Brooks gave the first CEO lecture of 2017 at the Busch School of Business and Economics, in which he emphasized the importance of work in human dignity.
There are many poor or unemployed persons living "at the periphery" of society who "we prefer not to see," he said, asking the students in attendance, "If all the poor people in Washington, D.C. suddenly disappeared, how would your life change?"
Yet this phenomenon of not "needing" the poor is toxic to society, he said, because "we need every human." Every person "has the same inherent dignity," he insisted.
"That is the source, all the politics aside, of the divisiveness" in society, he said, of "what's pulling us apart." The problem of "contempt" for fellow human beings, what he described as "the utter conviction of the worthlessness of another human being" is also at the heart of societal problems.
How can Catholics fight this? By going to the peripheries, befriending those with whom they disagree, and creating jobs that give human dignity back to the poor and the marginalized, he said.
They "get back on their feet through work, through ordinary, sanctified, hard, honest work," Brooks said. "That's the equalizer. Human dignity is equalized when we all work in a sanctified way."
The previous week, on Jan. 10, Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego and Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston addressed a conference on "Erroneous Autonomy: The Dignity of Work."
When global markets and institutions are divorced from morality, human dignity is threatened, they insisted. Catholic social teaching challenges the autonomy of markets by emphasizing the dignity of the worker and the right of workers to organize to protect their rights, they said.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/social-doctrine-is-about-solidarity-catholic-leaders-insist-72569/
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Sam Bennett signs two-year deal, anxious to grow role with Flames
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Calgary Flames Sam Bennett during practice getting ready for the 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs against the Colorado Avalanche at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. Al Charest/Postmedia
Sam Bennett has shown the sandpaper and snark, has proven he can play as prickly as that moustache that he often sports.
Thing is, the Calgary Flames' forward — re-upped Wednesday to a two-year deal worth US$2.55 million per winter— remains determined to emerge as an offensive difference-maker.
"I think that at a young age, everybody wants to be the next superstar," said Bennett, a restricted free-agent who had been scheduled for an arbitration faceoff this weekend. "But sometimes it takes some time, and I still think that I have tons to prove.
"There is a lot I think I can bring. With my competitive edge, I think I'm going to be able to play that hard-nosed hockey. I still want to be a guy that puts up numbers and is offensive but can be relied on to play that two-way game. I don't see there being any reason why I can't reach that, and I'm really looking forward to this season and proving that I can."
Bennett hasn't been the scoring standout that most had in mind when he was selected with the fourth-overall pick in the 2014 NHL Draft, but that hasn't stopped No. 93 from becoming a fan favourite at the Saddledome.
Last winter, the third-line winger racked up 121 hits — he was among a hat-trick of Flames in triple-digits — and dropped his mitts for a team-high five fights. He chipped in 13 goals and 14 assists in 71 regular-season appearances and was on the oh-so-short list of guys to elevate their games during a first-round playoff flop, leading the charge with five points.
Thanks especially to his solid spring showing, it feels like you can't find a sports bar, grocery-store check-out or practice green where an armchair skipper isn't preaching that the Flames should give Bennett a look in a first- or second-line role.
That is precisely what the 23-year-old is shooting for.
"I think when you are in the top-six, you do get a little more opportunity and icetime and everything. I think if you ask anyone, they want that," Bennett said. "But that doesn't mean I'd change my game. I would still play a hard-nosed, physical type of game, no matter what position or what role I'm playing."
Bennett is a more important piece for the Flames than the numbers would suggest — a guy more than willing to crash and bang on a team that doesn't have a lot of that.
He is never going to leapfrog Johnny Gaudreau and Matthew Tkachuk on the depth chart at left wing, but his ability to play all three forward positions could open alternate routes to an expanded role.
Flames head coach Bill Peters loves to use the blender, and Bennett is an obvious candidate for in-game promotion because of the spark he can provide.
"To me, what Sam did last year is he is sort of, with each year that goes by, carving out a real role for himself," praised Flames general manager Brad Treliving. "In Sam's case, you come in as a fourth-overall pick and there is lots of pressure, lots of expectations, lots of this, lots of that … To me, what I keep seeing is a guy who is just learning and maturing and helping a team win and finding ways to help a team win.
"Hey, you always hope that every player continues to find another level of offence and I think, like I said, when you have the peg of fourth-overall, the immediate expectation is all the offensive numbers and offensive production, and I think Sam put a lot of pressure on himself to do that. Now, he's matured with experience, with time in the league, with each year getting a little older, of finding different ways — sometimes it's offence, sometimes it's other ways — of just being a good player on a team that can win."
The Flames won gobs of regular-season games during the 2018-19 campaign, claiming the top seed in the Western Conference.
They won just one playoff date.
Needless to say, they're hoping their next spring stay last a whole lot longer. The belief is Bennett can be a big part of that.
"He has shown that when it's important and usually when it's tight and when it's hard, he has been really good," Treliving said. "Now, the challenge for Sam — as it is a lot of players — is stringing that consistency together. You want to keep the highs but you want to flatten out the lows and keep a consistent level where you're not going stretches of trying to re-capture your game. I thought he did a better job of that last year. I don't look at it just strictly from the numbers. I think his competitive level is always there, but I thought his consistency level in terms of his impact on games was better. That's another sign of growth and maturity."
Now inked for two more winters, still anxious to prove his production can match his prickle, Bennett is bullish on what lies ahead.
"We showed it last year — we have the pieces to be one of the top teams in this league," he said. "It was a huge disappointment (in the playoffs) last year with all the success we were having, and I know everyone still has a little bit of bitter taste in their mouth. It's going to be a fun year — I definitely know that."
With Bennett signed, netminder David Rittich is the Flames' lone remaining arbitration case. (Their top priority among restricted free-agents is Tkachuk, but he does not have arbitration rights.)
The Flames have roughly US$7.4 million in projected cap-space, but Treliving has two-plus months to manoeuvre.
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Alex graduated from MChem Chemistry for Drug Discovery in 2015
From an early stage I knew that I wanted to work in a laboratory environment, and I was especially drawn to working in the pharmaceutical industry. With research showing that one in two people will develop some form of cancer in their lifetime1, I felt driven to be involved in oncology research.
As part of my degree I undertook a placement year at Takeda Ltd, where I found myself, almost by accident, in the Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics (DMPK) department and thoroughly enjoyed it. I think this experience really helped to guide where I wanted my career to go after I finished my studies.
After I graduated from Bath in 2015, I joined AstraZeneca in their Oncology DMPK department as an in vitro Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Elimination (ADME) lab-based scientist. I'm now a Senior Scientist, and my role is to design, carry out and report in vitro experiments to determine the rates of metabolism of a test compound. The end goal is to use this data to create dose predictions for humans. I'm primarily lab based, using various methods to measure the behaviour of our compounds – which may potentially become medicines – within the body.
During the pandemic, AstraZeneca worked in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline and the University of Cambridge to set up and run one of the UK's lighthouse laboratories for COVID-19 testing. I volunteered to be part of this team during the first lockdown as a preparation scientist, unpacking, pipetting, and deactivating patient samples prior to RNA extraction and PCR analysis. I moved into a team leader role from September 2020, leading a team of up to 30 scientists able to process 20,000 samples per day. I've now returned to my original role, but it was very rewarding to have played a part in the fight against the virus.
I think my favourite thing about my job is being able to work to my own schedule, planning upcoming experiments and the flexibility that comes with this. As scientists we are always on the lookout for new and interesting science that could impact on current projects. Designing experiments is really exciting, and if these lead to new medicines for patients that would be incredible.
Studying chemistry is a brilliant way to open up a wide range of options for your future career. Studying at Bath gives you all the fundamentals whilst also providing the chance to choose modules that allow you to really focus on topics that interest you. My favourite thing about Bath is the industrial links and the support you receive looking for placement. This experience was invaluable for me – it showed me a new area of science I was really interested in and gave me so many transferrable skills for the future
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It is the year 2017, a full three years out from the next presidential election, and yet we are already talking about 2020. We dream of a savior, and alas for the left, the Democratic Party is responsible for producing one.
Kamala Harris, the junior senator from California, is widely considered one of the party's rising stars, with as good a chance as anybody else at this very early stage to earn its nomination in 2020. And that possibility is a problem for the left. "The former attorney general of California, Harris is mistrusted by the left mostly because of her roots as a prosecutor," Ryan Cooper wrote in an August 3 piece for The Week that also criticized two other theoretical candidates, Senator Cory Booker and former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.
This article ignited days of outrage, much of which revolved around the issue of race, but that outrage threatens to obscure a legitimate point. Harris has a deeply troubling record: As a district attorney, she implemented a law that penalized the parents of truant children with a fine of up to $2,000 and a year in jail. Later, as California's attorney general, Harris fought a transgender prisoner's attempts to access necessary health care. And her record on prosecuting financial crimes is poor, particularly her decision to refrain from going after OneWest Bank for allegedly breaking foreclosure laws. And she's not the only one—as David Dayen wrote for the New Republic, virtually the entire Democratic Party has been criminally negligent when it comes to taking on corporate malfeasance during the housing crisis.
The Democratic Party hasn't met the left's standards in this area, and that is a problem with the party, not the left. But all of this prompts a question: Under what circumstances could the left accept a flawed candidate for high office?
To understand where the left might draw that line, it is necessary to first understand the substance of its critique. By questioning Harris and the party's other rising stars, the left performs necessary political work. It's vital to criticize Harris's record as a prosecutor, Cory Booker's ties to pharmaceutical companies and school reform groups, and Deval Patrick's work for Bain Capital, as Cooper did in his article for The Week. The problem of extreme income inequality in this country, in which the vast majority of wealth goes to the very people these politicians have either protected, solicited, or worked for, can only be combatted with a similarly drastic redistribution of wealth. Activists are right to wonder if a Patrick or a Booker will deliver the changes the country needs.
Which is precisely why the left doesn't restrict its criticism to Harris, Patrick, and Booker. As Cooper noted in a follow-up piece on Monday, the same left-wing concerns apply to the white, male members of the party's establishment. "Leftists like myself believe that in addition to traditional civil rights policy, nothing short of a total overhaul of American capitalism will suffice to actually eradicate oppression from our society," he wrote. "Neoliberals like Andrew Cuomo and Joe Biden, by contrast, believe that the capitalist framework only needs minor tweaks." The left's real focus is beyond Harris or even the Democratic Party: It has more systemic concerns.
However, that broad goal is impossible without allies in government, and the left is not spoiled for choice. A cluster of lawmakers—Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Ro Khanna, Keith Ellison, Mark Pocan, and other members of the House Progressive Caucus—come closest to the mark, on issues including Medicare-for-All, free college tuition, a federal $15 minimum wage, trust-busting, immigrant rights, and police brutality. But with the exception of Sanders and Ellison, these politicians did not come up through the ranks of the activist left. They have flawed records, as most politicians do, marked by bad positions and dubious compromises.
But that is grounds for criticism, not outright dismissal. The left's most realistic hope is for a candidate with a spotty record who enthusiastically and sincerely takes up its cause. And that means approaching the party's Kamala Harrises with flexibility.
In theory, this shouldn't be difficult for the left to accept. It prides itself on emphasizing policy over personality, in contrast with the establishment. This is what makes the left such a necessary force, and it also implies a certain responsibility. If policy, not personality, is what really matters, there's no reason to shun a candidate who checks the necessary boxes and pledges to do the necessary work. Harris herself is for universal health care, a $15 minimum wage, and free college tuition.
The point of establishing litmus tests is to embrace candidates who meet them. If Harris, or a Democrat like her, moves left, then that is a victory for the left. If Harris were to run, this would inevitably entail a transparent reckoning with her record as attorney general. And if she were to win the nomination, this doesn't mean that the left should refrain from criticizing her or pressuring her to enact progressive populist positions. It does mean turning up to vote—and maybe knocking on a few doors.
There is always going to be a push-and-pull between a dissatisfied progressive base and a Democratic Party superstructure that is unable to meet its needs. Each side will ask the other to make compromises. At some point in the not-so-distant future, however, the left should have more options—thanks largely to activists who demand vision and purpose from a party that they feel is lacking in both. Meanwhile, formal organizations like Brand New Congress and Democratic Socialists of America are working to create a political climate that is friendlier to the left, and to recruit candidates committed to the cause. But these efforts will take years to bear fruit, and in the meantime, the left's rank-and-file must decide exactly what their standards are going to be.
They could do worse than to campaign for candidates who are late converts to, say, free college or genuine universal health care. When a politician changes course, recognize this for what it is: a concession, won by a newly invigorated movement. It's too soon to say #NeverKamala.


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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net/http"
	"strings"
	"sync"
	"time"
)

type failpointStats struct {
	// crashes counts the number of crashes for a failpoint
	crashes map[string]int
	// mu protects crashes
	mu sync.Mutex
}

var fpStats failpointStats

func failpointFailures(c *cluster) (ret []failure, err error) {
	var fps []string
	fps, err = failpointPaths(c.Members[0].FailpointURL)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	// create failure objects for all failpoints
	for _, fp := range fps {
		if len(fp) == 0 {
			continue
		}
		fpFails := failuresFromFailpoint(fp)
		// wrap in delays so failpoint has time to trigger
		for i, fpf := range fpFails {
			if strings.Contains(fp, "Snap") {
				// hack to trigger snapshot failpoints
				fpFails[i] = &failureUntilSnapshot{fpf}
			} else {
				fpFails[i] = &failureDelay{fpf, 3 * time.Second}
			}
		}
		ret = append(ret, fpFails...)
	}
	fpStats.crashes = make(map[string]int)
	return ret, err
}

func failpointPaths(endpoint string) ([]string, error) {
	resp, err := http.Get(endpoint)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	body, rerr := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	if rerr != nil {
		return nil, rerr
	}
	var fps []string
	for _, l := range strings.Split(string(body), "\n") {
		fp := strings.Split(l, "=")[0]
		fps = append(fps, fp)
	}
	return fps, nil
}

func failuresFromFailpoint(fp string) []failure {
	inject := makeInjectFailpoint(fp, `panic("etcd-tester")`)
	recov := makeRecoverFailpoint(fp)
	return []failure{
		&failureOne{
			description:   description("failpoint " + fp + " panic one"),
			injectMember:  inject,
			recoverMember: recov,
		},
		&failureAll{
			description:   description("failpoint " + fp + " panic all"),
			injectMember:  inject,
			recoverMember: recov,
		},
		&failureMajority{
			description:   description("failpoint " + fp + " panic majority"),
			injectMember:  inject,
			recoverMember: recov,
		},
		&failureLeader{
			failureByFunc{
				description:   description("failpoint " + fp + " panic leader"),
				injectMember:  inject,
				recoverMember: recov,
			},
			0,
		},
	}
}

func makeInjectFailpoint(fp, val string) injectMemberFunc {
	return func(m *member) (err error) {
		return putFailpoint(m.FailpointURL, fp, val)
	}
}

func makeRecoverFailpoint(fp string) recoverMemberFunc {
	return func(m *member) error {
		if err := delFailpoint(m.FailpointURL, fp); err == nil {
			return nil
		}
		// node not responding, likely dead from fp panic; restart
		fpStats.mu.Lock()
		fpStats.crashes[fp]++
		fpStats.mu.Unlock()
		return recoverStop(m)
	}
}

func putFailpoint(ep, fp, val string) error {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest(http.MethodPut, ep+"/"+fp, strings.NewReader(val))
	c := http.Client{}
	resp, err := c.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	resp.Body.Close()
	if resp.StatusCode/100 != 2 {
		return fmt.Errorf("failed to PUT %s=%s at %s (%v)", fp, val, ep, resp.Status)
	}
	return nil
}

func delFailpoint(ep, fp string) error {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest(http.MethodDelete, ep+"/"+fp, strings.NewReader(""))
	c := http.Client{}
	resp, err := c.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	resp.Body.Close()
	if resp.StatusCode/100 != 2 {
		return fmt.Errorf("failed to DELETE %s at %s (%v)", fp, ep, resp.Status)
	}
	return nil
}


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I removed all players with less than 1,000 PA from both tables. So basically, seven Reds have had significant playing time as young (25 and under) players in the 21st century, the most valuable being Dunn and the least valuable being Felipe Lopez and the current slugging DH for the Toronto Blue Jays. Of course, Dunn and Bruce had more significant playing time than the others on this list - they were starters at age 21 while Hamilton didn't get into the starting line-up until he was 23. Votto was a 24-year-old rookie and Lopez had his one full season as a Reds starter (and All-Star) at age 25.
Unlike the plodding, near-300-pound monster he eventually became, young Adam Dunn was actually an above-average baserunner, and while he was always a bad fielder, his athleticism overcame some of his lack of instincts in the outfield.
Anyways, if you think about it, the Reds have come up with an outfielder with a very lopsided skill set in two straight decades now. Both players were outstanding at a couple things and awful at nearly everything else. Adam Dunn had exceptional patience and power (and was a decent baserunner), and was bad at everything else. Billy Hamilton has exceptional baserunning and defense (and makes decent contact), and is bad at everything else.
Both players when they were young were plagued with questions of whether they could ever polish up their weaknesses and become well-rounded enough to be good major league players, all-the-while being so good at the few things they did well that they were above-average starters in spite of their flaws. In Adam Dunn's case, the questions continued following him as he aged until his skills deteriorated to the point where you could no longer justify his spot in the starting line-up.
Both have identical .248 batting averages, and average $H rates (BAbip) of 29%, but the similarities end there. Hamilton has been almost as bad of a hitter (OPS+ of 73) as Dunn was good (OPS+ 133).
But, taking everything else into account...who was better overall?
It's worth pointing out that both players are/were above-average major leaguers, even with their obvious shortcomings (Dunn's defense, Billy's bat). The "WAA" column means that, taking everything into account, Dunn created better than one win more for the Reds per season than the average major league outfielder would have. Also, both are well above the 2-WAR-per-year threshold considered a minimum performance level for a starting position player.
But, to answer the question: they're close but young Adam Dunn was a little better.
Also, Dunn was more durable - he came to the plate at least 670 times in four of his first five full seasons. Hamilton, meanwhile, will probably fall short of 500 PA for the second time in three years as a starter.
However, while Dunn was a good young ballplayer, he had what's referred to as "old player's skills" - patience and power. Players with his skill set tend not to age as well because they already lack what most players lose over the course of their careers - hitting for average and speed and defense - and Dunn proved no exception to this rule. After accumulating 13.6 WAR in 2,783 PA (2.9 WAR per 600 PA) through age 25, Dunn produced just another 3.3 WAR over the remaining 5,545 PA of his career - 0.4 WAR per 600 PA. He was below replacement-level in his final four years, when he was the DH of the Chicago White Sox.
So if Billy Hamilton can find a way to stay healthy, not lose too much of his outstanding speed and defense, and continue to make improvements as a hitter, he could still end up being a more valuable major league player than Adam Dunn was.
Playing time. Votto was a starter for two seasons through age 25; Dunn had over four years starting by then. Dunn had his best year at age 24 (46 HR, 102 RBI). Votto was a rookie at 24. He was kind of a late bloomer.


Between the grease, cooking oils and food bits, restaurant drains take a lot of abuse. It's important to take care of your restaurant's drains to prevent clogs and backups, which are health hazards.
Here are six ways to keep your restaurant's drains healthy.
The simplest way to keep your restaurant's drains healthy is to clean your grease traps regularly. Grease traps catch and contain residue that is flushed into the system from cooking and cleaning materials. The goal is to catch the oils and fats before they clog the plumbing system.
If your grease disposal is on the lighter side, a monthly cleaning may be all that's needed. But most restaurants will need to clean their grease traps more often.
Along with cleaning your grease traps regularly, consider developing a working relationship with a local plumber to have your drains cleaned regularly.
Many plumbers use hydro-jetting to clean drains and pipes. Highly-pressurized water is pushed through the pipes to remove debris and grease build-up. Think of it as pressure washing your pipes.
Having your pipes professionally cleaned can help prevent serious clogs and build-up that can be costly to fix.
Large debris can cause serious clogs and make it more difficult to clean your pipes and grease traps. Install a drain cover or grate to keep large debris out of your sink drains and plumbing fixtures.
Drain covers and grates are a small expense that can help prevent costly clogs in the future.
If clogs are becoming a regular problem, consider investing in your own drain snake, or drain auger. Drain augers are what professional plumbers use to break apart clogs in the pipes.
Having your own drain snake will make it easier to get rid of clogs early on and without having to call a plumber. Of course, more serious clogs should be handled by a professional, but a drain snake will help keep many small clogs from becoming a big problem.
Rather than reaching for chemical drain cleaners when you have a clog, reach for a natural solution: baking soda and vinegar. Chemical-based cleaners can cause bigger problems if used regularly.
A mixture of baking soda and vinegar will help break down the build-up in your pipes. Baking soda and vinegar react with one another because of an acid-based reaction. They work together to break down grime, grease and build-up.
Another simple way to keep your restaurant's pipes clean is to have employees scrape the plates and put food scraps in the trash. Even if the scraps seem small, always have employees scrape the plates and put the scraps in the garbage.
If you have the option, consider composting the scraps instead of sending it to the landfill. The world wastes $400 billion in food every year, so composting food scraps will help prevent waste.


SHDM reaches an agreement with PwC, which was appointed by the Court to liquidate the assets of Construction Frank Catania & Associés inc. et al.
The Société d'habitation et de développement de Montréal (SHDM) reached a comprehensive agreement with PricewaterhouseCoopers inc. (PwC), a firm appointed by the Superior Court for the liquidation of Construction F. Catania and related companies. This agreement-in-principle puts an end to all civil proceedings between the parties with respect to the Faubourg Contrecoeur development and was submitted to the Superior Court today. The agreement, whose parameters were approved by the Executive Committee of the Ville de Montréal at its meeting of May 6, provides for a settlement of nearly 7 million dollars in compensations and land to the SHDM. It also facilitates the settlement of a portion of the claim of the Ville de Montréal with respect to infrastructures, including the completion of infrastructure works valued at about 4 million dollars.
Johanne Goulet, SHDM's Executive Director since 2012, was pleased: "This is great news! With this agreement, the SHDM will take full control of its housing projects in the Faubourg Contrecoeur and puts an end to all contracts that was legally binding the corporation to Construction F. Catania. Furthermore, this agreement will also end all disputes that slowed down the development of the site in addition to enabling full recovery of the sums advanced for its development." She also made the following statement: "The real winners in this agreement are the residents of Faubourg Contrecoeur who will no longer fear that the development of the project will be hampered by litigations concerning Construction F. Catania." The SHDM will therefore get land and financial compensation that will allow it to act and contribute to the finalization of the Contrecoeur residential project according to its initial development plan.
The SHDM is conscious of the current residents' impatience to see their living environment completed, which is why it intends to launch the next phase of Accès Condos this fall. The corporation has also expressed its satisfaction of having obtained commitments for the construction of a food market and a seniors' residence in the foreseeable future. Another gain obtained as part of the agreement is that part of the land bordering the Carlos-Alcantara park will be developed to accommodate a community project such as a school, a childcare center (CPE) or a sports facility, thus responding to the needs of the community.
It should be noted however that the criminal prosecution for fraud against the managers of Construction F. Catania are still ongoing, and that the civil agreement will have no impact on the course of events in this regard. It should also be remembered that it was the SHDM that initially filed suit in this matter and that it has cooperated in the investigation.
Click here for the complete press release (in French).
A meeting will be organized in a few weeks by the borough of Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve to answer questions and concerns of Faubourg Contrecoeur residents.


How to force the label to always be visible on the activity in JViews Gantt?
The custom IlvActivityLabel is responsible for computing the activity's label location to ensure it is always visible. This is done through the getBounds() method.
Below is an example of overriding the IlvActivityLabel.getBounds() method so that the text stays left-aligned (the actual horizontal alignment property is ignored).
Note: Because the bounding box changes depends on the view transformer, you will need to disable optimized translation on the Gantt sheet to avoid redraw artifacts when scrolling.
// be created when the chart is scrolled.
* Returns the bounding rectangle of the label.
* @param ag The activity graphic.
* @param t The transformer.
* @return The bounding rectangle of the label.
// We first need to update the label text from the activity property.
// Find out what the label should be.
// renderer and centered vertically.
// x=0 is the left edge of the Gantt sheet.


2019-year is the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci and many celebrations and events are dedicated, in several forms, to this man who, with his works, his ideas and inventions has engraved a deep mark in the following development of modern society, until today. It is difficult to define Leonardo, who in a single person has embodied many necessary roles for the human, cultural, scientific and social development. The first image of Leonardo is perhaps linked with his artistic masterpieces, the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, the Lady with an Ermine, and several others are works that the world admires and have deeply influenced the successive arts developments. However, Leonardo was also a great scientist, with his studies on human body, his anatomic drawings, which have allowed great strides in the human body knowledge, his studies on birds' flight and hydraulics, just to mention the most renowned ones; in the Atlantic Code and in others of his writings he talks about botany, astronomy, mathematics and geography.
However, concerning what we are interested in, Leonardo was especially a great designer. In this case as well, it is difficult to make a list of his implementations and his designs without running the risk of forgetting something important: war machines, irrigation systems, architectural works and so on.
If we were not speaking of one of the greatest geniuses ever lived on earth, we might say, at first sight, his figure is outdated, creation of his age but today unthinkable, owing to the high knowledge specialization and parcelling.
Nevertheless, analysing more in-depth and focusing our attention on the designer figure, it is possible to express some interesting considerations for the modern industrial context, too. The vicissitudes and the results reached by Leonardo highlight that his achievements as designer can be considered the summary of his activities: his engineering works are the synthesis of his artistic skills and maintain their beauty but they are also the creation of a rational approach that links the scientific knowledge – and not only the intuition combined with empiricism – , with the construction of useful works, able to grant the functions for which they are made.
Therefore, a thorough analysis of Leonardo as designer suggests he can be considered a predecessor of modern industrial designers, operating in a context where competitiveness is gained only through an approach based on knowledge and the capability of turning it into innovation.
Nowadays (even if he is not Leonardo), the designer is also required a methodological approach enhancing multidisciplinarity and based on an in-depth analysis of the peculiar aspects of the design, besides his skills of mastering complex problems encompassing various scientific and technical disciplines. Today, designers are backed by a series of instruments that, on one hand, simplify their task and on the other hand require adequate training to be properly exploited, without risking of misusing them. Moreover, without the presumption of being artists, designers are expected to develop fine designs, able to highlight their content and to transmit a strong performing character.
In other words, today designers still have a lot to learn from Leonardo.


on 19th May 2004 19th May 2004 by Nakul Shenoy2 Comments on What a speech !!!
When I spoke to the Congress Parliamentary Party yesterday, I expected that there would be some disappointment and some sadness. But I have been totally overwhelmed by the outpouring of emotion from nearly every corner of our country. And I have been humbled by the love and affection that has been so spontaneously expressed.
Finally the drama cometh to an end… and another begins.
Dr Manmohan Singh, I wish you all the very best in taking my India to unseen heights and growth.
A sacrifice… to reap a BIG gain in the future…?
Close Your Eyes! There Is No Crime.
are you OK with this? I know you've been really concerned the last few days about how this was going to turn out. Do you think this man is what you're looking for?
Dr Manmohan Singh is ONE man in the Indian Congress Party that the people of India (political afficliations, no bar) respect. He was the architect of the "liberalization" of the Indian economy in the 1990s, and is one of the mots educated and brilliant economists in the country.
Amberish K Diwanji's article Not his Mistress's voice and G K Gokhale's Why is Dr Singh Sonia's choice? throw more light on this.


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Q: I want to first input on EditText showing decimal format as output 2 Here I have a problem that it can not display the decimal format in text1, please help me
public class MainActivity extends Activity implements OnClickListener {

int number1, number2 ;
EditText Text1;
TextView Text2;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

            Text1 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText1);
            Text2 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView3);

        Button button1 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
        button1.setOnClickListener(this);

            }
            @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                     DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat ("###,###,###");

                     number1 = Integer.parseInt( Text1.getText().toString());

                     if (number1 > 0)
                     {

                         number2 = ((number1* 3) /100)+ number2;
                         Text2.setText(df.format(number2));

                     }

              }

    }`

A: to show the decimal try this:
Change
DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat ("###,###,###");

for
DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat ("###,###,###.##");

and format the number in:
text1.setText()

If you just want to format an integer just:
text1.setText(df.format(your_integer_number))

By the way, edit your question to show what are you doing in text1.setText
UPDATE:
after the line:
Text2.setText(df.format(number2));

do the following:
int number=Integer.parseInt( Text1.getText().toString());
Text1.setText(new DecimalFormat ("###,###,###").format(number))

After
DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat ("###,###,###");

add the following:
Text1.setText("40000000")

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Departure station : Toulouse matabiau (64, Boulevard Pierre Sémard BP 35203 31079 Toulouse cedex 5)
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