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Kochi , Nov 9 (PTI): The Kerala High Court on Friday disqualified an Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) MLA on a plea claiming that he used religion to win the Assembly polls in 2016.
Disqualifying KM Shaji, who had won the elections from Azhikode Assembly constituency in 2016, for six years, Justice P D Rajan directed the Kerala Assembly Speaker and the Election Commission to take appropriate action.
The court gave the judgement on a plea filed by LDF candidate M V Nikesh Kumar, who contested the election against Shaji. IUML is a partner of the Congress-led opposition UDF in the state.
In his petition, Nikesh Kumar alleged that Shaji secured a win by a margin of 2,287 votes using corrupt practices. He accused Shaji of having violated norms prescribed under various sections of the Representation of the People Act to win the elections. Nikesh had alleged that an appeal was made to voters by Shaji, who belongs to the Muslim community, his agents and other persons to vote for the UDF candidate on grounds of his religion.
He had also charged that pamphlets were circulated in the constituency urging people not to vote for a candidate who is not a believer of the Islamic faith.
IUML said it will take a decision on filing an appeal after getting the judgement copy.
in Mangalore BJP asking votes in the name of hindhu religions, thier is lot of videos openenly asking in the namw of cow matha
I would say this is a good beginning to cleanse the 'Democracy' of India. If this judgment is taken literally, then pretty much every single party in India could be disqualified. Year after year, we have seen the misuse of religion, religious icons, caste, castiest symbols and appeals destroying the fabric of the Indian Republic's democracy and social harmony.In 2017 4-3 ruling, SC has baned seeking votes over religion, caste, language.The Supreme Court judgment barring politicians from using religion for electioneering must be welcomed by every citizen who loves this great nation.The court held that the provisions of the R P Act, which say that seeking vote by a candidate in the name of "his" religion, caste, race, religion and language in the election law, included candidates, his agents and voters also."An appeal in the name of religion, race, caste, community or language is impermissible under the R P Act, 1951 and would constitute a corrupt practice sufficient to annul the election in which such an appeal was made regardless of whether the appeal was in the name of the candidate's religion or the religion of the election agent or that of the opponent or that of the voter's.Let India rise on the prowess of development, honest money, and a non-religionist political discourse.''That will secure our future and also make an impact on the theologically run sham democracies in our neighborhood.Now Kerala High Court should also consider the statement of state BJP President in Sabarimala controversy and ban the 'Rath Yatra' polarising the vote bank.Jai Hind
Why other HC are not disqualifying the MP/MLA talks about religion. Politics is different and religion is different...... If anyone uses Politics in religion or religion in politics must be condemned and courts has to disqualify them.
BJP will not even cross 100 seats in 2019 ...
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So, Ram Mandir talk would be disqualify? Beware BJP!
BJP wont contest a single seat across India if respective HCs take the initiative accordingly.
Changing Minority names of Streets & Monuments by Politicians should also be Banned ...
Bravo HC Votes in name of religion and sermons for votes against one party both should be made illegal that will be true secularism.
Using religion to get votes should be banned. let an ordinance come from the apex court banning candidates if they use religion and religion related issues for vote and play with the emotions of people and create communal tensions. What actions would be taken for some politicians as they publicly want votes of majority religion people only and do not want minority votes
No more loose talk about Mandir & Masjid by Politicians ...
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:33:36 -0400 (EDT), Jeff Lawlis wrote: > Problem: use of ColorFunction affects spacing of Greek characters in > Frame label. > > Here is a simple example of the problem: > > SetOptions[Plot, Frame -> True, FrameLabel -> "Wavelength (\[Mu]m)"] > Plot[y = x, {x, 1, 1000}, > ColorFunction -> (ColorData["VisibleSpectrum"][#] &), > ColorFunctionScaling -> False, Filling -> Axis] > > Notice the space between the Greek character \[Mu] and the m, causing the > m to overlap the right parantheses. The space disappears if you remove > the ColorFunction gradient from the plot parameters. Also, if you change > \[Mu] to a standard character like m, the formatting looks perfectly > acceptable. To be honest, I don't really understand the reason for the > [#] & following the ColorData tag, but the gradient doesn't seem to work > properly without it. Is my syntax correct? I'm running under Windows and seeing this. My explanation may vary slightly in the details if you're seeing this on another platform, but the essence should be the same. Under Windows, the drawing of VertexColors (the option by which color gradients are implemented) is done using the 3D drawing system. One down side of using the 3D drawing system is that it requires using a completely different method of rendering fonts which is incapable of rendering ClearType. For small font sizes such as those used in FrameLabels by default, antialiasing actually reduces readability, unlike ClearType where it generally enhances readability. So, since Mathematica is unable to use ClearType and standard antialiasing would be less readable at this size, Mathematica turns off font smoothing altogether. But at small sizes, roundoff issues and other limitations can create the effect you're seeing of inappropriate spacing between characters. Even though we only need the 3D drawing system to correctly render one piece of the graphic, that choice affects the entire graphic, including frame labels. The issue won't affect printing, where font smoothing is not needed, and it won't be apparent under magnification, where the larger sizes allow better on-screen rendering of the text. Sincerely, John Fultz jfultz at wolfram.com User Interface Group Wolfram Research, Inc.


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Film Diary: Life Is Sweet (Mike Leigh, 1991)
Sunday, 31 August 2008
The essence of Mike Leigh is simple. Take a bunch of assorted characters, all larger than life but all very believable. Throw them into a dysfunctional suburban nightmare, and just let them get on with. There's little in the way of plot but oodles of insight into human nature, especially of the kind to be found in the neglected wastes of north London, with all its limited horizons. There's a whole world out there, but they can't see beyond the limits of their housing estate.
Everybody here shines. Alison Steadman as the tireless mother hen who laughs infuriatingly at her own jokes, and Jim Broadbent as her meek husband, a cook who dreams only of running a ramshackle hamburger stand. The terrible twins, Claire Skinner who crops her hair and works as a plumber and might go for a fortnight in America one day if she gets round to it, and Jane Horrocks in huge round glasses who doesn't have a clue what she wants to be, except very, very angry. Steven Rea as a drunken wide-boy and, best of all, Timothy Spall's gormlessly intense would-be restaurateur.
It's all very theatrical. Stagey, I mean. It leaves you with the feeling that it ought to be played out in the round above a pub somewhere. Mike Leigh hasn't, by 1991, quite found his cinematic feet yet, but he does a good job here. Very enjoyable. And totally bonkers.
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Sunday, 31 August 2008 at 23:28
I've not seen this one and it sounds like one i'd really like judging from the cast
Wednesday, 10 September 2008 at 13:59
So i've seen this now, i downloaded it after your review. Loved it! Timothy Spall was fantastic, indeed though maybe a little bit forced at times. I thought at first, the twins were played by the same person though i thought…one of them sounds a bit like Jane Horrocks but the other one doens't look like her. Much to my surprise, two actresses and Jane Horrocks was one of them. Excellent work
Friday, 13 February 2009 at 20:47
i really hope i get to do a play on this film at my school, i am watching it now on youtube funny enougth. seems good i was thinking the boy and girl have really SQUEAKY voices aye!


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Myself, a couple of other Waukegan firemen and a few Waukegan cops have been working together for the last year or so to form the Waukegan Police and Fire Memorial Fund (a 501c3 organization). The idea for the fund was born from the desire to financially assist the surviving spouses and children of our department's members that die either on or off duty while active sworn members. The fund will, in the event of the death of one of our members, provide immediate financial assistance to the family. Longer term, the fund will provide a small birthday and Christmas gift to the surviving children. We will also give a larger gift to each child upon their high school graduation. We felt the gifts would be nice, but the main goal is to make sure the family knows that they are still a part of our fire and police family.
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This trip was all about doing things we've never done before. Going to countries and cities we've never seen, discovering new cultures and languarages. This was, by far, the furthest from our comfort zone. In past trips we either knew English was abundant enough that we'd have no trouble whatsoever (Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Netherlands), or the main language was one that at least one of Tisha or I had some training in: France (me), Germany (Tisha), Russia (Tisha), Belgium (French in the parts we visited), Switzerland (German). But aside from Vienna (where German is spoken), this was going to be new territory. People generally speak a little English, but you'll find some who really don't, or are as self conscious about their English as I am about my attempts to mangle their language. But we got by just fine.
In any country we've visited, you can typically get by with only English, but if you have a phrasebook or dictionary for the times there's too much of a barrier (or to help you decode a menu), and just make it a point to learn the courtesies and pleasantries, you'll get by just fine. Czech and Slovak are similar languages, but not the same. Thank you in Czeck is pronounced "DRAH-koo-yeh" (where the DR is more of a dzr sound with a rolled r). In Slovak, it's "DRAH-koo-yem". But "please" in both is "PRO-seem."
But, Hungarian? Throw all that out the window. The Hungarian language is nothing like its neighbors. Its closest relative, for some reason, is Finnish, but even those are only distantly related. Hungarian "thank you" is "KUR-sur-nerm". "Please" is "KAY-rem". So just when I'd gotten used to saying "dobry-den" for hello/good-day in Czech and Slovak, in Hungarian we switch to "YO-na-poht".
You get used to it after a day or so, but it's disconcerting to switch so frequently. Thankfully, by the time we hit Austria, I could fall into my little bit of survival German pretty easily, having been in German-speaking countries a few times. "Bitte" and "Danke" are like second nature. "Grüss gott" is a bit different that "Guten Tag", but is easy enough. But I'm getting ahead of myself, at this point in the tale, we're in Hungary, so on with that.
After another delightful breakfast with our Bratislava hosts, we made our way to the train station for our train to Budapest. Not too long a ride, just under three hours. Upon arriving in Budapest, the weather was not any different than what we'd faced most of this trip – rain, drizzle, and occasionally fog. We met our charming host at our flat in the city after a short bus ride. He gave us plenty of tips and recommendations, then left us to our own devices, se we strode off to discover the area.
We walked the main shopping drag near the apartment (Andrássy út), often called the Champs-Élysées of Budapest. Very pretty, very pricey. We got to check out yet another Christmas market, and ride a big overpriced Ferris wheel (much like we did in Paris last year). Our post-supper activities were limited to another attempt at shoe repair by me, some much needed laundry thanks to a machine in the flat, and a frustrating attempt to stream the Packers game on my tablet (that was ultimately successful, but we fell asleep before the game ended).
The next day, it rained, so we relegated ourselves to indoor activities. Up until now, the rain has been sprinkles or drizzle, but this day was outright raining to the point we had to break out the umbrella. We went to Matthias church over on the Buda side up the hill, which was quite impressive. But the rain did in my last attempt at shoe repair, and I knew I was fighting a losing battle. My feet were soaking wet and cold, so off to the mall we went, back to the Pest side of things. We found a Tesco, and I bought a pair of sneakers and some dry socks (my feet were soaking by this point). After changing into dry shoes and socks (which felt *sooo good*), I tossed my water-logged shoes into the trash, and after a bite to eat we made our way back to Buda to do the Hungarian House of Wine. Turns out the place was inexplicably closed, possible for good. So we figured we'd try the wine cellar across the street at Hilton. Alas, they were closed for holiday. Sigh. I will not let this get me down. We took the bus/metro back to Franz Liszt square (where we were staying), and had a lovely chicken paprikash dinner, and some grog. Yum.
Our last full day in Budapest proved to be a rainy day again, so we took off to do the parliament tour, then the fine arts museum. We were going to try to do a river cruise, but the weather just wasn't going to make that worthwhile, so instead we found a charming little cat cafe to go hang out at before supper. This place had five or six cats with free reign over 3 floors of the place. Some would come to hang out with you, some would let you come pet them. We stayed for a coffee (for Tisha) and a couple of beers (for me), and unwound surrounded by cute kitties.
And that's all she wrote for Budapest. We'll be back, if only to see the beautiful city without the clouds and the rain. Next entry I'll sum up our wonderful Vienna visit. Until then, jó éjszakát!


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Tea Party Star Rand Paul on Mountaintop Mining: Nobody Will Miss a Hill or Two (Video)
To me, nothing makes a stronger case in favor of more government regulation than the obscene practice of mountaintop removal mining. I mean, this is the stuff that inspires sci-fi films like Avatar: giant corporations literally buying up pristine habitat, and blowing it up. It would be comical if it didn't happen every day in Appalachia. Here, Tea Party favorite and the GOP's Senate candidate for Kentucky Rand Paul discusses his view of the practice:
To put that in perspective, here's Zaid Jilani: "To illustrate what Paul views as "a hill or two," here's a satellite-taken before-and-after image of a mountaintop removal site in Mud River, West Virginia:
This is why I still can't take libertarianism seriously in the policy arena -- as an ideological belief, sure, it sounds nice. Leave big corporations alone, and the marketplace will offer incentives for them to do the right thing. Unfortunately, the market offers no discouragement for leveling thousands of acres of forest habitat. The practice seems fundamentally indefensible, and the majority of Americans agree with me -- and yet, corporations are allowed to continue dynamiting wilderness, because the market permits it.
To Rand Paul's credit, he sticks to his guns. To his discredit, his statement that no one will miss a hill or two is absolutely idiotic -- mountaintop removal mining not only causes contamination in water supplies and grave health problems in nearby communities, but there are people out there who love Appalachia, and will absolutely miss it when it's been reduced to smoldering rubble in the pursuit of cheap coal.
More on Mountaintop Removal Mining
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Can I buy a house as a PhD student?
Yes, PhD students can buy a house even when they do not have a permanent contract or do not even get a letter of intent for a permanent contract from the university.
On the one hand there is a large group of PhD students who think that they are not eligible for a mortgage because they do not have a permanent contract. This group continues to pay too much money because they rent a house instead of buying it. Renting is more flexible but a lot more expensive than buying. Especially given the current historically low interest rates!
Also there are PhD students who are already searching for their own property based on the idea that they have a good future perspective because they have a good (educational) background. Nevertheless in practice it often appears that PhD students (and postdocs) have difficulty getting a mortgage. The reason for that is because a mortgage for PhD students does not fit within the standards of the lenders. Another important reason is that many mortgage advisers do not know how the contracts of PhD students within the universities work and therefore can't make a sound substantiation of your mortgage application. This is completely unnecessary!
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Most universities do not give PhD students a letter of intent. The letter of intent implies that your employer declares that he intends to offer you a permanent contract, provided that you continue to function the same and the business conditions remain unchanged.
A mortgage without a letter of intent is not impossible but requires more expertise from the mortgage advisor and depends of course on your personal situation.
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The first option for obtaining a mortgage without a letter of intent is that the mortgage advisor looks at the income of the recent years. For the mortgage, the mortgage advisor has to calculate the average income of the past three calendar years and you must be able to hand over an employer's statement. The average income is the income that can be taken into account for the mortgage but always to a maximum of the annual income of the last calendar year.
If you want a mortgage without a letter of intent and the average income of recent years is sufficient according to the mortgage standard, then it is even possible to qualify for a mortgage with National Mortgage Guarantee (NHG).
Many PhD students want to buy a house in the first years and don't have (sufficient) employment history so that the mortgage application does not fit within the standards of the mortgage lender.
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It's true. I said I refused to start a math blog because what in the world do I have to contribute to the world of math bloggers. There are so many amazing teachers out there whose blogs I rely on and enjoy reading. Many of them told me that blogging isn't for the public, it's for reflection for yourself. Ok. Fine. I'm still not sure if I buy that or even if I'll go public with this. I used to blog just for fun (not math related), but it got to be too much, so we shall see.
Tomorrow I am headed to Oklahoma for the first time. I believe it's my 28th state to visit and one I was pretty sure that I would never go to unless it was to hang out with gymnast Shannon Miller circa 1992. So why am I going? Math Camp. Yep.
A while back – can't even tell you when that was – I stumbled into this land of the #MTBoS. I'm still not sure I really "get it," but landing within that realm has changed me as a teacher. I hang around on twitter snooping on people's conversations and constantly hoping to learn something from them. I read blogs and feel totally inadequate as I wonder where and how all these people learned to be so amazing. At some point I kept seeing references to TMC (Twitter Math Camp) and it seemed like the most fun ever. But I could never be part of that because I'm not a joiner. Last year I once again read people talking about it and wished I could go, but my mom and I were going on a cruise at the same time. When talk began again this year, I knew I really wanted to go, but wasn't sure. I'm introverted by nature and have anxiety about situations that are unfamiliar. So I went back and forth about registering and on the morning that registration opened something crazy happened.
I decided to say what the hell. This is not me. You could say I was bullied, but in the very nicest sort of way. Someone I had never met basically said I had 3 hours to sort out travel and if I wasn't registered by that point she'd find me and beat me down. All of a sudden all these people came out of the woodworks to say they had felt the same way when they went the previous year or that they were feeling the same way about going this year. So I took the bullying and signed up. Immediately I was super excited. My new bully, I mean friend, sent me her phone number (yes, to a complete stranger) and told me to call her when I got to another conference in April. Um… like that was going to happen.
Finally April came along and I headed to NOLA for the NCTM annual conference. My new friend was going to be there and I hoped maybe I'd meet her so I had a familiar face when I got to TMC. Well, not only did we meet, but she took me under her wing (awkward since I'm way taller 😉 ). She introduced me to amazing people and let me follow her around like a little puppy dog. I had a blast at the conference and a great deal of that was because I started to feel part of a community.
So now. TMC is tomorrow. My excitement is mixed with a huge amount of anxiety. I know that everyone I meet is going to be amazing. I know that this will be a life changing weekend. But still, I have that nagging feeling of being the loser in the corner (and considering I was at a wedding just this weekend where that was ABSOLUTELY the case…). I know that a lot of my new friends to be feel the same way I do. The dumb thing is that I worry about stupid things like, well who will I eat with and that I'm probably the least smart person there (and I'm pretty smart, so…). I guess part of this is because I was never really the "new kid." I went to one school k-8, one for hs where I was in a class of 72 girls and was friendly with everyone, and one college for undergrad and grad where my specific major had about 20 people in it. So ya. Not used to being a newbie or "outsider." Small talk and striking up conversations are not things on my list of strengths. There's a quote or phrase that comes to mind which is, "there are no strangers here, only friends we haven't met." I know that will be the case at TMC and frankly I just need to get over it.
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"Homebody" has a bit of a negative connotation. And let's face it, so does "stay at home." This blog is about changing that: providing easily searchable ideas for DIY toys, games, and activities, as well as encouragement for doing things your own way. (And it's not just for moms or dads who stay home — this is a blog for everyone!)
What's so great about being a homebody?
Staying at home lets you avoid the chaos of rushing from this to that. I'm not suggestion that you don't do things. My toddler (whom I will call "J" for the purposes of this blog) and I do yoga, go to playdates, and take a class at a local preschool. But I find that J and I are more stressed on these days. He doesn't much like the car (unless he is "driving"), and that means that going anywhere can be a challenge.
You can do things your way. I'm not a control freak (most of the time), but it's nice to be able to make your own rules. You don't have to worry about someone else judging your parenting when your little one has a tantrum. You don't have to worry about your little one having a tantrum because she wants a candy bar she sees in the grocery checkout line. And you don't have to try to keep your kid away from influences you may not like, whatever those may be.
It's free! Most home activities are free or really cheap. You can play in the yard or a nearby park, get out some pots and pans and play in the kitchen, or make crafts with your crayons and construction paper. Don't fall into the trap of believing that you need to buy lots of toys. As you've likely found, kids often have more fun with the cardboard box than the expensive toy that came in it.
It gives you a chance to slow down. We are always rushing, rushing, rushing these days. But I firmly believe that it's best for kids not to rush. The way to learn and develop a curiosity about the world is to have a chance to calmly investigate it at your leisure. Let your child throw himself into playing with sand or water for a few hours if he wants! Enjoy the peace of sitting calmly nearby or raking leaves or doing some meditative breathing. We all benefit when we slow down.
It's creative and fun. I love organizing things and making things. Much of the time, the creation is more fun for me than the utilization of something. I love making toys and creating games to play with my son. It's a way for me to express my creativity and to practice seeing the world through his eyes. I find myself excitedly noticing a huge leaf on the ground when I take our dog for a walk while Hubby puts J to sleep — because I want to show it to J the next day and see his eyes light up with interest. It's a way to be young again and express yourself.
There are a million other reasons, of course, but here are a few to get this blog started. I look forward to sharing more ideas in the future!


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Paul Holmes 06 Jul 2001 // 11:00PM GMT
When President Clinton arrived in Washington just four months ago, his harsh campaign rhetoric about the special interests who were distorting the political process still ringing in the city's ears, it looked as though the days of access and influence-peddling might this time truly be numbered. Adjustments would have to be made, new ways found of bringing pressure to bear on Congress.
Actually, there was nothing new about "grassroots lobbying," the relatively simple—some might say obvious—concept that the most effective way to bring pressure to bear on a particular Congressman might be by supplementing one's PAC contributions and personal presence by an orchestrated effort to indicate to him that the people he represents actually give a damn about the issue in question.
It began to look increasingly important, however, when it became apparent that both the Clinton and Perot presidential campaigns had brought people at the grass roots level back into the political process, and that the President and the media were going to be quick to attack any activity that looked like the begging of special favors for narrow interests.
"Companies that had traditionally relied on lobbying, or felt they could depend on President Bush to veto any anti-business legislation, suddenly needed to find a new way to exert influence," says the president of one public affairs firm. "Even though the President is severely weakened right now, there's still a feeling that a new approach is needed, one that emphasizes not narrow corporate interests but broad public interests."
Changes in technology have had a remarkable impact on the ability of firms to generate "grassroots" response. Bonner & Associates, which specializes in generating bulk mailings to Congressmen, has a $1 million-plus computer operation with extensive databases of individuals in every state interested in specific issues, and six telephone rooms where 300 lines are manned by the company's operators.
Bonner charges by results, not for any quality of thinking that may go into the strategy, billing clients $350 to $500 for each letter or call from a "community leader," and a fraction of that rate for letters and calls from less notable citizens. The fact that Bonner charges "by the pound" in this way is derided by many competitors, who believe that most Congressmen can spot this kind of communications campaign's lack of spontaneity a mile off.
The firm provides talking points on the issues to the people it lines-up, and somtimes even scripts telephone calls and letters. Mailings that obviously all come from the same basic script are getting easier and easier to spot, however, and many Congressional staffers complain that when they engage callers prompted by such grass roots efforts in conversation they often find a complete lack of understanding of the issue at hand.
Many lawmakers profess to having developed an immunity to mass mailings. Senator Henry Waxman (D-Cal.) is typical: "When some of these grass-roots campaigns got started they were effective because they were new," he says. "I think the effectiveness has worn off. Members and their staff get their letters and know they're ginned up."
Jim McAvoy, head of the recently-formed grass roots division of Burson-Marsteller, agrees. "When the first postcard arrives saying `Please oppose the BTU tax because it would cost me my job' it looks genuine enough," he says. "By the time you've seen 1,000 of them on the same day its pretty apparent they are not spontaneous."
McAvoy says there are some offices on the Hill that no longer reply to either postcards or to names on petitions, because they are so easy to generate. He recalls during his time as a Congressional staffer issuing responses to every name on a petition presented by a trade association, but says today such names would likely be ignored.
Another criticism of many grass roots efforts is that they are focused on the short-term. Says one agency executive: "What happens is you have a database of a few thousand people who are basically ideologues who will call in to support business and industry on any issue. If you called them up and said business should have the right to burn children to produce energy they'd write a letter supporting you. And you go to the same people on issue after issue, and people on the Hill are hip to that."
Another tactic that has drawn derision from public affairs professionals, was applied by the conservative Citizens for a Sound Economy, which was dedicated to fighting Detroit's push for steeper tariffs on foreign minivans. It boasted a coalition that included the Boy Scouts of America, the March of Dimes, the American Heart Association and the Arthritis Foundation.
The only problem was the way the group recruited such a prestigious list. When it found someone in a local chapter of any of the organizations it contacted who agreed with its position—that higher tariffs would hurt consumers—it asked that individual to write a letter on the organization's letterhead, and then claimed that the organization as a whole was part of its coalition.
"If you want credibility on an issue, you need to find people who are genuinely interested in that issue, and who understand it and can talk about it intelligently," says the agency exec. "But that takes time. It's a long-term process. That's not something where somebody comes to you on Thursday and you have 10,000 letters in the mail on Monday. Unfortunately, as long as that option exists, companies will see it as a short-cut and they won't invest in the long-term constituency building programs that pay off down the line."
Jim McAvoy says the Association of American Railroads is an example of an organization that is using grass roots techniques as part of a long-term strategy. For several years it has been building relation ships in support of changes in the workers' compensation system for railroad employees, which it claims is too burdensome.
"More and more we are moving from a bucket-shop approach to a more genuine grass roots effort that identifies key members, and a few key individuals who are likely to have an influence on them for a particular issue," he says. "More and more we operate like a political campaign, going into a particular state or district and using the tools a political campaign would use to generate interest and support for an issue."
One principle that seems to apply is that the stranger the bedfellows, the stronger the case. If disparate organizations that are normally antagonistic, can be brought together over an issue, their credibility is likely to be enhanced. Legal Times recently identified four forces combining to make unexpected coalitions more powerful:
- decision-making power is increasingly dispersed, so that specific policy pressure points have become more difficult to identify, and lobbying efforts require a broadbased approach: often too broad for one single-issue group;
- as the number of advocacy groups has increased, it is more and more difficult to propel an issue onto the screen;
- tight fiscal constraints hinder the prospects for success, requiring groups to forge consensus across a wide spectrum of interests and work together to carve up a shrinking economic pie; and
- President Clinton's own consensus building approach puts a premium on constituencies that approach policymakers with a solid alliance of interests.
Others say that while the power of mass letter writing campaigns is on the wane—that they may even be counterproductive, alienating staffers who have more important things to do—carefully targeted grass roots efforts are gaining in importance. That's the approach adopted by Ketchum Public Relations, for example, working for pharmaceutical companies opposed to the President's plan for universal purchasing of vaccines for children.
"The people we have found to be the most powerful, the most influential, on this issue are pediatricians," says Ketchum's Lorraine Thelian. "While their trade association supports the Clinton initiative, there are many individual pediatricians who do not. They believe, as does our client, that the real issue is not universal purchase, but education: finding ways of persuading more parents to get their children vaccinated.
Thelian says identifying those pediatricians who support that position, making sure they understand the issue, and helping them communicate with lawmakers has been the agency's most important task in fighting the plan.
Steve Rabin, head of the Washington office of Porter Novelli believes the ideal grassroots campaign may actually target a considerably smaller group of influentials.
"I think there is probably an elite out there on every issue," he says. "They are people who have studied the issue, who understand it probably better than anyone on the Hill. They may be inside the beltway or outside the beltway. They may be academics or researchers or consumer activists or Congressional staffers or even reporters. There may be 100 or so of them on any given issue, but it's going to be 100 different people on every issue."
The challenge for public relations people, Rabin says, will be identifying those 100 people on each issue, figuring out their positions, and then helping those who share a client's interest communicate as effectively as possible with the target audience, which may be the media, the whole Congress, a committee or perhaps just one Congressman.
Mass grass roots campaigns, Rabin says, will continue because companies feel they need to match their rivals. However, Congressmen will increasingly take it for granted that all the employees of American Airlines feel the BA/USAir merger is a bad idea, while all the employees of USAir think it's a great plan.
It seems clear that grass roots campaigning will become more targeted in the future. As Congressmen come to recognize mass letter campaigns for what they are, and as grass roots campaigns on either side of an issue balance each other out, the quality of the grass is likely to become more important than the quantity, and the challenge for PR people will be identifying the influences.


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Jon Butterfield and Kate Jones; Research Surveyors for
Outward - overcast, decent visibility. Primarily south-westerly wind force 5-6. Return - overcast with light rain, poor visibility at times, improving on final morning towards Humber. South-westerly to west south-westerly wind force 4.
Marine Mammals
Grey Seal Halichoerus grypus 2
Great Black-backed gull Larus marinus 2
Gannet Morus bassanus 25
Guillemot Uria aalge 12
Razorbill Alca torda 5
Lesser Black-backed gull Larus fuscus 35
Common gull Larus canus 15
Herring gull Larus argentatus 3
Puffin Fratercula arctica 1
Unidentified auk Sp 3
'Commic' Tern Sterna hirundo/Sterna paradisaea 13
Once on board the impressive "Pride of Bruges" we were shown to our well-appointed cabin before being introduced to the Captain, Fred Jenkman, who allowed us on to the bridge as soon as the ship departed.
As we passed down the River Humber we saw a number of seabirds, primarily gulls feeding and, on the outer reaches, two Grey Seal were spotted.
Grey Seal (Rick Morris)
After passing Spurn Point and entering the North Sea, sightings picked up and we logged various seabirds; Guillemot and Gannet and a variety of gull species. There were a number of juvenile gulls and it was a great opportunity to practice identifiying these younger birds by their varied plumages. As darkness descended, we thanked the bridge team and headed down for dinner and a good night's sleep.
We awoke for an early start (at 5am) to survey as we approached the Belgian coast. We recorded increasing numbers of Lesser Black-backed Gull which followed the ship for some time and afforded us close-up views of these masterful flyers. On the approach to Zeebrugge we also saw a number of Gannet, some of which were busy plunge diving for fish which was a real treat to see, along with a couple of Great Black-backed Gull.
We docked in Zeebrugge and left the ship for the day; enjoying the culture in Bruges before re-boarding for the early evening departure. During the evening crossing we were followed by a number of Lesser Black-backed Gull, 12 in all, circling the ship and providing us with plenty of entertainment. Gannet were visible again, at a similar point, on the crossing and the First Officer informed us that they were regularly sighted there, a few kilometers from a wind farm. 'They love windmills!' he joked with us. At the end of the day the mists lifted and we were treated to a glorious sunset before we ended the survey and made our way to bed.
We awoke early on Monday to clear skies as we approached the Humber, encountering a number of Guillemot and Razorbill, as well as a Puffin and some attractive juvenile Kittwake and an all-round increase in sightings. The highlight was a large group of Tern dip-feeding in their unmistakable acrobatic style.
Spurn Point (Kate Jones)
As we left the bridge we thanked the Captain and his officers for their hospitality and friendliness during the survey on the excellent "Pride of Bruges".
We would like to thank P&O for their support for this survey.
Jon Butterfield and Kate Jones; Research Surveyors for MARINElife


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For someone who writes a lot about hatred and other destructive impulses, who has a completely unsentimental view of human nature, I confess I'm a sucker for a good love story; my favorite theme is the power of love to transform character in a way that leads to real psychological and emotional growth. Few films portray this power better than 'Groundhog Day' with Bill Murray and Andie McDowell.
In the early moments of the film, we meet Phil Conners, an egotistical TV weatherman defined by his arrogance, conceit and contempt for those around him. "People are morons," he tells Rita, his new producer. He ridicules her for finding the groundhog story endearing; he mocks the citizens of Punxsutawney for dancing all night before the Groundhog Festival ("They're hicks") and insinuates sotto voce that the waitress in his B&B is an idiot for not knowing how to spell cappuccino or espresso. All in all, he's a rather nasty fellow who believes he's superior to everyone.
"I make the weather," he tells the highway patrolman who turns them back from Pittsburgh in the face of a blizzard. In psychoanalytic terms, I'd say his character is defined by its omnipotence.
While well-defended people like Phil Conners don't often seek treatment, I've worked with several individuals with a similar character structure. For all of them, the issue came down to a hatred of dependence and neediness; instead of entering into relationships with people they regarded as separate, where mutual dependency was a fact, they would either devalue the people they needed and cared about, viewing them with contempt, or try to control and manipulate them to avoid feeling separate and dependent upon them.
In my school of thought, control, triumph and contempt are the primary defenses against an awareness of need, a need so powerful it makes you feel helpless in the face of it.
Phil treats the objects of his desire in just this way. First he sexually manipulates Nancy Lincoln, a beautiful stranger he spots at the groundhog festival, by concocting a shared history and telling her he wants to marry her. Because he lives the same day over and over, there are no consequences to his actions and he can do whatever he likes. Social restraint has been removed and as a result, he feels free to exploit people ruthlessly, with no regard for their feelings and no fear of punishment.
Next he goes after Rita, the true object of his desire; as portrayed in a brilliant montage, he spends weeks learning about her, altering his own behavior to manipulate her, progressing step-by-step to the point where he gets her into his room at the B&B and tries to seduce her.
When Rita realizes he has been manipulating her, she asks him, "Is that what love means to you?" The answer is yes, of course — for Phil, loves means attempting to control and manipulate the woman he desires. "I could never love anyone like you," she then tells him, "because all you care about is yourself." Phil's response is telling: "That's not true. I don't even like myself." For a man like Phil — and my clients in treatment — powerful self-hatred lies at the core of their superior defenses.
After another brilliant montage in which he tries with increasing desperation to relive the almost-perfect night with Rita, he finally gives up in despair. In the next scene when he once again appears at the Groundhog Festival and greets her, he looks depressed. His hopeless longing for her is palpable. At last his defenses have cracked and he has come into contact with desire and need so powerful he feels helpless in the face of them.
In the next post, I'll conclude the discussion and show how Phil's character is transformed by the power of love.


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Outbound tourism from mainland China has grown and far outpacing its inbound tourism, a report from think tank Center for China & Globalization (CCG) and travel giant Ctrip revealed July 5.
According to the report, 128 million mainland tourists went abroad in 2015, a 312.9% increase over 2005. Yet over the same decade, inbound tourism only rose by 11.2%, an average 1% per year.
This has created a 30 million person "deficit" for tourism to the mainland, according to the report. The growth of inbound tourism also was left behind by the 81.3% growth of inbound tourism to the Asia-Pacific region.
CCG secretary general Lv Miao said that inconvenient visa applications, poor English translations and lack of qualified public facilities such as nursing rooms and disabled bathrooms may lead to overseas tourists looking elsewhere for vacations.
Huiyao Wang, founder and president of CCG, said that the mainland's tourism woes are more a "software" problem than a "hardware" one.
Among all the issues the mainland is confronted with, visas may be the biggest. While a number of countries offer Chinese citizens multi-year travel visas to boost tourism, the mainland does not have a similar program.
Ctrip senior vice president Bo Sun pointed out another issue: The lack of tourism promotion for the mainland in other countries.
He noted that tourism bureaus from other countries and regions often reach out to Chinese travel agencies such as Ctrip to localize their advertisements and figure out the best means to reach Chinese customers.
Sun recommended that Chinese regional travel bureaus should learn from their overseas counterparts by reaching out to other markets. He emphasized that this is particularly important since the information about different areas in the mainland that exists overseas tends to be incomplete or outright wrong.
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If you've ever been fortunate enough to attend a tea ceremony, then you know that within the simplicity of movements, the quiet beauty of the room and the refined elegance of the utensils, there is a deep world where the moment becomes living art.
A tea master — chajin — pays attention with concentrated focus to all aspects of the ceremony, such as what type of scroll to hang, the season, the nature of the guests and possibly a theme for the event. To choose and match all the needed utensils for a Tea ceremony — and there are many — the host must be as creative as the makers of the utensils to deliver a performance that allows everything and everyone to harmonize. This is no easy task and takes years of study and practice.
If you happened to be a tea master for a day, what combination of utensils would you use? There's now a splendid opportunity to test your own sensibilities at the National Museum of Modern Art, Crafts Gallery's current exhibition "About the Tea Ceremony — A Viewpoint on Contemporary Kogei-Studio Crafts," which shows until Nov. 23.
The exhibition showcases piees by 26 artists working in a variety of mediums that include glass, lacquer, metal, textiles, porcelain and stoneware. As you enter the first room, the curators have been thoughtful enough to arrange two settings of utensils so that guests can see how arranged utensils should appear in a tea room.
The first setting displays ancient works that include a 16th-century Bizen ware mizusashi (fresh-water) jar — the 16th century being the time that the tea ceremony developed into its present form — along with a nanban (southern barbarian) waste-water jar. Inside this glass case are also works in bamboo, metal and a fine scroll by the late Morikazu Kumagai (1880-1977).
Across the room is another case showing works of some of the greatest 20th-century giants that include a 1952 Shino incense case by Toyozo Arakawa (Living National Treasure, 1894-1985) and a stunning lacquer tea caddy by Tatsuaki Kuroda (Living National Treasure, 1904-1982), among others. Now that you now have the criteria for mixing and matching the needed tea utensils, you're on your own to explore the individual works in the adjoining rooms.
One important aspect of this exhibition is to find how younger artists are approaching the tea ceremony, and there are a few artists still in their 30s who are valiantly producing works that speak to the present day. One such artist is Bizen potter Koichiro Isezaki (b. 1974), whose boldly faceted Black Bizen mizusashi container was chosen to grace the exhibition's main poster. I was able to talk with Isezaki about how he viewed this exhibition, and about his own work and the tea ceremony.
"As an artist, I don't think that much about the rules of a tea ceremony. My role is to make works that I enjoy and then let a tea master decide how they will integrate into a tea ceremony," he told me when asked about his mindset when making chawan (tea bowls). He added, "I'll fire about 40 chawan in my kiln, and out of those 40, only about 20 will be successful. And then out of that 20, only 10 or so will be works I will exhibit."
In the exhibition, Isezaki is showing three chawan that are strong expressions in clay with a fine sense of balance, texture and temperament. He remarked, "I want to tell a story within my chawan that builds upon the process of forming, the beauty of the clay combined with the unpredictable firing. I also like my chawan to have a little sensuality as well."
He concluded that he feels it is a great honor to be showing in such a prestigious show. And he offered hope for the tea ceremony when he commented, "In my generation there's a growing interest in things Japanese and this naturally leads people to the tea ceremony and tea culture. I'm certainly one of those who are looking toward Japan again, and I just happen to make chawan. In the end, these days it seems we're all searching for something."
What is to be discovered in the cosmos of a tea room is certainly worth searching for:an inner world of silence and contentment matched with an outer world of beauty within the seasons and time. What could be more enlightening?
"About the Tea Ceremony — A Viewpoint on Contemporary Kogei-Studio Crafts" at The National Museum of Modern Art, Crafts Gallery (1-1 Kitanomaru-koen, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0091) runs till Nov. 23. Admission ¥500 (free entry on Nov. 3); open 10 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Mon. For more information, visit www.momat.go.jp/english. Robert Yellin is a longtime resident of Japan who runs www.japanesepottery.com. He's available to give lectures and/or guided tours to the great potting towns of Japan.


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Installed a Lubuntu in a 2006 HP laptop. Everything going so fine even without googling any issue. They sure make *ubuntu installation pretty easy even for noob like me. :P
However, it's another thing when I tried to install printer (Canon MX700). The official Canon support page listed nothing for Linux. But I found an old post in Ubuntu forum that did the trick.
First try doesn't work the way it supposed to be, but looks like that's because some packages are already obsolete. However, made some changes to the script, and it finall worked. Too bad I couldn't reply to original post since the thread has been closed.
Download the packages in a zip file [here], and execute these scripts one by one to make sure every line works.
sudo apt-get install libcups2 libcups2-dev sudo apt-get install libc6 libcups2 libpopt0 libatk1.0-0 libcairo2 libcupsys2 libfontconfig1 libglib2.0-0 libgtk2.0-0 libpango1.0-0 libpng12-0 libpopt0 libtiff5 libx11-6 libxcursor1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxml2 libxrandr2 libxrender1 sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i cnijfilter-common_2.80-1_i386.deb sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i cnijfilter-mp520series_2.80-1_i386.deb cd cups-bjnp-0.5.5/ sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr sudo make ./bjnp sudo make install sudo chown -hR root /usr/lib/cups/filter sudo chown -hR root /usr/lib/cups/backend sudo chgrp -hR root /usr/lib/cups/filter sudo chgrp -hR root /usr/lib/cups/backend
Credits to 'gamecraziness' and 'Menthu_Rae' from [here] and [here].


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So after 4 years in Finland, I finally got to ski for the first time ever in my life. It was so much fun but unfortunately also extremely tiring at least for a first timer like me who hadn't developed the needed muscles for it. Ansku took some pictures:
Sunday, March 1, 2009
6 comments:
- Janne said...
You look about as comfortable on skiis as I do :). Where did you ski? Tuusulanjärvi?
- March 2, 2009 at 12:53 AM
- Unknown said...
grats, but i suggest to go to a downhill next time. It's much better. ;)
- March 2, 2009 at 2:20 AM
- zeenix said...
> Where did you ski?
> Tuusulanjärvi?
Somewhere in Espoo on a frozen lake, can't recall the name. :(
- March 2, 2009 at 3:35 AM
Man, *4 years* and no skiing!? I was there for *one month* and nearly went. ;)
- March 3, 2009 at 7:59 AM
I agree with Simone, when i think about skiing it's always about taking a nice downhill with lots of speed and great g-forces in the corners :)
Anyway, a nice start at least.
- March 3, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- Unknown said...
Maybe you shouldn't have become a software developer, but rather a muscle developer.
- March 12, 2009 at 1:11 AM
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- AnonymousSeptember 22, 2015 at 10:09 AM
About not evacuating the school: the teacher apparently though it was the "infrastructure" for a bomb, which is why security and eventually the cops were contacted. The cops took him in because Texas has a hoax bomb law and what he had certainly looked like a bomb, and had produced the effect of a hoax bomb, whatever the intention. So there was no reason for anyone to evacuate the school, and the fact that they didn't doesn't mean anything.ReplyDelete
The school didn't do anything wrong here, except to the extent that schools need to stop going overboard with kids who bring in clocks, make pretend guns out of Pop-Tarts or their hands, etc. And we have no evidence that Ahmed's treatment had a thing to do with him being brown-skinned (and a fair amount of counterevidence since Pop-Tart kid and others who've gotten similar treatment were lily white).


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"Tomorrow Never Dies"
Bond: Pierce Brosnan
Classic, Cheese, or Crap?: CRAP
"Tomorrow Never Dies" is easily my least favorite Brosnan Bond. I will quickly cede that "Die Another Day" is a worse film (I mean, a MUCH worse film), but that movie has such a cheese factor going for it that I enjoy watching it more.
"Tomorrow Never Dies" is a Bond movie that actively irritates me. One of the few in the series that make me mad. There are a handful of quality elements that are wasted here, and then some things that outright poor. And at the end of the day, it takes itself very seriously, so it's hard to have fun with it.
My chief complaint with "Tomorrow Never Dies" is the villain, Elliot Carver, played by Jonathan Pryce.
Carver pushes the world to the brink of World War III in order to sell newspapers. Oh, ok, he's got a whole media conglomerate going, so it's not just newspapers. But you get the point. Now, granted, he's certainly not the first Bond Villain to threaten the world for the sake of personal profit… in fact they all do in some way or another. But no one has ever done it in such a petty fashion. Steal a nuke! Build a space laser! Cause an Earthquake! Put fake newspaper headlines out and earn cable tv rights in China?? What the hell is that??! Plus, Pryce seems like a squirmy little toad of a man. Not that a lot of Bond villains could face off against him physically, but it just seems as if he should be an accounting manager and not a villain on a global scale.
My second complaint is Wai Lin, played by Michelle Yeoh.
Now, Yeoh is fine as an actress, ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is one of my favorite movies of all time) and an excellent martial artist. But as a Bond girl? Not so much. That's not my main complaint though, there are actually plenty of Bond girls who aren't up to snuff throughout the course of the series.
No, my main complaint is that her character is Bond's equal in the movie… and in some ways shown to be a better combatant than Bond himself. Bond is and should always be a solo artist (in the field, at least). I don't need or want to see him "teamed up" with anyone for long. And I especially don't want to see a scene WITHOUT Bond, like the one we got here where Michelle Yeoh demonstrates her martial arts abilities against like 5 or 6 guys while Bond is offscreen. Bond should never be offscreen during an action sequence, let alone upstaged during an action sequence. I mean, Bond has never been shown to have that kind of fighting prowess. What the hell…
There are things I enjoy about "Tomorrow Never Dies" that keep it from being ranked in my rankings at the bottom of the barrel, though. Chief among them is the all too brief role Terri Hatcher plays as one of the best "Sacrificial Lambs" in the series. She and Brosnan were so excellent together in her few minutes onscreen that I consider not having her as the main Bond Girl in this movie amongst one biggest production gaffes in series history. There's also a couple of fun moments when Bond is driving a remote control car. And I suppose the Saigon helicopter chase is a decent enough action sequence.
But when you can't get behind the plot, the villain, the Bond girl, and the tone of the movie (if you're going to be serious, you have to seriously be good), it's just too much to overcome. Production values, a couple of cool elements, and Brosnan as Bond save this flick from the bottom of the pile, but this is one of my least favorite Bonds.
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Friday, June 25, 2010
Say It, Don't Spray It
I was at the grocery store yesterday and passed one of their employees stocking fruit. I watched as this woman sneezed right onto the fruit. Didn't even cover her mouth or anything.
After she left to go stock something else, I walked over there and noticed that there was a thin layer of something on the fruit. It was mist from her spit, which I have named Spist.
This reminded me of how people at my store turn their head to sneeze all the time. If their hands are full and the sneeze is coming on, many will just turn their head to sneeze and not cover their mouth at all. They won't even use their arm to cover up their sneeze. Which means everything to the right or left of them will get sprayed with Spist.
Now, this is WAY better than sneezing on me, which people do all the time, but still. People don't know what their touching in the store and who has recently sneezed or coughed on what.
We clean the store everyday, but no one thinks to wipe down the Tic-Tacs or packages of gum. All of those contain Spist.
If you happen to pick up something in the store, it's probably wise to wash your hands immediately. Spist can contain many things, most of the time it's phlegm with bits of throat skin in it. Do you really want to be touching throat skin?
So the next time you go shopping, it would probably be best to pick the item that's all the way in the back. That way you're probably safe from flying Spist.
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ummm, ick, you are always grossing me out and I love it. But I really can not even think when I go grocery shopping now. thanksReplyDelete
Some people are so friggin disgusting. What is happening to our society that people are being raised to think nothing is wrong with sneezing and coughing all over everything? One of my friends blew her nose into a restaurant's CLOTH napkin one time and I was so utterly shocked and horrified, I had to give her a 'stern talking-to'. GROSS!!ReplyDelete
I was coughed on at work on Wednesday. I spent the rest of my shift obsessed with thinking of all the germs I was contaminated with.ReplyDelete
You know, I've never done it before but I think I am going to sneeze on some Double Mint gum the next time I'm at my local Chevron, just because I can!ReplyDelete
OMG between the spist and the fart particles I don't think I'm ever buying anything in the store again!ReplyDelete
I really just don't know what to say. Yeah, we do need to wash our hands more often! You have an amazing way with descriptions, my dear!ReplyDelete
I was at the buffet the other day, and some kid got a whole bunch of fries, and decided he didn't want them. So, instead of using the tongs, he was putting them back one by one with his hand! What gives???ReplyDelete
Y'all get all the pigs, drunks and weirdos, don't you.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 23, 2010 at 3:50 AM
Also shit tons of customers will bring their babies in, and will let them walk around or sit their dirty diapered asses on the table. I always thouroughly wash the table afterwards, but I no nobody else bothers to.ReplyDelete