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Darwinian evolution assumes that mankind is a primate, but there is no evidence to prove that theory.
Man Is Not a Primate by Jeanne Chatman
It is assumed by our educational system that mankind is a primate. The textbooks definition of primates include monkeys, gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans. It is assumed that humans as well as the other primates evolved from the same ape ancestor. It is also assumed that Darwinian evolution is a fact and not a theory. However that is not true. Darwinian evolution has a multitude of theories which are based upon unproven assumptions. It has multitudes of opinions and speculations. However, after over 150 since its invention, there has been no observable, tangible discovery of facts. There are no transitional fossils from ape to man. There have been many hoaxes of missing links created to deceive, but they have all been exposed. This is never mentioned in the textbooks, of course. Atheistic Darwinian evolutionists are still pushing their theories into our educational system. It is their religion, and they want to indoctrinate our youth into believing their philosophy. They do not want our youth to believe that they are not animals or believe that they are special beings created in the image of God. They push their assumptions on our youth that there is no Divine Creator and that all living things were accidentally formed over millions of years. This philosophy has been forced upon us for three generations, and Darwinian evolution is commonly accepted by most people as true.
It is quite observable that human beings are far more advanced and very different from animals. Humans are intelligent living souls within a fleshly body. Human bodies have the same Intelligent Designer, God, that made them as well as the animals. So, there are similarities in design. However humans are a completely different specie than apes. There is no evidence that they evolved from a common ape ancestor. It has never been recorded or observed that an ape gave birth to a human or part human missing link. No transitional fossils have ever been found. There is no evidence confirming the transition of ape to man. That idea is still a theory based upon unproven assumptions and opinions.
It is a fact that different types of animals within a specie can interbreed. The horse kind can interbreed, such as horses with zebras. The dog kind can interbreed, the cat kind can inter breed, and all the other kinds are able to interbreed. However, different species or kinds cannot interbreed. Dogs and cats can't interbreed. Horses and cows can't interbreed, and so on. Humans and apes cannot interbreed, because they are of a different specie. During World War II Adolph Hitler used Charles Darwin's evolutionary idea that not all humans are fully evolved from apes. Hitler had the Jews declared mostly ape, and their rights as humans were taken away. It was legal to kill them or treat them like livestock. Hitler had his Darwinian evolutionary scientist do experiments with Jewish people. One of the experiments was to crossbreed them with apes to prove Darwin's theory. The experiments were failures. Humans and apes cannot be crossbred, because they are completely different species.
Darwinian evolution is being forced on our young people to indoctrinate them into believing false assumptions. The following
information is quoted out of a public high school textbook: BIOLOGY The Unity and Diversity of Life, eleventh edition, c 2006, Thomson Brooks/Cole, Thomson Corporation USA, Cecie Starr/Ralph Taggart, Christine A Evers, Lisa Starr, Library of Congress Control Number: 2005931271, Student Edition ISBN 0-495-01500-7.
The information is not based on scientific facts. It is based upon opinions and theories invented from the unproven assumptions of Darwinian evolutionists. The theories are presented as facts. Observable factual information that does not support the theories is omitted. This deception and indoctrination of our youth is wrong.
The textbook quotes:
1. The primate lineage originated from squirrel-sized mammals of the Mesozoic. By 60 million years ago, its earliest forms –prosimians- had evolved…….Gibbon, siamang, orangutan, gorilla, chimpanzee, bonobo – these primates are classified as apes. All monkeys, apes, and humans are further classified as anthropoids……The five trends that define the lineage that led to modern humans were set in motion among the first tree-dwelling lineages. Page 452
These statement are based on theories. The theories do not have factual evidence to support them. They have been invented to convince people that they are evolved animals from a common ancestor with apes. Apes and humans are a different specie or kind, and cannot cross breed like other kinds. Different types of bird kind can breed. Different types of the horse kind can breed. Different types of the dog kind can breed. Different types of the cat kind can breed. Different types of the ape kind can breed. However, apes and humans are a different kind and they cannot breed. Human beings are not primates, and they did not come from a common ape ancestor. Darwinian evolution is a theory, based on unproven assumptions. It is not factual science and has no place in public school textbooks.
There are no transitional fossils to prove that mankind evolved from an ape. There are no missing links, only a great number of proven hoaxes. Evolutionists have tried to cover up the lack of observable evidence by inventing the theory of millions of year eras. They try to cloud the fact that they have no proof to support their theory with the excuse that evidence did not survive the millions of years. However, they want us to believe in their fantasy that there was evidence of humans evolving from apes.
Millions of year eras have been theorized in the layers of rock. The Geologic Time Column was produced to support this theory. However, the evidence is very faulty. Evolutionists date fossils by the rock layers they are found in, and they date layers of rock by the fossils found in them. This is invalid circular reasoning. The evolutionists have index fossils to date each layer. However, they never mention the multitude of misplaced fossils found in each layer that cancel out the validity of their index fossils. Also, it is never mentioned that there are petrified trees going through many layers, which is proof of the settling of sediment after a flood. On purpose, vast amounts of evidence that does not support the theory of the Geologic Time Column are shelved and classified as being anomalies.
Carbon 14 dating has too many errors to be considered a valid means of dating. A living penguin has been dated as 8000 years old by C14 dating. How can this be explained, and why is the dating method still used? Evolutionist have assumed that atmospheric C14 is in equilibrium. This is wrong, because there is factual evidence that the formation rate has not equaled the decay rate. The amount of C14 in the atmosphere is still increasing. This indicates that the earth is young, and probably less that 10,000 years old. As the earth's magnetic field decays, more cosmic radiation penetrates the atmosphere. Thus, four thousand year old animal and plant life would have less C14 in their bodies to begin with. That low amount of C14 would make them seem to be thousands of years older than they really are, because of the wrong assumptions in the C14 dating methods of the evolutionists. "Radiocarbon is forming 28-37% faster than it is decaying" according to R.E. Taylor et al. American Antiquity, Vol. 50, No. 1 1985 pp. 136-140. Why are these facts not included in textbooks? It is because they do not fit the popular theory of Darwinian evolution.Textbook quote: Between 23 and 18 million years ago, in the Miocene, apes evolved. They were the first of the hominoids, and they spread through Africa, Asia, and Europe when the climate was changing….Hominoids that had evolved in lush forests could move into new adaptive zones or die out. Most died, but not the common ancestor of modern apes and humans. Page 454
This statement is based upon a theory about a long time span. It is also based on the theory that humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor. Although the theories are commonly accepted as fact, they are still based upon unproven assumptions.Figure 26.33 Labeled: Fossils of African hominids that lived between 7 and 1.5 million years ago. Page 455
This is an opinion, not a fact. The opinion is based upon a theory about the time span. The opinion is also based on the theory that apes were evolving into humans. All of these opinions and theories are based on unproven assumptions.
4. Figure 26. 36 on page 456 show a painting of a woodland scene with a band of homo habilis. They are creatures with ape faces and hairy human like bodies. This is propaganda that humans evolved from apes. There are no transitional fossils that such missing links ever existed. Next to the picture are two fossil human skulls that have no link to the picture, but leave the idea that they may have been skulls of the ape people in the picture. This is deception and indoctrination of our youth. It does not belong in science textbooks.
There are numerous charts and graphs that show the evolution of man from ape ancestors like the one on page 457, 437,434,404. The chart on pages 328 & 329 infer that plants and animals evolved from a the same cells 3.8 billion years ago. The charts are based on theories and opinions, not facts. This is indoctrination that there was no purposeful creation by a Creator, but accidental formation over billions of years. It is purely unsubstantiated speculation. So, why are such myths and fairy tales included in a public school science textbook? It appears that preferential treatment has been given to the atheists' beloved theory of evolution, which is actually their religion. Why do we allow atheist's to indoctrinate our youth with false information?
5. Glossary of Biological Terms: Human - Primate of species Homo sapiens.
This glossary term is based upon the theory of Darwinian evolution as factual and opinion based upon assumptions.
II. The following quotes are from the high school textbook: BIOLOGY, the Study of Life, seventh edition by William D. Schraer and Herbert J. Stoltze, 1999 Prentice Hall, Simon & Schuster Education Group
1. 'Humans, apes, and monkeys are all primates that are structurally similar in many ways. However, there are several characteristics that distinguish humans from other primates. The size and shape of the skull are different from other primates….The jaws and teeth are different from other primates….The pelvis and foramen magnum are different."
Since there are so many differences between humans and primates, why are humans classified as primates? Humans beings are a different specie, a different kind. There is no evidence that humans and apes evolved from the same ape ancestor. There is no evidence that apes morph into humans. There are no transitional fossils from ape to human. There are no missing links to be found anywhere, except in the imaginations of the Darwinian evolutionists.
2."In 1924 , workers in a limestone quarry in South Africa found some skulls embedded in rock…Raymond Dart, a famous anthropologist, named the new species Australopithecus africanus, which means 'ape of southern Africa." He believed that Australopithecus was more humanlike than apelike and represented an early type of hominid."p.774
The skulls found were ape skulls. There is no evidence that they were human. That is an unsubstantiated opinion by evolutionist Dart. The textbook should have emphasized that Dart's statement about the bones being more human like than ape like were his unsubstantiated opinion.
3."In 1974, Donald Johanson and Maurice Taieb discovered the bones of a small female Australopithecus. Johanson called her Lucy. Although she had an ape-sized brain and jaw, the pelvis clearly showed she was bipedal."p.775
The bones of Lucy were that of an ape. There was only about a third of a skeleton found. Most of the pelvis was missing, most of the legs were missing and there were no feet. It was an unsubstantiated opinion that she was bipedal. Many anthropologists disagree with the theory that Lucy was bipedal. However, this information is not included in the textbook report about Lucy.
III. These statements are quotes from the high school textbook, BIOLOGY Life on Earth, fourth edition by Teresa Audesirk and Gerald Audesirk, 1996 Prentice-=Hall, Inc. and an earlier edition 1993 Macmillian Publishing Company."Fossils of primates (lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans) are relatively rare compared with those of many other animals." p.376
This classification of primates that includes humans is an opinion of the Theory of Darwinian evolution. It is based on unproven assumptions that humans evolved from the same ape ancestor as did lemurs, monkeys, and apes. Since there is no proof, no transitional fossils, and no observable evidence of humans morphing from an ape, why is it printed in the textbook with factual, scientific information?
Does the textbook company have an agenda to indoctrinate our youth with theories, passing them off as factual, observable, scientific evidence?"Between 20 and 30 million years ago, in the tropical forests of Africa, a group of primates called the dryopithecines diverged from the monkey line. The dryopithecines appear to have been ancestral to the hominids (humans and their fossil relatives) and pongids (the great apes)." p.377
This is an opinion of the theory of Darwinian evolution. It is not based on scientific facts. There is no poof to substantiate these statements. They are assumptions only, and not based on scientific evidence. This is indoctrination.
IV. These statements are quotes from the middle school science textbook, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, by Karen Arms, 2000, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Harcourt Brace & Company.How does this close match between organisms and their environments come about? In 1859 an English naturalist named Charles Darwin proposed an answer to this question…..Darwin proposed that over many generations natural selection causes the characteristics of populations to change. A change in the genetic characteristics of populations from one generation to the next is known as evolution." pp.43 &44
Evolution is change. It is observable that animals and plants can adapt to their environment. However, there is no observable evidence that plants or animals can morph into another species or kind. This was the main point of Darwin's theory: that one specie morphed into another specie. Adaptation and the morphing of one specie into another specie are two different ideas. Adaptation is observable. Changing species is not observable, and there are no fossil records that it ever happened. The theory of Darwinian evolution wants us to believe that simple cells sparked from rain on rocks over millions of years. Then the simple cells morphed into fish, the fish morphed into amphibians, the amphibians morphed into reptiles, the reptiles morphed into birds and mammals, the ape mammal morphed into a human. They do not want us to believe that an Intelligent Designer, a Supreme Being, God the Creator had anything to do with it or even exists. They want us to believe that all life accidentally occurred over billions of years by accident. That is their opinion, based on unproven assumptions, that they call evolution. The Darwinian Theory of Evolution is very popular, but it does not have any scientific evidence to prove its opinions. Thus, it is not science. It is a fairy tale, and has no place in a science textbook.
2. In the 1950's H.B.D. Kettlewell of England's Oxford University, developed and tested a hypothesis concerning a specie of moth called the peppered moth. His results led to a very convincing demonstration of natural selection in action." p.44
The textbook does not mention that the experiment was condemned as faulty, because evidence was uncovered that the scientists conducting the experiment cheated by gluing on more moths to prove that their conclusion was right. This contaminate experiment should not have been included in the textbook.
The textbooks that are chosen to instruct our students should be based on factual information, and not theories and opinions. As parents, teachers, administrators, and school board members we should make sure the textbooks used in our schools are not using indoctrination, and unsubstantiated assumptions.


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What is the best way to follow the NFL Draft?
It's a question that this SportsGuy asks himself every year, with the ultimate response to that query usually being inconclusive.
What is the best way to follow the NFL Draft?
It's a question that this SportsGuy asks himself every year, with the ultimate response to that query usually being inconclusive.
Navigating this pseudo football event in a way that captures maximum enjoyment and subtracts mindless boredom tends to be a perilous proposition.
Even for a football crazed fan of both the college and pro game, the draft seems to drag.
Prime time television hasn't helped ease the problem, nor has the move to erase five minutes from the first round draft clock.
There was a time when teams took as much as 15 minutes to make a selection in the first round. Now that clock is down to 10 minutes.
But most teams drain the entire clock before making their pick, which means 320 minutes will pass before the first round is in the books on Thursday.
And there is only so much analyst talk that any fan can take.
Geno Smith's stock is up and down. Here is a shot of the green room. Can Mel Kiper talk endlessly about nothing for the next 30 minutes? Matt Barkley's stock is up and down. Will there be a trade at the No. 2 spot in the draft. Here is another shot of the green room.
You get the drift.
Here's the different strategies I have employed, accompanied by my review of that strategy.
Watch and sleep and watch and sleep
This was the first strategy and the only strategy available prior to wide spread internet coverage. Just park yourself on the couch, park the TV on ESPN, get settled with snack and blanket and drift in and out of consciousness, because there is simply no way to keep on watching and not sleep, at least intermittently. REVIEW: It's alright, provided you don't mind missing picks and provided you aren't disappointed that the draft you dreamed happened for your team was actually the result of a pizza induced coma.
Check in and check out
You can watch other TV shows, head outside for a walk, or plan of activities that leave small windows for checking into the NFL Draft. That way you will end up sleeping through the night instead of sleeping during the day. And your digestive tract will likely thank you as well, since it won't be inundated with junk. REVIEW: Sounds like a great strategy, but the ticker can be really annoying if you are trying to catch up on multiple picks. And the analysts are usually of no help since they are probably still taking about the No. 1 pick when the draft is on pick 28.
DVR and FF>> through the boring parts
Since the draft is a sea of boring with pools of interesting, this can be a good strategy. Get ready to fast forward a lot, but pay close attention not to fast foward through the parts you actually want to see. REVIEW: It's a great time saving strategy, but with all the fast forwarding stealing the drama out of the event, you can end up feeling as though you are just listening to a list of names. What's the fun in that?
Find an APP
This might be the best strategy yet. If you can find an app for your smart phone that tells you whose picking, how much time is on the clock and when the pick is in, you can more easily navigate through the draft, especially if you employ a picture-in-picture strategy so that you can bounce between your favorite shows and the televised draft coverage. REVIEW: It's hard to review this, since I will trying it for the first time this year, but I am guessing that it will be fairly annoying to have to leave the TV show you are watching in favor of a draft selection. Beats staring at the screen for five hours though.
Any others
If anyone has a better strategy, feel free to leave a comment. The advice that I should stop caring about the draft, however, is not especially helpful, even though it might be advisable.
P.S. Good luck everyone.

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Amazingly, that is all there is to this joke. Instead of counting normally, he gets an overflow thing. But - that's it. He is making a mistake an old computer or simple program might make. But he is human! Does that strike anyone else as an ungodly pathetic joke? It's even worse than most other comics in the "blurring the line between man and machine" category.
I'm going to say this again, because the comic is so petty and simple that I can hardly believe it: The joke is that instead of counting like a human, he is counting like a computer. That is all.
Here's a theory I have: It is not possible to come up with a joke told entirely in numbers. Not counting if the numbers stand for letters or words or something, just with numbers as numbers, you will never get anything funny. Eh?


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An early love for Pacman, gaming and drawing led Joseph to study computer science. In school, he discovered computer graphics and found a way to reconnect with his love of art and play. He worked for an entertainment company creating wireless games/devices. He also loves to draw and now wants to immerse himself in creativity since he has the technical background.


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I've got some serious Subway baggage.
The so-called "sandwich experts" have wronged me one too many times for me to be anything but skeptical when I hear about new developments coming from the sandwich giant, but I'm not gonna lie, the latest news has me all-kinds of tingly.
Apparently Subway is looking into busting out a "creamy Sriracha sauce" as a new sandwich add-on.
Here's the rundown from those cool cats at Foodbeast:
"[The sauce] took on a more subdued color from the original's bright red, it had a mayo-like consistency and was less sweet and much more spicy. The mayo-ish Sriracha blended exquisitely with the mustard, adding a delightful kick to my so-so Subway sandwich."
Yes! Yes! Yes!
I get that it's only in tester mode in a few California locations for now, but I'm definitely on-board with this move.
I love me some Sriracha sauce as much as the next guy and I've eaten far more inedible Subway sammitches than any one man ever should, so the idea of having some super-duper hot sauce in the mix to make it palatable has me all-kinds of excited.
What say you, My Faithful Readers, are you interested or disgusted?!


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Lois Dalen, 89, of Cortez, Col.
Lois Dalen was born Lois Nadine Twyman on January 9, 1924 in Wellington, Kansas. She was the daughter of W. H. Twyman and Mildred A. Stayton, whose families resided in the Mayfield, KS area. After graduating from Wellington High School in 1940, Lois attended nurses training at Wichita State University. During World War II Lois worked as a registered nurse at the Public Health Service Hospital in New Orleans. Following the war, she moved to Denver, CO, and became a stewardess for Continental Airlines. Lois married Chris Eastin in 1946. The couple lived mostly in Denver where she served as President of the Denver YWCA.
In 1972, Lois moved with Chris to Farmington, NM. After Chris died in July, 1974 Lois remained in Farmington and returned to work as a nurse. She married Gordon Dalen in 1975, creating a happy blended family of eight children and step children. She served on the Board of Directors of San Juan County National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. An avid skier, Lois enjoyed the sport until her 84th year.
Lois was again widowed when Gordon died in 2011. She then moved to assisted living in Cortez, CO, home of her son Chris Eastin III and his wife Barbara. After a sudden illness Lois died at San Juan Regional Hospital in Farmington on October 29, 2012.
Lois is survived by her loving family including Chris Eastin III (Barbara), Lisa Eastin, Kerry Dalen (Jeane Graves), Kim Calomino (Martin), Kim Dalen (Scott Samuelson), Mark Dalen, Dori Rasmussen (Ron), and Scott Dalen. Her brothers Wayne and Gayle Twyman also survive Lois who was predeceased by her sister Shirley Keagy. Lois had fourteen thriving grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Loved by many, Lois will be remembered for her kindness, generosity, curiosity, and positive outlook.
A memorial service for Lois will be held 2:00 pm, Sunday May 26, 2013 at Mayfield Federated Church, Mayfield, KS. She will be buried in the Mayfield Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, 3803 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 100 Arlington, VA 22203-1701.


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Following stock price levels as a percentage of the 52 week high/low range, we can see that shares of Xcel Energy Inc. (NYSE:XEL) have a value of 37.78. This value is an indicator of the stock's position within the 52-week trading range. A value of 0 would indicate that shares are currently trading at the 52-week low. On the other end of the spectrum, a value of 100 would indicate that shares are currently trading at the 52-week high. Investors typically pay increased attention to stocks that are nearing either the 52-week high or 52-week low mark. Taking a look at historical stock price data, we have noted that over the last 52-week period the high price is 51.8. Over the same period, the lowest that the stock has reached is 40.63.
Over the past week, Xcel Energy Inc. (NYSE:XEL) shares have seen a price percentage change of -0.84. Looking back over the past 4 weeks, shares have seen a percentage change of -6.78. If we scroll back to the price percentage change since the start of the calendar year, we can see that shares are -6.78. Going back a period of 12 weeks, we can see that shares have changed -9.21. Investors often look to the beta in order to measure risk by comparing a stock's volatility to that of the overall market. The stock currently has a beta value of 0.21. Stocks with a beta value over 1 have historically been more volatile than the overall market. Stocks that have a beta value under 1 have historically been less volatile than the overall market.
We can also take a look at the relative price change value for the stock. Currently, this value is spotted at -12.65. Using the year-to-date time frame, this value is calculated by comparing the individual change in stock price to the price change of the S&P 500 index over that same period. If the stock has a value of 1, it would indicate that the price change is equivalent to that of the S&P 500 during the period. A negative value would indicate that the stock has underperformed, and a positive value would indicate that shares have outperformed the S&P 500 index over the specified time-frame.
Xcel Energy Inc. (NYSE:XEL) currently has a value score of B. This score ranks stocks based on various valuation metrics. The goal of the score is to separate stocks that are overvalued with those that may be temporarily undervalued. The score uses values of A, B, C, D, and F, where an A score would be the best, and a score of F would be seen as the opposite. The stock presently has a growth score of C. This score evaluates earnings and sales growth along with other various aspects of the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. The growth score assigns an A,B,C,D, or F. Here, a score of A would represent the highest score, and a score of F would indicate the lowest score.
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Lieutenant Governor Matt Denn sponsored the 5th Annual Art Contest this year. More than 500 students participated and the finalists were honored this week in Dover.
Lieutenant Governor Matt Denn sponsored the 5th Annual Art Contest this year, which was open to students of all grade levels, Pre-K through 12th grade. Participants were asked to rev up their creative juices and think about state pride to create a postcard that they would send to a friend, which would encourage a visit to Delaware.
This year, more than 500 entries were received and narrowed down to thirty pieces across three categories: Elementary School (Pre-K through 4), Middle School (grades 5-8) and High School (grades 9-12). Each category was allotted 10 award spaces, including three first, second and third place winners and one honorable mention slot.
Middletown High School students swept the high school category winning six of the 10 award spaces. Alexis Taylor and Alexa Canty won first place; Ryan Cromer won second place; Allison Foss, Tanner Martin and Maria Machulski won third place.
The winners will have their artwork displayed in the Lt. Governor's offices in both Wilmington and Dover for an entire year. They and their families were also treated to an art reception at Legislative Hall on Monday, where their artwork was put on display by the Department of State's Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs. Lt. Gov. Mark Denn also made remarks, handed out awards and posed for pictures with the artists and their families.


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I have to admit, I've never been a big fan of cake mixes, bread mixes for fear of crappy taste. But hands down this instant pumpkin bread mix from Trader Joe's is really good. Has really good pumpkin flavor and definitely not too sweet. It rises perfectly and holds up well to add in's. I've experimented with this bread mix before, adding in chips, spices, nuts and now cream cheese swirl. It's really good. And if you're strapped for time this is it; so quick and easy to assemble, the only long part is the baking. I've made the cream cheese swirl with espresso and plain using a hint of vanilla extract. Feel free to experiment here. One could even add in pumpkin pie spice to the cream cheese filling; just taste test as you go along as pumpkin pie spice is strong and can dominate flavor fast.
I also love the Trader Joe's Gingerbread mix--come see what I did to that one!
Gingerbread cupcakes with white chocolate-cream cheese ganache
pumpkin bread with cream cheese filling
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Pumpkin bread batter:
1 box of Trader Joe's Pumpkin Bread
A dash or two of cinnamon
Cream cheese filling:
8 ounces cream cheese, very soft
Pinch of salt
1 egg yolk
3-4 TB white sugar (more if you like it sweet)
If you want espresso flavor use a ½ of a Starbuck's Via
If you want plain flavor use 1 oversize teaspoon vanilla extract
If you want pumpkin pie flavor use a couple dashes of pumpkin pie spice blend
Mix bread mix according to directions on box. Set aside. Preheat oven to what it says on box.
In a separate bowl mix the cream cheese with the egg yolk, salt and flavor of your choice. Mix well.
Spray a bread loaf pan with non stick spray. Pour in half the batter, then dollop the middle with clumps of the cream cheese mixture; don't let the cream cheese mixture go to the ends as it will run out as it bakes. Cover top with remaining batter. Bake according to box directions. You'll know when it's done when you see light brown edges and the bread mix when tested with toothpick comes out clean. Don't test the middle of the bread is it has the cream cheese and no batter.
You have to let this cool for a while before slicing as the cream cheese filling needs to firm up.


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Source: The Red Sox have a seven-year, $142 million deal done with Carl Crawford.Pete has posted it at the Globe, too.
9 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
A bit pricey, but it ain't my money, so Welcome aboard, Carl! I fear his stolen bases are going to go drop not being able to run against us.


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The first key to thinking about 3-D printers is this: Do not think printer. Think magic box that creates any object you can imagine.
In the box, razor-thin layers of powdered material (acrylic, nylon, silver, whatever) pile one on top of the other, and then, voila — you've got a shoe, or a cup, or a ring, or an iPhone case.
It's miraculous to see. Press a button, make anything you want. But just how important is 3-D printing? Unlike earlier big-deal technologies (like, say, the tractor) 3-D printing won't really replace what came before.
"If you're producing trash cans or stadium seats, you'll more than likely produce them the old way," says analyst Terry Wohlers.
And for consumers, the economist Tyler Cowen points out, it's still way easier to order something from Amazon than print it yourself — and that's how people will buy things for the foreseeable future.
Still, 3-D printing is amazingly powerful for personalized applications.
Right now, there are 30,000 people walking around with 3-D printed titanium hips, which are less expensive than conventionally manufactured artificial hips.
Boosters of 3-D printing dream of a day when printers can make new body parts. More prosaically, they talk about a day when every shirt, every dress, every pair of pants can be custom printed to perfectly fit each person.
Another thing to keep in mind about 3-D printing: It democratizes who gets to be in the manufacturing business. You don't need a giant factory and million-dollar machines. You just need $500 and a garage.
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.
And I'm Robert Siegel. Every once in a long while, a new technology comes along and changes our economy: the steam engine, the telegraph, the personal computer. Well, some people think the next thing on that list could be the three-dimensional printer. With our Planet Money team, Zoe Chace now takes a closer look at this new technology and whether it has the potential to be an economic game-changer.
ZOE CHACE, BYLINE: First the 3-D printer is the biggest misnomer ever. Do not think printer. Think magic box that creates whatever object you can imagine.
PETE WEIJMARSHAUSEN: Watch it, watch it, it will come. There it goes.
CHACE: Pete Weijmarshausen peers into one of the printers, about the size of a refrigerator. He's the CEO of Shapeways, a 3-D printing company in New York. Inside, razor-thin layers of raw material - powdered acrylic, powdered nylon, powdered silver, whatever - are deposited precisely one on top of the other. You look through the window like an oven window and see the object taking shape from the bottom up.
WEIJMARSHAUSEN: And this is how grows, layer by layer.
CHACE: Oh, I see. After a few hours, you've got stuff, all kinds of stuff.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: So here we have a shoe.
WEIJMARSHAUSEN: Rings, bracelets, pendants, iPhone cases, lots of them, iPad cases.
CORNISH: Seeing it in front of you, it's hard not to imagine this will have a radical impact on the economy. It's miraculous-looking: press a button to make an actual thing out of raw materials. That looks like a revolution. But the industrial revolutions we're familiar with, they're very different from what I'm seeing here. Say the steam engine, those technologies centralized production, made the mass production of stuff into huge business.
CHACE: Terry Wohlers is an analyst who's been watching 3-D printing technology since its inception 20 years ago, and he says that's not the right comparison to make. The 3-D printer does not replace what came before it.
TERRY WOHLERS: If you're producing, say, trash cans or stadium seats, you'll more than likely produce them the old way: in Asia using conventional methods of manufacturing.
CHACE: What it is revolutionary, or at least innovative, is how flexible this allows manufacturing to be. Right now, you can only 3-D print out of certain materials. But soon enough, you'll be able to make stuff out of anything. That's how Weijmarshausen, the 3-D printing CEO, sees it.
WEIJMARSHAUSEN: Say you want a T-shirt that is perfect for you. Now, I think in a few years, we can print clothing, and then you can have clothing without sizes, but you have the size that fits you.
CHACE: You don't order a small, medium or large, you order like a Zoe.
WEIJMARSHAUSEN: Yes.
CHACE: Just imagine for a second, everything you would want custom made, super cheap, and this is already happening. You fly in planes from Boeing and others with parts in them that have been 3-D printed. Right now there are 30,000 people walking around with 3-D-printed titanium hips inside, way less expensive than they used to be.
WOHLERS: And they're just getting started. The possibilities in orthopedic manufacturing really is almost limitless.
CHACE: In the future, analyst Terry Wohlers says forget about titanium or even cotton. Try human tissue.
WOHLERS: You lose a finger, you print out a new one.
CHACE: Yeah, like, actual body parts, printing out new fingers using your cells.
WOHLERS: Bones and bladders and eventually kidneys and so forth.
CHACE: There's another thing to keep in mind, though, about the arrival of 3-D printing. If the industrial revolutions that we know centralized things gave birth to enormous companies that make a massive amount of things, 3-D printing kind of reverses that process.
CHRIS ANDERSON: What's new is the fact that the most advanced, you know, machines are now as accessible to regular people as they are to the biggest companies.
CHACE: Chris Anderson is not strictly a regular guy. He's the former editor of Wired Magazine, now the CEO of a robotics company. He says the 3-D printer democratizes who gets to be in manufacturing. Anybody with a good idea can have a pretty good prototype really cheaply and then bring that product to the masses.
ANDERSON: Taking a product from one to many, taking a product through its entire cycle, from invention to creation and marketing and building a company around it, that just wasn't possible in most of the 20th century because manufacturing was just so hard and inaccessible.
CHACE: So if you want to go into business manufacturing stuff, there is a much lower barrier to entry. Soon enough, Anderson says, you might see 3-D printers showing up at Wal-Mart or Barnes & Noble, on desktops, in the office, whatever. That doesn't mean everybody will do it, but the fact that is now so easy to be the boss of your own factory, that is a pretty revolutionary idea.
ANDERSON: You know, Karl Marx's line that, you know, the power belongs to those who own the means of production. And regular people didn't own the means of production.
CHACE: And isn't it funny how it's working out? It's capitalism that's taken the means of production and turned it into a point-and-click experience for anyone. Zoe Chace, NPR News, New York. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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|Office of the Attorney General - State of Texas
John Cornyn
March 16, 2000
Mr. Steven D. Monté
Dear Mr. Monté:
You ask whether certain information is subject to required public disclosure under the Public Information Act, chapter 552 of the Government Code. Your request was assigned ID# 134981.
Section 552.101 of the Government Code excepts from disclosure "information considered to be confidential by law, either constitutional, statutory, or by judicial decision." Section 261.201 of the Family Code reads in part as follows:
(a) The following information is confidential, is not subject to public release under Chapter 552, Government Code, and may be disclosed only for purposes consistent with this code and applicable federal or state law or under rules adopted by an investigating agency:
(1) a report of alleged or suspected abuse or neglect made under this chapter and the identity of the person making the report; and
(2) except as otherwise provided in this section, the files, reports, records, communications, audiotapes, videotapes, and working papers used or developed in an investigation under this chapter or in providing services as a result of an investigation.
We believe that the requested information consists of reports, records, and working papers used or developed in an investigation made under chapter 261 of the Family Code. Because you have not cited any specific rule that the investigating agency has adopted with regard to the release of this type of information, we assume that no such regulation exists. Given that assumption, the requested information is confidential pursuant to section 261.201 of the
Family Code. See Open Records Decision No. 440 at 2 (1986) (construing predecessor statute). Accordingly, you must not release the requested information to the requestor.(1)
In light of our conclusion under section 552.101, we need not address the applicability of other exceptions, if any. This letter ruling is limited to the particular records at issue in this request and limited to the facts as presented to us; therefore, this ruling must not be relied upon as a previous determination regarding any other records or any other circumstances.
This ruling triggers important deadlines regarding the rights and responsibilities of the governmental body and of the requestor. For example, governmental bodies are prohibited from asking the attorney general to reconsider this ruling. Gov't Code § 552.301(f). If the governmental body wants to challenge this ruling, the governmental body must appeal by filing suit in Travis County within 30 calendar days. Id. § 552.324(b). In order to get the full benefit of such an appeal, the governmental body must file suit within 10 calendar days. Id. § 552.353(b)(3), (c). If the governmental body does not appeal this ruling and the governmental body does not comply with it, then both the requestor and the attorney general have the right to file suit against the governmental body to enforce this ruling. Id. § 552.321(a).
If this ruling requires the governmental body to release all or part of the requested information, the governmental body is responsible for taking the next step. Based on the statute, the attorney general expects that, within 10 calendar days of this ruling, the governmental body will do one of the following three things: 1) release the public records; 2) notify the requestor of the exact day, time, and place that copies of the records will be provided or that the records can be inspected; or 3) notify the requestor of the governmental body's intent to challenge this letter ruling in court. If the governmental body fails to do one of these three things within 10 calendar days of this ruling, then the requestor should report that failure to the attorney general's Open Government Hotline, toll free, at 877/673-6839. The requestor may also file a complaint with the district or county attorney. Id. § 552.3215(e).
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
In-Progress Comments For "NASCAR RaceDay" On SPEED
Back by popular request is one last attempt to offer in-progress comments for the two hour NASCAR RaceDay program on SPEED.
This show is hosted from just outside the speedway, and should feature a wide variety of hard news and features.
John Roberts hosts, along with Kenny Wallace and Jimmy Spencer as the analysts. Hermie Sadler stops by with a track description and also helps with some reporting duties. Wendy Venturini is the news reporter from the garage area, and also contributes a popular feature called The Real Deal each week.
This program begins at 11:30AM Eastern Time, and runs until 1:30PM as the lead-in to the Fox Sports coverage of the Sprint Cup Series event.
Please feel free to post your comments about RaceDay. To add your opinion, just click on the COMMENTS button below and follow the easy instructions. The rules for posting are on the right side of the main page. Thanks again for stopping by.
36 comments:
- Newracefan said...
For those who were staying Speed blew off DJ on fri and sat he's going to be onset with Raceday. Way to go Speed, maybe DJ was busy trying to get his car to work better.
- March 16, 2008 at 11:37 AM
- Anonymous said...
Looking forward to the interview w/DJ
Kingston, NY
- March 16, 2008 at 11:50 AM
- Newracefan said...
HUGH audio/video mess during DJ interview, definately missed some of it :(
- March 16, 2008 at 11:59 AM
- Anonymous said...
Interview is great. It is so exciting to hear DJ reflect on his career
Kingston, NY
- March 16, 2008 at 11:59 AM
- Anonymous said...
DJ is someone we will miss. It was a good interview from the panel
Kingston, NY
- March 16, 2008 at 12:02 PM
- Newracefan said...
Does anyone else think it's kind of strange that Wendy does the lead in for the Real Deal
- March 16, 2008 at 12:06 PM
- Anonymous said...
Does anyone know of a website that posts the pit box selections?
- March 16, 2008 at 12:24 PM
- Rick said...
Anonymous said...
Does anyone know of a website that posts the pit box selections?
March 16, 2008 12:24 PM
Jayski does.
- March 16, 2008 at 12:29 PM
- Ken-Michigan said...
What the heck was that? This is where these drivers / turned analysts really drop the ball.
On the RaceDay set Spencer sets up the Hermie Sadler interview in the garage with Pat Tryson by talking about the possible Kurt Busch / Sam Hornish point swap....then Hermie says absolutley nothing about it. They only talk about the tires LAST WEEK at Atlanta.
Worthless interview Hermie. Come on guys.
- March 16, 2008 at 12:30 PM
- Newracefan said...
As a former Flyers fanatic who grew up in Philly I loved the Harvick piece. I live nearby (family still there) and I didn't even know he was going to be there until I saw it somewhere watching Nascar coverage after the fact. I wonder how that all came about? Leave it to Harvick to bust on the guys about sponsers on their Speed jackets
- March 16, 2008 at 12:39 PM
- Ken-Michigan said...
Doesnt the Cup Champ get first choice of Pit Stalls regardless of where he is in qualifying or starting order?
Spencer said Johnson never would have had the first pit OUT stall if qualifying would have been held.
Jimmy, Jimmy.... you're losin it !
- March 16, 2008 at 12:45 PM
- Newracefan said...
Ken Jimmie is right the champ doen NOT get first choice anymore that stopped some time ago. There are some who say that is why it is harder now to repeat as a champion now because you are not given the first stall and let's face it that can be a hugh advantage at some tracks
- March 16, 2008 at 12:49 PM
- Rick said...
Doesnt the Cup Champ get first choice of Pit Stalls regardless of where he is in qualifying or starting order?
Spencer said Johnson never would have had the first pit OUT stall if qualifying would have been held.
Jimmy, Jimmy.... you're losin it !
March 16, 2008 12:45 PM
Not anymore Ken. I don't remember when it changed, but it has been the fastest qualifier for several years now. Or when qualifying is cancelled, the points leader gets first choice.
- March 16, 2008 at 12:50 PM
- Ken-Michigan said...
Thanks Rick -
I am the one losin it !!
- March 16, 2008 at 12:53 PM
- Rick said...
LOL Ken.
- March 16, 2008 at 12:54 PM
- Ken-Michigan said...
My apology to Spencer.
- March 16, 2008 at 12:54 PM
- red said...
newracefan: funny you should mention the harvick "event" at the flyers game -- friend of mine was there. turns out a player on the flyers is a harvick fan, hence the invite and appearance. apparently, a pace car was pushed on the ice between periods (arena announced said" yes, folks, that's a real nascar on the ice right now" to which mark replied "wellll, not quite . . .") and harvick was interviewed from the locker room during the game. that's about it.
definitely curious moment, tho', according to my friend who is both a nascar and hockey fan. even he couldn't grasp why it was made into something. in fact, he was slightly embarrassed by it b/c the forced connection just didn't make sense to him.
- March 16, 2008 at 1:03 PM
- batchief said...
Ken, although not that significant, I do think that either the points leader or the defending champion of each weekends race, does get to park his hauler closest to the pits. Not sure which it is, but there is some parking reward.
- March 16, 2008 at 1:15 PM
- Ken-Michigan said...
A few weeks back I mentioned on here that one of my "peeves" was hearing John Roberts constant use of the word "folks" when they would go to and come back from a commercial break.
Well.... maybe they have been listening to us.
John has stopped using the "folks" term as a crutch. He seems to be sticking to the bumper scripts alot more and I find it MORE ENJOYABLE to watch.
He has adjusted and from a broadcasting standpoint, I greatly respect that.
- March 16, 2008 at 1:20 PM
- Newracefan said...
Thanks for the inside info Red cause I got even more confused when Harvick said he didn't follow hockey and a Philly team even made less sense. I could have gotten it a little bit if it was Truex cause I know he is a hugh Eagles fan
- March 16, 2008 at 1:21 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
How does it feel to be a powerful TV exec?
- March 16, 2008 at 1:22 PM
- Newracefan said...
Elliot in the dryer LOL
- March 16, 2008 at 1:24 PM
- Ken-Michigan said...
I have a feeling that the Philly Flyer / Harvick piece had something to with Richmond Intl Raceway's promotion of their upcoming race.
Harvick was probably the driver designated to "promote" the Richmond race and part of that days worth of promotion included a Flyers game.... the pace car was also probably from RIR.
just a guess.
- March 16, 2008 at 1:25 PM
- red said...
newracefan: yeah, it was a real stretch to make that try & work at the flyers game. truex, yeah: big fan of all things philly. harvick? impression i got was that even happy was a tad bemused by the whole thing.
knowing flyers fans the way we do, i can pretty much guarantee that not too many people were even paying attention during the period break! i'm guessing the beer stands & bathrooms saw more action than that nascar/flyer promo!
(and why is wrangler using the brett favre commercials during pre-race show instead of their nascar spokesman? did i miss something about favre's next career?)
- March 16, 2008 at 1:27 PM
- Newracefan said...
Richmond Philly don't get it, Dover or Pocono maybe
- March 16, 2008 at 1:27 PM
- Newracefan said...
I've been to a flyers game you are right the stands were empty
- March 16, 2008 at 1:29 PM
- Anonymous said...
For the second week in a row, there's been barely a mention of "NASCAR in a Hurry" on SPEED. (I think I saw two brief comments on it last week, none today.)
Something tells me the show is dead in the water. Interesting concept (clips from weekend practice and qualifying, plus Trackside, Trading Paint, and NASCAR Performance), but putting it on early Sunday morning is a HUGE mistake. Maybe Sundays at 6:30 before SPEED Report, or immediately after Wind Tunnel might improve its chances. Adam Alexander does a good job hosting.
As I am looking forward to "NASCAR Confidential" much more that NIAH, I hope that show doesn't suffer the same fate of no interest from fans. Otherwise, original NASCAR programming on SPEED will become even more rare - and all the complaining in the world about the lack of it won't help that situation. We'll end up with PINKS and Wreckers all the time.
- March 16, 2008 at 1:31 PM
- red said...
hey ken. yeah, but -- the two tracks that are significantly closer to philly are dover & poconos. richmond? no so much. that being said: i understand you are correct: it WAS part of a promo for richmond. makes the whole thing even more curious to me.
(& wendy: i've NEVER seen back hair on tony stewart nor do i want to!!!!)
- March 16, 2008 at 1:31 PM
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- March 16, 2008 at 1:43 PM
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- March 16, 2008 at 1:43 PM
- Anonymous said...
I never had a problem with JR saying 'stay with us folks' and thought the comments on that were overblown. LOTS of sportscasters have a saying like that when they go to break. Too bad if he changed it because of one or two comments from one or two people(and that's all I ever saw, comments from the same people).
- March 16, 2008 at 2:00 PM
- Richard in N.C. said...
I believe FOX Sports had the pit selections last year. I have not noticed this year.
- March 16, 2008 at 7:01 PM
- Anonymous said...
mr.jimmy spencer i once respected you until you said that CRAP!!! about jeff burton not being smart enough to win the cup on raceday in phoenix az.jeff burton is a clean and a fair driver and would not put you in the wall just to win.so @%$@&*@ you jimmy and pull yor head out of your ass!!!
- April 12, 2008 at 6:36 PM
- Anonymous said...
I think Kyle busch is the worst driver there is in nascar. Every time he is second he will spin the first car so he can win. To me that is just chicken if he can,t win fair and sguare then he needs to be taught a lesson. maybe the officals should look at him more closely,. Beverly Rains mayer , az.
- May 3, 2008 at 11:52 PM
- Karen Brown said...
It would mean so much if you could say a final farewell to Franklin "Fuzzy" Rubritz. He passed away on Sat. Sept 27, 2008. He was not only an avid fan, but a racecar driver. He raced modified racecars from 1953 to 1964, and participated at Daytona in 1961 and 1962. He was inducted into the Jennerstown Hall Of Fame in 2006 and is in the Easton Motorsports Hall of Fame in Pittsburg, PA.
Mr. Rubritz resided in Dover, DE and frequently traveled to many other races during the year.
He was truly a Nascar GREAT!!!
- October 5, 2008 at 12:06 PM
- Anonymous said...
i was for many many years a big nascar fan,but i think nascar is really going down hill.this new car of tomorrow really stinks. and there is no loyality anymore its all about money. after watching the daytona five hundred this weekend really turned me off.to much talking and not enough racing. and DW and jeff hammond etc always pick the same drivers week after week to be the winners.what ever happened to build a car all week bring it to the track and may the best car win.i think nascar should take a look back and remember what the fans want not what makes there wallet fatter.if it werent for the fans there wouldnt be nascar.
- February 16, 2009 at 8:32 PM


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Sunday, July 18, 2010
Finally in the OBX
Posted by Dawn at 8:08 PM
48 comments:
- Lyttlethingsmttr said...
Can we see some pics of the Rental?
- July 19, 2010 at 7:11 PM
- C Barnes said...
Looks amazing! So glad you're all having such a great time :) Be sure to take suggestions for a better route home. We used to live near Raleigh NC and that strip of the 95 from Raleigh to DC always clogs up with an accident or two....unless you're traveling during the week and early in the morning or late at night. Have fun during the rest of your vacation!
- July 19, 2010 at 7:37 PM
- Kathy said...
Absolutely LOVE that last picture. So sweet!
- July 19, 2010 at 7:39 PM
I am so glad you are enjoying NC's beautiful Outer Banks. I am from Goldsboro NC (about 1.5 hours west of the coast) and go to the beach every chance I get. We honeymooned on Ocracoke Island and it was just gorgeous.
I don't know what part of the OBX you are on, but if you get a chance to visit Cape Lookout, take it. The ferry we took there drove us around to look at the porpoises and drove us to look at the wild horses before dropping us off at Cape Lookout.
- July 19, 2010 at 7:41 PM
- Sharon said...
Kudos to you for doing that long ass drive yourself. The OBX rock, have fun the beach looks great there.
- July 19, 2010 at 7:49 PM
- Lisa said...
Where at the Outer Banks are you?? Now that you've been, do you think you want to stay, I mean move there??
Have a great time! We lived in NC and really enjoyed the coast. The sun isn't as strong as FL and it doesn't seem as hot.
- July 19, 2010 at 7:54 PM
- Cheryl@SomewhatCrunchy said...
Vinegar works for jellyfish stings too.
- July 19, 2010 at 7:59 PM
Which beach are you staying at? We've just spent the evening at Wrightsville, which is one of my favorite NC beaches.
- July 19, 2010 at 8:00 PM
- Jen@Scrapingirl said...
I sense that you'll need a vacation from your vacation.....Love the last picture BTW. I hope you recover your other 200. That stinks!!
- July 19, 2010 at 8:10 PM
- Jill said...
Looks like a great time, minus the little mishaps! LOL We lived in NC for awhile and my oldest daughter was born there. We loved it there and the people are so nice! Enjoy it.:-) Have a great week!
Blessings, Jill
- July 19, 2010 at 8:13 PM
- Keren said...
Thank goodness you didn't lose that last picture of Austin and Brooklyn. That is some picture. It actually made me cry (but really, almost anything can make me cry - I'm just a sucker that way). Glad you're having fun, and just enough adventure to make a good blog post.
- July 19, 2010 at 8:17 PM
- brent said...
obx is so great. I am glad you loved it, PA is great too on the way back to home stop in PA and have some WHOOPIE PIES AND MIDDLEWORTH CHIPS
- July 19, 2010 at 8:38 PM
- Natalie Young said...
Cute pictures! I love the last one!
- July 19, 2010 at 8:45 PM
...Any sign of... oil...?
BAHAHAHAHA xD. Sorry. Had'ta ask. ;).
- July 19, 2010 at 9:01 PM
- Beth said...
I am so happy for you and your family. I would love to live in NC. I too, have been stuck in Illinois for WAY too long.
- July 19, 2010 at 9:05 PM
so glad you finally got there safe. Sorry about losing all the pictures that sucks. Glad everyone is having a good time at the beach even tho a couple were stung by jelly fish. I love the pics of the kids thanks for sharing.
- July 19, 2010 at 9:21 PM
We just vacationed on the OBX in May. We were in Duck, and loved it! It was a LONG drive though. Have a great time!
Jill in Indiana
- July 19, 2010 at 9:25 PM
- MaNiC MoMMy™ said...
LOVE those pictures! And why aren't the papparazzi following you guys around like they did when Kate + all her kids were in OBX? you guys are waaaay more fun!
- July 19, 2010 at 9:32 PM
I am glad you finally made it. Sounds like you are having a great time, despite the jelly fish stings. I am glad you were able to save some of the pictures, they are great. I LOVE the picture of Austin and Brooklyn. I also really like the one of clay alone. I have to ask, did Jackson get a haircut? The 6th picture down doesn't really look like him, but it looks a bit young to be Austin. lol
- July 19, 2010 at 9:33 PM
- Donna said...
It is great how you are keeping us all up to date as you know we worry about you :)
I am like you also, I panick on winding roads and moutains.
I think the drive home will be alittle better if you head west and then after TN you head north.
Still mountains tho.
Just think of all the fun memories you are making with the kids.
Stay safe and have fun !
Donna from NE Indiana
- July 19, 2010 at 9:34 PM
- TwinsanityMom said...
So glad you are having fun! The OBX is awesome and just a really relaxing place to be. Yeah, traffic in VA, that is how we roll...or, er, don't roll! Pretty much DC to Fredericksburg, Richmond, and the Norfolk areas are pretty horrible. Hopefully it won't take as long when you are going back. If you get stuck in or around Richmond let me know. :)
- July 19, 2010 at 9:42 PM
- Anna said...
Were you stuck on the Corolla beach? We got our Odyssey stuck out there and ruined the transmission with all the sand after being towed from 3/4 of our tires buried!
Haha, at least people were nice to you guys! Someone threw plastic shovels at us!
- July 19, 2010 at 11:10 PM
- mommeeof9 said...
I would cut accross wherever you can west to I81, then head north/west back home.You could not pay me enough to drive on I95, unless there were no other routes within a 50 mile detour. On the rare occassions I visit my cousin with the kids, she lives North of Fredericksburg, VA, I take US 17 to Frdereick then head north to her house. It takes forever to go that last 10miles noth to her exit. Without the kids, who get carsick, I usually cut across from US 17 on the 2 lane state roads from Warrenton. Even with the lower posted speed, I can still get to her house 1 hour earlier than taking the highway. It is 20 miles shorter to go the 2 lane roads...
- July 19, 2010 at 11:36 PM
Man, that happened to me too; losing a zillion photos when the memory card just suddenly died. The first 6 months of my baby girl... our entire Disney vacation... All. Just. Gone.
That was 5 years ago and I am STILL mourning those photos!
Have a great time anyway, you guys totally deserve it.
Hope you are keeping in touch with Dad-o-6... we are all watching and enjoying the romance develop vicariously. Such fun imagining you two (well, you fourteen) getting together! LOL
- July 20, 2010 at 12:13 AM
- WeaselMomma said...
You make the great American family roadtrip sound exactly like I always dreamed it would be.
Have fun now that you are there and don't forget to stop at Wally World.
- July 20, 2010 at 5:32 AM
Now for someone who lives in the UK and failed miserably at geography - how about a map of your travels and how many miles did you drive? It sounds like loads!
- July 20, 2010 at 6:34 AM
Funny that Brent mentioned Middleswarth chips. We're headed to NC (Emerald Isle) for a wedding next week and we can NOT enter the state without bags of M-warth chips AND Tastycakes. I swear my NC family waits for us to come just for the snacks. And yes, the beach is AWESOME. Love NC beaches!! Chris in PA (wanna stop by on your way home??)
- July 20, 2010 at 7:01 AM
- parentingBYdummies said...
We are heading to myrtle beach, sc next month. Happy to know that my drive will be shorter than yours. Can't even fathom being in the car with The Dudes that long. Sad to know that there will probably be jellyfish where we go and that they may sting my children. They have ridiculously low tolerance for pain as they are classic men-in-training. Good luck on your drive home!
- July 20, 2010 at 8:05 AM
- Missi said...
The Outer Banks was the very first ocean (Nags Head) I saw. BEAUTIFUL! Just to far of a drive from AR so we've been going to AL (Gulf Shores) ever since. I love all the lighthouses along OBX. Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is my favorite. It'd just been moved inland when we were there & didn't get to go inside though.
- July 20, 2010 at 8:21 AM
- Lesley said...
I am glad you all made it there safe and sound! I find it totally amazing, daring, and brave, that you packed up all your kids and took such a long trip by yourselves! WTG - you are a much braver person than I am! Enjoy your time in NC!
- July 20, 2010 at 8:33 AM
- Sarah said...
LOVE that last pic of Austin & Brooklyn--sooooo cute! :)
Glad you got there (finally!) and are having a good time. Hope the trip back home is much less eventful! :)
- July 20, 2010 at 11:57 AM
Have you always lived in the midwest? I grew up in the Rocky Mountains, which make the Pennsylvania hills look like, well, hills. just sayin.
Years ago my family went to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. The road to get there twists and turns enough to slow down the drivers who aren't accustomed to canyons. When a car was going particularly slow we looked at the license plate. Yep. Flatlander. Not to be confused with a flatliner. The beach looks so fun, but when you're ready for something totally different, you need to experience the mountains too.
- July 20, 2010 at 12:03 PM
- Pam L. in Maryland said...
Looks like you're all having a wonderful time! If you get a moment, you might want to stop at a camera (or computer store) somewhere near you. Sometimes those photos ARE recoverable, even when they seem to be fully lost -- but you need to be way more tech-savvy than I am to recover them!!
Also, just a word for the wise -- I live in MD and travel through northern Virginia all the time -- and the traffic is ALWAYS, ALWAYS bad. If you have any other options to get home, take them. It might be longer mileage-wise, but it will almost always be faster time-wise. You might want to consider hopping over to I-81 (goes up the west side of Virginia). It's usually a faster drive, and you could follow it up to northern MD, then head west at Frederick, MD on 70/68, then take 522 up to the PA Turnpike.
Hope you can get it all figured out to make the drive home smoother! Have a great time!
- July 20, 2010 at 12:31 PM
Sorry to hear that you pictures were lost, but they might still be recoverable, depending on how much you've used the camera since then!
There's this program called Recuva, found at http://www.piriform.com/recuva, which allows you to recover files that seem to be deleted - I won't go into the details of how it works, but as long as you haven't filled up your camera's memory card completely since transferring the pictures, you might still recover some pictures.
All you need to do is download the program, plug your camera in, run the program, and choose the camera memory card to search for deleted files.
Good luck!
- Anonymous(ish)
- July 20, 2010 at 1:29 PM
Jellyfish..Ouch! Love the pics..sounds like you will have an unforgettable vacation either way! ;)
- July 20, 2010 at 1:33 PM
You should be able to recover your lost pictures from the memorycard. (As long as you haven't taken any new pictures anyway).
Here's a link that might help: http://www.cardrecovery.com/how_to_recover_deleted_digital_pictures.asp
Good luck!
- July 20, 2010 at 1:35 PM
- Vicki said...
I LOVE the beach! Sure wish I was with ya!
SSO ? Did you get a new van? I thought you had a bit smaller one that was white or maybe green? This one looks like you have tons of room for everyone!
- July 20, 2010 at 3:13 PM
You take great pictures! Can I ask what camera you have? My fave pic is of Clay, the photo is so clear it looks like I could reach out and poke him on the back!
Thanks for sharing Dawn.
- July 21, 2010 at 4:48 AM
I am so jealous! My family vacationed in Nags Head (WAY before it became cool to refer to the area as OBX and a bit before there was a real grocery store in the area) from when I was 12 until I went on my honeymoon and they had to be evacuated because of a hurricane. We do Cape Cod now, which is a much better drive from CT and now that NC is as commercialized as OBX, it makes much more sense not to drive that far. But I DO miss that NC beach!!! Ride some waves for me and let me know if Ben Franklin (the store, not the man) is still there! I used to love shopping for souveniers there!
- July 21, 2010 at 10:23 AM
Which lighthouse did you see? When we were there in May, we drove 45 minutes to see a lighthouse, only to discover that it was closed for renovations. When we drove up and saw all the tarps, etc, my 5 year old said "we drove all that way for THIS?!?!"
Jill in Indiana
- July 21, 2010 at 12:09 PM
I am so glad that you are on the OBX. I live here!! I was at Walmart & Harris Teeter this morning. I kept my eyes peeled, hoping I would run into you & the gang.
Traffic can be killer out here, which is why we time our trips to avoid the crowds.
Hope everyone is having fun, using lots of sunscreen and staying cool in the 100 degree weather.
- July 21, 2010 at 12:14 PM
- email@example.com said...
OK I gotta know, how do you handle car trips with all your children without having a nervous breakdown? I only have 3 kids and we just took a trip 3.5 hours away and I about lost it. And that's with DVD and snacks and at least 2 stops on the way for potty breaks. Any tips for the next time I have amnesia and think trips with the family are fun?
- July 21, 2010 at 7:45 PM
- cndymkr / jean said...
We just got back from a 2 week vacation in the OBX. We stayed in Duck/Southern Shores. My son also got the dreaded jellyfish sting but there was no peeing involved.
- July 21, 2010 at 10:36 PM
I'm with the poster who suggested taking 17 through VA. It is the way we've always taken to visit my outlaws. If you take 17 through VA to 29N (near Warrenton) to 15N (near Gainesville) it will take you up into MD to I-70. We in the VA subusrbs of DC do our best to avoid I-95.
- July 22, 2010 at 9:08 PM
- Vincent Navarino said...
Hey Dawn, sent you an email via your contact form about recovering those pics for you if you want. I've done this sort of thing plenty of times.
- July 22, 2010 at 9:40 PM
The last one I think is the most priceless.... while they are all wonderful the last one made me misty eyed.
- July 23, 2010 at 10:56 PM
- disney2max said...
Love the pics!! Your kids are growing up so fast! HAHA, I live around Richmond, VA and the heat totally sucks!!! 105 yesterday and 104 today! UGH!!!! And yes traffic on 64 going to and coming from the beach area is horrible!
- July 25, 2010 at 1:04 PM
- Sunny Day said...
You deserve a medal for traveling by yourself that distance with any number of children. I only had two, and never, ever traveled by myself with them.
- July 26, 2010 at 3:14 PM


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Friday, April 3, 2009
Button up, Akshay!!
Madhu Sapre, who is a complete sweetheart, is still battling that silly court case (Tuff Shoes) years after the company has shut down and the python that covered her naked body, has shed its skin and died! I invited her to dinner last night, and asked about the status of the case. She has to fly all the way from Milan each time the court sets a fresh date. Most times, the case gets adjourned, but she has not been granted an exemption from appearing in person. Can you imagine the costs involved? What a waste of everybody's time. She was to fly out last night itslf, but her lawyer requested her to hang around for a while.... just in case! I love my favourite Marathi Mulgi DEARLY. The case has gone on for over 10 years! Give her a break.
Guess who came to dinner? You already know the answer. Bu you will have to wait for my column on Sunday to find out what I thought of Meera Sanyal. Sorry!!! But I hate repeating myself, which is what I would have done had I blogged separately about it as well. I can tell you, it was a lively evening, with at least ten highly opinionated people in the room, each one with a 'theory'. Never a dull moment. Oh---- one of you wanted to know the dinner menu. It was strictly Thai ( halka and perfect for the soaring mercury levels ). The steamed Betki in a lemon-ginger sauce was to die for, said the guests. The smoked mushrooms with sambol was pretty terrific, too. And so were the clams ( tisrya). I can always count on Amrish Arora, my neighbour and ace caterer, to deliver.
I absolutely must, must , must thank all of you for the concern shown over my bust shoulder. I cannot but cannot stay away from the blog - sore shoulder or otherwise. I have switched chairs and am using a pc. It is helping , for sure. I realised how precious our daily communication has become when I was faced with the possibility of withdrawing temporarily from this space. I find the blog seriously therapeutic. Half the healing has to do with your messages and comments. I kid you not.So, 'dhanyavad' all. And before I get all senti and weepy.... ciao ciao. Till tomorrow...
37 comments:
- Tish said...
Well, for starters I cannot help but congratulate you once again for your delectable writing. Man, it's thoroughly enjoyable. To add to that, the timing of the posts is perfect. And, is it true that Madhu Sapre is still under trial for that ad? Unbelievable! Akshay Kumar if I may say has lost it...I think the recent success has gone a bit too far in his head.
Wish you all the good health.
- April 3, 2009 at 1:52 PM
- krish said...
Dear De
hmmmm......if u have it .....why not flaunt it ........ths wht akshay was doing so no issues........hes eye candy any way........babe..
wann read wht u feel about Miss meera...waiting
sTAY HEALTHY AND LUV U
- April 3, 2009 at 1:55 PM
- IcE MaiDeN said...
The part abt akshay was truly great!! such antics shud be carried out behind closed doors.. wonder wht was he thinking??!!
Had no idea tht the tuff shoes controversy trial was still underway. crazy!! seriously, wht a waste of everyones time n resources. now if the ciurts were THT diligenta bt cases tht really needed attention!!
Amazin writeup, as usual,
- April 3, 2009 at 2:11 PM
- sathish vasudevan said...
Certain things happens just here like the tuff shoe controversy.. an hope u had a geat thai evening attached to your blog as much yu are.. HAPPY BLOGGING
- April 3, 2009 at 2:14 PM
- cmpershad said...
" provocative pic of Action Man Akshay Kumar "
yes, Action man thinks that he can get away with any action!!
Hey, but what about that ad which shows an action lady doing the same thing in the jeans act????? Or is it the case of WOMEN'S LIB:)
- April 3, 2009 at 2:20 PM
- Gulshan said...
I wonder after reading the comments here this is why we have cases like this happening in India 'coz of this PC mentality … and then us guys reading shobha de think like this hmmm we have an issue///
GODDDDDDDDDD grow up wat did he do wrong…it wasn't a public event attended by all sundry …just few fashionistas… I thought he looked cool and did nothing indecent..ok ok I live in UK but this is not gora attitude….wat we see on the screen these days which is totally acceptable is much worst…. Sometimes I wonder the programs that come prime time here that will give few HEARTATTCKS,,,to name few Skins, Brothers & Sisters, Desperate Housewives and in real life wat the celebrities do here… I am not saying its right or wrong but why judge… GROW UP
- April 3, 2009 at 2:28 PM
- kala said...
The blog is an delightful snack crunchy and tasty. A shoulder to cry on, but the shoulder is crying with pain. Poor Madhu. How resource consuming to drag it endlessly? That 10years itself is a punishment. She should have approached the Supreme Court.
- April 3, 2009 at 2:35 PM
fikar not bindaas.
And yes, cold add more atleast in my arm case. I stop ice-cream, rice etc. etc. Start using computer mouse with left-hand and one day pain furr furr...
- Best-Wishes & Prayers.
- April 3, 2009 at 2:37 PM
- introspection said...
What a crisp post! It was definitely a case of good shoulder. It set the mood.
But Akshay...! If you dont know where to stop, it's not anyone else's fault. The notice is well deserved. But please, our judiciary sucks, as I wrote in my last comment. Koi help Madhu Sapre & Milind Soman. Why can't there be decisions taken in courts, coz that's what they are supposed to do right ? Decide.
Seems there is more suspense coming our way as far as the rendezvous (spelling?) with Meera is concerned. But yummm the thai food and the entire menu sounds delicious. Betki with lemon/ginger sauce...aaah! All my favorites, thanks for sharing.
But unsharing Meera Sanyal sucks. waiting for the 'asli maal'.
Shoulder ko karo salam...! I cannot agree with you more about blogging being therapeutic. I am almost addicted to it. By the time I have done all my rounds of reading blogs, commenting and visiting more and more, my day (and night some times)is gone!
- April 3, 2009 at 2:40 PM
- Dreamer Doll said...
Dear Ms De,
Bollywood's influence on the Indian fashion industry has always held a certain fascination for me - fashion shows, shoots, mags... It's always the filmstars who steal the limelight. Is it impossible for them to stick to their own realm (ah yes, that thing called acting)? Or do we just love, want and need them to be the epicentres of everything?
Mr Kumar's fanatics were just plain embarassing! A touch tacky to say the least. I knew he was never the most sophisticated of folk, but really now...the class-o-meter needs to be stepped up a notch.
En plus , Ms Sapre's case is most unfortunate. I read what you wrote about it in Superstar, and I just think it's such a shame that the Indian juridical system has no problem in wasting time, efforts and resources on such petty cases.
Hope your shoulder heals soon,
- April 3, 2009 at 2:45 PM
- fazal said...
when ever i feel lonelly or missing home ....i Read your blog ........it makes me feel better........so ple. ple. ple. dont stop bloging.....although you'r quiting Facebook soon.......
till than A big salaam to you and your blog .....your blog rock's
- April 3, 2009 at 3:46 PM
- Rajlakshmi said...
bollywood and celebrities have always puzzeled me ... they and their antics would make a national bestseller :) ...
hope your shoulder is feeling better... tk cr and keep blogging :)
- April 3, 2009 at 4:00 PM
the dinner menu mentioned sends me in tizzy...what the heck r these betki and alllll...but is assume these thai dishes 2 be non-veg...
so madam DE whenever u desire or eat non-veg pls think 'go green-go veg'. It will improve your shoulders and your thoughts....
so be veg....
- April 3, 2009 at 4:47 PM
- Sidhusaaheb said...
Very, very bad taste indeed...Herr Akshay...
- April 3, 2009 at 5:02 PM
- romulus said...
I agree with Gulshan. Though i guess it was just too avant garde for India in general...
- April 3, 2009 at 6:31 PM
- rajat said...
I just fail to understand what's the big deal with Akshay Kumar's wife unbuttoning his zippers.
If the NDTV editors and others in the news media can't stay away from showing this clip on national TV then it must be really really good for our society.
Now don't be surprised if 8th grade boys in our schools go and ask a fellow girl in her class to do the same and after few months it becomes a women's right to unbutton someone's zip if she wants to.
What these sh_thols on news channels such as NDTV, Star News, Zee News are showing without any sense of responsibility will come and bite them big time in their own family.
Remember what goes around, comes around.
When Barkha Dutt's daughter or her niece acquires the skills required to unbutton a man's zippers then I think grandpa's in her household and neighbours will have to change gears and wear something similar to "salwar with nada" to protect that feeble old thread hanging inside.
- April 3, 2009 at 8:36 PM
- Parv Kaushik said...
2 cases of how mughda godse and nw akshay kumar are now entangled in a controversy which can only happen in our own country... and best of luck fr ur shoulders we'll miss u too here if u take a break!!!!
- April 3, 2009 at 8:55 PM
- Vikas Chandra said...
aah if our messages heal..then i wud drop in 100 of them..
abt this post-as usual tickling..I dunno why Akshay had to do it? and Madhu sapre paying a far harsher price for that..
Suggest some change mechanism for India...if U have some
- April 3, 2009 at 9:05 PM
- obssesor said...
Akshay's act was certainly distusting! Riding on a success wave does weird things to your common sense! poor twinkle!
- April 3, 2009 at 9:48 PM
- Amitabh said...
I believe Bollywood folks have gone crazy. The kind of language SRK uses on TV or used by others too really is in not in taste. These guys whine about the press but do not really know what they are speaking in public. The other day there was some TV show and all these stars were present and the host was cracking jokes about gays etc and everyone was laughing including Mrs Jaya B. The public need to put a stop to all this nuisance.
- April 3, 2009 at 10:13 PM
- Anon said...
Shobhaa you made my day or should I say night cause I just managed to get my nightly dose of your blog. Can't wait for Sundays coloumn.
AK's act was a cheap publicity stunt sooo wannabe! Has he no credibility as an actor that he needs to resort to such stunts? Guess something similar could be said for Madhu Sapre but puhleease for crying out loud its been simply eons since the ad in question happened why can't it be allowed to rest in the archives & not be brought back over & over again ad nauseam!
So glad you signed off saying till tomorrow. Looking forward to hear what you have to say. Its pertinent practical in short as close as it gets to perfect!
- April 3, 2009 at 10:55 PM
- Shachi said...
Shobhaa, please post the Sunday column here :)
I agree with your take on Akshay's act - didn't expect that out of him!
And I am surprised to know about Sapre's case - it's still going on?????
Smoked mushrooms - ahh I love them :)
- April 3, 2009 at 11:30 PM
- Shruti SriHarsha said...
Hey Shobha,
With my hectic work schedule and away from home, your blod is soo refreshing for me!!!! Am reading with cup of hot tea and am back to work :) Love u
- April 3, 2009 at 11:34 PM
- Sameer said...
Not sure what's all this fuss about what Akshay did. We see much raunchy/erotic/steamy scenes, stories in our latest bollywood films,soaps and books (which are meant for bedroom only types). so why only punish akshay. why can't we give notice to everyone involved who either does these things, writes such things or caters to such things. I don't think we are any "doodh ka dhula hua", so let's not judge Akshay. I think it's very subjective what's appropriate and what's not.
I always loved Thai food but I am not sure the kind of thai food we get in US is close to real thai food. I never had any thai food when I was in India (heck, I didn't even know that we get thai food in India.)
Good to see that your shoulder is treating you well. Wish you speedy recovery. Hopefully the marathi mulagi will get the verdict soon and will not have to come to aamachi mumbai frequently. But then, that can be her excuse for easting good shrikhand and pooranachi poli :) Zeez, I am getting hungry I guess
- April 3, 2009 at 11:36 PM
- Amal Bose said...
it was a bit wierd for him to do that.
i mean even Twinkle was a bit hesitant.
- April 4, 2009 at 12:03 AM
- small_town girl said...
I saw the akshay-tina clip and speaking the truth, i felt like i was intruding a private moment. That says a lot about it, i think.
and all the best for a full recovery!
take care!
- April 4, 2009 at 1:03 AM
- muthu said...
Akshay kanna's success has - I think has nothing to do with his acting capabilities but with the desperate need for viewable comedies in bollywood and his ability to deliver them and once you become a star, people simply forget when they are going overboard.
And Indian court system doesnt simply need amendments, it needs quite a bit of revolution to get out of the slouch it is turning to be.
And as for your comment on the blog being therapeutic, yup... nothing is more therapeutic than people.
- April 4, 2009 at 2:36 AM
- Anil Kumar said...
Some gentleman posted details on AB's blog on who owns our media. If this indeed is true then the indian society is becoming slave of western ills due to the WESTERN MONEY flowing to these TV news channels....I don't know if it's correct but whatever little I know, it does seems to be creditable piece of details.
Read yourself and pass it on to others so that we all can know who is actually behind the scenes and BEAMING THIS FILTH on TV every single day.
NDTV, Star News, CNN-IBN and others ....I dare you not to cross the limit of descency and forget your responsibility...otherwise some of you will be lynched in public one day and your wives and kids will be at the mercy of monster/indescent society which you are building so shamelessley for last 10 years.
Message for Barkha Dutt---Dont ever dare to show those kind of video footage which you shamelessly decided to show on Aklshay Kumar. And just remember I am watching you when I see how soft your voice becomes when you talk to a muslim leader and let him go without asking tough questions. It gives the impression that he knows some dirty secrets about you...
See the post which I have cut and pasted for readers here...
Who owns the media in India ?There are several major publishing groups in India, the most prominent among them being the Times of India Group, the Indian Express Group, the Hindustan Times Group, The Hindu group, the Anandabazar Patrika Group, the Eenadu Group, the Malayalam Manorama Group, the Mathrubhumi group, the Sahara group, the Bhaskar group, and the Dainik Jagran group.
NDTV: Funded by the Gospels of Charity in Spain. Recently it has developed a soft corner towards Pakistan because the Ex-President Musharraf had allowed only this channel to be aired in Pakistan. Indian Division CEO Prannoy Roy is the co-brother of Prakash Karat, General Secretary of Communist Party of India. His wife and Brinda Karat are sisters.
India Today which used to be the only national weekly, now bought by NDTV and since then the tone has changed drastically and turned into Hindu bashing.
CNN-IBN: Totally funded by Southern Baptist Church with its branches in all over the world with HQ in US. The Church annually allocates $800 million for promotion of its channel. Its Indian heads are Rajdeep Sardesai and his wife Sagarika Ghosh.
Times group list: Times Of India, Mid-Day, Nav-Bharth Times, Stardust , Femina, Vijaya Times, Vijaya Karnataka, Times now (24- hour news channel) and many more. Times Group is owned by Bennet & Coleman. 'World Christian Council' does 80 percent of the Funding, and an Englishman and an Italian equally share balance 20 percent. The Italian Robertio Mindo is a close relative of Sonia Gandhi (real name Antonia Maino).
Star TV: Rupert Murdoch, who is supported by St. Peters Pontificial Church, Melbourne.
Hindustan Times: Owned by Birla Group, Presently it is working in Collobration with Times Group
The Hindu: (not a Hindu religious paper at all , but cruises on the perception - taken over by Joshua Society, Berne, Switzerland. N.Ram's wife is a Swiss national.
Indian Express: Divided into two groups:The Indian Express and The New Indian Express (southern edition): ACTS Christian Ministries have major stake in the Indian Express and later is still with the Indian counterpart.
Eeenadu: Still to date controlled by an Indian named Ramoji Rao. Ramoji Rao is connected with film industry and owns a huge studio in Andhra Pradesh .
Andhra Jyothi: The Muslim Party of Hyderabad known as MIM along with a Congress Minister has purchased this Telugu daily.
The Statesman: It is controlled by the Communist Party of India.
Kairali TV: It is controlled by the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Mathrubhoomi: Leaders of Muslim League and Communist Leaders have major investment.
Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle: Is owned by a Saudi Arabian Company with its chief Editor M.J. Akbar. (an excellent journalist).
- April 4, 2009 at 5:33 AM
- Priyadarshini Karanjai said...
Macho man in mucho trouble...thats alliteration!! But you agree it was paisa vasool, right? Then why the fuss.
- April 4, 2009 at 10:27 AM
- Theyoginme said...
Shobhaa, Thanks for continuing your blog. Here is an interesting article / news today of Hollwood stars saving lives through this new medium of communication with their fans...Inspiring - facebook, blogs, twitter, all these new instant communication technologies are breaking huge barriers, and ending the anarchy of tabloid journalism.
Demi Moore used her Twitter account to save the life of a suicidal woman.
A woman sent the actress a message on the social networking site Friday that said: "Getting a knife, a big one that is sharp. Going to cut my arm down the whole arm so it doesn't waste time."
In response, Demi re-posted her message on her own Twitter page, adding, "Hope you are joking."
She told her followers in the post that she just couldn't let the message go unnoticed.
"Everyone I was very torn about responding or retweeting that woman's post but felt uncomfortable just letting it go," Moore tweeted.
See photos of today's top celeb news stories.
Some of the 380,000 followers of Moore (her Twitter name is mrskutcher, after her husband Ashton Kutcher) responded to her post, saying that they had reached out to police.
"The twitterverse is on the case just called silicon valley pd to report this woman many others had called. fingers crossed," one user wrote in a post.
A rep for the San Jose Police Department said they "received several phone calls" about the woman starting at 3 a.m. on Friday, Access Hollywood reports. Police were able to locate the woman, who had not yet hurt herself.
Moore and Kutcher were both thankful when they found out the woman was safe.
Kutcher tweeted: "Wifey reported a suicide attempt based on a at reply tweet she got and saved someones life. The woman is in the hospital now."
Moore also thanked her followers for their help.
"Thanks everyone for reaching out to the San Jose PD i am told they are aware and no need to call anymore. I do not know this woman," she wrote. "I am inspired by the enormous response of humanity here and thank you..."
She added most recently: "Today was a prime example of the power of collective consciousness and our incredible ability to create change when we come together!"
You should Amitji's recent blog post. Its a huge dissertation on how he is being wronged by the press and his response to TOI. Where does he find time and energy to prepare such a response?
I say he should start twittering and forget the A*holes who keep attacking him, he is bring them on by responding. This new medium of communication is the future without intermediaries and direct to your readers and fans!
What do you think?
- April 4, 2009 at 11:37 AM
- athi said...
Hmm... Was away for a few days... And I missed this place so much :)
Akshay's act definitely in bad taste. Putting your private moments for public display is making a million tongues wag. And somehow with your wife, its like disrespecting her. Totally not cool!
Btw I wonder what she was thinking!! :P
- April 6, 2009 at 2:00 PM
- Harish said...
At least he's being faithful to his wife :-)
- April 6, 2009 at 5:18 PM
- Abhishek said...
"Padmashree Akshay Kumar"
This incidence happened just a day after he received Padmashree.
- April 7, 2009 at 10:59 AM
- Gajendra said...
be a bit generous to the python, what a mean comment....tehehe :P
- April 9, 2009 at 9:24 AM
- john xaviers said...
"button up" suddenly sounds like some RSS preaching :)
- April 14, 2009 at 10:58 AM
- Autumn953 said...
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- November 13, 2009 at 4:28 PM
- Siva Cool said...
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- July 4, 2014 at 12:16 PM