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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Cake Wrecks Gets Its Own TV Show!
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Hey, you think this was the inspiration? Either way, I think Cake Wrecks transitions well onto the small screen, don't you? In fact, how's this for an idea: a reality/candid camera show where a bakery deliberately messes up orders in the most ridiculous ways possible. I'm telling you, it'd be a comic GOLDMINE. Just throw in some smiley clueless cashiers, a sadistic ex-military shop manager, a guy who only speaks in pig Latin, and a dirty-minded grandma, and you've got yourself the Next Big Thing. Srsly. I'm accepting offers now, networks...
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- Brittney said...
I'd watch it!
-Brittney - January 7, 2009 at 2:25 PM
- MarieA said...
dang! I started to watch the show and then... switched the channel to that reality show.. do you look good nekkid or something like that... If only I had known!
LOL - January 7, 2009 at 2:28 PM
- dani' said...
love it!
- January 7, 2009 at 2:31 PM
- Dass sedan said...
I would definately watch that show! LOL!
- January 7, 2009 at 2:34 PM
- Jennifer Good said...
I'm thoroughly amused. :)
- January 7, 2009 at 2:40 PM
looks like a cute show and she's definitely a cake wrecks fan!!
- January 7, 2009 at 2:41 PM
- a Cupcake near you! said...
Back in the 70's my college roommate and her boyfriend eloped. Soon after their friends decided to throw them a surprise party. So they went to a bakery (this is out in the sticks in Michigan) and ordered a cake saying something like Congratulations on your Wedding. They let it slip that this was for a surprise party and the baker put down her pencil, paused and asked, "Don't they know they're getting married?"
LOVE your blog! - January 7, 2009 at 2:47 PM
Hey, send it to Howie Mandell. He just launched a hidden camera comedy show. I think would be as funny as they stuff he comes up with.
- January 7, 2009 at 2:56 PM
- Vashti said...
- January 7, 2009 at 3:18 PM
- Tammy said...
I think that you would need a fanatical sci fi guru on there too. Maybe with Spock-like ears imagine him/her adding that awesome bright fod coloring to everything-just to help with the whole technicolor thing. Hey it could happen!
- January 7, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Just too funny! I would definitely watch that show! Seriously should hound the networks with the premise for the show! It would be awesome!
- January 7, 2009 at 3:46 PM
- M M said...
I'd watch it just to see the dirty minded grandma, because dirty grandmas are funny.
- January 7, 2009 at 3:59 PM
- Thistledew Farm said...
I'd watch your show - and I'd eat that cake from the video - no one would ever know I ordered it!!! Did I mention I love cake?
- January 7, 2009 at 4:01 PM
- Kristin said...
Congrats on the next level of fandom.
- January 7, 2009 at 4:04 PM
You're so totally famous! And very deserving too.
- January 7, 2009 at 4:05 PM
So fun!!!
Have to share... my kids want to open their own bakery called... (big surprise) Cake Wrecks! They decided they'd make ALL the cakes totally wrecky... 'cept on Sunday.
(Just doing my part to raise Wreck loving kids!) - January 7, 2009 at 4:10 PM
I'd love it! It be right on my list with CSI and The Biggest Loser!
- January 7, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Not impressed - I LOVE this blog, but this scene totally fell flat!
- January 7, 2009 at 4:56 PM
- Lancastermom said...
That's hilarious!
- January 7, 2009 at 5:10 PM
- Breeda said...
Awesome....and the Best Food Blog voting is going very well for you!!
Are you going to get a cake when you win? - January 7, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Oh yes absolutely! Seriously, shop that idea around. No wait, copyright it first, then...oh this could be big! I can see it now, your launching party, complete with ginormous pool-table-sized sheet cake knee deep in icing.
- January 7, 2009 at 5:44 PM
- Hyena Overlord said...
Absolutely a prop to CW...
wvotd plungle..good to see tv take the cake wreck plungle. - January 7, 2009 at 9:02 PM
as long as you cast Cloris Leachman as dirty grandma!
- January 7, 2009 at 10:45 PM
- shMerker said...
Of course in real life that cake would've said:
Congratulations, You're
Dirty! - January 8, 2009 at 1:38 AM
I think your blog is way funnier than that clip - just sayin'! ;o9
- January 8, 2009 at 1:38 AM
Oooh and the bakery employees have to see how far they can go and still get the person to buy the cake.
- January 8, 2009 at 5:04 AM
I watched a hidden camera show where they did set up in a bakery. The cake was to say, "Happy Birthday Sarah" with the standard pink roses; when the "bakers" brought it out they had written "Happy Birthday Satan" on it. The mother and daughter were horrified (especially when asked which one was Satan), and then the bakers offered to cover the word with a plastic pirate ship.
I howled with laughter. I loved it so much my husband ordered a birthday cake for me that said (you guessed it), "Happy Birthday Satan."
On the flip side of cakewrecks, I wonder what the bakery staff thought of that . . .! - January 8, 2009 at 7:13 AM
Someone needs to contact Lyle Lovett for the baker role.
- January 8, 2009 at 8:34 AM
- Jackie said...
Well, Ace of Cakes is a hit. The opposite would be true too!
- January 8, 2009 at 8:52 AM
- fleeting said...
That preview vlog borrows heavily from the blogosphere - now only is there CW, but there is also Passive Aggressive Notes, and the "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotations style comments in there. Probably others that I don't, personally, read, too.
Still, super cute, and who knew the CBC could produce more than crap (excluding Corner Gas, of course). Mayhaps I have a new show to watch! - January 8, 2009 at 9:31 AM
- Boozy Tooth said...
I can see it now... Cake Wrecks the Mini-Series! Jen will be played by Julia Chil... no, strike that. Jen will be played by Martha Stewwwww, no - too mean. Jen will be played by Racheal Ray. Yeah. No? She's not a baker? Okay, fine. Jen will be played by Joan freaking Rivers. End of story!
http://casahice.blogspot.com - January 8, 2009 at 9:32 AM
Yeah, it actually does work pretty well. As for the reality TV show, the customers for important events would have to be narcissistic jerks for it to be something good to laugh at. Seeing a Sweet 16 or a wedding cake get ruined for a good person would just be sad.
The Canadian show looked kinda good. I'll have to see what people think of it once the season runs a bit longer.
This actually seems like something the American version of The Office could pick up pretty well. Especially considering that Phylis has recently become the head of the Party Planning Committee, and Angela's been bitter about it. Or they could go with the old standby of Michael telling a poorly conceived and inappropriate joke, only this time in buttercream. Plus, random mistakes, pranks and mixups are part of the show's DNA, so a cakewreck could sneak into it in a lot of ways.
And who didn't think of Michael when they saw this: http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2008/08/this-calls-for-celebration.html - January 8, 2009 at 10:01 AM
- Ice Cream said...
I could never bring myself to watch Pumked but I would love to watch Wrecked!
- January 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM
- Becky said...
Oh yes!! Great idea for a tv show! I'd definitely watch that.
- January 8, 2009 at 10:27 AM
- lawnajo said...
My 2 year old daughter was on my lap as I watched that clip. She said, "It's dirty? The birthday cake is dirty, they need another one!" It was so cute. Thanks for the laughs Jen.
- January 8, 2009 at 11:11 AM
nicepost i like it.
Thank you for the nice post. - January 8, 2009 at 2:41 PM
love your blog ... but that was a really lame scene. The set ups for your wrecks are way funnier - they should hire you.
- January 8, 2009 at 8:27 PM
- dizzy mom said...
Umm...okay. So I watched a few of them (which were good) then before I know it I'm watching a video of some girl in daisy dukes shaking her a$$. The next thing I know there are butts all over the video scroll. SO...maybe the cake wasn't a wreck. Maybe it was supposed to say "Congratulations you're DIRTY."
Make it stop...I feel so dirty! (not a good dirty) - January 8, 2009 at 8:45 PM
too bad that the cake's wrecktastic, but the acting capabilities lack...
- January 9, 2009 at 3:52 AM
You SO inspired that youtube video! Awesome!
- January 9, 2009 at 9:07 AM
- Liz said...
Seriously, how do we make that show happen!??! Food Network should be on this already!
- January 9, 2009 at 10:04 AM
- jackie31337 said...
Yes! I would totally watch a Cake Wrecks show. Maybe people could nominate/turn in their friends and family to receive a surprise cake wreck. Otherwise, it would have a pretty limited run as word got around.
There used to be a show in Finland where a Finnish actress made up to look Japanese interviewed Finnish celebrities and asked them all kinds of strange and ridiculous questions. Most of them really thought they were giving an interview to a Japanese TV crew. Finns are generally very polite, and even when some of the guests started to suspect something was up, they still tried to be respectful of the interviewer's (perceived) cultural differences. The host would say or invite the guests to do increasingly absurd things, and watching the guests try to stay serious and polite was really funny. At the end of each episode, she revealed her actual identity. Word got around once it aired, and I think it only ran for one season.
Fluffy Cow said my kids want to open their own bakery called... (big surprise) Cake Wrecks! They decided they'd make ALL the cakes totally wrecky... 'cept on Sunday.
I also endorse your kids' bakery idea. Are they hiring by any chance?
WV: cycos. I think that speaks for itself. - January 9, 2009 at 2:21 PM
- G said...
I would watch that show!
- January 9, 2009 at 2:51 PM
- Tashtego said...
I love the candid camera idea... it reminds me of the Patrick Stewart < rowr! > SNL skit where he worked at the erotic bakery and changes every cake to be women going to the bathroom. *hahaha!*
- January 10, 2009 at 3:18 AM
I would totally watch a Cake Wrecks show. *imagines the possibilities* And I thought the clip was pretty funny. Checked out the website, and the character's facebook page actually states that she's a fan of the Cake Wrecks website. Your popularity continues to grow. ^^
- January 10, 2009 at 4:29 AM
- Kristina said...
Mwaa haa ha ha! Hilarious.
- January 11, 2009 at 12:50 PM
- periculum said...
- January 13, 2009 at 10:57 AM
- alison said...
Erica Strange is even a fan of Cake Wrecks on Facebook.
I think your show idea has some entertaining potential, too! - January 17, 2009 at 6:33 PM
- Jennifer said...
great idea! it could air right after Ace of Cakes!!!
- January 18, 2009 at 12:16 PM
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The late Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke, infamous for his role in crimes that included a massacre in Italy, is proving to be difficult to bury, after church and government officials in Rome blocked his funeral there.
Authorities in Germany and Argentina have also rejected the idea of becoming the final resting place for the former SS captain, who died Friday at 100.
Priebke died under house arrest while serving a life sentence "for his part in a 1944 reprisal at a quarry known as the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome that killed 335 men and boys including 75 Jews," reports Italy's Gazzetta Del Sud. "The atrocity, ordered by Hitler a day after 33 SS policemen from the northern Italian German-speaking city of Bolzano were killed by a partisan bomb in Rome, was one of the worst war crimes in Italy in the Second World War."
The former Nazi never showed repentance for his crimes, his critics say. During his trial, Priebke maintained that he had only been following orders. He also said the Germans had killed "terrorists."
For decades after World War II, Priebke lived in Argentina; he was extradited to Italy in 1995 and convicted of war crimes.
Priebke was called to account after a 1994 TV interview conducted by ABC journalist Sam Donaldson, who "ambushed" the former SS officer in a village near the Andes mountains, as an article inAmerican Journalism Review noted.
At the end of their conversation, Priebke famously told Donaldson, "You are not a gentleman."
After the war criminal's death last week, Jewish and Catholic leaders moved to block plans to hold Priebke's funeral in Rome.
"Rome's archdiocese made it official Monday," the AP reports, saying Priebke's lawyer could hold the funeral in his home "in strict privacy." The news agency adds that Pope Francis' vicar for Rome, Cardinal Agostino Vallini, forbade any church in Rome from holding the service.
On the day he died, Argentina's foreign ministry said it wouldn't allow Priebke to be returned to the country, saying that "Argentines will not accept this kind of affront to human dignity," the Agence France-Presse reports.
Priebke's hometown in Germany has cited its policy of only allowing residents to be buried there, the AP says.
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"While the former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio included women in the rite when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires, it was the first time women had taken part in a papal Holy Thursday ceremony.
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During a short homily before the ritual, the pope urged priests to go out into the world.
"It is not in soul-searching... that we encounter the Lord," he said, according to the BBC. "We need to go out ... to the outskirts where there is suffering, bloodshed, blindness that longs for sight and prisoners in thrall to many evil masters."
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" 'It almost feels like the Vatican found itself a very good marketing and communication adviser,' said Valeria Angela Montis, a 38-year-old Roman.
" 'But I must say I am happy to see a pope who doesn't think he is God on earth and teaches what Jesus taught 2,000 years ago ... teaching the church seemed to have forgotten years ago. Francesco is an honest pope!' she added."
Earlier this week, Francis made news for shunning the Apostolic Palace. Francis, instead, chose to live in Casa Santa Marta, "the Vatican City guesthouse that hosted him and the other Catholic cardinals during the recent conclave, the meeting that ended in Francis' election," National Geographic reports.
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By Alex T. Johnson and Mischa Thompson, PhD,
Policy Advisors
As part of an ongoing initiative to foster ethnic minority political participation in the OSCE region, Congressman Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL), Co-Chairman of the United States Helsinki Commission attended the United Nations (UN) Second Session of the Forum on Minority Issues. The Session focused on Minorities and Effective Political Participation, took place on November 12 and 13, 2009 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
The purpose of the Forum was to "identify and analyze best practices, challenges, opportunities and initiatives for the further implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities." The Forum consisted of a Preparatory Meeting for NGOs, Workshop for Minority Political Actors, the Forum, and two Side events organized by the Minority Rights Group and United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Recommendations based on the proceedings were produced at the close of the forum.
The U.S. delegation to the Forum was led by Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. In addition to Co-Chairman Hastings, other members of the U.S. delegation included, Congressman Mike Honda (D-CA) – Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, and Delegate Donna Christensen (D-VI). The Forum was Chaired by Congresswoman Lee and convened by United Nations Independent Expert on Minority Issues, Gay McDougall. More than five hundred persons participated in the Forum, including more than eighty elected officials and other political actors, forty-five delegates and ninety-five non-government organizations from all over the world.
The U.S. Delegation attended the Workshop for Minority Political Actors, which took place prior to the Forum and allowed elected officials and other political figures to discuss their own priorities and strategies for increasing minority political participation. Participants discussed barriers and possible remedies and efforts governments, parliaments, political parties, national human rights institutions, civil society, treaty bodies, United Nations institutions, the media, and other stakeholders could engage in to foster minority political participation.
The U.S. delegation focused on the need to educate minority populations on their civil and political rights, including voting, running for office, and advocacy. Additionally, to address the lack of representation of minorities in government, the delegation called for initiatives that would increase employment opportunities for minorities in the political sphere. Specifically, these recommendations included introducing civic education programs led by minorities and developing minority youth professional development programs at government agencies, in parliaments, and in international bodies. Congressman Honda highlighted the importance of including minorities in the development, management, and implementation of government initiatives targeting minorities. "One should see minorities in professional positions upon immediately entering national human rights agencies, especially when the agency has a stated goal of combating racism and discrimination," he argued. (This and other suggestions from the U.S. Delegation were included in the final Recommendations of the Forum.)
As Chairperson, Congresswoman Lee opened the official Forum. In her remarks, she noted that empowering minorities politically is critical to achieving a truly democratic, free and global community. While she cited the election of President Barack Obama as an example of gains made toward fair election processes, she stated that minorities are still underrepresented in the U.S. Congress. For instance, there is currently only one African-American serving in the U.S. Senate.) Additionally, she stated that a continued focus of the Congressional Black Caucus and other minority caucuses was to address disparities between minority and majority populations in all aspects of society including the political arena.
Following her remarks, government delegates and members of civil society ranging from Iranian dissidents to South Asian Dalit activists gave remarks. While many of the governments offered descriptions of their various initiatives to foster minority political participation, some governments provided assessments and prescriptions for improvement, including the U.S. government. Of particular relevance to minority political participation in the European context were the comments of OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek. The Office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities is a unique institution of the OSCE in that it is situated in a politico-security dimension of the organization and facilitates confidential direct assessments on the status of minorities in the 56 participating States of the OSCE. High Commissioner Vollebaek highlighted how the underrepresentation of minorities in public services exacerbates the challenge of involving minorities in civic life. More specifically, he noted that exclusion and its causes threaten the stability of societies if left unaddressed. Other presentations throughout the forum corroborated the importance of this message.
Speaking on the panel "Concrete Steps to Advance Minority Political Participation and to Build Capacity of Minorities to Participate Effectively," Co-Chairman Hastings highlighted his work with minority European Parliamentarians in convening the 2009 Black European Summit. He noted findings from the Summit, including that "the majority of our political and legal systems do not accurately reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of our societies." He called for this problem to be addressed via "simple solutions governments, political parties, and non-governmental organizations can employ such as advertising employment opportunities in minority communities, requiring that at least a percentage of persons interviewed for a position are minorities, and providing fellowships and internships for minority youth in Parliament, government agencies, and other organizations."
Minority Roundtable
On the margins of the UN Minority Issues Forum, Co-Chairman Hastings convened a roundtable of participants of the April 2009 Black European Summit and other interested parties. The roundtable provided an opportunity to follow up on the Brussels Declaration adopted at the close of the Black European Summit (see Appendix 1), and discuss future initiatives for continuing the transatlantic dialogue. The discussion also informed individuals unable to participate in the Black European Summit about the scope of activities and potential for future collaboration.
Participants identified destinations for study tours to view the situation of minorities and existing initiatives to increase minority political participation in the OSCE region. The United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, and Germany were specifically named given that the populations of visible minorities in these countries remains high and that they each offer unique narratives for analyzing methods to overcome barriers to minority political participation. Participants reaffirmed the need for annual meetings to sustain linkages between minority political actors and agreed to identify additional minority leaders to expand the transatlantic dialogue and plan future initiatives.
The "Recommendations of the second session of the Forum on Minority Issues on minorities and effective political participation" were compiled at the close of the Forum and should serve as a useful guide for governments to foster minority political inclusion. Moreover, in the OSCE region, sustaining a transatlantic dialogue with minority political actors focused on minority political inclusion is not only key to implementation of the recommendations, but also realizing the commitments to democratic societies enshrined in both the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities and the Helsinki Final Act.
Appendix 1
Brussels Declaration
We, as members of the public, private, and voluntary sectors from Europe and the United States of America convening in Brussels, Belgium from the 15 to 16 of April 2009 for the Black European Summit: Transatlantic Dialogue on Political Inclusion, draw attention to the need for coordinated strategies to address racism and discrimination;
We recognize the democratic, multi-ethnic and multi-racial nature of our countries' diverse societies;
We reaffirm the principles of equal rights and self-determination of peoples and recalling that all individuals are born equal in dignity and rights;
We remain concerned that the political and legal systems in some of our societies do not reflect the racial and ethnic diversity within our societies, which then contributes to the continuation of racism and discrimination;
We recognize that the full access of racial and ethnic minorities to participate in the political sphere and relevant areas of decision making at the levels of national, regional, and locally elected government appropriate to each nation is critical to combating racism and inequality and ensuring our democratic societies;
We therefore note the need for concrete strategies to: increase the representation and influence of racial and ethnic minority policymakers; jointly seek solutions to racial and ethnic minorities increased participation in decision-making in the development and implementation of policy initiatives to address discrimination and inequality; and support opportunities to exchange and share perspectives in these areas through the continuance of a transatlantic dialogue to realize these goals.
We today resolve that we will endeavor to enact initiatives to eradicate racial and ethnic discrimination through:
Continuing a transatlantic dialogue that: includes cultural exchanges between American and European racial and ethnic minority groups, including youth; focuses on the development of opportunities for racial and ethnic minority political leadership and participation in the policymaking process; and fosters the exchange of information on best practices to implement and enforce antidiscrimination measures and achieve racial equality;
Joining forces over the coming months to develop common goals and objectives in each of our decision-making bodies to recognize Europe's Black and racial and ethnic minority populations for their historical and present-day contributions and acknowledge past injustices;
Promoting racial and ethnic minority participation at all levels of national, regional, and local government through the education of civil and political rights, including the legislative process and advocacy of legislative issues relevant to racial and ethnic minority communities, development of targeted professional development and hiring strategies, and increased youth and community outreach;
Reaffirming our continued cooperation and commitment to work with our governments, international institutions, civil society, private sector, and other partners to improve institutions so that they are fully participatory and reflect the democratic principles of equality, justice, and celebration of the strengths of our countries' diversity.
In 2008, Congressman Hastings Chaired two U.S. Helsinki Commission hearings entitled: "The State of (In)visible Black Europe: Race, Rights, and Politics" and "Racism in the 21st Century: Understanding Global Challenges and Implementing Solutions." At the hearings, the lack of minority representation in European policymaking, especially at national levels, was identified as a major obstacle to combating racism and discrimination by European witnesses. This prompted a call for a transatlantic dialogue on minority political participation that included best practices from the United States' Civil Rights Movement. The resulting events have been the 2009 Black European Summit and 2010 Transatlantic Dialogue on Minority Political Leadership.


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for the cupcake:
1 cup flour
1/2 cup light brown sugar
2/3 cup milk
1/4 cup canola oil
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg, at room temperature
2 bags Tazo Ti Kwan Yin (oolong) tea
for the frosting:
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
2 egg whites
1 1/2 to 2 tablespoons culinary grade lavender
pinch salt
food dye (optional)
For the cupcakes:
Bring the milk and tea to a boil. Remove from heat and allow to cool to room temperature. Discard the tea bags after thoroughly squeezing out all the milk back into the pan. Preheat oven to 350. Line or grease and flour 6 wells in a cupcake pan. Place all of the ingredients in a large bowl and mix until well combined. The batter will be rather thin, so don't be alarmed. Fill each well 2/3 of the way full. Bake about 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted the center of a cupcake comes out clean or with just one or two dry crumbs. Cool briefly in the pan, then remove cupcakes to wire racks to cool completely before icing.
For the frosting:
Beat the egg whites and salt to soft peaks using an electric mixer. Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan, bring sugar, lavender and water to a boil, stirring occasionally. Continue to boil until it reaches soft ball stage (when a drop of the syrup forms a soft ball when dropped in cool water) while continuing to stir occasionally. Whisk the mixture through a fine sieve into a heat safe measuring cup and discard the lavender. Keep the mixer running (to be safe use a stand mixer or a friend to complete this next step) and pour a continuous stream of molten syrup into the egg whites. Continue to beat for about 5 minutes or until the frosting is fluffy, glossy and cool. Frost cooled cupcakes.
My thoughts:
Recently I was approached by Tazo to develop some new recipes using their tea. It is actually quite fun, I got a big box of various teas to play around with and once a week for three weeks I will be sent a mystery ingredient to use in the recipe as well. I was excited for the challenge, after 6 plus years and nearly 1,100 original recipes, sometimes a culinary puzzle is welcome. This week it was culinary lavender. I haven't made anything with lavender before so that was an interesting twist.
I had lots of ideas but I decided to go classic and make some cupcakes. Who doesn't love cupcakes? No one I would like to know. These cupcakes are more for grown ups than the little ones I think, they are subtly flavored and not overly sweet. The cupcakes themselves taste like milky tea and are quite light textured. I love how the fluffy lavender frosting turned out, that is one of my favorite types of frosting to make and as I hoped, the lavender flavor was strong but not overpowering. I did add a little dye to the icing, something I don't always do but I was worried the icing might look grey or a little "off" left unadulterated. I also made a bit too much frosting so if you double the cupcake recipe, I think you could use this same frosting recipe without alteration and have enough to frost all of the cupcakes, it is just a tricky recipe to scale down any further than I did.


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I have so many golf accessories kicking around my house. I can't get to them all. I've been blowing off trying the Home Striker because I thought it was another cheesy and useless golf accessory. Something told me to give it a shot, so to speak, and now I'm glad I did. This this is kind of fun!
Home Striker Concept
Hitting full shots with real golf balls in one's back yard is not realistic, unless of course you are Tiger Woods and have a small golf course on your property. Hitting whiffle balls is lame. They fly crooked and break, and they don't have the feel of a real golf ball. Enter Home Striker!
Home Striker Video
Home Striker is literally a golf ball with a hole drilled in it and parachute attached. In the case of mine it is a Nike Golf ball. I poo-poo'd this idea at first, but after whacking the parachute around my back yard for a while I've changed my tune. This thing is fun! No it doesn't fly like a real ball and I can't really tell if I'm hitting cuts, draws, hooks or slices. But I can take full swings in my yard without worrying about killing the neighbor's dog. Hmmm. On second thought, those two damn yelping poodles next door just might benefit from a Titleist to the cranium at 167 miles per hour….
Yeah the Home Striker is a bit cheesy, but I like it. I'd put this one on the Father's Day golf gift idea list.


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STEM Model Generator
- 1 About
- 2 Installation
- 3 Generate a STEM Computational Model Project
- 4 Edit an Existing Computational Model Project
- 5 STEM Metamodel
- 6 Use an existing EMF Ecore/GenModel with the Model Generator
The STEM Model Generator supports developers who want to create a new disease or population model in STEM rather than use an existing model. Setting up the basic structure for a new model can be challenging. This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for using the STEM Model Generator to design and generate the structure of a new STEM computational (disease/population) model project.
Note: This feature is currently intended for use in the Eclipse SDK only.
The development of the Model Generator tool was sponsored in part by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). Additional special thanks to Alex Falenski from BfR for assistance creating and editing this document.
- See Main Article: STEM Model Generator Installation
Important note: The STEM Model Generator is currently intended for use in the Eclipse SDK only. It is not intended for installation or use within the STEM application.
Generate a STEM Computational Model Project
Launch the STEM Model Generator Wizard
- Open the Eclipse SDK
- Open the File menu, New, and choose Other
- In the list of Wizards, expand the STEM category and select New STEM Model Project
- Click Next
- Choose Create and configure a new STEM Model Package
- Click Next
Configure the Model Package
The model package is the container for all models in a given package. A model package generates an Eclipse plug-in project.
Parameter Name Data Type Example Value Package Name String
(Java Identifier)CattleSalmonellosis Package Prefix String
(Java Package Identifier)com.example.diseasemodels
The Package Name and Package Prefix are combined to create the resulting Eclipse plug-in/project identifier. For example, the model package with values above will generate an Eclipse plug-in/project with ID com.example.diseasemodels.cattlesalmonellosis.
Add/Edit a Computational Model
When you're ready to add a computational model to the package, from the Model Package page, click Add Model. To edit an existing computational model, select it in the Contained Models list and click Edit Model. This will launch the Computational Model Wizard.
Configure Model Properties
Model properties are the most basic settings of a STEM Computational Model. Properties include the model's name, the model's type, and which parent model it extends and inherits parameters and compartments from. All are required.
Property Type Example Description Model Name String
(Java Identifier)CattleSalmonella The model's name. This value will be the Java class name of the generated model. Should contain alphanumeric characters, no spaces, and cannot begin with a number. Model Type String from list DiseaseModel The underlying model type. If you're implementing a Disease Model, select DiseaseModel. A Population Model, select PopulationModel. This value is used to find appropriate parent models. Parent model Computational Model SIR The computational model this new model will extend. If you're not sure, select the textbook model that most closely resembles the compartment model you're implementing (SI, SIR, SEIR)
When you're finished, click Next to configure the Model Parameters
Configure Model Parameters
Model parameters - also called rate parameters - represent user-defined variables that are passed into the computational model. The values can represent many things, but are often variables to the differential equations that make up the model. Users are asked to provide values for these parameters when a new Disease/Population/etc is created in STEM. Examples include Transmission Rate, Immunity Loss Rate, etc.
By default, a model inherits parameters from its ancestor models. These are shown in light gray italics. You cannot edit or remove parameters inherited from another model.
To add a new model parameter, click Add Parameter. To edit an existing parameter, select one from the list and click Edit Parameter.
When you click Add or Edit Parameter, the Model Parameter Editor window opens. Use the form provided to set the properties for the model parameter.
Property Required? Type Example Description Name Yes String (Java Identifier) transmissionRate2 The parameter's name. This is the name of the Java member variable in the resulting computational model. This required property is a Java identifier and should contain alphanumeric characters, no spaces, and cannot begin with a number. Display Name Yes String Transmission Rate 2 The display name of the parameter. This should be a short, user-friendly description of the parameter. Data Type Yes EClassifier double The data type of the parameter. This will be the Java type of the resulting member variable. Tip: For models with multiple populations, select a ValueList or ValueMatrix data type. Default Value Yes** Type-specific 0.0 The default value of the parameter if a value is not provided by the user. A default value often accompanies the parameter in literature. **This field is required for numeric data types (like double, integer, float, etc). Constraints No Constraint minValue Parameter constraints are used to restrict the allowed parameter values. See below for more details about Parameter Constraints. Units No String PM/TP User interface message that explains what units are expected for this parameter Help Message No String User interface message that further explains the purpose or other details about this parameter. Missing Message No String User interface message that displays when no value is entered for this parameter. Invalid Message No String User interface message that displays when an invalid value (e.g. violates the constraints) is entered for this parameter.
Parameter Constraints
Parameter constraints are used to restrict the allowed values for a model parameter. A parameter can have multiple constraints. Each constraint is evaluated independently and must be fulfilled for a value to be accepted.
- Note: You can add multiple constraints of the same type. However, for certain constraint types, this may not make sense and may cause a value to never be valid. For example, it does not make sense to create two minValue constraints.
To add a new constraint, click Add . To edit an existing constraint, select one from the constraint list and click Edit.
Use the Constraint Editor to select the Constraint Type and enter a Constraint Value. When finished, click OK.
- Available Constraints
Constraint Type Example Constraint Value Description minValue 0.0 The minimum numeric value allowed for the parameter maxValue 1.0 The maximum numeric value allowed for the parameter More constraint types coming soon...
When you're finished working with Model Parameters, click Next to configure Model Compartments.
Configure Model Compartments
Model compartments are the second type of variable in the computational model and represent the various groupings within the model lifecycle. Unlike Model Parameters, however, these values are not defined by the user, but instead are calculated as the output from the model's differential equations. For more information, please read the Introduction to Compartment Models.
Like Model Parameters, Model Compartments are inherited from the parent model. Compartments inherited from another model are shown in light gray italics and cannot be edited or removed. If the compartments from your parent model do not closely match the compartment model you're implementing, you can elect to choose a different model to inherit compartments from.
- Note: Just because a compartment does not match the compartment name in literature does not mean it's not logically the same or can't be reused. Consider this before deciding not to use an inherited compartment.
To add a new compartment, click Add Compartment. To edit an existing compartment, select it from the list and click Edit Compartment.
Use the Compartment Editor dialog to edit the compartment's properties. All properties are required.. When finished editing the compartment, click OK.
Property Type Example Description Compartment Name String (Java identifier) s The name of the compartment. This is also the name of the resulting Java member variable. It should contain alphanumeric characters, no spaces, and cannot begin with a number. Compartment Type String Standard The property of values stored in the compartment. This helps determine what kinds of underlying calculations occur. Example types are Standard, Incidence, and Deaths. Data Type EClassifier double The data type of the compartment. Currently only valid type is double.
When you're finished working with compartments, the model is complete. Click Finish.
Run the Code Generator
When you're finished working with the computational models in the model package, you're ready to run the code generator.
From the Model Package page, click Next.
On the Generator Options, configure advanced properties for the code generator.
When finished, click Finish.
If no errors are found, the code generator will now run. This process may take 1-2 minutes.
Work with your Generated Computational Models
Once the code generator finishes, the new computational model project will be imported into your Eclipse Workspace. You can now implement the model's mathematics directly into the new Java classes.
The new project is named after your Package Name and Package Prefix. For example, if you entered CattleSalmonellosis for the name and com.example.diseasemodels as the prefix, the resulting Eclipse project will be com.example.diseasemodels.cattlesalmonellosis.
- In Eclipse's Package Explorer, find your new project and expand it
- Under your project, expand the src tree
- This will list several items that are named [YourProjectName].something.
- Expand [YourProjectName].impl tree
- Double click on your computational model's Java class. This is named [YourModelName]Impl.java.
- Note: Double check to be sure you didn't select the LabelImpl/LabelValueImpl.java
- In the Java file editor, scroll down to the calculateDeltas(...) method
- Implement Scientific Logic!
- See here for more help
- Save
Load and Run Your Computational Model in STEM
Add Your New Model Project to STEM's Run Configuration
When you're ready to run and test your computational model in STEM, you must first tell Eclipse to include it in STEM's launch profile.
- Please make sure you've previously launched STEM from Eclipse before following these steps. See: Launching STEM from Eclipse
- In Eclipse, open the Run menu and select Run Configurations...
- In the Run Configurations window, select stem.product (or your STEM Launch configuration) from the list of configurations
- Select the Plug-ins tab
- In the Plug-ins tab, find your new new model project in the list and make sure it's checked
- Click Add Required Plug-ins
- Click Apply
- Click Run (this will launch STEM)
Create a New Disease/Population in STEM
- When STEM launches, switch to the Designer perspective
- Make sure you have a project in the Project Explorer
- Launch a Disease/Population Wizard from the New menu
- If your computational model is a Disease Model, choose Disease
- If your computational model is a Population Model, choose Population Model
- In the New Disease Wizard / New Population Model Wizard, choose your model from the Disease Model / Population Model dropdown
- Enter values for the model parameters
- Click Finish
- Compose the rest of your scenario and run it!
- Stop simulation and fix the arithmetic errors :)
Edit an Existing Computational Model Project
If you need to modify a computational model project that has already been code-generated, you do so by launching the Computational Model Project Wizard from the metamodel file.
- In Eclipse, navigate to your computational model project in the Package Explorer
- In the model folder, double click on [YourPackageName].metamodel
- In the Metamodel Editor, expand the platform object tree
- Select the Package
- Right click and select Code Generation Wizard
- Follow the steps in above sections to Generate a STEM Computational Model Project
Notes About Editing an Existing Computational Model Project
- The Model Generator is not intended for use on existing Disease/Population model projects that were previously created by hand. Please do not try running the Model Generator on projects that it did not originally create. You will almost certainly have to revert to what's in SVN.
- Renaming/removing models, parameters, and compartments may cause compiler errors that will need to be fixed manually
- If you change the name of an existing model, then a new model file will be created. Any code you implemented must be copied manually.
- If you change the Package Name or Package Prefix, then a new model project will be created. Any code you implemented must be copied manually.
- Any custom changes made to the .ecore or .genmodel files will be lost
STEM Metamodel
- See Main Article: STEM Metamodel
The STEM Model Generator is backed by the STEM Metamodel. For more information about the STEM Metamodel, including the schema, see the main article.
Use an existing EMF Ecore/GenModel with the Model Generator
- See Main Article: Model Generator Ecore EAnnotations
It's possible to use the STEM Model Generator without using the Model Generator Wizard by EAnnotating to your EMF Ecore and applying the correct settings to your EMF GenModel. See here for instructions.


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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Why we love Sachin's wife....
Anjali definitely falls into the 'neighbour's envy, owner's pride' category, even if that format of the idealized desi bahu no longer works for a large number of urban Indian families. Somewhere , at the backs of our minds, we still secretely admire an Anjali for all the qualities that are fast disappearing in our cities. Anjali gave up a career ( she's a qualified doctor) to raise a family ( two kids). She chose to become a full time homemaker when her generation of educated women the world over were forging ahead aggressively and shattering glass ceilings at the work place. She stayed out of the limelight when other wives ( Posh Beckham there, Sangeeta Bijlani here) of star sportsmen were busy flaunting their privileged status . She has always dressed in sensible, even dowdy garments as opposed to super glam couture clothes. She has resisted walking the ramp for any high profile charity, though she quietly supports quite a few. She, more than any other celeb spouse has lived the role of a modern day pativrata – silent, loyal, caring. The Perfect Wife, who has understood her position in marriage (secondary) and placed her own personal priorities on a back burner. No ego. No conflict.
All hail Anjali.
Even Michelle Obama with all her high ratings ( she consistently scores over her husband in the popularity stakes), is known to hog the show on occasion and play up to the media while pushing her image as a clotheshorse and fashion icon. Being the intelligent, educated, smart wife of the 'most powerful man on earth', is a tough call for any woman. Similarly, for Anjali, being the wife of one of the biggest sports icons in the world, is an equally daunting job – what with more than a billion people tracking each move and word. So far, Anjali has not missed a single step. Being Sachin's wife can't be easy. For most of their married life, the cricketer has been missing in action. No matter how wonderful a dad\husband he may be, the fact is, he can't be around like a regular family man who holds down a 9x5 job. Anjali has never cribbed… at least, not in public. Her devotion to the man is apparent enough, when she says she doesn't eat a single morsel when her husband is batting. Ooooffff! That adds up to a lot of uneaten morsels given his performance over twenty years. She has raised the children with an equally unfussy, uncomplicated attitude. Unlike several brat kids of famous parents, Tendulkar's two are model bachchas who have obviously been brought up to be seen ( if at all), but not heard. The little fellow plays cricket, the little girl watches cricket, the mom lives cricket, while the dad breathes cricket.
Parivaar ho to Aisa. Biwi ho to aisi. Sachin's one hell of a blessed guy. He , more than any other icon – from Bollywood stars, sports personalities, politicians, seems to have it all. And a lot of that 'all' rests in Anjali – no wonder she is swiftly gathering a fan following of her own. If her fan club needs a president – main hoon , na??
Leaving in a few hours for a longish trip Down Under. Have been writing... and writing.... and writing. Will blog when able. Sure will miss this space and all your lively comments. Bu to quote my favourite hero, Napoleon, " I shall be back!" Cheers, mates. Wish me safe travels!
48 comments:
- Nandini Rao said...
Giving up a career to focus on family is such a medieval thought, & it is only perfectly fabricated as the bold thing to do in these times!
I know of women, including my Mom who can juggle work & home with ease & the kids turn out to be better than fine, if not the best!
The important thing is, many women don't even get the moral & familial support to drop their kids off some place where they could be taken care of, while mummys rush to earn a living,...after having got up at 3 or 4 in the morning to prepare mid-day meals for the entire family...
It's a heartbreak situation every day when you don't know whether your child has eaten or not, or whether the concerned authorities are in fact taking good care of the child.
PLEASE WRITE ABOUT THE REAL PEOPLE WHO MATTER!! - December 2, 2009 at 1:42 PM
- Sameera said...
I dont think this is something you would want to uphold as a model or example. Back in 1980s Women had started working and taking care of home and family. Men too did their share of helping women out incase the extended family is missing from action. And Women fought a long war to reach where we have and men helped their bit too. In such times when we should be looking forward to setting an example of a woman who is able to manage home & work efficiently, your show casing of Anjali as the perfect wife isnt a great sight. Afterall you, yourself are one who is juggling both to perfection, if I am not wrong!
Anjali's choice was her own and stamping that as the best or perfect thing publicly isnt acceptable - December 2, 2009 at 1:57 PM
- mikimbizii said...
Your sarcasm is so deliciously ruthless, so incredibly obscure that I'm sure it went over the head of most people.
Just the perfect sudden-slap-with-a-dripping-wet-towel feel. God, you really loath humans don't you?
Keep hitting more such nails right on the head with your merciless hammer.
~ from a devout admirer - December 2, 2009 at 2:26 PM
- Unknown said...
First of all wishes for your new book.
Read some part of it in the TOI.
I will be the first one to buy it.
About Anjali Bhabhi, I must say that this is what she has chosen.
Its all about the upbringing and her very calm attitude and obviously experience greater than the master blaster himself i life.
Kudos for her and you too.
Happy journey mam..
Nuts - December 2, 2009 at 2:38 PM
- smooth n rippled.... said...
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- December 2, 2009 at 2:51 PM
- pissed with politics!! said...
dareindianpolitics.blogspot.com check it out!!!
- December 2, 2009 at 3:17 PM
- Unknown said...
It is amusing to see some of your posts where you pretend to be liberal or (god forbid) feminist, when it is so obvious that you are the stereotypical regressive, backward Indian woman that the World Bank and the UN are so worried about.
Someone else commented that you were probably being sarcastic; sadly after reading the crude sadomachoistic pornography that you try to pass off as literature, I have to conclude that you are indeed pathetic and chauvinistic enough to actually preach such rubbish to a society that is already one of the most male-dominated patriarchies in the world.
I recently read an article that mocked your trashy pulp fiction in a fabulous way. I quote "Please tell me she dare not call herself a feminist," seethes Ritu Dewan" and I agree. Sweetheart, stick to commenting on Shilpa Shetty's choice of clothes, that's all a primitive intellect like yours is fit for. And before you ask what ever happened to good taste? You might want to take a look at some of the sickening bile you've written. Surviving Men, which I made a mistake of reading still haunts me. Or is it female feticide you rant about? The cause is warped ideas of gender imbalance, subjugation and violence like those propagated in 'Surviving Men'. It's because of societal and media influences like YOURS that this country has the world's second highest rate of violence against women. Jai Hind.
Thank god I left this god-forsaken country years ago, every time I have to visit I grow thankful for the freedom I get so far away from here to lead the life I want and to be married to a cultured, sophisticated man who respects me and considers me his equal. - December 2, 2009 at 3:31 PM
- pissed with politics!! said...
dareindianpolitics.blogspot.com see this
- December 2, 2009 at 4:14 PM
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- Mukesh Bhatia said...
Oh yeah Shobha... Its what everyone needs at the back of his mind, a wife like Anjali. Its her choice to give up her career & nobody should be annoyed about it. The picture looks quite glary & happy for tendular family, whats within, we cant say.
I liked one quote of yours here, that Anjali wears a sensible clothes baring that hot couture. So a person of your status in the fashion industry too realise that the so called couture is insensible.
Wish you very pleasant journey & very cool Aussie holidays!!! - December 2, 2009 at 4:36 PM
- PassionFruit Martini said...
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- December 2, 2009 at 5:47 PM
- PassionFruit Martini said...
I've been looking through this blog and your constant contradictions make me laugh. I've never met someone so confused, hypocritical and pseudo-liberal before. Don't try so hard, no one remotely smart is going to mistake you for an intellectual anyway
First you talk about the Czechoslovakian man who massaged his bride's feet and rage against the false ego that most Indian men are cursed with. Then, you butter and strengthen that very ego by promoting a spinelessly devoted Anjali as the ideal wife and woman.
You criticize Roberts for suggesting that we befriend Pakistan and then decide that there is some perspective that will help you 'decode' the brutality behind the racist attacks.
You praise Michelle O's 'sexy' outfit and then put Anjali on a pedestal for not dressing in 'insensible couture'
And you even have the incredible idiocy to talk about women's empowerment ( words that you obviously do not know the meaning of) in a post where you foolishly, backwardly stereotype women as nurturing and helpless
Hopefully someday you will make up your mind and give us some intelligent prose instead of your usual laughably naïve, ridiculously backward and completely contradictory rubbish. Until then, your blog provides ample fodder for my amusement.
Not that I expect you to keep my comments on for very long. The only way a blog this poor could have so few negative comments is if you routinely remove them. Oh, well. Just had to vent anyway
P.S: and after all of your books and blogs you actually have the audacity to reprimand Jai Hind college for their sexism/ political incorrectness? REALLY? What about all of your politically incorrect sexist spiel? Time for a little bit of introspection, me thinks - December 2, 2009 at 6:08 PM
- Pooja Rathore said...
I like Anjali Tendulkar , about giving up career well i feel she made the right choice medical profession is very time consuming and you have to put in a lot either you do it well or dont do it at all . well its her choice .I remember sudha murthy (Infosys head Narayana murthy's wife )very bright student and no less than her husband and her husband had given a choice that its either her or him who will run the company she choose family because she would not have been able to do justice to family.Woman have to make more sacrifices compared to men but no one is forcing Family or career choice is yours.But some women are lucky like you whos principle of life is based on Family yet have good career , great life and succesful in all areas of life be it personal or professional I would like to be like you.
Happy and safe journey. - December 2, 2009 at 8:18 PM
- Meera's World said...
Somehow i dont find any greatness in what Anjali did/doing for her family.Infact if she worked and also took care of her family like many many other women does,it would have been nice.
- December 2, 2009 at 9:08 PM
- ramprasad said...
hi de
u were at ur best on sachin's wife.
Of course u shall b the President of the Fan club the name u can suggest after ur return from ur trip
bon voy
Ramprasad - December 2, 2009 at 9:30 PM
- Unknown said...
Maybe she doesn't wear glam outfits cuz she is fat.
What is this about praising women who give up their career and self to bring up kids? My mom has done both - have a fabulous corporate career and brought me up single handedly, fighting society and everything else. Don't new age women like her deserve real praise?
Anjali Tendulkar can sit on her fat ass all day/year skipping morsels (!) across the TV, cuz her husband brings in crores, and she really needn't work the harried life of a medico ("being on call" - o dear!!) because THAT would take real courage and would truly deserve my applause.
Sachin is the real hero here, not his wife, please! Ms. Shobhaa, what is with your caveman attitude to women sometimes? How is Anjali T. a role model for anything? YOU should know better. I would shudder if my daughter would want to be like her (no self identity, no career, just a mute supporter of a successful spouse, a baby machine, voiceless, no financial independence)! To quote you, "Shudder Shudder"!!! - December 2, 2009 at 9:48 PM
- चंद्रमौलेश्वर प्रसाद said...
Behind every successful man stands a woman behind :) saying WELL PLAYED[PAID] :)
- December 2, 2009 at 9:48 PM
- Madhu said...
Ms. De I have to disagree with you here. While I am all praises for Anjali for her composure, I cannot think of giving any more thought than that in that aspect. It's all about what a woman wants. Be it Anjali or any one else.
Firstly, Anjali's husband is rich and they can manage well without the second paycheck (not many of us have such a choice). Secondly, "she" chose not to work. It's her prerogative and if that's what she wants and that's what makes her happy, then so be it. But that doesn't mean that everyone else whose husbands are rich should take her example and quit doing what 'they' really 'want' to do.
Let's take you for example (pardon me for getting personal, but no offense meant). By any means is your family not perfect (according to you)? You are rich why don't you leave your profession and stand by your husband like a "good wife" (your words)? You are in your profession because you 'love' your profession. Anjali is fine without ever working. Also she has not even practiced medicine even though she is qualified. So, one cannot say that she 'left' a career. Now, can you compare Anjali with you or anyone else then? No.
To think that one should leave what they like to do and shadow husband's career is like saying lets go back to the cave-days. Bottom line, by no means she is a yard stick for other woman (like me) who chose to work (out of need or out of passion). - December 2, 2009 at 10:18 PM
- PassionFruit Martini said...
According to the United Nations survey 66% of married Indian women were the victims of domestic violence, which is one of the highest rates of abuse anywhere in the world. That's 2/3rds of the female population. 70% of married woman in India are victims of marital rape, again one of the highest in the world. When most women in India silently suffer physical and sexual abuse you think Anjali's sacrifices are something special and the good 'desi bahu' is dying out?? Are you blind, mad or simply retarded?
Maybe in your next post you could praise women who've stayed in their marriages despite persistently being raped and beaten, after all a good Indian wife realizes that her place in the marriage is 'secondary' right?
Why stop there Mrs De? Given your uneducated, oppressive attitude towards women a post praising dowry and child marriage is due soon
Or maybe this could be the subject of your new book: The Great Indian woman: Killed at birth, sold at marriage, burnt to dowry death ( and we STILL have some of the lowest divorce rates in the world but now they dare rebel and try to act like they have rights and careers?)
God knows this countries has invented enough practices of torturing and subjugating women to give you ample fodder for writing an entire book (or two hundred) - December 2, 2009 at 10:48 PM
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- Unknown said...
This article is disgusting - It is embarassing that a woman (you) I consider to be a symbol of Indian female empowerment would think and write so damn backwardly and regressively.
Does this mean that you also love and adore all our silent filmi folk wives, who have supported their husbands, possess no career or personality of themselves, choose careers like "jewellery designer", "table designer" and what not -
Shobhaa, are you getting senile? Even my grandmother was more empowered and a way better role model than this Ms. Tendulkar - who is nothing but a symbol of female repression.
Go support the real women who slog it out, not the ones that get everything on a platter and do nothing to make their own mark.
Stop glorifying this stereotypical desi housewife type - This is a breed that needs to die as soon as possible to make way for the new age Indian woman -who can do both - be successful at home, support her husbands career, raise a family and have a rocking career of her own. Yes - its tough - but there are women who do it, my mom is one such woman - and they deserve the flowery words, not these rich wives who have no identity and hide behind their husbands success.
Better explain/correct yourself, Ms. Shobhaa De - or you will be losing a big fan in me and in many other women (and some good men) for sure. - December 2, 2009 at 11:09 PM
- Jyostna said...
I haven't watched her interview... but your words say how sweet she is as a person.
Its not easy for women to give up their career being in such a famous clad as its quite easy to gain fame n name for every single move of theirs. In spite of all those persuasions, holding a low profile is sure to be admired.
You have a wonderful Trip Ms. De. - December 2, 2009 at 11:33 PM
- Jyostna said...
Well, I saw few comments which said talk about the real people.
I think a women handling home n work is not a big deal these days for sure but being a celeb's wife n given the stature it sure is a tough job to just stay away from all the external influences. - December 2, 2009 at 11:36 PM
- PassionFruit Martini said...
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- December 3, 2009 at 12:52 AM
- PassionFruit Martini said...
yes of course Mukesh, its what everyone needs: OFCOURSE every man needs a woman who will give up her life and career to be devoted to him right? Ever thought about what a woman needs? or are woman not allowed to have needs in your boorish, backward, uncivilized world?
If it is her choice and if no one should be annoyed about it then no one should be praising it and holding it up as a role model either
Please, we live in the twenty first century not the first century. Almost everywhere in the world (except India where good housewives are still the norm) women are expceted to have careers, lives, rights and opinions.
For example, Kate Middleton in the UK was widely criticized for not being serious about her career. But that's the first wolrd. India's is a patriarchal third world country
45% of Indian women under 25 were married before they were 18 and millions of female fetuses are aborted every year all across the country, so obvious feminism and evolved ideas like equality are a LONG way off here. This country NEEDS women empowerment, stop praising spineless women, wake up smell the coffee and evolve, just a little bit, this is the 21st century - December 3, 2009 at 12:52 AM
- PassionFruit Martini said...
CMpershad you chauvinistic moron: it's "behind every great man is a great woman" not your grammatically incorrect gibberish and certainly not "behind every great man is a spineless self sacrificing idiot".
In any case, you morons need to move into the twenty first century, it's sad that you are still clinging to chauvinistic western clichés that the west has discarded several decades ago for the inequality and political incorrectness in them
In case you want me to dumb it down for you: that 'saying' was used in the west many, many years ago. Now it's considered outdated, un-evolved and chauvinistic by the world at large - December 3, 2009 at 12:55 AM
- Madhu said...
Arrey Noor....leave it yaar, why are you taking so much tension? To tell you in Indian slang....
I am reminded of one of my favorite movies, 13 going on 30. In that Julia Roberts creates a magazine ad based on the real life characters whom you an me can associate with. People like our sisters, our class mates etc whom we can relate to. That's where the real inspiration is!
Who is Ms. Anjali to us? Who and what do Kareena Kapoor or Kajol to us? Literally no one! Then there is no point in glorifying them.
Ms. De cannot relate to us. When I say us, I mean people who are not super rich or super famous. Don't stress, just take it all as it comes.
And coming to things like "wife's honor is in the shadow of husband" and likewise talk, I choose not to waste my time even in commenting about them. - December 3, 2009 at 1:09 AM
- Ketaki... said...
Dear De,
After reading your blog and after reading the comments on it I have again realized how something written can be perceived in different ways. When I read the post, I didn't found it to be demeaning in any way. I never thought you meant that a woman being submissive is an ideal woman. What I learnt was it is possible to be rich and famous and yet live a simple life. To live like an insignificant person when you can actually be one of those page 3 people. In today's time when people are so hungry for popularity and publicity that they would enroll themselves in all kinds of television shows, how many people have an opportunity to be famous or a "celebrity" and they yet throw it away to live a normal life? I would say very few. And that for me is praiseworthy.
For the people who have commented, I want to know since when has prioritizing family over career become spineless? How many of us have mothers who could have worked but didn't to take care of us? I guess more than 85% do. I don't think it is any less praise worthy than having a career. In fact the people who are saying that raising a family is not a big deal are undermining the efforts of millions of housewives in India who manage the house and raise a decent family. I do not respect my mother less just because she gave up her job to raise me and my siblings.
I am a working woman myself if not a mother and I would most probably be working when I have children too, but I will never look down upon my fellow sisters who chose stay home instead.
Celebrating Anjali Tendulkar and Sudha Murthy is celebrating all the mothers and housewives in India and for that reason I would join the fan club Ms. De. - December 3, 2009 at 2:00 AM
- Trisha said...
To Noor,
These people belong in CAVES, not in the modern world. It is like being married is the be all and end all of a woman.
This disgusts young, single and ambitious women like myself. There is no point trying to change these age old attitudes which have stemmed from centuries of male dominance.
Shobhaa De certainly doesn't relate with the average Indian working class woman - she has never had to work in order to support her many kids, she caught hold of a rich sugar daddy and now does whatever she pleases.
Shobhaa's article is a slap in the face of the modern, Indian working woman - who ALSO, mind you takes care of her husband and kids. She is off flying to Australia or wherever on a regular basis, what does she know about the strong, hardworking Bharati Mahila?
Like you said - WHAT is so great about keeping a low profile? Is that what makes a woman great? being silent?
Why not cover her in a burqa, curtail her freedom of speech and complete the entire picture Ms. De? I'm sure praising the Taliban's treatment of women is going to be the next topic of your blog.
In the west, women have opportunities like nowhere in the eastern world - like it or not. Having lived in both places, I can tell you that a woman has rights, privileges and support to easily live a single, secure and independent life, if she pleases - How many can claim that this is easily possible in India?
Confused people like Ms. De will make sure that women in India remained suppressed within marriage forever.
I am not demeaning non-working , stay at home mothers - I am just saying that that is by no means the IDEAL, that is by no means what our daughters should strive for. If you think a woman's place is in the home and the kitchen, then we have a long,long way to go. Has feminism achieved nothing with you people? Is women's lib dead?
My mom raised me alone, had a demanding job, and today I am successful by every stretch of imagination - getting my Ph.D while in my late twenties. She serves as a great example to me, that a woman's identity and self worth are very important and are not to be determined by men only.
Ms. De - Why dont you follow Anjali Tendulkar into oblivion and keep a low profile if you think that is so remarkable and right? At least the world wont be subject to this regressive anti-female bullshit.
I am so harrowed by all these people supporting this post - it makes me want to personally strangle every one of them and shake them to their senses and bring them back to 2010.
Jai Hind! Jai to the all working Bharatyi Naris! - December 3, 2009 at 2:10 AM
- Madhu said...
Ketaki, In response to your question, "I want to know since when has prioritizing family over career become spineless? How many of us have mothers who could have worked but didn't to take care of us?"
My response: There is nothing wrong in "wanting" to quit your job because you want to take care of the family. The key word being what do "you" "want". If Anjali chose to remain at home, it is her prerogative. If she chooses to remain low-key, again, it is her wish. But that does not mean that everyone else who is out there doing couple commercials etc (as quoted by Ms. De) are any less dignified. Its all about choices.
Bottom line, respect each and every individual for the choices they make (exactly like you said...a working mom is as much respected as a home-maker). Don't criticize them just because they socialize and put them on a pedestal when they don't. This, by no means is a "sukhi parivar". - December 3, 2009 at 2:24 AM
- Ketaki... said...
Hey Madhu,
I completely get your point and I even agree with it. At the end of the day its everyone's prerogative. Either Anjali stays home or works, we should neither glorify her or criticize her for that choice. I am not endorsing that either, what appeals to me is the abstinence.
We the common people have always loved simplicity. Because that's what we relate to. And I would want to praise a person who doesnt lose her head over all the hype and stick to her roots.
If you are telling me that it is a person's choice that she can splurge or party or appear in gossip magazines every now and then, be on the cover of vogue with minimal clothes and make it a point to accompany her husband on his international tours, hang out at page 3 parties and get wasted with all the wine I get that. I completely do, its her choice. But if you tell me that I should not praise someone who can do all this but doesn't just because its her choice, I am sorry I would definitely be biased on that one. - December 3, 2009 at 4:28 AM
- Unknown said...
I do NOT get this Taliban-esque attitude against women enjoying life.
So let's get this striaght: the woman sacrifices her career and slogs for Sachin and even then, chooses not to enjoy the benefits of having a celeb hub.
And that is a GOOD THING? Why?
Why is a woman denying herself a little enjoyment after so much sacrifice good? Why is it good if she doesn't drink wine (by the way you do NOT have to get drunk, you can just drink scoially)? Why is good if she doesnt accompany her husband, is her place only in the kitchen and bedroom? Why is good if she wears dowdy clothes?
Is the fact that she is woman reason enough to deny her all pleasure, rights and identity? Isn't she a human being as well?
As an Indian man living in America, Im shocked and ashamed at the attitude my fellow countrymen back home have. Growing up in an egalitarian, equal and devoloped society where I've been thought that REAL men respect women, this really makes me mad
If you actually find it pleasurable/ admirable that this woman lives such a drab, self sacrificing existence, I find that very disturbing. Maybe you are sadistic or have some such mental problem. See a shrink, and soon
As for Shobhaa De, it is blasphemous for you to call yourself feminist, activist or even intellectual
Please, you are just insulting all real feminists like Margaret Atwood, Arundathi Roy, Even Enseler and Eleanor Roosevelt - December 3, 2009 at 9:42 AM
- Scarlett said...
On the one hand you're praising Anjali Tendulkar, on the other you're being condescending by saying things like "she wears dowdy garments", "she's understood her position in marriage (secondary) etc. So I don't know whether you're a fan or not.
- December 3, 2009 at 10:44 AM
- Ketaki... said...
I do NOT get people assuming that whatever was said pertaining to enjoying celeb hub was applicable only for women. The very fact that it was assumed to be meant for women tells me that living in states doesn't realy mean anything.
I did not feel the need to repeat what Shobha had written here(http://shobhaade.blogspot.com/2009/11/super-manoos-sachin-mumbai-indianindian.html) for I wrongly assumed people to be regular readers. That is why the reason we love Sachin more too. Nevertheless, to 'clarify' what I meant regarding what I wrote. I want to quote people like APJ Kalam, A R Rahman, Infosys Murthy couple who being celebrities in their own right live a simple life. A simple life my friend, does not mean drab and self-sacrificing as you put it. It means like you and me, for I too live in United States, just that I didn't find it necessary to mention that. - December 3, 2009 at 10:46 AM
- Neelum said...
I don't get what the fuss is all about....it's Anjali's life, her decision....why is everyone yelling at Shobha for bringing out what she feels are good things about Anjali...
It is a very tough thing to forgo your career & stand aside to watch your husband & children prosper & grow. It is difficult to watch fellow students doing so well at work, while you are at home thinking of your next trip to the grocery store...
Ladies do understand that the ladies who choose to stay behind at home are in no way less than you and that atleast your job has a fixed time...the work of a homemaker never ends.
Show some respect people.. - December 3, 2009 at 11:44 AM
- PassionFruit Martini said...
The Perfect Wife, who has understood her position in marriage (secondary) and placed her own personal priorities on a back burner. No ego. No conflict.
All hail Anjali.
That's what De wrote, and if you defended her saying you did not find it demeaning, then it's obvious that people will assume you were being chauvinistic. If you could honestly read that and not find it offensive you come off as chauvinistic wether you intended it or not and people WILL assume that you are being anti-feminist.
The people here are not mentioning their lives abroad as a prestige issue, only to illustrate the HUGE difference in women empowerment between India and the west.
Wether you like it or not, women abuse in India, issues like dowry deaths and female feoticde are HUGE
Women empowerment in the west is incomparable to the position of women in patriarchials ocities like India and that is a sad fact. Deal with it - December 3, 2009 at 12:22 PM
- PassionFruit Martini said...
Nobody is objecting to what Anjali does, just the chauvinistic way in which Shobhaa's conveyed her opinion. The entire post reeks of chauvinism:
The Perfect Wife, who has understood her position in marriage (secondary) and placed her own personal priorities on a back burner. No ego. No conflict.
All hail Anjali.
This is an excellent example, if you still don't understand what all the fuss is about god help you!
As for shwoing some respect: Why don't YOU show some respect for woman at large and in specific, all the intellignet, empowered Indian women out there that this insults?
"Anjali definitely falls into the 'neighbour's envy, owner's pride' category, even if that format of the idealized desi bahu no longer works for a large number of urban Indian families. Somewhere , at the backs of our minds, we still secretely admire an Anjali for all the qualities that are fast disappearing in our cities. Anjali gave up a career ( she's a qualified doctor) to raise a family ( two kids). She chose to become a full time homemaker when her generation of educated women the world over were forging ahead aggressively and shattering glass ceilings at the work place. She stayed out of the limelight when other wives ( Posh Beckham there, Sangeeta Bijlani here) of star sportsmen were busy flaunting their privileged status ."
Thats what this article preaches, to be a good Indian woman you must put yourself last. It's not the fact that Anjali made that choice it's just that she should not be held up as a paragon of virtue for making that choice and other women should not be discouraged from being independant and empowered. - December 3, 2009 at 12:35 PM
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- Unknown said...
You authors are too smart in playing with words. You can make anyone a NATIONAL hero/heroine by your clever word selection that even the most rational person would nod n agree (maybe for a split of a sec though)
If Anjali preferred to stay at home that was her personal choice...but one thing is true "harr safal admmi ke peeche ek aurrat ka haath hota hai..."
All the best for your journey!!! ENJOY
sports events in Chennai
sports events in Mumbai
sports events in Bangalore - December 4, 2009 at 11:33 AM
- Unknown said...
No matter how educated you are but if your husband is earning well for the family you may choose the option to sit at home and look after family.There is no point running here and there behind money if you have it enough. Its all about your own decision and family support. Ambitious person may choose to work without thinking about money and will always think first for family.
shailaja - December 4, 2009 at 11:52 AM
- Chanz said...
I didnt realise that this as true. But now that you have said it, I agree with you..
- December 4, 2009 at 3:32 PM
- kochuthresiamma p .j said...
'The Perfect Wife, who has understood her position in marriage (secondary) and placed her own personal priorities on a back burner'
i fail to see how such statements can be made with such authority. you are applying stereotyped norms to judge an elusive person.she could be a woman who is perfectly comfortable with herself, knows what she wants from life, chooses to go after it her way. to use the terms secondary and backburner reveals a lack of understanding of anything that exists outside the stereotype. - December 11, 2009 at 12:05 PM
- aparajita said...
It was really interesting to go through the post and the controversial comments. Any topic to deal with women has been so over-thought and entangling that whatever you write you can never escape a controversy ever.
I do not think one has to live in a black and white opinioned world and so if she supports women empowerment she cannot speak in praise of a woman who sacrificed her career.
What is to be praised in an individual is how well he or she could stand for to put forward his or her own 'CHOICE'. Women's right doesn't only mean escaping the kitchen door and running with files towards a moving career. To have that view is a modern day stereotype anyway.
RIGHT means right to do what one feels for. If a woman feels she is more meant for a bubbling career and realized and pursued to grip that no matter how much pressure the society puts on her...3 cheers to her for she is a free woman.
Similarly, if a woman felt she is more passionate to leave career and take care of house and did that without a pressure or influence from the male world, 3 cheers to her too. She too is a free woman.
Freedom is living upto one's choice in fact.
How praiseworthy it is to see a village girl not caring for the thousand frowns and still breaking the chains to grip a career, that praiseworthy it is to see a wife of a famous man leaving career and not bothering people tagging her 'back-dated'. They both have understood the meaning of FREEDOM.
Kuddos to all the men who have realized that. Kuddos to all the females who have realized they can equally strive for that. That in fact is equality. And freedom lies there.
http://mind-spume.blogspot.com - December 13, 2009 at 1:06 PM
- parwatisingari said...
hi, nandini and eith--
You miss the point completely it is Mrs,Tendulkar's choice to have a career or not. Take a reality check of any woman she has given up somewhere either the kids are brought up the maid, or parents,or parents in law, else she has made career sacrifices. If not her male colleagues wife has done it for her. I do hold this grudge, because my husband's female colleagues always cry out responsibilities citing babies and kids, it means I'm single parenting that translates to my career is suffering.
Mrs.Tendulkar is commendable please give her, her due. You do sound like you envy her.:) - December 17, 2009 at 5:56 AM
- Tech Shankar said...
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- keshav_Agony%2remember said...
Noor..i m in love with you
u have almost shredded Ms.de
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- Uma said...
Shobhaa De is not conflicted. If you think so, it's because you don't understand her. In fact, I have never met anyone so single-mindedly devoted to the art of chamcha-giri / flattery. Have mercy on Shobhaa, people. Some people just have to be liked, it's like an addiction for them. They need it like food and water. Shobhaa De, inspite of being financially well settled and churning out a few best-sellers, still DESPERATELY needs rich and powerful people to love her, like her, admire her. That's all she wants.
Like an alcoholic who gives up everything in pursuit of the bottle, Shobhaa De has given up her personality and beliefs just to be liked. Will the almighty Anjali Tendulkar read her blog and finally invite De over to her parties, so that De can feel loved and accepted and brag about it to the uninvited, unlovable, unwanted people on this planet? Only time will tell.
Do not mind these people, Shobhaa De.
We all have problems of our own.
love (yes I really DO love you)
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