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This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan, in Washington. Every year, we look back at some of the books we missed the previous year. Today, "How to be a Woman." British columnist and critic Caitlin Moran describes that process through her own experiences - the embarrassing moments of puberty; and the perils of fashion, career, marriage, childbirth; and along the way, explores what it means to be a feminist today - and does it all with a rare sense of humor.
Women, what moment in your life changed your outlook on power, independence and gender? Give us a call, 800-989-8255; email us, firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also join the conversation at our website. Go to npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.
Later in the program, we'll talk with a constitutional scholar who argues that we should largely ignore our most revered founding document. But first, being a woman. Caitlin Moran is a columnist, broadcaster and author. Her book "How to be a Woman" came out in July. It's one of the books we missed. She joins us from our bureau in London. And it's good of you to be with us today on TALK OF THE NATION.
CAITLIN MORAN: It's my absolute pleasure. I've got out of putting the kids to bed tonight.
MORAN: So I am so happy to be joining you and all in the cause of feminism, as well, (unintelligible) to me.
CONAN: The cause of feminism. So the process of having children is one of the experiences you go into in great detail in this book.
MORAN: Yes, there's a very visceral description of childbirth in the book, that I've had many people coming up to going: I really enjoyed your book, but it made me realize I can never have children unless I simply find one on the doorstep, because the whole process of getting them out seems quite tricky. And I have to nod in my kind of old-woman-of-the-tribe way and go yup, it does tend to chafe a bit around the middle section.
CONAN: There is a moment you describe that I think you were 18, newly appointed the presenter of a British program, which got some publicity, which was the first time you were asked: so when are you going to have kids?
MORAN: Yes, it's one of - because one of my jobs is being a journalist. So I interview lots of celebrities. And whenever you go off to interview a celebrity, you're always told by your editor, always ask them when they're thinking of having children. Which always seems baffling to me, because you are never asked to answer that as a male celebrity. It's always the female celebrities.
And if you don't, as I often did because I just find it quite a boring topic, you would come back and file your piece, and the editors would go: But why haven't you asked them when they want to have children? And you'd be told to ring them up and ask them afterwards. And as, you know, someone who was a bit of a celebrity when I was 18 - I was legendary to about nine people - I was astonished, at the age of 17, being asked when I was thinking of having children.
At the time, I was chain-smoking 80 cigarettes a day. I was hugely overweight. I was taking any drugs I could get my hands on. And I lived in a house where the electricity had been cut off because I didn't understand how to pay my bills. And the idea that they were looking at me going, well, your biological time bomb is ticking here, my friend, you need to be squeaking out a baby as fast as you can was utterly bizarre.
CONAN: And the other point your editors always say, would you ask her what kind of top she was wearing.
MORAN: Yes, you always have to - I'm sure any woman who's read any kind of women's magazine ever will recognize this opening sentence: I meet Angelina Jolie in the suite of the Henry V Hotel. She's wearing a beautiful, loose, gray Prada top and a pair of slim cigarette cotton pants, and her stilettos are kicked off on the floor with her feet tucked kittenishly underneath her.
MORAN: Her face seems free of makeup, but her beautiful skin glows out as she looks me in the eye and says it's so lovely to have you here. That will all be made-up. No journalist walking in there knows what these people are wearing. You ring up later and ask their PR what it was that they were wearing. But you must always start any celebrity interview with a woman by describing what she's wearing, saying that she looks thinner and prettier in real life than she does on the screen, and talking about how warm and friendly she is - even if, in reality, she'd been a complete bitch.
CONAN: Appearance and fashion figure prominently, as well.
MORAN: Yes, well, I mean because I came from a very sort of odd background. My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children. We were kind of brought up in a kind of scruffy background. And we only ever bought - clothes to us, I didn't even know that you could buy clothes in shops. I didn't even know that there were changing fashions.
When I saw "Pretty In Pink" at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing. We had no idea about fashion.
And so it was an enormous shock to me as a teenager to realize that you were supposed to go out and find clothes in shops rather than at thrift stores and jumble sales or them being given to you by kindly aunts who were scared about the fact that you appeared to be almost naked because you had no clothes.
So it just seemed to be one of a million tasks that you had to suddenly learn because you were a girl, because I just never saw the boys wondering about this. The boys were never kind of sitting there going: I just don't know what my colors are.
MORAN: I don't know what personality I'm exuding with this jacket. What do these shoes say about me? Men never ask these questions. And girls, you know, little girls don't ask those questions, either. You're only supposed to start asking yourself this stuff when you're a teenage girl, and I had no idea.
CONAN: What was the pivotal moment? What was it, high heels?
MORAN: With clothes, oh gosh, what was it? I mean all of it. We just didn't have - I can't stress how few clothes I had. When I moved down to London on my 18th birthday, because that was the first day I could legally get a loan from the bank to move out of my parents' house, my sum total, my trousseau that I took down to London Town was one skirt, two blouses, my dad's thermal underwear, which I wore as pajamas, and a pair of white leather pixie boots that I bought from a jumble sale that I was convinced made me look like Molly Ringwald.
And that was it. Those were all the clothes I had. I didn't have a coat. I wore an old dressing gown that I'd found at a jumble sale. And I wore a hat at all times, even when in bed, because I was convinced that if I had a big hat, it would make my body look smaller by comparison. It was the only slimming tip that I'd given myself.
CONAN: Which raises the question of a word called fat. You describe it as a swear word, a weapon, a sociological subspecies. It's an accusation, dismissal and rejection.
MORAN: You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word "fat" but just suggesting she's fat. And there's this new subspecies, there's an amazing kind of sub-clause to this that's come up in the press in the last couple of years, in the more hysterical tabloids, that they will have pictures of women and insinuate that they might be getting fat later or that they have a fat aura.
Like - someone like Drew Barrymore, who might have, you know, kind of like isn't absolutely sticky thin, a beautiful woman, someone I absolutely adore, but they will kind of like - they'll have a picture of Drew Barrymore where she's clearly slim, but insinuate that it could all go wrong within a couple of weeks or that simply by wearing those trousers today, she's been fat today, but hopefully tomorrow she'll put some thin clothes on, and it will all get better.
It's - you walk a tightrope as a woman. At any minute, if someone turned around and accused you of being fat, it would be very difficult for anyone, even Hillary Clinton, not to burst into tears.
CONAN: Women, we want to hear from you. What was the moment in your life that changed your outlook on power, independence and gender? Give us a call, 800-989-8255. Email us, email@example.com. Our guest is Caitlin Moran, author of "How to be a Woman," and we'll start with Beverly(ph), and Beverly's on the line with us from Tucson.
BEVERLY: Hi.
CONAN: Hi, go ahead please.
BEVERLY: Well, I grew up on a dairy farm in New Zealand, actually. There were seven of us. And it seemed to me the girls were always taking responsibility - there were four girls, three daughters, and it never really...
CONAN: Beverly?
BEVERLY: ...racing team...
CONAN: Beverly, can we avoid the complete references to...?
BEVERLY: Oh yes.
CONAN: Thank you.
MORAN: Beverly, you were the naughty one, and I was good. I usually swear loads, but you were the bad one. I'm so relieved it was you. This makes me look good by comparison. Thanks, Beverly.
CONAN: Let's not - in more ways than one, let's not dwell on it, but moving right along, Beverly.
BEVERLY: So I think in nursing school, I got a motorbike, and then I - you know, all the other girls were buying high shoes, and I thought oh, I better get a pair of those also. But, you know, the first time I wore them, they just didn't work with a motorbike. So that was the end of them. I had to, you know, resell them real quick.
CONAN: I've spoken with women who say they didn't work with the sidewalk, either.
BEVERLY: Oh sidewalks in New Zealand, they don't exist.
CONAN: Oh, I meant the heels and just flat ground in heels are a problem, at least when you're starting out.
BEVERLY: Correct, correct.
MORAN: Well, I mean, any kind of textured carpet is quite difficult. And also, living in England, obviously we basically live on the set of "Pride and Prejudice." So there's lot of very useful cobbled streets in London. And often when walking, trying to walk along them in heels, I've just gone right over on my side, something that Elizabeth Bennet notably never did because she was wearing flats.
I mean, the thing is, the weird thing about feminism is - I feel I may need to - I want to make this very clear, very now, that - very clear, very now, that's how articulate I am right now - that feminism isn't a load of rules. It's like it's not that if you can wear heels and you can walk in them fantastically then that means that you're not a feminist.
There is only one rule to feminism, which is that women have to be equal to men. And other than that, there's no other rule. Women, you can be out there now, you can be wearing your high heels, you can have your blonde hair, you can be caked in makeup, you can be driving around in a pink car with those false eyelashes stuck to the headlights that makes it looks like a child or Hello Kitty.
You know, you can be doing anything that you want, and you can still be a feminist, as long as you say that you want to be in charge of your life, and you want to be equal to men. That's the only rule. So this isn't a hating-on-heels thing. Because the other thing is, as well, that this book, although ostensibly a book about feminism, also there's a lot of things in there that are about being a woman that aren't really about feminism. It's just about being a woman.
And I would say that heels sort of come under the clause of just a problem that women have rather than needing to be addressed by a political orthodoxy, you know, or a massive wave for change. We can simply, by as women going: they're quite uncomfortable and difficult to walk in, maybe we shouldn't wear them anymore, or only wear them in times where we're at a party, and someone can carry us back out and put us into a taxicab.
You know, we don't need to kind of go: feminism hates shoes, I must burn them all like Beatles albums! It's simply a matter of practicality and sense.
CONAN: Beverly, thanks very much for the call.
BEVERLY: All right, thank you.
CONAN: But I did want to read another passage from your book to you. (Reading) In the interregnum between female emancipation and female politicians, businesswomen and artists finally coming into true equality, celebrity culture is the forum in which we currently inspect and debate the lives, roles and aspirations of women.
Tabloids, magazines and the Daily Mail work by a means of turning the lives and careers of a few dozen women into a combination of living soap and daily morality lesson. Really? This is where women's lives are examined?
MORAN: Yes. Well, I mean, they're not really being examined in many other places, are they? It's kind of - I can remember some black friends of mine talking about being brought up in the West Midlands in Britain in the 1960s, and saying that whenever anyone black appeared on television, they would shout up the stairs and go: One of us is on television. And everyone would run downstairs and watch it because you would so rarely see anyone of color on television in those days.
And to me it feels the same way, you know, if you see a woman normally dressed. I don't know, when Lena Dunham's "Girls" came out, and I just saw that first publicity shot of her sitting on that bench...
CONAN: The HBO series, yeah.
MORAN: Yeah, the HBO series, yeah. I just presume everyone in America knows everyone American, in the same way that everyone in America presumes that everyone in Britain knows each other.
CONAN: Do you know my friend Ian? Yes, go ahead.
MORAN: Ian, he's such a great dude, man.
MORAN: So, but you know, just things like that. So gossip magazines, I mean, albeit awfully, but these are the places where, in the same way that basically celebrity magazines take up the same place in our brains and our culture at the moment that the Greek gods did or the Roman gods did. You know, sort of, we see the archetypes there, and they live out these morality tales, and we discuss them in hairdressers and lifts.
CONAN: We're going to go worship more at the temple of People magazine in just a moment. Caitlin Moran, author of "How to be a Woman," is our guest. She - her book's for everyone, male and female. But women, today we want to hear from you. What was the moment in your life that changed your outlook on power, independence and gender? 800-989-8255. Or send us an email, email@example.com. Stay with us. I'm Neal Conan. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
CONAN: This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. I'm Neal Conan. Today we're returning to one last book we missed in 2012: "How to be a Woman" by Caitlin Moran. She's our guest today. In the book, she parses sexism, which she calls a bit like Meryl Streep in a new film, sometimes you don't recognize it straightaway; why one should and shouldn't have children; and some of the parts of fashion that work against us.
Caitlin, I wonder if you could read to us the passage from Page 93 on the particular problem of underpants.
MORAN: I can, although I peeled a satsuma over it and I've stained it slightly. But I should regain my professionalism. I shall start. (Reading) Of course, whilst ostensibly both a literally and figuratively small problem, tiny undies have massive ramifications for us as a nation. It cannot have gone unnoticed that, as a country, our power has waned in synchronicity with the waning of our undies.
When women wore undergarments that extended from chin to toe, the sun never set on the British Empire. Now that the average British woman could pack a week's worth of underpants in a matchbox, we now have little more than dominion over the bailiwick of Jersey and the Isle of Man, and they're small, for those who don't know how small they are. I mean, they are small.
All the good that women getting the vote has done has now been undone by their constant struggle against their tiny underpants. How can 52 percent of the population expect to win the war on terror if it can't even sit down without wincing?
CONAN: Women, we want to hear from you today. What's a moment in your life that changed your outlook on power, independence and gender? 800-989-8255. Email us, firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also join the conversation on our website. That's at npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.
And let's see if we can go next to Sara(ph), Sara's on the line with us from Cincinnati.
SARA: Hi, thanks for having me. I just wanted to comment that I was horrible to myself as a teenager and an adolescent, and found myself pregnant later in life and planned on having a natural birth and ended up with a Caesarian section, and felt completely powerless. And it took a couple years before I even considered another child.
I did some research and decided to take up running in the process, and ran a couple marathons. And in that time realized how powerful I actually was and how much my body could actually do. And now I'm 34 weeks pregnant and planning a VBAC. I did a marathon at 26 weeks pregnant, so...
CONAN: Congratulations, Sara.
SARA: Thank you very much.
MORAN: That's so cool, dude. That's amazing.
CONAN: Caitlin Moran, you also had distinctly different experiences between your first child and your second.
MORAN: Yes, oh God. Well, congratulations to you again. I mean, running a marathon at 24 weeks pregnant is amazing and I should imagine an amazing inducement to get that kid out, as well.
MORAN: Yes, no, I had two very different births. The first one, basically I was in denial about birth, which I think a lot of women are. I just couldn't see how it would happen. It just seemed to be, frankly, impossible. I thought that people maybe might have faked it like the moon landings and that maybe babies were being got out in some other way.
There was one very awful moment where I was in the hospital, and what appeared to be some kind of piece of modernist art by Jeff Kooons was on the wall, of what appeared to be an eye in 10 different stages, going from being completely closed to completely open. And I sort of turned to the nurse and went: That's nice, modern art. Is it Jeff Koons? And she went: No, that's the 10 stages of dilation for the cervix, as it goes from being completely closed to completely open.
And I went: What do you mean, the cervix opens? I was at this point seven months pregnant. The cervix opens? She was like yes. I was like: But I've felt the cervix. It's solid. It's not a gateway. And she was like, well, yes, that is - that is why it tends to chafe a bit. That's why they call it labor. It is quite hard work.
So I was in completely denial and in complete ignorance of the whole thing, and it turned out to be an awful nightmare. And I had - it was a posterior labor. It went on for three days. I had to have an emergency C-section. I thought I was going to die.
And so the second time around, I decided to learn a bit about it. And the thing is that, again, I see so much written about birth. Basically the big problem with being a woman is that you're seen as a massive problem. You know, women are a massive market for self-help books.
We wake up every day, and we go: If I could just lose a stone today, and get a directional wardrobe, and sort my hair out, and get a signature perfume, and book an amazing mini-break away that will rekindle the romance with my husband, and find a new nail polish that no one else is wearing, I would be perfect.
And we see ourselves as a series of problems to be solved, whereas men just get up in the morning and put some trousers on and go: My name's Steve, and I'm going to get on with some stuff, and I'm going to enjoy my life. And I just want women to wake up in the morning and basically go: I'm Steve, and I'm going to get on with some stuff.
And this is one of the problems with birth. When women get pregnant, they're seen as a massive problem. You go and see the medical professionals, and they kind of sigh over you. Everyone's kind of worried about it. Kind of, birth is seen as a massive problem. Being a mother is seen as being a massive problem.
And, you know, what your previous caller was talking about, suddenly realizing that you can actually - you are actually very powerful, instead of seeing your body and your pregnancy as a problem, going wow, I'm about to do something really amazing, and I can take control of this. I'm certainly going to become fit and healthy and have a positive attitude about this and work very hard at it, and at the end of it, I'm going to feel enormously rewarded - whether I have a natural birth, which I turned out to, or a Caesarian because in no way is having a Caesarian cheating.
You know, there is no other case in the world where you would have a massive abdominal operation and then be held - handed a newborn child and told to look after it for the rest of its life. You know, if a man had a similar operation, he'd be in a wheelchair being pushed around, being spoon-fed trifle and being told he'd been very brave.
So, you know, either way you've done an amazing job, ladies. Congratulate yourselves.
CONAN: Sara, good luck. When are you due?
SARA: Thank you, February 18th.
MORAN: Good luck, baby.
CONAN: We'll be rooting for you. Thanks very much for the call. Let's see if we can go next to - this is Jennifer(ph) and Jennifer with us from Schertz in Texas.
JENNIFER: Hi there, hey thanks for taking my call. This is a great topic and one that's probably not discussed often enough. But when I thought back after you asked the question of our most - I guess our pivotal point from, you know, being insignificant to recognized, was when I was 16, I wanted to learn to change my tires. And I got my car, you know, and my dad was showing me all the - where you put the gas and, you know, high and low beams and all that.
And I asked him to show me to change a tire, and he said: Don't you worry about that. You ever have a problem, you ask your brothers and I. Well, when I was 19, my dad passed away, and I went off to Montana for the first time. And a lady out there who was an independent rancher, she - I ran over her cattle guard and cut the inside wall of the tire and was pretty much abandoned in the middle of a thousand acres.
And she came to my rescue and showed me how to change a tire. Ever since then, I've been stopping on the highway, left and right, and many times I've changed a man's tire. And I tell you, that was the beginning of my independence because I was raised in a very domesticated, you know, home life where I cleared the table, and, you know, I took care of my brothers.
And it was then, I think, when I changed that tire for the first time, I realized I could do anything. And I later became an electrician, and I drive a truck around and, you know, became my own self-supported woman who is married to a great guy, by the way, who accepts it. And that was the hardest part, was finding a man who didn't consider that to be off-putting or, you know, I think that a lot of men prefer women to be a little shy and, I guess, I don't know how to say it, but wouldn't correct them when they're wrong.
I can tell my husband when something's not square or plumb, and he's OK with that, so...
CONAN: Caitlin Moran, is there a British equivalent saying to don't you worry your pretty little head about that?
MORAN: Yes, it's don't you worry your pretty little head about that. That one's traveled worldwide.
CONAN: Oh well good, I'm glad some exports are doing well.
MORAN: This is another one of the things I don't understand. It's like quite modish now for young women to say oh, I'm not a feminist, you know, kind of, you know, I just like being feminine and girly and stuff, and not realizing how delicious it is to be in charge of your own life, to feel capable.
And at the moment, it seems kind of - you know, I've got two young girls, and it seems, so often, that the things, the two options that girls are given are to either be fabulous or to be good. And, you know, I believe in goodness and, you know, and trying to make the world a better place and trying to be a good person.
But the kind of weird, subservient, quiet, sorting-everything-out good, sorting-out-other-people's-problems good and then rewarding yourself every so often with fabulousness. So, you know, once every couple of weeks pretending you're in "Sex and The City" donning a pair of shoes that you can't afford, drinking cocktails that you can't afford, screaming your head off for two hours and then going home.
Or, you know, and then at your wedding, as well, which is always the other big one. Basically, you kind of get to swap a life of - you know, the men will go off, the men will go off and go fishing. They've got their hobbies. You know, women tend not to have hobbies. Women just sort of, you know, fill their spare time with work, as Germaine Greer noted so very presciently.
And the one sort of reward that we have, is we have one day where we're a princess. And so you trade this one day when you get to dress up and do whatever you want and everybody's talking about you and the pictures are all you and you look amazing, and then you quietly give up all your free time in order to iron and sort of slightly drudge your way through the rest of your life, whilst the men very sensibly - and this isn't a man-hating thing. I think men have got it right. They just quietly go, lady, I will go insane if I don't go and have a hobby, I'm off to my shed for a while. I'm going to go fishing. That's what I'm going to do to be a well-rounded human being. But women don't have the confidence to do that. And, you know, it's not a question of going: men are taking advantage of women. Women need to have the confidence to go: I, too, need to go to the shed. I, too, will go fishing now. I need to have a bit of me-time.
CONAN: Thanks very much for the call, Jennifer.
JENNIFER: Thanks, Neal. Take care. Bye-bye.
CONAN: You too. When was the first time you - as you mentioned, grew up in a unusual family. When was the first time you encountered the word or the idea of feminism?
MORAN: Just to contextualize unusual, I mean, if you try imagine our house, it was a vey small house with a lot of children in it, and pets because we were breeding dogs at the time. If you imagine the opening sequence of "The Muppet Show" where they show the audience and it's kind of like ah, that's basically what the inside of our house looked like. And I was the eldest of eight and there were three girls and then there was a boy. And I just noticed that the boy just got away with stuff. He just wasn't expected to do the housework. He had a very easy job. His job was to empty the bins.
You know, the girls did all the cooking and all the cleaning and looking after the smaller children and the linen and the laundry and mowing the lawn and everything else. And he just emptied the bins. And my simmering fury with this one very specific unfair thing led me onto a path of feminist righteousness. As soon as I found the word "feminism," I was able to go to my mum, not: this is so unfair that I was able to use the big, strong, useful specific word: this is sexist. I am a feminist. I don't believe in this anymore. And she completely ignored me. But it was the start of my quest.
CONAN: And I would expect from the way you write about it, there are people on both sides of that debate who consider you a traitor to your sex.
MORAN: Yeah, but the thing is, you know, I mean, well, I think one of the problems of being a woman is that every time you speak, you are presumed to speak before 3.3 billion women. If you're a prominent woman - recently there's been so many debates in the media about prominent women, kind of going: are they selling women out? There was that CEO of a huge company who got - was the first one to be a female CEO of Yahoo, wasn't it, when she was pregnant? And people going, is she either, A, a feminist, you know, groundbreaker. This is amazing that she's done this or, B, is she an idiot? She's pregnant. Why would she take this job on? She's obviously going to screw up and then she'll ruin it for all the other women.
And it's like, can we not have an option C that maybe we just shouldn't have an opinion on women for a while? Go: I don't have enough information about this particular woman's life in order to draw an opinion. I wish her luck. But it's always kind of - it's always so closely fought and so impassioned and so overboiled. We're very uncalm when it comes to talking about prominent women. They are either saints or sinners. We go back to a sort of a horrible Catholic dichotomy instead of just sort of going, I wish you well. I hope it goes well for you.
CONAN: Here's a tweet we have from Mrs. Eek(ph). She says her outlook on gender has changed. The third time I had to explain to my guidance counselor that I did intend to take wood shop, not home ec, in seventh grade.
This is from Helen(ph) in Burlingame, California: I thought feminism was irrelevant until I had children. I was young, broke and needed a lot more social support than I received when my kids were babies and preschoolers. All the time, everyone was just telling me how happy I was and how much fun I was having. I won't bore you with the details, but motherhood was not what I thought it would be.
We're talking with Caitlin Moran about her book - one of the books we missed this past year - "How to be a Woman." You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
And that reminds me, Helen's email that we just read, your experience with your kids was you then spent, what, a couple or three years tuned out from the world.
MORAN: Yeah. I think it's common. You know, I don't believe in moaning. I generally think that if, you know, if you're complaining about something, then - for three minutes, then two minutes ago, you should've started to do something about it. But the problem with having that attitude, the can-do attitude when you have children is that you can't do anything about it. You are just strapped to them. They kind of believe that they will die without you and, you know, in many ways, they would.
So you just sort of sit there, and I sort of realized I basically wasted my life a bit. It was an amazing wake-up call. You know, I milked the best out of it. I basically sat there breastfeeding and not moving under sleeping children for two years going, the minute these children stop needing me, I'm going to achieve some stuff. And the minute they went off to nursery, I immediately wrote a book. The second there was - waving them off down the street - right, Mommy's getting her laptop out now. I'm going to crack on with some stuff.
CONAN: Let's get Carolyn(ph) on the line, Carolyn with us from San Antonio.
CAROLYN: Hi, guys.
CONAN: Hi.
MORAN: Hey, beautiful.
CAROLYN: Great conversation. I just wanted to comment that I've always considered myself to be a feminist, although I felt that I was more a second or third generation, kind of benefiting from the, you know the era of Gloria Steinem and, you know, hearing conversations from my mom and about things that were fought for, you know, and stuff. And most recently, last year, I had a job situation. And by the way, I actually married late. I have two degrees, one being a doctorate. And I was on business travel supporting a clinical sales force and on the way to a business dinner, two sales reps in the vehicle I was riding - in which I was riding, they proceeded to tell an off-color joke, off-color on a racial and a kind of a sexist sexual level. And I was so shocked. I really didn't know how to respond. I went into shock. And when I got home that evening back to the hotel, I looked at myself and said, you know, what was I wearing? I was wearing a business suit. I had my hair pulled up in a bun. I didn't have too much makeup on. What did I do to deserve this? And then that kind of analysis shifted into more like anger and more like really recognizing, wow, this still exists in 2012.
I cannot believe I've been through 41 years on the Earth and I've never experienced what I'd always heard about, you know, from my mom or, you know, different older women, you know, mentors, that they had to kind of face back in the day, and I was really shocked. Maybe it just means I bought the Kool-Aid, or maybe it just means I finally grew up. But it was more of a disappointment and a recognition that this is still, you know, a battle that we deal - you know, still do have to deal with in today's workplace.
CONAN: Go ahead, Caitlin.
MORAN: It is really horrible because, you know, as a, you know, a woman living in the 21st century, and, you know, I live in London. I mean, I work in the media and stuff, you know, so generally I don't come across that much sexism. But whenever you do, it's - I can't tell you how shocking it is to women. It's the same as when you sort of encounter racism or, you know, homophobia or whatever.
It's being reminded that until very recently, you were seen as less than human, that, you know, the people before you who organized politically and fought for you had to argue with people that you were not an animal, that you did have reason, that you did feel pain, that you were intellectually equal to white straight men. And it's, you know, it's such a shock when you come across it.
And when I was writing the book, "How to be a Woman," I just went on Twitter and I just asked what's, you know, what's the worst encounter of sexism that you've had in the last couple of weeks? And I had thousands and thousands of replies, and I put some of the most shocking ones in the book. One of them was from a woman who's, you know, sort of a professional, and she was talking about how she has never ever again worn black and white to a business meeting since during a break in the meeting when everybody broke to go and get coffee, she went over to get some coffee from the buffet table, and two of the guys immediately presumed that she was a maid or a waitress because she was wearing black and white and told her what their order was, and that she'd been sitting around a table in a meeting with them, and they had completely forgotten that she was an equal to them. They just saw a maid.
CONAN: Carolyn, thanks very much for the call. We appreciate it.
CAROLYN: Thank you. Have a great day.
CONAN: Thanks for sharing that story. Caitlin Moran, thank you for your time today, though we were doing you the favor. I'm sure the kids have been sleeping and they're not way up and wired and waiting for you to get home.
MORAN: No, I'm going home for a glass of wine now. Thank you.
CONAN: Caitlin Moran's book, "How to be a Woman." When we come back, we'll talk about the Constitution. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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It is estimated that more than 111 million people watched Sunday's Super Bowl. That is the biggest TV audience ever for the championship game. And with all the hype before and even after the match-up between the Giants and the Patriots, other sports were drowned out. NPR's Tom Goldman is going to help correct that. He's here to bring us up to date on some other sports news.
Hi, Tom.
TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE: Good morning.
INSKEEP: And let's start with bicycle racing. Couple of news events here - one of them, that a former Tour de France winner is losing his title.
GOLDMAN: Yes, it is. That would be Spain's Alberto Contador. He was a three-time Tour de France winner. As of yesterday morning, he is now down to two. The Court of Arbitration for Sport announced yesterday that it was imposing a two-year ban on Contador, and stripping him of his 2010 Tour de France title.
It was during that race that he tested positive for a banned substance called clenbuterol. It can burn fat and build muscle. And Contador claimed he ate meat that was tainted by that clenbuterol. The court said no.
And he's the second Tour de France winner to lose the title because of a doping case; American Floyd Landis being the first. He lost the 2006 championship.
INSKEEP: So that's Contador. And then there's Lance Armstrong; a case against him has closed.
GOLDMAN: Yes, it has. Armstrong kind of won this, in the sense that that nearly two- year investigation closed. It was looking into alleged doping and potential fraud, and other alleged federal crimes by Armstrong and former cycling teammates. The decision to close the case really came out of the blue. And it was announced with a brief statement by the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, where a grand jury had been hearing witness testimony in the case. The Friday afternoon announcement - last Friday - came with no explanation why.
INSKEEP: And let's remember, of course, prosecutors will rarely, if ever, say this person is not guilty - he's totally innocent. They'll simply say, we have not found any evidence. So what has the reaction been to the closing of the case?
GOLDMAN: Yeah. Sources who know about the case say within the agencies involved in the investigation - the FBI, the FDA, the U.S. Postal Service - there is surprise, even shock and anger, about the U.S. attorney's decision. Those agencies reportedly only got about a half-hour notice that the decision was going to be announced.
And this was after there had been indications that prosecutors were preparing to indict Armstrong and others on federal crimes including mail fraud, drug distribution, wire fraud, witness tampering. Those indictments were said to be coming soon, maybe even next month.
And one source said there were absolutely no weaknesses in the case. On the other hand, I was told by a person with knowledge of the decision that the U.S. attorney didn't agree there was sufficient evidence of federal crimes. And the person also said while this announcement came quickly, the U.S. attorney - André Birotte Jr. - struggled with the decision. So Steve, with the case closed, lips and records sealed tightly, questions do linger about why this decision happened.
INSKEEP: One other thing to ask about, Tom Goldman: Sometime during the 36 hours of Super Bowl pregame over the weekend, there was a golf tournament - is this right?
GOLDMAN: Yeah, 24-year-old Kyle Stanley won his first PGA tour event, the Phoenix Open. That, in itself, is not dramatic but the story, with context, is a little bit amazing. The weekend before, he almost won his first tournament. He led by three shots as he teed off on the 18th and final hole. But he had a disastrous collapse. He lost in a playoff, cried afterwards, and you wondered if he would be one of those golfers marred for life.
But there he was on Super Bowl Sunday, winning a trophy and a million bucks. Ironically, he took advantage of the tournament leader, who imploded in the final round. And there was Stanley offering him words of comfort, the way Stanley had gotten them the week before.
INSKEEP: Triumph. Tom, thanks very much.
GOLDMAN: You bet.
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Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project 2.0 Plan
Last revised 01:58, 3 April 2007 (EDT). Previous draft archived at Web Tools Platform 2.0 Plan
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This document lays out the feature and API set for the next release of The Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project, to be released as part of the Eclipse Europa Release in June 2007, and called "WTP 2.0", for short.
The first part of the plan deals with the important matters of release deliverables, release milestones, target operating environments, and release-to-release compatibility. These are all things that need to be clear for any release, even if no features were to change.
The remainder of the plan consists of plan items for the subprojects under the Eclipse Web Tools top-level project. Each plan item covers a feature or API that is to be added to Web Tools, or some aspect of Web Tools that is to be improved. Each plan item will have its own entry in the Eclipse bugzilla database, with a title and a concise summary (usually a single paragraph) that explains the work item at a suitably high enough level so that everyone can readily understand what the work item is without having to understand the nitty-gritty detail.
The current status of each plan item is noted:
- Committed plan item - A committed plan item is one that we have decided to address for the release.
- Proposed plan item - A proposed plan item is one that we are considering addressing for the release. Although we are actively investigating it, we are not yet in a position to commit to it, or to say that we won't be able to address it. After due consideration, a proposal will either be committed or deferred.
- Deferred plan item - A reasonable proposal that will not make it in to this release for some reason is marked as deferred with a brief note as to why it was deferred. Deferred plan items may resurface as committed plan items at a later point.
- Help Wanted plan item - Typically something that started off as a Medium or Low priority, but marked "help wanted" as an acknowledgement that there are no core resources to implement the item, but if a company or person from the community wants to contribute it, then the core teams would be more willing than usual to consider any high quality patches or contributions made via bugzillas.
Release deliverables
The release deliverables have the same form as previous releases, namely:
- Source code release for Eclipse WTP Project, available as versions tagged "R2_0_0" in the Eclipse WTP Project CVS repository
- Eclipse WTP runtime binary and SDK download with all Eclipse pre-reqs (downloadable).
- Eclipse WTP runtime binary and SDK download (downloadable).
In addition, the Eclipse WTP runtime binary and SDK will be available as part of the "Europa" update site as well as our own Web Tools Platform update site.
Release milestones and release candidates
Release milestones will occur at roughly 6 week intervals in synchronization with the Eclipse Platform milestone releases (starting with M1) and will be compatible with Eclipse 3.3 builds. See Europa Simultaneous Release for the complete Europa schedule. The following are the approximate dates for WTP milestones. The approximate 1.5.x maintenance release dates are given too. The exact dates will be updated as the times grow nearer.
- Friday, Sep 1, 2006
- Theme: run on Eclipse 3.3 stream
- 1.5.1
- September 29, 2006
- Friday Oct 6, 2006
- Theme: run on Eclipse 3.3 stream
- 1.5.2
- October 31, 2006
- Friday Nov 17, 2006
- Theme: Cleanup warnings, JUnits, Analyze Adopter Usage Reports
- Friday Jan 4, 2006
- Theme Propose/implement APIs/Features
- 1.5.3
- Friday February 16, 2007
- Friday Feb 23, 2007 (EclipseCon is 3/5)
- Theme: provide good base for EclipseCon demos! :)
- Most Function and API complete (e.g. 80%)
- Friday Apr 6, 2007
- Theme: Function complete. API Freeze
- Friday May 18, 2007
- Theme: from M6 to RC1 will be polish, bug fixes, documentation
- other RCs
- (June 22, latest final build)
- Release
- June 29, 2007
Target Operating Environments
The Eclipse WTP Project is mainly tested and validated on Windows platforms, it should run on all platforms validated by the Eclipse Platform project:
Eclipse Target Operating Environments
Java version
The 2.0 release of the Eclipse WTP Project is written and compiled against an appropriate version of Java as specified by the Execution Environment of each plugin. In general, Java 5 of the Java Platform (Java SE 5.0) will be needed to use WTP as a whole, but, the Execution Environment will be specified for each plugin, starting at J2SE 1.4, which is the current requirement, and then only moved up to Java SE 5 when some change made that requires it. WTP adopters should expect that full functionality will require running on a Java SE 5. Servers integrated into Eclipse WTP deliverables will be tested and validated on the same platforms listed above. Tests for other platforms will be relying on the community support.
Dependencies on other Eclipse Projects
- Eclipse Platform (Platform, JDT, PDE) 3.3
- Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF, XSD InfoSet, SDO) 2.3
- Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) 3.3
- Data Tools Platform (DTP) 1.5
The Eclipse WTP Project is designed as the basis for internationalized products. The user interface elements provided by the Eclipse SDK components, including dialogs and error messages, are externalized. The English strings are provided as the default resource bundles. Other language support, if any, will rely on the community support.
Compatibility with Other WTP Releases
Workspace Compatibility:
- WTP 2.0 should be able to open workspaces created or used with WTP 1.5. That is, there may be some views or preferences that are not preserved, but there should be no outright failures to open and use the workspace.
Project Compatibility:
- WTP 2.0 should be usable in a team environment where some team members use WTP 1.5 and team members share projects through a source code control system such as CVS or Subversions. Specifically, A WTP 1.5 user should be able to create a project, check it in to the repository. A WTP 2.0 user should be able to check it out, work on it, and check it back in. A WTP 1.5 should then be able to check it back out and continue to work it on. For examples of how we test this, see WTP Compatibility Tests
- By default, WTP 1.5 should work on projects created by WTP 2.0 users and shared via a repository. Artifacts created by WTP 2.0 that are consistent with 1.5 features should not break WTP 1.5, and where possible WTP 1.5 should either ignore or tolerate any new artifacts in WTP 2.0 and subsequent releases. Attempts to use (or convert to) new 2.0 functionality that cannot be made backwards compatible with 1.5 must be clearly identified in documentation.
API Compatibility:
- WTP 2.0 will preserve (public, declared) API compatibility with the 1.5 release, both in terms of syntax and behavior
- A plug-in that is developed on WTP 1.5 and that uses no non-API methods should run correctly without recompilation on WTP 2.0
- A plug-in that is developed on WTP 1.5 and that uses no non-API methods should recompile without error on WTP 2.0
- WTP 2.0 should provide migration notes and adequate notification and lead time to adopters for any API or non-API code that is removed or changed in WTP 2.0
- WTP 2.0 should continue to provide adopters with the ability to register their code usage reports and to be consulted in any proposed changes to non-API code. WTP will take into account adopter feedback on proposed changes to non-API code, but reserves the right to change non-API notwithstanding that feedback.
- All of the above statements are subject to the documented WTP Development processes which clarify the procedures and review processes for making changes to API and non-API which is clearly used by adopters, according to registered code scans.
Prerequisite Version Compatibility:
- Eclipse WTP 2.0 deliverables will be compatible with the Europa Version of Eclipse and WTP pre-reqs. No special attention will give for being compatible with previous Eclipse versions. But, our pre-req version ranges will be accurate. That is, in some places, we have found it necessary to use non-API from the base platform, and therefore will (correctly) defined narrow prerequisite version ranges for those cases.
Eclipse WTP Subprojects
The Eclipse WTP consists of four subprojects. Each subproject is covered in its own section:
JavaServer Faces Tools (JSF Tools, graduated as a new component in JST
JPA (Dali/JPA], graduated as a new subproject
AJAX Tools Framework], incubating and hence will not be part of the WTP 2.0 release
Major themes
Improve Quality
Focused effort will be made to reduce bug backlog, improving test coverage, performance and performance testing, ISV documentation and examples, usability and UI consistency.
Adopter readiness
- Extensibility
- Provide extension points for adopters to add-in implementation functionality, such as for JEE5 features, publishing support, add to project creation pages, etc.
- improve API coverage
- Convert provisional APIs in a careful, well reviewed way, to minimize adopter breakage
Improved Provisioning of Third Party Content
Committed Items
- Participate in Orbit project to move our commonly needed third-party content to a common Eclipse repository.
- We have moved Axis, WSDL and releated bundles, moved Xerces, and adopted use of many Orbit bundles, such as javax.servlet, ant, junit, etc.
- Provide improved server-adapter support so server providers can more independently provide their adapters to WTP users.
Proposed Items
Deferred Items
- Help create remote Update Manager sites hosted by providers of third party content required by WTP to streamline the process of adopting new versions
- users should be able to acquire revisions of third party content in a more timely fashion
- begin by creating a common site at Apache for components such as Axis2, Woden, Tomcat, Geronimo
- assist, if needed, to create new site at ObjectWeb for Jonas
Help Content
Committed Items
Proposed Items
Deferred Items
- work with DITA-OT project at SourceForge to improve integration of build process with PDE
- [153134 161783 ] - Increase server coverage
- [143586] - Welcome Page Contribution
Architectural harmonization
Eclipse Platform
Committed Items
- Move Internet Proxy settings and preferences to base platform
Proposed Items
Deferred Items
- Use Platform provided Undoable Operations framework (instead of the one from EMF) in our editors
Committed Items
- Removed all Relational Database access tools (RDB) from WTP and instead use the corresponding components from DTP.
- JST has only a small dependency on DTP which was made optional. JPA (Dali), has stronger dependency on DTP, so, DTP is listed as one of the pre-reqs for WTP as a whole. But, if JPA is not installed then DTP will not be required.
Proposed Items
Deferred Items
Committed Items
Proposed Items
Deferred Items
- Investigate areas of overlap with STP, especially in the areas of Web services, and ensure that existing WTP components can be extended as required by STP.
Committed Items
- Improve integration with TPTP in the area of profiling servers, providing a generic extension point to allow TPTP additional support for profiling servers.
Proposed Items
Deferred Items
PHP Tools Project
Committed Items
- HTTP Server support provided in wst.server (in principle, doesn't need to be provided by PHP Tools).
Proposed Items
Deferred Items
- Investigate if other generic components currently in the PHP project should be moved in WTP.
- Need to investigate and support their use of our SSE Incremental DOM parser and A.) not break them :) or B.) provide API.
Committed Items
- Move the JEM component of VE to be a component of JST (This is for maintenance, no enhancements planned).
Proposed Items
Deferred Items
Web Standard Tools subproject
Common WST Component
Committed Items
- 175171 - Move the Internet proxy page down to Eclipse platform (154100) and remove the page from WTP.
Proposed Items
Deferred Items
XML Editing
Committed Items
- QuickFix (for Spelling problems at minimum)
- Improved formatting, e.g. whitespace handling
Deferred Items
- Large document performance enhancements
- Configurable Code folding
- Migrate to Platform Undo (IOperationHistory)
- Run in Eclipse RCP
- Support for EFS
- WYSIWYG (for DITA, DocBook, etc.)
Web Services Support
Committed Items
- 117034 - SOAP Header support in the Web Services Explorer.
- 173552 - Update from Axis 1.3 to 1.4.
- 176493 - Make the transport / message stack pluggable in the Web Services Explorer.
Proposed Items
Deferred Items
Java EE Standard Tools
Common JST
Committed Items
- Publish/export support for classpath entries: Allows the resolved contributions from Java classpath entries (classpath containers, libraries and variables) to be added to the published (or exported) structure of Java EE module projects.
Proposed Items
Deferred Items
Java EE 5
Committed Items
- Provide extensibility for providers of JEE5 implementations
- Support for basic JEE5 module and project types
- Web 2.5
- Ejb 3.0
- Ear 5.0
- Publish JEE5 Projects to compliant runtimes
- Support for JEE5 namespaces in XML-based deployment descriptors
- Limited model support
Proposed Items
- investigate: import a JEE5 project (help wanted)
- investigate: export JEE5 project (help wanted)
Deferred Items
- Java EE 5 models - the models must be upgraded to handle Java EE 5 without ANY API breakage. Existing clients MUST continue to work without recompilation. If existing clients are recompiled with the new model, then compilation errors MUST NOT occur (note: we assume that existing clients will not break in any way if they only use the published API - code that relies on internal interfaces MAY break)
- JSR 175 - support Java EE 5 specifications for annotation based programming, e.g. for EJB 3.0, JPA, Web services
- JSR 181 - Web Services
- validate a JEE5 project (help wanted)
Committed Items
- Web Page Editor
- Multi-page Editor
- Visual JSF-JSP Page Designer
- Support for JSF RI components
- Extensibility framework to simplify adding support for other component libraries
- Preview Page
- Enhanced Source Editor gives content assists and provides both syntax and semantic validations
- JSF Validation
- Faces Configuration Model, Editor and Wizards
- Multi-page Editor
- Graphical diagram editor for navigational rules
- EMF model of the application configuration resource file
- JSF Library Registry
- Manage a named collection of JARs including tag libraries, JSF reference implementations and utility jars
- Extensible Frameworks
- Design-time Meta-data Framework
- Design-time Tag Processor
- Design-time Application Manager
- JSF Application Configuration Manager
- Support for JavaServer Faces 1.1 and 1.2 versions
Proposed Items
Deferred Items
- 157233 Faces Confid Editor UI support for JSF 1.2 elements
- 183302 Web Page Editor doesn't support XML format JSPX file
Committed Items
- Improved JSP 2.0 support 124288
- Use of tag/tagx files (packaged according to JSP-8.4.3 only)
- Editing and debugging of tag/tagx files
- Included prelude and coda segments specified from web.xml
Deferred Items
- File encoding specified from web.xml 104785
- Support JSP 2.1
Web Services
Committed Items
- 176489 - Have Web services popups exploit IAdapterManager so that adopters can define an adaptor to handle a custom type and still reuse the Web services popup.
- 176580 - Generate a Web service client proxy accepting URL as a constructor.
- 165664 - Integrate Apache Axis2 into WTP. This includes the following child RFEs:
Proposed Items
Deferred Items
Server Runtime
Committed Items
- HTTP Server support
- Preview server
- BEA server adapters moved to external update site
Proposed Items
Deferred Items
- JSR 88 Support, Advanced Server Support for one/multiple open source J2EE server
- Server runtime facet enhancements (link TBD)
Dali JPA Tools
Committed Items
- WTP (Facet) integration
- DTP Integration
- XML Mapping Descriptor editing support (JPA1.0 orm.xml)
- Annotated Java and ORM XML context based defaulting
- Enhanced validation
- Table/Column annotation value code completion
- DDL Generation extension
- Entity Generation extension
Proposed Items
Deferred Items
- Project Explorer contribution
- ORM XML element/attribute value completion
- Entity Generation enhancements
- Multiple persistence unit support
- Persistence.xml Editor
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Everything is balanced on a tour with Paris By Mouth led by Phyllis Flick to Marche Bastille and le Marais.
You can also find Phyllis on her blog Paris Notebook.
The final piece de resistance was MANGO PASSION caramel from Jacques Genin - probably the BEST caramel on the planet. Words can't describe how our tastebuds were educated on Paris by Mouth's Tour. You'll have to try it out for yourself PBers.


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Stepping out of the elevator I could already smell the enticing fragrance of freshly baked cake. It always made me smile. The few seconds it took to walk down the corridor to our apartment door, I would try to guess what aromas were lingering in the air. After I rang the doorbell, I would close my eyes and take a deep breath, savoring the scent.
My mother would open the door with a huge smile on her face and her eyes twinkling. She knew what I was doing and what I wanted.
"Wait!" she would say holding me back for a few minutes longer. It was torture, but she was always in a playful mood when she baked. "Guess!" I would close my eyes again, trying to penetrate the fragrance in the air. It was a game we would often play, who would have known back then that these games would play an important role in my foodie life later.
My mother did not get to bake that often. Unfortunately - because she was a great baker. Her cakes were always put together to highlight a certain ingredient, flavor or fragrance. She was not a fan of over-killing a baked good by the excessive use of ingredients. Instead she would use each ingredient carefully and make sure they complemented the main flavor of the cake.
As my father worked in luxury hotels, we were never short of extravagant and pompous cakes and pastries at home. An Austrian Sacher torte, French eclairs or an Italian Millefoglie - we would have it all. You're probably thinking "WOW!"
Yes, it was nice and we indulged in these scrumptious pastries often. But what we loved the most were my mothers homemade simple baked cakes. That was our real treat. We would really savor each bite and enjoy her guessing games in the process.
Carrot cake, orange cake, ginger cake, banana torte, lemon-coconut cake - these were all her specialities, and as you can see, it was the ingredients in the name of her cakes that played the key role.
I loved the orange cake the best. It was a simple blend of flavors, using the zesty orange peels and orange juice to give a pure accent to the cake. When she made it the entire floor, we lived on, was filled with a sweet, tangy, citrussy aroma.
Oranges are one of the most popular fruits in the world. It's no surprise either! They are juicy, sweet and well-known for their concentration of vitamin C. Oranges make the perfect snack and add a special tang to many recipes. What's more you can use almost every part of the orange in your cooking.
Oranges come in two general categories: sweet and bitter. The former being the type most commonly consumed. Popular varieties of the sweet orange include Valencia, Navel and Jaffa oranges, as well as the blood orange. The blood orange is a hybrid species that is smaller in size, more aromatic in flavor and has red hues running throughout its flesh. Bitter oranges are often used to make jam or marmalade and their zest serves as the flavoring for liqueurs such as Grand Marnier and Cointreau.
Health Benefits
Oranges are ranked No. 1 on nutrition among five popular fruits (apples, bananas, grapes and pears) and are among the healthiest items in the produce section that provide valuable health benefits. They are one of Mother Nature's best super foods, packed with an unbelievable array of disease-fighting nutrients, all tucked neatly beneath the peel.
Oranges supply 80 fat-free calories packed with energizing carbohydrates that fuel energy levels. We all know that oranges are a powerhouse when it comes to Vitamin C. One orange supplies a healthy dose of Vitamin C, which plays an important role in cancer prevention, healthy blood circulation and wound healing. They are also a good source of the crucial B-vitamin folate, which is essential in preventing birth defects and fighting heart disease. Oranges also contain an array of phytochemicals, which help fight age-related diseases.
Oranges provide antioxidants, which help protect the skin from free-radical damage known to cause signs of aging. Oranges are loaded with disease "phyt-ing" phytochemicals. These substances, such as flavonoids, which are found in oranges, act as antioxidants and may protect against heart disease. According to a Finnish study, women with the greatest intake of flavonoids had half the risk of dying from heart disease compared to women in the study with the lowest intake.
Selecting & Storing
It is not necessary for oranges to have a bright orange color to be good. As a matter of fact, the color of non-organic oranges may be due to injection of Citrus Red Number 2 into their skins.
Organic or not, oranges that are partially green or have brown spots may be just as ripe and tasty as those that are solid orange in color. Oranges with soft spots or traces of mold should be avoided. As oranges are among the top 20 foods in which pesticide residues are most frequently found, buy organic oranges whenever possible.
When choosing oranges go for fruit that have smoothly textured skin and are firm and heavy for their size. These will have a higher juice content than those that are either spongy or lighter in weight. In general, oranges that are smaller will be juicier than those that are larger in size, as will those that have thinner skins.
Oranges can be stored either at room temperature or in the refrigerator. They will generally last the same amount of time, two weeks with either method, and will retain nearly the same level of their vitamin content. The best way to store oranges is loose rather than wrapped in a plastic bag as they can easily develop mold when exposed to moisture.
Orange juice and zest can also be stored for later use. Place freshly squeezed orange juice in ice cube trays until frozen, and then store them in plastic bags in the freezer. Dried orange zest should be stored in a cool, dry place in an airtight glass container.
Now that I have a child of my own, I find myself making the same cakes my mother would make for me for the exact same reasons. I want to tickle Soeren's tastebuds and have his senses concentrate on individual flavors and aromas. We too play guessing games, which I hope will help him in his grown up life too. Maybe I am one of the few mothers who feels proud when my son says "I want to be a good cook when I grow up!"
Come on over with your casseroles, crockpots or baked dishes. I am looking for innovative and creative one-dish meals. Looking forward to having you all over.
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Printable version of recipe here.
250g all-purpose flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
40g vanilla pudding powder
340g sugar
3 eggs
80g oft butter - cut in pieces
2 teaspoons orange zest - preferably organic orange
250ml orange juice
For the Orange Buttercream
90g confectioner's sugar - sifted
125g soft butter
1 tablespoon orange juice
1 teaspoons orange zest - preferably organic orange
Pre-heat the oven at 180 degrees C. Prepare a round cake form (23 cm diameter) by buttering the base and the sides. Line with baking paper.
Sift flour, baking powder and the pudding powder into a large mixing bowl. Add the eggs, sugar, butter, orange zest and juice to the dry ingredients and with a hand mixer whisk into a smooth thick mixture.
Pour the cake mixture into the cake form, even out with a rubber spatula and bake approx. 50 minutes. The cake is done when a toothpick or knife is inserted in the middle of the cake and it comes out clean.
Take out of the oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes in the form. This might be a difficult task and you will be dying to taste, but if you unmold it too soon the cake will break. Run a knife along the sides of the cake and tip out onto a cooling rack. Peel off the baking paper. Allow to cool completely before frosting the cake.
For the Orange Buttercream
In a small bowl mix all the ingredients together until thick and creamy. Spread the buttercream evenly over the top and sides of the cakes. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Tip: You can substitute the butter with 125g of cream cheese. This adds a wonderful delicate touch to the frosting.
This is Soeren's favorite cake too! So much so he wanted it for his 5th birthday last year (August). It surprised many mothers that there was NOT a chocolate cake in sight. Don't kids always want a chocolate cake for their birthdays? Not Soeren he prefers the wonderful, zesty flavors of a simple orange cake. It is a pleasure to bite into the cake. Delicate and moist where the orange is highlighted in style.
I am rather chuffed that I have been nominated for the Inspiring Food Photography this month by Margot of Coffee & Vanilla. If you have a minute you can head on over to Margot's blog and vote for me. Voting lasts all this month. I'd love to have that scrumptious looking badge to display on my blog LOL!
If you are looking for more cake decorating ideas, my hunk of a colleague over at the Daily Tiffin, Dharm, has written a fantastic article about cake decorating you might find helpful.
Other aromatic cakes you might enjoy:
Cranberry Upside-Downer | |
Persimmon Spice Cake | |
Sour Cream Cherry Cake | |
White Chocolate and Raspberry Brownies |
This month the lovely Marta of An Italian in the US has chosen the orange as her Fresh Produce of the Month. It's a great event featuring a seasonal fruit or vegetable and I always enjoy taking part. This is my entry for her great event. Gracie Marta!
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Mine would have been this. It has a romantic feel to it. Green viney flowers creep along the side front and along the back to end around the waist on the other side. Tiny pink flowers scatter throughout the green vines and pops of white fabric flowers adorn the neckline and hip.
And what a more appropriate setting than Longwood Gardens? As we walked through the conservatory Brian and I lamented our lack of million dollar greenhouse. "What if this were our home?" we said. What if indeed!
Longwood Gardens seems like one of those places that a family of billionaires once owned and eventually endowed. Someone like the Du Ponts or Rockefellers.
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This Collection consists of records created or acquired by several researchers, including historian Juanita Snyder and TWU archivist Stopforth. Most of the materials are copies of archival records or photocopies of pages from various books.


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Ryan Daves goes to bed at night dreaming of the one thing he's chased for nearly four years.
A high school state wrestling championship.
"About every night, I've been dreaming of it," Daves said. "It would mean the world to me."
At 35-0, it's now or never for the Montezuma-Cortez High School senior.
"I'm excited. It's my last year to do it," Daves said. "I'm going to give it everything I have."
The farm boy will hang up his wrestling shoes and protective headgear at the conclusion of the Colorado High School Activities Association 4A State Championships, which begin today in Denver.
There are two things Daves has done a lot of since he was 4-years-old - farming and wrestling. He played soccer, baseball and football for a short time as a youngster, but it's always been about wrestling.
"I've been doing it awhile," Daves said. "It's the one (sport) I've always done the best at. I've always accomplished the most things at, so that's why I stuck with it."
Daves has been to state and placed his three previous years of high school. He earned consecutive fourth-place medals as a freshman and sophomore. As a junior, Daves broke through into the semifinals and claimed a bronze medal at 126 pounds.
Wrestling this season at 138 pounds, Daves is undefeated and ranked as the No. 1 overall seed in the division at the state tourney. Not only is Daves unbeaten, but he's done so in mostly dominant fashion. He uses speed, strength and superior technical skill to outwork his opponents.
With all of the success, the cool, calm and collected prep wrestling star is keeping a level head going into state.
"I try not to get overconfident and look past anybody," Daves said. "I kind of did that at state last year and that's why I lost the match that I did. I looked past the kid."
At the 4A Western Regionals last Saturday in Montrose, a focused Daves confidently put on a championship caliber display on the mat.
The Montrose High School fans were out in full force to support hometown grappler Matt Sandoval in the 138-pound finals
With a regional title on the line, the booing home fans against him and all eyes in a packed MHS Gymnasium glued to the mat, one could easily cut the tension with a knife.
It was basically another day at the office for Daves; and, he was the one doing the cutting.
Daves slashed any hope Sandoval had in the second period with two takedowns. He also scored an escape point and a caution point to take an 8-2 lead. For the majority of the match, Sandoval was face down with a mouth full of wrestling mat.
In the third period, Daves finished Sandoval.
Patiently waiting for his opportunity, Daves found it at the five minute, 18 second mark of the match. That's when the ref slapped the mat and Daves recorded yet another pin and another regional title.
"We call that a 'Cobra,'" said Daves about the hold he put on Sandoval to secure the pin.
Perhaps the shining moment this season came on Dec. 15, at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction.
Daves pinned his way to the finals of the prestigious Warrior Classic. If there's a state championship barometer, the Warrior Classic is definitely it. Wrestlers from each classification in Colorado are paired against each other.
In the 138-pound finals, the top two ranked 4A wrestlers bested the state field and squared off for the title. On that December day, Daves claimed the top ranking in the state with a hard fought 4-2 overtime decision victory against Roosevelt's Jace Lopez.
It was Daves' first Warrior Classic title.
All that remains now, is a gold medal.
Four matches to ultimate glory and a dream begins today at the Pepsi Center against Matt McFadden (22-11) of Cheyenne Mountain.
Oh, and Lopez is ranked No. 2 on the other side of the bracket. Could there be a rematch for all the marbles Saturday?
Fulfilling a dream is taking it one match at a time.
"The best kids everywhere are going to be there," said Daves, who is the son of Travis Daves and Carry Snyder.
Ryan Daves will graduate in May from M-CHS and start the next chapter of his life working full-time on the family farm near Pleasant View.
For three days in Denver, Daves is ultimately looking to finish what he started at age 4.
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Thursday 3 October 2024 (other days)
Thursday of week 26 in Ordinary Time
Using calendar: England - Middlesbrough. You can change this.
Come before the Lord, singing with joy.
Year: B(II). Psalm week: 2. Liturgical Colour: Green.
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About the author of the Second Reading in today's Office of Readings:
Mid-morning reading (Terce) | Galatians 5:13-14 © |
My brothers, you were called, as you know, to liberty; but be careful, or this liberty will provide an opening for self-indulgence. Serve one another, rather, in works of love, since the whole of the Law is summarised in a single command: Love your neighbour as yourself.
Noon reading (Sext) | Galatians 5:16-17 © |
Let me put it like this: if you are guided by the Spirit you will be in no danger of yielding to self-indulgence, since self-indulgence is the opposite of the Spirit, the Spirit is totally against such a thing, and it is precisely because the two are so opposed that you do not always carry out your good intentions.
Afternoon reading (None) | Galatians 5:22,23,25 © |
What the Spirit brings is very different: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness, gentleness and self-control. Since the Spirit is our life, let us be directed by the Spirit.
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Treatment for Dog and Cat Bites and Scratches
How to respond to dog or cat bites and scratches
When your child is bitten or scratched by an animal, remain calm and reassure your child that you can help. Your child's healthcare provider will determine specific treatment for an animal bite. Treatment may include:
For superficial bites from a familiar household pet that is immunized and in good health:
Wash the wound with soap and water under pressure from a faucet for at least 5 minutes. Don't scrub as this may bruise the tissue. Apply an antiseptic lotion or cream.
Watch for signs of infection at the site, such as increased redness or pain, swelling, or drainage, or if your child develops a fever. Call your child's healthcare provider right away if any of these occur.
For deeper bites or puncture wounds from any animal, or for any bite from a strange animal:
If the bite or scratch is bleeding, apply pressure to it with a clean bandage or towel to stop the bleeding.
Wash the wound with soap and water under pressure from a faucet for at least 5 minutes. Don't scrub as this may bruise the tissue.
Dry the wound and cover it with a sterile dressing. Don't use tape or butterfly bandages to close the wound as this could trap harmful bacteria in the wound.
Call your child's healthcare provider for help in reporting the attack and to decide if additional treatment is needed. This may include antibiotics, a tetanus booster, or rabies vaccination. This is especially important for bites on the face or for bites that cause deeper puncture wounds of the skin.
If possible, find the animal that inflicted the wound. Some animals need to be captured, confined, and closely watched for rabies. Don't try to capture the animal yourself. Instead, contact the nearest animal warden or animal control office in your area.
If the animal cannot be found or is a high-risk species (raccoon, skunk, or bat), or the animal attack was unprovoked, your child may need a series of rabies shots.
Call your child's healthcare provider for any flu-like symptoms following an animal bite. These symptoms may include fever, headache, malaise, decreased appetite, or swollen glands.


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Dirt will not come off the LCD screen.
If the LCD screen becomes very dirty, wipe lightly with a soft cloth dampened with cold or warm water, and then wipe dry.
Note: Using chemical substances such as thinner, benzine, alcohol, chemical wipes, insect repellent, or sunscreen when wiping the LCD screen may cause the screen coating to come off.If the LCD screen coating comes off, it can be repaired.
If the issue is still unresolved, the product may need to be repaired.


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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish. It's not often that an airline accident triggers street protests, but that's exactly what happened in the Chinese capital this week. On Monday, Malaysia announced that the flight MH370 was lost at sea with no survivors. The passengers' families say that there's no evidence of this and many are convinced of a conspiracy.
NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports from Beijing on the families' reactions and what it says about Chinese society.
ANTHONY KUHN, BYLINE: Three weeks after the Malaysia Airlines flight vanished, passengers' family members continue to come to the Lido Hotel to pepper airline representatives with questions about the missing flight. One man who would only give his family name, Wang(ph), says his brother was onboard the plane. He points out that for about a week, Malaysian authorities directed search efforts to the South China Sea, even though Malaysian military radar had detected the plane flying in the opposite direction.
WANG: (Through interpreter) All these signs suggest that they're hiding something. If there's no conspiracy, then they should be releasing information in whatever way is most helpful to search for the plane. So in my judgment, there is a conspiracy going on. But who's behind it is not clear.
KUHN: Mr. Wang says he holds out hope that his brother is still alive somewhere. Hu Yong(ph) is a media expert at Beijing University. He argues that in China, conspiracy theories are a form of social protest against the lack of transparency in politics. They're people's way of saying they don't buy what the government is telling them. Hu points to last year's corruption case against senior politician, Bo Xilai. In that case, conspiracy theories that the government dismissed as rumors turned out to be true.
HU YONG: (Through interpreter) These incidents cultivate people's unique way of understanding rumors. People feel that in China, rumors may be more credible than the government's lies.
KUHN: Some family members have already begun preparations to sue Malaysia Airlines. Hao Jung Boa(ph) is a Beijing-based lawyer who specializes in airline accidents. He says the lawsuits are also a form of protest.
HAO JUNG BOA: (Through interpreter) Even if the airline offers reasonable compensation, it is highly likely that the relatives will not only refuse it but also sue the airlines. Often, people file these group lawsuits not just to seek more reasonable compensation but also to vent their fury.
KUHN: On Tuesday, scores of family members marched to the Malaysian embassy in Beijing. Give us back our relatives, they shouted. They briefly scuffled with police who tried to stop them. Steve Wang(ph) is a member of a recently formed committee of passengers' relatives. He says relatives were expecting Malaysia's ambassador to China to explain the government's conclusion that the plane was lost at sea.
STEVE WANG: (Through interpreter) We were already in great pain at hearing the news that the plane had crashed but the ambassador didn't come out to offer us an explanation, so we became very angry and went to the Malaysian embassy to look for him.
KUHN: Media expert Hu Yong says that the few protests that the authorities tolerate are usually directed at foreign governments, but he warns that the protesters anger can easily shift to a long list of domestic grievances. The Chinese government is very wary of this.
YONG: (Through interpreter) As soon as people take to the street in protest, many people will try to use this opportunity to raise other demands. This is because most of the time, people are not allowed to demonstrate in public.
KUHN: Passengers' relatives were allowed to present a protest letter to the Malaysian embassy. Shortly after that, though, they were put onto buses and driven away. Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Beijing. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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It has been a day of rage on China's streets. The road outside the Japanese Embassy in Beijing was transformed into a sea of protesters, waving national flags, screaming invective.
In one of the biggest protests seen in Beijing in recent years, thousands were demonstrating against Japan's purchase of the disputed islands, known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan. We reported on the tensions over the past week and did a primer on the decades-long controversy.
In a country where large-scale protests are usually suppressed, the fact that Saturday's demonstrations were allowed was taken as a sign of the government's stance.
"The Diaoyu islands are Chinese, and the government also knows they are Chinese. So the government supports this demonstration," said one student protester, who asked for his name not to be used.
His next words underline both the volatility of the demonstrators and the difficulty Beijing faces in controlling the mood. He described his degree course as being in auto manufacturing, quickly adding, "I want to learn to make tanks, in order to exterminate the Japanese."
Indeed, at times, the Beijing protest grew violent, with hundreds trying to storm metal police barricades, and others throwing rocks and bottles at the embassy.
They chanted slogans calling for a boycott of Japanese goods, and some even called for China to declare war on Japan. Other protests were seen across the country, with pictures on Chinese Twitter, Sina Weibo, showing scenes in 20 other cities.
Online reports say protesters smashed a police car made by the Japanese company, Mitsubishi, in the southern city of Changsha. Such demonstrations of people power put pressure on China's government to take a harder line on Japan.
Large numbers of police, both regular and paramilitary, were deployed around the Japanese Embassy, monitoring the situation. Helicopters flew overhead constantly, an unusual sight in Beijing.
The Associated Press reports that about 200 police officers cordoned off streets in Shanghai that led to the Japanese Consulate, "allowing protesters in groups of 100 to approach the building. Demonstrators had to first register with police."
But there are fears of the situation getting out of hand, and the U.S. Embassy has warned American citizens to stay away from the protests. There have not yet been any reports of arrests, though such reports are seldom publicized.
Such demonstrations of people power put pressure on China's government to take a harder line on Japan.
Even the normally staid state-run mouthpiece, The China Daily, ran a stiffly worded opinion piece, arguing, "China should forget about forging Sino-Japanese economic integration and fight against Japan's resurging militarism."
Japan's wartime history is never far away either. One protester carried a small sign saying, "Never forget the Nanjing massacre. Apologize to China."
When asked why she'd come out today, an elderly woman surnamed Long talked about the murder of members of her family by Japanese forces in 1938.
By Friday, there had already been at least six reports of Japanese citizens being attacked or harassed, including one who was spattered with hot ramen noodles, as The Wall Street Journal reported.
In the city of Chengdu, a 7-Eleven convenience store and a Family Mart were raided by protesters who believed they were Japanese-owned, the blog Ministry of Tofu says. Friday night, Japanese restaurants were already putting up Chinese flags in order to avoid becoming the target of attack. One supermarket in Fujian even organized its toothpaste display to look like a tank, mounted with a slogan saying, "The Diaoyu Islands are Chinese!" The Ministry of Tofu has photos of the stores from Sina Weibo and another Chinese news site.
Close to the demonstration in Beijing on Saturday, cartons of "free rage eggs" were being given out for protesters to throw at the embassy. On the ground beside them lay a Japanese flag, bespattered by broken eggs. Such anger, once unleashed, could prove difficult to contain.
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text: NEW ORLEANS, La. Pearl River Community College rang in the new year with split with Delgado (La.) CC in NJCAA women and men basketball action here Monday. The eighth-ranked Wildcats kept their perfect record intact with an 83-72 victory over the host Dolphins to improve to 11-0, while the Lady Wildcats fell 55-45 and dropped to 3-5 overall. PRCC men defeated DCC 100-83 in a previous meeting Dec. 9 in Poplarville, while its women canned the Lady Dolphins 64-53 the same night. In the men game, Pearl River led 41-36 at the intermission before outscoring Delgado 42-36 in the second half to take the 11-point victory. Troy University signee Emil Jones of North Forrest High paced the Wildcats with a game-high 28 points (seven rebounds), while Phillip Crawford out of Murphy High in Mobile, Ala., added 14 (five rebounds). Kentari Nettles, another Mobile recruit who prepped at LeFlore High, scored 13 (six rebounds), Marshun McGee out of Bailey High in Jackson seven (two treys), Daron Bell of Bay High and Pedro Maciel, a Centenary University transfer who prepped at St. Stanislaus, six each; Calvin Johnson of Ridgeland High four, LaKendrick Maye of Prentiss High three (five rebounds), and LeBaron McMillian of Pascagoula High two. Rashaun Claiborne and Joshua Major led Delgado with 18 points each, while Renard Smith scored 15, Darrell Williams 11, Jauries Thomas six, and Darius Henry four. Pearl River hit 55.6 percent (35 of 63) from the field to Delgado 36.1 percent (22 of 61), while the Wildcats were three of nine (33.3 percent) from three-point range to the Dolphins two-of-19 (10.5 percent) effort. PRCC was 10 of 21 (47.6 percent) at the foul line, while DCC was 26 of 40 (65 percent). In the women game, the Lady Wildcats held on to a solid 31-23 lead at the break, but were outscored 32-14 in the second half by the Lady Dolphins. Kenyatta Epps of Yazoo City High and Branita Malone out of Choctaw High in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., paced The River with eight points each; while Francheska Bowman, another Choctaw High recruit, added seven; Toy Johnson of Pascagoula High five, Alayna Bridges of Oak Grove High, Eugena Fry out of Wingfield High in Jackson, and Nicole Holder of Lumberton High, four a piece; Quentessa Bullock of East Marion High three, and Charlene Green out of South Pike High in Magnolia, two. Myaisha Nixon led Delgado with a game-high 17 points, while Faytra Washington scored 11, Shaquinta James seven, Erne Snowden and Brittany Walker, six each; Ariente Williams five, and Raven Holmes three. Pearl River was six of 13 (46.2 percent) from the foul line, while Delgado was 15 of 21 (71.4 percent). PRCC returns to action Thursday with a road trip to MACJC non-division rival Mississippi Delta in Moorhead with game times at 5 p.m. (women) and 7 p.m. (men), then resumes South Division play Monday, Jan. 10, at Southwest Mississippi in Summit at the same game times.


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Father of Conn. school gunman claims son's body
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The father of the gunman who killed 26 people in a Connecticut elementary school, including 20 first-graders, has claimed his son's body, a spokesman for the family said Monday.
The remains of Adam Lanza were claimed by Peter Lanza, the spokesman said. He said there were private arrangements over the weekend, but would not elaborate on what those arrangements were.
The office of Connecticut's medical examiner released the body on Thursday to a person who asked to be anonymous, according to Linda Sylvia, an office spokeswoman.
Adam Lanza, 20, slaughtered the children and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14. He also killed his mother in their Newtown home before going on the rampage and then committing suicide.
A private funeral was held earlier this month in New Hampshire for his mother, Nancy Lanza, who was divorced from Peter Lanza.
Peter Lanza lives in Stamford, Conn., and is a tax director at General Electric.
Authorities have not offered a motive for the killings. State police say they have been exploring all aspects of Adam Lanza's life including his education, family history and medical treatment for clues.
Police have said it could take months to produce a final report on their investigation.