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The Honourable Schoolboy
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First edition
|John le Carré
|United Kingdom
|George Smiley/The Quest for Karla
|Spy novel
|Hodder & Stoughton
Publication date
|Media type
|Print (hardback & paperback)
|1-135-43056-X (first edition, hardback)
|Preceded by
|Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
|Followed by
|Smiley's People
The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) is a spy novel by John le Carré. George Smiley must reconstruct an intelligence service in order to run a successful offensive espionage operation to save the service from being dismantled by the government.
In 1977, the book won the Gold Dagger award for the best crime novel of the year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The Honourable Schoolboy is the second novel in the omnibus titled either Smiley Versus Karla or The Quest for Karla.
These are the fifth, sixth, and seventh le Carré spy novels featuring George Smiley. Peter Guillam first appeared in le Carré's first book, Call for the Dead (1961).
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was followed by The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People in 1979. The three novels were later published as an omnibus edition titled Smiley Versus Karla in 1982.
In 1974 George Smiley, the newly appointed chief of the secret intelligence service referred to as "The Circus", continues to investigate his own spy service in the aftermath of his exposing Bill Haydon as being the mole known as "Gerald". Attempting to follow the trail of Karla, the Moscow Centre spymaster and to protect his politically-weakened spy service, Smiley launches an offensive against the Soviets. He and analysts Connie Sachs and Doc di Salis look into investigations unreasonably suppressed by the outed mole. They discover that Sam Collins's investigation of a money laundering operation in Laos could point to involvement by Karla.
Smiley recalls The Honourable Jerry Westerby – a newspaper reporter and occasional Circus operative – and dispatches him to Hong Kong. Westerby coerces a banker into allowing him to photograph the documentation of a trust account; the final destination of the Soviet money. The papers reveal the name of the holder, Drake Ko. Investigations in Hong Kong and London identify a missing woman named Elizabeth Worthington as Ko's blonde girlfriend, Liese Worth. She had believed herself to be a British intelligence agent working with Sam Collins.
U.S. Intelligence reports that Ricardo has approached them with information about an opium cargo he was to fly to China. The Americans want to arrest Ko, but first allow Smiley up to twelve weeks to pursue Circus interests. Smiley quickly realises that Tiu, Ko's second-in-command, travelled to Shanghai six weeks before Ricardo's flight to meet with Ko's brother, Nelson, a high-ranking Chinese official and Soviet mole; Tiu was to arrange their rendezvous, through which Nelson would escape China. Westerby manœuvres Lizzie to dinner and interviews her about the connection between Ricardo's flight and the Soviet embassy. Westerby surmises she knows nothing of Nelson or the Soviet connection.
On Circus orders, Westerby finds an opium smuggler named Charlie Marshall in Cambodia and manages to board a flight he is piloting to Phnom Penh. Ricardo is also aboard, but Westerby doesn't grasp who he is until arriving; in evading him, Ricardo shoots at Westerby. That night, Westerby interrogates Marshall, learning that Worthington was a heroin courier for Collins; that she intervened with Ko on Ricardo's behalf; that Marshall rejected Tiu's offer of $5,000 for a flight; and where Ricardo hides between flights. Westerby tracks down Ricardo in Thailand; Ricardo tells Westerby that Tiu, on Ko's behalf, hired him to pick up a package after arriving in China; instead of completing the job, Ricardo stole the opium and went into hiding. After Westerby tells him Nelson was the package, Ricardo again tries to kill him.
On 30 April 1975, Westerby arrives at a United States Air Force base and reports to the Circus. In turn, the Circus orders his direct return to London. Disobeying, on his return to Hong Kong, Westerby finds the corpse of his journalist room mate Luke, who has been shot. Meanwhile, Smiley, Peter Guillam, and a party including CIA case officer Martello and Murphy travel to Hong Kong to capture Nelson. Smiley knows that he will escape China on a fishing junk heading to the southernmost island of Po Toi.
On the run Westerby remains in Hong Kong – to rescue Lizzie and to protect Nelson – while the CIA watch Drake. They go to her apartment; Smiley enters unannounced, and Westerby, expecting either Drake or Tiu, assaults him, before realising his identity. Smiley orders Westerby sent to London but Westerby escapes, gets Lizzie, and takes a boat to Po Toi. There, she shows him the places special to Drake, helping Westerby to determine where Nelson will land from China. After arranging a rendezvous the following night, Lizzie returns to Hong Kong.
That night on Po Toi island, Westerby finds Drake and Tiu at the beach, awaiting Nelson. After disarming and disabling Tiu, Westerby tells Drake that he wants Lizzie for himself, in exchange for saving Nelson from the Westerners. Drake is sceptical and hesitates. Just as Nelson lands, American helicopters appear and capture him. As they pull away, Circus minder Fawn kills Westerby.
The CIA detains and interrogates Nelson; his interrogators do not include di Salis and Sachs. The operation yields top Circus jobs for Enderby and Collins. Enderby becomes Chief of the Circus, and Collins his Director of Operations. Smiley, who ignored Guillam's warnings throughout the operation, and Connie Sachs are forcibly retired with pensions, and Peter Guillam is demoted to head the scalphunters in Brixton - the position he held at the beginning of the Karla trilogy.
"Circus" jargon[edit]
The characters' jargon-heavy dialogue establishes the fictional authenticity of the espionage portrayed in The Honourable Schoolboy; examples of John le Carré's tradecraft language are:
|Tradecraft term
|An external, freelance person recruited to provide information and services; Circus staff are referred to as intelligence officers.
|Circus researchers, usually academics recruited from universities.
|The British secret intelligence service headquartered at Cambridge Circus.
|The Competition
|The internal UK counter-espionage and counter-terrorism security service, whom the Circus often calls "The Security Mob".
|The Cousins
|The CIA in particular, and US intelligences services in general.
|Technicians responsible for finding and removing hidden microphones, cameras and other surveillance devices.
|Internal auditors and disciplinary staff of the Circus.
|Operations staff
|Control surveillance and couriers.
|Secretaries and trusted typists serving the head of the Circus.
|Nuts and Bolts
|Engineers who develop and manufacture espionage devices.
|Pavement Artists
|Circus officers responsible for covert street surveillance.
|Section responsible for assassinations, counter-espionage, burglaries, kidnappings and other aggressive measures, that was sidelined after Control's dismissal.
|Circus forgers
|Radio signal analysts and cryptographers; the name derives from Wrangler maths students.
The Circus
- The Hon. Jerry Westerby — a reporter, and retired secret agent,
- George Smiley — (temporary) chief of the Circus.
- Peter Guillam — Circus "cupbearer" to Smiley.
- Fawn – Smiley's minder.
- Connie Sachs — chief Moscow-gazer.
- Doc di Salis — head China-watcher.
- Molly Meakin — skillful, junior staff; a pretty Circus girl who catches Peter Guillam's eye.
- Sam Collins — an "old Circus" field officer, formerly based in Vientiane, Laos. Codename: "Mellon."
- Stubbs — Westerby's managing editor at the newspaper.
The Steering Committee (authorising further operations after the Ko bank account papers are obtained)
- Oliver Lacon — Circus watchdog from the Cabinet Office
- Roddy Martindale — of the Foreign Office, the scourge of the Circus.
- Saul Enderby — of the Foreign Office, was ambassador to Indonesia; the chief pundit on South East Asia; future chief of the Circus.
- Wilbraham — of the Colonial Office.
- Pretorius — of the Security Service.
- The Welsh Hammer — a Treasury banker.
Other characters
- Ann — Smiley's unfaithful wife.
- Peter Worthington — the husband Elizabeth Worthington abandoned.
- Mr. and Mrs. Pelling – Elizabeth Worthington's parents
- Mrs. Matthews – unofficial widow of Control
- Mr. Hibbert – as a missionary in Shanghai, knew Drake Ko and his brother Nelson
- Martello – CIA chief of London station (COS London)
- Murphy – Martello's assistant
- Tiny Ricardo – Mexican frontman for Indocharter Vientiane S.A.
- Elizabeth Worthington, alias Lizzie, alias Lizzie Ricardo, alias Liese Worth – first, common-law wife of Tiny Ricardo; then, mistress of Drake Ko
- Charlie Marshall – sometime business partner of Tiny Ricardo
- Luke – Californian journalist in Hong Kong
- Big Moo – local journalistic jargon for the governor of Hong Kong
- Rockhurst ("The Rocker") – Superintendent of Police in Hong Kong
- William Craw – an ageing journalist, working for the Circus, character based on Richard Hughes[1]
- Jake Chiu – Luke's landlord, a real-estate entrepreneur
- Major Tufty Thesinger – Erstwhile SIS Head of Station, Hong Kong
- Frost – works at a Hong Kong bank, is used by Westerby
- Drake Ko – Hong Kong Fat Cat, receiving US$25K a month from the Soviets
- Nelson Ko – Drake's brother; also the name of Drake's deceased son
- Tiu – Ko's assistant
- Arpego – wealthy Filipino, friend of Ko
- Phoebe Wayfarer – half-English, half-Chinese agent for Brit Intel
- Sally Cale – art faker, illicit bullion dealer, occasional heroin trafficker, business partner or employee of Ko, introduced Liese to him
- Keller – veteran journalist whom Westerby meets in Phnom Penh
- Lorraine – American journalist in Phnom Penh
Jonathan Powell, producer of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979), said the BBC considered producing The Honourable Schoolboy but a production in South East Asia was considered prohibitively expensive and therefore the BBC instead adapted the third novel of the Karla Trilogy Smiley's People (1979) which was transmitted in 1982. In Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, casting Joss Ackland in the minor role of Jerry Westerby was logical, if the original intent was retaining him as the protagonist of a television adaptation of The Honourable Schoolboy novel.[citation needed]
In 1983 the BBC adapted The Honourable Schoolboy to radio. Martin Jarvis played Jerry Westerby and Peter Vaughan played George Smiley.[2] A subsequent BBC radio adaptation, first broadcast in 2010 in the Classic Serial slot, featured Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley and Hugh Bonneville as Jerry Westerby, as part of Radio 4's year-long project to adapt all eight Smiley novels.[3]
- ^ 'There is the great Dick Hughes, whose outward character and mannerisms I have shamelessly exaggerated for the part of old Craw' (Author's Foreword)
- ^ "radio plays,DIVERSITY WEBSITE,bbc,radio drama,saturday night theatre – Lost, 1988–1970". Suttonelms.org.uk. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
- ^ – 05:20. "Radio 4 – Drama – The Complete Smiley". BBC. Retrieved 21 January 2013.


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PHOENIX – Alex Rowland of ICC was tied for second after Tuesday's first round of the NJCAA Division II national golf tournament.
Rowland shot a 2-under par 70 at Palm Valley Golf Club and was two strokes off the lead. The Houston native was the state top-ranked community college golfer during the regular season and came into the event ranked 15th nationally.
Northeast's Blake Hatfield shot a 73 and was third for 19th. Hatfield, from Booneville, won the MACJC individual title and was ranked 24th nationally.
The four-round tourney runs through Friday.
Lex Rutledge, a freshman from Tupelo, has tied the Samford single-season save mark with 11. That total ties him for No. 8 on the NCAA's national saves list.
He could break the record as early as tonight, as Samford opens a three-game series at Southern Conference rival Elon (N.C.) University.
Rutledge threw two innings of one-hit relief on Sunday in an 8-5 win against Western Carolina for his 11th save. He's 4-0 with a 1.26 ERA and 57 strikeouts in 43 innings.
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UFOs stole Iraq's WMDs
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> UFOs stole Iraq's WMDs
October 4, 2003, 10:47 AM
Right? Or at some point are we going to use Occam's razor and admit that Bush was lying?
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October 4, 2003, 12:11 PM
Probably buried somewhere or shipped out of the country. Either answer makes more sense than either of yours (speaking of Occam's Razor.)
October 4, 2003, 12:23 PM
We should of left Saddam in power, let him torture his people as he pleases. It really isn't our business. It only becomes our business if he does something really bad to us like nuke Los Angeles, or spread a few thousand pounds of anthrax over New York. Then we might have to get involved in foreign matters. If he attacked American soil, we could maybe justify sending a couple of cruise missles over there to try and hit his presidential palace (assuming we could safely know that all women, children and civilians were not within a 15 mile radius).
El Tejon
October 4, 2003, 01:49 PM
How long did it take to find the Rose Law Firm billing records???:confused:
Even if we do not, so what? Kindly Uncle Saddam was on probation had the burden to come forward and account. He chose to play probation violation games and treat us like Look-the-other-way Billy Boy was still in office.
October 4, 2003, 02:32 PM
Or at some point are we going to use Occam's razor and admit that Bush was lying?
I wish I had those psychic powers of yours, to mind read the man and know that he was lying as opposed to believing in possibly bad intelligence or the vicitim of some wishful thinking on his part. My guess is that it was mainly a combination of the last two and a desire to finish his father's fight and make some sort of object lesson of Hussein, although not having your psychic abilities, I don't know.
Maybe I need to go over to DemocraticUnderground.com and ask for their secret ninja ability to detect the evil motivations of Republicans.
October 4, 2003, 02:36 PM
Didnt we just recently find fully intact airplanes under the airports in Britan somewhere? If WoMD where hidden they would be impossible to find. So ask yourself, is it possible Saddam wanted them hidden?
This is coming from someone who supported the war due to the horrible things Saddam has done. This is also comming from someone who will not vote for Bush again due to expanded federal powers.
October 4, 2003, 03:03 PM
Silly reasoning - or lack of reasoning.
They HAVE found various prohibited WMD items. None of them appear to have been in use, but they are still prohibited by the terms of the cease-fire and 17 UN resolutions.
They have also found scads of other prohibited weapons from Russian and France.
They have found missiles IN PRODUCTION with a range of 1000 kilometers. They have found a purchase agreement with North Korea to buy even larger missiles.
All of these things (and ther are thousands of them) are violations and any ONE of them makes war justifiable.
The worst that can be said is that AT THIS TIME, it appears that Saddam was several years away from getting back into full swing. And that our intelligence (and the Brits, the Germans, the French, the Israeli's) were wrong about the status of the WMD program.
I'm sure the average liberal would prefer to wait until these weapons were finished and poised on the launch pads before invading. But not me, I think we should take out maniacs with armies before they get strong.
October 4, 2003, 03:14 PM
U.S. Fears Saddam Has Special 'Invisible' Weapons
President Bush today announced that secret Iraqi intelligence documents found by troops in Baghdad show that Saddam Hussein may have successfully produced special, invisible weapons of mass destruction while he was in power and that he or his terrorist associates may still have access to them.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, the president said the weapons put America in an unprecedented level of danger: "This is a serious threat. Weapons that are invisible are very, very hard to find. Heck, we can't even see 'em," he explained.
The secret documents apparently show that the Iraqi army was developing
invisible anthrax and invisible VX, both of which may have been passed on to terrorist groups such as al-Quaeda.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said: "This is even worse than we first thought. It just proves how right we were to invade Iraq."
Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge immediately responded by raising the national threat advisory level to red.
"We must be extra vigilant," said Secretary Ridge. "Anyone who sees what
they suspect to be an invisible chemical or biological weapon should report it to the authorities right away."
President Bush is now expected to ask Congress for a new package of funding to deal with invisible weapons.
Hopes are high that Halliburton, a company which coincidentally has links to Vice President Dick Cheney, may have developed a new 'invisible weapons detector' that could be used to combat the new threat. Each unit is believed to cost around 10 million dollars and early tests have been promising.
Dick Cheney was unavailable for comment.
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October 4, 2003, 03:17 PM
Well, if UFO = Unidentified French Operative, I think they messed up and left a few behind. :p
October 4, 2003, 04:02 PM
Not to worry. Those invisible weapons will be deflected by the invisible new clothes that Imperator Bush will be wearing at the coronation.
October 4, 2003, 06:15 PM
Tell you what telomerase.
I am assuming that you are making your argument based on media reports of Davis Kay's interim report to the Congress. Thus, you are asserting, based on the media reports that Kay's report asserts that there are no WMD's in Iraq.
In the future it may be useful to read the actual report (http://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affairs/speeches/2003/david_kay_10022003.html) rather then believe media characterization. That way, you do not come off looking foolish.
Now go and read the whole thing, and then attempt to argue that Kay is saying that there are no WMD's
If you are stating from another source that there are no WMD's, I would like to hear of it.
October 5, 2003, 05:55 AM
Liberals enjoy looking foolish:D
"In the future it may be useful to read the actual report rather then believe media characterization. That way, you do not come off looking foolish.
Now go and read the whole thing, and then attempt to argue that Kay is saying that there are no WMD's"
And often they neglect to actually read reports, preferring the bias of the media to any factual reference.:(
October 5, 2003, 06:48 AM
go ahead and find anything in an Iraqi sandstorm.
You can hide pyramids in Iraq and no one would find them for years.
People have been hiding things there for thousands of years!
like a previous poster said they uncovered a bunch of airplanes.
Do you believe everything the "old grey lady" tells you?
they said the CA recall election wouldn't happen...you wanna buy a bridge?
October 5, 2003, 08:54 AM
WMD= dog ate 'um:cool:
Mark Tyson
October 5, 2003, 08:57 AM
The impression I get is that they found some infrastructure and evidence of limited research, but no actual weapons. They still have to test all those arty shells they found in the desert. But it looks as if there wasn't any imminent threat.
Mike Irwin
October 5, 2003, 09:30 AM
October 5, 2003, 09:39 AM
It only becomes our business if he does something really bad to us like nuke Los Angeles, or spread a few thousand pounds of anthrax over New York.
Right, just like it only becomes your business after some scumbag rapes/beats/kills your wife/daughter/self/etc.
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
October 5, 2003, 10:36 AM
Was Bush lying...or was Saddam such a good liar that he bluffed his way into oblivion? The latter seems to be the case in my opinion. Doesn't really matter now anyway.
October 5, 2003, 10:48 AM
The Inspections Are Working
David Kay's preliminary report on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction is out. Here are some highlights (with a hat tip to Andrew Sullivan):
We have discovered dozens of WMD-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations during the inspections that began in late 2002. The discovery of these deliberate concealment efforts have come about both through the admissions of Iraqi scientists and officials concerning information they deliberately withheld and through physical evidence of equipment and activities that ISG [Iraq Survey Group] has discovered that should have been declared to the UN. . . .
Let me just give you a few examples of these concealment efforts . . .:
A clandestine network of laboratories and safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service that contained equipment subject to UN monitoring and suitable for continuing CBW [chemical and biological weapons] research.
A prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing of BW agents, that Iraqi officials working to prepare for UN inspections were explicitly ordered not to declare to the UN.
Reference strains of biological organisms concealed in a scientist's home, one of which can be used to produce biological weapons.
New research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin were not declared to the UN.
Documents and equipment, hidden in scientists' homes, that would have been useful in resuming uranium enrichment by centrifuge and electromagnetic isotope separation (EMIS).
A line of UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] not fully declared at an undeclared production facility and an admission that they had tested one of their declared UAVs out to a range of 500 km, 350 km beyond the permissible limit.
Continuing covert capability to manufacture fuel propellant useful only for prohibited SCUD variant missiles, a capability that was maintained at least until the end of 2001 and that cooperating Iraqi scientists have said they were told to conceal from the UN.
Plans and advanced design work for new long-range missiles with ranges up to at least 1000 km--well beyond the 150 km range limit imposed by the UN. Missiles of a 1000 km range would have allowed Iraq to threaten targets through out the Middle East, including Ankara, Cairo, and Abu Dhabi.
Clandestine attempts between late-1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology related to 1,300 km range ballistic missiles--probably the No Dong--300 km range anti-ship cruise missiles, and other prohibited military equipment.
"In addition to the discovery of extensive concealment efforts," Kay continues, "we have been faced with a systematic sanitization of documentary and computer evidence in a wide range of offices, laboratories, and companies suspected of WMD work. The pattern of these efforts to erase evidence--hard drives destroyed, specific files burned, equipment cleaned of all traces of use--are ones of deliberate, rather than random, acts."
The New York Times headline? "No Illicit Arms Found in Iraq, U.S. Inspector Tells Congress"!
President Bush said this morning that Kay's findings "make clear that Saddam Hussein actively deceived the international community, that Saddam Hussein was in clear violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441, and that Saddam Hussein was a danger to the world." No one can argue with that.
So I guess BT is not a WMD?
The angy-Left just doesn't care.
October 5, 2003, 10:54 AM
I'm not angry, nor Left, nor particularly sad to see the guy with the goofy hat collection gone.
I was, however told that they had all kinds of nasty weapons ready to go on 45 minutes' notice. Now it seems that they had some programs that could have maybe whipped something up on 45 weeks' notice.
I don't mind being fibbed to a little, but it irks me to be lied to like I was a government-appointed investigator or something. ;)
October 5, 2003, 12:18 PM
Right, just like it only becomes your business after some scumbag rapes/beats/kills your wife/daughter/self/etc.
I meant the sarcasm to be evident, if it wasn't.
October 5, 2003, 12:38 PM
I'm not angry, nor Left, nor particularly sad to see the guy with the goofy hat collection gone.
I was, however told that they had all kinds of nasty weapons ready to go on 45 minutes' notice. Now it seems that they had some programs that could have maybe whipped something up on 45 weeks' notice.
That's where I am too. If the President can attack any nation he wants by making wild, unsubstantiated claims, then we don't have any checks and balances at all. And there's nothing to stop him from lying again.
October 5, 2003, 01:56 PM
Originally posted by Tamara
I was, however told that they had all kinds of nasty weapons ready to go on 45 minutes' notice. Now it seems that they had some programs that could have maybe whipped something up on 45 weeks' notice.
Please produce a single instance of the Bush Administration declaring that Iraq is an imminent threat.
I think you will find that the Administration argued that we should deal with Saddam before he became an imminent threat.
Originally posted by telomerase
That's where I am too. If the President can attack any nation he wants by making wild, unsubstantiated claims, then we don't have any checks and balances at all. And there's nothing to stop him from lying again.
Please produce proof that the President was making "wild, unsubstantiated claims." Before the war, all I heard was that the Administration had not made thier case due to lack of evidence. Now this evidence is "wild, unsubstantiated claims"
Not only that, apparently everyone else was making "wild, unsubstantiated claims as well.
For Instance
""One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998.
"Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face."
Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998.
"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18,1998.
"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Letter to President Clinton, signed by Sens. Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others Oct. 9, 1998
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998.
"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999.
"There is no doubt that ... Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition, Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies."
Letter to President Bush, Signed by Joe Lieberman (D-CT), John McCain (Rino-AZ) and others, Dec. 5, 2001
"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them."
Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002.
"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002.
"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002.
"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002.
"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..."
Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 3, 2002.
"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I b elieve that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002.
"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years ... We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction."
Sen. Jay Rockerfeller (D, WV), Oct 10, 2002.
"He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do"
Rep. Henry Waxman (D, CA), Oct. 10, 2002.
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weap ons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members ... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002.
"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction."
Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), Dec. 8, 2002.
"[W]ithout question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his contin ued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ..."
Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003."
Source (http://www.jrwhipple.com/war/wmd.html)
I think this shows that if there were a mistake made on the proof of Bush's claim, then we all were guilty. Democrats, Republicans, as well as many of the worlds intelligence services, and the UN.
This is not the same as unsubstantiated, wild claims.
October 5, 2003, 02:11 PM
Right? Or at some point are we going to use Occam's razor and admit that Bush was lying?
You do know that GW's statement was based on flawed British intelligience right?
October 5, 2003, 02:46 PM
Preface to my arguements to follow: I disbelieve that Bush is making war for political purposes. I choose to believe that the Bush administration is making war only where they feel the need. Based on my perception of reality.
I was, however told that they had all kinds of nasty weapons ready to go on 45 minutes' notice. Now it seems that they had some programs that could have maybe whipped something up on 45 weeks' notice.
First, it is permissible that the '45minute' concern may have been based on faulty intel. In this case, I for one sure am glad to have a president who would act if evidence shows the need for action, and that such evidence is truly believed to be authentic. Keep in mind that the Brits are still standing firm with that assessment.
Second, if the intel was 'in the ball park', nothing that has been found so far would disprove that the Iraqis had a capability to deploy WMDs in 45 minutes. The lack of evidence at this time -- just months after the fall of the dictatorship -- is hardly damning of the war on Iraq. Further, the mere evidence that has been found already shows that the Iraqis were in posession of Biological Toxins (BTs) capable of being used by suicidal attacks -- even though only small ammounts have been found. This is definitly not 'residue material' from pre-1990 activity.
Third, perhaps you'd have been satisfied with Bush if indeed he had waited another 45 weeks?
Fourth, We are doing a job (http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004111) in Iraq that has been desperatly needed for years. Yeah, it sucks that it had to be us -- but that's a fact, Jack. OPECs recent vote to reduce oil production is blinding proof that Iraq is on the bleeding edge of becoming a real country again. OPEC is very concerned that the Iraqis will flood the market with 'cheap' oil and kill their short term porfits -- hence they are decreasing supply to prop up prices. The bottom line is that Iraq is comming along nicely.
Sure there are problems. But things are going pretty well considering the task that was issued.
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El Tejon
October 5, 2003, 03:05 PM
tel, there were no wild claims. Kindly Uncle Saddam was already convicted and on the probation hook. The burden shifted to him. He choose to hide and attempt to have the anti-American forces inside America save him for another administration like Clinton's.
Did not work. With much of Western Europe running interference for him out of greed, I'm certain kindly Uncle Saddam thought he could bluff his way though yet again.
The world knows what kindly Uncle Saddam was doing. Heck, the Dutchies and the Frogs designed and built the programs for him including the human lab rat chambers.
Both sides of the aisle in D.C. knew what kindly Uncle Saddam was up to. Bush Dva acted.
Now let's clean the place up and get to work on the rest of God's Monkey House.:)
October 5, 2003, 03:11 PM
Please produce a single instance of the Bush Administration declaring that Iraq is an imminent threat.
The only people who heard Bush say there was an "imminent threat" are liberals.
Nobody else heard that. And nobody else thought we were going to war with Iraq because of that.
The rest of us thought were were going to war because Iraq was in violation of the Cease-Fire agreement and 17 UN resolutions. And of course he was in violation and those violations have been found, photogrpahed and annotated at length.
But that doesn't work for the opposition party They need to pretend that the administration made a claim it never made, and then pretend that his claim was incorrect in order to get the sheeple marching in unison.
October 5, 2003, 07:46 PM
If the President can attack any nation he wants by making wild, unsubstantiated claims, then we don't have any checks and balances at all. And there's nothing to stop him from lying again.
uh... yeah... right.
Those checks and balances... i'm guessing you mean that Congress would need to vote to authorize the war, right? I'm also thinking that you might want to have the UN pass a resolution* (or in our case 17!) specifying consequences, right? I suppose another check would be the American people, they'd have to support the war in some fashion or another, right?
hmmm... those pesky fact just don't behave right do they?
*Screw the UN we don't need them.
October 5, 2003, 08:54 PM
Please produce a single instance of the Bush Administration declaring that Iraq is an imminent threat.
The White House, in the run-up to war in Iraq, did not seek CIA approval before charging that Saddam Hussein could launch a biological or chemical attack within 45 minutes, administration officials now say.
The claim, which has since been discredited, was made twice by President Bush, in a September Rose Garden appearance after meeting with lawmakers and in a Saturday radio address the same week. Bush attributed the claim to the British government, but in a "Global Message" issued Sept. 26 and still on the White House Web site, the White House claimed, without attribution, that Iraq "could launch a biological or chemical attack 45 minutes after the order is given."
The 45-minute claim is at the center of a scandal in Britain that led to the apparent suicide on Friday of a British weapons scientist who had questioned the government's use of the allegation. The scientist, David Kelly, was being investigated by the British parliament as the suspected source of a BBC report that the 45-minute claim was added to Britain's public "dossier" on Iraq in September at the insistence of an aide to Prime Minister Tony Blair -- and against the wishes of British intelligence, which said the charge was from a single source and was considered unreliable.
October 5, 2003, 09:36 PM
1) Does not use the imminent word
2) Does not state the Saddam can attack CONUS in 45 minutes.
It also consider this claim as factually correct
"The 45-minute claim is at the center of a scandal in Britain that led to the apparent suicide on Friday of a British weapons scientist who had questioned the government's use of the allegation. The scientist, David Kelly, was being investigated by the British parliament as the suspected source of a BBC report that the 45-minute claim was added to Britain's public "dossier" on Iraq in September at the insistence of an aide to Prime Minister Tony Blair -- and against the wishes of British intelligence, which said the charge was from a single source and was considered unreliable."
Notice the date, Sunday, July 20, 2003.
The story is still far from clear on the other side of the Atlantic. For example: MI6 chief: 45-minute claim was 'misinterpreted' (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/kelly/story/0,13747,1042634,00.html)
October 5, 2003, 10:48 PM
You guys sound like the Democrats defending Clinton. Didn't actually use the word "imminent", huh? Well I guess that settles it. He's off the hook.
October 5, 2003, 10:52 PM
Not at all.
My point is simple. Bush argued that we had to deal with Saddam BEFORE he became an imminent threat. I am not arguing nuances, and I am not arguing what the meaning of is, is.
If you had a problem with that argument before the war, it is likely that you had a problem after it as well. However, spinning the argument is not cricket.
October 6, 2003, 12:07 AM
Please produce a single instance of the Bush Administration declaring that Iraq is an imminent threat.
1) Does not use the imminent word
2) Does not state the Saddam can attack CONUS in 45 minutes.
You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round, like a record, baby...
Please produce a single instance where I used "imminent" or "CONUS" in this thread before this sentence. ;) I said I had been told by my government that Iraq had WMD's ready to go on 45 minute's notice. This has turned out to be factually incorrect, nicht wahr? I'd have been completely all right with a statement along the lines of "Look, the guy's a scumbag who hates motherhood and apple pie, steals candy from babies, and keeps giving the stinkeye to the civilized world. We've put up with it plenty damn long enough, and we're going to go kick his butt. Anyone who wants to come help us is welcome, and the rest of the UN can go pee up a rope." Instead, they blow smoke at me with some kind of Tonkin Gulf-esque dog and pony show. That's just bad form.
October 6, 2003, 12:13 AM
I misconstrued what you said, and put words in your mouth. Sorry about that, I was wrong. Your statement about the "45 minutes" was correct, and I mistakenly attempt to correct it.
I would take exception to your characterizing my rebuttle to the other person on this thread. I believe in that instance, I am re-spinning.
October 6, 2003, 05:47 PM
Chief weapons inspector Kay says Iraq has 130 major munitions dumps. Some cover 50 square kilometers or more. His teams have only inspected 10 of those dumps.
Saddam is estimated to have had 600-650 thousand tons of munitions. All these items have to be sorted out and inspected.
Of course, this is the weaponry and munitions above ground and obvious.
Mike Irwin
October 6, 2003, 05:58 PM
Of course, if chemical or biological weapons ARE found and authenticated, it will be roughly 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds before we hear people screeching CONSPIRACY! CONSPIRACY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You know what? Saddam's gone. Good. I don't mourn for the a-hole. Now, or 15 years from now, eventually we would have to have dealt with him again.
October 6, 2003, 06:38 PM
Another thing too about the inspection process.
Chief inspector Kay was asked why he did not request additional inspectors from the UN. His reply is that the inspections are hampered by a hostile, violent environment. All of his inspectors including himself are small arms qualified and carry weapons at all times. UN inspectors are not generally small arms qualified.
I think I heard him say Sunday that at least one member of his inspection team had been killed. I remember he mentioned that one female inspector shot out her windshield with an M4 when they were attacked by armed assailants.
October 6, 2003, 11:14 PM
Chief weapons inspector Kay says Iraq has 130 major munitions dumps. Some cover 50 square kilometers or more. His teams have only inspected 10 of those dumps.
All he needs to do is inspect the ones in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat, since we know that's where they are. ;)
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The peace of the Hollywood Eden represented by the area in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, that idyllic commune where seekers from around the globe gather to connect themselves to the show business continuum by placing their hands inside concrete indentations left by performers both living and dead, was momentarily shattered yesterday, when an aggressively panhandling faux-Chewbacca crashed his skull into the head of a brave tour guide disturbed by the renegade Wookie's attempt to perpetuate the kind of Polaroid-proffering extortion police are eager to expunge from the city. Reports the LAT:
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Reddish, bruise like spots on lower spine *Edit with picture*
I was wondering if anyone else had ever seen their toddler get red, bruise like spots on their spine. My son has fourspots that look like reddish bruises on his lower spine and he says "Mama hurt!" if I touch that area. He has not fallen or hurt himself in that area as far as I know. They have been there for about two weeks now. While they look like bruises, though, they feel slightly scaly. I am going to call the doctor just to be safe but I am just curious to know if anyone else has seen something like this.
Can you take a picture? You said it is raised/scaley, is it a rash?
I looked at some info online and when I put red scaly patch I came up with ringworm (it is a fungal infection of the skin), if you look at images online does it look like that?
I posted some pics. I really do not think it is a rash. It started out flat like a bruise with just the larger one at the bottom of his spine, then more started appearing above it. I just noticed the bottom two had a rough texture, and now there are two more spots forming above those.
Quoting TonyaLea:
Can you take a picture? You said it is raised/scaley, is it a rash?
Definitely see the dr. I had a client who was getting bruises over her spine and her platelet count was low. She ended up with a wierd rash too before it was all said and done.
My son gets dry skin right there. It looks like that and was a rough texture and felt a tiny bit raised. The pediatrician had me put lotion on it and it has since cleared up but it is recurring. I would go to the doctors just to be sure though because my sons never hurt him or bothered him at all. Keep us posted....
I couldn't get him in until Friday :( I am sure that it is nothing, but I would rather play it safe especially since he flinches whenever I touch his lower back.
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The Center's Occasional Paper series addresses topics that are timely and intimately connected to the Center's agenda. Papers in this seriessome by Center members, others by researchers elsewhereinclude conceptual work, research syntheses, discussions of policy issues, and reports of empirical studies undertaken under other auspices. We warmly encourage feedback on these documents to help us refine them in preparation for final reports of our research.
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Architectures for Learning: A Comparative Analysis of Two Urban School Districts
An Occasional Report in collaboration with The Spencer Foundation by Mary Kay Stein and Cynthia Coburn, January 2007.
Policy Implementation and Learning: How Organizational and Socio-Cultural Learning Theories Elaborate District Central Office Roles in Complex Educational Improvement Efforts
An Occasional Paper in collaboration with The Spencer Foundation by Meredith Honig, January 2007.
Using Sociocultural Theory to Link Individual and Organizational Learning Processes: The Case of Highline School District's Instructional Improvement Reform
An Occasional Report in collaboration with The Spencer Foundation by Chrysan Gallucci, January 2007.
Making Subject Matter Part of the Equation: The Intersection of Policy and Content
An Occasional Paper by Pam Grossman, Susan S. Stodolsky, and Michael S. Knapp, December 2004.Description:PDF
This conceptual paper offers a framework for understanding how educational policy is related to subject matter. Drawing on literature concerning instructional policymaking and the cultures that surround teaching in different subject areas, the paper distinguishes and illustrates three types of policy, that ignore, target, or differentiate among subject matter areas, respectively. The paper then demonstrates, for each type, how subject matter acts as a crucial context for policy implementation and effects, affecting the policy's impact in often unintended ways. Typically ignored by policy research, these dynamics have special importance for the analysis of reform policies, as well as for the making of policies aimed at teaching and learning.
Theorizing About Responses to Reform: The Role of Communities of Practice
An Occasional Paper by Chrysan Gallucci, May 2003.Description:
This paper offers a summary of a policy-oriented case study that examined the practice of six elementary teachers and, more significantly, evaluates the value of a sociocultural approach for analyzing teachers' responses to the professional learning demands of standards-based reform policies.Abstract:PDFAbstract
This paper evaluates the usefulness of a sociocultural approach for analyzing teachers' responses to the professional learning demands of standards-based reform policies. A policy-oriented case study of the practice of six elementary teachers who worked in two high poverty schools in a demographically changing district in the state of Washington is summarized. Key findings of that study conclude that communities of teaching practice are sites for teacher learning and are mediators of teachers' responses to standards-based reform. Characteristics of the communities of practice, including their relative strength and openness (to learning), influence the degree to which teachers work out negotiated and thoughtful responses to policy demands. The present paper discusses the efficacy of Wenger's (1998) theory of learning for the study of policy to practice connections.
Meeting the Needs of Failing Readers: Cautions and Considerations for State Policy
An Occasional Paper by Marsha Riddle Buly and Sheila Valencia, April 2003.Description:
In this CTP Occasional Paper, the authors' findings are a caution to policymakers and educators who may be tempted to treat the same all students who score "below standard" on statewide reading assessments. By probing beneath student's failing scores on a 4th-grade state reading assessment, the authors found that scores masked distinctive and multifaceted problems having to do with 1) word identification, 2) fluency, and 3) meaning. To have treated the same all students who had failed would have been to miss the different instructional emphases called for by their underlying skills, strategies, and needs. The paper presents reading profiles of failing students and discusses five potential areas as potential policy levers for improving student performance in reading.Abstract:PDFAbstract
Every year thousands of students fail state reading tests and every year policymakers and educators search for strategies to help these students succeed. In this study, we probed beneath students' failing scores on a state reading assessment to investigate the specific reading abilities that may have contributed to student performance. We found that scores on state tests mask distinctive and multifaceted problems having to do with word identification, fluency, and meaning. Our findings are a caution to policymakers and educators who may be tempted to treat the same all students who score "below standard" on statewide reading assessments that now proliferate the education landscape. To do so is to miss the different instructional emphases called for by the underlying skills, strategies, and needs of failing students. Such a practice not only limits individual student progress; it may lead to an oversimplification of reform efforts and evaluation. This report presents reading profiles of failing students and discusses five areas-instruction; multiple indicators; alignment among standards, assessment, and instruction; allocation of resources; and evaluating reform-as potential policy levers for improving student performance in reading.
Understanding How Policy Meets Practice: Two Takes on Local Response to a State Reform Initiative
An Occasional Paper by Michael S. Knapp, June 2002.Description:
In this CTP Occasional Paper, Center Director Mike Knapp explores connections between policy and instructional practice by analyzing two studies that employed different and contrasting research perspectives to examine the same policy case-the early implementation of the California Mathematics Framework. In reviewing the studies, Knapp discusses the conceptual blind spots of each perspective and suggests conceptual work that would enable scholars to entertain richer pictures of policy, instruction, and avenues of influence on instruction.Abstract:PDFAbstract
This paper explores the connections between policy and instructional practice through a close reading of contrasting studies and through an exploration of ways, prompted by the studies, to develop better conceptualizations of policy-practice connections. The two studies each examined the same policy case (the early implementation of the California Mathematics Framework more than a decade ago) from different vantage points-the first paying close attention, from the "inside-out," to the response of a teacher to the state reform policy, and the second focusing, from the "outside-in," on the way the policy's enactment generated changes in local policy implementation and support systems. The contrast between the studies brings to light conceptual blind spots in each research perspective that make it difficult to ascertain whether the studies offer contradictory or complementary understandings of the case and that may lead to under- or over-estimates of policy effects. Further conceptual work suggested by the paper would enable scholars to entertain richer pictures of policy, instruction, and avenues of policy influence on instruction.
What Makes Teacher Community Different from a Gathering of Teachers?
An Occasional Paper by Pamela Grossman, Sam Wineburg, and Stephen Woolworth, January 2001.Description:
This CTP Occasional Paper details the formation and development of teacher community through a project that brought together 22 English and social studies teachers, a special education teacher, and an ESL teacher to plan interdisciplinary curriculum. It includes colorful sections of dialogue among the teachers and sheds new light on definitions of professional community, its stages of development, and the challenges that confront community building in a fast-paced high school workplace.Abstract:PDFAbstractOriginal Study
In this paper, the authors draw on their experience with a professional development project to propose a model for studying the formation and development of teacher community. The project they describe brought together 22 English and social studies teachers, as well as a special education teacher and an ESL teacher, from an urban high school for a period of 2 1/2 years. The teachers met twice a month to read together in the field of history and literature and to work on an interdisciplinary curriculum. This detailed account of the first 18 months of the project sheds new light on definitions of professional community, its stages of development, and the challenges that confront community in the workplace of high schools. One of the challenges consists of the need to negotiate an "essential tension" at the heart of teachers' professional community. Among this group of teachers, many felt that the primary reason to meet was to improve classroom practices and student learning, while others were more interested in the potential for continuing intellectual development in the subjects they taught. The authors�who deliberately built the essential tension into the project�claim that these two views must both be respected in any successful attempt to create and sustain intellectual community in the workplace. The authors also describe the challenges of maintaining diverse perspectives within a community and how familiar fault lines�both in society and in schools�threaten the pursuit of community. The paper includes a model of the markers of community formation�as manifested in participants' talk and actions�and concludes with a discussion of why we must continue to care about professional communities.
Federal Research Investment and the Improvement of Teaching, 1980-1997
An Occasional Paper by Julia Koppich and Michael Knapp, April 1998.


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Competed in my first ever CrossFit competition at CrossFit Elevation yesterday. AMAZING. 3 brutal WODs in one day, 2 hours apart. I held my own against those young'uns. Not sure of final standings, but 7/17 and 10/17 overall for the first two WODs.
1st WOD went well for me. Didn't get enough fuel afterwards and bonked on the 2nd WOD (f'in thrusters!) but powered through. Choked down not enough food before the 3rd WOD. Fell during the 1st part of the 3rd WOD, but recovered and finished. Clearly I must learn more about fueling for WODs.
So awesome to have so many familiar faces there. Stefanie (thank you for posting about this event) from CrossFit SoCo took 1st place – loved having her next to me in the same heat. Got tips from Neil and Tommy who did the WODs first. Got encouragement & coaching from Sean. Eric made me eat, hydrate, acted as my videographer, personal trainer, physical therapist and my #1 fan.
Met some awesome, awesome people from CrossFit Elevation who welcomed us into their gym & community.
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Whole Lemon BarsMakes 16 2-inch lemon bars
For the crust
1 cup (125 grams) all-purpose flour
½ cup (65 grams) sugar
¼ teaspoon table salt
½ cup (115 grams or 1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into chunks, plus extra for greasing pan
For the filling
1 small-to-medium-sized lemon (about 4½ ounces or 130 grams, or about 3 inches long)
1½ cups (265 grams) sugar
½ cup (115 grams or 1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into chunks
4 large eggs
2 tablespoons (15 grams) cornstarch
¼ teaspoon table salt
1. Place a rack in middle of the oven and preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Cut two 12- inch lengths of parchment paper, and trim each to fit the bottom of an 8- inch square baking pan. Press the first sheet into the bottom and up the sides of your pan in one direction, then use the second sheet to line the rest of the pan, running it perpendicular to the first sheet. Lightly butter exposed parts of parchment or coat them with a nonstick cooking spray. Set the pan aside.
2. Make the crust. Blend the flour, sugar, and salt together in the work bowl of a food processor. Add the butter and pulse until the mixture is powdery, but if firmly pinched, will hold the pinched shape. Turn the dough crumbs into the prepared baking pan and press the dough evenly across the bottom and about ½ inch up the sides. Prick the dough all over with a fork and bake for 20 minutes, or until lightly browned. Should any parts bubble up, gently prick them again with a fork. Leave the oven on.
3. Make your filling. Cut your lemon in half, and here's where I need us all to be, briefly, quite fussy.
Is the white part of the skin especially thick?
If the widest part of the white is ¼ inch thick or less, continue on to the next step; your lemon is good to go. If any part of it is thicker than ¼ inch, however, I find it safest to remove the skin from half the lemon or the bitterness of the pith can overwhelm the bars. To remove the skin, place half the lemon cut-side-down on the cutting board, and remove the skin and pith from the entire half in downward cuts and discard it. The second half, even if just as thick, can be used as is.
4. Cut your lemon halves into thin rings and discard any seeds. Toss the lemon rounds – lemon flesh and peel – in the bowl of your food processor, add the sugar, and run the machine until the lemon is thoroughly puréed, about 2 minutes. Add the butter and again run the machine until the mixture is smooth, scraping down the sides of the work bowl as needed. Add the eggs, cornstarch, and salt and pulse the machine in short bursts until the mixture is evenly combined.
5. Pour the lemon mixture over the crust and bake it for 35 to 40 minutes, or until the filling is set. You can test this by bumping the pan a little; it should only jiggle slightly. In my oven, I find that the point at which the filling is set is also when the lemon bars start to get very light brown on top.
6. Let the pan cool completely on rack or in the fridge. Gently cut around the outside of the parchment paper to make sure no sides have stuck, then gently use the parchment "sling" to transfer bars from pan to cutting board. Cut into 16 squares.
Cooking Notes: Most recipes for whole lemon desserts recommend Meyer lemons. I actually prefer these with regular old grocery store lemons; with some modifications (described above) should their skins be extra thick, I find that they have the perfect balance of tart and fragrance. Nevertheless, to make these bars with Meyer lemons, use just one (of similar size and weight) and reduce the sugar to 1 cup (200 grams). You can double the recipe and bake it in a 9-by-13- inch pan as well.
Deb Perelman
Excerpted from The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook by Deb Perelman. Copyright © 2012 by Deb Perelman. Excerpted by permission of Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.


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Mother of teen learned her daughter was held at Dallas County Jail from news reports
The mother of one of two teen girls who was mistakenly held in the Dallas County Jail last month says she can't understand why authorities couldn't tell the girls were teens just by looking at them.
The girl arrested and held for 10 days as 20-year-old Patrice Washington is actually 14-year-old Patrice Webber. (Her mother says the photo at right was taken within the past several months.)
"You can look at Patrice and Jasmine and tell that they were underage kids," Donna Webber said. "These are babies. I don't know if this is going to affect my baby for the rest of her life."
The Dallas Morning News and several TV news stations initially reported that Jasmine Lewis, 13, had been jailed with a 20-year-old woman after the two girls were busted for shoplifting at an Old East Dallas Target store. It wasn't until those stories broke that Donna Webber learned of her daughter's imprisonment at the adult jail under a false name and age, she said.
Patrice Webber is now at a Dallas County juvenile facility. Like Jasmine (right), a friend since elementary school, she was a runaway. Her mother said she suspects that's why the girls gave arresting officer Senior Cpl. Roberto Garcia inaccurate information.
"As soon as she ran away, I put a runaway [police] report out on her," Webber said. "I think that's why she gave the wrong name and age."
Jasmine was jailed for 13 days last month and was reunited with her family over the weekend.


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MSU Fellowship To Help Fill Shortage Of Science, Math Teachers
January 6, 2010/Great Lakes IT Report
Michigan State University will prepare more educators needed to teach science, technology, engineering and mathematics in Michigan's urban schools as part of a new statewide fellowship program highlighted today by President Barack Obama.
MSU is one of six universities selected to participate in the Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowship. The fellowship was created last fall after the W.K. Kellogg Foundation awarded a $16.7 million grant to the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
The program provides promising future teachers -- who can be recent college graduates or career-changing engineers and scientists -- with an intensive master's degree program in education and places them in hard-to-staff middle and high schools for a minimum of three years. The fellowship will prepare 240 teachers over two years, beginning in 2011.
Obama named the program among the best new efforts to improve math and science achievement during an "Educate to Innovate" Campaign event at the White House today. Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm plans a news conference with the participating universities and school districts at 1 p.m. Thursday.
The Woodrow Wilson foundation announced the participating universities today. In addition to MSU, they are the University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University, Western Michigan University, Grand Valley State University and Wayne State University.
"MSU is committed to helping address critical shortages in the work force as Michigan faces the demands of today's global economy. Our College of Education has already made the enhancement of effective math and science teachers a top priority," said MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon. "The Woodrow Wilson fellowship will allow the teacher education program to build on its strengths and produce more teachers able to provide high-quality STEM instruction in our state's urban schools."
Woodrow Wilson teaching fellows that come to MSU will attend summer courses and complete a full-year teaching internship modeled after the university's highly-regarded initial certification program for undergraduate teacher candidates.
The new 16-month fellowship, which culminates in both a master's degree and teaching certificate, will focus on preparing individuals for careers in urban settings where STEM teachers are in especially high demand. The teacher education faculty at MSU has experience developing successful urban education programs in partnership with Detroit Public Schools, as well as a history of creating courses for teachers in collaboration with the College of Natural Science.
Carole Ames, dean of the College of Education, said MSU hopes to enroll 20 fellows beginning in summer 2011. Fellows receive a $30,000 stipend.
"This is a tremendous opportunity for the state of Michigan," Ames said. "The Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowship will attract prospective teachers of mathematics and science, enable high-quality preparation to certify these teacher candidates and fill a tremendous need in hard-to-staff schools. The beneficiaries will be the students in Michigan who will have highly qualified teachers in the critical areas of mathematics and science."
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Me too, two meals a day and I eat as late in the day as possible. Nowadays I can push my first meal until 5 or 6 or 7 PM, with a (smaller) finale a few hours later in the evening.
Actually, I've found that these late meals make the next day's fasting super easy, that's the trick, and I just figured it out; stop eating too early in the day, and the next you'll be hungry.
Here is what I do:
Meal 1: Carbs + protein -- usually follows a workout
Meal 2: Fat + veggies (and some protein)
I have to admit though, around 3 and 4 o'clock at work, I could eat (I just way prefer to exercise fasted--non-negotiable, and I've been this way for years--and that requires waiting to get home and eating later).
Last edited by Orchid; 10-28-2011 at 09:43 AM.
I do better skipping lunch. My leptin doesn't need resetting but I still like the big Dr. K style protein breakfast, just because I do. So I eat breakfast around 9 and dinner around 5. That is also, technically a 16/8 IF a la Martin at leangains. So which guru is making me slim and healthy? I don't care.
I think when to skip/have meals all comes down to mix of personal preference and practicality, what you like and what fits in your schedule.
There's no "magic" to two meals a day. I lost plenty of weight eating five meals a day. Now I see that as silly and time consuming but it didn't negate my weight loss. It can aid in caloric restriction if you're not ravenous when it's finally meal time and you overeat.
I typically eat once or twice a day but I do have coffee with cream in the morning and stay well-hydrated. That kills my appetite unless I got crappy sleep the night before.
Perhaps try just having coffee in the morning and seeing if you're genuinely hungry? Or take it a step back -- are you hungry each time you eat? Try eating when you're hungry and see where that takes you. There's nothing wrong with three meals per day if that best suits your hunger and lifestyle.
I agree that there is no "magic" number for everyone. I tried the warrior diet thing of only one meal a day and found I tended to overeat and then collapse in a stupor for several hours. Rather a waste of time. I also tried 3 meals as officially set out in the leptin protocol but I just wasn't hungry enough for a third. So I wound up in the middle with two.
I do think that the multiple mini-meals thing is not healthy. I agree with Dr. K. there that if you are constantly pouring food into your body, your body will stay in storage for later mode i.e fat creation not burning.
--Trish (Bork)