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When Atiyah Abd al-Rahman disappeared into the blast cloud of a Hellfire missile last month in Pakistan, the target of an apparent CIA drone strike, it confirmed what many counterterrorism experts have long known: Perhaps the least promising job promotion on earth is to be elevated into the top leadership ranks of al-Qaida.
Rahman was considered the organization's second-in-command, and a close confidant of current leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. With the killing of Rahman and the dispatch last May of Osama bin Laden, it's getting very lonely at the top for Zawahiri and the relatively few remaining "core" al-Qaida operatives in Pakistan.
On the eve of the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, National Journal asked top U.S. counterterrorism officials and experts to put those al-Qaida losses into context, and to assess the enemy in America's long "war on terror." Though opinions vary on some particulars, there was consensus on the fundamental assessment that the core al-Qaida terrorist organization is crippled -- still dangerous and capable of launching terrorist attacks, but almost certainly lacking in the ability to plan and execute strategic "spectaculars" on the order of 9/11.
There was also broad agreement among counterterrorism experts that a successful terrorist attack on the United States or its Western allies is all but inevitable sometime in the future. Barring terrorists acquiring a weapon of mass destruction, however, the experts generally doubted it would prove a 9/11-type game-changer.
Losing Leadership
According to Andrew Liepman, principal deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center, there are essentially three schools of thought about the future of a post-bin Laden al-Qaida. The first holds that bin Laden was an iconic leader who supplied the essential ideology and vision, and without him al-Qaida is finished. The second school of thought, he said, holds that by the time of his death bin Laden was isolated and largely irrelevant to al-Qaida operations, and thus his death will make little difference.
"I think the truth lies between those poles," Liepman told National Journal. "Bin Laden's death is an important milestone in a 10-year battle against a truly evil ideology, and the country and the West are safer for the fact that he is gone. No one else in the organization has his personal credibility and charisma, so his death was a real body blow to an organization that was already struggling and in a lot of trouble. On the other hand, we've seen that despite being degraded, al-Qaida has the ability to resuscitate itself. So it would be a big mistake for us to take our eye off of this threat."
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden said the recent killing of Rahman, coming so close on the heels of bin Laden's death, will deal a major blow to an already reeling al-Qaida.
"Killing Rahman was big deal because he was the bridge between Zawahiri and core al-Qaida in Pakistan, and its franchises," Hayden said in an interview. "And given the pace with which we are taking their senior leadership off the battlefield, al-Qaida no longer has a deep bench at all."
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Losing the Narrative
Bin Laden was probably least expendable to al-Qaida as its visionary and chief propagandist. Just the fact of his surviving the most intense manhunt in history for nearly a decade was part of the group's powerful mythology. Yet even before his death, polls showed that Muslim support for al-Qaida's bloody tactics and bin Laden's vision of a fundamentalist Islamic caliphate was declining dramatically. The Arab world has been far more transfixed by the self-immolation of a lowly Tunisian fruit seller that ignited the Arab Spring democratic uprisings earlier this year, a new narrative that refutes much of what al-Qaida stands for.
"Bin Laden was important as the symbolic leader and 'emir' of al-Qaida, and also because he narrated to his followers who they were fighting, and why. There is no one else in the organization who can assume that communications role in quite the same way," said Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden. While al-Qaida remains militarily resilient, he said, it has ultimately failed as a broad political movement.
"Instead we've seen the revolutions of the Arab Spring launched on very different principles," said Coll. "So al-Qaida is isolated within the greater Muslim community to a large degree. However, it continues to harbor skilled terrorists determined and willing to sacrifice themselves to carry out bold plots, and small groups of determined fanatics can cause a lot of havoc in the world."
The Affiliates
Given the relentless pressure on al-Qaida's core group in Pakistan, the future of the organization may lie in more dispersed affiliates that have sprung up in some of the least governed and most violent spaces in the world, fertile ground for its brand of nihilistic extremism. These include al-Qaida in Iraq, an Algerian offshoot operating in North Africa and calling itself al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, and the affiliated Islamist militants of al-Shabaab in Somalia.
There is general consensus among counterterror experts, however, that the most dangerous offshoot by far remains the Yemeni branch that operates under the name al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. A leader of the group, Anwar al-Awlaki, is a charismatic Yemeni-American who grew up in New Mexico and is considered the most influential English-speaking cleric preaching global jihad today.
Almost singularly among the al-Qaida affiliates, the Yemeni branch has also shown a determination to strike the U.S. homeland, assisting would-be Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in his attempt to down an airliner in route to Detroit in 2009, and sending parcel bombs to the United States in 2010.
"I think our extreme pressure has hollowed out the core al-Qaida group to the point where it's virtually impossible for them to stage another major attack on the United States," said Charles Allen, a career CIA officer and former chief of Intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security. "Going forward, I think our success will be measured largely by our ability to reduce the offensive capabilities of these affiliates like al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Shabaab, and al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb. So while al-Qaida has been incredibly badly damaged, its tentacles will remain a threat for a long time to come."
The Lone Wolves
Indeed, the tentacle that resulted in the most lethal terrorist plot on U.S. soil since 9/11 was a lone operator named Nidal Hasan, an Army major who was apparently radicalized over the internet and later killed 13 people in a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, in November 2009. Faisal Shahzad, who was sentenced to life in prison last year for attempting to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square, was another so-called "lone wolf."
Despite al-Qaida's relatively limited success in radicalizing and recruiting such "homegrown terrorists," a recent RAND Corporation study noted that 176 Americans have been indicted, arrested, or otherwise identified as jihadist terrorists or their supporters since 9/11. Given its diminished capacity to infiltrate terrorists into the United States, al-Qaida in the future is likely to continue focusing on recruiting such homegrown agents over the Internet. That represents a threat that is more diffuse and difficult to detect, counterterror experts say, but one that is much less lethal than the model on which al-Qaida made its reputation -- methodically planned plots executed by sleeper cells of trained and determined terrorists.
"Given our much improved screening capability, it's just more difficult for al-Qaida to cross our borders," said Fran Townsend, the former Homeland Security and Counterterrorism adviser to George W. Bush. "That's why radicalized preachers like Awlaki are using the internet to try and recruit people from within the United States to act on an individual basis, knowing that groups are easier for us to detect. I do think we're going to see much more of that type of threat from al-Qaida."
By many measures, the decade that followed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks was among the most tumultuous in U.S. history. Yet as Americans pause and look back on the 10-year anniversary, they can also take solace in the fact that many of our worst fears never materialized. There were no subsequent waves of al-Qaida attacks on the homeland, the terrorists were not behind the anthrax attacks nor have they acquired weapons of mass destruction, and bin Laden failed in his mission of uniting a mass movement under the banner of global jihad. Today al-Qaida 2.0 is the sum of almost none of those fears.
Photos from Getty Images, UPI, and White House. Music by Kevin MacLeod. contributed to this article.
This article appears in the September 7, 2011 edition of National Journal Daily PM Update.
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Twice a month, I've be writing about my community art project, the Somerville Stock Exchange (SSE). The project involves giving people "Somerville Stocks" based on what they're doing to make Somerville's community, creative life, and environment better. All of these things are included in the project's printed and online forum. And all of these things affect the "worth" of the different types of Somerville Stocks.
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So how did "Somerville stocks" do recently?
Community stocks continued their meteoric rise, and shot up $1.43 (+35%) to finish at $5.47. This put them in first place for the first time—which was a nice surprise for some of us around the Exchange, since Community stocks had been in last place for the first month we were open.
This huge gain was because of all of the amazing things people shared with us. Dvora J. told us about her work as the president of the Friends of the Somerville Public Library. Warren G. let us know about his work with immigrant families through the Welcome Project; he does this in order to help build the voice and power of immigrants to shape community decisions and institutions (such as schools, housing, and transportation). Kristin P. donated money to the Somerville Homeless Coalition in honor of the "Pilgrim," which is a monthly collection of writings by Boston's homeless community. Finally, Ron N. filled us in on all of the things he's doing for Somerville—including helping moderate the Davis Square Live Journal (which is an online forum where Somerville community members discuss issues that affect the city), and leading bike tours for the Somerville Bicycle Committee and the Somerville Historic Preservation Commission.
In other Community news, the city reopened two playgrounds that it renovated, and held the first SomerStreets carnival of the year. Finally, the Somerville Public Library hosted their free New Moms Support Group, which is a regularly scheduled meet-up that is cosponsored by the Somerville Public Schools and Jewish Children's and Family Services. (To read more about Community Stocks, click here.)
Environment stocks were also pretty strong this period. They rose $0.96 (+26%), to close at $4.59. This means that they are in last place—but very close behind second-place Creative stocks.
What was the reason for this leap? A number of things. First, Jessie B. filled us in on her work as director of Somerville's Green City Growers, which installs raised-bed gardens. These gardens let people grow vegetable in nontraditional spaces-- as well as in yards that have lead contamination, which is common in urban areas. Mark W. told us about his company, Recover Green Roofs. They build and maintain green roofs and walls on residential and commercial buildings, which create more green space in urban environments and help minimize the environmental impact of buildings. Last, we heard about The Growing Center's many workshops, including one on how to compost food scraps (which is a way to recycle unused food, so that it doesn't end up in a landfill). (To read more about Environment Stocks, click here.)
Creative stocks had started so strong back in April, only to lag lately. They were up $0.24 (+5%) this period, to finish at $4.67. This put them in second place, but only $0.08 above third-place Environmental stocks, which have been rising quickly lately. Some traders here at the Exchange were surprised by this situation, given how creative Somerville's residents are.
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Good communication can be one of the biggest challenges in parenting.
For instance, a few weeks ago, our 7-year-old son was listening to some music with a set of headphones in the car, when he announced, "Wow, I really like this music. It has a lot of violence."
"Violence?" I said. "What in the world are you listening to?"
I figured he had found some type of rap or hard rock station on the radio. I hoped he hadn't discovered my secret Eminem album or the mixed CD with the words "Rated M for Mama" that my friend wrote on the label.
And I didn't even want to think about our Red Hot Chili Peppers collection. Didn't we hide those in the office somewhere so the kids would never, ever find them?
"Oh, I don't know, but it sure is pretty," my son said. "This station plays a lot of piano music, too."
And that's when I realized he was trying to say the word "violins," not "violence."
Sometimes, miscommunication occurs when a child takes something a parent says too literally, or both parties assume they know what each other is talking about, and they don't. Other times, though, I think the words parents say leave our mouths and physically change before they enter kids' ears. It's some type of complicated mathematical/scientific/logic thing, like quantum physics, how my car's gas gauge drops below the empty line so quickly, and some of the problems in my daughter's algebra homework.
Through trial and error, though, I think I'm beginning to understand what my kids are hearing. I still haven't figured out how to speak in their code, but I can rest better knowing that it's a language issue, not an "I'm not listening to you" parenting issue.
Here are some recent conversations that took place in our house, with what I assume are the kid's translations:
Parent says: Hurry up and get dressed for school.
The 5-year-old hears: Even though it's cold and rainy outside, please look through every drawer until you can find a pair of swim trunks to wear to school. They'll look great with your new pair of snow boots and that toddler-size flannel pajama shirt that you found under your bed.
The 7-year-old hears: This is the perfect time to find something that's stained, wrinkled and laying on the floor. Bonus points if you wore it yesterday. None of those clean clothes that are folded in the laundry basket or put away in your dresser could possibly fit anyway.
The 12-year-old hears: Please, take as much time as you need to find the perfect outfit and fix your hair. Or wear the same thing you wore yesterday. It doesn't matter because I'm a grownup and I don't understand things like teen fashion, age-appropriate clothing and the school's dress code. But first, before you do anything, I really want you go sync your iPod.
Parent says: Please be quiet, I'm on the phone. It's work-related and important.
The 5- and 7-year-old hear: I think you should see what happens when you spill 1,500 Lego blocks on the kitchen floor. Will it be a loud crash? Let's see if they scatter everywhere so that I can step on them days from now. And, if you get really bored, you should start fighting over each other's toys, scream, cry and pound on my office door. I will know that means that you love me.
The 12-year-old hears: Blah, blah, blah, I'm working. If you hear your brothers screaming, just drown it out with your iPod.
Parent says: OK, everybody smile for the picture.
The 5-year-old hears: Flash a fake grimace. Wait, I can't quite see every tooth in your mouth.
The 7-year-old hears: This is a great time to scowl or make a funny face, just like you did at Disneyland. And what kind of memory of a family adventure would we have without bunny ears over your sister's head?
The 12-year-old hears: Pretend that you like us for a minute and smile. Then we'll leave you alone.
Parent says: We have too much clutter. I'll pay you 25 cents for every toy you'll donate to the thrift store.
The 5-year-old hears: Go ahead and play with your toys. I wouldn't dream of making you get rid of anything. I love your toys as much as you do, even the ones you haven't played with for months. I was really talking to your brother and sister.
The 7-year-old hears: Mommy is rich, and this is a great opportunity to earn money for a new video game system and all of the accessories. Bag up every single toy you own, including that expensive dragon castle and those keepsakes from your great-grandparents, and when you run out of things to sell, go ahead and sell your brother's and sister's stuff.
The 12-year-old hears: I'll pay you 25 cents for every toy that you'll donate to a thrift store. Yes, one Barbie shoe is totally considered a toy, and holds the same value as a stuffed animal and everything else. Broken toys are considered toys, too, and it's my fault that I didn't specify that in the first place.
What's that? You think I should also pay you for all of the hand-me-down toys that your brothers are turning in, because they used to be your toys? That, my child, is a fabulous idea.Lisa Pemberton is one busy mama, raising three children while working as a reporter at The Olympian. Reach her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I might have located the biggest fan of the Buffalo Bills keeping Fred Jackson and C.J. Spiller on the field at the same time.
Bills tight end Scott Chandler is pumped about what the possibilities could mean for the 2012 offense.
"It's going to be really exciting to see those two guys put on a show," Chandler told me after Monday afternoon's voluntary workout in Orchard Park. "I just think we're going to have defenses on their heels all day, not knowing whether it's coming on the ground or through the air."
Chandler, waived by three teams before he got to Buffalo, emerged as an attractive option for Ryan Fitzpatrick last season.
Chandler posted career stats with 38 catches for 389 yards in 14 games. His six touchdowns tied the club record.
Those numbers could escalate with defenses keying on Jackson and Spiller. An aggressive safety could get caught cheating and find himself in deep trouble with a 6-foot-7 target running free up the hash marks.
"We've got those two guys in the backfield that defenses have to be scared of right now," Chandler said. "With that, it's going to open up stuff in the passing game for us.
"Those linebackers have to be looking in the backfield all the time. Then the safeties start hitting it. You start getting up those seams.
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Lawmakers seek to reduce pay gap between gendersVermont Press Bureau | February 11,2013More than a decade has passed since lawmakers created the Vermont Equal Pay Act. But women in the workplace continue to earn less than their male counterparts, and the Legislature this year will again look for ways to bridge the wage gap between genders.
Only one female plaintiff has ever filed suit under the states Equal Pay Act. But Vermont Law School professor Cheryl Hanna told lawmakers last week that the dearth of civil cases doesnt necessarily signal gender equity in the workplace.
In an effort to strengthen the equal pay statute, a bill now under review in the House Committee on General, Housing and Military Affairs would add new provisions to the law passed in 2002. Hanna, an expert on gender-equity issues, said many women either arent aware of their rights in the workplace or fear reprisal from employers if they try to assert them.
If they do find out theyre being paid less (than similarly situated men), they often just internalize that or assume nothing can be done about it, Hanna said.
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And this legislation lays out a process so that when women do decide to go down that path, their employers cant in any way retaliate against them for having done so, Krowinski said.
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Research tells us one reason women leave the workplace is because of the unavailability of flexible work schedules and parental leave policies, Hanna said. While theres this myth women are not committed to their job after childbirth ... in fact we know from data most women would stay fully employed in the workforce but for the fact there is no flexible time for them.
The legislation would not only prevent businesses from retaliating against requests for flex time, but require employers to give serious consideration to those requests.
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Roast Chicken, page 28 (I think)
Made this last night......It was a very simple recipe and I added the vegetables he advises at the bottom of the page. Basically it was butter rubbed all over the skin then squeezing a lemon over. The lemon halves go into the cavity after S & P and 1 clove of garlic. Roast at 450* for 15 minutes, baste, turn down the temp to 375 and roast for 30 - 45 minutes.
I have been roasting chickens & vegetables for more years than I care to remember, and No Way is a 4 lb. chicken going to be done after 1 hour in my oven. Also, 1 clove of garlic is not enough to satisfy DH. We had to roast the chicken for an additional 30 minutes before it reached the 165* internal temp. When we finally sat down to dinner, some of the skin of the chicken was crispy but the meat was very bland. I had pre-seasoned the onions, leeks, mushrooms, etc. so they tasted fine. We weren't thrilled with this at all. Didn't dislike it, but if I do make it Mr. Hopkinson's style again I will definitely increase the seasoning.
We have at least one chicken dinner a week, so I'm next going to try the vinegared chicken recipe.... Till then it's Piperade for tonight.
re: Gio
I hope the vinegared chicken turns out better. I did make his roast chicken, but all I posted was that it was good - can't remember if I tinkered at all. We do often cook even largish chickens in 50 minutes - but usually at higher temperatures (550, then 425). I don't think I cook them up to 165 though - I use the "clear juices"/wiggling the leg test.
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I have to agree with Gio's comments regarding the Roast Chicken recipe. I made it according to Simon's instructions and found that I definitely needed to roast the chicken a little longer and the skin just wasn't crispy enough to my liking. I thought maybe I hadn't basted enough (did it only once but Simon suggests once before turning down the temperature, and then "occasionally") but it doesn't seem like that was the reason. Also, was kind of flavourless too. I like my way of roasting chicken better but I am always curious to see other recipes since there are many many ways to roast a chicken!
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I guess I must be a glutton for punishment because I made this chicken again for Sunday dinner, and again with the veggies. And, again it was just as I reported last year. In fact we had to roast it much longer than the 15 min at 450 & 45 at 350. That's it. I'm done with this chicken recipe. This afternoon I'm going to boil the dickens out of it with some vegetables and use the stock for a potato, leek, and cabbage soup with ham hocks. So There....LOL
Thank you MM and TDQ.... It's all good. Using other people's techniques and recommendations is a fine learning method. Usually, I do not r rub butter or for that matter, grease the skin of poultry with anything and the skin comes out nice and crispy.
I purposely wanted to make this recipe in order to compare it to mine. LOL
Poulet Saute au Vinaigre, p. 32 - I mistakenly posted this on the meat thread - great dish that I'll make again:
Sorry about that ....
re: MMRuth
I made Poulet Saute au Vinaigre last night.
I only had boneless breasts (from a happy natural chicken), so I made sauce first with some butter and olive oil to start in pan w/ canned tomatoes (Muir Glen regular and some fire roasted), vinegar, homemade chicken stock and a bit of butter.
While that cooked I separately sauteed then baked the breasts, put chicken in sauce, cooked a little and topped w/ parsley.
It was very good and better than I expected since I saw Hoppy called for "best quality red wine vinegar" and I only had supermarket Regina. But it was fine. I expect it would be better when the sauce cooks w/ the chicken more.
Served w/ egg noodles.
I'll make this again.
re: NYchowcook
Poulet Sautee au Vinaigre, Pg. 32
I really, really wanted to love this, but, c'est la vie.... It was a very simple prep and cooking procedure:
A whole chicken cut into 8 pieces and seasoned with S & P, browned in butter and olive oil. When the chicken is golden brown 6 peeled, cored and chopped tomatoes are added and everything is fried, stirred and stewed until the tomatoes turn "dark red and sticky." Dark and Sticky. Never happened. But the stuff did reduce, somewhat, so then a cup of red wine vinegar is added and reduced, simmering, till almost gone. That did happen. The chicken is removed from the pan and a butter sauce with parsley is made with the remaining reduction. The chicken was very dry... even with the sauce...and this was a free range bird from the farm which we always buy and is invariably moist, tender and juicy. The sauce was tasty but lacked the oomph I thought it should have had. IF I ever do this again, I'll use balsamic instead of red wine vinegar...or at least mix the two. Also I think the tomatoes should be seasoned aggressively first and set aside till needed.
SH recommends serving this dish with plain boiled potatoes, but I steamed a beautiful farm fresh cauliflower and dressed it with grated fontina cheese and S & P. I also made his Grilled Eggplant with Pesto, pg. 78. These were great sides!
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Poulet Sautee au Vinaigre Part Deux
Monday night is Pasta night here at Casa Gio and since we had several leftover pieces of the chicken from last night they were incorporated into a red sauce for Fusilli. May I just say that it was tres delicious.... a simple garlic, chopped shallots laden sautee, a tin of Pastene Kitchen Ready tomatoes, with added oregano & basil, crushed chili flakes and the chicken parts. Grated Romano on the serving plates... Perfect.
I've got this pheasant recipe in the oven as we speak - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi...
But I'm a little worried, as it calls for just 175 mil of liquid for braising - a tiny amount - there's barely 1/8 of an inch of liquid in the pan. The recipe in the link is the same one as in the book I have, but I'm still worried! Does anyone think I should add more liquid? It just went in the oven.
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Reporting back.
The liquid issue was fine, but I think I cooked it for too long - SH calls for 1 - 1.5 hours, and I did an hour and 10 minutes. The dark meat was good, as was the breast meat nearest the bone, but the outside part was tough as shoe leather. I've also not cooked or eaten pheasant before, so that colors my experience, I think. The flavor in the sauce was beautiful - he doesn't say what to do with it, so while I was carving the pheasant, my husband boiled it down a bit, and I threw in the boiled potatoes he recommends serving with it to capture some of the flavor. The cabbage was delicious. I want to do more reading up on cooking pheasant for next time. I noticed that he has a recipe for grouse soup, using the carcass, that is very similar to the one in the Second Helpings book for duck soup, which I love, so I'm going to make that w/ the pheasant carcass.
I had thought that I'd browned the pheasant nicely according to the instructions, turning, and even placing certain "unbrowned" parts of the breasts so that they would brown, but I think I'd brown longer next time.
Served it with a simple green salad, the Chocolate Bavarois for dessert, and the parmesan crackers to nibble on beforehand.
Edit - Any additional tips for future pheasant cooking would be appreciated. I was reluctant to cut up the bird this time to cook the legs longer.
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Good for you! Have you prepared tripe before? I haven't, and I've only eaten it a few times. Mainly menudo in Mexican restaurants, which I liked. Where will you get your tripe? I saw some that looked lovely the other day at Jeffrey's Meats in the Essex Street Market. Not that I really know what good tripe is supposed to look like.
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I made the roasted chicken last Saturday night and found it to be really tasty, with moist meat and crispy skin. I cooked it for the amount of time he suggests, but it was a bit underdone, and so cooked for about 15 minutes more. Perfect. I am a poor soul who is burdened with an electric stove, but at least it's a new one.
I followed his recipe faithfully, butter rubbed over the skin of the chicken and inside the cavity. Lemon squeezed onto chicken and then put into the cavity with the herbs. I had nothing but some fabulously fresh oregano from my CSA box, so I used that. Very nice. It seemed to my husband and me that the chicken had really picked up the flavors of the herb/lemon/butter/garlic- it was really IN the meat. My favorite chicken recipes are Zuni and/or Jamie Oliver, but this one will take its place beside them.
I put some quartered red potatoes (also from CSA box) along with the garlic cloves in the pan with the chicken. Very nice.
With the bird we had sauteed asparagus (also from CSA) and a green salad (Full Belly Farm lettuce has been really amazing this spring - some I'd never seen before - a deeply purple lettuce that looks like a combo of radichio and floppy romaine, and sweet little green lettuces.
We also got some more leeks and I'm determined to try the Leek Tart again to see if the "dirt" taste comes back.
re: oakjoan
Turning green with envy at multiple mentions of oakjoan's CSA box.
Thanks for the chicken report. Pathetic, but true, our favorite chicken is a modified beer can chicken recipe, though we've long evolved from using a beer can to some special contraption. The skin doesn't turn out very nice, but the bird is fantastically moist every time. Can't seem to switch away from that, but know I should experiment with others.
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Harters may not be your man!
I also use the usually reliable Delia Smith (Brits will understand that her current TV programme makes me choke on using her name at present - as said by someone on e-gullet - "she's a witch, burn her".)
St Delia recommends same temperature, same amount of liquid, same cooking time as Hopkinson. The only possible difference is that she suggests cooking it first on one side, for 30 minutes, leg down, if you see what I mean. Then turn it over to the other leg for 30 minutes.
Makes for a nicely cooked breast. Legs are overcooked though - but there's not too much meat on them so I'm not really bothered. I regard them as "cook's treat" to pick at in the kitchen.
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"Isn't all pheasant free-range?"
Yeah, now we'll have some post about the gigantic feedlots with millions of pheasants in small cages in Iowa or Kansas!
PS: Harters. What did "St. Delia" do, fgawdsake?
It's weird how we accept or reject tv chefs. The ones I like I'll forgive almost anything, the ones I hate...well, they stay hated.
Eg, I love the manic and overly cute Jamie Oliver and HATE Paula Dean. I can't bear to watch her and see her as a complete phony. Double standard? Of course!
re: oakjoan
Delia Smith has been teaching Brits to cook "proper food" for 30+ years. So much so, that "Delia" now appears in the dictionary as in "to do a Delia" or to describe a recipe simply as "it's one of Delia's'".
You'll see from this link to Media that the "taste and decency" rules of a moderated board have prevented me and others from, erm, fully expressing ourselves.
re: oakjoan
Actually, my husband "hunts" at a local hunt club here in Michigan occasionally and they raise their pheasants in pens. When they set them out in the fields, they hardly move and don't fly very far.That way the "hunters" can shoot them easier. He much prefers hunting wild grouse in the woods up north.
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Poulet saute au vinaigre
Like everyone else who's made this, I was pleased with this dish. The sauce was sensational, but I think I may have overcooked the chicken slightly. I used a French Poulet de Bresse, which may have been a bit more robust than a regular chicken. I may also be overcritical - my guests loved it and mopped up every last bit of the sauce.
I didn't want to use my best wine vinegar (Forum - costs a fortune), so used some red balsamic that I had as I'd run out of regular red wine vinegar. Turned out pretty well.
Roast Chicken, p. 28
Well, the first recipe I had to try was the roast chicken! Overall, Hopkinson's version was delicious, flavorful, and moist for me. I will definitely add this to my roast chicken repertoire among the Zuni and Marcella methods. I will use this method when I want a sauce and the nutty richness of butter.
I couldn't fathom using a whole stick of butter so I used half a stick (2 oz. of Plugra) instead which was plenty IMO. I also pre-seasoned the bird w/ S&P a day ahead. My 4 lb. bird was done (based on the shaking leg method) in about 65 min. I roasted in a shallow sheet pan and roasted my veggies in a separate pan. The best technique/tip that I picked up from this recipe was his suggestion to carve the bird directly in the roasting pan and collect all the juices for the sauce. The sauce was really delicious w/ the aromatics, chicken juices, and butter all mingling. While the skin puffed up and browned beautifully, it was not crispy like Zuni but had a wonderful nutty flavor from the butter.
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re: MMRuth
Please do try it again soon! My experience is that while butter adds a wonderful flavor, keeps the bird moist, and enhances the golden color, it can almost steam the skin, leaving it limp and/or leathery. While the top got really brown, the underside was fairly pale (as you can see from the thigh pieces). Zuni gives the crispiest skin, but this method resulted in a bird that was more moist and juicy. And the skin was still pretty darn tasty...
re: Carb Lover
Well, you inspired me to make it again last night. I too had a v. difficult time (manually) putting a whole stick of butter on my chicken, though it wasn't quite at room temperature. So, with some effort, I also applied half a stick. I stuffed it with the squeezed lemon halves, garlic and some thyme and tarragon. I cooked the 4.33 pound Bell & Evans chicken for 15 on the high temperature, then 40 at the lower, and 10 minutes "resting" in the turned off oven. I also checked for "doneness" using the wiggle method. I agree with you, the meat was incredibly moist, and I could taste the lemon and herbs, but the skin, though puffed up and crispy when I checked it before resting, was of less than ideal crispiness at serving time. The breast meat really had a wonderful consistency. I served it with some sauteed cabbage/bacon/red onion/time and a plum chutney that a friend of mine makes.
Edit: I think the black spots on the chicken come from the not, um, perfectly scoured cazuela I used to roast this in. And the jus was delicious.


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The one thing that is interesting to me though is that mcdonalds thing. If a person was to steal food without paying. They would be citated, maybe arrested. However if mcdonalds takes your money and doesn't give you what you paid, you have no criminal grounds only civil. Unless. it coulb be proven they were doing it to a lot of people all the time (which the police) probably wouldn't even investigate.
This is a huge problem because not only do companies dicate government policy over people, but legal as well. So they enjoy more rights than us. So next time you pass a business bow..
Contacted Mac P.D. Right away using Ycom's #. They insisted no officer would come out, and that I would need to go down and file a police report.
Just because you call the police. don't mean you'll get any help.
my house was broken into, i thought the intruder was still in the house - it took about 25 minutes for help to arrive.....but since i was already out of the house i didn't continue to call 911 repeatedly.
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Wamp is in a three way race for the GOP nomination to run for governor of Tennessee. Neither of his opponents agreed with his musings about trying to destroy the United States. Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey told Hotline that Wamp has an "over-the-top temperament and overheated, sometimes crazy rhetoric." Crazy indeed.
Incredibly, Wamp's not even the first pol to nose around secession. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who Wamp approvingly cites, talked in the spring of 2009 about leaving the union. (And despite what popular myth would have you believe, Texas doesn't have a special right to secede.)
And then of course there's Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell who earlier this year celebrated "Confederate History Month." Never mind that the Confederacy was a treasonous attempt to destroy the country, and arguably the greatest existential threat the nation has ever seen. Why do these GOP pols hate America so?
Wamp is one of the few remaining members of the GOP Class of 1994 who hasn't been drummed from public life because of scandal, or voter dissatisfaction. Maybe Tennessee's August 5 primary will consign Wamp to political history as well.
Update: Wamp walks back the secession talk.


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Oliver Sacks' new book considers hallucinations, including his own
Published: January 2, 2013
Oliver Sacks is one of the great scientific writers of our time. The author of neurological case studies like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings (which was also made into a film starring Robin Williams), Sacks turns the brain's glitches into high literature. He recently published Hallucinations (Knopf), which, in addition to offering an encyclopedic discussion of the varieties of hallucination, details his own shockingly extensive experimentation with drugs. In the 1960s, Sacks smoked pot, shot morphine and took LSD, morning glory seeds, and massive amounts of amphetamines. During one acid trip, he wondered what true indigo looked like and hallucinated the "pure" color; later, on a weekend-long speed bender, he read the work of the great 19th-century neurologist Edward Liveing and began to think he was Liveing: "At times I was unsure whether I was reading the book or writing it. I felt myself in the Dickensian London of the 1860s and '70s. I loved Liveing's humanity and social sensitivity." He got over the identity confusion, then began to wonder who could be the Liveing of the 1960s until he heard a very loud voice say, "You silly bugger! You're the man!" Previously, he had come down from his trips feeling like "I had made a crazy ascent into the stratosphere but had come back empty-handed." This time, however, he retained his insight. "Then, bit by bit, I started to write my own book. The joy I got from doing this was real — infinitely more substantial than the vapid mania of amphetamines — and I never took amphetamines again." We were happy to have the chance to talk with Dr. Sacks about these experiences.
Metro Times: With your new book Hallucinations, I was wondering what, at this point in your life, made you feel that it was important to go back and talk about your more youthful experiences using drugs and that sort of hallucination.
Oliver Sacks: First I should say that that scandalous Chapter 6 was not envisaged originally as part of the book. The book was basically going to be on my clinical experience, seeing people with migraines or impaired vision or Parkinson's or whatever and their hallucinations. And this is a subject that has interested me for a very long while: I wrote about musical hallucinations in Musicophilia and back, in fact, in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. But it seemed to me time to have a go at bringing the whole subject together. For myself, I've never hesitated to regard myself as a clinical subject like my patients. Here, I had a variety of experiences and they were a long time ago and I can think of them in tranquility and recollect and, as an insider I can add things that wouldn't be evident as an outsider. I can say how indigo seemed to me, for example.
MT: In the climax of that chapter — when you're on the speed trip and you are trying to find out who is going to write like Liveing and you realize that it's you — you quit taking drugs and start writing. So that was obviously a transitional moment in your life. Do you feel like you've lived up to what you expected or done what you wanted at that moment?
Sacks: The only ambitions there were to write a book on migraine. I like to think that my book did live up to the 1860-ish book, which I like so much. Whether drugs played an essential role in that transition, I don't know and I'm actually inclined to doubt [it]. I like to think I'd been turned on already by seeing these patients and the idea of writing a book about them would have come to me anyhow. But it came in a slightly explosive and most likely manic form on the amphetamine. I can't say whether the rest of my life has lived up to things. I never had any expectations. I find myself surprised pleasantly and unpleasantly all the while.
MT: Reading about all of the neurological disorders in your books, one thinks: This could happen to any of us. It's almost scary. Having suffered migraines yourself, do you ever have this kind of fear?
Sacks: Since you mention it, I only get visual migraines, and I had one last night, after the sensory overload of The Book of Mormon, which I think is brilliant and funny and joyous but which, for me, has unbearable acoustic intensity and brilliance of light, and I think my poor brain had a migraine in reaction to that. When Awakenings was published, people said it shows one what a knife-edge we live on. But although anything can happen at any time, mostly it doesn't. And I think, in the end, we don't live on a knife-edge when we are younger and healthier. As one grows older, one grows frailer in every way. I started to write an essay about frailty. But, yes, combining neurology with hypochondria can be a fearful mixture. I've had my fear of dreadful fantasies, and if they get too oppressive, I go see a colleague and really get reassured that nothing too much is the matter.
MT: There is such a sense of clinical rigor and also human warmth and concern in your writing, like you saw in Liveing. Do you feel that this sense has become more prominent or that there has been a greater growth of detached treatment and statistics.
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The best reason to work for Countrywide is that it is now a part of Bank of America (in 5 reviews)
A lot of the people who work for the company are nice and intelligent (in 3 reviews)
Also, work life balance is a non-idea at Countrywide (in 5 reviews)
You have to be willing to work very hard with no one seeming to notice (in 4 reviews)
Pros – good co workers good benefits
Cons – sweat shop, bankrupt bankrupt bankrupt bankrupt bankrupt
Advice to Senior Management – less management
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company
"The Worst Job I Ever Had!"
Pros – Met some nice co-workers that I've remained friends with.
Cons – Worked Holidays and never received doubletime. We were paid hourly. Management would tell you you could take a day off another time to make up for the extra day. It was a payroll nightmare.
Advice to Senior Management – The only people that made money here were people in top management; otherwise, you are used for the most part.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
Pros – Once BofA Purchased (errrr saved) the company, I could pretty much do whatever I wanted too during the transition. Decent manager, but couldn't answer tough questions
Cons – This place was poisen from the time I walked through the door. The only reason why I even accepted was the market was in the tanks and it was the best option at the time. Sr. leadership was a joke made up of diciples of Angelo Mozilo (ie. the Orange Man).
Advice to Senior Management – B of A folks weren't much better, they just have deep enough pockets. My advice, don't think becasue someone is a Black Belt in Six Sigma, they have any clue what they are doing. Some of the biggests fools I've ever met had a black belt.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
"Countrywide is not a good company to work for or be a customer of"
Pros – If your homeless, its winter-time and you live in a cold climate. If unable to get government assistance than I would recommend you try getting a job at countrywide.
Cons – Countrywide does not pay a living wage and has nothing but contempted for it employees, who get treated even worse than the customers.
Advice to Senior Management – You should all quit
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
"Hopefully now that Ken Lewis is running the show things will be better"
Pros – The pay was hard to beat elsewhere
Cons – In order to earn that much money you had to trade the rest of you life outside of work. My family almost forgot who I was because I was working so much.
Advice to Senior Management – Senior management is the primary reason this company is now part of Bank of America. So the advice I would give them is good luck in retirement.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
"Worst Job in the Nation!"
Pros – There really is not a lot of good reasons to work for Countrywide. They used to have superior health benefits but for the past several years they have been scaling back and requiring the employee's to pay more out-of-pocket. Their insurance really isn't all that good any longer. I guess the best reason to work for me to work at Countrywide was that it was 15 minutes from my house.
Cons – They are a very reactive not proactive company. Half the time is spent putting out wild fires for management rather than being productive in your job.
Management is VERY prone to take credit for employee's work, it is a very dog-eat-dog environment. I have also seen that the abvility to move up in the company is somewhat based on how well the employee can "kiss up" and not based on knowledge or hard work.
Countrywide also tends to hire nonprofessional individuals which creates a nonprofessional atmosphere.
Advice to Senior Management – Having had the opportunity to work in three separate division during my career at Countrywide, I found that Senior Management is not involved enough with the work that is really going on. They are more concerned with covering mistakes they've made and having everyone work around the clock for insignificant reasons. With these inefficiencies, it causes more critical errors that has been in the long run the demise of Countrywide Financial Corp.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
"Countrywide is a terrible place to work."
Pros – You could put in a lot of overtime.
In fact, it was required!
Cons – Management in my department were prejudiced against you if you were not Hispanic . . . . they would talk about you in Spanish and laugh making it obvious which employee they were belittling.
They belittled employees instead of encouraging them to do better. And they made sure other employees heard.
High turnover as we all found jobs with companies that treated their employees like people.
They made promises about advancement but never followed through.
Advice to Senior Management – They brought the ghetto from California to run the Tempe Landsafe offices. BIG mistake. They have no respect for the employees and the employees leave taking all the training and knowledge with them.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
"Working there could easily turn out to be the worst decision you could make"
Pros – Pay, selection of jobs to choose from, various job sectors
Cons – Working environment, reputation, policies, management,
Advice to Senior Management – The attitude of this company seems to start with the top (Angel Mozilo), and they should (and I believe will) totally revamp and start over
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
"It Deserved to Fail"
Pros – In certain divisions, there used to be a lot of growth and promotion opportunity. Compensation was very uneven, but some people were paid extremely well, especially relative to their skillset and contribution.
Cons – Too many to enumerate. Across the board, the physical and social environment is very uncomfortable. Social conversation is discouraged, and there is extremely little privacy, so it is difficult to form strong working relationships. There is a serious lack of ability and failure to manage people.
Advice to Senior Management – Put people first. Take a semester-long ethics class. Get rid of the 3 foot tall cubicles.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
"scheduled breaks - "what time do you pee?""
Pros – benefits if you can stand to stay long enough to qualify for them.
Cons – micromanagement and lack of respect for employees - no one in my department smiles or seems happy to be doing their jobs. we are supposed to be in the business of helping people and no one cares because they are so miserably controlled by management and the Aspect time management system nightmare. even long term employees are unhappy with this department and most are unhappy with the departments they came from. not a good recommendation.
Advice to Senior Management – 1. get people off of the Aspect time micromanagement system. you are turning everyone into clock watchers who are afraid of non-compliance for missing their pathetic 10 minute scheduled break. it interferes with a normal natural work flow.
2. give us casual fridays. what is the big deal? we don't have face to face interaction with our customers.
3. don't make employees, especially new employees you recruited because you disparately need them, feel like you don't trust them at all.
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