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OK, we'll admit it – here at Car Showroom, we do love our high-performance V8s. There isn't one person in the automotive industry who deep down doesn't enjoy the neck-stretching exhilaration of a V8 revving hard.
So if you take the Commodore SS and add some muscly Pontiac looks … well, you've got our attention.
What You Get
Here's the deal: Holden has been supplying modified SS Commodores to General Motors in America badged as Pontiacs. Commodore fans have stared lovingly at the hot Pontiac looks – in particular the twin nostril front end – so 'hey presto' here's the Commodore SS V-Series Special Edition.
In GM-Holden 'corporate speak' it's probably not as simple as that, but after a week behind the wheel of a 'Red Hot' (that's the actual name of the paint colour!) SS V-Series Special Edition, we can see why those American dudes have welcomed this car 'Stateside'.
The high-tech V8, six-speed manual transmission, bold 19-inch alloy wheels, leather trim – and those Pontiac-inspired looks – add up to performance car muscle in anyone's language.
Under The Hood
While automatic versions of the SS score the 6.0-litre V8 with Holden's Active Fuel Management (AFM), the manual version as tested by Car Showroom gets the standard 6.0-litre Gen. 4 alloy V8 with 270Kw at 5700rpm and peak torque of 530Nm at 4400rpm.
With combined cycle fuel consumption of 13.9l/100km and CO2 emissions of 327g/km, the SS rates 2.5 stars on the Federal Government's Green Vehicle Guide.
Drive is to the rear wheels via Holden's six-speed manual transmission.
While the limited slip differential is optional (packaged with the firmer sports suspension), the driver aids list is still impressive: Electronic Stability Control (ESC), ABS anti-lock brakes with Electronic Brakeforce Distribution (EBD), and Electronic Brake Assist (EBA) and Traction Control (TCS).
Call us 'patriots' but we maintain this is one of the world's high performance V8 drive trains.
The Interior
Every time we climb into a high performance Commodore (or Falcon equivalent) we're reminded how talented our local automotive stylists are. The SS successfully combines large sedan space with a sporty feel and nice luxury.
The leather seats are supportive and the four-way electronic adjustment of the driver's seat plus rake/reach adjustment for the thick, leather-wrapped steering wheel ensures a great driving position.
The alloy-faced pedals and orange SS instrumentation provide extra sporty touches. Dials are the conventional twin arrangement with trip computer information displayed on a rectangular screen mounted between the speedometer and rev counter.
SS models also gain an extra display in the centre of the dashboard with oil pressure and oil temperature gauges.
Center console sees the 6.5-inch multi-function screen for the climate control air-conditioning and audio system (six-disc CD with Bluetooth/MP3 compatibility and auxiliary input jack). You operate all of that via steering wheel buttons and dials.
The rear seat is massive (that's what separates the local large sedans from imported rivals).
Exterior & Styling
It's really the twin-nostril front-end and 'letter-box' bonnet scoops that visually distinguish the V-Series Special Edition from other SS models.
And what a difference that front end makes!
Sure its muscly and delivers significant on-road presence, but we reckon it gives the VE Commodore a totally new look that actually makes it more balanced (not that there's anything wrong with the standard VE).
There are also unique front fog lights, a rear decklid spoiler and some extra chrome around the boot and window surrounds.
The SS V-Series Special Edition runs Holden's nicely styled five-spoke 19-inch alloy wheels.
And the clear glass headlights and taillights look superb.
On The Road
As with other high performance Commodores and Falcons, the SS V-Series Special Edition evenly divided the Car Showroom team.
On one side, the female members complained about the heavy clutch pedal and gear lever and worked hard to park the red rocket (with its 11.4-metre turning circle) in our city car park.
The blokes countered with: "Well it's a 270kW/530Nm V8 with a six-speed manual, so it needs that hefty clutch and gearbox to handle all that performance."
One thing is certain – get out onto our twisty mountain road test route and the SS V-Series Special Edition delivers exhilaration with a capital 'E'.
The 6.0-litre V8 revs strongly all the way to its 5700rpm redline – with a superb audio track from the quad exhausts. And that six-speeder does need patience and a firm hand to select the right cog, but once you're dialed in, this is as good as it gets for high performance V8 sedans.
Holden's highly developed independent front/multi-link rear suspension keeps everything tied-down, even over mid-corner bumps and the assorted undulations Aussie secondary roads throw at you. That's especially impressive given the SS V-Series Special Edition's 1778kg kerb weight.
Sharp turn-in, nice mid-corner balance and strong acceleration delivers an all-round outstanding drive.
Equally impressive is the low NVH and comfortable ride – even over rough surfaces the SS kept driver and passengers nicely isolated.
This is a large sedan with a high boot line and decklid spoiler -- a standard reversing camera would be a real plus for safety and convenience.
And we like Ford's steering wheel button cruise control operation better than Holden's stalk.
Good as the standard SS is, the V-Series Special Edition just looks so good with that wicked front-end. It's not cheap, but this is a world class, value-for-money high performance V8 sedan.
The Competition
The trouble for the SS V-Series Special Edition is its price tag, which is well and truly into HSV-FPV territory.
Overlooking that complication, you should check-out Ford's XR8 as the Blue Oval's FG model Falcon is brilliant.
It's all about the looks baby!
Small price differential to HSV, needs a reversing camera (and sat nav) at this price


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Alanna's Deviled Eggs
Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:49:00 GMT —
6 hard-cooked eggs, cooled and shelled
3 T. mayonnaise or sour cream
2 t. or so of Dijon mustard (or about 1 t. of dry mustard)
1 ½ t. vinegar or pickle juice
½ t. salt
Freshly ground pepper
1 T. chopped fresh herbs
Pinch of curry powder
Dash of cayenne pepper or hot sauce (optionalâ??to taste)
Paprika (regular or smoked)
Sliced olives (pimento-stuffed green ones and/or black olives)
Thinly sliced strips of bell pepper or canned pimento
Sprigs of herbs like parsley
Bacon bits
Tiny salad shrimp
To hard-cook the eggs: place in a medium-sized saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring the water to a low boil on high heat, then remove the pan from the heat immediately and cover it. Let the eggs sit in the hot water for 15 minutes. Drain off the hot water and run cold water over the eggs to stop their cooking. Gently crack the shells and peel the eggs carefully under cold running water. Eggs peel best if theyâ??re a couple of days old, by the way.
Cut the hard-cooked eggs in half, either longways or crossways. If you choose crossways, also cut a tiny sliver of white off the bottom of each piece so it wonâ??t topple over. Pop the yolks carefully out of the whites and mash the yolks thoroughly with a fork. If the yolks seem lumpy, put them through a medium sieve. Mix in the mayonnaise or sour cream, mustard, vinegar, salt, pepper, herbs, curry powder, and cayenne or hot sauce. Feel free to be creative with seasonings: cumin is also nice, instead of the curry powder, and some folks add finely chopped onions too. If you donâ??t like heat, leave out the cayenne or hot sauce. Adjust the yolk mixture as needed: if itâ??s too dry, add a bit more mayonnaise but donâ??t let the texture get too soupy. If it does get too liquid, add a couple more mashed hard-cooked yolks.
Either spoon or pipe the yolk mixture into the whites and start decorating! The classic finish is just a quick dash of paprika for color, but you can jazz up that presentation by using smoked paprika. Other toppings might include sliced green or black olives, bell pepper strips (or canned pimento pieces), herb sprigs, bacon bits, or for a fancy occasion, little salad shrimp or even caviar. Keep the deviled eggs refrigerated till service

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Michael Kearns and Ron Solomon
5.0 out of 5 stars TRUTH About Treason, Torture, and More, July 21, 2015
This book nails the reality of torture as both deeply pathological and unproductive. However it goes much further, and shows just how out of control our country is, where 70% of the secret budget is spent on contractors without a clue and without ethics. As Americans contemplate the future, Broken! is a helpful overview of just what "out of control" can mean, not only abroad, but right here at home where internment camps actually exist 'in waiting.'


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The top 7 vegan donuts in Toronto
The top vegan donuts in Toronto will help quash your sugar cravings without the help of dairy, eggs or milk. Whether you're in the mood for a classic chocolate dip or want something a little more interesting (rose pistachio, perhaps?) these eateries have got you covered.
Here are my picks for the top vegan donuts in Toronto.
Glory Hole Doughnuts
Glory Hole is known to have the best donuts in the city, so it should come as no surprise that they made this list. While majority of its confections involve a dairy product or two, they offer a few vegan options for those who steer clear of butter, cream and eggs. There's a revolving roster of flavours, so you may want to call ahead if you're picky.
Apiecalypse Now!
Apiecalypse Now! has definitely excelled in the world of vegan pizza and its donuts aren't too shabby, either. You'll find a rotating selection of sweet treats that includes mini boston creams, red velvet and cookie fudge peanut bombs.
Through Being Cool Baking Co.
This Bloordale Village bake shop is known for crafting some pretty killer vegan eats - scones, whoopie pies and mac and cheese are all favourites. Its donuts, however, take the cake for best in shop. You'll find the display case stacked with everything from chocolate to sprinkle-topped pastries that are all extremely Instagrammable.
Tori's Bakeshop
This Beaches gem is well-loved by vegans and non-vegans alike for its array of natural baked goods. The menu is not set in stone, so you can't always count on seeing a favourite donut on display (this isn't too much of a loss, since all flavours are pretty kick-ass). Many options are gluten and soy free, which is good news for wheatless eaters.
If you want a donut from Bunner's, you'll have to make the pilgrimage to the Junction on Saturday morning (this is the only time and place they're guaranteed). It may be a trek if you're an east ender, but its chocolate and sprinkle topped offerings are well worth the journey. Once in a blue moon donuts will pop up at the Kensington location, so keep your eye out if you're in the area.
Von Doughnuts
Like Glory Hole, Von Doughnuts caters mainly to non-vegan donut lovers. The Danforth bakery offers one lone vegan flavour, served only on Saturday. However, this is a case of quality over quantity. The vanilla bean cake donut topped with a chocolate drizzle can satisfy just about any sweet tooth.
You'll find the display case at Bloomer's stacked with more than just your standard glazed pastries. It's known to bake wild blueberry, rose pistachio, peppermint mocha and pumpkin spice donuts, making it a favourite of those with more sophisticated palates.
What did I miss? Add your favourite vegan donuts to the comments.
Photo of Through Being Cool Baking Co. by Jesse Milns.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Duke City Boxer Scores Decision
ISLETA PUEBLO — Albuquerque boxer Archie Ray Marquez, surviving a fourth-round knockdown, pounded out a victory by unanimous decision over Mexico's Noe Lopez Jr. in an eight-round bout Saturday night at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
Marquez, who weighed 135.2 pounds, improved his record to 13-2 with eight knockouts and snapped a two-bout losing streak in his first bout under the tutelage of trainer Johnny Tapia.
Lopez, who was dropped by a short Marquez right in the first round, is 9-11 with five KOs. A crowd estimated at 1,800 attended the show, promoted by Tapia and his wife, Teresa.
Marquez, taller yet also stronger and bigger-bodied, had his greatest success in trapping Lopez in the corners.
"I could have thrown more punches and been more dominant," Marquez said, "but I put a lot of pressure on him, cut off the ring. I felt pretty good."
But in the fourth, Lopez caught Marquez in a corner and dropped him with a flurry. A seemingly dazed Marquez was perhaps fortunate the knockdown came with just seconds left in the round.
"He caught me with a good little punch, but I wasn't seriously (hurt)," Marquez said. "He caught me in the back of the head."
Tapia, a five-time world champion, was proud that Marquez kept his poise after the knockdown.
"There aren't too many fighters that can get dropped and get back up," Tapia said. "But Archie did. I had him in great shape."
A somewhat hesitant Marquez might have lost the fifth round, but re-asserted himself in the sixth and beyond — though Lopez continued to score with hard and accurate shots.
The official judges' cards read 76-74, 77-73 and 78-73, all for Marquez.
The Journal scored the fight 76-74 for Marquez.
In a six-round co-feature, Josh "Pit Bull" Torres scored a devastating, second-round knockout of fellow Albuquerquean Carlos Sanchez.
The Tapia-trained Torres (7-1, four KOs), 149.8 pounds, dropped the strong-chinned Sanchez (4-4-1, one KO), 152 pounds, in the first. But in the second, flashing skills and quickness reminiscent of a young Tapia, he ended the fight with a left hook that dropped Sanchez like a stone and brought a towel of surrender flying from the Sanchez corner.
"It was all there," Torres said afterward. "We've been working hard, and (Tapia's tutelage) is rubbing off on me.
"I'm a hundred percent faster, a hundred percent better."
An eight-round co-feature between Santa Fe's Joaquin Zamora (18-4-1, 12 KOs) and Joshua Marks (8-3, eight KOs) was canceled because Marks never showed up. All attempts to reach Marks, said Team Tapia media spokesman Dennis Latta, were unsuccessful.
In other bouts:
⋄ Albuquerque's Luís Montaño, 113.8 pounds, made a successful pro debut with a unanimous, four-round decision over Los Lunas' Matthew Salazar (1-5-1), 116.6.
⋄ Albuquerque's Nazareth Rojas (6-5-1, two KOs) defeated Belen's Jeremiah Torres (7-17, one KO) by unanimous decision in an entertaining four-rounder.
⋄ St. Louis' Derrick Murray (3-0, two knockouts), 127 pounds, stopped Socorro's Miguel Armendariz (0-7-1), 126.4, by second-round TKO.
Montaño hadn't fought in more than a year, and the inactivity showed in the first round of his bout with Salazar. The 20-year-old Montaño caught several hard shots, but gradually took control in successive rounds.
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College Football: Ridgewater Football Week 7 Preview
Rochester Overview
Rochester has never been so air-worthy as this fall. With three freshmen quarterbacks sharing the snaps, the Jackets cruise at an altitude of 364 yards per game compared to a meager 52 yards per game on the tarmac. Earl Young (63-120-918, 8 tds), Kevin Monkam (34-48-509, 5 tds) and Josh Valla 64-105-735, 5 tds) keep the opposing secondary hopping. Those 18 TDS and 2,494 air yards came with 12 interceptions. Central Lakes managed to bring down "Air Rochester" in Week 4, 31-23. The Raiders, Jackets and Warriors are each 5-1 and all headed to the postseason under the new eight-team playoff format. Ridgewater needs a win today or next Saturday back home against Central Lakes to get home-field advantage in the quarterfinals.
Ridgewater Overview
Last Saturday evening's game at Hodapp Field drew another good turnout in the stands, though less than homecoming. Unfortunately, a few Warriors lost their cool when the game went badly returning to the bench cussing loud enough for many to hear. Coach Rob Baumgarn made the entire team pay with extra sprints on Monday. From now on, such outbursts will mean immediate exile from the game, the coach said this week. The Warriors will need to be more clinical and less emotional to bring down the Rochester flying club. The line and linebackers will need to bring pressure on the quarterback and the secondary will have to be sharp throughout. "The idea is to not give up the big play but if we do we can't hang our heads; we have to bounce right back," said Baumgarn. The defense wasn't the problem last week in the 20-12 loss to Fond du Lac. The Thunder did put up three touchdowns but the Ridge defense has allowed just 60 points, an average of 10 points per game. The offense had a couple of long drives but posted just two scores and could not get anything done at crunch time. The rushing game remains the bread-and-butter. Baumgarn said sophomore center Michael Shultz (Chatfield) and freshman left tackle Daniel Stuewe (Cologne) have been exceptionally reliable providing pass protection and creating space for the running backs, especially Martell Baker (89-470, 5.3 per carry). At 280-pounds Aaron Kerkow (Jordan) is also doing a nice job rotating with 240-pound Cody Rosenau (Lester Prairie) when more heft is needed on the line. The Warriors loss dropped them from No. 1 in the MCAC rankings to No. 4 this week.
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California Heartland Episode 908 Transcript
California Heartland is made possible by The James G. Boswell Foundation, committed to sharing the stories and successes of California growers. Bank of America, bank of opportunity. Funding provided in part by, The California Farm Bureau Federation, proud publishers of "California Country" magazine. More information is available at www.californiacountry.org .
Coming up on California Heartland…
I had poor soil, I had very little space and I'm thinking, you can't grow a diet on a fraction of an acreage in the city.
Meet the Pasadena family whose path to healthy living transformed their yard into a successful urban farm
Looking at the gardens now, they almost look like they did over a hundred years ago.
Visit a garden as notorious as the criminals who planted it! It's the softer side of the rock, in full bloom at Alcatraz!
Trees can do it all. They add value to your home, they lower your electric costs.
Plus, why planting a tree on one side of your yard can save you hundreds of dollars.
Chris Burrous: From your backyard, to the back country, in a field, or on your family table, it's all about what keeps California moving and growing, this is California Heartland.
Jules Dervaes: This is the tool of choice, labor intensive but I don't consider it work.
Jennifer Quinonez: His own two hands in the soil, that's the way Jules Dervaes likes it. Feeling the crop he's created on land no one thought was farmable, except for him.
Jules Dervaes: My tool is a trowel. That doesn't take up much space and my feet walk down between the beds and the front yard and you don't need that much space.
Jennifer Quinonez: Space or lack there of, is the challenge for Dervaes because he lives on a residential street with no room to grow, a mile from the busy streets and freeways of Pasadena.
Jennifer Quinonez: This city farmer is now doing the unusual. He's making a living off of his garden and turning his small suburban lawn into to a lush cornucopia.
Jules Dervaes: When I started this project it was basically for me a hobby. But, I got serious about it when the genetically modified foods came out. Plus, the food in Pasadena was costing a lot.
Anais Dervaes: Hey Jordie, here come the greens. Duck duck duck!!
Jennifer Quinonez: For the last eight years, Dervaes and his three children, Anais, Justin and Jordan have challenged themselves to produce an abundance of food on one-tenth of an acre.
Anais Dervaes: So far we've produced annually 6,000 pounds, or 3 tons of food. And this year we're challenging ourselves to grow 10,000, "grow for 10" we're calling it and we're trying to get 10,000 on our little urban farm here.
Jennifer Quinonez: That's right, three tons of food created on less than an acre. To do this, both the front and backyards are used to grow 350 varieties of organic fruits and vegetables which the family sells to restaurants and catering companies.
Jules Dervaes: I never thought we'd have a surplus. It was nice enough to feed your family, but when it kicks in we were amazed at how much we produced here. We could actually make money in the city as farmers, which is an amazing feat to think you could be farming in the city on micro-acreage.
Jennifer Quinonez: To some this is just a micro-farm, but Jules claims this is a homegrown revolution and dubs him and his family, "eco-pioneers." They even call what they do on the farm, "a path to freedom" because his family is taking strides towards self-sufficiency.
Anais Dervaes: So, you're going to get the eggs then?
Jordan Dervaes: Yeah, I am gonna' get the eggs.
Jordan Dervaes: My dad's my inspiration; he's somebody I really would love to follow in his foot steps because he's made quite a difference. I thank him everyday for what he's done for me as a child. This is not something my father told me to do; he put me on the right path.
Jennifer Quinonez: That path led them to find new techniques to fit into their lifestyle, like creating bio-diesel for their pick up truck.
Justin Dervaes: We drive less than 4,000 miles a year, so we use 30 gallons a month. So, that's all I have to make.
Jennifer Quinonez: But turning around their under used, urban space was plagued with problems.
Jules Dervaes: I looked at what I had. What I had scared me. I had poor soil, I had very little space and I'm thinking, you can't grow a diet on a fraction of an acreage in the city. The location was in the midst of a city and I just couldn't believe I could do that. But I was determined that I should give it a good try.
Justin Dervaes: I thank my dad; he did the front yard back in the 90's. He mulched it and I guess we thought he was a little nuts, but now I love what I'm doing and I hope I'm doing this the rest of my life.
Jennifer Quinonez: Dervaes says looking back at previous generations has helped him become a smarter farmer.
Jules Dervaes: This is changing my attitude of how much you can grow in such a little space. There are techniques that you forget about, that people had kitchen gardens forever, food outside your backdoor. We can't grow wheat fields but we can but a dent in our food bill by growing as many fruits and veggies as we can.
Anais Dervaes: We feel empowered to know that with these two hands, we can make a life here on this earth. And we were put her to be stewards, so in a sense it's our responsibility.
Jennifer Quinonez: For these urbanites, their path to freedom has begun. And for the proud father leading the way, making his organic oasis in the city is the best way to ensure a better tomorrow.
Jules Dervaes: When you do something worthwhile and you're on a mission, if you challenge yourself, the good works and good actions will come out and be evident. Then change will happen all over.
Chris Burrous: Did you know that the cornish game hen was developed back in the late 1950's?
Chris Burrous: The young chicken is the result of a crossbreeding with various other chickens.
Chris Burrous: They're mostly white meat and weigh less than 2 pounds. Not only do the hens taste great, they're healthy too. Each hen is loaded with 51 grams of protein and has only 295 calories.
Chris Burrous: Food and lifestyle expert Laura McIntosh serves up a delicious stuffed cornish game hen with a guest chef from hawks restaurant.
Laura McIntosh: Well thanks everyone for joining us back, Michael is up next. He is going to cook a great recipe, cornish game hen. We like to do a lot with birds, but this is actually a cornish game hen.
Michael Fagnoni: It is.
Laura McIntosh: Okay.
Laura McIntosh: To start this recipe Michael, what do we do?
Michael Fagnoni: Well, we're going to start by hitting up some olive oil.
Laura McIntosh: Turn up the fire a little bit, we got to turn up the heat, we're cookin'!
Michael Fagnoni: That's right.
Michael Fagnoni: And we're gonna' start by adding some garlic.
Laura McIntosh: Okay. And we love garlic, garlic is flavor.
Michael Fagnoni: So I'm just going to get that going real quick, and we're just going to add the rest of our ingredients. Some nice chopped onion.
Laura McIntosh: Okay, now this is, actually you guys, this is a stuffed…
Michael Fagnoni: A stuffed cornish game hen, yep. We're making a walnut bread stuffing.
Laura McIntosh: Yeah, I like that a walnut bread stuffing.
Michael Fagnoni: And right now, we're sweating out the aromatic ingredients.
Laura McIntosh: And sweating it, we don't want to caramelize it or brown it. We just want to sweat it, correct?
Michael Fagnoni: That's right; we want to cook it with no color.
Laura McIntosh: Cook it with no color, ok.
Michael Fagnoni: Okay and we'll add our celery. I'll get you a little salt and pepper here.
Laura McIntosh: Okay and do you always add salt and pepper as you go Michael?
Michael Fagnoni: Yeah we like to season in layers, so everything is nice and even when you're done.
Laura McIntosh: Okay great.
Michael Fagnoni: Okay so we'll let that cook for about five minutes. Um, on a nice low heat and then we're gonna' add our croutons. And so to that, we're gonna' add a little bit of chicken stock. We just want to moisten it, we don't want everything to get soggy, we want it to be nice and moist.
Laura McIntosh: Well it smells delicious so far.
Michael Fagnoni: We're gonna' let this cook for about five minutes or so.
Laura McIntosh: Okay, so that's our stuffing, correct?
Michael Fagnoni: That's right. So, we'll come over to our bird and let me just put on a glove real quick.
Laura McIntosh: Oh yes, you really do need to be carful in the kitchen, wear your gloves. Or, if you're doing this at home wash your hands guys, make sure you're washing those hands.
Laura McIntosh: Tell me when.
Michael Fagnoni: That looks good, this will ensure that we get a nice crispy skin. Put a little oil on it.
Laura McIntosh: A little pepper?
Michael Fagnoni: Just grind a little bit of pepper.
Laura McIntosh: I like lots of pepper, I probably shouldn't but okay.
Michael Fagnoni: A little bit of salt.
Laura McIntosh: Wha-la, you get to do the honors.
Michael Fagnoni: Alrighty, if you would just put that down.
Laura McIntosh: Yeah, you get to stuff.
Michael Fagnoni: I don't see a problem with that.
Laura McIntosh: Okay good, so we stuffed that and put in the oven. We're putting this in the oven for…
Michael Fagnoni: About 35 minutes. We'll start it at 400 degrees and then we'll bring it down to about 325.
Laura McIntosh: Alright, and we have one all ready to go.
Michael Fagnoni: We do!
Laura McIntosh: Let's take it out, let's show them.
Michael Fagnoni: Here we go.
Laura McIntosh: Ah look at that. Ah that's gorgeous, yeah that's what we want. Absolutely beautiful, and you're gonna' cut this for me.
Michael Fagnoni: You bet.
Laura McIntosh: Because at the end of the day, I want to see what it looks like inside.
Michael Fagnoni: Okay, we'll just separate the legs. You just want to cut into the thigh on both sides, and we like to separate the thigh joints, and now it's nice and stable. So if you just go down the breast bone, soft slices, you get a nice breast.
Laura McIntosh: Oh that's so juicy.
Michael Fagnoni: I'll just take one of the legs off for you. So that's half of your game hen, it's good for one order. I'm just going to scoop out some of the stuffing, it's really rich with the juices from the game hen.
Laura McIntosh: Now in this stuffing you brought it out, there's a few herbs in here.
Michael Fagnoni: Yeah, we like to put a little sage and parsley in it as well.
Laura McIntosh: Okay and that's done on the stovetop.
Michael Fagnoni: That's correct, right at the end right before you stuff the bird you want to put the herbs in.
Laura McIntosh: An easy dish for you to do tonight, thank you Michael it looks terrific.
Michael Fagnoni: Thanks.
Laura McIntosh: Fun and easy to do and nice and fresh.
I'm Caroline VanRuiten and welcome to my California Heartland. Today I'm planting herbs in my garden and we have garlic chives and peppermint and sweet basil, which I use just because I love the smell of it. When I plant herbs, I cultivate the soil because it's easier for the plants to get nutrition. In that herb garden, we use all of that stuff in the kitchen. But I also have a flower garden that we use to help decorate the kitchen because all the flowers are blooming. And so right now, I'm planting some flowers. The most important thing when you're planting a tree, flower, bush, whatever you're planting is lots of water and sunlight to produce photosynthesis. When I'm frowning I just look at a flower and it makes me smile, because I love just watching things grow. Thank you for coming to my California Heartland, bye!
Chris Burrous: Working with cows on a dairy farm everyday, may not seem like the most glamorous of jobs. But this 26 year old begs to differ. In fact she left a high profile journalism job, for a gig on a cheese farm. Meet Mandy Johnston, an up and coming artisan cheese maker, who traded her magazine editor byline for a new one, at the Pedrozo Dairy and Cheese Company, her family's farm.
Mandy Johnston: Right now, I probably thought I'd be, maybe at a higher level magazine somewhere, maybe an editor somewhere. I don't know if it'd be in California or maybe New York. Coming back to be an unstable farmer, you know cheese maker is a little different.
Chris Burrous: But when Mandy's mom, the original family cheese maker, decided to go back to teaching and her dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer, her calling became clear. Mandy and her boyfriend John decided to step in to keep the dairy alive.
Mandy Johnston: I just needed to find my own way back here, I don't want to say it was up to fate, but it sure feels like had been primed for coming back and I just didn't know it until I got here.
Chris Burrous: Coming back didn't take much convicting. Just the thought of selling the farm and Mandy and John were on board.
Tim Pedrozo: I didn't think Mandy would come back to work on the farm because we had mentioned it to her before and she just sort of blew us off. And then when we got thinking about possibly retiring, she said no you can't do that I want to take over.
Mandy Johnston: I never thought that I would be the family cheese maker! (laughs)
John Pearson: It's like so out of my world to think that I would be milking cows and making cheese and talking about what my soil content was and how the cows were grazing and how much they were producing. I love it.
Chris Burrous: And three years later the family is now producing nearly 18,000 pounds of cheese each year.
Mandy Johnston: So this is my favorite part, my mom calls it herding the curd.
Chris Burrous: The Pedrozo Dairy produces several different varieties of cheese that sell in local stores and farmer's markets.
Mandy Johnston: Have you had our cheese before?
Customer: I don't know, I guess I haven't.
Mandy Johnston: Ok, this is our Northern Gold, it's raw cow milk cheese we make on our dairy…
Mandy Johnston: We make about nine varieties of cheese, but they all start with the basic Northern Gold recipe, it's an old world style mix between a gouda and a cheddar. And we have a smaller wheel that's a variety of a Northern Gold, but it's a two pound wheel that's called Blondie's Best and it's named after my cow. Those two pound wheels, sometimes we'll take and soak in red wine and that's called tipsy cow the one we soak in beer is Sierra Nevada Stout and is called stout cow. And then I make one seasonally I soak in sparkling rose and that's called bubbly cow.
Chris Burrous: But it's not just wine and beer that make this cheese stand out; it's the family collaboration, happy cows and a love for what they do.
Tim Pedrozo: Definitely the pasture and the grass will definitely influence the cheese. It's probably the most influential part of the cheese because what the cows eat it's going to give the cheese the flavor that it has.
Mandy Johnston: I think that the way that our cows live, the life that they have absolutely corresponds to the value of our cheese.
Chris Burrous: It's the passion for their cheese and new lifestyle that makes this dynamic duo successful dairy farmers.
Mandy Johnston: My life has changed a lot since I've come back, I think I'm just so excited about where this could all go. I mean I wouldn't be so driven if it wasn't something I totally believed in.
John Pearson: I could never go back to another kind of lifestyle. This is this is I think what I am supposed to be doing.
Chris Burrous: Clearly this creative, young, couple met their match and are now ready to make some waves in cheese making. And after a long day, knee deep in curds and whey, Mandy's still enthusiastic.
Mandy Johnston: My favorite part about being a cheese maker is being able to say that if am cheese maker! There's not many people who can say that and you know we can go out to eat and order and someone will say, well what do you do and they would never expect me to come back with, well, I am a cheese maker.
Chris Burrous: Someday maybe she'll write about it or publish her own magazine about the industry. But for now she's happy with the headline, "journalist turns cheese maker!"
Mandy Johnston: That's kind of fun, it's a neat title to have.
Heston Nunes: I am here with the Dairy Council of California and this is my Mobile dairy classroom. The tradition started in the 1930's by two dairy men. They started taking cows around to schools because they realized "then" that kids that live in urban areas have no idea where milk comes from.
Heston Nunes: Let's see if she's awake.
Heston Nunes: They get a big kick first out of seeing the cow. Most of them have never seen a cow in their life, especially up this close.
Massio Love: I t was exciting…The color and when it was looking around it was shaking a little.
Elena Mendoza: I learned how to squeeze the milk out… Um the cowboy I think he just said you grab a thumb and just do it one by one like that.
Ryan Thomas: You can make a lot of stuff with milk, like cheese and yogurt ice cream and different kinds of stuff.
Heston Nunes: Why do kids need to know this? So they know that food does not come from the grocery store, hat there are actually people helping animals produce their food. You know, that it actually does not just show up at a grocery store magically and what an important role it plays in their nutrition. And then at the end they get to pet a calf, and that's something special.
Chris Burrous: Pack your bags and grab your boots, it's time to hit the road, with the Ag Traveler!
Melanie Kim: San Francisco is one of the world's top tourist destinations. But while you might go for the bright lights and big city, why not green up your trip by adding a few attractions Mother Nature wants added to your itinerary.
Melanie Kim: Walking the city sidewalks doesn't have to be all about concrete, steel and glass. There are many rooftop gardens waiting for you to explore and finding them can be a fun adventure.
Rick Evans: You're probably wondering, first of all, why you've never seen these before. They are hidden and nobody knows that they're even here.
Melanie Kim: An architectural walking tour called, My Favorite City Tours, brings you toe to toe with San Francisco's unique, urban, horticulture scene.
Rick Evans: These are called, Popos- Privately owned public open parks. Very much a contradiction of being private and public, but they're here due to a San Francisco zoning law that says anytime there is any new construction, any new remodeling or addition to any new building, you need to provide something back to the public in terms of open space. Now, a part of that mandate though is that- and why they're hidden, is because they don't have to market them.
Melissa Lucey: I never would have imagined that there's all this space just to kind of enjoy and relax within this bustling downtown area.
Melanie Kim: These gardens are a great place to enjoy lunch, relax a bit or even get philosophical.
Lori McCleese: Everything is connected and that by honoring and recognizing the nature, the growth and the plants, you're honoring yourself.
Rick Evans: We're all so busy running around. Right in front of us we have these little treasures that we can discover if we stop for a minute and look and take it all in.
Melanie Kim: The two hour walking tour covers one mile of city blocks packed with plants and places you'll never forget.
Melanie Kim: And for our next stop on our San Francisco Ag tour, behind that fog over there a famous rock.
Melanie Kim: Just a quick boat ride brings you to one of San Francisco's most beautiful and unexpected gardens.
Melanie Kim: The crowds come to Alcatraz to see the prison, especially the cell block that housed federal prisoners, like Al Capone. Quite a stark contrast to this, the historic gardens of Alcatraz…Which are being restored by volunteers of the garden conservancy,
After 30 years of neglect.
Rich Weideman: Just a couple of years ago, before the restoration from the garden conservancy it didn't have the cultural look that it should have had from the 1850's where everything was very well tended by the officers and their families.
Melanie Kim: As Rich Weideman tells us, the rock's garden actually dates back to the civil war era when Alcatraz was first used as an army fort.
Melanie Kim: From succulents to cala lillys, artichokes and roses, every plant here exists due to human intervention.
Rich Weideman: This restoration has transformed Alcatraz. Looking at the gardens now they almost look like they did over a hundred years ago.
Melanie Kim: It's a one of a kind garden tour you'll remember for life!
Melanie Kim: From one famous San Francisco landmark to another. A place where you can get farm fresh food right in the city.
Melanie Kim: This is the newly refurbished ferry building…
Melanie Kim: Here you'll find California's agriculture proudly showcased.
Melanie Kim: You can sample and buy the freshest California produce… olive oil, caviar, even fungi!
Ian Garron: We grow eight varieties at our farm, but the store sees somewhere close to 70 or 80 varieties.
Bianca Maresch: I just love the ferry building you know everything is fresh, you gotta' support that.
Melanie Kim: San Francisco, it's a big bustling city but if you plan your visit right it really starts to grow on you!
Chris Burrous: Everyone's a farmer when it comes to their own backyard; try these tips on doing it Home Grown.
Fred Hoffman: You know I can't think of a better investment for your home, your pocket and your family's health than planting a tree.
Fred Hoffman: If you're thinking of a home improvement project to improve the resale value of your house, well before you start remodeling that bathroom or the kitchen- consider this. For every tree you put in your front yard, the value of your home just went up 500 dollars. In fact, a well maintained landscape with full grown shade trees can add up to as much as 7% to the value of your property. And if you want to save money in the meantime, think about this. Planting shade trees on the west side and the south side of your house, can cut your cooling cost up to 40%. And as far as the health of your family goes, what's better than healthy eating from a fruit tree.
Fred Hoffman: At the nursery, look for the healthiest tree possible in the smallest container possible. Take a look at the trunk, make sure there are no wounds along the trunk line, and make sure that's healthy. Check the leaves- check the underside of the leaves for insect problems or things like this which would indicate over watering. Or, possible pest infestations or disease infestations if you see spotting on the leaves. Again, you'd want to bypass a tree like that. Also, check the color of the leaf; make sure it's a healthy green. So when you go shopping, you're looking for healthy green leaves, a good healthy trunk and a root system that isn't girdling the root ball. And this orange tree, it looks like a winner.
Fred Hoffman: Well we've picked the healthiest fruit tree we found at the nursery and now we're going to plant it. But, the key is putting it in the right place. This citrus, a cara cara orange likes full sun, not a problem here.
Fred Hoffman: We can start spreading out the roots, so just gently with your fingers spread the roots out around the pedestal to give the roots a chance to spread out. Roots don't grow down, they grow out. All we're gonna' back fill with is the native soil.
Fred Hoffman: Three more things I want you to do. If a stake is on a tree when you bought it, remove that single nursery stake, remove it. If the tree can't stand up on its own, then put in two more stakes on either side of the tree, about eight inches apart. And you'll only need to stake the tree for about a year; it should stand on its own after that. You only need stakes if the tree can't stand by itself.
Fred Hoffman: You're gonna' add an irrigation system to it, and finally you're gonna' add mulch.
Fred Hoffman: To wrap up our tree planting we're going to fertilize it with a liquid fertilizer around the base of three. And we're gonna' protect the trunk of the tree with white wash, give it a good coating. Trees can do it all. They add value to your home, they lower your electrical costs and provide food for your family- trees can really do it all, plant one today.
Chris Burrous: That's California Heartland, for more information on any of these stories go to Californiaheartland.org I'm Chris Burrous see you next time.
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Get on with it. That's what I found myself muttering tonight during the opening ceremony of the Winter Games.
It was a thrill when Muhammad Ali materialized on the scaffolding in Atlanta in 1996 and when Cathy Freeman blazed through the night in Sydney in 2000. If it seemed somewhat less of a thrill last night when Mike Eruzione and his mates from the United States' 1980 Miracle on Ice hockey team materialized to light the caldron, it was only because a lot of people had figured they were the logical candidates.
But at least they were athletes, famous athletes, symbolic athletes, to be sure. The more emphasis on pageantry or politics, the more the athletes become obscured.
Personally, I can't wait to get up to a mountain Saturday to watch some daredevils whip around a sharp curve at high speed. Let's go.
Every time they throw one of these Winter Games or Summer Games, we all get caught up in the opening ceremony. Tonight's ceremony had its moments, using an ice surface for ballet motion and depicting the history of the West, although glossing over a few gory details and making the relationship of American Indians and the settlers seem as benign as a square dance. But that's show biz, and that's what opening ceremonies are.Continue reading the main story
The normal trappings of patriotism and the touching tributes to everybody can get dicey when there are real issues out there in the world -- and when are there not?
This time there was the great flag flap. The world is still going through agony stemming from the attack on the United States last September. Yes, there were cretins who applauded, but anybody who thinks people in other countries did not bleed for America is missing something.
Just by coincidence, there was a Winter Games in the United States coming up five months after the attacks. The horror and the bravery and the hope from Sept. 11 absolutely had to be commemorated here, and they were tonight.
''Your nation is overcoming a horrific tragedy and we stand by you,'' said Jacques Rogge, the new president of the International Olympic Committee. And earlier, eight American athletes had carried the tattered flag from the World Trade Center for the national anthem.
President Bush referred to the last five months when he departed from the tradition of a 16-word opening speech. He used 23 words: ''On behalf of a proud, determined and grateful nation, I declare open the Games of Salt Lake City, celebrating the Olympic Winter Games.''
Normally, the national leader would say, ''I declare open the Games of Salt Lake City, celebrating the XXIII Olympiad of the modern era,'' perhaps using 17 words because of the length of this host name.
It's a touchy decision to deviate even the slightest from Olympic protocol. What happens in 2008 if the Beijing hosts want to display a souvenir from the American spy plane that was downed in 2001 or some artifact from the Chinese embassy in Belgrade that was hit by NATO rockets in 1999? I'm just guessing the United States might take it personally.
The evening was pleasant and there were even a few lovely snow flurries, and the winds that had blown away the inversion revealed there are indeed real mountains out there. The Wasatch Valley was glorious, if cold, as everybody in thick parkas tried to cram into the ceremony.
Meanwhile, the hills are alive with the sound of hard-rock mogul music. I'm more interested in whether Michelle Kwan can hit her jumps and win the gold medal, or whether somebody else will be playing the role of Tara Lipinski in this performance. I can't wait for Slava Fetisov's Russians to meet Herb Brooks's Americans next Saturday. That is the real stuff.
The debate over the flag touched off the normal resistance to American domination of the Olympic movement along with concern over the United States' role in global warming and the growing worldwide gap between rich and poor.
''Sometimes our impetuousness leads to misunderstanding,'' said Sandra Baldwin, the United States' new member of the I.O.C. She added that Americans ''have not always been good partners,'' but she did not apologize for the American sponsors and the American network money that drive the Olympics.
''It is what it is,'' Baldwin said.
The United States cannot win that one. The only thing it can do is show restraint, which is not easy when thugs are flying planes into your buildings. At most Summer Games and Winter Games, the loudest fans are usually Americans, stridently chanting, ''U-S-A!''
But as Baldwin noted, ''I loved it when people chanted, 'Aussie-Aussie-Aussie' in Sydney.''
America is not so cute. The effervescent Mitt Romney, head of the organizing committee, hopes the Mormons of Utah, who have served on missions in many countries, will set a tone of worldliness and inclusiveness for other Americans.
''I remember in Norway in 1994, when Tommy Moe won the downhill,'' Baldwin said. ''Norwegians were congratulating us -- and they finished behind us.''
There was a warm tone tonight. The predominantly American crowd was warmed up by the television personalities Al Roker and Matt Lauer, but the evening did not become merely a raucous celebration of America. The audience cheered for Iran as it did for more friendly nations, but it did reserve its lustiest cheers for the delegation from Britain, the United States' biggest supporter since the attacks.
Will the congeniality and sportsmanship carry over? One can only hope. The U.S.O.C. does not help by talking up medal counts. Theoretically, the Games are about individual athletes, seeking to do their best.
The organizers mean well with the pageants and the tributes, the music and the words and the costumes at the opening ceremonies. I'm waiting for the youth and the bustle of the athletes. I want to see 18-year-old Ilya Kovalchuk shoot the puck for Russia, and 16-year-old Sarah Hughes do her jumps for America, and all the Scandinavians and Japanese and the Canadians. With all due respect to the opening ceremony -- the sooner the better.Continue reading the main story


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Procedure: 1-4A
Effective: October 1, 2011
Latest Revision: 2011
Monthly Review and Certification of Sponsored Program
Project or Award Expenditures
Procedure Steps
Scope | System References | Policy | Responsibility | Distribution | Ownership
This procedure supplements Procedure 1-4, Monthly Review of GM Project or Award Activity and covers the monthly review and certification of sponsored program projects and awards. The purpose of the Monthly Review of sponsored program project expenditures is to review for errors, accuracy of charges, and unusual or unanticipated charges. Any unusual transactions should be reported promptly to the Principal Investigator.
University of Virginia policy requires timely review of expenditures occurring at least once a month (by the15th calender day of the month) for the previous month's activity unless approval has been granted for an alternate schedule by the Assistant Vice President for Financial Operations and the Chief Audit Executive.
University of Virginia policy assigns the principal investigator primary responsibility for the management of sponsored program funds.
Office of Management and Budget Circular A-21 (2 CFR, Part 220) requires that "the institution's financial management system shall ensure that no one person has complete control over all aspects of a financial transaction."
Office of Management and Budget Circular A 110 (2CFR, Part 215), "Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals, and Other Non Profit Organizations," requires that if the institution authorizes the principal investigator to have primary responsibility for the management of sponsored agreement funds, "then the institution's documentation requirements for the actions of those individuals (e.g., signature or initials of the principal investigator or designee or use of a password) will normally be considered sufficient."
System References [Top]
The RS is the University's electronic reconciliation system and is the required method of reconciling Projects and Awards. The RS facilitates the timely on-line review of monthly transactions and balances and documents the review and approval of each Project-Award combination.
Oracle Reports Using Discoverer remain unchanged
Procedure 1-3, "Requesting an Alternate Reconciliation Schedule"
Policy [Top]
Policy I.A.1 Internal Controls
Responsibility [Top]
The RS contains roles specific to the reconciliation process. These roles are assigned to department personnel who are responsible for the completion of the review and approval of expenditures, and ensuring that the work is completed in a timely manner. The roles are described below:
The department or unit fiscal person, listed as the Preparer in the Reconciliation System for the sponsored project, is responsible for reviewing each expenditure charged to the sponsored program, Project/Task/Award combination in the University's Reconciliation System, to ensure its accuracy, and to ensure that sufficient source documentation, in the form of paper, or data residing in the Reconciliation System or supporting systems, is available.
After reviewing expenditures, the Preparer or alternate approves and certifies the appropriateness of the charges by recording His/Her signature in the reconciliation system, indicating that they have completed this review. Any accounting errors or other questions about the appropriateness of a particular expense should be brought promptly to the Approver's attention for clarification or correction as well as being notated in the comments section of the reconciliation system. This role will be populated from the Integrated System fiscal contact role. Alternates may be assigned in the RS only.
Note: From time to time there is turnover in the Preparer role. To keep role data accurate in the Reconciliation System, fiscal contact data in the integrated system must be accurate; any changes to fiscal contact should be sent to email@example.com. The request should include the old fiscal contact name, the organization involved and as necessary the project numbers to be changed.
The Preparer is responsible for insuring all signatures are in place and recons completed within the approved 15 calendar day period to remain in compliance with the University requirement. If the PI assigned an alternate to be the on-line approver, the Preparer must print the certification sheet after the alternate has approved and have it signed by the PI by the 15th of each month.
The Fiscal examiner is responsible for examining and verifying the work of the preparer. This is an optional role in the RS system for sponsored program awards. This role is unique to the recon system and currently does not exist in the integrated system.
The Principal Investigator will review monthly expenditures for errors, accuracy of charges and unusual or unanticipated charges. The PI has the choice to be the approver in the RS system or to opt out and designate an alternate to be the on-line approver. If the PI chooses to opt out they are to insure that the individual assigned as their alternate is in a position to be knowledgeable about project expenditures. After reviewing expenditures, the PI or alternate approves and certifies the appropriateness of the charges by recording His/Her signature in the reconciliation system. This role will be populated from the Integrated System Project Principal Investigator field. Alternates may be assigned in the RS only.
If the PI has opted out and chosen to assign an alternate to be the approver, the alternate will approve the on-line review by recording his/her signature in the reconciliation system thus indicating to the investigator that they have reviewed and approve of the expenditures. The PI must then subsequently review and sign a paper copy of the monthly financial reports to verify his/her approval of the expenditures for documentation in the files. The alternate is not allowed to sign this paper copy.
The Fiscal Officer is the person responsible for verifying that expenditures for the assigned PA combinations have been reconciled within the specified time constraints and according to University Policies and Procedures.
Note: Unlike other GM projects and awards, in the case of sponsored programs, the Reconciliation System fields of Project Manager and Award Manager are reserved for Office of Sponsored Programs staff. These roles are significantly different from other GM projects and awards and while not covered in this procedure, it is important to understand that these roles are not the same as described in Procedure 1-4, Monthly Review of GM Project or Award Activity.
Distribution [Top]
Fiscal Examiner
Fiscal Officer
Ownership [Top]
The Assistant Vice President for Research Administration and the Director of Award Management and Accounting are responsible for ensuring that this procedure is necessary, reflects actual practice, and supports University policy.
A monthly review of PTA expenditures is an essential component of project management to insure financial and accounting integrity. This review is done immediately following the month end closing and should be completed by the 15th calendar day of the month following, so June should be completed by July 15th, or as detailed in an alternate schedule approved by the Assistant Vice President for Financial Operations and the Chief Audit Executive (see Policy II. B. 2, University Reviews and Reconciliations).
The Preparer should resolve as many accounting errors or other reconciling anomalies as possible. Any questions about the appropriateness of particular expenses should be brought to the immediate attention of the Approver for clarification and/or correction. Good business practices and federal regulations mandate that errors be corrected in a timely manner. Cost transfers should be initiated as soon as the error is identified and processed in accordance with Cost Transfer Procedures 8-20, 8-21 and 8-22). Preparers should take extra care to verify that the expenditure type charged is appropriate and accurately reflects the item or service that is identified in the supporting documentation. So for example, a beaker should be charged as a Lab Supply but a Sharpie pen should be charged as an Office Supply. The Preparer should:
1. For each PTA combination, gather and review supporting documentation for expenditure transactions
2. Log on to the Reconciliation System and review each expenditure transaction charged to a PTA combination to ensure accuracy
3. Determine that sufficient source documentation exists for the transaction
4. Verify there are no unusual or unanticipated charges
5. Flag issues and record comments, if appropriate
6. Update reconciling items, if appropriate
7. When review is complete, route to the next level
8. Follow up on any transacti9ons that remain outstanding for more than one accounting period.
9. Run appropriate Discoverer report to verify Human Subject expenditures as that data has been redacted out of RS
10. File supporting documentation in such a manner that allows the documents to be readily retrieved and presented when requested for audit review. These records must be maintained in accordance with the University record retention policy.
A department may require an interim review prior to the Approver certification. This is an optional step.
1. Examine the work of the Preparer (s)
2. Review issues and record comments, if appropriate
3. Update reconciling items, if appropriate
4. Complete review and route to next level or return to preparer (s) for rework
University policy requires that a separate individual (the Approver), who has authority and responsibility for the funds, certify that the review is complete and that the transactions are reasonable and necessary. The Approver should:
1. Review the work of the Preparers and/or Fiscal Examiners
2. Review issues and record comments, if appropriate
3. Updates reconciling items if appropriate
4. Certifies and approves expenditures or returns to Preparer for rework
NOTE: The PI's certification of project expenditures is a key piece of the documentation supporting the allowability, allocability and reasonableness of project costs. By using this system or if opting out by signing the paper copy, the PI certifies to the best of his/her knowledge all costs charged to this project are appropriate and salary and wages charged are in relation to work performed on this project. Where required, corrections have been or will be requested to be made in the Reconciliation System.
Projects that have no activity (meaning no transactions) during the current fiscal year are available for review, but do not require signatures in the RS.


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Behind the ventriloquist heavy metal drummer
Little Italy marketing guy gets his act to the Brick
Ken Leighton 4 p.m., Sept. 20
Matthew: Somebody gave my eight-year-old son an Xbox for his birthday. I am afraid he will become addicted to playing it and that it will harm him and make him just sit around the house playing games all the time. I need some backup to convince my son he needs to get outside and play. Does something like an Xbox harm kids? Before I tell my son he can only play for an hour a day, I really need some proof that I'm trying to help him, not punish him. — Concerned Mom, San Diego
Well, we could send the elves to your house and have them show your son their severe cases of "Guitar Hero wrist," as the doctors call it. Tendinitis from imitating Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page on the video game. Short of that, I'm not sure what you could say to an eight-year-old about his medical future that would impress him. Grabbing the device and hiding it might be your best bet.
It's not to say that you're wrong. Actually, for once, Mom is right. The Xbox and PlayStation and Wii have been around long enough for wounded players to start showing up in doctors' offices. Sore shoulders, wrists, fingers; "gamer's thumb"; "BlackBerry thumb" from over-texting; "cell phone elbow," a mashed ulnar nerve from holding the phone to your ear too long; strained backs from over-Wii-ing. Our electronic gadgets have turned on us with a vengeance, and adults are as vulnerable as kids. Things are particularly bad for Wii-ers who get up from their lounge chairs and think they're Tiger Woods. All those slack muscles will be screaming the next day. There are even accounts of broken fingers from gaming and a black eye when a Wii-er let go of the controller in some sports-induced frenzy and it whapped a bystander.
But no matter how old you are or what game you're playing, most injuries come from repetitive stress — using the same muscle groups for hours on end, until tendons, ligaments, and muscles become inflamed. Medical studies show that the damage is particularly bad for kids under ten or so. Docs' best guess is that the youthful tissues are not fully mature and so are more vulnerable. All medical sources recommend one hour a day, max, of gaming for all kids. Tests suggest that one hour a day doesn't harm anyone. Sometimes the pain is bad enough that it actually forces the kid himself to limit his gaming time. That's when a doctor should look at the situation, though a few days of rest usually repairs things.
Guitar Hero sidelined someone besides the elves. A hot-shot relief pitcher for the Detroit Tigers went to the trainer with severe pain in the wrist and forearm on his pitching side. Doc said to rest the arm completely for four weeks. Apparently the pitcher stopped playing Guitar Hero as part of his rehab within three days he was back in the lineup. The doctor could only guess that it wasn't a pitching injury, it was a guitar injury.
Heymatt: What's the story with Miranda in our Miranda rights? Were they named after a real woman? If so, was she a very quiet woman? — JBP, via email
Miranda wasn't very silent, which is why everything hit the fan in the first place. Ernesto Miranda (a bloke, not a señorita) was arrested in 1963 for robbery. As long as he was at the police station anyway, I guess he figured it would be a good time to confess to a previous kidnapping and rape. Prosecutors had no trouble convicting him. Defense counsel filed an appeal, saying Miranda had not been advised that the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution gave him the right to refuse to incriminate himself by confessing. In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court agreed. Miranda was retried in Arizona, omitting the confession, and he was convicted again. But his name has stuck to the disclaimer that's read to every perp in cuffs.
Hey, Matt: Why do I have to turn down my car radio when I'm doing something like looking for an address or reading a map? But I can drive okay with the radio on. So, what's up? — Confused, driving around Chula Vista
Waa! Waa! Waa! Sensory overload! Distraction! Distraction! Brain log-off! Memory destruct! Way too much input. And there's plenty of neurological research to explain what's going on. Noise (including organized noise like music) shares some brain pathways with visual information. You instinctively reach for the knob in order to concentrate on one thing at a time. Tunes, especially loud, bass-thumping numbers, increase stress hormones. If you're partying, that cortisol and adrenaline amp is called "fun." When you're late for a meeting, looking for an address, it's called "stress." And stress interferes with short-term memory, making it even harder to find that danged house number. You turn down the volume in self-defense. Your brain thanks you.
Yes, Miranda's confession was excluded at re-trial and Miranda was again copnvicted, and served 4 years in state prison.
What most people do not know is that Miranda was killed in a knife fight in a bar the year after he was released from prison, in 1970.
I always think it's a crack up when officers have to read the Miranda rights off a paper. I mean, really. Can't we all quote those, just from the amount of cop shows we've seen?
Regarding the radio and looking for an address...great scene in the movie Broadcast News. Albert Brooks' character is smart, but not good looking (and sweats). SO he doesn't get the great anchor job a dense William Hurt gets (he also gets his girl, Holly Hunter). But the one thing Brooks can do, that most can't? He sings Midnight Train to Georgia while reading a book, even uttering along to the chorus with "I can read/While I sing/'cause I'm smart/I can' do both". Great stuff.
if a cop has to read miranda rights off a card then they need to find a new line of employment. seriously
The warnigns are so simple a 3rd grader could get it right-they don't have to be word for word either.
1) right to remain silent 2) if you talk your staments can be used in court
3) right to lawyer 4) can't afford lawyer one will be provided.
Actually, surfpuppy, Miranda wasn't paroled until 1972 after serving about 1/3 of his original sentence. Over the next couple of yrs he was arrested several times. One of those arrests was for the possession of a gun. The charges were dropped, but because this violated his parole he was sent back to Arizona State Prison for another year. After being released he was killed in a bar fight, but it wasn't until 1976. It's always been interesting to me that both William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O'Conner were practicing law in Phoenix at the time and were both were on the bench when SCOTUS reviewed Dickerson v. U.S., which dealt with 18 U. S. C. §3501 which allowed a confession to be admitted into evidence if it is found to be voluntary, even if the defendant was not given the Miranda warning. The Court held "that Miranda, being a constitutional decision of this Court, may not be in effect overruled by an Act of Congress."
Fumbler, your fan club has spoken. See comment 115 and beyond. What say you?
My bad, 1976 it is then.
Was he read his Miranda Rights by the murderer prior to the stabbing? If not,he should've had the stabbing overturned.
That was funny, amj. I was going to ask if he was ever out, and had to have police read him the miranda rights. And did they say "I'm going to read you your...well, I guess you already know them."


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Giants: K Lawrence Tynes, RB Brandon Jacobs, CB Sam Madison, LB Jonathan Goff, T Adam Koets, DT Leger Douzable, DE Jerome McDougle, DT Fred Robbins.
Analysis: RB Derrick Ward will start in the absence of Jacobs. He's a solid No. 2 fantasy back. WR Domenik Hixon is active and will play, so it looks like he's a safe option. K John Carney will continue to handle the field-goal duties with Tynes listed as inactive.
Cowboys: QB Brooks Bollinger (3rd), CB Adam Jones, CB Courtney Brown, RB Alonzo Coleman, LB Steve Octavien, G Montrae Holland, G Joe Berger, WR Isaiah Stanback.
Analysis: RB Marion Barber is active, though he could be limited and share carries with RB Tashard Choice. Both are risky fantasy options. WR Roy E. Williams and TE Jason Witten are active and will start, as expected. CB Mike Jenkins is also active, so the Cowboys' defensive backfield gets a lift after losing Jones.


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Putney: This converted Thames barge offers two bedrooms and lots of entertaining space.
Priced at £550,000, it has a 50-year mooring licence in Riverside quarter opposite the Hurlingham Club and next to Wandsworth Park, in Putney.
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We presume it'll be "mildly expensive" (not like NetJets expensive!) but starting today, the Standard Hotel plane is available for public bookings! It's an eight-seater Cessna water plane, and they're doing a 300-mile range. In case you're aboard and scared of dying, reasonably, the airplane's stall speed is 106 km/h, so keep one eye on your coke and another on the pilot's dials and you'll be fine.


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Submarine rescue expert answers your questions
As fears grow for the Russian sailors trapped in a nuclear submarine at the bottom of the Barents Sea, a specialist British sub has joined the rescue mission.
Commander Paddy Ryan, former head of the Royal Navy Submarine Escape and Rescue unit, answered your questions on the operation.
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Julie Polglaze, UK: What chance of success do the British rescue mission have when all attempts by the Russian forces have so far failed?
Commander Ryan: To the best of my knowledge, all the Russian attempts have been with diving bell-type rescue vehicles hanging down from a surface ship and these sort of things get swept away by the current. The autonomous LR5 can paddle against the current and will have more success because it doesn't have this 300-foot of cable above it, so I'm quite hopeful that it can do that.
Sam Barrows, USA: How much risk is there for the British submarine crew itself in this rescue mission?
Sian Lovett, UK: Are they able to open the hatch from the outside? Or do the rescuers need assistance from someone inside the sub?
Commander Ryan: Up to now the Russians haven't given us many details of how their submarines work but we think that there is an operating handle outside the hatch which means that the man from LR5 can go down inside the rescue skirt to operate the handle. The biggest problem is if there's a very big build-up of pressure within the Kursk herself, and that then has to be "bled" off somehow.
Tim Smith, UK: The LR5 has only three crew members, of which two are pilots. That leaves just one man to enter the Kursk. What if most, or even all, of the Russian sailors are unconscious or too weak to climb into the LR5?
Commander Ryan: Its normal operating crew is one pilot and one man in the rescue chamber but for the first mission down, they would probably take two pilots so that they can both get familiarised with the layout of the distressed submarine. In the back end of the submarine they would very likely take specialist doctors and "underwater" paramedics.
D. Lakey, USA: Is there not the worry that the air pressure in the stricken sub could blow the LR-5 away when the hatch opens and result in loss of rescue vehicle too?
Paddy Ryan: I think you've got to remember that LR5 is held onto the distressed submarine by sea pressure. My estimate of the "limpet-factor" on that LR5 is something in the order of 100 tonnes and therefore, you're going to need a very, very high pressure within the Kursk to blow it off.
Bruce Tabor, Australia: Reports talk about the gradual depletion of oxygen as limiting the crews' survival prospects. Whereas some have said that the build-up of carbon dioxide is in fact the limiting factor for the crews' survival. Which gas will first limit their chances of survival?
The problem here is they'll be getting cold and when the body is cold it is inclined to shiver to warm you up and when you shiver your heart rate and therefore your breathing rate increases and you use more air. It's a matter of trying to keep yourself as placid and quiet as possible.
Julian Sinton, UK: When entering or moving through a sunken submarine, how do you know whether or not the compartment on the other side of the hatch you are about to open is flooded?
Commander Ryan: I wouldn't see people descending into the Russian submarine and walking about too much to see what's going on, but all bulkheads in submarines I've been in have had a valve which you can open to test whether there is water or air on the other side, it's part of the design.
Iain Lowe, UK: Having worked on SSBN's (HMS Resolution & Revenge) I know what conditions are like at the best of times, surely if they've switched off the reactor, they'll be out of power and air by now, and there can't be anyone left alive?
Commander Ryan: One carries emergency supplies to run the oxygen generators and the carbon dioxide scrubbers, we do, but I don't know whether the Russians do because I've never been allowed aboard a Russian submarine.
Stuart Johnson, England: How long can the rescue sub stay under before coming back up, and when it does how long is it before it can go back down?
Commander Ryan: It depends on how much battery it uses, it's rather like an athlete - if you're working very hard you're going to have to refuel quite often, if you're having a pretty quiet time then you don't have to replenish your battery that frequently. I would like to hope he would get something like 12-14 hours out of his battery that should give him three or four rescue missions, times 16, we're talking about 50 people between a battery charge. It takes about eight hours to recharge the battery.
Gareth Lewis, Italy: Is there any indication that a radiation leak from the reactors or torpedos on the Russian sub has likely happened? If yes, does this endanger the RN crew?
Neill Mooney, UK: The Kirsk lies at about 100m. I understand that underwater escapes using survival suits should be possible at this depth. Do you agree and if so what might have prevented the Russians from using this technique?
Commander Ryan: Certainly you can escape from all British submarines, we like to put the maximum depth at 180m. But you've got to have the submarine built to have that capability, I don't know whether the Russians have got that. Most of the other NATO submarines have, the Americans, having given it up are now just starting it up again. It depends on the design of the submarine, each nation has its own way of doing things, I don't think they have escape suits which would explains why they haven't tried it.
Alan Paterson, Scotland: Do you think that if the Soviet's hadn't dragged their heels you could have saved them by now? Alan Paterson, Scotland
Elliot Renton, UK: Why does it take so long to get the rescue equipment from the UK to the site? Couldn't we have flown the sub in?
Commander Ryan: It was flown to southern Norway and the speed at which it arrived in Trondheim was really very remarkable. You're flying something like 70 tonnes of equipment that doesn't just go in the hold of a British plane, you've got to have a special aircraft. A special ship had to be found and chartered, but it was still some 900 miles from the site. You also need a little bit of time for the crew, they can't work 12 hours flat out and then spend 24 hours under water because tired people are dangerous people.
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Kanye West launches Twitter attack on Taylor
Kanye West is claiming that his controversial lyrics about Taylor Swift were actually her idea.
It's has been a big few days for Kanye West, he released his new album, launched season 3 of his Yeezy collection, oh and just managed to completely diss Taylor Swift once again.
In Kanye's new song 'Famous' he suggests that he made Taylor famous and implies a crude way in which she can thank him.
The lyric goes...
"For all my Southside n—gas who will know me best. I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex. Why, I made that b***h famous, God damn… I made that b***h famous."
Kanye, obviously bothered by the negative reaction his song has had, launched a Twitter onslaught clamming that 'Famous' was never meant as a diss and is actually endearing.
The idea Taylor Swift actually came up with the idea has been strongly denied by her camp through a statement.
"Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his single 'Famous' on her Twitter account. She declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message. Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, 'I made that b***h famous."
To be fair Kanye, Taylor Swift's lowest selling album sold more than your best selling. Taylor Swift's lowest selling album is Speak Now with, 5,000,000 sales worldwide while Kanye's highest selling album is The College Dropout with 4,000,000 sales worldwide. Yep, you definitely made her famous mate.
Has she gone too far?
Poor Sophie!