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STOCKTON - Stockton's top Spanish-language radio station reflects the city, with programming that is simultaneously traditional, youthful and proudly Mexican.
STOCKTON - Stockton's top Spanish-language radio station reflects the city, with programming that is simultaneously traditional, youthful and proudly Mexican.
Although the call letters for 100.9 FM in Stockton are KMIX, most listeners will know the station as Tricolor, the name of the station's format.
Tricolor refers to the three colors of the Mexican flag - red, white and green. The station's logo features the flag with a cowboy hat superimposed over it.
"We pay close attention to the market. In Stockton, the ones carrying the trends are the Latino youths," said Nestor Rocha, vice president of programming for Entravision Communication, the corporation that owns KMIX.
Rocha knows the radio market in Stockton and other Northern California cities well. He formerly was an on-air personality for both English- and Spanish-language stations in the Bay Area, where he earned the nickname "el Pato," or "the Duck."
"I have family in Stockton," Rocha said. "It is a huge Latino community."
Tricolor is one of four radio formats used by Entravision. Regional Mexican is the top Spanish-language radio format in the United States. So it is not surprising that two of the four Entravision formats are regional Mexican, although with some differences. The other regional format, El Gato, puts a heavy emphasis on contemporary performers.
Listeners on stations with the Tricolor format will hear Vicente Fernandez, the longtime king of regional Mexican music, and other mainstays, such as Los Tucanes de Tijuana. There will also be some younger regional groups, such as Voz de Mando.
"It is very young regional Mexican," Rocha said. "We notice the older adults always follow the youth music."
Entravision owns 48 radio stations and 53 television stations. It has 1,132 employees, 21 of whom work at KMIX.
Much of the programming broadcast by KMIX is syndicated programs produced elsewhere at other Entravision stations. Most of the Stockton staff are part of the station's marketing efforts, including the Party Cartel, which goes to events such as concerts or to local businesses, such as grocery stores. There, they make it possible for fans to connect live to show hosts.
Roughly 40 percent of Stockton's population is Latino, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Radio industry estimates are that there are more than 200,000 listeners of Spanish-language radio in the market, which includes a swath of the San Joaquin Valley stretching south to Modesto.
Among those stations broadcasting in all languages and rated by Arbitron, KMIX has a 4.9 percent share of the listeners in the Stockton market and is the top Spanish-language station.
KMIX has changed owners and formats over the years. It was a country music station until 1996, when it switched to a Spanish-language format. Z-Spanish Radio Network bought KMIX in 1997, and Entravision bought it in 2000.
On a recent weekday morning on 100.9 FM, Entravision personalities with on-air names such as Don Agapita and Maria Luisa were busy exchanging jokes on Los Picudos de La Ma�ana, the morning show. Picudos translates roughly as pointed, or clever, comments.
The conversation ranged from serious topics, such as why woman should avoid alcohol during pregnancy, to predictions about how the Mexican national soccer team would fare during the Copa de Oro (Gold Cup).
The varied ages of the on-air personalities reflect the fact that viewers of all ages listen to the station. Rocha said that the Spanish-language radio market, so far, has not become as fragmented as other markets and has not seen significant losses of listeners to online services such as Pandora.
"Radio is still huge with the Latino community," he said.
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Advanced Physician Assistant Degree Online
Advanced Physician Assistant Degree Online
Advanced Physician Assistant Post Professional Program
Please note: Applicants must be a licensed or certified physician assistant prior to applying for the Advanced Physician Assistant Studies program.
A.T. Still University's (ATSU) Advanced Physician Assistant (APA) program offers the most direct path to APA credentials, Practicing Physician Assistants can begin immediately to pursue a Master of Science in Advanced Physician Assistant Studies from ATSU's Arizona School of Health Sciences (ASHS).
ATSU's Master of Science in Advanced Physician Assistant Studies online is a post-professional program that offers concentrations in either Clinical Medicine or Education/Leadership, with flexibility for working professionals.
Current demand for Physician Assistants is at an all-time high. Graduates with a Physician Assistant degree take their place as esteemed healthcare leaders who serve a crucial role in meeting growing demand and solving community healthcare shortages. The Physician Assistant profession is rated number one by both PAs and the industry, according to List25.com's list of Best Jobs in America 2012. Job mobility is even greater than that for an MD.
ATSU's Advanced Physician Assistant Degree program has earned prestige for outstanding leadership and a prestigious curriculum that elevates Physician Assistants to the top tier of their profession.
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Career Advancement+
Students in the elite post professional ATSU-ASHS Advanced Physician Assistant online degree are practicing physician assistants who want to advance their careers in many exciting areas of healthcare including:
- Advanced Physician Assistant (APA)
- Cardiology Physician Assistant
- Cardiothoracic Surgery Physician Assistant
- Cardiovascular Physician Assistant
- Family Practice Physician Assistant
- Neurosurgical Physician Assistant
- Orthopedic Physician Assistant
- Primary Care Practitioner at rural and/or retail "mini" clinics
Student Insights +
As a Master's degree is now the entry level degree of students coming out of PA school, I felt it important to 'stay current'. After doing research of programs recommended by the AAPA and assessing each program I felt that ATSU was the best fit for me in terms of tuition, time in the program and content.
~Rodney Hamby, APA graduate
The best part of the program for me was being able to work at anytime of the day at any place. During my second year I had my first baby and it was very easy for me to still attend school, work full time and be a new mom! I did also enjoy learning how other Physician Assistants practice in different parts of the country.
~Lori Singer, APA graduate
Being an advance practice degree program we were all practicing PA's and everyone had such a varied background. For once… I had a "peer group" and very much looked forward to our daily interaction. I would definitely recommend ATSU for any PA that wants to complete a Master's Program.
~Sandy Beeman, APA graduate
Advanced Physician Assistant Degree Faculty
The APA program faculty members comprise a supportive community of leaders in their respective fields. Our faculty provide students pursuing a physician assistant degree online with hands-on learning opportunities and real-world experience. They serve as mentors, advisers and researchers who are dedicated to furthering each student's academic and career goals.
Our distinguished faculty use their experience as educators and PAs to provide practical information and close mentorship to students to guide them to success in the program.
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Randy D. Danielsen, PhD, DFAAPA, PA-C Emeritus
Dr. Danielsen is dean of the Arizona School of Health Sciences. Since graduating from the University of Utah Physician Assistant (PA) Program in 1974, Dr. Danielsen has distinguished himself as a clinician, PA educator, author, and editor. He received his BS in Health Science (cum laude) from the University of Utah in 1978, his Masters in PA Studies (MPAS) from the University of Nebraska with an emphasis on Internal Medicine in 1997, and his PhD from the Union Institute & University in 2003 with an emphasis on Medical Education. He completed sixteen years with A.T. Still University as academic coordinator (1995-1997), chair of physician assistant studies (1997-2004), and as dean of the Arizona School of Health Sciences (2004-2010) and recently returned as Dean of ASHS. He was honored in 2010 by A.T. Still University with Emeritus Professor status. He has served on the board of directors of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) and as a board member and chairman for National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Danielsen served as president of the Utah Academy of Physician Assistants, the Arizona State Association of PAs, and as chair of the Arizona Regulatory Board for PAs. Retired after 28 years of service in the US Air Force and Army National Guard with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, Dr. Danielsen also is a former president of the Veterans Caucus of the AAPA and was honored with the Caucus' Civilian PA of the Year Award in 2003.
Dr. Danielsen was named Outstanding PA of the Year by the AAPA in 1993 and by the Arizona State Association of Physician Assistants in 2011. He currently serves as PA editor-in-chief for Clinician Review. Dr. Danielsen has published over sixteen peer-reviewed articles, eighteen journal editorials, two book chapters, and most recently his first book, entitled The Preceptor's Handbook for Supervising Physician Assistants, published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. Recently he was selected as a Senior Consultant with the Academy for Academic Leadership.
- Randy D. Danielsen, PhD, DFAAPA, PA-C Emeritus
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Annlee Burch, PT, MPH, EdD
Dr. Burch is Vice Dean of the Arizona School of Health Sciences. Her primary responsibility is to serve as Chief Operating Officer of the School under the direction of the Dean. In addition, she leads several University or School wide initiatives including the Diversity Initiative Task Force and the ASHS Adelante Project. In her role, Dr. Burch represents the School in the Dean's absence.
Dr. Burch received her Doctor of Education (EdD) from Columbia University, Teachers College in 2005. She received her Masters of Public Health (MPH) from Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health in 2002 and her Masters of Physical Therapy (MS) from Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1989. She was a postdoctoral fellow with the Research Group on Health Disparities at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Dr. Burch received her BA is in Psychology from the University of Rochester. Prior to her appointment as Vice Dean, Dr. Burch served as the Chair of Physical Therapy from 2008-January 2012. Prior to coming to ATSU, Dr. Burch was the Director of Physical Therapy at the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She has held administrative and/or faculty positions at the International Center for the Disabled in NY, NY, Mercy College in NY, and Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY.
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Albert Simon, DHSc, MEd, PA-C
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Dr. Simon is a PA graduate of the Alderson Broaddus PA program in West Virginia. Prior to ATSU, he served as chair of the St. Francis University PA Program in Pennsylvania. His clinical practice experience includes internal medicine and occupational medicine. In addition to administrative duties, he teaches in the History and Physical Examination sequence.
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The Advanced Physician Assistant program requires all applicants to meet the following criteria:
- Graduation from an ARC – PA accredited PA program (or any of its antecedent organizations grandfathered into the profession prior to 1984).
- Minimum overall GPA 2.50/4.0 scale and minimum PA program GPA 2.5/4.0 scale
- Applicants must submit official transcripts from all schools where a degree was conferred. Send to: A.T. Still University Attn: Online Admissions 5845 E. Still Circle Suite, 213 Mesa, AZ 85206
- An earned bachelor's degree in Physician Assistant studies from a regionally accredited college or university, or an earned Associate or certificate in Physician Assistant studies to be eligible for the non-bachelor equivalency option. (Please contact an Enrollment Counselor at 877.469.2878 for more information about the non-bachelor PA equivalency option)
- Applicants are required to demonstrate proficiency in English when applying to the Arizona School of Health Sciences, A.T. Still University. Written and spoken proficiency in the English language may be demonstrated by one of the following options:
- Option 1 - English is your first language.
- Option 2 - Graduated from a regionally accredited four year university or college in the United States (minimum BA or BS).
- Option 3 - You are demonstrating your English proficiency by submitting acceptable scores on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).or the International English Testing Service (IELTS).
Acceptable minimal scores for ASHS applications are:
- Internet based total score = 80
- Acceptable IELTS score are an overall band score of 6.5
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Tuition: $445 per credit (starting Fall 2018)
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The Education/Leadership concentration of the Advanced Physician Assistant degree is designed for the physician assistant who wishes to gain advanced training in the theory and practice of educating healthcare professionals.
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Advanced Physician Assistant Curriculum Overview
Courses offered in the Clinical Medicine concentration of the Advanced Physician Assistant degree program are designed to broaden the clinical knowledge and skill level of practicing physician assistants. In addition to the didactic course work, which may be completed 100 percent online, the Clinical Medicine concentration requires 400 hours of direct patient care. The physician assistant degree student may complete this at their place of employment.
Classes are concentrated, with students dedicating 10-15 hours of work per week, and the Advanced Physician Assistant degree program begins every quarter. This concentrated focus challenges students to meet the rigors of the comprehensive curriculum.
The Education/Leadership concentration of the Advanced Physician Assistant degree is designed for the physician assistant who wishes to gain advanced training in the theory and practice of educating healthcare professionals.
Clinical Medicine Concentration+
Elective Course Course Name (student select four) Credit Hours APA 501 Healthcare Delivery Systems 4.0 APA 503 Ethical Issues in PA Practice 4.0 APA 505 PA Professional Practice Issues 4.0 APA 506 Evidence-Based Medicine & Clinical Research Design 4.0 APA 507 Medical Writing 4.0
Required Clinical Courses+
Elective Course Course Name Credit Hours APA 620 Clinical Medicine I 4.0 APA 621 Clinical Medicine II 4.0 APA 622 Clinical Medicine III 4.0 APA 623 Clinical Medicine IV 4.0 APA 660 Clinical Practice I 2.0 APA 661 Clinical Practice II 2.0 APA 662 Clinical Practice III 2.0 APA 663 Clinical Practice IV 2.0
Education/Leadership Concentration+
Elective Course Course Name Credit Hours APA 506A Evidence-Based Medicine for Educators 5.0 APA 507A Medical Writing for Educators 5.0 APA 630 Curriculum Development & Implementation 5.0 APA 631 Leadership and Administrative Issues in Higher Education 5.0 APA 632 Educational Concepts 5.0 APA 633 Assessment & Evaluation 5.0 APA 634 Current Topics in Education 5.0 APA 637 Technology in Education 5.0
Course Descriptions
APA 501: Health Care Delivery Systems+
This course will survey the U.S. healthcare delivery system and review the financial issues that face our system. Particular focus will be on those issues that directly affect the practicing Physician Assistant. The student will undertake an in depth review of managed care, reimbursement, and other economic/financial issues.
APA 503: Ethical Issues in PA Practice+
In this advanced, intensive course, the student will review, analyze, and study the theories and themes of medical/bioethics. Emphasis will be given to the role of the practicing Physician Assistant in the integration of ethical practice with use of case study discussions.
APA 505: PA Professional Practice Issues+
This course is a review, discussion, and analysis of the issues that face the practicing Physician Assistant. The student will learn about the future of the PA profession, including economic trends, reimbursement, nonclinical roles, and legal issues.
APA 506: Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Research Design+
This course introduces students to the concepts of evidence-based medicine and medical research design, while stressing the examination of the best available evidence as a basis for clinical decision-making. The student learns to construct well-built clinical questions and to perform medical literature searches that yield evidence-based results. Methods for critically appraising the medical literature are emphasized throughout the course, as well as strategies for maintaining medical knowledge.
APA 506A: Evidence-Based Medicine for Educators+
In addition to completing the requirements for APA-506, this course will stress the teaching of EBM for clinical decision-making. The student will design teaching modules based on material in the APA-506 course. .
APA 507: Medical Writing+
This course is designed to provide the practicing healthcare provider with knowledge and skills in medical writing such as articles for biomedical journals, case reports, reports of clinical studies, review articles, editorials, and book reviews. Topics include: the writing process, writing technique, common writing problems, choosing the right journal, and working with journal editors and reviewers. Students also investigate their chosen research topic through the development of a research proposal.
APA 507A: Medical Writing for Educators+
This course is designed to provide the skills to write multiple choice questions for PA students.
APA 620,621,622,623 Clinical Medicine+
These are advanced clinical courses designed to augment and update the existing clinical skills and knowledge of the Physician Assistant. Upon completion of these courses, students will understand and be able to clinically apply advanced principles of evaluation, diagnosis, and management of disease consistent with the physician assistant scope of practice in these critical areas. Evaluation of advanced case studies and dicussions highlight this area of concentration.
APA 630: Curriculum Development and Implementation+
Students explore such topics as Course Goals and Learning Objectives, Developing a Syllabus, Instructional Design Models, Instructional Delivery Methods and Evaluation Tools. Other topics covered are; Developing a Course Rationale, Refining Intended Learning Outcomes, Forming and Organizing Units of a Course, Developing General Teaching Strategies, and Planning Course Evaluations.
APA 631: Leadership and Administrative Issues in Higher Education+
This course is designed to provide the student with an introduction to the organization and management of health professions programs and to assist the student with developing skills necessary to contribute to the successful administration of a program. Also, Students will explore a variety of current topics in higher education, specifically PA or other health professions education. Some topics covered: Academic Law, Understanding Organizational Structure in Higher Education, Faculty – Administration, Contracts, Academic Rank & Tenure, and Budgets. Students will also consider and analyze case studies covering the following topics: Academic Dishonesty, Remediation, The Problem Student, and Instructor/Student Relationships.
APA 632: Educational Concepts+
This course is designed as an introduction to educational concepts. Students will gain an iunderstanding of educational philosophy, major learning style theories and their application within educational practice. Students will identify their predominant learning and teaching styles and explore how to incorporate various strategies to improve teaching effectiveness. This course examines the use of instructional design models to create instructional materials that focus on the needs of learners in the health professions. Some topics covered are: Adult Learning Theories, Pedagogy versus Androgogy, Cooperative Learning, Assessment and Evaluation.
APA 633: Assessment & Evaluation+
Student assessment and program evaluation are central to curriculum design. Student assessment seeks to determine how effectively students have learned content and skills. Program evaluation provides evidence of whether the instructional unit, program, or course has been effective. This course will address these two topics. Students learn about educational assessment models and explore issues and trends in assessment and evaluation that may shape curriculum design. Other topics include Testing & Student Assessment, Program Evaluation, and Issues & Trends in Educational Assessment and Evaluation.
APA 634: Current Topics in Education+
This course is intended to present a broad exploration of contemporary issues influencing higher education with an emphasis on medical education. Expertise will be fostered by exploring selected issues and trends in medical education and education as a whole. The student, whether new to academia or a veteran health professions educator, will expand his or her knowledge of critical issues confronting health educators through the course content.
APA 637: Technology in Education+
This course is designed to provide the student with an introduction to using educational technology in the traditional and online education classroom. This course will also assist with developing skills in use and application of various educational technologies to meet instructional needs. Some topics covered include: Using Technology in the Classroom, Investigation of Educational Administrative Software, and Online Education.
APA 660,661,662,663 Clinical Practice+
Students must document 400 hours of patient and hours logs for the entire program. Students are responsible for arranging clinical locations. In many instances, this will be in the PA's current practice setting.
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Leaping hedgehog probes planned for Martian moon Phobos
Spiky systems use flywheels for low-gravity scouting
Researchers at Stanford University and NASA are designing spiky spherical probes to bounce across the Martian moon Phobos and prepare the way for possible astronaut colonization.
The plan calls for an orbital control satellite, a coffee table–sized unit dubbed Phobos Surveyor, which would scan the moon's surface using gamma ray or neutron detectors to get an idea of the surface composition. It would then fire the "hedgehogs" down onto the Phobian surface, where their prongs would sample the soil.
Given the tiny amount of gravity on the moon's surface, wheels would be useless to get around, so the probes are controlled by tri-directional flywheels. These could force the probe to either roll, hop, or bound longer distances across the surface, depending on the rotation speed of individual flywheels.
"You can get into very hard rocky terrain, or very soft, almost like powder, terrain," said doctoral candidate Ross Allen. "Whatever's touching the ground needs to get traction on hard stuff without getting stuck on soft stuff."
Over a two or three year mission, the Phobos Surveyor could gather a full sample spectrum of the moon's surface and relay it back to Earth. Scientists could jump the probes to new survey spots chosen by the Surveyor's scans and sample specific areas of the heavily cratered moon.
Hedgehogs in spaaaace!
"It's the next level of autonomy in space," said the probe's designer, Marco Pavone, an assistant professor in Stanford's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
While the technique would be suitable for other low-gravity environments like asteroids and comets, Phobos is the suggested first target. This is partially to work out what the moon actually is, and also to map it out for a possible manned base.
Phobos is rather unusual as Solar System moons go – it orbits closer to the surface of its host planet than any other moon and is so dark as to be difficult to spot at times. It's suspected the moon is a captured rubble-pile asteroid, with a third of its volume made up of hollow spaces, but Pavone suggested the moon has a key advantage as a base for human exploration of Mars.
With no gravity well to speak of, Phobos would be safer and cheaper to land humans on, and the closeness to the surface is an advantage for controlling exploration vehicles remotely. There may also be considerable quantities of water on the moon that could provide resources for a base, but this needs to be checked.
"It's a piece of technology that's needed before any more expensive type of exploration is considered," Pavone said. "Before sampling we need to know where to land. We need to deploy rovers to acquire info about the surface."
So far, two generations of prototypes have been built and tested in simulated low-gravity environments to check the flywheel transport system. A third-generation system is due to be put through its paces next summer, including testing the probe's mobility in actual zero-gravity using swooping aircraft, although presumably without the spikes.
The final system could be ready in ten years, but if the team gets moving they might hitch a ride with Curiosity v2.0 at the end of the decade. A full paper on the project will be presented at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Aerospace Conference in March. ®


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J. Edgar Hoover once called Vernon Miller a hothead. The incident that sparked the remark changed the World War II Navy vet�s career path.
BLUEWATER BAY � J. Edgar Hoover once called Vernon Miller a hothead.
The incident that sparked the remark changed the World War II Navy vet�s career path. Instead of joining the FBI, Miller joined the Air Force and eventually retired from the reserves as a colonel.
Miller earned the �hothead� moniker after returning from wartime duty aboard the USS Whale. He earned 11 battle stars as a radioman aboard the Gato class submarine.
When an Army veteran accused Miller of joining the Navy to dodge the draft and fighting on the front line, Miller punched him. The charges were dropped several days later, but the records were there for Hoover and the FBI to see.
Becoming an FBI agent required a law degree, and Miller had earned one before Hoover�s observation. He had no interest in becoming a civilian attorney, however, and ended up putting the degree to use with the Air Force in the judge advocate general�s department (JAG) and later an international relations officer.
�I was dealing with Air Force bases no matter where in the hell they were,� said Miller, who is retired and now lives in Bluewater Bay.
The constant travel sparked an interest that, at nearly 88 years old, still hasn�t died. To date, Miller has visited 98 countries. In the first two months of this year, he wracked up 37,000 miles. In August, he went on a two-month European jaunt.
�I�m alone, bored to death and will do anything to get out of here,� Miller said.
He isn�t trying to escape, per se. Miller loves his country. He enlisted in the Navy during World War II and in the Air Force during the Korean War because of his deep sense of patriotism.
Miller�s dad was a wounded veteran of World War I. Both of his sons graduated from the Naval Academy. Together he and his sons have more than 90 years of military experience.
For Miller, people are the greatest draw to travel. He is a people watcher and has a lifetime of stories to share. Some of his best travel memories are wrapped in the people he has met along the way.
When he is lost or has a question in a foreign country, Miller seeks out the teens and college students because they are more likely to know English. It never ceases to amaze him how kind and respectful they are to him.
On his last trip, a young woman in Budapest, Hungary, tried to give up her bus seat to him. She later got off of the bus at Miller�s stop when he appeared to be lost and was willing to miss her bus home to ensure she helped him.
�You can�t help but get a nice feeling from that,� Miller said. �They have the courteous habit of offering you a seat, not just occasionally, but always � throughout Europe. They almost insist.�
He also is a history buff. He brings his laptop with him and reads up on the history of the places he visits.
He often invites family members along for the excursions. He took his granddaughter on the first leg of his last European trip before his daughter-in-law joined him later. Miller has golfed with his son in Scotland and circled the world with his wife.
Nearly 20 years ago, Miller penned his memoirs. The chapters included growing up in upstate New York; war stories on the USS Whale; years raising his daughter and two sons; and competing in the Senior Olympics, where he won 13 medals, four of them gold.
Life did not end with the last chapter. Miller now is working on Appendix I, stories of this year�s travels. Undoubtedly, Appendix J will include more travels, more Senior Olympics � and more people.


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In the massive mobilization during World War I (1914-1918; U.S. involvement 1917-1918), the state of West Virginia passed the nation's first compulsory work law in May, 1917, just a month after U.S. entry. A number of other states, including Delaware (1917) and Massachusetts (1918), followed with their own compulsory work laws. Similar peacetime laws had been found constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1916. Ironically, these laws came as similar laws were created in Russia by the newly dominant Bolshevik (later Soviet) party. All of the U.S. state laws were repealed after the war. In 1930, the United States signed conventions outlawing compulsory labor and the idea of compulsory work in the United States was not reintroduced during World War II. One of the charges laid against the leaders of Nazi Germany during the Nuremberg Trials after the war related to the compulsory labor that regime required of its conquered peoples. Compulsory labor has been banned in most of the world since.
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SEMI Urges Presidential Candidates to Commit to Technology Leadership
Association Proposes Policy Agenda to Support American High-Tech Manufacturing Supply Chain
WASHINGTON, D.C. – July 14, 2008 – SEMI North America, the regional division of the global industry association, today wrote to presidential candidates Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), urging them to make technology policy a top priority. The association, which represents manufacturers of equipment and materials used to make semiconductor, photovoltaics, flat panel displays and related technologies, detailed six key areas directly affecting the industry. These areas are: federal R&D investment, the R&D tax credit, the solar energy investment tax credit, high-skills immigration reform, trade policy and intellectual property protection.
The semiconductor equipment and materials industry supplies enabling technologies necessary to produce every semiconductor-based product including cellular phones, computers, medical devices, and many other high-tech products. The U.S.-based semiconductor equipment and materials industry employs roughly 100,000 people and has facilities in 37 states. In addition, U.S.-based firms make up about 39 percent of the US$ 85 billion market.
"The semiconductor equipment and materials industry is absolutely critical to the American economy and our global competitiveness," said Victoria Hadfield, president of SEMI North America. "SEMI strongly supports initiatives aimed at supporting U.S.-based companies that provide new manufacturing technologies and materials that enable a wide range of microelectronics and other electronic products to be faster, more powerful and affordable. These issues should be a key part of the campaign debate and top priorities for the next Administration."
SEMI urges the presidential candidates to commit to:
Federal Investment in R&D
SEMI urges the U.S. government to double federal R&D investments in key science agencies over the next seven years to reverse steadily declining domestic investment in basic research.
Permanent R&D Tax Credit
SEMI urges the government to improve and permanently extend the federal R&D tax credit. This credit helps make the U.S. a more attractive location to base R&D, but the last credit expired at the end of 2007 and has lapsed several times since it was created. While temporary tax credits are useful, SEMI contends that they do not allow companies to plan over the long term.
Solar Energy Investment Tax Credit
SEMI urges the U.S. government to demonstrate its commitment to the development of alternative energies through the extension of the solar energy investment tax credit. Renewal of this tax credit would strengthen an important high-tech industry that provides a critical alternative energy and promotes its use in the U.S. In addition, SEMI believes that such a credit would attract new investment in the U.S., which would create new jobs and spur economic growth.
Bolster Science and Technology Education and Reform High Skills Immigration Policy
While we must do more to strengthen the U.S. education system and attract more Americans to scientific fields, an efficient immigration system that welcomes highly-educated foreign nationals to the U.S. workforce is critical to the American economy. Therefore, the association urges the government to increase the cap on H-1B visas and to streamline the path to citizenship for people with advanced degrees in critical scientific fields.
Exports and Open Markets
SEMI strongly supports efforts to keep international trade expansion as an economic priority. Because the semiconductor equipment and materials industry is heavily dependent on exports, SEMI supports revising export controls to reflect the current state of technology, the changing global economic environment, and the actual relationships between semiconductor equipment and security interests.
Intellectual Property Protection
SEMI urges the U.S. government to work with trading partners to ensure that they have effective IP protection and enforcement policies and to ensure that they adhere to their IP commitments.
For more information on SEMI Public Policy initiatives, visit www.semi.org.
SEMI is the global industry association serving the manufacturing supply chains for the microelectronic, display and photovoltaic industries. SEMI member companies are the engine of the future, enabling smarter, faster and more economical products that improve our lives. Since 1970, SEMI has been committed to helping members grow more profitably, create new markets and meet common industry challenges. SEMI maintains offices in Austin, Beijing, Brussels, Hsinchu, Moscow, San Jose, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.semi.org.
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'Make all the studies you can from nature' was the advice given to Thomas Barker by his sponsor Charles Spackman when he set off to Italy. The young artist took note, and spent so many hours sketching scenes like these outdoors that he once almost died of sunstroke! Barker was born in Pontypool, but later moved to Bath. The sombre colours and bold brushstrokes used here are typical of his style.


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— The conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire Tuesday launched a website collecting petitions calling on the Obama adminstration to offer "Obamacare" exemptions to average Amercians.
AFP-NH said the administration has given exemptions to numerous groups, including members of Congress, labor unions and employers in House Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi's congressional district.
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The two main functions of data mining are classification and prediction (or forecasting). Data mining helps you make sense of those countless gigabytes of raw data stored in databases by finding important patterns and rules present in the data or derived from it. Analysts then use this knowledge to make predictions and recommendations about new or future data. The main business applications of data mining are learning who your customers are and what they need, understanding where the sales are coming from and what factors affect them, fashioning marketing strategies, and predicting future business indicators.
With the release of SQL Server 2000, Microsoft rebranded OLAP Services as Analysis Services to reflect the addition of newly developed data-mining capabilities. The data-mining toolset in SQL Server 2000 included only two classical analysis algorithms (Clustering and Decision Trees), a special-purpose data-mining management and query-expression language named DMX, and limited client-side controls, viewers, and development tools.
SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services comes with a greatly expanded set of data-mining methods and an array of completely new client-side analysis and development tools designed to cover most common business intelligence (BI) needs. The Business Intelligence Framework in SQL Server 2005 offers a new data-mining experience for analysts and developers alike.
Let's quickly review the data-mining process. Then we'll explore the seven data-mining algorithms available in the SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services framework and briefly look at the "plug-in" technology that can help you add new and custom algorithms to that framework. Although we couldn't specifically address the data-mining UI design here, the snapshots included in several examples will give you a good first look at the power and usability of the new client-side tools.
Mining the Data
The design and deployment of a data-mining application consists of seven logical steps. First, you prepare the data sources: Identify the databases and connection protocols you want to use. Next, you describe the data-source views—that is, list tables that contain data for analysis. Third, define the mining structure by describing which columns you want to use in the models. The fourth step is to build mining models. SQL Server 2005 gives you seven data-mining algorithms to choose from—you can even apply several methods in parallel to each mining structure, as Figure 1 shows. The fifth step is called processing—that's where you get the mining models to "extract knowledge" from the data arriving from the data sources. Sixth, you evaluate the results. Using client-side viewers and accuracy charts, you can present the patterns and predictions to analysts and decision makers, then make necessary adjustments. Finally, incorporate data mining into your overall data-management routine—having identified the methods that work best, you'll have to reprocess the models periodically in order to track new data patterns. For instance, if your data source is email and your models predict spam, you'll need to retrain the models often to keep up with evolving spammer tactics.
Here's a quick example of a useful mining model. Let's say you're interested in identifying major groups of potential customers based on census data that includes occupational, demographic, and income profiles of the population. A good method for identifying large, characteristic census groups is to use the Clustering algorithm. This algorithm segments the population into clusters so that people in one cluster are similar and people in different clusters are dissimilar in one or more ways. To examine those clusters, you can use a tool called Microsoft Cluster Viewer (a standard Analysis Services 2005 component). Figure 2 shows one of the four views, giving you a side-by-side comparison of all the clusters. For instance, Clusters 6 and 7 correspond to persons not on active military duty. But Cluster 7 represents people who work longer hours for more income; the top row also suggests that people in Cluster 7 are mostly married.
Prediction and Mutual Prediction
Suppose you've selected just one column (e.g., Income) in a huge data table, designated that column as Prediction target, and now you're trying to make some predictions. But you probably won't get far by looking at just one column. You can compute the statistical mean and the variance range, but that's about it.
Instead, select specific values for one or more other columns (e.g., Age, Years of Experience, Education, Workload in census data tables) and focus only on those data rows that correspond to the selected values. You'll likely find within this subset of rows that the values of the target column fall into a relatively narrow range—now you can predict the values in the target column with some degree of certainty. In data-mining terms, we say that those other columns predict the target column.
Figure 3 shows a snapshot the Dependency Network (DepNet) data-mining control. This DepNet is a diagram where arrows show which of the census columns predict which others. Some of the edges (nodes) have arrows pointing both ways; this is called mutual prediction. Mutual prediction between A and B means that setting values of A reduces the uncertainty in column B, but also the other way around—picking a value of B would reduce the uncertainty of A.
All Microsoft data-mining techniques can track prediction, but different algorithms make predictions in different ways. As we examine the other data-mining methods, we point out the prediction specifics of each method.
Decision Trees
Prediction is the main idea behind the Microsoft Decision Trees (DT) algorithm. The knowledge that a DT model contains can be represented graphically in tree form, but it could also appear in the form of "node rules." For example, in a census decision tree for Income, a rule such as (Gender = Male and 1 < YearsWorked < 2) could describe a tree node containing the income statistics for males in their second year on the job. This node corresponds to a well-defined subpopulation of workers, and you should be able to make fairly specific predictions with regards to their income. Indeed, one of the census models gave the following formula under the condition of (Gender = Male and 1 < YearsWorked < 2):
According to this formula, INCOME is defined mostly by YRSSRV and weekly overtime. (Note that this is just an example and not based on representative census data.) To obtain this equation in a visually simple way, you could use the Decision Tree viewer to view the Income tree and zoom in on a node corresponding to the gender and yearsworked values of interest, as the typical snapshot in Figure 4 shows.
The rule and the formula we've discovered identify gender, years of service, years worked, weekly hours, and workload as predictors for income. Because YRSSRV, HOURS, and WORKLWK appear in the above formula for INCOME, they're also called regressors. A decision tree that hosts such predictive formulas is called a regression tree.
Time Series
The Time Series algorithm introduces the concept of past, present, and future into the prediction business. This algorithm not only selects the best predictors for a prediction target but also identifies the most likely time periods during which you can expect to notice the effect of each predicting factor. For example, having built a model involving monthly primary economic indices, you might learn that the expected Yen-to-USD currency conversion rate today depends most strongly on the mortgage rate of 2 months ago and is related to the industrial production index of 7 months ago and per capita income of 6 to 7 months ago.
Figure 5 shows a data-mining control called Node Legend that gives a graphical view of these dependencies. The long left-side blue bar next to Mort30 Yr (-2) indicates a negative correlation between Yen to USD and the mortgage rate 2 months ago—meaning that with time, as one value goes up, the other value goes down. The purple curve (for Yen to USD) and the yellow curve (for the mortgage rate) in Figure 6 offer a nice graphical representation of this opposing movement of rates. Smaller blue bars in Figure 5 indicate that the exchange rate is to some extent self-sustaining; indeed, they highlight the fact that the rate today correlates well with the Yen-to-USD rate a month ago (coefficient 0.656) and somewhat with the rate 2 months ago (coefficient -0.117). So, when refinancing to a lower rate, you might consider cashing out and investing in Yen-backed securities—but first, you need to look at the prediction variances (and of course keep mum about the entire scheme).
Clustering and Sequence Clustering
A new feature of Microsoft Clustering algorithms is their ability to find a good cluster count for your model based on the properties of the training data. The number of clusters should be manageably small, but a cluster model should have a reasonably high predictive power. You can request either of the clustering algorithms to pick a suitable cluster count based on a balance between these two objectives.
Microsoft Sequence Clustering is a new algorithm that you can think of as order-sensitive clustering. Often, the order of items in a data record doesn't matter (think of a shopping basket), but sometimes it's crucial (think of flights on an itinerary or letters in a DNA code). When data contains ordered sequences of items, the overall frequencies of these items don't matter as much as what each sequence starts and ends with, as well as all the transitions in between.
Our favorite example that shows the benefits of Sequence Clustering is the analysis of Web click-stream data. Figure 7 shows an example of a browsing graph of a certain group of visitors to a Web site. An arrow into a Web page node is labeled with the probability of a viewer transitioning to that Web page from the arrow's starting point. In the example cluster, news and home are the viewer's most likely starting pages (note the incoming arrow with a probability of 0.40 into the news node and the probability 0.37 arrow into the home node). There's a 62 percent probability that a news browser will still be browsing news at the next click (note the 0.62 probability arrow from the news node into itself), but the browsers starting at home are likely to jump to either local, sport, or weather. A transition graph such as the one in Figure 7 is the main component of each sequence cluster, plus a sequence cluster can contain everything an ordinary cluster would.
Naive Bayes Models and Neural Networks
These algorithms build two kinds of predictive models. The Microsoft Naïve Bayes (NB) algorithm is the quickest, although somewhat limited, method of sorting out relationships between data columns. It's based on the simplifying hypothesis that, when you evaluate column A as a predictor for target columns B1, B2, and so on, you can disregard dependencies between those target columns. Thus, in order to build an NB model, you only need to learn dependencies in each (predictor, target) pair. To do so, the Naïve Bayes algorithm computes a set of conditional probabilities, such as this one, drawn from census data:
Probability( Marital = "Single" | Military = "On Active Duty" ) = 0.921
This formula shows that the probability of a person being single while on active duty is quite different from the overall, population-wide probability of being single (which is approximately 0.4), so you can conclude that military status is a good predictor of marital status.
The Neural Networks (NN) methodology is probably the oldest kind of prediction modeling and possibly the hardest to describe in a few words. Imagine that the values in the data columns you want to predict are outputs of a "black box" and the values in the potential predictor data columns are inputs to the same black box. Inside the box are several layers of virtual "neurons" that are connected to each other as well as to input and output wires.
The NN algorithm is designed to figure out what's inside the box, given the inputs and the corresponding outputs that are already recorded in your data tables. Once you've learned the internal structure from the data, you can predict the output values (i.e., values in target columns) when you have the input values.
Association Rules
The Association Rules algorithm is geared toward analyzing transactional data, also known as market-basket data. Its main use is for high-performance prediction in cross-sell data-mining applications. This algorithm operates in terms of itemsets. It takes in raw transaction records, such as the one that Figure 8 shows, and builds a sophisticated data structure for keeping track of counts of items (e.g., products) in the dataset. The algorithm creates groups of items (the itemsets) and gathers statistical counts for them. For Figure 8's tiny sample record, the statistics would look like Figure 9.
One of the most important parameters of a model is a threshold for excluding unpopular items and itemsets. This parameter is called the minimum support. In the preceding example, if you set the minimum support to 2, the only itemsets retained will be <Bread>, <Milk>, and <Bread, Milk>.
The result of the algorithm is the collection of itemsets and rules derived from the data. Each rule comes with a score called a lift score and a certain support value larger than or equal to the minimum support. The lift score measures how well the rule predicts the target item. Once the algorithm finds the interesting rules, you can easily use them to get product recommendations for your cross-sell Web sites or direct-mail materials.
Third-Party Algorithms (Plug-Ins)
The seven Microsoft algorithms pack a lot of power, but they might not give you the kind of knowledge or prediction patterns you need. If this is the case, you can develop a custom algorithm and host it on the Analysis Server. To fit into the data-mining framework, your algorithm needs to implement five main COM interfaces:
- The algorithm-factory interface is responsible for the creation and disposal of the algorithm instances.
- The metadata interface ensures access to the algorithm's parameters.
- The algorithm interface is responsible for learning the mining models and making predictions based on these models.
- The persistence interface supports the saving and loading of the mining models.
- The navigation interface ensures access to the contents of these models.
Some of these interfaces are elaborate and take getting used to, but implementation templates are available in the Tutorials and Samples part of the SQL Server 2005 documentation. After you implement and register your algorithm as a COM object, hooking it up to the Analysis Server is as easy as adding a few lines to the server configuration.
When the algorithm is ready and hooked up, its functionality immediately becomes available through the tools in the Business Intelligence Development Studio and SQL Server Management Studio. Analysis Server treats the new algorithm as its own and takes care of all object access and query support.
Dig In
Analysis Services 2005 represents a complete redesign of Microsoft's BI platform. Embracing .NET, XML for Analysis, and ADOMD.NET, it offers an array of powerful new algorithms, full-featured designers, and viewers. Even bigger news is how open and transparent the platform has become. With Analysis Services 2005's new client APIs, plug-in algorithm capabilities, server object model, managed user-defined functions (UDFs), and complete Microsoft Visual Studio integration, there's virtually no limit to what a motivated BI developer can do.


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DmC Devil May Cry demo test: what's in a look?
DmC: Devil May Cry has received its first public demo from Capcom and Ninja Theory. VG247's Dave Cook goes hands on to discuss why we shouldn't be getting hung up on looks.
They knew that they had a good game in the making, they just couldn't get it into your hands to prove it. But thanks to the demo that launched on Xbox 360 today, everyone has a chance to try it for themselves and make a more educated evaluation of the game's quality.
It's a sad day when a developer is savaged by the internet populace for how a game character looks. DmC: Devil May Cry is being treated as a reboot after all, suggesting that even Capcom felt that Dante and his world of demons, smack-talk and blistering combos was in need of change.
That change comes courtesy of Ninja Theory, and when the studio revealed its first trailer with a younger, scrawnier and raven-haired Dante in chains, the internet went bat-shit crazy.
Fans volleyed off death threats towards the studio and its publisher, vowed to boycott the game and more – all of this before a single second of actual gameplay was shown. Can such premature evaluations be justified without actually sitting down to play the ruddy thing?
I'm not so sure that they can, but then again I'm a 'benefit of the doubt' kind of guy. I'm happy for developers to surprise me, and even if 'new' Dante's appearance caught me off guard a little too, I'm always excited to see what happens when a new studio takes over an existing IP.
I've interviewed Capcom twice regarding DmC: Devil May Cry – check out my first chat with them here – and it's sad to see how down the developers were with the reaction to Dante's appearance.
It's sad because they knew that they had a good game in the making, they just couldn't get it into your hands to prove it. But thanks to the demo that launched on Xbox 360 today, everyone has a chance to try it for themselves and make a more educated evaluation of the game's quality.
Some may still hate it, and that's fine, because at least then they will have actually tried the game and based their conclusion on something tangible – instead of the colour of someone's hair, or the way they dress.
The hack 'n slash is a big favourite of mine, and Bayonetta is confidently one of my most-enjoyed games of the generation, so I was keen to try the demo for myself and see how Ninja Theory's effort stacked up.
Dante duo
Split into two missions, the first is called 'Under Watch', and this is the same mission Capcom has been showcasing at game expos recently. It's a tutorial of sorts, giving you a broad idea of the many tools and tricks Dante can use to decimate his foes and get around the environment.
It opens with a cut-scene that lays out the state of the demon world, which is being ruled by crippling propaganda, drug-laden soft drinks, surveillance cameras on every street, and a brutal financial divide.
Shortly after the demo begins Dante is dragged into Limbo, a parallel dimension that exists alongside reality. It's here you must fight your first enemies, and it's surprising how quickly the old Devil May Cry mindset comes back into play.
One button unleashes sword attacks, another performs launchers, and a third lets rip with Dante's pistols Ebony and Ivory. Just like the original games it's possible to keep your combo chain going between enemies by using firearms as you close distance.
You can also get in close by using Dante's grapple hook device. You can use Angel Lift to pull Dante closer to enemies and to zip around the environment, or you can use Demon Pull to drag enemies towards you, as well as pulling about parts of the scenery.
It's a great combo chaining mechanic, and it sees Dante flitting around the environment at high speed while stringing together combos. It feels like classic Devil May Cry as you start to toy around with the possibilities of the combo tree.
I found myself battering demons with a flurry of sword swipes, hitting a juggler, then continuing the assaultin mid-air, sending them flying. I'd then use Demon Pull to pull them back to me before slamming them down to the ground. It's immensely satisfying, but the possibilities don't end there.
Holding left trigger and hitting either attack or juggle unleashes the Osiris, a long scythe that can be used to execute fast, light swipes, as well as hooking enemies in close and spinning it around like a lethal pin-wheel. It's great for crowd control.
Do the same while holding right trigger and Dante will use the Arbiter, a short, but devastating axe that will cause shielded enemies to break their stance, leaving them open to rapid follow-up strikes.
Together this whole tool set gives rise to a wealth of opportunity that fans of the series will surely enjoy at a mechanical level – complaints about the art direction or 'new' Dante aside. There are plenty of other weapons on offer that we haven't seen yet, so the possibilities will only grow from here.
In terms of handling this is a fast paced entry that has more in common with Devil May Cry 3, given that players can switch between a large weapon set on the fly. Thankfully in keeping in line with previous games in the series, there is also no block button meaning that dodges and counters are your only real defence.
There is more scope for platforming here, as Dante runs around the shifting city as it tries to kill him. You'll jump over bottomless chasms, leap over cracked streets and zipline around using Angel Lift. it works fine, but it's not quote matching Uncharted levels of finesse.
Then again, that kind of platforming wouldn't have a place in a Devil May Cry game, so it's probably for the best. But one thing a good DmC game does need is bosses, and this is the focus of the demo's second level 'Secret Ingredient'.
It sees Dante battling a giant grub in a lava-filled cavern. It's also got a foul mouth, spewing obscenities at Dante as the pair troll each other during a cut-scene. The banter is cracking and gives rise to a few chuckles.
Again, some naysayers may sit there straining as they try to avoid laughing, but this is some funny stuff, even if it is a little puerile. Previous Devil May Cry dialogue often verged on the embarrassingly silly in an attempt to be cool, and Ninja Theory's script is certainly a degree smarter, but not by much.
The boss battle is simple enough: hit its hands and dodge its bile and punch attacks while trying to hit the glowing weak spot on its head. This is a basic battle, but it could be an early boss for all we know.
Once it's hurt, Dante will drop kick it into the middle of the room as it dangles by two tubes. You then have to use Angel Lift to zip around to higher ground and pull the pipes apart. It's certainly not as inventive as anything Bayonetta provides, but it's enjoyable and cinematic enough.
Visually this is an imaginative effort, but you can tell it has been worked on for a while. It's certainly no slouch however, and only the most technically conscious of gamers will cry foul at the game's lack of 60 FPS mode. It looks slick enough.
My main concerns – as acceptable as the demo may be – are that Dante's combo-set could hit a wall too early if most of the gear is doled out at the start. I'm also concerned that the game will run out of new things to do, and resort to pitting you in just another area with more demons to fight.
The demo doesn't suggest anything about my fears, and like many of you with reservations I'll need to wait until the final game comes out to see if they're justified concerns, but for now I'm fairly confident that Ninja Theory has delivered the goods on this one.
We'll know more when the game launches on January 15th, but for now, check out the demo and let us know what you think below.


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We used to be a cranberry sauce from the can family, which is why I also used to be a cranberry sauce hater. The sight of that Jell-O like cylinder of sauce sliding out from a can, with ridge impressions intact, was incredibly off-putting to me. For reasons I still can't quite figure out, that visual was haunting, and I could never find joy in cranberry sauce. For a big portion of my life, I couldn't understand why this disappointing sauce was such a beloved part of an otherwise awesome meal.
Then one year things changed. The can was absent, and instead my Mother had bought a bag of fresh cranberries that she turned into a sauce, with only a ten-minute investment of effort in the kitchen. She boozed that one up with a little too much bourbon, but still, I got a taste of what a fresh cranberry sauce could be—tart and sweet, with a pleasing fruity flavor and a texture that has a nice jam-like quality.
Since then I've done a complete 180 and have become a cranberry sauce fiend, taking over the making of this holiday staple, and finding new ways to enhance it each year.
My process has been exactly what Kenji described a while back—boil cranberries with sugar, water, and salt until they start to pop, then mash them against the side of the pot and keep cooking until the sauce thickens and gets jammy. It's fast, simple, delicious, and open to so many variations that it never gets old.
In preparation for the meal this year, I toyed with five different recipes, including:
Basic Cranberry Sauce
The original base is comprised of cranberries, sugar, water, and salt. I always add a least a couple tablespoons of fresh orange juice into my basic recipe as well—the sweet citrus is a nice compliment to the tartness of cranberries.
Spiced Wine Cranberry Sauce
Taking inspiration from another fall comfort—mulled wine—this version swaps the water for red wine and adds in holiday spice in the form of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and allspice. Molasses and maple syrup give the sweetness an extra depth as well, making this the most layered of the lot.
Cranberry Sauce with Candied Pecans
Nuts are a common add-in for cranberry sauce, but this recipe takes things a little further by first toasting the pecans with a spiced brown sugar glaze. Once chopped and added into the prepared sauce after it's cooled slightly, the finished product has a sweet and nutty crunch.
Pear and Ginger Cranberry Sauce
Pear and ginger are a great contrasting pair, and work very well together in this cranberry sauce variation. I used a double dose of ginger—both grated fresh ginger as well as chopped crystallized ginger that I mixed in at the end. The ginger flavor was sharp here, but delicious. If you want a little bit less edge to this sauce, cut back on the crystallized ginger or omit it completely.
Apple-Orange Cranberry Sauce
This apple-orange version was born out of necessity: I had a ton of leftover apples and oranges from other Thanksgiving recipe tests. It ended up being one of my favorite combos—the Granny Smith apples built on the already tart and sweet profile, and the addition of extra orange juice and zest gave the sauce a brighter flavor than any of the other recipes.
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Budget DSLRs group test
For truly professional-looking photography, you need an interchangeable lens camera, most commonly a digital SLR (DSLR). And, while digital compact camera ownership is static in the UK – and in decline elsewhere – sales of DSLRs continue to rise. They're physically bulkier, yes, but they offer more features for your money than ever – and you can pick them up at increasingly competitive prices too.
For example, five or six years a ago a DSLR body and lens combination would set you back the best part of £1,000; now a comparable setup won't cost much more than £300, with a bit of shopping around.
Dealers' online sites, and, of course, eBay, often feature great deals on recently replaced models for those looking to get a bit more bang for their buck. Just because a new model is out doesn't mean its predecessor isn't worth considering, as slightly faster operation and a boost to resolution are often the only improvements to a model.
That said, the six DSLRs we've chosen here – all available at around £500 or under with standard zoom lens – are current models at the time of writing. To ensure a level playing field, we've collected together our examples based on the latest recommended prices as stated by the manufacturer.
This means that with a bit of research, in the vast majority of cases you'll be able to find them cheaper still – there are still great deals to be had, even on new stock. Bear in mind, too, that DSLRs tend to hold their value, replaced on average once a year or less, compared to every six months for a pocket digital camera.
With all this in mind, what are the features and functionality you should be looking for in a DSLR? Build quality aside, how about Live View, where the LCD screen can be used to both compose and review shots; in-body or lens-only image stabilisation to help avoid blurry shots; dust reduction or prevention to prevent spots on the sensor showing up in images; and, if you're lucky, HD video recording alongside stills.
It's worth remembering that when buying a DSLR you're not just buying a camera – you're locking into your chosen manufacturer's system, each offering varying amounts of swappable lenses, accessories and support. So let's see what each has to offer...


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Irish banquet a great prelude to St. Paddy's day parade
It takes some good cooking to put on a St. Patrick's Day Parade.
And the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick have just the menu, which includes much more than the traditional corned beef and cabbage. This Saturday, the Friendly Sons host their 118th banquet to raise funds for the parade on Sunday, March 17.
The banquet includes step dancers and the ceremonial induction of Sen. Michael McCaffrey as the parade's grand marshal. Ms. Ireland, Jenna O'Connell, will also be crowned.
The cost of the banquet is $20 per person. It will be held at Club Jogues in Coventry with cocktails at 6:30 p.m., dinner at 7:30. Contact Friendly Sons member Jim O'Connell at 265-6925 to purchase tickets.
Funds raised by the banquet will be used to cover the costs of bands, police and buses used for transporting groups marching in the parade, totaling about $8,000. About 175 tickets have been sold for the banquet thus far. O'Connell hopes to sell 200-300 tickets.
The Pawtuxet Valley is represented in the parade each year, but "there's so much Warwick in this year's parade," said O'Connell. His uncle started the parades in 1959.
The Warwick Vets and the Toll Gate High School bands will both be marching in the Warwick division. West Warwick, Coventry and Cranston will also be represented with divisions in the parade. The Friendly Sons and the queen will make up the first division while the fire trucks will make up the sixth and final division.
O'Connell said 2011 was the first year they had a Warwick high school band in the parade since 1989. Last year, Toll Gate marched in the parade.
"It took Jenna to go to Vets to get some contacts," O'Connell said, speaking of his daughter, a Vets senior and this year's Ms. Ireland. He calls it a running joke since family friend Mayor Scott Avedisian couldn't book the high school bands.
The Friendly Sons were founded in 1895, making them the oldest Irish organization in the state. The parades began in 1959 and continue to be run by the Friendly Sons, which is comprised of about 10 active members.
Unlike the Providence, Pawtucket and Newport St. Patrick's Day parades, "we're responsible for the police, the buses, we pay for a lot of the bands to perform, we pay for the permits for the vendors," said O'Connell, not the state. Even 54 years later, the Pawtuxet Valley St. Patrick's Day parade has never been cancelled or postponed.
The parade runs the Sunday prior to St. Patrick's Day unless St. Patrick's Day falls on a Sunday. This year, March 17 is indeed a Sunday.
Mayor Avedisian will march in this year's parade, keeping up with his involvement since childhood. Parade chairman Michael O'Connell also believes Sen. Jack Reed and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse will be present, along with Gov. Lincoln Chafee.
Different dance groups in the area, including the KC Cats all-star cheerleaders from Coventry, Rita Beaulieu Dance and Gymnastics, also from Coventry, the Judi T. Dance Studio in West Warwick, and the Damhsa Irish Dance Studio from Warwick, will participate in the parade.
Police departments, Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops and the Rhode Island Highlanders Pipe Band will also march.
The parade usually boasts a turnout of 10,000 to 15,000.
People of all ethnic backgrounds play roles in the Irish celebration.
One of two antique farm trucks belonging to Vinny Confreda of Confreda Farms will appear in the parade. The truck is a red 1963 model and has been used in the parade for roughly the past 10 years. Confreda Farms has been in the family since 1922, with Confreda working full-time since 1976.
"We try to be very helpful," he said. One of his hay wagons will carry the Ms. Ireland float.
Rigatoni's of Warwick will cater the banquet for the second year in a row. Since Rigatoni's started catering, in fact, "we've actually made a profit at the banquet, which we've never done before," said O'Connell, "so that's a huge help to us."
James Bessette, owner of Rigatoni's for 13 years said, "we do a lot of banquets, a lot of fundraisers, we just try to do our share like everyone else."
He expects a shipment of 160 pounds of corn beef on Wednesday for the banquet.
Bessette said last year's banquet was "fantastic," and he has regularly attended the parades for the past five years.
The parade will begin at 1 p.m. at Iannotti Funeral Home, 415 Washington St., Coventry and end at the West Warwick Town Hall. An after-parade party will be held at the Elks Lodge on 60 Clyde St. in West Warwick. There will be corn beef sandwiches, hot dogs, hamburgers and fries. Donations will be accepted at the door. The after-party will also include Irish step dancers, pipe bands and trophies for categories such as best marching band and best float.


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Helicopter Ride - 20 minutes
Experience New York from the air and enjoy the breathtaking view over Manhattan with this 20-minute helicopter ride. See all of the famous landmarks, such as the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building. Prebook your tour from home and make your New York trip extra memorable!
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See the Famous Landmarks by Air
If you want to see the best of New York by air, then this is your chance! See all the best sites and New York's most famous landmarks from the air on this 20-minute helicopter ride.
Start your tour over the Hudson River, fly by Manhattan's Financial District and One World Trade Center, get a bird's eye view of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and Governors Island.
Continue on to the Empire State Building, Chrysler, Woolworth, and Met Life buildings, Verrazano Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Bridge along with New York harbor, the George Washington Bridge, and the world-renowned Central Park.
Before heading back to the heliport, you'll fly over Yankee Stadium*, Columbia University and the Palisades of New Jersey.
The tour is operated in English.
How does it work?
When you book your helicopter ride, choose the date you arrive in New York as 'Valid From' date, since your ticket is valid one month from the 'Valid from' date you choose.
Due to security reasons, it's important that you call Liberty Helicopters to arrange the exact time and date. Liberty Helicopter's phone number will be clearly marked on your e-ticket.
How do I get my tickets?
Shortly after your booking is complete, you will receive an e-ticket by mail. Please print out your ticket and bring it with you.
Where does the tour begin?
The tour starts from Downtown Manhattan Heliport Pier 6. You can see a map here.
How many does the helicopter fit?
Each helicopter fits 6 people.
Do I need to bring an ID?
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How long are my tickets valid?
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When can I go on my helicopter ride?
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Laura Frongillo 11/1/2004 9:03:32 AMit's amazing! I love the choice of showing only part of the face and a shoulder, it's beautiful #184373
Lori Ditlefsen 11/1/2004 9:14:23 AMBeautifully soft and elegant Jean! Nice work! #883213
Vern E. Wahlberg 11/1/2004 9:30:29 AMI AGREE VERY NICE WORK ..! #883238
Marie Fields 11/1/2004 1:21:24 PMBeautiful image! #883639
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Mike Brookshire 11/2/2004 10:10:42 AMI am just starting out in portrait photography and am very interested in how you created such a soft texture/feel. Can you explain? #885803
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Darren Smith 11/2/2004 1:24:07 PMElegant and sensual image Jean, great job! #886092
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Patricia A. Kuniega 12/17/2004 10:48:36 AMSimply gorgeous! The model and your photography are beautiful! Congrats and good luck! #981468
Patricia A. Kuniega 12/17/2004 6:01:04 PMDelighted to come back and say congratulations for your wonderful win, Jean Bernard! #982483
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Pu Chen 12/23/2004 3:34:15 PMBeautiful composition, Jean! congratulations! #993949
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