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The 5 Best Load Funds for 2012
Great, low-cost funds to ask for if you use a financial adviser. You may also find some of these gems in your 401(k) plan.
The distinction between load and no-load funds shrinks every year. Investors who employ a financial adviser can gain access to many first-class load funds without having to pay the sales charges. So can many 401(k) participants. If you can buy load funds without the loads, you should consider some of them. Of course, advisers don't work for free. Depending on how you compensate yours, you'll either pay sales charges on the funds you buy or a fee that's usually based on the amount of your assets under his or her control.
Below are my favorite funds offered by load-fund sponsors. In each instance, the symbol is for the lowest-cost share available to the typical investor. If your adviser offers you a share class with a higher expense ratio, try persuading him or her to get you into the lower-cost share class. All returns are through January 9.
American Funds Washington Mutual F-2 (symbol WMFFX) is about as boring a stock fund as you can find. And given the wrath the market gods have rained down on investors over the past ten years, boring may not be a bad thing. Washington Mutual owns virtually nothing but big blue chips -- all but 5% of which pay dividends and all but 10% of which are based in the U.S. The yield is just 2.8%, but the fund, which is steered by seven managers, sticks with high-quality companies, such as top holdings Chevron (CVX), Merck (MRK) and Verizon Communications (VZ).
The American funds have been shaky the past few years, but they have a long history of producing solid returns, holding down risk and charging low fees (this share class costs just 0.41% annually). The fund's long-term returns are good, but it has been especially solid recently. Over the past year, Washington Mutual returned 8.0% -- 5.2 percentage points more than Standard & Poor's 500-stock index. That could be the start of a long period of superior performance. I think Washington Mutual's brand of high-quality stocks could remain at or near the top of the heap for years to come.
Oppenheimer Developing Markets Y (ODVYX) may be the best emerging-markets stock fund. Over the past ten years, it returned an annualized 17.7%, putting it in the top 1% among emerging-markets funds. (The Y share class has only been around since 2005; part of the record was posted by an older share class.) During that stretch, the fund topped the MSCI Emerging Markets index by an average of 3.7 percentage points per year.
The fund has distinguished itself --at least compared with its rivals -- in treacherous markets. Emerging markets are notoriously volatile, but this fund lost only 56.8% in the 2007-09 bear market, compared with 60.2% for the index. Manager Justin Leverenz just took the reins in 2007, but he is a longtime Asia specialist. The fund is heavy on consumer staples and technology. Annual expenses are 1.00%.
Speaking of emerging markets, American Funds New World F-2 (NFFFX) is the chicken's way to play them -- and, in my view, perhaps the smartest way. About 48% of its assets are in emerging-markets stocks, 10% in emerging- markets bonds and the rest in stocks of multinationals, including U.S.-based companies, that do a lot of business in developing nations. That makes New World much less risky than pure emerging- markets funds but much more aggressive than most diversified foreign funds.
When emerging markets have great years, New World doesn't keep up with the index but does well enough. For example, in 2009, when the MSCI Emerging Markets index surged 78.5%, New World rose 52.7%, and the MSCI EAFE index, which tracks developed foreign stock markets, gained 31.8%. By contrast, New World holds up better than the typical emerging-markets fund when the category tanks. Over the past year, the emerging-markets index tumbled 16.6%, New World surrendered 12.8% and MSCI EAFE lost 11.5%. The fund's expenses are 0.76% annually.
Templeton Global Total Return Adv (TTRZX) is in a slump. Over the past 12 months, it lost 0.5%, compared with a 4.4% gain for the average international bond fund. The fund lost ground largely because of a strengthening greenback. But manager Michael Hasenstab and company are taking the long view, and I think their take is right. They believe that bonds and currencies of heavily indebted developed countries will lose ground to those of emerging economies in Asia, as well as to a handful of fiscally stable developed countries, such as Sweden and Australia.
This fund was just launched in 2008, but an older sibling, Templeton Global Bond Adv (TGBAX), returned an annualized 11.6% over the past ten years, putting it in the top 1% among global bond funds. The only difference between the two funds is that Total Return owns some corporate bonds in addition to government bonds. My main worry: The two funds' success has hardly gone unnoticed. Combined assets are over $60 billion. Total Return charges 0.79% annually and sports a 30-day yield of 5.0%.
Last but not least is First Eagle Global I (SGIIX), which I featured in my series on low-risk funds. Longtime manager Jean-Marie Eveillard, 71, who still works part-time as a "senior adviser," had a hand in selecting the three co-managers who run this fund. And when you look at the fund's holdings, you see the wide diversification and low-risk contrarian plays that marked Eveillard's long tenure. The fund currently has 14% in cash, 23% in Japanese stocks and 6% in gold. That witch's brew has been 26% less volatile than the S&P 500 over the past three years. Over the past five years, First Eagle returned an annualized 5.1%, while the S&P was flat.
The three co-managers started in 2007, 2008 and early last year, so the fund's long-term record still belongs to Eveillard. If the current managers are smart, and I think they are, they'll absorb as much as they can from Eveillard. Still, the abilities of the current managers are the big question mark. Expenses are 0.91% annually.
More of Goldberg's 2012 picks:The 5 Best Stock Funds, The 5 Best Bond Funds, and The 6 Best ETFs
Steve Goldberg is an investment adviser in the Washington, D.C., area. One client owns Chevron, and another owns Verizon.


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The Supermodels of Cuba
Cuba is a land associated with music, sports, cinema, art, literature, architecture and, of course, cigars. Mention these subjects in the context of the Caribbean island and no one blinks an eye. They represent a positive association for Cuba in the minds of nearly everyone around the world, regardless of their politics. These national treasures have a romantic allure not duplicated anywhere the world: a uniqueness that speaks to the diverse heritage and culture of Cuba.
The world may also be on the verge of another realization, that Cuba has some of the world's most beautiful women. A small group of Cuban supermodels are traveling the world, working major fashion shows as well as posing for advertisements and doing fashion shoots for publications that are mostly located in Europe. They are making their mark in a global fashion industry that surpasses $160 billion in sales worldwide every year.
Cuba has always had a reputation for beautiful women, a vibrant mixture of Caribbean, African and European blood. But the idea of exporting one of the island's greatest assets has only recently come into vogue. It's also a key piece of evidence that Cuba is opening up to the world, creating new economic opportunities that savvy businessmen are capitalizing on in a number of industries. What's more, they see the country's cultural resources as equally valuable currencies, just like the more traditional exports of sugar or cigars. Finally, the world is discovering what English author Graham Greene once observed: "Living in Havana was like living in a factory that produced human beauty on an assembly line." Why shouldn't the island promote one of its most obvious riches?
"The talent is all here, it is just a question of packaging it and marketing it," says Canadian Dean Bornstein, the president of The Havana Production Co. Through a subsidiary of his Toronto-based company, he represents more than 75 of the island's hottest models, including a handful who work overseas. Bornstein recently established offices in Havana for his company, which is already on its way to becoming the premier film, television, music and fashion production company on the island. "We can do it all right here in Cuba and we don't have to go anywhere," he says.
Bornstein hopes to do for Cuba's best models and its fledgling fashion industry what Ry Cooder did for the island's music over the past five years. Few people had ever heard of The Buena Vista Social Club, or Compay Segundo. But today, in the wake of Cooder's excellent documentary and the film's soundtrack, the band and its key guitarist and vocalist have become household words. Dozens of other Cuban musical acts, from the salsa kings Los Van Van to the jazz and hip-hop star X Alfonso, have signed with record companies around the world. They have even toured the United States under cultural exchange programs with the U.S. government. Until recently, such programs were unthinkable due to the trade embargo against Cuba, but that's all changing. Bornstein is in discussions with a major international fashion company to design and produce a line of Cuban clothes, and that too, should add to the panache of the local industry.
According to Bornstein, Cuba's supermodels have never officially worked in the United States, due to difficulties associated with the embargo. This could change in the future, but he said that for now, it's legally impossible.
Trudi Tapscott, the bookings editor of fashion shoots at Vogue magazine in New York, says, "It's a problem for us. European scouts are welcome to go to Cuba. I'm anxious to see it open up, just as I was for the Iron Curtain to fall. We're just in an unfortunate situation." During the Cold War, Tapscott says, agencies found ways to get beautiful models out into the West to work. "If a great Cuban girl walked through the door, we'd jump on it. Five years from now, maybe two years, things will be different, I hope," she adds.
Tapscott also says that beauty standards in the fashion world have changed in the last few years, moving away from a more waifish Eastern European look to the more full-figured Latin look, a trend that favors the Cubans. "A healthy body image is better for everyone. Leaders like Jennifer Lopez will help change that," she says.
Annie Veltri, the president of T Management, a modeling agency in New York, is also quick to praise the Cuban look. "They are beautiful, beautiful girls. I would absolutely use them if they came walking through the door," Veltri says. "But it's just too difficult. We don't even scout there. We can't go there. And it's just too hard to go through the full sponsorship thing to get them a visa to work here. I mean, I can't even go there legally. So, we don't really think about them." Veltri adds that she knows the European agencies do scout in Cuba.
Despite the de facto prohibition on the Cuban models working in America, many have already found work in Europe, particularly in France, Italy and Germany. And in the coming months, Bornstein says that many of the supermodels will be working in Cuba on a range of projects, from a spy thriller pilot for television in both Spanish and English to fashion shoots with various clothes companies as well as catalogs and magazines.
Bornstein certainly has high hopes that the situation preventing Cuban models from working in the United States will change. "Anything Latin American is hot right now in the fashion world," he says. "And Cubans have a special look, a special style." Jared Paul Stern, who covers the world of fashion in a New York newspaper column, says that Latin American models in general have been quite popular, especially Brazilians such as Gisele Bundchen. "Latin American models tend to look healthier than those pale, bony Eastern European models," he explains. "Fuller figures and tan skin are making a comeback."
Bornstein admits that only a handful of the women (a number of whom are pictured in these pages) can be considered Cuba's supermodels. "They are the ones that get the best jobs," says Bornstein. "The big jobs are abroad, but we can organize it all from Havana."
No one would discuss how much a Cuban supermodel makes for a job, since the fees vary from acting in a new music video to a catalog shoot or magazine spread. But Bornstein says that they are paid comparably to other international models. In general, the lowest rate for fashion shoots starts at about $1,250 a day for a commercial job and much less for editorial work. But those fees bear no relation to the money paid to the world's top models, which can start at around $10,000 and go up into the tens of thousands for every day worked. Bornstein did say that fashion shoots are the most profitable. "Of course, they are not making the money a London-, Milan- or New Yorkñbased model might, but they will some day," he says. "It was the same with Miami not that long ago. There is huge potential here."
What Cuban models do make is divided with the government, a fact of life for almost all Cubans who gain permission to work overseas. But Bornstein argues that it's the same thing as workers paying taxes in any country in the world. "It's no different than anywhere else," says Bornstein. "It's just like models in the United States who have to pay taxes." He would not disclose the exact percentages that his clients must give the government.
Serious modeling in Cuba had humble beginnings. In the early 1990s, a restaurant called La Maison in the Miramar area of Havana held regular fashion shows for clients on selected evenings. It was simple fare. Models had to wear badly designed clothes from local designers in front of sometimes less than appreciative onlookers. But it was a start, and the godmother of Cuban fashion, Grisel Labrada, 36, did the best she could, scouting for local talent as well as organizing all the shows.
Eventually, she attracted some attention from European fashion scouts, and built an admirable client list of fashion firms and magazines by the late 1990s. She feels that modeling and fashion in Cuba recently has risen to a more professional level. In the past, work was primarily handled on a freelance basis where the women were hired by European-based agencies through Labrada. "They are much happier to be working with an agency in Havana," she says. "So they should do better work."
Bornstein said that one of the most refreshing aspects of working with the Cuban supermodels is their attitudes. "They are really appreciative of the work," he says. "They are easy to work with compared to other models. I found many other models, whether American, English or whatever, very difficult. They are used to everyone filling their heads with nonsense, so they can be difficult to work with. It's all fresh and easy here in Havana."
In late February, at the Fifth Anniversary Cigar Festival in Havana, a thousand people attending the gala dinner caught a glimpse of what the Cuban supermodels are all about. Before the supermodels hit the runway, the mostly European crowd was already entranced with the exhibition of Cuban beauty. Slinky Afro-Cuban, mulatto and Caucasian models strutted down the runway, which was set up in a government protocol house in the Siboney area of Havana, and the eyes of the diners were firmly glued to the women's every move.
The backdrop to the runway comprised large painted murals of tobacco plantations in the Vuelta Abajo, the legendary tobacco region of Cuba. It all seemed slightly surreal, looking at the tobacco scene and then at the hot Cuban models.
Some of the clothes were haute-couture designs from Christian Dior and Maurizio Galante as well as more simple efforts from Cuban designers. But the sense of anticipation in the crowd was high. "Wait until the supermodels come out," said Bornstein, a few seconds before they came onstage. "They are going to own this place."
One after another, the models energetically strutted and swaggered down the catwalk -- Carla Paneca Fernández, Dayrein Aba Estevez, Yamila Coba and Yoandra Suarez Borrego. Their entrance electrified the room. The audience, both men and women, stared in awe. They vigorously applauded for each woman.
A 5-foot, 9-inch brunette, Paneca Fernández was obviously the crowd's favorite. A former Miss Model of the World, the 23-year-old carried herself with a sassy sophistication that would have easily been the right attitude for walking down Fifth Avenue in New York or New Bond Street in London. The black crepe, off-the-shoulder top with an above-the-knee, pleated, black see-through silk skirt (all Dior) fit her body like a Tiffany's gift box holding a perfect five-carat solitaire diamond ring. The crowd roared with approval as she spun on the end of the catwalk and strolled back to the entrance.
"It was as if we were not in Cuba," said one American who attended the fashion dinner as he smoked a Romeo y Julieta Churchill. "I have never seen anything like it before on the island."
This is just the beginning, according to Bornstein. The supermodels are now organized in Havana and eager to work. And, as Veltri in New York says, the world is ready for them. The women are ready, too.
"We are proud to be Cubans, and we believe that we have something different to offer the fashion world," Paneca Fernández says a few hours before the show in Bornstein's office in Old Havana. "Why would someone want to go to Miami and use models there when they can have the real thing in Havana?"

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SITGES — In now near-hallowed tradition, the 45th Sitges Film Festival opened Thursday with one of the biggest Spanish genre films of the year: Oriol Paulo's "The Body," from Barcelona's Rodar y Rodar.
Spain's opening slot wasn't really playing to a home crowd. This century, Spain, and especially Barcelona, has produced multiple genre hits: "Pan's Labyrinth," "The Orphanage" and "Rec" are just three.
After "The Orphanage" and "Julia's Eyes," "Body" reps Rodar's third Sitges opener, teaming Belen Rueda, one of the few Spanish actresses who can open a movie, and a Catalan first-time scribe-helmer, Paulo. A rising genre auteur, Paulo penned Guillem Morales' "Julia's Eyes," produced by Rodar, Antena 3 Films and Universal Pictures Intl.
So expectations ran high.
Produced by Rodar and Antena 3 and a Sony Spain release, "Body" is peppered with flashbacks, clues and a big last act twist, as it tracks a police inspector (Jose Coronado) interrogating a shifty husband (Hugo Silva) about the body of his heiress wife (Rueda) disappearing from a morgue. At a Sitges press screening, "Body" left fan-boys yearning for gore. The "Hitchcock-style psychological thriller," as Rodar producer Joaquin Padro put it, looks likely to play far better with general audiences.
Padro also confirmed Thursday details of Rodar's next: "Who Killed Bambi?" The project is a kidnap imbroglio comedy helmed by Santi Amodeo, director of two quirky mid-decade dramas — "Astronauts" and "Doghead" — that is loosely inspired by Mexico's "Matando Cabos." David Castellanos' Cinema Republic and Manuel Yebra's Cienfuegos arranged the Spanish remake deal with Rodar.
Shooting January, "Bambi" reps "a move toward the mainstream," said Padro. RTVE has pre-bought Spanish free-to-air rights.
Going forward, a market sensibility and TV support both look vital for Spain's film industry.
Europe's biggest genre meet, Sitges' line-up is spangled by standout genre titles: "Looper," "Holy Motors," "Lords of Salem," "The Cabin in the Woods," "Gangs of Wasseypur," "Berberian Sound Studio" and "Room 237." Also, Sitges hosts a clutch of awaited world preems from Spain: "Body," "Painless," "Invader" and "The Forest."
Multiple genre stars will attend, beginning with '60s horror muse Barbara Steele ("Black Sunday"), who picks up a Time Machine award at Sitges' opening ceremony tonight. Other honorees are Elijah Wood, at Sitges for remake "Maniac," William Lustig, director of its original, Neil Jordan, who picks up a lifetime achievement award, Dee Wallace ("E.T.: The Extraterrestrial") and writer-director Don Coscarelli ("Beastmaster").
Spain and its film industry are staring down at a precipice of runaway public deficit, despite radical state cuts.
One narrative at 2012's Sitges looks like being the rude health of genre production, especially Asian and U.S. Another will be Spain's true-life horror story.
At Euros2.4 million ($3.1 million), Sitges' 2012 budget is just 4% down vs. 2011, said fest director Angel Sala. Advance ticket sales were tracking 16% up on Tuesday. Amid so much horror, Spain's horror fest looks like one institution that could well survive.
Fest runs Oct. 4-14.
Emiliano de Pablos contributed to this article.


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Pennsylvania Dutch Apple Dumplings
from Christiana Campbell's Tavern Serves 4
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1. To make the pastry, combine the shortening, flour and salt in a food processor fitted with the steel blade. Using on and off pulsing action, combine until the mixture resembles fine meal. Cut the chilled butter into small pieces, and pulse a few times, or until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Sprinkle with 4 tablespoons of the ice water, and pulse a few times. The mixture should hold together when pinched. Add more water, if necessary. (This can also be done using a pastry blender or two knives.) Scrape the pastry onto a floured board, form it into a ball, and wrap it with plastic wrap. Refrigerate at least 30 minutes,
2. Preheat the oven to 450°F. While the pastry is chilling, peel and core the apples. Divide the raisins and rum into the core holes, and place 1 teaspoon of butter in each core hole. Combine the syrup ingredients in a small saucepan, and bring to a boil. Simmer for 3 minutes, and set aside.
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3. Divide the pastry into 4 parts. Form one part into a ball, and place it between two sheets of plastic wrap or wax paper. Flatten with your hands into a "pancake." Roll the pastry into a circle large enough to cover the apple. Place an apple in the center, and bring up the sides to encase it. Pinch the top together, holding the dough with a little water. If the folds seem thick, trim them off and seal the seams with water. Repeat with the remaining apples.
4. Place the apples on a baking sheet, and brush them with the syrup. Place them in the oven and bake for 10 minutes. Reduce the heat to 330"F, and brush again with the syrup. Bake an additional 35 minutes, brushing every 10 minutes. Remove from the oven, and allow to cool for 5 minutes. Serve hot or at room temperature.
Note: The pastry and syrup can be prepared up to 2 days in advance and refrigerated. The apples should be peeled just prior to baking.
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District 88 serves the communities of Addison, Villa Park, Lombard and Oakbrook Terrace, as well as portions of Elmhurst, Oak Brook, Bensenville, Itasca and Wood Dale. To view a detailed boundry map, click on the link below.
To determine whether you reside in an area served by District 88, go to www.dupageco.org/PropertyInfo/PropertyLookup.aspx.


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We take the message and scripture from previous weeks worship service and dive a little deeper. We encourage participation and perspectives in this biblical discussion.


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As we drove down Highway 34 a couple hours southwest of Regina, the scenery looked just like that of any other rural highway in Saskatchewan.
The fields stretch on for miles, the odd farmhouse sits surrounded by barns and machinery, and oil pumpjacks dot the landscape.
But then, just a few kilometres south of Bengough, we found what we had come for as the ground dropped out below us into the Big Muddy Valley.The valley itself, with its exposed rock layers on the hill faces and incredible formations, looks more like something you'd expect to see in the hills of Alberta or South Dakota. We found ourselves stopping to take photos all along the valley floor thinking the scenery wouldn't be outdone. It was every other mile we drove.
There's dozens of attractions in the area formed (roughly) by the triangle created between Bengough, Willowbunch and Coronach, but I'm not convinced any match the natural features of the valley itself.
Formed during the last ice age by melt water and so named for its slippery-when-wet clay-filled soil, the Big Muddy offers options for those looking for an afternoon drive, those looking for an up-at-dawn, back-at-dusk break from the city or those looking to spend a few days camping.
Castle Butte, though, is the must-see site whatever your plans.
The 200-foot high free-standing hill is featured in dozens of tourist bureau photos but really does have to be seen to be believed.
The most impressive part of the butte is that it looks equally amazing no matter how adventurous you find yourself during that visit. It's far from an easy climb to the top, but it's not like you need spiked shoes and climbing rope, either. Running shoes will do just fine. (One word of warning though, climbing the butte is done at your own risk.)
The view from the top was incredible, but walking around it on the narrow path halfway up was equally impressive. Oddly enough, the quarter-mile walk around the bottom might be even better as you see the water-and weather-worn sides cascade in and out.
While Castle Butte is free to see, it's also worthwhile to take a tour of the badlands from Coronach. There you can get full-and half-day guided tours either as part of a large group or in the comfort of your own vehicle.
You'll make stops along the badlands to see caves where outlaws like Sam Kelly would hide out when being chased and begin to understand what was actually a very clever route for train robbers and the like of the day where they could bounce across the Canada - U.S. border depending on which authorities happened to be after them. There are also effigies laid down on hilltops by First Nations people which have withstood the test of time, the remnants of the area's first North West Mounted Police detachment and an old schoolhouse all of which are behind lock and key on private land and can't be accessed by just anyone. And there is a whole lot more to see in the area.
The St. Victor petroglyphs - located about 25 km west of Willowbunch - are a sight to see. The glyphs are etched into the cliff face above the valley and while it's unknown who made them or how long they have been there they're impressive nonetheless. Even if you're somehow not impressed, the view from the cliff is worth the drive in itself.
Willowbunch is also the place to find out about the amazing and tragic tale of Edouard Beupre (better known as Le Geant Beaupre or the Willowbunch Giant) who grew to be 8-foot-3 and 375 pounds and travelled with Barnum and Bailey's travelling circus.


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Sherri Shepherd: O'Reilly's in 'the Pinhead Category'
Sherri Shepherd: O'Reilly's in 'The Pinhead Category'
Sherri Shepherd isn't finished with Bill O'Reilly for the things he said on "The View" -- telling TMZ his comments about the mosque at Ground Zero land him straight in the "pinhead category."
Shepherd was at LaGuardia Airport yesterday, where she also insisted that Bill knew what buttons he was gonna push when he said, "Muslims killed us on 9/11."
As for dirty details from the set of "The View" -- Sherri seems to be under a gag order ... telling us, "I can't talk about that."
We're guessing the powers that be are holding that story for Monday's show ...
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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 is going to be one of the first games bundled with the Wii MotionPlus, and it's the game that has many of us excited about the technology. A trailer for the title shows off the ability to play disc golf using the peripheral, and the video gives you a good idea of just how much control the MotionPlus brings to the game. Take a look at the preview after the jump.
Is it weird to get excited about a Frolfing video? This actually looks like a great addition to the game. Keep an eye on how smooth the hand motion is, and how much control you have over the disc.
You can see how every movement of your hand translates into gameplay, and just how smooth throwing the discs has become. This is yet another reason to pick up the game, and I have to say I'm very much looking forward to getting my hands on this release.


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Most programmers agree that another pair of eyes on your code will uncover bugs and disseminate knowledge across development teams. But many also recognize that peer review can waste a lot of time.
So how do you get started in such a way that you 1) don't waste time, 2) match the process to your team and your goals, and 3) have a clear way to evaluate results? So many code review techniques exist, and each with pros and cons, so which are right for your team? Even if you're unwilling to spend the time to review all your code, perhaps spending a little time reviewing a specific subset would be worthwhile.
The only way to know is to try it for yourself. Use these tips to simplify, expedite, and measure the process.
What Is Code Review and How Do You Do It?
First, let's make sure we're on the same page. What is "code review?" The answer varies depending on whom you ask, and when; code review has changed dramatically in recent years.
Thirty years ago, if you wanted a well-known and measurable process that delivered results, your only choice was the dreaded Formal Inspection -- a seven-phase, multi-meeting, paperwork-heavy system popularized by Michael Fagan at IBM. Properly done, it takes over ten person-hours to review at most 200 lines of code -- a sluggish rate that makes this system impractical (not to mention excruciating) even if it does uncover bugs.
In the past 10 years a variety of evidence [1][2][3][4] has shown that many of the components of the traditional "heavyweight" inspection process are inefficient or even unnecessary. "Lightweight" modern code review methods include:
- Over-the-Shoulder: The reviewer physically looks over the author's shoulder and is walked through the code.
- Pros: Easy to implement, no tools required.
- Cons: Interrupts reviewers, hard to know which code is reviewed, impossible to measure and track. Requires coordinating with someone else's schedule.
- Email Pass-Around: Code differences are emailed automatically by the version control system. Reviewers respond to changes when they have time.
- Pros: Easy to set up, nothing to purchase, works remotely.
- Cons: No tracking -- don't know if found defects were fixed, often reviews never happen because everyone assumes someone else looked at it, no metrics; reviews "fizzle out" instead of finishing. Hard to follow conversations as emails get replied to and forwarded among several people.
- Tool-Based Review: Use a development tool specifically designed to assist in code review. A variety of open-source and commercial tools exist.
- Pros: Removes most of the busywork associated with file-collection, discussion/defect management, and metrics/reporting. Tracks reviews and defects.
- Cons: Have to learn and integrate another tool, can cost money.
- Pair-Programming: Two developers at the same keyboard and monitor working on the code together.
- Pros: Deep level of review; teams know review is happening but it's difficult to track.
- Cons: Large time investment, some developers dislike it. Requires coordinating with someone else's schedule.
Pick a method that most closely matches the existing culture of the team. Use the pros, cons and amount of time you have to select one and stick with it for one week before you start to make changes.


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No problem Roger.Abacus wrote:Sorry to crash Roger's thread, but my issues are very similar and it doesn't seem worthwhile starting a new thread.
It became open source, but the product hasn't been discontinued.I'm a long time Eudora user, but since Qualcomm discontinued the product I've been looking for an alternative.
That's also one of the reasons our IT decided to use another email client.
For now there's only MITG or PocoPE, however PocoPE is an older version, which won't allow to sync with the new Poco version.I use Time & Chaos as a PIM because of the wonderful way that it integrates with MS Word templates, so I don't need my email client to look after PIM functions.
Haven't a clue as there will be such a version, but a beta should start soon, so perhaps who knows ...If PSI would produce a portable HDD version of PM I would buy it immediately.
Only PSI knows this, so I or other moderators can't help you with it.Can anybody advise what th current status is of PM PE 4, or a portable HDD-friendly version of MITG?


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Tom Morrow, Vice President, Global Expositions & Marketing, SEMI
The MEMS industry is changing from a one-process-per-product technology to a one-process-many-product one. Critical to this transformation are industry standards that reduce costs and spur meaningful innovation. The SEMI MEMS Technical Committee has been meeting this challenge since 2003, developing several important standards that have yielded significant benefits to developers, manufacturers and suppliers.
The charter of the MEMS Technical Committee is to develop standards for MEMS devices that cannot be handled by existing semiconductor technical committees. Current topics include Wafer Bonding Alignment Targets; Step-Height Measurements of Thin, Reflecting Films using an Optical Interferometer; and Ultra High Purity Microscale Fluidic Systems for Use in Scalable Process Environments. Recently SEMI announced the latest in the series of MEMS standards, MS8 Guide to Evaluating Hermeticity of MEMS Packages, available to users on-line immediately. The hermeticity guide is the first to address MEMS packaging and further efforts to standardize the methods used to evaluate MEMS packaging are being evaluated.
One of the goals of the new MS8 guide was to gather and summarize all the hermeticity aspects of MEMS. As more data and MEMS-specific details are gathered, sections of MS8 will be removed, revised, or expanded upon leading to publication of a specification or test method standard.
One topic that the committee is now looking at more closely involves the permeability of sealing materials. For example, assuming one has inspected the seal for integrity, the bond quality is good at both interfaces and there are no direct leak paths between the external and internal environments, the next concern would be the actual permeation of gases through the seal. Permeation is dependent on both the seal geometries and material properties. The minimum allowable seal width for a given lifetime expectancy of the enclosed device depends on both the seal thickness and the permeability of the material itself. The Committee has prioritized this area because there is little published data on permeability of seal materials used for MEMS.
Another issue of concern is the validity of the current test methods utilized for leak testing and residual gas analysis. Current standardized test methods were developed for packages with larger cavity volumes and have proven to be not reliable or not applicable for smaller volume packages, typically <0.02 cc. The published guide discusses the relevant standard test methods as well as more recently introduced methods, providing an objective opinion on the advantages and disadvantages for each.
Ideally, as the production volume of commercially available hermetic-packaged MEMS increases, a method that supports high-throughput non-destructive hermetic QC of the MEMS devices will emerge. Perhaps one of the methods discussed in the MS8 guide will become a self-contained standard, but further investigation and input from the MEMS industry is required to develop consensus.
SEMI has published seven other standards related to MEMS and is looking forward to publishing more as needed by the industry. Participating in the standards development process provides industry benefits, provides company benefits, and helps advance the knowledge and enjoyment of the individual participants. Please join us in helping advance the industry in proven and productive ways.
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Hematologic malignancies rapidly increasing and unaddressed in sub-Saharan Africa
UNC-led team offers clinical, research agenda
Media contact: Ellen de Graffenreid, 919-962-3405, email@example.com
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing a growing cancer burden, and hematologic malignancies account for almost 10 percent of cancer deaths in the region. In the United States and other resource-rich settings, patients with diseases such as non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia and multiple myeloma have benefited from treatment advances that have resulted in unprecedented rates of long-term control.
A study pre-published on-line in the March 28, 2012 issue of the journal Blood, argues that these diseases can be effectively treated in a resource-limited setting and offers a clinical service and research agenda to address the growing impact of hematologic malignancies in sub-Saharan Africa.
UNC hematology/oncology and infectious disease fellow Satish Gopal, MD, MPH, is corresponding author on the study. He notes, "Aging, social and behavioral trends, HIV, and other endemic infections are all contributing to a rapidly increasing cancer burden in sub-Saharan Africa which has the potential to overwhelm fragmented and under-resourced health systems in this part of the world."
Sub-Saharan Africa has few resources to diagnose, treat and provide supportive and palliative care to patients with hematologic malignancies. What is more, available services are concentrated in major population centers in more economically advanced countries, while 63 percent of the population lives in rural areas. The research team notes critical shortages in the availability of pathologists with expertise in these diseases, an 82 percent deficit in radiotherapy facilities (with 21 countries in the region having no operational units), limited supportive care, and extremely limited facilities for bone marrow and stem cell transplantation. In addition, chemotherapy availability is highly restricted and cancer medicines can be difficult to administer due to the need for specialized facilities and trained personnel. Global shortages of many generic chemotherapy drugs are further challenging the region's ability to treat cancer effectively.
Other challenges in the care of these patients include a high endemic infectious burden, as many antibacterial and antifungal drugs commonly used in developed regions are simply unavailable to support patients who are immunosuppressed from cancer treatment, HIV, malnutrition, and other factors. The region also lacks a blood transfusion infrastructure including lack of centralized national systems for blood collection and banking. Finally, pain management drugs are often highly-regulated or unavailable.
The research team suggests that strategies can be developed for addressing these issues, including development of conventional and new diagnostics adapted to low-resource settings, making cancer medicines affordable and integrating newer treatments, using the care and research infrastructure established to deal with HIV and other infectious diseases to study and control cancer, increasing global funding for cancer while rigorously assessing cost-effectiveness of cancer control measures, and addressing critical health worker shortages by focusing on training efforts.
In addition to Dr. Gopal, other UNC authors include William Wood, MD, and Thomas Shea, MD. Other authors include Stephanie Lee, MD, MPH , and Corey Casper, MD MPH, from Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center; Kikkeri Naresh, MBBS, CCP, MD, FRCPath, from Imperial College, London; Peter Kazembe, MBChB, FRCP, from the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative in Lilongwe, Malawi; Peter Hesseling, MD, from Stellenbosch University (South Africa) and Ronald Mitsuyasu, MD, from UCLA.


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Metro Vancouver residents heading for ferry or border lineups this Canada Day long weekend may want to take their sunscreen for those long waits.
Weather forecasters say it's going to be a scorcher.
With temperatures expected to hit more than 30 C in some parts of Metro Vancouver, it's shaping up to be the first hot weekend of the summer.
Environment Canada forecasters say Saturday will feature a mix of sun and clouds, with highs of 23 C, but that will make way for sunshine and clear skies on Sunday and Monday, with temperatures on the coast hitting up to 27 C and 32 C inland.
Forecaster Doug Lundquist says it will get even hotter in the Okanagan and most of the southern Interior, where temperatures could reach 40 C this weekend and into next week. In Kamloops, Lytton and Osoyoos, temperatures could soar above 42 C.
A special weather statement issued by Environment Canada says a massive ridge of high pressure will bring hot air from the U.S. desert, causing temperatures to rise several degrees each day on the south coast.
Meteorologist John McIntyre anticipated some record-breaking temperatures early next week.
"This is a pretty major heat wave coming in, usually it's much later in the month. So there are records to be broken," he said.
On Sunday, for example, the record for that day is 28.9, set in 1987 and Environment Canada is forecasting up to 29 C.
But McIntyre said he expects Tuesday to be the hottest on record, with temperatures up to 35 degrees on the coast, potentially breaking the record of 27.5 C in 1985. The normal temperature for Vancouver at this time of year is 21 C.
The beautiful weather is expected to continue for the first part of next week, and then temperatures are expected to drop by mid-week.
"Wednesday will still be hot, but we are expecting a bit of a change," said McIntyre. "A sea breeze will come in and that will moderate the temperature for the coast."
Meanwhile, BC Ferries says the Canada Day long weekend is one of the busiest of the year. Drivers are advised that the most hectic times are from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Saturday. Canada Day Monday is also expected to be busy between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. as holiday makers return home.
Motorists hitting the highways this weekend should take note that there will be an increased police presence on the roads, as statistically the Canada Day long weekend is one of the worst for deaths resulting from intoxicated drivers.
On Canada Day alone, ICBC says an average of three people are killed and 155 injured every year in B.C. Two of those fatalities are victims of impaired driving.
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What in the world has happened to American Patriotism? When a hatred for our President outweighs our love of our country, our political society has indeed become sick. Cheers when our country looses its bid for the Olympics and sneers when the President of the United States of America receives the Nobel Peace prize; it's disgusting. To those rabid dissenters, as Boston lawyer Joseph Welch in 1954 admonished Joseph McCarthy, "Have you no sense of decency".
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After playing at Single-A Kannapolis during the Triple-A All-Star break, outfielder Carlos Quentin has been reassigned to Triple-A Charlotte, where he will play left field Thursday night. Quentin could return to the Chicago White Sox soon if he plays well and has no setbacks the next couple of days.
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Dr. Grumpy: "You mean podiatrist?"
Mr. Ancient: "Whatever."
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
The other day my pt had a colostomy, ya know the gallbladder was removed. (and this was from the nurse giving me report)
Maybe he's had nerve damage for a LOOOONNNNNNNNNNGGG time.
I agree with Lois, he may have had a long-standing issue therefore had nerve damage in his foot. :0)
Today I had to make a courtesy call to a family doctor with the result of an x-ray done on his patient,after the patient came to my Unit for treatment...
"So...the patient has fractured his talus" I said
"What part of the hip is that?" asked the doctor
Had a little kid tell me that his dog had to be "seduced" by the vet for a surgical procedure (he obviously meant sedated).
and his physiatrist said he's crazy.
"My HMO gave me a choice between that and an OB-GYN."
"He's been saying that for 70 years, but I never noticed any problems."
Another instance of foot in mouth disorder.
Hahahah. I've had someone mix up feet and kids before too! They sound far too similar.
Give the man a break. Maybe he's having a second childhood.
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Singer Melissa Etheridge is hitting the Great White Way by revisiting rock and roll's early roots.
The Academy Award and Grammy-winning rocker, 49, is appearing in the Broadway musical "Million Dollar Quartet" for a special performance during the evening show's finale June 23, The Associated Press reported. Etheridge will perform a song drawn from the music of one of the four artists featured in the show.
"Millions Dollar Quartet," which has been nominated for three Tony Awards, including best musical, is the story about rock and roll's founding fathers—Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis—who met in a recording studio at Memphis' Sun Records and participated in an impromptu historic jam session on Dec. 4, 1956. The musical features the popular songs associated with the legends, including "Great Balls of Fire," "Folsom Prison Blues," "Walk the Line" and "Blue Suede Shoes."
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Etheridge, whose latest album is "Fearless Love," will be in New York again for a concert at the United Palace Theater July 14. Her "Fearless Love" summer tour begins June 26 in London with stops in the States through September.
In April, Etheridge's rep told People magazine that the singer and her longtime partner Tammy Etheridge have separated after a nine-year relationship. The former couple have two young children together.


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- Black Ants are often encountered foraging inside homes, mainly in kitchen areas, and are attracted usually to sweet foods. They are also a major problem when they choose to nest in wall or roof voids.
- Coastal Brown Ants are a species that nests within buildings and garden areas, however unlike the name suggests, they are not just in coastal areas and are a major pest species throughout Melbourne suburban areas.
- Argentine Ants are a small brown ant that is an invasive introduced pest species that is common and widespread. They usually nest and invade homes and buildings in cooler months, then spread out in large numbers over the summer period, occupying pot plants, gardens and compost bins. They are also commonly found foraging in rubbish bins, on dead animals or excrement.


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Applications are accepted no earlier than one year in advance of the expected date of matriculation and must be completed at least one month prior to the beginning of the term for which admission is sought. Please note that the deadline for financial aid application is different from the application for admission deadline (see Financial Aid for details). Applications will be considered for action when the following items have been received:
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Prior to a student's first registration at Gordon-Conwell, an official copy of the final transcript showing college degree and date issued must be on file in the admissions office. Copies issued to the student do not constitute an "official transcript." No student may register unless an official transcript has been received.
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The normal deadline for submitting an application is August 1 for fall matriculation and January 1 for spring matriculation. Persons who decide to apply after those dates must call the admissions office to ascertain whether applications are still being accepted.
An orientation program for new students is scheduled for the beginning of fall semester and the beginning of spring semester. The orientation program includes a basic introduction to the spiritual, academic, social and pastoral dimensions of the seminary program. Spouses are encouraged to attend any of the discussion sessions.
The basic academic prerequisite for admission to Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary is graduation from an accredited college or university.
There is no single undergraduate curriculum or field of concentration that best prepares a college student for graduate theological study.
There are, however, certain areas of undergraduate preparation that are highly desirable and advantageous to the applicant in terms of preparation. Any applicant would do well to take course work in as many of the following subjects as possible: communication; ancient and modern history; biblical and modern languages (Greek, Hebrew, German, etc.); literature and composition; philosophy; psychology; religion; sociology. Where areas of concentration are required, the humanities and social sciences are regarded as the most desirable. A strong emphasis on communication skills, when such studies are offered, is most helpful. Finally, any student will benefit immeasurably from a sound knowledge of the content of the Scriptures. A healthy devotional life and experience in service to others are likewise very important.
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What caused this peculiar configuration of geometric shapes in the desert, and how is it related to urban life in the United States?
What you're seeing is a satellite view of a salt mine in Chile. Its products are being shipped by the ton to snowy cities across the U.S., where roads will be de-iced with generous scoops of salt.
Over on Urban Omnibus, we hear about how salt from Tarapacá, a region in Chile, reaches New York City in the icy winter:
The salt travels here via International Salt, the City's supplier, from the Tarapacá Salt Flats in Chile, vast deposits inside ancient sea beds that now lie in the driest desert in the world (50 times drier than Death Valley). Despite having materialized 8-10 million years ago during the Miocene epoch, the tons of solidified geologic time piled beneath the bridge will dissolve away in a matter of weeks as they are spread atop hundreds of miles of wintry city streets. Before washing away with spring rains, this thin coating of ancient salt will first encrust nearly every exterior surface of the city - roads, sidewalks, bikes, cars, and shoes - with traces of deep time.
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FORT COLLINS — At least 250 people were evacuated by helicopter Monday from parts of Larimer County cut off after flood waters washed away roads.
Most of those evacuated were from Pinewood Springs, where another 130 remain cut off by damage to U.S. 36 between Lyons and Estes Park.
Chuck Russell said hot-shot crews used to working on forest fires are doing "primitive road repair" to help the Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department deliver food and water to people who live long washed out Buckhorn Canyon Road. "The majority of residents were not hard hit, but they are isolated," Deputy Type II Incident Commander Chuck Russell said.
Early Monday, about 1,000 people were stranded in the canyon communities of Larimer County, including a group of seven people stuck near Glen Haven, where they have signaled their location south of Devil's Gulch Road using bed sheets.
Six other people, including a pregnant woman from Kansas, were rescued by helicopter on Saturday.
"We saw a big old Y on the rocks in the meadow," Russell said.
Some of those who were left behind Saturday were rescued Monday afternoon.
If helicopters are able to fly again Tuesday, Russell said another 300 to 400 could be evacuated.
But some may remain stranded for a while.
"In other areas, we may have to develop helicopter landing spots, or there may be places where a Chinook can't land, so we'll have to land smaller" helicopters, Russell said. "So the process may take a little longer than just tomorrow."
Larimer County sheriff's spokesman Nick Christensen said those who were evacuated Monday seem to be well and in good spirits, his enthusiasm for the progress is tempered by what lays ahead.
Some people may be waiting to evacuate for a long time, he said. And once those people are rescued, it may weeks or months to find people who are still missing.
"It may take weeks or months," he said.
Russell said there are many people isolated in remote side canyons.
Search and rescue teams are looking for them, Christensen said. "As those individuals start walking down these drainages and searching side drainages and isolated areas, we know we're going to find people who need that assistance."
Monday morning, there were 398 people unaccounted for, which means they have not contacted friends, family or authorities. By evening, the number had dropped to 260.
More than 6,000 homes and 700 businesses have been damaged or destroyed in floodwaters Christensen described as a "1,000-year-flood in some areas and a 100 year flood in others."
School buses and vans shuttled evacuees to the Timberline Church in Fort Collins, where volunteers were preparing themselves for a crush of evacuees from the floods.
A team from SERVE 6.8 — a group of local non-profit and faith groups — were scheduled to meet the evacuees after they were dropped off by National Guard helicopters. As many as 800 people pulled from the flood waters were then to be transported to the church, which sees as many as 5,000 people in the building over each weekend, say church officials.
The evacuees will be given food, shelter, clothing and access to other needed services in the community while at Timberline, said SERVE 6.8 spokeswoman Kari Stewart.
Mike Walker, executive director of 6.8 Service, told prospective volunteers this morning that the newcomers will tired and anxious. "Just be ready, because these people will likely be very emotional," Walker said.
He also told the volunteers that this is not the time for church members to talk to the evacuees about their faith, unless they volunteer. "We don't want anyone to feel they are being ostracized here just because they may have beliefs that don't align with your own," Walker said.
Christensen said helicopters may also "sling-load in food" and water to stranded areas using a long line and cargo net other areas may be reached by ATV.
Preliminary damage estimates indicate 1,500 homes are destroyed and 4,500 are damaged. About 200 businesses are destroyed and 500 are damaged. Most of the damage has been logged in the southern part of the county, including Lyons and Estes Park.
Three earthen dams are confirmed failed, Sunset, Mirror Lake and Rainbow — all in Big Elk Meadows.
Christensen said extensive road damage has been logged in the North Fork of the Big Thompson and the Buckhorn Canyon.
Larimer, Weld and Adams counties have been added to the Federal Emergency Management Agency individual assistance declaration which means people now can apply for assistance for losses that are not covered by insurance. Register at FEMA.gov or by calling 800-621-3362.
Federal urban search and rescue teams have joined Larimer County search and rescue teams and are now going door to door looking for people.
As of Monday, two people are missing and presumed from the Big Thompson Canyon neighborhood of Cedar Cove. Over the weekend, Christensen said authorities were expecting the death toll to climb.
Christensen said there has been only one documented case of a person refusing to evacuate. "The protocol is to document them and move on. We are not going to forcibly remove anyone, but it puts responders in a problem if those people need help later."
Christensen advised people to accept rescue when it's offered — don't stick around to protect property. "Loss of life is the ultimate loss."
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Computer Services and ITS provide both wired and wireless network access throughout the School of Business in support of the college's academic, research and administrative missions. Computer Services is responsible for all network connections within the CBA, GSB and UTC buildings and also for maintaining a connection to the campus network and internet through ITS.
The McCombs network is maintained by our Network and Technical Support teams. The Network team is also responsible for maintaining the security of our network and performs routine monitoring of network traffic and threats.
Network access is available in almost all of the public spaces within the McCombs School of Business. High-speed wired network ports are found in all computer labs, the Reliant Reading Room, Atrium, Cohort classrooms, and other places throughout the building. Wireless (802.11A/N/G) network access is available in all faculty offices, classrooms, and public spaces of the business school.
Access to the Public Network is restricted to the University students, faculty, staff, and sponsored guests through the Public Network Authentication System. Any user who attempts to access University computing resources or the Internet via the Public Network must use a Web browser to authenticate using their UT EID or a Guest ID.
Students, Faculty, and Staff use their UT EID to log in, or authenticate. Your UT EID must reflect that you are a current student, faculty, or staff member of the University.
Sponsored Guests (such as official visitors, conference attendees, lecturers, etc.) use Guest IDs provided by a host or sponsor to log in.
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Crews were unable to find a missing San Jose pilot and his four relatives during a search Thursday, and it is unclear if the search will continue Friday.
Thursday was the fifth day rescue crews searched for the missing plane and passengers, with efforts intensifying and prayers flowing in from around the country, despite the odds and the cold.
"We're praying hard," Michael Morgan posted on Crystal Marie Chistensen's Facebook page on Thursday.
"Been thinking of your family all week, keeping you in our prayers. You and your family are such amazing examples of faith to so many people," posted Kat Bernfeld Andrus.
Christensen's father, Dale Smith, founder of SerialTek in San Jose, was piloting a BE-36 Beech Bonanza on Sunday when it disappeared in wilderness near the central Idaho town of Yellow Pine about 3:30 p.m.
Aboard his plane were: daughter, Amber Smith, who graduated from Santa Teresa High in San Jose; her fiancé, Jonathan Norton of Salt Lake City; Smith's son, Daniel Smith; and Smith's daughter-in-law Sheree Smith.
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Amber Smith, a graduate of Santa Teresa High in San Jose, and Norton are both students at Brigham Young University in Idaho, and set their wedding date for Jan. 4. A friend, Aaryn Preece, provided NBC Bay Area their engagement photos.
Smith's business partner, Randall Kriech, told NBC Bay Area the family had all left Baker, Ore., after celebrating Thanksgiving with Dale's father, and then headed to Butte, Montana, to drop off Daniel and Sheree Smith. Then, mid-way to Idaho, Kriech said Smith lost contact with air traffic controllers in Salt Lake City.
Smith's wife, Janis Hansen Smith, is in Idaho with search crews, along with Christensen, who lists that she now lives in Provo, Utah on her Facebook page. The couple have five children in all. They are also very active at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in San Jose.
The Valley County Sheriff's Office in rural, western Idaho said on Thursday that ground teams were focusing on drainages east of Johnson Creek airport in Idaho, and aerial crews are flying in grid patterns to locate the missing people.
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Aircraft from the Civil Air Patrol and the Idaho Department of Transportation, as well as helicopters from the US Customs and Border Protection, the Idaho Army National Guard and a private Bell- 407 helicopter are helping out. Some have infrared technology, and helicopters can survey the area at a lower altitude and at slower speeds than fixed-wing aircraft.
"Today we have clear weather and are continuing the search using every available asset," Sheriff's Incident Commander Lt. Dan Smith said in a statement. "The terrain of the search area continues to be a challenge, and our thoughts are with the family of those believed to be on the plane."
Smith's wife told KSL.com on Wednesday that her family has been amazed at the outpouring of love and faith.
"We are indebted to the search and rescue crews working long, cold days in the rugged terrain of the search area," she told the news organization. "We appreciate the resources being pulled in as the search continues for our family."
While the Smith family is Mormon, the extended family, according to KSL.com, includes members of many faiths.
"We've got Lutherans praying, Mormons praying, Catholics praying, and I've got many friends of different religions who have been sending prayers throughout the day," Norton's Uncle Matt Dayton told KSL.com. "The religion doesn't matter at this point. As long as they're praying, that's the key."


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One night after making his red carpet debut in New York, Tiger Woods was on a golf course that hasn't treated him very well over the years.
Woods said it took him a week to get over his tie for fourth at the Masters. Next up is The Players Championship, where he has won only once in 15 years and has just one top 10 since that victory in 2001.
"If you're not playing well, you're going to get exposed," Woods said.
Woods was at full exposure Monday night at the Met with girlfriend Lindsey Vonn. For someone who has demanded so much privacy off the golf course, he attended the Costume Institute Gala. Vonn was a guest of Vogue. He posed on the red carpet wearing a black suit, while the Olympic ski champion wore a long white dress with see-through slits. The theme of the gala was "PUNK: Chaos to Coutre."
Woods has always been more about green jackets and claret jugs.
"It was certainly different," Woods said. "Lindsey wanted to try and grow her brand. She's come out with a new perfume and makeup line, so that was a big thing for her and I'm supporting it. As you know, I'm not really big into fashion stuff. The theme was pretty interesting, because obviously I remember some of that stuff when I was a kid. But I certainly didn't wear that stuff."
Are more red carpets on the horizon?
"We'll see," Woods said. "Maybe I can just go in jeans and a T-shirt or something."
Woods is used to the attention as the primary focus of golf since he won the 1997 Masters. He was reminded of how much fans pay attention to him at the Masters, where he was involved in an unusual rules situation that won't seem to go away.
It started with Woods' third shot hitting the flag on the 15th hole and bouncing back into the water on the opening hole. Woods unknowingly took an illegal drop, but he wasn't told about the possible infraction until after he signed his card. Augusta National took the blame, with competitions chairman Fred Ridley saying it didn't initially notice the violation and chose not to ask Woods about it before he signed his card.
Eventually, he was given a two-shot penalty but allowed to stay in the tournament — instead of being disqualified for signing an incorrect scorecard — under Rule 33-7 that gives a committee discretion to waive the disqualification penalty.
The U.S. Golf Association and Royal & Ancient last week said the Masters was within its right not to disqualify Woods. He wound up four shots out of the lead in a tie for fourth, his 15th consecutive major without winning.
Woods said it took him a week to get over his performance at the Masters. He said he was surprised that the drop and how it was handled was still being debated.
"I think Fred explained it pretty well," Woods said. "For some reason, evidently that wasn't accepted."
Woods said he if saw a violation on television, he would not call it in. Television viewers — in the case of the Masters, it was David Eger, a respected rules expert — have been calling in what they think are rules violations for years.
"I don't ever see myself calling in and saying that Kobe (Bryant) traveled or things like that, or an offensive lineman held," he said. "But it's our sport. And that's what we've done and we've accepted. Certain groups are going to get more heat than others just because they're on TV. It is what it is."
Woods, who now has gone eight appearances without winning the Masters, said he didn't stop thinking about it until he resumed practice a week later. He reserved his comments to the shot where all the debate began — a wedge that turned out to be too good. Woods was tied for the lead on the 15th hole in the opening round, and if the ball did not hit the flag, he likely would have had no more than about 5 feet for birdie.
"Unfortunately, I hit a good shot and got a bad break," Woods said. "But I still had an opportunity over the next 36 holes to get it back ... and I just didn't do it."
Woods doesn't have much of an answer when it comes to the TPC Sawgrass.
He has failed to crack the top 20 eight times, the most of any tournament he has played. He is the No. 1 player in the year, and looks like it. In his last three events, he has won twice and tied for fourth. How that translates to the TPC Sawgrass is unpredictable.
"Some of the years, I've driven it well and not hit my irons well, and other years I've hit the ball great and not putted well," Woods said. "And other years I've drove it awful and didn't score well. You've got to have all the facets of your game going here."
Woods goes from red carpet to TPC Sawgrass
One night after making his red carpet debut in New York, Tiger Woods was on a golf course that hasn't treated him very well over the years.


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Under my house live skunks. I know-eggs and aspirin and be done with them.
However, due to the dearth of real animals and decent habitat for them in my neighborhood, they are not on my destroy list.
My family is of the same mentality, yet my wife does want them to go live somewhere elce.
Can/will anyone offer up a suggestion that might persuade these georgeous animals to vacate permanently from under the house.
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Shortly after dismissing the Bible as archaic and "lukewarm" on marriage, Newsweek's Lisa Miller waxed poetic about it as a "powerful" "living document", essentially suggesting that religious conservatives who consider Scripture to be the inerrant, eternally true decrees of God Himself have a lower view of the Bible than religious liberals:
Biblical literalists will disagree, but the Bible is a living document, powerful for more than 2,000 years because its truths speak to us even as we change through history. In that light, Scripture gives us no good reason why gays and lesbians should not be (civilly and religiously) married—and a number of excellent reasons why they should.
Perhaps ignorant of the biblical warning against double-mindedness (James 1:5-8) four paragraphs earlier Miller began her treatise by misrepresenting and then scoffing at the Bible's teachings on sex and marriage, confusing human sinfulness for biblical teaching and Jesus and the Apostle Paul's teachings for a virtual loathing of marriage:
Let's try for a minute to take the religious conservatives at their word and define marriage as the Bible does. Shall we look to Abraham, the great patriarch, who slept with his servant when he discovered his beloved wife Sarah was infertile? Or to Jacob, who fathered children with four different women (two sisters and their servants)? Abraham, Jacob, David, Solomon and the kings of Judah and Israel—all these fathers and heroes were polygamists. The New Testament model of marriage is hardly better. Jesus himself was single and preached an indifference to earthly attachments—especially family. The apostle Paul (also single) regarded marriage as an act of last resort for those unable to contain their animal lust. "It is better to marry than to burn with passion," says the apostle, in one of the most lukewarm endorsements of a treasured institution ever uttered. Would any contemporary heterosexual married couple—who likely woke up on their wedding day harboring some optimistic and newfangled ideas about gender equality and romantic love—turn to the Bible as a how-to script?
Alas, Ms. Miller, "you are wrong because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God," those pesky "literalists" might retort. At any rate it appears Ms. Miller is insistent on eisegeting holy writ to declare ex cathedra from her perch at Newsweek that the Bible can be used to defend gay marriage.
Indeed, the Bible is clear in numerous passages that human sexuality has been plagued by sexual sin, lust, betrayal, and adultery since sin entered the world in the Garden of Eden. Yet Miller fires her first shot by holding up biblical patriarchs as though they are the Christian model for marriage, not flawed sinners in need of a savior.
Miller then went on to insist that "no sensible modern person wants marriage... to look in its particulars anything like what the Bible describes." Perhaps Ms. Miller is unaware that it very sensible, modern, Bible-believing Christians see marriage as the Bible describes it: a mystery that displays in the covenant between a man and woman in marriage the love of Jesus Christ for his church.:
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Of course, it is just as likely that Ms. Miller understands that's the Christian view of marriage, and thinks anyone who believes that cannot possibly be modern or sensible, which illustrates more about her prejudices than those of the alleged religious bigots she claims to trump with her knowledge of Scripture.


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China is experiencing its coldest winter in decades
BEIJING — Ice swimmers were taking their shocking plunges in north China through the thickest ice in years, but most Chinese nationwide are shivering through the coldest weather in nearly three decades.
Freezing weather has sent temperatures diving to a national average of 25 degrees Fahrenheit since Nov. 20, the lowest average temperature in 28 years, says the China Meteorological Administration.
In China's frozen northeast, where the city of Harbin hosts a popular snow and ice festival each winter, temperatures over the same period averaged minus-5 degrees, a 43-year low, according to the CMA.
And a new cold front will hit south China this week, the CMA said, as temperatures in several regions will be several degrees lower than the average of normal years. The CMA said ice had covered 10,500 square miles of the sea surface, the most expansive since 2008 when authorities began to collect ice data, and it said the ice coverage will likely continue to grow.
One million people in normally temperate south China have been going through unusually cold weather in recent days, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday. Thousands of travelers have endured long delays as fog and frozen runways paralyzed airports. Hundreds of irate passengers berated staff at Kunming's airport last week, according to pictures on the Caixin magazine website.
Some trains have also been halted and several highways temporarily closed due to snow and ice.
In north China's Inner Mongolia, record-low temperatures and heavy snow have left two people dead and affected 770,000 others, said Xinhua. More than 260,000 people were in need of emergency aid.
In eastern Shandong province, more than 1,000 ships are stuck because of thick sea ice on Laizhou Bay. The government fretted over damage to late-season crops such as winter wheat. Prices for vegetable have jumped 55% in the past 10 weeks, reported the People's Daily newspaper.
The super-low temperatures are rare but will continue for some time, said Zhang Lansheng, 85, one of China's earliest environment and climate experts. Compared to early 2008, when south China suffered a snow and ice "disaster" that caused widespread power outages and affected more than 100 million people, China now boasts more experience and disaster readiness, he said.
"But we need to increase the accuracy of weather forecasts, and different levels of government should improve emergency facilities and organize people to boost their ability to cope with disasters."
The weather has also exposed a decades-old debate about the lack of heating in south China. A line drawn in the 1950s split China into a northern half that built and still enjoys heavily subsidized public heating, and a southern half that shivers through winter without a public heating network and must make do with private, often less effective, heating devices.
While some officials and energy experts suggest heating the south could endanger China's energy supply, Zhang hopes southern cities with enough financial resources can build heating networks with clean energy.
"I don't think the old way to divide the heating areas is good. But it's hard to change it now, so I don't think the south will be the same as the north anytime soon."
The nation's great size means tourists can always enjoy warm days in destinations such as Hainan Island, China's "Hawaii." But some Chinese are determined to make the most of the deep chill.
At the Harbin ice festival, 16 Chinese and foreign couples braved the cold for a mass wedding celebration on Sunday.
China has no history of winter sports, but middle-class Chinese are increasingly heading to suburban ski resorts that have mushroomed in north China in recent years where ice fishermen still haul their thrashing prey up through holes sawed through thick ice.
The seven-leg China Tour de Ski, a cross-country ski race that started in frozen Jilin in China's northeast, continued as scheduled. It finishes Friday in frigid Xinjiang, on China's border with Kazakhstan, where temperatures have hit 40 below this winter.
India is also experiencing record cold, and forecasts in Israel call for 2 inches of snow, a rare occurrence. The Weather Underground reports that the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where New Delhi is located, has seen record cold temperatures. Temperatures in New Delhi fell to a low of 35.4 degrees on Jan. 6 and the high temperature on Jan. 2 was 49.6, the coldest daily maximum in 44 years.
Locations in Haryana State reported a low temperature of 26.7 degrees, an all-time record cold temperature.
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently accepted the Ice Bucket Challenge. That's when someone dumps a bucket of ice water on himself or herself and then challenges others to do the same, or make a donation to fight ALS, also known as Lou Gehrigh's Disease.
In this case, Gates accepted the challenge from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Gates has his own special take on the ice bucket task, of course. He then passes on the challenge to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, American Idol host Ryan Seacrest and TED curator Chris Anderson.


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