Monday, April 14, 2014

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I am leaving this afternoon for two weeks of whirlwind international and bi-coastal conferencing. If you're going to be at the March 5th National Autistic Society conference in Harrogate, UK, where I'll be talking iPads & apps; or at the March 7th UCSF Developmental Disabilities Conference in San Francisco, where all four TPGA editrixes and I will be discussing Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, social media, community, and outreach; or at the UN Foundation's Shot@Life Champions Summit to discuss vaccine policy and outreach in Washington DC March 9 - 12, please do say hello. (If I was to wear a communication badge, it would be Green, as perfectly outlined by ASAN -- I am not great at initiating conversations, but am happy to chat if approached.)My husband and mother and a whole squadron of friends and helpers are covering for me -- the documentation for How To Run This Household When I'm Not Here is seven pages of 10 point text ....

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Friday, April 11, 2014

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(CNN) -- New Zealand turned on the style to beat England 26-7 in Sunday's final of the Hong Kong Sevens as they ran in four tries in a comprehensive victory.

The New Zealand triumph -- their fifth since 2000 in the Discount Oakley Sunglasses prestigious event -- took them back to the top of the HSBC Sevens World Series -- with two rounds of the nine remaining.

England, who beat two-time holders Fiji in the semifinal, were always on the back foot in the finale of the three-day tournament and scored a lone try through Tom Powell.

But New Zealand breached their defense regularly as Ben Lam, Tim Mikkelson, captain DJ Forbes and Sam Dickson crossed in a dominant display.

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South Africa beat Wales 19-14 in the Plate Final and are the nearest challengers to New Zealand in the Cheap Oakley Sunglasses battle for overall honors, trailing by seven points in the standings, with Fiji in third.

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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

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While Ugandan President Museveni accuses the United States of trying to import social imperialism into Uganda by defending homosexual rights, who do you think is behind some of the anti-gay hysteria in Uganda right now?

A group of evangelical Christians from that very same hotbed of social imperialism: the United States of America.

Museveni on Monday signed into law a bill that toughens penalties against gay people and defines some homosexual acts as crimes punishable by life in prison.

Roger Ross Williams belonged to an organization called International House of Prayer in Missouri, whose missionary zeal fell on gays in Uganda. He decided to make a film about what he learned called “God Loves Uganda.”

Someone like evangelist Scott Lively is “an extremist in America,” Williams said, “but when he goes to Uganda he gets taken seriously because of what he represents.”

“He’s an American evangelical, and what an American represents in a place like Uganda – it represents power and wealth.”

“So he goes to Uganda and he can command the president, he can command the parliament for five hours. He did a three-day conference, where he told everyone about the threat of homosexuality, that they were there to recruit their children.”

“And that’s what really sort of started this whole bill on its, where it is now, today, this sort of tragic day.”

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Thursday, April 3, 2014

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Editor's note: Sylvia Adcock covered aviation safety and security for Newsday from 1996 until 2005. She is editor of NC State magazine, the alumni magazine of North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

(CNN) -- Sometimes, the crash site is never found.

In 1972 a Pan Cheap Oakley Sunglasses Alaska Airways flight with one pilot and three passengers took off from Anchorage bound for Juneau, planning to fly the route under visual flight rules despite bad weather conditions. After one last contact with air traffic controllers, the Cessna was on its way. The plane never reached Juneau. The flight had two congressmen on board -- Hale Boggs of Louisiana and Nicholas Begich of Alaska.

The search for the missing aircraft was intense, encompassing 325,000 square miles of land and sea, with 3,600 flight hours used to look for the wreckage. But after 39 days, the search was called off. A acknowledged that the cause might never be known.

In the case of Malaysia Flight 370, a Boeing 777 missing since Saturday, a search of an area captured by Chinese satellite images that seemed to pinpoint the crash site turned up nothing. Such images are rare, and typically, when a plane goes down in a remote area with no witnesses, one of the most crucial tools available to investigators is radar.

"It's very important," said John Griffin II, an associate professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University who specializes in air traffic control. "There are basically two ways to find a plane -- radar and pilot communication."

Radar can take two forms. One is primary radar, what's sometimes called "skinpaint," that simply reflects off an object. Primary radar doesn't give any information about the object it's tracking. "If you work at an ATC (Air Traffic Control) facility on an East Coast flyway, you will pick up flocks of birds," Griffin said. Primary radar can also pick up debris that might be raining down from an in-flight explosion, and in such cases a target that appears as one object suddenly appears as several objects.

Secondary radar, on the other hand, relies on plane's transponder, a device located in the nose of the plane. The transponder broadcasts a signal to air traffic controllers that identifies the flight and its altitude. Secondary radar is more than just a blip on a radar screen; it tells the controllers the valuable information about the specific aircraft.

Malaysia Flight 370's transponder stopped broadcasting about 45 minutes into the flight. At that point, air traffic controllers in Kuala Lampur had no more contact with the aircraft. At first, the search area focused on the plane's intended flight path, as officials went on the assumption that the plane did not change course. "Then they started exploring other possibilities," Griffin said. Military radar tracked unidentified targets that could have been Flight 370 heading west toward the Strait of Malacca and possibly beyond.

Military radar can cover areas not covered by civilian air traffic control. But discount Oakley sunglasses Outlet Australia without the plane's transponder working, that target tracked by radar is only "skinpaint," or the reflection of a dense object. It can't identify the plane or give an altitude. And even the radar can only provide so much information. It's possible for a plane to literally fly under the radar because coverage usually doesn't go all the way down to the surface. In that case, a plane could continue undetected even in areas covered by radar.

In addition to the 1972 Alaska crash, other aircraft have gone missing without a trace. In 1962, a Flying Tiger Line Lockheed Constellation operating as a military transport disappeared over the Pacific after taking off from Guam. The recovery operation included 48 aircraft, but no sign of the plane was ever found.

In the case of the Malaysia Airlines flight, the search area has continued to expand rather than contract -- something that experts say does not bode well for the likelihood of finding the plane. On Wednesday, Malaysian authorities broadened nearly doubling its size. On Thursday, authorities said they planned to look farther west toward the Indian Ocean.

It's almost impossible to simply crisscross such a large area in low-flying planes and boats. "It's a monumental task," Griffin said. "It's a vast area. There's a lot cheap oakleys of terrain there, remote areas where the plane could have crashed."

After the Alaska crash, Congress mandated that The ELT is designed to activate during a crash and broadcast a signal to an emergency frequency monitored by air traffic controllers.

International civil aviation authorities require that international flights, such as the Kuala Lumpur-Beijing flight, have ELTs on board. It's not clear, however, if the Malaysia Airlines plane had the device on board. If it did have an ELT, it hasn't been detected -- and that could mean that the plane crashed in such a remote location that its signal is out of range, or that the device malfunctioned or didn't go off because the plane actually landed somewhere safely. "But then you get into how do you hide a 777," Griffin said. "This is a serious aircraft."

Seriously big. The Boeing 777's tail alone stands 60 feet high. But right now, it's a 200-foot-long, 500,000-pound needle in a haystack that could be as large as an ocean.

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Blue chips lead the way

(Money Magazine) -- Don't believe all the negative headlines you read about China -- and there have been plenty lately.

Sure, growth in the world's second-largest economy is expected to slow this year, to 8% from 9.2% last year and 10.4% in 2010. Still, that doesn't exactly qualify as a "hard landing" -- especially given anemic U.S. growth forecasts of 2% to 3%.

The most promising opportunities are keyed to the changing nature of China's expansion. Until recently, its economy largely grew on the back of strong exports to Europe and the U.S. Now, says Michelle Gibley, director of international research for Charles Schwab, "China is transitioning to a consumer-led economy."

As a result, U.S. multinationals aiming to sell their wares to China's burgeoning middle class look like good bets for American investors.

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But many other U.S. blue chips are expanding rapidly there as well, says Peter Pham of AlphaVN.com, a research site that focuses on emerging Asian markets. Starbucks (, ), for Oakley Sunglasses Wholesale Prices instance, is looking to nearly triple its store count in China by 2015. Coca-Cola (, ) is planning to invest $4 billion on expansion there in the next three years. And General Motors (, ) is partnering with Chinese auto maker SAIC to manufacture electric cars.

Another way to invest, says Pham, is via an exchange-traded fund that tracks corporate debt of multinationals in China. Several firms have issued "dim sum" bonds, denominated in the yuan and traded in Hong Cheap Oakleys Wholesale Kong.

You can buy them through a fund such as PowerShares Chinese Yuan Dim Sum Bond Portfolio (), with issues from firms like Ford (, ) and Caterpillar (, ). One caveat: Corporate bonds are inherently risky, so buying a basket of them trading in another currency isn't for everyone.

Don't ignore the locals: After a rough 2011, China's stock market is up slightly this year -- but it has been a bumpy ride due to concerns about the impact Europe's debt woes will have on China's economy.

To pick up blue chips such as China Mobile () and oil giant CNOOC (), Wade Balliet, director of equities for Bank of the West's wealth management investment advisory team, recommends iShares MSCI China Index () or the iShares FTSE China Index () ETFs.

For exposure to other emerging markets in addition to China, look at the MONEY 70's Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund (), with four Chinese companies among its top 10 holdings, or T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets () with two growth bets in its top 20: search engine Baidu () and Tencent, a social networking giant.

In the short run, there are risks to betting on China. In the long run, the country's top stocks, like China itself, are too big and have too much potential to ignore.

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