Ginger Snap Crafts: GE {lighting} room makeover #GELighting

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I was recently asked to do a room makeover using GE Lighting!
Now that sounded like a fun challenge!? Lighting is HUGE!!!
Sometimes changing the lighting in a room can change the whole atmosphere!?
Annnd I had the perfect room in mind that needed a little something?my kitchen!
So I headed to Walmart to pick up the things I needed for my makeover!

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As usual Walmart did not disappoint!?
It?s shelves were stocked full of lighting choices!
So much to choose from!?
I LOVED all the options from GE Lighting.???
Lots has changed since the last time I went shopping for light bulbs!
{You can check out my whole shopping trip HERE.}

So here?s the run down on what I wanted to change in our kitchen.? We have a very long kitchen.? We have plenty of light coming in on one end.? Our table sits right in front of our patio doors & a window so during the day we get lots of natural light, but at night it?s a different story!? The light fixtures in our kitchen were waaaay too small.? So at night it was dark!? So I wanted to change that up!? We also had out dated light bulbs that were not energy efficient!? Not good!? I am all about saving some money.? So it was time to swap out those old bulbs for some new energy efficient ones!?

So here is what it looked like before:

I picked up some GE LED decorative candle bulbs for our chandelier.? I also picked up some GE Reveal light bulbs.? What I LOVED about both of these bulbs was that they looked like normal bulbs!? I?m not a huge fan of the swirly twirly type bulbs, so I was super excited about their design!? They are suppose to last 7+ years, too!? Yay!

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Walmart also carries light fixtures, but I couldn?t find the exact one I wanted so on the way home we swung by a home improvement store, & I found a track lighting fixture that was a perfect match to the lights we already have.? So we grabbed that.? I knew that with the combination of the new bulbs & more lighting it was going to be AWESOME!?
I couldn?t wait to get home & put my hubby to work!? {Thanks, honey! You?re the best!}?

Below is a picture I took later on that night!? Wowzers!?
Do you see all that light in my kitchen???
It?s amazing!? We can see! Yay!?
It almost make me want to get in there & cook something?almost!

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I LOVE the new GE Lighting in our kitchen!? We really should of done this a long time ago!
I also love that we will be saving money in the long run by using energy efficient light bulbs.
Now if I can just get my kiddos to remember to turn their lights off when they leave a room & to close the door when they go outside we?d be doing even better!

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I also figured out that by replacing the 6 bulbs in our kitchen with energy efficient bulbs
I will save almost $40 annually & over $200 over the life of the bulbs.?

{You can go HERE to calculate your savings, too!}

Here?s some more information & a cute video from GE Lighting
showing YOU the benefits of using energy efficient light bulbs.

Click here for a coupon!

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Now I?ll think I?ll go & enjoy my new kitchen!
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Thank you so much stopping by my blog!
If this is your first time visiting I?d love to keep in touch.

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I am a member of the Collective Bias? Social Fabric? Community.? This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias?. #CBias #SocialFabric All opinions are my own.

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Write For Your Readers: Copyright Policies and EULAs | Analytics ...

Over the last year or two, I've heard quite a bit of discussion spiked with a bit of outrage about two things: copyright policies and privacy policies on websites. While both of these are usually wrapped up in extensive and exhausting legal walls of text known as End-User Licensing Agreements (EULA), Terms of Service (ToS), or by some other wonderfully dry name, this article is about copyright and privacy policies specifically. I'll write about both, because they intertwine in some interesting ways, especially when you start publishing user-generated content, such as photos, videos, or even blog post comments.

In the case of copyright policies, users of services such as Facebook, especially content creators such as photographers, artists, and musicians, often find themselves aghast at what appears to be a brazen grab at the fruits of their labour. What is usually intended as a way for forums, social media websites, and other websites to legally reproduce and serve to visitors what has been written or shared by others, is often misconstrued due to heavy-handed language that appears to claim more than is strictly necessary for this purpose.

The intent of this series (whose length depends mostly on visitor response, naturally) is to provide some suggestions as to how copyright and privacy policies might be better-handled so that visitors don't get spooked unnecessarily. No matter how pretty, user-friendly, or useful your website is, all that it takes is a simple misunderstanding to throw everything off the rails, especially if visitors start to share their worries. Today, I'll be writing about copyright policies on websites in particular.

Explain Your Intent

When presented with the often-harsh, blunt, Latin-laced, and magnificently dry language of the courtroom and the contract, there are so many ways that the average legally-untrained user can misinterpret the intent and language of website copyright policies.

Twitter does something in their Terms of Service that I quite enjoy; they provide 'tips' alongside their legal speech to clarify certain things to their users which can become controversial when misunderstood. Here's an example:

Unfortunately, they don't do this extensively enough for my tastes, only a few paragraphs are clarified in this manner. They're heading in the right direction, though.

Another service, a photo-sharing site called 500px.com, goes even further and summarizes each and every paragraph of their Terms of Service in a layman-friendly manner. Here's an example:

This is much, much closer to the ideal, although I'd have preferred that the Terms of Service themselves be written in a more readable way, rather than requiring separate text to explain them.

Tumblr, a micro-blogging service, also makes it clear in their Terms of Service that users retain their own rights, and then clarifies that any rights a user gives them are just so Tumblr can make that content available to others as you'd expect when you use Tumblr.

Even Facebook has started to take the hint with their own Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, and has started to draft parts of the document in plain language:

In these cases, Twitter, 500px, Tumblr, and to a lesser extent Facebook, have taken the time to explain to their users that the intent isn't to steal their users' photos, videos, music, and other content out from under them. The intent and desired effect is to be able to serve user-generated content up to anyone who views that user's profile, Tweets, posts, etc. on their websites (provided that content is intended by the user to be publicly-viewable) without the website owners getting sued for infringement that was never intended.

While I recommend that all website policies be accompanied with an understandable plain-speech summary of the Terms of Service, the occasional pointer along the way, or be written entirely in commonly-understood language, that doesn't go far enough. The actual substantive legal text content should also be tailored and constructed to ensure that the rights of the users aren't threatened by their use of a website.

Don't Overreach

The other side of the coin, as far as visitor policy perturbation is concerned, is the legal text itself. Some users are either savvier than the average bear, or are part of the tech media and specialize in writing about anything that could spark a controversy conflagration. Either way, you've got to make sure your policies don't bite off more of a user's rights than they can chew, and that your lawyers don't get too overzealous in drafting them.

Here's an example from the CBC, or Canadian Broadcasting Company, of an approach to user-generated content that is quickly becoming antiquated as socially-enabled websites begin to feel the heat:

Not only is this policy presented as a wall of legally-dense text, but it also demands all rights for any use at all, ever, and forces you to waive all rights you had in the content to begin with and give them to the CBC. This is not cool, and could be construed (whether accurately or not) as an attempt to grab and hoard the content uploaded and shared by users.

USA Today's website takes a similar 'leave nothing behind and patch all the holes' wall-of-text approach to their user-generated content policy:

The part of this excerpt that really bothers me is the idea that USA Today can not only use the content you post on their site for any purpose at all, but can also sell it without giving you a cut. Wait, what?

I don't blame anyone for getting a bit unnerved by this sort of language: on first glance, it appears ridiculously exploitative and unfair. Don't fall into that category - keep your users happy and comfortable using your service!

Checking The List, Twice

To conclude, I'd like to leave you all with a list of things that I, personally, look for when evaluating a website's privacy policy:

• Policy states that upon posting, user gives site owner a licence to reproduce contents of post.
• Policy states that site owner may use user-generated content in derivative works.
• Policy clearly explains to user the reasons why certain rights to the contents of the post are needed by the site owner.
• Policy clearly explains and reassures user that the user maintains full ownership rights to their own content, and that the user may cancel the rights given by them to the website on which they're posting their content by removing all of such content from the website.
• Policy states that user, by posting, grants site owner the right to sub-licence or grant rights to the content to third parties. Again, be specific as to what you need to do with the content and why.
• Policy states that user, by posting, warrants that the user has exclusive ownership of the content that they post, and that by posting, the user is not infringing a third person's rights to he content of the post or trying to grant rights to the site owner for that content that they don't actually have. You can't make decisions about things you don't own. Unless you're the government.
• Policy states that the site owner can delete at will, and for any reason, any content at any time as deemed necessary by the site owner.
• Policy states that the user agrees not to post content that is offensive, harmful, Policy states that, once the content is deleted from the website by the user, the website's rights to that content, originally given to them by the user, are no longer valid, and that any stored copies of the user-removed content will be fully disposed of. If the content has to be archived or backed-up, the policy should state how long it will be archived for, and assure the user that it will not be shared, used or distributed while archived.

Note that this list isn't intended to be incorporated as is into an actual website policy. Please also note that, while I am very interested in the interactions between the law and the Internet and hold an undergraduate degree dealing with Canadian and Ontarian law, I am not a lawyer, nor do I hold myself out to be a lawyer or to be able, licensed, or insured to offer legal advice, either for free or for a fee.

Talk to a lawyer first before doing anything that a reasonable person think might get you sued, that an unreasonable person might try to sue you for, or doing or using anything that I've suggested here - I hear that lawyers like it when you do that.

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Blake Lively Admits 'Gossip Girl' Isn't Her Best Work

Blake Lively has loved playing Serena van der Woodsen, but she's excited about the prospect of steering her career away from the Upper East Side. The Gossip Girl actress will be shooting the sixth and final season of the hit CW show this summer, and then she'll hang up her stilettos as the primetime soap star.

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Ultra Electronics, TCS Announces New Version of the Ultra High ...

Ultra Electronics, TCS announces High-Capacity Radio (HCR) with 400 MBPS of bandwidth throughput

CANSEC, Ottawa, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ ? Ultra Electronics, TCS, based in Montreal, Canada, has announced a new version of the Ultra High-Capacity Radio (HCR) now capable of 400 Mbps of bandwidth throughput. The HCR is a small form-factor and highly ruggedized tactical radio that delivers high bandwidth throughput over long distances using point-to-point microwave wireless technology. The radio?s dramatic increase in bandwidth capability over previous generation radios is expected to accelerate the adoption of handheld devices and next-generation applications at the tactical edge, a key trend within many militaries around the world. The new radio?s much smaller form factor requires fewer assets to deploy and less logistical support than previous generation HCLOS radios, providing users with secure voice, data, video and sensor backhaul communications in difficult, hard to reach, operating environments.

The HCR incorporates and improves on the best features of Ultra?s battle-proven AN/GRC-245 and AN/GRC-512 radios to form a new platform that can perform multiple roles. The single box mast mount radio supports the roles of a High-Capacity Line-of-Sight (HCLOS) radio relay, including spectrum efficiency and long range waveforms, as well as a true full-band Electronic Counter Counter Measure (ECCM) radio relay. Therefore, it effectively provides two radio types in a single common platform, enabling each relay vehicle to quickly mix and match each mode to suit battlefield conditions. As a Software-Defined Radio (SDR), the HCR?s unique architecture facilitates technology insertions while allowing for interoperability with legacy platforms, including the Ultra AN/GRC-245 and AN/GRC-512 radios.

Iwan Jemczyk, President of Ultra Electronics, TCS commented:

?The new version of the Ultra HCR introduces truly breakthrough technology in its domain and represents the culmination of Ultra?s forty years of experience delivering tactical communications solutions. The radio?s small form factor, significant bandwidth throughput capability and its ability to evolve over time, opens doors to new applications at all levels of the tactical communications chain.?

Ultra Electronics, TCS

Ultra Electronics, TCS, part of the Ultra Electronics group, is a global leader in tactical communication systems, including high-capacity radio communications and Electronic Warfare (EW) systems. Ultra TCS supplies dependable, reliable and powerful communications equipment for tactical military and defence system applications. The company?s products are tailored to meet or exceed military requirements in order to ensure that reliable, effective and robust communications can be deployed in the most rugged of environments. Ultra TCS is proud to work with leading system integrators to provide the best communications systems and services to be integrated within any military architecture and fielded as part of any deployment scenario in the world.

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Choosing Makita Drills is Choosing Quality

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Makita Power Tools is a foremost maker of power tools and is known for their high-end and consistent utensils for industrial cutting, drilling, planing, dust extraction and otherequipment needs. The brand is also a leading manufacturer of cordless equipment for those who want more portability with their tools.Makita power tools stand for power, efficiency and durability. Here are the Makita tools for your tool kit that you just can?t do.

Makita Hammer Drill BHR261RDE- Makita BHR261 SDS+ ROTARY HAMMER is given huge power by a 36v Li-ion battery. Makita BHR261 RDE 36 Volt LXT lithium ion SDS Plus Rotary Hammer Drill complete with Makstar charger, 2 batteries, depth gauge and side handle. Makita?s Lithium-ion battery is the quickest, lightest and most powerful battery technology to date.Rotary hammer drill as a larger, more powerful version of a hammer drill with an added bonus. It also works like a small jack hammer. These drills are dedicated to the purpose of drilling and chipping into concrete, stone and masonry. They are generally not intended for drilling into wood or other similar materials. Rotary hammer drills use a special bit designed not to slip in the chuck. The most common types are the SDS and spline drive. The type of bit you use will depend on the drill. SDS bits come in several different sizes, so you will need to get the size that matches your drill. If you want to drill many larger diameter holes in concrete or stone, then this is the type of drill you need.

Makita Rotary Hammer Drill BHR261TRD-The Makita BHR261TRDE comes with a new technology of batteries known as the LXT Lithium-Ion system and it offers a ton of advantages over the standard NiCad or NiMH batteries that are found in a lot of drills.Makita BHR261TRDE have following features- 36 Volt LXT 2 batteries carry case depth gauge Another really cool feature about the Makita BHR261TRDE is Makstar charger.

Makita Cordless SDS Plus Rotary Hammer Drill BHR200SJE- A Cordless Hammer Drill is extremely popular and considered as a must have in every household because of its portability and power to perform basic to complex drilling tasks easily and effortlessly. They are widely used around the house and are designed to perform similar tasks that a standard electric model can do. Makita BHR200SJE hammer drills are provided 24v rechargeable battery.

Makita 4-function Combi Drill BTP140RFE-The combi drill is a wonderful combination of a hammering action, drilling and driver. Most combi drills have alternating settings so you can drill through both wooden material and non-wooden material such as concrete and brick.

This 4-function, 18V combi driver features the following modes screwdriver, drill, impact driver and percussion drill. The two speed gearbox coupled with a variable speed trigger gives a choice of 0-700, 0-2,400rpm. This machine produces a massive 185Nm of torque and is more than capable of drilling 10mm holes in steel and 8mm in masonry.

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Still going! Pluskota headed to NCAA Final Four

Published Sunday, May 27, 2012 in Sports

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Newnan native and Northgate graduate Natalie Pluskota, right, celebrates with University of Tennessee doubles partner Kata Szekely after winning Saturday's NCAA quarterfinal match in Athens.

From STAFF REPORTS

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ATHENS ? Northgate graduate and four-time University of Tennessee All-American Natalie Pluskota just doesn?t want her college tennis career to end.

So the start of her pro career will have to wait just a little longer.

At least until Monday.

Saturday afternoon at the Dan Magill Tennis Center, Pluskota and her doubles partner Kata Szekely battled the heat and a challenge from SEC and Florida rivals Lauren Embree and Joanne Mather to become the first Lady Vols doubles team to advance to the NCAA Division I Final Four.

Pluskota and Szekely moved to the Final Four by winning a third-set tiebreaker 6-4, 4-6, and 7-6.

Florida?s Embree/Mather only lost nine times in their career, but two of those loses

Florida?s Embree/Mather duo only lost nine total matches during their time playing together for the Gators. Two of those came to Natalie Pluskota and Kata Szekely. UT?s tandem also bested the Gator duo at the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships last November.

Trailing 6-5 in the final set, Pluskota and Szekely held serve to even the match at 6-all

After trading the first six points of the tiebreaker to even it at 3-all, the tennis duo won the final four points to advance seize the match.

Pluskota and Szekely should be used to tiebreakers by now

In Friday?s victory over Virginia?s Emily Fraser and Lindsey Hardenberger, Pluskota and Szekely won both sets via the tiebreaker to move on to the quarterfinals.

Pluskota also earned her first All-American honor in singles this week.

Pluskota and Szekely are the third doubles team from Tennessee to reach the final four.

She and her partner will be back on the court today against Stanford?s Mallory Burdette and Nichole Gibbs.

Burdette and Gibbs are the third-ranked doubles team in the country.

It will give Pluskota a chance at some revenge.

Gibbs knocked the Northgate graduate out of the singles tournament in 7-6, 7-6.

The doubles finals are set for Monday.

Pluskota has won 107 matches in her doubles career.

That?s the sixth most in Lady Vols? history.

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Brazil Real Estate More Affordable Thanks To Currency Rates

As the Brazilian Real weakens against the US Dollar and the British Sterling, real estate in the country is now more affordable. In the summer of last year, an investor could get 1.56 Reals for each USD, and now they can get around 2. That means a house that cost 200,000 Reals last year would have cost $128,205 USD - now it would only be $100,000. For more on this, continue reading the following article from Property Wire.

The strength of Sterling against the Brazilian Real means that for British buyers property in Brazil is even more affordable, it is claimed.

Sterling is trading at a two and a half year high against the Brazilian Real and this means that if you bought a five star two bedroom beachfront apartment south of Natal on 01 June 2011 it would have cost ?111,617 but now the cost is ?90,564, according to Samantha Gore, sales manager of Brazil specialist estate agents uv10.

?From early June 2011 until now the Brazilian Real has been fading against the Pound, to the tune of 28%. Likewise, the US Dollar is at a two and a half year high and the Euro a two year high against Brazil?s currency,? she said.

She pointed out that a very attractive Brazil property buying scenario has come about by the retreat of the Real. The Eurozone collapse has sent shockwaves over to Brazil as investors fear that demand for this Latin American nation?s exports could drop sharply as an at least partial Eurozone breakup becomes increasingly likely.

Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega is pleased that the Real is losing value and therefore becoming more competitive. ?The weak real is beneficial for the Brazilian economy because it makes Brazilian products more competitive, which means that Brazilian industry can better compete with imported products that become more expensive, and can export more,? he said recently.

Gore believes that optimism in Brazil extends further. ?The middle class continues to grow, fuelling demand for property and keeping prices on an upward trajectory, at least for a few more years. Benchmark interest rates have just been lowered to 9%, which is great news for local buyers eyeing a mortgage and developers seeking finance for new projects,? she explained.

?In 2014, the FIFA World Cup comes to Brazil and then Rio de Janeiro takes on Olympic hosting duties in 2016. Once these events have passed, there will still be huge oil exploration to keep Brazil in the spotlight and in the money. Meanwhile tourist arrivals continue to rise, further fuelling the country?s economy which managed 2.75% GDP growth in 2011,? she added.

Figures also show that last year Brazil welcomed a record number of visitors. Ministry of Tourism data shows there were 5.4 million visitors, 5.3% up on 2010?s figures. Best Western International has responded by opening its 17th hotel in Brazil, but the first from its Best Western Premier brand, the five star Best Western Premier Majestic Ponta Negra Beach, one the most famous beaches in Brazil.
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Best Western International aims to have 20 hotels in Brazil by 2017 and Marriott is also adding 12 hotels to its five existing properties in Brazil as it predicts a hotel room shortage throughout the sporting events calendar.

Gore pointed out that two bedroom properties at Golden Fields, Natal, start from around ?48,800.

This article was republished with permission from Property Wire.

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Scientist at Work Blog: The Extinction of Hawaiian Birds

David J. Flaspohler, an avian ecologist and conservation biologist at Michigan Technological University, writes from Hawaii, where he is studying the influence of human activities on birds and the natural ecosystems that support them.

Monday, May 21

This morning, we have driven the four-wheel-drive truck up the 35 miles and 5,000 feet of elevation from Hilo to the turn onto a gravel road that will take us back to the study area. We pass through the gate, enter the Upper Waiakea Forest Reserve, and begin to pick our way across a road bulldozed across the lava. Sitting in the truck as it rumbles and creaks over this road, you are in a constant state of motion, jostling against the person sitting next to you, the truck door and, if you are not wearing your seat belt, the roof. To the farthest kipuka, it is about 30 minutes on this lava road. From there, it is a 45-minute hike across boot-shredding lava to the most distant kipuka.

In bird research, you don?t lift anything heavier than a pair of binoculars. Here, the hardest days are when we move the mist-net poles, nets, sledgehammer, and the bird banding kit to the most distant kipuka. Mist nets are fine nets that were invented in Japan in the 1600s and made of silk to catch small birds for food; they?re now made of nylon, adapted by 20th-century researchers as a way to humanely capture birds for measurement and marking. After banding for two days in one of the 34 kipuka involved in our studies, the poles, nets, sledgehammer and banding equipment are hiked across the lava to set up in another kipuka.

Our poles are made of galvanized electrical conduit pipe, and because most Hawaiian forest birds spend their time in the tall forest canopy, we use double- or even triple-high mist nets to reach 25 feet up. Once in the kipuka, we search for a natural net lane in the forest. Two people work to thread the net over the poles, and raise and steady the poles with guy ropes. A rope and pulley system is used to raise the net, and to lower it when a bird is caught.

To date, we have banded about 1,500 birds over two breeding seasons, each released with a unique combination of colored bands so it can be identified when it is sighted again. From this information, we can estimate annual survival and adult and juvenile dispersal.

We are also monitoring nests to estimate success and to see if the presence of nonnative rats influences nest success; rats will eat eggs, nestlings and even adults if they can catch them, as rats can climb trees. Half of the kipuka we?re studying have rats, and half had rats removed. The long-term viability of these bird populations will be determined by whether survival and reproduction are sufficient to compensate for mortality and nest failure. Just 20 miles away, the i?iwi, a common bird in these kipuka, has all but disappeared from Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, evidence that survival and reproduction were insufficient to sustain that population.

As I cross the lava, balancing 30 pounds of poles on my shoulder, I glance up at the broad shield volcano Mauna Loa and consider an amazing bit of irony. Visible on the volcano is the oldest atmospheric carbon dioxide monitoring station in the world. Data from this station provided one of the first pieces of evidence that the carbon dioxide was increasing in concentration. It might seem that a bit of warming would pose little threat to tropical birds, if not for Captain Cook and British imperial ambitions.

Cook was the first European to stumble across the Hawaiian Islands in 1778, and his arrival brought a new era of exotic species introductions, malaria-carrying mosquitoes among them. Mainland birds have their own variety of malaria, but after long exposure it is rarely fatal. In contrast, native Hawaiian birds have almost no resistance. Since the early 1800s, the exotic Plasmodium and its tropical mosquito vector (Culex quinquefasciatus) have contributed to the extinction of at least a dozen endemic Hawaiian birds and have all but eliminated the remaining species from the warm lowlands.

For now, tropical Culex cannot survive the cooler temperatures at our field sites above 5,000 feet. Above 9,800 feet, trees and the birds that depend on them disappear. So today, native birds with no resistance to malaria are confined to a narrow elevational band. Under many warming scenarios, this refugia promises to narrow or even disappear as Culex is able to move upslope, leaving the ultimate fate of these remarkable birds to an human-mediated endgame between the parasite and the na?ve immune systems of Hawaii?s surviving birds.

Considering the carbon dioxide station some miles away, I wonder at the cruel calculus of all of these forces, set in motion by the ambitions of men centuries ago and poised to erase a wonder of evolution that will never come again. Yet seeds of hope have been found within the genetic blueprint of some Hawaiian birds. The apapane and Hawaii amakihi have shown some genetic resistance to malaria. If hope is indeed the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, as Emily Dickinson wrote, then these birds may be its perfect embodiment.

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Ukraine President Rules Out Tymoshenko Treatment Abroad

Ukrainian President Vitkor Yanukovych has ruled out the idea of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko being released for treatment abroad ahead of next month's Euro 2012 soccer championships, which Ukraine and Poland are hosting.

His remarks come as Germany has offered to provide medical care to the ailing ex-premier and again hinted at a possible boycott by Chancellor Angela Merkel of matches played in Ukraine once the tournament kicks off in co-host Poland on June 8.

Yanukovych told Ukrainian television that the country's laws prevented Tymoshenko receiving treatment during her sentence.

He added that pro-government deputies were firmly against the idea of changing those laws.

The 51-year-old Tymoshenko was jailed for seven years in October on abuse of power charges that she claimed were a part of Yanukovych's vendetta against her.

A number of Western governments and the European Union have criticized the legal proceedings targeting Tymoshenko, a heroine of Ukraine's 2004-05 Orange Revolution, and her allies.

A Ukrainian court opened a fresh trial for alleged tax crimes against Tymoshenko in early April.

Based on reporting by Interfax and AFP

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Despite never have being one of the ?hot-beds? of sporting achievement in the country Coventry has much to commend itself in terms of sport and recreation. It has excellent recreation facilities for its residents and visitors, coupled with a determination by the city council to encourage people to use them.

Without doubt the best known sporting organisation in Coventry is Coventry City FC ? the football team. With a history dating back to 1883 the club now known as Coventry City was established in 1898, which then moved to the Highfield Road ground it would occupy for the next 106 years in 1899. After many years of struggle they won promotion to the top flight of English football, then called Division One, in 1967. Despite rarely achieving their potential the club did stay in the top flight until the summer of 2001 when they eventually lost their place in the Premier League. Only three other football clubs have managed to stay in the top flight of English football for longer than 34 years. The clubs finest hour came in 1986 when they won the FA Cup, they moved to their new ground ? the Rioch Stadium ? in 2005 and currently play on the English Championship division. Coventry City FC were known as The Bantams until in the 1960s they adopted a sky blue kit, ever since then they are commonly known as The Sky Blues.

The senior rugby union team in Coventry is simply known as the Coventry Rugby Club who currently play in National Division I of the English Rugby Football Union. Established in 1874 by members of the Stoke Cricket Club, they play at The Butts, which is off the B4101 from junction 7 of the inner ring road. Their best achievement to date was twice winning the RFU Knock-Out Cup Competition in the early 1970s. Coventry has a thriving amateur rugby union scene including clubs like Coventry Saracens who produced the international ?prop? Darren Garforth, who was capped for England 25 times. Coventry also has a Rugby League club ? The Coventry Bears ? who play at the Old Coventrians RFU ground in Tile Hill. They play in the Midlands Premier League of the Rugby League Conference, which they last won in 2007.

The Coventry Blaze Ice Hockey Team play in the top flight British National Elite League, which they won in the season 2006-2007. The club plays at the Coventry Sky Dome, one of the Planet Ice rinks, on Croft Road in the west of the city centre. Originally formed as the Solihull Barons, then Solihull Blaze, in 1996 they moved to Coventry in 2000 and from then on assumed the name of Coventry Blaze. A fast and physical sport attracts capacity crowds to the Sky Dome arena, home matches are usually played on Sunday evenings from September to March. The local basketball team is the Coventry Crusaders, whose inaugural season was 1992-1993. They also play in the top flight league for their sport, the English Basketball League Division I and play their home games at the Coventry Sports and Leisure Centre, on Fairfax Street.

Coventry Sports and Leisure Centre is one of many such leisure centres across Coventry that are part of the Coventry Sports Trust. The City of Coventry Swimming Club also uses the Olympic size pool at the Coventry Sports and Leisure Centre for it?s competitions, including national Speedo League ones. As well as administering the five sports and leisure centres and their activities it also operates the three municipal golf courses.

Coventry has one of the top hockey clubs in the country ? The Coventry & North Warwickshire Hockey Club ? which is based at Westwood Heath Road near Warwick University. It was established in 1895 and amongst the teams it runs the Men?s First XI currently plays in the Midlands Premier League whilst the Women?s First XI plays in the Warwickshire Women?s Division II. One of the best known athletics teams in the country is the Coventry Godiva Harriers Athletics Club, which was formed in 1879. They use the Coventry Track at Canley for home meetings and have use of the training facilities at the University of Warwick. The club always features prominently in UK athletics meetings; their most recent luminary is the former middle distance runner David Moorcroft. Coventry City Tennis Club uses the facilities at the Westwood Campus of the University of Warwick and the Stoke Park Leisure Centre. The club is keen to promote the sport in the city and provides coaching opportunities for all ages and abilities. The senior cricket club in Coventry is Highway Cricket Club, who play in the Warwickshire League Premier Division. They have two grounds ? the main one is on Fletchamstead Highway and they also use the nearby King Henry VIII Sports Ground, off the A45.

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MIT researchers teach computers to recognize your smile, frustration

Wipe that insincere, two-faced grin off your face -- your computer knows you're full of it. Or at least it will once it gets a load of MIT's research on classifying frustration, delight and facial expressions. By teaching a computer how to differentiate between involuntary smiles of frustration and genuine grins of joy, researchers hope to be able to deconstruct the expression into low-level features. What's the use of a disassembled smile? In addition to helping computers suss out your mood, the team hopes the data can be used to help people with autism learn to more accurately decipher expressions. Find out how MIT is making your computer a better people person than you after the break.

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Memorial Day: Americans Honor Troops (PHOTOS)

President Barack Obama, and Maj. Gen. Michael S. Linnington, Commander of the U.S. Army Military District of Washington, lowers their heads during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, 2012, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Ret. Air Force Maj. Alfred Nathaniel Simmons, from Baltimore, Md., lines up with other members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars honor guard at the Memorial Day Observance ahead of President Barack Obama's arrival at the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery, Monday, May 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Gen. John Allen, center, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, salutes before he observes Memorial Day by reading a letter written by an American soldier to his family before he died earlier this year, at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

A Marine salutes as motorcycles drive past during the annual Rolling Thunder parade ahead of Memorial Day in Washington, Sunday, May 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Cathy Ridge, of West Cobb, Ga., touches an American flag at the grave of her husband, retired U.S. Marine Gunnery Sgt. Charles Edward Ridge, Monday, May 28, 2012, at the Georgia National Cemetery in Canton, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

A flag decorates a headstone at the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery West on Friday, May 25, 2012, in Hopkinsville, Ky. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

World War II veteran Jesse R. Turner embraces Helen Marie Misel at a display of over more than 1700 United States flags in Shawnee, Kan., Saturday, May 26, 2012. Turner served in the Army Air Corps. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Madeline Grace Wallace, 4, carries flags at the National Cemetery in Little Rock, Ark., Friday, May 25, 2012. The girl and her mother visited the cemetery to place flags on graves for Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Madeline Grace Wallace, 4, daughter of U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Wendy Wallace, picks up flags to take to her mother to place on graves for Memorial Day at National Cemetery in Little Rock, Ark., Friday, May 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Volunteer Red Flegal of New London, Pa., helps a visitor with a rubbing of a name on the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, Friday, May 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Carrying small American flags, Boy Scouts Austin Moore, right and Bryant Conquest, look for any grave markers without a flag in the Vicksburg National Cemetery in Vicksburg, Miss., Friday, May 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Andrew Lewis, right, and Devon Martell, center, both from Smithsburg, Md., look at the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, Friday, May 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Wendy Wallace and her daughter Madeline Grace, 4, place flags at National Cemetery in Little Rock, Ark., Friday, May 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

People sit in lawn chairs among the graves of military personnel and their families during Memorial Day ceremonies at Brig. General William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Wrightstown N.J., Saturday, May 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Donald Stewart, of Somerset, N.J., stands next to his wife, Betty Stewart, at the grave of her son, U.S. Navy veteran Twain S. Bryant, during Memorial Day ceremonies at Brig. General William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Wrightstown N.J., Saturday, May 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

An honor guard stands near wreaths honoring the fallen during Memorial Day ceremonies at Brig. General William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Wrightstown N.J., Saturday, May 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Military veteran Gerald Williams, right, of Willingboro,N.J., salutes with others during Memorial day ceremonies at Brig. General William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Wrightstown N.J., Saturday, May 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

A woman stands among flags at graves of military personnel and their families before Memorial Day ceremonies at Brig. General William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Wrightstown N.J., Saturday, May 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Evalynn Israel, 9, of Palmdale, Calif., walks through the Arlington West Iraq War memorial in Santa Monica, Calif., Saturday, May 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Theressa Threet, right, places a flag on a veteran's grave at Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock, Ark., as Carolynn Coleman, left, and Angelynn Hardastle, right, check a list Sunday, May 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

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PolitiFact Virginia listened in on Friday night's final debate between the four candidates running in the June 12 Republican primary for the U.S. Senate.

We were familiar with many of the candidates' claims and thought we would review how they have fared on the Truth-O-Meter. You can find more information on our website, PolitiFactVirginia.com.

Jamie Radtke: "I've come up with a plan called 'My Two Cents' that would end the deficit and balance the budget in five years."

Radtke's plan would freeze federal spending at current levels and then cut it by 2 percent a year until the budget was balanced. It assumes that the Bush tax cuts will be extended at the end of this year and that the Alternative Minimum Tax will be indexed for inflation, as Congress has done in the past.

We took Radtke's 2 percent idea and assumptions, and we applied them to the CBO's latest baseline projections, published in March.

This fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, the federal government is expected to spend $3.64 trillion and collect revenues of $2.46 trillion. Under Radtke's proposal, the red ink would disappear during fiscal 2016, when spending would be pared to $3.36 trillion and revenues would come in at $3.47 trillion. That means that in four years there would be a $110 billion surplus.

But Radtke sugarcoats her tough proposal by comparing it to cutting a child's allowance by two pennies. Her program of 2 percent cuts does not account for mandated funding increases to cover the rising costs of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. While she says she would be cutting about $282 billion over four years, Congress would really need to cut $742 billion from programs as they now exist to balance the budget.

Her program would require cuts in current programs going far deeper than anything proposed by even House Republican budget writers in their war against spending. That makes Radtke's plan highly unrealistic.

E.W. Jackson: President Barack Obama's health care plan will impose "a 3.8 percent real estate tax."

Very few people will be affected by the 3.8 percent levy, due to kick in next year. It doesn't apply to individuals making less than $200,000 in the year of sale or couples with less than $250,000 in adjusted gross income. That makes the levy irrelevant to 98 percent of tax filers, according to the Tax Foundation.

The levy is not like the real estate tax assessed by local governments. It applies only to the profit of a home sale. And if the property you're selling is your primary residence ? and not a second home, vacation home or rental property ? you can turn a profit of $250,000 ($500,000 for couples) before the tax kicks in.

So consider a couple who sells their home for $1 million after buying it many years ago for $100,000. If their adjusted gross income is less than $250,000 that year, they will pay no new tax.

George Allen: During Tim Kaine's four years as governor, "tuition went up by over 30 percent."

Tim Kaine is unopposed for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate. He was governor from 2006 to 2010.

The average costs for in-state tuition and instructional fees at four-year institutions ? not including room and board ? rose from $3,812 in the 2005-06 school year to $5,003 in 2009-10, according to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. That's a 31.2 percent increase.

The average cost for tuition and instructional fees at Virginia's community colleges rose from $2,182 in the 2005-06 school year to $2,716 in 2009-10, according to SCHEV.

A large reason for the increase in tuition was that Kaine and the General Assembly reduced higher education funding as part of their plan to balance the state budget during a recession.

Virginia's experience was not unique; tuition and fees for in-state students at four-year public universities rose across the nation during Kaine's term. The U.S. Department of Education said the national average increased by 23 percent during that span; the College Board says they rose by 29 percent.

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