How to Avoid Being Labelled ?Gamer Girl?: An Arbeespective ...

DISCLAIMER: Rest assured that we B2G staff are experienced gamers and know female gamers who can pwn someone with epic skills, or have enjoyed the game without caring about what people think. The ?Pinay Gamer? section offers these girls who do so. (Speaking of which, what happened to that section, Kuya Vince?)?This is also not an official advice guide. This is generally from my experiences with meeting a few who are pretty much those? type of gamers and how I try to help them make video games a focus in their adventures as gamers.

If you, the reader, are pretty much offended by these tips, I deeply apologize. Feel free to track me down. Just send your hatemail and I will respond with my home address. Come at me bro. I regret nothing.

Ladies and Gentlemen, on this special post of B2G we dive into a special subbreed of female gamers: those who play and enjoy video games and happen to be female? and the ?gamer girls.? This is about the latter.

FIRST OF ALL: What is a Gamer Girl?

Females have made up of about 40% of the gaming population and in recent years, these gamers have grown to balance out the male-dominated gaming world. While many females in the gaming population have been joked around by the male counterparts to go to kitchens and make sandwiches, you got to admit that the gaming population is growing fast and well, and both genders are growing to respect each others in regards to gender equality, to know that gaming knows no gender.

Yet in the recent years, a new breed of attractiveness has risen from the internet where we spot pictures of beautiful women kissing their controllers or use them as censor items to cover their naughty bits. We see those girls who are incredibly vocal with their genders and the fact that they are gamers, hoping to get some attention while playing against a room full of guys in a very famous shooting game. These girls who flaunt their bodies while shooting a few headshots. You know? those girls. Sure there is nothing wrong with flaunting our love for the game with some apparel and maybe dressing your avatar in something that shows popculture interest, but what irks me that they use video games and treat it as ?fashion accessories. This eventually became the equivalent of going to clubs and hooking up with boys. But replace ?clubs? with ?video games with epic fantasy setting? and ?boys? with ?manly powerful avatar?.

Another feature that the ?gamer girl? is known for is on how they are treated as the weaker sex by the male gamer population (to be fair, many male gamers tend to be extremely harsh to their female counterparts, while others are accepting of them to the point of dating or defending them) and are claimed oppressed to the point that their only form of payback is by showing ?how badass they are just by flaunting on how much they can kick ass (performance may vary). And while some of these gamer girls have the ability and can prove to play well against guys, some tend to either boast and brag about such achievements when they win (?How does it feel to be pwned by a GIRL!?) or complain and be sore towards such when they lose, ?creating a sense of annoyance towards the people around them (?YOU ARE SO SEXIST uhuhuhuhuh!?).

Of course, how a gamer girl is defied is up to you. But to me, being a gamer does not always involve your gender, and respecting other gamers no matter what the games you play. But sadly, we do have to meet these ?gamer girls? one time or another, and it?s up to you to ignore it or simply help her not make a fool of herself.

tl;dr: Attention-seekers who thinks that now geekiness is a fashion trend that it?s time to get some attention from it.

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So how can one no longer be labelled a ?Gamer Girl???

1. STOP Labelling yourselves or other female gamers as such.?

First of all, ? stop using the words ?gamer girl? or ??girl gamer?. Or ?gamer chick?. Remember that gender has nothing to do with interests. I mean, if you hear ?female reader? ?or ?male chef?, you might respond with ?DAS BULL?, right? So yes, don?t give labels to other gamers. ?It?s not making the community more equal if we separate everything by gender.

2. Add more variety to your gaming genre and experiment your gamer horizons.

Yes, you can perfectly play an overexposed warfare shooting game just fine, and you can zap a spell or two on an overexposed MMORPG, but that is not the point. Video games have a wide range of genres and themes where anyone from this day and age can jive on.

Every gamer has their weaknesses and strengths when it comes of the certain genres. Aside from the usual, try to broaden your horizons with a fighting game, adventure game, puzzle game, beat game, any game on the market really. It?s all about flexibility and versatility and it?s truly up to preference if you wanna pursue new ways of gaming. Also, go to an arcade or an internet cafe and try out some games that you will enjoy when you go for the long run. You will never know that you can unleash your inner gamer just by trying something new.

Speaking of which?

3. Nothing?s?really?wrong with being a little oldschool.

Waiting for that super-new overused shooting game that involves warfare and ZOMBIES? It?s sometimes best to wind back and play those oldschool games of yesterday. ?The ideal about the games back then is that it shows what gaming is like back then and how it has evolved.

Go around the house, find your old consoles that no one ever plays, and give oldschool games a shot. Best way to play these types of games is a hell lot of imagination, since pixels cannot match the High-Definition graphics we have today and it gives off a demonstrative history on how great franchises start from humble beginnings.

Another good way to play oldschool video games is the use of Emulators. Sure it may seem a little unorthodox? ?and unacceptable to many, but in a time where buying old original consoles and cartridges might cost a fortune it?s one of the more accessible ways to play nowadays. If I were you, pop out your computer and download a few roms and play them. You won?t be dissappointed on how these games can make a good impact.

4. Know what you are doing.

Do not complain about the game?s difficulty when you lose. Don?t also be braggy and high and mighty when you win either. ?There are other people like you who are in it to win the game as well.

Also, if you can?t stand the more advanced modes of a game, start with a practice mode to test your strengths and try out the game?s strengths. It?s also?advised?to start on basic or easy modes and slowly challenge yourself with harder modes bit by bit. ?Yeah, it won?t give you as much of bragging rights, but you should at least be aware of the game?s mechanics first and practicing them before playing with the big boys.

5. You are not the only female gamer in existence. So don?t claim that you are.

Just remember that you are not a special snowflake. Being a female gamer is neither a social statement nor a political revolt.? You are simply playing a video game with a ton of people you do or do not know.

Sometimes you might find a person like yourself in one of those games who liked to brag about their gender while playing video games and maybe you might form some kind of grrrl gamer alliance or whatever. ?And then you might find another? and another? until your entire club is full of girls like you. You have no complaints, though.? They are special snowflakes like you and maybe one day you and your special snowflake army will dominate this male-crazed world with hotness and pwnz0rs!

Or just tear and made dramu out of one another. ?Whatever. But awareness is the key. Treat your female gamers as equals and for God?s sake, do not bash?them?for being gamer girls either. ?With that comes to my next advice?

6. Be a bro to the community.

One thing gamer girls are known for is that their attention is so showy that men who are attracted by such girls might give them aide or even some incredibly powerful items hoping that they can end up dating such a sword-slinging belle in real life. Finding a boyfriend in a video game may look great on a dating list, but you are here to game. Finding a social life in that game might suck the fun out of other gamers who are not that interested or do not have your purpose.

If you are though interested with making friends with other people, try to join a guild or sometimes accept a party request? or ask (politely). ?Parties are also great if you need aide with certain missions or quests, but remember that your party is also going through them as much and as badly as you do. So do your part well.

And it?s perfectly fine to play the game alone as well. We are not judging you. Just be polite and respect opinions.

And finally?

7. Enjoy the game, not simply the hype and the attention.

One thing that gamers love about playing video games is the different worlds that they can venture to and how they become the hero of their world. Pretty much escapism. There is nothing wrong with appearances when it comes to you as a gamer and I know some gamers who are feminine but can still play a game real well. We just need to remind ourselves once in a while that we are in a video game is play and appreciate the content of the game itself.

If your purpose is to socialize and make new friends, by all means do so. But remember that in a game, you have to play it.

In the end, labels do not make the gamer. Genders do not make the gamer. Video Games make the gamer. It?s cheezy, but I have no final thought. And I hope this list can help people make gaming a more equal community for both men and women alike!

And if I see someone post another pic of a woman who kisses or licks her controllers because it might attract the male population, things happen.?Mostly?involving changing to another window. XD

Source: http://www.back2gaming.com/features/how-to-avoid-being-lbelled-as-a-gamer-girl-an-arbeespective-special-2/

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HTC teases something 'Incredible' for the US in July, we think a 4G LTE Droid might fit the bill

HTC has been leaving Verizon subscribers hanging on just when they would get the Droid Incredible 4G LTE ever since we saw it in New Orleans last month. The company just dropped a not-so-subtle hint that the wait is about to come to an end -- a Twitter update from HTC's US branch is promising some "special fun" coming to us next week that will be "incredible," which we're pretty sure doesn't involve refurb sales of the 2010 original. While the clue is still a bit cryptic, it lines up with internal documents pointing to a July 5th release. We'd advise against partying too hard on Independence Day if you want to line up early for Big Red's adaptation of the HTC One line.

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Milwaukee Business Networking Opportunities: Become A Pro ...

By Harry Barber

You are probably very familiar with blogging. Blogs are akin to web-based diaries containing personal thoughts or insights on specific topics. A blog is more intimate than a standard website, and is thought to be a big part of the influence of social media. If blogging is something you might be interested in, or perhaps are already involved in but would like to improve, keep reading for valuable advice and insider tips.

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A good way to get more traffic to your blog is by making comments on other's blogs. You should consider creating a separate folder in Google Reader and using it to keep up with the selection of blogs that you choose to follow. It's a great idea to post regular comments, in fact post them anytime you have something to say!

Vary the form of your content in order to avoid writer's block. You could alternate between providing audio content, video content, and ordinary text, for instance. This will keep the blog interesting for you and not seem like drudgery. It will also be interesting for your visitors. This helps you come up with fresh ideas that are interesting while constantly giving you new ways to stimulate your thoughts.

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New Technologies Help Us Better Understand Ancient Rome

June 28, 2012 ? Historians and archaeologists have studied the ruins of the Roman Forum for centuries, employing the tools on hand to add to the knowledge of this center of Roman public life that hosted elections, triumphal processions, speeches, trials, shops and gladiatorial spectacles.

The latest research suggests these structures, which we know as white marble, may have been brightly painted.

Bernard Frischer, a classics and art history professor in the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences, led a team of experts who used cutting-edge technology to find traces of yellow pigment on a bas-relief of a menorah on the forum's Arch of Titus. In its heyday, the yellow pigment would have appeared gold from a distance.

Frischer said the menorah has historical significance. "The menorah on the relief is extremely important to Jews, since it shows the menorah from the Second Temple in Jerusalem, which Titus captured and sacked in A.D. 70."

Exposed to the elements for centuries, today no traces of pigment are visible to the naked eye. The arch was cleaned and restored in the 1820s. "For all we knew, any surviving pigment had been scraped off the marble, as has happened all too often in the past with other monuments and statues," Frischer said. A 1999 study "found plenty of discoloration owing to pollution, but no traces of ancient pigment."

Frischer, co-director for technology of the "Arch of Titus Restoration Project," headed by Steven Fine at Yeshiva University in New York, brought together experts for a pilot project ??to use 21st-century technology to seek any remaining traces of pigment.

"This entailed the use of two different technologies with which I am very familiar from earlier projects," Frischer said.

The consultants used non-invasive, 3-D optical data capture and ultra-violet visual spectrometry to determine the chemistry of the pigment deposits. Frischer called on the expertise of Unocad of Vincenza, Italy for the 3-D capture using the Breuckmann smartSCAN for its precise optical measurements, and Heinrich Piening, a conservator with the State of Bavaria Department for the Conservation of Castles, Gardens and Lakes in Germany and a pioneer in ultra-violet visual spectrometry, for analysis.

"UV-VIS spectrometry is still a relatively new technique in Roman archaeology," Frischer said.

Frischer has applied cutting-edge technologies in creating 3-D digital models for polychromy restoration of Roman figures, such as the Virginia Museum of Art's statue of Caligula, on behalf of the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory, [link: http://vwhl.clas.virginia.edu/] which he founded in July 2009. The laboratory is administered by the classics department and hosted by the art department.

The Arch of Titus project findings will also add another dimension to his lab's virtual "Rome Reborn" [link: http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/] project, a digital recreation of Rome as it appeared in A.D. 320. Frischer directs that ongoing effort, which was created by an international team of experts and launched in 2007.

Following final studies of the arch, Frischer will use the data to oversee two 3-D digital recreations for the Arch of Titus Restoration Project.

"In the first, or 'state model,' we will add just the color that is attested by Dr. Piening's studies," he said. "In the second, or 'restoration model,' we will go beyond the spotty evidence that survives to restore color all over the arch, inspired both by the actual traces and by analogous examples of painted Roman imperial monuments.

"What has been learned thus far can encourage even 'minimalists' like myself to dare to restore color even to monuments that have not yet been studied. After all, the ancient color palette was limited, and we are starting to see conventions emerge in the use of color. And one thing we do know is that white marble ? whether on a public building or on a statue ? was rarely, if ever, left unpainted."

From Ancient Greece until the 21st century, the arts and sciences have moved in tandem in an implicit and unconscious way, Frischer said.

"Today, the unity of art, science and technology is rapidly becoming a conscious theme as we embrace interdisciplinarity and unity of knowledge derived from concurring conclusions from a variety of disciplines in which the knowledge and expertise of different, seemingly unrelated fields such as archaeology, history, chemistry and physics can converge to give a better understanding of both the human and natural worlds. I see the Arch of Titus project as a good case in point."

? by Jane Ford

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Specialized MRI scans assess value of anti-cancer chemotherapy long before tumors shown to shrink

Public release date: 27-Jun-2012
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Faster assay for targeted chemotherapy's success against deadly liver cancer saves lives, and could speed lifesaving switch to alternative drug therapies for well-known pancreatic cancer

Studies on some 55 U.S. men and women with potentially deadly liver or pancreatic cancers show that specialized MRI scans can tell within a month whether highly toxic chemotherapy is working and killing tumor cells long before tumors actually shrink or fail to shrink.

Using special software and MRI scanners, imaging experts at Johns Hopkins developed their new assay, known as a volumetric functional MRI scan, by exploiting the physiological differences in water movement and absorption inside cancer cells that are dying and those that are not.

The studies are believed to be the first to show that the diagnostic imaging procedure buys patients many months to well over a year of life, by figuring out who might benefit from repeat or higher-dose chemotherapy,

The paired scans, which take only minutes to perform, can detect the movement of water molecules inside tumor cells; and software performs the mathematical analysis needed to calculate the imaged tumor cells' so-called apparent diffusion coefficient. Living tumor cells showing a low coefficient, as water absorption in and out of the cells is tightly controlled, and dying cells the goal of chemotherapy have a relatively high coefficient, because the tumor cells' membranes have lost the ability to restrict water movement. The software used in the scans was developed at Johns Hopkins and at Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, which manufactures the scanners.

"Our latest volumetric functional MRI scans could help people with aggressive cancers, and little time to spare on failed treatments, know as quickly as possible if their treatment is working and when they need to consider other treatment options. And without having to wait for months to actually see tumor shrinkage," says study senior investigator and radiologist Ihab Kamel, M.D., Ph.D.

Results from the first of two studies to be published in the same July 1 issue of the journal Radiology show that the high-precision, 3-D images, taken shortly before and one month after a form of chemotherapy called transcatheter arterial chemoembolization, could assess the treatment's impact against a rare and advanced form of liver bile duct cancer, known as cholangiocarcinoma. The study involved 29 men and women aged 29 to 82, all undergoing treatment at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Among the key findings in the first study was that 22 people, whose functional MRI scans showed increases in apparent diffusion coefficient scores of over 45 percent, lived at least 10 months longer, while some 17 with coefficient score increases over 60 percent, lived at least 17 months longer.

Kamel, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology, says that cholangiocarcinoma is often diagnosed at such an advanced stage that patients only have on average six months to live. "By the time our patients become jaundiced, start turning yellow from bile buildup and seek medical help, it's almost too late," he says. "They have no time to waste on failed treatments."

The second study, also at Johns Hopkins, tested the scans on 26 men and women, ages 37 to 79, with islet cell carcinoma, a well-known pancreatic cancer. Researchers analyzed some 215 tumorous lesions in these people, scanning shortly before and one month after the same initial treatment for their cancer.

Kamel says physicians have more treatment options with islet cell carcinoma and can switch people from chemoembolization to chemotherapy with either drug Sunitinib or Everolimus.

Results in the second study showed that for 78 tumors, which responded well to chemotherapy, functional MRI scans produced apparent diffusion coefficient score increases averaging at least 70 percent, while in the 137 tumors for which treatment was not a success, increases in coefficient measures averaged less than 40 percent. Treatment was considered successful if tumor shrinkage continued for at least six months.

"Our analysis shows how to clearly define and demarcate between patients whose tumors are responding to treatment and those who are not," says Kamel. This is very important, he adds, because in islet cell carcinoma, some patients' cancer symptoms, such as headaches, ulcers, pain and diarrhea, can be masked by the liver's hormone production. The disappearance or absence of symptoms is not a reliable indicator of treatment success.

Larger studies already planned will measure how well the apparent diffusion coefficients for each kind of combination chemotherapy predict survival and how much time remains to switch treatment plans.

In transcatheter arterial chemoembolization, interventional radiologists thread an ultrathin catheter through an abdominal artery directly to the main arteries feeding the liver tumor. Drug-eluting beads are delivered to and released directly inside the tumor to kill it by cutting off its blood supply. The roughly half-hour procedure carries a slight risk of bleeding or damage to the blood vessels, while the toxic drug treatment can permanently damage otherwise healthy liver tissue. Most patients are discharged from the hospital within a day, and many are able to resume physical activity and work.

The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation estimates that some 2,500 people are newly diagnosed each year with the bile duct cancer, most in the moderate to advanced stages of disease.

Studies have estimated that islet cell carcinomas account for at least 1.3 percent of the 44,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer in the United States each year.

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Funding support for both studies was provided by Siemens Healthcare, of Princeton, N.J., the manufacturer of the MRI scanners used in the study.

Other Hopkins researchers, besides Kamel, involved in these studies were Vivek Gowdra Halappa, M.D.; Susanne Bonekamp, D.V.M., Ph.D.; Celia Corona-Villalobos; Li, Zhen; Margaret Mensa, B.S.N.; Diane Reyes; John Eng, M.D.; Timothy Pawlik, M.D., M.P.H.; Nikhil Bhagat, M.D.; Hong Lai, Ph.D., M.P.H.; and Jean-Francois Geschwind, M.D.

For additional information, go to:
http://www.hopkinsradiology.org/MRI/Faculty/Kamel
http://radiology.rsna.org/

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dmarch1@jhmi.edu
410-955-1534
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

Faster assay for targeted chemotherapy's success against deadly liver cancer saves lives, and could speed lifesaving switch to alternative drug therapies for well-known pancreatic cancer

Studies on some 55 U.S. men and women with potentially deadly liver or pancreatic cancers show that specialized MRI scans can tell within a month whether highly toxic chemotherapy is working and killing tumor cells long before tumors actually shrink or fail to shrink.

Using special software and MRI scanners, imaging experts at Johns Hopkins developed their new assay, known as a volumetric functional MRI scan, by exploiting the physiological differences in water movement and absorption inside cancer cells that are dying and those that are not.

The studies are believed to be the first to show that the diagnostic imaging procedure buys patients many months to well over a year of life, by figuring out who might benefit from repeat or higher-dose chemotherapy,

The paired scans, which take only minutes to perform, can detect the movement of water molecules inside tumor cells; and software performs the mathematical analysis needed to calculate the imaged tumor cells' so-called apparent diffusion coefficient. Living tumor cells showing a low coefficient, as water absorption in and out of the cells is tightly controlled, and dying cells the goal of chemotherapy have a relatively high coefficient, because the tumor cells' membranes have lost the ability to restrict water movement. The software used in the scans was developed at Johns Hopkins and at Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, which manufactures the scanners.

"Our latest volumetric functional MRI scans could help people with aggressive cancers, and little time to spare on failed treatments, know as quickly as possible if their treatment is working and when they need to consider other treatment options. And without having to wait for months to actually see tumor shrinkage," says study senior investigator and radiologist Ihab Kamel, M.D., Ph.D.

Results from the first of two studies to be published in the same July 1 issue of the journal Radiology show that the high-precision, 3-D images, taken shortly before and one month after a form of chemotherapy called transcatheter arterial chemoembolization, could assess the treatment's impact against a rare and advanced form of liver bile duct cancer, known as cholangiocarcinoma. The study involved 29 men and women aged 29 to 82, all undergoing treatment at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Among the key findings in the first study was that 22 people, whose functional MRI scans showed increases in apparent diffusion coefficient scores of over 45 percent, lived at least 10 months longer, while some 17 with coefficient score increases over 60 percent, lived at least 17 months longer.

Kamel, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology, says that cholangiocarcinoma is often diagnosed at such an advanced stage that patients only have on average six months to live. "By the time our patients become jaundiced, start turning yellow from bile buildup and seek medical help, it's almost too late," he says. "They have no time to waste on failed treatments."

The second study, also at Johns Hopkins, tested the scans on 26 men and women, ages 37 to 79, with islet cell carcinoma, a well-known pancreatic cancer. Researchers analyzed some 215 tumorous lesions in these people, scanning shortly before and one month after the same initial treatment for their cancer.

Kamel says physicians have more treatment options with islet cell carcinoma and can switch people from chemoembolization to chemotherapy with either drug Sunitinib or Everolimus.

Results in the second study showed that for 78 tumors, which responded well to chemotherapy, functional MRI scans produced apparent diffusion coefficient score increases averaging at least 70 percent, while in the 137 tumors for which treatment was not a success, increases in coefficient measures averaged less than 40 percent. Treatment was considered successful if tumor shrinkage continued for at least six months.

"Our analysis shows how to clearly define and demarcate between patients whose tumors are responding to treatment and those who are not," says Kamel. This is very important, he adds, because in islet cell carcinoma, some patients' cancer symptoms, such as headaches, ulcers, pain and diarrhea, can be masked by the liver's hormone production. The disappearance or absence of symptoms is not a reliable indicator of treatment success.

Larger studies already planned will measure how well the apparent diffusion coefficients for each kind of combination chemotherapy predict survival and how much time remains to switch treatment plans.

In transcatheter arterial chemoembolization, interventional radiologists thread an ultrathin catheter through an abdominal artery directly to the main arteries feeding the liver tumor. Drug-eluting beads are delivered to and released directly inside the tumor to kill it by cutting off its blood supply. The roughly half-hour procedure carries a slight risk of bleeding or damage to the blood vessels, while the toxic drug treatment can permanently damage otherwise healthy liver tissue. Most patients are discharged from the hospital within a day, and many are able to resume physical activity and work.

The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation estimates that some 2,500 people are newly diagnosed each year with the bile duct cancer, most in the moderate to advanced stages of disease.

Studies have estimated that islet cell carcinomas account for at least 1.3 percent of the 44,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer in the United States each year.

###

Funding support for both studies was provided by Siemens Healthcare, of Princeton, N.J., the manufacturer of the MRI scanners used in the study.

Other Hopkins researchers, besides Kamel, involved in these studies were Vivek Gowdra Halappa, M.D.; Susanne Bonekamp, D.V.M., Ph.D.; Celia Corona-Villalobos; Li, Zhen; Margaret Mensa, B.S.N.; Diane Reyes; John Eng, M.D.; Timothy Pawlik, M.D., M.P.H.; Nikhil Bhagat, M.D.; Hong Lai, Ph.D., M.P.H.; and Jean-Francois Geschwind, M.D.

For additional information, go to:
http://www.hopkinsradiology.org/MRI/Faculty/Kamel
http://radiology.rsna.org/

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Syrian opposition rejects Annan plan if Assad stays

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Japan's Nomura to cut CEO pay over leaks

TOKYO: Top Japanese brokerage Nomura will cut its chief executive's pay as a penalty for an embarrassing string of insider trading scandals, reports said Friday, as regulators ramp up a probe.

The firm plans to temporarily chop compensation for Kenichi Watanabe and possibly other executives in the wake of a series of leaks of non-public information allegedly by Nomura staff, Kyodo News reported.

The firm was holding an emergency board meeting Friday over the probe of its operations, with company officials expected to disclose the findings later in the day, according to the Nikkei business daily's online edition.

Watanabe will reportedly hold a press briefing later Friday, with Nomura also looking at cutting the pay of other top executives and issuing a week-long suspension of some of its business units amid the spiralling crisis.

A Nomura spokeswoman told AFP on Friday that nothing official had been decided concerning internal penalties or a temporary operations shutdown.

Japan's market regulators and Nomura are separately probing allegations that the brokerage's salespeople leaked information in at least three insider trading cases under investigation, Dow Jones Newswires said.

The Kyodo report said staff found to have been involved in leaking material information ahead of share sales would likely be demoted or sacked.

On Thursday, Japan's top-selling Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said Tokyo's stock exchange would search the offices of dozens of brokerage houses as part of a wider insider trading investigation.

Although it usually draws huge fines and jail time in the West, insider trading is largely tolerated in Japan with recent fines coming in at around just US$1,500, while criminal convictions are few and far between.

But there has been renewed pressure to crack down on lax regulations and legal loopholes, which have dented Japan's corporate governance image.

- AFP/ck

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Mexican Pena Nieto has big lead for Sunday's election

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican presidential front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto goes into Sunday's election with a wide lead over his rivals, opinion polls showed on Wednesday, putting him on track to return to power the party that ruled for much of the last century.

The final voter survey of the campaign by newspaper El Universal showed Pena Nieto, of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, rising 4.2 percentage points to 41.2 percent from a poll published on June 18.

That gave him a 17.4-point lead over leftist and 2006 runner-up Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who rose 0.3 percentage points to 23.8 percent, the survey showed.

Josefina Vazquez Mota, candidate of the ruling National Action Party (PAN), trailed in third place with 20.6 percent, a drop of a 0.8 percentage point from the previous survey.

Two other polls published on Wednesday, legally the final day of campaigning, gave the PRI candidate a lead of between 10 and 16 points over Lopez Obrador, a former mayor of Mexico City.

Mexican financial markets already have factored in a Pena Nieto win, so a close finish that puts his mandate and economic reforms at risk could spook investors and hit asset prices.

Pena Nieto's PRI ruled Mexico between 1929 and 2000, when it was ousted by the PAN in a presidential election.

The PAN's victory was hailed as a triumph of democracy, but its record on the economy and its failure to contain violent crime opened the door to a return by the PRI.

President Felipe Calderon has struggled to improve weak growth, unable to push through many of his planned reforms because of opposition from the PRI and other parties in Congress, where the PAN has never had a majority.

Meanwhile rampant violence between drug cartels and their clashes with the state has claimed more than 55,000 lives since 2007, further eroding confidence in the government.

Calderon sent in the armed forces to bring the gangs to heel soon after taking office in December 2006, but despite capturing or killing many top bosses, the bloodshed has escalated.

BREAK FROM PRI'S PAST

The PRI laid the foundations for modern Mexico, though the latter part of its long rule in particular was tainted by corruption, vote-rigging and heavy-handed repression of dissent.

Pena Nieto has sought to distance himself from the PRI's criticized past legacy, saying the party has changed.

"There is a new PRI," Pena Nieto said in an interview with newspaper El Universal's Wednesday edition. "It's the others who have not changed. They are living in the past.

"But the PRI never left. It has lost and won, competed democratically and understood change," he said.

Pena Nieto has pledged a tax overhaul and to open up state oil monopoly Pemex to more private investment, breaking with the traditions of the PRI, which nationalized Mexico's oil industry in 1938.

The bold steps he has promised to boost outside involvement in oil exploration, refining and production are central to his bid to revamp the PRI's image and plans to boost the economy.

But even if he wins the election and his party secures a majority in Congress, Pena Nieto faces a challenge to shake up Pemex, which is struggling with a heavy tax burden, bloated workforce and oil fields in decline.

CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITY

Another poll published for the Excelsior newspaper put Pena Nieto's support at 44 percent, a 16-point lead over Lopez Obrador. That poll had Vazquez Mota, who is bidding to become Mexico's first woman president, in third place with 25 percent.

A third poll by the Reforma newspaper showed Pena Nieto maintaining a sizeable lead with 41 percent support, 10 percentage points ahead of Lopez Obrador on 31 percent.

The three polls were conducted between June 21 and 25 using samples of 1,200 to 2,000 eligible voters. The margin of error for the polls was 2.9 percentage points or lower.

Recent polls suggest the PRI could win a working majority in both the Senate and lower house of Congress.

That would help strengthen its mandate to push through fiscal and energy reforms that stalled under Calderon.

Lopez Obrador lost the 2006 election to Calderon in a tight finish and contested the results, staging months of protests and unnerving investors in Latin America's second-largest economy.

He has stirred up fears of a repeat of the chaos, accusing the PRI of trying to rig the vote, although any protests may be short-lived if Pena Nieto wins by a wide margin.

A close result would raise the risk of demonstrations, particularly as Lopez Obrador has the support of a newly emerged student movement that shook up the campaign with huge rallies.

"Lopez Obrador is showing a very different face, but he seems very like (Venezuela's) Hugo Chavez or (Bolivia's) Evo Morales or those kind of leaders," said Mario Genaro, 42, as he waited for Pena Nieto to speak at a closing campaign rally in the town of Toluca outside Mexico City.

"I hope we Mexicans have the vision to see he is not a person that is right for us," said Genaro, who lived for 10 years in Laredo, Texas, working for Ford but returned in 2010 after the U.S. recession to open his own business.

(With reporting by Mica Rosenberg in Toluca and Miguel Angel Gutierrez in Mexico City; Editing by Simon Gardner and Anthony Boadle)

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Asteroid hunters want to launch private telescope

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Who will protect us from a killer asteroid? A team of ex-NASA astronauts and scientists thinks it's up to them.

In a bold plan unveiled Thursday, the group wants to launch its own space telescope to spot and track small and mid-sized space rocks capable of wiping out a city or continent. With that information, they could sound early warnings if a rogue asteroid appeared headed toward our planet.

So far, the idea from the B612 Foundation is on paper only.

Such an effort would cost upward of several hundred million dollars, and the group plans to start fundraising. Behind the nonprofit are a space shuttle astronaut, Apollo 9 astronaut, former Mars czar, deep space mission manager along with other non-NASA types.

Asteroids are leftovers from the formation of the solar system some 4.5 billion years ago. Most reside in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter but some get nudged into Earth's neighborhood.

NASA and a network of astronomers routinely scan the skies for these near-Earth objects. And they've found 90 percent of the biggest threats ? asteroids at least two-thirds of a mile across that are considered major killers. Scientists believe it was a six-mile-wide asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

But the group thinks more attention should be paid to the estimated half a million smaller asteroids ? similar in size to the one that exploded over Siberia in 1908 and leveled more than 800 square miles of forest.

"We know these objects are out there and we can do something to prevent them" from hitting Earth, said former Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart, who helped establish the foundation a decade ago.

Asteroids are getting attention lately. NASA nixed a return to the moon in favor of a manned landing on an asteroid. Last month, Planetary Resources Inc., a company founded by space entrepreneurs, announced plans to extract precious metals from asteroids within a decade.

Since its birth, the Mountain View, Calif.-based B612 Foundation ? named after the home asteroid of the Earth-visiting prince in Antoine de Saint-Exupery's "The Little Prince" ? has focused on finding ways to deflect an incoming asteroid. Ideas studied include sending an intercepting spacecraft to aiming a nuclear bomb, but none have been tested.

Last year, the group shifted focus to seek out asteroids with a telescope.

It is working with Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., which has drawn up a preliminary telescope design. The contractor developed NASA's Kepler telescope that hunts for exoplanets and built the instruments aboard the Hubble Space Telescope.

Under the proposal, the asteroid-hunting Sentinel Space Telescope will operate for at least 5 1/2 years. It will orbit around the sun, near the orbit of Venus, or between 30 million to 170 million miles away from Earth. Data will be beamed back through NASA's antenna network under a deal with the space agency.

Launch is targeted for 2017 or 2018. The group is angling to fly aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, which made history last month by lifting a cargo capsule to the International Space Station.

Experts said the telescope's vantage point would allow it to spy asteroids faster than ground-based telescopes and accelerate new discoveries. NASA explored doing such a mission in the past but never moved forward because of the expense.

"It's always best to find these things quickly and track them. There might be one with our name on it," said Don Yeomans, who heads the Near-Earth Object Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which monitors potentially dangerous space rocks.

Aside from the technological challenges, the big question is whether philanthropists will open up their wallets to support the project.

Nine years ago, the cost was estimated at $500 million, said Tim Spahr, director of the Minor Planet Center at Harvard University who was part of the team that came up with the figure for NASA.

Spahr questions whether enough can be raised given the economy. "This is a hard time," he said.

The group has received seed money ? several hundreds of thousands of dollars ? from venture capitalists and Silicon Valley outfits to create a team of experts. Foundation chairman Ed Lu said he was confident donors will step up and noted that some of the world's most powerful telescopes including the Lick and Palomar observatories in California were built with private money.

"We're not all about doom and gloom," said the former shuttle astronaut. "We're about opening up the solar system. We're talking about preserving life on this planet."

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Online:

NASA's Near-Earth Object Program: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov

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Alicia Chang can be followed at http://www.twitter.com/SciWriAlicia

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Google Chrome Browser Will Launch on iOS Today [Video]

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Google is launching its Chrome browser for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch today.

In February, we released Chrome for Android, which exited beta this week and is the standard browser on Nexus 7, a powerful new tablet. Starting today, Chrome is also available for your iPhone and iPad. That means you can enjoy the same speedy and simple Chrome experience across your devices. Also, by signing in to Chrome, you can easily move from your desktop, laptop, smartphone and tablet and have all of your stuff with you.

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Future-predicting system cuts app loading time

DOES your favourite app seem to be taking longer to load than it used to? That may be due to ever-richer graphics and overloaded cellphone networks, which take their toll on smartphone apps and increase the time they take to boot and retrieve information from the network on, say, train times or the weather.

A way to make them boot faster, developed at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, could mean your app might one day be ready and waiting for you the moment before you need it.

Tingxin Yan and colleagues have borrowed a trick from computer science to achieve speedier loading. Called predictive caching, it involves guessing which software routines are most likely to be needed for the next stage of a computerised process - so that the right app is primed to run when called on, without booting from scratch. The system uses the phone's location and motion sensors to learn when the user typically runs the app, Yan will tell the MobiSys conference in Windermere, UK, which starts on 25 June.

Imagine that, as you walk to a railway station each day, you normally get to a certain street corner and open a train times app to see if the trains are running to schedule. The software checks the time you usually do this, senses that you are walking and preloads the app, with the current train info retrieved by the time you arrive at the corner on which you normally request it.

In tests, the software cut 6 seconds from the average 20-second boot-up time for apps on Windows phones - although it gobbled 2 per cent of the battery per day while doing so.

App author Peter Bentley at University College London sees issues. "This works great if the things being cached are entirely predictable. But what happens in an emergency when you need to use a rarely used but essential app and the phone has preloaded lots of massive apps which then have to be cleared first?"

It would be better, he says, if coders designed apps to boot faster in the first place. It also depends on the type of app. "I would see this technology better suited to those apps that are designed to be used for 30 seconds or less and which need to go online and download/upload new data."

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Key dates in EU antitrust action against Microsoft

FILE - This set of flagpoles sits at one of the entrances to Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Wash., in this Oct.19, 1998 file photo. The General Court of the European Union has upheld most of a massive fine against Microsoft Corp. by the European Commission's competition watchdog in 2008. In a ruling Wednesday, June 27, 2012, it rejected Microsoft's appeal but did cut the fine by ?39 million to ?860 million ($1.1 billion). (AP Photo/Joe Brokert, File)

FILE - This set of flagpoles sits at one of the entrances to Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Wash., in this Oct.19, 1998 file photo. The General Court of the European Union has upheld most of a massive fine against Microsoft Corp. by the European Commission's competition watchdog in 2008. In a ruling Wednesday, June 27, 2012, it rejected Microsoft's appeal but did cut the fine by ?39 million to ?860 million ($1.1 billion). (AP Photo/Joe Brokert, File)

Brussels (AP) ? A European appeals court on Wednesday upheld most of a massive penalty levied against Microsoft Corp., ending the company's 14-year legal struggle with the continent's competition regulators.

The EU probe was triggered by a 1998 complaint that Microsoft wouldn't give Sun Microsystems some technical information needed for Sun's server software to communicate with Microsoft's Windows desktop operating system. The EU looked more broadly into whether Microsoft had abused its near-monopoly over Windows to corner other markets, including server software, internet browsers and streaming media software.

Here's how the case developed:

? March 24, 2004: The European Commission finds Microsoft guilty. It fines the company ?497 million ($613 million). It also orders Microsoft to share technical documents with rivals and market a version of Windows without a media player.

? June 15, 2005: After losing an appeal, Microsoft makes Windows XP N ? without Media Player ? available. There are few takers. The same month, EU also raises concerns about usability of Microsoft's technical documents.

? July 12, 2006: EU decides Microsoft isn't obeying the 2004 decision and penalizes it an additional ?280.5 million ($357 million).

? March 1, 2007: EU threatens Microsoft with even more penalties as it accuses the company of further noncompliance by setting royalty fees too high for technical documents.

? Oct. 22: Microsoft agrees to slash fees for the technical documents. It also offers access to open source developers and others for a one-time fee of ?10,000. Though this resolves key parts of the dispute, the EU says Microsoft is still subject to penalties for noncompliance until then.

? Jan. 14, 2008: Following a complaint by Web browser developer Opera Software ASA, the EU announces it is investigating Microsoft again. This time, it's on suspicion of abusing its market position by squeezing out other Internet browsers and software rivals dependent on Microsoft programs.

? Feb. 27: EU regulators impose a ?899 million penalty ($1.3 billion) ? a record at the time ? for failing to fully comply with the 2004 antitrust order. This is on top of the fine imposed in 2004 and the penalty of 2006 and brings the total to nearly ?1.7 billion.

? May 9: Microsoft announces it has appealed the penalty.

? Jan. 16, 2009: The European Commission orders Microsoft to untie its Internet Explorer browser from Windows.

? July 24: Microsoft agrees to offer a choice of rival Web browsers on Windows to ward off new European Union antitrust fines.

? Dec. 16: The European Union drops the browser case after Microsoft after the company agrees to give Windows users in Europe a choice of up to 12 other Web browsers. This ends all of the EU's active cases against Microsoft, though the appeal of the 2008 fine remains pending.

? Wednesday: The General Court of the European Union rejects Microsoft's appeal of the 2008 penalty, but reduces it to ?860 million, ending the case.

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BT kicks off 330Mbps 'FTTP on Demand' trials, reveals pilot locations

Not everyone is apparently in love with British operator BT's green boxes. Still, that isn't stopping the company from serving up its high-fiber diet to those who want to have speedy Internet connections. For its latest project, BT's Openreach division has started offering an "FTTP on Demand" program that provides fiber-to-the-premises at 330Mbps speeds to folks or businesses who order the service. The project will be done in phases at eight locations, starting with High Wycombe, Bristol South and St Agnes, Cornwall in July. Next up is Edinburgh's Waverley exchange in September followed by Watford, Cardiff, Basingstoke and Manchester Central in 2013. Communications providers can decide to cover installations costs by absorbing a one-off charge, having higher monthly fees or passing the whole thing to the consumer. Want to gobble up more info about BT's latest fiber-filled broadband service? Then check out the good, old PR after the break.

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Arizona Immigration Law: Local Police Face Questions After SB ...

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Arizona's police chiefs and county sheriffs hoped a U.S. Supreme Court ruling would settle their long-running debate on what role, if any, they should play in immigration enforcement. Instead, the justices' decision to uphold the state's "show me your papers" statute has left them with more questions than answers.

How long must officers wait for federal authorities to respond when they encounter someone undocumented, especially given President Barack Obama's new policy to only deport dangerous criminals and repeat offenders? If they release a person too soon, are they exposing themselves to a lawsuit from residents who accuse them of failing to enforce the law?

How do they avoid being sued for racial profiling? Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said he anticipated no change in how he does his job but that comes from someone who was accused of racially profiling Latinos in a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department.

"We're going to get sued if we do. We're going to get sued if we don't. That's a terrible position to put law enforcement officers in," said Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, whose territory covers much of southern Arizona and who has long argued against his state's requirement that local law enforcement be forced to ask about the legal status of anyone suspected of being in the U.S. illegally.

The justices on Monday unanimously approved the Arizona law's most-discussed provision requiring police to check the immigration status of those they stop for other reasons. But it struck down provisions allowing local police to arrest people for federal immigration violations. They also warned against detaining people for any prolonged period merely for not having proper immigration papers.

The decision left police chiefs and sheriffs grappling with questions ranging from what justifies reasonable suspicion that someone is in the country illegally to how long officers must wait when federal authorities are slow to respond to a question on someone's immigration status.

"It's uncharted territory," said Tony Estrada, sheriff of Santa Cruz County on the state's southern border with Mexico. "It's going to be challenging. It's a complicated issue, and it's not going to be solved by this particular decision."

Tucson Police Chief Roberto Villasenor estimates the statute will result in 50,000 additional calls a year to federal immigration authorities in his city alone. That includes 36,000 arrests a year for suspects who are not booked into jail, typically for offenses like disorderly conduct, misdemeanor assault, shoplifting, vandalism and driving more than 25 mph over the speed limit.

Those suspects, who would normally be released with a citation, must be booked into custody if immigration authorities "don't answer the phone, they never call us back after we talk to them or whatever," Villasenor said.

An estimated 14,000 inquiries a year will be for people encountered on street patrol who are not arrested, Villasenor said. They may raise suspicion for their manner of dress, language or other characteristics outlined in guidelines issues to law enforcement agencies statewide.

"I'm not sure (the federal government is) set up to accommodate that workload right now. I hope I'm wrong," said Villasenor, who joined Dupnik and other law enforcement in voicing opposition to the 2010 law in a filing to the Supreme Court.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security acknowledged concern about a flood of inquiries but signaled it would only deport people who meet its enforcement priorities. Those priorities are repeat immigration violators, people who pose a public safety or national security threat and recent border crossers.

"The Supreme Court's decision raises the possibility of a significant increase in the number of inquiries, referrals and status verification inquiries from Arizona state authorities that will impact DHS's immigration enforcement operations," the department said Monday in a note to field offices.

Arpaio, the controversial Phoenix lawman known for his anti-immigration raids, said he was concerned whether federal agents will decline to pick up some undocumented immigrants who are stopped by his deputies.

"I have my suspicions," he said.

Arpaio asked a federal judge earlier this month to dismiss a lawsuit that claims his office discriminated against Latinos in the sheriff's trademark immigration patrols and had a culture of disregard for basic constitutional rights.

Hours after Monday's ruling, the Department of Homeland Security canceled agreements with seven Arizona police departments that deputized officers to arrest people on immigration violations while on street patrol.

Phoenix Police Chief Daniel Garcia declined to detail how the statute will play out but anticipates it won't be much of a departure from what officers already do.

"It's much too early to try to speculate on these issues of law," he said.

If federal agents decline to pick up immigrants, the state doesn't have any way to force federal authorities to pick them up and will likely have to let them go unless they're suspected of committing a crime that would require them to be brought to jail, said Peter Spiro, a Temple University law professor who specializes in immigration law.

In that sense, the law is symbolic, Spiro said. The questioning requirement "is useful to the extent that it allows states to give notice of hostilities to undocumented immigrants," Spiro said. "It allows for a formal expression of the state's hostilities toward undocumented immigrants."

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer called the decision a victory for all Americans, but said she expected lawsuits to challenge the implementation of the law.

"It's certainly not the end of our journey," she said.

Responding to criticism that the law would lead to racial profiling, Brewer said that any officer who violates a person's civil rights will be held accountable. Even while upholding the provision, the justices said the status check could be challenged.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a written statement that the Supreme Court's ruling will make her agency's work more challenging, but she was pleased that the court ruled state laws can't dictate the federal government's immigration enforcement priorities.

Immigration rights groups said they were surprised and disappointed by the court's decision, and planned to ask the lower courts to block the law.

"The opinion invites the challenges that we are bringing. It's going to cause racial profiling. It will cause prolonged detentions," said Linton Joaquin of the National Immigration Law Center, one of the groups pushing a separate challenge to the law.

Arizona passed the law in 2010, with lawmakers arguing that that federal government wasn't adequately preventing illegal immigration. The Obama administration sued to block it, saying that enforcing immigration laws was a federal responsibility.

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Associated Press writers Jacques Billeaud, Terry Tang and Felicia Fonseca in Phoenix contributed to this report.

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Iola's Christian Reads: Review: Coming Home by Karen Kingsbury

Ashley is planning her father's seventieth birthday party, and has the idea of each child writing a letter to him and contributing towards a family scrapbook. (Nice idea. Wasn't that what her mother did for them all before she died? Moving right along? ) So, Ashley calls each of her siblings to invite their families to a surprise barbecue at the Baxter homestead (giving us a nice segue into the information dump of their personal histories). Dayne and Katy will be flying in from LA, and Erin and Sam are going to make the drive from Texas. Erin is pleased to be Coming Home, because the birth mother of three of her adoptive children is out of prison and wanting visitation rights, a touchy subject that she wants to discuss with brother Luke in person.

The first half of Coming Home: A Story of Unending Love and Eternal Promise is like a composite episode of TV series 'Lost' - 22 episodes condensed into one, a roller coaster of emotion, reliving the highlights and tragedies of the early Baxter stories. Although Kingsbury does a good job of reviewing the personal histories of each character, those stories are so extensive that I don't know how easy it would be to keep up with all the characters without having read a good number of the preceding books.

Anyone who has read all the Baxter books is going to find the first half of Coming Home very repetitive (although that does make it a quick read, for anyone who doesn?t want or need to relive the relationship problems of each of the Baxter siblings). I also found much of the backstory to be overly contrived: couples going for a walk and talking about how they got together, as though they didn?t know that.

But, of course, it wouldn't be a Kingsbury novel if everything went right. While the first half of Coming Home dragged with all the repetition, the second half contained the trademark Kingsbury emotion, as a tragedy pulls the Baxter family together and tests their faith as never before. It sounds corny, and it was, but it brought tears to my eyes even as I reminded myself that these are not real people (well, I hope they are not. After all, the last four books have been loosely based on Kingsbury?s daughter, so who knows).

With its themes of faith, life, death and heaven, I?m sure Coming Home will speak to many people. Kingsbury has the gift of being a word in season to many people through her writing, and I commend her for that. But personally, my Kingsbury season is over.

Overall, this was a good novella that was uncomfortably stretched to novel-length through the addition of a lot of repetitive and unnecessary backstory, and a cheesy ending that just made me thankful it was over.

Thanks to Zondervan and NetGalley for providing a free ebook for review.

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National Philharmonic To Lead School Music Program ? CBS ...

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The National Philharmonic is taking over music education programs at a public charter school in Washington to provide intensive instruction in violin, piano and other instruments.

The orchestra based at Strathmore arts center in Bethesda, Md., announced Tuesday that it is partnering with the William E. Doar Public Charter School for the Performing Arts. It will provide music education for all students in kindergarten through?eighth-grade.

The program will include daily violin instruction for students in kindergarten through?second-grade. Children in third-grade through fifth-grade will study music daily in a new piano lab. They will also receive vocal training and lessons on instruments of their choice.

Students in?sixth-grade through?eighth-grade who choose a music concentration will spend two hours daily on individual projects.

(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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