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The National Biodiesel Board, which represents more than 260 U.S. and international companies that produce and distribute renewable biodiesel fuel, is the newest allied member of the Diesel Technology Forum (DTF).
DTF is a non-profit organization that promotes the use of the most modern clean diesel technologies in the United States.
The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) is a nonprofit trade association dedicated to coordinating the biodiesel industry and educating the public about the fuel. NBB membership is comprised of state, national, and international feedstock and processor organizations; biodiesel producers and suppliers; fuel marketers and distributors; and technology providers.
"We are extremely pleased to welcome the National Biodiesel Board to the Diesel Technology Forum," says Allen Schaeffer, the Executive Director of the forum. "The NBB has a mission of educating the public and policy makers about the importance of biodiesel as an important component in America's goal of expanding the use of alternative and renewable energy sources. This is an excellent partnership with the Diesel Technology Forum's mission of educating policymakers about the economic importance, energy efficiency and environmental progress of clean diesel technology.
"We share the common goal of assuring that future energy and transportation policies recognize the unique value and capabilities of diesel technology, particularly as it relates to the energy security and environmental benefits of the use of high-quality biodiesel fuels in diesel engines and equipment," Schaeffer says.
Steve Howell, Technical Director for the National Biodiesel Board, says, "NBB is excited about our new partnership with the Diesel Technology Forum. Many people do not realize that today's new technology diesel engines with ultra low sulfur biodiesel blends provide tailpipe emissions as clean or cleaner than natural gas or gasoline, while providing superior fuel economy, horsepower, and durability. In addition, when you combine the increased efficiency diesel engines with the low carbon nature of an Advanced Biofuel like biodiesel, new technology diesel engines are positioned to become the clean - and green - technology of the future."
The members of DTF are leaders of the diesel industry and include a diverse membership of OEMs, suppliers, fuel refiners and device manufacturers who are leading the fight for clean diesel technology. See the other leaders in clean diesel technology here.

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Vascular rejection has been traditionally considered a severe form of acute rejection characterized by infiltration of mononuclear cells beneath the endothelium or by the presence of arteritis. Though initially reported as an aggressive form of T-cell mediated rejection with poor response to T-cell targeted therapy, newer findings suggest a strong association with alloantibodies.
Study from France analyzed 302 patients with biopsy-proven rejection and identified 4 subtypes of acute rejection with different outcomes (Figure): T-cell-mediated vascular rejection (9%), antibody-mediated vascular rejection (21%), T-cell-mediated rejection without vasculitis (46%), and antibody-mediated rejection without vasculitis (24%).
Antibody-mediated vascular rejection manifested a median of 1.1 months (0.4–4.4) post-transplant and had the worst prognosis of the four subtypes. Moreover, 71% of cases of vascular rejection, which were mostly graded as v1 and v2 arteritis by the Banff schema, were associated with donor-specific antibodies (DSA).
Therefore, it seems that the majority of cases of vascular rejection are associated with DSA and therapies to remove and decrease alloantibody production may be warranted. Indeed, this study suggested that antibody-directed treatment involving plasmapheresis, IVIG and rituximab led to better outcomes in this subpopulation. As of today, v1 and v2 vascular lesions are not accounted by the Banff classification in the antibody-mediated rejection category.
Alloantibodies may bind to endothelium antigens and activate complement, attracting mononuclear cells which express Fc and adherence receptors, initiating the process of vascular infiltration.
How will this affect our practice? Whenever a biopsy shows a component of vascular rejection, one must send the serum for alloantibody testing, even if biopsy is not classic for antibody-mediated rejection. Furthermore, antibody-directed treatment strategies should be considered, in particular if no response to initial therapy and evidence of DSA. The ideal treatment of the different severities of vascular rejection still remain to be determined.


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Instagram for Android app gets first major makeover in nearly 2 years
So fresh and so clean
In its first major visual overhaul since it launched in April 2012, the Instagram app for Android is sporting a cleaner look and faster feel, one that elevates the 'gram's game on Google's mobile OS.
"We wanted to focus in on our Android users," Phillip McAllister, engineering manager at Instagram, told TechRadar. "Android is a first-class citizen for us and we wanted to provide a better design."
This means a faster, richer Instagram Android app, one designed for the Google-powered operating system that stays true to the photo sharing service.
"This new design is both uniquely Android and uniquely Instagram," McAllister said. "It's more in harmony with the Instagram platform and will have the familiarity Android users enjoy."
It's also about giving a nod to the blossoming global market; according to Instagram, more than 60% of its users are located outside the US. Almost half of its overall users come by way of Android.
By paring the app down, including chopping its size by half, Instagram aims to make it chummy with the wide array of Android devices used in regions around the world.
What's new with Android's Instagram
Users will notice a crisper, more streamlined look to the Android app. The redesign has extended down to the fonts and icons, giving the overall app an up-to-date appearance. Don't look for a host of new features here - this overhaul is all about capturing greater visual appeal and keeping most of the app's functionality intact.
Though McAllister said the company strives to keep its Android offering on par with its iOS counterpart, there's undoubtedly some design carry-over from the Apple version, which saw its own overhaul late last year.
For one, the blue orb that lets users take a picture in Camera in the iOS app is now beaming for all droids to see. It has a bit of a twist on the original monotone blue circle, as do some of the other rejiggered icons, but the overall look of the Camera UX is in line with iOS.
For McAllister, the most noticeable changes are to be found in the Camera and Sharing screens. The makeovers allow for more room for the Camera's tools, and make "better use of the screen space for richer and fuller photos."
The changes aren't limited to the Camera layout, though these are generally more subtle.
Profile pages are largely the same except for a few design tweaks, namely the disappearance of dividing lines, and the Explore tab touts the app's new iconography.
The Edit tab has undergone a tweak that sees all commands pushed to the bottom, leaving the photo to take up most of the screen space. Some fresh air was breathed into the Feed, though again the changes aren't radical (take a peek at the time-posted clock and colored hearts to see what we mean).
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Despite focusing on the app's aesthetics, there are some functional improvements as well.
In addition to cutting its size down (amounting to faster download times and less space on storage-starved devices), the app will also now better fit varying screen sizes, whether large phablet or petite Mini, by self-identifying the display's dimensions and adjusting accordingly.
Finally, the Android app is noticeably faster than previous iterations; McAllister said there's a 20% speed difference on some devices and the profile tab is capable of loading almost two times faster.
"The feeling of the app is a lot faster," he said.
The new look will be available in Instagram for Android version 5.1, and ready for downloading today in the Google Play Store. All you need is Android 2.2 and up to give it a whirl.
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But this urgent need to talk is not an excuse for a reckless discussion. Sadly, that is where we're headed, with pundits hysterical, naive or both.
Predictably most in the media went straight to the Left's Alpha and Omega: blaming excessive "access" to guns. It was also an excuse to open fire on the National Rifle Association. For example, author Joyce Carol Oates spewed on Twitter, "If sizable numbers of NRA members become gun-victims themselves, maybe hope for legislation of firearms?" Actress Marg Helgenberger, semi-famous for playing a cop on "CSI," concurred, "One can only hope, but sadly I don't think anything would change."
One professor at the University of Rhode Island found violence as the answer to violence. Erik Loomis tweeted "I was heartbroken in the first 20 mass murders. Now I want [NRA VP] Wayne LaPierre's head on a stick." After an uproar, Loomis claimed, "I don't want to see Wayne LaPierre dead. I want to see him in prison for the rest of his life" for "NRA terrorism."
Let us agree that every liberal - such as Loomis, Helgenberger, and Oates -- has cause for outrage. So too does every conservative. No one enjoys a monopoly and the jockeying must stop.
By the same token, let's be serious. Lanza did not get violent because of guns. He used guns because he was violent. The proper place for guns in a violent society is something we should discuss.
But if you want to solve the problem, you discuss the culture of violence in a nation enamored of death. Ours is a society imploding under an avalanche of violent video games, music, TV and movies. Surely, a serious "national conversation' should go there.
But so far, ABC and CBS and NBC aren't doing stories about the violent content on their TV shows. Nor are they discussing violent movies on ABC (Disney) and NBC (Universal), or viciously violent dramas on the pay cable channel Showtime (owned by CBS). Fox News isn't talking about Seth MacFarlane's shoot-em-up Sunday night cartoons on Fox, and Rupert Murdoch pushed Obama on Twitter for "bold leadership action" on guns, but hasn't tweeted a word about his own violent Hollywood sleaze.
In short, our news media can't really be trusted to evaluate (SET ITAL) all (END ITAL) the cultural forces that the American people might blame. They refuse to acknowledge the effect of violent content on impressionable young viewers. They're likely to cheer Big Gulp bans and the removal of soda machines from schools on behalf of the children, but they won't tolerate any restriction on children gulping down their company products.
That's not to say that the entertainment conglomerates didn't react to the Newtown shooting. Fox quickly announced it would pull new episodes of its Sunday night cartoons "Family Guy" and "American Dad," as well as a rerun of a "Die Hard" parody episode of "The Cleveland Show" that was scheduled. There were no plot specifics disclosed, but the canceled new shows that were suddenly now too violent for the times were "holiday-themed episodes."
Anyone who follows the sicko MacFarlane cartoons knows that bloody shooting deaths are part of their formula to deliver shocked laughs. That is, when they don't have a "funny" plot twist like a crazed horse stomping through an entire grandstand at the racetrack, killing a class of deaf second graders. Does that episode sound hilarious now, Fox Entertainment?
Other shows were pulled for sensitivity. The SyFy network show "Haven" was pulled because it contained violence in a high school setting. TLC pushed back the premiere of its show "Best Funeral Ever" into January.
Showtime decided to put disclaimers on the season finales of their violent shows -- "Dexter," the heroic serial-killer show, and "Homeland," about terrorism. They announced, "in light of the tragedy that has occurred in Connecticut, the following program contains images that may be disturbing."
Harvey Weinstein's company canceled the Los Angeles premiere for Quentin Tarantino's ultraviolent western "Django Unchained," scheduled for the Monday, after the massacre. Paramount toned down the gunplay in ads for their new Tom Cruise action movie, "Jack Reacher," which opens with a sniper shooting down five people. They also delayed a high-profile Pittsburgh premiere (where the movie was filmed) on Saturday and planned a quiet screening later.
Stop it, Hollywood. After every massacre, you do the same. Some show is edited, another one postponed, all with great fanfare, while the denizens of Tinseltown loudly voice their outrage at all this senseless violence.
And as soon as the massacre is off Page One, they get back to business, polluting the culture and spoon-feeding the next Adam Lanza.
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One unmentioned irony of the Chris Christie road-revenge scandal is that the powers-that-be finally found a traffic jam they didn't like. Now, don't get me wrong, having always lived in the N.Y. metropolitan area and often having wanted to split a vein while in the midst of the N.Y./N.J. road experience, I think that anyone who purposely exacerbates traffic problems should be confined to a small cell and forced to listen 24/7/365 to Nancy Pelosi's nails-on-blackboard speeches. But I have to tell you: It has always seemed that NY and NJ public officials have utter disregard – if not contempt – for drivers in their states. In fact, their policies have long had the effect of exacerbating traffic problems.
Consider a common N.Y./N.J. driving experience. You're traveling north on the New Jersey Turnpike – passing exits 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 – and then all of a sudden the road transitions into a parking lot that you're trapped in for an hour and a half. The cause?
The turnpike toll plaza some miles ahead.
Of course, it's not always that bad, although it can be during holidays, bad rush hours, and when other complicating factors manifest themselves. But the point is this: Where is the logic in collecting revenue by stopping traffic on a heavily traveled roadway in a densely populated urban area? With the Christie situation, it seems that some officials have finally discovered that traffic jams lead to wasted resources (fuel), diminished productivity, and possibly lost lives (the 91-year-old woman who died in an ambulance stuck in the traffic). But politicians don't seem to care when these problems are visited upon the citizenry in the name of a government cash cow.
Moreover, few remember that many tolls were only meant to be in place until the projects they were associated with, such as certain bridges, were paid off. Instead, they became de facto taxes that the government can raise almost with impunity. And for all of you folks dealing with politicians who propose instituting tolls with the reassurance that they'll only be this or that much, understand how expensive they can get. The fleecing when crossing the GWB (George Washington Bridge) is now $13 for cars, and the peak E-ZPass rate for trucks with six or more axles is $84. (Mind you, since most products are shipped via truck, we all pay for the latter through higher consumer costs.) And if you then travel the N.J. Turnpike from the GWB to the roadway's end (Exit 1, the Delaware Memorial Bridge) – a mere 113.8 miles – the turnpike toll is another $13.85. That means a round trip taking you back over the GWB will run you $40.70 in tolls alone. And while the average commute might cost $15 less, one still wonders how the common man could afford it.
Then there is the incessant construction that anyone who lives in the NYC metro area knows painfully well. You hit a traffic jam, and 15 minutes later you find out it's because a lane or two have been closed. You then drive at a snail's pace past one and a half miles of orange pylons – without observing any work or workers at all. But then finally you do see three union hacks doing their thing. This consists of one, let's say, doing some digging. Another seems to watch him.
The third is eating a doughnut.
Perhaps I exaggerate slightly, but the proof is in the pudding. It took a mere year and 45 days to build the Empire State Building, and the GWB – which upon its opening in 1931 was the world's longest main span in the world – was completed in only four years. In contrast, how long do you think it took to effect basic road repair on the 10-mile-long Cross Westchester Expressway (I-287) in N.Y.?
More than 10 years.
And it was the usual story: many lane closures, traffic jams from Hell, and very little apparent work.
I concluded a long time ago that road repair in N.Y. and N.J. was basically a quasi-welfare program. In fact, I remember when, a generation ago, former N.Y. governor Mario Cuomo appeared in TV spots encouraging people to vote "yes" on a "Proposition 1," which allocated one billion dollars for road repair. I always wondered why Cuomo was so anxious to get that bond passed and where the money went – especially since N.Y. roads still stink.
As should always be the case in government, the GWB affair should be sifted to the very bottom. But the real road scandal in N.Y. and N.J. involves government-authored traffic jams that neither Gov. Christie nor Gov. Andrew Cuomo seem to care a whit about.
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(Also called DE MIRANDA, from his native town).
Archbishop of Toledo; b. at Miranda de Arga, Spain, 1503; d. at Rome, 2 May, 1576. Carranza belonged to a noble family which had its estates at Miranda de Arga in Spanish Navarre. He received his early education at Alcalá and in 1520 entered the Dominican convent of Benalaque near Guadalajara. He continued his philosophical and theological studies at Salamanca; in 1528 he was made master of the liberal arts, and in 1534 lector of theology, at the College of St. Gregory, Valladolid. On account of some doctrinal opinions he was said to hold, an accusation was about this time brought against him, but nothing further came of it. Carranza's reputation as a learned theologian increased rapidly, and he was appointed censor by the Inquisition and was commissioned to prepare opinions and sermons. He was also sent by his order on various important missions. Thus in 1539 he represented his province at the general chapter of the Dominicans at Rome. After his return, in 1540, the Emperor Charles V offered him the See of Cuzco in Peru, but Carranza declined the appointment and continued performing his duties as lector of theology at Valladolid. In 1545, when the Council of Trent was opened, Charles V sent Carranza and another Dominican, Dominicus de Soto, as imperial theologians, to the council, and by June, 1545, Carranza was in Trent. During the first period of the council (1545-47) he took an active part in the discussions of the theologians in the congregations, expressed opinions concerning the various matters appointed for discussion, the sacraments in general, Baptism, the Eucharist, and the Sacrifice of the Mass, and preached at Divine service, 14 March, before the assembled council (Le Plat, "Monum. Trident.", I, 52-62, gives the text of the sermon). He also showed great zeal in the conferences concerning the reform of church discipline. In the warm discussions as to the duty of episcopal residence, Carranza, like all the Spaniards, was strongly of the opinion that the duty of residence was a Divine law (juris divini), and therefore could not be delegated to a vicar. On this question, Carranza wrote and issued a treatise, "Controversia de necessarii residentii personali episcoporum et aliorum inferiorum ecclesiæ pastorum Tridenti explicata" (Venice, 1547), which may be found in Le Plat, "Monum. Trident.", III, 522-584. Carranza also had a share in drawing up the eleven articles proposed by the Spaniards, which treated the duty of episcopal residence and other questions of discipline relating to the office of a bishop. When the council was transferred to Bologna he did not go to that city, but remained in Trent. In 1548 Charles asked him to accompany Prince Philip to Flanders as confessor, but Carranza declined the position; in 1549 he refused the appointment of Bishop of the Canary Islands.
After his return to Spain, in 1549, he was made prior of the monastery at Palencia, and in 1550 provincial. In 1551, when Pope Julius III reopened the Council at Trent, Carranza went once more to that city to take part in the deliberations. The council was again interrupted in 1552, and Carranza went back to Spain, where, besides his duties in his order, he also took part in the labours of the Inquisition. As almoner of Prince Philip, Carranza came in contact with the prince, and often preached before him and his court. When, in 1554, Philip was betrothed to Queen Mary of England, and was preparing to go to that country for the marriage, he sent Carranza and other members of Spanish orders ahead of him, in order to give support to the queen in her efforts to bring back the country to the Catholic Faith. Carranza remained until 1557 in England, where he was actively engaged, in connexion with Cardinal Pole, as visitator and preacher. He sought to prevent the sale of Protestant books, preached frequently against the false doctrines, and made an inspection of the University of Oxford, from which, by his efforts, a number of professors were expelled. After Charles V had abdicated the throne and was succeeded, in Spain, by Philip, Carranza returned, in 1557, to the Continent, and went to Flanders, where the new king had his principal residence at that time. In Flanders the zealous Dominican also busied himself with efforts to check the introduction and spread of Protestant writings and to maintain the Catholic Faith.
The See of Toledo falling vacant by the death of the Cardinal Archbishop Siliceo, 31 May, 1557, the king decided upon Carranza as successor to the position. In vain did Carranza exert himself to win the favour of the king for another candidate. Philip II persisted in his choice, so that at last Carranza yielded and was preconized by Pope Paul IV, 16 December, 1557, as Archbishop of Toledo and, therefore, Primate of Spain. Carranza received episcopal consecration at Brussels, in 1558, from Cardinal Granvella, then Bishop of Arras. Equipped with important political instructions the new archbishop left Flanders in June and reached the court at Valladolid in August. Soon after this he went to Yuste to visit Charles V, who was dying; he remained with the emperor until the latter's death. A report arose in time that Carranza had led Charles into heretical views, so that the emperor had not died in the true Catholic Faith. This rumour was pure invention, but it gave a new ground for the process before the Inquisition which had already begun against him. It was only for about a year that Carranza was able to devote himself to his diocese, where he bestowed especial attention upon the care of the poor. In 1558 his "Commentary on the Christian Catechism" (Commentarios del revmo. Señ. Fray Bartolomé Carranza de Miranda sobre el catechismo cristiano) had appeared at Antwerp. A number of views suspected of heresy were found in the book, and the Grand Inquisitor Valdés brought an action against the author. Besides this work on the catechism,Carranza's manuscripts, expressions he had employed in sermons, and letters found in his possession, including one from Juan Valdés, the heretic, were taken as evidence against him. Melchior Cano, the famous theologian, and Dominicus de Soto, both members of the same order as the archbishop, drew numerous propositions from the commentary which were open to ecclesiastical censure. A Brief of Paul IV, dated 7 January, 1559, had granted the Grand Inquisitor of Spain the power, for the space of two years, to investigate the conduct of all Spanish bishops; this measure was intended to counteract the threatening danger of the spread of Protestant doctrine. With the permission, therefore, of King Philip II (26 June, 1558) the grand inquisitor had the archbishop arrested at Torrelaguna, 22 August, 1558, and brought a prisoner to Valladolid. Pope Pius IV made repeated requests to Philip II in the matter, and the Holy Father was urged several times, in the years 1562 and 1563, by the members of the Council of Trent, to bring the case of the Archbishop of Toledo before his court. The Congregation of the Index also gave at the council a favourable testimony for Carranza in regard to his commentary.
Nevertheless the Spanish process pursued its tedious course. In 1564, when the Inquisition had closed its investigation, the king expressed the wish to Pius IV that the matter be decided in Spain by judges appointed by the pope. The pope agreed to this and named (13 July, 1565) four judges who were to pronounce judgment in Spain. These judges were: Cardinal Ugo Buoncompagni, Ippolito Aldobrandini, Fel. Peretti, O. S. F., and J. B. Castagna, Archbishop of Rossano; all four became popes later. However, after their arrival in Spain in November, 1565, they were not permitted to proceed independently of the officials of the Inquisition, and the process, therefore, reached no final settlement. At last, in 1567, owing to the peremptory order of Pius V, the suit was brought before the Curia, the official documents were sent to Rome, and Carranza, who had been in prison eight years, was taken to Rome, where he arrived 28 May, 1567. The papal chambers in the Castle of Sant' Angelo were appointed to be his residence during the trial. Once more the case lasted a long time, being nine years before the Curia. It was not until the reign of Gregory XIII that a final decision was reached, 14 April, 1576. Carranza was not found guilty of actual heresy, but he was condemned to abjure sixteen Lutheran propositions of which he had made himself suspected, was forbidden to enter on the government of his diocese for another five years, and was ordered during this period to live in the monastery of his order near the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, and there to perform certain religious exercises as penance. Carranza died, however, in the same year, and was buried in the choir of the church just mentioned. Before this he had, on 23 April, visited the seven great churches and had celebrated Mass on the following day in the basilica of the Lateran. Previous to receiving the last sacraments he touchingly declared that he had been all his life a true adherent of the Catholic Faith, that he had never voluntarily understood and held the condemned propositions in a heretical sense, and that he submitted entirely to the judgment pronounced upon him. He had borne the imprisonment of nearly seventeen years with patience and resignation, and was universally venerated at Rome. Pope Gregory XIII gave permission for the placing over his grave of a monument bearing an inscription in his honour.
Carranza's sorrowful fate was brought about, largely, by the intense desire to keep all Protestant influences out of Spain. At the same time it cannot be denied that expressions which he used and propositions which he occasionally set forth would of themselves give rise to the suggestion of heretical opinions. At a later date the Congregation of the Index also condemned his commentary. This work, a stout folio, treated the doctrines of Christian faith and morals under four heads: faith, commandments, sacraments, and good works. Besides the commentary, Carranza published a "Summa Conciliorum et Pontificum a Petro usque Paulum III" (Venice, 1546), often republished and enlarged by later editors. The "Summa" was prefaced by four dissertations: "Controversiæ quattuor, (1) Quanta sit auctoritas traditionum in ecclesiâ; (2) Quanta Sacræ Scripturæ (3) Quanta Romani Pontificis et Sedis apostolicæ (4) Quanta Conciliorum"; further, by the controversial treatise concerning episcopal residence mentioned above, and by an "Introduction to the Hearing of the Mass" (Instruccion para oir messa). An edition was issued at Antwerp in 1555.
NAVARRETE, Coleccion de documentos inéditos para la historia de España (Madrid, 1844), V; GACHARD, Retraite et mort de Charles-Quint au monastére de Yuste (Brussels, 1854-55f), II; Concilium Tridentianum, ed. Societas Gærresiana, I; DIARIA, ed. MERKLE (Freiburg im Br., 1901); QUÉTIF AND ECHARD, Scriptores ord. Prædicatorum (Paris, 1721), II; TOURON, Histoire des hommes illustres de l'ordre de S. Dominique (Paris, 1747), IV; LLORENTE, Histoire critique de l'inquisition d'Espagne (Paris, 1818), III; RODRIGO, Historia verdadera de la Inquisicion (Madrid, 1877), III; SCHÄFER, Geschichte des spanischen Protestantismus (Gütersloh, 1902), I and III; REUSCH, Der Index der verbotenen Bücher (Bonn, 1883 sqq.), III; LAUGWITZ, Barth. Carranza, Erzbischof von Toledo (Kempton, 1870); CABALLERO, Vida de Melchior Cano (Madrid, 1871); EHRLE in Der Katholik (1885, I, 86, sqq.).
APA citation. (1908). Bartolomé Carranza. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03376a.htm
MLA citation. "Bartolomé Carranza." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03376a.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by WGKofron. With thanks to Fr. John Hilkert, Akron, Ohio.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. November 1, 1908. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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Human beings are social animals. We spend large portions of our waking hours communicating with others, and the possibilities for conversation are seemingly endless—we can make plans and crack jokes; reminisce about the past and dream about the future; share ideas and spread information. This ability to communicate—with almost anyone, about almost anything—has played a central role in our species' ability to not just survive, but flourish.
How do you choose to use this immensely powerful tool—communication? Do your conversations serve as doorways to new ideas and experiences? Do they serve as tools for solving the problems of disease and famine?
Or do you mostly just like to talk about yourself?
If you're like most people, your own thoughts and experiences may be your favorite topic of conversation. On average, people spend 60 percent of conversations talking about themselves—and this figure jumps to 80 percent when communicating via social media platforms such as Twitter or Facebook.
Why, in a world full of ideas to discover, develop, and discuss, do people spend the majority of their time talking about themselves? Recent research suggests a simple explanation: because it feels good.
In order to investigate the possibility that self-disclosure is intrinsically rewarding, researchers from the Harvard University Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab utilized functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This research tool highlights relative levels of activity in various neural regions by tracking changes in blood flow; by pairing fMRI output with behavioral data, researchers can gain insight into the relationships between behavior and neural activity. In this case, they were interested in whether talking about the self would correspond with increased neural activity in areas of the brain associated with motivation and reward.
In an initial fMRI experiment, the researchers asked 195 participants to discuss both their own opinions and personality traits and the opinions and traits of others, then looked for differences in neural activation between self-focused and other-focused answers. Because the same participants discussed the same topics in relation to both themselves and others, researchers were able to use the resulting data to directly compare neural activation during self-disclosure to activation during other-focused communication.
Three neural regions stood out. Unsurprisingly, and in line with previous research, self-disclosure resulted in relatively higher levels of activation in areas of the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) generally associated with self-related thought. The two remaining regions identified by this experiment, however, had never before been associated with thinking about the self: the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) and the ventral tegmental area (VTA), both parts of the mesolimbic dopamine system.
These newly implicated areas of the brain are generally associated with reward, and have been linked to the pleasurable feelings and motivational states associated with stimuli such as sex, cocaine, and good food. Activation of this system when discussing the self suggests that self-disclosure, like other more traditionally recognized stimuli, may be inherently pleasurable—and that people may be motivated to talk about themselves more than other topics (no matter how interesting or important these non-self topics may be).
This experiment left at least one question unanswered, however. Although participants were revealing information about themselves, it was unclear whether or not anyone was paying attention; they were essentially talking without knowing who (if anyone) was on the other end of the line. Thus, the reward- and motivation-related neural responses ostensibly produced by self-disclosure could be produced by the act of disclosure—of revealing information about the self to someone else—but they could also be a result of focusing on the self more generally—whether or not anyone was listening.
In order to distinguish between these two possibilities, the researchers conducted a follow-up experiment. In this experiment, participants were asked to bring a friend or relative of their choosing to the lab with them; these companions were asked to wait in an adjoining room while participants answered questions in a fMRI machine. As in the first study, participants responded to questions about either their own opinions and attitudes or the opinions and attitudes of someone else; unlike in the first study, these participants were explicitly told whether their responses would be "shared" or "private"; shared responses were relayed in real time to each participant's companion and private responses were never seen by anyone, including the researchers.
In this study, answering questions about the self always resulted in greater activation of neural regions associated with motivation and reward (i.e., NAcc, VTA) than answering questions about others, and answering questions publicly always resulted in greater activation of these areas than answering questions privately. Importantly, these effects were additive; both talking about the self and talking to someone else were associated with reward, and doing both produced greater activation in reward-related neural regions than doing either separately.
These results suggest that self-disclosure—revealing personal information to others—produces the highest level of activation in neural regions associated with motivation and reward, but that introspection—thinking or talking about the self, in the absence of an audience—also produces a noticeable surge of neural activity in these regions. Talking about the self is intrinsically rewarding, even if no one is listening.
Talking about the self is not at odds with the adaptive functions of communication. Disclosing private information to others can increase interpersonal liking and aid in the formation of new social bonds—outcomes that influence everything from physical survival to subjective happiness. Talking about one's own thoughts and self-perceptions can lead to personal growth via external feedback. And sharing information gained through personal experiences can lead to performance advantages by enabling teamwork and shared responsibility for memory. Self-disclosure can have positive effects on everything from the most basic of needs—physical survival—to personal growth through enhanced self-knowledge; self-disclosure, like other forms of communication, seems to be adaptive.
You may like to talk about yourself simply because it feels good—because self-disclosure produces a burst of activity in neural regions associated with pleasure, motivation, and reward. But, in this case, feeling good may be no more than a means to an end—it may be the immediate reward that jump-starts a cycle of self-sharing, ultimately leading to wide varieties of long-term benefits.
Are you a scientist who specializes in neuroscience, cognitive science, or psychology? And have you read a recent peer-reviewed paper that you would like to write about? Please send suggestions to Mind Matters editor Gareth Cook, a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and regular contributor to NewYorker.com. He can be reached at garethideas AT gmail.com or Twitter @garethideas.


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Mark is a SCORE mentor from the Cape Cod and the Islands chapter. What makes him an ideal mentor is that he offers a number of years of entrepreneurial experience with knowledge of a number of different markets and a strong sense of customer's needs.
Most recently, Mark served as an Assistant Professor of Business at a small college most recently. He was also the COO of a fixed wireless broadband company focused on the Caribbean market and the Vice President of Business Development at a software industry nonprofit. He co-founded two software-based startups: one was a supplier of tactical weather systems to the US military and international markets and the other a data acquisition measurement company for manufacturers.
When helping small business owners, Mark specializes in marketing, business strategy, business models and business plans, legal issues, new product development, technology, nonprofits, education, and startups.
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Mercedes Beefs Up S-Class with new S600 Guard
Mercedes Benz has officially announced the new S600 Guard, an armored S-Class that has a V12 engine producing 512 horsepower while offering a sense of security to the upper-class and celebrities. The Mercedes Benz S-600 Guard is protected by it"s B6/B7 armor level, which is enough to stop standard military-grade small-arms fire. It can also protect against grenade shrapnel and other explosive devices. The Mercedes Benz S600 Guard also has run-flat tires, a self-sealing fuel-tank, and an integrated fire-extinguishing system round out the Guard package. Check out images and press release below.
Source: DailmerChrysler AG Centric
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Mercedes-Benz S 600 Guard: New top-of-the-range Guard model offering Highest Protection
Stuttgart, Oct 16, 2006
Mercedes-Benz has completed the new S-Class range by introducing an armoured special-protection model. Thanks to its factory-integrated protective features, the new S-Guard provides a unique level of protection against attacks and threats posed by violent crime. The new model is initially available in Mercedes-Benz S 600 Guard guise, with a twelve-cylinder engine and a long wheelbase.
The new Mercedes-Benz S-Guard is the logical continuation of an almost 80-year unbroken tradition in the development of special-protection vehicles. This new top-of-the-range Guard model is produced in Sindelfingen, Germany by vastly experienced specialists working on the principle of integrated special protection. In effect this means that, rather than retrofitting the protective elements in the doors, rear wall, side panels, roof lining and firewall etc. of an already finished vehicle, they fully integrate them into the bodyshell on a dedicated production line. All the body-structure reinforcements required due to the extra weight of the protective elements can therefore be incorporated right from the start. The resulting vehicles offer hallmark Mercedes-Benz build quality combined with comprehensive Highest Protection, including in those areas where post-production access would be all but impossible.
Outstanding comfort and effortlessly superior performance
The S-Class interior space concept, which makes for a first-class ambience combined with outstanding ride comfort for all the occupants, not to mention effortlessly superior handling, remains virtually unaffected. Furthermore, generously dimensioned chassis components and twin-calliper front brakes lend the Mercedes-Benz S-Guard Saloon hallmark Mercedes handling qualities and provide the driver with an optimal driving feel at all times. Plus the chassis has been configured so as not to impair the sumptuous level of comfort that distinguishes the standard-production S-Class. At the heart of the Mercedes-Benz S 600 Guard is a twelve-cylinder biturbo engine developing 380 kW/517 hp, whose scintillating performance capability allows the luxury saloon to escape from dangerous situations with breathtaking speed.
The Mercedes-Benz S 600 Guard offers Highest Protection and has been engineered to resistance level B6/B7, as tested and certified by state-approved organisations. Its armour resists military-standard small-arms projectiles and provides protection against fragments from hand grenades and other explosive charges. Additional safety features include run-flat tyres, a self-sealing fuel tank and a fire-extinguishing system.
Yet the Highest Protection that underpins the new Guard Saloon is scarcely noticeable from the outside. After all, discretion is as much of a must as trust, reliability and quality. Prominent personalities in particular like to travel incognito, wherever they happen to be, and the new Mercedes-Benz S-Guard gives them this option.
All the trailblazing developments of the new S-Class.
The Mercedes-Benz S 600 Guard is equipped with the same technical innovations that have made the flagship Mercedes S-Class the number-one trailblazer in passenger car development and the world"s best-selling luxury saloon. These include important new developments such as Brake Assist PLUS and the PRE SAFE(R) brake in combination with DISTRONIC PLUS, night view assist and the enhanced PRE-SAFE(R) anticipatory occupant protection system. On top of all this, the outstanding level of interior comfort and extremely agile handling make for an effortlessly superior driving experience.


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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
January 7, 2003
President Bush Announced Nomination of DHS CIO
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to appoint one individual to serve as a member of his administration:
The President intends to appoint Steven I. Cooper of Virginia, to be the Chief Information Officer at the Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Cooper is currently Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Information Integration in the Office of Homeland Security. Before joining the White House, Mr. Cooper served as the Chief Information Officer for Corporate Staffs and the Executive Director of Strategic Information Delivery at Corning Inc. Prior to his work at Corning, he served as the Director of Corporate Information Systems at Eli Lilly and Company. Mr. Cooper, a Certified Computer Professional (CCP), received his bachelor's degree from Ohio Wesleyan University. He later went on to study at Duke University where he earned an Executive Education Certificate.


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Carla Warner and I got to spend some time grilling outside with the awesome people at KSTP's "Twin Cities Live" yesterday.
I love to cook, so I volunteered to whip up 3 unconventional recipes on 3 of our favorite grills.
On the Big Green Egg, we made Bacon-wrapped jalapeno poppers
Hollow jalapenos and completely fill with cream cheese. Wrap with raw bacon and secure with toothpick. Grill on the Big Green Egg or other grill using indirect heat at 350-375 degrees for 40-45 minutes.
On the Vermont Castings, we made Margherita pizza
Heat grill to medium heat. Sprinkle with cornmeal and roll out fresh, refrigerated pizza dough ball to no more than 1/4-inch thickness. Either oil grill grates or place pizza stone on grill. Grill dough covered for 5 minutes. Top with Kowalski's Signature Pizza Sauce, slices of Kowalski's fresh mozzarella and sliced Roma tomato. Grill for another 3-5 minutes or until cheese is golden brown. Top with fresh basil and serve.
And on the Viking Grill, we made — you'll never guess — Grilled doughnuts
Grill Pillsbury Grands refrigerated biscuits on a cookie sheet (or well-oiled grill grate) using indirect heat at about 375 degrees for 10 minutes or until golden brown.
Meanwhile, melt a stick of butter in a grill-safe bowl away from direct heat. Dip warm biscuits in the melted butter and roll in cinnamon sugar.


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Disney Channel Auditions 2012 and new show 'Madison High'
High School Musical has a new spin off – Welcome to Madison High.
Madison High is a new Disney Channel show that began filming its pilot last year and will begin running in 2012. Madison High is a spin off of the very popular High School Musical.
Like many other shows on the network, the format is a musical comedy aimed at pre-teens and teens. The show is set within a school. The cast is diverse in their interests. On the series characters have many different talents and passions. The cast includes an athlete, a musician, a blogger, an artist and a perfectionist into acting and drama. One of their teachers (Alyson Reed of High School Musical) was transferred from the High School Musical school and tends to name drop some of the High School Musical character names in the Madison High series. In a way the new Disney Channel show comedy picks up where High School Musical left off, With a favorite teacher from High School Musicals East High being transferred to Madison High and meeting another group of talented teens.
A press release for Disney described the new characters and their backgrounds and previous projects a little more:
15-year-old Luke Benward has the lead role of Devin Daniels, a motocross racer looking for a new hobby. The native of Nashville, Tennessee is the son of an actress and a musician, and since age 5 has appeared in commercials, music videos and movies, including the Disney Channel Original Movie "Minutemen," "How to Eat Fried Worms," "Doggone," "Because of Winn-Dixie," "Mostly Ghostly," "Dear John" and "We Were Soldiers."
14-year-old singer Leah Lewis has landed her first leading role as Peyton Hall, a formerly home-schooled tennis champion. Born in China and raised in Orlando, Florida, Lewis has appeared in national commercials for Kraft Cheese, Home Depot and Natures Own Bread, as well as an international commercial for Disneyland Hong Kong.
12-year-old G Hannelius is set to play Wednesday Malone, a precocious starlet in the making. The native of Boston, Massachusetts began her acting career at the age of 8 at the Children's Theater of Maine. A familiar face on Disney Channel, she starred in the short form series "Leo Little's Big Show" and "Den Brother," and has appeared on "Sonny With A Chance," "Good Luck Charlie," "Hannah Montana" and Disney XD's "I'm in the Band." Her other television credits include a series regular role on ABC's "Surviving Suburbia."
The series is the first cross between a Disney Channel Movie and a Disney Channel series for the network. Madison High is written by the man who produced Jonas L.A, Lester Lewis and the series director, Paul Hoen also directed Camp Rock 2. The series is produced by 'It's a Laugh Productions' which is one of the primary production companies involved in Disney Channel original shows.
Madison High stars Luke Benward (How to Eat Fried Worms), Genevieve Hannelius(Good Luck Charlie, Sonny with a Chance), Leah Lewis, Katherine McNamara, Mark Indelicato(Ugly Betty) and Nolan Sotillo (Corey and Lucas For The Win).
The series is in production now and will premiere on the Disney Channel in 2012. The regular cast has already been selected but extras, featured extras and special guests may all still be needed for the show.
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James Franco — a man of many talents and occupational endeavors — is the subject of performance artist Marina Abramović's first film.
The woman who describes herself as the "grandmother of performance art," told Elle at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday that she is in the early stages of creating a film to answer the question: "Who is James Franco?"
Also read: James Franco Travels By Bubble in 'Oz the Great and Powerful' (Video)
"I think he's the most interesting actor of the moment," she said. "Why? Because he takes risks and when you take risks, you can fail. But he takes failure and risk all with the same intensity. He could just be another Hollywood actor and that's it–like everyone else. But he's crossing all kinds of borders and not always with great success. For him, process is more important than the result."
On top of acting in a number of high-profile films and being nominated for an Oscar in 2011 the same year he co-hosted the Academy Awards with Anne Hathaway, Franco is a published author, director, producer, editor and even a college teacher.
"And this is why I'm interested to explain to [people] 'Who is James Franco?' and 'Why is he doing what he's doing?'" she continued. "He hardly sleeps or has a life. He just keeps going."
The Serbian artist, who won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1997, is known for her provocative work, including her 2002 "Nude With Skeleton" in which a naked man (or woman) lies flat underneath a human skeleton.
Abramović has been friends with Franco since 2010 and appeared with him on an episode of the Sundance Channel's "Iconoclasts" last fall. She attended the the Spirit Awards to support the film, "Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present," which was up for best documentary. The film documented her work, including a 736-hour, 30-minute performance at the Museum of Modern Art in which she sat at a table without moving while museum visitors lined up to sit opposite her in the museum atrium.
Franco will next be seen on screen in March as the titular character in "Oz the Great and Powerful" and as Hugh Hefner in "Lovelace."


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Paul McCartney (Self)Linda McCartney (Self)Denny Laine (Self)Jimmy McCulloch (Self)
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In 1975 and 1976 Paul McCartney and Wings undertook the epic Wings over the World tour, the largest scale tour they would ever undertake as a band. From this tour came both the legendary "Wings over America" triple live album and the concert film "Rockshow". Although filmed on this tour at the enormous Kingdome in Seattle, "Rockshow", originally a cut down version of the concert, was not premiered until November 1980 in New York and April 1981 in London. It was released on Betamax and later on laserdisc. Now for the first time the complete full length concert is being made available fully restored from the original 35mm film and with restored & remastered sound, including a 5.1 mix for the first time. This is Paul McCartney and Wings live on stage in a concert that is destined to live forever!


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- Talking to a Loved One Battling Substance Abuse: Staying Positive Is Key
- RSV Vaccine Given in Pregnancy to Help Shield Newborns Receives Full U.S. Approval
- Many Americans Frustrated in Search for Low-Cost COVID Boosters
- In 22 U.S. States, More Than a Third of Adults Are Now Obese
- Kraft Cheese Slices Recalled Due to Plastic Wrap Choking Hazard
- Kids' ER Visits for Mental Health Crises Rise When School Term Begins
- Medicaid Reinstated for Nearly 500,000 Children and Families: CMS
- Newer Diabetes Meds Might Not Work as Well in Black Patients
- Vaping Raises a Teen's Odds of Developing Asthma
- Scientists Spot Gene Mutation Linked to Esophageal Cancer
More Links Seen Between Autism, ADHD
MONDAY, Aug. 26Kids with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are 20 times more likely to exhibit some traits of autism than children without ADHD, according to a new study.
One of every five ADHD kids in the study exhibited signs of autism such as slow language development, difficulty interacting with others and problems with emotional control, said study co-author Dr. Joseph Biederman, director of the pediatric psychopharmacology unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.
These kids also showed problems with "executive function," or the ability to plan, organize and conceptualize future action, said Biederman, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Fewer than 1 percent of kids in the non-ADHD comparison group exhibited any traits linked to autism, according to the study appearing in the September issue of Pediatrics.
"These children are not having the full diagnosis of autism, but they have symptoms of autism," Biederman said. "It may be important to screen children with ADHD for autistic traits because they may need more support, particularly in the educational and interpersonal domains."
Previous studies of children with autism have found that many also have severe ADHD symptoms. This is one of the first studies to turn the tables and see if the reverse is true, said Dr. Alice Mao, an associate professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. She was not involved with the study.
"Generally, autistic kids with ADHD are challenging to treat because they don't respond well to ADHD medications," Mao said. "You have to treat the autism symptoms and then treat the ADHD. The conclusion would be that perhaps we should screen these ADHD kids who are not doing well on traditional ADHD treatments to see if they have comorbid autism traits."
The study included 242 kids aged 6 to 18 with ADHD as well as a 227-member "control" group of kids without ADHD. The children were drawn from an existing large-scale sample pool that excluded any kids who had been diagnosed with autism.
The children and their parents filled out a series of questionnaires to grade their behavior and compare it to generally accepted definitions of autistic traits.
The researchers found that 18 percent of kids with ADHD exhibited some behaviors that are common in autism, compared with 0.87 percent of kids from the control group.
The ADHD children with autistic traits had many more social problems than typical ADHD children. They were more likely to fight with and be rejected by other kids, and displayed more school behavior problems, more difficulties using their spare time and more friction with their siblings, the study authors noted.
The children with both ADHD and autistic traits also tended to more frequently suffer additional psychiatric and learning disorders than either kids with only ADHD or children in the control group.
"Those with autism traits have greater severity of symptoms and dysfunction," Mao said. "Certainly it would be useful to screen kids with ADHD who have autism traits to see which kids may need more help socially, as well as to make sure they don't have lower intellectual functioning. You may be able to give other treatments that would be helpful in terms of improving their functioning."
These findings, along with previous research, point to the strong possibility that ADHD and autism share some genetic link, study author Biederman said.
"The genetic markers for ADHD have also been associated with autism," he said. "These autistic traits may be present in other conditions as well. I am quite convinced that these traits may be present in children with mood and anxiety disorders."
More information
For more information on ADHD, visit the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Source: HealthDay
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Our Windstar Easy Stays program means that when you book your hotel through Windstar, we take care of the logistics of getting from the hotel to your ship (or vice versa), including luggage porterage, giving you the peace of mind to enjoy and relax your vacation. Not only does Windstar hand-select and curate premium hotels, we offer only preferred category rooms for your comfort. It's easy - with breakfast, Wi-Fi (select hotels), taxes and resort fee all included, all you need to do is stop by Windstar-hosted on-property service desk for planning day trips, restaurant recommendations, and find the best place for viewing the sunset.
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MG (myasthenia gravis): An autoimmune neuromuscular disorder characterized by fatigue and exhaustion of muscles. It is caused by a mistaken immune response to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (AChR), which are found in junctions between muscles and the nervous system. The body produces antibodies that attack these AChR receptors, preventing signals from reaching the muscles. Proof that the anti-AChR antibodies are responsible for myasthenia comes from the effect these antibodies can have on the unborn and the newborn.
Pregnancy: During pregnancy in a woman with myasthenia, the anti-AChR antibodies can cross the placenta and block the function of the fetal form of AChR leading to fetal paralysis. Fetal and neonatal death is a common consequence. Babies who survive often have arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (nonprogressive congenital contractures) due to lack of fetal muscle movement before birth. Transient signs of MG are seen in 10-15% of babies born to MG mothers. These problems are potentially preventable if the mother is effectively treated during pregnancy.
Treatment: There is currently no cure for myasthenia gravis, but today at least 90 percent of patients with MG survive. A number of treatments are available that help, including steroids and other immunosuppressive medications and cholinergic medications.


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NASA's Juno spacecraft passes in front of Jupiter in this artist's depiction. The Juno mission is the first of NASA's three planetary missions launching this year, making 2011 one of the busiest ever in planetary exploration. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's Juno spacecraft completed its last significant terrestrial journey today, July 27, with a 15-mile (25-kilometer) trip from Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., to its launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The solar-powered, Jupiter-bound spacecraft was secured into place on top of its rocket at 10:42 a.m. EDT (7:42 a.m. PDT).
Juno will arrive at Jupiter in July 2016 and orbit its poles 33 times to learn more about the gas giant's interior, atmosphere and aurora.
"We're about to start our journey to Jupiter to unlock the secrets of the early solar system," said Scott Bolton, the mission's principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. "After eight years of development, the spacecraft is ready for its important mission."
Now that the Juno payload is atop the most powerful Atlas rocket ever made - the United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 - a final flurry of checks and tests can begin and confirm that all is go for launch. The final series of checks begins Wednesday with an on-pad functional test. The test is designed to confirm that the spacecraft is healthy after the fueling, encapsulation and transport operations.
"The on-pad functional test is the first of seven tests and reviews that Juno and its flight team will undergo during the spacecraft's last 10 days on Earth," said Jan Chodas, Juno's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "There are a number of remaining pre-launch activities that we still need to focus on, but the team is really excited that the final days of preparation, which we've been anticipating for years, are finally here. We are ready to go."
The launch period for Juno opens Aug. 5, 2011, and extends through Aug. 26. For an Aug. 5 liftoff, the launch window opens at 11:34 a.m. EDT (8:34 a.m. PDT) and remains open through 12:43 p.m. EDT (9:43 a.m. PDT).
JPL manages the Juno mission for principal investigator Scott Bolton. The Juno mission is part of the New Frontiers Program managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Lockheed Martin Space Systems of Denver built the spacecraft. Launch management for the mission is the responsibility of NASA's Launch Services Program at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
More information about Juno is available at: http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu .


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Best Tours in North America
From Traveler Magazine's 2012 Tours of a Lifetime
United States: Rivers Wild
Carving through more than 100 miles of the largest federally designated wilderness area in the lower 48 states, the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, in Idaho, is prime family-rafting territory. Natural hot springs, pioneer homesteads, Indian rock art, hiking trails, and, of course, top-notch white water captivate kids and adults. The outfitter, known for a knack with children—a "river jester" keeps them entertained—offers two special departures for families with kids ages 8 and up. ROW Adventures: "Middle Fork Salmon Rafting," 6 days; from $1,845.
Mexico: The Real Deal
Chiapas has long been a neglected stepsister to the country's tourist hot spots of Acapulco, Cancún, and neighboring Oaxaca, but its beauty and charm are starting to get some buzz from travelers seeking auténtico Mexico. This trip shifts the focus to what you may have been missing, from the traditional backstrap weavers of San Lorenzo Zinacantán to the little-visited archaeological sites of Bonampak and Yaxchitlán and the ruins of Palenque, known for its standout examples of Maya architecture. Journey Mexico: "Chiapas: A Journey Through Mexico Less Visited," 7 days; from $2,090.
United States: Cycling the Blue and the Gray
Visiting Civil War battlefields needn't involve musty coach buses and dry accounts only a reenactor could appreciate. Here's a trip that commemorates the war's sesquicentennial with a bike ride from Leesburg, Va., to Gettysburg, Pa., taking in story-filled battlefield tours and landmark towns along the route. Bonuses: Blue Ridge mountain vistas and overnights at luxurious and historical inns, like the Red Fox in Middleburg, Va. Wilderness Voyageurs Outfitters: "9-Day Civil War Tour," 9 days; $2,850.
Cuba: Door Opening
One of a handful of operators to score permits from the Treasury Department to take U.S. residents to Cuba after the Obama administration eased travel restrictions to the nation last year, the company has teamed with Christopher Baker, an expert on Cuban culture and author of six books about the island, to craft an expedition built around visits with civic leaders, artists, and other locals. Austin-Lehman Adventures: "The Real Cuba," 9 days; $4,498.
United States: America's Great Game
You don't need a tour operator to show you Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, but you'll want one to maximize your time spent in each with a mix of action—hikes, biking, horseback riding, and rafting—and animals, including grizzly bears, wolves, and bison. Groups max out at 24 people (more than we like on guided trips) but a higher guide-to-guest ratio than the industry standard and nights at the parks' historic lodges keep the feeling intimate. Tauck: "Yellowstone & the Tetons: American Safari," 8 days; $3,990.
Canada: Rockies Ramble
Backpack among the bighorn sheep, grizzlies, and nearly 10,000-foot peaks in the remote Willmore Wilderness in Canada's Alberta Province, the less crowded—but no less spectacular—neighbor to Jasper National Park. Sierra Club Outings: "Remote Canadian Rockies Ramble, Alberta and British Columbia," $1,695; 12 days.
- Nat Geo Expeditions
United States: Western Expedition
This small-ship expedition follows 19th-century explorers Lewis and Clark from Portland, Oreg., to Lewiston, Idaho, with a decidedly 21st-century emphasis on regional foodways and sustainable farming. Cruise east through the deep Columbia River Gorge, where you'll hike near Multnomah Falls to the Snake River for a jet boat ride over the rapids to Hell's Canyon. (Disclosure: The company is a partner to our parent organization, the National Geographic Society.) Lindblad Expeditions: "Columbia and Snake Rivers Journey: Harvests, History, and Landscapes," 7 days; from $3,990.
Canada: Teenage Dream in the Arctic
Smack in the center of a Venn diagram (where Arctic, subarctic, and boreal species roam and grow), the wetlands of Churchill, Manitoba, are an ideal laboratory for monitoring the effects of climate change. Here's a chance for science-minded teens to get in on the fieldwork, helping the pros count and maybe even trap and release fish, frogs, and tadpoles. Earthwatch: "Climate Change at the Arctic's Edge," 11 days; $3,595.
These guided tours are part of National Geographic Traveler's 50 Tours of a Lifetime for 2012 for the outfitters' commitment to authenticity, immersion, sustainability, and connection.


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A Pocket Guide to Protecting Your Credit During Coronavirus
Your credit plays a key role in financial opportunities, today and in the future. Understandably, the current pandemic environment is making it more challenging. But still, there are actions you can take to protect your credit.
Here are tips that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau suggested for protecting your credit during these trying times.
Request A Free Copy of Your Credit
Did you know that you're entitled to a free credit report every year? Unlike the hard credit inquiries that creditors do when you apply for credit, this free annual report does not negatively affect your score.
Additionally, Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian (the three nationwide credit reporting agencies), also provide you with a free credit report every twelve months.
Reviewing your credit report is especially helpful for finding errors that are lowering your score. If your report is inaccurate, contact the credit reporting company to dispute the mistake and request it's removal. Depending on what the error is, your score can go up significantly.
Be Proactive About Your Mortgage
We shared different ways that you can manage your mortgage payments during the shelter-at-home order in previous posts. But the number one takeaway is that you should never abruptly stop making mortgage payments. Missed or late payments will be reported to the bureau by the lender.
If your ability to make mortgage payments is hindered due to Coronavirus, your next move is to talk to your current lender. If your mortgage is government-backed, then there is existing legislation that can put your loan in forbearance.
Additionally, your current lender may also have a loan modification option that can provide temporary relief.
For a long-term solution, the best option is to refinance your current mortgage. Rates are currently at record lows, and refinancing could lower your monthly payment.
Even those that can keep up with their monthly mortgage payment are still choosing to refinance. Current homeowners are choosing to refi to reduce their monthly payment or pay down the principal faster or to do both!
More Information on Your Credit During CARES Act
Credit Reporting under the CARES Act
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act is legislation that temporarily alters the way your loan payments are reported to credit bureaus. Under this current legislation, creditors agree to "accommodate" you when it comes to reporting deferred payments, partial payments, forbearance, mortgage modifications, or other types of payment relief.
Note that this only applies if you're affected by the coronavirus pandemic, entering an agreement with the creditor and whether you were already delinquent before the CARES Act was initiated.
Here are typical scenarios:
- If your account was current and you've entered an agreement with the creditor to skip or make a partial payment, then they'll report that you're still current on your payment.
- If you were already delinquent and make an agreement after the fact, then your account will maintain that status until you bring it current.
- Similarly, if your account was already delinquent and you bring your account current while under the modified payment terms, the creditor must report that you're current.
Note that these reporting modifications apply only to agreements made between January 31, 2020, and 120 days after the COVID-19 national emergency ends.
Again, the BIG takeaway is that you must be proactive and talk to your creditors to see what your options are –and NEVER stop making payments abruptly.
Your financial health is essential during this pandemic, and, as always, we're looking out for your best interest. Need more personalized mortgage guidance? Please contact us! We're available and fully operational, eager to help you secure your financial future.


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Ash and friends are in a town close to Petalburg City, when their picnic is gobbled up by a passing Gulpin. They overhear an emergency announcement instructing everyone to evacuate.
The kids and a local shopkeeper are accosted by a large group of Gulpin. Officer Jenny saves them, bringing the friends back to the Pokémon Center. They meet Nurse Joy and Professor Jacuzzi, who are working to stop the Gulpin from eating all of the town's food supplies.
The professor's first plan involves a giant PokéBlock to lead the Gulpin away. Team Rocket tries to steal the PokéBlock, but their balloon is shot down by the Gulpin. The Gulpin follow the PokéBlock out of town.
The Gulpin try to return through the sewer, but Jenny and Joy block the way. The Gulpin emerge onto the street. Professor Jacuzzi arrives with a device that beams them up and shoots them away, but it breaks down with one Gulpin left to go. Ash sends Treecko out to battle and the machine restarts, grabbing both Pokémon. It explodes, and the two of them become oversized.
To avoid destroying the town, Treecko leads Gulpin to a lake, but is too tired to battle (shrinking back to normal). May suggests capturing Gulpin in a Poké Ball. Nurse Joy gives the professor a Heavy Ball, and he captures the Gulpin, vowing to restore it to its normal size.


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It Would Be A Mistake To Miss Dell'Arte's Comedy of Errors
Lauraine Leblanc
Eye Arts Scrutinizer
BLUE LAKE – The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays, first performed in late 1594. It is a rather predictable tale of mistaken identities and broad humor, set in the ancient Greek city of Ephesus, although, like many of Shakespeare's works, it contains references to contemporary events of his time.
Given Dell'Arte's focus on the theatre of place, Shakespeare seems a bit of a stretch. And indeed, Dell'Arte has not undertaken to perform any of his works in nearly 40 years, according to Producing Artistic Director Michael Fields. Yet they did this year, a calculated risk following the highly successful two-year run of Mary Jane, the Musical, a piece very grounded in theatre of place.
And it works. This production of The Comedy of Errors is set "in a place much like Arcata at an event much like the Farmers' Market," writes Fields. The set, designed by Daniel Spencer, suggests a number of buildings crammed together, and is full of doors used to great comedic effect throughout the play. The doors are labeled with a mishmash of Humboldt area businesses (mostly sponsors) such as the Logger Bar, the Alibi, the Northcoast Co-op, Piersons and Wildberries Marketplace. This fictional "Plaza" is populated by hula hoopers, an aggressive dog, a pack of travelers with giant backpacks and that ubiquitous saggy-panted long-haired plazoid, brilliantly played by Pratik Motwani.
While the troupe has chosen to retain much of the Elizabethan language, some of it even brilliantly set in song by Tim Gray, the actors also transition seamlessly into modern English to reiterate key points. Dell'Arte has also taken liberties with the text, adding contemporary references as current as the Oyster Fence from the very start of the play, which elicited the first of a great many guffaws from the audience.
The company also chose to "gender flip" a number of the main roles. Twin protagonists Antipholus of Syracuse and Ephesus become Antiphola, convincingly played as two distinct personalities by Founding Artistic Director Joan Schirle in a bright red wig. Siblings Adriana and Luciana become a brother and sister pair, leading not only to a lesbian awakening as a sub-plot, but also to passing commentary on the legalization of same-sex marriage. This twist lends a whole new meaning to the Shakespeare's diatribes on marriage and marital relations, as well as taking the edge off of his more misogynistic comedy.
The Comedy of Errors proves to be an ideal vehicle for Dell'Arte's company of actors to play to their strengths. The broad clowning and slapstick physical comedy is ably pulled off by the entirety of the ensemble, with notable performances by Andrew Eldredge and Jerome Yorke pantomiming each other as the twin Dromios. Also notable for her comic performance was Janessa Johnsrude as the Duchess of Ephesus. The mask work and voice work by Zuzka Sabata as Aegeon and Anna Gettles as Aemilia were very effective.
The surprise among this clownish ensemble was the duo of Chase McNeill as neglected husband Adrian and Lynnie Horrigan and his sister Luciana. Among the garishly-costumed cast, these two in their brown street clothes could easily be overlooked. They are also burdened early on in the play (before the audience's ears can become accustomed to the cadences of the language) with prolonged passages of Shakespearian dialogue, delivered from a balcony at a remove from the audience. Yet they manage to connect, to convey the meaning of their words, and to ham it up (especially McNeill, who emotes like the best of soap opera queens) without losing the pathos of their characters.
Opening night was marked by the usual first night technical glitches, especially in sound, which Dell'Arte's superb technicians have surely already corrected. The audience was engaged, amused and along for the ride. Do not miss this production, and do not wait until the last minute to go, because you will surely want to see it more than once.
The Comedy of Errors plays Thursdays through Sundays (except July 4) through July 7 at 8 p.m. in the Rooney Amphitheater. Tickets are $18 adults, $15 students and seniors and $10 for kids 12 and under and available by calling (707) 668-5663 or online at dellarte.com. Arrive at 7:30 for best seating, and do bring your own chairs and blankets.


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Legal Resources | | EC 60040
Article 3. Requirements, Materials
When adopting instructional materials for use in the schools, governing boards shall include only instructional materials which, in their determination, accurately portray the cultural and racial diversity of our society, including:
(a) The contributions of both men and women in all types of roles, including professional, vocational, and executive roles.
(b) The role and contributions of Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, European Americans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, persons with disabilities, and members of other ethnic and cultural groups to the total development of California and the United States.
(c) The role and contributions of the entrepreneur and labor in the total development of California and the United States.
(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 81, Sec. 4.)


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Capcom Warns Fans To "Keep Expectations In Check" For A New Mega Man Game
Mega Man is celebrating his 25th Anniversary this year, but that doesn't mean we will see a new Mega Man game or an announcement soon.
The quote below comes from Capcom's corporate officer Christian Svensson on the Capcom Unity blog message boards. In it, her says that there are events planned for the Blue Bomber turning 25, but basically don't get too excited.
"In December 'some but not all' plans for the coming year of celebrations will be shared. There are many moving parts and not everything will be done and final come December. No one has promised a game or even an announcement of one at that time. Please do keep expectations in check."
Thanks to Brian for the news tip!
[via Rockman Corner and Capcom Unity Message Boards]


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Rather than using Photoshop trickery, Ford commissioned master of disguise Liu Bolin to paint cars into the background to convey the message that the new Fusion makes other midsize sedans disappear as part of the 2013 Ford Fusion ad campaign.
Check out the timelapse BTS video below to see how the real world content-aware fill was put together. [Read more…]