Pope makes longtime aide a bishop in St. Peter's

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Pope Benedict XVI offers his personal secretary Georg Ganswein the ring as he names him bishop during an Epiphany mass in St.Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. The Epiphany day, is a joyous day for Catholics in which they recall the journey of the Three Kings or Magi to pay homage to Baby Jesus. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Benedict XVI offers his personal secretary Georg Ganswein the ring as he names him bishop during an Epiphany mass in St.Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. The Epiphany day, is a joyous day for Catholics in which they recall the journey of the Three Kings or Magi to pay homage to Baby Jesus. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Benedict XVI embraces his personal secretary Georg Ganswein after he named him bishop during an Epiphany mass in St.Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. The Epiphany day, is a joyous day for Catholics in which they recall the journey of the Three Kings or Magi to pay homage to Baby Jesus. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

From left to right, Angelo Vincenzo Tani, of Italy, Fortunatus Nwachukwu, of Nigeria, Georg Ganswein, of Germany, and Nicolas Marie Denis Thevenin lie on the ground as they are named bishops during an Epiphany mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI in St.Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. The Epiphany day, is a joyous day for Catholics in which they recall the journey of the Three Kings or Magi to pay homage to Baby Jesus. (AP Photo/Alessandro Di Meo, Pool)

Pope Benedict XVI personal secretary Georg Ganswein, center, is blessed by cardinals and bishops after he was named bishop during an Epiphany mass in St.Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. The Epiphany day, is a joyous day for Catholics in which they recall the journey of the Three Kings or Magi to pay homage to Baby Jesus. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

From left, Angelo Vincenzo Tani, of Italy, Fortunatus Nwachukwu, of Nigeria, Georg Ganswein, of Germany, and Nicolas Marie Denis Thevenin lie on the ground as they are named bishops during an Epiphany mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI in St.Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. The Epiphany day, is a joyous day for Catholics in which they recall the journey of the Three Kings or Magi to pay homage to Baby Jesus. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Pope Benedict XVI has rewarded his longtime loyal secretary by making him a bishop in an elaborate ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica.

The pontiff and Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, a fellow German, embraced warmly. Benedict, 85, held up well during the nearly three-hour long service Sunday, which also marked Epiphany, a Catholic feast day.

Gaenswein, 56, has been Benedict's closest aide for years, and helped steer the papal household through an embarrassing scandal of leaked documents last year. A Vatican court convicted the pope's former butler, Paolo Gabriele, of stealing the documents from the papal apartment. Benedict has since pardoned him.

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I had the pleasure of meeting Nick at the Inman Real Estate Connect Conference in San Francisco in 2012. Nick impressed me with both his great Kentucky smile and his vast real estate knowledge. Since then I?ve followed his always entertaining Twitter presence: @nickratliff.

Nick Ratliff is the Principal Broker of Cypress Residential Group located in Lexington, KY.? He founded the firm in the summer of 2010.? Being a lifetime resident of Kentucky and loving everything the Bluegrass region has to offer, the mission was to maintain a small boutique feel that emphasized technology without losing that personal service.

Having graduated from the University of Kentucky with both his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and Masters in Business Administration, Nick is a huge Kentucky Wildcats fan.? He contributes his most valuable education to a 6 week study-abroad in Italy where he focused on business.

Nick takes great pride in being the first Realtor in the area to truly embrace social networking.? Due to that, he has built a strong following on both?Facebook?and Twitter.? He was interviewed for an article on RealtorMagazine.com in reference to learning from mistakes made on Facebook.

Nick has always been proud of his Kentucky heritage but loves to travel and experience the world.? His newlywed wife would be the first to tell you, he loves to meet new people and will talk with anyone.

1) Lexington, Kentucky is known for being horse country, what else does the region have to offer home buyers?

Lexington is the 2nd largest city in Kentucky and it seems like every year the city continues to be ranked in someone?s Top List. ?A few of these include #25 of America?s 50 Best Cities by BusinessWeek, #9 Best Place for Retirement by Forbes, #1 of Top 10 Mid-SIzed Counties in Fourth Economy, #6 Best Value City by Kiplinger, or possibly the most importantly #1 in The Best Cities for Finding a Job in Forbes. ?I could go on and on, but basically Lexington is at it?s heart a small town that has just continues to grow into a small city. ?As a resident, you still feel like part of the community yet there is a lot of opportunities to grow.

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As a real estate agent, I feel overly blessed to have been living and working in Lexington. ?Through all of the housing crisis, our market has been fairly steady. ?Even with the stability overall, we?ve seen 19% increase in sales in 2012 over 2011. ?Every month has consistently grown over the previous year in both Existing Home Sales and New Construction sales.

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Your brain on Big Bird

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Using brain scans of children and adults watching Sesame Street, cognitive scientists are learning how children's brains change as they develop intellectual abilities like reading and math.

The novel use of brain imaging during everyday activities like watching TV, say the scientists, opens the door to studying other thought processes in naturalistic settings and may one day help to diagnose and treat learning disabilities.

Scientists are just beginning to use brain imaging to understand how humans process thought during real-life experiences. For example, researchers have compared scans of adults watching an entertaining movie to see if neural responses are similar across different individuals. "But this is the first study to use the method as a tool for understanding development," says lead author Jessica Cantlon, a cognitive scientist at the University of Rochester.

Eventually, that understanding may help pinpoint the cause when a child experiences difficulties mastering school work. "Psychologists have behavioral tests for trying to get the bottom of learning impairments, but these new imaging studies provide a totally independent source of information about children's learning based on what's happening in the brain," says Cantlon.

The neuroimaging findings are detailed in a new study published Jan. 3 by the Public Library of Science's open-access journal PLoS Biology, by Cantlon and her former research assistant Rosa Li, now a graduate student at Duke University.

For the investigation, 27 children between the ages of 4 and 11, and 20 adults watched the same 20-minute Sesame Street video. Like the regular program, the recording featured a variety of short clips focused on numbers, words, shapes, and other subjects. The children then took standardized IQ tests for math and verbal ability.

To capture the neural response to the show, the researchers turned to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans. Unlike X-rays, CAT scans, and other types of brain imaging, fMRI involves no risks, injections, surgery, or exposure to radiation. Using magnetic fields, the scans virtually segment the brain into a three-dimensional grid of about 40,000 pixels, known as voxels, and measure the neural signal intensity in each of those tiny sectors. The study produced 609 scans of each participant, one every two seconds, as they watched Big Bird, the Count, Elmo and other stars of the educational series. Using statistical algorithms, the researchers then created "neural maps" of the thought processes for the children and the adults and compared the groups.

The result? Children whose neural maps more closely resembled the neural maps of adults scored higher on standardized math and verbal tests. In other words, the brain's neural structure, like other parts of the body, develops along predictable pathways as we mature.

The study also confirmed where in the brain these developing abilities are located. For verbal tasks, adult-like neural patterns in the Broca area, which is involved in speech and language, predicted higher verbal test scores in children. For math, better scores were linked to more mature patterns in the intraparietal sulcus (IPS), a region of the brain known to be involved in the processing of numbers.

Using normal activities, like TV watching, may provide a more accurate indicator of children's learning and brain development in the real world than the short and simple tasks typical of fMRI studies, the authors argue. Like the Sesame Street video, learning environments in schools are rich in complexity along with the academic lessons, write the authors.

To test that assumption, Cantlon and Li had the children perform traditional fMRI tasks by matching simple pictures of faces, numbers, words, or shapes. During these more limited activities with simple images, the neural responses of the children did not predict their test scores, unlike the more naturalistic task of watching Sesame Street.

Although the study does not advocate TV watching, it does show that "neural patterns during an everyday activity like watching television are related to a person's intellectual maturity," says Cantlon. "It's not the case that if you put a child in front of an educational TV program that nothing is happening?that the brain just sort of zones out. Instead, what we see is that the patterns of neural activity that children are showing are meaningful and related to their intellectual abilities."

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