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Restoring Your VA Loan Entitlement
VA Loans are For Life
One of the biggest misconceptions about VA loans is that they're a one-time opportunity. The reality is you've earned this benefit for life.
Veterans and service members can use the VA loan program over and over again. It's even possible to have more than one VA loan at the same time.
There are a few different ways to approach reusing your VA loan benefit. Homeowners who want to sell their current home and purchase again can fully restore their VA loan entitlement for a new loan.
Let's take a closer look at restoration of entitlement and what it can mean for VA buyers.
Using & Reusing Entitlement
Every time you use a VA loan, you're using at least a portion of your VA loan entitlement.
This topic can get tricky even for people in the mortgage industry, and we encourage you to check out our lesson on VA loan entitlement for a more detailed breakdown. Generally, the entitlement you use when buying a home remains tied up in that property until the loan is repaid in full.
For example, if you purchase a home for $200,000, then about $50,000 of your entitlement is wrapped up in that home, given the nature of the VA's guaranty. You could purchase again without selling that home, but you would have less zero-down buying power because of your diminished VA loan entitlement.
But if you're ready to sell that home and get another, that's a different story. As long as you sell the home and pay off the loan in full, you can have your full entitlement restored and available for another purchase. Having your full entitlement means being able to borrow as much as a lender is willing to lend without the need for a down payment.
Restoring your entitlement is a simple process that involves a little paperwork and documentation.
Start Your VA Home Loan
Get a personalized assessment from a Home Loan Specialist.
How to Restore Your Entitlement
Homeowners and lenders will need some documentation about the home's sale in order to get your full entitlement restored.
What typically happens is that lenders will ask for a copy of the Closing Disclosure from your home sale. That settlement statement will have details about your sale price and payoff information for the original VA loan.
With that documentation, a lender like Veterans United can submit a formal application to restore your entitlement through the VA's online loan portal. Homeowners without a copy of their Closing Disclosure may be able to satisfy the VA with a copy of the home's warranty deed or even tax records.
That kind of documentation is important because the other key to getting your full VA loan entitlement restored is that you aren't holding onto the property. In nearly all instances, veterans can't keep the home for themselves and still fully restore their entitlement.
A common example is when a veteran buys a home with a VA loan but later refinances with another loan type. That conventional or FHA refinance repays the original VA loan in full.
But because the veteran isn't disposing of the property, they would need to invoke the VA's one-time restoration of entitlement option in order to fully restore that entitlement. That's a limited opportunity that comes with some big considerations.
In most cases, veterans will be selling and disposing of their property in order to fully restore their entitlement.
Turn times can vary, but it typically takes about a week for the VA to review the entitlement restoration paperwork and issue a new Certificate of Eligibility for the veteran.
Back-to-Back Loan Closings
Questions about getting VA loan entitlement restored often rise to the forefront when veterans are selling their old home and closing on a new home purchase at the same time.
The good news is it's possible to handle everything in a single day to ensure you get the full zero-down buying power of your entitlement.
For example, let's say you purchased a home a few years ago for $200,000. Now, you're moving to take a new job and want to purchase a $300,000 home in another non-high cost county.
Depending on where you're moving, you could need a down payment for this loan unless you have your full entitlement available. For cases like this, selling the home and getting your full entitlement restored before your new purchase closes is critical.
Every borrower's situation is different. But it's possible to close on your home sale, get your entitlement restored and close on your new purchase all in the same day. Having at least a few days' worth of cushion is always preferable.
Working with a lender that truly knows VA loans can make a huge difference if you're considering back-to-back closings. The last thing you want is uncertainty surrounding your hard-earned VA loan entitlement as you move from closing on a sale to closing on your new purchase.


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This is a downstream E-blocks peripheral module, designed to be controlled by one of the upstream E-blocks processing boards which are available in a variety of MCU/CPLD architectures.
The Quad Band GSM/GPRS E-block board allows easy access to the mobile phone GSM/GPRS networks. The on-board GSM/GPRS module (GC864-QUAD V2) can be used to make or receive wireless voice calls and is also capable of sending and receiving SMS text messages. The GSM/GPRS E-block comes complete with on-board PCB antenna, SIM card socket, 2.5mm audio jacks for MIC and Headphone audio connection, and an LED to display the network connection status. Note that a SIM card is not included.
This board does not work reliably with SIM cards that operate on the 900MHz band. Therefore, users in Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa and Brazil are recommended to use SIM cards/networks in the 1800MHz band instead.
E-Blocks can be put together to form a variety of systems that can be used for teaching and learning electronics, and for the rapid prototyping of complex electronic systems.
Each E-Block has one or more 9-way D-type connectors that provide up to eight input/output lines and a ground line. These D-type connectors allow connection between E-Blocks to be made in buses of multiples of 8 lines, just like a real electronic system. Power is routed separately to those E-Blocks that need it.
Processing E-Blocks based on PIC, dsPIC, ARM or AVR microcontrollers control the whole E-Blocks system. Processing E-Blocks provide up to five input/output ports with up to eight lines per port.
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In the fantastic South Park episode last night ("Did you guys see the ghost?") most of the nation was without internet. What does such an internet-connected society do when faced with such a technological dilemma? Face the giant Linksys router that controls all traffic in the country. And do This (see the video.) Something we're sure you're all familiar with. But seriously guys, did you see the ghost? It ran through here! [South Park]
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June 13, 2011
Media Advisory - Missouri Brings Awareness to Elder Abuse
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
A series of presentations statewide, in observance of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on June 15, will focus on how to spot elder abuse and how to report it to authorities.
When and Where:
Dates, times, and locations are listed on page 2 of this release.
Abuse and financial exploitation are real dangers for many older Missourians. These educational sessions will inform communities about ways to identify abuse and how to report concerns. Reports of elder abuse and neglect taken and investigated by DHSS continue to rise, highlighting the importance of education and awareness.
The department also invites Missourians to show their support by wearing purple on World Elder Abuse Day, June 15.
Missouri's Elder Abuse and neglect Hotline: 1.800.392.0210
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Algae, Art and Attitudes: A Roundtable about the AAAS Conference
Scientific American staffers Mark Fischetti and Robin Lloyd talk with podcast host Steve Mirsky (pictured) about sessions they attended—including those about algae for energy, dissecting the astronomy in art, and attitudes about climate change—at the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.aaas.org, www.aven.com
Podcast Transcription
Steve: Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American posted on February 27th, 2010. I am Steve Mirsky. If you've been listening to this podcast and our daily offering, 60-Second Science, you know that I was recently at one of the major science conferences of the year, the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as were a couple of other SciAm staffers Mark Fischetti and Robin Lloyd. Once we got settled back in our New York offices, Mark, Robin, and I sat down and talked about just a few of the conference sessions we had gone to, after which we will test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. First up, me, Mark and Robin.
Steve: Yes, Mark what were some of the things, if anything at the AAAS meeting that got you excited for the future?
Fischetti: Well, I sat in on a number of the climate related sessions. One of them was a long session on algae and there was a growing perception that biofuel derived from algae really was not going to make a lot of sense because of the number of inputs that are needed: nutrients, carbon dioxide. Where you are going to get all the carbon dioxide to feed these algae so that it will produce biofuels? And interestingly, there does seem to be a growing solution or at least a sense of how to solve this which is to really co-locate—that's our new term—algae plants next to sources of carbon dioxide which would largely be coal fired power plants, industries, places that are spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, [and] instead pipe it down to the big algae farm and use that to grow algae which then can create biofuel.
Steve: So this actually looks more promising.
Fischetti: Yeah, you know up until now the research into algae has just been primarily can we get it do to what we want [it] to do, can we get it to create the lipids that can then be turned into biofuels, and I think scientifically the answers are yes, we can. So now it is becoming more of an economic question. Can we get this process on a large scale to be done economically, which basically means can you get your inputs really cheaply and that's where the looking for carbon dioxide comes in.
Steve: Then where would all this algae get grown?
Fischetti: Yeah, in basically [in] the farms. You know the basic designs, either you have open air ponds or you have these really long bags, like baggies, but football field–size baggies, full of algae that grow in sunlight; or you do it inside in very big bioreactors they call [them].
Steve: Where they get the input energy in the bioreactors?
Fischetti: It is kind of a passive process and that has been one of the issues. It takes time for the algae to grow, but if—here is this co-location idea again—it all happens faster if the temperature is high. So let's say you are next to a coal fire plant, you use the carbon dioxide as one of the inputs and there is waste [heat] from that plant, so you bring that in it warm up the algae and one of the algae's byproducts is actually biomass, so you could siphon that off and turn that into fertilizer to then create other crops. So this idea of working different industries together may be the key to what has been, kind of, standalone research before.
Steve: So look for an algae farm coming to a neighborhood near you?
Fischetti: Sure.
Steve: Robin what jumped out at you?
Lloyd: Following up on the climate change topic, I went to some of the policy oriented sessions that dealt with how we have been covering climate change as journalists. And I also went to a session where a couple of folks from public agenda were talking about how society is responding to public policy that is available and journalism that is now out there on climate change. Jean Johnson offered some amazing statistics of a survey that PublicAgenda did. They found that—this is a scientific survey they did of 1001 adults in the United States, four in ten Americans could not name a fossil fuel and that six in ten could not name a renewable fuel source. So there is a real disconnect going on with what we are trying to do, what the Obama administration is trying to do, with the efforts we are trying to make to advance responses to climate change. And what the Public Agenda folks recommended, this concluded Daniel Yankelovich and Jean Johnson, his colleague, they recommended understanding that sometimes getting society to respond to big social changing concepts and problems can take decades, and they actually [cited] as analogies to what we are undergoing now as a society with climate change, women's rights and slavery as analogous issues that we are grappling with; and if you think back historically as to how long it took [in the United States] for us to really come to terms with both of these issues. Well, we are still cycling through them. One of things that Yankelovich and Johnson also pointed out was that there is really a cycle, an S-shaped curve, over time that we go through as a society responding to social issues, and it starts with consciousness raising. Then the S curve starts heading up toward the ceiling and we are in a period of working through a process and finally it levels out, and we get to a resolution period. And they are saying that with climate change, we are just getting out of consciousness raising and we are just entering the working through period. And they urged policy makers and communicators and politicians to be not simply more patient, but also instead of advocating to present pros and cons and to present solutions for society for people engaging in various debates and discussions to choose among and to present the options in the pros and cons rather than advocating for any of them, but just present these pros and cons very clearly and simply; so that there is a sense of engagement and various options for people instead of a feeling that situations and positions are being crammed down their throats [or that] they don't even see a solution. The analogy that they gave in terms of climate change right now [is] as if a patient were in a doctor's office right now and the doctor said to the patient, "You have cancer, and it's fatal" and then stopped talking.
Steve: It's interesting, you talked about the working through period. Deborah Blum's book The Poisoner's Handbook discusses among many other things the fact that lead in gasoline was finally taken out of gasoline, I think it was in the early 1970s that lead was removed. You know I was a little kid and I remember, it seemed like the effort to get lead out of gasoline started a few years earlier and then was ultimately achieved in the early '70s. It turns out according to Blum's book, the effort to get lead out of gasoline started in the 1920s. It took about 50 years to finally get the lead out, to literally get the lead out. I mean they knew way back then that it was causing a lot of problems, but the societal impetus was too weak until 50 years went by and the problems really started [to] permeate through society and then enough political will was finally achieved to make that possible.
Lloyd: Sure. And there is still lead in paint in a lot of our homes today and the mitigation effects around that are ongoing.
Steve: So we've got algae and climate change and people's reaction to how to move through the climate change, the acclimatization period.
Lloyd: Yeah. I mean one more thing that came up around climate change was a panel of mostly journalists and other folks covering climate change and one of the things that they urged that I found really interesting is that journalists have to find new and better ways to tell the climate change story and to be more effective relating the science. Obviously that has not been done in the most effective way so far. And what they really urged was local coverage, keep it local, instead of going on to the big national and policy issues, what's going on in Congress; sure those issues are going to be covered by some of the big media, the Washington-based media, but what people need to know in their communities in California, in Oregon, in Bangladesh, in Vietnam, and what some of the journalists there were talking about [are] efforts to really say "Okay what are our local data, what are our local issues, what are our local options for responding to climate change?" instead of worrying about the global issues" and that provided a lot of hope and opportunity for folks in those communities.
Fischetti: I would amplify that because if you think about how the whole environmental movement, you know, it shouldn't be seen as a movement. It took a long time, also to finally gain traction, but the way it gained traction was exactly that—it kind of stopped trying to fight the national issues and [did] go local and the[re were] local environmental movements and that is where the whole Superfund thing came from. If there is a local problem that is really bad right here, let's amplify that problem and then remind people, "Hey look, this problem repeats itself again and again and again in your community" and I think that is probably an interesting way to think about how to now transition. It does seem that publics are aware of [these] problems, but now try to solve them, rather than trying to solve the entire planet's problem in one step. If you can look locally, you get people excited about solutions, which can then meld into a larger thing.
Steve: What else do we have? If you have never been to one of these conferences at any one time there are probably 20 different talks going on, so nobody can go to all of them obviously, and it's just like a symphony of science information, or more like a cacophony of science information getting thrown out there. So Mark, what else did you wind up finding?
Fischetti: Well, I can give you a really quick thing. The Pew Trusts, you know they have all kind of studies that they do, but since Robin brought up surveys. They, every ten years for, now twice, they ask experts about the future of the Internet. So this is the second time through; they did [it] in 2000. And these were computer-, Internet-savvy people, about 1,000 of them, what they envisioned the Internet would be in 2010, and they quickly reviewed some of the results. Nobody had envisioned anything like Facebook by the way, or that would it be so ubiquitous. So they asked this question again and [there] were [a] couple of really interesting results. So now what would the Internet be like in 2020, and two other really kind of cool results were they asked if they thought now that everybody is a, sort of, on the net and on their phones, publishing information so to speak, because of all the short hand that goes on. What would in the next 10 years the Internet do to the English language? Would it essentially make people more linguistic or less and their assumption was that people are going to just maul the English language because of all abbreviations. But the responses were essentially that it would improve the English language largely because, yeah, right now everybody is doing this kind of really rapid abbreviated things— although if you notice on texting now you don't see [the dopey] abbreviations much anymore; people [are] doing the whole-word thing—and the opinions were kind of as people are more used to their language being in the public and their friends' language being in the public, they can start to criticize each other's poor language to the point that that may raise a level of general language ability amongst the public, which is kind of intriguing.
Steve: Is that the word they used? Oh "language ability"—two words.
Fischetti: Yes, right.
Steve: Okay.
Fischetti: Ability.
Steve: I thought it was "languageability"—maybe a new word. One of the things I mean I do a lot of typing on the iPhone and it finishes the words for you, so it kind of locks you into the correct usage.
Fischetti: And just very quickly, a related question was: Would the Internet make people smarter or stupider? And the overwhelming response was for smarter; okay, but why? And I think they asked for written, sort of, opinions about why you are choosing this topic or this choice. There seem to be a basic undercurrent that as the Internet, the real time at the web, allows you to do more and more that there may be a shift in human cognitive ability and focus away from having to memorize information and more towards having to synthesize information now that you can have it so readily and that would actually raise people's intelligence overtime because we're doing more synthesizing and analyzing and less just remembering.
Steve: Then it should be pointed out that throughout history, I mean for thousands of years with the development of any new information storage technology like writing originally…
Fischetti: Yeah.
Steve: … people worried that it would make us dumber, but the kids today don't have to remember our stories because they could just write them down or read them whenever they want. And then when published books became available to the masses, some people worried about those making us dumb, because the information would be so easily available that [you] didn't need to know it. You needn't to carry [it] in your brain all the time.
Fischetti: Yeah. We think at least we have gotten smarter and so it is the same phenomenon now: Now you don't need the books; it is all on the Internet, so nobody is going to read anything anymore, but obviously we still do.
Steve: I know. I read a lot more; I don't read as many books maybe, but I read a lot more information every day.
Lloyd: Well. We will take that as a segue to talk about youth culture. I went to this really fun session called "Watching the Watchmen and Cheering the Heroes: the Science of Superheroes". And the superstar there was really Jim Kakalios, who is at the University of Minnesota, who pioneered this course, this freshman seminar in 2001 at the University called "Physics of Superheroes".And he did it as a way to wake up his students; they weren't paying attention in class; [it's hard] to engage [anybody] when you are lecturing on any science topics, especially physics; and he was able to teach some basic principles of physics by getting people to engage with some of the science that is presented in comic books, especially in comic books dating back a while. And he actually did a little bit of analysis of the content of comic books and found that if you look at a comic book from the '50s or '60s, it will actually have a little explainer box for some of the concepts that are in powers that are illustrated in a comic book. And he actually had one student do a midterm paper on [whether] Flash, if he was running at almost the speed of the light, how long will it take him to consume all of the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere and it was great a paper apparently. Kakalios said that the kid had to start with the fact of the question of how many molecules of oxygen are there in Earth's atmosphere; and just him telling the story, I now have remembered for the past several days there are 1040 molecules of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere. How would I ever have remembered that, [other] than hearing this anecdote? So it was fun. The kid found out that, no Flash would have to run at nearly the speed of light for several million years before he exhausted all of the oxygen in our atmosphere. But you know, there are ways to use popular culture and entertainment to really engage students in some of these topics, and it was [a] fun session there. There was also a couple of writers from the TV series Heroes there as well as [a] screenwriter from the movie The Watchmen there, who [were] talking about their use of science in their screenwriting. And the short answer is science is inspiring to them, but they are not able for narrative reasons just stay really close to the science; but they do a good job of getting us started.
Steve: Kakalios also had an example where you could figure out based on, you know, originally Superman couldn't fly; he could only leap really high and really far. So the problem that he [asked] his students to do was to figure out, based on the leaping ability that was described in the early comic books, let us say, he could leap a 30-story building. Based on that what would Krypton's gravity have to have been in order for a Superman with the same muscularity as he would have had to put that much force down and then leap, what would the original gravity [be] when compared to Earth's gravity. So it is fun stuff, and if you apply [it] correctly you can actually learn some physics. Okay, so what else? Anything else anybody went through that was of interest?
Lloyd: Yeah, I went to [a] briefing actually on stem cells, a status report. Then there was actually a little frustration expressed among the researchers there. Funding is a real big problem in this field even with the signing of the executive order early on in the Obama administration. The issue here…
Fischetti: … the executive order that enabled federal funding for some stem cell research again, in addition to the large…
Lloyd: … extended more stem cell lines, yes. So the issue is that this research is basic, but some of the treatments are going to be one-time-only treatments and so there is not a lot of interest on the part of [the] pharmaceutical industry to invest in this, and yet tons of money is needed to get things moving forward. Irving Weissman at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine was hopeful, nonetheless, and he said that we are probably going to have some of the early regenerative medicine treatments available within the next 10 years, but there [is] still a lot of basic work that needs to be done. And they were also reiterating this issue that has been coming up lately in the news about the difference between induced pluripotent stem cells and embryonic stem cells and there has been a lot of hope that we could solve some of the ethical issues of working with embryonic stem cells. But some people have been using induced pluripotent stem cells as a substitute; but it's looking more and more like there is really not going to be a one-to-one match there. You can do some modeling with induced pluripotent stem cells, but they really are not going to be a perfect model; that we are really going to have to find another solution or become more comfortable with working with embryonic stem cells.
Steve: Those induced pluripotent stem cells are stem cells from an adult that a[re] kind of reprogram[med] so that they would be equivalent or they are thought to be the equivalent of an embryonic stem cell, but it is not really 100 percent and you still need to do the basic research with the embryonic stem cells just to find out if you are reprogramming of the induced pluripotent ones actually does match up one to one.
Lloyd: Right.
Steve: I went to an interesting talk by a fellow named Donald Olson at Texas State University, and what this guy does is take a painting by Van Gogh and Edvard Munch that features an astronomical scene, like the famous Starry Night, and based on historical records they know approximately where Van Gogh was when he was painting. They'll know what city he was in, what town he might have been in, and approximately when, [it] might have been in April, and whatever year it was, maybe mid April, maybe the records aren't that good. And then by using certain identifiable objects in the foreground, like a barn or a house that hopefully [is] still there, he will then go to that place in France, and [he] brings some students; they scatter all around the town until they identify the exact spot, pretty much, where Van Gogh was when he saw the scene that he saw. And then they will be able to tell you exactly what the objects in the sky in the painting are. Because you cannot necessarily tell. The paintings are, obviously they are not photo realism, so you don't know is that a moon or is that a star? Is that a planet or is that a star? And based on the astronomical records and the historical records and the exact location that the painting had to have been painted from, and the assumption that the painters are very good recorders of reality in spite of the way they manifest that reality in the painting, he will be able to tell you exactly what it is. He will be able to tell you whether something is a moon's rise or a moon's set. They did some work also with some Ansel Adams's photographs where the records that Ansel Adams himself kept are not that great actually on when a particular shot was taken. So by studying the objects in the foreground in the Ansel Adams, and those are mountains or certain geological configurations other than mountains, you know spires that they have in the parks that he was in. He could identify exactly where Adams was and exactly what time these photographs had to have been taken. And it is a great exercise for his students for one thing, because they learn how to apply a lot of astronomical information in physics to a situation. That is also really fun to try to work out and not only that, he gets to go to Paris a lot; he gets to go to other places in Europe, to rather pleasant locations and bring students and they work together as a team and they scatter out [to] these locations. So it is real fun detective work and the kids seem to really enjoy it too.
Fischetti: So when they have done enough of these and you are touring around in France then you have got your iPhone on and your little artist comes up and it goes off when you happen to walk by the house where this painting must be.
Steve: This is a great idea. But it is interesting, there is apparently some resistance from some members of the art community to this kind of effort, because they think it somehow takes away from the art itself if you start evaluating it in terms of the scientific reality behind it. And I thought this has all settled a few hundred years ago with the idea that Newton had, kind of, destroyed the mystery of the rainbow by working at the optics; and most scientist will say, no, no it makes it even better than what it is, and that is where I come down. Probably everybody here and everybody listening. But there still is some resistance to the, even [the] idea of doing this and publishing the results; like the painting should stand on its own without us using it as some kind of historical tracer document.
Lloyd: These are not the people who are going to be going to AAAS meeting, I guess.
Steve: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, aka the AAAS, records all the talks at the meeting and makes them all available for sale. So if you are interested in any of the very few areas that you just heard discussed or to find out what else was on the table at the meeting and is out there to be heard just go to www.aaas.org and look for the schedule of the 2010 meeting. And the talks can be downloaded as MP3s; go to www.aven.com—that is for Audio Visual Education Network—and look for the 2010 AAAS meeting on its conference list; that is www.aven.com. Scientific American has no financial interest in the sale of these recordings; I am just passing on the info.
Now its time to play TOTALL……. Y BOGUS. Here are four science stories; only three are true. See if you know which story is TOTALL……. Y BOGUS .
Story 1: Forget swabbing the deck. A new US navy ship is outfitted with Roomba's robotic vacuum cleaners.
Story 2: A teenager science fair project for testing whether an athlete has a concussion will get presented at an upcoming meeting of the American Academy of Neurology.
Story 3: Chickens see in black and white only.
Story 4: Despite previous publications claiming that athletes wearing red perform better than athletes in other colors, athletes wearing red do not in fact have a competitive advantage.
Time is up.
Story 1 is true. The new navy ship the USS Freedom is outfitted with robotic Roomba's and Scuba cleaning robots. Now just organically link the pilots at the control center and you basically have the ship from the TV series Far Escape except for the flying-at-faster-than-light-speed-in-space part.
Story 2 is true. Teenager Ian Richardson, not the British actor of the same name, [thought] up the simple concussion test, attached a hockey puck to a stick, dropped the puck and measured how fast the athlete can catch the stick by how much of the stick goes past the athlete before he or she catches it. A small preliminary study found that concussed athletes had reaction times about 15 milliseconds slower than nonconcussed athletes. That is too small a difference to catch with a stopwatch, but it is very visible via the stick test. Richardson's dad is on the faculty at the University of Michigan Medical School, which may have had something to do with the test being fast tracked for inclusion at the upcoming April meeting of the American Academy of Neurology.
Story 4 is true. A 2005 paper in Nature claimed that Olympic athletes that wore red had a competitive advantage for some reason. But Charles Seife at the N.Y.U. Journalism School has published a paper refuting the red hypothesis. To find Charles' paper, which could be a factor in your own uniform design, just Google "Charles Seife" and "red uniforms". His research on this will be part of his upcoming book called Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deceptions.
All of which means that story 3, about chickens seeing in black and white, is TOTALL……. Y BOGUS. Because a new study notes that chickens have five types of retinal cones as opposed to our three. We can see red, green, and blue, but chickens see extra colors up in the ultraviolet. For more catch the February 26th episode of the daily SciAm podcast, 60-Second Science, which noted that the enhanced vision of the chicken may explain why it crosses the road, because it sees interesting stuff on the other side that you and I can't.
Well that's it for this episode. We will be back soon with an interview with physicist Sean Carroll, author of the new book From Eternity to Here, a seriously fun look at time. In the meantime, get your science news at www.ScientificAmerican.com where you can find out how to enter our World-Changing Ideas video contest, and if you can follow us on Twitter you will get a tweet every time a new article hits the Web site; our Twitter name, @sciam. For Science Talk the podcast of Scientific American, I am Steve Mirsky. Thanks for clicking on us.


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Welcome to the Roger Wagner Center Online!
An electronic journal dedicated to information in the field of choral music.
Dr. Roger Wagner, founding director
Dr. William Belan, managing director
The Roger Wagner Center for Choral Studies was founded in 1987 with a mission "to provide choral students and professionals with materials and information."
In order to fulfill its mission, the RW Center is actively involved in both on-going and special activities:
The RW Center maintains a website at California State University, Los Angeles
The RW Center sponsors student research on choral topics which is published on the website.
The RW Center manages an annual international contemporary choral composition competition, co-sponsored by the Wenger Corporation;
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Chicago, IL – Travis Wood spun seven scoreless innings of two-hit ball and added a pair of hits, an RBI and a run scored to lead the Chicago Cubs to a 9-1 win over the Colorado Rockies in the opener of a three- game set Monday at Wrigley Field.
Wood (4-2) walked three while fanning a pair to earn his second consecutive victory and notch his eighth-straight quality start, becoming just the second Cubs pitcher to start a season with as many quality starts since Chicago moved to Wrigley Field in 1916. Lefty Hippo Vaughn is the only other Cubs pitcher to accomplish the feat, which he did 94 years ago in 1919.
"I've been able to have good command of all my pitches," Wood said. "The team's played outstanding behind me...and hopefully we keep it going."
Alfonso Soriano stroked a two-run shot, while David DeJesus, Starlin Castro and Nate Schierholtz each contributed two hits and two RBI for the Cubs, who have won three straight games.
Juan Nicasio (3-1) was tagged for five runs on eight hits over six frames to absorb the loss, Colorado's fifth in its last six games.
Josh Rutledge clubbed a solo shot in the ninth for the Rockies' lone run.
After Wood retired the Rockies in order in the first, Chicago broke through with a pair in the bottom half to take the early lead. DeJesus started the frame with a double and Soriano followed three batters later with a two-out blast over the left-field bleachers to make it 2-0.
Chicago tacked on three more runs in its next at-bat, as Welington Castillo clubbed a one-out double, moved to third on a groundout and then scored on Wood's Tobago into left-center field.
After DeJesus worked a walk, Castro scorched a double to right to plate Wood and DeJesus to make it 5-0.
The Cubs plated a pair in the seventh and then again in the eighth to finish off their offensive outburst.
Castro and Anthony Rizzo smacked consecutive one-out singles before Schierholtz ripped a two-out triple to left to score both runners for a 7-0 lead.
Castillo then led off the eighth with a double and Darwin Barney followed with an infield single. After both runners moved up a base on Julio Borbon's groundout, DeJesus singled to right to plate Castillo and Barney.
Rutledge got the Rockies on the board with a one-out blast in the ninth off Carlos Marmol to account for the final margin.
"The game got away from us early," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. "We got off to a rough start."
Game Notes
Chicago went 6-for-18 with runners in scoring position and left six on base ... Colorado finished 0-for-2 with RISP and stranded three baserunners ... DeJesus and Castillo each scored twice for the Cubs ... Rizzo and the Cubs officially agreed on a seven-year contract extension earlier Monday.


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Saturday, April 24, 2010
Curtis Stone - Crumbed Chicken Breasts Filled With Swiss Cheese
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WOW! Look at this lovely dish with the Swiss cheese in it, really makes me hungry again. I'm going to get this book for sure!ReplyDelete
Hungry againReplyDelete
yummy... i wanted to make this too from the book but ran out of cheese already hehe gotta buy some !ReplyDelete
I like this Cordon de bleu! It's absolutely delicious! Roasting it in the oven is much healthier than deep fry. Nice one and happy day!ReplyDelete
Beautiful dish. Love the presentation with the pineapple and tomatoes on the vine.ReplyDelete
I see oozing cheese from the chicken and sense deliciousness.ReplyDelete
Hi Ann...worth buying this book. Lots of deliciousness in it :)ReplyDelete
Hi Kathy..sorry for making you go hungry again...blame the camera :p
Hi Swee San...try making it...nice!
Hi Grace..definitely much healthier :)
Hi Lazaro...thanks :)
Hi Tigerfish...haha it is definitely a nice piece of deliciousness :)))
That is absolutely gorgeous. Unbelievable. And the recipe is amazing, too!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for sharing :-)
That would have comforted me too! Yummy!ReplyDelete
Ellin, what a nice chicken dish, love the idea of stuffing it :-) Looks delicious!ReplyDelete
You are welcome :)
Angie...with a glass of cold beer , it will be real comfort food :)
Juliana...yup this is a great recipe no doubt. I love Curtis Stone's recipes :)
So yummy looking, my children will sure love it! Thanks for sharing ... Supermomsie!ReplyDelete
the crust looks really yummy. my grandma just made these today for dinner and I immediately thought of this blog post.ReplyDelete


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Shoehorned into a narrow ravine, GUANAJUATO was for centuries the wealthiest city in Mexico, its mines pouring out silver and gold in prodigious quantities. Today it presents an astonishing sight: upon emerging from the surrounding hills you come on the city quite suddenly, a riot of colonial architecture, tumbling down hills so steep that at times it seems the roof of one building is suspended from the floor of the last. Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988, Guanajuato is protective of its image: there are no traffic lights or neon signs here, and the topography ensures that there's no room for new buildings. The town's pristine reputation was cemented in 2012, when Pope Benedict XVI chose Guanajuato (and neighbouring León) as the only stops on his Mexican visit.
Today the city of around 170,000 has plenty of life in its narrow streets, many outstanding places to eat and drink, and lots to see: churches, theatres, museums, battlefields, mines and mummified corpses, to name but a few of the city's attractions. There's an old-fashioned, backwater feel to the place, reinforced by the local students' habit of going serenading in black capes, the brass bands playing in the plazas and the city's general refusal to make any special effort to accommodate the flood of (mostly domestic) tourists.
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ABOVE PHOTO: Christopher Cruz, right, appears in criminal court with his lawyer H. Benjamin Perez in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. Cruz, 28, of New Jersey, was charged Wednesday with reckless driving after prosecutors said he touched off a tense encounter with the driver of a sport utility vehicle and a throng of other bikers that ended with blood and broken bones on a Manhattan street. He was also charged with unlawful imprisonment. His bail was set at $1,500 cash.
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NEW YORK — A motorcyclist was charged Wednesday with reckless driving after prosecutors said he touched off a tense encounter with the driver of an SUV and a throng of other bikers that ended with blood and broken bones on a Manhattan street.
Christopher Cruz, 28, of Passaic, N.J., declined to comment as he was released on $1,500 bail, facing misdemeanor charges that also include unlawful imprisonment. His attorney, H. Benjamin Perez, said his client denied all the allegations.
"He will come back to fight this case and clear his name," he said.
Cruz is the only person charged criminally so far in the Sunday encounter that was caught on a helmet-mounted camera worn by another biker and was posted online anonymously.
The Manhattan district attorney's office decided not immediately to prosecute a second person arrested, Allen Edwards, 42, who surrendered to police on Tuesday. But prosecutors said the investigation continues, and they served notice that they intend to take the case against Cruz to a grand jury — a sign that more serious charges are likely.
Karen Friedman-Agnifilo, the prosecutor overseeing the DA's investigation, said authorities were trying to build the strongest cases possible.
"Prematurely charging individuals with low-level crimes does not further the goals of the investigation, and could weaken the cases we expect to bring against the perpetrators of serious crimes," she said.
Prosecutors and police said Cruz was participating in a motorcycle rally speeding along Manhattan's West Side Highway. Cruz cut in front of a black Range Rover and, still staring at its driver, slowed down so much that the rear tire of his motorcycle bumped the front of the SUV, they said. He got off and approached the SUV, prosecutors said.
Video captured the moment as about two dozen riders slowed down, swarming the SUV and blocking its path. Some dismounted and approached the vehicle. Police said some of the bikers then began damaging the Range Rover.
The SUV driver, who police say was frightened for his family in the car, suddenly lurched forward, plowing over another rider before heading north. The cyclists gave chase, pursuing the driver for about 2.5 miles.
The chase ended when the SUV exited the highway and got stuck in street traffic. The video showed one biker smashing the driver's window with his helmet. Police said the group then pulled the man from the SUV and beat him, although that part isn't shown on the video. The police department confirmed that the video is authentic.
The SUV driver, Alexian Lien, 33, was taken to a hospital for stitches for his face. His wife and 2-year-old were not injured. A call to his home wasn't returned Wednesday.
Cruz's attorney said his client wasn't involved in the beating. Cruz has previous arrests in New Jersey, including a theft case in which he pleaded guilty, according to Manhattan prosecutors. Court records concerning the New Jersey case weren't immediately available.
"The bottom line is that my client had nothing to do with what happened to this gentleman" and doesn't know the people who attacked the driver, Perez said. "He never left the location of the accident, and he at no time ever assaulted this man — or his vehicle, for that matter."
The biker who was struck as the SUV fled, Edwin Mieses Jr., remained hospitalized Wednesday. His legs were broken and he has spine injuries that will leave him paralyzed, his wife said. She said her husband, who goes by Jay, is the victim, not the driver of the SUV.
"Everyone wants to blame the bikers for something this man did," Dayana Mieses said. At least one other biker was injured.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the motorcyclists were participating in a periodic rally in which more than 1,000 bikers head for Times Square. He said police were caught by surprise by the unpermitted event last year but were aware it was taking place this year and "did a fair amount of enforcement" to break up the procession.
There were 15 other arrests and 55 motorcycles confiscated, Kelly said.


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Today I'm posting TinySprite's bento for her last day at her current preschool. In July she'll switch to another school for the summer program and continue into the fall for the pre-K program there. She requested rollups, so that's what I made. There is smoked salmon, cream cheese and arugula wrapped in corn tortillas. Alongside there's a tiny cup of edamame, some carrots and broccoli, and a few slices of Okinawan sweet potato. In the top tier she has some fruit arranged into a bear's face: oranges, cherries, blackberries, grapes and strawberries. When I picked her up, she had barely touched her bento. It turns out she had been busy passing out almond cookies to her classmates and hugging them, and reporting to everyone that she'll be going to "Garrett's School" (her buddy that lives down the street) now. It was sweet. Everyone yelled "Bye!!" as we walked out. She's a very sociable girl, and while she had made several close friendships at this school, she wasn't worried about losing them or missing them too much. She is very excited about the new school though. When we got home, she made sure to sit down and finish her bento, which she really loved. She only had me to chat with, so she was able to chow down her meal pretty quickly ^_^
Smoked Salmon Rollups Bento, a photo by sherimiya ♥ on Flickr.
Smoked Salmon Rollups Bento, a photo by sherimiya ♥ on Flickr.
I am submitting this bento to the twitter group #bentocuteness, with a roundup being posted by Yuri (@chefpandita) at her site. As soon as the site goes live, I'll link to it here so you can see all the other participants. Since I was invited based on a panda bento, I thought I would enter a panda bento box -- one of my favorites. Thanks for inviting me Yuri, and I'm looking forward to seeing all the other bentos from around the world ^_^
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NEIL KEENAN UPDATE: GLOBAL FINANCIAL ALERT – RACE AGAINST TIME TO PREVENT BANKSTERS' PLAN TO TRIGGER MELTDOWN – FEAR OF KEENAN DRIVING CABAL PANIC· Central bankers secretly stockpiling gold through third parties in anticipation of euro collapse
· Greek assets – even whole islands – being secretly sold off to pay troika
· Check for $300 million signed by CEO of major bank is used to defraud global gold reserves
· United Bank of Switzerland selling US dollars at 20% discount in preparation for collapse, while UBS bonds are discounted more than 30% in global trade, as banksters try to dump fast for cash now
· Cyprus theft of savings accounts was test run, coming soon to a bank near you
· How Neil Keenan and the Alliance intend to prevent oligarchy's plan for financial chaos
by Michael Henry Dunn
JAKARTA, April 5, 2013: Word has reached Neil Keenan here that the banking cabal's fear and desperation are now moving into what may be a final phase. They tried triggering World War III and that didn't work. They thought they could depopulate the planet through designer diseases, and that didn't work. They thought they could escape to vast underground cities, and (thanks to off-planet allies) that can no longer work. Facing exposure, humiliation, and prison (if they are lucky) they are now down to their last desperate throw: to create financial chaos by collapsing world currencies and pulling off a vast Cyprus-style theft of middle-class savings in the U.S. As global forces line up behind Neil Keenan, the Alliance, the Qing Dynasty, and the imminent "Changing of the Guard" to reclaim control over the Global Collateral Accounts, the oligarchs are desperately stockpiling gold in the hope that they can once more dominate an impoverished humanity by surviving the chaos that they themselves plan to trigger.
Not going to happen – they made the mistake of stealing from Neil Keenan.
Clearly, there's more to it than that, and this fight for freedom has been secretly waged by thousands of men and women for decades. But it may well be that historians will look back at the moment when the hapless Daniele Del Bosco absconded with $144.4 billion in bonds entrusted to Keenan by the Dragon Family as the turning point that set the final wheels in motion to bring down Financial Tyranny. As Del Bosco attempted to launder the bonds through the Italian government, the U.N., the World Economic Forum, and the so-called Office of International Treasury Control, Keenan relentlessly pursued the unfolding evidence that led to the Trillion-Dollar Lawsuit and the creation of the Monaco Accords, which are now supported by more than 160 nations. Information continues to flow into Keenan on a daily basis from multiple sources, as witnessed first-hand by this writer.
Forces are now in motion to prevent this final dark plan from succeeding. The cabal's desperation is palpable. It's every man for himself, as the once monolithic Illuminati becomes merely a pack of vicious thieves – which is all they ever were in fact – fleeing from the justice they thought they would never face. Meanwhile, the pressure on them increases daily as the avenues of escape are closed off one by one. And military, militia, and intelligence cooperation is poised to make the long-awaited final sweep of the cabal power structure.
The cabal's strategy down through the ages has always been the same: "out of chaos, order." They create the chaos, and then impose an ever more oppressive "order," in order to degrade free human beings into debt slaves. They lived by their twisted version of The Golden Rule: "he who has the gold makes the rules." They amassed the gold reserves now known as The Global Collateral Accounts on the pretext of removing the cause of war (while slaughtering millions in a series of gold-theft wars). In a century-long struggle, they succeeded in subverting their greatest enemy – a free American republic – into the bankster-controlled U.S.A., Inc., via their secret ownership of the Federal Reserve System. They triggered the Great Depression so they could buy America for a song while outlawing private ownership of gold. The final phase of their grand strategy called for their rulership over a post-Armageddon remnant of mankind. These plans have now fallen apart, and their grand goal of ultimate dominion has been reduced to a desperate struggle for survival.
Agency sources confirmed to Keenan in a face-to-face meeting in Jakarta this week that the bankster sect is planning a counter-attack in the coming weeks, hoping to get their last moves in before Keenan and the Alliance take control of the Global Accounts. The disarray in their ranks is evident from the following reports that high-level financial contacts have provided to Keenan in conversations witnessed by this writer in recent days:
· Josef Ackerman of Deutschebank, and other European central bankers, have reportedly supervised secret stockpiling of gold through vast purchases through third and fourth party front men. These purchases of precious metals are paid for with euros that will soon be worthless. Ackerman's gold buyers are authorized to purchase as much as 10,000 metric tons per month – a staggering amount.
· So-called "bail-outs" will be offered to struggling European nations – bail-outs comprised of the same baseless euros – charging usurious rates of eighteen to twenty percent. The struggling nations will ultimately be unable to pay, and the bankers will come calling to claim national assets and sovereignty for a pittance. This is already happening, of course, in Greece, where parts of Greece itself are being sold off to foreign buyers, such as a large section of the idyllic Greek island of Corfu. Our source stated that if the Greek people knew what was really going on, "there would be a revolution tomorrow." The Emir of Qatar has been making regular buying trips to Greece for the last three months. It remains to be seen if there will be anything left of Greece for the Greeks.
· The euro itself is doomed: as noted here before, the gold reserves backing the euro have been leased with counterfeit notes issued by Mario Draghi's European Central Bank. Neil Keenan has massive documentation of this fraud, and will be coming after the ECB and Draghi in short order.
· Sources report that United Bank of Switzerland is now selling US dollars at 20% discount in preparation for collapse, while UBS bonds are discounted more than 30% in global trade, as banksters try to dump fast for quick cash.
· Attempts to defraud the Global Accounts are becoming ever more brazen, as a $300 million dollar bank draft bearing the signature of the CEO of one of the world's largest banks was reportedly used in an attempt to persuade banks to bypass the usual four to six week waiting period for verification of such funds, so that funds supposedly based in Global Account gold assets could be withdrawn within five days of deposit. By the time the fraud would be revealed (our source stated), the funds – and the fraudsters – would be gone. This is but one instance, we are told, of multiple such attempts to raid the global candy store before the new sheriff shuts down the racket.
· Multiple high-level sources have told Neil Keenan: "everyone knows you're coming – you've got them running scared."
As recently reported by Drake Bailey, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is implementing Cyprus-style plans to seize bank accounts, and contents of safety deposit boxes, if any such are judged to be "of a contraband nature," in the opinion of the agent. This danger to ordinary Americans' savings was confirmed to Neil Keenan in person this week by an intelligence community contact, who stated that DHS is planning to use mercenary forces comprised of foreign nationals to back this brazen destruction of the American middle class. Pentagon and agency forces are lined up to defeat any such move, and it is expected that the vast American militia movement would immediately swing into action as well. DHS is apparently one of the last lairs of cabal operatives, and should be a target of Alliance efforts in the coming days. We hope and intend that violence will be avoided, but it may well be that the end game will be tough going.
The reason the control of the Global Accounts is so crucial at this critical turning point is simple: it is the cabal's last available source of actual (as opposed to fiat) money. Mercenaries don't work for free. Once the final agreements are signed, and Mr. Keenan and the Alliance take over management of the Accounts, the final framework for global financial reform will be in place. This event is imminent. Hard on the heels of the agreements, Keenan's trillion-dollar lawsuit will be re-filed with final damning evidence in place, and the liens on the central banks will be re-imposed. With this legal basis firmly established, other long-planned moves against the cabal will swiftly follow.
As the dust from this momentous Changing of the Guard settles, plans call for rapid implementation of emergency funds, eradication of phony debt, and careful development of humanitarian programs for the nations of the world. These funds will not be distributed to governments or banks, but to foundations that serve the people, that stimulate national economies, rebuild infrastructure, implement free energy technologies (yes, they exist!), restore the environment, or provide health care and education.
It may well be asked by reasonable persons how it could possibly be that one man, Neil Keenan, could be so formidable and dangerous to the survival of a ruthless and murderous cabal, and avoid being killed by them. Keenan has avoided mention of this topic in past posts, but I think it important that all those praying for his success should know that he has survived four such attempts in the last three years. The protection around him has increased with each successive attempt, and Mr. Keenan himself inflicted heavy punishment on one assailant in Europe (the would-be assassin ended up in the hospital, while Keenan escaped with a scratch). Attribute it to the luck of the Irish (though the Irish say that if it weren't for bad luck, we'd have no luck at all), or to the prayers of millions, or to the guardianship of intelligence community allies, or to the protective devas invoked for him in Indonesian ceremony, but the fact is that Neil Keenan now laughs at the thought of danger, and is confident of success.
Of course, Keenan pretty much laughs at danger in any case…or even relishes it. This reporter witnessed Keenan's blithe response to an apparent attack by a black-clad female assassin in a Jakarta shopping mall only days ago:
OK, folks, we know how serious all this is, but do you expect Neil Keenan to stop being Neil Keenan? As may be expected, the would-be attacker not only got off scot free, but was given a generous tip!
From Jakarta, where we find something to laugh about even on dark days…..(but it's spring, and the days are getting brighter, and longer – here's hoping we'll look back on this April in years to come as a turning point for us all).
Michael Henry Dunn


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I had a great time in delivering the SQL PASS Virtualization virtual chapter session today on 'Squeezing the most performance from your VMware-based SQL Server.' Thank you goes to the chapter leaders for inviting me to speak, and also to all of the attendees! You all had great questions and really enjoyed answering them for you!
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Squeezing the Most Performance From Your VMware-Based SQL Server
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