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Building your credit for the first time can feel a little like the chicken and the egg. To build a good credit score, you’re going to need take out a loan or get a credit card. But you can’t qualify for a loan or get a credit card without some credit history,right? So, what do you do?Let’s start with a bank account.
You don’t really need a long credit history to opena checking account at your local bank.  In fact, you may have a one already.  Even thougha checking account won’t necessarily help you build credit history with the bureaus,that account may help you get your first credit card or loan from the same provider.

Man Convicted of 3 Rapes Is Exonerated

Broadcast Center In Los Angeles, This Is "CBS 2 News" At5:00 P. M. Pat: An Emotional Day In L.

A. Courtroom. A Judge Threw Out A Case Of Aman Convicted Of Three Raids that He Did Not Commit.

Paul: Randy Paige Explains The evidence That Helped To Prove his Innocence. Reporter: Luis Vargas Waited For 16years To Hear These Words. He Is, In Fact, Innocent.

This Superior Court Judge Declared At His 1999 Conviction for Sexually Assaulting Three that Comes.

Attorneys Of The California Innocence Project At The Western school Of Law Compelled The testing Of DNA Evidence From One of His Alleged Victims.

The Result Of The Test?The Victim's Clothing Did No-Show His DNA.

Reporter: Crystal Nunez-Vargas was 10 Years Old When Her Father was Taken Into Custody. Not Having A Father Is difficult. You Do Not Have A Sense Of protection And Security. And Growing Up, I Would Cry myself To Sleep.

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Introduction to Mortgage Loans

- [Voiceover] What I want to do in this videois explain what a mortgage is. I think most of us have at least a general sense of it,but even better than that, actually go into the numbersand understand a little bit of what you are actually doing when you're paying a mortgage, what it's made up ofand how much of it is interest versus how much of it is actually paying down the loan.

Let's just start with a little example. Let's say that there is a house that I like. Let's say that that is the housethat I would like to purchase. It has a price tag of, let's say thatI need to pay $500,000 to buy that house. This is the seller of the house right here. And they have a mustache. That's the seller of the house. I would like to buy it. I would like to buy the house.

What Is a Home Equity Loan?

A home equity loan is simply where you're taking a second mortgage against your house. So, I know that might sound a little confusing, but let me give you an example.

Let's say my house is worth $300,000, and I have a mortgage on it, and I owe $200,000 on that mortgage. So, that means there's $100,000 of equity there in that property. And one of the challenges, sometime, is you pay your mortgage down, you might want to use that equity or some of that value, for other financial goals you're looking to achieve. So, how do you do that?

The way you do that, is by taking out a home equity loan against the property. And most home equity loans might be a 10 or 20 year loan, and you're borrowing the money. And typically you're gonna pay a little higher interest rate than you would on your regular mortgage, because, technically, if you don't make your payments, the bank that holds the first mortgage has the first right to your collateral. And the lender for the second mortgage, or the home equity loan, would be next in line. So because of that, there's a little bit more risk, and you'll often be assessed a little bit more interest, because of that risk.

Game of Loans

I’m guessing you’ve heard of the acclaimed TV show “Game of Thrones. ” Seven kingdoms vying for power, plots within plots, watch your back or lose your head. It’s great. But you’ve probably never heard of a real life drama that I call the “Game of Loans. ”That’s a game Washington politicians play on young people, that is, college students, every day. 

Just like “Game of Thrones,” the “Game of Loans” has plots within plots, big winners and big losers. The winners are politicians and colleges. They fool students into thinking that by generously providing ever-larger college loans to cover ever-larger tuition costs, they have earned students’ votes at election time. Why do I say students are fooled? Because it is thanksto the very politicians who promise students more and more aid -- in league with the colleges-- that college tuition became so expensive in the first place. Here’s how the game works. 

Get lower costs on monthly premiums in the Health

When you shop for insurance at the health insurance marketplace you’ll find good quality health plans,and by answering a few simple questions we’ll be able to see whether you’re eligible for one or more no cost or low cost insurance programs,like Medicaid, the children’s Health Insurance program, and a new benefit called the Advance Premium Tax Credit.
Which is available only through the Health Insurance Marketplace. What makes the Advance Premium Tax Credit “advanced” is that you get the credit each month,instead of waiting until you file your Federal tax returns the next year.

With APTC, part of your monthly payment is made by the Federal government directly to the health plan in which you’ve enrolled.

If you qualify, there are three ways you can apply your Advance Premium Tax Credit:You can decide to spread out the credit equally across the entire year.



You can decide to use some of your monthly APTC, which increases the amount you’ll pay each month but makes it more likely you’ll receive a refund on next year’s tax return this may be a good option if you’re unsure about your income. Or you may decide not to use any of your APTC during the year and simply get the money refunded on next year’s tax return.
Your eligibility and the amount of your Advance Premium Tax Credit depend on the size of your household and your household income. Changes in your lifelike having a baby, getting married, or changing jobscan affect the amount of your tax credit or even your eligibility. For instance, if you make more than you expected, your Advance Premium Tax Credit will be lower and you might owe some money at the end of the year. But if you make less than you expected, you may get a refund.

If you come back to this site and report your changes when they happen, you’ll get your tax credit calculations updated automatically.

If you qualify for the Advance Premium Tax Credit, any way you use it, you’ll still get a break on the cost of your health insurance to help you get the coverage that meets your needs and budget.

How to choose a plan in the Health Insurance Marketplace

How to pick the right health insurance plan how do you find a health insurance plan that fits your budget and meets your needs?

A good plan protects you and your family at a price that’s right for you.
You can feel safe knowing that all Marketplace plans cover a core set of essential health benefits,like check-ups, having a baby, emergency care, prescription drugs and more. Most Marketplace plans must also include free preventive care like shots and screening tests. And don’t worry if you have a pre-existing condition.

You’ll see the same plans at the same cost as everyone else. You can’t be denied coverage. Here are a few things to think about before you look at health insurance plans:Health insurance is a contract between you and your insurance company. You buy a plan, and the company agrees to pay part of your medical costs when you get sick or hurt.

Researchers grow nanocircuitry with semiconducting graphene nanoribbons

In a development that could revolutionize electronic ciruitry, a research team from the Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison (UW) and the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE)'s Argonne National Laboratory has confirmed a new way to control the growth paths of graphene nanoribbons on the surface of a germainum crystal.

Germanium is a semiconductor, and this method provides a straightforward way to make semiconducting nanoscale circuits from graphene, a form of carbon only one atom thick.

The method was discovered by UW scientists and confirmed in tests at Argonne.

"Some researchers have wanted to make transistors out of carbon nanotubes, but the problem is that they grow in all sorts of directions," said Brian Kiraly of Argonne. "The innovation here is that you can grow these along circuit paths that works for your tech."

New high-precision calculation holds promise for new physics

A team of theoretical high-energy physicists in the Fermilab Lattice and MILC Collaborations has published a new high-precision calculation that could significantly advance the indirect search for physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). The calculation applies to a particularly rare decay of the B meson (a subatomic particle), which is sometimes also called a "penguin decay" process.

After being produced in a collision, subatomic particles spontaneously decay into other particles, following one of many possible decay paths. Out of one billion B mesons detected in a collider, only about twenty decay through this particular process.

With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the last missing piece, the SM of particle physics now accounts for all known subatomic particles and correctly describes their interactions. It's a highly successful theory, in that its predictions have been verified consistently by experimental measurements. But scientists know that the SM doesn't tell the whole story, and researchers around the globe are eagerly searching for evidence of physics beyond the SM.

Why high-performance glass flows, and how fast

Does glass in cathedral windows flow downward at room temperature—acting essentially as a liquid in super slow-motion? No. It’s a myth. The larger volume observed at the bottom of some windows is due to the manufacturing process, not gravity.

But in more complex, high-tech kinds of glass, like Corning Gorilla Glass, a scratch- and damage-resistant glass used on more than one billion smartphones and tablets screens, susceptibility to room-temperature deformations have been known to exist for a few years. Now researchers from the Univ. of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have discovered why such flowing happens and how fast.

Mound near lunar south pole formed by unique volcanic process

A giant mound near the moon’s south pole appears to be a volcanic structure unlike any other found on the lunar surface, according to new research by Brown University geologists. The formation, known as Mafic Mound, stands about 800 m tall and 75 km across, smack in the middle of a giant impact crater known as the South Pole-Aitken Basin. This new study suggests that the mound is the result of a unique kind of volcanic activity set in motion by the colossal impact that formed the basin. “If the scenarios that we lay out for its formation are correct, it could represent a totally new volcanic process that’s never been seen before,” said Daniel Moriarty, a PhD student in Brown’s Dept. of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences and the study’s lead author. The research has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters. Mafic Mound (mafic is a term for rocks rich in minerals such as pyroxene and olivine) was first discovered in the 1990s by Carle Pieters, a planetary geologist at Brown and Moriarty’s adviser.