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Animal experimentation has been condemned globally, and is often denounced as cruel and abominable. Researchers in the United Kingdom now say that skin grown in the laboratory can replace animals in drug and cosmetics testing.
Scientists have been able to grow epidermis from human skin cells removed by biopsy for several years. The more recent research has gone a step further.
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4/25/2014 (2 years ago)
Published in Health
Keywords: Skin regeneration, animal testing, epidermis
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - A layer of human skin from stem cells has been developed by a team led by King's College London. While stem cells have been turned into skin before, researchers say this is more like real skin as it has a permeable barrier.
The new technique is being heralded as a cost-effective alternative to testing drugs and cosmetics on animals.
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Epidermis, the outermost layer of human skin, provides a protective barrier that stops moisture escaping and microbes entering.
Scientists have been able to grow epidermis from human skin cells removed by biopsy for several years. The more recent research has gone a step further.
Using reprogrammed skin cells, the technique may offer a way to produce an unlimited supply of the main type of skin cell found in the epidermis. Researchers also grew the skin cells in a low humidity environment, which gave them a barrier similar to that of true skin.
"This is a new and suitable model that can be used for testing new drugs and cosmetics and can replace animal models," lead researcher Dr. Dusko Ilic, of King's College London, says. "It is cheap, it is easy to scale up and it is reproducible."
Ilic says the same method could be used to test new treatments for skin diseases.
Researcher Dr. Theodora Mauro said it would help the study of skin conditions such as ichthyosis - dry, flaky skin - or eczema.
"We can use this model to study how the skin barrier develops normally, how the barrier is impaired in different diseases and how we can stimulate its repair and recovery," she said.
The Humane Society International welcomed the research.
"This new human skin model is superior scientifically to killing rabbits, pigs, rats or other animals for their skin and hoping that research findings will be applicable to people - which they often aren't, due to species differences in skin permeability, immunology, and other factors," research and toxicology director Troy Seidle says.
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U.S. Soy's Sustainability by the Numbers
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For soybean farmers, sustainability isn't a buzzword; it's a way of life. Farmers were green before it was even a movement. From crop rotation and reduced tillage to nutrient and water management, every day is an ongoing commitment to the land and resources.
U.S. soybean farmers are committed to continuous improvement – making sure the land that they farm now is prosperous for years to come. Here are just a few of the sustainable practices soybean farmers are already using day after day, year after year.
- Crop Rotation
- Ninety-four percent of soybean acres are under planned rotation sequences and continuous plantings, contributing to increased biodiversity.1
- Water Management
- Ninety-four percent of U.S. farmland is non-irrigated.2
- Seventy-five percent of sediment is removed by conservation buffers, improving water quality.3
- Reduced Tillage
- Seventy percent of U.S. soybean acres use conservation tillage.4
- Pest Management
- Ninety-five percent of U.S. soybean farmers personally scout their fields each season to manage pests.5
- Farmers have reduced herbicide runoff by 70 percent, which helps to keep the water supply healthy.6
- Nutrient Management
- Ninety-two percent of U.S. soybean farmers have tested their soil to maintain proper nutrient levels.7
- Conservation
- Ten percent of U.S. farmland is taken out of production to protect sensitive areas.8
Check out more on sustainability and what farmers across the country are doing to continuously improve on their farms. Visit www.SustainableSoy.com.
1-USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-practices-management/crop-livestock-practices/soil-tillage-and-crop-rotation.aspx
2- USDA Ag Census 2012
3- USDA Water Quality Information Center
4- USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) http://www.nass.usda.gov/Surveys/Guide_to_NASS_Surveys/Ag_Resource_Management/ARMS_Soybeans_Factsheet/index.asp
5- Best Practices Report, United Soybean Board, October 2014
6-Comparative Environmental Impacts of Biotechnology-derived and Traditional Soybean, Corn, and Cotton Crops, accessed January 6, 2014, Council for Agricultural Science and Technology, http://www.cast-science.org
7- Best Practices Report, United Soybean Board, October 2014

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Since Jack Haley and Steve Scheffler were mentioned, it must be time for another thread.
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Statements posted here are those of our readers and do not represent the BaseballThinkFactory. Names are provided by the poster and are not verified. We ask that posters follow our submission policy. Please report any inappropriate comments.Bitter Mouse, Space Tyrant Posted: December 31, 2012 at 10:49 AM (#4335261)
Flip502. STIGGLES is more humble than you would understand Posted: December 31, 2012 at 07:56 PM (#4335657)
eurogoon just put up 20 and 29 against miami. now, granted, it took him 46 minutes to do...and miami is not exactly loaded in the frontcourt...but still, i'd say that's pretty impressive.503. Moses Taylor, sex fowler Posted: January 01, 2013 at 01:20 PM (#4335934)
Bobcats - and not a healthy Bobcats team (MKG and Mullens were out) - ended their 18 game losing streak in Chicago yesterday. In the last 4 games, the Bulls have been pasted by the Hawks and Rockets, barely beat the Wizards, and now this. It is officially the worst they've played since the early VDN days.504. rr Posted: January 01, 2013 at 03:16 PM (#4336072)
I have been arguing with a Laker fan buddy of mine on email about the team's issues. He is way, way, down on Pringles; I have not been that impressed by MDA, but I think the team's issues are much more roster/personnel based.505. PJ Martinez Posted: January 02, 2013 at 12:52 AM (#4336643)
I thought of this reading Moses' post. There is no question that coaching and fit matter a lot in the NBA, but I am still in many respects a "it mostly comes back to the talent" guy, and the fact that Del Negro is coaching a team that has won 17 in a row while a Thibodeau team struggles (Doc Rivers' team is struggling, too) reminds me of why I feel that way. So did the fact that Mike Brown lost in the same round of the playoffs in 2012 that Phil lost in in 2011. It is obviously more complex than that; the coach and the talent have to fit as well and the coach makes meaningful decisions about the talent. It might be, for example, that Charlotte would be even worse than they are with VDN and VDN just works on a team a with Paul, Griffin et al. And maybe VDN has grown as a coach. But the Clippers have Paul, Griffin, and a great bench. That is pretty much what it is, I think. Guys coaching in the NBA may do certain things that we really, realy think are dumb, but they are mostly not "idiots" who ruin everything as angry fans (not thinking of people here) sometimes say they are.
These missed free throws by Philly are brutal.506. RollingWave Posted: January 02, 2013 at 01:41 AM (#4336656)
I never understand how professional players can't hit at least 60% of their free throw.507. baudib Posted: January 02, 2013 at 01:41 AM (#4336657)
We're becoming a more sophisticated society, in terms of objective analysis. There are still many factors ("old boys network," for instance) but it is inevitable that, when it comes to highly paid jobs that are intrinsically tied to an organization's success, such as NBA coach, the demands of the market will shift better and better candidates into those jobs, and you'll see less patience for tried and true losers, or even tried and true winners who are problematic.508. baudib Posted: January 02, 2013 at 01:48 AM (#4336661)
Anyway, that's a long-winded way of me saying that it seems natural that the coaching ranks will become more competitive over time.
I think, robin, you might be overstating things slightly. Phil Jackson, to name one guy, may have had Jordan, Pippen, Kobe, Shaq, Pau Gasol, etc., at exactly the right times in their career. There were other coaches who had those guys who didn't win any championships. Dennis Rodman comes to mind as a guy who won a couple titles for a great coach, kicked around the league a while and played on some talented teams but didn't win and was a huge problem child, then went to play for another great coach and helped them become one of the greatest teams of all time. That's not coincidence.
There are also several examples of legitimately great players who were on terrible teams. The Kareem Lakers, pre Magic, were pretty mediocre. Wilt played on some bad teams. The Dwyane Wade-Pat Riley combo famously won a title together and also finished in the lottery together.
BTW i submitted a new thread but it hasn't shown up yet.509. rr Posted: January 02, 2013 at 02:26 AM (#4336667)
Kobe -- I used to be a pretty big hater.
The future can actually change the past: I used to argue that Pau Gasol was as valuable/more valuable than Kobe in those title years, and that Pau should have been the MVP over Kobe when they beat the Celtics. I think the evidence did (and obviously still does) point to that, but it seems so bizarre and wrong to make that argument anymore. Similarly, I used to argue that Kobe is not even among the top 2 Lakers guards. His durability and longevity are such that it becomes impossible to argue West over Kobe anymore, IMO. It's more than just a peak/career thing, too -- the magnitude of what Kobe is doing just makes it seem like he must be an innately greater player.
Utterly remarkable win for the Sixers, and some befuddling late-game moments. This thread started with Steagles making an off-the-cuff remark about Holiday being MVP. He's not, obviously, and no one took it seriously, but he could be the most underrated player in the league right now.
I think, robin, you might be overstating things slightly
Perhaps. But OTOH, Phil lost in the 2nd round w.o Jordan and was 34-31 w.o Jordan and Grant the next year. He did great work with those teams, but w.o Jordan they could only go so far. He had decent teams, but nothing more than that, in 2006 and 2007, when the Lakers team was basically Kobe and Odom. The pre-Magic Lakers rosters around Kareem were pretty weak.
I said in the post that coaching and fit are obviously important. But talent 1-9 ultimately matters more, IMO, in terms of contending for a title. Put it this way: I would certainly rather have an elite roster and an OK coach than the reverse. I don't think many people believe that Scott Brooks and Erik Spoelstra are geniuses.
As to the 2013 Lakers, they are 15-16 and the next five games are:
"at" LAC
at SA
at HOU
Tonight's loss was huge; if they go, say 1-4, over the next five, which is certainly quite possible, it is hard to say what will happen after that.
"'Cause we're old as s---," said the 34-year-old Bryant when asked why a lack of energy has been a problem for L.A. all season. "What do you want? We just got to figure out how to play when we don't have that energy. We got to change things up a little bit defensively. We got to figure out what we want to do offensively, figure out what we want to do on nights when we don't have those legs or have that energy."
That is a serious 5-game run for LA. Will be interesting to see what happens.512. JC in DC Posted: January 02, 2013 at 08:59 AM (#4336730)
If you told me that the C's and Lakers would have nearly identical records about 30 games in, I would have assumed the Celtics had gotten off to a better than expected start. Records aside, though, the Celtics have been handily outscored on the season (unlike the Lakers) and may not have the talent to get out of the first round of the playoffs (perhaps unlike the Lakers, though being in the West makes that a taller order for them).
Curious what Ainge will do if the Celtics have a losing record on January 15, which seems fairly likely.
I agree with Robin on the talent issue. I recall John Thompson saying, over and over, that everybody thought he was a great coach when he had Patrick and Mourning and Mutombo, and everybody thought he couldn't coach when he didn't have them. He was the same coach throughout: a coach, like all coaches, at the mercy of his talent.513. Moses Taylor, sex fowler Posted: January 02, 2013 at 11:01 AM (#4336817)
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I'm working on ways to better convey the global structure of programs. The goal: use an open-source tool, get an idea for a simple tweak, fork the repo, orient yourself, and make the change you visualized -- all in a single afternoon. I'd like to live in such a world, wouldn't you?
Here's why I think this is a good goal to aim for. There's a curious blind spot in the way programmers tend to see the world. For all our constant attempts to make things better by creating new languages and tools, we tend not to notice the gravity-like tendency of projects to grow more brittle and ossified over time. The pervasiveness of this phenomenon makes it hard to distinguish the real benefits of a new language or tool. Is your language really that much better than the ones that came before, or is it just temporarily better by having less historical baggage? It's a curious case of the cognitive bias called fundamental attribution error. Until we can understand why projects ossify over time and change their trajectory in the long term, most ideas we can think of are merely temporary stop-gaps.
Projects ossify over time because they tend to accumulate accidental complexity over time. In my experience there are three major reasons for this accumulation:
A. Backwards compatibility considerations. Early mistakes in the design of an interface are often perpetuated indefinitely. Supporting them takes code. Projects that add many new features also accumulate many missteps. Over time the weight of these past adaptations starts to prevent future adaptation.
B. Churn in personnel. If a project lasts long enough early contributors eventually leave and are replaced by new ones. The new ones have holes in their knowledge of the codebase, all the different facilities provided, the reasons why design decisions were made just so. Peter Naur pointed out back in 1985 the odd fact that that no matter how much documentation we write, we can't seem to help newcomers understand our programs without talking to the original authors. In-person interactive conversations tend to be a precious resource; there's only so many of them newcomers can have before they need to start contributing to a project, and there's only so much bandwidth the old hands have to review changes for unnecessary complexity or over-engineering. Personnel churn is a lossy process; every generation of programmers on a project tends to know less about it, and to be less in control of it.
C. Vestigial features. Even after accounting for compatibility considerations, projects past a certain age often have features that can be removed. However, such simplification rarely happens because of the risk of regressions. We forget precisely why we did what we did, and that forces us to choose between reintroducing regressions or continuing to cargo-cult old solutions long after they've become unnecessary.
There may be other phenomena I haven't considered, but these three suffice to illuminate a crucial point: they're independent of most technology choices we tend to think about. A new language or tool will at best have a short-term effect unless we're able to keep the big picture of a codebase understandable over time as members join and leave it.
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In direct correspondence to the above list, I've nailed down the following primary design invariants:
A. Minimize compatibility constraints. We can't avoid users creating habits and muscle memory in the tools they use, but things are different when we're building libraries for other programmers. In that situation the user of our creation is another programmer with the ability to empathize with our situation if given the right context, and without our API deeply embedded in muscle memory.
B. Be friendly to outsiders. Many best practices we teach programmers today help insiders manage a project but hinder understanding in newcomers. In a strange new project straight-line code is usually easier to follow than lots of indirection and abstractions. Comments are of limited value because most comments explain local features, but fail to put them in a global context. Build systems that automate a lot of work in our specialized industrial-strength setup turn out to be brittle on someone's laptop when running for the first time.
C. Be rewrite-friendly. Rewrites are traditionally considered a bad idea, but the question isn't whether they're a good or bad idea. Software is the most malleable medium known to man, and we should do all we can to embrace that essential malleability that is its primary characteristic and boon. If rewriting is stressful and error-prone, perhaps we're doing software all wrong in the first place.
These can seem like difficult constraints to solve independently let alone simultaneously, but it seems likely that conveying global structure lies on the road to them all. If a project is to remain easy to understand over the long term it can't afford to have historical baggage; it is by definition friendly to outsiders; and it has to have been constantly getting rewritten.
Having carved out these constraints, everything else is open to question. I'm willing to try global variables, large functions, even goto statements if I can trade understandability in the large for understandability in the small. Our instincts on the right way to manage complexity have failed to yield dividends, so it's time to go against our instincts.
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I'm a lot less certain about the solution than the previous sections, but I've been exploring some promising mechanisms in my current project, an idealized assembly language and OS for teaching programming called Mu:
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big picture of a project. They can support all three invariants above:
- A. If a library and its users both have good tests, compatibility becomes a lot less important. It's not that hard to change how you call a library when you upgrade, if you can be confident that you'll be alerted to any breakage. It's more desirable to guarantee that upgrades take an hour 100% of the time, than that upgrades take no time 80% of the time.
- B. Instead of describing your architecture, point newcomers at core tests that they can instrument or step through in a debugger. That allows them to focus first on the concrete series of operations desired in a situation rather than how those operations happen to be organized in code.
- C. Tests help rewrites. What makes rewrites unpopular isn't the work required for the rewrite, it's the uncertainty and stress at the prospect of introducing subtle regressions. Tests could eliminate that uncertainty and stress.
However, modern tests aren't good enough for our purposes. I'm exploring expanding testing in two directions to help gain confidence that everything is well when all tests pass:
- Testable interfaces at all levels of the stack. I'd like to be able to check that my server can send email even when the disk is full, for example, or that my browser remains responsive even while loading really long webpages. I think the conventional wisdom about not testing I/O is just an artifact of having non-testable interfaces for I/O. For example, a more testable interface for printing to screen would be to require a pointer to a screen object, so that tests can print to a fake screen (dependency injection) and check what was printed.
- White-box testing. Instead of checking that a function merely returns the expected value, allow it to log domain-specific facts that it discovered in the process, and encourage tests to check the log for specific features. This would allow testing more than just functional correctness — performance, fault tolerance, race conditions, etc. For example, you would be able to check that your search function doesn't double the number of lookups required when it searches through double the data. More details →
- Deemphasize abstractions
in favor of traces. Traces are like logs of just the timeless
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- B. It might be more helpful for newcomers to follow a curated and sequenced 'curriculum' of traces, rather than to grope blindly through the deep directory tree of a large application as they do today. For example, the repository for a text editor might guide new programmers first to a trace of the events that happen between pressing a key and printing a character to screen, demarcating the major sub-systems of the codebase in the process and allowing each line in the logs to point back at code, silently jumping past details like what the precise function boundaries happen to be at the moment.
- C. Traces can also help veterans more easily manage and rewrite a system. Since traces can be associated with levels of detail (akin to log levels), it is possible to skim them more effectively than a flat listing or a step-by-step debugger. When tracking down bugs I've been finding it very helpful to use a 'zoomable' interface to bounce around the trace of a program in a random-access manner.
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fewer features than the complete version. Layers help support one invariant:
- B. Layers help make a program more approachable to outsiders by enabling them to first play with a simpler version of the program. It's a cleaned-up history of the codebase, focusing on just the core before gradually introducing more peripheral features. More details →
It's worth asking, if these techniques are so great why haven't they been tried before? I think it's because of a 'drawback' they all share: they're too powerful, and it's easy to shoot yourself in the foot. It takes taste to trace just domain-independent facts and not implementation details, to make white-box tests robust to radical changes, to organize an app into layers. But I think requiring taste is a good thing. A prime reason we forget important aspects of codebases is that we create rules and processes around them, and those who follow us have no reason to remember the original reasons for the rules and processes. If every generation were to be allowed to make its own mistakes, the reasons would stay 'in the air' and not get lost. Our software would better reward curiosity.
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|Bruce Barnett, retired CEO of Educational Employees CU, was the 2012 recipient of the Leo H. Shapiro Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Information on Award Programs Available
The California and Nevada Credit Union Leagues are once again seeking nominations and entries for the various awards programs it administers, including the League Awards program which honors outstanding individuals for their contributions and achievements within the credit union movement.
Below is brief information on each award, including contact information and deadlines. Click here for more information on each of the awards.
LEAGUE AWARDS: The Leo H. Shapiro Lifetime Achievement, Distinguished Service, Outstanding Volunteer, and Tomorrow's Star awards are collectively known as the California Credit Union League's Awards. Recipients will be honored at the Leagues' Annual Meeting and Convention, which will be held October 25-28 in San Francisco. The 2012 Leo H. Shapiro Lifetime Achievement Award recipient was Bruce Barnett, retired CEO of Educational Employees CU. The other 2012 recipients were Distinguished Service Award—United Health CU CEO Linda White; Outstanding Volunteer Award—Mid-Cities CU Board Treasurer Roy Brooks and CoastHills FCU Board Chairman Hugh Rafferty; and Tomorrow's Star Awards—San Francisco FCU Membership Development Manager Courtney Derby and Nikkei CU Accounting Manager Jennifer Kato. The deadline for nominations is Monday, August 5. Contact Public Affairs and Community Outreach Specialist Tina Ramos-Ingold at firstname.lastname@example.com for guidelines and nomination forms.
COMMUNITY OUTREACH/DORA MAXWELL AWARD: First-place winners in each asset category will be honored at AMC, and their entries will be forwarded to CUNA for the national-level competition. Last year's recipient was Meriwest CU. LOUISE HERRING AWARD: First-place winners in each asset category will receive a plaque in recognition and their entries will be forwarded to CUNA for the national-level competition. The 2012 first-place winner was The Golden 1 CU. The deadline for both awards is Friday, July 26. Contact Tina Ramos-Ingold for forms and guidelines.
KIM BANNAN ETERNAL FLAME AWARD: The 2012 recipients were America's Christian CU VP/Chief Strategy Officer Jeremy Calva and CoastHills FCU. Contact SVP of Member Solutions Larry Palochik at email@example.com, or by phone at 909-212-6034.
UNSUNG HERO AWARD: The deadline for nominations is Monday, August 5. The 2012 Unsung Hero recipients were Christian Community CU CEO John Walling, Family FCU CEO Lucia Moreno-Linares, Ventura County CU CEO Joe Schroeder, and Western Healthcare FCU CEO Diana Michaels. Contact Tina Ramos-Ingold for more information.
DESJARDINS YOUTH AND ADULT FINANCIAL EDUCATION AWARDS: First-place state winners move on to the national competition. The deadline for entries is Friday, July 26. Last year's recipients were Mission FCU and San Mateo CU. Contact Tina Ramos-Ingold for more information.
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It's Up To You!
In the midst of the warm balmy, breezes typical of a Southern California evening at Bridges Auditorium in Claremont, CA, Jim Nussle, president and CEO of the Credit Union National Association (CUNA), took the stage in front of students from across the country at the Richard Myles Johnson Colloquium in Credit Union Philosophy on July 14.
'REACH 2016': IT'S TIME TO EXPLORE updated
Education, Collaboration, Excitement
REACH 2016—the California and Nevada Credit Union Leagues' much-awaited annual convention—is taking place in four months at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas from Nov. 2-4. Are you ready?
WHAT CUs ACCOMPLISHED IN SACRAMENTO updated
Mid-Year Legislative Update
The California State Legislature adjourned for summer recess on June 30 so state lawmakers can spend the month of July in their districts. But before doing so, major deadlines were met, including passing the state budget, completing all policy committee hearings, and passing any legislative measures intended to make it on the Nov. 8 election ballot.
LOCAL MEDIA: WHAT CUs SHOULD KNOW updated
Regional Footprint Creates Opportunity
Over the past five days, a string of events pushed the "credit union" name into the spotlight on the websites of 10 suburban daily newspapers across Southern California—a phenomenon revealing how media conglomerates operate today, and how credit unions fit into this crowded and emerging picture.
NEVADA CREDIT UNION LEADER PASSES updated
More Information to Follow
The California and Nevada Credit Union Leagues received word that Doug Schwartz, President and CEO of Elko Federal Credit Union (EFCU), was struck by a car yesterday in Elko, Nevada and passed away early Thursday. Details are still being investigated.
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Help FIs Evaluate Opportunities
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CUs CONVERGE ON ECONOMY AND STRATEGY updated
Forecast, Discussion, and Ideas
How can credit unions prepare for 2017 given so many "what if" scenarios on the economy, interest rates, labor force, household demographics, political environment, and consumers?
DIVERSITY: GOOD INVESTMENT FOR CUs updated
Latest Issue of "The NCUA Report"
In the latest issue of the National Credit Union Administration's (NCUA) monthly newsletter, an article by the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion outlines how diversity leads to better service, greater innovation and increased membership. These outcomes make credit unions stronger and more sustainable, and ultimately lead to greater strength for the entire credit union system.
CA CUs SURPASS $100B LENDING MARK updated
Auto Market Under the Microscope
California credit unions just hit a record: they surpassed the $100 billion lending milestone for the first time ever, with used auto loans making a superstar appearance during this historical moment.
FEDERATION AND EQUIFAX PARTNER updated
Launch Financial Capability Center
The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (Federation) and Equifax Inc. announced a partnership to build the Westside Financial Capability Center. The Center will provide the Atlanta Westside community with affordable banking, alternatives to payday loans, affordable home mortgages, and a suite of financial services designed to empower residents to achieve their financial goals. The search for a physical site has narrowed to several options that will allow the Center to function in coordination with Atlanta area credit unions, community stakeholders and service providers. Equifax has committed $450,000 through 2018 in support of the Center which is scheduled to open in early 2017.
TWO LARGE CALIFORNIA CUs TO MERGE updated
N. Island Financial CU & Calif. CU
Two California credit unions—the $1.24-billion North Island Financial CU and the $1.6-billion California CU—announced plans to merge.
'JUNTOS AVANZAMOS' ADVANCES FORWARD updated
Kinecta FCU Becomes 6th in CA
Kinecta FCU and its affiliate, NIX Neighborhood Lending, were recently recognized by the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions and the California Credit Union League with the "Juntos Avanzamos" (Together We Advance) certification—a branding initiative helping credit unions become the preferred financial resource for local organizations serving underserved Hispanic immigrants.
MEETING WITH NCUA REGION V DIRECTOR updated
Freed Committed to Fair Process
Today in Sacramento, local credit union leaders met with National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Region V Director, Cherie Freed, who succeeds Liz Whitehead.
DEFENSE CREDIT UNION COUNCIL LIAISON updated
McWatters Named to Represent NCUA
At the request of NCUA Board Chairman Rick Metsger, Board Member J. Mark McWatters will serve as the National Credit Union Administration's liaison to the Defense Credit Union Council.The agency is committed to supporting service members and hiring veterans.
RMJ LAUNCHES 'BITE OF REALITY' APP updated
Modernizes, Streamlines Program
The Richard Myles Johnson Foundation recently rolled out an app for its successful Bite of Reality program. The app— believed to be the first of its kind for a credit union-sponsored reality fair program—modernizes Bite of Reality, making it more relatable to young people.
DECISION ENGINE TECHNOLOGY updated
Get The Most Out of Your Technology
May is an awkward month. It's as if it is not sure exactly what it wants to be. Somedays in May are more like April; some are more like June. Perhaps that is where we got the word "May"-be? But, one thing that is certain about May is that it is the month of graduation ceremonies, and much like the month itself, graduates are at that awkward point in life, where the future is not quite certain.
MOUNTAIN WEST JOINS 'PLEXCITY' updated
CU Association is 6th Shared Owner
Mountain West Credit Union Association is purchasing a shared-ownership stake in Plexcity for information technology, accounting/finance, and human resource solutions, adding to the Ontario, CA-based company's unique story of growing collaboration between credit union trade associations since January 2015.
CONNECTING WITH MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS updated
Matrícula Consular Online Seminar June 9
Lack of identification is one of the biggest barriers for Hispanic immigrants to access affordable financial services. RSVP for a Juntos Avanzamos online seminar on using the Matrícula Consular to reach unbanked Mexican immigrants. Learn how to use the Matricula Consular as a safe, effective way to open savings and checking accounts.
SUMMER IMPACT OPPORTUNITY FOR CUs updated
$21M Toward Jobs For Young People
Federal government leaders are working hand in hand with local stakeholders to craft solutions that harness resources across multiple agencies in response to local needs and priorities. Since 2009, more than fifteen Federal agencies have launched dozens of initiatives and partnerships with over 1,800 rural, tribal and urban communities. Federal leaders are working across agency lines and offering hands-on support to build local capacity, provide expertise, and unlock resources to help community leaders achieve their goals.
'IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO' updated
CFO Professional of the Year
Most new ideas aren't necessarily new, according to Susan Gruber. They are old concepts with a new twist, and they can have great potential.
WHY ONE SMALL CU RANKS BIG IN TECH updated
Behind United Catholics FCU
No one was perhaps more surprised to learn her credit union ranked No. 1 on MagnifyMoney's most recently published list of "most digitally savvy" U.S. credit unions than Lucy Sloan.
FINANCIAL CAPABILITY COLLOQUIUM updated
Measuring Credit Unions' Impact
Nearly 30 leaders and professionals came together last week at the first Financial Capability Colloquium to discuss how to collectively and effectively measure the individual financial literacy efforts that their credit unions and organizations routinely implement within their communities, and how to use these measurements to tell a powerful story that will resonate with the public.
METSGER APPOINTED NCUA BOARD CHAIR updated
Plus, CFPB on Arbitration and TRID
President Barack Obama has appointed National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Vice Chairman Rick Metsger to be the ninth chairman of the NCUA Board of Directors, succeeding outgoing Board Chairman Debbie Matz, whose service ended April 30.
TV INVESTIGATION SPOTLIGHTS 'PACE' updated
Protecting Consumers Becomes Crucial
A TV news station in Los Angeles has captured a clear example of consumer protection issues stemming from the "PACE" lending program (Property Assessed Clean Energy) in just one instance of how it is proving financially harmful to homeowners and credit union members across California.


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This is an independent report regarding Greenwood Management and its operations in Brazil. This report was prepared prior to the establishment of some of the company's forestry investment in Brazil.
Focusing on the establishment of eucalyptus farm forestry crops on land owned by Greenwood management in the state of Bahia, Brazil this report uses commercial forestry models projected expected growth and yields for the tree crops grown using site specific date including meteorological data, soil data, and current growth and yields being achieved in the region. Greenwood Management started the establishment of its first forestry investments in the region in 2009 with the acquisition of several key sites centered around its operating base in the region.
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Here come the big boys
The records are gaudy. The star power is high.
Here come the NFL's big boys.
Denver, Atlanta, New England and San Francisco host divisional playoff
games this weekend. They're a combined 49-14-1, and their rosters are
filled with such headline grabbers as Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Tony Gonzalez and Patrick Willis.
Their home-field advantages could be formidable, too. The Broncos, who
have won 11 straight games, and Falcons each went 7-1; the 49ers were
6-1-1 and the Patriots 6-2.
None of which makes the Ravens, Seahawks, Texans or Packers quake in
their cleats.
"That's not in my mind at all going up to Denver," said the Ravens' Joe Flacco, the only quarterback to win a playoff game in his first five
seasons. "We feel confident, and I think we should."
Baltimore at Denver opens the weekend's action, followed by Green Bay
at San Francisco on Saturday night.
Sunday, Seattle is at Atlanta, then Houston goes to New England.
Ravens (11-6) at Broncos (13-3)
For all those impressive numbers, here's a baffling one: four-time
league Manning is a mere 9-10 in postseason games. Those wins and
losses were compiled with the Colts, with whom he never had a defense
like the one the Broncos possess.
That defense made a big difference when Denver won 34-17 at Baltimore
in Week 15. A 98-yard interception return by Chris Harris at the end of
the first half turned it into a rout.
"I really haven't made a whole lot of comparisons, but our defense has
been outstanding all year," Manning said. "Our offense has fed off of
our defense. I think that's one of the best things this team has done.
If the offense was in a rut, defense picked us up. The defense was
bending a little bit, the offense picked them up. That's what you've
got to have, to me, as a team."
The Manning-Ray Lewis matchups through the years have been intriguing,
and this will be the final one. Baltimore's emotional leader announced
his retirement days before he had 13 tackles in his last home game, a
24-9 wild-card victory over Indianapolis.
"They are always classic," Lewis said. "It's just one of those chess
matches. He knows me very well. I know him very well. ... But at the
end of the day, it's not about me and me and Peyton. It's about their
team against our team. I love our team right now."
Packers (12-5) at 49ers (11-4-1)
Another rematch, but from so long ago: San Francisco won 30-22 in the
opener, at Lambeau Field.
The Packers have the edge in this postseason series, 4-1. They would
seem to have the edge on offense with top-rated passer Aaron Rodgers
and a deep crew of receivers.
And the Niners would have the advantage on defense, having yielded 63
fewer points in the regular season.
A key will be whether Green Bay, which beat Minnesota 24-10 last week,
can protect Rodgers after allowing 51 sacks. The 49ers' Aldon Smith had
19 1-2 himself.
"We understand that it's going to be up to us to keep Aaron clean, let
him make some plays back there in the pocket," left guard T.J Lang
said. "That's going to be a huge factor in how this game turns out."
Seahawks (12-5) at Falcons (13-3)
Those road woes that plagued the Seahawks can be forgotten. They've won
three in a row away from home, including the 24-14 wild-card victory at
Washington that was their first on the road in the playoffs since 1983.
With six straight wins overall, they're a confident bunch as they head
to the Georgia Dome.
"We've grown and become more together and more in tune with our QB and
what he can do and all that," Carroll said, referring to rookie Russell Wilson. "We're a pretty hard team to beat right now."
Atlanta has been easy to beat in its last three playoff appearances,
something quarterback Matt Ryan dismisses as a factor for this game.
"We've proven we can go out there and be successful. You have to buy
into that. You have to believe in that. I feel more comfortable with
the guys around me."
Texans (13-4) at Patriots (12-4)
Yet another rematch, this from Dec. 10 when the Texans flopped in
Foxborough, 42-10. That was the beginning of a fade in which they
dropped three of four and sank from top AFC seed to No. 3.
Houston recovered somewhat last week in a 19-13 wild-card victory over
Cincinnati. This is a much tougher task.
"If you want to move on, you've got to bring a sense of attitude and
nastiness with you to go out and dominate your opponent on every play,"
said QB Matt Schaub, who got his first postseason win last week.
Tom Brady has 16 postseason wins and needs one win to break a tie with
Joe Montana.
"He's won a lot of regular-season games, won a lot of playoff games,"
coach Bill Belichick said. "What he does on a day-to-day basis, how he
performs on the practice field, how he performs in games — whether
they're preseason, regular season, postseason, whatever it is — he's
pretty consistent. I think you see that during the week, so it shows up
on Sunday."
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