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Maple Research Collection
Collection Overview
This collection documents the history of maple research at the University of Vermont. Included in the collection is a selection of photographs from the archives of the Proctor Maple Research Center (PMRC), a field station of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Vermont (UVM), and the first permanent maple research facility in the United States. The photographs, taken between 1948-1957, document the construction of the field station's first sugarhouse, as well as the PMRC sugar bush and early maple experiments. Also included in the collection are the published University of Vermont Agricultural Extension bulletins on maple research (1890-1988), taken from both the Proctor Maple Research Center archive and the University of Vermont Libraries Department of Special Collections.
Maple research in Vermont has a long history, dating back to the early 1890s, when C. H. (Charles Howard) Jones, head of the UVM Agricultural Experiment Station and a prominent early maple sugar chemist, conducted seminal research on the biology of maple trees to better understand the sap flow mechanism and its dependence on meteorological changes, as well as the considerable variance in sap sugar content.
In 1946, James Marvin and Fred Taylor founded the Proctor Maple Research Center with a donation by Governor Mortimer Proctor of the former "Harvey Farm" in Underhill Center, Vermont, to UVM. For the first year of operation, research on sap flow, maple tree physiology, and the economics of maple production were conducted in an 8' x 12' shed. In 1948, the first sugarhouse was constructed to allow research on syrup production techniques, followed several years later by the C.H. Jones Laboratory (which served as the primary research laboratory until it burned down in 1998).
Through the years, the PMRC has had its fair share of prominent maple researchers, scientists and educators, including Frederick Laing, whose research helped develop and improve methods of installing plastic tubing and directed improvements in using vacuum pumps to increase sap yields, and Mariafranca Morselli, who brought a greater understanding to the role of microorganisms in determining syrup grade, as well as developing methods to detect adulteration of maple syrup by adding other sugars.
In 1999, the PMRC was named to the National Register of Historic Places, and today houses facilities that include an 8,000 square foot laboratory and a demonstration and research sugarhouse, as well as the original research shed.
Time Period Covered: 1890 - 1988
Published: February 10, 2010, University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections
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Over the past few months, Julia, our tea buyer, has been working hard to refine and focus our tea selection. Among the companies she works with is Dammann Frères, an impressive, third-generation French company that specializes in blending fine, loose leaf teas.
We just received in a shipment from Dammann Frères and asked Julia to share her top five picks with us. A lot of difficult decision-making was involved but, ultimately, she narrowed down her picks to the below – a selection of teas that encompass a variety of styles, flavor profiles and countries of origin.
High Mountain Jin Xuan Oolong (Taiwan) – This rare oolong is from tea leaves sourced in the Guantou Mountains and harvested from plantations surrounded by primeval forest. This tea is sourced from a tea plant called Jin Xuan or "Golden Lily." The natural aroma is floral and milky with a delicate flavor of chestnuts.
Japon Genmaicha (Kagoshima, Japan) – This tea is a mixture of Bancha (a late harvest Sencha) green tea, roasted rice and popped corn kernels. It has a slightly sweet and grassy liquor. A perfect tea with sushi.
Yunnan Celeste TGFOP (Yunnan, China) – These shoots – tawny, twisted and downy – give a rich liquor without bitterness. With lingering aromas of wood, spices, malt and honey, it is ideal in the afternoon or with a dessert.
China Imperial d'Or (China) – This tea is a blend of orange pekoes and Souchongs of China which are delicately smoked. Blended with silver tips and jasmine petals. It has a lightly smoked and floral finish. An excellent tea for the afternoon.
Pu-erh Cang Yuan (Yunnan, China) – Native to the Cang Yuan region in the southwest area of the Yunnan province, this dark tea with compact leaves gives a dark, intense liquor with punctuating high notes. The infusion is well-rounded revealing woody, earthy nuances.
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As a general rule, Dammann Frères advises using one teaspoon of tea per cup. And, if you are brewing a pot, follow the same ratio but add one extra spoonful for the pot.
Recommended steeping times for teas vary but generally range somewhere between 2 to 5 minutes. Ultimately, however, the decision comes down to personal taste – if you like a strong brew, try steeping a little longer each time you make a cup until you find your optimal strength and flavor profile.
The team at Dammann Frères advise against giving your teapot a thorough scrubbing as repeated use will allow the pot to season (much like a cast iron pan), enhancing the flavor of your brew. Instead, simply rinse your teapot with fresh water.
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Evolutionary stone
- For the Oval Stone, see evolution-inducing held item. For the Eviolite, see in-battle effect item.
An evolutionary stone (Japanese: 進化の石 Evolution stone) is a stone-like item that radiates a mysterious energy that causes some species of Pokémon to evolve.
Another stone, the Everstone, is different in that radiates a type of energy that prevents evolution in the holders; however, if a Pokémon holding the Everstone has an evolutionary stone used on it, it will still evolve.
Evolutionary stones may be used at any time, and cause instant evolution in the Pokémon they are used on, which cannot be canceled. With the exception of the Everstone, which must be held for its effects to take place, all evolutionary stones are applied directly to the Pokémon. All stones that cause evolution in a Pokémon are consumed upon that Pokémon's evolution.
The use of a stone is seen by many to be "forced" evolution, especially by the main characters of the anime, as the Pokémon is not in charge of its own transformation. Many Pokémon that result from a stone-based evolution also have vastly different level-up learnsets than their pre-evolutionary forms, with several learning no moves after evolution at all.
List of stones
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|This item was featured in the TCG.
In the anime
Evolutionary stones are showcased somewhat rarely in the anime, as only a relative few Pokémon are able to evolve by using them. Despite this, they were among the earliest of items to have been showcased in the anime, appearing as early as Clefairy and the Moon Stone, where a rather large Moon Stone appeared deep within Mt. Moon. It was being worshipped by a group of Clefairy who lived there, and was soon stolen by Team Rocket and ended up being blown up. The shards from it, however, rained down on the Clefairy and caused some of them to evolve. It is also speculated in the anime that the Moon Stone was the reason why and how various Pokémon—Clefairy in particular—arrived in the Pokémon world.
The second appearance of an evolutionary stone occurred in The Electric Shock Showdown, where the Thunderstone was introduced. This was likewise the first opportunity that a Pokémon belonging to a main character was given to evolve by stone. Ash's Pikachu, however, refused the offer, intending to beat Lt. Surge's Raichu as a Pikachu. He kept the Thunderstone on hand, in case Pikachu ever wanted to evolve; however, in Pika and Goliath!, the same scenario occurred and Pikachu still refused to evolve. Seeing his determination of not evolving, Team Rocket stole it, planning to sell it.
The remaining Generation I evolutionary stones made their debut in The Battling Eevee Brothers, as part of a collection held by the Eevee brothers. Additionally, two of the Eevee brothers offered a Fire Stone and Thunderstone to Brock and Ash, respectively, to evolve their Vulpix and Pikachu, though both refused.
A forest that appeared in The March of the Exeggutor Squad, was a reported hotbed of Leaf Stones, and the radiation from these stones in the forest was so strong as to induce evolution in Melvin's Exeggcute, which proceeded to cause chaos by hypnotizing a horde of other Exeggutor.
A fake Leaf Stone, made by Team Rocket, appeared in Make Room for Gloom, where the discovery of its nature as a fake was central to the episode.
A real Leaf Stone finally appeared at the very end of Pikachu's Rescue Adventure. With it, the Exeggcute that had been following Misty's Togepi around evolved into Exeggutor.
Ash won a Sun Stone in the Bug-Catching Contest during The Bug Stops Here, later using it to evolve a Sunkern in Moving Pictures.
Fire Stones played an important role in The Stolen Stones!, where they were intended to be delivered to a stadium to be used as a prize for competitors there.
Both the Leaf Stone and Sun Stone appear in Whichever Way the Wind Blows as a demonstration of the branch in Gloom's evolutionary line.
The Water Stone appears in Once in a Mawile and is used by Brock's Lombre to evolve into Ludicolo. This is the first time that a main character's Pokémon evolves via an evolutionary stone on-screen, although it is likely that James's Weepinbell was evolved by way of a Leaf Stone prior to The Breeding Center Secret.
A Moon Stone appeared in a flashback in Delcatty Got Your Tongue?, evolving Dr. Abby's Skitty into a Delcatty.
In Stopped in the Name of Love!, Dawn gave an Everstone to her Piplup to prevent him from evolving until he wants to.
Professor Oak gave a Water Stone to a wild Lombre in A Faux Oak Finish!, while a Dusk Stone was central to the plot of Try for the Family Stone!.
Ursula used a Fire Stone and a Water Stone to evolve her two Eevee in Last Call, First Round!, making them a Flareon and Vaporeon, for use in the Grand Festival.
Ash had to find a Thunderstone as part of a scavenger hunt in Climbing the Tower of Success!. He came across a young man in possession of one who tried to toss it to him from a long distance. The Thunderstone nearly came in contact with Pikachu but he jumped out of the way just in time leaving Ash to catch it.
Evolutionary stones do not seem to be required for evolution in the anime as they are in the games. James's second Weepinbell evolved without a Leaf Stone in Here's Lookin' at You, Elekid, though this may just be an example of anime physics. In addition, Pokémon that evolve via proximity of evolutionary stones apparently seem to control their evolutionary urges and physically touch the stone without evolving, as evidenced by Pikachu whacking away the Thunderstone when refusing to evolve the first time, as well as a Clefairy holding onto a Moon Stone for prolonged periods of time before delivering it to the larger Moon Stone without evolving.
Pokédex entries
Pyro backed by a Fire Stone in The Battling Eevee Brothers!
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Sparky backed by a Thunderstone in The Battling Eevee Brothers!
Rainer backed by a Water Stone in The Battling Eevee Brothers!
A Water Stone in A Faux Oak Finish!
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Ash's Thunderstone in Pika and Goliath!
A Leaf Stone in Pikachu's Rescue Adventure
Seymour inspects a Moon Stone in Clefairy and the Moon Stone
The Sun Stone that Ash won in The Bug Stops Here
The Dusk Stone in Try for the Family Stone!.
The Everstone that Dawn gave to Piplup in Stopped in the Name of Love!
In the manga
In The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga
In Clefairy Tale, Ash, Professor Oak, and Bill witness a Clefairy evolution ceremony involving a large Moon Stone.
The focus of the chapter To Evolve or Not to Evolve, That Is the Question! is evolutionary stones. Misty hopes to buy a Water Stone for her Poliwhirl in Stone Town, a town on Dream Island where all the evolutionary stones in the Pokémon world come from. However, she cannot afford one, remarking that an inexpensive one might make the evolution go bad.
She is later given a Water Stone by Mikey, who is being pressured to join the Knights of the "E" Stone, a club which requires members to own a Pokémon evolved by an evolutionary stone. By battling club members, Ash and Mikey prove to the leaders that Pokémon which have evolved by evolutionary stone are not necessarily superior to their unevolved counterparts.
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
In the Red, Green & Blue chapter, a Moon Stone is first mentioned by Professor Oak in Gyarados Splashes In! as a rock with a crescent moon-shaped indentation that boosts a Pokémon's power immensely. In the next round, Raging Rhydon, Team Rocket searches for one in Mt. Moon, however it is Red who finds it. Later on, Red uses this Moon Stone to evolve Green's Clefairy during the Silph Co. catastrophe. Additionally, Red's Poliwhirl was able to evolve into a Poliwrath with the help of a Water Stone when they were thrown in the water.
In the Yellow chapter, Yellow finds a Leaf Stone in Vermilion Harbor in The Kindest Tentacruel, but the Fire, Thunder, and Water Stones are missing. Later, it is revealed Giovanni gave them to Red so he could evolve and devolve his Eevee freely.
In the Gold, Silver & Crystal chapter, Gold's Sunkern evolves into a Sunflora because the sun's energy reflected off of the rocks near Ilex Forest replicated the Sun Stone's effects.
In the Ruby & Sapphire chapter, Ruby's Skitty evolves into a Delcatty in VS. Mawile due to being exposed to one of Steven's Moon Stones.
In the Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure! manga
In (Violent) Earthquake! Cyrus's Consuming Ambition!!, it is revealed that Mitsumi secretly attached an Everstone to Hareta's Piplup before he started his journey. She thought Hareta would learn faster with weaker Pokémon, and removed it. Piplup immediately evolved into Prinplup, then into Empoleon.
In the TCG
The Moon Stone and Dusk Stone are featured in the Pokémon Trading Card Game on a Trainer card and on Pokémon cards as held items. These held items work in the same fashion as Poké-Bodies, in that the effect the item provides is active whenever the Pokémon is in play. The following is a list of cards named or including Moon Stone or Dusk Stone.
| Evolutionary stone cards
Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format.
Cards listed with a silver background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
| English
| Japanese
|Moon Stone
|Extended Sheet 1
|Pokémon cards with evolutionary stones as held items
| English
| Japanese
|Secret Wonders
|Shining Darkness
|Secret Wonders
|Shining Darkness
These are artwork of the items as seen in the Pokémon Dream World.
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|Fire Stone
|Water Stone
|Leaf Stone
|Moon Stone
|Sun Stone
|Shiny Stone
|Dusk Stone
|Dawn Stone
- Of all Pokémon that evolve by evolutionary stone, only Eevee and Gloom can use multiple ones; together they can use any of the stones introduced before Generation IV except for the Moon Stone.
- Only four Pokémon that evolve by stone can evolve using another method: Poliwhirl, Eevee, Kirlia, and Snorunt.
- Only Grass-type Pokémon evolve using the Leaf Stone and Sun Stone, and all of the Pokémon that evolve using the Sun Stone evolve into pure Grass-types.
- Simisage is the only Pokémon evolved via Leaf Stone which does not have dual-typing.
- The Oval Stone is sometimes considered an evolutionary stone, and can even be selected to be used like one. However, unlike other evolutionary stones, the Oval Stone does not evolve any Pokémon when it is used on them. It must instead be held and the Pokémon leveled up, making it an evolution-inducing held item.
- All Pokémon that evolve with the Fire Stone are in the Field Egg Group, and all the Pokémon that evolve with the Sun Stone are in the Grass Egg Group.
- Through a glitch in the Generation I games, Pokémon can be evolved without the use of a stone, provided that the player has sent out the correct Pokémon in the same battle that a Pokémon that evolves using a stone levels up.
- Because of an oversight in the Generation IV games, a Kadabra holding an Everstone will still evolve when traded.
- The Dawn Stone induces evolution in only two Pokémon species, Kirlia and Snorunt, the least of any stone.
- This also makes it currently the only stone that only evolves Pokémon introduced in a single generation, as Kirlia and Snorunt were both introduced in Generation III.
- Both of them only evolve via Dawn Stone if they are a certain gender and can evolve into a different Pokémon using a different method.
- Both of the evolved forms from the Dawn Stone gain a secondary type.
- It is also the only stone not to gain a new use in Generation V.
- As of Generation V, the Fire Stone is the only one not used in a three-stage evolutionary line.
- The Sun Stone and Moon Stone share their names with actual gemstones.
- Generation III and Generation V are the only generations where an evolutionary stone is not introduced.
- Both these generations introduced a new Pokémon to evolve with Leaf Stone, Water Stone, and Moon Stone.
- Though six Pokémon evolve with the Moon Stone, only four of them can be legitimately owned inside a Moon Ball: Skitty is only available in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver through trade or via Pokéwalker, and Munna was not introduced until Generation V, where the Moon Ball is not available to be used.
| Repels • Evolutionary stones • Fossils • Flutes • Shards • Held items
Escape items • Exchangeable items • Valuable items • Legendary artifacts
| Potions • Status condition healing items • Revives
Ethers • Vitamins • Wings • Drinks • Herbal medicine
|Berries and Apricorns
|Poké Balls • Berries • Mulch • Apricorns
| Decorations • Accessories • Backdrops • Props • Décor
Clothing • Fashion items
|Mail • Battle items • Key Items • Event items
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Antidiabetic Agents/Gatifloxacin Interactions
This information is generalized and not intended as specific medical advice. Consult your healthcare professional before taking or discontinuing any drug or commencing any course of treatment.
Medical warning:
Serious. These medicines may interact and cause very harmful effects. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.
How the interaction occurs:
How this interaction occurs is not known.
What might happen:
Using gatifloxacin with your diabetes medicine may cause your blood sugar to be too low or too high.
What you should do about this interaction:
Let your healthcare professionals (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) know that you are taking these medicines together. Your doctor may want you to check your blood sugar more often while taking your antibiotic. If you experience a sudden onset of chills, cold sweat, blurred vision, dizziness, drowsiness, shaking, rapid heart rate, weakness, headache, fainting, tingling of the hands or feet, or hunger, check your blood sugar (if possible) and treat yourself for low blood sugar by eating a quick source of glucose such as glucose tablets or gel, table sugar, honey, candy, orange juice, or non-diet soda. Stop using your antibiotic and contact your doctor right away.If you experience pale skin, blurred vision, loss of consciousness, increased thirst, increased urination, fatigue, or fast, deep breathing, check your blood sugar, stop using your antibiotic and contact your doctor right away.Your healthcare professionals may already be aware of this interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.
- 1.Tequin (gatifloxacin) US prescribing information. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company January, 2006.
- 2.Dear Canadian Healthcare Professional letter: Subject: Updated safety information for TEQUIN (gatifloxacin) and serious hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia. Bristol-Myers Squibb Canada May 12, 2006.
- 3.Letourneau G, Morrison B, McMorran M. Gatifloxacin (Tequin): hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia. Canadian Adverse Reaction Newsletter 2003 Jul; 13(2):1-2.
- 4.Lewis-Hall F. Dear Healthcare Provider letter. Bristol-Myers Squibb February 15, 2006.
- 5.LeBlanc M, Belanger C, Cossette P. Severe and resistant hypoglycemia associated with concomitant gatifloxacin and glyburide therapy. Pharmacotherapy 2004 Jul;24(7):926-31.
- 6.Bhasin R, Arce FC, Pasmantier R. Hypoglycemia associated with the use of gatifloxacin. Am J Med Sci 2005 Nov;330(5):250-3.
- 7.Kesavadev J, Rasheed SA. Gatifloxacin induced abnormalities in glucose homeostasis in a patient on glimepiride. J Assoc Physicians India 2006 Dec;54:951-2.
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After the JD - Wave 1: A Longitudinal Study of Legal Careers in Transition Data Collection: May 2002-May 2003, United States (ICPSR 26302)
Principal Investigator(s): Garth, Bryant G., Southwestern Law School, and American Bar Foundation; Sterling, Joyce, University of Denver. Sturm College of Law; Sander, Richard, University of California-Los Angeles. School of Law
The After the JD project is designed to be a longitudinal study, seeking to follow a sample of approximately 10 percent of all the individuals who became lawyers in the year of 2000. This study aims to track the professional lives of more than 5,000 lawyers during their first 10 years after law school. Wave 1 of the After the JD study was launched in May 2002. The sample includes new lawyers from 18 legal markets -- ranging from the 4 largest markets (New York City, District of Columbia, Chicago, and Los Angeles) to 14 other areas consisting of small metropolitan areas to entire states. Some of the topics that the study seeks to examine are: (1) Demographic characteristics; (2) financing of legal education; (3) law school and the transition to practice; (4) practice settings within which lawyers work; (5) distribution of income across the profession; (6) dimensions of satisfaction; (7) mobility and turnover. Respondents were asked to give information concerning their employment status, job responsibilities, professional skills, job support, job satisfaction, and job discrimination. Information was sought about respondents' workplace characteristics, employment details, areas of practice, clientele, billing hours, job history, judicial clerkships, bar admission, alternate career considerations, and job offers. Opinions were collected about what respondents thought the most important factors were in obtaining a job offer and their first job, in determining which sector to begin their professional career, and in choosing an employer. Further questions asked about political participation and participation in social and community organizations. A number of questions were asked about respondents' undergraduate education, their transition to law school and decision to attend law school, their law school education and activities, their educational financing and debt, and their transition to their legal career. Demographic variables include sex, race, age, marital status, household makeup, personal income, household income, spouses' occupation, political party affiliation, parent's nationality, parent's education, parent's occupation when the respondent was in high school, and whether anyone in the respondent's family was a lawyer.
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Study Description
Garth, Bryant G., Joyce Sterling, and Richard Sander. After the JD - Wave 1: A Longitudinal Study of Legal Careers in Transition Data Collection: May 2002-May 2003, United States. ICPSR26302-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-08-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR26302.v2
Persistent URL: https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR26302.v2
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This study was funded by:
- American Bar Foundation
- Access Group, Inc.
- Law School Admission Council
- National Association for Law Placement
- Open Society Foundations
- National Science Foundation (0115521)
Scope of Study
Subject Terms: activism, attorneys, career choice, careers, debt, economic indicators, education costs, educational background, employment discrimination, family background, income, job expectations, job history, job opportunities, job satisfaction, job security, job skills, job training, law school students, occupational mobility, political participation, student financial aid, time utilization, training, undergraduate programs, work environment, workplaces
Geographic Coverage: United States
- 2002-05--2003-05
- 2002-05-20--2003-05-30
Unit of Observation: individual
Universe: Persons who first became members of a state bar in the year 2000, and who graduated from law school in the period July 1, 1998, through June 30, 2000, in the United States.
The variable ASU_ID is an ID linking variable for Wave 1 and Wave 2 of the After the JD study.
The second wave of the After the JD project was completed between 2007 and 2008 (see ICPSR 33584); the third wave should be completed about 10 years into the respondents' careers.
Additional information about this project is available on the After the JD Web site.
Sample: The After the JD study utilizes a two-stage scientific sampling approach, first selecting among metropolitan areas (or non-metropolitan portions of states) to obtain a wide geographic and population size distribution of geographic areas, and second, selecting individuals who meet individual eligibility criteria. In the first stage, the nation was divided into 18 strata by region and size of the new lawyer population. Within each stratum one primary sampling unit (PSU) -- metropolitan area, portion of a state outside large metropolitan areas, or entire state -- was selected. The PSU's included all 4 major markets, those with more than 2000 new lawyers (Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, DC); 5 of the 9 large markets, those with between 750 and 2,000 lawyers; and 9 of the remaining smaller markets. In the second stage, individuals were sampled from each of the PSU's at rates that would, combined, generalize to the national population. Additionally, an oversample of 1,465 new lawyers from minority groups (Black, Hispanic, and Asian American) was added. The final sample included just over 9,192 lawyers in the 18 PSU's.
Weight: This study contains three weight variables: awt_nat_nr, awt_min_nr, and awt_comb_nr. Wave 1 awt_nat_nr (N=32,895) National Sample Selection Probability Weight adjusted for non-response. Weight should be used with the National Sample Cases when making estimates of the characteristics. Wave 1 awt_min_nr (N=3,530) Minority Sample Selection Probability Weight adjusted for non-response. Weight should be used when making estimates of the characteristics of minority persons. Wave 1 awt_comb_nr (N=32,436) Joint National/Minority Sample Selection Probability Weight adjusted for non-response weight takes into account the possibility that an individual could be selected into both the National and Minority Samples, thus it adjusts for the probability of dual selection.
Mode of Data Collection: mail questionnaire, telephone interview, web-based survey
Response Rates: The number of eligible individuals for After the JD Wave 1 was 4,538, which equals a response rate of 71 percent.
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Election 2012: Mica Sees No Status Quo
Credit union consultant and lobbyist Dan Mica isn't well known for going against the grain, but the Washington veteran said Wednesday he disagrees with political pundits who say the 2012 election results produced a status quo result.
"I don't see a status quo at all, I see a brand new ball game," said Mica, a former Florida congressman and longtime CUNA president/CEO.
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Republicans in Congress pushed an obstructionist agenda because they were hoping for a new congress with greater party control, and control of the White House, he said. Additionally, although party control of the two Capitol Hill chambers and the executive branch didn't change, there are still a number of new players. Mica pointed out that 11% of the U.S. Senate will be new members and the House experienced 10% turnover.
"Add that to the 94 new members from 2010, and although some were defeated this year, you still have more than 100 members who are first or second term," he said.
Additionally, the former congressman likened the experience of a tough campaign to post traumatic stress syndrome, saying nobody "comes out of a campaign the same way you came in."
Those changes could mean positive traction for credit union issues, he said. Mica said he thinks S. 2231, which would raise the member business lending cap to 27.5% of assets, will likely be attached to another piece of legislation as Congress turns away from its obstructionist strategy.
"I think there are a number of vehicles it could be attached to," he said of the coming lame duck session. "The word I've heard over the last week from representatives of both parties is that it's better to get the most contentious issues out of the way in a lame duck, rather than hold it over your head for another two years."
Mica said that means senators who hesitated to commit to member business lending legislation for fear of alienating banker support may "make peace" with credit unions. And, Democrats may make a statement against Republicans, who received overwhelming support from the banking lobby, particularly at the presidential level.
The economy might also get a boost from election results, as Congress tackles the federal budget and fiscal cliff issues.
"I think we're one budget deal away from a thriving economy," Mica said. And, he added, credit unions are well positioned to benefit from a robust economy, flush with new members and perhaps new legislation that will allow them to grow member business loans.


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one in five of its rental locations. While traditional movie
rental stores like Blockbuster appear to be on the way out, Redbox
and its kiosk business is growing and looking to expand. Redbox
added game
rentals in some markets and is now adding
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it is putting Blu-ray titles into 13,300 of its kiosks across the
country. The Blu-ray titles will rent for $1.50 per night compared to
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As we close the books on 2012 and move into 2013, a number of significant issues are looming that will shape financial planners, their practices and the profession in the year to come. Perhaps the most apparent issue is the one that generated the most intensity in 2012 yet was never resoloved: the ongoing debates regarding the implementation of a uniform fiduciary standard for financial advisors, and which regulator will be responsible for increasing the oversight of investment advisors.
These issues—under Dodd-Frank Sections 913 and 914—will become hot topics again in 2013, as the SEC has committed to moving both toward a resolution, and the Department of Labor is also anticipated to (re-)release its own new fiduciary rules for 2013. This will be an intense year for financial advisor regulation.
Beyond what's on the regulatory horizon, though, two other significant issues loom for 2013. The first is a wave of change in the software and technology that advisors use, as tablets are rapidly becoming so mainstream that already the majority of advisors are using one... and soon the majority of all Americans will be, too. The bad news is that means a great deal of pressure is coming for advisors to improve their software, systems, and practices to accommodate the use of tablet computers. The good news is that this in turn may lead not only to dramatic improvements in the efficiency of the office and the experience for clients, but also that a wider base of tablet users attracts more software developers and providers to innovate and create even more new solutions and improvements.
The final issue for 2013—one that may well turn out to be both the biggest and the one for which advisors are least prepared—is the establishment later this year of health insurance exchanges and the need for clients to choose what health insurance they will purchase for 2014, or pay a penalty.
The sheer numbers involved in implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), popularly known as Obamacare, are daunting and almost overwhelming, as there are nearly 50 million uninsured Americans who must by the end of the year go through a process to purchase health insurance. They must also do so from a series of state insurance exchanges, or ones run in the state by the federal government, that don't even exist yet!
I suspect we will find that when the books are closed on 2013 a year from now, we'll be stunned by the volume of work that will have been done guiding clients through this health insurance transition period.
In this series of blogs we'll take a deep dive into each of these three issues. In this first post, we'll focus on the fiduciary and SRO issues emanating Dodd-Frank.
The SEC's Fiduciary Rulemaking
2013 is increasingly shaping up to be a major and possibly deciding year for the ongoing debates regarding the application of a uniform fiduciary standard on financial advisors (pursuant to Section 913 of the Dodd-Frank legislation) along with a potential change in the regulatory oversight for investment advisors (the so-called "SRO debate") for the purposes of increasing the frequency of RIA exams (under Section 914 of Dodd-Frank). The battle lines for the issues have largely been drawn at this point, so it's more a matter of moving forward with implementing actual rules.
Regarding a uniform fiduciary standard, the SEC's Section 913 study has been out for two years now, which did recommend that the SEC should move forward with rulemaking. The challenge, however, has been determining exactly how this uniform fiduciary standard should be written (do we need to write a new set of rules to define fiduciary in this context? Can we apply the fiduciary duty as defined by statute and case law under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940?), as well as how widely it should apply (to all registered representatives and investment adviser representatives, or some subset?).
Notably, Section 913(g)(1) of Dodd-Frank does stipulate that the uniform fiduciary standard should be "no less stringer than the standard applicable to investment advisers", but on the other hand that same section of the legislation also directed the new fiduciary rule to be as business-model neutral as possible. Furthermore, it reads that "the receipt of compensation based on commission or fees shall not, in and of itself, be considered a violation of such standard applied to a broker, dealer, or investment adviser."
This looming question of how to craft an appropriate fiduciary standard that meets all these requirements has been, to say the least, a sticky issue, and many have suggested that the SEC has been dragging its feet; nonetheless, the SEC has indicated recently in its 2012 Financial Report that it still intends to move forward with a fiduciary rulemaking in 2013.
The DOL's Fiduciary Rulemaking
The landscape for a uniform fiduciary standard will be further colored in 2013 by a parallel proposal for fiduciary rules from the Department of Labor under Phyllis Borzi; after issuing an initial version of proposed fiduciary regulations last year, which was met with sharp criticism from many segments of the industry, the DOL took back its proposed rule for revisions. Nonetheless, the DOL has still indicated that it intends to issue another version of the rules in 2013, and to implement them.
The DOL's fiduciary rules are significant for two reasons. First, because of their own wide scope, potentially applying a broad and deep fiduciary standard not only to all interactions with employer retirement plans, but also to advisors who consult regarding IRA rollovers of qualified plan dollars. Second, because if the DOL moves first with rules that are actually implemented, they will likely influence and could even become the basis for the SEC's own subsequent fiduciary rules, especially given the partially overlapping jurisdictions (especially with respect to advisors working with IRA rollovers). In fact, if the DOL and SEC both issue fiduciary rules that are different, "harmonizing the fiduciary standard(s)" may become the next major regulatory issue for 2014 and beyond.
An SRO for RIAs
In parallel to the discussions of the fiduciary standard, expect to see a lot more activity regarding how to increase oversight of investment advisors in 2013. The issue was nearly decided in 2012 with proposed legislation from Congressman Spencer Baucus, which would have directed the SEC to hand over oversight of investment advisors to a self-regulatory organization (for which FINRA was the SRO-apparent), but the legislation was fought back by RIAs and the Financial Planning Coalition. A good part of their argument was research contained in a study commissioned by the Coalition with Boston Consulting Group that found FINRA oversight would drastically increase the cost of compliance for advisors to the tune of more than $50,000 per advisor. By contrast, increased oversight from the SEC was projected to be only about half that cost, and associated proposals suggested that this cost could be paid to the SEC by the advisory firms themselves in the form of a user fee.
In 2013, the Baucus legislation itself may not return—in part because Congressman Jeb Hensarling is taking over for Baucus as chair of the House Financial Services committee due to the Republican Party's self-imposed term limits—but the pressure is still on the SEC to come to a conclusion on this issue. Notably, some form of increased oversight is likely for RIAs no matter what—that outcome appears unavoidable at this point—but the questions of which organization will provide that oversight, and what the costs will be, are still very much up in the air.
The first major steps to anticipate in early 2013: a new proposed fiduciary rule from the Department of Labor, and some cost-benefit analyses from the SEC that are viewed as necessary before it can proceed to a resolution for the issues on its plate. The cost-benefit analyses (CBAs) are a key step because whichever side "loses" the debate will likely challenge the SEC's rule, so the SEC is eager to get its ducks in a row with a defensible position before moving forward.
Look for the remaing posts in this series on AdvisorOne.
For additional reporting on what 2013 will bring for the economy, the markets and advisors, please visit AdvisorOne's Outlook 2013 home page.


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of the biggest money making segments on the internet is pornography.
For years, the U.S.-based ICM Registry Inc company has been
petitioning for a new top level domain specifically for the porn
industry.ICANN has repeatedly denied the request to create a
domain .xxx that would be used by sites with adult or pornographic
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Sharpes Ferry Bridge closed temporarily
Beginning Monday, the Florida Department of Transportation will close the Sharpes Ferry Bridge as it continues repairs on retaining walls near the bridge.
The contractor, Orion Marine, plans to close off County Road 314 between the Greenways & Trails office at 8282 SE County Road 314 and Southeast First Road. Posted detour signs will guide travelers to State Road 40. The closure will last approximately two weeks.
Nugent to open office in Ocala on Monday
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BREAKFAST: All-you-can-eat breakfast, 9 a.m. to noon, U.S. Veterans Post 100, 16535 N. U.S. 301, Citra. $5. (595-5867)
FOOD ADDICTS: Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous, 7 to 8:30 p.m., Queen of Peace Catholic Church, 6455 SW State Road 200, Ocala. (270-8534 or www.foodaddicts.org)
BAR BINGO: Bingo, 4 to 6 p.m., West Marion Moose Lodge, 10411 SW 110th St., Ocala. (854-2200)
COMPUTER CLASS: "Intro to Word," 10:30 a.m., Dunnellon Public Library, 20351 Robinson Road, Dunnellon. (438-2520)
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On "Tim & Sid" today Colangelo suggested he will make a decision on Jay over the next couple weeks. Do you want him back, yes or no? Why?
On "Tim & Sid" today Colangelo suggested he will make a decision on Jay over the next couple weeks. Do you want him back, yes or no? Why?
Jay's a good teacher and if we're the same team as next season, we need to have a guy who is not only patient with the players, but a good teacher as well.
Not sure it matters at this point. I don't think there's a plus-plus head coach who wants the job and, even if there was, BC's history of hires and the potential MLSE sale weigh against bringing in some veteran coach at $7mm/year. I like guys like Brian Shaw et al. but I'm not sure a first time head coach would make much of a difference.
Still, I think after a 22-win season you need to make some changes and the one name I wouldn't mind hearing rumours about is Lawrence Frank. He's an immediate upgrade over Triano, would be cheap, will take any job, and would, worst case, be a good guy to transition this from a crapfest into a decent team. Then, in three years, you make a call about whether he can take you any further and, at that point, hopefully you have a more attractive situation for other guys.
Please Fire him..for the love of God!!!
I see little evidence to indicate he's a particularly good coach. The Raptors continue to play zero defense, as they have since he arrived.
As far as letting him go... for the right replacement, absolutely.
You can find me on Twitter.
I've said it a couple times, but here we go: resign him for a year. See what he can do. With the uncertainty of the CBA and lack of real options out there (I'd love Adelman but don't see it happening) you're better of having the devil you know at this point. See what he can do with a upgraded roster. Worst case scenario we suck again, get another high lotto pick and fire him.
Damnit, we could have had Mike Brown.
Bwahahahahahahahaha. Suck it Lakers. Huge FAIL hire.
PS: How is this terrible Coach winning this poll 6-5?
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I have no idea who Chukwudiebere Maduabum is, but on his Draft Express profile, hes listed as Chu Chu. I think hes worthy of picking just for that. He immediately is in the running for best All-Time NBA name. -Tim W.
hell no, colangenlo has 2 years he can't afford to throw away one year for jay to learn he is simply not ready to be a NBA head coach.
I hope he is using the next two weeks to wine and dine Sloan, occasionally wiping Jerry's mouth after a shrimp and topping off his glass with a vintage selection.
If someone like Rick Adelman, Jerry Sloan, or maybe Lawrence Frank is interested - then maybe. Otherwise, it's not worth starting from scratch unless the replacement is experienced beyond Triano's time with the team.
The only way to bag a classy lady is to give her two tickets to the gun show... and see if she likes the goods.
If Adelman is in the running for the Warriors, I think it is time for BC to get on the phone - especially if that never-going-to-happen-trade happens (you know, the happy trade).
It's possible to argue that the development of Derozan, Davis, Johnson, Weems and Bayless would have happened regardless, given their inherent talent, but since Triano has been here, none of the players who've played all of their time under him have even come close to busting. Rather, many, if not all (except Weems) have shown significant growth and look to have very bright futures.
The only way to bag a classy lady is to give her two tickets to the gun show... and see if she likes the goods.
Triano has always been good working with young guys. Bosh credited him big time for all the work they put in together when he was an assistant. He has always been well liked by the players and we have J Johnson saying Triano is light years ahead of the players when it comes to IQ and concepts at both ends of the court.
Was Triano deserving of a head coaching job? Yes but he has failed miserably.
He accomplished nothing with his team that he couldn't have done as an assistant. The list of his positives and negatives have already been said many times on these pages but IMO his biggest obstacle to being a successful HC is his inability to communicate to the individual players what it takes to win. During the game is he able to recognize when someone doesn't have it and then either push that players motivational button or make an adjustment by substituting a different player that knows what is expected of him? Have you listened to his monotone timeout huddles where he doesn't even look his players in the eye?
A lot of these young guys had head coaches in college that were able to inspire and make the incentives for winning clear to them. The level of coaching at the NBA level should be a step up.
Just calling someone a head coach doesn't make him one.
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Memorial Day – Hats and Soldiers
Happy Memorial Day to all. I know I'm still behind on the Royals entry from last week still, but it will get done this week. Very busy.
In the mean time, I wanted to throw this post up to remind everybody to not only watch the Orioles today in Seattle at 4, but that they will be wearing the stars and stripes caps:
How ugly. I mean, I like the concept of different hats for this day and all. The past ones have been really nice. But this one just looks pretty darn… not good.
Looking back at the past ones since the beginning of this tradition:
So yeah. I think they just ran out of ideas for this year.
Either way.
Bless the soldiers. Think about them today. Think about how they fight for you to be able to freely watch baseball on this day. God bless.


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Are publicly announced or privately held beliefs against people who are different from us part of the heart and soul of Cortez? I am afraid they might be.
Discrimination, whether verbal or acted upon, crops up with great regularity in our community: Native Americans in general, ones under the influence of alcohol in particular, people of different sexual persuasions, people of different religious beliefs, profiling, damaging gossip.
But there is hope! Organizations like the Bridge, Grace's Kitchen, Hope's Kitchen, RENEW and others open their doors to people in need regardless of their race, religion, educational level and all the other "isms."
These programs are representative of what is good in Cortez - love, respect and compassion for all its citizens. May these attitudes become the true heart and soul of Cortez.
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By Bobby Abplanalp
Journal Sports Editor
So close.
Yet, it seemed so far Dove Creeks Cole Baughman.
Tied 2-2 after two periods at the 2012 wrestling state finals in Denver, Baughman almost took the lead on multiple occasions in the third period.
However, Rocky Fords Adam Baca continued to escape, again and again.
Baughman ultimately settled for second-place at 120 pounds.
Last year when I won in the semis, I was so happy, he said. I think nerves kind of got to me last year during the (finals) match. I just wasnt wrestling my style.
Now a senior captain, Baughman is ready to take state. He is one of seven state returners on a stacked Dove Creek Bulldogs wrestling team.
I definitely want to get back in the state finals, Baughman said. I feel like with the team we have right now, we have a lot of competition in the (wrestling) room. I feel like thats going to help me a lot, too.
Dove Creek may challenge for a team state title of its own.
Weve got some good senior leadership and theyre pretty excited right now, Bulldogs coach Shane Baughman said. Theyve set some pretty high goals. They definitely want to be top-three as a team (at 2A state).
Cole Baughman will begin the year at 132 pounds, but plans to wrestle 126 by state.
Chance Randolph placed third at state last year in the 113-pound division. Hell wrestle in the 120 to 126 range. Older brother Dalton Randolph placed fifth at 138 in 2012. The senior has bulked up to 145.
Theres 16 kids in the Dove Creek wrestling room. Most of them played football for Shane Baughman, so getting in wrestling shape wasnt much of an issue. The Bulldogs have been grappling against each other and are barking to start the season.
Were always just ready to go at the first of the year, Cole Baughman said. We want to show what were about. Weve all been practicing hard these last three weeks after football. It kind of gets old beating up on each other. Were pretty stoked to get out there and start wrestling other people.
Nick Jones, a junior, has grown dramatically from 106 to 132 pounds. Disappointed with his state tournament performance last year, Jones is determined for redemption come February.
Hes going to try and gain a bunch of mass and strength. Hes really been working hard in the weight room, coach Baughman said about Jones. Hes looking really tough there at 132s.
Tyler Ebberts, 138-145 range; Wyatt Applin, 160-170; and, Tyson Smith, heavyweight, are the other state returners.
Freshmen Colin Hobbs, Connor Roussin, Austin Carter and Case Baughman provide good, youthful depth for the loaded Bulldogs.
Sophomore Tyler Knuckles, 182-195; and, juniors Tommy Fury (138-145) and Dillon Daves (145-152) will also be strong this season.
We could fill all of our weights in a dual, Shane Baughman said. We may be open one weight class, but we could probably fill all the weights. We got plenty of kids that will push each other.
Dove Creek opens its schedule at Montezuma-Cortez High School on Thursday, Nov. 29, in a tri-meet against a pair of 4A schools. Host Montezuma-Cortez and Aztec (N.M.) are the teams the 2A Bulldogs will face.
Dove Creek has dominated this tri-meet that last two seasons.
Those are two good, quality teams, Shane Baughman said. When it gets right down to it, one-on-one on the mat, there is no difference between 2A and 4A.
Dove Creek, the defending San Juan Basin League champions, will look to defend their title at rival Dolores High School on Feb. 7.
The close proximity to home is just fine with coach Baughman.
Thats good that its close, for the fans, especially, he said. Were used to traveling. We travel almost every weekend and travel all summer long. Its more of a fan thing. Its good for them to be able to come watch that.
Regionals are at Grand Junction Central on Feb. 15-16, and the state tourney is Feb. 21-23, at the Pepsi Center in Denver.


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- Farmers Insurance Group FCU and technology company, Portfolio 360, develop a new predictive modeling software solution.
- The solution uses forward-looking analytics based on statistical probabilities rather than look-back analysis.
- Farmers Insurance Group FCU leverage Mosaic to uncover marketing opportunities to grow loans.
Soon after starting his new job as chief lending officer at the $614 million Farmers Insurance Group Federal Credit Union in Los Angeles, Brian Leonard began his search for his dream software solution that would enable him to actively manage and grow the credit union's diverse portfolio of 31,000 consumer, residential and commercial loans.
Within three years, Leonard saw his dream turn into a reality by working with a technology firm that developed a proprietary forward-looking analytical solution, enabling the credit union to prevent unreserved loan losses, identify marketing opportunities and meet compliance and regulatory requirements and reporting processes.
Leonard met Carl Meiswinkel, CEO of Portfolio 360 in Laguna Niguel, Calif., a few years back and was impressed with his extensive expertise in both financial services and technology. Meiswinkel has more than 20 years of experience in the mortgage banking industry in data aggregation, software development, due diligence, underwriting, loan file management and valuation. Leonard also has more than two decades of financial services experience with expertise in credit, risk, strategy, loss mitigation and portfolio management.
"I knew Carl could provide me a tool that would make my job easy," recalls Leonard, who hired Meiswinkel's firm for loan risk analytics and reporting services about three years ago. During their conversations, Leonard described his dream of a software solution that would better manage the portfolio's risk, visibility and growth by leveraging forward-looking analytics based on statistical probabilities. Meiswinkel shared Leonard's belief that forward-looking analytics is more effective in managing portfolios than look-back analysis of past loan performance and setting aside loan reserves based on last year's budgets.
This coupling of Meiswinkel's expertise in technology and financial services with practical feedback and pilot testing from Leonard over the last three years led to the development P360's recently launched Web-based Mosaic Loan Intelligence Platform, a loan repository and predictive modeling tool.
"When you have large credit unions with 50,000 loans or more, it is difficult to find software that you can apply forward-looking analytics to and be able to push the button to stratify the portfolio," said Leonard. "The Mosaic database platform and repositories are very easy to use, the screens are very easy to understand and it's basically point and click to stratify portfolios, monitor reserves and apply forward-looking analytics."
But the huge advantage Leonard didn't have before, and what he believes no other solution provides, is Mosaic's forward-looking analytics, which protects Farmers Insurance Group FCU against unreserved loan losses with a statistically proven 99.5% confidence level. Rather than performing a look-back analysis and budgeting for probable loan losses that's based on last year's results that is used many financial institutions, Farmers Insurance Group FCU determines portfolio loss reserves evaluating cash flows at the asset level across different stresses.
"These stresses reflect changes in the macro and micro economic conditions that impact the credit, collateral and capacity associated with the portfolio," explained Leonard. "The loss reserves are then derived from a combination of financial engineering, stochastic and statistical analysis of the portfolio's assets, which also gives us the probability of default and loss severity for each loan in the portfolio."
Mosaic's forward-looking analytics works by essentially digging deep into loan details as well as a wide range of factors that may affect those loans. The solution then analyzes all of that data, which can help executives make proactive decisions instead of reacting to situations.
"We are used to analyzing 1,500 to 1,800 data fields per loan," Meiswinkel said. "Our competitors will look at 30, 40, 50 pieces of data, while others will look at 80 pieces of data. We believe that the more information you have the more probability you have for visibility and accessibility. The more pieces of data you are able to put together, the clearer the picture is. That's how our technology is designed."
Farmers Insurance Group FCU also has used Mosaic to spot marketing opportunities to grow its loans portfolio.
Leonard knew the credit union was losing auto loan opportunities with members because auto dealers were providing quicker loan approvals. When a member would apply for an auto loan with Farmers Insurance FCU, however, it would take a day or more to secure loan approval.
The Mosaic system now enables the credit union to simply type in the vehicle identification number and approve the loan in minutes.
"When we can assess risk in a very quick and prudent manner we can increase the opportunity to lend," Leonard said. "Mosaic helped us with the risk-based pricing and pricing the loan right up front."
Farmers Insurance Group FCU used Mosaic to review its auto loan portfolio of funded loans and assessed them over time. That allowed the credit union to adjust its FICO bands and price the loans more cheaply up front than it had in the past. For members to get the credit union's best auto loan rate, a FICO score of 760 or better was required. But Mosaic's analytics revealed the risk profile of members with a 720 FICO score was the same as member with a 760 FICO score. This information allowed Farmers to launch a new marketing campaign to offer more members the credit union's best rate. As a result, Farmers increased the auto loan portfolio by $21 million this year from $55 million to $76 million.
Mosaic also can be leveraged in other areas such as merger and acquisition analysis as well as compliance and regulatory requirements and reporting processes.
Matt Piazza, vice president of finance at $98 million Atlantic Financial Federal Credit Union in Hunt Valley, Md., said Mosaic made its merger activity easier–a welcome feature for a process that can be laborious and time-consuming.
"P360 delivered on what we requested, but it didn't stop there," he said. "They went way above our expectations and provided analytics we didn't even think to ask for. We were thoroughly pleased with the results."
On the regulatory and compliance side, Mosaic can be useful in compiling reports quickly and easily for regulators, examiners and board members.
Harland Bengs, chief financial officer for Farmers Insurance Group FCU, said Mosaic has helped with compliance and reporting processes.
"Our board and [the board's asset liability committee] have been impressed with P360 and their analytical capabilities that we have contracted with them to perform quarterly analysis for us," Bengs said. "With the state of the economy and the challenges facing the credit union industry, I believe others would be keenly interested in what the Mosaic platform has to offer."
Although Mosaic is not cheap, it may be more affordable for small and midsize credit unions than other analytic software programs that can cost up to six figures a year.
Mosaic's modules range in price from $750 to $2,000 a month. But these amounts do not include other costs for other third-party data and optional services.
"On the services side, we provide analytics to accounting firms as well as credit unions in areas such as servicing rights valuation, mergers and acquisitions, portfolio pricing and stratification, third party value and credit updates including value reconciliation, risk-based pricing," said Meiswinkel. "Third-party data expense such as appraisals and credit reports may or may not be included depending on the extent and costs. We also offer full service annual contracts where we provide 24/7/365 support with immediate response to reporting requests and presentation material."


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[Video] Children making sounds of hope
Last month, I led a bloggers trip to Guatemala to witness child sponsorship at work and experience a snapshot of the impact that World Vision is having on communities there. One of the programs we visited was World Vision's music school and the Sounds of Hope youth orchestra, a program that is truly bringing new life to these rural communities and helping to make children's dreams come true.
Through music, these children of Guatemala are able to have a dream, and more importantly, have a reasonable hope of achieving that dream. In a country still dealing with a recent civil war -- where many children either leave school to work and help support their families or are pulled into the violence of gangs -- a career in music is a chance at a different life, a new hope. Hector is a Sounds of Hope cellist who has earned himself a seat with Guatemala's national symphony orchestra. He's featured in this video about the youth orchestra:
In the video, maestro Martín Corleto says that the music program "showed me that with music we can really change people's lives." The students who learn music through World Vision's Suzuki Method teaching school have the opportunity to play with Sounds of Hope -- which performs all over the country -- or eventually to teach for the orchestra; many of the instructors perform alongside their students. From here, they may go on to teach professionally, or they may become professional musicians, like Hector. While pursuing their dreams of a career in music, these students learn discipline, teamwork, fine motor skills, and the language of music while staying in school and building a stronger foundation for their education. World Vision's mission is for all children to have life in all its fullness; through the Sounds of Hope youth orchestra, these children in Guatemala have a real chance at that life. Matthew Brennan is the blog manager at World Vision U.S.
Children need to have dreams -- and they need to have hope in the possibility of those dreams coming true. Be a child's hope today. Consider sponsoring a child in Guatemala.


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Elizabeth Sarah Kite
Elizabeth Sarah Kite (1864-1954) was a teacher, social scientist, historian and archivist. Born in Philadelphia to Quaker parents, Kite undertook advanced studies in Europe for six years. While studying in England in 1906, Kite was baptized a Catholic. Upon her return, she taught in a number of private schools in Pennsylvania, California, and Massachusetts.
Kite worked at the Vineland Training School for Mental Defectives, 1909-1918, and conducted research there (and later under the auspices of the New Jersey Commissioner of Charities and Corrections) pertaining to residents of the Pine Barrens. She translated The Intelligence of the Feeble-Minded by Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon (translation published 1916). She also researched various historical topics, especially the influence of French participation during the American Revolution, and served as the archivist for American Catholic Historical Society. Kite became the first laywoman to receive the degree of doctor of literature at Villanova College later University.
The collection mostly contains correspondence, including Kite family letters, as well as ephemera, clippings, and drafts. 1.2 linear ft., 3 boxes.
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DDMSence (pronounced "dee-dee-em-Essence") is the only Java library that fully supports the DoD Discovery Metadata Specification (DDMS). It provides a complete implementation of the DDMS specification using any DDMS version between 2.0 and 5.0. Validation is performed according to both the schema and the specification, and custom validation rules can be defined with ISO Schematron.
FDRDF is a tool that builds a catalogue of descriptions in an RDF representation of the specified files. The descriptions currently include: file status (as per the stat system call); SHA-1 hash over the file contents; MIME type (as guessed by the file tool), geospatial metadata (as per GDAL), and GRIB file composition (as per GRIB API).
The maven-buildmetadata-plugin is a Maven 2 plugin that helps you easily add build metadata to generated archive artifacts. When a product is running on an application server, this tool can tell you which version of which artifact is currently running on that server, which artifact maps to which source code version in the SCM repository, what configuration set (including profiles and environment variables) has been used to generate the artifact, on which machine was the artifact built, and when was the artifact built. The provided metadata include SCM information, build time, operating system, Java runtime, Maven execution information, build user, build host name, and build version.
Mayan EDMS is a document manager Web application with custom metadata indexing, file serving integration, and OCR capabilities. It features user defined metadata fields, dynamic default values for metadata, lookup support for metadata, filesystem integration by means of metadata indexing directories, user defined document UUID generation, local file or server side staging file uploads, batch uploading of many documents with the same metadata, user defined document checksum algorithms, previews for a great deal of image formats including PDF, document OCR and searching, automatic grouping of documents by metadata, permissions and roles support, multi-page document support, page transformations, distributed OCR processing, and support for multiple languages.
Flac-utils is a toolkit for managing FLAC files. Its primary usage is syncing metadata between sets of FLAC files. Flac-utils also provides a Python module called flac_compare that can be used separately. The utilitiy consist of three tools: flac-sync, which syncs a file tree of FLAC comments for files with the same audio-part; flac-diff, which compares two FLAC files' metadata information and shows the differences; and flac-add-picture, which adds album cover art to the files using Amazon.
Athena Framework for Java is a full fledged enterprise object-relational mapping (ORM) framework that employs metadata as mapping configuration. It greatly simplifies Java Web application development by removing the requirement of manual mapping and manual database schema updating. In addition to features like Java object persistence, powerful EJBQL querying execution, and comprehensive code generation, Athena has built-in support for multi-tenancy, which enables developers to build cloud applications easily. Athena can be easily integrated with other libraries like Struts or Spring to provide full stacks of service.
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Lorraine Kelly stars in fashion ad
Lorraine Kelly is to star in her first TV campaign advertising fashion for the "forgotten 50s".
The multimillion-pound campaign for retailer JD Williams follows findings that the age group feels "ignored and left out" by the UK high street.
Women over the age of 50 currently spend more than £2.5 billion per season on fashion, according to figures from Kantar Worldpanel, with 90% of British retailers seeing most growth from the 50-plus sector.
But a study for JD Williams found almost three quarters of women over 50 feel the high street targets them with clothing designed for younger people.
The retailer's ad, set in a coffee shop, shows television presenter Lorraine dancing with other patrons and will screen around and during Emmerdale, Coronation Street and The X Factor from Friday.
Angela Spindler, chief executive of JD Williams parent company N Brown Group, said: "We wanted to produce an advert to highlight a major shift the brand has made this season in price, product and presentation.
"These key messages came from customer insight. We wanted to reflect our shoppers' celebratory attitude to life and of course feature our brand ambassador Lorraine, a celebrity that our customers relate to and look up to as a role model."
Lorraine said: "Filming JD Williams' first ever TV ad was incredibly exciting and equally nerve-wracking.
"I am just delighted to be part of a fashion revolution for the over 50s and to help women realise that they don't have to give up on fashion once they reach a certain age."


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Cowboys meet the beach, as Rockhampton and the Southern Great Barrier Reef collide in a mix of historic towns, national parks and sandy beaches. Release your inner explorer as you fossick for gemstones, explore the Capricorn Caves and experience world-class diving.
No trip would be complete without watching a rodeo in an iconic Australian pub as you dine on famous 'Rocky' steak – if you couldn't tell from the giant cow in the main street, this is Australia's beef capital.
This slice of Southern Great Barrier Reef is so perfect, you'll want to keep it all to yourself. Luckily, you pretty much can.
Not content with having the World Heritage Listed Great Barrier Reef just offshore, a short drive will bring you face-to-face with these natural wonders:
Beef may be the number one thing on the menu here but history, outback life and jewels compete for a close second.


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