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CUNA Study: Credit Union Employment Is Booming
Job seekers should consider applying at a credit union as the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) reports that industry employment numbers are on the rise.
Referencing data from the National Credit Union Administration's 2012 year-end call report, CUNA found that the total number of credit union employees increased by 2.8% in 2012. This hike is considered to be the most significant industry-wide increase since 2007.
Credit Union National Association Chief Economist Bill Hampel said in a release that the increase, "means that credit union leadership is more positive about the future of the economy and their credit unions."
The industry saw a greater growth amongst full-time new hires, rising 3.1%. Part-time employee numbers increased by 1.3%.
Hampel adds that credit unions were frugal during tough times and that "credit unions were doing everything they could to protect their capital and their bottom line, including postponing hiring and cutting back discretionary expenses as much as they could."
Certain regions are weighing in on overall job growth. For example, the League of Southeastern Credit Unions (LSCU) report a 4% full-time employment increase at Alabama credit unions and a 2.5% hike at Florida credit unions.
Lending and Service Areas Are Growing
Individually, Wright-Patt Credit Union ($2.5 billion, Fairborn, OH) added 50 jobs in 2012 and that 68 more employees will join the credit union this year.
President and Chief Executive Officer Doug Fecher told the Journal News that the majority of the increase was dedicated to support the new video teller technology. Although members interact with a machine, they are talking to a live person who is located at credit union headquarters.
Additionally with mortgage activity picking up, Fecher also added more positions to the credit union?s in-house mortgage company.
Like Wright Patt, FivePoint Credit Union ($429 million, Nederland, TX) is also growing, specifically in the lending area. ?We are really focused on consumer lending and commercial lending,? says Vicki Kelley, senior vice president of human resources. ?FivePoint does a tremendous job in these areas. However, our frontline (tellers and member service) continues to be a vital part of operations.?
Kelley explains that the economy in Southeast Texas did not take as significant a hit as other parts of the country. ?FivePoint Credit Union was fortunate to have continued to thrive during this period. While we are limiting the number of new positions we are adding, we are not eliminating positions either. In fact, we recently held a job fair where we hired 23 new employees.?
Family Environment Workplace
Kelley says that working at a credit union is like working with family. ?We are member-oriented and here to help those we serve and those we work with,? she says. ?We offer competitive pay, excellent benefits, and give back to the communities we serve. Whether it is working on a Habitat for Humanity house, fundraising for Relay for Life or collecting items for an employee that lost everything in a fire, our credit union family pulls together for each other and our community. The credit union motto is People Helping People, and that's exactly what we do.?
A number of other employees and executives report how working at a credit union has been a fulfilling experience as well. For example, Meritrust Credit Union?s ($850 million, Wichita, KS) new CEO, James Nastars told The Wichita Eagle that employees have been, ?a very creative group? and ?are very welcoming.?
Nastars says that he works in the industry because; unlike banks credit unions are member-focused. At typical board meetings, ?The discussions tend to be, ?How can we take care of our membership,??? he said. ?I can already tell the approach (at Meritrust) is the same.?
Interested in a career move or looking for a job? Find a credit union near you and inquire about job openings today.
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Friday, April 5, 2013
Climate change winners: Ad?lie penguin population expands as ice fields recede
Apr. 3, 2013 ? Ad?lie penguins may actually benefit from warmer global temperatures, the opposite of other polar species, according to a breakthrough study by an international team led by University of Minnesota Polar Geospatial Center researchers. The study provides key information affirming hypothetical projections about the continuing impact of environmental change.
Researchers from the United States and New Zealand used a mix of old and new technology studying a combination of aerial photography beginning in 1958 and modern satellite imagery from the 2000s. They found that the population size of an Ad?lie penguin colony on Antarctica's Beaufort Island near the southern Ross Sea increased 84 percent (from 35,000 breeding pairs to 64,000 breeding pairs) as the ice fields retreated between 1958-2010, with the biggest change in the last three decades. The average summer temperature in that area increased about a half a degree Celsius per decade since the mid-1980s.
The first-of-its-kind study was published today in PLOS ONE, a leading peer-reviewed scientific journal. The research affirms models published in 2010 projecting how south polar penguins will respond to changed habitat as Earth's atmosphere reaches 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, a point that is rapidly approaching.
The study showed that available habitat for Ad?lie penguins on the main portion of the Beaufort colony, on the south coast, increased 71 percent since 1958, with a 20 percent increase from 1983-2010. The extent of the snow and ice field to the north of the main colony did not change from 1958-1983, but then retreated 543 meters from 1983-2010.
In addition to the overall population growth, researchers saw an increase in population density within the colony as it filled in what used to be unsuitable habitat covered in snow and ice. They also found that the emigration rates of birds banded as chicks on Beaufort Island to colonies on nearby Ross Island decreased after 2005 as available habitat on Beaufort increased, leading to altered dynamics of the population studied.
"This research raises new questions about how Antarctic species are impacted by a changing environment," said Michelle LaRue, the paper's co-author and research fellow at the Polar Geospatial Center in the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering. "This paper encourages all of us to take a second look at what we're seeing and find out if this type of habitat expansion is happening elsewhere to other populations of Ad?lie penguins or other species."
Penguin expert and study co-author David Ainley, a lead author of an earlier study, agreed that this study gives researchers important new information.
"We learned in previous research from 2001-2005 that it is a myth that penguins never move to a new colony in large numbers. When conditions are tough, they do," said Ainley, a senior marine wildlife ecologist with H.T. Harvey and Associates, an environmental consulting company in California. "This study at Beaufort and Ross Islands provides empirical evidence about how this penguin attribute will contribute to their response to climate change."
Ad?lie penguins are common along the southern Antarctic coast. They are smaller than their Emperor penguin counterparts standing about 46 to 75 cm (18 to 30 inches) when upright and weighing about 4.5-5.4 kg (10-12 pounds). The Ad?lie penguin lives only where there is sea ice but needs the ice-free land to breed. Breeding pairs produce on average one chick per year and return to the same area to breed if conditions haven't changed.
To determine changes in available nesting habitat in this study, researchers gathered aerial photos during the penguin incubation period in 1958, 1983 and 1993 and high-resolution satellite images from 2005 and 2010. Researchers overlaid the images exactly, lining up rocks and other geographical landmarks. They studied guano (penguin feces and urine) stains to determine the available habitat.
In the future, researchers plan to use additional satellite imagery to look at other Ad?lie penguin populations to help understand the dynamics and environmental factors that influence regional populations.
"This study brought together researchers from different academic disciplines who all contributed their expertise," LaRue said. "We had people who study climate change, spatial analysis, and wildlife population dynamics. This is how good science leads to results."
In addition to LaRue and Ainley, other researchers involved in the study included Matt Swanson, a graduate student researcher at the University of Minnesota Polar Geospatial Center; Katie M. Dugger from Oregon State University; Phil O'B. Lyver from Landcare Research in New Zealand; Kerry Barton from Bartonk Solutions in New Zealand; and Grant Ballard from PRBO Conservation Science in California.
The study was primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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- Michelle A. LaRue, David G. Ainley, Matt Swanson, Katie M. Dugger, Phil O?B. Lyver, Kerry Barton, Grant Ballard. Climate Change Winners: Receding Ice Fields Facilitate Colony Expansion and Altered Dynamics in an Ad?lie Penguin Metapopulation. PLoS ONE, 2013; 8 (4): e60568 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060568
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Parenting - New Trend in Summer Camps: The Family Camp - ...
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MonkeyBusiness Images/PhotoSpin For a lot of people, summer camp conjures up images of mosquito-filled cabins, rickety canoe rides, and tear-stained pillow cases when homesickness settles in. But those same people also remember friendships and memories to last a lifetime.
And now families can do this together!
While overnight summer camps are still in vogue, there is a new trend in camps that lets families enjoy the experience together in far-from-rustic places. Family summer camps include the whole family, even mom and dad, and focus on creating experiences and spending time together.
Some family camps offer traditional summer camp activities like swimming, rowing, and horseback riding, and others have unique offerings like wine tastings for parents or jewelry making for kids.
These family camps typically include activities that are specific to both the parents or the children because even the closest knit families need a break from each other once in awhile.
Here are three family camp options that epitomize the uniqueness this type of vacation can offer.
Camp Loggerhead at The Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach
Set among the multiple-million dollar homes in the jet set capitol of Palm Beach, Florida, is the Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach. It may not be the first place one thinks of as being family-friendly but they are working to change that opinion.
This year they are introducing an innovative, family-oriented summer camp amid the luxury of the Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach. Throughout June, July and August of 2013, Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach Camp Loggerhead" will bring families together for a week long summer camp experience.
Memories will be made during the three-legged races, scavenger hunts, sing-alongs, pillow fights, S'mores and marshmallows galore. They have even included a date night and spa treatments for the parents. The supervised kids' events are from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. daily and include things like photography class, jewelry making and beach games.
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Pa. inmate denies hiding phone in prosthetic leg
UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) ? A former Pennsylvania jail inmate says he didn't sneak a cellphone into the lockup in his prosthetic leg, though he acknowledged having it for a year as he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.
Instead, 28-year-old Christopher Greer, of Uniontown, tells a judge the phone was in his cargo shorts when he reported in 2011 to serve a sentence for driving on a suspended license.
Greer says he kept the phone because inmates at the Fayette County lockup 40 miles south of Pittsburgh must pay $4 per call.
Greer pleaded guilty Tuesday, but the warden doesn't believe Greer smuggled the phone in either his pocket or his leg, as county detectives charged. Brian Miller says both would have been searched too thoroughly for that.
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Second lost hiker rescued from Calif. forest
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. (AP) ? A sheriff's rescue team followed the sounds of a screaming female voice Thursday to an almost vertical canyon wall where they found a teenager clinging to a rocky outcropping after going missing during a hike five days ago.
Kyndall Jack, 18, was weak and dehydrated but conscious and responsive when searchers plucked her from a rocky outcropping halfway up the wall in some of Southern California's most rugged backcountry.
A line was placed around her and she was hoisted into a helicopter and flown to a hospital. There was no information on possible injuries.
Jack's screams led searchers to her in Falls Canyon hours after they found her hiking companion, 19-year-old Nicolas Cendoya, the night before, Orange County sheriff's Lt. Jason Park said.
"We started to close in. We heard the voice from all our ground crews and surrounded it and made contact with her." he said. "It was very difficult to extract her."
A reserve deputy aiding the effort suffered a head injury when he fell 60 feet down the canyon. He was also flown to a hospital.
Jack and Cendoya had driven to the area on Easter Sunday for what was supposed to be a short, easy day hike through a picturesque canyon to a waterfall. The area is part of the rugged Cleveland National Forest, which sprawls across 720 miles of Southern California.
Searchers aided by a sheriff's helicopter with infrared sensors stepped up their efforts to find Jack after Cendoya was located by another hiker in the same area on Wednesday night.
Cendoya was found dressed in shorts and a shirt but missing his shoes. He was flown to a hospital where doctors said he was being treated for severe dehydration, scratches and bruises.
Cendoya was "extremely confused and disoriented," when he was found less than a mile from the pair's car, giving an added urgency to the effort to find his friend.
Searchers returned to the forest before dawn.
Rescuers had flown Cendoya to Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, where Dr. Michael Ritter told reporters the teenager said he survived by taking shelter at night in heavy brush and passing his days by praying.
"He's got a lot of faith in the Lord, which I think will help him to work his way through this," Ritter said shortly before Jack was located. "And I think his recovery will be a lot faster if we can find Kyndall."
Cendoya told doctors the two became separated sometime Sunday night.
He was found on a steep hill less than a mile from where the pair had left their car, but the brush was so thick that a person wouldn't be able to see someone standing as close as five feet away, Park said.
The area is also just 500 feet from a dirt road that is fairly heavily traveled, but Park said Cendoya was so disoriented he likely wasn't aware of that.
"He was in an area near where people were calling his name and he didn't even know it. It just shows the extent of his disorientation," Park said.
Before his cellphone's battery died, Cendoya was able to make a 911 call Sunday telling authorities the couple had gotten lost and were in distress.
"He was panting and said, 'We're out of water.' You could hear Kyndall in the background," said Orange County fire Capt. Jon Muir. "He said, 'I think we're about a mile or two from the car,' and he was right about the distance but in totally the wrong direction."
Brush in the area was so dense that even after he was found, a helicopter dispatched to rescue him had trouble keeping track of where he was.
"When the rescuer was lowered he lost sight of him," said Division Chief Kris Concepcion of the Orange County Fire Authority.
Two volunteer searchers got lost themselves and had to be flown out Wednesday afternoon.
Although disoriented, Cendoya was able to share some information with authorities, according to Jack's father, Russ Jack.
"Nicholas obviously was disoriented because of dehydration ... he thought that Kyndall had already been rescued," Jack's father told the Los Angeles Times. "But apparently Kyndall has twisted her ankle or something and could not keep up with Nicholas trying to get out of the brush they're in."
Sheriff's investigators planned to talk to Cendoya at length once he recovers further.
Ritter said he was being given intravenous fluids and was becoming more lucid. He was expected to remain hospitalized for several days.
Cendoya says on his Facebook page that he's a 2011 graduate of Orange County's Costa Mesa High School and a student at Orange Coast College. A number of photos show the athletic-looking young man working out and lifting weights.
He and Jack are believed to have gotten lost near near Holy Jim Trail, a tree-lined dirt path along a creek that leads to the waterfall.
The path is popular with day hikers, including families with children, and is not considered particularly difficult.
Several miles of road leading to it are all but impassable to traverse for vehicles without four-wheel drive, however, which requires many hikers to walk a good distance before they even get to the trailhead.
The area is in a section of forest in the Santa Ana Mountains that lie along the border of Orange and Riverside counties southeast of Los Angeles. The trail ranges in elevation from about 2,000 feet to about 4,000 feet.
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Associated Press writers John Rogers, Christopher Weber and Robert Jablon contributed to this story from Los Angeles.
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