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Gender gap in math is culture-based
Data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and the Programme for International Student Assessment, representing 493,495 students ages 14-16 from 69 countries, have revealed only very small gender differences overall, but marked variation when nations are compared. For example, there are more girls in the top tier in countries such as Iceland, Thailand, and the United Kingdom–and even in certain U.S. populations, such as Asian-Americans. However, despite overall similarities in math skills, boys felt significantly more confident in their abilities than girls did and were more motivated to do well. Furthermore, although some studies have found more males than females scoring above the 95th or 99th percentile, this gender gap has significantly narrowed over time in the U.S. and is not found among some ethnic groups and in some nations. Greater male variability with respect to mathematics, where it exists, correlates with several measures of gender inequality.
 Gender, culture, and mathematics performance.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(22), 8801 - 8807.
Else-Quest, N.M., Hyde, J.S. & Linn, M.C. 2010. Cross-national patterns of gender differences in mathematics: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 136(1), 103-127.
Positive stereotypes can offset negative stereotype effect
A number of studies have now shown that negative stereotypes can impair cognitive performance, mainly through adding to working memory load. A new study has now shown that this effect can be mitigated by the activation of a positive stereotype. The research takes advantage of the fact that we all belong to several social groups. In this case, the relevant groups were ‘female’ and ‘college student’. As usual, when (subtly) reminded of negative stereotypes for women and math, women performed worse. The interesting thing was that this didn’t happen if women were also made aware that college students performed better at math than non-college students. Moreover, this was reflected in working memory capacity. It seems that, when both a positive and a negative stereotype are offered, people will tend to choose the positive stereotype, and the effects of this will cancel out the negative stereotype. It’s also worth noting how easily these stereotypes are activated: effects could be manipulated simply by subtly changing demographic questions asked before the test (and it is not uncommon that test-takers are first required to answer some demographic questions).
 Multiple social identities and stereotype threat: Imbalance, accessibility, and working memory..
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 96(5), 949 - 966.
Sex difference on spatial skill test linked to brain structure
It’s been well established that men (as a group) consistently out-perform women on spatial tasks. Research has also established that the parietal lobes in women tend to have proportionally more gray matter. Now a new study shows that the thicker cortex in the parietal lobe in women is associated with poorer mental rotation ability. It also reveals that the surface area of the parietal lobe is increased in men, compared to women, and this is directly related to better performance on mental rotation tasks. It also appears that, perhaps because the brain structure is different between men and women, the way the brain performs the task is different. While men appear able to globally rotate an object in space, women seem to do it piecemeal.
 Sex differences in parietal lobe morphology: Relationship to mental rotation performance.
Brain and Cognition. 69(3), 451 - 459.
Gender gap in spatial skills starts in infancy
On their own, the findings reported above do not answer the question of whether gender differences in spatial ability are biological or cultural, as differences in brain structure and performance can be caused by different experiences during childhood. However, research has repeatedly found a gender difference in mental rotation in children four years and older, and now a new study has found evidence that male superiority in mental rotation is present in infants as young as 5 months old.
 Mental rotation in human infants: a sex difference.
Psychological Science: A Journal of the American Psychological Society / APS. 19(11), 1063 - 1066.
Gender differences in memory
A series of experiments looking at memory performance in men and women has revealed that women did better at verbal episodic memory tasks, such as remembering words, objects, pictures or everyday events, and men outperformed women in remembering symbolic, non-linguistic information, known as visuospatial processing. But women were again better on tasks that require both verbal and visuospatial processing, such as remembering the location of car keys. Women were also better at remembering faces, especially female faces. They also remembered androgynous faces presented as female more accurately than the androgynous faces presented as male, suggesting the reason is that women pay more attention to female than to male faces. Women also performed better than men in tasks requiring little to no verbal processing, such as recognition of familiar odors. But environmental factors, such as education, seem to influence the magnitude of these sex differences.
 Sex Differences in Episodic Memory.
Current Directions in Psychological Science. 17(1), 52 - 56.
Review supports mild memory impairment in pregnancy
A review of 14 studies testing the memory performances of more than 1,000 pregnant women, mothers and non-pregnant women, has found that pregnant women performed significantly worse on some, but not all aspects of the test. The hardest tests for the pregnant women were those that involved new or demanding tasks. Regular, well-practiced memory tasks were unlikely to be affected. The impairment wasn’t large — comparable to the modest deficits you'd find when comparing healthy 20-year-olds with healthy 60-year-olds. However, the impairment was sometimes still evident a year after birth (none looked beyond that point).
 A review of the impact of pregnancy on memory function.
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 29(8), 793 - 793.
Stereotype-induced math anxiety robs women's working memory
Another study finds evidence that being told men are better at mathematics undermines women's math performance, and extends it by demonstrating that the anxiety induced by the stereotype mainly reduced the verbal part of working memory, and that this carried over to subsequent (non-math-related) tasks. The accuracy of women exposed to the stereotype was reduced from nearly 90% in a pretest to about 80% after being told men do better in mathematics. Among women not receiving that message, performance actually improved slightly.
 Stereotype Threat and Working Memory: Mechanisms, Alleviation, and Spillover.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 136(2), 256 - 276.
Gender differences in the brain
Results from an extremely large internet survey looking at sex-linked cognitive abilities, personality traits, interests, sexual attitudes and behavior, as well as physical traits, has found that cognitive abilities decline with age more steeply in men than in women. This effect is independent of sexual orientation. Differences in specific cognitive abilities were also found that did depend on sexual orientation as well as gender. Men scored higher than women on tests of mental rotation and the ability to judge line angles, whereas women scored higher than men on tests of object location memory and word fluency. However, homosexual men's visual-spatial abilities were, on average, lower than those of heterosexual men, and lesbian women's visual-spatial abilities were higher than those of heterosexual women.
 Gender and sexual orientation differences in cognition across adulthood: age is kinder to women than to men regardless of sexual orientation.
Archives of Sexual Behavior. 36(2), 235 - 249.
 Visuospatial performance on an internet line judgment task and potential hormonal markers: sex, sexual orientation, and 2D:4D.
Archives of Sexual Behavior. 36(2), 177 - 192.
 The Effects of Sex, Sexual Orientation, and Digit Ratio (2D:4D) on Mental Rotation Performance.
Archives of Sexual Behavior. 36(2), 251 - 260.
Sex and prenatal hormones affect cognitive performance
A study involving rhesus macaque monkeys has found that the tendency to use landmarks for navigation is typical only of females. In a situation where they had to navigate an open area to locate highly valued food items in goal boxes, gender or prenatal treatment did not affect how well the monkeys did when both spatial and marker cues were available. When landmarks directly indicated the correct locations but spatial information was unreliable, females performed better than males. Moreover, males whose testosterone exposure had been blocked early in gestation were more able to use the landmarks to navigate than normal males.
 Cognitive performance in rhesus monkeys varies by sex and prenatal androgen exposure.
Hormones and Behavior. 51(4), 496 - 507.
Implicit stereotypes and gender identification may affect female math performance
Relatedly, another study has come out showing that women enrolled in an introductory calculus course who possessed strong implicit gender stereotypes, (for example, automatically associating "male" more than "female" with math ability and math professions) and were likely to identify themselves as feminine, performed worse relative to their female counterparts who did not possess such stereotypes and who were less likely to identify with traditionally female characteristics. Strikingly, a majority of the women participating in the study explicitly expressed disagreement with the idea that men have superior math ability, suggesting that even when consciously disavowing stereotypes, female math students are still susceptible to negative perceptions of their ability.
 Implicit stereotypes, gender identification, and math-related outcomes: a prospective study of female college students.
Psychological Science: A Journal of the American Psychological Society / APS. 18(1), 13 - 18.
Women's math performance affected by theories on sex differences
In a salutary reminder to all researchers into gender and race differences, researchers found that women who received a genetic explanation for female underachievement in math or were reminded of the stereotype about female math underachievement, performed more poorly on math tests than those who received an experiential explanation (such as math teachers treating boys preferentially during the first years of math education) or were led to believe there are no sex differences in math.
 Exposure to Scientific Theories Affects Women's Math Performance.
Science. 314(5798), 435 - 435.
Memory problems at menopause
Findings from a study of 24 women approaching menopause have confirmed an earlier study involving over 800 women that found such women are no more likely than anyone else to suffer from memory retrieval problems. However, they did find that the women who complained more about problems with forgetfulness had a harder time learning or "encoding" new information, although they didn’t have actually have an impaired ability to learn new information. Although a larger study is needed to explore this link in more detail, the researchers suggest that stress and emotional upheaval may be responsible for attention failures that mean information isn’t encoded. The researchers did find that most of the women in their study had some sort of mood distress, including symptoms of depression or anxiety (note that this was not a random group, but women who were worried about their memory).
The study was reported at the annual meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society in Boston.
Brain size does matter, but differently for men and women
A study involving the intelligence testing of 100 neurologically normal, terminally ill volunteers, who agreed that their brains be measured after death, found that a bigger brain size is correlated with higher intelligence in certain areas, but there are differences between women and men. Verbal intelligence was clearly correlated with brain size, accounting for 36% of the verbal IQ score, for women and right-handed men — but not for left-handed men. Spatial intelligence was also correlated with brain size in women, but much less strongly, while it was not related at all to brain size in men. It may be that the size or structure of specific brain regions is related to spatial intelligence in men. Brain size decreased with age in men over the age span of 25 to 80 years, suggesting that the well-documented decline in visuospatial intelligence with age is related, at least in right-handed men, to the decrease in cerebral volume with age. However age hardly affected brain size in women.
 Intelligence and brain size in 100 postmortem brains: sex, lateralization and age factors.
Brain: A Journal of Neurology. 129(Pt 2), 386 - 398.
Effect of pregnancy on cognition depends on fetal gender
An intriguing new study may shed light on the conflicting results reported regarding the effect of pregnancy on cognition. The study, which tracked women throughout pregnancy through to postnatal resumption of menstruation, found that there was a significant effect of the sex of the baby on working memory and spatial ability. Women pregnant with boys consistently outperformed women pregnant with girls on these tests.
 Selective and persistent effect of foetal sex on cognition in pregnant women.
Neuroreport. 16(7), 779 - 782.
Cognitive effects of binge drinking worse for women
A new study looked at the cognitive effects of binge drinking, which apparently is on the rise in several countries, including Britain and the US. The study involved 100 healthy moderate-to-heavy social drinkers aged between 18 and 30. There were equal numbers of males and females. The study found that female binge drinkers performed worse on the working-memory and vigilance tasks than did the female non-binge drinkers.
 Binge Drinking, Cognitive Performance and Mood in a Population of Young Social Drinkers.
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 29(3), 317 - 325.
The effects of training and age on the spatial-memory gender gap
A study of 90 adult rhesus monkeys found young-adult males had better spatial memory than females, but peaked early. By old age, male and female monkeys had about the same performance. This finding is consistent with reports suggesting that men show greater age-related cognitive decline relative to women. A second study of 22 rhesus monkeys showed that in young adulthood, simple spatial-memory training did not help males but dramatically helped females, raising their performance to the level of young-adult males and wiping out the gender gap.
 Sex, Age, and Training Modulate Spatial Memory in the Rhesus Monkey (Macaca mulatta)..
Behavioral Neuroscience. 119(1), 118 - 126.
Faster neuron transmission in young males
A study of 186 male and 201 female students (aged 18-25) has found that men's brain cells can transmit nerve impulses 4% faster than women's, probably due to the faster increase of white matter in the male brain during adolescence.
 Confirmation of correlation between brain nerve conduction velocity and intelligence level in normal adults.
Intelligence. 32(6), 563 - 572.
IQ-related brain areas may differ in men and women
An imaging study of 48 men and women between 18 and 84 years old found that, although men and women performed equally on the IQ tests, the brain structures involved in intelligence appeared distinct. Compared with women, men had more than six times the amount of intelligence-related gray matter, while women had about nine times more white matter involved in intelligence than men did. Women also had a large proportion of their IQ-related brain matter (86% of white and 84% of gray) concentrated in the frontal lobes, while men had 90% of their IQ-related gray matter distributed equally between the frontal lobes and the parietal lobes, and 82% of their IQ-related white matter in the temporal lobes. The implications of all this are not clear, but it is worth noting that the volume of gray matter can increase with learning, and is thus a product of environment as well as genes. The findings also demonstrate that no single neuroanatomical structure determines general intelligence and that different types of brain designs are capable of producing equivalent intellectual performance.
 The neuroanatomy of general intelligence: sex matters.
NeuroImage. 25(1), 320 - 327.
Estrogen combines with stress to impair memory
A rat study has found that male and female rats performed equally well on a task involving the prefrontal cortex when under no stress, and when highly stressed, both made significant memory errors. But importantly, after exposure to a moderate level of stress, females were impaired, but males were not. When investigated further, it was found that female rats only showed this sensitivity when they were in a high-estrogen phase of their estrus cycle. The estrogen effect was confirmed in a further study using female rats who had had their ovaries removed, thus enabling the researchers to compare the effects of estrogen versus a placebo. These results suggest that high levels of estrogen can act to enhance the stress response, causing greater stress-related cognitive impairments, while providing reassurance that estrogen appears to have no effect on cognitive performance under non-stressful conditions.
 Estrogen mediates sex differences in stress-induced prefrontal cortex dysfunction.
Mol Psychiatry. 9(5), 531 - 538.
No support for idea that pregnancy affects memory and concentration
A study of pregnant women found many agreed with the popular view that pregnancy affects your memory. However, mental tests during pregnancy and after the birth found no difference between the performance of women who were pregnant and those who were not. It was possible that the affects are too mild to be picked up by the tests, or that the fatigue commonly experienced by women during pregnancy and early motherhood leads women to believe that their memory and concentration are affected.
The research was presented at the British Psychological Society annual conference in Bournemouth.
Women better at recognizing female but not male faces
Women’s superiority in face recognition tasks appears to be due to their better recognition of female faces. There was no difference between men and women in the recognition of male faces.
 Sex differences in face recognition--Women's faces make the difference.
Brain and Cognition. 50(1), 121 - 128.
Why women better remember emotional memories
A new brain imaging study reveals gender differences in the encoding of emotional memories. We have long known that women are better at remembering emotional memories, now we can see that the sexes tend to encode emotional experiences in different parts of the brain. In women, it seems that evaluation of emotional experience and encoding of the memory is much more tightly integrated.
 Sex differences in the neural basis of emotional memories.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99(16), 10789 - 10794.
Gender differences in frontal lobe neuron density
A recent study has found that women have up to 15% more brain cell density in the frontal lobe, which controls so-called higher mental processes, such as judgement, personality, planning and working memory. However, as they get older, women appear to shed cells more rapidly from this area than men. By old age, the density is similar for both sexes. It is not yet clear what impact, if any, this difference has on performance.
Witelson, S.F., Kigar, D.L. & Stoner-Beresh, H.J. 2001. Sex difference in the numerical density of neurons in the pyramidal layers of human prefrontal cortex: a stereologic study. Paper presented to the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, US.
Gender differences in neural networks underlying beginning reading
A recent study uses EEG readings to investigate gender differences in the emerging connectivity of neural networks associated with phonological processing, verbal fluency, higher-level thinking and word retrieval (skills needed for beginning reading), in preschoolers. The study confirms different patterns of growth in building connections between boys and girls. These differences point to the different advantages each gender brings to learning to read. Boys favor vocabulary sub-skills needed for comprehension while girls favor fluency and phonic sub-skills needed for the mechanics of reading.
Hanlon, H. 2001. Gender Differences Observed in Preschoolers’ Emerging Neural Networks. Paper presented at Genomes and Hormones: An Integrative Approach to Gender Differences in Physiology, an American Physiological Society (APS) conference held October 17-20 in Pittsburgh.
Boys' and girls' brains process faces differently
Previous research has suggested a right-hemisphere superiority in face processing, as well as adult male superiority at spatial and non-verbal skills (also associated with the right hemisphere of the brain). This study looked at face recognition and the ability to read facial expressions in young, pre-pubertal boys and girls. Boys and girls were equally good at recognizing faces and identifying expressions, but boys showed significantly greater activity in the right hemisphere, while the girls' brains were more active in the left hemisphere. It is speculated that boys tend to process faces at a global level (right hemisphere), while girls process faces at a more local level (left hemisphere). This may mean that females have an advantage in reading fine details of expression. More importantly, it may be that different treatments might be appropriate for males and females in the case of brain injury.
 Sex-related differences in event-related potentials, face recognition, and facial affect processing in prepubertal children.
Neuropsychology. 15(3), 329 - 341.
More women than men do well on memory tests in old age
Researchers from Leiden University tested the mental functioning of 599 Dutch men and women aged 85 years. Good mental speed on word and number recognition tests was found in 33% of the women and 28% of the men. Forty one per cent of the women and 29% of the men had a good memory. This despite the fact that significantly more of the women had limited formal education compared to the men (not surprising given the time in which they grew up). The authors suggested that biological differences - such as the relative absence of cardiovascular disease in elderly women compared with men of the same age - could account for these sex differences in mental decline.
 Cognitive function in the oldest old: women perform better than men.
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 71(1), 29 - 32.

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This edition of the CFO Daily Roundup has all CFO articles from August 14, 2015…
Ex-SAP Exec Accused of Panama Bribery
The executive arranged large discounts to a corporate partner ‘in order to generate a cash pot to bribe government officials and win business for SAP.’
StumbleUpon Planning to Lay Off 70% of Workers
The content curation platform failed to land additional funding.
CFOs on the Move: Week Ending August 13
Church & Dwight, Shutterstock, Republic Airways, FLIR Systems, Cepheid, Endurance International, American Axle, U.S. Concrete, Press Ganey, Electro Rent.
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Auto Industry Boosts Manufacturing Output
Industrial production was up 0.6% in July but the manufacturing sector as a whole rose only 0.1%.
Goldman Sachs Gets $16B in Deposits From GE Capital
The acquisition of GE’s online banking unit gives Goldman a cheap source of funding as it becomes more of a universal bank.
Etsy Avoids Disclosure With Irish Tax Haven
The company’s Irish subsidiary no longer has to report basic financial data or the amount of tax it will pay.
FTC Tackles Meaning of ‘Unfair Competition’
For the first time, the agency outlines how it will use its unfairness powers under antitrust law but a GOP commissioner dissents.
Goldman Sells Last Physical Commodity Asset
The sale of a Colombian mining operation at a steep loss completes Goldman Sachs’ exit from the commodity business after nearly 35 years.

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Executive councilor Cheng Yiu-tong said the use of tear gas by police on September 28, the first day of the Occupy movement, was totally justified, as it was the only way police could disperse the crowd of protesters, Apple Daily reported Friday.
In an interview with Cable TV broadcast Thursday, Cheng had a question for those who criticized the police for shooting 87 canisters of tear gas into the crowd that day.
“The policemen did not try to kill anyone, did they?” said Cheng, who is also honorary president of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions and a Hong Kong delegate to the National People’s Congress.
Tear gas was one of few options left to police at the time, he said, and the decision to use it was absolutely not wrong, since it was only aimed at dispersing the crowd.
Responding to Cheng’s remarks, Tommy Cheung, a member of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS) standing committee, said they were illogical and absurd, because the definition of excessive force should not be limited only to actions that cause death.
Cheng, commenting on President Xi Jinping’s praising of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying for keeping Hong Kong stable, said Leung has further fortified his position as a leader in the post-Occupy era.
Beijing trusts Leung more now, after he displayed an unwavering stance in line with its way of thinking, Cheng said.
He said Beijing thinks Leung is trustworthy, as he knows what to do without instructions from the top.
Beijing will not care if its political reform proposal is vetoed by the Hong Kong legislature, Cheng said. He expects the second round of consultations on the plan to be tightened up.
Cheng called the non-cooperation movement launched by the HKFS brainless.
The new campaign, which includes a call for citizens to pay tax by installments, will not put any pressure on the government but only burden civil servants instead, he said.
Cheng said he did not expect citizens to respond positively to the group’s call.
Meanwhile, Cheung warned that Beijing’s continuing support for Leung’s rule of Hong Kong with no concern for citizens’ opinions will only worsen the city’s internal contradictions.
He warned that Beijing should prepare for an ungovernable situation.
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APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL, vol.12, no.7, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are considered as promising alternatives to conventional antibiotics in order to overcome the growing problems of antibiotic resistance. Computational prediction approaches receive an increasing interest to identify and design the best candidate AMPs prior to the in vitro tests. In this study, we focused on the linear cationic peptides with non-hemolytic activity, which are downloaded from the Database of Antimicrobial Activity and Structure of Peptides (DBAASP). Referring to the MIC (Minimum inhibition concentration) values, we have assigned a positive label to a peptide if it shows antimicrobial activity; otherwise, the peptide is labeled as negative. Here, we focused on the peptides showing antimicrobial activity against Gram-negative and against Gram-positive bacteria separately, and we created two datasets accordingly. Ten different physico-chemical properties of the peptides are calculated and used as features in our study. Following data exploration and data preprocessing steps, a variety of classification algorithms are used with 100-fold Monte Carlo Cross-Validation to build models and to predict the antimicrobial activity of the peptides. Among the generated models, Random Forest has resulted in the best performance metrics for both Gram-negative dataset (Accuracy: 0.98, Recall: 0.99, Specificity: 0.97, Precision: 0.97, AUC: 0.99, F1: 0.98) and Gram-positive dataset (Accuracy: 0.95, Recall: 0.95, Specificity: 0.95, Precision: 0.90, AUC: 0.97, F1: 0.92) after outlier elimination is applied. This prediction approach might be useful to evaluate the antibacterial potential of a candidate peptide sequence before moving to the experimental studies.

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After publishing my post about Chaos and Law a few weeks ago, I began thinking I was beginning to relate more to Egyptian ideas, and reflection on my interaction with them.
In May and June of last year, I was working on a major project for my art course in college. It was a gallery space, and was basically a small room containing 9 panting prints, a circular collage, an altar which featured 10 customised paper discs, and lots of writing and pictures on the wall. As I look back on it lately, I begin to remind myself of an ancient Egyptian temple or burial chamber, because there was a lot of writing and drawings in addition to the artwork on display. To add to that, there was a serpent with a solar crest in the space stretching from the beginning to the end. To be fair though, I probably sensed a connection back when the space was created, but it seems more noticeable in my mind when I look back on it this month for some reason.
Some time ago I watched a documentary on the afterlife of Ancient Egyptian belief, particularly the journey undertaken by the pharaoh Seti I. The journey places Seti as re-enacting the mythic journey of the sun god Ra, in the shoes of the god like they had become one, and he sails across the waters bypassing obstacles and defeating the Apep, the symbol of annihilation, and reaching paradise. The more I reflect on that the more it just makes sense to me, the more it reminds of spiritual goals that I pursue, though clearly not in the same sense.
I’m not talking of a full-on conversion to the Egyptian pantheon here. I just feel like giving credit where it’s do. Besides, part of me is beginning to not see point in being puristic about gods from mythology being in a certain place.


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One out of every two immigrants who were deported in the fiscal year of 2010 had a criminal record. Immigration agents under Barack Obama's administration, has intensified the search for convicted immigrants to deport. Since Obama came into office, more people have been removed from the United States then the Bush administration sent out of the U.S. in its most busy period. The number of immigrants that are being deported in the Florida sector of the United States has increased by 13 percent since 2008, compared to a six percent increase in deportations from the U.S. in general. In the fiscal year that ended last day of September, more than 15,000 people were deported from Florida, including the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Nationally over 392,000 people were removed from the country, and that is the highest number of deportations in a single year ever. Florida, as the rest of the United States has increased the efforts to find and deport immigrants with a criminal record, and the state's new chief of immigration enforcement says the state will continue to look for criminal immigrants, but it will also start focusing more on immigration fraud. In Florida, all counties are part of the Secure Communities program. Through the program, federal immigration immigrants get informed when immigrants are sent to jail, enabling them to be subjected to removal from the U.S.

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The jury qualification process in the case over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery finished Tuesday, but one of the defense lawyers has concerns there aren’t enough “Bubbas or Joe six-packs” in the group of more than 60 potential jurors.
Travis McMichael, 35, and his father, Gregory McMichael, 65, are accused of killing Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, after following him in their pickup truck in February 2020 in Brunswick, Georgia. A third man, William Bryan, who filmed the deadly shooting is also facing a murder charge. Arbery’s family has said he was out jogging. The McMichaels, who have been accused of being motivated by racial animus, have said they thought Arbery was a burglar. Bryan has argued that he was just a witness. The three were also indicted under federal hate crime and kidnapping laws.
The trial began Oct. 18 in Chatham County Superior Court and has been delayed by the lengthy jury selection process that is finally nearing its close. On Wednesday, jury selection moved to the qualification process in which the 65 selected jurors would be whittled down to 12 jurors and four alternates.
A lawyer for Bryan expressed skepticism over the pool of potential jurors, saying it lacked white men over 40 without a four-year college degree.
Kevin Gough, the defense attorney representing Bryan, called this demographic “Bubbas or Joe six-packs” in an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“We want a diverse jury,” he said. “But we’re missing a segment of what would normally be here.”
Prosecutor Linda Dunikoski had previously said she was searching for “blank slate” jurors from the county but acknowledged how difficult they were to find given the high-profile of the case.
Arbery’s killing prompted widespread outrage and national attention after the video of the fatal shooting was leaked in May 2020.
In the video, Arbery, a former high school athlete and avid jogger, is seen jogging down a road as a white pickup truck is stopped in front of him. He runs around the vehicle, and a shot is fired. The video then shows Arbery and another man appearing to tussle as two more shots are fired.
NBC News does not know what occurred before the events shown in the video.
Later that month, Gregory McMichael claimed to have helped leak the video because he wanted “the public to know the truth,” according to his attorney.


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We would recommend testing your rockets as much as possible to ensure you receive the best result at the regional heats. We’re very lucky to have partnered with some excellent rocketry clubs throughout the UK who have kindly agreed to welcome you to test your rocket.
Attending local rocketry clubs is a great way to enhance your competitive edge as demonstrated by 2021 winners, Team Vesuvius:
“If you can, test your rocket as much as you can and fly your rocket before the qualifying round and make as much as your rocket adjustable… we found the easiest way was to go a rocketry club, we went to FOG Rocketry Club in Wales twice. The first time we just went and chatted to the members there, we got to see lots of rockets being launched which was fun and they gave us tips about our rocket and general things that we may not have thought of. We then went up a second time to do our qualifying launch.”
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Site Location: Redwick, Monmouthshire
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Midland Rocketry Club (MRC)
“We have mentored many teams, some of which made it to the UKROC finals and have placed 1st, 4th, 5th and 9th. The 2011 UK ROC winners flew at our site a number of times to validate their design. We can offer special discounts to UK ROC teams and we have vendors on site at our monthly launched. The UK ROC 2022 competition is now open, so what are you waiting for?!”The club normally fly on the 2nd Sunday of each month and spectators and new members are always welcomed. You can contact MRC by emailing Paul (firstname.lastname@example.org) or calling him on 07415 698420, or visiting their website or Facebook page

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Speaker: Cameron DUECK
Journalist / Yachtsman
Topic: Voyage of discovery in Canada’s Arctic
In the summer of 2009, Mr. DUECK led a sailing expedition through the elusive Northwest Passage to see first hand how Canada’s Inuit are coping with climate change.
With only four crew and the ticking clock of Arctic sea ice setting the pace, the Silent Sound sailed 15,000 km and stopped in the many communities scattered along the remote shores of Northern Canada. Although the crew had to deal with treacherous ice, cold and wet conditions and the daily chores of life at sea, they forced themselves to look beyond their own voyage and focus on the people they met along the way. The crew became friends with hunters, community leaders and the young Inuit struggling with a clash of cultures and changes to their environment.
Arctic sovereignty and development of natural resources in the north have brought global attention to the region, and Cameron’s voyage through the passage and research of these historic waters offers a unique view of the issues. The Open Passage Expedition used an ancient mode of transportation in their quest to understand a very modern problem, and the result is an intelligent and thrilling tale of discovery. Mr. Dueck will share his first hand observations from this amazing journey.
Cameron DUECK is a Hong Kong-based journalist and yachtsman. His journalism career has spanned the globe, from North America to Europe and Asia, writing for Reuters, South China Morning Post and the Financial Times, among other publications. Over the years he has made regular escapes to the sea to satisfy his passion for ocean sailing and exploration. In 2004 he quit his reporting job in Singapore to boat-hop his way west, ending up in the Caribbean nearly a year later with skippering certificates in hand and tales to tell. He is currently freelancing while working on a book and a documentary about his latest Arctic adventure.

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Arlington, VA — The Mine Safety and Health Administration has recorded 70% fewer miner deaths through the first 10 weeks of 2024 than during the same period in 2022 and 2023.
Although agency head Chris Williamson calls the three industry fatalities MSHA observed through March 8 “three too many,” he’s optimistic about ongoing efforts to improve miner safety and health.
“I just want to ask everybody to continue to remain vigilant,” Williamson said during a March 11 call for industry stakeholders. “Let’s continue to work together. Let’s hope that the year continues on in sort of the same downward trend (in fatalities) that it started out.”
MSHA recorded 40 miner deaths last year, the highest total in the past nine years. Williamson said the development was “troubling to all of us,” but remains hopeful the mining community and MSHA can help mitigate miner fatalities.
A rule that would lower the agency’s permissible exposure limit to respirable crystalline silica is in the final stage of rulemaking after advancing from the proposed rule stage, as indicated in the Department of Labor’s Fall 2023 regulatory agenda – published Dec. 6.
Williamson said he couldn’t address whether the agency would meet its initial final rule publication target date of April but confirmed the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs has conducted meetings under Executive Order 12866. This allows “any interested party to discuss issues” on rules under review, OIRA says.
“Our work to reduce miners’ exposure to silica continues to be an ongoing priority for the agency,” Williamson said. “There’s going to be plenty and plenty and plenty of opportunities to provide compliance assistance, education, training – all the things that MSHA has historically done on the silica rule in the same way that we’re doing right now with the surface mobile rule.”
To that end, the stakeholder call included a review of an MSHA final rule requiring mine operators to have a written safety program for mobile and powered haulage equipment “developed and updated with input from miners and their representatives.”
The rule went into effect Jan. 19, with enforcement set to begin on July 17. It applies to operators with six or more miners and covers equipment – excluding belt conveyors – at surface mines and surface areas of underground mines.
Patricia Silvey, deputy assistant secretary for operations at MSHA, said during the call that MSHA anticipated publishing a written-program template by mid-April.
Brian Goepfert, administrator of mine safety and health enforcement at the agency, said “many operators” nationwide already have programs in place.
“That’s good,” Goepfert said. “Word is getting out and people are getting their programs online.”
McCraren Compliance offers many opportunities in safety training to help circumvent accidents. Please take a moment to visit our calendar of classes to see what we can do to help your safety measures from training to consulting.
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Texas Students March Seven Miles to Vote!
A Thousand Students from Historically Black Prairie View A&M University Declare "It's 2008. We Will Vote!"
More Early Voting Locations Will Now Be Added in Waller CountyWhen Prairie View A&M students learned there would be no polling places nearby, they organized a march to the nearest early voting station, 7.3 miles away. Yesterday, on the first day of early voting, a reported 1000 students and 1000 more supporters marched to the County seat, where they waited as long as five hours to vote, according to the Houston Chronicle.
"Last week, under pressure from federal authorities, Waller County officials added three temporary polling places for early voting, ditching plans to open only one voting site in advance of the March 4 primary," according to the article.
The Burnt Orange Report gives some background to voting rights struggles on the campus:
"There has been a long history of dispute over what the students feel is disenfranchisement. There was a lot of outrage in 2006, when students felt they were unfairly denied the right to vote when their registrations somehow did not get processed."
Photo by Ken Basart. View more of his photos of yesterday's march.
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Court limits school prayer
In a far-reaching decision yesterday, it barred student-led prayers at games.
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In the most far-reaching decision of its kind in nearly a decade, the nation's highest court ruled yesterday that student-led public prayers at high school football games in Texas violate constitutional safeguards against the establishment of a government-favored religion.
The 6-to-3 decision runs counter to an emerging trend in church-state cases in recent years. The tribunal has sought to lower the wall separating church and state by permitting broader interaction between the government and religious organizations.
But not in cases involving school prayer.
The decision marks a major setback to school officials, parents, and students who believe that public expressions of religious faith are needed to inject a level of morality in public education. At the same time, it's a victory for other school officials, parents, and students who believe that religious faith is a private matter that can best be promoted within families and churches, rather than at school-sponsored events.
"It may have extremely far-reaching ramifications to the point that students may have to be constantly looking over their shoulders, second-guessing whether their speech is secular or religious in nature," says Mathew Staver of Liberty Counsel of Orlando, Fla., a supporter of school prayer.
In an important First Amendment decision, the court's ruling establishes that public prayers offered by students violate the Constitution when they're delivered in a context that suggests the government is granting preferential treatment to adherents of one faith.
"School sponsorship of a religious message is impermissible because it sends the ancillary message to members of the audience who are nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members," writes Justice John Paul Stevens for the majority.
Supporters of the football prayer policy had argued that students have a right to deliver a public prayer of their own choosing at home games. But the court disagreed, ruling that while "private" speech - including public prayer - by individual students is protected by the Constitution, student-led prayer at school-sponsored events is not.
"Delivery of such a message over the school's public-address system, by a speaker representing the student body, under the supervision of school faculty, and pursuant to a school policy that ... encourages public prayer is not properly characterized as private speech," Mr. Stevens wrote.
The decision offers public-school officials and federal judges guidance in where to draw the line on acceptable public prayer at school events. Joining Stevens in the majority opinion were Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer.


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Here's your round-up of all the latest Swansea City news for Tuesday, January 17.
Gelhardt set for Leeds talks
Leeds United boss Jesse Marsch says the club still haven't yet made a decision on Joe Gelhardt's future amid interest from Swansea City.
The Swans are understood to be one of several Championship sides interested in the forward, with Sunderland and Blackburn Rovers also mentioned as possible suitors.
However, despite the arrival of Hoffenheim striker Georginio Rutter potentially pushing Gelhardt further down the pecking order of forward options, it seems the Premier League side still haven't made up their minds on whether to make the 20-year-old available for a loan this month.
Speaking ahead of his side's FA Cup replay with Cardiff City on Wednesday, Marsch said: "I think there's been some internal discussions and we'll make some decisions in the next coming weeks. In general, his attitude has been great.
"We've had some good conversations and I think everyone is open to different possibilities. You're right, we do have a lot of really good attacking options.
"Even Luis [Sinisterra] after training yesterday, when we talked, I talked to him about how he was feeling, he mentioned to me 'Wow, we have some really good players now.'
"Luis is certainly one of them. He looked fantastic and fit. Joffy has looked great, his attitude has been fantastic and he'll be ready for tomorrow."
Whittaker keen on Rangers move
Swansea City winger Morgan Whittaker is keen on a move to Rangers this month, according to reports in Scotland.
The Daily Record claims Whittaker is eager to be a part of boss Michael Beale's revolution at Ibrox, having previously enjoyed a hugely successful, albeit brief, loan spell at League One side Plymouth Argyle.
Rangers had a bid knocked back for the former Derby County starlet on Friday, and it's understood the situation hasn't changed at this stage, although Beale is clearly still keen to bring the forward to Ibrox.
However, the two clubs are currently apart on their valuation of the player, who was initially due to stay at Home Park for the season, but was recalled by the Swans earlier this month.
He hasn't yet played for the Swans since his return, further fuelling suggestions he's set for a move away, although interestingly reports in Scotland have suggested there is an appetite to keep him in south Wales.
Martin eager to keep up momentum
Meanwhile, Swansea City head coach Russell Martin says Tuesday night's FA Cup replay with Bristol City is a great opportunity to continue their strong run of form.
The Swans face the Robins at the Swansea.com Stadium tonight after a 1-1 draw at Ashton Gate, with Martin's side heading into this contest on the back of a solid 3-1 win at Sunderland.
“It is a game we want to win, I think winning is a habit and it’s a good one to get into,” he said.
“We have won two of our last three in the league and have strung together a run of good performances and the challenge will be to continue that.
“I think both teams would probably tell you it is a game they could have done without after a busy period, and we know we had an opportunity to ensure we did not need a replay given we had the lead after a dominant first half in the game at their place.
“With all the travelling we have done we will have to see how everyone recovers, but it may well be a chance for some guys to get minutes.
“Our substitutes brought some good energy at Sunderland on the weekend and those guys may get a chance to start and show us what they can do.
“The team has been performing well but every time you pull on the shirt it is an opportunity for us to learn and improve and we will be going out there to win and try and set up another home tie in the next round.”
U21s clash called off
Swansea City Under-21s' Professional Development League fixture against Millwall has been postponed due to a frozen pitch.
The game was initially due to kick off at 1.30pm at Millwall's training ground, but the sub-zero temperatures that have swept through much of the UK have caused it to be called off.
The club have confirmed that details of the rearranged fixture will be released in due course.

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Chuka Umunna has called for transparency regarding the arrangement that persuaded Japanese car giant Nissan to commit to new investment in their Sunderland plant following the vote for Brexit.
The former Shadow Business Secretary piled pressure on the government when he wrote to Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood requesting the publication of assurances, "written or otherwise", which appear to have stabilised the company's warnings in recent weeks that it could relocate its Tyne and Wear operations to France unless it was protected from trade tariffs.
Downing Street has insisted Nissan had not been offered any form of "compensation package" and that ministers had simply assured the company of the Government's determination to secure the best possible deal after the UK withdrew.
Umunna wrote: "There has been speculation that the Government may have suggested that public money could be used to compensate Nissan, be it in direct aid or through more indirect means.
"Others have suggested that ministers may have given an indication about the UK's future role in relation to the customs union or single market.
"If either are true, they pose huge questions, most importantly what financial support was offered; whether any limit was placed on the public finance available; and whether the same assurances would be extended to other automotive-manufacturers and other sectors, including service sectors."
The MP for Streatham said that he welcomed the Government's aim to protect Britain's manufacturing base, but added: "It seems extraordinary that the Government would reveal elements of its negotiating strategy to multinational companies when it is at the same time doing its best to keep Parliament and the public in the dark."
Nissan's decision, which has been welcomed by Theresa May's Government as a "vote of confidence" in the UK economy, has secured 7,000 jobs at the plant and a possible 20,000 in the wider economy.
However, the Liberal Democrat former business secretary Sir Vince Cable and Conservative ex-business minister Anna Soubry have both said they believed Nissan would not have gone ahead with the investment unless it had been assured the UK would either remain in the customs union or there would be mitigation for any new tariffs it faced.


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The Director of the Order's European office inBrussels began work on 16 January, 2012. The Prior General, Bro. Donatus Forkan, and the President of the Europe Commission, Bro. Rudolf Knopp, welcomed Dr. Carlo Galasso in his new post. Dr. Galasso is 30 years old and a European law specialist. He was appointed by the General Curia following a Europe-wide selection procedure and after thorough examination by the Europe Commission. He is experienced in dealing in Brussels with the European institutions and also trained with an international law firm in Brussels.
Initially, Dr Galasso will spend short periods in several European Provinces to better familiarise himself with the Order as a whole. In the course of these visits he will try to gain a better understanding of what each of the Provinces expect from the new Brussels office and of the European projects currently being implemented, and will acquire a general understanding of the Order's European operations. Each Province has appointed a liaison person to the office.


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Sleep apnea is a common sleep disorder, which affects millions of people globally. Common signs and symptoms of sleep apnea include loud snoring, disrupted sleep and excessive daytime sleepiness. Sleep apnea due to repetitive cycles of snoring, airway collapse and arousal causes fragmented sleep and other complications associated with it.
Sleep apnea is a chronic disorder. According to research, asymptomatic sleep apnea is more common as compared with symptomatic sleep apnea. Many patients are not aware of their symptoms as they occur during sleep and there is no blood test, which can diagnose it. If the problem is not treated, it may gradually increase in severity and lead to cardiovascular and other complications associated with it.
Treatment with CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure), mouthpiece (or an oral appliance) and lifestyle changes can improve the symptoms, quality of sleep and decrease the risk of complications (such as hypertension, heart failure etc). Surgery to alleviate airway obstruction may control snoring and other symptoms of sleep apnea.
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NOTE: This community event is NOT a Columbia Dogs on the Go (CDOG) Meetup. It is organized and sponsored by the Wine Bin and is open to anyone in the general public--not just CDOG members.
We are posting this here as a courtesy. We are not taking RSVPs here or asking for ratings because this is not one of our Meetups.
However, please feel free to use the discussion section below to let others know you're going, ask questions, start a discussion, and add comments.
Bring your well-behaved dogs for another fun evening of wine and dog biscuits at the Wine Bin! There will be wine and Parfections chocolates for the adults and fun for everyone.
Dogs must be leashed. Donations and a portion of sales benefit animal charities.
The Wine Bin notes that "Yappy Hours will now be held on the first Fridays of each month (April through November) on Ellicott City's First Fridays, which allows visitors to enjoy evening shopping hours and entertainment throughout town."
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Credit Suisse, Lone Star to Buy Fortis Bad BankMaud van Gaal
Credit Suisse Group AG and Texas-based Lone Star Funds will pay 6.7 billion euros ($8.7 billion) for the assets of Royal Park Investments SA, a vehicle set up to manage toxic assets of failed Belgian bank Fortis.
Belgium, one of the vehicle’s shareholders, will get 1 billion euros in cash from the sale, reducing government debt by more than 0.2 percent of gross domestic product, Finance Minister Koen Geens said in an e-mailed statement from Brussels today. Ageas, the insurer formerly known as Fortis, will receive 1.04 billion euros, it said in a separate statement.
Royal Park Investments was set up in May 2009 by Fortis, the Belgian government and French bank BNP Paribas SA as a special purpose vehicle to manage a pool of distressed debt securities. The shareholders contributed 1.7 billion euros in equity at the time. That amount had increased to a net asset value of 2.3 billion euros, Royal Park Investments said today.
Fortis, once Belgium’s biggest financial-services company, became a casualty of the 2008 financial turmoil after pouring 24.2 billion euros into purchasing the assets of ABN Amro Holding NV a year earlier, just as the U.S. subprime-mortgage market collapsed and lending dried up.
Most Fortis assets ended up in the hands of the Dutch and Belgian governments, while BNP Paribas agreed to buy the main banking unit in Belgium as well as a stake in its insurer. Fortis was given a call option on the BNP Paribas shares that the Belgian government received to win over investors for its state-organized break-up.
Ageas agreed to sell that option to Belgium for 144 million euros, according to today’s statements. The country is now free to sell its BNP stake, although it currently has no plans to do so, Geens said.
The accord comes as a shrinking economy curbed tax income in Belgium. Taxpayer funds had to be used to replenish lender Dexia SA’s capital following its dismantlement. The budget deficit widened to 3.9 percent of gross domestic product in 2012 from 3.7 percent a year earlier, the Brussels-based National Bank of Belgium said last month. Debt as a proportion of GDP rose to 99.6 percent last year from 97.8 percent in 2011.
Ageas, based in Brussels, will return 1 euro a share to shareholders after the transaction is complete, the Brussels-based company said in a separate statement today.
“This is another major step forward in simplifying our company and will eliminate the uncertainties linked to the evolution of the value of these assets,” Ageas Chief Executive Officer Bart De Smet said.

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SIRIUS is working together with Bosch to deliver an infrastructure for scaling industrial artificial intelligence. The SIndAIS4 project brings Bosch and SIRIUS researchers together with a wide group of international experts in this area. We are also looking at bringing results from the manufacturing sector into the oil and gas area.
For more details, contact Baifan Zhou, Evgeny Kharmalov or David Cameron.


New Delhi, May 22 (ANI): Taking cue from the plants' ability to photosynthesise, Chinese automaker Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation has developed a new concept car that could take in carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.
SAIC, which has a partnership wtih General Motors in China, showed designs for the photosynthesizing YeZ Concept Car recently at Expo 2010 in Shanghai.
YeZ (pronounced "yea-zi") is Mandarin Chinese for "leaf," and it is the apt title for the open buggy-like vehicle, which has a roof shaped like a leaf only, reports Discovery News.
The technical details haven't been articulated, but according to a report in Xinhua, YeZ designer Ma Zhengkun has said that the roof "absorbs solar energy and transforms it into electricity while spinning rotors on the four wheels generate power from the wind."
According to CNET Asia blogger Juniper Foo, the two-seater car would have a "metal-organic framework," which would work to absorb CO2 and water, turning them into electricity that would get stored in a lithium-ion battery. (ANI)


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The Reserve Bank (RBNZ) has clarified loan-to-value ratio (LVR) restrictions are here to stay, and won’t be completely removed if debt-to-income (DTI) restrictions are introduced.
In other words, the RBNZ won’t ditch the type of restrictions it’s currently using to regulate banks’ mortgage lending if it starts applying new types of restrictions, aimed at strengthening the financial system in a different way.
Sure, the RBNZ might ease LVRs if it introduces DTIs, but it isn’t planning to remove LVRs altogether. In fact, it sees LVRs as a “permanent device to maintain resilience of the financial system”.
The RBNZ also plans to start publishing projections for how it sees itself applying these macroprudential tools.
These were key messages RBNZ Deputy Governor Christian Hawkesby delivered in a speech on Thursday morning.
LVRs and DTIs complimentary
His comments follow the RBNZ on Wednesday announcing plans to work with banks to get ready to start implementing DTIs by mid-2023 “if required”.
With a number of factors seeing the housing market turn, and credit conditions tighten, the RBNZ signalled it would take a cautious approach towards potentially implementing the new type of restriction.
DTIs would limit the amount of mortgage lending banks could provide to borrowers seeking a lot of debt relative to their incomes.
The LVR restrictions currently in place require borrowers to have certain sized deposits relative to the debt they’re seeking.
While some banks argue it would essentially be an overkill for the RBNZ to apply LVRs and DTIs at the same time, Hawkesby said the tools were “complimentary”.
“LVR restrictions help us manage the loss given default in a period of widespread default on mortgage lending,” he said.
“Including a debt-to-income measure in our toolkit would help with reducing the probability of default.
“Therefore, these two policy tools deal with different sources of risk: LVRs with the risk to banks from a fall in house prices, and DTIs with the risk to households from a fall in income.
“We see reducing the probability of default and loss given default as two complementary policies in creating a more resilient financial system.”
Interest rate floors could still be set
The RBNZ on Wednesday also said it wouldn’t follow through with its proposal to set interest rate floors as an interim measure while establishing a DTI regime.
The regulator deemed it unnecessary for it to set a minimum interest rate for banks to test mortgage applicants at, as it noted banks’ test rates have started rising in line with market rates, and the RBNZ expects to see a slowdown in lending to borrowers taking out a lot of debt relative to their incomes.
Nonetheless, Hawkesby in his speech, underlined the benefit of the RBNZ being able to introduce such restrictions if required.
He said the RBNZ believed it was “important to have a fuller suite of macroprudential tools, which help manage both the risks to the financial system from a fall in house prices and the risks to households being unable to service their debt”.
Putting macroprudential policy on an ‘equal analytical footing with monetary policy’
So, as the RBNZ looks to use more tools to ensure the financial system as a whole is stable and efficient, Hawkesby said it has to enhance the way it communicates.
He said public understanding and support of its actions are key to the regulator maintaining its “social licence” to operate.
He said the RBNZ would need to explain whether its macroprudential settings are contractionary or expansionary, and outline “how they combine in total to a neutral long-term setting to support financial stability through the cycle”.
Hawkesby said the RBNZ should also aspire to publish projections of its macroprudential settings, like it publishes projections for where it sees the Official Cash Rate going on the monetary policy side of things.
“All of these considerations are part of the building blocks we need to put macroprudential policy on an equal analytical footing with monetary policy, and to find the rhythm of following a consistent, repeatable process backed by clear and transparent communication,” Hawkesby concluded.
The RBNZ will have more to say on these issues when it releases its Financial Stability Report on May 4.


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The City of Dallas met Tuesday to discuss a proposed two-way, barrier-separated bike lane along Jackson Street that would connect Harwood Park with the AT&T Discovery District.
The Bike Plan Update, proposed by the Dallas Department of Transportation, would update the City’s 2011 Dallas Bike Plan. The plan was created alongside professional bicycle planning consultants to implement new strategies to better support Dallas’ cyclists. The 2011 Plan was adopted to update the original 1985 Greater Dallas Bike Plan.
“A lot has happened since 2011,” Jessica Scott, project manager of the Bike Plan Update, told The Dallas Express. “There’s been rapid development and densification in [Dallas]. That all leads to increased competition for the curb space, the road space, and basically all of the shared public right away.”
“The project process is designed to update the Dallas Bike Plan in a way that is uniquely Texan – one that will result in a safe, accessible, and comfortable bicycle network that fits the City of Dallas – and also provides the avenue for Dallas to become world class for bicycling,” stated the City of Dallas in the Bike Plan Update.
The current proposal would implement a phased plan to connect bicycle routes throughout the City to help residents commute safely. Dallas plans to create a new bicycle master plan by Summer 2023, per the plan update.
One significant improvement would be updating the Bicycle Network Map, which recommends the desired location and type of improvements throughout the City.
“We wanted to update the bike network to reflect existing conditions, priority destinations, connections, and the desired facility type that will be comfortable for a wide range of ages and availabilities,” said Scott. “So we’re looking for this network to be approachable by a lot of users.”
Scott added that the plan update would make roadways safer for all users, not just bikers. Bike lanes also give motorized scooter users a place to ride other than sidewalks and the road.
Discussions about the plan update began in January 2022, and the final plan was adopted in October 2023.
The City of Dallas is calling on residents to give their input on the plan.


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