Kristin Forbes, Christian Friedrich and Dennis Reinhardt Recent episodes of financial stress, including the ‘dash for cash’ at the onset of the Covid-19 (Covid) pandemic, pressure in the UK’s liability-driven investment funds in 2022, and the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in 2023, were stark reminders of the vulnerability of financial institutions to shocks that … Continue reading Funding structures and resilience to shocks after a decade of regulatory reform
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THE Southern Cross University Health Clinic at the Coffs Harbour Education Campus (CHEC) is providing a quality and dedicated paediatric Speech Pathology clinic at set times during the year. SCU Health Clinic Manager Brenda Allan said the clinics are essential for providing students with real life opportunities for clinical education, research and practical experience in...
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CELEBRATING his one-year anniversary of working with Enterprise and Training Company (ETC), not-for-profit provider of employment and training services in Coffs Harbour, refugee Sami Sheebo says he is proud of what he has achieved since making Coffs his home. In Refugee Week 2023, Sunday 18 June to Saturday 24 June, he shared his story with...
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ROTARY Club of Woolgoolga inducted three new members during the club’s changeover meeting on Monday 26 June and another four, maybe five, will join in July. The influx of members comes as a direct result of the Club’s membership information session held early on the morning of Friday 23 June at Wiigulga Multi Purpose Centre....
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THE Combined Art & Craft Group will be hosting an exhibition at the Botanic Garden from Saturday 1 July to Sunday 9 July. The exhibition opens daily from 10am to 3pm. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02) 4981 8882. Email us –...
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ARTISTS in the Garden, the free, public art participation project taking place once a month in the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden in Coffs Harbour, is building a tower at its next meeting. “There was always going to be a constructed form at some stage of Artists in the Garden,” co-director James P Gilmour told...
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MID NORTH COAST homeowners wishing to help others with affordable rent are building granny flats or other self-contained accommodation on their properties. “My criteria was for a woman who was eligible for ‘social housing’,” Melissa Murano told NOTA of her move to take on a tenant. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth...
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Michael Levin is uncovering the incredible, latent abilities of living things.
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Risky and stressful ceremonies help crystallize who we are—and heal us, too.
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The hunt begins at birth; the mission becomes clearer and clearer. But no man can act alone. By cross-referencing Google Flights, Kayak, Expedia, Hopper, and Delta’s Twitter bot, you should be able to secure and execute your destiny: a $650 ticket from Denver to Minneapolis via Kansas City.
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I went down a river once when I was a kid. There’s a place in the river—I can’t remember—that must have been a gardenia plantation or flower plantation at one time. It’s all wild and overgrown now, but for about five miles, you’d think heaven just fell on the earth in the form of gardenias. For the voyage, I packed one native pelt, a pound of water buffalo jerky, and my machete. That should suffice for your six days at Disneyland Paris.
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I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That’s my dream; that’s my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor… and surviving. My other nightmare was when my Uber took a wrong turn on my way to LAX, and I missed my flight to Hanoi by ten minutes.
Earlier this month, the Tyneside popstar Sam Fender headlined two huge sell-out shows at St James’s Park in Newcastle: a remarkable breakthrough for a working-class musician from England’s most deprived region. At a time when the arts are dominated by the wealthy, the well-connected and the well-located, Fender’s success story—a sort of real-life embodiment of […]
. Although it’s forty years now since I was a research student at the University of California, on a day like this, I sure wish I was back in Redondo Beach, Ocean Park, Venice Beach …
Jason Collins discusses a paper by Milkman et al. that presented “a megastudy testing 54 interventions to increase the gym visits of 61,000 experimental participants” … Collins’s discussion seems reasonable to me. In particular, I agree with his big problem about the design of this “mega-study,” which is that there’s all sorts of rigor in the […]
Attention conservation notice 1 – a long read about a simple idea. When reading trolls, focus on the anodyne-seeming starting assumptions rather than the obnoxious conclusions. Attention conservation notice 2 – This is also available via my Substack newsletter, Programmable Mutter. I’ll still be writing on CT, but I have a book with Abe Newman […]