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FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE BOARD
Sunshine Act Meeting Notice;
Announcing a Closed Meeting of the
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A closed meeting of the
Board of Directors is scheduled to begin
at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, July 23, 2008.
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Housing Finance Board, 1625 Eye
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By the Federal Housing Finance Board.
Dated: July 16, 2008.
Neil R. Crowley,
Deputy General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 08–1453 Filed 7–17–08; 11:06 am]
BILLING CODE 6725–01–P
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Change in Bank Control Notices;
Acquisition of Shares of Bank or Bank
Holding Companies
The notificants listed below have
applied under the Change in Bank
Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and
§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12
CFR 225.41) to acquire a bank or bank
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holding company. The factors that are
considered in acting on the notices are
set forth in paragraph 7 of the Act (12
U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)).
The notices are available for
immediate inspection at the Federal
Reserve Bank indicated. The notices
also will be available for inspection at
the office of the Board of Governors.
Interested persons may express their
views in writing to the Reserve Bank
indicated for that notice or to the offices
of the Board of Governors. Comments
must be received not later than August
6, 2008.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis (Jacqueline G. King,
Community Affairs Officer) 90
Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis,
Minnesota 55480–0291:
1. John Richard Doherty, Oswego,
Illinois, to retain voting shares of West
End Financial Corporation, and thereby
indirectly retain control of Gogebic
Range Bank, both of Bessemer,
Michigan.
B. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
(W. Arthur Tribble, Vice President) 2200
North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201–
2272:
1. The Gayle Gourley Trust, The W.J,
Gourley, 111, Trust, and The Mary
Theresa Lott Trust, Richard A, Griffin,
Charles Lasater, Henry W, Simon, Jr.,
John W, Windle, and B. Ted Woodle, all
of Fort Worth, Texas, and Jack S. Lewis,
Arlington, Texas, all as trustees, to
acquire an interest in Texas American
Acquisition Group, Inc. Fort Worth,
Texas, and thereby indirectly acquire an
interest in Liberty Bank, North Richland
Hills, Texas.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, July 17, 2008.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E8–16719 Filed 7–21–08; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210–01–S
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and
Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
The companies listed in this notice
have applied to the Board for approval,
pursuant to the Bank Holding Company
Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.)
(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part
225), and all other applicable statutes
and regulations to become a bank
holding company and/or to acquire the
assets or the ownership of, control of, or
the power to vote shares of a bank or
bank holding company and all of the
banks and nonbanking companies
owned by the bank holding company,
including the companies listed below.
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The applications listed below, as well
as other related filings required by the
Board, are available for immediate
inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank
indicated. The applications also will be
available for inspection at the offices of
the Board of Governors. Interested
persons may express their views in
writing on the standards enumerated in
the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the
proposal also involves the acquisition of
a nonbanking company, the review also
includes whether the acquisition of the
nonbanking company complies with the
standards in section 4 of the BHC Act
(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise
noted, nonbanking activities will be
conducted throughout the United States.
Additional information on all bank
holding companies may be obtained
from the National Information Center
website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
Unless otherwise noted, comments
regarding each of these applications
must be received at the Reserve Bank
indicated or the offices of the Board of
Governors not later than August 15,
2008.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
(Richard Walker, Community Affairs
Officer) P.O. Box 55882, Boston,
Massachusetts 02106–2204:
1. WebFive, MHC and WebFive
Financial Services, Inc., both of
Webster, Massachusetts, to become bank
holding companies by acquiring
Webster Five Cents Savings Bank,
Webster, Massachusetts.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, July 17, 2008.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc.E8–16718 Filed 7–21–08; 8:45 am]
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Findings of Scientific Misconduct
Office of the Secretary, HHS.
Notice.
AGENCY:
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that
the Office of Research Integrity (ORI)
and the Assistant Secretary for Health
have taken final action in the following
case:
Roxana Gonzalez, Carnegie Mellon
University: Based on reports submitted
by Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU)
inquiry and investigation committees,
the Respondent’s own admission in
sworn testimony, and additional
analysis conducted by the Office of
Research Integrity (ORI) during its
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oversight review, the U.S. Public Health
Service (PHS) found that Roxana
Gonzalez, graduate student, Department
of Social and Decision Sciences and
Psychology, CMU, engaged in scientific
misconduct in research supported by
National Institute of Mental Health
(NIMH), National Institutes of Health
(NIH), grants R01 MH56880, R03
MH62376, and R24 MH67346.
Specifically, PHS found that Ms.
Gonzalez engaged in the following acts
of scientific misconduct:
1. Respondent altered the main
dependent variable (life events; life
expectation) in the electronic file and
the manipulation check variables for
ease-of-thought generation so that the
reported study results are largely
unsupported in:
(a) Publication: Lerner, J.S., &
Gonzalez, R.M. ‘‘Forecasting one’s
future based on fleeting subjective
experiences.’’ Personality and Social
Psychology Bulletin 31:454–466, 2005;
(b) 2005 Manuscript: Lerner, J. S., &
Gonzalez, R. M. ‘‘On perceiving the self
as triumphant when happy or angry’’;
(c) Review Article: Lerner J. S.,
Tiedens, L.Z., & Gonzalez, R. M.
‘‘Portrait of the angry decision maker:
How appraisal tendencies shape anger’s
influence on cognition.’’ Journal of
Behavioral Decision Making: Special
Issue on Emotion and Decision Making.
2. Respondent falsified cortisol
values, and possibly cardiovascular
measures and optimistic appraisals (as
measured by LOT), so that a large
portion of the mediation analyses of
Table 3 does not reflect the data actually
collected and analyzed for the study
reported in a publication (Lerner, J.S.,
Gonzalez, R.M., Dahl, R.E., Hariri, A.R.,
& Taylor, S.E. ‘‘Facial expressions of
emotion reveal neuroendocrine and
cardiovascular stress responses.’’
Biological Psychiatry 58:743–750, 2005).
Respondent further allowed one of her
collaborators to report the results from
this study at the Annual Meeting of the
American Psychological Society held in
Los Angeles, California in May 2005,
although Respondent’s collaborator did
not know at the time that the results
were tainted by Respondent’s acts of
research misconduct.
3. Respondent falsified the analyses
based on participants’ responses to the
manipulation check items (including
the data for self reported fear) in a study
reported in a publication (Fischhoff, B.,
Gonzalez, R.M., Lerner, J.S., & Small,
D.A. ‘‘Evolving judgments of terrorism’s
risks: Foresight, hindsight, and
emotion.’’ Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Applied 11:124–139, 2005.
4. Respondent falsified the main
dependent variable (reservation price,
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BDM) in the electronic file for 48 of the
175 subjects participating in a study
reported in a 2005 manuscript (Lerner,
J.S., Gonzalez, R.M., Small, D.A.,
Lowenstein, G., & Dahl, R.E. ‘‘Emotional
influence on economic behavior among
adolescents.’’). Respondent directed the
alteration of the paper files for those
subjects in order to match the altered
electronic file. One of Respondent’s
collaborators included a qualitative
description of the results of the research
that is the subject of this study in an
NIH grant application, although
Respondent’s collaborator did not know
at the time that the results were tainted
by the Respondent’s acts of research
misconduct.
ORI acknowledges Ms. Gonzalez’
extensive cooperation with CMU’s
research misconduct proceedings.
Ms. Gonzalez has entered into a
Voluntary Exclusion Agreement
(Agreement) in which she has
voluntarily agreed, beginning on June
26, 2008:
(1) To exclude herself from serving in
any advisory capacity to PHS, including
but not limited to service on any PHS
advisory committee, board, and/or peer
review committee, or as a consultant or
contractor to PHS, for a period of three
(3) years;
(2) That for a period of three (3) years,
any institution that submits an
application for PHS support for a
research project on which the
Respondent’s participation is proposed
or that uses the Respondent in any
capacity on PHS supported research, or
that submits a report of PHS-funded
research in which the Respondent is
involved, must concurrently submit a
plan for supervision of the Respondent’s
duties to the funding agency for
approval; the supervisory plan must be
designed to ensure the scientific
integrity of the respondent’s research
contribution; Respondent agrees to
ensure that a copy of the supervisory
plan is also submitted to ORI by the
institution; Respondent agrees that she
will not participate in any PHSsupported research until such a
supervisory plan is submitted to ORI;
(3) for a period of three (3) years to
ensure that any institution employing
her submits, in conjunction with each
application for PHS funds or report,
manuscript, or abstract of PHS-funded
research in which the Respondent is
involved, a certification that the data
provided by the Respondent are based
on actual experiments or are otherwise
legitimately derived, and that the data,
procedures, analyses, and methodology
are accurately reported in the
application, report, manuscript or
abstract; the Respondent must ensure
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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding
Companies
The companies listed in this notice have applied to the Board for
approval, pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C.
1841 et seq.) (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 225), and all other
applicable statutes and regulations to become a bank holding company
and/or to acquire the assets or the ownership of, control of, or the
power to vote shares of a bank or bank holding company and all of the
banks and nonbanking companies owned by the bank holding company,
including the companies listed below.
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The applications listed below, as well as other related filings
required by the Board, are available for immediate inspection at the
Federal Reserve Bank indicated. The applications also will be available
for inspection at the offices of the Board of Governors. Interested
persons may express their views in writing on the standards enumerated
in the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the proposal also involves the
acquisition of a nonbanking company, the review also includes whether
the acquisition of the nonbanking company complies with the standards
in section 4 of the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise noted,
nonbanking activities will be conducted throughout the United States.
Additional information on all bank holding companies may be obtained
from the National Information Center website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding each of these
applications must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the
offices of the Board of Governors not later than August 15, 2008.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (Richard Walker, Community
Affairs Officer) P.O. Box 55882, Boston, Massachusetts 02106-2204:
1. WebFive, MHC and WebFive Financial Services, Inc., both of
Webster, Massachusetts, to become bank holding companies by acquiring
Webster Five Cents Savings Bank, Webster, Massachusetts.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, July 17, 2008.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc.E8-16718 Filed 7-21-08; 8:45 am]
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