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Clinical psychologist Meg Jay ( TED Talk: Why 30 is not the new 20 ) doesn't like the idea of bouncing back from adversity. "People do not feel understood when someone says, 'Wow, you really bounced back from that.' They don't feel seen in all of their complexity, in terms of how hard it can be,'" she says. Instead, Jay likes to describe resilience as a heroic struggle. "It's really a battle, not a bounce," she says — an ongoing process that can last for years.
Jay has spent close to two decades studying adult development and listening to the stories of people in her clinical practice. Along the way, she's learned important lessons about resilience, which she shared in her new book, Supernormal , and in a Facebook Live at TED's NYC Headquarters in November. One key takeaway? "Resilience is not a trait. It's not something you're born with. It's not something you just have," she says. We've distilled her essential tips for how you can become more resilient.
Don't be ashamed of what makes you stressed. "A lot of people say, 'Well, I wasn't in a war…' They have to learn what the most common adversities are and see those as being legitimate chronic stressors."
"You may not have alcoholism or drug abuse in your home, but I'm guessing you've been through something. Think about, 'What were the three toughest times in my life? How did I get through those things?' You probably already know something about being resilient."
"Resilient people tend to be active copers. They say, 'What am I going to do about this?' versus, 'When will I be released from this?' It may not be solved overnight, but every problem can be approached somehow."
"In general, resilient people tend to use the strengths they have. For different people, those are different. Some people have a great personality. For other people, it's smarts or some sort of talent or a real work ethic. They use that to grab onto, to get through whatever's in front of them."
"One of the biggest predictors of faring well after an adversity is having people who cared. One thing that resilient people do is they seek support. It doesn't have to be a therapist; it could be a best friend or an aunt or a partner. Resilient people actually use other people — rather than not let themselves need them."
"Increase the number and quality of your relationships however you see fit. For some people, that will be, 'There are two people in the world who know all of what there is to know about me.' For other people, they'll want to be known by a bigger community. Love is very powerful, and love is love. The brain doesn't know one kind of love versus another. It just processes when it has a positive experience with another person. Get out there and feel like there are people who see you and understand you and who care – that's it. It doesn't matter where you're getting that."
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Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the following statement condemning the lack of diversity on President Trump's short list of Supreme Court nominees following the announced retirement of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy:
Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issued a statement on the fifth anniversary of the landmark Shelby County v. Holder Supreme Court 5-4 decision, which gutted Section 5of the Voting Rights Act.
Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued a statement following the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 judgement in Abbott v. Perez, overturning a lower court's finding that Texas intentionally discriminated on the basis of race in redrawing its congressional and state political districts after the 2010 census.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, released the following statement following the release of the Office of Management and Budget's plan that outlines a major overhaul of the executive branch, including the merging of the Education and Labor departments into one federal agency.
The July 2016 death of Alton Sterling at the hands of two Baton Rouge police officers and the subsequent decision by the Louisiana Attorney General and Department of Justice to not prosecute these officers added new chapters to the long, troubled history between local law enforcement and the city's minority communities. For many Baton Rouge residents, these are not seen as isolated instances of injustice. Rather, they are part of the systemic pattern of law enforcement misconduct in interactions with marginalized communities that had gone unacknowledged for far too long. Others in the community, though, believe the officers acted reasonably under the circumstances. They view the ensuing civil protests, like other criticism of the police, as largely unjustified.
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Fast-moving fighter jets would have trouble escaping the aftermath of these massive explosions. On a nuclear mission, the Air Force expected its fighter pilots to fly toward their targets at altitudes greater than 30,000 feet before lobbing bombs at the enemy. With the bombs flying in an upward arc onto the target, the method would hopefully give the aircraft enough time to fly clear of the blast. But it'd still be a close call. The slower A-10s probably wouldn't make it.
Despite what the Pentagon and senior Air Force leaders might say, the A-10 Warthog is far from a " single-purpose airplane ." But dropping nuclear bombs might be one of the things the low- and slow-flying attackers actually can't do.
But the Air Force once briefly considered the idea.
In December 1975, Secretary of Defense Bill Clements wanted to know how much it would cost to modify F-15 and F-16 fighter jets so they could carry atomic weapons. Two months later, the Air Force sent back data on what it would take to upgrade those two types of aircraft—or the A-10—with nukes.
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"The estimated cost to make 275 A-10s nuclear-capable is $15.9 million."
The total amount—equivalent to more than $65 million today—would cover developing and testing the required equipment, and installing it on the Warthog fleet.
The flying branch's calculations included systems needed to support B-43, B-57 and B-61 bombs.
At the time, these three bombs were the standard nuclear weapons for aircraft in the U.S. military. If a shooting war broke out in Europe, America's NATO allies would have gotten access to these weapons, too. Newer versions of the B-61 remain in service today.
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We had a feeling we were going to love Reese Witherspoon as a brunette, but in the one good look we had, her adorable baby distracted us too much to make an informed judgment.
But when her stunning new look at Sunday's N.Y.C. Mud premiere changed the conversation from her legal troubles to her killer hair, we knew that the hue was something special.
We've been wondering how Witherspoon maintains the richer hue so far from her L.A.-based colorist Lorri Goddard, so we checked in to get the full scoop.
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Goddard worked with hairstylist Lona Vigi to get Witherspoon's hair color exactly right for the film The Good Lie, landing on a shade Goddard describes as "a medley of ribbons of different chocolates with a chestnut overlay … It needed to have warmth and richness."
And Vigi has been keeping the color vibrant on the film's Atlanta set. "Keeping a brunette like that, it's about an every two week situation," Goddard shares. Witherspoon's natural blonde hue makes it a little easier to maintain, she says, because "you don't have pigment fighting you to achieve those changes," but she sent her to Atlanta with Avon's Advanced Techniques shampoo and conditioner (Witherspoon is a spokeswoman for the brand).
In the end, Goddard says, the brunette really works for the actress because "it really shows off her coloring and her beautiful bone structure." And we agree: Anything that could look equally good in the photo here as in the photo here is a hair color worth bragging about.
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Guess what? You're not in the business you think you're in.
I don't mean this like one of those these-are-not-the-droids-you-are-looking-for Jedi mind-tricks but as a statement of fact.
No matter what else you may do, if you rely on digital technology, and who doesn't, then you are in the software business too.
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This year's Google I/O conference, held weeks after Apple's WWDC, showed the world that Google really is taking over every aspect of our lives, and challenging its fiercest rivals.
As Android users have increased from 530m last year to more than 1bn this year, Google announced its 'biggest ever overhaul' with a completely new set of Android products.
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Nest Labs meteoric rise to $3.2bn acquisition by Google in three years has been powered by three principles you can apply to your mobile marketing.
Nest Labs is a Silicon Valley based disruptor dedicated to 'transforming people's lives' with connected devices for the home that are both rational and emotional.
Founded by Tony Faddell, ex-Apple iPod lead inventor, Nest has been acquired by Google for $3.2bn. It has launched two products to date: the Next Learning thermostat and Nest Protect smoke alarm.
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For most businesses, marketing is a crucial component of success. If you can't market effectively, you can't sell and grow, and that spells trouble.
Thanks to the internet, the rise of digital marketing channels, and the abundance of marketing tools and technologies, companies have more marketing assets and capabilities than ever.
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Software is a multi-billion dollar industry but that doesn't mean it hasn't changed dramatically in the past several years. From the rise of the app store to software-as-a-service, how software is bought and sold has been evolving rapidly.
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According to a report from research firm DeepField Networks, Amazon's AWS cloud now powers 1% of the internet. If this number is anywhere close to accurate, it's a stunning figure, particularly when one considers that Amazon started as an online retailer of books.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Dec. 13 (UPI) -- A jury is set to decide how much in damages to award a Florida woman who had won a $300 million lawsuit against Philip Morris, a judge says.
In 2009, a Broward County jury awarded Lucinda Naugle, an emphysema sufferer, $300 million, ordering tobacco giant Philip Morris to pay $244 million in punitive damages, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Clinton Global Initiative is taking its formula of a powerhouse gathering of global leaders to a new part of the world.
Former President Bill Clinton said Monday that the first Clinton Global Initiative Latin America is scheduled for December 8-10 in Rio de Janeiro. He made the announcement in New York City, at the mid-year meeting for his annual September conference, which brings together leaders in politics, business and philanthropy to tackle the world's biggest problems.
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a CGI commitment that a group of the world's cities would be taking: The creation of an assessment framework for evaluating risks from climate change.
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In game one, Catawba pitcher Lindsay Ettinger (6-7) tossed seven scoreless innings, allowing only three hits, with one walk and three strikeouts. Taking the loss for Coker was freshman Shelly Catlett (2-1), throwing seven innings, allowing six runs on six hits, with four strikeouts and a walk.
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Lillie Jewel (Pirnie) Babcock, age 85, of Grand Island, formerly of the Broken Bow, Dunning, Nebraska area, died Oct. 17, 2010, in the Saint Francis Medical Center in Grand Island. Lillie J. was born Aug. 16, 1925, in Groesbeck, Texas, to Daniel C. and Melvinie (Winn) Chavers. Lillie was married to Gifford Pirnie who died in 1993, and later Robert Babcock. Lillie is survived by three sons, Alvin Pirnie of Hordville, Montie Pirnie of Phillips, and Rich Pirnie of Ainsworth; two daughters, Lillie Jones of GrandIsland and Marilyn Smith of Kingsville, Mo.; 14 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; a sister, Nona Mae Downs of Washington; and brother Joseph (Joe) Chavers of Waco, Texas. Lillie was preceded in death by her parents; both husbands; six brothers; five sisters; and a daughter, LaNita Rae. A Memorial funeral service will be Oct. 22, 2010, at the Bethel Baptist Church, 1223 East 6th Street in Grand Island, NE 68801 at 1 p.m. Graveside funeral services will be Saturday Oct. 23 at 11 a.m. at the Dunning Cemetery in Dunning,with Pastor Alan Davis officiating both services. Govier Brothers Mortuary is in charge of the graveside service. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Bethel Baptist Church in Grand Island, or Saint Francis Home Health of Grand Island.


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Kim Kardashian expects her baby to be fashion-ready as soon as he or she is born because the kid's father Kanye West is so obsessed with style.
The reality TV star is a week away from finding out whether she and the rapper are going to be parents to a baby girl or boy and she accepts that as soon as they know for sure, West will start planning the child's wardrobe.
And even though sister Kourtney is offering her kids' second hand clothes, Kim insists that won't be necessary.
She says, "He (West) has a few key pieces, but if anyone knows Kanye they just know how into fashion he is and I think he's gonna have things, like, specially made. I don't think hand-me-downs are gonna work."
Appearing on chat show Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday night (29Jan13), the socialite revealed the baby was a "nice surprise", explaining she and Kanye had talked about starting a family but didn't expect to start it so soon.
And Kardashian had another surprise last month (Dec12) when West decided to announce the baby news onstage at a gig in New Jersey.
She recalls, "I was like, 'Is he really saying what I think he's saying?' I was so confused... He is so excited; it's really cute how excited he is."


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Where are you from and where do you live?
I'm from the western part of Japan and I spent my childhood there, and then I lived in Yokohama and Tokyo since my teenage years until recently, now I live in a small city near Mt. Fuji, one of the world's highest and most beautiful mountains.
"Me in kimono with my mother on the festival for 3 years old girls."
What do you do other than sewing?
In Tokyo I worked as a web designer/developer for years and then I left the job and moved into my husband's place. Now, I'm looking for a new job in a new place.
If we were to come to your town, where would you take us?
Definitely the best thing here is enjoying beautiful nature: mountains, lakes, canyons, hot springs and local organic foods made with clean water and fresh air. Also here is a major production area of silk kimono fabric.
"My favorite lunch with local organic products."
But when it comes to shopping I always go to Tokyo. It's not so far away from here. For fabrics and notions, or rather for everything about sewing, I would take you to Nippori, the fabric wholesale district, and for accessories like buttons, laces, buckles or something like that we could go to another wholesale district in Asakusabashi. And if you'd also like to take a look at Japanese designer fabrics or cutting edge fabrics, I would recommend, for example, Nuno Works or Cocca, even though my budget has never allowed me to get them yet.
"The view of Mt.Fuji from the lake."
Tell us about your sewing journey?
I sew because I love it. Sewing or crafting always excites me, relaxes me and sometimes heals me; it's just something essential for my life. I found my love for sewing first at about 4 years old, when I made a small felt pouch in a kindergarten class. It was so fun and exciting for me to make something with my hands, even now I still remember how I felt that day.
My mom has been a quilter for as long as I can remember and she taught me basic techniques how to sew and how to use a sewing machine but she didn't allow me to use her machine so often, maybe because she correctly knew that it would soon be a serious addiction for a little girl and she wanted show me a larger world full of different possibilities.
My mom's quilt.
So thanks to my clever mother I learned lots of things other than sewing: playing the piano, saxophone, oboe and some languages, art history and then web design and development… also in my college days I've lived in Prague for a year and I found my another love for traveling to discover something new and inspiring me. At the same time I went through almost every kind of crafts: knitting, embroidery, crochet, hand weaving and so on.
"Cross stitch work, knitting and crochet work, hand woven placemat with paper yarn and a hand woven crepe scarf."
It was my husband who made me come back to sewing and dressmaking. He's so cool that he gave me a sewing machine, instead of a diamond ring, when he proposed to me, and then, in late summer 2010 my great journey has just started.
Where do you find inspiration?
It's been a long time since I stopped buying magazines, because I have a problem that I can't throw them away without feeling a huge sense of loss, and also because I realized that I love them and am inspired by them so much that I end up getting tired. The only solution is to make scrapbooks. For the same reason, I don't go anywhere to get inspired at least for now. Inspirations are rather everywhere in my daily life.
"One page from my scrapbook: 'White Things'"
I'm so interested in fashion but my bigger and endless interest is in textile design from all over the world and from traditional or vintage to modern [styles]. It inspires me and my projects maybe the most.
"A part of my fabric collection.
What's your sewing secret weapon?
If I ever had anything, it would be my sewing machines, of course they are not quite as expensive as a diamond but they are also good for professional use.
It's neither technique nor trick but I always try/want to make my projects with some special fabrics, with pockets inside or outside, and eco-friendly.
What is your sewing experience like?
In Tokyo I lived in a really small apartment with only one tiny table for everything: writing, eating and sewing, and I had my desktop PC on it, too. But now I have wonderful space for sewing. I have my machines and fabric storage in a comfortable tatami room (traditional Japanese style room) next to the dining room where the TV, DVD/CD player and computers and I like to have any one of them on while sewing.
My sewing space.
What is your dream sewing project?
I always have a lot of dreams in my head but the biggest one at this moment may be dresses with my original fabrics.
How long have you been a member of BurdaStyle, and what keeps you coming back?
I've been a member of Burdastyle since July 2010, for a year and half now. I happened to find it during lunch break at my work, and I couldn't wait till after work, so without considering about my user name, I became a member right then. It's my real first name. It was a huge and lovely surprise that I found so many people who love sewing the same way as I do, and I'm so happy to be connected with lots of creative people from around the world here. I visit the site daily if I have time, and every time I get inspired from other people's projects and stories, and encouraged with kind comments for my projects.
What is the most frustrating thing about sewing for you? What is the most rewarding?
The most frustrating thing is to find a mistake too late to fix it, or simply when something doesn't work or go the way I imagined it. The most rewarding thing is that I can get something I dreamed or something I couldn't find at the stores. Plus, it costs less than store-bought.


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The worlds biggest investors say the rout that erased $1 trillion from the value of global equities after President Barack Obama was re-elected overlooks the fact that the world economy is improving while U.S. leaders start discussions that may avoid the so-called fiscal cliff.
Money managers at firms overseeing more than $8 trillion said investor concern that the U.S. economy will slow as Obama and Congress fail to avert $607 billion in tax increases and spending cuts next year are overblown. U.S. stocks had the biggest weekly decline since June while yields on Treasuries fell to two-month lows and gold advanced the most since September.
From jobs to housing, and from consumer confidence to international trade, U.S. data show the worlds largest economy is strengthening. In China, the second-largest, exports rose about 10 percent in both October and September from a year before, up from gains of less than 3 percent the prior two months. Companies worldwide from the most creditworthy to the neediest are borrowing in capital markets at the second-fastest pace on record and at the cheapest rates ever.
Its astonishing that now the market is turning so quickly and we dont understand that, said Bettina Mueller, a money manager in Frankfurt at Deutsche Bank AGs DWS Investments unit, which oversees about $350 billion. Our expectation regarding the fiscal cliff is that both sides will come to a compromise.
Widespread Carnage
The carnage was widespread. The MSCI All-Country World Index of stocks fell 2.55 percent in the three days after the Nov. 6 vote. In the U.S., the Standard & Poors 500 Index slid 3.4 percent.
Investors retreating from riskier assets pushed the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury to 1.61 percent from 1.75 percent. The Dollar Index, which measures the greenback against six major trading partners, jumped to a two-month high. Gold futures for December delivery reached $1,730.90 an ounce.
Money managers with the most at stake said they are increasing holdings of securities that benefit from expanding economies instead of preparing for another U.S.-led recession.
What the American people are looking for is cooperation, Obama said at the White House on Nov. 9 in his first public remarks on the budget and deficit since winning re- election Nov. 6. Theyre looking for consensus. Theyre looking for common sense. Most of all, they want action.
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Pacific Investment Management Co., which manages $1.92 trillion including the worlds largest bond fund, sees as much as a 70 percent chance that U.S. lawmakers will compromise to avoid the spending cuts and tax increases.
No one in their right mind would push our country into recession, Mohamed El-Erian, the chief executive officer of Newport Beach, California-based Pimco, said Nov. 9 in a radio interview on Bloomberg Surveillance with Tom Keene and Ken Prewitt. The major issue for us is not that we resolve the fiscal cliff but do we do it in a way that allows Washington to pivot to turning headwinds into tailwinds.
The biggest holdings in Pimcos flagship fund, the $281 billion Total Return Fund, are mortgage and related securities, which make up 47 percent of assets, according to a Nov. 9 report on the firms website.
BlackRock Inc., worlds biggest asset manager with about $3.55 trillion, favors corporate bonds and dividend-paying stocks, according to Jeffrey Rosenberg, the New York-based firms chief investment strategist for fixed income.
Good Outlook
If we get through the fiscal cliff and we see the clarity that there wont be the very extreme downside for markets, then we have a very good outlook following that, Rosenberg said at Bloombergs Portfolio Manager Mash-Up conference in New York on Nov. 8. Were still in this environment of persistent low interest rates.
DWS cut its holdings of Treasuries to underweight from neutral after the election on speculation the rally was overdone, Mueller said. Treasury 10-year yields will likely rise to 2.32 percent by the end of next year, according to the median estimate of more than 80 economists and strategist surveyed by Bloomberg News.
The dollar was little changed at $1.2709 per euro as of 4:37 p.m. in New York. The Standard & Poors 500 Index was unchanged. U.S. bond markets are closed for Veterans Day.
Axa Investment Managers, which oversees the equivalent of $382 billion from London, favors lower-rated investment-grade and speculative-grade corporate bonds.
Good Politics
Were in for a period of volatility but in the end some agreement will be reached because reaching one is good politics, Chris Iggo, Axas chief investment officer for fixed-income, said in a Nov. 9 interview.
Stock analysts predict gains next year for U.S. equities. The S&P 500 will rise about 14 percent to 1,585 by the end of 2013 as earnings climb about 5 percent to $106.24 a share, according to forecasts from 15 Wall Street strategists tracked by Bloomberg.
The estimates imply a price earnings multiple of 14.9, about 9 percent below the average valuation since the 1950s, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Were not selling stocks here, Paul Zemsky, the New York-based head of asset allocation for ING Investment Management, which oversees $170 billion, said in a Nov. 9 telephone interview. Assuming we get some sort of compromise on the fiscal cliff issue, fundamentals are pretty good and stocks are not expensive.
Opposing Objectives
Markets were whipsawed immediately after Obama defeated Mitt Romney. The election left the split between Democrats and Republicans largely intact, which is the worst possible outcome because it gives both sides room to claim a mandate for their policies, according to Barclays Plc strategist Barry Knapp in New York.
After being declared winner in Florida on Nov. 10, four days after securing a second term, Obamas electoral vote count rose to 332, compared with Romneys 206. A total of 270 was needed to take the presidency.
While Obama will meet Nov. 16 with House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, to avert another budget showdown, the Congressional Budget Office said Nov. 8 that the tax increases and spending cuts may trigger a recession. The changes would cause gross domestic product to contract 0.5 percent in 2013 and push unemployment to 9.1 percent from 7.9 percent in October.
Inevitable Drag
Obama and Congressional Democrats want to let tax cuts expire for individual incomes above $200,000 a year, while Republicans advocate extending them for all levels. The president wants to boost the two top rates to the levels they reached when Bill Clinton left office in 2001 -- 36 percent and 39.6 percent. He also wants higher taxes on capital gains and dividends and a smaller estate tax exemption and higher rate.
We see little reason to increase the probability of avoiding the tax cliff or brinksmanship over the debt ceiling, or to expect pro-growth tax and entitlement reform in 2013, Knapp wrote in a Nov. 8 research report. The firm sees 10-year Treasuries yields falling to 1.5 percent by year-end.
Even if the worst case -- prolonged political gridlock that sends the economy over the edge -- doesnt occur, some fiscal policy changes will drag on growth.
Important Catalyst
A two-year payroll tax holiday is scheduled to end Dec. 31 along with extended unemployment benefits, plus a new tax on investment income earmarked to help pay for the administrations health care overhaul will begin.
Theres a significant amount of fiscal restraint already baked into the cake, says David Stockton, who retired Sept. 30 as the Federal Reserve Boards director of economic research and forecasting.
Yields on 10-year Treasuries at about 1.68 percent imply the economy will tip into recession in the next year, Terry Belton, the global head of fixed-income and foreign-exchange research at JPMorgan Chase & Co., said in a video to clients on Nov. 5.
Rates on bonds are out of synch with economic data that signals the economy will continue to grow and expectations that the political impasse will be resolved, Belton said.
A lot of things have moved where investors should have been willing to take more risk, Belton said Nov. 8 in a telephone interview. Just the resolution of the uncertainty I think will be an important catalyst for markets. It should push Treasury rates higher and equities higher.
U.S. Payrolls
Belton said in his video report that he expects 10-year Treasuries to yield 2 percent by the end of 2012.
A net 171,000 workers were added to payrolls in October, after a 148,000 gain in September that was more than first estimated, Labor Department figures showed Nov. 2 in Washington. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary consumer sentiment index rose to 84.9 in November, the fourth straight increase and the highest since July 2007.
Residential real-estate prices as measured by the latest S&P/Case-Shiller index of property values in 20 cities increased 2 percent in the 12 months ended August, the biggest rise in two years.
Exports Climb
The consumer is like an ocean-going vessel, its so large, Richard Weiss, who oversees $16 billion as a senior portfolio manager at American Century Investment in Mountain View, California, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. It doesnt make hairpin turns. It has a lot of slow but strong momentum and we envision it pushing us into 2013 regardless.
Corporate America is strengthening, too. Exports from the U.S. climbed to a record in September, contributing to an unexpected 5.1 percent decline in the trade deficit to $41.5 billion, Commerce Department figures showed last week. The gain in sales to overseas buyers was broad-based, with improvement in everything from soybeans to fuel and civilian aircraft.
The economy may have expanded at a 3.2 percent annual rate in the third quarter, according to economists at Barclays and JPMorgan. The Commerce Departments first estimate, issued last month, was 2 percent.
Confidence in the economy is emboldening investors and banks to increase lending to companies at ever lower rates.
Bank Loans
Corporate borrowers around the world have sold $3.45 trillion of bonds this year, second only to the $3.93 trillion issues in all of 2009, Bloomberg data show. Yields fell to an average of 2.6 percent last week, from more than 7 percent in early 2009, Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes show.
Commercial and industrial loans at U.S. banks rose to $1.48 trillion on Oct. 31, the most since 2009 and up from the post- crisis low of $1.2 trillion in October 2010, the Fed said.
In China, exports rose at the fastest pace in five months in October, adding to signs of a rebound after industrial output and retail sales exceeded forecasts. Overseas shipments increased 11.6 percent from a year earlier, the Beijing-based customs administration said in a Nov. 10 statement.
In Germany, Europes largest economy, the Federal Statistics Office said Oct. 30 that retail sales increased for a second month in September as rising wages and unemployment near a two-decade low boosted consumer confidence. Sales rose 1.5 percent from August, exceeding the 0.3 percent median estimate of 17 economists surveyed by Bloomberg.
Declining Volatility
Volatility across markets has declined, signaling investors are less worried about the outlook for the economy with central banks in the U.S., Europe and Japan providing unprecedented stimulus.
JPMorgans G7 Volatility Index of currencies has fallen 51 percent from the high in September 2011 to 7.5 as of Nov. 9 after reaching a record-low 7.4 on Nov. 1. Bank of America Merrill Lynchs Option Volatility Estimate MOVE Index covering Treasuries has declined 38 percent this year from its high. The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, known as the VIX, ended last week at 18.61, below its high for the year of 27.73 in June.
Were of the mind that they will come to a decision in the next months, Kathy Jones, a fixed-income strategist in New York for Charles Schwab Corp., which has about $1.7 trillion in client assets, said in reference to the fiscal cliff talks. Its a question of how much and how soon.
Jones said she favors high-quality short- to medium-term bonds.
Inflation Concerns
Since Obamas win, most commodity markets have dropped, which may help ease inflation concerns, further bolstering consumer confidence.
Copper reached a two-month low after the election, while crude oil traded near a four-month low. The S&P GSCI Spot Index of 24 raw materials is down 1.3 percent since Nov. 6.
The plunge in markets may be what it takes to force Washington to reach a compromise, said Jay Schwister, managing director and senior money manager in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at Baird Advisors, which oversees $17 billion of bonds.
What level of crisis is going to be required to give politicians on both sides of the aisle enough cover to come to the middle and make a compromise? Schwister said Nov. 8 in a telephone interview. Its clearly a scenario that has at least some probability of playing out. At least a couple of days of going over the cliff to get everybody focused. It might take that.
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Project 12-Gauge, Part 3: 2011 Chevy Silverado
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During the buildup of this go-anywhere, do-anything 2011 Silverado, known as 12-Gauge, we've shown you nearly everything from front to back. Hopefully you have gained insight into how simple it really is to build an eye-catching truck that is still capable of being used for work or play, without making out of this world modifications or breaking the budget. With this last installment of the Silverado's makeover, the guys at Digital Media Giant finally altered the Chevy's outer skin. To meet the rendering's unique look, All Pro Stickers, in San Diego, performed a complete vinyl wrap in a killer urban camouflage motif that looked street cool, but would also serve to protect the underlying paint from undue damage on those backwoods expeditions.
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The City is Our Canvas: A Bay Area Tour, in Murals
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From the alleys of San Francisco's Mission District to the busy streets of West Oakland, colorful messages of peace, dignity, and hope are cropping up throughout the Bay Area. The themes covered by Bay Area muralists are as diverse as the artists who paint them, but they have one thing in common: They transform blank walls and blighted buildings into canvases filled with vibrant images and uplifting messages.
Today's muralists have their roots in the contemporary mural movement of the 1970s, and some of the pioneers from that era are still very active. But they are also helping to pass the torch onto younger generations. Several of the region's leading mural arts organizations have robust youth outreach programs that use the power of art to inspire and empower young people.
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This is the first module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Activities are self-directed by students or student teams using online videos and data from the SDO satellite to explore, research and build knowledge about... (View More) features of the Sun. Students build vocabulary, apply or demonstrate learning through real world connections, and creating resources to use in their investigations. Each activity comes with both a teacher and student guide with sequential instructions and embedded links to the needed videos and internet resources. Activity 1A: Structure of the Earth's Star takes students through the features and function of the Sun's structures using online videos, completing a "Sun Primer" data sheet using information from the videos, and creating a 3D origami model of the Sun. Students use a KWL chart to track what they have learned. Activity 1B: Observing the Sun has students capture real solar images from SDO data to find and record sunspots and track their movement across the surface of the Sun. Activity 1C has students create a pin-hole camera to use in calculating the actual diameter of the Sun, and then calculate scales to create a Earth-Sun scale model. Students reflect on their learning and results at the end of the module. An internet connection and access to computers are needed to complete this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
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By Kayla Curry
Big 12 Campus Correspondent
Texas Tech senior Hayley Haagsma reflects on four years as a college athlete with pride knowing that she will be leaving everything on the field when she hangs up her jersey.
Haagsma kicked off her career as a Texas Tech soccer player strong.
"It started out really well," Haagsma said. "I came in trying my hardest in the summer to make sure I was fit to keep up with all the returners and that my soccer skills were at the best level they could be."
That hard work paid off when Haagsma started seven of the games in her opening season in 2010. But during the eighth game, Haagsma's stellar season was abruptly interrupted and changed all the plans she had.
"My freshman year wasn't ideal," Haagsman said. "I ended up tearing my ACL. It ended the season for me."
Haagsma said this obstacle gave her the opportunity to grow in a completely new way.
It was a process that didn't surprise Texas Tech head coach Tom Stone who already knew the determination Haagsma possessed.
"It was never a question," Stone said. "Her personality and determination made her recovery about as seamless as I've ever seen."
During that process, Haagsma quickly developed into the player she is today.
"It was a whole learning experience to learn how to be a teammate in a new role that I'd never been in," Haagsma said. "I grew up a lot in that way. Looking back, that was just an experience I had to go through to get to where I am today."
She said she was thankful to know she had the full support of the team and coaches during the recovery process.
"The coaches were always there to just support me and give me that extra word of encouragement on a really down day where nothing else was really working," Haagsma said. "They would see me down and just tell me that I was going to come back stronger and better."
Haagsma did just that. Once recovered, she returned as a force for the Tech defense.
She has started in more than 60 games in her career and has scored 6 goals – 4 of those goals scored in 2013 alone.
Not only did Haagsma come back as a leader on the field, but she also grew into a leader in other areas.
"I was always one of those players that was going to work their hardest and do all that they could on the field," Haagsma said. "I though that as long as I was doing that I was doing my job. Over the past two years, I've learned there are leadership qualities in me that have never been brought out."
Haagsma explained that being a leader is much more than she had ever thought.
"When you have a team and when you're the captain of a team, you have to rally everyone behind the team goals and the desires that the team has," Haagsma said. "It takes more than just worrying about yourself."
Haagsma has also shown leadership off the field by leading a team devotional before every game. She was also chosen as Tech's August Scholar-Athlete of the Month for her performance in the classroom.
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The Red Raiders finished a program-best second in the Big 12 this year with a school record 16 regular season victories while going unbeaten in conference play.
As Haagsma's time as a Tech student-athlete comes to an end, she said she is most proud of the effort she has continually given to the program.
"Just being a senior you have more and more thoughts as the season comes to an end," Haagsma said. "I'm proud that I've truly tried to give everything I have to these girls, these, coaches and this school."


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Damned If You Don't
By Ken Monteith
October 9, 2012
This article originally appeared on PositiveLite.com, Canada's Online HIV Magazine.
Let me start by qualifying my level of expertise. I have been a lawyer, but not for more than ten years, so I am reading these two judgments with a strange mix of past legal training, current political commitment and the often paranoid eye of someone who could be directly affected by it. If you're willing to swallow that (couldn't help myself), then feel free to read on and agree or disagree with me. For more rigorous legal analysis, I would suggest the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, the Coalition des organismes communautaires québécois de lutte contre le sida or the HIV/AIDS Legal Clinic of Ontario.
Background (Simplified Version)
The first Supreme Court of Canada ruling that started shaping the legal response to HIV came in the Cuerrier decision in 1998. The facts of that case are relatively important, as they come from a time before HAART (and therefore before we had conceived of an undetectable viral load) and they involved a man who did not use condoms with his partners (which limited what the court could officially say with respect to condom use).
The court constructed a scenario in which the absence of disclosure of HIV positive status meant that the uninformed partner could not give consent to the act, and a sexual relation without consent is a sexual assault, or at least an assault. Add to this the likelihood of an infection leading to serious bodily harm, should it occur, and the offence becomes more serious, like aggravated assault or aggravated sexual assault.
The court's test in Cuerrier boiled down to this: if the act was one which could involve a significant risk of HIV transmission (bodily harm), the non-disclosure of HIV status negates the consent of the other person and the criminal law is engaged. The problem we would later discover was the lack of clarity about where the line should be drawn on what constitutes a significant risk. Would condoms reduce the risk below the level of "significant"? A minority version of the judgment written by Justice McLaughlin speculated that condom use might do that, but because Mr. Cuerrier had not used condoms and a majority of the members of the court didn't sign on to Justice McLaughlin's reasons, this speculation didn't have the force of law.
More recently, we have started asking whether an undetectable viral load might also reduce the risk below the level of "significant", especially considering how our public health authorities are in many cases trumpeting the virtues of treatment as prevention, and for this very reason.
The uncertainty played itself out in conflicting decisions by various courts across the country, leading up to the two cases that were decided by the court on October 5th.
The Cases, Mabior and DC (Equally Simplified)
Mr. Mabior was charged with nine counts of aggravated sexual assault involving non-disclosure of his HIV status to multiple partners. What was interesting from a legal point of view, given the questions in the community, was that he sometimes used condoms and his viral load was sometimes undetectable, giving us facts that could lead the courts to clarify some of these issues for us. None of Mr. Mabior's partners was infected with HIV. Convicted on six counts at trial, the Manitoba Court of Appeal reversed four of the convictions, where either he had used a condom or his viral load was undetectable. The Crown appealed to the Supreme Court.
Ms. DC was charged with aggravated assault and aggravated sexual assault after a single sexual encounter prior to disclosure of her status to her partner. Her partner filed his criminal complaint in the context of his own trial for conjugal violence following their breakup four years after the alleged offence that she was charged with. (Note that he was convicted of conjugal violence, but given an absolute discharge after his complaint about possible exposure to HIV transmission was filed against her. I could go on about this, but we would be getting off track, so I will restrain myself.) She said that a condom was used, and he said not. He was not infected with HIV. Convicted at trial after the judge did some fancy footwork to describe what would allow him to conclude that no condom was used, the Court of Appeal of Québec reversed the conviction based on the fact that DC's viral load was undetectable at the time of the alleged offence, but allowed the trial judge's conclusion about the absence of the condom to stand. The Crown appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada.
Reaction to the Supreme Court Decision
It's an odd thing to watch a complicated Supreme Court decision come out and to watch the wide range of reactions to it. The media knew it was coming out and were ready to pounce on various kinds of spokespeople for comment on what it meant. The interpretations were equally widely varied.
Some people living with HIV and some public health experts and HIV doctors hailed the decision as a step forward. The coalition of community groups that had intervened at the Supreme Court called it "unjust" and "a major step backward for public health and human rights". You can't get much more mixed than that, so I thought it might be useful to pick apart the decisions to see which parts might be good or bad, in the eyes of someone living with HIV and also committed to working for the respect of our rights, with those limits to my interpretive skills that I outlined at the beginning.
The public reaction to this, as gauged by the usual deluge of comments on the web sites of various news organizations, is not for the weak of heart. It can be downright scary to read some of those comments, and they betray some profound misunderstanding of HIV and HIV transmission. It would be just sad if it were not also scary.
A New Test
The court did not sweep away the Cuerrier rule, but recognized that there were some problems with its clarity and went on to propose a new way of assessing whether there was a "significant risk of serious bodily harm". They did this by proposing an assessment of the "realistic possibility of transmission of HIV" as a way to ensure that the bar would not be set too high or too low, considering the seriousness of HIV infection. They propose an assessment of the degree of harm and the risk of transmission, which are inversely related: the more harmful the disease, the lower the risk of transmission that would be necessary to engage the responsibility to disclose. While being clear that the cases before it did not concern other sexually transmitted infections, the court did suggest that most of those would not be considered as serious as HIV, so the risk of transmission would have to be higher to engage that same responsibility to disclose.
Still vague for you? They go to provide even clearer guidance. Paragraph 94 of the Mabior decision asserts that, as a general rule, a realistic possibility of transmission of HIV would be negated by a low viral load (as opposed to undetectable viral load) at the time of sexual relations AND the use of condom protection. The court goes on to recognize low viral load as being below the threshold of 1,500 copies per millilitre. So with those two elements, there is no criminally enforceable requirement to disclose status if not asked.
What's Good About This Decision?
Well, we have some clarity. A low viral load (<1,500) plus condom use will relieve you of the criminally enforced responsibility to disclose to a partner who doesn't ask. (I add the "who doesn't ask" on my own, because if a partner asks and is lied to, that is still fraud which would negate the person's consent.) We also have the Supreme Court of Canada asserting that in such a situation, the risk of transmission of HIV is merely speculative and not realistic, which is a nod, however cautious, to the science of HIV transmission and prevention.
Drawing the line at a viral load of 1,500 was interesting. The court clearly understood the concept that even detectable but low viral loads reduce the chances of transmission and that "undetectable" can be in evolution (in Québec we went from viral load test sensitive to 500 copies to 50 copies in 1999, and then to 40 copies in 2010) and avoided drawing a moveable line that could become more onerous for people living with HIV over time. This also takes the drama out of the small "blip" in viral load, at least in terms of criminal responsibility.
Another positive aspect is to be found in the DC decision. While the definition of the "realistic possibility of transmission of HIV" test is outlined in the Mabior decision, the court in DC has a few words to say about the proof of the absence of a condom. The only evidence presented about the use of a condom came from the accused and the complainant, who contradicted each other and who were both characterized as "not credible" by the trial judge. He had to find another source of corroborating evidence to draw a conclusion. He found that by speculating that a brief note in DC's medical file from seven years earlier, when she had asked what would happen if a condom broke, was proof that she had lied to her doctor and that no condom had been worn. The Supreme Court said that this "speculative edifice the trial judge built" is not evidence that no condom was used. That might have some impact on the elements of future accusations going forward, but it might also be so specific to this case that it will have none at all.
On the Other Hand ...
We were really hoping for a judgment that would say that condom use OR undetectable viral load would relieve a person of the duty to disclose, but we got an AND. This might have been the Supreme Court being especially cautious about transmission and dramatic about the impact of HIV even in 2012. I'm not one to lack caution or to underestimate the impact of HIV, even today, but I do tend to see this as a "belt and suspenders" situation (see my article on that here). All of which to say that I do still think the burden on people with HIV is too high, and likely because of the fears of the common person about HIV. When some news organizations announced this from the other perspective, focusing on the situations where disclosure is not required, and their readers seem generally outraged, which is scary and depressing for me.
This has to be a little worrisome for public health authorities and those engaged in prevention activities, too. After 30 years of "use a condom" messaging. the Supreme Court seems to be saying that condoms alone are not enough. While I think, as noted above, that this is overly cautious, I wonder what the prevention impact will be.
The court does not take judicial notice of the effectiveness of condoms. Taking judicial notice of something means that it is a fact so notoriously recognized that it does not need to be proven in court. They do recognize that the virus does not pass through latex, but accept the expert testimony from the Mabior trial that human error and breakage reduce the rate of effectiveness to about 80%. This could be difficult to have to prove every time and the high assessment of the human and product failure probably led to the double requirement.
Another big danger that I can see is the possible evolution of the treatment as prevention approach toward obligatory treatment. For people who are not on treatment because their current CD4 levels do not indicate treatment for their own health according to the guidelines, low viral load as defined by the Supreme Court is not necessarily a reality. They will not be relieved of the obligation to disclose by using a condom, so they will either have to disclose their status or start taking treatment early and use a condom.
What I didn't see anywhere in the judgment was any responsibility on the part of the partner of the person living with HIV. Not that I expected it: the criminal law doesn't really have room for the concept of "shared responsibility" that has long been the message of public health and which is well-known in civil law. No, the whole responsibility for HIV prevention is again falling on the shoulders of people living with HIV and I guess everyone else will be protected by the criminal law and not their own sexual habits.
I'm sure there are people who will read this who will wonder what is the big deal with disclosure. I have gone on too long here already, so I promise to share my thoughts on disclosure in a future post.
The Supreme Court drew a clearer line for us. It just wasn't where we thought it ought to be.
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