beauty, and the idea that beauty is not something that arises from everything being perfect and symmetrical and orderly and straight. beauty is the thing that manages to grow in the cracks in the sidewalk, and manages to struggle out between the buildings and between the barbed wire. my earliest sense of being aware of a world much bigger than my six-year-old reality came from books. and i lived and breathed and ate those books. and i was acutely sensitive to the themes of loss and change and suffering. i remember when i was six years old writing a poem about the golden years are passing by in the winds that whistle. i had this real sense that nothing lasts, and a real sadness about that. a real sense of wanting, wanting everything to be golden and stay golden, and it didn't work like that. and i was also very sensitive to the land around me, and i grew up in a region that was rapidly being developed, and where what used to be horse fields and meadows were being turned into strip malls and condominiums, and corporate headquarters. just watching the rape of this land, feeling like there were

investors remain unconvinced use measures to curb its debt problem a little too risky and i have symmetrical believes the markets will be in for war of the same this week most likely we will see another calm week as we're not expecting anything really significant happening except of the usual news for from europe which is driving the mood of the markets for some weeks already we will also see the release of third quarter g.d.p. results for us on tuesday which will probably be a good short term driver for. markets worldwide otherwise we have to confess that internal russian news and some of the russian advance on that were important for the marketplace right now everybody is still keen on the european situation and the resolution of the problems there but the crisis. everybody's hoping still that we will see the traditional christmas rally before the end of the month and which can be probably longer them over the last year or so unfortunately for now we do not see any prerequisites for that and finally the german airline live hands that has become the fifth biggest international carrier and r

used measures to curb its debt problem and it's not a risk in at all of symmetrical believes markets will be in the same this coming week. most likely we will see a lot of con we we're not expecting neither can really significant happening except of the usual and useful from europe which is driving them into the markets for some weeks or even review we will also see the release of third quarter g.d.p. results for us on tuesday which will probably be in the church and driver for. markets worldwide otherwise we have to confess the internal russian news and so no russian advance on the three important for the marketplace right now everybody is still keen on the european situation and the resolution of the problems there the debt crisis and everybody's instilled as we will see will traditional christmas rally before the end of the month and which can be probably longer. over the last year or so unfortunately for now we do not see any prerequisites for the. german airline live hands that has become the fifth biggest international period in russia that's despite strong local competition an

remained unconvinced although we use measures to curb problem and it's on the roof can at all have symmetrical believes investors should look to technical stories rather than fundamentals. you can pay attention to saw specific stocks which are technically x. and that's above the rest of the market for example last week we have seen the risk chemical rebound in from five thousand four balls. for example we have seen some strange but very aggressive woman some translators. maybe it's time for a second call reasonable to another fundamental wants calls from the mental picture remains uncertain probably is the reason to look for for the stocks which are significantly cheaper than the other sometimes climbed over the last months. to minutes for another business update here on our team. that has become more and more of them is to keep both creation of the deal of the food system the global food system is not created to feed the people of the world is created to maximize the profits. gernot trading the actual physical grain your trading promises for grain to be delivered a month or six months or twel

the alumni put a cap on their totally symmetrical season six wins to open and 6 to beat to close.minnesota the worst overall team defense, illinois has one first down in the first half, and nathan fumbled it away deep in his own end and the gophers made him pay, a senior quarterback gray hangs onto it runs it in and they build it 27-nothing lead, beat illinois 27-7 and should be gone by the middle of next week. if you will watch football in the rain you might as well be comfortable. 01 position came into then tried to make it five in a row but they couldn't get it done, kirk cozzens c j cunningham joggled but held on 31-17 but the cash will get a full victory even. >> i told the guys after the game i think it's been like running water indoor and outdoor plantings plumbing since we have one of ball game. high-school title games today bolingbrook against hall loyal of leading 14-7 lead in the first half, has run ties the game 14 all in the third quarter, the seven a final. to look like they would be here taking on rockford, first place in the fourth quarter lamont to jackson mr. 79

wanted to get married on the first of this year, 1/1/11 i thought would be better to make it all symmetrical11 couples chose the date for their significance as a once in a century palindrome but dillon and stephanie todd did find the date full of symbolism. >> 15saying 11/11/11, saying we were the only ones for each other. we picked all the ones we could find. >> reporter: if you want to hear something truly mysterious, turns out the city wasn't planning for 11 couples. >> we had 12. and then one person canceled. then had somebody else call, back up to 12. they canceled as well. back down to 11. >> reporter: in the end, al immediate deals number onest was one. the number of city halls open on 11/11/11 for weddings. >>> much more ahead on today in the bay. still to come, meet flora. she needs a new home. boy isn't she cute? we will find out if she is the right match for you. [ woman ] hmm...game day party idea pillsbury crescent bacon cheddar pinwheels just unroll, add ingredients, roll and bake. and the crowd goes wild. crescent bacon cheddar pinwheels. game day ideas made easy. grands! and

figured out how to do that, but what was interesting is if you study luck, you learn that luck is symmetric, luck cannot cause a great outcome, can not cause great success, good luck. bad luck can be a cause. if y get four tails in a row or five tails in a row and you know eventually you are going to get heads againt doesn matter if you get killed at tails number 4. and so if overtime, luck tends to even out which is what we found, you have to survive the inevitable space of bad luck in order to be able to have the good luck that enables you on your quest. and so you are on this quest and dealing with a lot of luck, good and bad luck and the interesting things they do with luck and that is a fascinating journey for us to understd but you have got to survive the bad luck or it doesn't matter. >>ose: if you flipped a coin, 1,000 times. >>yep. >> rose: how many times is it going to be heads and how many times tails. >> 1,000 times, fairly close to 500 each, i it is going to be a little statistical variation. >> rose: but if you do it 5,000 times it will closer. >> somewhere along that thousand

it's not really a symmetrical fight if you pit up the president against congress. congress is always going to be more unpopular than the president, but, of course, they have got to worry about their own re-elections and numbers for incumbent members of congress have also been weak. >> john, last question before i let you get out of here. the super committee, of course, the thanksgiving deadline fast approaching there and continues to be a great deal of concern that they are not going to be able to come up with something. if that's the case, if they don't come up with a deal to shrink the nation's debt and deficit, who hurts the most politically? who suffers the most? >> i think everybody in washington suffers, but because we don't have the debt limit sword hanging over this discussion, the consequences will be fairly movement. there are automatic cuts scheduled to take effect, but they don't take effect for another year so for the average voter this will look like one more washington argument, not as consequential as this summer when the specter of potential defaul

i thought it would be better if we made it symmetrical, 11-11-11. >> reporter: none of the couples saidchose the date for the significance as a pallindrome, but they did find the date full of symbolism. >> we were making a joke that we were the only ones for each other. we picked all the ones we could find. >> reporter: and if you want to hear something truly mysterious, it turns out the city wasn't even planning for 11 couples. >> we had 12. and then one person canceled. and then we had somebody else call and back up to 12 and they canceled as well. so back down to 11. >> reporter: in the end, the city of alameda's lucky number was indeed one. that was the number of city halls in the bay area today open for 11-11-11 weddings. joe rosato jr. nbc bay area news. >> and we wish them 111 years of happiness. >>> the craze of 11-11-11 not only spark and uptick in people tying the knot, hospitals also braced. today not typical. almost a dozen women scheduled inductions or c-section deliveries at good samaritan for 11-11-11. numerologists and astrologists predict babies born today will go on to