i don't think women seem more attractive when i drink alcohol. you know that it was i don't need to my husband's here. to hear two scientists are on the case in one study participants were asked which places they found attractive some of them were symmetrical like this one on the left others were less symmetrical like the one on the right normally people prefer symmetrical faces but when individuals had consumed alcohol they found the asymmetrical faces attractive to. the to have a really good night you need to find yourself attractive to. can alcohol help your two. researchers asked people who drank alcohol to devise and present an advertisement afterwards they were asked to evaluate themselves in general people rated themselves favorably. in the placebo group subjects got a soft drink which nevertheless smelt of alcohol meaning they thought they were drinking alcohol here too they rated themselves favorably. so simply believing you're drinking alcohol can make you feel more attractive in a group alcohol appears to confer certain benefits even i

what have you done to attract female coders? >> so i think generally in the tech industry there is an issue historical historical historically being male dominated specifically with skills. we implemented an objective hiring process that runs, first, a skill-based panel for testing the candidates and then later a cultural panel. and we actually correlate the number of people passing all of the skill-based testing against cultural test. >> give me an example of cultural testing. >> people say team fit, spend time meeting each person and see if you like working with them. >> are the skills tests blind? >> they are. they are blind. the beginning of the process for us is actually computerized. we designed all the tests internally. so in any given role when you come into our company you'll test with a laptop in a room. it's completely blind. >> were there any adjustments you made to it to make it better, more likely to be gender-neutral? there was some skills you didn't test for deliberately because you worried it would skew male? >>

is this model working in terms of attracting workers. this the--they get to pick when to wk andives are needed the most. is that something that's attractive to your members or to potential muni bussives. >> drivers. >> i think the reflect is there and we have signups. you can pick a shift to work with your family, school and summers. that's there already. i think it's really the problem is the pay. >> supervisor brown: did you have anything else to add? >> that's it. thank you for your time. that might be some members that want to share. >> supervisor brown: i have one mr. speaker. the next person is cat carter from the transit rider. >> good afternoon chair kim and supervisor peskin and supervisor brown. thank you for calling this hearing for inviting san francisco transit riders to speak. we hope this will lead to improvements what is chronic problems as we all know and talked about the summer of 2018 was a very difficult time for san franciscans. as an organization, we knew about the need to shut town twin peaks tunnel and we supporte

but to have a really good night you need to find yourself attractive to. can alcohol healthier to. researchers asked people who drank alcohol to devise and present an advertisement afterwards they were asked to evaluate themselves in general people rated themselves favorably. in the placebo group subjects got a soft drink which nevertheless smelt of alcohol meaning they thought they were drinking alcohol here too they rated themselves favorably. so simply believing you're drinking alcohol can make you feel more attractive in a group of alcohol appears to confer certain benefits even if you're only and much in a news consumed. in some cultures alcohol doesn't feature at all and that this. as an essential part of socializing do you need alcohol to have a good time and what makes a great policy. some facebook shrikant lama says i don't think you need alcohol for a party my favorite drink is fresh orange juice. made the point that in kenya somalia and ethiopia many people prefer chewing khat to drinking alcohol. and reacts to pre admitted for me personally alcohol is an integral part o

it makes credit really attractive. . -- attractive. what i do not like about the investment thing going forward is that it is so tied to a single factor, so tied to what the fed does and that does not feel great from a risk reward perspective. we have no idea what this institution is going to do yet we are hanging fortunes on it. that is not a great way to invest. as a consequence, it will be a cost in increase in the risk premium broadly. jonathan: you guys are going to stick with me. i want to get a check on where the market has been this week. treasuries, 2's, 10's, and 30's. as follows,aping up down five basis points on a two year and a they move on tens and 30's. . still ahead, the final spread. big week ahead featuring the scheduled parliament vote on brexit and an ecb decision. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ jonathan: i am jonathan ferro. this is bloomberg "real yield." time for the final spread it coming up over the next week, big events in europe. in the u k, gdp day and a scheduled vote on the brexit. plus, an ecb rate decision with

where does real estate look attractive?stina: it looks attractive from a global standpoint is a diversifying asset class. we expect high single-digit returns in real estate, around the 5% to 7% to 8% range over the next 10 years. despite rising rates, rates are not going up that significantly to really have a major impact on real estate. within real estate, you want to be well diversified and you do not want to put all of your eggs in the basket of for example, retail. it will ultimately be a good strategy that serves investors well. caroline: give us your topics or for 2019 inpicks terms of where we will see the out performers. kristina: emerging markets and u.s. tech. i would also give a nod to chinese tech. i believe we will see some strong performance there as well. caroline: it is always great to get your take. thank you for spending some time with us, invesco chief global strategist. go,mber the function g tv if you want to get into our functions, catch up on the key --lysis, and savior futures your favorites for futu

that being said, valuations are getting really attractive here we feel in many cases. particularly for a lot of growth companies. that you really don't get opportunities like this. typically without an operational misstep from many companies. we think there are some buying opportunities that are starting to transpire here. you know salesforce down 5% today. company just reported a great quarter at the end of november it was not that long ago that we got an update from management. so things are good we continue to think that's a solid space to be in great growth companies are never going to be cheap. but when they're down double digits from high or more, i think it creates an interesting buying opportunity >> mr. wilson, i presume >> what now? what now >> first of all, i'm glad we're hearing some negativity. that's where it begins so six months ago there was no negativity in the marketplace. part of the reason we sold off so sharply yesterday is because people worked themselves into a frenzy, expecting some kind of dovish tilt that was going to be phenomenal i mean like

you know for sure you are saying how how large your source attraction the market is there are markets all over france and we're all over europe really and they are obviously attractive targets for someone that's intent on this sort of thing whether or not it's. extremist islam motivated or some other motivated terrorism the nature of the attack is just as devastating for the people caught up in it and we have seen we have seen just sort of people going crazy with a gun more that more the american style incident we have seen those in europe but i think all the indications would seem to be that this probably will turn out. the terrorist related yeah i mean france has suffered such a number of awful attacks in over last couple of years it's really been at the forefront of them to try to deal with this how would you rate from what you can see from what you know about it the way they're handling the general security situation at the moment well the french have got an awful lot of personnel in place. they work closely with the military as well. so they've got more boots on the ground as it

as an attractive place for them to put the u.k. they think that's an attractive place for the u.k. to be in and they won't want us to be in it for any longer than is necessary to hold our correspondent in london so join a day to another bit of a kicking for theresa may how much trouble this year. well you know all of this is leading up to the vote next tuesday on to reason may's deal of bragg's a deal reached with the european union last week she's got to get it through her own parliament next week and she faces overwhelming opposition and much of that opposition congregates around the issue of the backstop you heard it talking about it there it's this moment in time between the end of the transition period and the beginning of a new future arrangement when it is negotiated if there is a gap if those two things don't happen simple tenuously will then britain goes into a customs union arrangement with the european union with special requirements and. issues related to northern ireland for the duration of that period and that is some

i think employers who are going to find this attractive for the reasons that were outlined for the very fact that we now have a market that functions more in ways that competition tries, among insurers, to provide greater value in insurance coverage. recognizing that sort of the limits and the guard rails and the sort of stifling the potential competition that might exist and how those rules are set up, at least we have some rules that creates competitive conditions that might be attractive to an employer. the hra proposal helps to open those possibilities up. now there is much more that could be done and we will hear about a good day mealÃis a good deal more but the structure is in place to have competition work better. one of the things with competitions done in that marketplace is to produce the emergence of alternate networks. some are inadequate or what have you, but there are a lot of actual things happening in the market, partly due to the competitive structure created by the health asked insurance exchanges that has caused some very promising efforts at network design. i think i

and well they might just have a point well become less attractive for foreign investments because of the changes my colleague put that question to germany's economy minister. the german spokespeople of german industry have said that these new rules make it more complicated for investments in germany there is some uncertainty that is being created as a result of these rules what's your response uncertainty has been removed today's decision and cabinet meeting foreign direct investment in germany. by the government. enjoys support from many sides and this will continue to be the case we have better instruments now to examine whether something could be problematic under the angle of the national security and we all think and agree in the cabinet meeting all the ministers concerned that germany has to protect. it's national security interest as as our country is doing already for some time and that means that we have better possibilities to examine the critical infrastructure where the defense and and security it companies can be taken over by foreign investors will in most of the cases

it has left really attractive opportunities throughout the equity spectrum. george, we are on track for the second-biggest weekly outflow from you is equities we have ever seen, i think. most of that is being led by retail. wrong?il get thisf we do not trade war issue cleaned up, we are going to have economic headwinds going into 2019, and thereafter. there is no doubt a trade war is very, very damaging to economic growth. if the u.s. they can be isolated from that, they are wrong. if the world thinks they can be isolated from that, it is wrong. it will hurt earnings and hurt aggregate economies. to the extent people feel nervous -- since 2018 -- since 2008, people have had a necessity to down great loss. -- downgrade loss. does that tell us that this goes beyond the trade war narrative? this is a more domestically-focused index? george: it is a more domestically-focused index, but if you look at it underlying, it is not as domestically-focused as indicated. but that is the general view. the russell 2000 started at a much higher multiple and has more to come

it has made the uae such an aggressive -- attractive place for chores and -- tourism.have a country project that number of tourists, it can only do despicable only happen when people feel safe and secure. david: some of the rhetoric, has that been a concern to people in the middle east about muslims? khaldoon: no. we have such strong ties with the people of u.s. and we have to do is to wish between rhetoric and reality. the reality, that is what we feel. ♪ to -- mohammed is closed ofse to the crown prince saudi arabia. how did they develop this close relationship russian mark -- relationship? khaldoon: he is another incredible leader. what you are seeing in saudi arabia is transformational. they share of view of the future , vision for the future, a better place not just for their people but for the region. actors that make such special leaders. have -- david: president trump has pulled out of the iranian agreement. we always had reservations over that agreement on the beginning. in our region, we have been dealing with iran and the challenges that they put on the regi

other, both attracted to the same gender and asexual means we are not sexually attracted to other peopleo celibacy. it's not a choice, it's a sexuality. and tell me about your first date? what was our date like, the first date we had? we had an indian takeaway at my flat. first time you'd ever had one. first time i'd ever had an onion bhaji. we sat down, we ordered some food. we got the food delivered. we watched a film. halfway through the film, i did the typical, very sort of like... that was the tester, wasn't it? yeah, i rememberthat. and it's probably one of the best one night stands that we both ever had. then nothing happened, it was brilliant. we sort of tried it to see what worked for us for the first six months. it really wasn't making either of us happy. because i'm asexual and some asexual is can enjoy sex and that's quite normal, but lots of them don't. so i wasn't happy and jacobs told me a lot of times he doesn't want to be having sex with someone who doesn't want to be having sex, which sounds obvious but a lot of people don't get that. ultimately be tried what was normal

i think the uk has an overinflated sense of its own attraction for asylum seekers.f things very few asylum seekers want to come here. the journey is arduous and i think if you make the last bit of itjust that little bit safer, i don't think it's going to suddenly pull in hundreds of thousands more people. the government says that although this is the only border force cutter currently patrolling off the coast of kent, they don't want to put more resources into this for fear of attracting more migrants. the argument being that if the migrants and smugglers in france get wind that it's safer to cross the channel then they'll be tempted to make the crossing. so just how many are trying to come over? well, in addition to today's 12 migrants, there were 23 people yesterday, and a0 on christmas day, making a total of around 220 since november. really, what we need to do is to stop people making these journeys in the first place, so more patrol boats is part of the answer, but it's also having resources on the ground. we need working in partnership with the french to ident

a lot of attention to new technologies have allowed what a lot of companies to attract investment in those new technologies and eventually will we see you know from that effect will we see a police chief impact in terms of new technologies for different types of activities for example this year we have introduced book changes military to you know real estate deals in one of the russian region so we've implemented that the projects and it works pretty well so once again at tension that was attracted by the bubble like for example there's a bubble that we witnessed in the late ninety's to the communications you know at that point of time it was a bubble it attracted a lot of attention and a lot of investments and now you know if you believe we should be using the results of that investment boom that opened at that point up there so this is the same story it's of course has a negative impact especially if we look at the situation of the place you kill or. you know. persons which in the west that. into the into that bubble of political it was either that them with people from pick from b

emerging markets look attractive.ing this rotation of stocks with a good 12 months to run. ideas, of manys that are on sale for the free cash flow and growth rates are positive. alix: in the value world, do you agree? burns: i absolutely agree. side,ve valuation on your which you did not have three months ago. stocks are all of a sudden priced in line with long-term average. you're getting good values. likewise, 5, 10, 20% pullbacks not accompanied by recession tended to bounce back. i also agree with my colleague. you have the consumer balance sheets in good shape. recessionost of the monitor show as low as 16% probability of recession taking place in the next 12 months. although we are certainly late innings of this expansion, there is definitely good opportunities for investors to chip away and at least rebalance long-term allocation targets. value is a good place to be. small caps is good. mid-cap is an area where investors can get value in companies that are growing the way small caps to but at the same time you

an attractive business at a reasonable price.f it is a juicy price but i keep buying. >> health care, i have heard you talk about this. going back to 1960, the total gdp in taxes, has gone from 4% to 2%. percentage and health care has grown from 5% to 18%. you are involved in a joint venture with jpmorgan. how are you going to then that -- bend that cost curve? >> i wish i know. -- i wish i knew. the answer is getting smartest people we know working on that. we have a terrific leader. give them free reign. not expect something is going to happen next year or the year after. this is $3 trillion or something like that. every dollar has a constituency and it has all kinds of factors. you can't just chip a little bit here and there. we are not in a hurry. we would like to be in a hurry. we're not going to do something faster than it can be done. >> you have two options. you spend less than what you are getting where you get less. how much will be extracting monopoly rents, saying to people, you cannot have the drug, the service you e

that became an attractive option because of reforms brought about by the affordable care act. i think employers who are going to find this attractive for the reasons that were outlined for the very fact that we now have a market that functions more in that tries to provide greater value in coverage. the limits and guardrails, and the stifling of potential competition and how those rules will set up, we at least have a set of rules that creates competitive conditions that might be attractive to an up lawyer. the hra proposal helps to open those up. there is much more than could be done. -- that could be done. the principle is that we needed the structured marketplace in order to have competition work better. one of the things that competition has done is to produce the emergence of alternative networks. some view them as inadequate or what have you. there is a lot of actual innovative spark happening in the individual market, partially due to the competitive structure created by the health externs -- health insurance exchanges. one of the things that the report gets right is ho

baxter street has a share of 95% and attracting 5%. we expect baxter will add value investing in differentiating age with the holding in the public equity portfolio and compliment the performance profile. have a lower equity data and the lower correlation to the markets. after an extended bull market over the last 10 years we expect baxter to add value in more challenging markets going forward. up to $500 million and baxter street baxter street and we did a lot of terms analysis. in the interest of time we might jump to allen and any p.c. >> please. >> this is the number one rated manager. we've known them for a long time. it is a research shop, that's what they do. they have high conviction and they know their stocks well. they buy very few of them. they concentrate the for portfo, which is what you want in your portfolio. so we are very supportive of this investment. they also have cash in the portfolio, and this isn't 2% or 3% cash, they can go to very significant amounts of cash which is what you need to protect against the down ma

the front end of investment grade equity markets has been attractive.yield continues to be ok and our view that in our view, i do think it is an opportunity technically and not as a long-term investment piece. jon: if we are going to have that was expectations the federal reserve and we are going to expect the federal reserve to slow down, what is the attraction in floating rate if that is the story of the fed? >> it is not about the floating rate piece for me. professional bond investors monetize the spread -- whether it floats are not is irrelevant. i think that misses the central point. the point is that the risk that they changed now are trading at a deep discount. before, if you were on the credit, it would be called away. if you are wrong on the credit, you basically own it. the changes in that price matters a lot. colin: i like high-yield more than loans. with respect to credit, not all in at this point. i agree that there is tactical that needs to go on and you always need to make sure you are defining the credits, but i think the opportunity ha

others. the england captain and her signature has attracted othersm is amazing. want to sit there and hear her talk. anything she says, i decide to do exactly as she says because she is the most successful and experienced captain, so having her in our team is amazing. the first match is a friendly later this month as they head to tap into the london netball markets. it could already be ready—made. well as it's december — does that mean we can officially mention christmas on sports day? well here's our first bit of festive cheer. hundreds of santas hitting the slopes in the states for the annual santa sunday. this is the 19th year this event has been staged in maine — with around 300 jolly old st nicks skiing and snowboarding all for a good cause, raising money for a local charity. no confirmation on whether the real santa is among them. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. you're watching bbc news. the head of mi6 you're watching bbc news. the head of m16 has warned russia not to underestimate our capabilities. delivering a rear spee

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there is the technology, which young people are attracted to. generation are more inclined to technology. island's food is produced locally. excludesprice of land many newcomers. they see a bleak future for the sector. [indiscernible] agriculture represents barely 2000 full-time farmers. young fire -- young farmers feel they are not a priority. >> we have a few issues we have inherited. -- the current issues need to be solved. encourageution is to farmers to aim for small markets. producee diversified to edible flowers. he has a loyal, local clientele. many are faced with obstacles. his children do not want to take on his farm. >> i wish my son or daughter this, but iue with am here, i continue. >> the farming life is a crossroads. incomes in agriculture are falling fast. it risks becoming a past time,, no longer a profession. >> this is an experimental farm. something you will see alall around malta. a prickly pear tree. we have come here to meet the paymentsof the rural agency, the man in chargee of liaising with brussels. these t trees.ong we

is that something you find attractive?we are not concerned about the underlying fundamental credit risk across the loan market. there are pockets of risk, pockets of concern and research is important. but when we see the loan market reprice, we think it is a buying opportunity. i will tell you you have to focus on bottoms of research and analysis of each underlying credit and make sure t structures you are buying into, which i think is one of the most important things, you understand. because there could be risk inherent in the structure as the deal has challenges. krishna: we have had this discussion many times. we continue to like the loan market. the driver of that is relatively simple. spreads are not that wide. they are decent but not that wide. it is a choice between high-yield and loans. i think still, the risk reward is significantly better in loans than high-yield. jonathan: even though the fed might be pausing or slowing down on interest rates, the big attraction, at least 50% of it, was not just the credit story

a young audience and it attracted you know people who were in the counterculture and it became a huge hit because of that i mean what but you something personally that you find so fun interesting fascinating but with so much in terms of its history but just as a film goer yeah the amazing thing about this the the photography the visual effects just watching the beauty of each of those sequences and the fact that he's really willing to hold the camera and extend a sequence and ask you to step into that vision and to just take that journey and then when you have the marriage in certain sequences of some of these classic pieces of music that also is incredible because now people when they hear that music it immediately makes them think of the film as it does with me. exhibit here dedicated to the film what it's about adds to understanding two thousand and one what i really like about this exhibition in the way that it brings the audience in is it shows the whole production cycle it shows that stanley kubrick was an obsessive he did tremendous amounts of research for every movie he made a

for several decades this cosmopolitan city attracted international jet setters who could get from the ski slopes to the beach in no time. the hotel district was at the heart of its a luxury tourism economy and in its heyday hotels like this and george the phoenicia on the holiday inn were full of wealthy tourists businessman journalists diplomats and the occasional spies. travelers on a tighter budget stayed at hotels like the commodore and in the mid one nine hundred seventy s. it became host to the world's media when the lebanese civil war erupted. in one nine hundred seventy a young arab millionaire use of mizzle took the commodore hotel on a twenty year lease from the kuwaiti royal family. in a zone was a leading investor in the hotel industry in the region and responsible for attracting thousands of tourists to lebanon. mohammed should borrow words with ms ali in ticketing and still runs a travel agency near the commodore with the same name. but that. one. it was the those that are fundamental couple phone book atlantic. or canal if up the telephone or the office. but the luxury

that's an attractive selling point.nd although still under constructionon, houses sururvd the massssive storm hurrrricane irma. donna: september 10 and september 11, 2017. thank you to the people who are building our home. we hope you and your families were out of harm's way. and we wrote that on 9/13/2017. reporter: now the avecks are settling i in. it's the first house to be finished in their future community. an architectural pearl. it feels good to be in the avant-garde. jim: be with open-minded people who are thininking forward and don't run from change, but embrace it. we think that's very, very important. reporterer: back at cape cora, gliaia tate siststs th the constrtruction boom m is far m overer. regardless of the hurricanes that pummel florida's coasts ever more frequently and fiercely. just living in the moment. forgetting the future. though some of those with a little more cash are starting to build with bricks instead of wood, now. gloria: our limits are endless. and really, the opportunities here for bus

emerging markets are attractive in this year's route? we want to hear toward views. let's get the bloomberg first word news. >> theresa may is to meet european leaders to seat -- seek reassurances over the irish backstop. insistedprime minister four days the deal would go ahead. she is pushing the key brexit vote closer to the european union exit in late march. broad support for many of the key aspects of the issue, theree remains widespread concern. ,f we held the vote tomorrow the deal would be defeated by a significant margin. we will not proceed to divide the house at this time. micron admitted -- macron promised a rash of new he draws the line over the yellow vest crisis in france. he urged companies to pay their workers a tax-free bonus and would abolish a controversial tax on pensions. >> i accept my share of responsibility. i may have given you the feeling it was not my concern. i may have heard some of you with my words. i fought to shake up the political system in place, precisely because i believed very hard in our country. the rupee slumped to its biggest

as an attractive place for them to put the u.k. they think that's an attractive place for the u.k. to be in and they won't want us to be in it for any longer than is necessary so clearly journal she's got another three tough days around the corner is she looking like she's hemorrhaging power and political capital or might she be able to pull this off. i mean frankly the former is looking more likely than the latter particularly after the events of choose date to remind you of those three last votes one of them was a very important procedural vote that effectively allowed m.p.'s allowed parliament to amend the statement but the government must produce if it fails to pass that vote next week to amend it with a so-called plan b. allows parliament to take control of the process of what happens next that essentially makes the idea of a no deal breaks it which is always been a threat that the reason may as waved about pretty unlikely because there's no majority for that in the meantime more and more in m.p.'s in their own party are speak

and then a major tourist attraction. but as the number of tourists increase the population is going down. and the team of volunteers from african impact designs about sitting out to monitor the marine mom was the problem is it's not regulated by the government so you can have anywhere to twenty or thirty but i'm going out at one time chasing a pod of maybe three or four dolphins cause they're going to have to step into them so yeah they say and race that's the impact of the dolphin tourism has on the dolphin population of. african impact is a million twenties and organisation enabling visitors from abroad to volunteer and participate in activities that benefit local communities this time lisa is with andrew from england and nico from slovenia it's the first time we've seen dolphins . i believe never seen anything like it. so close to the hotel and. at the same the very same. research the impact of the tourism and the amount surrounds dolphins and it's quite sad actually dolphins are crazy. when they head out on their aro