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Flat. R yen now we had seen it move lower throughout the session but were off the lows of the session and is vix is what everyone watching. 45 is how were trading on the vix. Thats like a quadruple from what we saw last week. Modestly higher. I was interested as to why we didnt see gold spike more. To be about equities and commodities kind of taking on the chin. Raises the question whether its fundamentals or technical. Well be die jekting over the next two hours. For the first take, there are three top stories. You have equitys and what is the fed going to do . David . Were joined by Michael ...

Some faith providers from kenya on the subject of Family Planning. So i think it is true what the first panel really emphasizes, that things are evolving and developing and this is an important moment to be exploring this further. And with this panel were eager to talk about it from the focus of the u. S. Policy perspective. And i think to begin with well turn to sandy thurman. Given your long involvement with hiv policy from the u. S. Government can you describe to us more about how pep far began partners with faithbased organizations and how that has evolved. Sure. Thank you. And thank you a...

Here. It is interesting, the Faith Community has been a partner in response to hiv since the beginning of the epidemic both domestically and globally. So i think pet far was an out growth with faithbased organizations on the domestic side for a number of years. When we really began looking at the disproportionate impact of the epidemic in africa back in the late 1990s and early 2000, it was a lot our interest and a lot of the pressure that was brought to bear on the u. S. Government and policymakers was from faithbased organizations who were on the ground in africa seeing the devastation that ...

But i think that our work, the work ahead continues to be the building of trust, the building of understanding, the building of what we call faith literacy and development, this literacy across the two communities. And i would like to just point out that the materials, all the materials for the conference, are available on the website of the joint learning initiative at www. Jliflc. Com. I commebled those to you commend those to you. Anita great. Thank you. Now well open the floor to questions. There will be people coming by with microphones and so please wait to get the microphone before you ...

Recommendations with the down turn of the economy a lot of employees were being laid off and there was not much hiring being done and the work of the task force as you indicated had kind of dropped off. Thats not to say that none of the recommendations werent implemented. In fact many of them were implemented. Some of them include more accessibility and disabled user friendly resources like the dhr lobby, the dhr website job apps and system of people and employees can apply for jobs. We also provided reasonable accommodations training both for our exam analyst as well as to supervisors and Hum...