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i personally want to thank really fast director kaplan making us feel like we matter in this process thank you. >> i apologize i've got a conflict so i'm running out so thank you everyone. >> thank you director metcalf. >> it's safe to say we've all come too few so with that let's move forward. thank you. >> good afternoon board. i'll keep my comments very brief. i'm also the cochairperson for the san francisco african american chamber of commerce construction advisory committee we want to commended this board for the participation that we're seeing on this package it's very difficult on packages that large and that complex to get dve participation and for you guys to exceed the participation on it you need to be commended and commended over and over again. we want to see you guys to keep the small business and local business participation in the picture as you continue moving forward in the project and we support this budget. thank you. >>3 4 f1 good morning directors speaking on behalf of the san francisco transportation authority you know this project is a very important project f

thank you. >> same to you. >> good morning executive director kaplan and members of the board. i'm with the operating engineers. i want to thank you all for your dill gence in the management of the project and looking at phase 2 and how we're going to make that happen and i want to also recognize the dill gence in monitoring the hiring on the job that local businesses and veterans are out there getting dispatched to the job and i want to commend her on that and i'll hand it over to our coordinator. >> i'm the apprenticeship coordinator. we have a couple that have just graduated to journeyman level so thank you. >> i think it's tommy d u.n. nigan. >> good morning and thank you for the opportunity. first of all i'm extremely disappointed if we lose the 185 million dollars the second point is there's one loan for phase one and one for phase 2 i'm really concerned about the impact of restructuring the phase one of the impact that that's going to have on the phase 2 loan. the last thing i'd like to say is that i'm not a subject matter expert with a bunch of letters behind my name bu

they have an education business which includes legacy kaplan test prep, kaplan higher education whichs the biggest component of that. both of those have been really struggling. they have international assets. they own a broadcasting business and more recently they have been allocating capital towards expanding to nonmedia, they bought a hospital and an acquisition of an industrial company. i don't know how much you guys know about it but don graham has always had a close relationship with warren buffett and is trying to emulate his management style. these recent acquisitions might suggest that the company is now going to be looking across a variety of articles to allocate capital and ideally improve returns for shareholders. >> are you saying that "washington post" or what will be whatever new company, whatever it's called within the next 60 days, that it could actually move away entirely from media and its core business could be something else, industrial or what not? it sounds like you're expecting or you wouldn't be surprised if the company really fundamentally changed? >> well, th

i'm john kaplan and i'm a member of a synchronized world. this is what membership is.s is what membership does. >>> shawn kenny loved to play with lego blocks. he would spend time making sculptures and other creations out of them. what used to be a hobby for shawn has become a booming business. his work has been bought by major corporations. it's been exhibited around the world and items like his lego lamps can be bought on sites like fab.com. here's how sean turned his play into profits. you could say sean kenny has a unique business. >> i did a project for the philadelphia zoo and we built 30 life-size animals set up all around the zoo. the polar bear took 1,100 hours to build and it had over 95,000 pieces in it. >> he's a lego certified professional. that's right, he actually has an official certification to play with lego blocks. >> the wall you're looking at now is probably about 300,000 pieces although only a small portion of the 1.5 million i have here in the studio. >> just across the river in manhattan, he's built a company out of a childhood passion. but this

yesterday i was at an event where i got to hear from kaplan about unprecedented challenges. i think just two 1/2 years ago we in the construction and design industry were sitting in our offices and looking outside to the dark clouds, no one could have predicted that where we would be in 2 years from then. i think needless to say you can drive around san francisco and look the number of contemporaneous -- cranes and the number of projects on in the next few years in the bay area has been fortunate. unfortunately, despite the fact that it's good for us in the economy and employment, i think the contingency and escalation are very prudent. i really support that. thanks. >> thank you. >> madam chair, members of the board. my name is kevin wagner, i represent ers as a member of the team. what i want to say is that our team has worked very closely with the tja staff and we feel this is a prudent budget. the project reserves and contingencies that are represented in that budget i believe are the appropriate amount based on the position of the project and the amount of time left for

my name's jeremy kaplan. i'm from roslyn heights, new york.a company, and mike and i have been best friends for 15 years, since the 5th grade. wow. thanks, jeremy. [ audience awws ] aww. in addition to that, we also lived together in new york city for over six years. currently, i'm an mba student at zicklin school of business, getting an mba in entrepreneurship. wow. i thought these were some of my finest interviews. [ laughter ] nice job, everybody. get ready. we'll do another "toss up." this one is worth $2,000, and the category is "rhyme time." [ bell chimes ] celeste and elaine. fair share. yeah, that's it. [ applause ] you get $2,000. you guys will be spinning in a moment. jim, are you alone in there, or did you bring a best friend? i brought my shadow, of course, pat. tonight's jackpot round is brought to you by aspercreme. announcer: break the grip of aches or arthritis pain with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast with no odor,

seth kaplan of "airline weekly." now to sue who will bring us up to date on the markets. >> a lot of ups and downs. a big recovery in the dow jones industrial average. part that have linked to the comments just a few moments ago by one of the fed members, mr. lockhart, talking to our steve liesman saying there's not enough data right now to start the tapering in essence, and as a result of that you saw the dow moved up 48 points after a very rough morning. the s&p has -- is positive as well. the ten-year note, can you see that yield right now is trading at 2.70%, so that has remained relatively stubborn. bob pisani and kenny polcari are here with me. kennying i'll start with you. i was impressed that the market was able to pull positive with the yield at 2.07% but mr. lock heartopened the door. >> we're stuck in this moment between the 1680 and 1700 range in the s&p that we've seen for the last three weeks. no reason to rally above that or no reason for it to collapse because nobody wants to make that bet. all unsure

most of the stock's value comes from the washington post also owning the college prep company kaplan. warren buffett is the largest shareholder in the paper with 1.7 million shares. he's made more than a 9,000% gain with his investment. jeff bezos is paying $250 million to buy the post. his acquisition is viewed as a positive by our morningstar analyst... "he probably has some ideas to accelerate the post's transition to the digital media. i think he's been quoted as saying newpapers in general should be more aggressive at utlilizing mobile devices such as tablets. he probably will push the post toward that end, and that is what we expect him to do." the graham family has owned the washingtion post for 80 years. carl icahn is raising his stake in dell. the sec says the billionaire investor now owns close to 9% of the pc company. icahn reportedly bought an additional 4 million shares last week after suing dell over delaying its shareholder meeting. dell and icahn are locked in a battle over the company. a shareholder vote on whether to take the company private is set for september 12th

i'm john kaplan and i'm a member of a synchronized world. this is what membership is.t membership does. >>> recap of the headlines. investors cheer confirmation from vodafone it is in talks to sell its stake in verizon wireless. >>> president obama insists syrian government used chemical weapons, but british sentiment turns against the media to military action. >>> and the bank of indonesia raises its key lending rate to shore up one of the worst performing currencies in asia. >>> coming up, we'll go to a siemens plan outside berlin. [ male announcer ] come to the golden opportunity sales event and experience the connectivity of the available lexus enform, including the es and rx. ♪ this is the pursuit of perfection. [ male announcer ] it's time. time to have new experiences with a familiar keyboard. to update our status without opening an app. to have all our messages in one place. to browse... and share... faster than ever. ♪ it's time to do everything better than before. the new blackberry q10. it's time. >>> germany's adjusted jobless number for august rose for aro

. >> meet ben kaplan. when applying to college, he won two dozen scholarships. altogether, they were worth about $90,000. in addition to writing "how to go to college for almost free," ben now teaches an online scholarship course, cityofdreams.org. hi, ben. thanks for joining us. >> thank you, and thank you for mentioning the scholarships i won. every time the two dozen scholarships worth $90,000 is mentioned, my parents smile. they were very pleased with me, and now i try to help other people do it, too. >> $90,000 in scholarships. were you an academic genius or a sports star? >> well, that's a great question because over half of the scholarships i won actually had nothing to do with grades and test scores. that's one of the big myths, is that you have to be an academic whiz kid. there are so many scholarships out there from corporations, foundations, associations, and community groups, and all these scholarships look for different things. that's why there's so many that exist. and i really truly believe there's a scholarship out there for everyone. >> so, how

shadow banking system so it's not actually regulated it doesn't every survey kremas it doesn't ever kaplanrequirement. and the money market there was a run on the money markets because after lehman brothers collapsed there the dollar broke the buck so money markets what your dollar supposed to be worth at least a dollar and it went down to ninety seven cents and so the investors pull their money out and match the banks do not have the related a to cover their loans we're going to have a we're going to get back to this in just a minute this is ellen brown and coming up after ellen i finished hashing out the solution to all our financial woes that shouldn't take more than a few minutes i will do will tom hartman of the big picture on the current financial crisis he promises to dish out some historical analogs that should prove quite instructive. so we leave the. other motions to the other party there's a bill. that no one is there with to get that you deserve answers from. mission to free the cretaceous free in-store charges free. range means free risk free studio time free. the old free bro

point here we don't have it how do you how do we do this every time you talking about it make sure kaplan's and socialism how would you do diplomatically i don't want to be a clinton very into you can't be of interest any particular just natural to regulate corporations richard go ahead. i'll give you the example the history of capitalism is replete with people in isolated places and sometimes not so isolated who have had it up to here with capitalism one of the directions they went to is something we can call cooperation or co-operative if you like they are a group of people get together and guess what they don't have a hierarchy of board of directors and shareholders they make collective decisions as a group of people those kinds of co-op production systems exist around the world and in the united states they are small they are meeting i know who are the ones the seventh largest corporation i know in the one that is largest corporation in spain is called the one hundred on corporation they operate as a cooperative there are alternatives to capitalism we're not stuck with that and we're no

in tipping nice and i was buying a pattern of dishes and i was anxious to get this one which i did kaplan so this is an island and a friend of mine was with me she said can't you afford both and i went. i could afford both though i did. so that's called who so the idea of being able to have anything you want. and buy anything you want and not to have that as a worry because you don't leave this so you have to me but you don't even know how you know it's all relative i mean how much money can you spend all my time and after you have the house you want or the houses you want or the car or cars or shoes or whatever the square footage you want then what so it put you in a space as you know to think about the broader picture of really why am i here because the goal is no longer just time i mean when i was just trying to survive you know when you're writing a check or not signing your name i was on relief or you could coping the light the gas unless you cut off it does not set off your coverage of quick things his own health we know everything ok did you not see the story to my shoulders during

we are lucky here today to have richard come up and say a few words because it is he and linda kaplan both of the american history workshop who pioneered the story of northern slavery particularly in new york with the two great shows at the new york historical society. he's going to set the context and then i will come back on stage and tell you about the book. [applause] i am thrilled to be here with you today. this is a great day of convergence of a book that has been growing for 20 years and has brought so many people and so much knowledge and wisdom to get their. it's also of course a celebration. this is a site specific book and this is a great sight of convergence because all of you are sitting and standing on one of the most important historical places in north america. here just right on our crown, africans and europeans and american indian people came together and really begin to work together to create an american civilization in an american society. this is one of the very first times this happens and it's happening here under this ground the archaeological investigation ha

banking system so it's not actually regulated it doesn't every survey a crime as it does an average kaplanrequirement. and the money market there was a run on the money markets because after lehman brothers collapsed there the dollar broke the back so money market is what your dollar supposed to be worth at least a dollar and it went down to ninety seven cents and so all the investors pull their money out and match their banks do not have the related a to cover their loans we're going to have we're going to get back to this in just a minute this is all when brown and coming up after ellen i finished hashing out the solution to all our financial woes that shouldn't take more than a few minutes i will do it thom hartmann of the big picture on the current financial crisis he promises to dish out some historical analogs that should be blue flight instructor. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you. are is a big. if it possible to navigate economy with

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i'm john kaplan and i'm a member of a synchronized world. this is what membership is.s is what membership does. >> the hottest tech trend out there perhaps is the cloud, a truly disruptive technology that is crushing traditional hardware based tech firms as well as old fashioned software firms that can't compete in a cloud computing world. lately, we heard it has gone into the traditional business. it's synonymous with this theme, that is salesforce.com, crm for you home gamers. the service provides businesses with applications they need to manage sales, services, marketing, customer relations and much more. this stock is giving you a 676% gain since the visionary ceo came back on november, 2008, right in the midst of the financial crisis, he told us everything would be okay. they reported a 2% earnings beat off a 7 cent basis. revenues came in higher than anticipated. deferred revenue up and the company raised its revenue guidance for 2013 4 billion or more. the co-founder, chairman, ceo, salesforce.com, find out more about the quarter and its prospects, mr. benioff.

i'm john kaplan and i'm a member of a synchronized world. this is what membership is.mbership does. >>> all right, you're watching "worldwide exchange." i'm ross westgate. a recap of the headlines this morning. the u.s. government says it is still seeking an international coalition on syria, playing down speculation it will go it alone. this after british lawmakers voted against taking action for the alleged use of chemical weapons. >>> rupee volatility continues ahead of the crucial gdp release with growth expected to stay below 5% at decade lows. >>> kpn plunge after carlos slim america movil says it could drop the bid for the telecom group follow a dutch foundation move to block the takeover. >>> zurich insurance is looking into whether undue pressure was put on its late cfo pierre wauthier after his dead the mention of a suicide note that mentions joseph ackermann. >>> just joining us, a recap of where we stand on futures now. we are slightly higher after two days of gains so far for u.s. indices. right now are, the dow is some 34 points above fair value. the nasda

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i'm john kaplan and i'm a member of a synchronized world. this is what membership is. what membership does. help the gulf when we made recover and learn the gulf, bp from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. i can tell you - safety is at the heart of everything we do. we've added cutting-edge technology, like a new deepwater well cap and a state-of-the-art monitoring center, where experts watch over all drilling activity twenty-four-seven. and we're sharing what we've learned, so we can all produce energy more safely. our commitment has never been stronger. >>> i'm going to pen and teller mode demistifying the wall street gibberish. turning the terms into language you can comprehend. consider this show your wall street to english dictionary. a televised glossary to help you navigate your way through tough markets and more important, the tough sounding terminology that keeps so many people out of stocks or makes them scared and the fact is all of this investment terminology sounds difficult because the pros that speak wall street gibberish fluent

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i'm john kaplan and i'm a member of a synchronized world. this is what membership is.t membership does. . >> sometimes the story of individual stock can be so strong that it totally overpowers the weakness of the broader market. that's especially true when it comes to more speculative, taser international, tasr. the $600 million company is synonymous with stun guns for what it's famous for. in the last three weeks where this tape has been real ugly, this stock is up some 37%. why? back on august 12th, you learn judge scheinlin increase precincts where the city's stop and frisk policy, they asked to reduce complaints by a whopping 89%. this could be a huge catalyst for taser, which ruled out the evans management platform evidence.com, salesforce.com that allows law enforcement agencys to keep track of digital evidence and video. the latest smart weapon comes with its own video weapon and locks every single thing the taser does with it. the end of july, it was solid. they have a tremendous potential to go overseas. it has been slower than in the u.s. plus the company is

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kaplan university is one of those for-profits that has a lot of students default. most of their students don't get degrees. they default and get the money from the federal government. the purpose is to get money from the federal government. this money could be going to students who are going to matriculate at not-for-profit schools and/or go to pre-k. >> community college is available to people. you know, i, again, it makes sense to invest in your education. the problem is these companies as you pointed out advertise widely. they make big claims about being able to promise people access to better jobs which typically turn out not to be the case. and so it's true that the individuals should be a better consumer, but it's also true that there are a lot of vulnerable people out there who are being preyed upon. >> limited resources we have in what these moneys are basically being flushed. the president said they're getting away like bandits on saturday. he's right. they have dusters just like the james boys. >> sema, let me ask you this. you owe $11,000 to trump univer

include slate.com or foreign-policy magazine, which are own by the parent company that also owns kaplan and will change its name following the sale of the paper. he said management of the washington post newspaper will remain the same, but it is unclear what changes might be coming. last year, he was quoted in an interview with a german newspapers saying -- the announcement of the purchase by jeff bezos came just days after the boston red sox owner and billionaire john henry entered an agreement to buy the boston globe newspaper from the new york times company for $70 million. the obama administration is ordered all nonemergency personnel to leave yemen and urged u.s. citizens currently living there to depart immediately. in a statement issued today, the state department cited the continued potential for terrorist attacks. meanwhile, u.s. drone strike killed four people in yemen today, marking the fourth such attack in less than two weeks. yemeni tribal leaders said the dead were suspected members of al qaeda. one is believed to be a senior al qaeda member. the news follows revelations

when you say the educational business, let's not forget, kaplan test something valuable like you canieve when it comes to the washington post. warren buffett is one of the biggest shareholders of "the washington post" company. he is not on the board anymore. he stepped down a couple years ago. this is fascinating development t shows jeff bezos, perhaps, do you think, dennis, looking to legacy positioning here? >> i don't know why he would do this. i think all these super-rich guys. they have capital and let their capital flow to wheee it will get higher returns. i don't think he is doing so much a probono public interest acquisition here. i think he feels like a quarter of a billion dollars for this newspaper -- liz: is a deal. >> great deal. he is seeking good returns, rather than trying to do a good thing. >> the stock has just turned positive right now, in after-hours. washington post company, just now turning positive on the breaking news dennis is bringing us, jeff bezos, purchasing "the washington post" newspaper, not the entire company of course. that would be billions. washin

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i'm john kaplan, and i'm a member of a synchronized world. this is what membership is.s is what membership does. >>> netflix, twitter, airbnb and vine and suffered an outage. they're hosted in the cloud by amazon's web server. >> it brings up the question as cloud computing gains traction, more and more companies and vftss using it, how safe and dependable is the cloud? joining us from a couple of security firms is our guests. thank you both for joining us today. i mean, is this just growing pains or should we be concerned about the future of this service which is growing so much by leaps and bounds? >> well, you know, i think it's something that is indicative of the services. if they had its own infrastructure, you wouldn't hear about it. because so many services went down at the same time, it may make it seem worse than it was. but for the companies, it's a lot more cost effective and from a security perspective in particular, often a better choice for them to delegate their infrastructure needs to another company who has the resources to invest in it. >> is it possib

i'm john kaplan and i'm a member of a synchronized world. this is what membership is.t membership does. and this is my home team. this is my large lecture hall. this is my professor. and also my coach. this is my booster club. this is the guy who's graduating ready for a great career in technology. [ male announcer ] in 2012, 90% of devry university grads actively seeking employment had careers in their field in 6 months. join the 90%. learn how at devry.edu. >>> we continue our school daze the changing face of college series today part three now. take out your pads and pen sills because class is in session. we have six -- >> pens and opinipencils. >> we have name of six courses students should take. >> classes include science, technology and engineering and mathematics. >> internship, business and economics, theater arts, professional writing and leadership studies. >> can you read this on cnbc and written by kelly graham. eric green from greenberg educational group joins. so does chad oakley. kelly why those classes necessarily? >> there's a real variety going on the

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i'm john kaplan and i'm a member of a synchronized world. this is what membership is. this is what membership does. >>> a strike seems all but assured after the secretary of state john kerry came before the nation today with a stunningly aggressive case for military intervention in syria. he he began with what he called the facts about the chemical weapons attack that took place near damascus last week. >> personnel were on the ground making preparations. we know where the rockets were launched from and at what time. we know where they landed and when. 426 children were killed. we know a senior regime official who knew about the attack confirmed chemical weapons were used by the regime. high confidence. this is common sense. this is evidence. these are facts. the question is what are we, we collectively, we in the world going to do about it. >> after ticking through the information made public in an intense report, kerr relative moved on to why a chemical weapons attack on the syrian people matters to the united states. >> 100 years ago in direct response to the utter

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i'm john kaplan and i'm a member of a synchronized world. this is what membership is.hs what membership does. >>> time now for our top three trades. first up, vz, that's verizon having its best day since twi20 after confirming talks with vodafone. a big number weiss put on this potential deal. >> $130 billion, it's monstrous. apparently they're going to fund 60% of it with debt. i think one of the motivating factors is they want to get it done for a long time and with the yields, with rates going higher, they better get it done now if they're doing it with debt. verizon i think is okay here, not compellingly cheap on a p ebay sis, but this is going to be accretive to earnings. i don't see much downside. i'd like at vodafone though. they will have a lot of cash and there will be an overhang on verizon. >> josh, let's talk u.s. air wai ways and american soaring after the u.s. government indicating they would be open to settling. >> they're coming off a really tough week. they were smoked the other day on higher oil prices which i think gives them a little bit more room t

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i'm john kaplan, and i'm a member of a synchronized world. this is what membership is. this is what membership does. >> what i care about in this moment is you and a business that i think has a [bleep]load of potential. >> mm-hmm. >> the $1 million offer that i make andrew isn't just to have andrew put a million dollars in his pocket. no way. the $1 million offer is very simple. another $150,000 to put working capital in the business. and then $700,000 for any expansion opportunities. those expansion opportunities are not gonna happen until this place is right. i'm gonna want to have complete control for the next week so that i can get the employees in line, get their process in line, and tell them that you don't make any decisions. i make the decisions. if, at the end of this week, you can't do what i think you're supposed to do and this place doesn't function well, the deal's off the table. >> i don't want ever to have to worry about this business suffering... or not having enough money to pay my staff or not having enough money to pay rent. >> i wanna fix the busines

"the post" has been owned by the graham family who owned kaplan who had very significant interests pending before the u.s. government in terms of how they would regulate the education business. this world in which sort of billionaires or hundred millionaires buy up these big papers get a certain amount of influence in the national conversation and then have some amount of business interest. it's not new but it definitely seems to be sharpening. >> it's definitely into the new. as a matter of fact it's a rather old thing. >> right. >> i would say that now there are more checks on this than in the past. and i don't mean with regulations and legislation and such. but if you and if jeff bezos started invading the editorial room saying you have to run these unsigned editorials will how the internet sales tax is going to destroy businesses, the backlash against that would be enormous. i don't think -- jeff bezos is a very clever guy and we've seen what he's done over the past 20 years, i don't suspect he would do something like that. you know, this -- i mean, we look at immediately when this hap