so the rfq was really tailored in a way to ensure that we had a san francisco centric sort of solution. and sort of if you read the rfq, if you have spare time late at night. it outlines a lot of san francisco principles in the rfq. it talks about the san francisco experience in building and owning and managing affordable housing. why is that important? it's important because san francisco based affordable housing developers are really the envy of the country. they have done a wonderful job of creating up to this point somewhere between 12 and 15,000 units of affordable housing in san francisco. and when you compare that to the size of the housing authority portfol portfolio, it dwarfs the housing authority portfolio. they have had a long track record of working in san francisco and boards and with residents in san francisco. we want to award that through the rfq process. >> any other city or county like that? >> no, even in new york city. most cities have one or two nonprofit developers. even new york city has a few nonprofit developers. obviously their scale is greater and they rely

have they been offered -- author centric.romey have approached us the get-go and told us what is going on. authors andy, as illustrate it, we are not welcome at the negotiating table, so we don't know what's going on. what we do know is what we see on our amazon pages. that is the only thing i'm going by. i would like to see you go back to what used to be, which i hope will happen soon. could download your book for my daughter's kindle, but i can't. i will find other ways to get it to her. thank you for your time, and think you for your book, once upon a memory. bloomberg west will be right back. >> i'm cory johnson, this is bloomberg west. eric sisko was the beasts of the network, their routers emerged as the dominant bricks in the internet speedway. these day, cisco is much more than a slinger of internet boxes. i caught up with their chief marketing officer at the cisco live conference. i asked her to describe the new cisco, and there is an epically odd photo bomb. you have been warned. >> this is exciting for us, it is ou

our correspondent, daniel centric, reports. >> fireworks at the headquarters of the rebels as they celebrate they hope will take them out of ukraine. less than 24 hours after the controversy over for self-rule, the leadership declared they want to join russia. when you consider the potentially momentous implications of donetsk raking away from ukraine, surprisingly few people have turned up tonight. only a few hundred are here to cheer on the leadership of the new self-declared donetsk people's republic. the armed pro-russia activists claim 2.5 million people voted in the poll, far more than seems possible. with that exaggerated mandate, they made this request. >> based on the will of the people and in order to restore historical justice, we ask the russian federation to consider the absorbing of the donetsk people's republic into the russian federation. [applause] areas, theyoring also declared self-rule after an equally controversial poll. moscow continued to encourage them, calling for the referendums to be acted on, prompting this response from the interim prime minister of ukraine. >> r

they're talking about what they're for when it comes to patient-centric health care, economic growth that's going to create jobs and bring up wages. >> the reason the tea party still has power, and you're right, it is the republican party, is because it's not really about their candidates. it's about their firm commitment to this, like, take no prisoners politic that has -- >> that's an absolutely simplistic view of what's always been a reform element inside the republican party. >> they have driven the republican party away. >> one at a time. one at a time. >> they've driven the republican party away from compromise on things like es, on things like jobs, things even like bipartisan -- >> let me -- >> immigration. they absolutely have. >> a different interpretation here. honestly i wish you and stephanie were right. i see the complete opposition happening. i actually see republicans softening on son of their principles to sound more appealing. rand paul this week, for example, told republicans essentially to ocool it on vote i.d. because it sounds offensive. i've seen a number of ex

they said - in what ways has your publisher and author centric? >> they have approached us from the get-go. they have said what is going on. as authors and illustrators, we are not welcome at the negotiating table. we do not know what is going on. what we know is what we see on our amazon page. that is the only thing that i am going by. i would like it to go back to what it has been. i hope that will happen soon. >> i wish i could download your book for my daughter's kindle. i will find another way to get it to her. i want to thank you for your time and your book. thank you so much. "bloomberg west" will be right back. ♪ >> i'm cory johnson and this is "bloomberg west." cisco was the feast of the networks. it was dominant. these days it is much more. i cut out what blair christie, cisco's chief marketing officer full top i asked her to describe the new cisco. you have been warned. >> this year is really exciting for us. it is our 25th anniversary of stop the first event was held in 1989. fast forward 25 years and we have over 25,000 people here in

it is a japan centric story with a consumption tax increase that has caused that to some extent. he have seen a big bounce back numbers.y i think may is probably the of global gdp. june we should start seeing a pickup. all the indicators indicate a strong second half of the year. >> stay with me. we are going to have a little more time to discuss where to put the money. please stand by. we are going to speak about the bundesbank because a board member told our correspondent that investors may not be prepared. this seems to be a theme. we have a former bank of england policy member telling us this. what did you make of the conversation? the dax is at an all-time high. what they are trying to do is acknowledge the uncertainty in the market and keep the ability theespond to it but without potential response influencing the market. to what he said about volatility. real estate markets are pretty high. corporate bond valuations seem stretched and hide. at the same time, global activity leads to market theycipants who think don't have to hedge because they think it means low risk. fact

. >> i want to tell you this was named for lillian koy who was an he can centric woman back in her day. she was a saint and we were told she actually helped to fight a fire and was adopted by the san francisco fire department and she smoked dig garcia and wore trousers and likeed to gamble and she put it in her will that the land would be remembered pie she worked for them and created that . 6:11 is the time mysterious cameras are raising privacy concerns and coming up, why they say it's all a big misunderstanding. >>> it is about a mysterious and possibly deadly illness. >>> good morning we are looking at something that is getting busier by the moment and there are some commutes which are already full strength. >>> temperatures are starting off rather mild to warm for some especially where there are mid-to-upper 60s. there will be a bunch and i will show you coming up. female narrator: it's posturepedic versus beautyrest it's posturepedic versus beautyrest with up to $400 off. serta icomfort and tempur-pedic go head-to-head with three years' interest-free financing. mattress price war

it has a download centric model. consumers want to get content in different ways. jimmy and dr. dre bring that to apple. they have a ton of credibility with media companies and artists. >> you think there will be a culture class? -- clash? >> they're culturally less dissimilar than you might think. let's not forget the fact that steve jobs was considered by many to be an artist. you have content and then you have the marriage of artistry and technology. i think this is a really exciting deal to signify this convergence of technology meeting great content. content drives great technology. otherant to make this point. the biggest deal before this was when they bought next for $400 million. that was not only the biggest deal, but apple was proud of that. they would never do a deal that was bigger than the next deal. m and eight folks would say that -- m&a folks would say that. tole is willing to take bets complement its products and services in areas where it is weak. it is an important step for the company. generated cash from the time that the news leaked. is so massive that it i

download-centric model. i think jimmy and dr. dre bring back to apple with a lot of credibility with media companies and artists. >> you don't think there will be a culture clash? keeps making those videos, there might be. go ahead, peter. >> they're culturally less the similar than you think. steve jobs was very much considered an artist by money. aey just approach art in different kind of way. you have the artistry that comes with technology. i think this is a really exciting deal to signify this convergence of technology meeting great content and driving great technology. >> i want to make one other point. this is seminal for apple in another way. the biggest deal before this was when they bought next and i was not only the biggest deal but apple was proud of that. they would never do a deal bigger than the next. folks would say that. it marks a departure from the old orthodoxy and it shows they are now willing to take bets to complement its product and services where it's a week. >> they generated this in the time from the ne

high-end writing, new high-end switching, something called application-centric infrastructure.ith a platform, with the intra-structure, with security. thethe first time, customers got it. so did the financial analysts. we are going to embrace these concepts and be the leader in fdn. what i enjoy most is the time with the customers. in 48one seven sessions areas. together know from selling closed technology or the cio having technology to a business outcome looking in from the customer perspective? seems to me the hottest idea in the world of networking right now. the way i think of it, correct me when i tried to explain. as i'm with my family in the car and my wife and navigator says, let's take a turn and go over here, let's stop for dinner and change something so my needs, as i go through the network off the highway, changes as i go. >> the concept is absolutely right. you have your virtual layer and your physical layer. but the two separate are too closely and to difficult to work off of. the financial analysts got it and the customers got it. we had six customers on stage,

. >> denton texas is a young and progressive town and it's among this college-centric town that revolvesround the university of texas that this hot sauce has raised to cult status. manufacturing the sauce here hasn't entered the conversation but it is an issue that the city of denton will have to credit court if its relationship with hot sauce continues. >> toast the hot sauce. >> denton, texas, a small town with a big taste for hot sauce. >> i put it on everything i eat. >> city councilman kevin rodin, when he heard the smell of hot sauce to be a public nuisance he immediately saw an opportunity for his own town's economic growth. >> some city is going to get on top of this and be the first one to get out there and invite them to move to their city and i thought why not denton, texas. >> hundreds credit attended a pepper sauce festival. >> their current factory is nestled right in the middle of a neighborhood. in texas we have wide open spaces so our industrial zoned area is miles away from the closest neighborhood. >> rodin said, that would prevent his text constituents from suffering

centric company -- i believe it was 40% of revenue now comes from international.once you get outside the u.s., it's a much more this a lot of kids to >> competitors have fallen by the wayside. linkedin stands in a league of its own? what companies out there are a threat to their business? >> it's hard to see anyone company that is a threat to stop linkedin is the singular service every recruiting agency and every recruiting department has all stop they all use it. you can't say that about anything else. that particular area, they are a monopoly. you have other services that have evolved into connecting people looking for jobs with employers -- angel list, and the tech universe has tons and tons of companies on their site and people are using the service for all sorts of information. search about job websites like indeed deed? >> you just haven't seen anything get to scale where you would say they are a legitimate competitor. but there are areas where people have seen weaknesses in enacting. -- in connecting. if you are in that position, you get spammed from reques

successful with the home depot team, we were sensitive to megatrends we were market focused, but customer centric. the home became a sanctuary. we brought everything people enjoy indoors outdoors with outdoor furniture. so it is an all-consuming job. home depot only closes two days a year, compared to industrial businesses that kind of take a break on the weekends, that's the height of your activity, so you really are 24/7. it is a very demanding job. retail as they say, retail is detail. that's what we're facing today. >> the recall that is went on with the -- you always ran chrysler. tell me how you think gm is handling the situation. should they be doing more? should they be doing it differently? >> i think mary is done a very good job. she's out front. she's trying to from part of the culture that she was part of, and i think she's doing that. again, i don't know the individuals, but she seems to be shaping up the c suite, seems to be making crisp decisions, out front leading the initiative. so far, i would give her very high marks. >> just before we let you go, bob, taking market share from

. >> very a centric for you to say. >> the stocks lower, i don't think it's cheap. >> drop mww down 18%he stock is lucky to be holding up 5. otherwise institutions would be dumping the stock. $4 and some odd cents was the 52 week low. >> t-mobile up 8%. >> they were looking for a 900,000 number. sprint mentioned they are going to explore a deal possibly in june and july. this is one i don't think you want to chase on an up day. but if you can get it back toward the 25, 26 level that's where you get in for a deal. >> drop for walter energy down 4%. >> this is the octogon of death. >> is that worse? >> it's got to be worse. all i know is a 50% short interest and these folks have been raking it in. this company can't get out of its own way. you're talking about a market cap less than half a billion dollars. a few years ago they were talking about this being a takeover candidate. it's amazing how quickly it's turned. there'll be an opportunity to buy it but nothing indicates it's today or tomorrow. >> octogon of death. online retailer burger shoe serving up a savory new sneaker. packaged in

the most meat-centric food brands, jimmy dean, hillshire farm, state fair. don't you love these?he old sara lee frozen bakery products, chef pierre piece. a week ago we learned that hillshire snapped up pinnacle for $6.6 billion, 18% premium where the stock was trading before the announcement. this is a huge win for anybody who has stuck with pinnacle since the day it became public. what about hillshire who got dinged in the news? people sold it down. is it still worth owning now that we have the catalyst of the pinnacle takeover? after the deal was announced, wells fargo upgraded the stock to outperform whereas the same time, exact same time, jpmorgan downgraded hillshire from overweight from buy to neutral. we had an honest to goodness smackdown over hillshire brands going on from here, steel cage death match. only one analyst leaves. before we get into the bull case and bear case, ever since the break-up of the old sara lee was announced, which we championed, hillshire brands has been a real winner. stocks giving a healthy low risk, 30% return since the break-up occurred in ju

centric and sometimes small caps outperform.teresting, it is still a market of stocks, not a stock market per se. individual names under-performed than others, russell 2000 stock down. and arctic cat make snowmobiles and other big names, exone printeders and elizabeth arden was an earnings story earlier from this past week down 8 or 9% in trade. individual names matter still. >> we'll keep our eyes on them. sue, over to you. >> we've been covering all the action on wall street. now, we turn our focus to main street because what happens in the markets and economy impacts small business. we'll follow the dow for you as well. we needed 30 new hires for our call center. i'm spending too much time hiring and not enough time in my kitchen. [ female announcer ] need to hire fast? go to ziprecruiter.com and post your job to over 30 of the web's leading job boards with a single click; then simply select the best candidates from one easy to review list. you put up one post and the next day you have all these candidates. makes my job a lot

if you are the chief information officer, you should make sure you are voter centric.bout the turnout in elections, we all should be sad by that. the vote is the voice of the people and we should be encouraging people to vote. that is what i will do. i will be cheerleader in chief when it comes to making sure. it doesn't matter to me how people vote but i want them to vote. >> what can mr. husted do to satify you that he's doing the right thing on behalf of the public? >> it's not about satisfying me. the lawsuits filed against him say he's using his policy to suppress the vote. it's not by happenstance that the president's administration had to sue him to gain the last few days of early voters. we have almost 8 million people registered to vote. what we should be figuring sought why aren't those people voting en masse in every single lks a election and pushing that? wouldn't it be wonderful if we got up to 95%, 100% voter participati participation? ohioans deserve better than what they're getting right now. >> all right, nina, thanks for your time this morning. >> tha

and the motive that zuckerberg has brought forward is admirable and really do have user centric qualities to them. this idea of being the cross platform platform which is an excellent quote, that's the key phrase. i compliment you on your choice of quotes from zuckerberg. because it's the largest platform period, the largest app on android, iphone, the biggest app except for russia and china and a few others in the world, they have the incentive to make the whole ecosystem to work peter. a lot of what they were talking about today were ways to do that whether it was advertising to make it easier to target people because they have all that targeting information so that app developers can make more money building creative apps or making it easier for apps to work if you have an droid phone and ipad, which a lot of people do, you're participating on both platforms and work seamlessly across both platforms. they're not saying that they're the people who are going to make that happen. >> good for facebook if they can make apps more accessible to a number of people to keep people on facebook, b

very videonk this centric view of the world that causes people to think of over the top providers exclusively as threats, and i have a somewhat counterintuitive view in that clearly over-the-top video is one of the things that highlights the value of the high-speed data connections that time warner cable and other cable providers offer our customers. so, the speeds, the robustness of our hd offering is made special by the fact that there is creative people delivering that content over the pipes. on the video side, there is the potential for competition, which is not bad. it drives us to be better than we were, but there is more that makes our offering more value. >> i would echo that. clearly, social and video platforms are competing for dollars, advertising but we have a better product than they do, and when you hear yahoo! announced they want to commission comedy series, they want to get into our business. yes, they are competitive, but shame on us if we do not affect our turf and work together to sell the value because we have a better product with more value that is cheaper on a per hour

. >> he looks ex-centric. hard to tell what this person might be like. >> never in a million years if i saw brian on the street would i approach him for any reason under the sun. >> usually you meet me, they look at me, they're like there's something wrong with that guy. really i just love tattoos. i just love tattoos. i think they're awesome. >> he got one that's a crown on his head. turns into a bandanna. >> it was the worst pain of my life. he would hit here, my leg would start twitching because of the nerves. >> he says his criminal career began at age 14 selling crack, got the crown and many other tattoos during his prison turn for assault and battery. he was on the street four months before he was arrested again as part of a crime ring. that stole tvs from motor homes. he says he's innocent but pled guilty to larceny from a vehicle. >> if i go to trial with my tattoos and past crimes being on parole, if i lose, then i'm going back to prison. >> instead, he was sentenced to one year at the kent county jai

as the f stock members begin to think about non-bank , they have a banking-centric background, many of them, so they are thinking about a world of systematic designation, capital requirements and related decision-making. that will take some additional thinking and nuance, differential application. as for fannie and freddie, the worst-case scenarios are the status quo. they are solving. we are hopeful that there will be g.s.e. reform. there has been some good work from congress that has some momentum. but there is a lot of work to be done on that front. clearly, maintain fannie and freddie in their current form, in a conservatorship, essentially insolvent, is no good for anybody. or is the least best option in front of us. >> i agree that we should be very cautious in adding to the will,f, if you designations for insurance companies or asset managers because it does two things. makes them known as systemically important and subject to government bailout under the right circumstances. i do not know that that is necessarily a good outcome. number one, on fannie and freddie, i agree, we ne

the ironic thing is, her entire platform is being socially conscious afro centric activist, when unfortunately singing happy birthday to a king living in opulence while his population are starving and the others suffering from the words hiv/aids epidemic in the world, down the street there are those sitting in cells questioning the validity of the swaziland. if you follow the twitter conversation i had with her, i mentioned a number of times -- >> what cost would be to her to use the opportunity to draw attention to some attention to these human rights wrongs? >> it would cost her nothing. again and again myself and my co-author tried to use the twitter platform to get her to speak in favor of human rights, speak in favor of these activists who sit in prison merely for demanding their basic rights. >> look, there are people who say that it's too harsh to beat up on celebrities for this. but i think it's fair in that way. hilary swampg gave back the money she received from the president of chechnya. i think they respond and use their platform in the right way. thank you so much. >> thank you. >

they're trying to turn hp into a more nimble, lower-cost, more customer and partner centric company.n around plan. meantime you see here, wall street not accepting these numbers too naysly. david: glad we got it out of the way. we can move on with thing of the that's history. let's talk about retailers because they have been beaten up quite a bit. doing well on high-end and low end. dollar tree way up. but williams-sonoma is up too. >> two completely different stores as you noted, a low end and high-end. williams-sonoma. dollar up almost 7%. williams-sonoma up almost 8%. liz: the star stock of the day has to be jd.com. chinese internet stock rallying from its debut but coming of the highs. [closing bell ringing] >> up 8% going into the closing bell. liz: had been up 11 or 12%. it is up 10% as we hear the bells ring on wall street. dow jones, we lost a lot of air here. the high point of the session up 32 points. s&p 500 up eight. still up four. not a bad day for the russell. david: we have inverse pyramid. smallest gains at the top. you can't forget russell 2000, almost a full percent

is it normally home grown people that goes for memorabilia that's american centric?re of the market is american buyers, but there's a lot of international interest as well. these items are, you know, some of them at the top level are transcendent in a way. go beyond the realm of sports memorabilia and really a part of sports memorabilia at large. >> world series, super bowl, what are those? >> yankees world series rings, 1958, bob turley. he was the mvp of the 1958 series. >> all yankee. just yankee auction. >> what we have here is mostly yankees and it includes things from all teams in various sports as well. >> good luck. >> my pleasure. >> watch that watch. >> getting a little shifting over here. >> hey, everybody. thank you for watching "street signs." >> "closing bell" is coming up next. see you tomorrow. >>> and welcome to "closing bell," everybody. i'm kelly evans here at the new york stock exchange. >> and i'm bill griffith. we are watching these markets back away from all-time highs. the dow is setting lows for the session right now, down 85 points. the s&p

extent that it was written that there is ob jek tification of women, and we don't have enough women-centricing women, even in the silly comedies, okay, make sense, but singling out those two films, you can see why the guys get defensive and say, hey, leave us out of it. >> yeah, leave us out of it, and with that said, regarding her explanation, and that is the killer here having this highly produced glamorized video and linking it back to fillges, what do you make of that? >> well, and his father as a director was shooting second unit stuff for "hunger games" and so clearly some hollywood connection with this kid, and he is inside of the belly of the beast at some level, so it is not completely, you know, unrealistic to say that there is a relationship between hollywood's value system and this kid's value system, but i think that also, it is worth remembering that this kid was clearly troubled and has more to do with that than probably with the value system. >> and as i pointed out by one of the colleagues on "morning joe" millions of kids watch these movies, and they don't do that. >> yes,

this is a beltway centric attack. >> we have never gone to war, and we're going to go to war. i watched susan rice, and afterwards, i cheered for her. not because she did everything as a public servient. i thought she was a damn good politician that day. she got the facts out there the way they wanted it done. i think she earned the job that day as secretary of state and had just beaten out john kerry. that's the way i watched that. there is a politics to this. when you're in trouble, come out and meet the press. don't hide. never hide. she should have gone on the sunday program that day and confronted the charges. and david, you know that's true. you know that's the smarter, stronger move, don't you? >> i think they should have put someone on the sunday shows who knew what happened rather than susan rice who had to be briefed. i think that would have been the smarter move. >> susan was working for the team there. >> this is such a non-important point given the whole spade of things. this sunday show issue, that's the big scandal? it's a non-effective issue. >> as important as

on the issue of how states deal with the death penalty, he looks for a one size fits all solution centric to washington, d.c., and i will suggest to you that's one of the problems we have in this country. we're a very diverse country, and allow the states on these issue that is aren't addressed directly by the constitution to come up with the solutions. i think the country would be happier for one thing. i know the country would be more economically viable. >> let me ask you about the economy. a lot of discussion about the obama recovery this week. people will look at that in different ways. here is a couple of different stats, and i want to get your take on it. the latest jobs report has the creation of 288,000 jobs in april. that's the most in more than two years. but here is another stat which is the labor force shrinking by 806,000 people in april. people getting out of the business of looking for a job. of those two stats, what best represents the obama recovery, the obama economy? >> well, let me say this, job creation is good, and if the president and washington would focus on poli

. >> betty, this very video-centric view of the world that causes people to think of over-the-top providers exclusively as threats -- i have viewewhat counterintuitive of that in that clearly, over-the-top video is one of the things that highlights the value of the high-speed data connections that time warner cable and other cable providers offer our customers. so, the speeds, the robustness of our hsd offering is made special by the fact that there is creative people delivering that content over the pipes. on the video side, there is the potential for competition, which is not bad. it drives us to be better than we were, but there is more that makes our offering more value. >> i would echo that. clearly, social and video platforms are competing for eyeballs, advertising dollars, but we have a better product than they do, and when you hear yahoo! announced they want to commission a comedy series, they want to get into our business. yes, they are competitive, but shame on us if we do not affect our turf and work together to sell the value because we have a better product with more value that

. >> there are a lot of people from los angeles and it is a los angeles-centric crowd. if you were to look at soft targets around here, what will be primary on your list? what will be the top five? at pastld look behavior. it is the best predictor of future behavior. if you look to "inspire" magazine or the upcoming magazine that we have not seen "et, "resurgence. it will be marketing itself to african-american converts. the leadoff promotional video featured malcolm ask. -- malcolm x. -- key to terrorism it is the opposite. it should be low tech and high cost. it should be high-yield. this -- of this are the mumbai attacks. you combine that with fire. you saw that used by the terrorists in mumbai and benghazi. all of these things are within reach. when los angeles had the plot on augusteferred to patterson, washington, the plot was devin -- devastatingly simple. the plan was to walk into santa monica and kill everybody inside. $7,000 from robberies of gas stations and convenience stores to buy guns. they were days away from picking up the last assault weapon. they were

theire seen them develop bud lite brand as well which is not specifically female centric but it doespirits and wines as i mentioned before. it does bring in a sweeter flavor. >> great to hear from you and the subject of spears. , we'll hear from the ceo of the national bank of abu dhabi. ♪ >> welcome back to cap down. let's talk about what coming up next. us anchor the program joins now with a preview. us go to you first. >> we have little snippets of how to look at the world. news from the bank of england, news from the fed. we will be joined by james mccormick from barclays. notes, oneough his of the macro themes we will be talking about is the risk of deflation is not negligible. japanrly stage drivers of toss deflationary shock. james mccormick is going to be buddy up for the first 20 minutes of the show. we have the ceo of the national bank of abu dhabi, a very big presence in the local market. banksof the middle east and industrials are here in london, doing business. we will have a nice sit down to this west toat is east corridor or that he refers to. arent to know what they d

i've come home to the fourteen ninety two but is white euro centric mentality lives on today and people like clyde and bundy explain why i'd still take. least. i would rather ask questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question for. so sometimes you know what you know and sometimes you know what you don't know and sometimes as the fires and theater says everything you know is wrong and go with your bra if you want to hear your right. to say things that sure you know not yet really being you know is wrong you know for a long time the primates like chimpanzees are almost as intelligent as human beings but now it turns out that chimpanzees are also capable of waging violent and bloody wars like we humans do and are capable of breaking off into different groups and factions based on social dynamics back new research suggests that the life of chimpanzees is a lot like the popular h.b.o. series game of thrones it's. people who love the king. they know i saved the city they know i won th

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something called application-centric infrastructure, going from the cloud bank to the networks.datae doing well in the centers. you see improvement in many areas like collaboration with has been slow for a while. , we saw -- business progress there. cash flow was great at $3.2 billion. it gave $3 billion back to shareholders. it takes you several quarters once you get surprised on the market like we did in emerging markets, or once we do disrupt their sales like we did in higher end products which positioned us in the long run. by the way, the higher end products are starting to look good again. just a very solid quarter on our way back to growth. >> you mentioned you and i have not seen each other since switzerland at the world economic forum in january. you mentioned then that cisco would raise its dividend yield to above three percent, which is more or less where you are now. what did you have in mind? what's we will continue to give -- >> we will continue to give back free cash flow to our shareholders. this year we have already given back a billion dollars in share repurcha

you need to dominate in media centric markets.o go deep in north america but they are providing a big solution globally for communication. >> your company, metamorphic ventures, the focus is on transactional media, my sensation -- monetization. who is doing it best? >> we are investing in smaller companies building great solutions around monetization. he talked about commerce earlier and the intersection between off-line commerce and online commerce. we like to work at all the web platforms. based show -- they show distribution for smaller companies. the next version of the web is about commercialization of the internet. that is why new york city is so special. digitalonclusion, advertising can in no way replace traditional advertising. where is that money going? to tv, google, facebook and content creators are not going to be successful with digital revenue stream? digital has become more of a nucleus and content creation. as well as monetization. the reason tv is still a powerful medium because they have a critical mass of audie

a company that is so pc centric for so long, that is the admissions deans you credibility when you go out and talk about other things in the future. right now he is exciting. stuart: he did an interview at the code conference where he came out with we are going to build the next big thing and he shocked bill gates into the sideline. what role does he play? and not much. kind of out of the picture. we will see how this guy does but you are right, out of the gate he got the stock to $40 a share. charles: you cannot underestimate what a celebrity ceo can buy a company time. hewlett-packard had a giant missed last week, stocks should have been down 20%. was down about 9% in the pre-market, all of a sudden been meg whitman turned on the charm and stock ended up on friday, the biggest mover in the s&p. it had been the worst loser, it was the biggest winner. stuart: when your judgment is he has got it? >> he understands mobile, the cloud, that is will be looking at. stuart: i am a microsoft stockholder. let's get to netflix, doing more content for kids. come on. is that important? nicole: i

call columbus first sailed the ocean blue even those twenty fourteen there is still a strong euro centric disdain for all other cultures throughout american society and the culture isn't white and european based much of white america pretty much doesn't give a damn about it and while it may not be as obviously bloody or deadly it's the same lack of respect that columbus showed for the thai you know people on the island of hispaniola allen which today is eighty in the debate in the dominican republic. prior to columbus was a rival the tie you know were a flourishing to do this group that had lived in peace for hundreds of years there were millions of but then columbus really began a campaign of mass slaughter and an active sex trade and in slave to many of the thai you know people in harsh conditions by fifteen forty eight the ones booming you know population was down to just five hundred people eventually they were all dead there was a complete lack of respect and understanding showed by columbus and his fellow explorers the thai you know people and for their way of life there was also a

in my mind, we need to gravitate collegiate athletics towards a student centric model, not the other way around. i also worry about the unintended cop sequence of being teams an employee in what unionization could bring to college athletics. that said, as a former student-athlete, i support many of the goals of the national college players association and the college athletes players association that the ranking member described in front. i favor mandated four year scholarships, health insurance benefits and stipendses. i will address the transfer eligibility briefly. four year scholarship. it as a student-athlete you should be able to maintain an athletic scholarship for at least four, debatable five years from the date you entered college. assuming you maintain the school's academic and disciplinary standards. with the goal of obtaining an undergraduate degree. the obligation should be maintained regardless of your productivity on the athletic field and even if you sustain a permanent injury. the sad reality at some colleges is the student-athlete is not performing on their field,