This afternoon because this is my area of concentration and focus. Prisons, criminal justice. We had scholars here. Real scholars. Isnt that interesting . Guess what . They are muslim. Amazing. I think god for the opportunity, just for me being here. Before i introduce panelists, just a couple of thing. What do you call them, housekeeping notes . You will have some q a cards on the table, and we ask as we move that youthe panel, post your questions and write a but ace, not a paragraph, sentence on the cards. The cards will be collected. Hand it to me. I will then read the question or the statement. Does that work . Then refer it to the panelists. Does that work . Ive been in the criminal justice business for 47 years. Spent most of my time in corrections. Introduction to slims, was a case called full wood versus klamath. It had to do with the Police Chiefs brother who was incarcerated at the lard and reformatory. Reformatory. The issue was the right to practice his religion, which was
Agenda, dwight jones, my counterpart with mcgraw hill education, who is not here as he is currently serving on his Civic Responsibility of jury duty. I mentioned who is not here but in my brief introduction i would like to share with you how i, we, mcgraw hill education, got here. At the third annual urban Superintendent Academy with asa, and with the opportunity to introduce our next keynote speaker, dr. Mark fidel. You see the role that dwight jones and i work is identify Strategic Partnerships with National Alliances that also align to the core values and mission of our company. For example, as we began four years ago, our transformation from a 125yearold Publishing Company to a learning science company, we identified with one of our longtime partners, aasa, with their work on Digital Learning and transformation and as a result of this alignment we took a lead role, an active partial with their digital and personalized learning symposiums. So our partnership continued and quite hone
Battle for patents for the second time in seven years. Donald trump calls on carl icahn to help him combat excessive regulation as the activist investor will become the president elects special adviser. Good morning. Good morning. Do you hear that . Whole bunch of kids super excited. Santa on the way. Always on the roof. Dasher, dancer, prancer. I think we should do something on reindeer, whether or not they really have red noses. The stoxx 600 flat to a couple points lower. You would anticipate we would be looking at light liquidity at the moment. People already packing up their bags if theyre heading to the caribbean. Trade very thin. Just a reminder that officially the japanese market is closed tomorrow because of the emperors birthday. So we will have no trade another reason for quiet. Exactly. Mixed markets in europe, the ftse, xetra dax, a bit lower. To the upside, media, autos, healthcare. Big story in healthcare biotech, the underlying pharmaceuticals. Basic resources off by 1
Ashare market in shanghai. We saw Transit Companies under pressure on friday. We are seeing export company sold off today as well. 2 . Down doing better than the morning session, but it is a solid session in japan, up. 8 as we see the yen weaken against the dollar on reports that shinzo may beales tax raise delayed. Australia, pretty flat with a mixed bag in terms of commodities. The philippines up. 6 . We have been watching these up. 7 n the telco space, on the open. Having a look at the offshore renminbi in terms of currency, the pboc has weakened the yuan fixation to its lowest level since february 2011. We can see a little weakness in the offshore renminbi, down by. 2 . The weakness coming through in the yen as well. Japanese equity is holding at its lowest level in a month. Elsewhere, we are seeing the won and emergingmarket currencies being sold off against the dollar. This is playing into the kospi, but really a story of dollar strength. The market is trying to figure out the ra
Shery how did the bigtime investment people feel about the economy . Simply put, we are in the proceed with caution spectrum. We all have to be worried about it. Shery straight ahead on bloomberg best. Hello, and welcome. , your bloomberg best weekly review of the most this news, and interviews from Bloomberg Television. The topgin with headlines. Warren buffett has never shown much of a taste for tech investment but on monday we learned his company has taken a billiondollar bite of apple. Shunnedn buffett has technology companies, staying on the sidelines through two internet booms but Berkshire Hathaway has discovered a stake for his holding of 9. 8 million shares at the end of march. He is also among a Group Bidding for yahoo s assets. Are we reading too much into this . Is he changing his tune . I am sure we would all love to know the answer, but i think we need to put these things in perspective so when it comes to are talking about a billion dollars, which in the grand scheme wou