Greece. Our road map begins with retailers hoping that online holiday sales click on this sibler monday. Will they make up for the thanksgiving weekend seeing shoppers spend less than a year ago. Lots of business around amazons Package Delivery via drones. Another month in the books. Well explore whether the trend is likely to continue in december. A number of wall street firms initiate cover of twitter. Well have details on the caller later in the program. First up, welcome to cyber monday, the day that online sales surge following the thanksgiving weekend. Retailers hope that makes up for the Holiday Weekend. The National Retail federation says total spending fell 2. 9 compared to a year ago, the first decline, guys, in seven years. How concerning is it . Well, look. I think that this omnichannel has taken off. I dont classic example. I dont know a lot of people went to the mall. You can say its A Groucho Marx thing. Everyone is there so they dont want to go. I went to amazon. I orde
Hes a good football player. Large studies of Breast Cancer is casting doubt on the effectiveness of mammograms. The upside of down, why failing is the key to success. When you fame, fail smart. A zoo in depp mark is under denmark is under fire after deciding to kill a giraffe. Back stage there are a tonne of people back there. A lot of girls are anorexic are 14 years old. We begin with michael sam. The College Football stars public declaration that he is gay three months before the National Football leagues draft mutts him puts him in a position to be the first openly gay player in the n. F. L. I understand how big this is, no one has done it, its a nervous process, but i know what i want to be. Sams revelations was praised from the white house to the sake a homophobic backlash followed. Im joined by chris cluey who has been outspoken about homophobia in the n. F. L. , and we are joined by host of edge of nation and a contributor to al jazeera. Sports illustrated interviewed many, and
The Los Angeles Times about the importance of this legislation, i think he would tell you it would be pretty nice to have a fulltime u. S. Attorney in that office. Eight of the people that have already been charged have been convicted. Some receiving sentences of up to 20 years in prison. Other major work from the office include operation high life, a major Drug Trafficking investigation involving more than 100 local, state and federal Law Enforcement officers and resulting in 26 indictments, 25 guilty pleas and sentences up to 200 months in prison. I would note that right now we are experienced as they are in many places around the country, mr. President , a heroin epidemic in minnesota. Over 50 people in one county alone, hennepin county, died last year from heroin overdoses. Thats what were talking about here. Were having a heroin epidemic and then we have to go home and tell the people of our state that the senate has not yet confirmed a u. S. Attorney, someone who went through the
Now on booktv Thomas Stanton argues the main difference between companies that successfully made it through the 2008 financial crisis and those that didnt was the willingness of upper management to listen to feedback before making decisions. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. Good afternoon and welcome to the cato institute. I am the director of Financial Regulation studies at cato. I am also honored to serve as moderator for todays book form. Reading press coverage of the financial crisis one comes across phrases such as banks did this and banks did that. These generalities, there was no response to the financial crisis or events that preceded it. To confirm took different approaches and several ceos and their boards made poor decisions, others made good decisions, prudent decisions and sometimes brilliant decision that not only saved their firms but about and to gain market share come out stronger than ever. In my own riding i tend to place considerable emphasis on the poor Public
And by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you. Thank you. Welcome back tonight to our conversation with the incomparable bam, there she is annie lennox. Her new project, nostalgia. We were supposed to talk last night for one show because she has so much to be doing. I begged her to stay for another night. The conversation last night was so rich. If you didnt see the conversation last night, go to our website, pbs. Org. And find last nights conversation. You will not want to miss what we talked about last night. I think a good jumping off point from last nights conversation is this notion of nostalgia. Why is the title of this project nostalgia . Its interesting. Ive been exploring song, mostly from the 30s, sigyou see, and theyre american. One day this word came to my head, the nostalgia. Like time travel. Going back. All of us have our own personal nostalgia and collective noosetnoose ta noosetal nostalgia. These songs being written in that time frame, so many thing are