Low. Our road map with stock futures in the red. Exxon and conocophillips moving some of those stocks. Sales force surging on the news it hired advisors to look at takeover offers. More of the apple watch dlis. A defective component to blame. Apple announcing another partnership with ibm. Well get to that in a minute. First up a lot for investors to digest on this final trading day of april. Consumer spending up 0. 4 last month. Claims down last week by 34,000 to 262,000. Thats a 15year low. Employment costs up 0. 7 . On the earnings front, exxonmobil did top estimates despite a 46 drop in First Quarter profit. Exxon revenue, i love these figures. Last year 106 billion. This quarter, 67 billion. You have to understand exxon had good production growth. People say no one got hurt buying the stock of exxon. This is why. Because exxon really hasnt done anything during this period. When oil was flying exxon did good not great. Oil goes down, exxon shows you the breadth of its products and w
Twisted leg hoping to raise over six billion dollars mostly for a few refugees the anti caretaker Prime Minister in one scene a lot to say it might as well so what happened that yuri despite protests from north africa. The law. A genial watching cctv news and longer what is an eel population migration on this starts from today in china as people make their way home for the spring festival holiday which began two weeks from now. During the forty day travel period of total number of three point six billion trips are expected at two hundred million more than last year authorities estimated two point six million trip the day on the road at the peak. There will be twenty one thousand passenger ships at the ready and fifty thousand flights a week which is Twelve Thousand more than normal. On the railways will be five thousand trains every single day before the actual spring festival. The Railway Operator is directing all its efforts in guaranteeing maximum transport capacity during the trave
Encourage charity. Their one term ended with great public frustration. Tonight, the story of lou hoover. What an interesting life she had. Here to tell us about her years before the white house is annette dunlap. She is a scholar at the Hoover Institution and working on a biography of Lou Henry Hoover. What inspired you to spend several years of your life looking at this woman . I was at the National First Ladies Library in canton, ohio. I realized that this was a story that has not been told. There are so many layers to her. Some activities that she was involved in. The legacy that she left for women is something that i want people to know about. She was born in waterloo, iowa. The story i heard is that her father wanted a boy. So they say. The name lou is not short for anything. She was raised as a tomboy. One of the earliest pictures of her is her fishing in a stream. We have a picture of her carrying a rifle. A lot of her diary talks about her joy of being able to hunt, fish, and b
It does not look bleak to me at all because what all of this the dominantthat strategy that we have used for a decade is not the strategy that is going to kick the door open to help all children succeed. It is just like the strategies that we used in the 70s and 1980s. You see incremental grains. Gains. In the 1960s you see bigger games and you did in the 1970s, 1980s and, 1990s. With the war on poverty we focused on equity. Im giving kids that have the least creating a more level playing field. The you saw in the terms of 1970s, 19 80s, 1990s, and now, is that we actually didnt do . We did some programs that help some kids, but not all kids. In the last 10 years with no child kind is that we said that testing and sanctions are going to be the dominant strategy. The countries that outcompete us do not use that. What they do instead is that they actually focus on ensuring that kids get really good teachers and really good teaching and have a real focus on equity as well. I am optimistic
Modernizing conservatism. Here is a brief look. In 2001, before september 11, one of the big issues that the new president faced was whether and how the federal government should fund Embryonic Stem Cell Research that involves the destruction of human embryos. To all of us, this means of the taking of a human life. Whether it was moral to spend money on that public research. The president made a decision that said you could spend money on cells that already existed but not new ones, you would not be using federal dollars to encourage the further destruction of human embryos. He said these kinds of issues are going to stay with us, they are not going away and we need help in thinking about them. He called together the bioethics commission, a group of 18 scholars, almost all of them academics. They would come together several times a year and consider a bioethical question with how it Public Policy applications and provide advice to the administration and the country in the form of repor