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benefit of our customers and standpoint this is still early days in that the image and i have from jim collins the famous business author about the need fire bullets before you fire cannonballs. have s the idea that you to try a great number of things and in retail you can experiment stores so have 1400 we can try things, a number of see whether this works. i call this also the bicycle theory. very difficult to direct a bicycle at stand still. you fall. if the sigh si-- bicycle is it's not a problem because you can adjust. so a lot of experimentation that place.to take in that context my comments about main street would be i didn't talk about the help we need from the governors. marketplace. today in 2014 in this country, have a s who don't physical presence do not collect the sales tax. retailers who don't have a collect presence do not the sales tax. the customers are supposed to and most of them don't. this is not about the internet mortar. and it's been restaleers who don't presence and cal don't contribute to the communities and so forth. so we think it's unfair situation and i know that
benefit of our customers and standpoint this is still early days in that the image and i have from jim collins the famous business author about the need fire bullets before you fire cannonballs. have s the idea that you to try a great number of things and in retail you can experiment stores so have 1400 we can try things, a number of see whether this works. i call this also the bicycle theory. very difficult to direct a bicycle at stand still. you fall. if the sigh si-- bicycle is it's not a...
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standpoint, this is, you know, still early days in that revolution, and i have the image, you know, from jim collins the thames business author -- famous business author, about the need to fire bullets before you fire cannonballs. so the idea that you have to try a great number of things, and in retail you can experiment because we have 1400 stores, so we can try things in a number of stores and then see whether this works. i call this, also, the boik theory. it's very -- bicycle theory. it's very difficult to direct a bicycle that stands still. you fall. but if the bicycle is moving, if it's not moving exactly in the right direction, it's not a problem because you can always, of course, adjust. so there's a lot of experimentation that needs to take place. now, in that context, of course, my comments about main street and the future of haven street would be incomplete if i didn't talk about the help we need there the governors. and this is about marketplace fair beness. today, in 2014, in this country retailers who don't have a physical presence do not collect the sales tax. retailers who don't have
standpoint, this is, you know, still early days in that revolution, and i have the image, you know, from jim collins the thames business author -- famous business author, about the need to fire bullets before you fire cannonballs. so the idea that you have to try a great number of things, and in retail you can experiment because we have 1400 stores, so we can try things in a number of stores and then see whether this works. i call this, also, the boik theory. it's very -- bicycle theory. it's...
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i have the image from jim collins, the famous business author about, you need to fire bullets he for you fire cannonballs. this is the idea that you have to try a great number of things. in retail, you can experiment. we have 1400 stores. we can try things and see whether this works. i call this the bicycle theory it is very difficult to direct the bicycle. you fall. but if the bicycle is moving, if it is not moving in exactly the right direction, it is not a problem. you can always course adjust. there is a lot of experimentation that needs to take place. in that context, my comments about the future of main street would be incomplete if i did not talk about the help from governors. this is about the marketplace. in 2014 in this country, retailers who do not have a physical presence do not collect the sales tax. it is not about the internet versus brick and mortar. we do collect sales tax on our website. we do not can should be to the -- contribute to the communities and so forth. we think it is an unfair situation. you were the first ones to raise that topic 10 years ago. many of y
i have the image from jim collins, the famous business author about, you need to fire bullets he for you fire cannonballs. this is the idea that you have to try a great number of things. in retail, you can experiment. we have 1400 stores. we can try things and see whether this works. i call this the bicycle theory it is very difficult to direct the bicycle. you fall. but if the bicycle is moving, if it is not moving in exactly the right direction, it is not a problem. you can always course...
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best guys out there and i thought there's nobody better to have in the command module then jim lovell and mike collins. and he said buzz a ph.d. and everything. he made the scientist boys happy and another thing there was a lot of speculation about buzz aldrin was so mad because he wasn't the first guy on the moon. he didn't take one picture of neil armstrong on the moon. when that started speculating i asked neil about it and he said what the hill are they talking about? i had the camera. he said buzz had to put up these external. he said i gave buzz the camera for a few minutes before we had to get back on board and he did take pictures and in fact he took one of me loading the rocks. that's on the cover of the book him loading rocks and that was taken by buzz aldrin. it never occurred to them that the press didn't know any bett better. that's just the way it was. >> host: i thought buzz had a chest mounted camera. >> guest: know he did not have that. neil had it but neil passed it to him. he was setting it up. he had to take it off and give it to neil or to give it to buzz and then buzz gave it bac
best guys out there and i thought there's nobody better to have in the command module then jim lovell and mike collins. and he said buzz a ph.d. and everything. he made the scientist boys happy and another thing there was a lot of speculation about buzz aldrin was so mad because he wasn't the first guy on the moon. he didn't take one picture of neil armstrong on the moon. when that started speculating i asked neil about it and he said what the hill are they talking about? i had the camera. he...
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i thought there's nobody better than jim lovell and mike collins and he says his phd at everything, he made the boys happy in another little thing like that. a lot of speculation written about assaulters was so mad because he first was out on the moon. he didn't take one picture neil armstrong on the moon. well, when not started speculating, i asked neil in the what are they talking about what i had a camera. he said i've had to put it the year of it. he said i gave as the camera or lack a few minutes before he got back on board. he took one of the vote in the rocks of not what it is if you look right there. that picture on the cover of the book is 10 loading rocks and i was by buzz aldrin. you know, in number or two down the depressed now in a better. that's just the way it was. >> i thought he had a chest on an -- >> now, neil jaime. if neil passed to them. he was setting in a period he had to take it off and give it to neil and then let's give it back to him. later on i you are correct. i have to go back and recheck it, but later on both of them had cameras because they had moonwalk
i thought there's nobody better than jim lovell and mike collins and he says his phd at everything, he made the boys happy in another little thing like that. a lot of speculation written about assaulters was so mad because he first was out on the moon. he didn't take one picture neil armstrong on the moon. well, when not started speculating, i asked neil in the what are they talking about what i had a camera. he said i've had to put it the year of it. he said i gave as the camera or lack a few...
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pat collins is outside right now jp's lounge with more on what happened there. >> reporter: jim, jp's a gentleman's club. tonight no gentlemen. tonight, no ladies. tonight, just a lot of nothing. jp's, a controversial gentlemen's club today shut down. what do you make of that? >> excellent. family neighborhood. yeah. >> reporter: no tears? >> no. it's a good thing. >> reporter: unceremoniously evicted after apparently falling way behind in its rent. how is it that a strip club couldn't pay the rent? >> i would like to say the people around the neighborhood didn't support it. [ laughter ] >> reporter: you sorry to see them go? >> no. >> reporter: the entire contents of the club put out on the sidewalk. do you miss jp's? >> a lot. >> reporter: now the only thing left outside this piece of plexiglass and this lone bar stool. if this bar stool could talk, imagine the stories it could tell. on its website jp's describes itself as washington's number one gentlemen's club. it has a long and sometimes torturous history. back in january 2008 there was a huge fire that gutted the place. it didn
pat collins is outside right now jp's lounge with more on what happened there. >> reporter: jim, jp's a gentleman's club. tonight no gentlemen. tonight, no ladies. tonight, just a lot of nothing. jp's, a controversial gentlemen's club today shut down. what do you make of that? >> excellent. family neighborhood. yeah. >> reporter: no tears? >> no. it's a good thing. >> reporter: unceremoniously evicted after apparently falling way behind in its rent. how is it that...
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pat collins is live along bradley boulevard in bethesda where the tree is out of the road now, but the clean up isn't over yet. pat? >> reporter: jim, we have a precarious situation here on bradley boulevard. you can see the traffic is moving back and forth now. take a look across the street. there's a large tree limb sitting atop a ribbon of electrical wires. they are pulled taut. we are waiting for pepco to come free the wires hopefully without incident. this is what it was like earlier this afternoon when the hard winds came whipping through here, this big tree just fell apart. limbs and debris fell down on the roadway. the road was closed for some time before workers could get in here and try to clear a passage way. now, cheryl travis was one of the county workers here to open up the path. >> pepco is going to come and cut the tree at the wire. we can't do anything because the tree is on the wire. it's on a ware, so, we just came. this is a state road. we are out of bethesda, montgomery county. we came, the county didn't -- the city didn't call us, we came on our own to clean it up so people can get through. >> reporter: here i
pat collins is live along bradley boulevard in bethesda where the tree is out of the road now, but the clean up isn't over yet. pat? >> reporter: jim, we have a precarious situation here on bradley boulevard. you can see the traffic is moving back and forth now. take a look across the street. there's a large tree limb sitting atop a ribbon of electrical wires. they are pulled taut. we are waiting for pepco to come free the wires hopefully without incident. this is what it was like earlier...
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family with the same name and the same area, jim crow and the civil rights movement up until today and compare and contrast. >> columnist and author chris collins- tomlinson in his family's lake holdings legacy and how much legacy of slavery affects today's society. he talked to lydian tomlinson's brother about this on c-span2's after words. >> i have trouble picking on one part of the war. it is the conference of causes and timing. things happened in particular sequence and what you had by 1914 was certainly pressure building up. you also have a growing acceptance of the possibility of war which is very dangerous. whenever there's a crisis people didn't say if there is a war but when there is a war and there was real expectation that at some point there would be a general european war. even some people think it might be a relief. one of the image is often used at the time, very oppressive, heavy, it would be a relief to get it over with and we will feel better and have a quick short war and have peace. what you also had was a dangerous sense by 1914 that we could get through these crises. ac your ease of crises getting closer together, the two
family with the same name and the same area, jim crow and the civil rights movement up until today and compare and contrast. >> columnist and author chris collins- tomlinson in his family's lake holdings legacy and how much legacy of slavery affects today's society. he talked to lydian tomlinson's brother about this on c-span2's after words. >> i have trouble picking on one part of the war. it is the conference of causes and timing. things happened in particular sequence and what...