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Gnip, the guys that are helping move data around from one social network to the next, launched v 2.0 of the service tonight.
The new version of the service allows data consumers (services like Plaxo that take data from other services, like Twitter, Friendfeed, Digg, Delicious, etc.) to have data from requested users pushed to them. It's no longer "Hey, TechCrunch just tweeted. Go query the API to get the data." Now it's "TechCrunch just tweeted – here's the data." Data consumers are no longer required to build pollers for any of the publishers pushing data into Gnip, they just give Gnip an endpoint and they push the data to them in real time.
Data consumers can get complete public data streams for Twitter, Digg, Delicious, Six Apart and others without ever visiting those sites or accessing their individual APIs, subject only to the terms of service of those services. And this data can be gathered via a REST-based API or the newly launched XMPP support.
Gnip also added a number of filter options to allow data consumers the ability to create rules based queries based on tags, keywords, etc.
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Seagate Unveils World's Fastest Enterprise Hard Drive
New, Ultra-Fast Enterprise Hybrid Drive Technology provides up to a 3X increase in random performance over existing solutions
CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Seagate Technology plc (NAS: STX) , a world leader in storage solutions, today announced it is shipping the world's fastest hard drive— the Seagate® Enterprise Turbo™ SSHD. The industry's first enterprise solid state hybrid drive (SSHD), the Enterprise Turbo SSHD combines the capacity of a hard drive with solid-state flash enabling high-speed performance for mission critical data.
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Setting a new standard in mission critical performance, the Enterprise Turbo SSHD provides up to a 3X increase in random performance over existing 15K-RPM drives and is available with up to 600GB of capacity. By unifying the best of solid-state and magnetic technologies, Turbo improves tiered storage performance combining accelerated speed with hard disk drive (HDD) high-capacity.
"Typically the most demanding mission critical applications for 15K drives have improved performance by compromising on capacity and cost per GB," said Rocky Pimentel, Seagate executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer. "With the Enterprise Turbo SSHD, we deliver a no compromise drive that provides high-speed performance while enabling customers to leverage all of Turbo's capacity. The result, a combination of performance and capacity that we believe represents a new paradigm shift for mission critical, enterprise storage— a real game changer in storage solutions now and for generations to come."
IBM is using Seagate SSHD Technology
Over the past year, Seagate and IBM have been putting an enterprise SSHD prototype through its paces. After months of testing in Seagate and IBM labs, the first enterprise SSHD has been introduced as an option for the IBM System x servers. For more information, click here.
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Based on preliminary performance testing using standard system benchmarking tools, a 10K-RPM version of enterprise SSHD boasts IOPS over 2X better than a standard 600GB 10K-RPM hard disk drive. The end result is much improved and more cost effective performance for servers running mission critical applications such as big data analytics, virtual desktop infrastructure, and database and transaction processing. For more on the preliminary Seagate enterprise SSHD performance benchmarking click here for Storage Performance Council benchmarks.
The Enterprise Turbo SSHD enables lower cost server and storage configurations, making it appealing for OEMs and system builders who demand the highest, scalable performance at an affordable cost. It also delivers up to 3X the current mission critical HDD random performance at an HDD-comparable price. An extremely efficient and economical storage solution, the drive provides significantly improved $/IOPS.
The drive fine tunes storage tiering by caching at the I/O level, thereby addressing performance gaps and bottlenecks often found in tiered system environments. It also offers a self-encrypting drive option to maximize security for data-at-rest.
Key features of the Seagate Enterprise Turbo SSHD include:
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Unconventional view of these conventional genes sheds light on development of Lesch Nyhan disease
A study from the Center for Molecular Genetics at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine shows that a gene called HPRT plays an important role in setting the program by which primitive or precursor cells decide to become normal nerve cells in the human brain. This unconventional view of metabolic genes known as "housekeeping" genes is now online at the journal Molecular Therapy.
"Housekeeping" genes are expressed in most cells under most conditions, and scientists usually regard them as having simple metabolic functions that regulate normal metabolism, or that can cause serious disease when the genes don't function properly. But they were not previous thought to be involved with setting developmental pathways that determine how stem cells and other primitive cells decide to become neurons, muscle cells, bone or blood cells.
"We showed that HPRT carries out an important new role by causing mistakes in the ways in which a number of super-regulatory genes called transcription factors genes are expressed – some up, some down, but many incorrectly," said Theodore Friedmann, MD, professor of pediatrics and director of the Gene Therapy Program at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. The researchers propose that many other housekeeping genes in addition to HPRT may also be found to regulate important developmental pathways.
The study also provides the first direct experimental support for a possible role that HPRT plays in the development of the devastating neurological disorder in Lesch Nyhan disease, a rare, X-linked inherited disorder caused by a deficiency of an enzyme produced by mutations in the HPRT gene. Complications of the disease usually appear in boys during their first year of life, and may result in severe gout and kidney problems, poor muscle control, and neurological problems that cause the boys to injure themselves uncontrollably. The study by the Friedmann group now supports the idea that the HPRT gene defects cause neurological problems by directly interfering with the birth and function of brain neurons, especially the ones that rely on dopamine for nerve transmission.
"This finding is important because a better understanding of the dopamine defect in Lesch Nyhan disease will almost certainly shed light on the similar defect in Parkinson's disease," said Friedmann. "The major difference in these two diseases is that in Parkinson's disease, the dopaminergic neurons degenerate and disappear. In Lesch Nyhan disease, the dopamine neurons are present in more or less normal numbers and locations, but appear to function improperly. Now we know a little more about why that is."
A distinct and severely aberrant neurobehavioral symptom of Lesch Nyhan disease is self-mutilation, associated with severe depletion of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the basal ganglia region of the brain, as well as defective dopamine (DA) uptake. This is demonstrated in both humans and the HPRT-deficient mouse model, even though DA neurons are present in relatively normal numbers and with normal distribution patterns.
The UCSD research identified a number of abnormally expressed genes in HPRT-deficient mice and in human HPRT-deficient fibroblasts or stem cells. This discovery led them to the hypothesis that complex, interacting networks and pathways affect many aspect of central nervous system development, possibly including defects in the development of DA neurons themselves.
Contributors to the paper include Ghiabe-Henri Guibinga and Stephen Hsu of the UC San Diego Department of Pediatrics, Center for Molecular Genetics. The research was funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and the Lesch Nyhan Syndrome Children's Research Foundation.
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I've had at least three people comment to me directly that Apple lost out on a sale of the iPod nano because they couldn't walk into a store and buy one yesterday. In my calls to nearly 10 stores around the country, half didn't even know what the nano was and only one store quoted me a wait time of up to 4 or 5 days. Judging from the other stores I called, I'm almost certain the tiny Indianapolis store who quoted me the times was just guessing.
This isn't the first time we've seen this happen, and it's beginning to get frustrating. When the Mac mini was launched in January, several people wanted to rush right out and buy one after Steve announced it, but they had to wait almost two weeks before the stores got stock in. In that space of time, most sane people talked themselves out of the purchase, reallocating their funds to more important things like food and rent. On the day of the actual launch, only the hardcore were waiting to snap up the 4 or 5 minis that had come in.
Most people will cite Apple's extreme need for privacy as the culprit here. Apple cannot risk a loose-lipped retail employee spilling the beans a few days prior to Steve's big announcement. Regardless, I still think that Apple could plan their retail shipments to arrive precisely on the date of the announcement, not 4-5 days later. How about installing a fenced-in area in the back of the store and locking up the top-secret boxes prior to an announcement and giving only the store manager the key? Does this extreme need for privacy justify the extreme loss in impulse, first-day sales?
What's probably more infuriating to US readers is that Japan allegedly had copious amounts of iPod nanos on hand yesterday, and almost immediately after the launch. I realize the shipping logistics make this easier, but it's no stroke of genius to send out the US and European boxes 5 days prior to the Japanese ones. In the end I'll just have to suck it up and hope my Apple store order gets here before they arrive at retail and hope against hopes that we're not cursed with the horrible shipping delays that marred the 17" Powerbook and original G5 desktop launches.


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Major League Baseball's Oldest Player Turns 102 In Cuba
Even if they had enough candles, would they fit on the cake?
That was the issue Conrado Marrero, the world's oldest living former Major League Baseball player. The Cuban hurler had to make do with just one atop the cake Thursday as he celebrated his 102nd birthday at his modest Havana apartment, surrounded by family and friends with an unlit Cuban cigar in his mouth and a baseball cap on his head.
He was given an enormous blue and white cake, and savored a glass of wine and a sip of Bucanero, Cuba's domestic beer. Marrero smiled as his family applauded and smothered him in hugs.
In addition to his longevity, the former Washington Senator has much to celebrate this year. After a long wait, he finally received a $20,000 payout from Major League Baseball, granted to old-timers who played between 1947 and 1979.
The money had been held up since 2011 due to issues surrounding the 51-year-old U.S. embargo on Cuba, which prohibits most bank transfers to the Communist-run island. But the funds finally arrived in two parts, one at the end of last year, and the second a few months ago, according to Marrero's family.
Steve Rogers, a former Expos pitcher who is now an official at the Major League Baseball Players Association, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the funds were delivered to Marrero by hand, and with Washington's approval.
"Everything that he was entitled to has now been delivered to him. We found a way to get the funds to him," he said. "It was personally delivered and it was all sanctioned by the Treasury Department."
Rogers, who has followed Marrero's case closely, said it was an honor to be a part of the effort to get him the money he deserved.
"The oldest living major leaguer," Rogers marveled. "You tip your cap and say, you were from a different era but you played the same game. It is special to be a part of his life."
Marrero's family has used some of the money to buy him a new ventilator and bed, as well as wine, ham, cigars, juice and other delicacies that would be outside his budget, said Marrero's grandson, Rogelio. Like most Cuban pensioners, Marrero receives less than $20 from the state each month.
"My grandfather was always very particular about what he would eat," Rogelio said Wednesday as relatives prepared for the birthday. "Thanks to this we can buy him peach juice, which is his favorite."
These days, Marrero is hard of hearing, blind, and has considerable trouble speaking. He spends much of the day sleeping or listening to Cuban ballgames on the radio.
But he still perks up when asked about his glory days, demonstrating how to throw a slider and reminiscing about long ago confrontations with Ted Williams and other big league legends.
"All the batters were the same to me," Marrero said when asked about his long-ago rivals. "But I had more trouble with the lefties."
When he heard the name Larry Doby — the Hall of Fame Cleveland Indian center fielder who was the first black player to play in the American League — Marrero's face contorted in mock frustration.
"My grandfather has never forgotten how Doby hit three home runs against him in a single day," explained Rogelio. "He always says Doby was the guy who hit the best against him."
At 5-foot-5 and 158 pounds, Marrero relied on guile to get batters out, compiling a 39-40 record and a 3.67 ERA in five seasons with the Senators from 1950 to 1954.
"Connie Marrero had a windup that looked like a cross between a windmill gone berserk and a mallard duck trying to fly backwards," former big league star Felipe Alou once said of the diminutive Cuban, according to a biography of Marrero by the Society for American Baseball Research.
Marrero was born on April 25, 1911 in the small town of Sagua la Grande in the central Cuban province of Villa Clara, and he took his time getting into organized ball.
He played in amateur and semi-pro events in the early 1930s, raising eyebrows with his vicious curve and slider. In 1938, he joined a Cienfuegos team that was sponsored by a local men's clothing store, and which was about to become part of a budding Cuban league.
By the time he reached the big leagues, Marrero was already 39, an age when most other players have long since retired. But he made the most of his opportunity, even being named to the 1951 All-Star team.
After his stint in the big leagues, Marrero came back to Cuba, ending his career with the Havana Sugar Kings in 1957. Two years later, Fidel Castro's rebels swept into power. Marrero became a coach and roving instructor, working well into his 80s.
Even at 102, he continues to be interested in baseball and counts himself a fan of Cienfuegos, the team which is leading the Cuban league at the moment.
But Marrero's true love is his great-granddaughter Sandra.
When the 12-year-old returned home from school on Wednesday, the day before the birthday, Marrero reached out to take her hand and kiss it.
"Sandra, Sandra," he repeated as she leaned down to embrace him.
Based on reporting by The Associated Press.
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Marquette seeking a complete game against red-hot Davidson, winners of 17 straight contests
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Marquette had to do many things right to earn a piece of the Big East Conference regular season title and a No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament.
One thing coach Buzz Williams says his team didn't do was play a complete game, which the Golden Eagles will likely need to beat surging Davidson in Thursday's second-round East Regional game.
Fourteenth-seeded Davidson (26-7) has won 17 games in a row, a streak powered by a potent offense, especially from 3-point range.
The Golden Eagles (23-8), who have won four of five, believe having had to fight for a share of the Big East crown with Louisville and Georgetown has them prepared to play against a variety of styles. They'll get a chance to prove it against the tough, disciplined Wildcats.


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This is a super easy side dish that you can make to go along with pretty much anything. Its healthy and colorful and ready in about 5 minutes - what more could you ask for?
If you haven't ever tried edamame, you should. You can pick up a bag in the freezer section of shelled edamame and you just pop them in the microwave to cook. They cook in just a couple of minutes and sprinkled with salt they make a great snack or add them to all kinds of things. I had a bag in my freezer for quite a while that I wasn't really sure what to do with until someone told me how good they were on their own. You can add them to stir-fry dinners, mix them with couscous or pasta salads, or even add them to hummus or guacamole, although I haven't tried that yet.
Edamame Succotash
1 cup shelled edamame
1 cup corn kernels
1 cup peas
1/2 cup red onion, diced
1/2 cup red bell pepper, diced (I used roasted red pepper but you could use raw too)
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tsp olive oil
2 T balsamic vinaigrette
1 tsp salt
Add oil to a large skillet and heat over medium heat. Add garlic and onion and cook about three minutes. Add remaining vegetables and vinaigrette dressing. Cook about five minutes until vegetables are hot and vinaigrette reduces slightly. Transfer to a serving bowl and sprinkle with salt.
Note: If edamame, peas, and corn are frozen, microwave or thaw to room temperature first or increase cooking time.
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Edamame Succotash
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Repairman and small-business owner Rich Herder doesn't mince words about the damage ethanol in gasoline is doing to the small engines in outdoor power equipment. "It's the biggest disaster to hit gasoline in my lifetime," Herder says. He owns McIntyre's Locksmith & Lawnmower, a service business in Westfield, N.J. Founded in 1898 to refurbish saddles, the business today repairs more than 5000 machines a year—mostly pieces of outdoor power equipment, and many of them, according to Herder, damaged by the alcohol in today's gasoline, known as E10 for the 10 percent of alcohol it contains.
Herder estimates that as much as 75 percent of that work is not due to normal wear and tear, but results from the use of ethanol, which can cause rust and carbon deposits inside the engine, dissolve plastic parts and more. And if repair shops like Herder's are already busy, you have to wonder what will happen this summer when gas pumps begin dispensing E15 gasoline; the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved the fuel for cars built after the 2000 model year, but the fuel could hit small engines even harder than E10 does. But now, because of all that ethanol-based wear and tear, a nascent industry is starting up: Ethanol-free gas, distributed in cans for owners of small engines.
Why Now?
Alcohol in gasoline is nothing new. PM first covered the topic in October 1937, when it reported on a plant in Atchison, Kan., that used corn, wheat or sugar syrup to make alcohol, which it combined with a small quantity of coal distillate to make a fuel called Agrol. But 1937 was long before the advent of today's small, high-rpm engines. Lawn mowers and chain saws were in their infancy, and other products, such as string trimmers, didn't even exist.
Deposits and corrosion aren't the only reasons alcohol is hard on today's small engines. The power plants are easily ruined by bad fuel because they lack the sophisticated computer-controlled ignition systems found in today's cars and trucks. The alcohol can cause the fuel to ignite at the wrong time in the combustion sequence, ruining parts in the process. "The pistons are the first to go," Herder says. "They look like they've been hit with a hammer." Clearly the time for an alternative has come.
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Boutique Fuel
The phenomenon of fuel-related problems has become so severe that the niche market for specialized fuel is growing fast. Tidily packaged little metal cans containing ethanol-free gasoline were just an oddity a few years ago; now they're sold in hardware stores and by power equipment dealers, and people are taking specialized fuel seriously. There are at least three brands to choose from: MotoMix, from outdoor power equipment manufacturer Stihl USA, SEF from VP Racing Fuels and Truefuel from TruSouth. Of the three, only Stihl relies on an outside-contract chemical manufacturer to make its boutique fuel: Johann Haltermann, Ltd., a company that makes, among other things, precisely blended fuel for testing vehicles. Stihl was likely the first outdoor power equipment company to enter the boutique fuel market when, more than 20 years ago, it was so concerned about fuel quality in Germany that it introduced packaged fuel for its equipment sold in Europe.
The market for these fuels is still so new that there's no generally recognized name for them. But regardless of whether you call this stuff—boutique fuel, packaged fuel or canned gas—it's an end run around the gas pump. Sold as straight unleaded gasoline or blended with oil for high-rpm two-cycle engines in chain saws, blowers and string trimmers, it's expensive stuff, costing anywhere from $5 to $8 per quart. Despite the high price, customers might be willing to pony up if it means seeing an engine or its components run for several trouble-free years rather than seeing the engine destroyed or damaged by ethanol—after all, avoiding just one ruined engine might be worth the cost.
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What if you can't find canned fuel, or don't want to pay the premium? There are several other things you can do to protect your engine, Herder says.
First, he recommends using a gasoline stabilizer. There are too many to list here, but among the most widely sold are Sta Bil, Star Tron, and Sea Foam. "It's not that the guys who use those products have no problems," Herder says, "but they definitely have fewer."
Also, buy as little gasoline as possible, so that you run through your gas supply more quickly rather than letting the gasoline sit around and chemically decompose—a process that can start in as little as two weeks.
Herder recommends that when you go to fill up the gas container you use for your outdoor power equipment, first top off your car—that will flush any low-octane gas out of the hose. For small engines, always use the highest octane you can find, he says. Typically, that's around 93 octane, though regionally you will find higher octane blends.
Despite the fact that his business has seen something of a windfall because of alcohol-related engine damage, Herder is no fan of the fuel. "It's driving the customers nuts," he says, asking, in a bewildered voice, "Who do they think they're helping by adding more alcohol to gas? What positive thing is this doing?"
Roy Berendsohn has worked for more than 25 years at Popular Mechanics, where he has written on carpentry, masonry, painting, plumbing, electrical, woodworking, blacksmithing, welding, lawn care, chainsaw use, and outdoor power equipment. When he's not working on his own house, he volunteers with Sovereign Grace Church doing home repair for families in rural, suburban and urban locations throughout central and southern New Jersey.


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Independence Day is coming right up! Here is a how-to for making Vintage Independence Day Cookies with edible wafer paper images!
You Will Need:
– Patriotic Tiny Postcards Wafer Paper Set
– No Fail Sugar Cookie Recipe
– 1 bag royal icing
– 3″ x 2″Rectangle Cookie Cutter
– Edible Clear Writing Gel
– Wax or parchment paper
– White Edible Glitter
– Small craft scissors
– Squeeze Bottles
1. Use No Fail Sugar Cookie recipe and cut out several rectangle cookie shapes. Bake and cool as directed.
2. Ice each cookie with 1 layer of royal icing. Let completely dry.
3. Carefully cut out wafer paper shapes using craft scissors, making sure each one will fit on the cookie. Be careful, wafer paper is fragile!
4. Adhere each wafer paper cut out to a cookie shape by adhering a thin layer of edible clear writing gel (or light corn syrup) to the top of the iced cookies.
5. Flip each cookie face down on a piece of wax paper to dry for about 30 minutes (this will keep the wafer paper shape flat).
6. Flip cookies over and add additional decoration, such as edible glitter or dragees with the edible clear writing gel.
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In the lead up to the 2012 presidential election, mention of—much less discussion about—the environment was noticeably absent. President Barack Obama said that climate change is "one of the biggest issues of this generation" in September, but in months of campaigning it hardly came up. To the dismay of environmentalists, he didn't raise the subject once during the three debates with Mitt Romney—the first time since 1984 that neither candidates nor moderators broached the topic in a presidential debate. The politician who did the most to bring global warming into the race for the White House was New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who made it the focus of his endorsement of Obama in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
His second term secured, Obama did touch on climate change in his acceptance speech early this morning. "We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet," he told supporters in Chicago.
Now, after so many months of silence on critical environmental issues, and with the president defending the coal industry during the campaign, there are many questions about Obama's aims for the next four years. Audubon's exclusive responses from the president may shed some light. President Obama provided written answers to 10 questions submitted to the campaign during the heat of the election season about climate change, energy policy, and other issues of interest to Auduboners.
What are your plans to address climate change?
Climate change is the one of the biggest issues of this generation, and we have to meet this challenge by driving smart policies that lead to greater growth in clean energy generation and result in a range of economic and social benefits. Since taking office I have developed historic fuel efficiency standards that will limit greenhouse gas emissions from our vehicles for the first time in history. My administration has made unprecedented investments in clean energy, proposed the first-ever carbon pollution limits for new fossil-fuel-fired power plants, and helped lower carbon emissions significantly within the Federal Government. Since I took office, the U.S. is importing an average of 2.6 million fewer barrels of oil every day, and our dependence on foreign oil hit a 16-year low. We are also showing international leadership on climate change, reaching historic agreements to set emission limits in unison with other emerging powers. I will continue these efforts to create an economy built to last—investing in clean energy, holding polluters accountable, and reducing our carbon impact.
What role do you see wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources playing in our energy future?
I know the country that harnesses the power of clean, renewable energy will lead the global economy in the 21st century. That's why I have made the largest investment in clean energy and energy efficiency in American history and proposed an ambitious Clean Energy Standard to generate 80 percent of our electricity from clean energy sources like wind, solar, clean coal, and natural gas by 2035. Since taking office, electricity from wind and solar sources has already doubled in the United States. I am also calling on Congress to support incentives for clean energy that drive innovation and support clean energy manufacturing jobs across the country. We are boosting our use of cleaner fuels, including increasing the level of ethanol that can be blended into gasoline and implementing a new Renewable Fuel Standard that will save nearly 14 billion gallons of petroleum-based gasoline in 2022. Because of these actions, we are positioning the U.S. to be a world leader in the clean energy economy.
The Coast Guard, the United States Geological Survey, the Government Accountability Office, and hundreds of scientists say the industry is not prepared to drill safety in Artic waters. What is your position?
In order to lower our dependence on foreign oil and help families save at the pump, safely and responsibly expanding domestic oil production is part of my all-of-the-above energy strategy. However, I have insisted that we implement a balanced and careful approach to offshore development that addresses environmental concerns; the social, cultural, and subsistence needs of local communities, and resource constraints. The Arctic is a unique ecosystem—that's why my administration has put together a targeted leasing plan that sets a new standard for considering the environmental and safety challenges of the Arctic and diminishing risks. This plan minimizes possible conflicts with environmentally sensitive areas and the native Alaskan communities that rely on the ocean for subsistence use. It integrates heightened safety requirements and considerations that will employ the highest possible level of caution in this important ecological and natural resource.
Would you permit drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and what will you do to protect sensitive areas like Teshekpuk Lake in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska?
My administration has no plans to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. I am committed to protect and conserve wildlife and their habitat on sensitive public lands with exceptional ecological value. The Arctic Wildlife Refuge is among the most profoundly beautiful places in America and would not permit drilling in one of American's greatest treasures. We are actively considering options to protect the Teshekpuk Lake area of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, which is home to the northern hemisphere's largest concentration of nesting migratory birds and is a unique habitat for a number of species important to Alaskans and native populations.
How will you ensure oil drilling for natural gas, including fracking, doesn't lead to long-term damage or the permanent poisoning of our water supplies and habitat?
To ensure that hydraulic fracking is done in a safe and responsible manner, my administration has proposed a number of safeguards to protect against water and air contamination. This includes proposing commonsense requirements for companies to protect drinking water sources across 750 million acres of public and tribal lands. It would require companies to publicly disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, manage their wastewater and safeguard drilling wells from leaking. We've also issued standards that will require operators of natural gas wells to capture smog-forming pollutants and air toxics that otherwise escape the well. These standards will ensure that we capture 95 percent of the harmful emissions from these wells that previously polluted our air and threatened our climate and will also allow operators of these wells to increase their bottom line by selling the additional captured gas.
In your administration, what role will the EPA play protecting our air and water?
My commitment to protecting public health and the environment is unwavering. Under my leadership, my administration is working hard to make sure that the air we breathe and the water we drink is safe. America prospers when we're all in it together and everyone plays by the same rules, which is why we are holding polluters accountable. Recently, we implemented the first national standards to cut down on mercury and other toxic air emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants. It will make our air cleaner and families healthier, and it will save up to 11 thousand lives each year. EPA is also cleaning up contaminated sites in communities across the country, helping to rid neighborhoods of environmental blight while putting Americans back to work. I have also made historic investments to restore our rivers and coasts, from the Chesapeake Bay to the Gulf Coast, and the Great Lakes to the Everglades. We also developed a first-of-its kind National Ocean Policy for the U.S. designed to protect and enhance our oceans and restore our coastal areas. Under my Presidency, the EPA will continue to protect the environment not just for our children but their children.
The Keystone XL pipeline would transport what some consider to be the dirtiest oil in the world and cause destruction of boreal forest in the process. Will you allow it to be built?
There are a number of sensitive issues involved in the consideration of the Keystone pipeline, demanding a fair and full assessment. My administration is conducting a thorough assessment that takes into consideration issues of public health and safety, environmental health, along with American energy security and economic factors. We will work with Nebraska and other states to conduct a rigorous, transparent and thorough review, which takes into account potential impacts on public health and natural resources. I am committed to reducing our reliance on foreign oil in a way that benefits American workers and businesses without risking the health and safety of the American people and the environment.
Audubon data shows even bird species we consider common today are adapting slowing to climate change and losing ground, with some falling as much as 68 percent in the past 40 years. How would you use laws like the Endangered Species Act and Migratory Bird Treaty Act to address this trend?
From the Arctic to the Everglades, impacts like rising sea levels, warmer temperatures, loss of sea ice, and changing precipitation patterns are affecting the species we care about, the services we value, and the places we call home. We have an obligation to safeguard our nation's natural heritage in a changing world. Laws like the Endangered Species Act or the Migratory Bird Treaty Act guide my administration in helping to protect endangered and threatened species and pursue their recovery. In addition to preserving bird habitat by protecting wetlands, my administration has also taken direct steps to reduce the negative impacts of climate change on fish, birds, other wildlife, plants, and the natural systems upon which they depend. My administration is collaborating with state, local and tribal partners to release the first climate adaptation strategy for fish, wildlife, and plants. The strategy will provide a unified approach to ensure the sustainability of our many ecological, economic, and recreational resources.
Does protecting the environment cost jobs or create jobs?
As I have said many times, unfortunately, there will always be people in this country who say we've got to choose between clean air and clean water and a growing economy, between doing right by our environment and putting people back to work. I believe this is a false choice. Under my leadership, we have made historic investments in clean energy that have supported nearly a quarter million jobs, and we will continue to support a clean energy economy that has the potential to become part of a $2.3 trillion global market. The same environmental regulations that are cleaning up our air are also creating tens of thousands of jobs. With smart, sustainable policies, we can grow our economy today and protect our environment for ourselves and our children.
What would you like your environmental legacy to be?
From investing in clean energy to protecting our air, land, and water, I have made protecting the environment a top priority. I am pursuing an energy strategy that responsibly develops our natural resources to create clean energy jobs here at home while encouraging conservation, reducing energy waste and protecting the environment. I have taken historic steps to protect our children and communities from harmful pollution by restoring and advancing safeguards for clean air and water and by taking steps to reduce carbon pollution. My administration is also restoring treasured landscapes like the Great Lakes, the Florida Everglades, and local wilderness areas.
I also want to be remembered for implementing ideas that preserve our environment, protect our bottom line, and connect more Americans to the great outdoors. Because even in times of crisis, we're called to take the long view to preserve our national heritage—because in doing so we fulfill one of the responsibilities that falls to all of us as Americans, and as inhabitants of this same small planet. I feel an abiding bond with the land that is the United States of America.


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Hope College presented awards honoring teaching, service and scholarship to multiple faculty members during the college's annual recognition luncheon on Monday, Jan. 8.
Hope College presented awards honoring teaching, service and scholarship to multiple faculty members during the college's annual recognition luncheon on Monday, Jan. 8.
The "Janet L. Andersen Excellence in Teaching Awards" were presented to Dr. Edward Hansen, professor of geology and environmental science, and Dr. John Krupczak Jr., associate professor of engineering.
The "Ruth and John Reed Faculty Achievement Awards" were presented to Dr. Christopher Barney, who is the T. Elliott Weier Professor of Biology, and Dr. James Herrick, who is the Guy VanderJagt Professor of Communication.
Named a "Towsley Research Scholar" was Dr. Aaron Best, assistant professor of biology.
The "Provost's Award for Service to the Academic Program" was presented to Carol DeJong, associate registrar, and Dr. Caroline Simon, professor of philosophy and director of general education and interdisciplinary studies.
The Janet L. Andersen Excellence in Teaching Awards are presented to faculty members who have been teaching at Hope for at least seven years and who have demonstrated recognizable excellence in specific activities or aspects of teaching. The award is named in memory of Dr. Janet Andersen, a professor of mathematics at Hope who died of injuries sustained in an automobile accident on Thursday, Nov. 24, 2005.
Hansen has been a member of the Hope faculty since 1984 and recently completed a year as president of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. He was recognized for his excellence in field-based teaching, which has included exploring the geology of West Michigan as well as sites such as Death Valley and coastal California, and the mountains of Tennessee. Hope students are actively involved in his research program, which since 1998 has focused on the sand dunes of the Lake Michigan coast.
Krupczak has been a member of the Hope faculty since 1994. He was recognized for developing and teaching the popular beginning-level course "Science and Technology of Everyday Life," in which students learn about the science behind the objects they use daily, including by building items ranging from radios to keyboards themselves. He first offered he course in the spring of 1995, and subsequently modified it, working with a team of student researchers, with support from the National Science Foundation.
The Ruth and John Reed Faculty Achievement Awards recognize members of the Hope faculty who are superior teachers and have also contributed significantly in some other area of professional life. The award was established in memory of Dr. Ruth Yzenbaard Reed, a 1965 Hope graduate who was associate dean of Macomb Community College. Reed died in August of 1999 at age 55.
Barney has been a member of the Hope faculty since 1980, and was appointed to his endowed chair in 2001. His research interest is in regulatory physiology, currently focused on heat acclimation and water balance and temperature regulation. He has received numerous external grants and written more than 50 articles for professional journals, and has involved more than 70 Hope students in collaborative research during both the school year and summer.
Herrick has been a member of the Hope faculty since 1984, and was appointed to his endowed chair in 2002. His research and teaching specialties are argumentation and rhetoric. Active in professional associations, he is the author of numerous articles that have appeared in scholarly and popular publications as well as five books, including, most recently, "The Making of the New Spirituality: The Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition."
The Towsley Research Scholars Program is funded through an endowment made possible through a grant from the Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation of Midland. Through the program, newer Hope faculty members receive support for a project for four years. The foundation's awards to the college have also included grants for the construction of the Van Wylen Library and the Schaap Science Center, faculty development in the pre-medical sciences and support for an endowed chair in communication.
Best has been a member of the Hope faculty since 2004. His primary research interest is in understanding the evolution of fundamental cellular systems and how microorganisms function at a systems level. Through his project, "A Systems Biology Approach to Unravel the Complexities of Microbial Life," he will develop computer software for modeling the way that microbes behave, and will test the models and gain additional understanding of the behavior through laboratory experiments. His focus will be on a microbe called "Shewanella oneidensis," which can potentially be used in cleaning toxic waste.
The Provost's Award for Service to the Academic Program is presented to individuals who have provided special contributions to the academic program through student academic support, general education, assessment work, implementation of programs that support/enhance the curriculum, and any activity outside of formal teaching that contributes to the overall excellence of the academic program.
DeJong has been a member of the Hope staff since 1988. The registrar's office maintains the academic records of current and former Hope students, and coordinates course scheduling and enrollment. DeJong was recognized in particular for implementing the college's computerized system for monitoring students' academic progress and tracking the requirements of the general education and major programs, which has reduced paperwork campuswide and simplified access to the information for both students and their academic advisors.
Simon has been a member of the Hope faculty since 1988. In addition to her ongoing responsibilities in teaching, general education and interdisciplinary studies, her contributions through the years have included leading portions of the college's faculty mentoring program, chairing the department of philosophy, serving as faculty moderator, to serving as a faculty representative to the college's Board of Trustees. She has written extensively on issues surrounding Christianity and higher education, and was lead author of the book "Mentoring for Mission: Nurturing New Faculty at Church-Related Colleges."


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Few cars using new $1 million park and ride
300-car lot located off I-295 in Yarmouth
A brand new 300-space park-and-ride in Yarmouth cost $1 million to build, but only a half-dozen cars are using it a day.
The Maine Department of Transportation said the lot has only been open for three weeks.
The MDOT said its studies showed the park-and-ride located at the new exit 15 on Interstate 295 was considered a regional priority.
"Despite the criticism, there is widespread support," said Penny Vaillancourt of the Maine Department of Transportation.
She said when people learn about the new park-and-ride, they will use it.
The lot was part of a larger project to reconstruct the exit 15 interchange.
Yarmouth's town manager also said it is too early to criticize the park-and-ride.
"I think the criticism about the parking lot being under necessary, over-built is premature. The town was never the advocate for, or the sponsor of that project. The DOT thought that was the appropriate thing to do and it was part of an interchange improvement that included a north-bound ramp which we previously didn't have, so it was a bit of a package deal," said town manager Nat Tupper.
The Sierra Club of Maine said the lot is too big and unnecessary.
"They cleared three acres of trees for this," said Joan Saxe, a Sierra Club board member.
The Sierra Club was opposed to the project from the beginning.
"I've been driving by here every day. I count the cars, and maybe you know down the road this will all be full but I doubt it. I've counted no more than five cars and that white truck has been here every day since it started, so that guy is really committed," said Saxe.
Saxe said she is putting the DOT on notice.
"I'll come talk to you in a year, but I will be at your meetings and listening really hard about how you're spending public money," said Saxe.
The state paid 20 percent of the cost to build the park-and-ride, with the rest coming from federal funds.


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The Freelance Surge Is the Industrial Revolution of Our Time
Welcome to the Gig Life. The boom in independent work is changing the way we think about jobs and careers. Does Washington get it?
It's been called the Gig Economy, Freelance Nation, the Rise of the Creative Class, and the e-conomy, with the "e" standing for electronic, entrepreneurial, or perhaps eclectic. Everywhere we look, we can see the U.S. workforce undergoing a massive change. No longer do we work at the same company for 25 years, waiting for the gold watch, expecting the benefits and security that come with full-time employment. We're no longer simply lawyers, or photographers, or writers. Instead, we're part-time lawyers-cum- amateur photographers who write on the side.
Today, careers consist of piecing together various types of work, juggling multiple clients, learning to be marketing and accounting experts, and creating offices in bedrooms/coffee shops/coworking spaces. Independent workers abound. We call them freelancers, contractors, sole proprietors, consultants, temps, and the self-employed.
And, perhaps most surprisingly, many of them love it.
This transition is nothing less than a revolution. We haven't seen a shift in the workforce this significant in almost 100 years when we transitioned from an agricultural to an industrial economy. Now, employees are leaving the traditional workplace and opting to piece together a professional life on their own. As of 2005, one-third of our workforce participated in this "freelance economy." Data show that number has only increased over the past six years. Entrepreneurial activity in 2009 was at its highest level in 14 years, online freelance job postings skyrocketed in 2010, and companies are increasingly outsourcing work. While the economy has unwillingly pushed some people into independent work, many have chosen it because of greater flexibility that lets them skip the dreary office environment and focus on more personally fulfilling projects.
Over the coming weeks, I will be writing about this profound shift and the three major trends that are central to it. These trends will have an enormous impact on our economy and our society:
1) We don't actually know the true composition of the new workforce. After 2005, the government stopped counting independent workers in a meaningful and accurate way. Studies have shown that the independent workforce has grown and changed significantly since then, but the government hasn't substantiated those results with a new, official count. Washington can't fix what it can't count. Since policies and budget decisions are based on data, freelancers are not being taken into account as a viable, critical component of the U.S. workforce. We're not acknowledging their prevalence and economic contributions, let alone addressing the myriad challenges they face.
2) Jobs no longer provide the protections and security that workers used to expect. The basics such as health insurance, protection from unpaid wages, a retirement plan, and unemployment insurance are out of reach for one-third of working Americans. Independent workers are forced to seek them elsewhere, and if they can't find or afford them, then they go without. Our current support system is based on a traditional employment model, where one worker must be tethered to one employer to receive those benefits. Given that fewer and fewer of us are working this way, it's time to build a new support system that allows for the flexible and mobile way that people are working.
3) This new, changing workforce needs to build economic security in profoundly new ways. For the new workforce, the New Deal is irrelevant. When it was passed in the 1930s, the New Deal provided workers with important protections and benefits but those securities were built for a traditional employer-employee relationship. The New Deal has not evolved to include independent workers: no unemployment during lean times; no protections from age, race, and gender discrimination; no enforcement from the Department of Labor when employers don't pay; and the list goes on.
The solution will rest with our ability to form networks for exchange and to create political power. I call this "new mutualism ." You will be reading more about this idea in subsequent articles from me next week, as I believe that new mutualism will be at the core of the new social support system that we need to build for the new workforce.


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As TV audiences have shrunk over the past few years, networks have begun scrambling for ways to keep their programming in front of as many eyeballs as possible. The latest move comes from ABC, which will make a number of its most popular programs available online at no cost. Beginning April 30, a redesigned ABC.com website will allow web surfers to watch full episodes of programs such as Lost, Desperate Housewives, and others starting the morning after they air on ABC. In addition, programming from other Disney-owned networks will be made available online over the next couple of months. The first will by Soapnet, which will begin programming on April 17, followed by the Disney Channel in June, and ABC Family at an unspecified point in the future.
All programs will be shown in their entirety, including commercials which cannot be avoided. That's a smart move on ABC's part, as it ensures that advertisers will get another shot at hawking their wares to an audience that might otherwise change channels during commercial breaks or fast-forward through them if recorded. Aside from being unable to avoid commercials, watching the programs will be similar to watching timeshifted content in that viewers will be able to pause, fast forward, and rewind.
ABC's move is the boldest by far of the major networks. NBC appears to be headed in a similar direction, as Jeff Zucker, CEO of the NBC Universal Television Group has called on producers to rethink how they market their shows. His "TV 360" concept means thinking about how to monetize nonbroadcast content, including online and wireless device delivery. NBC also has plans to make a handful of online-only episodes of the British import The Office available online over the summer. Unlike ABC, these episodes will not appear first on TV before showing up online.
Offering full programs online is part of Disney's "rich media destination" strategy. Disney, which owns ABC, is making its content available through a number of delivery methods at varying cost to the consumer. In many ways, it's a no-brainer, as viewers have demonstrated by their viewing habits that they want more control over where, when, and how they watch programming.
Fans of ABC and Disney programming will now have a broad menu of choices for watching their shows. They can catch them when they first air or watch them online the day after for free, but with commercials. If they want to watch them on the go, individual episodes without ads are available from the iTunes Music Store for US$1.99 each, or they can purchase a season-long "multi-pass" for US$34.99 (about US$1.40 per show). There's the on-demand cable option for about US$1.00 a show, also without ads. Of course there's the most expensive option: the DVD, which will doesn't do much for immediate gratification as it won't be available until after the season concludes.
ABC's move may result in fewer sales for iTMS, as viewers opt to watch programming for free on their computers rather than buying it from Apple. On the other hand, the prospect of having to sit through 16-18 minutes of commercials to watch a one-hour show may be enough to send some customers running to iTMS. But that's the beauty of ABC's new model. It gives consumers more control over watching TV, which the networks will have to do if they want to reverse declining viewership trends. This is the face of TV 2.0—embrace and extend!


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I spend a lot of time thinking about blogging. When I began this blog a year and a half ago i had small expectations. I never believed I would be talking daily to scrollers all over the world. It made me think about how much smaller the worlds seems to me today. I have friends on ever continent except the Antarctic because of this blog. The power of blogging just numbs my mind. This clock pattern just sums up my thoughts about what I experience daily.
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It's not a fashionable thing, to report good news.
As a reporter the focus is all too often on unearthing the "sexier" headline and go straight for the jugular. And let's face it, Sochi has had plenty of bad press.
"Tradition is the living faith of the dead" as theologian Jan Pelikan once said and I'm in romantic mood, and not only because Valentine's Day is just around the corner.
So here's a thought for you - Sochi is proving more charming than anticipated.
The scenery is awe-inspiring, the climate is a winter tonic to a rain-sodden, Englishman's bones and the sporting adventure is a daily marvel.
It all goes to raise the pulse and underline the privilege that employment, in telling sport stories, can afford.
But there is another factor which has proved greater to all the above in creating that intangible sense of celebration, goodwill and friendship that is at the heart of all Olympic Games' ambition. And that factor is the volunteers.
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Since arriving in Sochi, I must have spoken to well over a hundred of these unpaid Games helpers.
Their number is legion and they are so numerous it's hard to walk 10 yards on a freezing mountain road or a sunny coastal pathway without bumping into a pair of them.
Which is lucky, because I've I often found myself lost, or in the wrong place, or unable to comprehend simple signs like "Enter cable car here."
Without fail, each rainbow-jacketed volunteer I have approached for help to find a way through my befuddlement has been enthusiastic and friendly to the point of disbelief.
The effect is powerful.
Your heart maybe of stone, your body devoid of any empathetic sinew yet still the vibe of goodwill and greeting emanating from this bunch would breach your defences quicker than a bobsleigh boosted by an afterburner.
Most of the volunteers I have spoken to are students who, keen to brush up and expand their language skills, rushed to take part in a piece of their country's history by enrolling through their university.
They've travelled from St. Petersburg in the west to Magaden in the east, from the capital Moscow in the north to the countryside of the steppes. Some have even come from overseas.
All to stand here, often in the freezing cold, to cheer up any soul who is becoming stressed, unhappy or disillusioned by what can be the overwhelming experience of an Olympic Games.
Everyone knows Russia, like any other country, is a land that is far from perfect.
Everyone knows the political backdrop and right-minded concerns that many critics have leveled at Vladimir Putin's government in the buildup to Sochi.
But politics aside, the volunteers show a glimpse of a new generation.
They seem keen to learn, keen to meet people from nations far and wide, and they seem excited about a project which to young eyes must be exciting in its positivity and scale.
Sochi is putting Russia on the map like never before and the young Russians I have met seem buoyant because of it.
Of course, when the Games are over reality will no doubt bite once again and the challenges of trying to start a career and make a way in the world will return to the front of their minds.
But, as Britain knows from London 2012, even a brief romance can work wonders for a grizzled, old soul. So, from Russia, with love...
Thanks alot, Ben. Nice article. IMO, visitors of Sochi should make a little effort and learn the culture and history of the nation hosting Olympics.
It might see fine and dandy on the surface but Russia uses those volunteers like slaves. Unpaid and living in bad conditions, they exploit them because... they can. Just like they exploited the construction workers. That's the system and you cannot change that. Enjoy totalitarian regime while you can!
Everything at us is excellent and all volunteers are glad that they here. Russia – the country best in the world! And we have no totalitarianism!
Great article Ben. In every Olympics it's the volunteers who are the glue. All unpaid. All there for the love of the event. From the officials to the lady telling you where the bathroom is. They hold it all together with a smile often living in not so ideal accomodations. All for that jacket that they all get. You walk in any Olympic city years after the games and you will find them wearing that jacket.
A favourable comment about the Sochi Olympics?! How come it's possible in British press?! 🙂
Well, thanks a bunch.
Finally some objectivity!
Enough with hoaxes of double toilets, broken handles ...
Embrace the Olympic spirit and learn about the great country that Russia is
It is only great if you don't live here. If you happen to live here... it is not so great. If you love it so much, why not to move to Russia? Thousands of Russians are trying to get out.
there is definitely something wrong with this World, CNN recognized the best channel At the same time If to talk in general it investigates with a magnifier a very small negative thing about Sochi and refuse to see big positive things. Thanks Ben a lot for a positive response to the critics.
Great photos on Instagram. Thank you.
As a Sochi volunteer from the US, it is nice to see some positive press about our great volunteers here at the games! These kids have worked hard to get here and the recognition is well deserved. Thanks!
Ben Wyatt, please read Gulag Archipelago and be forever cured of your ignorance and Stalin worship. There are the dead and then there are the murdered. If you want to inject politics and social commentary and trumpet Stalin's social justice accomplishments, then I think you should be prepared to exclaim how you feel the decades of poverty, the murders, forced labor, and imprisonment of the innocent fit into those accomplishments.
Please explain? I'm eager to learn more about Stalin from you.
Fred Bastiat, Stalin died in 1953. You still have not called? ))))
Funny you Americans:)
Its nice to know that a CNN reporter said something nice about the games. The night time TV( International) seemed to be finding fault all the time with Russia's Olympics.after they were over. Heaven forbid they say the games were a success.without adding 'buts'. I couldn't see the closing Ceremony but it looked stunning.GIve credit where credit is due, CNN.
Reports say the Sochi Games were a big success. Hearty congratulations to the participants, fans and the organizers.


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The stock market wasn't sure what to make of the government's latest jobs report.
The government reported Friday morning that the U.S. added jobs in November, and stock index futures shot higher in pre-market trading. Then, as traders dived into the details of the report, their reaction became more tempered.
The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 71 points in early trading before trimming in its gains. By mid-afternoon, it was up 51 points to 13,125.
The Standard & Poor's 500 shot up, then bounced between small gains and losses. The Nasdaq opened higher, then turned negative in the morning and stayed there throughout the day.
The headline numbers from the jobs report were what sent the market higher in early trading. The Labor Department said the U.S. added 146,000 jobs last month. The unemployment rate fell to 7.7% from 7.9%, the lowest in nearly four years.
The overall report, however, painted a more restrained view of the economy.
"If you delve into that report a little more, there are some disturbing issues," said Brian Lund, who is based in Los Angeles as executive vice president and co-founder of the online brokerage Ditto Trade.
The unemployment rate fell largely because discouraged unemployed workers stopped looking for work, which meant they were no longer counted among the unemployed. Also, the Labor Department revised previously released jobs numbers downward, saying that employers added 49,000 fewer jobs in October and September than initially estimated.
Mr. Lund also wasn't so sure about the government's statement that Hurricane Sandy "did not substantively impact" the unemployment numbers. He expected Sandy's detrimental effects to show up in jobs reports over the next couple of months, as businesses figure out their post-storm plans.
"If you have Sandy, you don't automatically lose your job," Mr. Lund said. "Businesses take time to say, 'Oh, what's going on, can we go forward, do we need to cut people to survive? It's not until later that they start laying off."
At mid-afternoon, the S&P 500 was essentially flat, up less than a point at 1,414. The Nasdaq composite index, weighed down by Apple, was down 17 to 2,973.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 1.63% from 1.59% late Thursday, a sign that investors were putting more money in stocks.
Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist for ConvergEx in New York, was similarly unimpressed by the jobs numbers. In a note to clients, he said U.S. unemployment seems to be more consistent with "an ongoing recession than expansion."
In the recession of the early 1990s and its aftermath, the highest rate of unemployment was 7.8%. In the recession of the early 2000s and its aftermath, the unemployment rate never got above 6.3%.
This time has been harsher. In late 2009, shortly after the recession officially ended, the unemployment rate peaked at 10%. For two years after that, it stayed above 9%.
There's another significant cloud hanging over the market. Congress and the White House are trying to hammer out an agreement on government spending and tax rates before Jan. 1. If they don't, lower government spending and higher taxes will kick in, a situation that's been nicknamed the "fiscal cliff."
House Speaker John Boehner said Friday there had been no progress in the negotiations, and called on President Barack Obama to produce a new offer. Earlier this week, House Republicans had released a plan that would raise tax revenues and cut government spending.
The fiscal cliff is already taking a toll on people's confidence and making them nervous about spending, said Bernie Williams, vice president of discretionary money management at USAA Investments in San Antonio, Texas. He pointed to recent announcements from retailers like Target and Kohl's, who both had November sales at established stores shrink even though analysts had expected them to rise.
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Traders have been indecisive as well. In the 21 trading days since the presidential election, the Dow has been up 10 and down 11. So far this week, it's finished up twice and down twice.


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(CNN) - Rick Santorum suspended his campaign on Tuesday after it became increasingly unlikely he could tackle the obstacles standing in his way on the road to the GOP presidential nomination, according to a Santorum source.
The source said the three events that would have to occur for the former Pennsylvania senator to secure the nomination became largely improbable; Texas becoming a winner-take-all delegate state, Santorum winning the Pennsylvania primary on April 24 and rival candidate Newt Gingrich stepping aside.
During a conference call with his wife, Karen, campaign manager and staff before the official suspension, Santorum said the decision was based on personal and political factors, according to a Santorum source.
"We made a decision over the weekend that while this presidential race for us is over for me and we will suspend our campaign effective today, we are not done fighting," Santorum said during his speech in Gettysburg. "We will continue to fight for those voices for those Americans who stood up and gave us that air under our wings."
He also acknowledged the decision was not entirely political, saying the past weekend was a "time of prayer and thought" as he and his family cared for his daughter Isabella.
Santorum's organization announced they were halting campaign events on Friday because the candidate's three-year-old daughter Bella was admitted to the hospital. Bella, the youngest of Santorum's seven children, suffers from a rare chromosomal disorder called Trisomy 18, which causes severe medical and developmental problems.
Santorum spoke to rival Mitt Romney before Tuesday's speech, according to a Republican source. But Santorum spokesperson Hogan Gidley told CNN an endorsement of the former Massachusetts governor "is not a inevitability."
Gidley said Santorum and Romney are attempting to schedule a meeting to discuss an endorsement and that the latter would like it to occur "sooner rather than later."
Known even before his bid for the 2012 GOP nomination as a staunch social conservative, Santorum often presented himself on the campaign trail as the alternative to more moderate candidates, who he said had compromised their ideals for political expediency.
Santorum officially announced his candidacy on June 6, 2011, and quickly began airing radio ads in South Carolina, Iowa and New Hampshire. Soon after his official announcement, he said in a CNN interview that his bid would be based on a consistent conservative record.
"I think I stand out because I have been a consistent conservative, someone who has been a leader, someone who's had the courage to lead on a variety of hot button topics before they were popular like entitlement reform. I've been a leader on that," Santorum said on June 13.
In August, when his candidacy was barely making waves in key early voting states, Santorum maintained his effort would take a long view of the race, saying at an August rally "This is the little-engine-that-could campaign."
At GOP presidential debates throughout the fall, Santorum stood mostly on the sidelines while a rotating band of GOP frontrunners took center stage. At a CNN debate in September, Santorum was criticized for not reacting to a chorus of boos from the audience after a gay soldier asked a question.
Santorum later said he couldn't hear the boos from where he stood on stage.
The candidate had the distinction of becoming the first GOP presidential candidate to visit all of Iowa's 99 counties, often sporting what became his signature - a sweater vest bearing his campaign's logo. Santorum mentioned the vests as a great moment from the campaign in his speech Tuesday.
Despite the effort, Santorum didn't see substantial traction in polls until January. He won Iowa's first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses, though wasn't declared the winner until nearly a week after the contest. Romney, who was declared the winner on the night of Iowa's contest, was the candidate who saw the biggest bump from the event, though Santorum's strong finish led to a fundraising spike.
A group of key evangelical leaders publicly backed Santorum in January after huddling in Texas, saying it was essential for the conservative wing of the Republican Party to convene around a single candidate. Santorum lacked many of the big name endorsers his rival Romney nabbed, though the candidate often derided Romney for having the backing of the Washington establishment.
Santorum went on to win Republican presidential contests in Mississippi, Minnesota, Missouri, Louisiana, Kansas, Colorado, Tennessee, Oklahoma, North Dakota and Alabama. CNN currently estimates Santorum to have 275 delegates, compared to 659 for frontrunner Romney and 140 for Gingrich.
Despite increasingly long odds, Santorum maintained throughout the last weeks of March that he would stay in the race, citing flawed delegate math and upcoming contests that looked to be in his favor.
"Our delegate calculation has Governor Romney far below 50-percent," Santorum said on March 19 on CBS. "We think there's a lot of primaries coming up, including Pennsylvania my home state, where we can make some big delegates. Texas will be another great state for us. We feel very good that we're going to continue to win and do well."
Prior to his bid for the 2012 GOP nomination, Santorum served as a political commentator on Fox News Channel and a management consultant.
He served in the U.S. Senate for twelve years beginning in 1995 before suffering a crushing defeat in 2006 to current Democratic Sen. Bob Casey. From 1991-1995 he served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the Keystone State's 18th Congressional district.
CNN's Ashleigh Banfield, Dana Bash, John King, Peter Hamby, Paul Steinhauser and Shannon Travis contributed to this report.
It is bizarre that a party as conservative as the GOP has become would nominate a guy whose record as the governor of the most liberal state in the country was that of a liberal.
I don't get it. Go Newt!
About time!!! I bet his tin foil hat wearing supporters are crying all over themselves. Hopefully now Old Man Paul and Gangrene will follow his lead and quit, too.
He would not have been someone I would have voted for. He's a nice man but i disagree with his positions.
The Monty Python skit lives on.
Thank goodness. He needs to spend time with his sick daughter vs. the political garbage.
so Romney is the WORST Republican to run against President Obama claimed Santorum so unless he plans to walk that statement back I can not see HOW he can back him. One thing Rick was good at doing was doubling down as they like to say on even some of the most asinine statements he has made. Wonder how he will handle this particular one.
I think he made a good decision. Continuing a campaign with little chance of overtaking Romney's would take time and energy away from his family. I never in a million years would have voted for him and opposed every single stance he took. But I do respect his undeniable love for his family, and that he recognized that time with his children is irreplaceable. Bella will not be with them forever, she's defied the odds already, and I give him credit for doing some soul searching and realizing that there are things in life that are far more important that politics.
O'h was he running for President?
From every appearance Santorum loves his family and is true to his religious convictions. Good for him and I am glad he is out of the race....now only the man whom no one knows is left!!!
Now it is time to unite to defeat Obama!
@ Dave....
Good luck with that!
Romney will flip flop and back slide towards the middle of the political spectrum away from conservative positions now that Santorum has dropped out.
Wow. I didn't think his religion allowed him to pull out.
Another perpetrator of the war on women is gone. Go away Rick and take care of your family. America does not need you to be our moral compass!
Thank you, Rick Santorum, for ending your campaign. You are a social ultraconservative, a big domestic and foreign policy spender, and a threat to our children as a result of your obsession with provocative war as foreign policy.
Is there anyone out there who understands that the job is to protect our citizens lives and property, allowing them to create prosperity and thus, provide true wealth that we can charitably contribute to the less fortunate both at home and abroad? Can anyone keep us out of deeper debt and the end of the dollar as the world's reserve currency? Do any of those standing respect our basic Rights? How about a respect for our soldier's/children's lives?
There is only one, and it's not Santorum, Romney, gingrich, or Obama...
I will be voting for Ron Paul in 2012, even if it means I have to write his name in again, like I did in '08.
Long Live Liberty, Truth & Justice For All – there's only one candidate who is serious about bringing it. The others, on both sides, are just paid BIG to act like it.
Three things have to happen? Just three? What about that something or other freezing over? In Florida. In August.
This election year brings to mind my favorite quote from the Simpsons:
Your guilty conscience may move you to vote Democratic, but deep down you long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king.
It's about time, this race baiting intellectual lightweight should enter those exit doors with his head held LOW, he is pathetic.....
His departure should atleast remove the stinch of Racism, Religous Fanatism, and end the war on Women...!
Whether you agree with him or nor, Santorum was real. The man was true to his word and lives by his convictions. He cares for his family and was transparent, which is something that should be respected by all. In contrast the current president is nothing more then a double dealer whose "Change" slogan turned out to be that, nothing but a slogan.
Could the contrast be any greater between Romney, who looted American companies and shipped their jobs overseas, only pays taxes at a 13% rate, stashes his money in the Cayman Islands to avoid U.S. taxes, and President Obama, who saved GM and created 23 straight months of private sector job growth?
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The Chicago Federals were the home team on April 23, 1914, when Weeghman Park hosted its first game. Where were the Cubs? At West Side Park, playing the Cincinnati Reds–they didn't move over to Weeghman until mid-1916. And Weeghman didn't become known as Wrigley until 1926. It was called Cubs Park from 1920 through 1925. Anyway, on April 23, the Federals (a Federal League team, of course, who were later named the Whales), were playing against the Kansas City Packers. The Feds had opened the season by losing five of their first seven games.
Here's some of how the Chicago Tribune described opening day:
"Chicago took the Federal League to its bosom yesterday and claimed it as a mother would claim a long lost child. With more more frills and enthusiasm than had prevailed at a baseball opening here Joe Tinker and his Chifeds made their debut before a throng of fans that filled the new north side park to capacity, and the Chicago Feds trounced George Stovall's Kansas City team, 9 to 1. All Chicago cheered and the north side was maddened with delight.
"It may not have been the largest crowd that ever saw an opening game in Chicago, but conservative estimators placed the attendance at about 21,000. The new park is said to have a seating capacity of 18,000. . . . every seat in the place was taken, a great many were standing up in the back of the grandstand, and more than 2,000 were on the field in the circus seats placed there for the occasion.
"The windows and roofs of flat buildings across the way from the park were crowded with spectators. The surface and elevated trains leading to the north side were overhanging with people in the early afternoon and three or four separate and distinct automobile parades unloaded several thousand gaily decked rooters at the gates. Owners Weeghman and Walker of the north side club and President Gilmore of the new league were so overjoyed with the spectacle that they almost wept, and there is little doubt that it was an epochal day in the history of the national game.
"The weather was far from suited to the occasion, too. A chilling wind was coming off the lake and one needed winter furs to be comfortable. . . . Although it was the first game for the new Chicago club, the progress was executed with admirable precision and dispatch, largely due to the efforts of the experienced business manager, Charles G. Williams, who served more than twenty-five years with the local National League club.
"The North Side Boosters' club, numbering more than a thousand, held a parade. The Bravo el Toro club, numbering about 100, came leading a fatted steer from the stockyards, and the members intended to put on a burlesque bullfight on the field. The fatted steer refused to get mad and the bullfight was a fizzle. There were the Charley Williams Boosters, who came out in hordes. Before the game a squad of women from the Ladies of the G.A.R [that is, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, from the Civil War] marched upon the field bearing large American flag. Led by a band and followed by the members of both ball clubs, the women carried the national color to the flag pole in far center field. Rockets and bombs [a 21-gun salute, that is] were fired as they approached it. . . .
"With the flag pole ceremonies over, the band led the paraders to the home plate, where there were several cart loads of flowers in the form of horseshoes and bundles of American beauties. Most of them were for Manager Tinker.
"The game itself was too one sided to be intense, but the fact that the home team was on the long end of the score made everybody happy. However, before the game had gone into the third inning organized ball stepped in with the hand of the law and yanked one of the "outlaws" from the ranks. Chief Johnson, who started as pitcher for Kansas City, was served with legal papers at the close of the second inning, enjoining him temporarily from playing ball with the Federal league. Manager Stovall of the visitors rushed another hurler to the slab and the game went on just as if nothing had happened."
Claude Hendrix, a spitballer, got the win with a five-hitter, though he allowed a solo homer by Ted Easterly in the eighth. Dutch or "Little Aleck" Zwilling hit the first double (he may have had the first hit too), and scored the first run. Here's the Tribune's box score:
A picture of the G.A.R. ladies carrying the flag to center field, and a shot of Artie "Home-Run" Wilson, who hit Wrigley's first two homers in this game:
A play at the plate in the third:
And Chifeds manager Joe Tinker, better known as the start of the Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance Cubs double-play trio:
A sidebar in the Tribune added:
"The significant part of the affair to the new owners was the large number of women present. It was not a long jump from De Paul field, where the lowly Feds played last year, to their modern home at Addison avenue, but a glance at the wonderful setting for yesterday's combat brought the thought that some one must have rubbed Aladdin's lamp to effect such a magical transformation. The brand new grandstand, packed to the limit with fans wearing Chifeds caps of all shades and colors, looked like a huge floral horseshoe. . . . The stand was a blaze of color. Thousands of spectators donned the little caps distributed by the local management, while others waved Chifed pennants. Forming a centerpiece to this decoration were nearly 3,000 members of the Bravo el Toro club, whose gold and red sashes blended well with the mass of coloring on each side of the field."


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