reward have been washington post reporters and political prize winners to boot. the lady great anthony sneed won 2 lists are s for his reported in the middle east of which he gave his life. [applause] and colbert won a pulitzer at the washington post. i said this was a humbling experience for me and i meant that in every sense of the word. prior to my getting a real job at the washington post, i was a copy aid for about 45 years so i deliver these guys mail and faxes on a daily basis. it is incredible and kind of surreal for me to be up here. i am really excited about this award, a big score for independent journalists. [applause] the absolute hardest thing about being independent especially if you go from being in a major newsroom is making that phone call to an important person, import organization and saying, it is just me. they go, all, one news organization? it is just me, sorry about that. it takes a little bit getting used to. probably the most rewarding at fact o
computers to measure how secure computers are and that s where we need to be. when you have millions of computers in the federal government going around with a clipboard is not the way. you have to use computers to assess how secure they are, so one of the things we got out of fizz pha is in fact the positive authorization to do continuous diagnostics and 34eu9 tkpwaeugsand they get a tool where they have a dashboard and gives them a status of their own environment and we get a tool where we have a roll-up dashboard where we can help them understand how they stand next to next to each other. whether one department is doing a great job and we have lessons that we can take and share with other departments. this is really a pro foundly important tool for us. just as general counsel s from private companies have questions who is this organization that s going to come in and look at our networks and work with us, agencies have counsel who also ask that question. you have the cap
as so often is the case you have two choices you can curse the darkness or light the candle. at night we choose to light. we re mad as hell and we re doing something about it. i d like to tell you a little bit of that. values matter training matters so we maintain programs with scores of journalism schools as you see on the slides. and there are deans fellowships, knight chairs, new degrees, training in person and online. we funded hundreds literally hundreds of immediate experiments from prototypes from real-time news to open source community engagement platforms. we have turned mit s media lab and the pew research center to help us understand how people use information technology. we don t pretend to have a magic bullet. instead we work with the journalists who care about the present and the future. we funded news organizations whose missions day in and day out is to do outstanding journalism, like texas tribune, p
microsoft executive. does he have what it takes to move the stock higher and get the company performing on all cylinders? we ll find out and discuss it. and here it comes again. more snow coming. two significant systems developing and targeting the eastern third of the country. let s check in, meantime, with sue down at the new york stock exchange. it s all that pesky groundhog s fault. stocks are higher today, up about 93 points after yesterday s big sell-off. the dow higher for only the third time in 111 sessions. 94 to the upside on the dow. the s&p up 15 points and the nasdaq up 44. the ten-year note, look at the yield there, it s crept up just a little bit more, 2.68% on that, because we were looking at a sub-2.6% interest rate yesterday. check out the other global indices today. japan taking a big hit, down 4%, and overnight, now down about 13% for the year as a whole. the nikkei certainly has everybody s attention and they are watching not only the nikkei but the y
so that every hospital everywhere can do as well as possible and there s very little of it being done. i go back to a surgeon named william halsted who is century ago tackled a number of different problems with the view of asking what we make it possible for any surgeon anywhere to do as well as possible? so he was the one who introduced the gloves in the operating rooms of took the likelihood out of the ability to people to wash their hands. he was the first to create a successful operation for breast cancer. one that was straightforward enough that every surgeon could learn to do it. and we don t quite think that way. and one of the things i hope to have as a message is that when obstetrics had been we deliver 4 million children in this country. how do we make sure that everywhere in the country it can be done as safely as possible? people don t have doubts going to their community hospital to have their babies because part of the systems where the chances for a debt for an