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Beyonce could've done a sock puppet lip-sync of the "Star Spangled Banner" -- as far as Steven Tyler's concerned -- as long as her smoking bod was in plain view at the Inauguration.
Steven was outside the Viper Room, and when we asked about B's lip-syncing debacle he said ... "Beyonce's so hot she can do anything. Let's just get real."
Aerosmith's frontman didn't seem the least bit bent about the controversy, and even belted out ... "Whatever gets you through the night" ... LIVE, mind you.
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Chargers special counsel Mark Fabiani told a roomful of regional leaders Wednesday that a new football stadium is more likely to get built with political and financial support from around the county, and that a public vote on the venue would almost certainly slip to 2013 — when a fresh crop of politicians would be joining the debate.
"We think we would do better on a countywide vote than we would in just a citywide vote," Fabiani said. "So our lawyers have already advised us, and will continue to, about the kinds of things that would justify a countywide vote."
Fabiani's comments came during a dinner that kicked off an annual retreat for the San Diego Association of Governments' board of directors, which is comprised of 19 mayors, city council members and county supervisors. As special counsel to Chargers president Dean Spanos, Fabiani has been the public face of the team's effort to build a new stadium since 2002.
SANDAG is a planning, transportation and research agency that could become increasingly important as the Chargers continue lobbying for a venue to replace Qualcomm Stadium. The team is focused on the possibility of building a stadium in East Village on a roughly 15-acre site that includes a bus yard owned by the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System.
SANDAG could become involved in an effort to pay for transportation-related infrastructure improvements or a replacement bus yard, but it seems unlikely the agency's revenues — a mix of federal, state and, via the TransNet sales tax, local dollars — would be used for stadium construction.
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders has been talking about a stadium as a regional asset for months. In October, he said he was "working with" county supervisors Ron Roberts and Dianne Jacob and SANDAG on the stadium issue.
Wednesday, Fabiani touted a stadium's economic value beyond the city of San Diego. He said the Chargers and the National Football League could together contribute $400 million toward a project that could reach $1 billion. He suggested the rest might come from taxpayer support, naming rights and the potential lease or sale of city-owned land at the Qualcomm site in Mission Valley and the Sports Arena site in the Midway area.
After Fabiani noted that both his team and Sanders have retained financial experts to identify revenue sources, Roberts said county officials will meet with the mayor's consultant in coming weeks.
Fabiani's 15-minute speech and subsequent Q-and-A marked his first-ever appearance before SANDAG's board of directors, and the agency's meeting agenda didn't downplay its significance.
"We will hear about the latest efforts in locating the team's field of dreams and engage in a discussion with the high-profile wheeler and dealer for the team as to whether the professional football team is a regional asset," the agenda said. "If the Chargers are a regional asset, what, if anything, should SANDAG do?"
The question prompted a funny exchange when Lemon Grove Mayor Mary Sessom asked why voters in her city would weigh in.
Assuming a plan develops, Roberts said, "The supervisors can put it on a countywide vote and Lemon Grove, along with any other city, without having an obligation for funding, would get to vote."
Sessom gave him a double thumbs-up.
"Should you want to contribute ..." Roberts then added, to laughter.
Fabiani said 2012 will be a significant year, regionally, for a stadium proposal.
"There is no scenario that I know of that just has the city and then Chargers doing this," he said. "It's going to be an effort that encompasses the entire region. Now what exactly that looks like, what people are going to be asked to do, what people can do, all of that is very much up in the air and all of that we hope will come into clearer focus as the year goes on."


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The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed down from generation to generation, says that when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.
In the Corporate Environment, however, a whole range of far more advanced strategies is often employed, such as:
1. Change riders.
2. Buy a stronger whip.
3. Do nothing: "This is the way we have always ridden dead horses".
4. Visit other countries to see how they ride dead horses.
5. Perform a productivity study to see if lighter riders improve the dead horse's performance.
6. Hire a contractor to ride the dead horse. (Can be as useful as a saddle when it comes to protecting your **** !!)
7. Harness several dead horses together in an attempt to increase the speed.
8. Provide additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.
9. Appoint a committee to study the horse and assess how dead it actually is.
10. Re-classify the dead horse as "living-impaired".
11. Develop a Strategic Plan for the management of dead horses.
12. Rewrite the expected performance requirements for all horses.
13. Modify existing standards to include dead horses.
14. Declare that, as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overheads, and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line than many other horses.
15. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position. (but the competition for positions is fierce).


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Spanking the gray matter out of our kids
By Sarah Kovac, Special to CNN
Updated 1154 GMT (1954 HKT) July 23, 2014
Story highlights
- Spanking or other forms of corporal punishment can alter children's brains, research shows
- Kids who were regularly spanked had less gray matter in prefrontal cortexes, studies say
- These areas of the brain have been linked to depression, addiction
How to discipline the next generation is a hotly debated topic. In 2012, a national survey showed more than half of women and three-quarters of men in the United States believe a child sometimes needs a "good hard spanking."
Science tells a different story. Researchers say physical punishment actually alters the brain -- not only in an "I'm traumatized" kind of way but also in an "I literally have less gray matter in my brain" kind of way.
"Exposing children to HCP (harsh corporal punishment) may have detrimental effects on trajectories of brain development," one 2009 study concluded.
Harsh corporal punishment in the study was defined as at least one spanking a month for more than three years, frequently done with objects such as a belt or paddle. Researchers found children who were regularly spanked had less gray matter in certain areas of the prefrontal cortex that have been linked to depression, addiction and other mental health disorders, the study authors say.
The researchers also found "significant correlations" between the amount of gray matter in these brain regions and the children's performance on an IQ test.
Several other studies support these findings. A 2010 study published in Pediatrics found that frequent -- more than twice in the previous month -- spanking when a child was 3 was linked to an increased risk for higher levels of child aggression when the child was 5.
Another, from the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, found that corporal punishment doled out from the mother was independently related to a decrease in cognitive ability relative to other children. Corporal punishment had the largest effect on children 5 to 9.
Behind all this science-speak is the sobering fact that corporal punishment is damaging to children. That gray matter we've been spanking out of them? It's the key to the brain's ability to learn self-control.
"The more gray matter you have in the decision-making, thought-processing part of your brain (the prefrontal cortex), the better your ability to evaluate rewards and consequences," write the authors of a2011 study that appeared in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
The sad irony is that the more you physically punish your kids for their lack of self-control, the less they have. They learn how to be controlled by external forces (parents, teachers, bosses), but when the boss isn't looking, then what?
Elizabeth Gershoff, an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has been studying corporal punishment for 15 years, and is known as the leading researcher on spanking in the United States today. Over the years, Gershoff has done a systematic review of the hundreds of studies on the effects of corporal punishment.
"There's no study that I've ever done that's found a positive consequence of spanking," Gershoff said. "Most of us will stop what we're doing if somebody hits us, but that doesn't mean we've learned why somebody hit us, or what we should be doing instead, which is the real motive behind discipline."
Initially it was believed that spanking, at the very least, was associated with immediate compliance in children, and that parental warmth would buffer any harmful effects.
But the finding that spanking produced compliance "was overly influenced by one study," Gershoff said; it turns out spanking "doesn't make your kids better behaved. You think it does. ... It doesn't."
What is spanking associated with? Aggression. Delinquency. Mental health problems. And something called "hostile attribution bias," which causes children, essentially, to expect people to be mean to them.
This bias makes the world feel especially hostile. In turn, children are on edge and ready to be hostile back. Over time, across cultures and ethnicities, the findings are consistent: Spanking is doing real, measurable damage to the brains of our children.
And yet in 19 states, Gershoff notes, it is still legal for schools to paddle children.
For those thinking, "I was spanked, and I turned out fine," or, "I spank my kids and they're great!" consider that you don't know who you would be or how your children would behave in a world without spanking.
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Thomas Quentin "Tucker" Craft, 93
Thomas Quentin "Tucker" Craft, 93, passed away Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013, peacefully, surrounded by his family and his close friend, Irene Grube, at Punxsutawney Area Hospital.
Mr. Craft was born in Punxsutawney on Jan. 22, 1920.
He was a descendant of Abraham Craft, a pioneer settler of the Punxsutawney area.
He was married 65 years to his sweetheart, Doris Marcella (Heeter) Craft, who preceded him in death.
Together they raised three daughters who gave them six grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
As a teenager during the Depression, Tucker served in the Civilian Conservation Corps at Camp Shelocta.
Coming from a family of railroaders, he later found employment at the B&O Railroad as a Steam Locomotive Fireman.
He was a World War II veteran, having served in the Pacific Theatre for the railroad unit of the U.S. Army.
He served as a Locomotive Engineer, transporting supplies and troops.
He was later assigned to Korea, where he was an engineer for the Army on that country's railroad.
Mr. Craft returned to Punxsutawney and his family when his WWII service ended.
He rejoined the B&O Railroad, where he advanced from Fireman to Engineer and retired as an Engineer for the Chessie System in 1981.
Tucker was a longtime communicant at Ss. Cosmas & Damian Church, a member of the Knights of Columbus, Fourth Degree and the Ancient Order of Hibernians, as well as a community volunteer in Punxsutawney.
Mr. Craft was preceded in death by his parents, Dorothy Belle (Thomas)
Craft-Kephart and Edward J. "Guy" Craft; his sister, Beryl Craft Nicholson; and a brother, James R. Craft.
He is survived by a sister, Elizabeth Brumbaugh; three daughters, Darlene A. Oblak, Dorothy G. Sturm and Susan E. Klebacha, who remained at his side until his peaceful passing.
Also surviving are his grandchildren, Thomas, Geoffrey and Stephen Oblak and Kyle, Leslie and Michelle Sturm; and his great-grandchildren, Kylie Mary, John Ryan, James Thomas, Kerry Rose, Drew Quentin, Samuel Craft, Ian Tucker and Stewart Otto Oblak and Kate and Jack Sturm.
Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, at the McCabe Funeral Home in Punxsutawney.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, at Ss. Cosmas & Damian Church with Msgr. Joseph Riccardo as celebrant.
Interment will follow at Calvary Cemetery, where military honors will be accorded by the Jefferson County Veterans' Honor Guard.
Memorial contributions may be made to Ss. Cosmas & Damian Church, Punxsutawney Area Hospital, the American Red Cross or to the charity of the donor's choice.
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The 30-second TV spot, created by Leo Burnett, will air on Friday and states that Freeview provides over 95% of the most-watched programmes in the UK.
The spot will continue to use helium balloons, which it has used in its previous campaigns to represent programmes available on Freeview.
In the ad, viewers follow the balloons on their journey around the city, until they reach their destination at a house in the suburbs. As soon as they have floated through an open window, a TV is heard being flicked on and a screen glows behind the curtains.
The ad follows recent research from Freeview that showed many people are paying for channels they are unlikely to watch. Households are spending £199.32 a year on average, on unwatched pay-TV channels and 75% of their viewing hours are spent watching free-to-air channels.
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Clash of Texas political titans looms
A Texas tussle could be on the 2016 horizon.
Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. Rick Perry are both angling to run for president. And the prospect of a clash between the two Texas-sized egos who represent different eras of the GOP – and who aren't openly rivals but haven't betrayed warm fuzzies for one another, either – has tongues wagging.
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"It would be the battle of the titans," said Steve Munisteri, chairman of the Texas Republican Party. "They are both very popular here. Obviously Ted Cruz is riding a wave of immense popularity, but I think the governor has a lot of residual goodwill."
Perry spoke in Iowa on Thursday night and has had his eye on another presidential bid since before Cruz got to the Senate. The governor is slated for South Carolina and Iowa again next month. Cruz has been visiting a slew of early states — Iowa last month, South Carolina last week — further stoking speculation.
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If the two ultimately take the plunge, their dynamic would highlight just how far to the right the Republican Party has moved over the past year. As staunchly conservative as Perry is, Cruz could make the longtime governor look like an old-guard member of the GOP's establishment wing, Texas observers say. For activists furious over Obamacare and enthralled with Cruz's aggressive approach to taking on Democrats and even moderates of his own party, the freshman senator represents the best hope for the next generation of conservatism.
"What we do know is that what was once Rick Perry's party is now very clearly Ted Cruz's," a Texas GOP operative said.
Perry is no moderate. He has moved to defund Planned Parenthood, opposes gay marriage and is a Second Amendment champion. In 2012, the Texas governor was a conservative bomb-thrower in the GOP presidential primary, and he endorsed Newt Gingrich over Mitt Romney after dropping out.
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But Perry, who won't seek reelection next year, has also been in the office for 13 years, making him the longest-serving governor in state history and a dominant figure in the Austin political apparatus. Cruz — elected to the Senate just last year — came to power with the help of an increasingly forceful and conservative grass roots that helped him defeat Perry's lieutenant governor, David Dewhurst, in the primary contest.
"To the hard-core conservative activists that form the base of the party, Cruz is the new hero," the Republican source continued. "That group will always have fondness for Perry, but Perry has been governor since the final days of the Clinton presidency. Perry may still have a better network of supporters in every little corner of the state, but the passion is with Cruz."
Jim Henson, an Austin-based pollster and the director of the Texas Politics Project, said the contrast between Cruz and Perry could represent a generational divide.
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"It's not hard to conceive of what Ted Cruz's line of criticism against Perry would be: 'This is somebody who is the past, a member of the establishment. I'm the future,'" Henson said.
Perceived distance between the governor and senator was fueled when Perry, speaking overseas, recently dismissed the government shutdown as "political theater" and added, for good measure, that he never even heard Cruz's name mentioned abroad. Cruz, of course, played a starring role in that drama, prodding his GOP cohorts – successfully, but by many later readings, self-defeatingly – to shutter the federal government in an attempt to debilitate Obamacare.
"No one has come up to me and even said the word 'Cruz' — no, not once did I hear that," Perry said of his time in London and Israel. A spokesman later downplayed the remark, saying the governor thinks Democrats are to blame for the shutdown.
In an Iowa interview with the Dallas Morning News, Perry was asked how he felt about Cruz's role in the shutdown, and he seized the opportunity to draw a contrast.
"Everybody gets to go out and do their thing," he said. "That's his thing. My thing is governing."
Observers like Henson say that Cruz and Perry wouldn't be expected to train their fire on each other, at least initially, in a presidential primary. And Perry had gentler words for Cruz on Sunday, saying on ABC's "This Week" that he "certainly enjoyed the 21 hours of him standing up and pointing out the foibles and problems of Obamacare."
But they have squabbled before, including during last year's Senate primary contest.
Perry rarely endorses in competitive GOP primaries, but he went to bat for Dewhurst on the campaign trail, appearing in ads for the candidate and campaigning for him across the state — even though doing so at the state GOP convention earned the governor boos. During the campaign, he questioned Cruz's experience and blasted outside groups, such as Club for Growth, that bolstered his campaign.
Cruz said he was running against the Texas political establishment, and his victory was portrayed as a loss for Perry. Both sides say fences have mended, though some Texas politicos say it's common wisdom that the two travel in different political circles.
"They have a very good relationship, a very cordial one," said Catherine Frazier, Cruz's spokeswoman, who previously served in that role for Perry, noting that the two have met "several times in person" since the election.


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This week's reviews come to you by way of Dr Dick Review Crew members Denise and Karen.
Intimate Organics Intense – clitoral gel —— $15.60
I thought to myself: Oh goodie, Intimate Organics Intense clitoral gel sounds simply delightful. I can't wait to give it a whirl. Alas, once I did, I found that it didn't live up to my, perhaps inflated, expectations.
Allow me to explain. It appears the Intimate Organics people and I have a completely different take on what the word "intense" means. When I think "intense" I think WOW, totally awesome! Intimate Organics Intense didn't even come close to WOW or awesome. That's not to say it didn't work at all; it did. It's just that it was mild, not wild.
Now, I'm the first one to acknowledge that every woman's naughty bits are different from every other woman's naughty bits. A woman's response to a product like Intimate Organics Intense will be very subjective. What is thrilling to one may not be all that exciting to another. So how this clitoral gel panned out for me may not predict your experience.
Intimate Organics Intense is a clear gel, easy to use and it isn't runny. I am totally stoked that this product is certified paraben-free, pure vegan and DEA-free. In fact, I couldn't be more pleased in this regard. I'll choose an organic product over an alternative every time.
I'm guessing the active ingredient in Intimate Organics Intense is the peppermint oil. It has a slight peppermint taste and the warming/stimulating/cooling effect is probably due to that too. I just wished they had kicked it up a notch.
I used Intimate Organics Intense on myself first. Than Jack and I used it together. I used it on my clit and I dabbed it on my nipples. There was an increase in sensations, but like I said there was nothing intense about it.
It works best when you apply it and then wait about 2 minutes and will last for about 10 minutes or so.
Full Review HERE!
Defense Protection Lubricant —— $8.78
Before I started to use Defense Protection Lubricant I thought I'd better do a little background check. You see, we've reviewed dozens of lubes on this site, but this is the first one that suggested it protects. But protects what, or protects against what; was my question.
This is what I discovered. Defense Protection Lubricant contains both caarrageean (sea kelp) and guava bark, an anti-bacterial extract. Apparently there are studies that show carrageenan inhibits the virus (HPV) that cause cervical cancer and genital warts. Guava bark has been traditionally used as a douche to treat and prevent yeast infections. I really think this is a great idea. I just hope that folks don't get the wrong impression and think that use of Defense Protection Lubricant is a sufficient means of protecting oneself from all STIs.
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The problem keeps getting worse. Two million homeowners face foreclosure over the next year. Their neighbors will lose billions in the equity they have in their homes. Millions will find themselves stuck, unable to get a decent price for their homes in a flooded market. Tens of millions more will tighten their belts. Communities, from Cleveland to Las Vegas to much of Florida and beyond, will struggle with budget crises.
This is a recipe for recession. If Fed Chair Ben S. Bernanke says a recession is coming, that would be a self-fulfilling prophecy; but he told Congress he expects slowing growth and rising unemployment. How could he not? The financial sector which generates nearly one-third of all corporate earnings, has written off about $40 billion in troubled loans this year, with more to come. Gas prices are reaching $100 a barrel, even as we head into the cold winter months. Food prices are rising. Americans, already burdened with stagnant incomes, are now piling up credit card debt just to make ends meet. We're headed into rough waters.
But, to date, there is no action on any program of any scale to keep people from losing their homes, fouling their neighborhoods, driving cities and schools into budget crises and the nation into recession.
The investment houses and banks have already been helped. The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates; the Treasury pushed to set up a $70 billion fund to help Citibank and others manage the losses. They didn't sort out the worthy from the irresponsible. The Treasury didn't suggest risk counseling for the financial houses that lost billions.
But for homeowners, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury call for case by case solutions, for strapped homeowners to get individual counseling, even when they know this can't meet the crisis. In the Congress, Rep. Barney Frank has pushed for action. But Republicans are opposed, and Senate Democrats seem increasingly to cater to the fortunes of Wall Street rather than Main Street. With the exception of John Edwards, the presidential candidates and their economic advisors address the issue as if it were someone else's problem.
This makes no sense. Many homeowners now facing foreclosure were steered into subprime mortgages, often laced with hidden fees that they never knew about. Single women, young couples, Latinos and African Americans were particular targets of aggressive mortgage brokers. The brokers didn't care if the loan made sense because they sold it off immediately to the financial houses. And they had a big incentive to hide the fees and interest rate jumps because those made the loans worth more when sold. Now new homeowners who have kept up their payment are facing the foreclosure.
Citibank warns that it is too big to fail, that the Treasury must act to bail out the banks. But two million homeowners are too many to fail; they will take down our economy if they do.
So it is time to challenge the timidity and the cribbed imaginations in Washington and to demand action before the crisis brings down the entire economy. We need action to postpone all resets for those who have maintained their payments. We need Fannie Mae or the FHA to step up to require renegotiations before foreclosures. It is time to support homeowners, not just speculators.
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As promised, here are the remaining three recipes from the delights on offer at CakeFest III. I have had quite a few emails and comments asking if you can host your own CakeFests and the answer is....of course you can! Any other answer would be in breach of Commandment 10 – and that would never do!
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Sitting at my colorful kitchen table and sorting through the past months on my flickr, it settles in that I've been both traveling a bunch and sticking to something of a budget while I've actually been home. I credit my lack of a day job (accompanied by a return of sanity) and the 100 Days Homemade project (which I completed and will wrap up eventually), of course. I still find myself dining out, but there's less an array of new spots, and there are new bars, without decent vegan options. Shocking.
I remain preoccupied with an obsession to our own dinner table, and sticking to some regular haunts. This Portlanding update, a continuation of my delayed MoFo efforts, reflects that, with a focus on farmers markets over restaurants. Thanks, Portland.
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from my final Lents visit
Vegan slice, Straight from New York…..I don't think so, but it's a West Coast attempt that brings more Soy Curls to SE Belmont.
Of course, soy latte indulgence
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this one….should have gone to Native Foods !!
Hit or miss ordering, perhaps?
Let's end on a warm, high note, Sweet Hereafter with a banhi mi…
Portlanding! was born a weekly feature during VeganMoFo, October 2012, on Get Sconed!, and has since grown. These posts are not official reviews, they are simply experiences and locales I'm enthusiastically sharing and documenting.


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Auditors Sustain Boeing Tanker ProtestBy Reuters - | Posted 2008-06-18 Print
The Government Accountability Office found the Air Force made "a number of significant errors that could have affected the outcome of what was a close competition between" Boeing and Northrop Grumman Corp.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. auditors urged the Air Force Wednesday to rerun its marathon, $35 billion competition for refueling aircraft, upholding a protest by losing bidder Boeing Co.
The Government Accountability Office found the Air Force made "a number of significant errors that could have affected the outcome of what was a close competition between" Boeing and Northrop Grumman Corp.
"We therefore sustained Boeing's protest," Michael Golden, head of the a GAO bid protest unit, said in a statement.
Northrop was teamed with EADS, parent of rival passenger-jet maker Airbus. EADS had no immediate comment.
Boeing shares briefly spiked up 2 percent on the news, but pared those gains to less than 1 percent on the New York Stock Exchange. Northrop shares were down 1.4 percent in mid-afternoon trade.
"The Air Force is aware of the Government Accountability Office's report and will review the findings and recommendations. We will release a statement this afternoon," said Air Force spokeswoman Maj. Dayan Araujo.
The Air Force "conducted misleading and unequal discussions with Boeing" by telling the company it had fully satisfied a key performance criteria, then later determining that Boeing had only partially met the objective, the GAO said.
The GAO's recommendation to the Air Force punctuated a fight over what is likely to be one of the richest contracts in Pentagon history.
Lawmakers from states where Boeing has manufacturing plants were delighted with the GAO ruling.
"I am not surprised that the GAO identified significant errors in the selection process. The Air Force bought a tanker that doesn't meet their needs and has been waging a PR campaign ever since," Sen. Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, said in a statement.
On February 29, the Air Force picked the team of Northrop Grumman Corp and EADS to build 179 midair refuelers over the next 15 years to replace its aging KC-135 tankers.
Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst at the Fairfax, Virginia-based Teal Group consultancy, said the GAO decision provided ammunition to Boeing's political backers, who are seeking to overturn the award.
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Post subject: Vacuum pump sucks water out of board!! Thank you Boardlady!
I lent my board out and it came back with water in it. At first, I took 2 large black plastic leaf bags and taped them together to make a large long black bag/condom. I slid this long black bag over the nose and down to the tail so that all but 15" of the tail of the board were sheathed in the black plastic bag. I used masking tape to bunch up the excess of the bag, so the bag was tight to the skin of the board, then I put it out in the bright sun to heat up, leaning it against a fence so that the vent plug/drain was at the lowest point Bag surface probably got to 160 degees F. or more after about a hour in the sun. I took out the vent plug and used a rolled up paper towel stuck in the vent hole to wick out the water which would collect at the vent plug/drain. Over and over, the paper towel would get wet and I'd replace it with a fresh new dry paper towel wick.
Ok...after 5 days, I had most of the water out, but I still could dampen a single paper wick in a day. Then I remembered something I read years ago on the Boardlady's website. She wrote "hook up the vacuum pump to the board and let it run all day". I've always been a sceptic, but I had to give it a try, so I hung the board from the ceiling, hooked the hose to the vent plug in the board, and set the vacuum pump on a table so the hose between the vacuum pump and the board would have a low spot to collect the water to keep it from going into the vacuum pump air tank.
I then turned the pump on and set the pressure level to 15" Hg (7.36 psi corrected) and at about 10" Hg, water droplets started to come down the hose, one droplet every 5-10 seconds. In ten minutes, I collected about 4 tablespoons of water. The clear hose is nice because you can see the droplets, and you can see when to turn the pump off and drain the hose.
Thank you Eva Hollmann, this works great! I'm going to let it run until no more water comes out!
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After running the vacuum pump for several hours, the droplets of water coming out of the board ceased......so, I shut off the vacuum pump and unhooked the hose to the board. I let the pressure inside the board equalize for about half an hour then I hooked the vacuum pump back up and turned it on. Almost immediately, droplets of water started coming down inside the hose.
I think what was happening was the vacuum pulled on the board, squeezed the board forcing the water out of the styrofoam, very much in the same way you squeeze a wet sponge and water starts to come out of it.
This is not what the Boardlady was describing. I paraphrase what she said "the reduced atmospheric pressure inside the board will pull out the water molecules from the styrofoam in very much the same way that water boils at a lower temperature at high altitudes". The problem I have had in the past was...once the water molecules are in the "air" inside the board, how do they get transported outside the board, because...with a sealed board, you pull the perfect vacuum and the air stops moving. The air might be saturated with molecules, but it's not moving to the exterior of the board. I witnessed it tonight. I pulled a vacuum of 15" HG (7.36 psi), and the pump shut off and didn't cycle back on. It is built to cycle back on when the pressure drops to 12" Hg, but with a perfectly sealed board, that didn't happen. I'm of the opinion that it might be necessary to ad a tiny hole at the opposite end of the board from the vacuum pump hose connection to let a small amount of air into the board, to carry away the water molecule staturated air. If the hole is too big, you can't create a low enough atmospheric pressure inside the board to pull the water molecules out of the styrofoam. The tiny hole would be sealed once the board is fully dry. I'll experiment a bit in the morning with it.
Note: Inches of Mercury and PSI have been corrected to the proper values.
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Some years ago I was at Eva's shop, and she showed me a board that she was "drying out". She had the pump hooked up to the vent plug area of the board, and she also drilled a hole in the nose of the board to allow outside air into the board. As I recollect, the board was also located in a contained heated environment to help facilitate the evacuation process. From what I understand, she would run the set-up for an extended period of time, maybe as long as a week. The key is using a light vacuum pull so that the structural shell of the board wasn't under any real stress during the process.
Whether this process would extract 100% of the water in the board is always questionable, but I thinking that it would improve the situation greatly.
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I asked an experienced lab technician about the use of vaccuum. He said that to get rid of water, he often had to fight ice formation. He has no experience with boards, but with lab equipment. If a lot of evaporation is going on, ice particules will form locally and will slow down water removal.
I unfortunately never tried because I was unable to buy or rent a pump that could run 24/7 at a decent price. But I was planning to heat the board. The extra hole is not required for sure since vapor will get by itself to the pump, but it may be faster, I don't know.
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i had heard somewhere that if one opens the vent screw of a leaking board, the water will migrate toward the vent. other than using a centrifuge, dunno what the solution should be, other than open the leaking area up lots, and store it in a hot and dry place for months....
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My personal project was to remove water from a big 80's board with close to 20 pounds of water in it. Water seeped in for years from two small cracks. Stored outside in winter, the board would bulge in these areas from the ice forming inside. I was hoping to remove 15 pounds of it.
I enlarged the cracks to help drying, even drilled the foam to facilitate evaporation. I baked it in the sun, upside down or not. I let it inside open with a fan in winter (winter is quite dry here). I got less than a pound out of it. The foam was now dry to the touch, but water was still found inside.
In the end, I replaced the foam close to the cracks, and glassed it. The board is not much lighter but it didn't crack last winter. It spent all summer in the water, moored at the cottage. I wonder if it will survive winter again!
I read somewhere that vaccuum is the only way to dry a board. I now believe it's true since the other methods didn't give results in such an easy case.
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Nice shop / loft. Looks like you've got a bunch of cloth for windsurfing sails? Are you a sailmaker?
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Hi xander, I'm the local sail repair guy. I was pleased to see the interest in this topic this morning and it inspired me to get busy and be more "scientific" in my approach.
First, I should explain the board and some of it's design features. I built this board about 5 years ago. I wanted a tough, turny board to try some old school freestyle on. To make it tough, I used 1.5 lb. density styrofoam instead of the 1.0 lb density foam normally used. The reasoning was...the 1.5 density has a much higher compressive strength than the 1.0 lb density. I'm sure my memory is off a bit, but I recall that 1.0 lb. density styrofoam has a 12 psi compressive strength, while 1.5 lb. density has something like 25 psi compressive strength.
To help reduce the extra weigh from the higher density foam I decided to core the styrofoam blank, so I cut the board blank in half, separating the top from the bottom and used a router bit to make "coring" chanels in each half something like this:
Then I glued the two halves back together and completed the build. This coring tubes allow some air movement within the blank, and it should make this vacuum pump removal of water a snap.
This morning I weighed the board on my scale which is accurate to 1/10th of an ounce, it weighed 23 lbs and 13.6 oz. so that is now our base point weight.
Here is a pic of the brass connector off the vacuum pump which just happens to screw into the top of a Chinook vent plug.
I slipped the black plastic condom over the board and drilled two small holes in the nose of the board to let in air. You can control how much air enters the board by putting a piece of tape partially over the holes, varying how much of the hole is covered to regulate the amount of air passing into the holes.
I let the bag get good and hot, then I turned on the vacuum pump. I'm not worried about ice forming inside the board from the vacuum, but the heat from the plastic bag may help evaporate the water inside the board. Right now, I've balanced the inlet flow with the outlet flow to achieve a constant 10" Hg suction of air thru the board.
I thank you all for your contribution. Seems like I've gleaned some very valuable contributions from each of you. Surely if this succeeds, you will share in the accomplishment.
To keep my posts on this topic near the front of the topic so they don't get lost buried near the back, I've decided to post updates here.
1. After about 1 hour, I checked the clear hose and there is some water inside the hose, which you can see as it bubbles as the vacuum air passes thru it.
2. If you are interested in building your own vacuum pump as I did, here is where I got the plan and purchased some of the items. My pump is featured in the nineth pump down on the right side of the page.
3. I check the hose at about 2 hrs for water buildup. There was some water but not more than an ounce. It appears the water molecules are not condencing in the hose, but are passing thru the hose and out the pump. I'll know for sure next time I weigh the board.
4. At 2 hours, inside the board there is a "gurgling" sound near the vent outlet.
5. If I were going to do this often, it would make sense to get a medical speciman jar like those used with medical vacuum pumps to collect the moisture, like this one on Ebay.
6. Sunday: Ran the vacuum pump for 9 hours and re-weighed the board...23lb. 9.8 oz. So in 9 hours I was only able to extract 3.8 oz. of water. I'll do it again tomorrow.
7. Monday: Was busy part of the day, so only ran the vacuum pump 6 hours today. Only extracted 0.6 oz. or water. This must be the diminishing returns Eva warned of.
8. Tuesday: ran the vacuum pump about 7 hours today and extracted about 0.6 oz. again. There was no gurgling noise.
9. Wednesday and Thursday, no vacuum pumping due to rain in forcast.
10 Friday 9 hrs. clear sunny day 23 lb. 7.4 oz. at end of day for 1.2 oz. extracted.
11. Saturday 7 hrs. clear sunny and low humidity 23 lbs 6.2 oz. for 1.2 oz. extracted. A cold front came thru with much lower humidity than normal.
12. Sunday 7 hours mostly sunny 45% humidity 23 lbs 5.8 oz. for 0.4 oz.
Sunday's extraction of only .4 oz was pretty small given the humidity was low by our standards. I think I'll stop here.
Using a vacuum pump to get water out of a board definitely works.
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I checked the board lady's web site and she suggested that the outlet to the pump should be the highest point of the board when doing this. This is because hot moisture laden air is lighter than what is in the board. She also suggests heating the board to no more than 110 degrees to lessen the risk of heat damage adding to your woes.....
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Burroughs Meets the Pursuit of Perfection Head On
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Everyone knows the protocol whenever a no-hit baseball game looks imminent. The same etiquette is in effect whenever someone is following, say, a 300 game in bowling.
Sometimes, the pursuit of perfection is so pure, precious and private that no one wants to jinx the performance with even the slightest mention of what's flashing before your very eyes.
That's why "perfect" is a word rarely used in sports because: 1) true perfection is impossible to achieve, even if you finish an entire season unbeaten; and 2) talking about a perfect season puts even more mental and emotional weight on top of an already heavy burden.
So please, wrestling gods, followers, teammates, coaches and rivals, forgive unbeaten Nebraska junior 157-pounder Jordan Burroughs for deciding to meet his pursuit of perfection head on, flat out and full bore.
Three months ago, Burroughs walked into the office of Mike Greenfield, the top assistant to Nebraska Head Wrestling Coach Mark Manning. A reigning Big 12 champion and the league's "Most Outstanding Wrestler" in 2008, Burroughs saw a prominent place atop "Next Month's Activities" on Greenfield's white board, so he seized the opportunity.
Using a reddish, purple marker, Burroughs wrote this in the upper right-hand corner:
Jordan Burroughs
157-lb. National Champ
Big 12 Champ
Outstanding Wrestler
"I've erased and changed that board four times, but I haven't touched any of those predictions," Greenfield said Monday. "When Jordan wrote them down, he said he wanted to look at them every day through nationals. He said he wrote them down to remind himself of his ultimate goal, but he also said he wanted me to look at those words every day, too."
Burroughs Would Become NU's First Unbeaten Wrestler Ever
Greenfield was only happy to oblige, and this week, as the bold statements remain in their rightful and respected place, Nebraska coaches and athletes are all envisioning the same thing happening at the 2009 NCAA Wrestling Championships this weekend in St. Louis – Burroughs becoming the Huskers' first ever wrestler to go an entire season without losing.
Nebraska's best single-season record in history is 36-1 by 190-pound NCAA champion Bill Scheer in 1984. Matt Lindland posted the same record nine years later, but the nation's top-seed at 167 pounds was upset in the opening round and did not place in the 1993 NCAA meet.
In 2002, Bryan Snyder, Nebraska's four-time All-American and two-time finalist, finished second in the NCAA with a 33-1 record at 157. He never won a national title either.
You'd think the past would be enough to tone down, or at least moderate, any Husker wrestler's sense of great expectations. But then, Jordan Burroughs, 30-0 and looking squarely at 35-0 (not 36-0) if he can successfully continue his relentless pursuit of perfection, isn't just any Husker.
That's why we asked Vince Jones, his senior teammate and fellow Big 12 champion at 184, how much Burroughs enjoys flying in the face of conventional, psychological wisdom.
"Jordan never hides from a challenge, so he talks about going unbeaten every day," said Jones, who came to Lincoln from Winslow Township High School in Sicklerville, N.J., setting the stage for Burroughs to follow in his footsteps a year later.
Here's the real kicker.
"Jordan talks about going unbeaten every day because he's the one who brings the subject up every single day," Jones said.
Brester: Burroughs Primed Physically, Ready Mentally
A prominent teammate can only wince at the very thought of such an extraordinarily vocal approach. Fellow junior and 197-pound Big 12 champion Craig Brester, the conference's 2009 "Most Outstanding Wrestler" and the sport's reigning National Wrestler of the Week, admits he'd be "kind of superstitious" on being unbeaten and striving to stay there.
"A lot of guys wouldn't want to talk about it, but Jordan's got it all going, physically and mentally," Brester said. "He knows what he's doing, and he isn't afraid to discuss it."
Maybe Burroughs isn't afraid because he's doing everything a wrestler can do to stay motivated and focused. After setting his goal to achieve an unbeaten season, "Jordan is working his butt off to meet that goal," Brester said. "He's the perfect example of how to meet a challenge head on. I mean, it's great to be wrestling side-by-side with someone who can make the kind of history he expects to make this weekend."
Expect is a key word for Burroughs, who insists he loves "having that load of an unbeaten season" on his muscular shoulders.
"I love being a leader on this team," he said. "I love having guys on this team look up to me, and I love having the responsibility to the set the tone for everyone else. Whenever I feel myself getting nervous or know the other guys are getting nervous, I put my nerves in the back seat, so I can get us going, and we can have the confidence to make a real run against anyone."
Burroughs didn't specify who "anyone" includes, but you get the idea that he means making a run against top-ranked Iowa, the favorite in this week's NCAA Championships, just as much as he means making a run against Big 12 co-champion Iowa State.
"Our goal, from the beginning of the season, was to win nationals," Burroughs said. "I motivate myself to go unbeaten because I want my teammates to enjoy this journey as much as I am. I love the pressure from my own team as much as I love the pressure from the outside. I want us all to go out and wrestle as aggressively as we can, so we have the best chance to win."
Hard Working and Blue Collar with an Aggressive Mindset
Burroughs and Brester define a Nebraska program that prides itself on being "hard working" and "blue collar" and is rapidly developing the aggressive mindset of a champion.
"A lot of guys have tried to slow me down this year, and I've learned you just can't stand around and let that happen," Burroughs said. "That's why it was important for me to put my goals in writing – to keep them in front of me – and everyone else – every single day."
This weekend, Burroughs has a six-point checklist in his quest to stay perfect:
ü Be the aggressor.
ü Set the tone for the match.
ü Push the pace.
ü Score early.
ü Build a lead.
ü Keep scoring as often as possible.
A junior majoring in sociology, Jordan Burroughs admits his push for personal perfection is somewhat selfish. "I would love to do something that's never been done and become an icon for this program, so people might remember me for years to come," he said. "But really, the bottom line for making that happen is more for the benefit of the team than my own."
Last December, Burroughs rifled through the media guide while wondering what Nebraska wrestlers had gone unbeaten in the past. When he didn't find any, he thought establishing an ultra-aggressive personal goal would help "set the tone" for any and all team goals.
"I'm just competitive," Burroughs said. "Whether it's wrestling or football, a video game or bowling, I just don't like to lose – in anything. I don't know what means more . . . enjoying winning or hating losing. For me, it's hard to decide the difference between the two."
Manning: Burroughs is a Man on a Mission
That's why his head coach thinks Burroughs is the right man to write a new chapter in Husker history this weekend. "There are no records of us having an unbeaten wrestler," Manning said. "Someone's going to do it, so it might as well be Jordan Burroughs . . . that's how I look at it. He's embracing the challenge, but staying pretty relaxed by meeting it head on. He knows it's difficult to do, but he also knows he's capable of doing it. He's a man on a mission right now."
"I'd love to be in Jordan's position," said senior Brandon Browne, the Huskers' 174-pound Big 12 champion. "He's one of the hardest workers on our team, and he's always trying to get that extra little edge. To go unbeaten this far in Division I has just made him all that much more confident. He's riding as high as he can be right now, and I don't see anyone stopping him."
Browne sees Burroughs as more confident than cocky and would do well to borrow an old line from Hall of Fame pitcher Dizzy Dean to explain why. Ol' Diz once said: "It ain't braggin' if you done it", and that makes sense when Browne describes his support for Burroughs.
"I mean, one guy slowed him down in January, but Jordan has just been dominating ever since," Browne pointed out. "He's had major decisions against some of the top guys in the country. He's even beaten the guy who won his weight class last year. I have no worries about whether Jordan can do it because he's already done it."
Burroughs doesn't mind talking about doing it again . . . when the result will mean more than ever and will determine if history indeed will be served.
"It's all about digging deep and not letting your mind convince your body to slow down," Burroughs said. "My parents have always stressed to do the very best you can every single time you compete. I know my coaches and my teammates are depending on me, and I can't let them down. They're the reasons I work so hard and try to be so aggressive.
"We've all been taught to go out and give everything we have every single match. When you do that, winning takes care of itself. And when you give everything, you can handle anything . . . even losing."


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Teddy Roosevelt. JFK. Reagan. The stylish icons of American politics knew how to look the part. Now we've got Paul Ryan, and blousy shirts and ill-fitting suits are what pass for fashion. Isn't it time to put some style back in the District? We hit the power spots of Washington, D.C., and shows six young players in the making how to dress for higher office
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For Julian, Casual Friday was just ditching his jacket. A no-tie look says he's letting loose, not letting go.
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While September 11 meaning different things to different people, to everyone it was a day of reflection. So, I reflected.
The documentary detailed the times when the terrorists checked in for their flights, about the same time I was hitting the road outside Washington D.C., for New York, following the moving van with my furniture and belongings.
I was covering the Yankees at the time after a long stretch on the Orioles and was moving to Connecticut.
Ten years later, I am still mesmerized by the ungodly sight of the planes ripping into the World Trade Center and the buildings that were supposed to last forever crumbling into dust.
I was on the New Jersey Turnpike when I heard the news. My cell rang shortly after and it was the movers, who were also volunteer NY firemen. They had to leave my stuff at a rest stop and try to make it into the city. I knew they didn't have much time to reach the George Washington Bridge. By this time, it was evident this was no accident and the airports around the country, as well as the major bridges into New York would be closed.
With the bridges blocked I had to keep driving north before back tracking into Connecticut. What was normally a little over four hours took closer to ten. At one point, I saw a sign with the miles before the Montreal exit.
I listened to the radio the way they used to listen to the news reports during World War II. I didn't see my first video of the attacks until late the next day when I caught a glimpse on a restaurant television. I could only imagine what they were talking about on the radio.
My thoughts were of rage and anger, and years later those feelings still simmer. They barely diminished with the news of bin Laden's death. I will never forget, or forgive for what happened. Those who can are better than me.
When baseball resumed, I was in the press box in Baltimore and watched on television when Mike Piazza hit that homer against the Braves. The only other time I saw writers clap in a press box was the night Cal Ripken broke Lou Gehrig's record.
I've watched replays dozens of times and get the same chill. Surfing the coverage Sunday I watched a replay of the pre-game ceremonies from that night. Last night's ceremony didn't have the same impact – no way it could – but was simple and poignant the same.
The Mets did a tremendous job then and now.
At the time, the Yankees were also magnanimous in their generosity toward the families of the victims, the fire and police. There was never a competition between the teams on which team gave, or grieved, more.
The emotion in the Yankees clubhouse was just as genuine as it was in Shea.
I felt no fear of flying. I didn't feel inconvenienced at the security gates and those first few flights were a breeze. Many of the planes flew half empty. I didn't even mind being searched at the ballpark. For the rest of that summer, it was part of the process. Besides, my inconvenience was nothing compared to others.
Although I didn't lose anybody at the Towers, I knew people who did and grieved for them. I still do.
The Yankees were going to make the playoffs that year. They always did. But, the games didn't have the same edge as usual. The buzz returned during the playoffs.
I was inspired at the show of patriotism during the World Series, one of the most compelling sporting events I ever covered. Those three games at Yankee Stadium were as exciting as I've ever seen. The Yankees were frequently booed on the road, but the edge was off that fall, as if jeering them was a sign of disrespect for New York.
After awhile, I was tired of the "win it for New York," sentiment and stories. Every day it was the same thing. I enjoyed the break when Yankees fans chanted for Paul O'Neill when he played his last game at the Stadium during that Series. That was really back to baseball for me.
As the years passed and I reflected on this yesterday, I became more jaded and less trusting. In airports, I look at people and wonder who they are and their intentions.
I didn't lose anybody, but I've been impacted, as all of us. The economy has been on a downward spiral the past decade, which can't be refuted regardless of your affiliations. I support our military, and have been moved at scenes like at the airport in Atlanta several years ago everybody in that lobby stood and cheered when a company of soldiers marched through.
Even so, those years in Iraq drained us to the point of recession, inflation and unemployment. I thought about that yesterday, too, and wondered when it will end.
My life, as has yours, changed over the last decade.
Politically, I might be more jaded, but I do have a sense of appreciation for the fragility of life that might not have previously existed. Maybe it is about getting older, but part of it was acknowledging my feelings after listening to people talk through their tears yesterday.
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A new approach to the design of communications networks, called "network coding," promises to make Internet file sharing faster, streaming video more reliable, and cell-phone reception better, among other improvements.
"Most networks right now are built roughly along the same principles as a transportation network, or any other network that's trying to deliver tangible goods," says Muriel Medard, a professor in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics. A packet of data traveling across the Internet, for instance, passes through a series of devices called routers before it reaches its destination. A router doesn't tamper with the packet's contents; it just sends it on to the next router.
With network coding, however, a router doesn't just hand off the packets it receives; it mathematically combines them into new, hybrid packets. If the combination is done cleverly enough, this makes the whole network more efficient.
To see how this might work, suppose that we're at a coffee shop with our laptops. I'm trying to send you a message over the coffee shop's WiFi connection at the same time you're trying to send me a message. Ordinarily, my message will travel to the coffee shop's wireless router, and then the router will send it to you. Your message will travel to the router, and then the router will send it to me. That's four total transmissions. But if, instead of forwarding our messages, the router combines them and broadcasts the combination, there are only three total transmissions. Since you have a copy of the message you sent me, you can subtract it from the combination, and I can do the same with the message I sent you. If our laptops and the router do a little extra processing, they reduce the system's bandwidth consumption by 25 percent.
Of course, this example assumes that the receivers already have the data they need to decode the combination, which is rarely the case in the real world. And data traveling over a network usually pass through a number of routers: If each of those routers is recombining packets that are already combinations themselves, the decoding process becomes much more complicated. But in principle, there's a way to get it all to work.
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Network coding was born around 1999 or 2000, in a couple of papers that suggested that combining data at routers could improve network efficiency. But how that combination should be done, and what kinds of efficiency gains were possible, were unclear.
Then, in 2003, Medard, grad student Tracey Ho (now at Caltech), MIT professor of electrical engineering David Karger, and colleagues at the University of Illinois and Caltech proved a counterintuitive result in their paper On Randomized Network Coding: In many cases, the best way to combine data at a router is to do it randomly.
Today, cell phones and computers send messages digitally: Every message is a sequence of 0s and 1s. But any sequence of 0s and 1s can be thought of as a single number. With random network coding, a router receives, say, three messages, multiplies each of them by a different, randomly selected number, and adds the results together. That final sum is the new, hybrid message. The router sends the hybrid on to the next router in the network -- but it also includes information about the three random numbers it used to produce the hybrid.
Random coding yields the biggest gains in networks where connections are spotty, but where there are several possible routes between sender and receiver. Suppose, for instance, that you're in a densely populated city with good cell-phone coverage. You're within range of several different cell towers, but you're inside a building that's interfering with your transmissions. Your cell phone is sending out lots of packets of data, but there's not one nearby cell tower that's receiving all of them. If each tower simply "hybridizes" the packets it receives and sends them on, then as long as the recipient gets enough hybrids from enough different towers, it can reconstruct the original message.
Ho, Medard, and their colleagues proved mathematically that if the same group of messages was sent to several different receivers, random coding made the most efficient possible use of the network's bandwidth.
"The idea is seemingly loopy," Medard says. "I think it's fair to say that it was greeted with some amount of bemusement in some parts of the community." As a graduate student, Ho was charged with presenting the findings at a conference in Japan, and her audience was skeptical. "People said, 'You must be comparing it to bad routing,'" Medard says. Under cross-examination from a room full of seasoned researchers, Medard says, "Anyone else would have just curled into a fetal position." But Ho, she says, was "cool as a cucumber. She was also the collegiate pistol champion. So the girl can keep her cool."


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