we put rosebuds in the water to attract peace, and it made a meade. it was sitting in the gallery.gh local herbs. it was really surprising how delicious it was, because we were mixing a lot of seemingly in congruent ingredients, and it was delicious and different from anything you have ever tasted. i would have been happy if it was medicinal. the idea was more important to me. but it was very good. it is something i think a lot about, especially transition history, native americans, how they have this combination of dress, from the clothing from trade companies, mixed with traditional dress. i love how reflective it is of who they are, and also the merging history's coming together. what would we look like if we carry our history with us? all of the merging of cultures, reflected in our address? i am thinking of my own history with early europeans coming in and intermixing with native cultures. the one thing i would like people to take away from after seeing my work is a sense of wonder and who we are as americans. that we are really these beautiful mixes of people and we should re

rod mead was chosen to be the npd administrat independent administrator of the restoration project. >is is the most ambitious and unique river restoration project that has been undertaken. other rivers have been restored and enhanced. in this case we have a river that quit flowing as a year-round river for about 30 miles. >> reporter: the river began its return in october 2009 as water flows from friant dam were gradually increased. already the river is wet from the dam to the delta. >> restoring water and restoring the habitat will help bring back our historic salmon runs. but there are a lot of other native fishes that will benefit from restoring the san joaquin. there will also be a lot of habitat that's created along the banks, and that's going to benefit a lot of migratory birds that fly up and down the central valley every year. >> reporter: since friant dam was built the east side of the central valley has been some of the most productive farmland in the united states. under the settlement farmers will be required to restore 15% to 17% of the water they've been taking. and many

you know who lives there and we're very close to ford mead including the national security agency enhanced by brac that's coming in here with three major organizations and soon to follow the cyber command which will dwarf and probably surpass the bracket to me it is a place where the vacancy rate for commercial real estate has gone down from sixteen percent to twelve percent even residential real estate here is heading in the same direction setting it apart from much of the rest of the country howard county is not a proposer market we're seeing one real estate broker reporting that he's team is selling over one hundred homes a month the unemployment rate here is about five percent contrast this with the country's average unemployment rate of nine point five percent or perhaps the worst in the country the pine ridge indian reservation in south dakota where unemployment is at about eighty percent or is palmdale california a once thriving suburb now filled with scenes like this homes once occupied now empty once cared for lawns overgrown and those who remained have strong opinions about lawma

facilities, the support agency at fort meade all came about because of the backgrounds. what the business case was that we got out of these facilities that overtime cost more than a government owned facility, not to mention the quality of life working conditions that were demonstrably improved. >> one last quick question. it is my understanding that a contractor cost virtually double of what a government employee does. we have set as a mark, 10% reduction a year. i don't know if that is quite achievable. i know the cia has tried to do 5%. what is your view on this as to what would be a practical and achievable number to aim for the reduction of contractors, assuming they are 28% or 30% of the work force today? >> we need to try to come up with some kind of organizing principles about where contractors are appropriate and where they are not. since there are wide variances in terms of percentages and prevalence of contractors in various parts of the community. in the case of services with the exception of, perhaps, the army which is understandable, in the case of the agenc

we did not know this was going to happen, but we found this concentrated area around fort meade. host: 854,000 that have top security clearance. how did you get to that? guest: that is one number that the government does not have. one shocking thing to me was how little the government knows about the system over all. in this regard, we took what we knew about the different agencies, and what we calculated was each of their individual top secret employees. then we took those calculations to some of our best sources who knew parks of it, they looked at our methodology and they said you have this correct. the government has contractor split up into categories. nobody looks along the whole thing. that is what we did, looking at the post-9/11 world. we asked people in government to look at our methodology. several high-ranking officials who know a lot about number crunching, the nature of the employers, how many employees work at the agency. we had been asked informally by people in government if they could use those figures. host: how much is redundancy and how much is competition, s

we did not know this was going to happen, but we found this concentrated area around fort meade. host: 854,000 that have top security clearance. how did you get to that? guest: that is one number that the government does not have. one shocking thing to me was how little the government knows about the system over all. in this regard, we took what we knew about the different agencies, and what we calculated was each of their individual top secr employees. then we took those calculations to some of our best sources who knew parks of it, they looked at our methodology and they said you have this correct. the government has contractor split up into categories. nobody looks along the whole thing. that is what we did, looking at the post-9/11 world. we asked people in government to look at our methodology. several high-ranking officials who know a lot about number crunching, the nature of the employers, how many employees work at the agency. we had been asked informally by people in government if they could use those figures. host: how much is redundancy and how much is competition, som

we live right next to fort meade, bwi airport on the north, we are kind of an island out here for services. especially cell phone. i did a lot of satellite design work for nasa. the problem with using the satellite connection for the internet is the uplink. the cost of that is going to make it two to three times as expensive as a land line connection. the idea that it is too expensive in rural areas is really not true. in maine, where my parents live, the cost of their internet connection is one-third of what it is in maryland. host: i hate to cut you off, but you say that you are a satellite engineer? caller: yes. host: very quickly explained, one of the earlier collier's -- one of the earlier callers said that you cannot send information via satellite. explain that. caller: most of the information is a one-way broadcast. if you use enough power you can pick up information on a relatively small dish. the uplink, you need a relatively powerful transmitter. it gets to be technically difficult to sort it out with many people using information at the same time. you could not use the high bid

real and imaginary of the indians in afghanistan, particularly from the pakistani perspective, which meads me to this sort of functional question. your responsibility embrace afghanistan and pakistan, but india is a keyactor in what happened in pakistan and in afghanistan. is this pacific command structure -- how do you sort of bridge that -- i would argue in some cases it's an artificial gap between your responsibilities and other spanders' responsibilities? >> to ensure there are no gaps. i spoke with admal willard yesterday in preparation for this hearing. and if you confirm me, we agreed to work very closely together. wecannot do something on one side of a combatant commander's boundary that complicated the other. we're committed to working together and it will be the closest collaboration between pacific command and central command if you confirm me. what we don't want to do is ignore the reality that it's a regional problem, that pakistan has had a very difficult history with india. india has shown great forbearance under some enormous pressure. at the same time,fghanistan and pakist