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Oregon and the Pacific Northwest
Has your trail led you to Oregon and the beautiful Pacific Northwest? It's no wonder why - with so many outdoor excursions, urban excitement, and friendly people, it's a great place to be. Here are a few facts and some trivia about the state that may come in handy.
McMinnville is located in the northwest corner of the state – about an hour southwest of Portland, the state's largest city, and an hour to the coast.
Basic Oregon Facts
- Oregon became the 33rd state to enter the union on February 14th (Valentine's Day), 1859. Oregon Territory originally spanned north to Canada and east through Idaho and into Montana and Wyoming.
- Oregon has 26 state symbols, among them, the Western Meadowlark (bird), the Chinook salmon (fish), American Beaver (animal), milk (beverage), Dungeness crab (crustacean), Square dance (dance), Oregon grape (flower), pear (fruit), Oregon Swallowtail (insect), hazelnut (nut), "Oregon, My Oregon" (song), and Douglas fir (tree).
- Oregon is the only state to have a different design on the front (the words State of Oregon, 1859 and the seal) and back (a beaver) of our flag.
- The world's largest sea cave, the Sea Lion Caves, is located outside of Florence.
- The Oregon Trail, responsible for bringing approximately 80,000 people west, began in Independence, Missouri and traversed 2,000 miles to Oregon City, just south of Portland.
- At 1,943 feet deep, Crater Lake located in southwestern Oregon is the deepest lake in the United States and the ninth deepest in the world. Crater Lake National Park is Oregon's only national park and the fifth addition to the National Park Service. Crater Lake was also featured on Oregon's state quarter.
- Only three cities exist in the United States where an extinct volcano is located within the city limits and two are in Oregon – Portland (Mount Tabor) and Bend (Pilot Butte).
- A 22 foot-tall Oregon Pioneer stands atop the state capitol building in Salem. It weights eight and a half tons and is covered completely in gold leaf.
- Oregon is one of five states without a statewide sales tax, and one of two states that bans self-service gas.
Urban Excitement
While McMinnville has much to offer, for students looking for a bigger city experience, can head north to Portland, a city of just over 600,000 people and the 27th most populous in the country.
Entertainment and Performing Arts – Portland is home to the Artists Repertory Theatre, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Oregon Symphony, Portland Center State, Portland Opera and Portland Youth Philharmonic. Portland tends to be a stop on major concert and other touring events with venues including the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Keller Auditorium, Rose Garden Arena and Memorial Coliseum. Smaller venues abound throughout the city, as well.
Culture and Science – In addition to the Portland Art Museum, other main tourist stops include the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), the Lan Su Chinese Garden, Portland Japanese Gardens, International Rose Test Garden, Oregon Zoo, and World Forestry Center. Many art galleries are also located in northwest Portland (Pearl District) and northeast Portland (the Alberta Arts District).
Shopping – Quirky Portland classics include Portland Saturday Market (March through December 24th at Skidmore Fountain and Waterfront Park), Powell's City of Books (the world's largest independent new and used bookstore), Portland Farmer's Market (located throughout the city) and boutiques in the Pearl District, and along Northwest 23rd Avenue, North Mississippi Street and Northeast Alberta Street. For shopping malls, Pioneer Place (downtown Portland), Washington Square Mall (Tigard), Bridgeport Village (Tualatin), Lloyd Center (north Portland) and Woodburn Company Stores (Woodburn) all provide access to department and specialty stores.
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Sports – Portland is home to the Portland Trail Blazers (NBA), Portland Timbers (MLS) and Portland Winterhawks (major junior league hockey). Do note major rivalries with the Lakers, Sounders and Seattle Thunderbirds as you walk the streets. Portlanders are active people – with the largest park in a city's limits (Forest Park), running and biking trails across the city, and multiple ski areas within an hour's drive.
Outdoor Excursions
If tromping through the mud, catching a wave or skiing the slopes is more your thing, check out these options just a short drive from McMinnville.
Oregon Coast – Nearly all 363 miles of the Oregon coast is public beach – from the mouth of the Columbia River to the California border. Hiking, fishing, clam digging, golfing, cycling, scuba diving, surfing, and boating are all popular activities. You can also explore light houses, blow glass, fly kites, try fresh seafood, shop through small towns or just stroll along the beach.
Mount Hood – Oregon's tallest peak (at 11,239 feet) is also a dormant volcano with three major ski areas, including Timberline (open nearly year round), Ski Bowl (with the largest night skiing area in the country), and Mt. Hood Meadows (the largest of the three). In the summer, hiking, camping, mountain biking and fishing opportunities abound.
Bend and Central Oregon – Take a trip over the Cascades and find yourself in the high desert of central Oregon and the town of Bend. Rock climb at Smith Rock, raft the Deschutes, ski at Mt. Bachelor or explore downtown Bend.
Road Trip
Ready to see what else the Pacific Northwest has to offer, consider these weekend trips.
Seattle, Washington – About four hours north is the Emerald City of Seattle. Catch a Mariners game at Safeco Field, take a ride up the iconic Space Needle, or stop by Pike Place Market to see the flying fish and get a coffee at the original Starbucks.
British Columbia, Canada – Grab your passport and cross the border into British Columbia, Canada and the city of Vancouver. Home of the 2010 Winter Olympics and one of the largest, most diverse cities on the west coast, Vancouver highlights include Granville Island, Stanley Park, Chinatown and Gastown.
Weather and Geography
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To the west, the Oregon Coast spans the entire western border of the state and the Pacific Ocean. Tides and weather flows from the north, bringing cold water, and great opportunities for storm watching. You'll find hearty Oregonians beachcombing in all seasons.
To the east, the Cascades divide the state between temperate rainforest and high desert plains. Mt. Hood averages a base of 175-200 inches of snow per season, with average snowfall of 500-600 inches per year.
Fun Oregon Trivia
- One of the longest relays in the world, the Hood to Coast, occurs each September. Beginning at Timberline Lodge, and continuing through Portland to Seaside, the total distance is approximately 200 miles.
- A popular place to film movies, Oregon has been featured in Animal House, Free Willy, The General, The Goonies, Kindergarten Cop, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Stand By Me, the Twilight series, The Hunted, The Shining, Point Blank, Mr. Holland's Opus, Men of Honor, Pay It Forward, Swordfish, The Ring. Television shows currently being filmed in Oregon include Grimm, Leverage and Portlandia.
- A hub of sportswear companies, Nike (founded in Oregon and headquartered in Beaverton) is the largest sportswear company in the world. Columbia Sportswear was also founded in Oregon, and Adidas North American headquarters are located in North Portland. Others include KEEN (Portland) and Da Kine (Hood River).
Tip: Are you coming from out of state to visit? Here's how you can fit in with the locals - don't be caught saying the state's name wrong (OR-EE-GONE), rather pronounce it "OR-UH-GUN."


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WASHINGTON (CNN) — A Marine shot and killed two of his fellow service members at a Virginia base on Thursday night and then killed himself, base spokesmen said
The incident took place at Marine Corps Base Quantico. The shooter, a staff member at the officer candidate school, gunned down a man and a woman, the spokesmen said. All are Marines.
The incident shocked the military community. Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said in a Twitter message that he was "saddened to hear of loss of life" at Quantico.
The notification of a shooting came about 11 p.m. when authorities found one dead victim, according to Agustin Solivan, a Marine Corps spokesman.
Using a public address system, police announced a lockdown at Marine Corps Base Quantico and surrounded the building where the suspect was barricaded. They ordered everyone to stay in their homes, doors locked.
Authorities from the base and Prince William County, Virginia, surrounded the shooter, who was in barracks not far from where the first shooting occurred.
Law enforcement officials entered the room two hours later and discovered the shooter dead of a self-inflicted wound. The female victim was in the room with him, fatally shot.
The lockdown ended early Friday, a few hours after it started,.
It was unclear whether the three knew each other, Solivan said, and the motive of the shooting is unknown.
CNN's Jake Carpenter contributed to this report

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Sunday, 28 June 2015
New horizons...
In the next few months I will be leaving my post as a clinical lecturer and academic lead for elearning in the undergraduate medical course in Cardiff University to become a primary care clinical director in Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.
I am absolutely delighted that I will be joining a fantastic clinical leadership team (including Sally Lewis and Alastair Roeves) and having the chance to participate in many different levels of the health board's work to help make sure that we can deliver sustainable primary health care.
Many years ago I didn't know whether I wanted to be a GP or a public health physician. I had a wonderful GP trainer in Belfast, Fergus Donaghy, who is I think still the most committed clinician educators that I have ever met. But I was still uncertain so I came to Bristol to do a six month SHO job in public health in Avon Health Authority. After a few months working in public health I realised that I did not want to leave clinical work behind.
A chance came to join the Department of General Practice in the then University of Wales College of Medicine in an innovative new Academic Fellow scheme with the twin aims of developing general practice in the South Wales valleys and also developing young academic GPs. I decided not to return to Northern Ireland My head of department was Professor Helen Houston, who is still a wonderful colleague, and has provided much support to me in the last 13 years.
In Wales I was very lucky to meet and work in Professor Jonathan Richard's practice in Merthyr Tyfdil. In his incredibly generous and nurturing way, when Jonathan realised that I was interested in Public Health he invited me to come along to one of the meetings of a Public Health and Primary Care Steering group of the Welsh Assembly. It helped me to realise that my interests in primary care and public health could sit well together and shortly afterwards I started my Masters in Public Health.
I then moved to Gelligaer Practice and have worked there as a salaried GP ever since. Kathrin Thomas was also a big inspiration to me. Welsh, she moved back from Liverpool to work with us and always managed to keep a balance between the perspectives of caring for individual patients and for populations in her work. It wasn't really a surprise when she later trained as a public health specialist, and she is now lead for public health primary care in Public Health Wales.
Gradually I became more involved in medical education in the medical school which merged with Cardiff University in 2004. For the past few years as we have been developing a new curriculum I got to use my interest in the use of tech to develop our use of technology in the course.
Back in 2008 I started my social media journey with this blog and a twitter account. I have learnt so very much from those I have met online and face-to-face in this time. I will be very sorry to leave my good colleagues throughout Cardiff University but as Bon Stewart writes these days our membership of academic networks does not have to depend on membership of institutions.
In short, I am very lucky because when I was a medical student a role with the scope of a primary care clinical director in Wales, and which would allow me to continue working as a GP, did not exist. But if it did I would have aimed to get here. And I am very lucky to have been able to work with many wonderful people through the university, and to learn and share my learning with people all over the world through social media. Thank you every one!
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Am I exempt from Obamacare?
Under Obamacare, most people who don't have health insurance will be required to pay a tax penalty. But you may not have to pay if you qualify for one or more of the following exemptions:
- You are uninsured for fewer than three months of the year.
- You prove that you can't afford coverage -- that is, premiums for the least-expensive policy cost more than 8% of your earnings.
- You don't have to file a federal income tax return because your income is too low. $MEDICAID_NON_EXPANSION
- You are a member of a federally recognized Indian tribe.
- You are a member of a health care sharing ministry.
- You are a member of a recognized religion that objects to health insurance.
- You are in the United States illegally.
- You are incarcerated.
You may be eligible for an exemption under other circumstances, as well -- for example, if you can show that obtaining coverage would subject you to serious financial hardship.
To learn more, see Do I Have to Get Obamacare in California?


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== WiFi models ==
== WiFi models ==
As of April 2015, Wi-Fi maintainer [mailto:email@example.com Sebastien Deronne] and others are working on the following list of extensions to ns-3 WiFi models
As of April 2015, Wi-Fi maintainer [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com Sebastien Deronne] and others are working on the following list of extensions to ns-3 WiFi models
* 802.11b short PLCP
* 802.11b short PLCP
* 802.11n two-level aggregation
* 802.11n two-level aggregation
Revision as of 16:50, 11 April 2015
Main Page - Current Development - Developer FAQ - Tools - Related Projects - Project Ideas - Summer Projects
Installation - Troubleshooting - User FAQ - HOWTOs - Samples - Models - Education - Contributed Code - Papers
On this page, we will try to summarize current ns-3 development work. If you are interested in collaborating on one of these projects, or reviewing work by others, please do not hesitate to contact the individuals identified, or the page maintainer.
There are a few other places to look for current activity on ns-3 development:
- the current release page will list code under consideration for merging, and bugs being worked. The next release, ns-3.23 release, is scheduled for May 2015.
- we should have entries for all of our known bugs in the Bugzilla bug tracker.
- Related projects list some active and past projects that are associated with ns-3.
- We maintain a suggested project ideas page for people interested in trying to start something new, or finish off some existing work.
- We conduct code review discussions on the Google Group 'ns-3-reviews'
- 1 How to get involved
- 2 Code reviews
- 3 Roadmap
- 4 Current development for main trunk of ns-3
- 5 Past development efforts
- 5.1 ns-3 core
- 5.2 Device and channel models
- 5.2.1 Optical network: WDM, PON and RoF
- 5.2.2 Miscellaneous wifi enhancements
- 5.2.3 Patch to pause and resume an interface
- 5.2.4 802.11 model extensions
- 5.2.5 Wireless Interference (Jamming) Model
- 5.2.6 Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET)
- 5.2.7 Wireless Sensor Networks (i.e., 802.15.4 + 6LoWPAN + RPL)
- 5.3 Link layer
- 5.5 Network layer
- 5.6 Transport layer
- 5.7 Application layer
- 5.8 Visualization
- 5.9 Miscellaneous
- 6 Build system and project infrastructure
How to get involved
ns-3 always can use more time and assistance from contributors of all skill levels. One of the best ways to learn a tool is to try to get involved in its development processes, even if it is as simple as pointing out stale information or documentation on our web pages. Ideas on how to get started are on our project ideas page.
If you are new to ns-3 and want to contribute code, please read these guidelines: Contributing to ns-3 and review the information on this page below.
Note: ns-3 developers sometimes hang out on IRC at #ns-3 at irc.freenode.net. IRC logs
Also, please check out the Current events page to learn of upcoming events for ns-3.
Code reviews
All new code (other than maintenance code committed directly by a module's maintainer) goes through a public code review. The process is described here. This page is devoted to listing code reviews that have been publicly announced.
Currently open code reviews:
- 802.11n hybrid aggregation
- Changes to mesh module to make it more compliant to 802.11s
- Obstacle shadowing model
- Mobility service interface
- 802.15.4e TSCH model
- WifiMac Weighted Fair Queue
- TV Transmitter interference model
- CSMA backoff improvements
- LEAR extension for DSR
- Announce: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2014-April/011933.html
Code review: https://codereview.appspot.com/85630046/
- Note: new code review issue posted 8 May: https://codereview.appspot.com/96130043/
- Next steps with Object Stop/Start
- NetSh (simulation helper)
- Announce: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2014-February/011742.html
- Code review: none yet.
- WDM module
- Announce: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2014-February/011758.html
- Code review: none yet.
- DAMA environment
- Energy model access via Config system
- Announce (January 3, 2014): http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2014-January/011660.html
- Code review: https://codereview.appspot.com/39820045
- DTN Bundle Protocol
- Announce (December 23, 2013): http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2013-December/011616.html
- Code review: https://codereview.appspot.com/38130049/
- PGBR routing protocol and extension of topology-read module
- Announce (Oct 21, 2013): http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2013-October/011455.html
- Code review: https://codereview.appspot.com/15530043/
- Status: Needs reviews
- Announce (Oct 14, 2013): http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2013-October/011446.html
- Code review: https://codereview.appspot.com/14677043/
- Status: Needs reviews
- Epidemic routing
- Announce (Sept 24, 2013): http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2013-September/011426.html
- Code review: https://codereview.appspot.com/13831049/
- Status: Author responding to latest review comments.
Some older code reviews can be found here: http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/Ns-3.18#additional_new_feature_reviews
- Code review: https://codereview.appspot.com/4747046/
- Simple wireless
- Code review: https://codereview.appspot.com/1587041/show
- Ipv4 Route Output refactoring
- Code review: https://codereview.appspot.com/5661044/
- Bug tracker issue: https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1111
In 2015, the project is focusing on the following initiatives:
- modular build system
- Already done: bake is now a build system for DCE, and is included in ns-allinone-3.18
- Remains to be done: use bake to make ns-3 libraries more modular (per the wiki page above)
- starting and stopping of objects
- Already done: Base class of ns3::Object has been patched, and Start/Stop has been deconflicted from object initialization
- To be done: Make our core objects (Nodes and NetDevices) and protocol models do reasonable things when "Start" and Stop" methods are called on them.
- merge of the Direct Code Execution framework
- Already done: DCE is part of ns-3; the current release as of October 2013 is DCE 1.1
- data collection and experiment control frameworks
- Already done: Initial capabilities of this module were merged to the ns-3.18 release.
- To be done: Add statistical processing, dump output to databases
Current development for main trunk of ns-3
WiFi models
As of April 2015, Wi-Fi maintainer Sebastien Deronne and others are working on the following list of extensions to ns-3 WiFi models. In the below list of work items, Sebastien is the one working on them unless otherwise specified.
- 802.11b short PLCP
- 802.11n two-level aggregation
- 802.11ac
- 802.11n/ac MIMO support
- 802.11n/ac PHY layer abstraction models (Look-up tables model)
- Packet capture model
- PCF (Sourav and Sébastien Deronne)
- HCF/HCCA (Sourav and Sébastien Deronne)
- Short slot time support
- Minstrel-Blues rate control (Matias Richart)
- RRPAA rate control (Matias Richart)
- flow control between 802.11e queues and priority queuing layer (Stefano Avallone and Tom Henderson)
The following additional work is recommended (contributions from others are recommended); contact Sebastien to coordinate:
- Add support for PHY_RXSTART
- Inter-channel interference modeling
- 802.11n/ac PHY layer models (more sophisticated models other than look-up tables)
- 802.11n/ac beamforming support
- 802.11ac MU-MIMO support
- HT/VHT rate adaptation algorithms
- 802.11ad
- 802.11ah
- 802.11e TXOP
- 802.11ax
AQM and ECN
ns-3.21 has RED and CoDel queue models, without support for ECN or other CoDel variants.
The following goals are being worked; more details at AQM enhancements:
- an IP-aware priority queue sublayer, such as in Linux
- pfifo_fast qdisc
- SFQ_Codel and FQ_Codel
- ECN support in all AQMs
GSoC and SOCIS summer projects
ns-3 participated with four projects in the 2014 Google Summer of Code.
- List of accepted projects
- GSOC2014LteFFR: Code has been merged
- GSOC2014LTP: Code not yet merged
- GSOC2014Bufferbloat: Codel queue was merged; other queues under developemnt
- GSOC2014MulticastIPv6: Code not yet merged
ns-3 is participating with one project in the 2014 Summer of Code in Space. The main aim of this project is to contribute satellite-relevant TCP models, but to facilitate those models, some additional ground work on adding and testing TCP options is being done.
- SOCIS2014TCP: Satellite models not yet merged.
ns-3 core
This is a feature goal for ns-3.23 release.
- Object Start/Stop capability
CSMA model
This is a feature goal for ns-3.23 release.
There has been discussion in the June 2014 timeframe about improving this model:
- http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2014-June/012026.html
- http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2014-June/012093.html
These improvements have been recommended:
- Implement backoff counter decrement as a function of line state (see this initial code review)
- Divide CSMA implementation between CSMA/CD & CSMA/CA (which are totally different)
- Implement a distance system (not the same propagation delay for every nodes); see Vedran Miletić's work code review issue
- Audit the ns-3 examples to find instances where CSMA is being used with inappropriate link delay (where multiple access may perform very suboptimally)
Multipath TCP
Note: Matthieu Coudron has an implementation of MP-TCP pending; see this post. This is based on work done also by Morteza Kheirkhah, which was published in a recent paper, Multipath-TCP in ns3, which was presented at WNS3 2014.
Changes to IPv4 RouteOutput() and IPv4 global routing implementation
- Modification to TcpSocketBase and TcpL4Protocol in order to prevent multiple calls on RouteOutput() on each TCP socket.
- Split LookupGlobal() for RouteInput() and RouteOutput() usage.
- Change existing RandomECMP attribute from a boolean to an enum (mode).
- Implementation and test code for round-robin ECMP mode.
- Implementation of ECMP per-flow based on existing patch in bug 667 where applicable.
Past development efforts
Most of these activities are now dormant or concluded and some of the information is stale. We are keeping here as a placeholder until this section can be cleaned up.
ns-3 core
Multi-threaded simulation implementation for multicore
- ns-developers post: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2009-July/006197.html
- code location: http://code.nsnam.org/guillaume/ns-3-multithreading/
- status: ns-3.11 merge?
Linux namespaces and ns-3
- summary: Tom Goff has contributed code and documentation about how to use ns-3 with Linux namespaces.
- code location: See the below wiki page.
- background: HOWTO use Linux namespaces with ns-3
- status: A version of this was merged to the latest CORE network emulator release.
Device and channel models
Optical network: WDM, PON and RoF
Miscellaneous wifi enhancements
- code location: http://codereview.appspot.com/65051
- reviewer(s): Mathieu Lacage
- status: Some of these pieces made it into ns-3.5-- others are pending
- background: http://groups.google.com/group/ns-3-reviews/browse_thread/thread/f0b36d7373421a7d#
Patch to pause and resume an interface
- code location: http://codereview.appspot.com/62054
- reviewer(s): TBD
- status: reimplemented in a more general way, see Object Start Stop Specification
802.11 model extensions
There are several efforts ongoing to extend the ns-3 Wifi model.
Harmonization with ns-2 802.11 Ext models
- summary: ns-2.33 added a new 802.11 model with much more detailed channel modeling. An effort has been started to port over reusable components from that implementation to ns-3's wifi model, while reusing already implemented basic components. The goal is a harmonization of the 802.11 models of ns-2 and ns-3. Leading aim is to support research on vehicular networks. Planned near-term features:
- Equalizing PHY models including capture effects, user-definable coding rates (e.g. 5.9 GHz from 802.11p)
- EDCA QoS extensions of 802.11e
- Already finished features:
- Nakagami/Rayleigh propagation loss model
- ns-developers post: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2008-November/004936.html
- code location: http://idlebox.net/2008/ns-3-wifi/code/ns-3-wifiex/
- status: under current active development. Time frame till this is completed: 4-5 month.
- summary: University of Florence (LART lab) has begun work on an 802.11n model for ns3. The main goal is to simulate the frame aggregation feature. In the future, they aim to implement the High Throughput terminal behaviour with MIMO technology. They plan to add, to ns-3's 802.11 model, the following 802.11n features:
- Frame Aggregation
- Block ACK
- HCF (EDCA and support for HCCA)
- HT terminal (also with protection modes)
Also interested to verify the 11n terminal throughput when are associated terminal of a/b/g standards.
- Already finished features (in ns-3.5):
- HCF, TXOP, Frame Aggregation
- Merged for ns-3.8:
- Block ACK
- code location:
http://code.nsnam.org/mirko/ns-3-80211nRepository has been removed.
- status: Frame aggregation and block ack merged already; Tommaso Pecorella announced his lab's next steps here. Current development is on hold.
Wireless Interference (Jamming) Model
- summary: Network Security Lab (NSL), University of Washington, Seattle has begun work on a wireless interference (jamming) model for ns3. The goal is to to enable researchers to use ns3 to study jamming and its mitigation methods.
- wiki page: NS-3 wireless jamming model
- code location: http://codereview.appspot.com/1055041/show
- status: Public review.
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET)
- summary: Michele Weigle's group is working on VANET and has posted a patch for review in the past, but has taken it off the table for ns-3 merge consideration until more work is done.
- code location: None publicly posted at this time.
Wireless Sensor Networks (i.e., 802.15.4 + 6LoWPAN + RPL)
Tommaso Pecorella announced his plans here
Current status is:
- RPL implementation (storing, multicast): 5th refactoring going on. Moving responsibility to ParentSet and MeasureCollectors for metrics other than HC.
- RPL is based on ROLL RFCs and drafts
- Objective functions implemented are of0 and minrank-hysteresis-of
- 6LoWPAN has been merged in ns-3-dev and will be included in ns-3.19.
- 802.15.4 will rely on the lr-wpan module (currently being implemented by Boeing).
- A patch to the lr-wpan code to enable its use with 6LoWPAN (and the full IPv6 stack) has been created. The patch adds a number of functionalities to the module and will be either included in lr-wpan or provided as a separate patch.
A wiki page will be created before 3.19 release to explain in detail the current implemented functionalities, the models limitations, the work status and provide a guide to setup a simple simulation.
Boeing is working on lr-wpan (IEEE 802.15.4-2006) support; details here.
In addition to the LENA project above, several developers expressed their interest in enhancing the LTE code initially developed within the GSoC 2010:
- Leo Razoumov announced possible interest in the following contributions:
- PHY model abstractions
- scheduling models
- mobility and traffic models
- Giuseppe Piro and his group (DEE, Politecnico di Bari) announced the intent to continue with the development of the LTE module, focusing mainly on the following MAC layer aspects:
- scheduling
- Marco Mezzavilla and his group (DEI, University of Padova) announced interest in working on the following, and have posted a repository in February 2011 details here:
- MAC layer
- mobility
- traffic modelization
- Sandra Frei announced that a group is working on Evolved Packet System (EPS) support
- GTPv1-U (for the user plane)
- GTPv2-C (for the control plane)
- Diameter: Supported use cases: default- and dedicated bearer establishment
- NAS (ESM, EMM) A combined initial attach with a default bearer establishment. Dedicated bearer establishment
- X2AP HO without SGW relocation. Endmarker messages are not supported
- PMIPv6: PBU/PBA, LMA, MAG
Link layer
802.21 media independent handover
- wiki page: NS-3 MIH implementation
- code location: http://code.nsnam.org/salumu/ns-3-mih/
- status: Dormant-- no merge plans announced.
- Submitted by: Andrey Churin
- code location: http://code.google.com/p/ns-3-shop/
- reviewer(s): None
- status: Project has moved to Google hosting.
Network layer
API and functionality for marking TOS bytes in packets
- Submitted by: Antti Makela
- code location: http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=897
- reviewer(s): None
- status: Need to consider whether this fits into the Linux netfilter support that is planned
DSR routing
- Submitted by: Yufei Cheng
- status: Announced here: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2010-December/008496.html
DSDV routing
- Submitted by: Hemanth Narra
- code location: http://codereview.appspot.com/1668042/show
- status: Announced here: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2010-December/008496.html
Transport layer
TCP Vegas
- Submitted by: Juan Pablo Poujade
- code location: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2010-February/007419.html
- reviewers: none officially
- status: Waiting for guidance on how TCP congestion control variants will be implemented in general
Multipath TCP
NS-3 module for MPTCP (Multipath TCP). The current release is compatible with 3.8 version of NS-3. A check of the compatibility with the latest version is needed.
- Submitted by: Bachir CHIHANI
- code location: http://code.google.com/p/mptcp-ns3/
Codel, fq_codel in ns-3
- Submitted by: Andrew Mcgregor
- Code location: http://codereview.appspot.com/6463048
- Mailing list post: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2012-August/010572.html
- Reviewers: Tom Henderson and Mathieu Lacage
Application layer
Chord/DHash DHT
- Submitted by: Harjot Gill
- code location: http://codereview.appspot.com/180107/show
- reviewers: Mathieu Lacage, Tom Henderson
- background: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2009-December/007222.html
- status: Dormant for a while
Synchronous posix/sockets API
- summary: An ns-3 "process" environment
- ns-developers post: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2008-April/003912.html
- code location: http://code.nsnam.org/mathieu/ns-3-simu
- status: still in development
real-world application integration
- summary: port of quagga routing to ns-3
- wiki page: Real World Application Integration
- code location: http://code.nsnam.org/lj/quagga-porting/
- status: Was developed by Liu Jian, Google Summer of Code. Portions of this code are planned for a future release (ns-3.8 or later) when ns-3-simu is merged.
ns-3-simu sockopt patches
- code location: Four patches listed in http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2009-June/006144.html
- reviewer(s): TBD
- status: review requested on June 22
- background: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2009-June/006144.html
- Summary: An implementation of Pastry within ns-3. Including some experimental key-based routing API.
- Developers: Robert Nitsch and Dominic Scheurer (Technische Universität Darmstadt).
- Code location: https://bitbucket.org/r_nitsch/ns-3-pastry/ (old repository: https://bitbucket.org/r_nitsch/libpastry/)
- Doxygen documentation: http://libpastry.robertnitsch.de
- Status:
- 2012-01-22: Re-integrated the code into ns-3 source tree (ns-3.13).
- Mostly finished.
- Node arrival process needs some tweaking.
- Review needed. (We're going to request one as soon as we're ready.)
Jeremy Norman and the iNSpect team have posted some plans for a visualization library for ns-3:
- http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2008-March/003777.html
- http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2008-November/004914.html
George Riley has made a prototype animator for PointToPoint links.
Joe Kopena is working on what he calls a "decorator" http://code.nsnam.org/tjkopena/
Hagen Paul Pfeifer is working on a MANET visualizer http://nv.dev.jauu.net/
Graphical simulation builder
Pierre Weiss and Sebastien Vincent have written an ns-3 scenario generator in Qt.
- http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2010-May/007998.html
- Mercurial download: http://svnet.u-strasbg.fr/hg/ns-3-generator/
| NetExplorer is Gnome/Gtk network animation tool for NS-3.
L2 Ethernet switch module
- ns-developers post: http://groups.google.com/group/ns-3-users/browse_thread/thread/0091ac611dde1928#
- status: No code yet, starting development.
Parallel simulations (2008)
- summary: ns-3 extensions for parallelization
- wiki page: Parallel Simulations
- code location: http://code.nsnam.org/pfeifer/ns-3-para/
- status: dormant since 2008 Google Summer of Code
Delay Box for ns-3
Matt Crinklaw is working on a port of ns-2 DelayBox to ns-3.
- summary: http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/doc/node247.html (from ns-2 documentation)
- code location: http://freehg.org/u/mlaw
- status: No status update recently. Dormant.
Simulation Configuration and State Detection
In order to configure simulations across multiple, probably virtualized, machines a large amount of configuration must be performed in order to construct the component systems. The oppportunity for human error to creep in during this process renders it essentially manually unworkable for all but the simplest topologies. Craig Dowell is thinking about how to address this problem.
Build system and project infrastructure
Modular build and package management
This issue is being tracked (requirements and wish list) on this page
State of Doxygen
Need to bring Doxygen into compliance (no errors, no warnings for missing documentation).
- investigate hooking code coverage (lcov) into the report
- investigate how the whole buildbot farm may be made available to a maintainer to test out a non-ns-3-dev repo.
Code contribution guidance
Tom took action item to simplify and clarify the project code contribution guidelines (for people wishing to contribute new code to ns-3).
Samples directory
Consider cleanup and move of samples/ directory to examples/?
Considering to refactor documentation to split the existing manual into a model library and a software core reference manual, to add a lighter-weight tutorial, and to add a "cookbook" of howtos for common ns-3 tasks.
Status: INRIA is organizing some updates to the website.


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LANSING, Mich. (WJRT/AP) - The new prosecution team handling Flint water cases is starting over from scratch.
All charges have been dropped against eight defendants, including former Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon.
According to the Associated Press, Lyon was accused of failing to timely inform the public about an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease when Flint was using improperly treated water from the Flint River in 2014 and 2015.
The outbreak occurred at the same time that the city's water system was contaminated with lead.
Lyon was the highest-ranking official to be charged in the investigation.
The cases are being dismissed without prejudice, meaning new charges can be filed against them later. However, more than a year of court proceedings and millions of dollars in legal fees will be for naught with the charges dropped.
Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy want to make sure they conduct a "full and complete investigation" before moving forward with the cases.
- Charges against the following defendants have been dropped:
- Former Flint emergency managers Gerald Ambrose and Darnell Earley.
- Michigan Department of Environmental Quality official Patrick Cook.
- Former Flint Public Works Director Howard Croft.
- Lyon, who was the state's top public health official.
- Former Michigan Chief Medical Executive Eden Wells.
- Michigan Department of Health and Human Services officials Robert Scott and Nancy Peeler.
Hammoud and Worthy plan to host a community conversation in Flint on June 28 to explain the dramatic action. A time and place for the meeting was not announced Thursday.
Worthy and Hammoud declined further comment Thursday until after the June 28 meeting. They issued the following statement:
"Legitimate criminal prosecutions require complete investigations. Upon assuming responsibility of this case, our team of career prosecutors and investigators had immediate and grave concerns about the investigative approach and legal theories embraced by the OSC, particularly regarding the pursuit of evidence. After a complete evaluation, our concerns were validated. Contrary to accepted standards of criminal investigation and prosecution, all available evidence was not pursued. Instead, the OSC entered into agreements that gave private law firms—representing Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, the Department of Treasury, and the Executive Office of former Governor Rick Snyder—a role in deciding what information would be turned over to law enforcement.
From the outset, our team seriously considered dismissal of all pending cases initiated by the OSC. However, we believed the people of Flint deserved expeditious action, despite the shortcomings of the OSC, and we worked to salvage whatever progress had been made. We were also mindful of the massive expenditure of public resources up to that point and sought to use taxpayer money as efficiently as possible.
Nonetheless, we cannot provide the citizens of Flint the investigation they rightly deserve by continuing to build on a flawed foundation. Dismissing these cases allows us to move forward according to the non-negotiable requirements of a thorough, methodical and ethical investigation.
Our career prosecutors and investigators have worked around the clock to conduct the kind of criminal investigation to which all citizens are entitled, regardless of their zip code. That begins with a commitment to obtain and review all evidence. By executing a series of search warrants, our investigators aggressively pursued an extraordinary amount of potential evidence not previously examined by law enforcement. This week, we completed the transfer into our possession millions of documents and hundreds of new electronic devices, significantly expanding the scope of our investigation. Our team's efforts have produced the most comprehensive body of evidence to date related to the Flint Water Crisis. We are now in the best possible position to find the answers the citizens of Flint deserve and hold all responsible parties accountable.
Our team has already identified additional individuals of interest and new information relevant to the Flint Water Crisis. These investigative leads will be aggressively pursued. Additionally, we will evaluate criminal culpability for all Legionnaires deaths that occurred after the switch to the Flint River, which was never done by the OSC.
It is important to note that this voluntary dismissal by our team is not a determination of any defendant's criminal responsibility. We are not precluded from refiling charges against the defendants listed below or adding new charges and additional defendants.
We understand this decision will not bring immediate remedy or relief to the citizens of Flint, who remain victims of one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in United States history. However, we recognize the only acceptable remedy is the vigorous pursuit of justice, which demands an uncompromising investigation of the Flint Water Crisis and professional prosecution of all those criminally culpable. Accordingly, our team will move forward unrestrained by political motivations, prior tactics, or opportunities for financial gain."
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is keeping herself away from the Flint water crisis criminal cases, said she trusts the judgment of Hammoud and Worthy if they believe dropping the charges was the best course of action.
"I trust them and if this step is necessary for them to do a comprehensive and complete investigation, I am in absolute support," Nessel said. "I want to remind the people of Flint that justice delayed is not always justice denied and a fearless and dedicated team of career prosecutors and investigators are hard at work to ensure those who harmed you are held accountable."
State Sen. Jim Ananich, a Democrat from Flint, is aghast at the development and the sheer amount of money wasted on lawyers during the past two years of legal proceedings.
"Let me be clear: I want to see people behind bars. Words cannot express how disappointed I am that justice continues to be delayed and denied to the people of my city," he said. "Months of investigation have turned into years, and the only thing to show for it is a bunch of lawyers who have gotten rich off the taxpayers' dime."
Ananich feels bad for Flint residents, who believe nobody will ever face justice for their roles in causing the water crisis.
"I hope and expect that this will not be the case for much longer, but until then, I will continue to fight for my city and hold people accountable," he said.
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Cutler sharp as Bears beat Vikings 28-10
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[November 26, 2012]
(AP) -- Even a lopsided win was painful for the Chicago Bears.
They got Jay Cutler back after missing a game with a concussion, only to lose three more stars to injuries in a 28-10 victory over the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday.
Devin Hester left the game with a concussion. Matt Forte and Charles Tillman exited with ankle injuries, and if that weren't enough, the Bears also lost both starting guards.
That certainly tempered the good feelings for the Bears on a day that Cutler threw for 188 yards and a touchdown to lead the Bears.
Tied with Green Bay for the NFC North lead and just a game ahead of Minnesota (6-5) coming in, the Bears (8-3) grabbed a 25-3 halftime lead thanks to Cutler's pinpoint passing. The defense held Adrian Peterson in check early on, although he finished with 108 yards rushing.
Chicago also came away with three more takeaways to increase its total from a league-leading 30 entering the game.
"It was a game we had to have," coach Lovie Smith said. "Again, a division home game you have to stand up for it."
The rather easy win came after back-to-back losses to Houston and San Francisco, but it also came with a heavy price.
The Bears lost Hester, a receiver and record-setting return specialist, early to a concussion. And that was just the start.
Forte, their top running back, hobbled to the tunnel midway through the third quarter with an ankle injury. Coach Lovie Smith said Tillman, their star cornerback, also hurt his ankle.
Besides those three, the Bears lost both guards in the third quarter to knee sprains, with Lance Louis and Chris Spencer going down. Louis' injury on a blindside hit by Jared Allen as Antoine Winfield returned an interception forced Chicago to go with Gabe Carimi, who lost the right tackle job to Jonathan Scott.
Spencer, meanwhile, was in the lineup after Chilo Rachal left the team.
Hopes the Bears had for developing continuity on the line appear to be out of the question in the short term.
"I don't think it's possible now," Cutler said. "With all the moving parts we have and Lance going down, you're not going to have that. We're going to have to roll with the guys we have and see what we have, lean on our defense as we have before, run the ball well. Be efficient through the air. See how far we go."
As for Cutler, he looked sharp after missing Monday's blowout loss at San Francisco.
Back after being knocked out of the Texans game on a helmet-to-helmet hit by Tim Dobbins, he got off to a scorching start and completed 23 of 31 passes with an interception to go with his TD.
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"I felt good," Cutler said. "It was a matter of going through the motions, talking to the doctors. I had a good week of practice, a shorter week with the Monday game and Thanksgiving."
Brandon Marshall caught 12 passes for 92 yards and became the first Bears receiver since Marty Booker in 2002 to go over 1,000 yards. He now has 1,017 yards this season, his sixth straight with 1,000 or more.
"In the third quarter, I leaned over to Jay and said, `That catch puts me at 1,000 yards for six seasons in a row.' And he looked at me and said, `You're disgusting,'" Marshall, the Bears' big offseason acquisition, said, laughing.
He added he knew he was closing in because followers on Twitter had mentioned it.
On defense, Henry Melton set the tone by sacking Christian Ponder on the first play from scrimmage. Nick Roach set up the first touchdown by knocking the ball out of Peterson's hands. Chris Conte set another TD with a 35-yard interception return, and Julius Peppers blocked a field goal.
Peterson, the league's leading rusher, tied Robert Smith's club record with a 100-yard performance for the fifth straight game even though he managed just 25 in the first half. He also lost two fumbles and had to catch a cab to the stadium and arrived about 90 minutes before kickoff, according to reports.
Ponder wasn't much help, going 22 of 43 with 159 yards and a touchdown along with an interception. His favorite target, Percy Harvin, sat out his second straight game with a sprained left ankle, and the Vikings lost for the third time in four games.
"We knew what we were getting into," Peterson said. "They wanted to make a statement. I thought it was more so what we did, giving the ball away, not making routine plays. Can't wait to see them again."
He won't have to wait long, with the Bears visiting Minnesota on Dec. 9.
Cutler completed 15 of 17 passes for 117 yards in the first half, and the Bears jumped out a big lead.
NOTES: Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said he and Peterson were going to have a talk about punctuality after Sunday's delayed arrival. "There is something that Adrian and I need to talk about regarding getting to the stadium," he said. ... Allen thought his hit on Louis after Winfield's interception was a clean one. "I turned around, he was running to make a tackle and I threw myself into him to make a block. My condolences to him and his family. I never, ever, try and intentionally hurt anybody."
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Britain's Tom Daley prepares to take part in the Olympic men's synchronised 10-meter platform final on Tuesday.
LONDON -- A British teenager was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of making "malicious" remarks, after a death threat to U.K. Olympic medal hopeful Tom Daley appeared on Twitter.
The profanity-strewn tweets -- on an account NBC News has chosen not to identify -- also included the claim that the athlete had let down his dead father after Daley came fourth in the men's synchronized 10-meter dive.
Daley rose to fame in the U.K. when he competed at the 2008 Beijing Games at the age of 14.
Shortly after Monday's final, a message appeared on the Twitter account saying, "@TomDaley1994 you let your dad down i hope you know that."
The account was available to only confirmed followers Tuesday, but retweets of some of the messages showed the abuse continued with one talking about drowning Daley in a swimming pool.
The messages are part of an increasing trend in which celebrities and others are abused by so-called "trolls," who send abusive messages behind the seeming anonymity of social media sites.
Daley retweeted the message about his father and said "After giving it my all...you get idiot's sending me this."
He then retweeted a number of messages from people calling for the Twitter account involved to be banned.
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Daley still has a chance of a medal in the individual diving event.
Daley's father Rob, 40, died from brain cancer in May 2011.
'Dad was so supportive'
Before the Olympics, Daley spoke to BBC News about how his father "gave me all the inspiration that I've needed."
"Winning a medal would make all the struggles that I've had worthwhile. It's been my dream since a very young age to compete at an Olympics," Daley said.
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Tom Daley (second from right) follows the coffin carrying his father as it leaves St. Mary's Church Plympton, England, on June 8, 2011.
"I'm doing it for myself and my dad. It was both our dreams from a very young age. I always wanted to do it and Dad was so supportive of everything. It would make it extra special to do it for him," he added.
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London has become a giant melting pot of cultures and nationalities, but it's not immediately apparent to tourists. The double-dip recession has hit diverse neighborhoods especially hard. NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports.
As news of the offensive tweet began to spread, a message directed at Daley appeared on the Twitter account saying "I'm sorry mate i just wanted you to win cause its the olympics I'm just annoyed we didn't win I'm sorry tom accept my apology."
"Please i don't want to be hated I'm just sorry you didn't win i was rooting for you pal to do britain all proud just so upset," it added.
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Dorset Police said in a message on its Twitter account that a "17-year-old man arrested this morning at a guest house in the Weymouth area" in relation to "tweets to @TomDaley1994," adding that the investigation was ongoing.
A spokeswoman for Dorset Police told NBCNews.com that the teen was held on suspicion of making "malicious communications."
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My son has this totally awesome "exhaust" pipe on his bike that I covet. It's really a resonator for the classic baseball-card-in-the-spokes trick. It makes a terrific racket, and gets people to move out of the way without necessitating a honk on your horn. I decided to build my own, using a recycled beverage bottle. Armed with a Dremel Rotary Tool, a bottle of energy drink, and a depleted gift card, I set out to make my own soda bottle bike exhaust.
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Slow Motion
Finishing up a few things last Wednesday evening I took an inelegant dive off a chair I was standing on. Falling was like slow motion as I grew in my realization that this was not going to end well.
When I hit the floor I knew something was broken. As it turned out I snapped my radius and spent the wee hours of Thursday morning discovering how finger traps, a set-up resembling a medieval torture device, can actually help realign the bone to prevent further injury until surgery. This Wednesday the doctor plans to fit my radius with a plate and some screws that will hold it all together again.
Meanwhile, my left arm is splinted and my left hand (yes, I am left-handed) is virtually useless except as a shelf on which to prop up my iPhone.
A Recipe of Comfort
While my time is passing in slow motion life goes on. My boys were on their way to Dallas to visit colleges. Thankfully my daughter, Kerrin of Brie My Love, was able to come home for the weekend to help out.
The list of what I needed help with this weekend was long and daunting. It could be discouraging but, as so often happens, time invested in the kitchen brought comfort. Kerrin found a recipe for Homemade Chicken Pot Pie. Then she dug through my cabinets till she produced a set of individual pie-sized ramekins. Before long she was stirring the filling and then a smooth sauce. After topping them with a pastry crust and some cute pastry cutouts she put them in the oven.
As the pot pies steamed invitingly, Kerrin put on Finding Neverland, and we watched Johnny Depp's sweet portrayal of J. M. Barrie and the relationship that inspired the classic tale of Peter Pan. Watching a compelling drama while waiting to dine on a fragrant pie filled with wholesome chunks of chicken and vegetables, bathed in a creamy sauce with the savor of onion and thyme and topped with a flaky butterfly shaped crust, a girl could almost forget her troubles; at least until she tries to awkwardly dig in... wrong-handed. Luckily Kerrin set my place with an oversized serving spoon, perfect for overcoming my challenges and scooping up every last delicious bite.
Homemade Chicken Pot Pies
Adapted from allrecipes.com
1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into ¾-inch cubes
1 cup carrots, sliced
1 cup frozen green peas
½ cup celery, sliced
1/3 cup butter
1/3 cup onion, chopped
1/3 cup flour
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon black pepper, ground
¼ teaspoon celery seed
½ teaspoon dried thyme
1¾ cups chicken broth, plus more for cooking the first step, if desired
2/3 cup milk
2 unbaked pie crusts
Preheat oven to 425F.
1. In a large saucepan combine chicken, carrots, peas and celery. Add enough water (you can use chicken or vegetable broth instead, if desired) to cover the contents. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Remove from heat, drain and set aside.
2. Using the same large saucepan, melt the butter. Over medium heat, cook the onions in the butter until soft and translucent. Stir in flour, salt, pepper, celery seed and thyme until smooth and bubbly, Slowly stir in 1¾ cups chicken broth and the milk. Simmer over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens. Remove from heat.
3. Divide the chicken mixture evenly between six 10 or 12 ounce ramekins. Pour the hot sauce mixture evenly over the chicken mixture.
4. Cut six circles from the pie crust, each a little larger than the ramekin it will top. Cover the chicken mixture in each ramekin with a circle of dough, fitting the dough down onto the warm filling and pressing the edge decoratively against the side of the dish. Prick through each crust with a fork several times to vent. From remaining scraps of dough, cut decorative shapes with cookie cutters or a knife, if desired. Apply the shapes to the top crusts. Place the ramikins evenly on a sturdy baking sheet.
5. Bake at 425F for 30 – 35 minutes, or until pastry is golden brown and filling is bubbly. Allow pies to cool for 10 minutes before serving.


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If you've spent any time researching ancestors in 19th century Georgia, then you've probably used Georgia's land lottery records. Indexes of many of these records were previously published and are still in print through vendors like Southern Historical Press. Unfortunately, many of these published indexes are difficult to use because of the way they were formatted, often with fortunate drawers listed by county and no master index.
And then came Paul K. Graham. Among his other achievements, Paul has a deep background in land records, including a professional certificate in Geographic Information Systems from Georgia State University. Along with his work as a genealogist, this makes him the perfect candidate to compile and publish updated information about Georgia's land records.
In 2004, Paul published the first in a series of guides to Georgia's land lotteries with his book 1805 Georgia Land Lottery Fortunate Drawers and Grantees. He followed that in 2005 with 1805 Georgia Land Lottery Persons Entitled to Draw (available through Heritage Books), and in 2011 with 1807 Georgia Land Lottery Fortunate Drawers and Grantees.
Paul, of course, did not stop there. To complement his work in Georgia's land records, he also published an Atlas of East and Coastal Georgia Watercourses and Militia Districts and his seminal guide, Georgia Land Lottery Research (available from the Georgia Genealogical Society), both of which are invaluable additions to the shelves of any Georgia researcher's library.
Please keep in mind that all of these books are works of reference. The books covering the 1805 and 1807 land lotteries should be used as the first line of attack with these records, as part of a comprehensive research project. To learn more about the individuals involved, the original records must be sought and the information found within those records must be correlated with information from other sources.
Paul's guides to these records are far and away better than the older publications they replace. To learn more about these or any of his publications, visit his web site.


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Serves 2 | Prep Time 1 hour 20 minutes | Cook Time 20 minutes
3.5 ounces Eden Kuzu Pasta, 1 package
or Eden Bifun (rice) or Eden Mung Bean (Harusame) Noodles
2 cups water, for broth
1/4 piece Eden Kombu, 2 inches long
4 Eden Whole Shiitake Mushrooms
or 1/4 cup Eden Sliced Shiitake Mushrooms
1 1/2 tsp Eden Shoyu Soy Sauce
or wheat free Eden Tamari Soy Sauce
1 1/4 Tbsp Eden Mirin
1/3 sheet Eden Sushi Nori, cut into thin strips
2 tsp scallions
1 tsp freshly grated ginger root
Soak shiitake in warm water to cover for 10 minutes, remove and reserve soaking water. If using whole shiitake, remove stems, discard and slice the cap. Place the water, all shiitake soaking water, shiitake and kombu in a saucepan. Cover, and bring to a boil. Reduce the flame to medium-low and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove the kombu and set aside (use in another dish). Reduce the flame to low, add the shoyu and simmer 5 minutes. Turn the flame off and add the mirin. Place in a bowl, refrigerate 1 hour and allow to cool.
Cook noodles as package directs, rinse under cold water and drain.
Place the cooked noodles in individual serving bowls and ladle the cool broth over. Garnish each serving with strips of nori, scallions and grated ginger root.
NOTE: For a Gluten Free recipe substitute Eden Tamari Soy Sauce or a bit of Eden Sea Salt to taste in place of Eden Shoyu Soy Sauce.


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Allen Joins U-18s for Upcoming Lisbon International Tournament
Real Salt Lake AZ U-17/18 midfielder Jordan Allen says that he was about 12 or 13 years old when he was comfortably able to use his right and left foot equally. Some players even at the professional ranks cannot maintain that ease and versatility with both feet.
"It's something I grew up with," Allen said. "My father knew I needed to work on my left foot and I listened to him. I got it as strong as possible and as I've grown older it's been more beneficial. I'm able to play on the left and I'm more versatile."
Allen's adaptability is being utilized with the U.S. Under-18 team as the group prepares for the upcoming Lisbon International Tournament. U.S. U-18 head coach Javier Perez is playing Allen at right back.
"I started off the last camp playing out wide due to some injuries on the outside," Allen said. "They wanted me at right back and I excelled there. It's definitely different. But I'm allowed to use my knowledge going forward and can both defend and attack. It gives me another option and keeps us dangerous. I'm encouraged to go forward as much as possible."
The Rochester, N.Y., native has worked his way through the U.S. Soccer youth ranks and has been away from the home front for extensive time periods to pursue his soccer career. Allen was a part of the U.S. U-17 Residency group in Bradenton, Fla., and then in the fall of 2011 he was bound for Casa Grande, Ariz., to join its Real Salt Lake AZ U-17/18 Academy team.
"Moving away last year was an eye opener, but I've matured a lot," Allen said. "Now after moving to Florida and the decision to join the Academy at RSL, I've become acclimated to it over the last year and a half and it doesn't bother me. I'm able to focus on my soccer."
Joining an Academy team that is affiliated with the Major League Soccer first team does not hurt, either. Allen had a chance to showcase his skills in front of head coach Jason Kreis and his staff.
"I was really lucky here," Allen said. "RSL came down to Arizona for the preseason and I was able to train with them in front of Jason Kreis and Miles Joseph and with all of the first-team guys. I was able to rise to the occasion and they've called me up since then. I'm thankful for the experience."
So far Allen has played in three MLS Reserve League games, including a start in his second appearance.
"It was tough at first because you're not used to the physical side and the speed of play," Allen said. "After the first game, I've improved and I'm more comfortable. It's something I can benefit from and learn as much from it. It's just a huge opportunity."
Another big opportunity is Allen's commitment to play for Virginia starting in 2013 with a program that was home to 2012 National Soccer Hall of Fame inductees Claudio Reyna and Tony Meola.
"As soon as I got to the school, they left a great impression," Allen said. "[Virginia head coach] George Gelnovatch was open with me about my plans for school and the history at Virginia and the future they potentially have with their recruiting class. I'm excited to have been recruited there. It's a quality school."
With Allen traveling with the U.S. U-18s this month, it means the two-time Development Academy Player of the Week this season will be unavailable for his Academy team as it prepares for its final regular-season match this Saturday against Strikers FC.
Real Salt Lake AZ is in a heated SoCal Division race with Chivas USA and the LA Galaxy Academy teams at the U-17/18 level. All three teams have enjoyed first place at some point during the 2011-12 season. Currently Real Salt Lake AZ and the LA Galaxy are tied for second with 28 points and Chivas USA is atop the division with 30.
"We didn't start the season out as we would have liked, but we came back from the Holiday break and have turned it up," Allen said. "We've been more consistent and had that great weekend against the Galaxy, of course. It's disappointing that I will not be a part of our last game this weekend. It's not do or die, but hopefully we can get a result. Even if we can't get top-two, we might have enough points to get into the wildcard. It's exciting and nerve-wracking."
Should RSL solidify a spot for the Academy Playoffs, the one trait Allen says this team has is a high level of stability.
"Our biggest strength is our balance going forward," Allen said. "We have great players going forward to change the game. With Maikon Orellana, Etiandro Tavares, Ricardo Velasco, in back we have Julio Alarcon who has played reserve games, Cole Nagy – they're both from Residency and have played reserve games.
"I think the thing that most teams struggle with is our style of play and passing the ball," he said. "When it's later in games, it wears them down. That's the biggest difference with our Academy team is we move the ball, share it and have quality players who hopefully have a long future in the sport. We just have great balance."


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Clay Aiken is "actively considering" a run for Congress in North Carolina's 2nd congressional district, according to the Washington Blade.
The singer, who would run as a Democrat, has already taken the initial steps, having reportedly consulted with political strategist Betsy Conti, who worked for former Vice President Al Gore, made phone calls to gauge support, and talked to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, as well as figures in Raleigh, N.C.
The seat is currently held by GOP Rep. Renee Ellmers.
Aiken, 35, rose to fame as the runner-up in American Idol's second season. He has since appeared on Celebrity Apprentice, written a book and starred in the Broadway musicalSpamalot. He is also an LGBTQ activist, participating at a briefing on Capitol Hill for the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. In addition, Aiken founded the National Inclusion Project, which advocates for children with disabilities, and has worked with UNICEF.
He has until Feb. 28 to file for participation in the primary, where he'd likely run against North Carolina Commerce Secretary Keith Crisco. The primary would be held on May 6.


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A group of German citizens has filed suit to stop the European Central Bank from buying bonds to help lower interest rates for countries saddled with debt.
Bloomberg reported Friday that the lawsuit was filed on Nov. 12 with the European Union General Court, the second-highest judicial body in the EU to block the Outright Monetary Transactions program.
The group is currently made up of 5,217 plaintiffs and is led by activist group Zivile Koalition e.V. Beatrix von Storch, the group's spokeswoman, said in a statement, "The ECB's policy violates its own statutes and has an immediate influence on monetary stability in the euro area."
This is the sixth case to reach the EU's two top courts in challenges to decisions made by the Frankfurt-based ECB on eurozone issues. Earlier in the year, a group of more than 200 Italian retail investors sued to reverse a decision by the ECB that they said allowed the central bank to avoid Greek debt losses that private bondholders had to accept during a restructuring.
Other cases include a suit brought by Bloomberg News before the General Court to compel the ECB to release files showing how Greece may have used derivatives to hide its borrowings, and two cases brought by the ECB that are pending at the lower EU court regarding plans to block trades in some euro-denominated securities from being cleared outside the euro area.
The sixth suit, which is being appealed to the top EU court, the Court of Justice, is aimed at annulling the ECB's decisions to buy eurozone government debt and accept Greek, Irish and Portuguese debt from banks as collateral.


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Lean Manufacturing: How technology can help manufacturers lose the fat from their processes
The Australian manufacturing sector is constantly evolving, and as competition grows across the region the pace of innovation and improvements on the shop floor must quicken to ensure competiveness is maintained. Driving innovation on the shop floor in 2016 and beyond for the regional manufacturing sector are new technologies that automate a number of processes that have been problematic in the past, and which feed into the practice of lean manufacturing.
Lean manufacturing is defined by The Lean Manufacturing Guide as "A systematic approach to identifying and eliminating waste through continuous improvement by flowing the product at the demand of the customer". This has significant implications for manufacturers, who are being pressured to streamline their operations, often through automation, and look at all of their costs with a goal of stripping them to their bare minimum. These costs vary from the "hard costs" of manufacturing equipment and supporting technologies, to the downtime that results from having unreliable equipment.
Printing at the point of activity
As regional manufacturers move towards the concept of lean manufacturing, wireless technologies such as mobile printers will be a focal point of future warehouse fit-outs and critical to on the shop floor operations, as these devices can contribute to the productivity of a warehouse by fitting easily into existing work spaces and processes. For repetitive, high-volume tasks such as applying labels, saving just a few seconds per operation can translate into meaningful efficiency gains and can go a long way towards a local manufacturing becoming 'lean.'
Wireless printers give Australian warehouse operators a lot of flexibility on where printers can be positioned and by printing at the point of activity; workers are much less likely to apply the wrong label to an item or package.
In the case where a mobile printer isn't feasible or possible, positioning printers closer to areas where the work actually gets done also eliminates unnecessary trips back and forth from the workstation to the centralised printer. These walks to the printer may take only a few minutes, but multiplied across dozens of workers on multiple shifts, they represent an opportunity for tremendous time savings and productivity improvements. Eliminating unnecessary walking also helps eliminate distractions that lead to labelling errors and lost productivity.
A voice for efficiency
A lean manufacturing facility operates as efficiently as possible and with a minimum amount of assembly or distribution errors. In order to achieve this, accuracy or getting things right the first time, is key. To help eliminate the possibility of errors occurring in any assembly or distribution process, manufacturers need to ensure that their processes are supported by the right technologies like voice.
In a voice-enabled manufacturing facility or warehouse, workers wearing rugged headsets and receive verbal direction on tasks to complete select workflows. Workers speak their responses back to the voice system- which is trained to each user's individual voice - enabling the system to determine if they are completing the correct task.
In a manufacturing distribution setting, voice systems also enforce order accuracy through the use of random check digits. The check digits are placed directly by the product and must be read when a worker is at the appropriate picking location. The system won't allow the worker to continue to the next picking location unless they read the appropriate digits, meaning almost 100 per cent accuracy at all times. The ability of voice systems to deliver picking accuracy means that the correct orders are processed for shipping more often which in turn means that there are fewer returns and credits to process.
Lean billing
Technologies such as RFID are widening beyond merely collecting data to allow the billing process to be automated and revolutionising some business operations. Consider the revolution occurring in electric utilities: In the beginning, simple meters measured the electric power consumption, and a person from the energy company would periodically walk through the neighbourhood to read the meter and manually record power consumption for each house. Some utilities still operate in this way today, but more forward-looking utilities have evolved to the next level by automatically collecting power consumption data. Automated data collection greatly facilitates this business operation, making it significantly leaner but it remains fundamentally unchanged. Now, utilities are revolutionizing their operations using smart meters to collect and transmit the amount of power consumed in a household. Smart meters are an example of a technology that is fundamentally changing business operations in electric utilities by recording consumption at regular intervals and communicating it back to the utility for monitoring and billing.
This has far-reaching implications for the manufacturing industry. Imagine an RFID-based system where goods could submit data into an automated system which sent out invoices when they had reached their destination. This, when coupled with a mobile computing solution such as Honeywell's Dolphin CT50 for information recording and processing for delivery drivers and warehouse workers, would drastically reduce the amount of worker hours put into the billing process, along with reducing the significant number of errors that go hand-in-hand with a paper based system.
These errors contribute significantly to the inefficiencies within many manufacturing environments. If manufacturers are to be truly as lean as they can possibly be, it is imperative that they ensure that their paper based-systems (much of which centres around billing) are replaced with smarter and more accurate alternatives. By ensuring that their operations are as lean as possible, significant savings can be passed onto customers, or contribute extra to the bottom line of a manufacturing operation.
Automating maintenance
Asset tracking solutions help build and maintain leaner workplaces by correctly managing and maintaining organisations' assets, including the systematic coordination and tracking of individual risk assessments, scheduled inspections and maintenance, as well as ad-hoc and reactive maintenance tasks. Utilising a paper-based system which is prone to significant margins for error means that manufacturers are unnecessarily spending on people, paper and the additional cost of fixing the mistakes – these are often passed onto the customer.
Following successful implementation of significant asset tracking solutions, manufacturers are able to have full and accurate visibility of the returns and maintenance process for all equipment, leading to increased equipment reliability (which further lowers unnecessary staff costs) and reducing wasted expenditure, thus creating a leaner operation.
By implementing complimentary asset tracking technologies like handheld computers, owners and managers of manufacturing operations across Australia can deliver more accurate and timely information to limit equipment downtime and expedite repair order applications. For instance when a repair order comes in, equipment repair specialists can set to work using what is on-hand to repair, or track orders when the equipment is not available. Using a handheld computer can give specialist repairers on site a task detail showing the exact location of relevant parts and assets among the thousands that exist in a large manufacturing setting. As the specialist picks a replacement item or puts something in to be repaired, they scan its bar code with the integrated scanner on the mobile computer. The program immediately subtracts the item from its inventory count, eliminating time workers waste looking for an unusable piece of equipment. When a replacement is issued or an item returns from repair, the specialist sends a task update through the mobile computer to the project manager which automatically updates the system. While these improvements may seem marginal in single instances, by making the small processes which happen regularly leaner, significant improvements can be gained. Imagine that each time a worker is looking for a piece of equipment that is in for repairs, it takes 10 minutes. Multiply that by the many times that it happens daily, by the number of workers and there are significant gains, reducing the cost to the operation and the consumer.
The manufacturing industry is at a tipping point. Warehouse and manufacturing operations across Australia are facing more pressure from fluctuating currencies and increased rates of competition to come up with solutions that ensure they will remain competitive in the long term. Any investments in new technology that will help drive innovation and increase efficiencies should therefore focus on tangible efficiency gains and a noticeable reduction in error rates. The impetus has been put squarely on manufacturers to be innovative with their processes and how they integrate new technology into their operations to ensure they are moving towards, not away from, the concept of lean manufacturing.
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text: Taki and Molly Kitamura: A Tour of New York City By Molly and Takahiro "Horitaka" Kitamura New York City. I love this over-crowded, smelly, hot and humid oasis of culture, counter-culture, history, music and art. Horitaka, Horitomo, Drew Flores, and I flew out to give Horitomo's seminar on Japanese back pieces that he did for The Bay Area Convention of the Tattoo Arts last year. It was a whirlwind of heat, walking, talking and eating... We started out at Kings Ave. in Manhattan, the gracious hosts for the seminar that weekend. It's an amazing shop that runs like a beautiful well-oiled machine, the shop guy John was a godsend, helping us set up and organize the event. We were busy in the days leading up to the seminar; renting equipment for the seminar, touring Manhattan- Times Square is a nightmare by the way!! We ate some really good food of course, our favorites being 100 Acres and Peels. The salmon at 100 Acres was to die for, salty balanced with sweet lemon marmalade, a true revelation. And the in-house cured ham at Peels melts in your mouth, incredible! We made it out to Brooklyn for the day, stopping by Smith Street and had a very good brunch at some German-inspired bar with Bert and the guys. The French toast was like candy… I was so impressed with the walls at Smith Street; they're filled with all original, hand-painted flash some done by the guys themselves and some done by their other talented friends. It was very impressive and a rare sight to see! One other mentionable event was the hardcore show we went to. We were staying with our friends the beautiful Jesse Lee Denning and her talented musician boyfriend, Brian. One of the bands Brian is in is a hardcore band made up of some of the biggest legends of the genre. The club was in one of those basement bars, over-crowded and hot as hell. The band was awesome and Taki and I felt 19 again! The seminar was a success as Horitomo and Taki were spot on and it seemed like the attendees got what they needed out of the experience. Most walked away with one of Horitomo's coveted prints, everyone left with smiles. Yes, the trip to NYC was a blast and we accomplished what we set out to do, which was to give an informative seminar and see the city that never sleeps. Read more from Molly below: Molly Skobba: Brynne Palmer Molly Skobba: Colin Kenji Baker Molly Skobba: Si'I Liufau Molly Skobba: Drew Flores Molly Skobba: Pacific Soul Tattoo Molly Skobba: In Japan With Horikiku (Part I) Molly Skobba: In Yokohama, Japan With Shige and His Family (Part II)


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Aromatherapy Soy Vegepure candles are an eco-friendly blend of food grade soy and vegetables waxes with 100% essential oils. They are renewable, sustainable and melt clean and cool.
Tranquility - Wildcrafted Lavender Small Tin
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Approximately 15 hour burn time.


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It seems to get harder and harder each year to come up with an original costume idea for Halloween. No one wants to be the 4th guy dressed in a Spiderman costume or 3 gal to be dressed as a Witch at the party. They want to stand out from the crowd without being to outrageous or controversial. So here are a few unique Halloween costume ideas. Maybe they will inspire you this Halloween.
For women, how about going as a Valkyrie ? A Valkyrie is a character out of Norse mythology, although they are view to be mentioned in many Germanic pagan religions colse to the middle ages. They are probably best known in Viking legends, as they escorted slain heroes to Valhalla (or the afterlife).
Halloween Costumes
They are regularly represented as animated women that can fly (Flight of the Valkyries anyone?) If you were to look at their depictions in literature of the time straight through to contemporary times, you will observation the remarkable similarities between the costume of a character like superwoman and the Valkyrie costume.
Valkyries would wear a cape, to help them fly no doubt and a winged headpiece that was a symbolic representation that they could fly. It was often used to depict gods that could fly in Greek and Roman mythology. They would wear arm gauntlets and shoulder guards to indicate that they were also warrior like and would be gift in battles.
For men, how about going as Hagar the Horrible or any viking for that matter. You won't see too many habitancy dressed as a viking, let alone as Hagar. I guess he has drifted out of favor over the years and as they say, out of sight is out of mind.
The accepted Viking costume includes the helmet with cow horns, the tunic, boots with fake fur, shield and sword (or axe). He can also wear arm and shoulder guards. If he has been traveling in his long boat for many months then he might also sport a wild and woolly beard.Unique Halloween Costume Ideas - 2 Ideas That Will Have citizen Gossiping at the Party


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Connecticut school allows student to wear anti-gay shirt
WOLCOTT, Conn. – The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut says Wolcott school officials have reversed themselves and are allowing a student to wear a T-shirt with an anti-gay message.
The ACLU announced Tuesday that the lawyer for the school district says high school student Seth Groody may wear the T-shirt, which bears a slash mark through a rainbow.
The ACLU says he wore the shirt last April 20, which was designated as a day of awareness of harassment toward gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people. He removed the shirt when ordered by school officials.
The ACLU says it was prepared to sue the school district.
Without elaborating, school attorney Christine Chinni wrote to the ACLU saying that Groody may wear the T-shirt.
Chinni did not immediately return a call seeking comment.


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I just started running a campaign. I haven't run a RPG in +20 years. Ran them for many years. I am focusing on Fantasy Hero in a Sword & Sorcery setting (think Conan, Fafhred & Grey Mouser kind of world). Role playing is more important than combat. The story & characters are more important to me than the combat. I would say 50/50. Some sessions might be a big battle, some sessions not a single dice will be rolled for combat, and sometimes there might be a minor 'combat' as a plot device.
Right now there are just three players and myself. We are looking for 2 or maybe 3 players to join us.
We play on Sunday afternoons. I have pets so if you have allergies that would be a problem. If you are interested let me know and I will send you more information about game system (not D&D, Hero Games) and setting (which you can see online).
We appear to live somewhat close to each other. I'm looking for players for a realistic fantasy campaign using RuneQuest rules. Schedule will be determined based on what works for players. You can check out the campaign setting at Obsidian portal (address below). If it suits your gaming style and interest, let me know.


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July 23, 2013, 5:00 a.m.
A shocker: House gets something right
On immigration, the Border Security Results Act strikes a fair balance between border enforcement and fiscal responsibility.
By The Times editorial board
It isn't often that the House gets it right on immigration reform, at least not in recent years. Yet it has done so with the Border Security Results Act of 2013, a sensible piece of legislation that has miraculously emerged from the Committee on Homeland Security and that strikes a fair balance between enforcement and fiscal responsibility.
Unlike the Senate's approach, which throws $46 billion at the U.S.-Mexican border without any real strategy behind it, the House bill would require the Department of Homeland Security to provide a status report on illegal crossings and develop a strategy to thwart the vast majority of unauthorized entries.
The House and Senate bills share some of the same goals, including calling for a dramatic increase in surveillance of the border and ensuring that 90% of those attempting to cross illegally are either turned back or arrested. But the House bill would require far more analysis before spending billions for more boots on the ground and additional technology.
For example, the House bill calls on Homeland Security, as part of its status report, to identify high-traffic areas within three months of the bill becoming law. The department would have another 30 days to create metrics to measure the state of border security. Within nine months of the bill's approval, the department would have to have a border security strategy up and running. Only after those benchmarks were met would Congress provide additional funding for expanding the strategy across the entire border.
The bill also demands far more accountability from the department, including progress reports to Congress and Government Accountability Office oversight. Unlike the Senate bill, it does not tie the promise of a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are illegally in the U.S. to border security, which is outside their control.
Much of the credit for the bill belongs to Reps. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the chairman of the committee, and Candice S. Miller (R-Mich.), the vice chair, both of whom worked across the aisle and consulted with academics and experts rather than give in to the arbitrary demands of some GOP House members who feel that nothing short of a U.S. version of the Great Wall of China will guarantee border security.
On Tuesday, the committee is scheduled to hold hearings to compare the House and Senate approaches to border security. We hope that McCaul and Miller continue to prove that some House Republicans are still capable of having a sane and credible discussion on immigration reform.