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At present, the primary border crossing for visitors taking trains to Thailand is located near the Malaysian border town of Butterworth. Travelers from Singapore and Kuala Lumpur can travel by train to Thailand, but not without stopping to change trains. The journey from Singapore can last up to 48 hours as two changes of trains are required and there are numerous stops along the way to Bangkok.
First class sleeper cars can make a train trip to Thailand more enjoyable, though for a price; one can travel the Eastern & Oriental Express, a throw-back, colonial style luxury train that services Bangkok and Butterworth, Malaysia weekly.
From Laos, there is new service between Laos and Thailand as of 2009, a 3.5 km railway that runs from the Vientiane-Nong Khai Friendship Bridge to Vientiane's Thanalaeng train station. Train service is available in Thailand once visitors cross from Cambodia, but not yet from within Cambodia. After crossing into Thailand from either Laos or Cambodia, both Nong Khai (from Vientiane) and Aranyaprathet (from Poipet) have train stations for domestic travel.
Plans are in the works to upgrade the Cambodian railway so that travel is possible from China, through Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand, and finally onto Singapore.
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MARTINSVILLE, Va. � Surprising no one, Jimmie Johnson left his little gold mine, Martinsville Speedway, with another treasure chest. First place in the Tums Fast Relief 500 was worth $202,511, but another Sprint Cup championship, his sixth, would be priceless.
Three races remain. Johnson�s got the points lead. It isn�t much, but for the first time in a while, Brad Keselowski, who finished sixth, is chasing him. No. 2 ( Keselowski ) trails by two.
MARTINSVILLE, Va. � Surprising no one, Jimmie Johnson left his little gold mine, Martinsville Speedway, with another treasure chest. First place in the Tums Fast Relief 500 was worth $202,511, but another Sprint Cup championship, his sixth, would be priceless.
Three races remain. Johnson�s got the points lead. It isn�t much, but for the first time in a while, Brad Keselowski, who finished sixth, is chasing him. No. 2 ( Keselowski ) trails by two.
�Just because you don�t qualify well, it doesn�t mean you don�t have a fast race car,� said Johnson, who could afford to be charitable. �Anything could happen. We�ve done a nice job to put us in the points lead. � We�re ready to race him under any conditions.�
Johnson sounded more upbeat about Keselowski�s chances than � Keselowski .
�We can�t keep on just surviving,� he said. �Surviving isn�t going to win the championship.�
With races in Fort Worth, Phoenix and Homestead (Fla.) remaining in the season, it may not be a two-man race, but that�s the way it looks. Clint Bowyer finished fifth and is third in the standings, but his deficit, 24 points, is considerable at this point.
�That �2� team ( Keselowski ) is unbelievable,� Bowyer groused. �They keep doing what they do.�
The day�s disaster befell Denny Hamlin, a four-time Martinsville winner, who finished 33rd after his Toyota suffered catastrophic electrical failure. The ever-cautious points leader betrayed no comfort in Hamlin�s misfortune.
�What it does to my mind is � I�m not smiling,� Johnson said. �What was it? Electrical failure? It could happen to me next week. I�m not eliminating anybody.�
Hamlin trails by 49 points. Johnson wasn�t eliminating Hamlin, but Hamlin wrote his own chances off.
�One of these days it�s going to be our time,� he said. �It�s just not going to be right now.�
Keselowski actually held the lead with less than 20 laps to go, but it wasn�t because his Dodge was fastest. It was because he didn�t pit when Johnson and others did. Keselowski clung to the lead for five laps. Johnson finally passed him between turns three and four on lap 486. Then the flood gates opened, and Kyle Busch, Kahne and Jeff Gordon followed Johnson past Keselowski .
With nine laps remaining, Earnhardt and Carl Edwards tangled in turns one and two. The chain reaction began with Edwards� Ford being hit from behind by Sam Hornish Jr.�s Dodge. That contact sent Edwards� car into Earnhardt�s.
Johnson took the lead at the outset, too � hardly surprising since he qualified fastest � and remained there the first 66 laps before yielding to teammate Gordon. No one significant crashed in the first 100 laps, though yellow flags waved after failed right-front tires sent the cars of Michael McDowell (lap 45) and David Stremme (97) careening into relatively minor contacts with the track�s cushioned walls in separate incidents.
Travis Kvapil�s Toyota marked the third such incident on lap 126, though his was unrelated to tire trouble.
Keselowski slowly worked his way up from 32nd starting position. Following the third caution flag, Keselowski restarted in 15th position at lap135. Meanwhile, Brian Vickers wrested the lead from Gordon on lap146. A Kyle Busch spin in turn three brought out the fourth caution on lap 149.
Hamlin, who had lost track position due to an early pit-road penalty, worked his way up to second. A turn-two shunt involving Marcos Ambrose and Kvapil slowed the pace again at lap 212.
Clint Bowyer ousted Gordon from the lead on lap 226. Hendrick Chevys thus became aligned in second through fifth with Gordon, Johnson, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kasey Kahne. Kevin Harvick�s Chevy drop-kicked Kurt Busch�s into the turn-four wall on lap 233. Johnson and Bowyer conducted a side-by-side duel for the lead that lasted for more than three laps, Bowyer finally clearing him on lap 238.
Bowyer then dominated the race up until a costly pit-road mistake � he stalled the Toyota while attempting to pull away � on lap 349.
Harvick�s engine expired on lap 475, setting up the finish. Kyle Busch finished second, Kahne third and, in a surprise, Aric Almirola fourth in the Ford carrying the name of Richard Petty, Martinsville�s all-time leader with 15 victories.
Monte Dutton: 704-869-1841; twitter.com/montedutton


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Holy Cross Wilderness
IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Holy Cross Wilderness (map) in 1980 and it now has a total of 122,446 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Colorado and is managed by the Forest Service.
DescriptionThe Holy Cross Wilderness is characterized by rugged ridgelines and glacier-carved valleys complete with spruce-fir forests, cascading streams and dozens of lakes. The wilderness is named after Mount of the Holy Cross, which became famous in 1873 when William Henry Jackson first photographed the cross of snow on the northeast face of the mountain. Over 150 miles of trail traverse the area, providing excellent opportunities for day hiking and backpacking trips.
Planning to Visit the Holy Cross Wilderness?
- Print a fact sheet
- General things to consider when visiting any wilderness
- Regulations, Permits
- Contact the Forest Service
- Visit the National Forest wilderness website
Leave No TraceHow to follow the seven standard Leave No Trace principles differs in different parts of the country (desert vs. Rocky Mountains). Click on any of the principles listed below to learn more about how they apply in the Holy Cross Wilderness.
- Plan Ahead and Prepare
- Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
- Dispose of Waste Properly
- Leave What You Find
- Minimize Campfire Impacts
- Respect Wildlife
- Be Considerate of Other Visitors


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Let the voting begin. If we use the nine battleground states most people agree are in play, Barack Obama has 431 routes to the presidency, and Mitt Romney has 79. There are five possibilities for a 269 to 269 tie, which would throw the election to the House of Representatives and most likely lead to a Romney victory because the GOP will control the House. But let's not go down that road just yet. First, a viewer's guide to how the day will unfold and what you should look for as the votes come rolling in.
12 a.m.:
That's right. Election Day voting actually began at the stroke of midnight. That's when residents of Dixville Notch, N.H., cast their ballots. (The results are in! It was a tie, with five votes for Barack Obama and five votes for Mitt Romney.) This is also approximately the start time for rumors to begin about exit polls, fraud, intimidation, and landslide victories. Actual voting started in East Coast cities around 6 a.m., where polls opened in Virginia. Polls opened in Florida an hour later.
There will be lots of stories today about turnout and what long or short lines mean for each campaign. (And we'll be peddling these stories and shooting them down on our Election Dispatches roundtable). The Obama team has done a better job than the Romney team in turning out the early vote, which they're telling reporters means their areas will have shorter lines. The Romney campaign promises to swamp their opponent on Election Day, making up for any deficit in the early vote. So look for heavy turnout in Republican areas—Duval County in Florida, Chesterfield County in Virginia, Butler county in Ohio—to see if the Republicans are matching their boast. Democrats may hardly line up in Nevada at all, where roughly 66 percent of the voting has already taken place. But if the lines are short in Virginia or New Hampshire, where most ballots are not cast early, then it might be a bad omen for Democrats.
5:30 p.m.:
Exit-poll rumors will start or already be underway. Ignore them. People will publish numbers and call them exit-poll numbers, but they will almost certainly be wrong or incomplete. Ignore analysis based on what people are calling exit polls until later in the night.
7 p.m.: Virginia (13) polls close, look for Indiana Senate race returns
If Barack Obama wins Virginia, Mitt Romney will have just 18 paths to 270 electoral votes. If Romney wins, Obama will have just 197.
When Barack Obama won the commonwealth by 6.3 percentage points in 2008, it was a part of his new coalition. Before his victory, a Democrat had not won Virginia since LBJ in 1964. Obama beat McCain 52.6 percent to 46.3 percent, which almost matched his national percentage of 52.9. (Virginia is one of five states in 2008 in which Obama's percentage of the vote was below his national percentage. The others were Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio, and Florida.)
Watch Fairfax County to see if Obama is running up a big lead there. We'll get some idea about how well those messages about Romney's extreme views on abortion paid off with married, white, college-educated women. (If it did play well with these kinds of voters in Virginia, the question then becomes will it also play with the same demographic in Colorado?) Obama got 60 percent of Fairfax County in 2008 and needs to do very well here to combat Romney's likely advantage in rural counties and GOP strongholds like Chesterfield, Hanover, and Augusta. This pattern of Romney's strength in the rural areas against Obama's big margins in cities will be a constant theme throughout the night. Virginia is one state where the GOP ground game rivals Obama's.
Prince William County in Northern Virginia is a swing county. George W. Bush won it twice, but Obama carried it in 2008 with 57 percent. The same is true in Henrico County, which sits like a hat on top of Richmond. This county has an African-American population at its core with conservative white suburbs. If Democrats are doing well in Henrico, then Obama will do well. Watch here also for the Tim Kaine-George Allen Senate race. Kaine was mayor of Richmond. He might win Henrico, even if the president loses it. In the southeastern portion of the state, the Hampton Roads area, Obama will have to do well with African-American voters in Newport News, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach. This area—along with Northern Virginia—relies heavily on military spending, and Romney has tried to win over voters by criticizing the proposed cuts to the defense budget. In 1996, military spending accounted for 26 percent of Hampton Roads' local economy. Today, it's about 45 percent.
We'll also get an inkling about whether Romney's attempt to go after voters unhappy with Obama's coal policies paid off in counties like Martinsville, Va. Obama visited Martinsville in 2008 and promised he wouldn't forget them. Danville, Bristol, and Abingdon are also areas where the GOP has held events under the title "Rally for Appalachian Coal."
Indiana polls close at this time, too, and we'll soon learn the fate of Tea Party favorite Richard Mourdock, who retired longtime Sen. Dick Lugar in the Republican primary. Lugar would have held the seat easily, helping the Republicans gain control of the Senate. Now the state is a toss-up after Mourdock's comments about a child conceived of rape being a gift from God.
7:30 p.m.: Polls close in Ohio (18) and North Carolina (15)
Say it with me now: No Republican has won the White House without winning Ohio. If Romney loses the Buckeye State, his 76 chances for reaching 270 will shrink to 11.
The president needs to run up his vote in Cuyahoga County (68 percent or more) to offset Republican strength in Butler, Warren, and Clermont* counties, areas surrounding the swing county of Hamilton (which includes Cincinnati), where Obama won in 2008. (Obama was the first Democrat to win Hamilton County in four decades.) He'll need to win there again or hold Romney to a small victory. Obama needs to do well in Franklin County (Columbus), which has become friendlier for Democrats in recent years.
If you want to fixate on a bellwether county, look at Lake County, which is east of Cuyahoga. It usually matches the statewide vote. Also look to Wood and Ottawa, northern counties between Toledo and Cleveland that have gone to the state's winner in every presidential election since 1992.
See my piece from yesterday about the questions I'm asking about what the Ohio outcome might tell us.
Incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown is fighting off a challenge from Ohio State Treasurer Josh Mandel in what became a nasty fight. Expectations are that this will not be a Republican pickup.
North Carolina: Before Obama won North Carolina's 15 electoral votes in 2008, a Democrat had not won the state since Carter won in 1976. Obama beat McCain by 14,000 votes. His 49.9 percent of the vote was below his national percentage of 52.9 percent. (North Carolina is one of five red zone states—also, Indiana, Virginia, Ohio, and Florida—in which Obama's 2008 percentage was below his national percentage.)
North Carolina is Romney's most likely victory from the Obama 2008 map, and the state, like Virginia, that will test the durability of Obama's coalition of young voters, urban professionals, minorities. The theory of the "new south" is that explosive population growth, particularly from out-of-state college-educated voters, could push states like North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida into the Democratic column. This election may prove whether this theory has real merit or whether Obama winning those states last time was an anomaly.
For the president to win in North Carolina, he'll need to have fantastic numbers with African-Americans—21 percent of the population—and young voters. Obama will need to run up his margins in the cities. His strong counties are Wake (Raleigh), Mecklenburg (Charlotte), and Durham.* If Obama doesn't get 60 percent in those counties, he's in trouble. Republicans have to do well in Union and Gaston, where if Obama can get 34 percent or more of the vote, he'll have eaten into Romney's chance to run up his margin. Buncombe, Forsyth, and Wake counties all went for Obama after twice going for President Bush.
8 p.m.: Polls close in Florida (29), New Hampshire (4), and Pennsylvania(20)
Polls start to close in Florida at 7 p.m. Eastern time, but a portion of the state is in the Central time zone, so they close at 8 EST. If Florida goes for the president, it could be an early night. If Obama wins Florida, Romney has only one path to the presidency: winning every other battleground state.
One Florida political strategist described Florida as three states and two countries. In the north, they vote for Republicans. Duval County (Jacksonville) and all the way through the panhandle is a Republican stronghold, along with Brevard County on the eastern coast. In the southeast, they vote for Democrats (Miami-Dade County and Broward County). The middle, along the I-4 corridor, both parties fight for swing voters. (Forty-three percent of all registered voters live in the Tampa Bay media market or the Orlando media market, the two ends of the I-4 corridor.) The two countries the strategist talked about are made up of Cubans, who tend to vote for Republicans, and the non-Cuban Hispanics who vote for Democrats. There are now more non-Cuban Hispanics in Florida than Cubans. Just over 42 percent of the state's citizens are minorities, a key part of Obama's coalition.
To win, a candidate must run up the margins in their strong counties (Obama won by 140,000 in Miami-Dade in 2008; McCain won by 30,000 votes in Brevard) and try to hold their opponents to small margins in their strong areas (Obama held McCain to a 7,000 vote victory in Duval through a big turnout of African-American voters). Then, they have to win enough of the I-4 swing counties.
How close is the state? Since 1992, there have been five presidential elections. In Florida, the GOP won 2, Democrats won 2, and there is one everyone will always fight over. In total over those races, 32.5 million people have voted—and the overall difference in votes is 60,000, or 0.017 percent.
Things to look for in the 8 p.m. exit polls: Did Romney do well among women, because the older voters Republicans traditionally capture tend to be disproportionately female? What percentage of voters say they were contacted by the campaign? Florida is a ground-game-intensive state.
New Hampshire is important mostly because Romney shouldn't lose it. He was governor of a neighboring state, he's got a home near lake Winnipesaukee, and he won the primary there after a concerted campaign. The key area is Hillsborough County around Manchester and Rockingham County around Brentwood. Obama won them both in 2008 after George Bush won them in 2000 and 2004.
Also, at this hour we'll start to get returns from Pennsylvania, and we will see if Romney's last-minute gambit in the Keystone State paid off. We should also begin to hear noises about Maine's odd electoral-vote split at this point. Two votes go to the statewide winner and one goes to the top vote-getter inside each congressional district.
And of course it's a big hour for the Senate: Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, and Missouri all close at this hour. In Maine, if Angus King wins, he'll be elected as an independent. Depending on how the other Senate races go, which party he decides to caucus with will determine control of the Senate. Missouri is the second state of the year where a conservative—in this case Todd Akin—may lose the race because of comments about rape. If Elizabeth Warren defeats incumbent Scott Brown, she will slow the GOP march to control of the Senate by stealing a vote from their column. Former wrestling executive Linda McMahon would flip the Connecticut seat to the Republican column from independent, but she has been losing in the polls.
9 p.m.: Polls close in Wisconsin (10) and Colorado (9)
By this hour the map on your television screens will be filled with lots of states clearly likely to go to each of the candidates—New York, Texas, and Georgia.
Wisconsin is a key part of the Obama Midwestern firewall. Minorities aren't as important here. Labor support is. The president's two big counties are Milwaukee, where he won with 68 percent of the vote in 2008, and Dane County, home to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He's had monster rallies at Madison, including after the first debate when he fell asleep onstage. Look to see if there is a lot of same-day registration in Dane County on Election Day. Ten percent of Wisconsin voters registered on Election Day in 2008, according to the Obama campaign. They're banking on that again. (Iowa and New Hampshire are two other battleground states with same-day registration.)
The strong Republican counties follow a familiar pattern we've seen in other states. They ring the big Democratic areas. So watch Waukesha and Washington. (Say that three times fast!) Romney needs to get 70 percent of the vote there. Also look at Marathon County, in the northwestern part of the state. Romney should get 55 percent there to win. Your Wisconsin swing county is Brown, home of Green Bay.
Colorado is another state that tests the Obama theory about the new electorate. Hispanic voters make up 14 percent of the population. The question is will they turn out? A Pew Hispanic survey from early October showed Latino voters supported Obama by a 3-to-1 ratio but are less certain about voting—77 percent of Latino registered voters say they're "absolutely certain" to vote, compared with 89 percent of all registered voters.
The Colorado electorate is packed with prosperous young professionals—more than half of the electorate is college-educated, one of the highest levels among battleground states—and that's a group Obama does well with. But the key group to watch is suburban college-educated women. They helped Sen. Michael Bennet beat back the GOP tide in 2010 by convincing those women that his Republican opponent was an extremist on social issues. That was harder for Obama to do with Romney. Look for the results from Denver suburbs and Larimer County to see if Obama is doing well with this demographic again.
Romney has to do well in the rural counties and run up votes in the GOP strongholds of El Paso (Colorado Springs), Douglas (south of Denver), Weld, and Mesa counties.
In Wisconsin's Senate race, Tammy Baldwin is trying to hold a Democratic seat against popular former Gov. Tommy Thompson. If Thompson loses, it will be another piece of evidence in the case against the Tea Party. He spent a lot of money and time fighting off a primary challenge that might have hurt his general election chances.
10 p.m: Polls close in Iowa (6) and Nevada (6)
By now some battleground states will probably have been called. Routes to the presidency will have narrowed.
The Obama campaign went into Election Day thinking it had these two states locked. Iowa is the spiritual birthplace of the Obama campaign, where his caucus victory in 2008 propelled him to the White House. At his last rally there Monday night, the president was emotional. Iowa has the lowest unemployment rate of the battleground states. The competition in the state is so close that both sides even use the same language to talk about it. "It started here and it ends here," says Sue Dvorsky, the chairwoman of the Iowa Democratic Party, explaining why Obama will win. Iowa's Republican Gov. Terry Branstad said, "We're the state that launched Obama, but I think in this election we're the state that's going to sink him."
There are more registered independents in Iowa than registered Republicans or Democrats. In all states, the candidates will both try to maximize turnout of their base and win over swing voters, but the question in different states will be: which is the priority? Veteran Iowa pollster Ann Selzer argues that Iowa is different than states like Pennsylvania or North Carolina, where the emphasis is more on base turnout than converting swing voters. In Iowa, there are more voters sloshing around in the middle.
The key area for Obama is Polk County (Des Moines), smack in the middle of the state. Republicans need to do well in Dallas, just outside Des Moines, and the western counties like Sioux and Woodbury, as well as the rural counties. Democrats must do well in the eastern counties.
Nevada: This battleground state may be the easiest to understand. Clark County (Las Vegas) is the largest county, and Democrats traditionally win there. It is perhaps the best county to look at to test a larger theme of this election: economics vs. demographics. Sixty-seven percent of the houses in Clark have mortgages that are bigger than the home's value. But the county is nearly 30 percent Hispanic.
In Colorado, Republicans win the rural counties, so Romney will have to win places like Douglas County by 64 percent. The bellwether county is Washoe (Reno). If Obama wins Washoe, he will win the state.
Montana Senate race: Incumbent Democrat Jon Tester faces a challenge from Rep. Denny Rehberg. If you want to know what happens to the Senate, you might need to stay up for this race. It could be the crucial seat to determine whether the GOP can take control of the Senate.
11 p.m.:
Voting has ended in all states but Alaska, which will not determine the election. Based on the way these things have gone in the past, a call might be made between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m.. But if you've reached this portion of the program and there doesn't seem to be a clear trend in Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin for President Obama, then you might want to consider going to bed. It's likely to be a long night. If Romney pulls it out in early states, the result will likely be close, which means lots of caution and probably some disputes in battleground states. Oh, and if you're thinking about the popular vote, don't stay up. That won't be finalized for a few days.
Correction, Nov. 6, 2012: This article originally misspelled Clermont County. It also said Charletson, instead of Charlotte, was in Mecklenburg County.


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Garrett Wang as Garan
Garrett Wang portrays Garan, an ambitious and devious Security Chief.
Garrett Wang portrayed Ops/Communication Officer Harry Kim on Star Trek: Voyager. A graduate of the Starfleet Academy, Harry boarded the Starship U.S.S. Voyager after a stellar academic career.He embraces the challenges of space exploration as the crew travels through the unknown region of space known as the Delta Quadrant. "Kim is eager, personable and shows traces of a wry sense of humor, although he takes his job very seriously," Wang says.
Born in Riverside, California to Chinese immigrant parents, Wang spent his formative years on the move. He lived in Indiana, Bermuda and Tennessee. He moved to Los Angeles and attended UCLA where he majored in Asian Studies and dabbled in theater. He credits UCLA theater professor Jenny Roudtree as a key influence in his development as an actor. "Jenny was responsible for my first breakthrough," he explains. "She inspired me to go beyond the status quo."
Wang, in his first performance outside of college, garnered unprecedented critical acclaim for his portrayal of John Lee in the lead of Chay Yew's "Porcelain" at Burbage Theater. Despite a busy schedule, Garrett has continued to perform in various staged readings such as "Model Minority" for the Los Angeles Theater Center, "Woman Warrior" for the Mark Taper Forum and "A Language of Their Own" for the Intiman Theater.
Prior to joining the cast of Star Trek: Voyager, Garrett guest starred in the premiere episode of the ABC series All American Girl starring Margaret Cho. "I believe that I now have a huge responsibility in being one of a very small number of Asian Americans appearing on television regularly," Wang explains. "My goal on Voyager was to do the best job possible playing Harry Kim and to begin repaying my parents for the unaccountable financial support they have given me throughout the years."
Wang recently appeared in two independent feature films "Ivory Towers" and "Hundred Percent." In 1997, he was named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" by People magazine. Additionally, E! Entertainment Television has selected Garrett as on of the "20 Coolest Bachelors" in the country.
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The Queens Ledger
According to reports this past weekend, management decided to put their own copies of police-issued "No Parking Sunday" signs over parking meters around the mall in order to help traffic flow. They did it for years until one Queens motorist defied the signs and parked there last month. He then questioned police and took it to the next level. The jig is up, and now the mall, which is the highest grossing mall per square foot in the entire nation, needs to come back and make restitution.
We're suggesting free parking for three months in the mall's parking lots.
According to Forest Hills Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz, the parking meter scandal "…presents an incredibly disturbing problem that harms honest taxpayers who are shopping in Queens." She and Jackson Heights Councilman Daniel Dromm say they are keeping a close eye on the situation.
Meanwhile Dromm has joined the fight the workers are taking up with the wage issues and lack of community engagement the mall has shown. The Macerich Company, which owns Queens Center, receives over $100 million in tax breaks, but most of the 3,100 employees at Queens Center Mall earn an average of just $7.25 per hour with no health benefits. "That's the big issue for the people in my district," said Dromm on Tuesday.
When tax dollars are used to subsidize private development, the jobs created should certainly help the surrounding community. A reasonable living wage should not be above our expectations.
The mall has had its share of tragedy recently, too. On April 8, 2009, 55-year-old Mary Lovelace climbed over a waist-high rail in the center area and plunged to her death three stories below, landing on a teenager. Safety issues at the mall were brought out as shop owners said the low height of the railings told them an incident like this was bound to happen.
Now groups are also asking that the mall, a popular hangout for teens, provide some kind of community support for these kids, maybe some help in job training, financial counseling, or even ESL classes.
We agree. The mall management should not hide behind ownership 3,000 miles away while issues like parking scandals and wage protests happen on the streets of Queens.


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Major Section: BDD
The BDD algorithm in ACL2 uses a combination of manipulation of
IF terms and unconditional rewriting. In this discussion we
begin with some relevant mathematical theory. This is followed by a
description of how ACL2 does BDDs, including concluding discussions
of soundness, completeness, and efficiency.
We recommend that you read the other documentation about BDDs in ACL2 before reading the rather technical material that follows. See BDD.
Here is an outline of our presentation. Readers who want a user perspective, without undue mathematical theory, may wish to skip to Part (B), referring to Part (A) only on occasion if necessary.
(A) Mathematical Considerations
(B) Algorithmic Considerations
(A1) BDD term order
(A2) BDD-constructors and BDD terms, and their connection with aborting the BDD algorithm
(A3) Canonical BDD terms
(A4) A theorem stating the equivalence of provable and syntactic equality for canonical BDD terms
(B1) BDD rules (rules used by the rewriting portion of the ACL2 BDD algorithm)
(B2) Terms ``known to be Boolean''
(B3) An ``IF-lifting'' operation used by the algorithm, as well as an iterative version of that operation
(B4) The ACL2 BDD algorithm
(B5) Soundness and Completeness of the ACL2 BDD algorithm
(B6) Efficiency considerations
(A) Mathematical Considerations
(A1) BDD term order
Our BDD algorithm creates a total ``BDD term order'' on ACL2 terms, on the fly. We use this order in our discussions below of IF-lifting and of canonical BDD terms, and in the algorithm's use of commutativity. The particular order is unimportant, except that we guarantee (for purposes of commutative functions) that constants are smaller in this order than non-constants.
(A2) BDD-constructors (assumed to be
'(cons)) and BDD terms
We take as given a list of function symbols that we call the
``BDD-constructors.'' By default, the only BDD-constructor is
cons, although it is legal to specify any list of function
symbols as the BDD-constructors, either by using the
acl2-defaults-table (see acl2-defaults-table) or by
supplying a
:BDD-CONSTRUCTORS hint (see hints). Warning:
this capability is largely untested and may produce undesirable
results. Henceforth, except when explicitly stated to the contrary,
we assume that BDD-constructors is
Roughly speaking, a BDD term is the sort of term produced
by our BDD algorithm, namely a tree with all
cons nodes lying
above all non-
CONS nodes. More formally, a term is said to
be a BDD term if it contains no subterm of either of the
following forms, where
f is not
(f ... (CONS ...) ...)
(f ... 'x ...) ; where (consp x) = t
We will see that whenever the BDD algorithm attempts to create a term that is not a BDD term, it aborts instead. Thus, whenever the algorithm completes without aborting, it creates a BDD term.
(A3) Canonical BDD terms
We can strengthen the notion of ``BDD term'' to a notion of
``canonical BDD term'' by imposing the following additional
requirements, for every subterm of the form
(IF x y z):
(a)We claim that it follows easily from our description of the BDD algorithm that every term it creates is a canonical BDD term, assuming that the variables occurring in all such terms are treated by the algorithm as being Boolean (see (B2) below) and that the terms contain no function symbols other than
xis a variable, and it precedes (in the BDD term order) every variable occurring in
zare syntactically distinct; and,
(c) it is not the case that
IF and
Thus, under those assumptions the following theorem shows that the
BDD algorithm never creates distinct terms that are provably equal,
a property that is useful for completeness and efficiency (as we
explain in (B5) and (B6) below).
(A4) Provably equal canonical BDD terms are identical
We believe that the following theorem and proof are routine
extensions of a standard result and proof to terms that allow calls
Theorem. Suppose that
t1 and
t2 are canonical BDD terms
that contain no function symbols other than
IF and
CONS. Also
suppose that
(EQUAL t1 t2) is a theorem. Then
t1 and
are syntactically identical.
Proof of theorem: By induction on the total number of symbols
occurring in these two terms. First suppose that at least one term
is a variable; without loss of generality let it be
t1. We must
prove that
t2 is syntactically the same as
t1. Now it is
clearly consistent that
(EQUAL t1 t2) is false if
t2 is a call
CONS (to see this, simply let
t1 be an value that is not a
CONSP). Similarly,
t2 cannot be a constant or a variable
other than
t1. The remaining possibility to rule out is that
t2 is of the form
(IF t3 t4 t5), since by assumption its
function symbol must be
IF or
CONS and we have already handled
the latter case. Since
t2 is canonical, we know that
t3 is a
variable. Since
(EQUAL t1 t2) is provable, i.e.,
(EQUAL t1 (if t3 t4 t5))is provable, it follows that we may substitute either
t or
t3 into this equality to obtain two new provable equalities.
First, suppose that
t1 and
t3 are distinct variables. Then
these substitutions show that
t1 is provably equal to both
t5 (since
t3 does not occur in
t4 or
t5 by property
(a) above, as
t2 is canonical), and hence
t4 and
t5 are
provably equal to each other, which implies by the inductive
hypothesis that they are the same term -- and this contradicts the
assumption that
t2 is canonical (property (b)). Therefore
t3 are the same variable, i.e., the equality displayed above
is actually
(EQUAL t1 (if t1 t4 t5)). Substituting
t and then
nil for
t1 into this provable equality lets us prove
(EQUAL t t4)
(EQUAL nil t5), which by the inductive hypothesis implies
t4 is (syntactically) the term
t and
t5 is
That is,
t2 is
(IF t1 t nil), which contradicts the assumption
t2 is canonical (property (c)).
Next, suppose that at least one term is a call of
IF. Our first
observation is that the other term is also a call of
IF. For if
the other is a call of
CONS, then they cannot be provably equal,
because the former has no function symbols other than
IF and
hence is Boolean when all its variables are assigned Boolean values.
Also, if the other is a constant, then both branches of the
term are provably equal to that constant and hence these branches
are syntactically identical by the inductive hypothesis,
contradicting property (b). Hence, we may assume for this case that
both terms are calls of
IF; let us write them as follows.
t0: (IF t1 t2 t3) u0: (IF u1 u2 u3)Note that
t1 and
u1 are variables, by property (a) of
canonical BDD terms. First we claim that
t1 does not strictly
u1 in the BDD term order. For suppose
t1 does
strictly precede
u1. Then property (a) of canonical BDD terms
guarantees that
t1 does not occur in
u0. Hence, an argument
much like one used above shows that
u0 is provably equal to both
t2 (substituting
t for
t1) and
t3 (substituting
t1), and hence
t2 and
t3 are provably equal. That
implies that they are identical terms, by the inductive hypothesis,
which then contradicts property (b) for
t0. Similarly,
does not strictly precede
t1 in the BDD term order. Therefore,
t1 and
u1 are the same variable. By substituting
t for
this variable we see that
t2 and
u2 are provably equal, and
hence they are equal by the inductive hypothesis. Similarly, by
nil for
t1 (and
u1) we see that
t3 and
u3 are provably, hence syntactically, equal.
We have covered all cases in which at least one term is a variable
or at least one term is a call of
IF. If both terms are
constants, then provable and syntactic equality are clearly
equivalent. Finally, then, we may assume that one term is a call of
CONS and the other is a constant or a call of
CONS. The
constant case is similar to the
CONS case if the constant is a
CONSP, so we omit it; while if the constant is not a
then it is not provably equal to a call of
CONS; in fact it is
provably not equal!
So, we are left with a final case, in which canonical BDD terms
(CONS t1 t2) and
(CONS u1 u2) are provably equal, and we want
to show that
t1 and
u1 are syntactically equal as are
u2. These conclusions are easy consequences of the inductive
hypothesis, since the ACL2 axiom
CONS-EQUAL (which you can
inspect using
PE) shows that equality of the given terms is
equivalent to the conjunction of
(EQUAL t1 t2) and
(EQUAL u1 u2).
(B) Algorithmic Considerations
(B1) BDD rules
A rule of class
rewrite (see rule-classes) is said to be
a ``BDD rewrite rule'' if and only if it satisfies the
following criteria. (1) The rule is enabled. (2) Its
equivalence relation is
equal. (3) It has no hypotheses.
(4) Its
loop-stopper field is
nil, i.e., it is not a
permutative rule. (5) All variables occurring in the rule occur in
its left-hand side (i.e., there are no ``free variables'';
see rewrite). A rule of class
(see rule-classes) is said to be a ``BDD definition rule''
if it satisfies all the criteria above (except (4), which does not
apply), and moreover the top function symbol of the left-hand side
was not recursively (or mutually recursively) defined. Technical
point: Note that this additional criterion is independent of
whether or not the indicated function symbol actually occurs in the
right-hand side of the rule.
Both BDD rewrite rules and BDD definition rules are said to be ``BDD rules.''
(B2) Terms ''known to be Boolean''
We apply the BDD algorithm in the context of a top-level goal to
prove, namely, the goal at which the
:BDD hint is attached. As
we run the BDD algorithm, we allow ourselves to say that a set of
terms is ``known to be Boolean'' if we can verify that the goal
is provable from the assumption that at least one of the terms is
not Boolean. Equivalently, we allow ourselves to say that a set of
terms is ``known to be Boolean'' if we can verify that the original
goal is provably equivalent to the assertion that if all terms in
the set are Boolean, then the goal holds. The notion ``known to be
Boolean'' is conservative in the sense that there are generally sets
of terms for which the above equivalent criteria hold and yet the
sets of terms are not noted as as being ``known to be Boolean.''
However, ACL2 uses a number of tricks, including type-set
reasoning and analysis of the structure of the top-level goal, to
attempt to establish that a sufficiently inclusive set of terms is
known to be Boolean.
From a practical standpoint, the algorithm determines a set of terms
known to be Boolean; we allow ourselves to say that each term in
this set is ``known to be Boolean.'' The algorithm assumes that
these terms are indeed Boolean, and can make use of that assumption.
For example, if
t1 is known to be Boolean then the algorithm
(IF t1 t nil) to
t1; see (iv) in the discussion
immediately below.
(B3) IF-lifting and the IF-lifting-for-IF loop
Suppose that one has a term of the form
(f ... (IF test x y) ...),
f is a function symbol other than
CONS. Then we say
that ``IF-lifting''
test ``from'' this term produces the
following term, which is provably equal to the given term.
(if test (f ... x ...) ; resulting true branch (f ... y ...)) ; resulting false branchHere, we replace each argument of
f of the form
(IF test .. ..),
for the same
test, in the same way. In this case we say that
``IF-lifting applies to'' the given term, ``yielding the test''
test and with the ``resulting two branches'' displayed above.
Whenever we apply IF-lifting, we do so for the available
that is least in the BDD term order (see (A1) above).
We consider arguments
v of
f that are ``known to be Boolean''
(see above) to be replaced by
(IF v t nil) for the purposes of
IF-lifting, i.e., before IF-lifting is applied.
There is one special case, however, for IF-lifting. Suppose that
the given term is of the form
(IF v y z) where
v is a variable
and is the test to be lifted out (i.e., it is least in the BDD term
order among the potential tests). Moroever, suppose that neither
y nor
z is of the form
(IF v W1 W2) for that same
Then IF-lifting does not apply to the given term.
We may now describe the IF-lifting-for-IF loop, which applies to
terms of the form
(IF test tbr fbr) where the algorithm has
already produced
tbr, and
fbr. First, if
test is
nil then we return
fbr, while if
test is a non-
constant or a call of
CONS then we return
tbr. Otherwise, we
see if IF-lifting applies. If IF-lifting does not apply, then we
(IF test tbr fbr). Otherwise, we apply IF-lifting to
obtain a term of the form
(IF x y z), by lifting out the
appropriate test. Now we recursively apply the IF-lifting-for-IF
loop to the term
(IF x y z), unless any of the following special
cases apply.
(i) If
zare the same term, then return
(ii) Otherwise, if
zare the same term, then replace
nilbefore recursively applying IF-lifting-for-IF.
(iii) Otherwise, if
yare the same term and
yis known to be Boolean, then replace
tbefore recursively applying IF-lifting-for-IF.
(iv) If
niland either
yare the same term or
xis ``known to be Boolean'' and
t, then return
NOTE: When a variable
x is known to be Boolean, it is easy to
see that the form
(IF x t nil) is always reduced to
x by this
(B4) The ACL2 BDD algorithm
We are now ready to present the BDD algorithm for ACL2. It is given
an ACL2 term,
x, as well as an association list
va that
maps variables to terms, including all variables occurring in
We maintain the invariant that whenever a variable is mapped by
va to a term, that term has already been constructed by the
algorithm, except: initially
va maps every variable occurring in
the top-level term to itself. The algorithm proceeds as follows.
We implicitly ordain that whenever the BDD algorithm attempts to
create a term that is not a BDD term (as defined above in
(A2)), it aborts instead. Thus, whenever the algorithm completes
without aborting, it creates a BDD term.
xis a variable, return the result of looking it up in
xis a constant, return
xis of the form
(IF test tbr fbr), then first run the algorithm on
testwith the given
vato obtain
test'. If
nil, then return the result
fbr'of running the algorithm on
fbrwith the given
va. If
test'is a constant other than
nil, or is a call of
CONS, then return the result
tbr'of running the algorithm on
tbrwith the given
va. If
tbris identical to
fbr, return
tbr. Otherwise, return the result of applying the IF-lifting-for-IF loop (described above) to the term
(IF test' tbr' fbr').
xis of the form
(IF* test tbr fbr), then compute the result exactly as though
IFwere used rather than
IF*, except that if
test'is not a constant or a call of
CONS(see paragraph above), then abort the BDD computation. Informally, the tests of
IF*terms are expected to ``resolve.'' NOTE: This description shows how
IF*can be used to implement conditional rewriting in the BDD algorithm.
xis a
((LAMBDA vars body) . args)(which often corresponds to a
LETterm; see let), then first form an alist
va'by binding each
varsto the result of running the algorithm on the corresponding member of
args, with the current alist
va. Then, return the result of the algorithm on
bodyin the alist
xis of the form
(f x1 x2 ... xn), where
fis a function symbol other than
IF*. In that case, let
xi'be the result of running the algorithm on
xi, for
ifrom 1 to
n, using the given alist
va. First there are a few special cases. If
EQUALthen we return
x1'is syntactically identical to
x2'(where this test is very fast; see (B6) below); we return
x1'if it is known to be Boolean and
t; and similarly, we return
x2'if it is known to be Boolean and
t. Next, if each
xi'is a constant and the
fis enabled, then the result is obtained by computation. Next, if
x1'is known to be Boolean,
tis returned. Otherwise, we proceed as follows, first possibly swapping the arguments if they are out of (the BDD term) order and if
fis known to be commutative (see below). If a BDD rewrite rule (as defined above) matches the term
(f x1'... xn'), then the most recently stored such rule is applied. If there is no such match and
fis a BDD-constructor, then we return
(f x1'... xn'). Otherwise, if a BDD definition rule matches this term, then the most recently stored such rule (which will usually be the original definition for most users) is applied. If none of the above applies and neither does IF-lifting, then we return
(f x1'... xn'). Otherwise we apply IF-lifting to
(f x1'... xn')to obtain a term
(IF test tbr fbr); but we aren't done yet. Rather, we run the BDD algorithm (using the same alist) on
fbrto obtain terms
fbr', and we return
(IF test tbr' fbr')unless
tbr'is syntactically identical to
fbr', in which case we return
When is it the case that, as said above, ``
f is known to be
commutative''? This happens when an enabled rewrite rule is of the
(EQUAL (f X Y) (f Y X)). Regarding swapping the arguments
in that case: recall that we may assume very little about the BDD
term order, essentially only that we swap the two arguments when the
second is a constant and the first is not, for example, in
(+ x 1).
Other than that situation, one cannot expect to predict accurately
when the arguments of commutative operators will be swapped.
(B5) Soundness and Completeness of the ACL2 BDD algorithm
Roughly speaking, ``soundness'' means that the BDD algorithm should give correct answers, and ``completeness'' means that it should be powerful enough to prove all true facts. Let us make the soundness claim a little more precise, and then we'll address completeness under suitable hypotheses.
Claim (Soundness). If the ACL2 BDD algorithm runs to
completion on an input term
t0, then it produces a result that is
provably equal to
We leave the proof of this claim to the reader. The basic idea is simply to check that each step of the algorithm preserves the meaning of the term under the bindings in the given alist.
Let us start our discussion of completeness by recalling the theorem proved above in (A4).
Theorem. Suppose that
t1 and
t2 are canonical BDD terms
that contain no function symbols other than
IF and
CONS. Also
suppose that
(EQUAL t1 t2) is a theorem. Then
t1 and
are syntactically identical.
Below we show how this theorem implies the following completeness
property of the ACL2 BDD algorithm. We continue to assume that
CONS is the only BDD-constructor.
Claim (Completeness). Suppose that
t1 and
t2 are
provably equal terms, under the assumption that all their variables
are known to be Boolean. Assume further that under this same
assumption, top-level runs of the ACL2 BDD algorithm on these terms
return terms that contain only the function symbols
IF and
CONS. Then the algorithm returns the same term for both
t2, and the algorithm reduces
(EQUAL t1 t2) to
Why is this claim true? First, notice that the second part of the
conclusion follows immediately from the first, by definition of the
algorithm. Next, notice that the terms
u1 and
u2 obtained by
running the algorithm on
t1 and
t2, respectively, are provably
equal to
t1 and
t2, respectively, by the Soundness Claim. It
follows that
u1 and
u2 are provably equal to each other.
Since these terms contain no function symbols other than
IF or
CONS, by hypothesis, the Claim now follows from the Theorem above
together with the following lemma.
Lemma. Suppose that the result of running the ACL2 BDD
algorithm on a top-level term
t0 is a term
u0 that contains
only the function symbols
IF and
CONS, where all variables of
t0 are known to be Boolean. Then
u0 is a canonical BDD term.
Proof: left to the reader. Simply follow the definition of the algorithm, with a separate argument for the IF-lifting-for-IF loop.
Finally, let us remark on the assumptions of the Completeness Claim
above. The assumption that all variables are known to be Boolean is
often true; in fact, the system uses the forward-chaining rule
boolean-listp-forward (you can see it using
pe) to try to
establish this assumption, if your theorem has a form such as the
(let ((x (list x0 x1 ...)) (y (list y0 y1 ...))) (implies (and (boolean-listp x) (boolean-listp y)) ...))Moreover, the
:BDD hint can be used to force the prover to abort
if it cannot check that the indicated variables are known to be
Boolean; see hints.
Finally, consider the effect in practice of the assumption that the
terms resulting from application of the algorithm contain calls of
IF and
CONS only. Typical use of BDDs in ACL2 takes place in
a theory (see theories) in which all relevant non-recursive
function symbols are enabled and all recursive function symbols
possess enabled BDD rewrite rules that tell them how open up. For
example, such a rule may say how to expand on a given function
call's argument that has the form
(CONS a x), while another may
say how to expand when that argument is
nil). (See for example
the rules
append-cons and
append-nil in the documentation for
IF*.) We leave it to future work to formulate a theorem that
guarantees that the BDD algorithm produces terms containing calls
only of
IF and
CONS assuming a suitably ``complete''
collection of rewrite rules.
(B6) Efficiency considerations
Following Bryant's algorithm, we use a graph representation of terms created by the BDD algorithm's computation. This representation enjoys some important properties.
(Time efficiency) The test for syntactic equality of BDD terms is very fast.
(Space efficiency) Equal BDD data structures are stored identically in memory.
Implementation note. The representation actually uses a sort
of hash table for BDD terms that is implemented as an ACL2
1-dimensional array. See arrays. In addition, we use a second
such hash table to avoid recomputing the result of applying a
function symbol to the result of running the algorithm on its
arguments. We believe that these uses of hash tables are standard.
They are also discussed in Moore's paper on BDDs; see bdd for
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In my previous post, we added Memcached to our cluster. In this post, I'll write a bit more about the Tomcat configuration options that are available including JMX monitoring. I'll also show how easy it is to enable session clustering.
Configuration and Monitoring
All charms come with many options available for configuration. Each is selected to allow the same tuning you would typically perform on a manually deployed machine. Configuration options are shown per charm when browsing the Charm Store (jujucharms.com/charms/precise). The Tomcat charm provides numerous options. For example, to tweak the JVM options of a running service:
juju set tomcat "java_opts=-Xms768M -Xmx1024M"
This sets the Java heap to a miminum and maximum of 768Mb and 1024Mb respectively. If you are debugging an application, you may also set:
juju set tomcat "java_opts=-Xms768M -Xmx1024M -XX:-HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=webapps"
To create a '.hprof' Java heap dump you can inspect with VisualVM or jhat each time an OutOfMemoryError occurs.
To open a remote debugger:
juju set tomcat debug_enabled=True
This will open a JDWP debugger on port 8000 you can use to step-through code from Eclipse, Netbeans etc. (Note: The debugger is never exposed to the Internet, so you need to access it through a ssh tunnel – 'ssh -L 8000:localhost:8000 firstname.lastname@example.com', then connect your IDE to localhost port 8000).
A useful part of the JVM is JMX monitoring. To enable JMX:
juju set tomcat jmx_enabled=True juju set tomcat "jmx_control_password=<password>" juju set tomcat "jmx_monitor_password=<password>"
This will start a remote JMX listener on ports 10001, 10002 and set passwords for the 'monitorRole' and 'controlRole' users (not setting a password disables that account). You can now open VisualVM or JConsole to connect to the remote JMX instance (screenshot below). (Note: JMX is never exposed to the Internet, so you need to access it through a ssh tunnel – 'ssh -L 10001:localhost:10001 -L 10002:localhost:10002 email@example.com', then connect your JMX client to port 10001). You can easily expose your own application specific MBeans for monitoring by adding them to the platform MBeanServer.
Options are applied to services and to all units under a service. It isn't possible to apply options to a specific unit. So if you enable debugging, you enable it for all Tomcat units. Same with Java options.
Options may also be applied at deployment time. For example, to use Tomcat 6 (rather than the default Tomcat 7), create a 'config.yaml' file containing the following:
tomcat: tomcat_version: tomcat6
Then deploy:
juju deploy --config config.yaml cs:~robert-ayres/precise/tomcat
All units added via 'add-unit' will also be Tomcat 6.
Session Clustering
Previously, we setup a Juju cluster consisting of two Tomcat units behind HAProxy. In this configuration, HTTP sessions exist only on individual Tomcat units. For many production setups, the use of load balancer sticky sessions and a non-replicated session is the most performant where HTTP sessions are either not required or expendable in the event of unit failure. For setups concerned about availability of sessions, you can enable Tomcat session clustering on your Juju service which will replicate session data between all units in the service. Should a unit fail, any of the remaining units can pickup the subsequent requests with the previous session state. To enable session clustering:
juju set tomcat cluster_enabled=True
We have two choices of how the cluster manages membership. The preferred choice is using multicast traffic, but as EC2 doesn't allow this, we must use static configuration. This is the default, but you can switch between either method by changing the value of the 'multicast' option. Like everything else Juju deployed, any new units added or removed via 'add-unit' or 'remove-unit' are automatically included/excluded from the cluster membership. This easily allows you to toggle clustering so that you can benchmark precisely what latency/throughput cost you have by using replicated sessions.
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?Celebrate the Book?
Important to the Library was the mandate by the Director of the Library that the building ?celebrate the book? everywhere ? that ?as you enter the building, you know it?s a building "Cambridge public library" about books and reading.? Unlike libraries which double as community centers, this building organizes itself around books ? a strong statement about education in a city well-known both for its academic interests and its commitment to educational opportunities for its immigrant residents.
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The New Public Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts includes a New Building (76,700 sf) standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the renovated 1889 Historic Main Library originally designed by Van Brunt & Howe (27,200 sf) and a newly landscaped City Park.
A democratic and populist library celebrating Cambridge as a highly diverse community (with over 50 languages spoken in its schools) and creating spaces that are welcoming, inviting, and accessible ? not imposing or elitist.
Unlike libraries which double as community centers, this building organizes itself around books ? a strong statement about education in a city well-known both for its academic interests and its commitment to educational opportunities for its immigrant residents.
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The SANS Top Cyber Security Risks report has received a lot of positive publicity. I applaud the effort and goals of the study and it may have some useful conclusions. We should have more of this. Unfortunately, the report has some major problems. The main conclusions may be valid but the supporting analysis is either confusing or weak. It would also be good if this study could be extended by adding data from other vendors and service providers.


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They were in the first bracket called out on the selection show Sunday night on ESPNU. The Lady Bisons, 48-11, will play May 21-23 in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
The first game for the Lady Bisons is Friday at 3:30 against the UAB, 36-20.
Host Alabama, 48-9, is the No.1 seed nationally in the tournament. The Crimson Tide will face Alcorn State in the first round. This is the sixth straight year that Alabama has hosted a regional.
The Lady Bisons split a doubleheader with UAB at Draper Diamond April 20. They won game one 1-0 on a no-hitter by Whitney Kiihnl, the Player of the Year and the Pitcher of the Year in the Atlantic Sun Conference. The Lady Bisons lost the second game 7-5.
The doubleheader with UAB had been rained out earlier in the season. Lipscomb coach Kristin Ryman decided to reschedule it because she thought it would help her team be more prepared for postseason play. She could have never have predicted at the time that the two teams would meet again this season in an NCAA regional.
"We knew when we rescheduled the doubleheader that UAB was right there beside us in the RPI," Ryman said. "We knew it was probably going to be a really tight matchup.
"We are two pretty evenly matched teams. We both hit well. We both pitch well. I would say we are excited with the familiarity of having played them. I'm sure they feel the same way."
Ryman and the Lady Bisons are enjoying their time as A-Sun Champions, but will tell the team Monday that it is time to get back into practice and game modes.
This is the first ever trip to the NCAA Tournament for the Lady Bisons softball team. They earned an automatic bid by winning the A-Sun Tournament Saturday afternoon. The Lady Bisons are also the A-Sun regular season champions.
It is also the first ever NCAA bid for UAB's Blazers.
"I'm really excited to start off with UAB," Kellie Sirus, the A-Sun Tournament most valuable player said. "I like playing a team we have already seen before. We know what they have as a team. We know what their pitchers have. It is definitely a plus."
Sirus admits she has mixed emotions heading into the regional.
"I am a little nervous and a little excited," Sirus said. "I think it is going to be awesome to go to Alabama. We have nothing to lose. We will just go down there and give it our best. It is not going to be easy.
"We are not going to let anybody take a game from us easily. We are going to fight until the end for it."
Lady Bisons senior Abby Keese watched the University of Tennessee play at Alabama on television. She realizes that playing in Tuscaloosa will be a challenge.
"It will be a rough crowd," Keese said. "It was very intimidating to watch a game from there on TV, let alone to play there. We are going to have to go in there and ignore everything. We are going to have to put our blinders on and leave everything on the field."
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February 2, 2019, 12:13 amEric Gordon - G - Houston Rockets
Eric Gordon returned to the bench after visiting the locker room to get his leg looked at by the training staff on Friday and is available to return.
The Rockets' streaky 3-point shooter can resume his role of knocking down those buckets from deep. He's good for points and threes at high volumes but has a perennial injury-risk tag attached to his name when it comes to fantasy valuations.
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June 18, 2019, 9:23 amKawhi Leonard - F - Toronto Raptors
ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski does not believe a Big Three of LeBron James, Anthony Davis and Kawhi Leonard with the Lakers is a likely scenario entering the 2019 offseason.
Appearing on Tuesday morning on Get Up, Woj reported that Leonard's decision in free agency will probably come down to re-signing with the Raptors or joining the Clippers in Los Angeles. Steve Balmer and the Clippers are poised to lure him away from Toronto and this will likely be a Raptors-Clippers fight all the way down to the end. Woj also added that Kawhi may take meetings with more teams, but it's not even certain he'd even take a meeting with the Lakers right now.
Source: ESPN
June 18, 2019, 9:12 amDion Waiters - G - Miami Heat
According to Kevin Pelton of ESPN, with All-Stars Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson likely to miss a big chunk, if not all, of next season, the Warriors will spend the summer on the lookout for help, and one of their targets may be Heat guard Dion Waiters.
Durant, Thompson and DeMarcus Cousins could all be lost in free agency, but even if all three players re-sign, the Warriors will have no salary left under the cap to sign free agents and the only possible way to improve would be through a trade. Waiters has two years and around $27 million remaining on his contract while the Heat are very open to trading him. He could see a boost in his numbers if traded to the Warriors but his efficiency has always been an issue.
Source: ESPN
June 18, 2019, 9:00 amBradley Beal - G - Washington Wizards
According to Ben Standig of NBC Sports Washington, the Pelicans have a "sincere interest" in exploring a trade for Wizards shooting guard Bradley Beal.
The Wizards seem to be determined to keep Beal, but they currently don't have a general manager, and perhaps their stance could change. The basis for trading Beal centers on maximizing his asset value with two years and $56 million remaining on his original five-year contract signed in 2016. Washington will likely struggle next season with fellow guard John Wall out and an evolving roster that currently has only five players with guaranteed contract. Beal is coming off an outstanding season in which he averaged a career-highs of 25.6 points and 5.0 rebounds, and almost single-handedly kept the Wizards in a chase for a playoff spot until the season's final weeks.
Source: NBC Sports Washington
June 18, 2019, 8:23 amR.J. Barrett - G - New Orleans Pelicans
According to an NBA source, the Pelicans have explored moving back to gain more assets and also had internal talks about moving up to the second pick in order to draft R.J. Barrett who is Zion Williamson's best friend.
That trade-up maneuver, however unlikely, would allow Murray State's Ja Morant to fall to the Knicks at No. 3. The Knicks had Morant higher on their board than Barrett at the Chicago combine, but that also was before Morant recently underwent knee surgery. For now, it seems that New York is locked in at keeping the third pick, contrary to a couple weeks earlier, when they were open to moving back. The Pelicans meanwhile continue to explore all possible avenues in order to better use the No. 4 pick which they have acquired from the Lakers in the Anthony Davis trade.
Source: NY Post
June 17, 2019, 10:55 pmHassan Whiteside - C - Miami Heat
According to Barry Jackson, Hassan Whiteside is expected to opt into the final year of his deal, which would pay him $27.1 million.
This was obviously anticipated, but with Whiteside dissatisfied with his current role with the Heat, there was a sliver of doubt that he'd want to stay in Miami. Jackson mentions that there were talks regarding a Whiteside for Mike Conley deal that didn't get very far. The Heat will be looking at a luxury tax bill unless they can cut some salary, so Whiteside isn't a lock to remain on the roster. A change of scenery could help his fantasy outlook, as unlikely as a trade may be. We're likely to see him return in a backup center role that limits him to late-round fantasy production at best.
Source: Miami Herald
June 17, 2019, 9:53 pmPatrick Beverley - G - Los Angeles Clippers
According to Sean Deveney, Patrick Beverley will be taking as many as five free agent meetings prior to meeting with the Clippers.
The Clippers have bigger fish to fry, and Beverley might not want to wait around for them. He will rightfully be getting a lot of attention during free agency. While Beverley is not a great offensive player, he could fit in a variety of places with his defensive intensity and leadership. Anywhere from a rebuilding team like in his hometown of Chicago where they could use some veteran tenacity to a potential contending team like Lakers who just need a lockdown defender, Beverley would be a nice addition that shouldn't break the bank. No matter where he goes, he should continue to get enough minutes (he hasn't played less than 27 mpg since his rookies season) to be relevant in shallow leagues.
Source: Sean Deveney on Twitter
June 17, 2019, 8:11 pmAlvin Gentry - Team - New Orleans Pelicans
The Pelicans have picked up Alvin Gentry's team option through the 2020-21 season.
It's encouraging to see David Griffin already showing faith in Gentry. The Pelicans' rebuild is off to what seems like a great start under Griffin. Winning the draft lottery and getting a great haul for Anthony Davis prior to the draft is just be the beginning of a franchise-defining offseason.
Source: Andrew Lopez on Twitter
June 17, 2019, 6:18 pmChris Paul - G - Houston Rockets
The Rockets have had conversations about Clint Capela and "preliminary conversations" about Chris Paul, per Shams Charania.
The Rockets reportedly want to discuss Paul trades with teams that can absorb his three years and $125 million. That's a pretty short list. That deal will be much harder to move than Capela's, though you can be sure that the Rockets probably won't move their young center unless it's a deal that improves both the on-court product and the cap sheet. That proposition is a lot weaker in any deal that includes Paul's monster salaries.
Source: The Athletic
June 17, 2019, 6:12 pmEd Davis - C - Brooklyn Nets
Ed Davis is expected to be a hot commodity in free agency and should be looking at multi-year offers, per Shams Charania.
Davis is a machine on the glass and has drawn rave reviews as a quality teammate and person wherever he goes, so it's no surprise that he's drawing interest. A high-energy big who gobbles up rebounds still has a place on just about any roster, even with Davis' other offensive limitations. He'll remain a solid rebounding specialist for deep-league use next season.
Source: The Athletic
June 17, 2019, 6:10 pmDerrick Favors - F/C - Utah Jazz
Tony Jones of The Athletic is reporting that the Jazz have yet to include Derrick Favors in trade talks for Mike Conley.
Favors has been linked to the Lakers, though his landing spot is all contingent on the Jazz picking up his team option. He's due to be paid $17.65 million if that option is picked up, and the Grizzlies may have some interest in him if he can be had on an expiring deal. The Jazz don't look to have a ton that the Grizzlies would be interested in terms of roster players, so Utah might need to get creative if they really want Conley.
Source: Tony Jones on Twitter