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* $55 billion gap between Senate, House plans
* Poll finds many wouldn't mind government shutdown (New throughout with Democratic spending plan)
By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - A partisan divide over the U.S. budget hardened on Wednesday even as Congress sent President Barack Obama a stopgap spending bill that averts an imminent government shutdown.
With government funding due to run out on Friday, lawmakers sent Obama a bill that buys them two more weeks to wrestle over funding levels for the fiscal year that lasts through September. Obama promptly signed it into law.
The stopgap bill passed both the Democratic-controlled Senate and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives by wide margins, but party leaders showed little inclination to bridge a $55 billion gap between their two proposals.
House Republicans have passed a spending plan that would impose immediate cuts of 25 percent on domestic operations. Senate Democrats are readying a proposal that would essentially keep spending at current levels after factoring in $4 billion in noncontroversial cuts that were included in the stopgap spending bill, according to an aide.
Obama, who has so far remained relatively aloof from a budget debate that has consumed Capitol Hill for months, named Vice President Joe Biden to lead negotiations between the two chambers.
He will have his work cut out for him.
Democratic Senator Charles Schumer called the Republican plan a "nonstarter" while House Speaker John Boehner suggested the Senate will have to pass its bill first before talks can begin.
"The House position is perfectly clear. We have no clue where our colleagues on the Senate side are," Boehner said.
Republicans have made spending cuts their top priority since Tea Party-aligned conservatives handed them control of the House last November, and it is unclear how much those newly elected lawmakers will be willing to compromise.
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That means Congress will likely return to its game of brinkmanship when the temporary bill expires in two weeks, even as lawmakers begin work on next year's budget, consider reform of tax laws and the massive government healthcare and pension programs, and gird for an unpleasant vote to raise the government's borrowing authority.
"We cannot keep doing business this way," Obama said in a statement. "Living with the threat of a shutdown every few weeks is not responsible, and it puts our economic progress in jeopardy."
With the fiscal year approaching its halfway point, the government continues on a temporary extension of last year's budget due to Congress's ability to pass a budget.
That has led to millions of dollars in waste as agencies have been unable to end unwanted programs or launch new initiatives. NASA continues work on a rocket it does not want, while the Pentagon has been unable to buy new unmanned drones needed in Afghanistan.
Both parties acknowledge the need to tame a budget deficit that is projected to hit a record $1.65 trillion this year, equal to 10.9 percent of the economy, but Democrats warn that slashing spending too quickly will endanger the shaky economic recovery.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Republican plan would not hurt the economy as much as some Wall Street analysts predict, estimating it could cost around 200,000 jobs at a time when unemployment is at 9 percent but would not cause a big dent in economic growth. [ID:nN02253988]
The spending debate has concentrated on domestic programs that account for only 13 percent of the $3.7 trillion federal budget. That would do nothing to rein in benefit programs like Medicare that lie beyond the reach of the yearly budget process and are expected to widen deficits in years to come.
Resolving the long-term budget imbalance will require some combination of spending caps, tax increases and entitlement reform, Goldman Sachs said in a research note.
Leaders from both parties have said they do not want to shut down the government, which would furlough hundreds of thousands of federal workers, close national parks and bankruptcy courts and other "nonessential" services.
Voters largely blamed the Republicans for the last series of budget-related shutdowns in 1995 and 1996, but recent polls suggest that neither party would emerge a clear winner this time -- or that the public would even mind that much.
A Quinnipiac University poll found 46 percent of voters believed a government shutdown would be a good thing, while 44 percent thought it would be bad. Most Democratic voters opposed a shutdown and most Republicans favor it, the poll found. (Additional reporting by Kim Dixon, Alister Bull, Thomas Ferraro and Richard Cowan; Editing by Jackie Frank)


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Picture: Schoolboy Q - Schoolboy Q makes an appearance at Vanity nightclub - Las Vegas, Nevada, United States - Saturday 13th September 2014
Colorado law enforcement officials believe a shooting involving rapper Schoolboy Q was a "targeted" incident.
The hip-hop star was leaving the Red Rocks Amphitheatre, just outside Denver, after performing with Nas on Thursday (19Jun14), when the sports utility vehicle he was a passenger in was showered with bullets, leaving three of Schoolboy Q's associates with injuries.
Following the incident, the Collard Greens hitmaker was detained by police for questioning and they have now announced they do not believe the attack was random.
Jacki Kelley, a spokeswoman for the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, says, "This is not just a coincidence. We think there is probably more to it than that. It does seem to be more targeted than random."
Police officers are still searching for a suspect, who has been described as a tall, black male, who "used a rifle" and "fled the immediate scene on foot".
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Threat To U.S. From Ballistic Missiles Diminishing
March 11, 2002
Ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads are the most dangerous weapons ever invented. But some military analysts claim the threat they pose to the U.S. now is less than in the past and steadily declining.
Today there are many fewer ballistic missiles in the world than 15 years ago, fewer nations trying to develop them, and only four potentially hostile nations trying to develop long-range versions. Moreover, they say, the limited attack we most fear now from a rogue state would be much smaller than the nuclear holocaust we feared during the Cold War.
- Of the more than 190 nations in the world, 35 of them, including the U.S., have ballistic missiles.
- Moreover, almost all of the remaining missile-equipped states are friends of the U.S. -- and almost all have only short-range missiles that threaten only their neighbors.
- Although the number of states with such missiles grew steadily during the Cold War, it is now decreasing.
- Over the past year, for example, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic have destroyed their small arsenals of Soviet-supplied Scud missiles -- with only Bahrain joining the missile club.
Only China and Russia are able to attack the U.S. with long-range, land-based missiles. This has not changed since China and Russia deployed their first ICBMs in 1959 and 1981 respectively. Even this threat is dwindling.
Source: Joseph Cirincione (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), "A Much Less Explosive Trend," Washington Post, March 10, 2002.
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Getting There: Construction season off to busy start
Mon., May 5, 2008
Traveling west, east and south of the Lake City is about to get trickier as crews kick off road construction season.
The Idaho Transportation Department will begin preparations today to repave the westbound lanes of Interstate 90 from Coeur d'Alene to the state line.
"Motorists should expect to see work to repair bridge decks and miscellaneous work" in advance of the repaving project's May 14 start date, ITD spokeswoman Barbara Babic said.
At that time, lane restrictions will be put in place as crews start "roto-milling," or grinding the top layer of concrete, so the new layer of pavement will join with the old. That paving will start on June 8 and should be completed by early July, Babic said.
"There will be lane restrictions and a reduced speed limit," she said. "The eastbound lanes are already done. It's just the westbound lanes."
North Idaho residents heading south will find the same activities five miles north of Worley on U.S. Highway 95.
Crews are working their second season to reconstruct and realign the highway.
"Beware of reduced speed limits. And occasionally, we have heavy equipment moving around the site," Babic said. "There are no lane restrictions at this time."
And to the east, crews continue to reconstruct the Ninth Street overpass, which was damaged when it was struck by a too-tall semi trailer.
On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights, crews will shut down I-90's east and west lanes as they take out the old bridge spans. Traffic will be detoured off the freeway from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.
Friday "will be the last night of bridge demolition. Then they will start placing the girders," Babic said. "If they are doing night work, then the detours will be in place."
Once they start to work on the bridge decking, crews will work during the day, shutting down one lane of traffic. Those lane restrictions will end sometime in July, Babic said.
More Spokane closures coming
Crews will keep Hemlock Avenue closed near its intersection with Northwest Boulevard through Wednesday as they work on the sewer line, streets spokeswoman Ann Deasy said.
Spokane Police are managing traffic congestion as the result of closures and work on Ash and Wall streets.
Spokane Police Officer Teresa Fuller said she wanted to remind motorists that side streets around the construction zones don't have the same speed limits or rules as arterials.
"We've had a lot of citizen complaints. When they close a main street like Wall, we see motorists jutting down residential streets," Fuller said. "That's where some of our worst collisions are occurring because they don't yield to the person on the right."
Residential streets have 25 mph speed limits unless otherwise posted, she said. Drivers are required to slow down at every intersection.
"According to state law, when two vehicles approach an intersection at relatively the same time, the person on the right has the right of way," she said.
Fuller recommended that neighbors call the patrol's Traffic Hotline, 625-4150, to report speeders in residential zones. Those calls are then passed on to officers who "head out to the respective locations to do their patrols," Fuller said.
In addition to the Ash and Wall work, commuters should be aware of lane closures and obstructions on Greene Street from Carlisle to Garland avenues as crews grind and patch pavement.
Another closure will occur all week on Austin Road from Quamish Drive to Strong Road so crews can extend the main sewer line and water taps for homes on the east side of the street, Deasy said.
Some lanes will be closed on Holland Avenue from U.S. Highway 2 to Nevada Street this week as crews seal cracks in the roadway.
Another bridge out
Starting today, crews south of Spokane will close Valley Chapel Road just north of Spangle Creek Road to replace an old bridge, Spokane County construction engineer Paul Lennemann said. Valley Chapel will not reopen until October.
Several other county projects will either close roads or affect traffic, he said.
"We are looking to start up work on the bridge on Little Spokane Drive at Golden Road," Lennemann said. "We put the bridge in last year but we need to finish up the roadwork that didn't get done last year."
Denison Chattaroy Road will remain closed for the rest of construction season as crews work to straighten, widen and resurface the roadway between Highway 2 to North Road.
And very soon, crews will close Cheney-Plaza Road south of Cheney to fix the bridge railing on the span over Fish Lake trail.
"That will be a three- to four-week closure," Lennemann said.
Spokane Valley closures
Crews continue to work on Appleway Avenue at Barker Road. As a result, traffic will be restricted to one lane in each direction for the duration of the project, which will continue through September.
Starting today, Barker Road will be closed at Appleway through Thursday so crews can install sewer mains, Spokane Valley spokeswoman Carolbelle Branch said in a press release. Signs will direct traffic to detours around the closure.
Also this week, crews will shut down one westbound lane of Sprague Avenue at Pines Road to work on drywells, Branch said.
Don't tread on me
Officials want to remind political campaigns that the state has strict rules about where campaign signs can be placed along roads.
It is illegal to post campaign signs on state highway rights of way, said Pat O'Leary, of the Washington state Department of Transportation.
Sign posters must get permission from property owners to place signs that can be seen from a road. The signs cannot be bigger than 32 square feet and they must be removed within 10 days after the election.
However, it's not always clear where state rights of way begin and end. Utility poles are typically located inside the right of way, she said.
"If a sign location is being considered between a utility pole and a roadway shoulder, it's likely the sign will be removed" by state crews, O'Leary said in a press release.
To ensure proper placement of signs, campaigners can contact regional WSDOT offices for right-of-way boundaries. The local number is (509) 324-6549.


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If the Electoral College actually puts the president in office, why do the people have to waste their time voting?
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The Electoral College is the method set up by our Founding Fathers to keep elections fair. If it were not for the Electoral College then it is actually possible that a President could be elected by having only New York, Texas, California and a couple of more states elect the President. Therefore the rest of the country could vote and in actuality their vote would be for nothing.
The College has never voted against the popular vote of their State. Therefore the President is elected in effect by the popular vote, it is just broken down by State. Again, this is what protects the nations elections from being controlled by only a few states that have the dominant population base.
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Ken is almost right, the real truth is this. The white minority realized that if they let the popular vote determine the presidency, they would never get their people in office. How else can you explain a recount of the Bush/Gore fiasco turning out that Gore really won. The college never goes against the popular vote? Please.
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Unanswered: Calling stored procedure with dbexpress
When I try calling a stored procedure from dbExpress(C++ Builder, Kylix), I get the next error:
"[IBM][CLI Driver] CLI0110E Invalid output or indicator buffer specified. SQLSTATE=22002."
under these conditions:
-if the procedure has out/inout paramenters;
-if one of the out/inout parameters is null.
Systems are :
DB2 UDB Express edition, version 8.1.2 (Client on WinXP, and Linux- Server on Linux).
If the procedure has no inout/out parameters or none are null, it executes just fine.
Can anyone help me on this issue?
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I am not sure if this is the same problem that we have encountered. (I am the DBA; the programmers use Borland dbExpress.) We had similar issues calling SPs with parameters. What seemed to work was having the schema of the SP the same as the user logged in to DB2. Luckily we designed the application to use a single DB2 signin and then have a user signin to the app, using our tables for authentication.
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VIT offers Admission to B.Tech. Degree Programme based on VIT Engineering Entrance Examination (VITEEE) conducted all over India.
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Since the Orlando shootings I have wanted to write, but I have found myself unable to write more than the restricted text length of a tweet because of the rainbow of emotions I experience in the matter of one minute every minute of the day. I'm sad and torn apart.
How could this happen. How could a man see two men kissing and resort to murdering 50 unarmed innocent people? How can this person enter a venue for expressing love, pride, celebration and jubilation and shoot over 100 people? How can this one person cause fear in people across an entire nation at events, public places, parades, festivals, clubs, and bars? How do we live in a country where a man who, at least for a while, was on a terror watch list and was still able to purchase an assault weapon? How do we live in a country where a man with a history of spousal abuse is able to purchase a firearm and work for a federally contracted security firm and hold a weapon for that firm?
How do we live in a country where a tragedy of this nature turns into a political debate in under 12 hours? How do we live in a country where politicians turn a tragedy to a story about them? How do we live in a country where politicians like Rick Scott try to deny that a massacre was not a hate crime when the shooter said he saw two gay men kissing then went into a gay night club and shot 100 gay men and women? How do we live in a country where people are more worried about the right to own assault rifles then letting the mourning actually mourn? My questions are endless. My pain is deep and my anger is soaring.
Yes, a lot of those who are distraught over the Orlando shooting took to social media to shout out in anger over gun laws, over the fact that a man who was once under FBI investigation was able to legally purchase an assault weapon and that we still don't have sensible gun laws that could have prevented him from purchasing this rapid fire weapon so easily, yet I still don't understand the need for the far right to attack. Of course people are upset. Of course people are going to vent their frustration. Let them. Let us!
After the Charleston, NC shooting the same thing happened and no one took your guns away. No legislations were enacted. After the tragedy in Sandy Hook the same cries were made and nothing happened to your guns. It's a form of grieving, yet you second amendment buffoons can't see through your hatred of the left and your obsession with life taking weapons to see that people are grieving. If this was a random Monday, then fine. Polarize and argue your politics. Until then, can you open your hearts up a little and leave people alone?
The gun control fight will continue, but for a few days give us space to be angry and yell and cry. It's a fair request. Have a heart.
I don't know anyone searching you out saying, you know what… let me find a gun loving 2nd amendment toting person to harass today… No. All I see are people tweeting each other messages of love, messages of agreed outrage until we are attacked by your disagreement. Back off. Go tweet with your loyalist who actually care about your views on guns and that you love holding a powerful life taking weapon. Until then respect our right to feel hurt.
Respect us. Respect our right to be angry that this man legally purchased a gun that could shoot massive amounts of people in seconds. In my world, you don't need an assault rifle or military weapon to kill Bambi for dinner.
The last thing we need right now in our grief is people sending us insults and angry messages. A woman with the twitter handle @msalott whose twitter bio reads, "Christian due to Grace of God thru Jesus Christ! Wife and Mother and Proud Grandmother who believes in my Country and it's greatness! Donald Trump supporter!" sent me countless tweets attacking me on my views on guns, my grief, and slams on Islam and Muslim's as well as personal insults then asked me why I was just looking to hate her…
Lady… if you are going to send me messages of attack out of the blue, let me remind you, I don't search for people to tweet. I respond when tweeted to only. But, when you are going to send me messages of attack out of the blue you best believe I am going to hate you. You best believe in my grief and anger I am going to educate you on my views and you should also know my anger is going to grow at the hypocrisy of you labeling yourself as a Christian and not having the respect to understand and allow people to grieve in the face of tragedy. These people are disgusting. These people are heartless. These people are not American.
Let us grieve. At the very least remember the names of those who were lost because maybe that will make you think twice when you are so nasty:
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IAQF-Thalesians Seminar (New York) — Dr. Lingjiong Zhu — A reduced-form model for level-1 limit order books
Lingjiong Zhu
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NYU Kimmel Center, Room 914, Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, NY 10012, NY
One popular approach to model limit order book dynamics of the best bid and ask at level-1 is to use reduced-form diffusion approximations. It is well known that the biggest contributing factor to the price movement is the imbalance of the best bid and ask. We investigate the data of the level-1 limit order books of a basket of stocks and study the numerical evidence of drift, correlation, volatility and their dependence on the imbalance. Based on the numerical discoveries, we develop a nonparametric discrete model for the dynamics of the best bid and ask. This model can be approximated by a reduced-form model with analytical tractability that can fit the empirical data of correlation, volatilities and probability of price movement simultaneously.
(Joint work with Tzu-Wei Yang)
Lingjiong Zhu grew up in Shanghai and went to study in England, where he got BA from University of Cambridge in 2008. He then moved to the United States and received PhD from New York University in 2013. After a stint at Morgan Stanley, he went to work at the University of Minnesota as the Dunham Jackson Assistant Professor before joining the faculty at Florida State University as an Assistant Professor in 2015. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, traveling, and going to art exhibitions, museums and classical music concerts.
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Brigantine's local tax rate will increase by 42 percent in a draft budget to be discussed today at a public workshop.
The proposed budget includes a local tax rate of 74.2 cents per $100 of assessed value. That means properties valued at the average assessment of $366,000 will pay $2,714 in property taxes compared with $1,910 last year. The total does not include other taxes, such as schools and county.
Due to a 26 percent decline in average assessments, however, many property owners will see a less dramatic increase. Before last year's citywide revaluation, the average assessment was more than $499,000. The proposed tax rate would mean a $108 increase from last year for the average property owner.
The draft budget's total tax levy is nearly $24 million, within the state-mandated 2 percent cap.
Factors that have continued to affect the budget include tax appeals, which forced the city to borrow another $1.4 million in January; a growing deficit at the municipal golf course; and outsized labor costs, which account for about two-thirds of spending.
In 2014, the city's surplus is slated to double to $1.4 million, but City Manager Jennifer Blumenthal said January's bond to cover tax appeals is being held in that account.
"It's really a fictitious inflation of the surplus, because we have to pay that money back," she said. "Really, the surplus has been trending downward."
A February report by the city's auditors shows the deficit at The Links at Brigantine Beach is expected to grow to $765,000. That's even worse than a November forecast that estimated a $547,000 deficit. The golf course utility fund, which was at nearly $1 million in 2011, is expected to drop to about $2,000 this year.
The Links was initially profitable when the city acquired it with the help of Green Acres funding in 2002. But a combination of the recession, damage from Hurricane Sandy and faltering infrastructure have driven away golfers.
In the last year, the city has mobilized to revamp the golf course. A master plan expected to outline necessary upgrades is expected this spring. Meanwhile, a committee will meet next week to discuss how to attract a third-party operator who could absorb more of those costs.
Meanwhile, the report shows that insurance and pension costs are expected to increase by $338,677 and $192,621, respectively.
Despite those increases, salaries and wages in most departments are expected to decrease.
"A lot of those costs have been reduced by attrition," Blumenthal said.
Financial administration, for instance, will see salaries decline by nearly two-thirds to $56,000. Last year, Chief Financial Officer Chris Johansen left his position. Other staff and part-time employees have filled his duties.
In recent months, the city has also sought to fill vacancies in its public safety departments with part-time employees, such as the two Class II officers who were approved Wednesday for the Police Department.
Brigantine is also in the midst of labor contract negotiations with its beach patrol, fire and police employees. City officials have pledged to curb pay increases and eliminate certain benefits, such as longevity pay.
Anne Phillips, of the Brigantine Taxpayers Association, said a 22-cent increase to the tax rate is "unsustainable and an unacceptable burden" on residents. It's the result of issues with the golf course and labor contracts that have continued for years and even decades, she said.
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At least one source of financial strain may be alleviated in 2014. The finalization of the citywide reassessment, which was delayed due to Sandy, is expected to greatly reduce the number of tax appeals filed by property owners in recent years.
Once all current county and school taxes are factored in, a property assessed at $366,000 would pay $6,493. Since not all of the new rates have been adopted, that estimate is likely to change.
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So, here we are. It's mid-November and before we know it, we'll be setting New Year's resolutions and making shiny new goals for 2015. Sometimes I feel bad for the last two months of the year because by November, I've already reached my goals, lost interest in them, or decided to forgo them in exchange for a more exciting new future goal.
When we got home from our anniversary trip to Italy last week, I went for a run—my first run in 4 weeks. Imagine my surprise when I realized that all that carbo-loading I did on our trip didn't help my running. At all. Crap.
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KOMUNAR, UKRAINE - JANUARY 27, 2015: Valentina Mozschagina, 80, is comforted by Valentina, right, a volunteer who coordinates humanitarian aide for local residents, in her home in Komunar, Ukraine. Mozschagina is the only caregiver for her disabled son Viktor, 58, and can often afford to eat only porridge. CREDIT: Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times
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But while that kind of luck may have helped him in his early days as an actor after graduating "magna cum lager" from college, his later years have composed an exercise in discipline.
At a basic level, that means working out every day and ignoring doughnuts. At a higher level, it means excelling in three fields. Beyond making movies, Newman drives Formula 1 race-cars and founded and owns a wildly successful specialty-food business.
Newman is proudest of his business, Newman's Own, which sells salad dressing among its 80 products and has donated $175 million to a summer camp for sick children.
He promotes that business and, at the same time, owns Newman/Haas Racing. Newman is the oldest driver to win a Formula 1 race.
(When Newman's wife, Joanne Woodward, recently broke her collarbone by falling out of bed, Newman told her he wasn't going to listen to any more gripes about his racing.)
He even beat Jay Leno handily this spring in a mini-race around the NBC studios, explaining that the secret lies in the turns.
Newman's third job is his first: acting. In 2003, he returned to Broadway after 38 years and nabbed a Tony nomination for his role in "Our Town."
He's also drawn a string of Oscar nominations for his recent movies, including "Road to Perdition."
And he worked diligently to portray himself as a wretched old man in this year's TV movie "Empire Falls," grinding food into his clothes, thinning his hair and even putting irritants in his eyes to make them bleary and bloodshot.
All this work, and the discipline behind it, comes at least in part from Newman's regret that his strict father died before Newman buckled down and made it big.
But he isn't complaining. His knees are good, and he likes life as a leader.
"At my age," he says, "I ought to be able to complain about something."
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WASHINGTON — Alex Ovechkin was a bit off – and still on target.
The Russian star scored with 48 seconds left and goalie Philipp Grubauer left the ice for an extra attacker to cap a late three-goal rally and the Washington Capitals went on to beat Philadelphia 5-4 in a shootout Sunday.
"I'll be honest with you, I missed my shot," Ovechkin said. "It was kind of funny. I didn't get all of it."
It was the second time in six days that Ovechkin scored the tying goal with less than a minute left to cap a rally from three goals down. On Tuesday night, in a 6-5 shootout victory over Tampa Bay, Ovechkin powered the comeback with four goals.
Mike Green cut Washington's deficit to 4-2 with 8:40 remaining, and Dmitry Orlov pulled the Capitals within one with 3:31 to go. The two defensemen scored on long slap shots.
"I think we had too much perimeter stuff, and once we just started peppering him with shots, one was bound to go in," Green said. "You look at the goals that went in, he either didn't see it, and it was just a floater, which could have been an easy save from that far out."
Ovechkin then tied it with his NHL-leading 27th goal.
"I think we had luck on our side today, especially at the end of the game," Ovechkin said. "I'll take it and the team will take it."
In the shootout, Eric Fehr and Nicklas Backstrom scored for Washington and Grubauer made two saves on three shots to give Washington an improbable victory in the first meeting of the teams since they brawled at the end of the Capitals' 7-0 victory in Philadelphia on Nov. 1.
Marcus Johansson had a first-period power play goal for Washington, scoring on a pass from Ovechkin that went through the legs of a Philadelphia defender.
Claude Giroux, Mark Streit, Sean Couturier and Jacob Voracek scored for Philadelphia, and Michael Raffl had three assists.
"It doesn't matter how many goals you score and how many points you have in this league," Streit said. "It's a very bad loss."
JETS: Forward Anthony Peluso was suspended for three games for boarding Stars defenseman Alex Goligoski in Winnipeg's 6-4 loss to Dallas on Saturday night.


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On a Virginia Department of Transportation computer model, cars traveling south on the Capital Beltway were approaching the ramp to westbound Interstate 66. The one-dimensional vehicles, displayed on a desktop screen, reacted in varying ways because the programmers can adjust for different conditions and driving habits.
Sometimes, the traffic in the model moved fairly well. Sometimes, the cars bunched up where ramp lanes merged. Sometimes they slowed farther back, on the right lane of the Beltway's outer loop. Sometimes, the cars to their left attempted to cut in front of those already waiting to use Exit 49.
This model was one of the things engineers studied before making the recent change in the traffic pattern at the Beltway/I-66 interchange, part of the 495 Express Lanes work zone.
Sometimes, traffic will behave as predicted by such models and other research. But to the dismay of the VDOT planners, this didn't turn out to be one of those times.
When VDOT narrowed the ramp two weeks ago to ease the adjacent bottleneck on westbound I-66, the planners thought they could avoid creating a new traffic jam on the ramp. Instead, southbound rush-hour traffic has backed up badly, sometimes to the American Legion Bridge, according to drivers.
"It didn't behave like we thought it would behave," said John Lynch, VDOT's regional transportation program director.
After VDOT narrowed the ramp, outer-loop drivers began complaining. It was the main topic in last Sunday's Dr. Gridlock column and again during my online chat Monday.
Here's a sampler of some of the comments submitted for the chat.
●66W & the Beltway: The traffic has been horrendous since they made this switch [on the ramp] from two lanes to one. ... I work in Rockville and live in Fairfax, and the commute home has been awful compared to normal. The backup to enter I-66W extends for miles!
●I-66/I-495 merge: Now that they've fixed the backups on I-66 West by taking away a lane from the ramp from I-495 South [outer loop] to I-66 West, I-495 is backed up onto the entrance ramp from Route 7 East. One day last week, it was backed up on Route 7 past the mall. And this was at 2:30 p.m.! I can't imagine what it's like at 4:30 or 5.
●Toll Road @ Beltway — different pattern? For a while, traffic from the main toll plaza on the Dulles Toll Road to the Beltway was moving nicely. As of about a week ago, however, we seem to be experiencing a lot of traffic in the two left lanes heading toward I-66.
●I-66W/I-495 Interchange: I was always taught that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. You've stated that the outer loop to I-66 West ramp was reconfigured to take pressure off the traffic coming onto I-66 West from the inner loop and I-66 West inside the Beltway. While certainly the changes have done just that, the result is now an absurd traffic jam. ...
So could you please explain how easing congestion for those getting onto I-66 West from I-66 inside the Beltway and the inner loop of the Beltway, resulting in 15 miles of backup, is better than what we had before?
I-66 Interchange: The crux of the problem is that the ramp from I-495 South to I-66 West starts out as two lanes ... [then] about 100 yards after the ramp separates from the Beltway, the left lane abruptly ends, creating a pinch point. That singular pinch point is what backs up traffic 10-plus miles on the Beltway.
Project managers heard similar complaints, and now are trying to fix the fix. Among the possibilities VDOT is discussing with the construction team:
●Modify the ramp. Driver indecision at the new merge point is part of the problem. If VDOT reduced the ramp to one lane back to the Beltway, drivers wouldn't have to figure out how to merge on the ramp.
But that also would reduce the capacity of the ramp, which might just lengthen the spill-back of cars onto the Beltway. Seeing that long line, some drivers would try to cut in near the front, always a nasty business.
●Modify I-66. It might be possible to adjust the work zone around where the ramp meets the westbound interstate to ease traffic in that merge area.
But it's a tough work environment that includes an old bridge ramp from the Beltway that must be demolished and the very active Orange Line tracks underneath it, right by the Dunn Loring Metrorail station.
●Restore the former pattern. That would mean not only restoring the second lane on the outer loop ramp — a good thing — but also squeezing down the space just opened up for traffic on I-66 — a bad thing. This is not what VDOT wants to do, said Senior Project Manager Larry Cloyed. It's demoralizing to drivers to offer an improvement, then snatch it back.
A temporary adjustment now would ease the pain for thousands of rush-hour commuters, but the ultimate fix will come during the summer when this phase of construction ends. The Express Lanes, four high-occupancy toll lanes along the Beltway, are scheduled to be open by the end of the year.
During the interchange reconstruction, the pain has rotated counterclockwise. Several years ago, drivers on eastbound I-66 faced a jam created by rebuilding the ramp to the Beltway's inner loop. That's been significantly eased by the opening of a new flyover ramp.
Last year, crews permanently shut the left exit from the inner loop to westbound I-66. All exiting traffic now uses the ramp on the right side, which means it enters I-66 farther east than before, joining all the other traffic coming from D.C. and clogging I-66 in the middle of the interchange.
Nothing remaining is likely to be as disruptive as what commuters already have experienced with these ramps. But before construction is done, these things must happen:
●March/April: That old bridge ramp from the left side of the inner loop will be demolished.
●April: Traffic will shift to a new ramp from westbound I-66 to the outer loop.
●Summer: All lanes from the outer loop to I-66 West are scheduled to be restored.
●Fall: All original lanes will be back in service on the inner loop at I-66, and a fifth lane will be added in that area.


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Dear NappyValleyNetter,
"It doesn't look anything like him."
We're off to a "milestone" birthday party in a couple of weeks and Mr NVN was tasked with sourcing the gift.
This is usually a mistake. He once, and I promise this is true, bought me a coat which was *exactly* the same as one I already owned. However this time he had an "idea" and so like a toddler who errantly believes that one day peeka-boo might have a different outcome, I allowed him to run with his concept.
Which was a caricature.
In principle he couldn't mess it up. His friend has a face that lends itself to cartoons, a love of a particular sport which is easy to lampoon and we had a big clear photo to send to the artist.
Except he did mess it up.
My buffoon of a husband incorrectly briefed the cartoonist so we ended up with a beautiful picture of a man who was standing next to our friend in the photo. Someone whom I cannot even name or hazard a guess as to where they might live. It was like a slow motion, very expensive, photo-bomb but you choose the stranger in the picture yourself and then pay ninety pounds to have them lovingly picked out in pastels.
"What are we going to now?" I asked, still slightly stupefied that we were even in this situation.
"Don't worry," he replied, "I reckon we can brazen this out by simply making out that the cartoonist was rubbish as opposed to badly briefed."
Oh, OK. That's all right then.
Here is what you've been talking about on NappyValleyNet (Wandsworth):
Many of you will have seen last week's news story alleging sexist comments on LinkedIn. But is this an over reaction asks NCL?…click here for details
LP73 wasn't happy with the behaviour of children eating in Byron. Spirited play or selfish parents?…click here for details
A very interesting video from Wandsworth Council. They've videoed an ex-burglar explaining what makes him decide to rob your home.Thanks for pointing this out Kate!…click here for details
Jemina123 is struggling with tantrums. Not her, obviously, but her three year old son. She's at her wit's end. Can you help?…click here for details
A bit of a mystery this post, but a worrying one none-the-less. BB's little one developed a really unpleasant rash but it rose and fell within a few hours. What might it be?…click here for details
M1981 can't decide between the names James or Rory for her son who is due at the end of October. Which do you prefer, she asks?…click here for details
MM feels she's been a bit lax in not teaching her two eldest children to ride a bike. Do you have any advice to help her rectify this as soon as possible?…click here for details
TPTP has posted details of a virus that makes a phone take a picture of it's user and then blackmails them. A scary thought and thank you for the warning TPTP…click here for details
The playground on Upper Tooting Park has secured funding for a revamp. The council are asking for input on what they should do with the space. An indoor aquatic centre and London's extra runway aren't on the list but swings and bouncy zebra are! Probably...click here for details
This is a "house and garden" post but I'm mentioning it here because we really need to get an answer! Bodders needs someone to work their magic with Victorian tiles but she's heard mixed messages about Ground and Steel. Can you gift her a great grouter?..click here for details
Dollar were an eighties pop combo who sang the classic disco ditty "Mirror Mirror" but that's not going to help Little M who is looking for a mirror shop not an out-of-date singing sensation. Can you suggest one?…click here for details
Petal wants to complain about "nails in tyres". Although it sounds like another of Dollar's eighties dismal ditties she's genuinely upset that she's had to replaces two tyres due to nails in the road. Builders to blame?…click here for details
HM wonders how much she should pay an au pair?…click here for details
Jill wonders if you have a contact for the lady who used to own Atelier on Webbs Road?..click here for details
SJHmummy wonders if you can recommend the best classes for a four month old around St John's Hill? Shout if you can help but my initial thought is it's probably best to stay away from those that involve horse riding or archery…click here for details
We have a new addition to Northcote Road. A big massive welcome to the Flight Centre! Their opening party is on the 19th September and you could win £3000 worth of vouchers! Pick me, pick me!…click here for details
PP has visitors this coming half term. Twin five year old God children who are a little "feral". Any interesting attractions she should take them to? Errr…London Dungeon and the Zoo?…click here for details
Falcon Park might be astroturfed. Like totally! Good idea? Elna isn't sure and the Council want your opinion!..click here for details
B7 needs our help. She has some questions regarding acupuncture and a missing/delayed period…click here for details
We have more school's posts than Corbyn has votes!
Do you have a son approaching secondary school age? Whitgift have an open morning this coming Saturday from 9am till 1pm (click here). They have also announced their brand new online application process (click here). Should cut down on the admin!
On the same theme, Wandsworth Council have posted details regarding secondary school open days which start this week (click here).
Still on the same theme, Highview have posted details of their open day (click here).
PB wonders if one can swap their place at the Belleville Meteor site for the Webbs Road site?...click here for details
In other news, Nicolap asks if you have any spare/unwanted toys for the Bowling Green Cafe?…click here for details
BFT has an au pair. Yay! Who wants some buddies. Double yay! Anyone want to meet up?…click here for details
Hayley's little one is twelve month's old and she's like to stop breastfeeding now. How might she ensure she get's enough calcium?…click here for details
Chessie is looking for a local enuresis specialist for a bed wetting boy. Please help if you can…click here for details
Our lovely friend Abbeville Mummy has lost a scooter around Northcote Road. Can you help find the missing micro?…click here for details
Two travel topics we must call out! Need a bed and breakfast in Nappy Valley for rellies or guests you can't house? Check out Glebe in the Old Town, I want to LIVE there! (click here). Further afield, The Martinhal has some pretty special offers available at the moment!…click here for details
Finally, it's your house and garden questions: we have more than Twickenham has scrums!
Zaza wonders where she might find out the legal requirements for a side return, e.g. wall height for neighbours etc? (click here), BM would like to know if you've had a Magnet kitchen recently installed and if you're happy with it? (click here). E09 asks if you can recommend a chimney sweep? (click here) and a brick cleaning company? (click here). ED is searching for someone to restring a blind (click here). CM wonders if anyone has used Urang builders or can recommend a side return specialist? (click here). Sticking with Bob, KD needs a builder to knock down a wall and install a kitchen (click here) OnTheWall has posted details of their professional art hanging service. I know these guys and they are amazing! (click here), Lastly, AL needs a damp proofing company (click here).
Annabel's Arcade is our "totes free" buying and selling site!
FOR SALE: a Dutaillier nursing chair (click here), FOR SALE: four Doctor Brown bottles (click here) and WANTED: a maternity swimsuit size 10 (click here)
Phew, that's it, have a fabby week!!
Annabel and the NappyValleyNet.com Team


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That's a great Grand Canyon shot, especially interesting with those storms dotted about. I'd love to go back one day.
I was on a trip with my school and I couldn't resist to stop on the road and take a few pictures. I made a panorama out of it.
vid500 - great pano shot - nicely put together too..
DownByFive - Grand canyon is a great place for photos -
I especially like the Pano of it you have taken
Here's my humble image for today - just walking alongside the River Avon
at Stratford Upon Avon. I just liked the layout of the view I had ~ and
that Rape in the field was a lovely yellow..
Basically this shot is as I saw it, I just added the border to finish it off...
View from the garden of the Castle Inn over the area of the Battle of Edghill
(23rd Oct 1642)
Also a nice spot to sit and supp a beer in the evening!!! ;)
any tips and pointers for better landscapes?
I haven't played in this room fer a spell :o
From last weekend, up in the local mountains.
Carmel Valley, Calif
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Black Butte, Mt. Shasta, Calif
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Schonchin Butte, Lava Beds Nat Monument, Calif
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Unanswered: Unable to create user after MySQL 5 upgrade
After I upgraded my VPS from MySQL 4 to MySQL 5 the following error was encountered:
Error: Connection to the database server has failed:
Table 'mysql.procs_priv' doesn't exist
OS: centos-4-x86. The MySQL version currently is 5.1 by viewing mysql --version, but there is no connection possible. I used yum to update the sql
yum upgrade mysql
Is it possible that I've forgot to use some commands, like copying a new mysql ini to a specific location, just like you need to when upgrading php4 to 5?


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You can knock off the good cop bad cop grilling routine. If you'll shut up and listen, I'll tell you my story, then you can decide if I need arresting, or what.
I've had a carry permit for six months, not because I see myself as a superhero or some sort of right to arms ideologue, but just because I thought it would be a cool thing to do, and because I believed a few people would back away from violent crimes if enough of us are packing. Looking back, if I'd known what a pain in the ass it is, the classes, giving up private data and biometrics for FBI files, the cost, the liability; I'd have run from the idea. But I didn't. So there I was, sitting in the lecture hall, bored to death listening to the whiny foreign grad student monotoning the same stuff I'd read online, my little Beretta (a lady's gun, ironically) tucked in the shoulder holster, when a crazy looking bald dude ran in waving his own pistol and screaming his head off.
I don't flinch much anymore. Maybe my fight 'n flight sensors have died, or perhaps I've just learned that you panic in the wrong direction often as not, but I didn't budge. I do remember the rest of the class all sucked in their breath; all together, you could hear it. If my brain had clicked right then, I might have been able to stop the whole thing, but it'd be my luck that I'd shoot some squirt gun prankster. I started gathering it in. Say what you want about when and how you think you'd act, but until you've got some wired asshole waving a cannon in you're face, don't presume. What? Yeah, it was a 45. Looked like a cannon from my angle.
A wide eyed kid next to me tried to sneak a pic with his cell phone but the gunner saw him and ran growling over. He raised his gun like he'd hit him with the butt, and a bunch of folks screamed. But he grabbed the phone instead and smashed it. That's when he noticed me. I probably stood out, older than the rest and wearing a blazer.
He said, "Do nothing stupid. I will kill you." He was standing over the kid, but he was looking straight into my eyes. I believed him.
When the gunman backed away, I checked on the kid. He was in a trance, frozen, staring at the crushed phone on the carpet.
What did he look like? Jesus. Where do they find you guys. Come on. You know what he looks like. Come to think of it, he looked like Jesus. A bald Jesus with the back half of a mullet. No, I didn't recognise his accent. Could have been any guy, El Paso to Montreal, I don't know.
Anyway, he made everybody stand up and moved all the women over near the side exit, and roared at them to sit down. He was watching me again. I might have been able to draw my weapon in the shuffle, but there would have been folks between us, and I never saw an opening. Even if I could have got the jump, I don't think I'd have fired at that point. I'd have just told him to drop his firearm. I still didn't know the situation.
Some of the women were cowering, and some were glaring. The men just sat helplessly, staring at the floor like kids in class, afraid they might have to answer a question.
Then a tear rolled down his face, and he spoke to the women, emphasizing his points by wagging the barrel, moving it from face to face.
"Look what you have done." He raised his arms. I might have been able take him then, with his vision blurred, but I wanted to know what this was about.
"My Serena left me. She took my babies. And it's YOUR fault!" He screamed the last part, then refocused.
Aw for cryin' out loud, I thought. All of this 'cause his girlfriend left him? "Dude," I wanted to tell him, "get over it. You're blowing your life up over a woman. That's the way it goes today. You're just a sperm donor and a walking wallet." But I didn't say anything.
"Feminists!" He almost spit the word. "You are hate mongers! You are destroyers of civil society!"
So that's where we're going, I thought. I've got to admit, I've had similar thoughts. Women's rights started with voting, grew into the workplace, and changed dramatically with access to contraception. Equal opportunity was the goal. It has morphed, at least in its more radical form, into a movement bent on destroying half of our population in order to achieve a sick balance of power that demeans us all. None of these women were alive of course, in the twenties, or the sixties, when the real and necessary gains for women were made. The female rights bus has left the station, in my opinion, but women's studies programs at many a college are popular and profitable, so they won't go away soon. But waving a gun in these women's face won't change any of that.
"Serena took a vow. All she wanted was to be loved and to raise a family. She had that. But now, no. She wants to 'experience' other men. She wants to have more money and time. She dresses my daughter like a whore. She 'understands' why the teachers in my son's school ignore him! And I can't negotiate these things!"
Wow. Welcome to the real world, dude. Did you not watch 'Sex and the City'? Size matters. Every woman wants Mr. Big. Big dick, big portfolio, big jerk, but that's unimportant. Your little girl is just modeling today's successful woman, and your boy will get little from today's public schools. Look at the test scores. As to compromise in a relationship, geez, what fundamentalist country have you been hiding in?
"She has a lawyer. Thirty percent of what she takes from us will go to the lawyer. I will get the kids occasionally if I can afford to travel to them! Child support will keep me from doing that."
There are women who make a living marrying dolts and breaking them. I knew a case where she didn't get the house, but took the fixtures. In our state, child welfare folks will garnish your wages for twenty seven percent of your pre tax income for two kids. Forget ever owning anything or getting to see your children. Prenups dull the romance, but what's the value of romance today? God. I'm actually listening to this... terrorist.
"I can't earn enough money to make her happy. Five times I've been passed by for promotions by women less qualified."
Yup, The legendary glass ceiling has been shattered. Only three percent of CEOs nationwide are women, but fifty two percent of upper and middle management jobs are now filled by females. Considering the different career choices females make, it's hard to argue the equal pay for equal work take. I asked one of my coworkers why so many women seemed to carry a chip on their shoulder where men were concerned. She told me the chip had been put there back when she took a position in a traditionally male industry. I suggested that thirty years was a long time to carry a grudge against half the people she'd meet. You've got to be careful, though. Women are a protected category in the workplace. She can tell all the dirty degrading jokes she chooses in whatever company, but I'd be fired. I'm wondering though, what does this guy expect to gain by complaining here?
"Serena watches talk show television for women and sitcoms where men are all idiots. She goes to a women-only club. She gives money we need to politicians, breast cancer research, and women's support groups. She says 'You Go Girl!' for every woman's success and scowls at every man in the news."
Sounds to me like this guy's wife is addicted. He's slowed down now. More sad than angry. Maybe he'll just say his bit and leave. Some of the women are sobbing; more from fear, I suspect, than anything he is saying. One woman with very short hair starts to speak, but he cuts her off.
"Are you gay? Maybe you are, born that way. But most people who say they are, aren't. They play at being gay because it's fashionable. You recruit them into your lifestyle. You gain numbers and power. You deprive their future partners of their soul mate."
Uh oh. He's winding up, again. Pacing now.
"Serena disrespects me. All I have ever done is love her. But she treats me like a date rapist or a child molester. I can't horseplay with the neighbor kids because some might get the wrong idea. I cannot tease the cashier at the store because I could appear to be letch. I can't have spontaneous sex or share a romantic moment with my own wife. She acts like I am using, taking advantage of her. Our children are her children. My input is unwelcome. I am a man, but if I act like one, she ridicules me. I get angry, but she knows I could never harm her. I have no leverage. No power. She has emasculated me."
He swings the gun our way. "Go, all of you over there. Get out!"
Several of the younger students bolt to the top of the lecture hall and out the doors. The rest of us file slowly up the aisle. The kid who lost his phone looks sadly back at it, gathers his backpack and study materials, and follows up the stairs.
What? What do you think I was thinking? I had actually listened to this guy's speech, and I was LEAVING. I was justifying my inaction, telling myself I hadn't managed a clear opportunity, that the police would handle the hostage situation better than I could, that I'm abandoning those poor women, that chivalry is dead in me, that I'm a coward, that I'm still unbelievingly walking away for my own safety...
"And that," he said as I reached the top step, "is the saddest part of what YOU have created. I'm not alone. Look at them. They are sheep. They used to be conquerors and guardians. Fathers, heroes. Look at them now."
Yeah. That stopped me. I thought, "You bastard. When the SWAT team blows through that door, I hope they take you out!" And I kept walking.
I'd barely made it through the door, I could see flashing lights silently approaching in the distance, and there were screams, followed by two thuds, then several more. I think I screamed myself. It felt like the adrenaline exploded in my head. I ran back into the building, pistol drawn. I dove halfway down the steps, pulled up behind the mixer table and took aim. He was just firing into the group of terrified women, the deafening shots and echoes dulling the groans and screeches from the huddled students. I fired twice, changed position, then fired twice more. He didn't stop except to slap another magazine into his pistol, which thundered again and again compared to the hand clap of my little gun. I thought he might be wearing a vest, so I shot him in the leg, and he stumbled. He looked over at me, and without raising his gun, mouthed "Thank you!" I put my last round into his neck, and he collapsed. Then I noticed the seeps where he bled from my first ineffectual shots. I went to help the victims. I remember there was so much blood. I remember the deceased had a N.O.W t-shirt. I remember one lady shot through the arm told me she was pregnant, and she didn't want to lose her baby. I remember suddenly being surrounded by cops and medical personnel. It happened so fast, and I'm remembering more, and I don't want to...
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