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No matter what the technology platform, adult content - porn, if you prefer - will find a way to match up with whatever consumer electronics devices are being used by the masses in any given decade. VCR's brought about the death of adult theaters, CD-ROM's and then DVD's signaled the end of videotapes.
Then the Internet came along, and the desire for adult content online actually helped pioneer such things we take for granted now such as streaming video, webcams and credit card authentication.
It stands to reason that smartphones and the explosion in applications would be the next frontier for porn. At least, that's the hopes of those who are behind the Seattle-based MiKandi, which recently opened a developer's portal and hopes to launch its consumer-oriented website later in December.
There's certainly nothing standing between you and pics/videos that might be found in so-called "lad mags" like Maxim. Nudity may also be found for download to phones, but those apps are few, far-between and not as easy to find as, say, Urbanspoon or Google Maps. But Jennifer McEwen and her co-founders at MiKandi hope to change that.
McEwen told me that her company hopes to lure two types of customers: consumers who are searching for R, NC-17 and XXX-rated content on smartphones and filling up Google searches in their quest for such apps, and application developers who have been stymied so far by the likes of Apple and other phone-operating-system companies with restrictions on content. McEwen promises that MiKandi won't censor ideas for apps - as long as they are legal, she stressed.
MiKandi will provide the platform for developers to write apps for the open-source Android operating system from Google. Because Google and the companies that make Android-based phones all belong to the Open Handset Alliance, McEwen believes they won't restrict the content. MiKandi's developer platform will provide the software development kits, the marketing and a payment system for the app writers. And the consumer website will let users download the apps without having to use the Android Marketplace or other official "app stores."
Fall DEMO 2009
Six finalists get a chance to wow an audience of entrepreneurs and investors this week during the Northwest Start DEMO Fall 2009 event at Union Square in Seattle.
The six finalists, who have survived a "rigorous screening process," in the words of event co-organizer Steven Johnson are Aquapulser Engineering, Basic Athletic Measurement, Exponential Entertainment, Limeade, Pharaoh Software and Zooppa.
For the first time, DEMO will include the participation of all the major tech angel investment organizations in the Puget Sound region, including Alliance of Angels, Keiretsu Forum, Puget Sound Venture Club, Seraph Capital Forum, Tacoma Angel Network and Zino Society. A winner will be chosen by the end of the evening, which gets underway at 5:30 p.m.
Lego Rock Band/Band Hero reviews
Music-based video games have already started targeting certain demographics or musical styles/tastes - witness Guitar Hero/Aerosmith and Beatles Rock Band, versions that skew a tad older, shall we say, than what's being played on Top 40 radio.
Lego Rock Band and Band Hero hope to correct the musical imbalance by focusing on more recent music that's more kid friendly, according to our resident gaming addict, Tracy Gorgas.
HTC Imagio review
The smartphone of the week on Talkin' Tech - the HTC Imagio. It's Verizon's first smartphone to feature Windows Mobile 6.5 OS (now called Windows Phone).
Microsoft is allowing handset manufacturers to do a little more tinkering and customization with its software, so navigating the Imagio offers a little more HTC Sense user interface blended with the Windows Phones OS. Which is a good thing, if you've ever tried a previous Windows Mobile phone.
The big selling point for the Imagio, though, won't likely be its software, but its video capabilities. It features Verizon's VCast Mobile TV - live TV on your smartphone. True, it's only a handful of channels, it will add $13-15 extra to your monthly bill and not all markets have coverage. But it is live TV, including channels like Fox, CBNC and CBS and there's also video on demand. And the antenna doubles as a kickstand, so you can prop up the phone horizontally and keep up with news while working at your desk. Just don't let the boss catch you.
The Imagio cost $199 after a $100 rebate. That also gets you a five megapixel camera, Bing search, access to the still-fledgling Windows Marketplace for apps and a nice sleek design.
Both would meet with parental approval, Tracy says. There are no dicey lyrics here and the music spans everything from Elton John to Cold War Kids.
The gameplay is pretty much the same as the more grown-up versions of either game. Tracy says both games are fun but he gives the slight edge to Lego Rock Band. I mean, come on...it's Legos!


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If you haven't seen Advice Animals yet, you're missing out on the best that Internet humor has to offer. Advice Animals are an image macro series, characterized by an animal or human with a particular character trait or quirk. The Advice Animals first started in 2006 with the emergence of Advice Dog, a cute puppy contrasted with terrible advice. There are dozens of variations on Advice Animals, with the following as the most notable examples.
Internet Meme Roundup:The 10 Best Advice Animals
Advice Dog
Advice dog is an image series characterized by an adorable puppy set on a rainbow background. However, this cute animal is contrasted by recommendations of bad advice. Gaining explosive popularity on 4chan, Reddit and Tumblr, Advice Dog was the forerunner for many Advice Animals to come.
Courage Wolf
Courage Wolf a spinoff of Advice Dog, characterized with an overabundance of courage. The first line of text will generally detail a problem or situation, while the second line will provide courageous advice or a solution.
Insanity Wolf
A variant of Courage Wolf, Insanity Wolf wants to help you achieve success at any cost. Featuring a snarling black wolf with a psychotic look, Courage Wolf will help you achieve your goals through extreme, drastic advice.
Philosoraptor first emerged in 2008, featuring a raptor head imposed on a green background, pondering deep philosophical issues. Not afraid to ask difficult questions, this contemplative dinosaur presents quandaries that have individuals scratching their heads.
Socially Awkward Penguin
This meme features a penguin imposed on a blue background, coupled with text that highlights social awkwardness and low self-esteem. Featured in situations that are often all too familiar, Socially Awkward Penguin is meant to make light of the sadness that is our own lives.
Lame Pun Coon
Also known as "Bad Joke Raccoon", this meme takes a variety of topics and subject matter and transforms them into bad humor. Extremely cheesy and obvious, Lame Pun Coon delivers one lame, cringe-worthy pun after another.
Foul Bachelor Frog
Foul Bachelor Frog first appeared in 2009, and features a frog's face on a green background. This particular meme highlights characteristic traits of single bachelor life, and often delves into the lazy, questionable habits of bachelors.
Rich Raven
Rich Raven features a raven with overwhelming amounts of wealth. This meme has an image of a raven with characteristic signs of wealth, such as a cane, top hat and a bottle of wine. The first line of text describes a prized item or possession, while the second line disdainfully scorns the aforementioned text.
Paranoid Parrot
Paranoid Parrot features an image of a blue and yellow parrot paired with stories of paranoia and obsession. The first line of the text highlights an everyday scenario, while the second follows up with a disproportionately paranoid response.
Business Cat
One of the more recent iterations of Advice Animals, Business Cat features a black cat wearing a professional collar and tie. All business and no fun, Business Cat mimics behavior typical of the average office boss.
Rachel Hyun Kim is a writer for Resource Nation, an online resource that gives advice such as credit card processing to small businesses and entrepreneurs. Rachel has written on a variety of topics, ranging from background check for employment to small business advice.

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Today, the fruitcake has a bad rep and is the butt of jokes, but we have a few ways to turn this dust collector into a great treat for the family. Watch this video and change your mind about fruitcake forever.
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Organisers: Matthias Christandl (ETH Zurich), Michael Walter (ETH Zurich) and Andreas Winter (Bristol)
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Understanding the quantum marginals, or reduced density matrices (RDMs), of multipartite quantum states is a fundamental theme in quantum information theory. Recent work has built on tools from convex analysis and random matrix theory as well as on the link to algebraic and symplectic geometry and asymptotic representation theory. In this workshop, we aim to bring together mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists to discuss recent developments, communicate open problems as well as to identify new directions for the future study of quantum marginals:
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The Registration Package includes admission to all seminars, lunches and refreshments on the days that lectures take place (Monday Friday), wine reception and conference dinner, but does not include other meals or accommodation.
Participants on the Registration Package, including organisers and speakers, are automatically included in this event. For all remaining participants who would like to attend, such as Visiting Fellows, programme participants or their guests, the above charge will apply.
Unfortunately we do not have any accommodation to offer so all successful applicants will need to source their own accommodation. Please see the Hotels Combined website for a list of local hotels and guesthouses.
Lunch will be served at Wolfson Court in the Cafeteria from 12:30 to 13:30 on days that lectures take place.
Participants are free to make their own arrangements for dinner.
The Conference Dinner will take place at 19:30 on Thursday 17 October at Emmanuel College - please see the menu for details. Dress is smart casual. Participants on the Registration Package, including organisers and speakers, are automatically included in this event. All remaining participants are encouraged to attend for the price of £45 each.
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Hospitals let patients schedule ER visits
Three times within a week, 34-year-old Michael Granillo went to the emergency room at Northridge Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles because of intense back pain. Each time, Granillo, who didn't have insurance, stayed for less than an hour before leaving without being seen by a doctor.
Starved Pennsylvania 7-year-old weighed only 25 pounds
A 7-year-old Pennsylvania boy authorities described as being so underweight he looked like a human skeleton has been released from the hospital.
Sparring justices find little disagreement at the opera
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg revealed a different view of U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday when she described about her passion for opera, one she shares with Justice Antonin Scalia.
Malaysians wonder 'Why us?' after second loss of airline jet
It was all too familiar. Grieving families rushing to airport. The flashing television graphics of a plane's last radar appearance. The uncomfortable officials before a heavy thicket of microphones.
For many Malaysians, the disappearance of Flight 370 in March has been a long trauma from which the nation has not yet recovered.
Your chocolate addiction is only going to get more expensive
For nearly two years, cocoa prices have been on the rise. Finally, that's affecting the price you pay for a bar of chocolate - and there's reason to believe it's only the beginning.
A quarter of the world's most educated people live in the 100 largest cities
College graduates are increasingly sorting themselves into high-cost, high-amenity cities such as Washington, New York, Boston and San Francisco, a phenomenon that threatens to segregate us across the country by education.
The terrible history of passenger planes getting shot out of the sky
What is more clear is that, if initial reports are true, this would be the deadliest incident of a civilian passenger plane being shot down in modern memory. In some instances, the causes of the disaster are still shrouded in mystery. Here are some of the worst events.
Facebook tests button to let people shop from its website
Members on desktop computers or mobile devices can click a "buy" button to make purchases through advertisements or other posts on the world's largest social network, the Menlo Park, California-based company said Thursday in a blog post.
We're raising a generation of timid kids
A week ago, a woman was charged with leaving her child in the car while she went into a store. Her 11-year-old child. This week, a woman was arrested for allowing her 9-year-old daughter to go to the park alone. Which raises just one question: America, what the heck is wrong with you?
Starbucks sees more Apple-like stores after Colombia debut
This week Starbucks opened its first location in Colombia — a 2,700-square-foot store with a heated patio, concrete columns, mirrors on the ceiling and walls of colorful plants.
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Why fewer people go bowling
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Almost half of the world actually prefers instant coffee
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An alternative diagnosis to ADHD: Schoolchildren need more time to move
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A High-Availability Cluster for Linux
The administrator can configure groups of files which are mirrored together by creating small mirror description files in the configuration directory. Note directory entries must end with a forward slash (/). Below is the description file for my lpd mirroring, /etc/cluster.d/serv1/Flpd:
/var/spool/lpd/ /etc/printcap
The frequency of the mirroring is then controlled by an entry in the /etc/crontab file. Each entry executes the sync-app program, which examines the specified service mirror description file and mirrors the contents to the specified server IP address. In this example, the specified server address is the cross-over cable IP address on serv2. Mirroring of the lpd system is done every hour. These crontab entries are from serv1:
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * root \ /usr/local/bin/sync-app /etc/cluster.d/serv1/Fsmbd \ serv2-hb 0 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/sync-app \ /etc/cluster.d/serv1/Flpd serv2-hb
The brains of the system lie in the cluster daemon, clusterd. This was written in the Bourne shell and will soon be rewritten in C. The algorithm outline is shown as a flow chart in Figure 2.
clusterd continuously monitors the ICMP (Internet control message protocol) reachability of the other node in the cluster, as well as a list of hosts which are normally reachable from each node. It does this using a simple ping mechanism with a timeout. If the other node becomes even partially unreachable, clusterd will decide which node actually has the failure by counting the number of hosts in the list which each node can reach. The node which can reach the fewest hosts is the one which gets put into standby mode. clusterd will then start the failover and takeover procedures on the working node. This node then continues to monitor whether the failed node recovers. When it does recover, clusterd controls the resynchronization procedure. clusterd is invoked on each node as:
clusterd <local-nodename> <remote-nodename>
It has to know which applications and services are running on each node so that it knows which ones to start and stop at failover and takeover time. This is defined in the same configuration directories as the service mirror description files discussed earlier. The configuration directories in each node are identical and mirrored across the whole cluster. This makes life easier for the cluster administrator as he can configure the cluster from a single designated node. Within the /etc/cluster.d/ directory, a nodename.conf file and a nodename directory exist for each node in the cluster. The reachlist file contains a list of reachable external hosts on the LAN. The contents of my /etc/cluster.d directory are shown here:
[root@serv1 /root]# ls -al /etc/cluster.d/ total 8 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Nov 15 22:39 . drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 3072 Nov 22 14:27 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 4 20:30 serv1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 213 Nov 5 18:49 serv1.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 8 20:29 serv2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 222 Nov 22 22:39 serv2.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40 Nov 12 22:19 reachlistAs you can see, the two nodes are called serv1 and serv2. The configuration directory for serv1 has the following files: Fauth, Fclusterd, Fdhcpd, Flpd, Fnamed, Fradiusd, Fsmbd, K10radiusd, K30httpd, K40smb, K60lpd, K70dhcpd, K80named, S20named, S30dhcpd, S40lpd, S50smb, S60httpd and S90radiusd.
Files beginning with the letter F are service mirror description files. Those starting with S and K are linked to the SysVinit start/stop scripts and behave in a similar way to the files in the SysVinit run levels. The S services are started when node serv1 is in normal operation. The K services are killed when node serv1 goes out of service. The number following the S and K determine the order of starting and stopping the services. clusterd, running on node serv2, uses this same /etc/cluster.d/serv1/ directory to decide which services to start on serv2 when node serv1 has failed. It also uses the serv1 service mirror description files (those files starting with F) to determine which files and directories need to be mirrored back (resynchronized) to serv1 after it has recovered.
The configuration directory for node serv2 contains Fftpd, Fhttpd, Fimapd, Fsendmail, K60sendmail, K80httpd, K85named, K90inetd, S10inetd, S15named, S20httpd and S40sendmail. As you can see, the serv2 node normally runs Sendmail, named, httpd, IMAP4 and ftpd.
High-availability clusters
The problem with using Linux-based (or an OS-specific) clustering software is that you'll always be tied to the operating system.
The folks at Obsidian Dynamics have built a Java-based application-level clustering solution that isn't tied to the operating system.
I think this is the way forward, particularly seeing that many organisations are running a mixed bag of Windows and Linux servers - being able to cluster Windows and Linux machines together can be a real advantage. It also makes installation and configuration easier, since you're not supporting a dozen different operating systems and hardware configurations.
The other neat thing about Gridlock is that it doesn't use quorum and doesn't rely on NIC bonding/teaming to achieve multipath configurations - instead it combines redundant networks at the application level, which means it works on any network card and doesn't require specialised switchgear.
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Ten traffic deaths have been reported since the 102-hour Christmas holiday travel period began Friday at 6 p.m. up to 6 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Georgia State Patrol.
There have been 456 crashes with 191 injuries and seven deaths investigated by the Georgia State Patrol (GSP).
The fatalities count is already much higher than in 2011, when three traffic deaths were reported. Last year there were 1,898 accidents with 693 injuries reported by all agencies.
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Craig S. Smith, a veteran in manufacturing and industrial automation, will be taking over Sick's Canadian offices and will be in charge of sales, marketing and operating activities.
Sick announced it has appointed Craig S. Smith as president of Sick Ltd. in Canada.
Smith is a successful senior leader with proven sales, marketing and operations experience in both the manufacturing and industrial automation business. He comes to Sick from Siemens Water Technologies, a subsidiary of Siemens Canada Ltd. He has also held positions of leadership at Omron, Rockwell Automation and several other automation technology companies in Canada.
In his new position, Smith is responsible for all sales, marketing, and operating activities within Sick's factory, logistics and process automation business segments in Canada, including strategic planning, business development, and improving operating efficiencies.
"We are fortunate to have someone who has extensive experience in managing technical sales, systems integration, and operations for industrial automation joining our company," commented Rob Barniskis, chief financial officer at Sick Inc. "We are confident that Craig's expertise will better position our Canadian subsidiary for further growth."
Smith is a graduate of McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. He received a degree in Electrical Engineering and Management. He has also completed extensive professional development coursework, including an executive educational program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Bucking the current economic climate, Justin Prann, former parts manager for BMW Motorrad North America, is well on his way to opening a new BMW and Ducati dealership in Chattanooga.
Scheduled for a late December opening, Pandora's European Motorsports is located at 4784 Hwy. 58. At press time, the construction phase of the project was wrapping up on the 5,000-square foot building, lacking only exterior paint and the special BMW carpeting, which, according to Prann, was back-ordered.
The shop will cater to the approximately 500 registered BMW motorcycle owners that Prann's research indicated live in the Chattanooga metro area, and will have a cozy coffee bar, couches, and "the biggest TV I can afford," Prann says. Customer-appreciation Saturdays are planned once the shop is open. He says he plans an "interesting" selection of accessories, and a very well equipped parts department. "I am a parts guy, after all," he explains.
The shop's goal is to sell 100 BMWs a year and half that many new Ducatis, with a number of pre-owned bikes added to the mix. "We plan to push the new BMW Superbike heavily," Prann says, referring to BMW's new S1000RR literbike, which just completed a very respectable debut year in World Superbike racing, ridden by veteran riders Troy Corser and Ruben Xaus.
"I'm a sportbike guy, too, and I want to make sure buyers can get financing," he explains, recognizing the different demographic of buyers who might be interested in the S1000RR versus buyers of BMWs other machines.
Published reports indicate Prann invested $80,000 in the building and equipment. "I've only been out of corporate for a month and a half, but my buddies at corporate have been down here. I can't take the cheap avenue."
Prann is "importing" master BMW and Ducati technicians from across the country to ensure the service department will be top-notch. For more details and updates, log onto pandorasmotorsports.com.
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The news came in a July 19th letter from Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Joseph J. Lhoto. Metro-North plans to add two peak period trains on the Pascack Valley Line, as part of service level restoration. These are designed to provide new travel options for Rockland County customers during the peak morning and afternoon travel times.
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- A new morning peak train will depart Spring Valley at approximately 8 a.m.
- In addition, there will be a new afternoon/evening peak train, which will operate Monday through Thursday, and on Fridays and holidays to provide a mid-afternoon "getaway."
"I appreciate Chairman Lhota's long term commitment to providing the Rockland County with the most efficient transportation system possible, and that the MTA will be allocating significant financial resources to improving and expanding services for Rockland County riders," said Vanderhoef.
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A defiant teen ended up being tased and arrested on obstruction and disorderly conduct charges during an Oct. 23 incident in Hamilton Mill.
Gwinnett County Police were called to the Dacula neighborhood after a homeowner saw three males breaking off fence post toppers. An officer spotted three males matching the description given by the homeowner. Two of the males were carrying "private residence" signs. When the officer stopped to question the teens, one of the males, later identified as 17-year-old Joseph O'Donovan, reportedly asked the officer what authority he had to prevent them from leaving. The officer explained the three teens were being detained for the purpose of investigating the reported property damage.
According to the police report, O'Donovan refused to provide his name or date of birth. In the report, the officer wrote that O'Donovan called him an "obviously uneducated person" and asked if the officer was a Christian or believed in "some other sort of false religion."
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"He stated I wasn't used to someone that wasn't afraid of my authority. That all I had was a badge and a gun," the officer wrote. "He stated that he didn't have to tell me a thing."
O'Donovan allegedly used profanity throughout the conversation. The officer advised O'Donovan to stop cursing in public to which O'Donovan reportedly replied, "What you gunna [sic] do arrest me, point your gun at me?"
"Mr. O'Donovan continued on about how I was just doing mindless things, harassing kids walking home from the skate park and that he didn't think police officers belonged in society," the officer noted in the arrest report.
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by Scott Somerville, HSLDA Staff Attorney
Every summer, the National Education Association enacts a resolution calling for the restriction of homeschooling. Every winter, as the state legislatures go into session, the opponents of homeschooling get their best chance to do just that. As a result, Home School Legal Defense Association members are once again scrambling to defend their liberty in some states and are working to advance liberty in others. This legislative season has also seen good bills filed in a number of states. In this article, we will examine how ordinary families have been able to preserve their freedom from powerful forces opposed to home education. By studying how homeschoolers have been effective in the past, we can build towards even more freedom in the future.
Homeschooling continues to amaze the experts. At first, the educational experts said it couldn't work: ordinary families around a kitchen table could not possibly compete with the multimillion-dollar educational systems. Political experts said it couldn't last: ordinary citizens could not possibly outwit the hostile and powerful union that dominates the educational establishment. Despite their doubts, homeschooling is still here.
Homeschool weakness
It is not through strength of numbers that homeschoolers have achieved so much freedom. There have been homeschoolers throughout America's history, but they were so scattered throughout most of the 20th century that there wasn't even a name for what they were doing. According to Pat Farenga of Holt Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it was not until 1967 that the term "homeschooling" emerged to describe the underground phenomenon of parents who chose not to send their children to public or traditional private schools. It was rare for any homeschooler in the 1960s or early 1970s to know any other homeschooling family within driving distance. The first homeschool support groups really could meet in a phone booth!
Establishment strength
Homeschooling was treated as a crime in most states, even though educational freedom had been recognized as a constitutional right in Supreme Court cases decided during the 1920s. In California in 1958, a veterinarian took his son out of 4th grade because he was so bored that he was becoming a discipline problem. After teaching him at home for 18 months, the child was doing 9th grade work. The court convicted the father, holding that academic success was no defense to truancy. The court ruled that the state had the right to force the child to do 4th grade work with his 4th grade peers.
Homeschoolers were up against one of America's defining institutions (the public school) dedicated to one of America's core values (education) operated by some of America's most respected professionals (teachers). To add to the challenge, homeschooling appeared on the scene just as the National Education Association was being transformed from an organization of professionals and scholars to a tough and disciplined labor union that wielded its increasing political power to protect the special interests of public school teachers.
Surprising victories
The amazing thing about the early days of home education was that there were any victories at all. The New Jersey courts took people by surprise in 1967 when they ruled that homeschooling satisfied New Jersey's requirement that children attend public school or be "given instruction equivalent to that provided in the public schools for children of similar grades." In most of the other states at that time, however, the only victories homeschoolers won were the small victories of not getting caught.
Indiana and Illinois were exceptions to the rule. Those states had long permitted homeschools to operate as private schools, because their courts had concluded that a "school" was a place where children were educated, regardless of how many children happened to attend. Christian Liberty Academy in Arlington Heights, Illinois, took advantage of this law to offer a private school program to children who were being taught by their parents all across the country.
Homeschoolers across the country argued that their homes were private schools. Some states accepted this approach, and homeschools in those states generally operate as "private schools" to this day. Others prosecuted homeschoolers, with mixed results. Several courts ruled that even though homeschools were not necessarily "private schools," the private school laws were too vague to enable a reasonable person to tell what was legal and what was not. This meant the legislatures in those states had to draft new laws to clarify what was permitted and what was not. In these cases, homeschoolers were able to make sure the new laws permitted some form of home education.
A number of courts in other states ruled against educational freedom, however. By the early 1980s, homeschoolers in many states were left with difficult choices: hide, move, or persuade the legislature to create a new legal option for parents who educate their own children in their own homes. Remarkably enough, homeschoolers were able to persuade one legislature after another to pass homeschool statutes in the 1980s:
>> 1982 Arizona and Mississippi legalize homeschooling.
>> 1983 Wisconsin and Montana follow suit.
>> 1984 Georgia, Louisiana, and Virginia pass homeschool statutes. Rhode Island gives superintendents the authority to "approve" homeschool programs.
>> 1985 Arkansas, Florida, New Mexico, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington, and Wyoming all enact homeschool statutes.
>> 1986 After homeschoolers won a federal court case, Missouri legalizes home education.
>> 1987 Maryland, Minnesota, Vermont, and West Virginia all permit homeschooling.
>> 1988 Colorado, New York, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania allow parents to teach their own children at home.
"The Evil Empire"
Three states (North Dakota, Iowa, and Michigan) prosecuted homeschoolers so fiercely that they became known as the "Evil Empire." One family after another was prosecuted for teaching their own children in their own homes, and the courts were quick to convict. Finally, in 1989, after seven fruitless appeals to the North Dakota Supreme Court, homeschoolers finally won. The legislature legalized home education.
The next state in the Evil Empire fell in 1991, when Iowa finally enacted a homeschool statute. One official within the Iowa Department of Education still did her best to block homeschooling through restrictive state regulations, but freedom-loving families in Iowa worked even harder to keep the freedom they had earned. (In the end, the homeschoolers won, and the disgruntled official left the Iowa Department of Education to work in another state agency.)
By 1993, only one state still routinely prosecuted homeschoolers: Michigan. Then, on May 25, 1993, five judges on the Michigan Supreme Court overruled four dissenting judges to allow sincere religious parents to teach their own children at home without a teacher's license. It was not until 1996 that the state legislature finally allowed any parent to teach a child at home without some assistance from a certified teacher.
Holding the line
In the early days, when homeschoolers were few and far between, a number of homeschool bills got through the legislature without much opposition from the educational establishment. By the early 1990s, however, homeschoolers in most states had gone from "underground" to "mainstream." This meant new legislative challenges as homeschooling grew in numbers.
According to the Wall Street Journal, homeschoolers are remarkably effective at defending their liberty. In an article titled "Home Schoolers Learn How to Gain Clout Inside the Beltway," April 24, 2000, Daniel Golden wrote:
Pennsylvania Congressman Bill Goodling, chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce [now retired], calls home schoolers the most effective educational lobby on Capitol Hill. They frequently volunteer in his election campaigns. "They know the issues," says Rep. Goodling. "And they have an outstanding phone network."
A study last year by two University of North Carolina sociologists concluded that home-schooling families are more likely than public-school families to work for political campaigns, contribute to candidates, participate in protests or boycotts, sign petitions and write letters to the editor. "We're the activists," says Michael Farris, president of the 60,000-member Home School Legal Defense Association in Purcellville, Va.
In the old days, the "education experts" had said that homeschooling could not possibly work. As the evidence of homeschool success mounted, the "experts" took a new tack. Now they said, "Homeschooling is fine for some families, but it needs to be regulated to make sure that parents are properly qualified." The general public is more tolerant of homeschooling, but still want "a little more regulation." According to a 1999 Phi Delta Kappan/Gallup poll, 92% of Americans believe homeschoolers should have to take the same tests that public school students take.
This means that homeschoolers are constantly holding the line of the liberty they have already won. In New Jersey, for example, where homeschooling had operated with virtually no government oversight since 1967, the Department of Education issued guidelines in 1997 that would subject every homeschool program to the scrutiny of their local district. In Kentucky, families have battled one disastrous bill after another for years on end. Overwhelmingly, homeschoolers have been able to block legislation that would take away their liberties.
Rewarding success
Homeschooling is the most successful educational reform movement in America, and some state legislatures have been willing to reward homeschoolers for their success instead of punishing them. Arizona abolished its testing requirement in 1995. The Colorado Legislature has repeatedly reduced burdens on homeschoolers over the years, thanks to some very effective homeschool activists in that state. Illinois and Minnesota now offer tax credits to homeschoolers. Nevada just adopted new homeschool regulations that free homeschoolers from teaching the same hours as public schools or meeting public school Content and Performance Standards. In 2001, New Mexico dramatically streamlined its homeschool statute, abolishing annual testing requirements. Oregon eased its requirements from annual standardized testing to tests in four grades, while Virginia lowered its "cut-off score" from the 40th percentile to 23rd percentile. West Virginia, which requires the homeschooling parent to have "four years of formal education higher than that of the most academically advanced child," has waived that requirement each of the last several years.
Not every state has been so willing to expand homeschool liberty. Many families in Pennsylvania and New York were disappointed last fall when their elected officials rejected bills that would have reduced many of the regulatory burdens in those states. It is possible to advance freedom in difficult states, but homeschoolers have to be willing to work hard and work together. HSLDA is committed to providing our members with the tools they need to prevail.
Educated citizens
Ordinary citizens can make an impact on their legislature if they know what legislation is being considered and why it should be supported or opposed. HSLDA invests a great deal of time and effort in tracking any legislation that might affect homeschooling, parental rights, or religious liberties. We track important legislation on our website, and send "e-lerts" to our members and friends when it is time to take action.
Effective citizens
Homeschoolers are some of the most effective citizens in our participatory democracy because they actually participate. Time after time, when HSLDA has asked our members to contact their elected officials about proposed legislation, our members have taken immediate and effective action. Legislators find it easy to ignore one or two calls or letters, but they rarely ignore the combined impact of aroused homeschoolers.
Homeschoolers can be very effective in talking to legislators or their staff because, unlike so many other constituents, homeschoolers are not asking for benefits. A polite, articulate parent (or child) can go a long way towards persuading legislators that homeschoolers have earned their freedom.
It is important to be polite when dealing with legislative staff. This can be difficult in some cases: not all legislators support homeschooling, and some legislative aides can be rude, arrogant, and dishonest. For example, aides who have already received dozens of calls about a bill they have never even read can be tempted to say something like, "You don't know what you're talking about; that particular bill has nothing to do with homeschooling." While it might be tempting to be equally rude in return, it is vastly more effective to be as polite as possible on the phone and then to immediately inform HSLDA of the specifics of the conversation. With our e-lert capability, we can explain the problem to our members and even give them the exact language of the bill so that they can read it out loud to the staffer. Our job is to overwhelm the opposition with countless well-mannered, well-informed calls.
Low-maintenance legislators
Defending freedom is hard work, and in most states, homeschool freedom is at risk each year. As Judge Gideon Tucker observed in 1866, "No man's life, liberty, or property is safe when the Legislature is in session." The only long-term defense of liberty is to elect legislators who understand and support homeschooling.
There are few high school civics lessons that provide more short- or long-term value than volunteering to help with an election campaign. Election campaigns can be big and expensive, like the ones for federal representatives who serve in Washington, DC, or they can be local and much more personal. State representatives usually run low-budget campaigns that depend heavily on yard signs and door-to-door canvassing: perfect projects for the motivated homeschool teen. In any election year, there ought to be at least one local candidate that your family could volunteer to help. If you help a candidate win, you can rest assured that he will remember who helped him win when homeschool freedoms are at risk. Even if your candidate loses, your experience in the campaign will make you much more effective in the future. Besides: your candidate's opponent just might realize that it isn't good politics to make the homeschoolers mad!
Our Founding Fathers believed in hard work, personal responsibility, and self-control. They believed in self-government, wherever possible, and established a system where active and informed citizens could prosper. Much has changed in the last two hundred years, but the Constitution they adopted to "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" is still in force. As long as homeschoolers are willing to stay informed and work together, we can pass that liberty on to another generation.
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North Atlanta High School students left class Wednesday in protest of the removal of school administrators last week.
The students were sitting on the football field on the campus around 12 p.m. in protest, according to a live Channel 2 Action News report.
Mark MyGrant, the interim prtincipal at North Atlanta High School, and his administrative leadership at the Buckhead school were removed from their posts late Friday with little public explanation from school district officials.
In letter posted to the APS website, Superintendent Erroll B. Davis simply wrote the changes were effective immediately.
Sid Baker, the former principal of Sarah Smith Elementary, will run the school until Oct. 29, when Howard Taylor takes over.
At a meeting with angry North Atlanta parents and students, Davis said the school is failing and was in danger of being taken over by the state.
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I am the pastor of a prison congregation called New Life Prison Community in Newton. An inmate-member named Jon approached me the other day. Jon wanted to talk with me about his favorite song: The Alabaster Jar. I asked him why he liked this song so much. What was it about the song that spoke to his heart? Jon told me to take a good look at the lyrics because they mean so much to him.
"This alabaster jar is all I have of worth
I break it at Your feet, Lord, it's less than You deserve
You're far more beautiful, more precious than the oil
The sum of my desires and the fullness of my joy
Like You spilled Your blood, I spill my heart
As an offering to my King
Here I am, take me as an offering
Here I am, giving every heartbeat for Your glory
Take me."
Jon reflected that the song expressed his desire too. He wanted to spill his heart as an offering for His King, to give his whole life to his Lord Jesus Christ.
When I read the lyrics, I thought about the origin of this song in the Gospels. You can find the account in Luke 7:36-50. "She brought an alabaster jar of perfume, and as she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them." (Luke 7:37b-38) Immediately Jesus' host, a Pharisee, objected because the woman was "a sinner." Jesus replied directly to his objection by noting his lack of hospitality, his lack of love compared to the sinful woman:
"Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You did not give me a kiss, but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet. You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet. Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—for she loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little." (Luke 7:44-47)
Although she never opened her mouth to speak, this woman's love-in-action has been preserved for centuries in the Holy Bible. Luke Timothy Johnson makes some careful observations about Luke's account: "In the sinful woman we recognize again a member of the outcast poor, rejected by the religious elite as an untouchable, but like the poor throughout this Gospel, showing by her acts of hospitality that she accepts Jesus. In contrast, the Pharisee invites Jesus to table, but violates all the rules of hospitality, and thereby shows that he does not accept Jesus." (The Gospel of Luke, 129)
Even though Jesus is not currently with us in the flesh, we still can minister for Christ and to Christ. As it is written in Matthew's Gospel, "The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.'" (Matthew 25:40)
Hospitality is provided for Christ whenever we serve the least of these. Love is shown to Christ whenever we visit the sick, give shelter to the homeless, or feed the hungry. Compassion is given in Christ whenever we visit someone in prison or make space in our community for ex-offenders. God calls you to carry your alabaster jar to Jesus' feet where you can give him something more precious than the most expensive perfume: your life. Give Christ the King your life as an offering of loving service.
Rick Admiraal is the pastor of New Life Prison Community, a prison congregation in Newton, Iowa. New Life has been growing disciples for Christ in prison since Feb. 8, 2011. Rick & his wife, Rose, live in Pella with their two children: John and Annaliese. Pastor Rick loves to ride his bicycle and just finished his second RAGBRAI.
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jayma8 Posts: 1hello, i came across this forum when i started researching why in the world my perfectly good 2001 Toyota Prius spontaneously caught fire.
The Prius had been parked in my driveway for 48hrs. At about midday my neighbor came to the door and told me my car was full of smoke.
I went out and heard crackling coming from the rear end. I opened the trunk and the back of the seat and all the carpet was flaming and melting.
We got the fire out before it progressed too far and the firefighters said the fire started where heat had melted a hole in the far right corner of the protective metal casing for the Prius Hybrid battery pack.
I should also say I'm in Australia.
I phoned the dealership to tell them about the problem and they asked if they could come take photos. Naturally i agreed and waited to hear back from them.
They did not call, so I called and asked for their assessment they told me we would have to arrange for a tow at my expense and then they would get a very busy specialist to investigate the car in a few weeks or so.
The car was not fully insured. I did not recieve any letters of any type from Toyota to bring my car in for service or recall.
I have attached photos of the car here http://www.carspace.com/jayma8
Toyota Australia told me this was the first time this has ever happened. I informed them that my research identified other similar fires in the Prius.
Does anyone know who i can talk to for help or if Toyota is doing anything to rectify this situation and help their customers who have had their Prius spontaneously combust?
I understand that the Prius IS built by humans.
And I know of some full-size GM SUVs that have caught fire while parked.
But, I cannot find anything at any website about a Prius catching fire.
True, some frames on some Toyota p/ups have rusted badly.
And some Ford Pintos catch fire when struck from behind, and some GM p/ups have problems with the paint fading/peeling.
Even some VW Passats have had their seat heaters catch fire.
Please do not tell me what I think.
I am merely stating that I have been unable to find any report of a Prius catching fire. I asked if perhaps there were a GM SUV nearby, since they ARE known to catch fire.
And the fact that someone had to pay out some $2500+ to get their "displays" fixed is truly a big deal. But when a warranty expires, then a warranty expires.
Buying a car does not entitle you to free service and repairs forever.
If you cannot afford repairs after the warranty has expired, then by all means by an extended warranty program, or don't buy the car at all.
I have seen people buy a car, that could not afford to have the car serviced, or to replace the tires once they were worn out.
Too many people believe that car ownership costs end with the car payment.
There is a whole lot more to it than that.
Simpletons, like that, are probably the ones who complain the loudest.
Their short attention spans do not allow them to realize what they will be in store for after the car's warranty has expired.
It's like having kids. Surely these folks cannot believe that the hopital delivery bill is the end of the road in costs associated with raising a child.
I give up. Preach to those who feel victimized by the automakers.
I am not one of those!
I am merely stating that I have been unable to find any report of a Prius catching fire. I asked if perhaps there were a GM SUV nearby, since they ARE known to catch fire.
So if I park next to a Toyota pickup with a GM vehicle does that mean the frame on my GM will rust out like on the Toyota? According to you the answer is yes.
Our 2-week-old 2009 Prius caught fire in our driveway in the middle of the night. The fire started in the rear battery compartment - same as the others I've read in this forum. We're waiting to see how Toyota will respond. As I consider whether to replace the car with another Prius, I am concerned to read in this forum that there have been almost identically described battery fires in model years from 2001. I sure would like to know just how many of these incidents there have been and whether this issue has been addressed in the 2010 model which is supposed to have a different type of battery. I'd love to have another Prius, but am a bit shaken by our recent experience.
That's rather demanding, and uncalled for. If the member wishes to do so, that's fine, but we're not going to imply that someone's being untruthful just because they don't produce articles or photos.
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tothemaxx2 Posts: 22I have been reading this board for over a year since we bought our 2008 Prius. Our Prius has been flawless (as I am sure 99.9% have been). I have also followed forums for all my cars (GMs, Fords, Hondas, Volvos, VWs, Toyotas) for many years. All I can say is some things happen to all cars. Also, people who write posts tend to be ones (including myself) who have had problems. This is good as it helps people know what to look for. However, this doesn't necessarily mean the problems happen to a significant % of owners, these are just who are vocal. I have no problem with my Prius (it is about the only car I have ever owned w/o a problem of some kind in the first 14 months). Don't get too worried. S__t happens, always.
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On Sunday July 26 2009 at 2am my 2005 prius (fully loaded model) caught fire in the garage. The neighbors said that they heard 2 explosions (probably batteries blowing up from heat) and then the garage burst into flames. The prius, the garage and my wife's car were all totally destroyed. The firemen all said that in their opinion the genesis of the fire was with the prius. They said that fire was under the prius and surrounding the engine. We left the car in the garage at 9pm Saturday night, and saw the garage at 11:45 pm before going to sleep. Nothing about the garage looked disturbed or unusual. Is Toyota going to make this right?
Our insurance made prompt payment on my 2009 Prius which also caught fire in the middle of the night (previously posted), but I never heard how Toyota dealt with it. Last week I heard of another Prius catching fire in Santa Rosa, CA, but could not get any details. Please let us know what happens. I'm very glad nobody was hurt.
I am NOT saying this is the cause of the fire, but here in the Dallas area there have been a rash of midnite car fires believed to have been performed by "bored" kids.
Like I said, I am NOT saying that is the cause, but there have been SEVERAL incidents by some drivers who have demonstrated to me by not only "non-verbal" communications ( finger-pointing ), but also some who have passed me with so little space between my car and theirs that I was surprised the outside mirrors on both our cars/truck didn't get torn off.
This has occured several times as I mentioned earlier. I drive the speed limit in the second lane ( the one next to the exit/merge lane, NOT the very inside lane ).
One guy in his bigg Ford P/U nearly scraped off my left side because I was driving the speed limit ( 50/40 ) on the exit/access road. When I came up behind him at the stop light, he communicated with me, again "non-verbally", so when the light changed, I returned the signal but with BOTH of my middle fingers. He sped to the shoulder, stopped and jumped out, but I was at my turning point and missed out on the "discussion".
In short, some people just don't like Priui. Even if they aren't covered by "Save the Whales", or Obama stickers. Mine is unadorned. I just mind the speed limit, and try to maintain the following distance interval, much to other's chagrin.
Perhaps yours was a victim of Priui haters, since it was outdoors.
I am not familiar with anybody having a Prius fire in their garage.
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Despite all the rosy news one hears these days about sinking unemployment numbers and a rising economy, plenty of people are still having financial issues. As a result, a lot of families are taking their vacations a little closer to home. This week, we review a few cool items that will make any family road/camping trip a success.
Reese Explore Car Top Carrier (Reese Brands)
Once you've decided where to go, it's time to start packing up the car. Unfortunately, a lot of us tend to bring way, way too much, which leaves barely enough room in the car for the people. One great solution is this roof-top carrier from Reese. It's made of lightweight-but-durable nylon that will keep your belongings clean and dry regardless of the weather, and is a lot easier to attach to your car's side rails or cross bars than many of its competitors. Best of all, it's expandable (going from 12 to 16 cubic feet of storage), which is a big help if you're trying to carry awkwardly shaped items. Retails for about $65 at http://www.walmart.com/ .
Dragons Adventure World Explorer (DreamWorks)
Keeping the kids entertained on a long drive can be a challenge. Ideally, you'll have a mix of tech and no-tech options. When it's tech's turn, Dragons Adventure is perfect. It's inspired by the How to Train Your Dragon movies and set on the Isle of Berk. As you might expect from DreamWorks, it's beautifully designed and quite interactive. There are quests - light signal beacons move a sheep from one place to another - but Dragons Adventure has a few twists that make it truly unique. In at-home mode, players (who can be either Hiccup or Astrid) fly around the world, rescuing dragons from evildoers. But the real fun starts when you go on the move. The app uses HERE maps to bring the roads you're driving on into the game in real time, so players will see familiar landmarks as they fly their dragons. It also uses info from The Weather Channel to change the weather conditions in the game, and data from Foursquare to determine how many Vikings appear along the route. Another neat feature: If you plug in your starting point and destination before you start, the game will wind down as you reach your destination. Free for Microsoft Windows phones and tablets.
Conifer 5+ (Mountainsmith)
Once you get there, you've got to sleep somewhere, right? You can't do better than the Conifer 5+. To say it's roomy doesn't do it justice. The tent itself has 83.5 sq. feet of floor space, lots of interior pockets, and a ceiling height of 6 feet2 inches, so there's plenty of room for two adults, three kids, and a dog or two. There's also a "porch," which adds another 30 square feet for storing luggage or just hanging out. It's quick and easy to set up, but best with two people - especially if it's windy. Directions are printed right on the stuff sack, so they're hard to lose. Prices range from $285 to $360. http://mountainmith.com/
Washdrops (Cequent Consumer Products)
After a long road trip, you're going to want to wash that car. But today, when everyone's concerned about conserving resources, wasting all that water is a big no-no. So what's an environmentally savvy parent with a filthy vehicle to do? All you need is one bucket of water and Washdrops . It's non-abrasive and leaves you with a shiny surface without repeated rinses. It's completely non-toxic - no solvents, butyl, phosphate, or ammonia - so when you're done you can use what's left in the bucket to water your garden. $10.95-$22.00. http://washdrops.com/
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Buzz would have seen more of the Home Show except we made the mistake of walking into the Hybrid-Nation high-tech bed exhibit.
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Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, who is entering the final year of his contract, said his absence at earlier offseason workouts had nothing to do with his contract situation.
Then he surprised reporters on Wednesday by suggesting that he could have arranged it so the Lions never drafted him with the second overall pick in 2010.
"I had an opportunity, probably a lot of you guys don't know," he said after the two-hour organized team activity, according to The Detroit News. "I could've gone elsewhere when I was drafted. I had that decision in my hands. I chose not to take it because that's just the way I saw it."
When a reporter explained to Suh that the selection is not a player's choice where he is drafted, Suh said that it was actually his choice.
"It is my choice. It is for sure my choice," he said. "That's water under the bridge. I'm here in Detroit. I'm happy to be here in Detroit and I'm going to continue to play my heart out as I've always done and continue to do."
A Lions spokesman provided further clarification of Suh's comments.
"He was thrilled to be selected by the Detroit Lions," said Bill Keenist, Lions vice president of communications.
Meanwhile, defensive tackle Nick Fairley isn't practicing with the Lions due to a "medical issue that he's dealing" with, according to coach Jim Caldwell.
Caldwell said Fairley will "be back as soon as he's recovered."
According to the Detroit Free Press, Fairley has been dealing with sleep apnea.
Fairley, a 2011 first-round draft pick, didn't have his fifth-year option exercised by the Lions.


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WASHINGTON — Jeff Skinner began 2014 just as he ended 2013, by scoring goals.
The Carolina Hurricanes again followed his lead.
Skinners goal at 1:20 of overtime Thursday gave the Canes a 4-3 victory over the Washington Capitals and gave the winger his second hat trick of the season.
Skinners overtime goal came off a three-on-one rush as defenseman Ryan Murphy carried the puck into the offensive zone on the right wing and found Skinner crashing the net against defenseman Mike Green.
He sort of threads it through the guys legs and I just sort of had to put my stick there, said Skinner, who now has 19 goals this season. It bounced off my stick and went it. It was a heck of a pass and great play by him.
The Hurricanes (16-16-9) were looking to build off a 5-4 comeback victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday, when they rallied from a 3-0 deficit in the third and won 5-4 in overtime. They also were looking for a rare three-game sweep of the Caps (20-15-6) this season at the Verizon Center and seeking to climb the standings in the Metropolitan Division.
This tightens things up a little bit, Canes coach Kirk Muller said.
The Canes had a different look. Goalie Anton Khudobin made his first start for Carolina since an ankle injury Oct. 13 and was steady enough with 38 saves.
Defenseman John-Michael Liles, obtained in a trade Wednesday with Toronto, was in the lineup. Paired with Murphy, he was used on the power play and penalty kill.
It wasnt the prettiest game for us, Muller said. We slugged it out and grinded. It wasnt pretty but we found a way to win a hockey game.
Skinners power-play goal, on a 5-on-3, was the only score in the first period. Things quickly heated up in the second, creating stress for Khudobin and Caps goalie Philipp Grubauer.
Alexander Ovechkin tied the score on a bullet of a shot 49 seconds into the period. Manny Malhotra quickly countered for the Canes, scoring off the rush 55 seconds later, but Troy Brouwers goal off a rebound for the Caps made it a 2-2 game.
Defenseman Steve Oleksys quick shot from the left circle gave the Caps their first lead, 3-2. But Skinner answered 40 seconds later with his second goal, banging in a rebound.
Make it five goals in the first four minutes, 34 seconds of the period.
Sometimes it happens, Khudobin said of the offensive flurry. You just have to regroup and refocus.
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Huge save, Muller said. It broke the momentum they were building.
Speaking of building momentum, Skinner has been torrid. He scored 12 goals in the month of December, including the two power-play scores on New Years Eve that fueled the surge against Montreal.
Hes an opportunist, hes finding the holes now, Muller said. Not only is he scoring but hes scoring big goals for us.
Skinners first career hat trick came Dec. 5 in a road game against Nashville. Now he has two, although he shrugged it off.
Its a big win for us, especially coming off that emotional win last game, Skinner said.
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SHANKSVILLE, Pa. —
Father Al explained the meaning of the lamp. He asked me to light it.
The reverence in his voice offset the raspiness, left by his latest battle with cancer. Clearly, he saw this place as special.
He began building the Flight 93 Memorial Chapel just weeks after a courageous uprising by passengers and crew members foiled terrorists' plans to crash one more hijacked airliner into a symbolic American target, the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. Through discreet, back-of-the-plane phone calls to loved ones and emergency operators, the flight attendants and travelers learned other suicide hijackers had already crashed airliners into the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. With the pilot and co-pilot already killed or incapacitated, the survivors decided to fight back, rushed the cockpit and battled the terrorists for control of the plane. The passengers' determination forced the criminals to crash United Airlines Flight 93 into a sparse, grassy field in western Pennsylvania, 20 minutes short of al-Qaeda's goal — the Capitol, the "People's House," the hub of the United States' government.
That story motivated the Rev. Alphonse Mascherino for the rest of his life.
Wednesday marks the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed 2,977 people.
Each year, in different ways, Americans remember those who died that day. Through the Flight 93 Memorial Chapel, Mascherino remembered the 40 aboard — pilots, flight attendants and passengers — in a lasting way.
This week's 9/11 observance will be the first without Father Al presiding over a ceremony in the small nondenominational chapel on a country highway, down the road from the crash site near Shanksville, Pa. Cancer claimed his life on Feb. 15 at age 69.
His modest idea to create a place to honor those 40 heroes filled an important corner in the nation's collective memories. Mascherino took out a loan and sold his coin and antiques collection to buy an abandoned Lutheran church and turn it into a shrine. A lumber company owner donated building materials and labor, and it opened in March 2002. Families of the crew and passengers donated loved ones' personal items. Visitors contributed military and religious symbols, and keepsakes connected to 9/11. A blacksmith, a friend of Father Al's, made the lamp, representing the loss, sacrifice and freedom linked to Flight 93.
"The flame that burns within represents liberty and freedom that God gave to us when he created us; we hold these truths self-evident," Mascherino told me on a warm afternoon in the summer of 2011, when I visited the 9/11 crash sites with my wife and daughter. "The light has been handed over to us, protected by the heroes, preserved and handed over to us, and now we have to keep it lit to pass it on to those who come after us.
"Since May of 2002, people from all over the world have lit that light," he added, before cranking down the lamp and handing me the lighting candle.
Indeed, as the country approached the high-profile 10th anniversary in 2011, more than 300,000 people had visited the chapel, usually on their way to the actual crash site, now the Flight 93 National Memorial, a national park. The chapel has no official link to the memorial, overseen by National Park Service rangers and a team of volunteer local tour guides known as the Ambassadors. And though a few disagreements have arisen — such as a plan by Father Al and a Pittsburgh architect to move the chapel closer to the memorial and seek donations for a $10-million expansion — the chapel and the national park complement each other in telling the Flight 93 story. As Mascherino's health faded, he passed guardianship of the chapel to Archbishop Ramzi Musallam of the Catholic Church of the East, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Last month, Musallam told the Somerset Daily American he'll keep the chapel right where it is.
With all due respect to Father Al's plan, the chapel fits in its place.
It fits in a place some would call "out in the sticks," at the corner of Stutzmantown and Coleman Station roads, 2.6 miles from Shanksville. The harrowing struggle unfolding inside a jetliner on a quiet Tuesday morning in September ended in a field over the hilly ridges to the north. Forty average people, most of whom did not know each other, who thought they were on their way to sunny California, used the final minutes of their lives to prevent a yet more grave disaster.
Al Mascherino decided to devote his life to telling their story, honoring their bravery, and remembering its potential good.
As a man of faith who experienced his own conflicts with his church hierarchy, he saw something significantly open-hearted in those heroes' actions. Within days after 9/11, he recalled in 2011, "We heard they had prayed onboard Flight 93. They prayed before they rose up against the attackers. They also prayed with one of the 911 operators. I think they prayed the Lord's Prayer. They didn't have time to say to each other, 'What church do you belong to?' They prayed together. And that expression of faith, to me, was inspirational. That's where they got the courage and strength to do what they had to do."
The chapel is a reminder of that, Mascherino said, "like a continual regeneration of the story of Flight 93."
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