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DETROIT -- The last time Miikka Kiprusoff missed time due to injury, the Calgary Flames were looking to snap a seven-season stretch without playoffs.
Jarome Iginla was in his first season as captain and Roman Turek and Jamie McLennan were also splitting the netminding duties.
Leland Irving was yet to start playing in the WHL.
For the first time since the middle of the 2003-04 season, the Flames are potentially facing a horrible reality -- no Kiprusoff to call upon after he suffered a "lower-body" injury in the second period of Tuesday's 4-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings.
"You take for granted how good he is, how durable he is and how consistent he is," Iginla said. "He's pretty much in net most of the time.
"We want him back as quick as he can."
The Flames said Kiprusoff will be re-evaluated Wednesday after they arrive in Columbus to face the Blue Jackets, stop two on their road trip.
Kiprusoff didn't need any help -- brace, cast or crutch -- when he left the dressing room.
There was no obvious incident where it appeared the workhorse netminder was hurt, but he was sent to the ice after Johan Franzen made contact with him after being bumped by Mark Giordano, and Kiprusoff appeared uncomfortable getting to his feet.
At least the Flames have some confidence in Irving after he came through when called upon for the first time this season.
The 2006 first-round draft choice stopped all six shots he faced in the third period to put the finishing touches on Calgary's second victory of the season before an announced sellout crowd of 20,066 at the Joe Louis Arena.
"Late in the second period, I could see Kip wasn't feeling great," Irving said. "He was kinda favouring his lower body. Coach told me to start stretching, that I might be going in, and that allowed me to prepare to go in for the third.
"There's always going to be nerves, and I think, especially in this case, that was a good thing. It helps get the adrenaline going, and I was able to play, not over-think things. Sometimes, that's a better way to go."
The Flames -- who received goals from Iginla, his first of the season, Curtis Glencross, Dennis Wideman and Giordano -- were doing everything to not let losing their most valuable player damper the night.
"Some pressure to come in on your first game of the year, but he did great. He looked confident in there," Iginla said. "A very good win for our team. We carried it over from our last game and did a lot of the same things. They had some momentum at different times, but they're gonna do that.
"I thought we did a great job of limiting that damage."
The Flames don't currently have another signed goalie in North America. Joni Ortio is playing in Finland, while both netminders in Abbotsford -- Danny Taylor and Barry Brust -- are on AHL contracts and would need to be inked to an NHL deal.
They could summon draft choice Laurent Brossoit from the WHL Edmonton Oil Kings on an emergency basis for Thursday's game in Columbus.
However, a trade is always possible.
"We'll know tomorrow," is all GM Jay Feaster would say when asked what they could do.
For now, though, Irving could bask in stepping into the fray and playing a perfect stretch. It's a nice story for a netminder who was third on the depth chart in Abbotsford during the lockout and couldn't seem to get his game on-track.
"This is 20 minutes of hockey and in those 20 minutes, the guys played great," said Irving, who posted a 1-3-3 record during NHL games last season. "I can't take too much credit for this. They were really good in front of me, keeping shots to the outside.
"I'm gonna continue to work just as hard as I have and keep improving."
Franzen scored the lone goal for Detroit.


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Say What? Jackson's 'Hobbit' Trilogy Has Cost $561 Million So Far
by Alex Billington
October 4, 2013
Source: Variety
We're not one to chase stories about budgets, box office, and Hollywood financials, but this is too good to pass up. Plus, I'm admittedly still a big fan of Peter Jackson and his adventures in Middle Earth, and it's interesting to hear just how much has been spent on this new trilogy. Days after the second trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug arrived, Variety has a story confirming that after 266 days of filming, two years of post-production and two extra months of "pick-up" shoots, the costs for The Hobbit trilogy have already passed half a billion. Then again, An Unexpected Journey already passed $1 billion at the box office.
The specifics on the money spent, a current grand total of $561 million which is almost double the cost of the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy ($281 million), come from a financial report filed in New Zealand. In addition to the $561 million spent so far, New Zealand taxpayers have contributed NZ$98 million through a government incentive program. Here's the exact quote in Variety where they mention the total spent so far.
Through March 31, production had cost 676 million New Zealand dollars, or $561 million at current exchange rates, according to financial documents filed Friday in New Zealand, where the movies are being made.
This isn't that surprising. Considering the always-rising cost of production, especially with new technology, massive sets, and endless costumes/weapons/make-up, this kind of budget for a series that is expected to make well over $1 billion in the end does make sense. A glance at the list of the "most expensive films" ever made confirms that the individual Hobbit movies are not the most expensive ever. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End still sits on top, with a total cost of $300 million for that one sequel alone. However, this price for The Hobbit trilogy is still a bit more than the Star Wars prequel trilogy, which (according to Box Office Mojo) cost $343 million. But they've certainly earned more than enough in returns and I don't think anyone is concerned about the next two Hobbit movies flopping (especially with the first movie doing well).
Nonetheless, this is an interesting statistic. As long as all this money shows up on screen in the end, I'll be happy. As long as the experience is as epic and thoroughly entertaining as it should be, then we don't have anything to complain about. But as always, the experience is debatable, too. Only time will tell if these last two Hobbit movies, The Desolation of Smaug and There & Back Again, live up to the hype (and the budget).
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Difference Between Soft Link & Hard Link
I would like to knoe the difference between SOFT LINK [Symbolic Link] & Hard link in solaris
do not use solaris but it should be the same as linux or unix
soft or symbolic is more of a short cut to the original file....if you delete the original the shortcut fails and if you only delete the short cut nothing happens to the original.
hard link is more of a mirror copy....do something to file1 and it appears in file 2
deleting one still keeps the other ok
aus9 explanation definitely applies to Solaris (a.k.a. Unix) too.
2 more differences:
Hard links share the same inode. Soft links do not.
Hard links can't cross file systems. Soft links do.
On a hard disk there are lots of sectors.
Say a file starts at inode (sector) 4001 and ends at 5000. The file is "/export/home/john/mail.doc"
1. A hard link to "mail.doc" which is named "hardLinkToMail" contains the value: "4001".
2. A soft link to "mail.doc" which is named "softLinkToMail" contains the value: "/export/home/john/mail.doc".
In 1) the hard link can only point to the same disk. It can not point to another drive. All drives has an inode of value "4001", how can the hard link distinguish between all discs? Which drive's "4001" is it?
In 2) the soft link contains a string. The string can point to another filesystem on another drive, because the full path is specified
Is there something wrong with this forum? This thread has something like 9000 hits. The other threads has a couple of hundreds. 9000 hits sounds not plausible?
Nothing wrong with the forum. Here are a couple of reasons that can explain this popularity:
- This thread is three years old
- Its title is a very common question
simplest way that we can understand the difference
SOFT LINK [Symbolic Link] & Hard link
Hard link point to the file content
while Soft link points to the file name.
while size of hard link is the size of the content while soft link is having the file name size
Difference Between Hard Link and Soft Link
Hard Link:
While creating a link from source to Destination file. ----> The changes done in the source file will be effected in destination file.
But when The source file is deleted the destination file remains the same.
Soft Link:
While creating a link using soft link from source to destination file → the changes done in the source file will be effected in Destination file too.
But when the source file is deleted the destination file also gets invisible. i.e when u tried to check the destination file its says no such file or directory
Note: Its always best practice to give a hard link than soft link
Hard Link syntax: ln file1 file2
Soft link Syntax: ln -s file1 file2
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Gopal Varma P
@jlliagre: Thanks for your much detailed points on this. Would like to request for the features like which are missing in Hard Links.
Thanks in advance
Gopal Varma P
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I even taught my husband how to say please and thank you....that was tough too..I even had to learn and say "may I" to my elders. I thank my parents for teaching respect of yourself and others.....their parents taught them. There is nothing wrongwith being a parent to your children. So, may I thank you kokkie, and please send ussome more of these. C U later, Janine.
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David Price prepared to build on success
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — They will be without their workhorse, their rotation's heaviest hauler, so David Price knows this summer will be different around these parts. Faces in a clubhouse come and go, most as permanent as a Sunbelt cold front. But over time, some shadows become harder to shake.
Consider former Tampa Bay Rays right-hander James Shields, traded to the Kansas City Royals in a six-player December deal, to be a card-carrying member of that camp. He led the Rays with 227.2 innings pitched last season, his sixth consecutive campaign with at least 200. He threw a career-high 249.1 in the 2011 season. Aside from pitching 124.2 as a rookie and 203.1 in 2010, he has thrown at least 215 in each of his seven major-league campaigns.
So there's a hole that needs to be filled at the Trop, a John Kruk–sized gap to be plugged if the Rays are to threaten for their fourth postseason berth in the last six seasons. The good news: Joe Maddon's guys don't need to search far to find the arm willing and capable to clock overtime on the rubber, the diamond's hottest spotlight of all.
Mr. American League Cy Young Award winner, what do you have planned for an encore?
"If everybody can throw seven, 10, 12 more innings than they threw last year, everything kind of evens out," Price said Monday after a morning workout at Tropicana Field. "That includes myself. If I can get up to 220 innings, we can have somebody else get up to close to 200 and the 190s. If we can do that, and everybody else picks up 10, 12, 15 innings, it will work its way out."
That's easier said than done, of course, but the lanky left-hander's sentiment is spot-on. Price finished with 211 innings pitched last season, the second-most of his five-year major-league career, while earning a 20-5 record with a career-low 2.56 ERA. No other Rays pitcher had more than Matt Moore's 177 1/3.
Over the past three years, he has pitched no fewer than the 208.2 he threw in 2010.
By now, Price's heels should be well versed with the red carpet. His offseason included cameras of all shapes and sizes: An "MLB 2K13" commercial shoot, an ESPN studio visit and an appearance at a banquet for the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America, where he received his AL Cy Young Award.
But Price's victory lap is in its home stretch, so it's fair to turn focus to the next to-do list. The elite never settle, never grow complacent as their shelves fill with hardware and their ears with praise, and Price will be studied by how he responds to success. Among boxes awaiting checkmarks:
- * Continue to show growth. A 12-13 season with a 3.49 ERA in 2011 was an anomaly, but aside from that hiccup, his win and ERA totals have steadily increased. He had zero victories in five appearances in 2008, 10 in '09, 19 in '10 and the 20 last season.
- * Continue to lead the young. He's only 27, but last season's breakout effort could place him on a higher pedestal among his peers. He says he's an "open book," and teammates can text or call him whenever they like to learn how he manages his craft. Without Shields, who's 31, Price will be a sage voice on staff.
- * Continue to be who he is. Price has been labeled as a "rare talent" (by outfielder Matt Joyce) and as "open-minded" (by catcher Jose Molina), so few expect him to change a mental approach that made 2012 such a memorable summer. Consistency will be his key. Why tweak an engine primed to fly?
"I don't think his mentality changes," Joyce said. "I don't think his talent changes. So, honestly, I don't think anything is going to be that much different. … Maybe people expect the pitchers to pick up more innings. Obviously, Shields ate up a lot of innings. I think that's going to be huge for us going down the stretch. But David is going to be David. He's a competitor. He wants to go out there every day. He wants to throw a full game, complete game, every day. You kind of have to hold him back a little bit."
But they never have to push him forward. Watching Price at Monday's workout was an example of the comfort he has found within the franchise that made him the top pick in the 2007 draft. He was a revealing mix of confident and committed, driven and goofy.
The visible proof: He came dressed more prepared for the couch than the questions. He stretched and jogged in drills while wearing a striped tank top, white shorts and blue basketball shoes, because, he said, "I didn't know that there was going to be media here."
The verbal proof: At one point early in an interview, he was asked about transitioning into a veteran leader. He seemed surprised by how quickly the evolution had occurred. "It's all happens so fast, you don't really think about it," he said, both hands stuffed into his shorts. "It is cool. I do have a little bit of time in the league now. I have, I guess, quite a bit in comparison to our team."
"I think he'll just have to do the same of what he did last year," Molina told FOXSportsFlorida.com. "You don't put pressure on guys. You just let them do what they do. … His personality is amazing. His mind is always thinking about winning games, no matter what. He could have bad games, like everybody does. But he sticks it out and is positive again. That's huge in his game."
Yes, the Rays will be without their workhorse on the hill, who was given a new shade of blue in a blockbuster trade that could change the course of both franchises involved. Yes, Shields is a loss. Yes, adjustment will be necessary.
But they still have a stallion primed in their stable. Ten, 12, 15 more innings of Price? More chances to prove he has a higher ceiling?
Mr. American League Cy Young Award winner, your next test awaits.
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Journalism is the "most exclusive middle class profession of the 21st century" according to the all-party report Unleashing Ambition, published yesterday. Unless trends are reversed, "the typical journalist or accountant of the future will be growing up in a family that is better off than three in four of all families in the UK", the report says. My colleague Roy Greenslade has questioned why that might be (and what can be done about it), while Dominic Ponsford at Press Gazette has also been giving it some thought.
At the centre of most of the discussion, however, is the fact that would-be journalists are now often required to do long stints of unpaid work experience,a fact that has been pointed out by Jeremy Dear, general secretary of the NUJ. This is fine if your family lives within striking distance of your chosen publication, or you are sufficiently well-off to support yourself while your pay packet hovers around zero, or you know someone who can get you into a newsroom – or indeed all three – but a bit trickier if they don't. And by a bit trickier, I mean pretty much impossible, given the level of student debt many candidates are likely to be carrying and the competition for work experience placements.
How to solve this problem? The report holds up internships that are "openly advertised, have a clear, transparent and objective recruitment process and provide quality, focused developmental tasks for the intern", as examples of best practice. But anyone who has spent a miserable couple of weeks slaving over tasks with a very tenuous link to journalism, or desperately trying to look busy will tell you that many media organisations fall very short of best practice, even if a few do get it right.
The idea is to introduce a Kitemark system – along with more transparent recruitment – for internships. After independent assessment, a quality mark would be awarded to schemes that make the grade. This is a good idea in theory, but I question whether workies will really be shopping around for the best scheme and discarding any that don't shape up: any spell with a broadcaster or publication will make your CV read better, regardless of how much you learnt while you were there.
Whether work experience actually teaches anyone anything is not necessarily the biggest problem in any case - although arguably it should be. More important, in my book, is making work experience affordable. To this end, the report proposes that "the professions should provide more support for interns from lower socio-economic backgrounds through grants and loans".
That would be a start. But I wonder where the cut-off point is going to be. As the report itself points out, the problem isn't that journalism isn't available as a career to the disadvantaged: it's that it isn't even available to those from average backgrounds. "This is an issue for the majority, not the minority," says the report. So are we going to fund three-quarters of those applying?
I won't hold my breath. But even if Unleashing Ambition doesn't fulfil all its, erm, ambitions, it has at least kick-started the work experience debated. That is long overdue. So tell us: what makes good work experience? How long should it last? And do you see anything changing?


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|We defeated my mother, and her witches, because we stood united. That is how we will face all our enemies. As a family.
Rebirth is the first episode of the second season of The Originals and the twenty-third episode of the series overall.
REBUILDING HOMES AND RECRUITING NEW FAMILY — After months of being holed up inside his compound, Klaus enlists the help of Elijah and Marcel in plotting his revenge against the Guerrera werewolves, and vows to take down anyone who poses a threat to baby Hope's existence. Elijah watches helplessly as Hayley spirals downward while mourning the loss of her daughter and struggling to adapt to her new hybrid status. Exiled by the Guerrera werewolves, who now control the French Quarter, Marcel is still reeling over the destruction of his vampire family, and attempts to rebuild his home with the help of Josh. Elsewhere, Cami, who is attempting to regain some normalcy in her life, seeks comfort in a surprising place. Lastly, Davina continues her plan to use Mikael against Klaus, but gets sidetracked when she meets the mysterious, yet charming Kaleb, who holds a few secrets of his own.
|Esther (in Cassie's body) — The mother of Klaus and Elijah is revealed to be the witch that has returned in the season one finale, alongside their two brothers — Finn (in Vincent's body) and Kol (in Kaleb's body). Klaus, in search of the White Oak Stake, prepares
for a battle with the werewolves in order to get the moonlight rings from them. Not knowing that the Stake is in his father — Mikael's possession — Klaus is able to get the moonlight rings when Elijah and Marcel kill the werewolves while Hayley brutally kills Francesca. Both Finn and Kol use Davina and Camille to know what their brothers are up to, while Esther plans ahead.
Since losing her daughter, Hayley has spent a good deal of time alone in the bayou in her wolf form, preferring that to her vampire self, a side with which she isn't comfortable and might not ever be. Klaus has been furiously trying to paint while refusing to leave the walls of the compound, but to no avail.
He's frustrated in every possible definition of the word.
So is the relationship between Hayley and Elijah. In fact, it seems the two haven't been speaking in the months since Rebekah swept Hope out of New Orleans. Elijah prompts Klaus to try to help her and the original hybrid declines saying Elijah's doing a good enough job. Clearly Klaus hasn't been paying attention to the fact that they are BOTH grieving parents right now.
The only two people who seem not to be frustrated, at least not sexually, are Cami and Marcel who've been knocking boots since he was kicked out of the Quarter. It's strictly "no strings attached" sex, you guys. That's all it is.
Uh huh. Sure it is. (Is that the sight of two love triangles I spy on the horizon? Yes, yes it is. Maybe?)
In order to take back the city from the Guerrera wolves and those with whom they have aligned themselves, Klaus and Elijah must track down the twelve moonlight rings Genevieve made for Francesca. Once they locate the final ring, they decide to strike on the full moon. Those werewolves without a moonlight ring will be out of commission and none of the others will see the group coming since Klaus is in his weakest state when they are strongest.
They sorely underestimate Klaus and his ability to plan a massacre.
After almost no fight at all, which was a bit anti-climactic given this show's penchant for well-orchestrated bloodbath scenes, the group was successful in gathering and destroying all 12 rings. I'm not sad to see Francesca go at all, even if her end felt way too rushed and like the writers just went "Oh sh*t! We have a loose end to tie up here! Let's kill them all!"
The entire introduction of her line simply served as a way to further complicate an already (unnecessarily) complicated plot, so one less bad guy on the block is okay by me, particularly when we'll have both Esther and Mikael to deal with in the coming weeks.
It was disconcerting to have Esther be in Cassie's body. Finn-cent and Kaleb were (and are) equally difficult to digest. There's always something weird about watching different actors play cast members we've met before and are familiar with, so while I'm not always a fan of the trope of bringing people back from the dead and resurrecting bodies anyway, I wouldn't be opposed to watching that happen in this instance, if for no other reason than because Esther deserves to be played by a much older person and Nathaniel Buzolic is hot.
Add in Mikael, who's being kept as a pet of sorts by Davina right now, and we have a recipe for one, big dysfunctional family reunion fast approaching.
Family, above all, right? And Elijah's dedication to Klaus--and now Klaus' loyalty to Hayley and acceptance that she's part of their family--is what made this episode, (and this series) work.
While Hayley is struggling with her place in the world now that who she was has been effectively destroyed, Klaus gets to show a different side of himself to Little Wolf and help her in understanding who she is now that she is both vampire and werewolf. There's an understanding between Hayley and Klaus now that leads me to think we might be seeing the brothers fighting for her affection soon, and knowing that Nina Dobrev is coming to The Originals as Tatia, perhaps my suspicions are correct.
(Klaus definitely still has a thing for Cami, and she definitely has a connection to both Klaus AND Marcel, hence my earlier statement that we're about to watch two love triangles unfold. Maybe, okay. Maybe.)
For a premiere episode, The Originals Season 2 Episode 1 did its job, even while parts fell flat, primarily those dealing with the disposal of the werewolf faction controlling the city.
The premiere closed old stories and opened new ones. It set up myriad ways in which there will be conflicts between our main characters. It showed us a struggling Hayley who can't comprehend what it means to live forever.
And it showed us hope for what's to come: Klaus' redemption, Hayley's acceptance, and a little more shirtless Marcel. If we're lucky.
Main Cast
Special Guest Star
Guest Cast
- Antagonist: Guerrera Werewolves (Notibily Francesca Guerrera)
- Narrator: Rebekah Mikaelson
- Title meaning: the rebirth of the ones defeated by the Guerreras a few months previously: Klaus, severely weakened on the full moon by the Guerrera's use of the moonlight rings bound with his blood; Hayley, traumatized by the loss of her daughter and her transformation into a hybrid; and Marcel, finally taking the fight to the werewolves to avenge the loss of his vampire friends.
- Eleven of the twelve Guerrera werewolves with moonlight rings, including Francesca and her brothers, are killed by Klaus, Marcel, Elijah, and Hayley.
- Francesca specifically was killed by Hayley for her part in the Bayou bombing and her complicity in the attempted murder of Hope, while Francesca's brothers were killed by Elijah.
- However, Oliver was the only ring-clad werewolf who life was spared, due to Hayley's emotional attachment to the Crescent Wolf Clan.
- Davina has been using Esther's Grimoires to create her own spell that will unlink Josh and Marcel from Klaus' Vampire Bloodline so Mikael will be able to kill Klaus without harming her friends in the process.
- Davina is also revealed to have left the French Quarter Coven and returned to high school.
- Davina has been buying vinyl records of Icelandic folk music for Mikael to listen to in the attic of St. Anne's Church.
- Cami and Marcel have been continuing their intimate relationship, though Cami ultimately breaks up with Marcel at the end of the episode in an effort to separate herself from the supernatural drama of the town.
- Marcel, under the effects of Klaus' compulsion, does not remember that he played a part at ensuring the survival of Hope Mikaelson by the end of Season One, and is under the impression that the Guerreras very likely killed Hope.
- As a result, he is suspicious as to why Klaus and Elijah had yet to make a move on them in the time since Hope's "death."
- We learn that in 1925 the Guerrera pack numbered about one hundred total wolves when Marcel and his army attacked and nearly wiped them out. It is also revealed that the modern-day Guerrera Pack has recruited wolves from all over the country, though only twelve of them had the moonlight rings that Klaus and Elijah sought to steal back.
- Davina reveals that Cassie (possessed by Esther) has been helping the witches craft new moonlight rings for the Guerrera Pack. Fortunately, since they do not use Klaus' blood, the use of them to prevent a wolf from turning on a full moon doesn't weaken Klaus like the rings Genevieve made did.
- Esther cannot find the White Oak stake with a locator spell, and is impressed that whoever has it (Davina) has managed to cloak it from even her.
- Esther tells Finn that his brothers are excellent strategists and that Francesca will be her own undoing.
- This episode firmly establishes that the rules of invitation when it comes to vampires visiting the homes of humans also applies to triggered werewolves, as Francesca was convinced that she was protected from Elijah's intrusion as long as she didn't invite him in.
- However, Elijah managed to get around this restriction by compelling a city worker to invoke imminent domain on Francesca's home, which made it essentially public property and thus open to everyone without invitation, allowing Elijah to enter and kill the Guerrera brothers.
- As of this episode, all members of the Original Family are alive in one form or another.
- Klaus plans to salvage the Mikaelsons' relationship with the werewolves by helping Hayley reclaim her status as Queen of the Crescent wolves.
- This is the first episode of the TVD/TO universe where all the known Mikaelson family members appeared in the present day in the same episode.
- However, it was unknown at this time that the eldest Mikaelson child, Freya, was still alive, as everyone but Esther and Finn believed that she died of the plague in the 10th century.
- Elijah destroys the twelve enchanted black kyanite stones from the moonlight rings that caused Klaus' weakness on the full moon by using the elements of water and fire to destroy their spell.
Body Count
- Francesca - drained of blood, killed by Hayley.
- Francesca's brothers - killed by Elijah
- Unknown Werewolves - killed by Marcel, Klaus, Elijah and Hayley
- This episode marks the first appearances of Joe, Kaleb and Gia in the series.
- Kol Mikaelson was last seen in flashbacks in Farewell to Storyville (TO) and Resident Evil (TVD). This is his first present day appearance on The Originals, but this time possessing the body of the witch Kaleb.
- Arkansas
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Olmstead Foundry Co
- French Quarter
- St. Anne's Church
- Cami's Apartment
- The Bayou
- Algiers
- Second Life Vinyl shop
- Guerrera Mansion
Behind the Scenes
- The title of this episode Rebirth could be a reference to Hayley's new status as a Hybrid or the struggles of Klaus to move on after his daughter's gone away. It could also be a reference to the characters that were brought back to life in the season finale.
- This episode had about 1.36 million viewers in USA.
Cultural References
- The Rebirth Brass Band is a New Orleans brass band. They were featured in the pilot episode.
- Imminent Domain is a power granted under the US Constitution allowing the Federal, State or City government to take someone's home or property for the betterment of the community with payment for said property.
- Kaleb: "I'm Kaleb."
- Davina: "Davina."
- Camille: "The city is being run by gangsters and you guys aren't doing anything about it!"
- Niklaus: "I need to act, I need to spill blood."
- Marcel: "The wolves have the numbers."
- Niklaus: "Oh, we don't need to hit them all! Just the twelve with the rings that take me out every full moon. Ahh...Tonight, we're going on a wolf hunt."
- Mikael: "I am Mikael, the vampire who hunts vampires."
- Niklaus: "They're in possession of something very dangerous to us."
- Marcel: "They have the stake that can kill you."
- Davina: "Once I unlink my friends from Klaus' sire line, I will unleash you to be the monster that you're so eager to be."
- Esther: "A thousand years ago, I was one of the greatest witches that has ever lived. Now I've returned. Let's get to work. We have a family reunion to plan."
- Rebekah: "Once upon a time, there was a majestic king, who lived with his noble brother in a colorful kingdom where music and art were celebrated. The king did not foresee having a child, but he lived in an enchanted land where all things were possible. In time, he was blessed with a beautiful baby daughter for whom he wished only peace and happiness. Still, the king had demons who pursued him. There was a ruthless beast who wanted to take the kingdom for her own. Armed with a pack of untamed creatures, she drove the other magical beings from the land. And there was a wicked sorceress with enchanted stones that weakened the king on every full moon. Seeing the shadow his enemies cast upon his home, the king was driven to send his beloved princess away, convincing all who remained that she was forever lost. The king, in his sorrow, turned away from the world. The castle closed its doors and the kingdom fell. Some say that the only light that shines in the castle illuminates the shadow of the once mighty king in the room meant for his child. But as the ruthless beasts took rule over the fallen king's realm, little did they that he and his brother would not rest until their enemies were vanquished. For they believed that one day, they would heal their kingdom and bring their princess home, so that she might live happily ever after."
- Cami: "I know your family is grieving, but I know you don't believe those rumors that Marcel killed the baby. So, if you want help taking down the Guerreras, you have a weapon across the river just waiting to be fired. Use it."
"This Place Is A Shelter" – Olafur Arnalds
"Occupy Your Mind" – Villagers
"Noir State Beach" – Xu Xu Fang
"Easy Living" – Clifford Brown
"Sleeping Alone" – Lykke Li
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Russell Westbrook was in inspiration form as the Oklahoma City Thunder kept the pressure on San Antonio at the top of the Western Conference.
Westbrook registered 37 points and 10 rebounds as the second-placed Thunder overcame the Los Angeles Lakers 122-105.
Kevin Durant chipped in with 26 points as the Thunder led from start to finish.
Kobe Bryant top-scored for the Lakers with 30 points, however his side remain on the fringes of the play-off picture in ninth.
The Boston Celtics continue to prove that they can cope without Rajon Rondo as they beat the Philadelphia 76ers 109-101.
Avery Bradley (22) and Paul Pierce (18) led the way as the Celts moved to 12-4 since Rondo was suffered a serious knee injury.
Denver Nuggets are now unbeaten in six after their 120-113 win over the struggling Sacramento Kings.
Ty Lawson had 24 points, Danilo Gallinari added 23 and Kenneth Faried chipped in with 19 points and 12 rebounds.
Marcus Thornton scored 32 points - including five three-pointers - in a losing cause for the Kings.
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Someone posted a thread on here a few days ago with a problem about steam. They had an application that stopped all unneeded services/applications while it was turned on. What application is that and what other applications can I use to better my gaming?
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I can't be 100% sure but your probably thinking about Gamebooster, that shuts down all un-needed services/applications and opens them back up at the click of a button.
Google it and you should find it no problem.
Hope this helps.
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Senator Kirk Watson served as the Mayor of Austin from 1997-2001. Following this service he became the Chair of the Advisory Board of the Environmental Defense Fund. In addition to this, he worked diligently as the Chair of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce.
In 2006, Watson announced his candidacy in State District 14, winning unopposed. One session following being named the magazine's "Rookie of the Year", Senator Watson was named to Texas Monthly's list of the "10 Best Legislators". To earn these prestigious titles, Watson authored the first statewide climate change legislation, led the campaign to build the first commuter rail in Central Texas and was chairman of the 2008 Texas Democratic Party Convention.
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Quarterback Christian Green and offensive tackle Chaz Green tend to get all the accolades when you are talking prospects at Tampa Catholic High School. But they also have a standout cornerback prospect named Jeremi Wilkes.
"He has scholarship offers from Florida State, Iowa, Georgia Southern, Syracuse, Rutgers, Louisville, Troy, and Western Kentucky," Tampa Catholic head coach Bob Henriquez said. "Right now Jeremi's in the process of process of setting up visits."
Wilkes, 5-9 and now 180 pounds, impressed his head coach with what he did in the off-season.
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"He has been tremendous. Jeremi has be really dedicated in the weight room. He needed to get stronger in upper body and he did. He's more stout now against the run. That should pay dividends this year."
Tampa Catholic opens up against Groveland Southlake tomorrow night. Their Kickoff Classic against Naples (Fla.) Lely was cancelled last Friday because of the flu bug that hit Tampa Catholic High School. With a student population of around 700, an estimate 20% of the students had the flu, including a few football players.


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Robert Rainey is currently a mfa candidate in photography at the university of new mexico, albuquerque. Prior to his studies at unm he was awarded a graduate teaching fellowship at virginia commonwealth university. Rainey has recently left the corporate world of marketing, having served as senior vp of marketing at redenvelope and vp of creative advertising at miramax films. He art-directed dozens of miramax's promotional campaigns from 'pulp fiction' to 'good will hunting'. Rainey began his career by earning a bfa from risd in graphic design, and at this stage of his career is very pleased to be returning to the arena of academia in order to pursue his own ideas through more personal projects.
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Sweat and the City
This past weekend, I watched a number of my neighbors pack things — coolers, oars, inflatable toys, children — into their family-sized vehicles and drive off towards the promise of an extended Fourth of July vacation. If the traffic constipating the streets of Lower Manhattan was any indication, they had plenty of company.
For almost every one of the twelve summers I've lived in New York, I've observed this ritual with equal parts envy and relief. My neighbors are escaping, yes, but so am I. I'm escaping to a smaller town where it's easier to get a haircut, a movie ticket, and a dinner reservation, all in the same evening, and I don't have to endure road rage and vengeful airline employees in the process.
My relationship with New York has always been a love-hate affair, as I suppose anyone's is with a place that deposits eight million people on top of one another and demands that we both get along with and out-perform each other while waiting for our singular talents to be recognized and rewarded. The relationship can't help but be a bit fraught.
Several years ago, while we were standing in line at a museum, a friend visiting from suburban Maryland looked around and remarked, "people here don't know how to just be." As I'm allergic to pronouncements that resemble those issued at the beginning of a yoga class, I dismissed this with an inward eye roll. I knew damn well that my friend was right, and also that the only people qualified to comment on our inability to achieve inner peace were, well, us. Coming from a Maryland day-tripper, the remark was a smug insult. Coming from a New Yorker, it was simply a fact, just like saying that the 14th Street L station smells like a urinal in hell, or that navigating Midtown sidewalks is like driving on I-95.
Which brings me back to our current season. It's not so much that we learn how to "just be" in the summer; it's more that we succumb — to stultifying humidity, to the rank hot breath of the subway, to the knowledge that moving faster carries greater risk to personal sanity or the fabric of one's clothing. So we slow down a little and retreat to our air-conditioned corners to check the ferry schedule to Governors Island, or contemplate renting a ZipCar to drive to the Far Rockaways. Whether we go is irrelevant; just knowing such places are accessible, and that we are free to meander to them if we choose, is sufficient.
"Meander" is a word that sums up why my love-hate of New York mellows to love-easily tolerate during the summer. In any other season, meandering is a luxury available only to those outside of the five-borough region; it's what inhabitants of bucolic places do when they want to put one foot in front of the other. But everything about New York in the heat invites meandering — women's footwear alone practically demands it. Meandering is what we can do on strangely spacious sidewalks on our way to movie theaters that are only half-full on a Saturday night. After the movie is over, we meander to a half-empty bar and nurse cold drinks in the soft night air, until it's time to meander home, perhaps on the freshly tanned arm of a new friend.
It's not that the living is easy, exactly. It's that it's more basic, more entropic, more encouraging of simple pleasures. There's the air conditioning that rushes out to lick your ankles as you walk by a store with its doors left carelessly open, or the DayGlo shaved ice cone from the cart with the umbrella. In the moment when that ice chills your throat, you don't care if its syrup contains chemicals that will probably cause your unborn children to grow gills; nothing matters when you feel so effortlessly, childishly satisfied.
As I experience these things, I know that somewhere, my neighbors are sitting by a lake or lying on a beach, thanking some higher power for liberating them from our concrete hot house. They sigh with relief, breathing in air that smells like pine needles or Coppertone instead of ripe garbage and blooming B.O. They've won the life-boat lottery, and can watch from a safe distance as the rest of us ride a doomed ship down to its watery grave.
And to some degree, I do envy their remove. But I also feel sorry for them. Because eventually, they have to come back. On the occasions I've left the city during the summer, I've discovered just how hard it is to return to a place that not only doesn't miss you in your absence, but also greets you with the reminder that it's so much gentler everywhere else. Whereas, if you remain, you do so with that knowledge that, stink and humidity aside, this is as easy as it gets in the city. New York has its own strange rewards for those of us who stay put; as with anything else here, it's just up to us to know where to look.


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Sandy Hook shooting investigators talk to child survivors
Police are interviewing children who survived the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., as authorities try to piece together a motive for the second-deadliest mass shooting in the U.S.
Detectives are tracing the origins of the four firearms used to kill 28 people, including the gunman himself, Connecticut State Police Lieutenant Paul Vance said in a news briefing Sunday. It's too early to say when the school will reopen and whether the two rooms where the slayings took place will ever hold classes again.
"Our people are talking with everybody, slowly but surely, but methodically, too," Vance said. "People's hearts are broken, and we have to be sensitive to that." The details were the latest to emerge on the Dec. 14 killings by a 20-year-old gunman, identified as Adam Lanza by two law-enforcement officials briefed on the case who asked for anonymity. The incident, which also left the suspect's mother dead at the family home nearby, brought worldwide attention to the town about 60 miles (97 kilometers) northeast of New York City and plunged residents into despair.
President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet with families of the victims Sunday and speak at a memorial service in the town of 28,000. It'll mark the fourth time during his presidency he has gone to a city to console families after a mass shooting.
This morning, 42 wooden pews rocked under the weight of congregants sitting elbow to elbow for a two-hour, standing-room-only Sunday service at Newtown United Methodist Church in Sandy Hook. The pastor led a prayer that was focused more on mourning and remembrance than the celebration of "Joy Sunday" and the holiday season.
"But where is the joy, o God?" asked Mel Kawakami, senior pastor at the church. "Today is a day for tears."
All 26 children and adults killed at the school were shot more than once, and some as many as 11 times, H. Wayne Carver II, the state's medical examiner, said Sunday in a briefing. The victims ranged in age from 6 to 56. The children -- 12 girls and eight boys -- were all 6 or 7 years old.
Detectives uncovered "some very good evidence in this investigation that our investigators will be able to use in hopefully painting the complete picture as to how, and more importantly, why this occurred," Vance said Sunday.
It was the worst U.S. massacre since 33 people died in a 2007 rampage at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. So far this year, there have been at least seven mass murders -- killings of four or more people -- that claimed at least 65 lives in the U.S.
Just four days ago, three died when a gunman opened fire inside a mall in suburban Portland, Oregon. In August, a shooter took six lives at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. In July, a masked gunman opened fire at a midnight movie in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring 58.
"Any of these neighborhoods could be our own," Obama said yesterday in his weekly address. Just 24 hours before, that neighborhood was in Newtown.
About 9:30 a.m., police received a call from the school, attended by about 700 children in kindergarten through fourth grade, after the gunman forced his way inside, Vance said. Students later recounted cowering in corners, while parents told of rushing to discover whether their children were among the dead.
Elise Beier, 10, a Sandy Hook fourth-grader, said she could hear gunfire and shouting over the public-address system, which remained on through at least part of the incident. Kaitlin Roig, a first-grade teacher, told her students she loved them, in case those were the last words they heard, she said in an ABC News interview.
State Police provided a list of the dead: Charlotte Bacon, 6; Daniel Barden, 7; Rachel Davino, 29; Olivia Engel, 6; Josephine Gay, 7; Ana Marquez-Greene, 6; Dylan Hockley, 6; Principal Dawn Hochsprung, 47; Madeleine Hsu, 6; Catherine Hubbard, 6; Chase Kowalski, 7; Jesse Lewis, 6; James Mattioli, 6; Grace McDonnell, 7; teacher Anne Marie Murphy, 52; Emilie Parker, 6; Jack Pinto, 6; Noah Pozner, 6; Caroline Previdi, 6; Jessica Rekos, 6; Avielle Richman, 6; teacher Lauren Rousseau, 30; school psychologist Mary Sherlach, 56; teacher Victoria Soto, 27; Benjamin Wheeler, 6; and Allison Wyatt, 6.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg led a chorus of gun-control advocates calling for new and stricter gun laws. Obama hasn't made enough of an effort to ban ownership of assault weapons and restrict gun sales to criminals and mentally ill buyers, he said. The mayor, who is co-chairman of the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns and the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP, spoke on NBC's "Meet the Press" program Sunday.
Authorities found two handguns inside the school, a Sig Sauer and a Glock, along with a "civilian modification of an M-16," U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, told reporters. A fourth firearm was found in a car in the parking lot, he said.
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives dispatched more than 30 people to check with gun ranges and dealers for information on the suspect, said Ginger Colbrun, an agency spokeswoman.
The guns used in the shooting belonged to Nancy Lanza, Adam's mother, according to another law enforcement official who asked for anonymity because of a continuing investigation. Lanza shot her in then face, the official said.
Dan Holmes, the owner of a landscaping business recently employed by Nancy, told Reuters that she was an avid gun collector who often went target shooting with her children.
Her survivors were among the grieving.
"On behalf of Nancy's mother and siblings, we reach out to the community of Newtown and express our heartfelt sorrow for the incomprehensible and profound loss of innocence that has affected so many," Rockingham County Sheriff Michael Downing told reporters outside police headquarters in Kingston, New Hampshire, where Lanza's brother, James Champion, is an officer.
Nancy Lanza and her husband were divorced in 2009, court records show. Louise Tambascio, 70, a friend of Nancy's and the owner of My Place, a restaurant where the suspect's brother used to work, described Adam Lanza as intelligent, quiet and awkward.
He had Asperger's syndrome, she said. He had a personality disorder, AP reported, citing a law-enforcement official briefed on the investigation.
The killer, seen in a picture published by NBC News staring wide-eyed into a camera beneath brown bangs, attempted to buy at least one gun before the shooting, said a federal law- enforcement official who asked for anonymity because the investigation was continuing.
The deadliest shooting in the U.S. was the Virginia Tech attack, in which Seung-Hui Cho took 33 lives, including his own. In 1999, two students shot 12 classmates and a teacher at Columbine High School in Colorado before killing themselves.
"The damage done to the community, as well as, obviously, to those families, is pretty staggering," Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said this morning on ABC News' "This Week."


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Would be interesting to know what position you guys play in basketball.
I play primaly as a SF and sometimes play PF, a lot like Melo, but not skillwise :p
So what position do you guys play?
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Would be interesting to know what position you guys play in basketball.
I play primaly as a SF and sometimes play PF, a lot like Melo, but not skillwise :p
So what position do you guys play?
PG, I'm too short for everything else at 5'11 :thumbsup:
I'm a pass first type of PG, don't have the best jumpshot in the world, but good handle and court vision. I've also got a decent vertical.
Funny thing is: I often make the tough shots and rim the open shots from 3 point or long 2 point range :smokin:
2 guard! Bit short at 6'2", but I weigh 198 pounds and am very dirty. :lol: The dunk has all but disappeared from my repertoire. Always wanted to play the 1, but love shooting way too much!
Made the selection state team for Southern Australia at age 19 [11 years ago], and have become increasingly prone to hangovers and car accidents since.
Not good for your game.
Wow you guys are tall.
I'm only 5'11 and can play the 4 position.
The average height here in the Philippines is 5'6" lol, so I'm a lil bit taller than most.
My fave move is in the post where I take one dribble left to fool the defender that I'm driving left, then I spin to the right and finish at the hoop :D
I love to pass but my shot is nice and my handle is pretty good. Also love playing D... If u put it on the floor unsure... It's mine.
Just sprained my ACL tho so its time to take a break.
My nickname in HS was LJ for Larry Johnson. I am 5'10" post up player who can grab crazy boards and defend 1-5. I did not play organised ball but always banged down low in our games in the park. I have great fundamentals when it comes to defense, boxing out and setting picks. I also finish really well with both hands and prefer to do my scoring bumping off of someone while spinning to the basket or fading away for the midrange jumper.
So I am a 240lb 5'10" PF lol. Wide, strong and quick...allows me to play above my height and box out dudes 6'4"+
This thread makes me want to ball... I'd be sick to get some ppl together.... Crazy 8 I still think u can get up so i'll b throwin lobs left and right.
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6'3" 190 lbs. Shooting "big" man. Due to knee surgery my leaping ability is limited, but I can grind it out on the defensive end. One the court I operate a strict "no fancy stuff" policy. I also coach a fairly competitive amateur club.
6'0 185 pounds and I've been SG all my life with good passing ability. I can shoot very well altough I'm rather finesse player. Like a mixture of Jeff Hornacek and let's say Ray Allen. My defence is mediocre to be honest. Recently I played PG and It worked pretty well, I have good court vision and I'm not a ballhog.


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The most important thing for you to know about me is that I love the Lord Jesus, and it's the passion of my heart for others to know that Jesus loves them too.
I grew up shy and insecure in the inner city of Minneapolis, MN. My father was an atheist and an alcoholic and my mother an agnostic. When I got older, I put all that together, "Atheist, Alcoholic, Agnostic? Good grief! I was raised by Triple-A!"
I married my high school sweetheart during college. That ended sadly after thirteen years and three children. I was a single mom, working full time (the hardest thing I've ever done, by the way) when God, in His great mercy, brought me my husband Terry, who was an officer in the Air Force at the time. (It was straight out of Officer and a Gentleman, my very own romance novel come to life!). For 26 years, we've shared a blended family of six children and now seven grandchildren (and number eight is due soon). We live in the woods in Wisconsin with our dog, Zoey, a West Highland Terrorist (and if you've ever been owned by a terrier, you know what I'm talking about.)
On Becoming a "Real Writer"
For as long as I can remember—and I'm sure it's true for you--I've loved the way words could be put together to enchant or inspire or touch me as a reader. I remember being read to before I even started school and that feeling of rapture as the words and pictures drew me into the story. The first book I remember was a Christmas gift from my grandfather. Imagine a gruff grandfather giving a six-year-old a book about a poodle called Foo Foo Goes to Paris. Books have the power to bridge generation gaps.
In grade school, I wrote poems and my own version of a Nancy Drew mystery. (Can you relate?) During a class social studies program in 4th grade, I read my poems (about rocks and Eskimos—well, you can just imagine) and the parents in the audience applauded. I'm sure it was polite applause, but something clicked. Writing was a way for this self-conscious, insecure child to connect. The writing provided a buffer of protection; I wasn't so afraid when I could prepare ahead of time and know what I wanted to say.
Of course, "everybody knows" you can't make a living as a writer, so I wrote for my own pleasure—journaling, poetry, letters—and got "real jobs." I became a teacher and then got into financial services. God rekindled the writing spark when I was a forty years old (it's never too late) and working as a stockbroker. My husband was completing twenty years in the Air Force in California and we were planning to return to the Midwest. I felt the Lord saying that it was time to write and I told Him, "Okay, then I want to be a writer in the woods in Wisconsin." And since 1990, that's just where I've been.
It's such a privilege when God uses my writing to touch someone—through the laughter or tears—and draw the reader closer to Himself.
When I moved to the woods and became a Real Writer, I expected overnight success. Editors and publishers were just waiting for my stuff. ("At last! The manuscript I've been waiting my whole life to find! Yes! Give her six figures in advance! Hurry before another publisher starts a bidding war!") HA! It took a few years before anything was accepted for publication, and the pay was zero. (My toughest green-eyed monster moment was when a friend's FIRST THING SHE EVER WROTE was accepted by Guideposts. Arggh!)
While others were whipping out novel after novel, it took me twelve years to get a book deal. So I'm a twelve-year overnight success. I don't know how long it will take you to reach your dream goals but I do know this fact of writing life: God has a timetable for you and He doesn't let you see it. Our job is to just do the writing and trust Him to do the rest.
If you're still waiting for writing fame and fortune, remember that every writer needs five things: (1) A library card and the Dewey section 808 in the library, where you'll find books galore about writing. (That's right; not everything is Kindled yet, and as starving artists, we love that the library is free—and smells like books!) (2) A writer-friend who is farther along the writing path than you are, so you can learn from them. (3) A writer friend who is where you are on the path, so you can encourage one another. (4) A writer who is less experienced than you are, so you can start right away to "give back" what God is giving to you. (5) The willingness to give up something (time, money, energy that goes elsewhere now) to make time for writing and studying the craft.
Then, set a schedule and write, write, write. Some of my favorite writing quotes: "Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses." "It's in the process of actually writing that we learn how." And the all-time favorite: "Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all just material"!
About My Books
I've written three books that offer laughter and encouragement for women, all published by Zondervan/HarperCollins. The first book, When Did I Stop Being Barbie and Become Mrs. Potato Head? was inspired as I watched a woman on Oprah lamenting the fact that she was, as she put it, "losing her looks." Oprah asked how old she was. "I'm going to be THIRTY," she said, like that was a dirty word.
I looked at the TV and said out loud (and don't give me that look like I'm the only one who talks to the people on TV), "Oh, honey, it gets a LOT worse!" Then I realized that we all have that moment, sooner or later, when we look in the mirror and our mom is staring back at us. Maybe it's "crow's feet," or "laugh lines" or "middle-age spread." Something causes us to realize that time is marching on, and it's marching across our face. Or it hits some of us when we're trying on swimsuits. We look in the mirror and realize we no longer relate (if we ever really did) to the image of Barbie. We relate to Mrs. Potato Head instead. The good news: God loves us anyway, just the way we are—cellulite and all!
The idea for the second book, Confessions of a Prayer Wimp, came as I listened to Focus on the Family on the radio one morning. Dr. Dobson referred to a woman as "a real prayer warrior." I thought, I am so not that. I'm the opposite of a prayer warrior. What would that be? I'm a prayer WIMP! The thought became an article, which ran in Focus on the Family magazine, and that grew into the book. In the process of writing the book, I came to see that prayer isn't really so much about who we are (wimp or warrior) but about who God is. He is the "Omni" God – omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent – ready, able and WILLING to hear and answer our prayers, however feebly we might pray them. God is able to take us from whatever mess we're in (even if we're raised by AAA), transform our hearts and make something wonderful of our lives.
The third book title When Did My Life Become a Game of Twister? was actually suggested by the marketing team at Zondervan. The game of Twister is just the perfect metaphor for the way life gets sometimes, when we feel like somebody else is spinning the dial and calling the shots ("Left foot red! Right hand blue!") in life. We are trying to do our best, but are getting ourselves more and more twisted up and it's all we can do to remain upright. But again, God is faithful to hold us up, comfort us and provide everything we need for this game we call life.
About Speaking
I've been speaking professionally since 1996 (a miracle for this shy girl). My speaking is about evenly divided between church events—women's ministry events and retreats—and community and corporate audiences. I find that God makes His presence known, even when I can't mention Him by name.
Whether I'm speaking at a women's health and wellness event, an employee event, a caregiver conference, or a church women's gathering, my message is essentially the same—to offer lots of laughter and the encouragement to reduce stress, embrace change, find and offer forgiveness, and to laugh at every opportunity.
On the Importance of Humor
"A joyful heart is good medicine," says Proverbs 17:22. Laughter is one of God's healing gifts to us. Now certainly there is much in life that is "no laughing matter." We all have hard times and difficult challenges. Sometimes we can find moments of laughter in the middle of those things—usually laughing at the absurdity of it all. More often the laughter comes later, when we look back. But I figure, if I can say "A year from now I'll laugh about this…why wait?"
My mother always had a wonderful sense of humor. She survived one Great Depression, two World Wars and three husbands. (When someone would say, "Three husbands?" she'd say, "Well, I didn't KILL any of them!")
She taught me, by her example, to look on the bright side, keep on laughing, and trust that tomorrow will be a better day. And when she gave her heart to Jesus at the age of 85, after all those years as an agnostic, she taught me the most important lesson of all: it's never too late to change your mind about God. She looked for 85 years in this world to fill the empty space in her heart (the one that only God can fill) and never found anything to fill it—until she found Jesus. The pastor asked her, after leading her to receive Christ, "How do you feel?" She said, "Like I never belonged before…and now I do." What joy!
I had the privilege of caring for my mom in our home the last six years of her life (she passed away in July 2010 at age 96), as she struggled with dementia and then cancer. She kept her sense of humor to the very last, and showed me daily what it really means to age with grace. And it's such a comfort to know that she is with the Lord.
The bottom line is that we may find something to laugh about in most of the messes we get into, but we can have JOY always, no matter what, in the certainty that our "Omni God" loves us and cares about everything in our lives.
A Final Word
Here are two verses that bring me joy, contentment, perspective and everything else I need in this life. The first is Hebrews 13:5, which says in part, "Be content with what you have, because God has said, 'Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you'." The other is Jeremiah 31:3: "I have loved you with an everlasting love." Wherever we've been, whatever we've done, whatever we are dealing with today—whatever the impermanence of this ever-changing life, God offers us the comfort of His never-changing love and the promise of His permanent presence in our lives. And for a girl raised by AAA, it just doesn't get any better than that!
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