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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 3:18 am
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Bwuh? An ES rpg, done by the Lady? Sheesh, I need to come out from the rock I've been living under more often!
Characters look very cool! Exciting!
I will read this one for sure!
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:45 pm
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Okay, before we get this party started, I have a few things I want to check with you guys about how them Arr-Pee-Jee things work.
I realise that text rpgs are different than the tabletop variety in that they're more about telling a story, but do they still operate on the "turn" premise. I.E. I type a post and everyone gets one post and then I post again? I had a quick look at the other threads in this section, and that doesn't seem to be the case, but I thought I'd ask anyhow.
Also, your soulstone powers aren't limitless, so we're going to have to come up with a way to cap them other than what we feel like. So... should we introduce a dice element into it? Quantify the character's "mana" (so to speak) at the outset? Require sleep or a Ruthven boost to power up again?
I don't know if that's just making things needlessly complicated, but again, I'm a newb to the rpg world, and just thought I'd ask.
And is there anything else I should know or do before we get this thing going?
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:53 pm
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I'm not sure if other people here do roleplays/RPGs the same way that I do - I've seen it done different ways - but here's how I've always done it in the past.
Generally, as far as the "turns" thing goes - I've never had any specific rules as far as that went. I just trusted people to be respectful and use a bit of common courtesy. For example, when reasonable/possible, a few people in one group should take turns, go one after another. Of course, sometimes it makes more sense to go ahead and post before someone every now and then, even if it is their "turn". Otherwise, things move too slow. Just don't leave anyone completely in the dust, and we should be fine.
I've never liked the dice element in roleplays. I feel that it makes things too complicated and annoying, and it takes away from the story aspect of it. And I feel that the story aspect should always come first. The way that I've always done things is to just trust people to roleplay well enough so that this doesn't become an issue. Good roleplayers should know that they can't do everything, and that their characters need rest. And that their characters can't win all the time - yes, god forbid, your poor character may lose. Generally, the people that I roleplay with have had no problems with this. Only on rare instances have I, or someone else, had to step in as a GM and set things right. Even when I do, though, things get resolved very quickly and easily.
I see no need for a dice/quantitative system.
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:56 pm
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In general, a strict turn-based format isn't necessary (or even helpful) in pure storytelling situations (like social interaction) but more or less unavoidable in combat situations.
What I've been doing in my Mecha Knights RPG so far was to...
1) Describe what kinds of attacks the opposition is launching at the characters.
2) Have every player post his reaction to these attacks and/or counter-attack.
3) Post the outcome of both mine and their attacks (the opponets' reactions are part of the outcome).
4) Return to step 1).
The big drawback of this system is that a delay from a single player can hold up the entire game for quite a while.
If anyone can come up with a better system, I'd be happy to see it!
And about the Soulstone Powers, I think it would be better to limit the powers in quality but not in quantity.
What I mean is something like this:
Lilith has the power of Pyromancy.
Instead of allowing her to create fire for a limited number of times, sshe can create fires of a limited size as often as she likes.
So, while she could not let an entire forest spontaneously burst into flames, killing everyone inside
, she can engulf her hand in fire to deliver flaming kung-fu strikes.
The rum-drinking trick was devised with this kind of limitation in mind. I figured she probably couldn't just go about lobbing fireballs at enemies. So instead, she takes a swig of rum, blows it out into a thin cloud and then uses her Power to ignite the alcohol, thus creating a "fire-breathing" effect. This fireburst would probably have a range of about 2-3 metres.
* Never mind the fact that Earthsong would be furious if any Pyromancer ever attemted to do something like that...
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:57 pm
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They generally still operate on a turn basis. I know I try to wait for everyone to post before moving on, but sometimes that's not feasible (see: Real Life) or a character has addressed mine specifically. Sometimes it's when a character needs attention and requires more information to make a proper action. But having said that, if it strikes me as a time to post, I'll post. There's usually some down time where characters can interact.
Usually with ours, a person makes their character attempt an action and states what their intentions are. The GM replies with how their action turned out and what the consequences/ramifications are. So if you feel like a character's used their power too much, just say it failed and the monster scored a punch or something. Also, if a character is threatening to approach that red zone, you might say something to the effect of "If Chet kept switching his heat vision on, he might strain his eyes...." I know when I used Holy Light too much in Vamps, Rav would make my character's gunshots miss more and more until I made him rest a bit.
Hope that helps!
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:10 pm
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If I had explained things better for the second part - for how much the characters can do - I would have said something closer to what Maeniel here said. I'm just terrible at explaining stuff, lol.
Basically, I guess that what I meant to say is that, when attacking another character, the player shouldn't assume that they hit. They state the attempted attack, but not the outcome; generally, the victim of the attack decides whether his/her character dodges or is hit.
However, it might be a
different here. I admit, in the roleplays that I've all done the GM took a very minimal role. In essence, he/she was just another player who also happened to control most NPCs and had the final say. So I guess in this instance, the GM could automatically say if an attack hits if needed. However, I wouldn't reccomend doing this very often, or using it to land any major, crippling attacks. In the end, people really do like to be in control of their character's fates.
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:17 pm
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To reiterate: Generally, action sequences (in our RPG model) will be almost exclusively 'turn' based - the players post their actions, and the GM resolves them. It's entirely up to the GM how to do that, but the end result is a post detailing those results. Personally, I just decide what works best story-wise. But you're welcome to do it with dice if that floats your boat. More dialogue-based 'chill-out' chapters might give players a little more free reign to post without the GM posting in-between - I tended to try to do one action chapter followed by one chill-out chapter in Mutants, to allow the characters time to recover and develop. Neither is a hard-and-fast rule, but it's generally how it falls out. In some cases when i've wanted to move things along quickly, i've changed things a little bit. I recall one situation in mutants when the characters were facing some giant rat lizard hybrid...things which were essentially cannon fodder. I gave the players free reign to kill them off and to sustain as much or as little injury as they fancied in the process, just to avoid a painful amount of interpolated posting.
And you might have to be a bit ruthless with people who don't post on time. Basically, in my games they just get dragged around at the back sitting out of the action.
You're very welcome to set up a mana type system for soulstone power usage - it would probably be simpler, though, to set up an 'ammunition' style system. For instance, Cochinell might get up to 20 'shots' of soulstone power per day, with a single blast of unfocussed light using one, and a blast of laser vision doing four. But it's probably simpler just to let players know when they're overusing powers so that they don't have to worry. Most of us are experienced enough to rein ourselves in.
You might want to read the rules thread, if you haven't already, too.
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:19 pm
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Augh! Ninja'd! >_<
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:21 pm
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However, it might be a little different here. I admit, in the roleplays that I've all done the GM took a very minimal role. In essence, he/she was just another player who also happened to control most NPCs and had the final say. So I guess in this instance, the GM could automatically say if an attack hits if needed. However, I wouldn't reccomend doing this very often, or using it to land any major, crippling attacks. In the end, people really do like to be in control of their character's fates.
From what I've experienced in my time on the RPG forums, it's very much as Maeniel says and I think it works well 95% of the time. The GM lays down the setting and the baseline story, and the players write for their characters. Sometimes people bump heads over what's happened, especially when posts get written at silly o'clock.
As for combat, again it's as Maeniel said. I don't know if we could incorporate a dice system, but perhaps if we said that you can only use your Soul Stone attacks X amount of times and if a player uses their SS attack, they have to state it in brackets at the end of their post, and give how many times they have left.
I've been doing the same for supplies in VH, or if people are using their Powers, I just make a judgement call based on how many times that they've said they've used it. People should expect their characters to get injured during combat situations, at least some of the time. At the end of the day, it's the GM's decision to make a judgemental call on how much damage they think they would have recieved.
Edit: >< oh hang, I think Space ninja'd me, but what he said about chill-out sessions is true and good.
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:51 pm
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Fabulous - thanks for the feedback everyone. I think we'll go with the whole "GM decides the outcome" model; I wasn't a fan of the dice method personally, but thought I'd throw it out there anyhow.
I have indeed read the rules, and I think we're about ready to go! I just need to write my introduction XD
I will do my very best to get on here at LEAST twice a day, but I can't guarantee any more than that - my wee man doesn't allow it! Anyhow, looking forward to it!
PS I'll be updating the pics in the near future too
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 9:09 pm
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Twice a day is probably more often than you need for GM posts. Once a week is probably about as good as you'll get with a cast this size. Probably less...
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 9:33 pm
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I'd like to add one more thing about limiting powers, as player who thinks about this overmuch. I usually think of my character's power like this:
(finite amount of energy)x(skill level)
Then it's a matter of maneuvering around that limit to figure out what she can do and how many times. So take Leah for example: She's very good at tiny stuff, and could probably move little things around telepathically for hours on end without really thinking about it. But for large or extremely complex things, it'd come out as one large burst and then she'd be useless. It's just like exercising muscles.
Did that make sense?
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 12:32 am
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Yeah, that makes perfect sense. That's how I'd describe it too.
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 2:13 am
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If I may, I'd like to comment on the limited power model, which needs further specificity, because the ES universe has some differences from other models.
There are THREE measures of power we're talking about here: overall capacity, bandwidth, and duration.
Overall capacity
= the total amount of power that a whole planet has access to. Obviously our characters will not have access to everything all at once. Soulstone bearers are removed from their home planets specifically to prevent that, because it makes both the child and the soulstone go BOOM.
The distance from the child's home planet does not decrease the overall capacity available to the child; but it does impose a limit on how much power the child can tap at any given moment. That's the
. Maybe the home planet generates eight bazillion watts, but the soulstone bearer can only channel say 120 watts at once due to distance from the source.
But there's not a
limit. Because the energy to exercise the power derives from the planet, not directly from the child, the child can keep channeling those 120 watts indefinitely.
I imagine all the usual rules of getting tired when you do stuff applies. So, for example, an elf activating far sight could keep it up for hours, as Gwendolyn does in the tower; but that won't stop her from getting tired of standing up, and so on. So there are limits imposed by the normal functioning of the child's body (need for sleep, food, etc).
I also suspect that just turning on your power and leaving it run 24/7 would eventually have odd side effects. Certainly K'Thonya and Tengu were impressed/worried by Nanashi using siderean powers twice in one day. On the other hand, the siderean bits aren't Nanashi's native power; she acquired those abilities when she picked up the siderean swords. So she's a special case, and it may or may not apply to other people.
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 2:51 am
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I'd like to throw in for Milk that the whole 'ammunition' thing probably wouldn't be as applicable (mainly because it functions more as something latent, like Neuria's, Tehmel's or Gwen's) - but I also figure that Milk will probably see the least combat because he'd much rather hide. Wimp.
So, um, I imagine it'd function somewhat like doing Tai Chi would - holding a position is more draining than allowing yourself to go free, etc.
@ Tin: That explanation makes absolutely no sense to me. I understand it like this - Home planet is the sea. All the planet's children are the coasts - children that can conduct the power are rivers. The more water is drawn through the rivers, the more the sides are worn away. Given this, is the bit about bandwidth saying that as it gets further from the coast, the rivers taper, letting less water through them? This metaphor is kinda broken if you consider that more water = being more worn away, but yeah. Basic idea.
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One of the presenters (Jeremy) thinks Americans cannot built decent cars, where Richard Hammond thinks they are the best thing since sliced bread. If you are really sensitive about someone from outside the U.S. saying something bad about the U.S. every once in a while, don't watch. That said, they have been to the U.S. at least twice if I remembered correctly, and both times I was very much amused. The episode where they drive through the American south was hilarious.
If you know of this episode coming on in advance, let me know!!
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Hey everyone! I'm new here-- my baby will be here around the middle of May.I have heard a lot of pros and cons to kids being involved with sports. Has anyone had any direct experiences? Even opinions would be helpful as to if you are for it or against it and why. My sister and I were discussing this and I wanted to get some outside thoughts on it. Thanks in advance for your contributions.
I have a few years to go before this will directly affect me as well, but I have seen alot of debates on the scoring of these events. I think that as long as the kids are willing to participate and want to be part of a team it could be great for them. Especially since I will be homeschooling. The huge controversy is in the scoring. I'm tempted to believe that if we give everyone an award for showing up, prehaps when they are older they will expect something for minimal effort. Your boss doesn't give you a raise or promotion based upon attendance in most work places, could we be sending the wrong message at this age?
I am a Sports Mom. Both of my boys ages 9 and 10 have been in sports since they were 4 years old. Their main sports are baseball and football but they have an interest in soccer and basketball as well. We just don't have the time to do them ALL I was an athlete in high school and college. I am so glad I was involved in team sports as a youth. It taught me responsibility, dedication, team work, how to relate/work with people different than me in high stress (as high stress as youth can get lol) situations, pride in team and the list goes on. My boys love sports. They don't always love the team they end up on because as 9 and 10 year olds they aren't playing for their school yet. They are consistently on one select baseball team that is a GREAT experience for them. However, they also play on other teams they get drafted for instead of trying out for and those can be tough. We have encountered coaches with anger issues that I do not agree with, my boys have heard bad language unfortunately from kiddos I wouldn't otherwise necessarily want them around. There are definitely pros and cons but in my opinion as a former athlete and the Mom of two young athletes, the pros by far outway the cons. We also do not ever force our boys to play anything. It is always their choice. However, once they do commit to being on a team we expect them to finish that season. We do not promote quitting (unless there were an extenuating circumstance).
I hope this helps.
Regarding the scoring/trophies...this is my experience and opinion...When my boys were younger, they always kept score at their games and they always got a trophy from their coach at the end of a season for a season completed. Win or lose, they got that trophy at the end of the season. However, that stopped at about age 8. Now, there is no trophy unless we play a tournament and place 1st or 2nd that weekend. This was hard for them at first because they were used to getting a trophy at the end of a season no matter what. However, they got used to it and it taught them that they have to work hard to earn that coveted trophy. When they do earn it from all of their hard work, they don't forget how they got it. Or when they win a game, the reward is the win...not a material object. It's the satisfaction in knowing their hard work paid off. I'm rambling but I think in the beginning, it was somewhat good for them to be rewarded for just "showing up" but now as they get older, it has changed and I'm good with that. Does that make any sense? Oh and the scoring...we always kept score at my kids games. It helped them learn the rules to know the score.
I want to first thank everyone for their contributions. This seems to be such a hot issue and I really lean more towards what Christine said: if there's a reward they are reminded of how they got to that point.
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Although recent advances in technology have made predictions more fact than fiction, C3PO will have to wait a little longer before teaching a classroom of earthlings.
In the meantime, tablets, personal computers and a variety of websites are slowly changing the packaging of education in American public schools.
David Gluckner incorporates technology into his lessons at Cleveland High School.
"Technology definitely makes holding students' attention easier," Gluckner said. "...Instead of restricting iPhone, droid, spartphone, etc. use in the classroom, we can embrace these tools."
"Students can download educational game applications to interact with the teacher's device, as well as other students, and answer questions or participate in technical activities."
Bradley County and Cleveland teachers have been urged to embrace technology in their classrooms. Grants have begun to provide iPads for teachers and students alike. E. L. Ross teachers recently participated in a two-day training session for project-based learning on their iPads.
Current curriculum ensures technology is a component of every student's education in the two systems.
Gluckner predicted strides in technology today will pave the way for substantial changes tomorrow.
"Our high school is slowly becoming paperless since all teachers, and some students for specific classes, have been provided with iPads," Gluckner said. "Over time, all schools will be using electronic textbooks and online textbooks in addition to utilization of websites such as Moodle, Edmodo and School Net."
"Personally, I feel smart phones will be the essential tool in the classroom for textbooks, in class formative assessment, asking questions after school, keeping track of grades, etc."
Interactive websites are changing the parameters in which teachers and students communicate. A common belief is students and teachers should not be "friends" on Facebook. Others say the social media platform provides much needed after school communication between teacher and student.
Edmodo is attempting to bridge the gap.
"Edmodo provides teachers and students a secure place to connect and collaborate, share content and educational applications, and access homework, grades, class discussions and notifications," claimed the education-based social media site. "Our goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner."
Shannon Cline, Cleveland Middle School In-Tech teacher, said her students have adapted well to Edmodo as the layout reflects the popular Facebook.
Melissa Adams, CHS business teacher, has widened her online selection to include Moodle, Quia and Jing.
A brief explanation of the three websites:
n Moodle: a learning management system designed to help teachers manage individual courses through forums, databases, and wikis among other activities
n Quia (Quintessential Instructional Archive): an online platform used for a variety of tasks, including online surveys, class web pages, online testing, and shared activities and quizzes
n Jing: snapshots and screen casts can be shared among peers and between students and teachers by capturing information on one device through either a picture or recording.
Students and teachers at Cleveland Middle School are getting creative with the help of Glogster and Voki.
Richelle Shelton, CMS student services coordinator, described Glogster as an educational Pinterest. Students can use the site to post all of their resources of a particular topic in one area. These resources include everything from Word documents to websites and pictures.
"Think of it as a huge poster board of everything you have made or learned about a particular topic," Shelton said.
A Voki can be created to guide a viewer through a student's Glogster board. According to Shelton, a Voki is an avatar students can create to look how they want. She said the avatars can be designed to interact with the user either through print or voice.
According to Voki.com, the interactive avatars are free for personal, non-commercial use. The avatars can be placed on a blog, social network profile and will soon be integrated in various instant messaging platforms.
Voki is only one example of how teachers are taking to the web to find instructive, interactive, fun and, oftentimes, free education supplements. The same innovative eye used in technology is also being applied to other aspects of the classroom.
Shelton said CMS teachers who attended a recent technology conference picked up on the idea of flipping the classroom. This technique involves switching the roles of classwork and homework.
"Teachers are considering flipping the class so that when children are at home they watch videos, read or listen to a lecture. Then traditional homework would be done in school so children have teachers to help them with their work," Shelton said.
As technology advances it seems clear Bradley County and Cleveland schools are ready and willing to keep up with the fast pace development.
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Oregon doctor tends to wounded at marathon
Apr 16, 2013
By The Associated Press
PORTLAND — An Oregon physician didn't have any time to rest after completing the Boston Marathon.
Paul Pearson of Florence had just finished the race and was walking back to a hotel with his wife, Rachel, when they heard the first of two bomb explosions.
Rachel Pearson told KCST radio her husband put on his sweats and began to treat the wounded. She said everyone jumped in to help on what she described as "a day like no other."
Pearson said she saw a woman charge out of a restaurant with a linen table cloth to help a young man who had blood flowing from his leg. She praised marathon organizers, saying it was obvious they had trained for this type of emergency.
Meanwhile, Doug Hull, a 46-year-old librarian at a Portland law firm, told The Oregonian he heard the initial explosion about a minute after getting a text message from his wife that said she had finished the race and was a few blocks away with family.
"All of a sudden it got quiet, dead quiet," Hull said. "Then you started hearing the sirens. Then we saw cops running."
Rumors flew and he worried about his wife.
"We were freaked out," he said.
But he was able to meet up with her, and they walked the two miles to their hotel.
Hull said he doesn't want his wife to run any more marathons. "This is going to be her last one," he said. "I'm telling you that right now."
Though the marathon results were overshadowed by the tragedy, Oregon runners excelled. Portland-based Shalene Flanagan was the top American finisher in the women's race and placed fourth overall. Another Oregonian, Kara Goucher, finished sixth.
Craig Leon, of Eugene, finished 10th in the men's race — the third-fastest American.
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Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:45 am
Post subject: The Redux is finally complete! YAY!
After three years, three months and thr...,
I mean,
and one day, it is finally complete. No big announcement though. I guess she is waiting for her very first "new" page next week to mark the occasion.
I, however, shall jump that gun and congratulate her now as I remember quite clearly that this is, in fact, the last page she ever drew from the first version.
Congratulations Lady Yates, it has been a hard, long road. The scope of your Redux has been massive. I cannot think of anyone that has done such a rethink as you have in
other webcomic I have encountered. You didn't have to do this and it has been frustrating for all your fans who have wanted to know what was coming next but that is all over now
(and no one can deny the impressiveness of the result)
Unless... You intend to fake us all out with the
dux? Man, even if you didn't want to do that, with April Fools is so frikken close, it would be hilarious if you went down that road. A few new pages and then WHAM!
"Sorry readers but I am
not happy with the Redux so I'm doing it again," and you could start from the beginning again but with a totally different look. Just a page or two as a joke, mind.
Not many read the forums... Think about it.
Okay, to celebrate the occasion, why don't the long time readers pick what we like best from the redux and what (if any) change was our least favorite.
I'll go first with three things I liked:
-I loved the meeting of the planets as opposed to the wall of text in the first version.
-I loved the new personality of Tristam. I didn't think I would but you really have added some depth in this new portral that he didn't have as a simple emo during the first take. Bravo!
- The art is a quantum leap over the old stuff. You really improved as an artist. That really
be said.
Now, here are three things I didn't care for as much:
-As a proud Canadian, the removal of the Wipple tree to satisfy the complainers that didn't get it was a blow.
-I liked the uncertainty of the first meeting, Skogul and her teammates gave a much more evil vibe in the new version.
-Although, in almost all respects, I love the new artwork... I don't like the way the noses are done in the latter pages of the Redux. I realize that it's more accurate but it's just less attractive to me.
Also, I just want to note that I was shocked and appalled that PoodleStick was so quickly destroyed again. It was a fan favorite and yet you haven't expanded it's role in the story. However, this can
be corrected. Perhaps it was retrieved by Belluse as the symbol of his first failure and is currently in his throne room and will play a crucial role in the "Rescue Willow" arc that is coming. Just a thought.
That's all on that. You have done a wonderful job Yates. So, again, congratulations on all your hard work.
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Well thank you! But... uh, there's actually...
two pages left.
And that IS a really good April Fool's joke. I'm tempted, but I think perhaps with the number of people who seem to miss the whole April Fool's concept that I would loose a fair number of readers before they got to the joke part of it. I took a significant hit in readership when I did the redux, though I still think it was worth it.
So thank you for all you comments and compliments and hopefully the new material will make up for all the lost time of the redux.
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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:23 am
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Congratulations on the redux being almost complete.
Just wanted to mention that I can think of three other comics doing a redux of similar proportions (and for the same reasons):
True Magic (http://www.true-magic.com/) is 21 pages into redoing 172 pages
Joyride (http://www.joyridecomic.com/) is preparing to redo 231 pages
Crowfeathers (http://www.crowfeathers.net/) spent this summer coloring (texturing? - what's black/brown/white with other colors used for accentuation?) and resizing the entire archive of what amounted to 590 pages
as for the pros and cons, I pretty much agree with what toma02 has said
(though, not being a canadian, I'm not qualified to comment on the Wipple tree^^)
I really like the new look and better artwork. Can't say much about the noses, since I don't remember the old style well. Only came across this comic after the redux started already.
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Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 3:06 pm
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Well, I honestly don't recall how the noses looked in the original version either Rickmer. So that nit-pick wasn't entirely appropriate. When I said it, I was comparing the way the nose looked in the early chapters of the Redux when compared to the most recent ones. I prefer the earlier look.
Hmm, I understand your concerns Yates but I still think the idea of a tredux would be funny for the occasion. Still, I don't want any readers lost. How about a compromise? According to the main discussion page, you have three pages left, not two, so if you can manage one a week for the next three weeks, you would finish the Redux
before April 1st. So you do that, make the announcement, all it well in the world and everyone is excited for the first new page. However, on April Fools, you give a special notice and say you are THINKING about a tredux instead of continuing the story. You wonder if it might be better to take the whole thing in a totally new way since your last book didn't sell as well as you hoped
Post some concept art and then make a poll asking your dear readers what they think and you will go with whatever the majority wants because you are just not too sure about doing this all over again. Maybe you should keep going after all?
That should avoid any issues with people dumping the comic while still making a great joke. The timing is just so perfect. Destiny is calling on you to take advantage of this confluence of April Fool's
the finishing of your Redux, Lady Yates. Don't ignore it!
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Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:31 pm
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Okay, one more time.
Hurray, the redux is complete!
Also, I thought that your lack of response was your tacit way of going along with my second plan, Lady Yates. The first on was too confrontational but I thought myrevised plan dealt with the issue.
Aww man. I was looking foward for some good pranking.
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Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:57 pm
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Sorry - I wasn't going to do your idea (for reasons already stated - though it still IS a good idea) and was thinking of doing something else, but I've been working on a project for my husband for the last two days and didn't have time to do a prank.
Anyhow, thanks! I'm glad it's done too
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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:28 pm
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I myself am very excited about moving into new material for one great reason...I am no longer a perpetual n00b!
I can now post in the forums without worrying about the seasoned fans saying "teehee, if only she knew..."
So hopefully I'll be around more...
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Love without your heartbeat
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Welcome back, techno.
...In accordance with the prophesy.
TheBSDude, dubbed 'BS' by Asa and nicknamed 'Thebes.'
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I forgot about this thread.
Hurrah for the new pages!
(It's never too late to celibrate).
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As the colder temperatures creep into the Delta, it becomes increasingly important to keep feet protected.
Delta State University's Healthy Campus/Community Initiative teamed up with Allan's Family Shoes and the Community Action Rainbow Emergency Shelter in Cleveland to help those in need.
HCCI regularly organizes "Walk it Out Cleveland" walking events in the community, and in September the organization came up with a fundraising idea to support others.
"We coined it "Share Your Soles,'" said HCCI Coordinator Leigh Pickard. "At the last walking event we donated $1 for every lap walked to go toward the purchase of a new pair of properly fitting tennis shoes for those in need.
"HCCI gave (the shelter) a gift certificate for $200 and Allan's is going to fit the men, women, and children that need these shoes."
Shelter Director Jo Donna Watson said she is grateful for the initiative's support.
"When they contacted me and asked what they could do to help, I explained that we had two men who needed better shoes for their jobs," said Watson.
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"Corporations are people…women, not so much."
Congressman Mike Quigley summed up the mindset of some of his coworkers in the House of Representatives thusly at a press conference on Friday, February 24, held to address coverage of contraceptives under the Affordable Care Act.
The Obama administration's birth control mandate, which requires all employers, with the exception of 350,000 houses of worship, to provide insurance that covers all FDA-approved contraceptives with no co-pay, co-insurance or deductible, has been met with a forceful backlash from religious conservatives. Even after the administration modified the rule to allow religious-affiliated employers to pass the coverage requirement onto the insurance company rather than provide the coverage themselves, anti-choice politicians, fueled by powerful lobbying groups like the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, refused to back down.
Suddenly, birth control, a medicine that has been legal since 1965, has become the surprising subject of a national debate, placing a woman's most personal medical decisions at direct war, according to its detractors, with religious freedom.
In response to that backlash, Illinois members of Congress, as well as representatives from Planned Parenthood of Illinois, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, ACLU of Illinois Reproductive Rights Project and Catholics for Choice, as well as women who have themselves taken birth control for medical reasons, gathered at the First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple to speak out about the legal objections to the birth control mandate.
"Today is February 24, 2012," began Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky. "Not 1912, not 1812. It's inconceivable to me that there is any controversy about access to birth control." As she correctly noted, the Centers for Disease Control cites family planning as one of the top 10 public health achievements of the 20th century.
The now-infamous hearing of The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which featured the testimony five male religious leaders and zero women, repeatedly insisted that the debate was not about birth control, but about "religious freedom." (In fact, they refused to allow women to testify because they "lacked the expertise" to speak about birth control.) And though the intent behind that statement is false—as Rep. Quigley pointed out, the entire hearing revolved around the morality of birth control—its may actually hold a kernel of truth.
After all, by making the debate about religious freedom, a conversation that was intended to be specifically about birth control suddenly has larger implications. People of faith may object to—or claim to object to, in the interest of denying their employees' coverage—any number of medical-related issues. Imagine that an employer was opposed to treatment of HIV/AIDS, or treatment of LGBTQ people, said Rep. Quigley. Imagine that an employer objected to black people in their company, or objected to women working outside the home, said Lorie Chaiten, director of ACLU of Illinois Reproductive Rights Project. Or imagine that your Jehovah's Witness boss objected to blood transfusions, or your Scientologist boss objected to psychiatric drugs – both beliefs held by those religious groups. Under the amendment proposed by Senator Roy Blunt, an employer may refuse to provide insurance that covers any—any—health service to which they claim a "moral objection."
By making the law broad enough to cover their own biases, the lawmakers have opened a Pandora's box of possibilities, in which employers are allowed to determine what medical services their employees may and may not access.
As history has taught us time and time again, "faith" can be used as justification to object to, or support, any number of things that go against science, medicine or the public interest. (The Catholic church was even officially opposed to the Rhythm Method as a tool of pregnancy prevention until 1951.) And that's something with which everyone, not just the 99% of American women and 98% percent of American Catholic women who will use birth control at some point in their lives, should be very, very concerned.
As Ms. Chaiten noted, this Act and other proposed bills like it are "wrong as a matter of law. Organizations that operate within the public sphere have to follow public rules. Taking a job is not the same as joining a church."
Employers and employees can't opt out of laws referring to minimum wage, taxes or worker safety, Ms. Chaiten pointed out. And precedents, including an Amish person who didn't want to follow social security laws, and a barber who "didn't believe in secular authority" and so didn't file a license for his business, show that the law comes down on the side of the public good, not the religious individual; in those cases and others like them, the people of faith were ordered by the courts to comply with the law of the land. These precedents conclude unequivocally that "employers are not at liberty to impose their beliefs on innocent third parties."
We heard from many compelling voices at the press conference: A young woman whose inability to afford birth control resulted in cramps so painful that she passed out on the 10th floor of the Wrigley Building and bought herself a $2000 ambulance ride to the hospital; Sara Hutchinson, domestic program director of Catholics for Choice, who made an impassioned plea to listen to the voices of mainstream American Catholics who support contraception and a person's right to make their own medical decisions; Rev. Larry Greenfield of Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, who argued that since a ban on modern contraception leads to more abortions, makes women more vulnerable, makes families suffer more hardships and leads to more sexual disease and deaths, it is actually contrary to the need for personal responsibility preached by most religions; and Dr. Tara Kumaraswami of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, who pointed out that for women who face medical complications, "avoiding unintended pregnancy is a matter of life and death," and contraception "allows women to plan and space their pregnancies so that they can continue their education, pursue their career, support their family and reach their life goals."
However, that conclusion, that "employers are not at liberty to impose their beliefs on innocent third parties," is truly at the heart of this debate. It goes directly to the question of where one person's religious freedoms end and another's freedoms begin. It answers the question of what happens when religious beliefs conflict with medical recommendations. (The Obama administration's birth control mandate follows recommendations by the Institute of Medicine.)
Across the country, federal and state politicians are introducing laws that further and further infringe on a woman's right to make the most personal and private medical decisions with only the counsel of her doctor. This is not ok. Our own biases and beliefs do not belong in medical examination rooms or surgical wards. Our faith-based convictions, however strongly held, do not belong in other people's bodies.
When faith, fear and shame begin to infringe on medicine, things previously thought unimaginable happen. The Washington Post recently ran an article on how Virginia's "state-sponsored rape" bill, which would have required women seeking abortions to undergo an incredibly invasive transvaginal ultrasound, nearly came to pass. The politicians behind the legislation, which was specifically aimed at dissuading women from obtaining a safe and legal medical procedure, crafted the bill without first consulting medical experts. That is, they were writing legislation that would affect women in the most physical and visceral way, but yet had no idea what they were actually writing into law. When the politicians–and, more specifically, the public–learned what the bill would actually require, it crumbled under scrutiny and reason.
Right now in Illinois, two anti-abortion measures have been passed out of the Illinois House Agriculture Committee, a group that usually comes nowhere near health and medical related legislation. The tactic by the Illinois House of Representatives, now in its second year, has inspired some pro-choice advocates to adopt the slogan, "Women are not livestock." The two proposed bills involve mandating what doctors must offer their patients, and the medical standards a facility must meet to administer abortions–standards no facility providing non-abortion surgical procedures are required to meet. That our government has and is turning women's health into a three-ring circus of religion, fear of women's autonomy and medical misinformation is something that should not be allowed to stand. (Rep. Kelly Cassidy, in protest of the two bills and the way they are being handled, introduced an amendment that would require that men view a video of the treatment for the most severe side effects of Viagra before they're granted a prescription. "It's not pretty," Rep. Cassidy said. "No one wants to see that.")
That a woman's medical decisions are at odds with someone else's religious beliefs is not that woman's problem. Nor should she have to pay, out of pocket, a penance for those imagined sins.
As Rev. Greenfield concluded at the press conference: "Contraception is the responsible thing to do. Providing access to contraceptives is essential to get personal and public health, and it's good public policy. My message to male colleagues: man up. Don't let women wage this war by themselves."
Click here to view Planned Parenthood Action Illinois' list of endorsed candidates in the 2012 Illinois primary.
UPDATE 2/28/2012: The Viriginia Senate has passed a modified version of the mandatory ultrasound bill. It now goes to Gov. Robert F. McDonnell for his signature.


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Christ commends a poor widow. (1-4) His prophecy. (5-28) Christ exhorts to watchfulness. (29-38)
Verses 1-4 From the offering of this poor widow, learn that what we rightly give for the relief of the poor, and the support of God's worship, is given unto God; and our Saviour sees with pleasure whatever we have in our hearts to give for the relief of his members, or for his service. Blessed Lord! the poorest of thy servants have two mites, they have a soul and a body; persuade and enable us to offer both unto thee; how happy shall we be in thine accepting of them!
Verses 5-28 With much curiosity those about Christ ask as to the time when the great desolation should be. He answers with clearness and fulness, as far as was necessary to teach them their duty; for all knowledge is desirable as far as it is in order to practice. Though spiritual judgements are the most common in gospel times, yet God makes use of temporal judgments also. Christ tells them what hard things they should suffer for his name's sake, and encourages them to bear up under their trials, and to go on in their work, notwithstanding the opposition they would meet with. God will stand by you, and own you, and assist you. This was remarkably fulfilled after the pouring out of the Spirit, by whom Christ gave his disciples wisdom and utterance. Though we may be losers for Christ, we shall not, we cannot be losers by him, in the end. It is our duty and interest at all times, especially in perilous, trying times, to secure the safety of our own souls. It is by Christian patience we keep possession of our own souls, and keep out all those impressions which would put us out of temper. We may view the prophecy before us much as those Old Testament prophecies, which, together with their great object, embrace, or glance at some nearer object of importance to the church. Having given an idea of the times for about thirty-eight years next to come, Christ shows what all those things would end in, namely, the destruction of Jerusalem, and the utter dispersion of the Jewish nation; which would be a type and figure of Christ's second coming. The scattered Jews around us preach the truth of Christianity; and prove, that though heaven and earth shall pass away, the words of Jesus shall not pass away. They also remind us to pray for those times when neither the real, nor the spiritual Jerusalem, shall any longer be trodden down by the Gentiles, and when both Jews and Gentiles shall be turned to the Lord. When Christ came to destroy the Jews, he came to redeem the Christians that were persecuted and oppressed by them; and then had the churches rest. When he comes to judge the world, he will redeem all that are his from their troubles. So fully did the Divine judgements come upon the Jews, that their city is set as an example before us, to show that sins will not pass unpunished; and that the terrors of the Lord, and his threatenings against impenitent sinners, will all come to pass, even as his word was true, and his wrath great upon Jerusalem.
Verses 29-38 Christ tells his disciples to observe the signs of the times, which they might judge by. He charges them to look upon the ruin of the Jewish nation as near. Yet this race and family of Abraham shall not be rooted out; it shall survive as a nation, and be found as prophesied, when the Son of man shall be revealed. He cautions them against being secure and sensual. This command is given to all Christ's disciples, Take heed to yourselves, that ye be not overpowered by temptations, nor betrayed by your own corruptions. We cannot be safe, if we are carnally secure. Our danger is, lest the day of death and of judgment should come upon us when we are not prepared. Lest, when we are called to meet our Lord, that be the furthest from our thoughts, which ought to be nearest our hearts. For so it will come upon the most of men, who dwell upon the earth, and mind earthly things only, and have no converse with heaven. It will be a terror and a destruction to them. Here see what should be our aim, that we may be accounted worthy to escape all those things; that when the judgements of God are abroad, we may not be in the common calamity, or it may not be that to us which it is to others. Do you ask how you may be found worthy to stand before Christ at that day? Those who never yet sought Christ, let them now go unto him; those who never yet were humbled for their sins, let them now begin; those who have already begun, let them go forward and be kept humbled. Watch therefore, and pray always. Watch against sin; watch in every duty, and make the most of every opportunity to do good. Pray always: those shall be accounted worthy to live a life of praise in the other world, who live a life of prayer in this world. May we begin, employ, and conclude each day attending to Christ's word, obeying his precepts, and following his example, that whenever he comes we may be found watching.
Luke 21:1-4 . THE WIDOW'S TWO MITES.
1. looked up--He had "sat down over against the treasury" ( Mark 12:41 ), probably to rest, for He had continued long standing as he taught in the temple court ( Mark 11:27 ), and "looking up He saw"--as in Zaccheus' case, not quite casually.
the rich, &c.--"the people," says Mark 12:41 "cast money into the treasury, and many rich east in much"; that is, into chests deposited in one of the courts of the temple to receive the offerings of the people towards its maintenance ( 2 Kings 12:9 , John 8:20 ).
2. two mites--"which make a farthing" ( Mark 12:42 ), the smallest Jewish coin. "She might have kept one" [BENGEL].
3. And he said--"to His disciples," whom He "called to Him" ( Mark 12:43 ), to teach from it a great future lesson.
more than . . . all--in proportion to her means, which is God's standard ( 2 Corinthians 8:12 ).
4. of their abundance--their superfluity; what they had to spare," or beyond what they needed.
of her penury--or "want" ( Mark 12:44 )--her deficiency, of what was less than her own wants required, "all the living she had." Mark ( Mark 12:44 ) still more emphatically, "all that she had--her whole subsistence." Note: (1) As temple offerings are needed still for the service of Christ at home and abroad, so "looking down" now, as then "up," Me "sees" who "cast in," and how much. (2) Christ's standard of commendable offering is not our superfluity, but our deficiency--not what will never be missed, but what costs us some real sacrifice, and just in proportion to the relative amount of that sacrifice. (See 2 Corinthians 8:1-3 .)
Luke 21:5-38 . CHRIST'S PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND WARNINGS TO PREPARE FOR HIS SECOND COMING, SUGGESTED BY IT--HIS DAYS AND NIGHTS DURING HIS LAST WEEK.
8. the time--of the Kingdom, in its full glory.
go . . . not . . . after them--"I come not so very soon" ( 2 Thessalonians 2:1 2 Thessalonians 2:2 ) [STIER].
9-11. not terrified--(See Luke 21:19 Isaiah 8:11-14 ).
end not by and by--or immediately, not yet ( Matthew 24:6 , 13:7 ): that is, "Worse must come before all is over."
10. Nation, &c.--Matthew and Mark ( Matthew 24:8 , 13:8 ) add, "All these are the beginning of sorrows," or travail pangs, to which heavy calamities are compared ( Jeremiah 4:31 , &c.).
12. brought before, &c.--The book of Acts verifies all this.
13. for a testimony--an opportunity of bearing testimony.
18. not a hair . . . perish--He had just said ( Luke 21:16 ) they should be put to death; showing that this precious promise is far above immunity from mere bodily harm, and furnishing a key to the right interpretation of the ninety-first Psalm, and such like. Matthew adds the following ( Matthew 24:12 ): "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many," the many or, the most--the generality of professed disciples--"shall wax cold." But he that endureth to the end shall be saved. Sad illustrations of the effect of abounding iniquity in cooling the love of faithful disciples we have in the Epistle of James, written about this period referred to, and too frequently ever since ( Hebrews 10:38 Hebrews 10:39 , Revelation 2:10 ). "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness, and then shall the end come" ( Matthew 24:14 ). God never sends judgment without previous warning; and there can be no doubt that the Jews, already dispersed over most known countries, had nearly all heard the Gospel "as a witness," before the end of the Jewish state. The same principle was repeated and will repeat itself to the end.
20, 21. by armies--encamped armies, that is, besieged: "the abomination of desolation" (meaning the Roman ensigns, as the symbols of an idolatrous, pagan, unclean power) "spoken of by Daniel the prophet" ( Daniel 9:27 ) "standing where it ought not" ( Mark 13:14 ). "Whoso readeth [that prophecy] let him understand" ( Matthew 24:15 ).
Then . . . flee, &c.--EUSEBIUS says the Christians fled to Pella, at the north extremity of Perea, being "prophetically directed"; perhaps by some prophetic intimation still more explicit than this, which still would be their chart.
23. woe unto--"alas for."
with child, &c.--from the greater suffering it would involve; as also "flight in winter, and on the sabbath," which they were to "pray" against ( Matthew 24:20 ), the one as more trying to the body, the other to the soul. "For then shall be tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world, nor ever shall be"--language not unusual in the Old Testament for tremendous calamities, though of this it may perhaps be literally said, "And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved, but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened" ( Matthew 24:21 Matthew 24:22 ). But for this merciful "shortening," brought about by a remarkable concurrence of causes, the whole nation would have perished, in which there yet remained a remnant to be afterwards gathered out. Here in Matthew and Mark ( Matthew 24:24 , 13:22 ) are some particulars about "false Christs," who should, "if possible"--a precious clause--"deceive the very elect." (Compare 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 , Revelation 13:13 .)
24. Jerusalem . . . trodden down . . . until, &c.--Implying (1) that one day Jerusalem shall cease to be "trodden down by the Gentiles" ( Revelation 11:2 ), as then by pagan so now by Mohammedan unbelievers; (2) that this shall be at the "completion" of "the times of the Gentiles," which from Romans 11:25 (taken from this) we conclude to mean till the Gentiles have had their full time of that place in the Church which the Jews in their time had before them--after which, the Jews being again "grafted into their own olive tree," one Church of Jew and Gentile together shall fill the earth ( Romans 11:1-36 ). What a vista this opens up!
25-28. signs, &c.--Though the grandeur of this language carries the mind over the head of all periods but that of Christ's second coming, nearly every expression will be found used of the Lord's coming in terrible national judgments, as of Babylon, &c.; and from Luke 21:28 Luke 21:32 , it seems undeniable that its immediate reference was to the destruction of Jerusalem, though its ultimate reference beyond doubt is to Christ's final coming.
28. redemption--from the oppression of ecclesiastical despotism and legal bondage by the total subversion of the Jewish state and the firm establishment of the evangelical kingdom ( Luke 21:31 ). But the words are of far wider and more precious import. Matthew ( Matthew 24:30 ) says, "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven," evidently something distinct from Himself, mentioned immediately after. What this was intended to mean, interpreters are not agreed. But as before Christ came to destroy Jerusalem, some appalling portents were seen in the air, so before His personal appearing it is likely that something analogous will be witnessed, though of what nature it is vain to conjecture.
32. This generation--not "this nation," as some interpret it, which, though admissible in itself, seems very unnatural here. It is rather as in Luke 9:27 .
34-37. surfeiting, and drunkenness--All animal excesses, quenching spirituality.
cares of this
36. Watch . . . pray, &c.--the two great duties which in prospect of trial are constantly enjoined. These warnings, suggested by the need of preparedness for the tremendous calamities approaching, and the total wreck of the existing state of things, are the general improvement of the whole discourse, carrying the mind forward to Judgment and Vengeance of another kind and on a grander and more awful scale--not ecclesiastical or political but personal, not temporal but eternal--when all safety and blessedness will be found to lie in being able to "STAND BEFORE THE SON OF MAN" in the glory of His personal appearing.
37, 38. in the daytime--of this His last week.
abode in the mount--that is, at Bethany ( Matthew 21:17 ).


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