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Quite frankly if you did do a save santa RPG, I would mock you for the rest of your time on Sppf.
Quite frankly if you did do a save santa RPG, I would mock you for the rest of your time on Sppf.
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Number of Sign-ups:5-10
Expected Sign-ups The usual stuff
Expected Rating: 13
Present day,
one day a kid was just walking back from home playing Pokemon on his DS when his screen went black.... he closed it next second. Nothing he was gone. He then reapeared in the year 3324 he new this because there was a burnt newspaper with the year 3324 printed on it sudenly he started to listen. ther was boom after boom siren after siren.then silence. bang...bang...bang...bang there it was a enormus robot coming straight at him...
i will proberly write more later so please send me some comments its my first post ever on the whole website!
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Some thoughts (mostly not connected...)
For a time I was considering a Code Geass RPG, but I've since dropped that. Yorei (who now goes by Sunbound Streetcar, was Cenodoxus) and I were thinking of reviving one of his old RPGs. I was also considering re-doing Gates of Dawn, an RPG I did a while ago which was centered on music. Would anyone be interested in seeing that back again? For a time, I was also considering a Rozen Maiden-themed RPG. Is there anybody who might be interested in this? If I get enough interest, I'll think of developing it further.
Huh, didn't know that about Sunbound, though their spacing is similar. Should've seen it coming. I'd quite like to see Assassins restarted; just had a glance and I like the look of it already.
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All around the world, ordinary people are discovering they can do extrodinary things. Flight, teleportation, regeneration are only a small percentage of abilites manifesting. But the seeminly unconnected people begin to realise that they are part of something much bigger that goes even beyond their imagination. The danger is intoxicating and the excitment never leaves. Will they save the world? Or destory it...
Genre: Drama, scinece fiction
How many sign ups: 5 minimum 14 maximum
Expected sign ups: I want people to go beyond name, age and ability and give in-depth descriptions and details about their character/s.
Possible ratings: PG-13 - PG-15
As many of you know, heroes is an american hit t.v show that is in its third season. If people are interested in this I will provide more detail into the show and abilites available. I decided to do this because I can see from the entertainment area there's quite a good group of use who LOVE it and hope many of them will join.
I don't care what anyone says. The Pokemon: Legend of the Avatar is a pretty great idea no?
Credit to pokemonmaster21
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I have the idea for a Mystery Dungeon RP that entered into my head after watching this video on youtube. I was wondering exactly what others thought of it before trying to put it up.
And thats about it. Any ways people think I could improve it, make it better? Would anyone actually join it should it be put up? I believe I would accept five or six people, possibly more later on. Also, anybody have a good name for it? Suzumiya Haruhi no Tankentai won't exactly cut it...Arceus, after creating the world and the other legendary pokemon to maintain it, felt very confident that it would be able to run itself without incident. Feeling that it was most likely dangerous for one single entity - him - to have absolute control of the world, lest he one day go out of control, decided to step down from his position as 'god' of the pokemon world. Taking the form of a female pikachu, Arceus wiped himself of his memories and decended to earth, to live as a normal pokemon, leaving his legendaries to run the world and settle disputes. For quite some time, things were peaceful, until it became obvious that Arceus had made a large mistake: He had not removed his powers from his new body, thinking that without knowledge of them they would go unused.
He was wrong.
Arceus, or Megumi, as she was now called, slowly began to grow bored of the melancholy of her world. Even after joining an exploration team, things still were not exciting enough for her. She found herself doing the same boring types of missions over and over again, and went from team to team searching for one that was out-of-the-ordinary, different, and interesting. She found no such team. Eventually, her desire for interesting events to happen awakened her dormant powers within her, unintentionally altering reality itself.
The Deoxys, an alien race of pokemon, noticed an unusual explosion of data from planet earth, finding Megumi at the center. Celebi found herself unable to travel further back in time prior to the time of the data explosion, and Dalgia could see no physical evedince of time even existing before that moment. Several pokemon were awakened to the existence of negative patches of space, with large titans dwelling within them, curse forms of the very legend that spawned them: Arceus. Palkia became aware that the spacial planes of their world and another were beginning to overlap, calling in beings from another reality, claiming to be something called "human" forced into pokemon form.
The Legendary pokemon were very concerned with this situation. It was evident that if Megumi became displeased with the world to an extreme extent, reality could very well deconstruct itself and create a new world. Most legends agreed that they very much liked their current universe, and so they set out to observe the situation, attempt to prevent the displeasure of their unknowing 'god', keep reality the way it was, and possibly repair the damage that had already been done. Other legends however, the more malicious ones, saw this as their chance to abuse the situation and gain absolute control of the world. After years of what they would call underappriciation from their fellow legends and the pokemon race, they began plotting their own means of dealing with the situation...
Megumi, completely unaware that she is causing the world to fall apart, continues to live her life to the extent that she would concider normal, wishing to find something extra-ordinary in her world, not realizing that the group of pokemon who were about to become accuainted with her were far from normal...
Gamecrazy: Sounds like a wicked idea! :3
Maybe you could call it (keep in mind I'm not very good at this) Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Reality's End.
I've got a few questions though. Would the RPers be the the inordinary group of Pokemon, or the humans turned Pokemon, or are they the same thing?
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Glad someone thinks its a good idea. To answer your question, yes, the players would be the unordinary group of pokemon, and the humans would count twords that, because they come from an alternate dimension. And your character dosn't have to be a time-traveler, alien, psychic or a human. You could come up with other ways your character is 'different' as long as you have a reason for it, and don't get too ridiculous.
I've had a spark of a thought for a:
That takes place about fifty years after Armageddon's events- Blaze was defeated by Taven, as planned, but the fighters only grew stronger.
After this phenomenon, the fighters soon began to turn violent and much more hostile than before- friends against friends, brother against brother, son against father, however you put it-
Hell had nearly literally broken loose.
As an insurance policy, the Elder Gods planted a small obelisk between all the realms, that contained a weapon capable of massive destruction- the Elder Gods used this mysterious device, aimed it at the Edenian Crater, and fired it- killing every single warrior there, from Scorpion, to Liu Kang, to Shao Kahn- every last one was demolished.
But what lay on that barren space was a reminder- a reminder of that so long as there exist a single ounce of chaos and order in the world, there will always be conflict.
The spirits of the collection of warriors had inadvertently formed a being made of pure power- containing the powers and skills or every fighter absorbed, it began its rampant rush through the realms, eventually turning each one slowly into nothingness.
But this wouldn't happen. The Elder Gods intervened and banished this creature, called The Second Being, into the very same obelisk that was used to indirectly create it, and recreated the six realms.
However, 100 years past, and a sect dedicated to this Being- called "Priests of the Second Coming," led by the insane sorcerer Murdock, emerged, wanting to find this obelisk and free its "Merciful God", unaware of its true intentions.
However, to do so, they'd need a being of extraordinary might- in other words, a Champion.
So, under the guise of a new Outworld Host, they hosted the new Mortal Kombat Tournament, and invited races of every stripe and every realm to this huge gathering.
A gathering which would force the end of the world through chaos...
However, this had not gone unnoticed- the Elder Gods, wise enough to know when to step in, descended and chose eight chosen warriors to stop this mad scheme from reaching fruition, in the game of:
Well, if double posting is no good here, then DOH. But I've got a good idea- based on a game I've been making since sixth grade. (A sophomore now, so...)
Before man, beast, or land...
Before time, space, and existence...
Before order, chaos, and domination...
Only the Gods lived.
In an alternate world, the earliest years of its history was spent as a realm for Gods, called, "Dohgama," or "God's Place" in the Ancient Tongue.
There were 20 gods, eight of them of Order, eight of them of chaos, and two singled out to be survivors in case something went horribly wrong.
For order, there existed only complete control and rule over its domain. Their ideal universe would be protected and defended. However, this provided no freedom, and would lead their peoples to a completely strict, controlled, and boring life.
For chaos, these gods wanted their creations to do as they pleased, to have ultimate freedom, that all things had no caste or rank, but were as one with what makes up Chaos. However, a lack of control over themselves could lead the people into inadvertent riots and absolute mayhem.
Now, these two sides (Led by Memphis, Queen of Order and Death-Incarnate, Chaos's King, respectively.) fought in this plane with their own "Dohbarugo" or, "God's Servants." They caught themselves in a never ending struggle over who would lead their successors.
Now, these two Neutral gods- Tertrullian, God of Tranquility, and Azalamel, an untitled God, watched this battle from beyond the scenes. Tertrullian, tired of this pointless fight, thought that the two should unite and create a medium between their ideals. However, these two factions were loyal to the extremes, and wouldn't hesitate to think of a combination.
Desperate, Tertrullian decided to do what had to be done-
An artifact, called Orb, laid in the center of their realm, kept their home intact and secured, and pretty much sustained the gods- and their fight. But if it was destroyed, Orb would split, spreading the God's powers across their Alas, Tertrullian split this orb in half. destroying him and presumably all the other gods in the process.
This artifact, however, was given a half of each side, meaning that it hadn't been destroyed, but merely split. Still, the power it surged throughout the realm, crushing it and in turn, unintentionally creating the "New World" that the former gods had intended to create.
The two orbs split in half and flew in opposite directions, creating sea, land, and living beings, the geography reflecting their representation.
However, one cannot fight a war without his troops. For order came Men, of Fire, Elves, of Water, Dwarves, of Earth, and the newly created Jekans (Humanoids with beaks, wings, talons, and feathering on their necks.), of wind. For chaos came Orcs, of Darkness, the newly created Faedri (Decayed, corpse looking sorcerers. They're emaciated, tall, and often are missing a facial feature, though those of a higher caste retain mostly ALL of them.), of Undead, Centaurs, of Ice, and Trolls, of Thunder.
These two factions fight to regain the other half of Orb and rule over their land, named after the god who birthed them life- Tertrullia.
One of order and one of chaos.
From these eight, the chronicles of the great warriors who lived throughout:
That sounds like quite an interesting RPG angrycaterpie, and you've obviously put a lot of thought into it. But I'm curious as to what the other two gods are; you mentioned twenty and then talked about 18. What are the other two?
I had a brief idea the other day. Basically, for the past few hundred years, people have been calling the spirits of the dead. This sort of thing takes a lot of training, so while anyone could do it in theory, most would fail if they tried because they've never been trained properly.
Now, these spirits usually don't want to be summoned. They have to be confined to a living host (usually human so that the summoner can talk to them, but other creatures have been used). As soon as they are summoned, its a battle of wills between the summoner and the spirit; if the spirit wins, they trick the summoner into freeing their body from the shackles used to restrain it, then kill the summoner (usually) and abandon their host to return to death. The longer a spirit is in death, the less powerful its will becomes (because they never use it) but the less it remembers and the less intelligent/more crazy it is, making it less useful. There is no known way to force a spirit to obey once it is out of the summoners sight, so the bodies they are confined to are rarely, if ever, unchained, and spirits rarely summoned for more that half an hour at the most.
Due to their mental training, summoners can use mind tricks on people (nothing crazy, just like persuading someone to sell something for less than they usually would etc), and they tend to know a lot of languages (to enable them to communicate with foreign spirits, or ones who speak dead languages). Sometimes its possible to establish deals with spirits, though this is very rare as the only thing they usually want is to return to death, something they can easily do as soon as they are out of your sight.
Unusually, a spirit summoned recently killed its summoner but chose to remain in its host. Summoners use their talents to become very influential and a lot of their influence is due to their image; to preserve this, several government summoners put out an arrest on sight order for the host of the spirit, and put together a group capable of capturing, interrogating and forcing the spirit to return (made up of summoners and others who know stuff about summoning other than the propoganda spread by the city government). During all of this, there is a steadily growing unrest in the city, and several resistance groups who seem to know more about summoning than they should and in some cases have a certain level of resistance to the mind tricks of summoners and spirits.
I have a whole wealth of other things I could put down but cba to (such as about the city, a 16th century venice-like place) and specific summoning rituals plus important characters.
This would probably need 5 people or thereabouts to act as the members of the aforementioned group (which in turn is a part of an organisation established to keep summoners in their positions of influence).
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A little idea I had.
The Legend of the Dragon: The War between the Tribes
Long ago, the world was chaos; water fought fire by filling entire lands with the sea; fire fought by creating mountains that spewed fire into the empty sky. These two elements were always at each other's throats; never did the fire stop burning, never did the sea stop churning. As a result, two new elements were created by this battle: earth and air. The earth would raise mountains to pierce the sky; the air would pour down water to batter the earth. Then, everything had a mind. The fire grew jealous of the earth's usage of the peaks, and the water grew jealous of the air's use to drop her kin to the earth as a weapon. Water and fire battered against air and earth; air and earth fought back. It was in this chaos that Nirash descended.
Nirash created a being that held the power of all elements: the dragon. Nirash's dragons could breathe fire. They could fly. They could build den from the earth. They could swim.
For a while, the elements were content with this being. They could all relate to it, and they had no need to fight. But greed was seeded in their hearts by Hsarin, Nirash's opposite.
Each element wanted more than this dragon; and Nirash was forced to create three others, else the elements fought over the dragon and destroyed it in the process. Each element took a dragon to himself or herself and changed it to their desires; earth took hers and turned its scales a soft brown; she gave it flexible paws to work the earth. She burrowed tunnels into herself to give it a place to live. The dragon grew to love her and called her Mother Earth.
Fire took his and changed its scales a fierce ruby; he gave a fire pouch, where gas could become fire. He warmed a territory and gave it to the dragon. His dragon worshipped him and called him Lord Fuego.
Water took hers and changed its scales to a calm sapphire; she gave it gills to become a sea dweller. She filled the sea with fish to give it a sustainable place to live. Her dragon worshipped her and called her Mother Mare.
Air took his and changed its scales silver; he gave it enlarged lungs to breath easier. He made the clouds solid to give it a place to live. His dragon looked up to him and named him Lord Viento.
The elements became elementals; after giving all their energy and blessings to their dragons, they created more and eventually became one with their elements. Their ceased to breathe, instead watching their creations from everywhere.
The dragons lived in peace, until Hsarin struck again.
This time Hsarin brought a different menace to the world: humans. And with them, Hsarin gave them spiked sticks and pointed blades to kill the dragons. A bitter war broke out that lasted 97 000 years, which brings us to present time...
The lords of each dragon tribe assembled.
"We must stop this war that is destroying our peoples." The lord of the Fire tribe announced, Ì believe that I speak for all our tribes when I say that this bitter dispute must stop."
The mother of the water tribe added serenely, "This war shall not go further. We are two different species fighting over nothing but earth. Humans want our territory, and we defend it. Yet, we seem evil to them, we see them as corrupt, though from what I see, we are both neither bad nor good. We are both fighting and killing. Perhaps we are both bad."
The dragon lords and mothers decided upon this subject. A messenger of each tribe flew to the human capital, and announced their decision to the humans.
Despite misgivings from many dragons, the humans agreed and their plan was put to action.
Elders from each tribe were sent to human territory into caves set up especially for them. Eggs from the tribe were placed there. Young humans would venture into these caves, and the elder there would scry them, meaning looking into their entire being, finding their personality. Then he or she would find the egg that best suited them. The elders would always know how the dragon hatchling would behave like, and by pairing them with the right human, they guaranteed that there would be no conflict between them. The dragon's part of the peacekeeping project was done.
The human would grow up beside the dragon, for dragons grew much faster than humans. When the human came to the age of 13, they would be bonded with their dragon, and powers would become new to each partner. Humans bonded to a dragon of certain element gained a control over it, and they grew superhuman strength and powers.
Dragons could wield weapons and don armour. They became adept with their fore paws and could craft many things, sometimes rivalling the craftsmanship of humans.
Now, three years later, the lords' and mothers' plan is still on the verge of disaster. The Dragon Riders, as they grew to be called, are the last hope of peace between the humans and dragons. But, an event that could easily set the dragons and humans apart or merge them was about to happen.
Hsarin could create just as well as the elements, and created the exact opposites of the dragons and humans: shadow dragons and wraiths.
The shadow dragons inspired cold and slowness; a dragon always had fire in its veins. Wraiths were like empty shells, they moved slowly and gawkily. There was a glee to them in killing; humans revolted against blood.
With Hsarin's new challenge, it would be easy to die trying to stop it. Or would the Dragon Riders prevail, leading the way to a peace between two powerful races?
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BTW, your RPG looks great as well. I'd join that!
Thanks Angrycaterpie. I think i might write it as a fic, although I'm not sure yet whether it would best fit a fic or an RP (not enough details worked out to tell which way it's going). Just another, slightly briefer idea. Less serious as well. This would probably require somewhere from 4-10 people (depending on I decide to allow some supervillains as PC's or not).
So basically, theres a world where almost everyone has a superpower of some kind. The best of the best is Hyperman (think someone who is so ridiculously overpowered he makes superman look like a normal person). A few months ago, he recruited a few people with "lesser" powers (stuff like being able to talk to computers but not understanding binary, being able to jump really high, y'know the rubbish superpowers we all laugh at when we see characters with them) because, as we all know, teams get all the best sponsership deals.
One day, they're doing their thing when a super evil genius attempts to get rid of Hyperman by sending him to another dimension; unfortunately, the machine goes wrong and sends the villian and the rest of Hyperman's team to this other dimension. There, they're arrested by an interdimensional immigration officer, who decides to let them stay free rather than imprisioning them on the condition that they help deal with all the immigrants from other dimensions, many of whom have abilities that obviously contradict the laws of physics in this new dimension (which is having a major problem with people entering illegally).
A bit random, but I thought I'd come up with something a little more lighthearted.
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i have an idea not the idea of the rpg but to add on so to motivate people to be good follow rules stay with the story etc etc special characters not extra powerful or anything but they are a twist in the story line that someone who is good and everything activates and gains that character if they want it and because they are balanced with the other characters it is not favoritism so i hope you like/use this idea
So just to clarify for those of us who don't know "Run On," you're suggesting something like a...special "unlockable" character? Like we see in some video games? It's an interesting concept, but most RPers want to RP with their own characters. If you gave them this "special" character, they'd be forced to adhere to the character's personality, history, etc. It just seems that people would be less willing to play a character that someone else has made.
no i mean the really cool ones like sabata who does not want to play as him allthough i don't think many people know about him
I would mind going for something more historically correct, A Scenario like The Cold War or something like that, Something more realistic, I would need help though. It would be a tough one
But I would a good scenario, though and Something that actually happened
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sabata is a character who is awesme he rocks pic is here
Looks creepy, and my point stands. I think it's an interesting concept, but it's too much like, "Here's my RP, you can create whatever character you want, and if i feel like it, I'll give you a more important character who's better than yours."


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Their newly released album, entitled Sink or Swim, was recorded over a 10-month period at the Dublin home studio of the band Kila. This album was commercially guided by Thomas Black from RTE's You're A Star, produced by Larry Hogan and Lance Hogan from Kila and co-produced by the band themselves.
Wanderlust's unique sound has been described as a strong fusion of traditional Irish music and popular Celtic rock. For this band live performance is a key element and they have translated the nautical visual style of the album Sink or Swim into a rich theatrical audio/visual experience on stage.
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When Louise Bourgeois had her sculpture debut in an exhibition at the Peridot Gallery in New York, the space was filled with strange, elongated figures who were spread out, alone or in groups, throughout. Amongst these stood the simplified effigy of a woman carrying packages, the same as the one standing at the heart of Quarantania, a bronze reprisal of this momentous episode. Some of the other figures here present can also be recognised in contemporary photographs both of the exhibition, and of the artist and her studio. In Quarantania, this group has been arranged in such a way as to present the viewer with an enigmatic sense of family, of a woman surrounded by guardians or wards. Are these the protectors or the protected? As in the original Peridot configurations-- which caused a great stir at the time and were a marked innovation in the presentation of works of art as installation-- rather than discrete objects, Quarantania presents us with a powerful dynamic that relies on the unspoken, unresolved and therefore all the more intriguing mysteries of the relationships between the various individual characters. They are, as Bourgeois pointed out, "Attached. They are dependent on each other for better or worse" (L. Bourgeois quoted in B.F. Colin, "A Conversation with Louise Bourgeois," reproduced at www.frigatezine.com, 2000).
It is not the existence of the figures alone, but rather the relationship between them, between them and the viewer, and between them and the sculptor, that is crucial. These lifesize effigies are, despite the almost Arp-like simplicity of the forms that have been used to conjure them, personalities, and as such are deeply personal facets of Bourgeois' own life and relationships. Crucially, they reflect her relationship with her family, which remained in her native France while she was in the United States, having married the art historian Robert Goldwater.
The figures are all tower-like, all parallel, reflecting the artist's interest in the soaring, gleaming skyscrapers of New York, in Euclid, in geometry, and in lines that rise upwards yet will never meet. Thus the cool scientific rigour of architecture and of the mathematics which she had studied at the Sorbonne is used here in an artistic content in order to convey an emotional state, to capture the futility of the relationships between these figures, to translate an existential and deeply personal emotional anxiety at the limitations and even impossibilities of communication.
Because these slender elements are life-sized, because they inhabit our space much as a human would, their physical presence emphasizes this emotional conjuring of those distant friends, separated from the artist by geography and sometimes by death. And yet their thinness, which makes them appear as shard-like, as fragmentary mirages, as somehow insubstantial, shows the impossibility of this reconciliation, an impossibility that would only increase in 1951 with the death of the artist's father.
The astuteness with which Bourgeois manages to tap into the deeper, less specific anxieties and emotions of the viewer while also exploring her own specific thoughts and feelings is made especially evident in Quarantania in its sense of precarious balance. This is most clear in the strange, almost organic and highly evocative 'packages' that the woman holds; it is also clear in the shapes of the figures themselves. These slender objects appear to teeter on the brink of collapse, supported by an unknown force, their bases thin in circumference, giving an impression of fragility that extends to the emotional. The status quo, it appears, is being upheld only through a superhuman effort. Bourgeois herself explained this phenomenon, saying her sculptures from this period,
"... get thinner toward the base. They are delicate on their feet. They are not monuments. It is a more fragile balance. Physical and psychological presence is a balance. That is the tension of being human, the fragility of people. We are always afraid of falling so we balance ourselves" (L. Bourgeois quoted in M. Auping, "Interview with Michael Auping," Bernadac & Obrist, eds., opus cit, 2000, pp. 353-54).
This fear of falling resonates through every level of Quarantania, from the seemingly impossible equilibrium of the figures to the title itself. For while the clear linguistic link to the number 40 in the title appears to link Quarantania perhaps to Bourgeois's own concerns about her age-- she turned 40 in 1951-- it is also the name of the mountain traditionally linked to the biblical temptation of Christ, taking its name from the forty days and nights of fasting that this episode involved.
The present work is a painted bronze that was cast from the wooden original, which is in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. As can be seen by the list of exhibitions and literature in which the sculpture has been included, the subject is one of the most widely seen works in her entire oeuvre. In the wooden version, Bourgeois had taken several separate works from the late 1940s and, in 1953, arranged them in a group that itself condensed some of the mystery and potency of the relationships evident in the original Peridot exhibitions. In 1983, in the wake of the MoMA retrospective a year earlier, she cast a small group of bronze versions of Quarantania in a foundry in New Jersey. While most of them precisely mimicked the composition of the MoMA original, Bourgeois intervened during the execution of the present work, slightly altering the positions of the characters, making this a unique example, a sculpture with profound links to two very different eras in the artist's career.
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
R. Goldwater, What is Modern Sculpture?, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1969, p. 96 (another example illustrated as work in progress).
R. Storr, "Intimate Geographies: The Work and Life of Louise Bourgeois," Art Press International, ed. 175, December 1992, p. E4 (another example illustrated).
C. Haenlein, ed., Louise Bourgeois Sculptures and Installations, Hanover, 1994, pl. 10 (another example illustrated).
C. Flohic and D. Dobbels, Ninety, Charenton-le-Pont Cedex, 1994, p. 23, no. 15 (another example illustrated).
M.-L. Bernadac, Louise Bourgeois, Paris, 1996, p. 59 (another example illustrated).
T. Amano, Louise Bourgeois: Homesickness, Yokohama Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1997, p. 57 (another example illustrated).
L. Bourgeois, "La Autoexpresion es Sagrada y Fatal," Artey Parte, no. 23, November 1999, p. 61 (another example illustrated).
A. Jahn, Louise Bourgeois: Subversionen Des Körpers, Berlin, 1999, p. 108 (another example illustrated).
T. Kellein, Louise Bourgeois, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1999, p. 8 (another example illustrated).
M. Nixon and J. Bird, ed., Oxford Art Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, 1999, p. 9 (another example illustrated).
J. Landay, Museum of Fine Arts Houston: Visitor's Guide, 2000, pl. 16.2 (another example illustrated).
P. Galassi, R. Storr and A. Umland, Making Choices, exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000, p. 204 (another example illustrated).
J. G. Castro, "Louise Bourgeois: Turning Myths Inside Out," Sculpture Magazine, vol. 20, no. 1, January/February 2001, p. 20 (another example illustrated; also illustrated on the cover).
R. Storr, P. Herkenhoff and A. Schwartzman, Louise Bourgeois, London, 2003, p. 55 (another example illustrated).
R. Diez, "Louise Bourgeois: La Rivoluzione Continua," ARTE, February 2003, p. 114 (another example illustrated).
E. Landau, Reading Abstract Expressionism: Context and Critique, London, 2005, fig. 18 (another example illustrated).
M. Nixon, Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art, London, 2005, p. 162 (another example illustrated).
Monaco, Grimaldi Forum, New York New York, July-September 2006, p. 66 (another example illustrated).
M.-L. Bernadac, Louise Bourgeois, Paris, 2006, p. 6 (another example illustrated).
T. Kellein, "Market File: Louise Bourgeois," Art & Auction, July 2006, p. 59 (another example illustrated).
New York, Peridot Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, Recent Work 1947-1949; Seventeen Standing Figures in Wood, October 1949 (another example exhibited).
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art and Akron Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, November 1982-January 1984, p. 61 (another example illustrated).
Paris and Zurich, Galerie Maeght-Lelong, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospektive 1947-1984, February-April 1985, pp. 14-15 (another example illustrated).
New York, Art for Our Sake, Inc., July-September 1987 (another example exhibited).
San Francisco, Gallery Paule Anglim, Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture 1947-1955, November-December 1987 (another example exhibited).
Chicago, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Selected Works 1946-1989, November-October 1989 (another example exhibited).
Denver, Ginny Williams Gallery, Bourgeois: Four Decades, October-December 1990 (another example exhibited).
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, December 1986-January 1988 (another example exhibited).
Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Bilderstreit, April-July 1989 (another example exhibited).
Frankfurter Kunstverein; Munich, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Lyon, Musée d'art contemporain; Barcelona, Fundación Tápies; Kunstmuseum Bern and Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum, Louise Bourgeois: A Retrospective Exhibition, December 1989-July 1991, p. 57 (another example illustrated).
The Saint Louis Art Museum, Louis Bourgeois: The Personnages, July-August 1994, pl. 20 (another example illustrated).
Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois, July-August 1994 (another example exhibited).
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey; Seville, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo and Mexico City, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Louise Bourgeois, April 1995-August 1996, p. 57, pl. 15 (another example illustrated; another example also illustrated on the cover).
National Gallery of Victoria and Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Louise Bourgeois, October 1995-April 1996 (another example exhibited).
Fukuoka City, Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium and Seoul, Walker Hill Art Center, Louise Bourgeois, August-November 1995 (another example exhibited).
Hamburg, Deichtorhallen and Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal, Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures, environments, dessins 1938-1995, January-September 1996, p. 62 (another example illustrated).
Westford, University of Hartford, Harry Jack Gray Center, Gallery Joseloff, Louise Bourgeois: The Forties and Fifties, November-December 1996 (another example exhibited).
Philadelphia, Locks Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, March-April 1997 (another example exhibited).
Hanover, Dartmouth College, Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Louise Bourgeois: The Space of Memory, February-March 1999 (another example exhibited).
Kyunggi-Do, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Louise Bourgeois: The Space of Memory, September-November 2000, p. 111 (another example illustrated).
New York, C&M Arts, Louise Bourgeois: The Personnages, April-June 2001, pl. 11 (another example illustrated).
Champlain, University of Illinois, Krannert Art Museum; Madison Art Center and Aspen Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: The Early Work, April 2002-February 2003, pp. 24-26 and 85 (another example illustrated).
Humblebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Louise Bourgeois: Life As Art, February-June 2003, pl. 14 (another example illustrated).
New York, Chelsea Art Museum, Presence, February-March 2004 (another example exhibited).
Havana, Wilfredo Lam Center, Louise Bourgeois: One and Others, February-April 2005 (another example illustrated).
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Louise Bourgeois: La Famille, March-June 2006, p. 108 (another example illustrated).
Angela M.H. Schuster examines the work of the multifaceted founder of Spatialism and the man who created the endless void
Elena Crippa, curator of All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life at Tate Britain, on 'the incredible continuity in British figurative painting'
From Hockney to Baldessari, Ruscha to Thiebaud — how the countercultural figures who flocked to California in the Sixties became art establishment names
Katherine Arnold and Jussi Pylkkänen discuss the power of painting in 20th century art
Why was the art of the ancient Mezcala civilisation so fascinating to the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Ilya Prigogine?
On the first anniversary of his death, Michael Watts looks back at a long and extraordinary life


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Former Everton and Lens midfielder Guillaume Plessis has been on trial with Swansea City recently.
The 21 year-old joined Everton from Lens in January 2004. He has represented France at youth level and scored on his debut for the Blues' Barclays Premeirship Reserve League North side.
Manager David Moyes decided to sign Plessis after a trial at the club but later released him at the end of last season.
The closest he got to the first team was making 3 appearances on the subsitutes bench near the end of the 2004/05 season.
A host of other players have also been on trial with the Swans including Willie Boland and Andy Oakes.
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TONY THOMPSON is ready to cause more Merseyside misery next week.
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Thompson is not taking Price lightly for the return and will even fly in with two extra trainers at his own expense.
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"I won't be near 262lb or that bloated next time although I might have the 1990s Larry Holmes body and I can't help that, but I won't be looking like Butterbean.
"I am going to be a lot better to look at, but I won't be in better shape because I was fit.
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Answer: Iraq invasion
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Obama is to Obamacare as Reagan is to:
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Obama is to Obamacare as LBJ is to:
And, Ironside, just to point out a minor point - the debt limit extension will not give the president a trillion dollars in unobligated funds. The debt limit has to be raised to fund existing obligations previously set by Congress (and, no, despite your fervent wishes, all of those obligations were not incurred by Democrats only.)
I agree: Obama "lied" about the Affordable Care Act. We agree on that point. There are, however, a few points where we disagree. Bryant pointed out one: the debt limit is only for specific bills that we already owe, not new ones as you suggest. Additionally, the ACA won't create a situation where employer sponsored health care will be supplanted by ACA policies unless (1)these plans are a sham to begin with or (2)companies find it more profitable for themselves to discontinue insurance as a compensation benefit. One other point to be raised concerns who makes health care decisions. Right now these decisions are not totally between the doctor and the patient, but involve your for profit insurance company and what they will pay for. If you have a broken hip, your current insurance company makes the determination of how long they will pay for hospitalization and rehabilitation. Any additional time becomes your expense. The ACA mandates what policies must cover and connects (when the stupidly designed website works)individuals with these same for profit insurance companies. Regards, Spellbound.
Reguarding the debt ceiling, your explanation is correct if you are talking about every President but this one. Obama has never had a budget and the government has used Continuing Resolutions to fund the government.Those CR's have not added more money to run the governmentsence 2009, yet President Obama has added 7 Trillion Dollars of additional spending. He got this addition money when he got his Trillion dollars in 2009 for his Stimulious Package. That additional Trillion has remained in the Federal Budget each year sence 2009. The reason he does not have this year's extra Trillion Dollars is because Congress only passed a short term extention. He will spend close to another Trillion dollars to provide sudsidies to his supporters so they pay little or nothing for their healthcare. Today, there are several stories about the testimoney of Henry Choa, before a Congressional Sub-committee yesterday. The stories highlight that the Obamacare Payment System still needs to be built. The Obama Administration can not finalize this Payment System because he needs money to give the subsidies. Your comment on any Insurance company makes the determination of how long they will pay for hospitalization and rehabilitation is what the policyholder wanted covered and what the policyholder was willing to pay. The company will cover almost anything providing the policy holder is willing to pay for it. Another statement used to sell Obamacare was people with a pre-existing condition could not get insurance.That was not true. Anyone could get insurance for a pre-existing condition. The cost would be high because the Insurance Company would have to factor in the average cost per year to cover the treatment for that condition, and add that cost to any of their Health Insuance Policies. Insurance Companies are in the business to provide coverage and continue that coverage. Cancelling policies cause them the lose money. The current cancelltions of policies is government driven because of the Obamacare Law. Insurance Companies are complying with the law, which is more than can be said for the President.
Ironside, you need to research your assertions more carefully. The stimulus package, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was a one time action. There is no continuing allocation of one trillion dollars each year. Since its enactment in February 2009, $811.9B has been paid out.
Your assertion is false.
So, how has President Obama increased the National debt by over 7 Trillion dollar? He has never had any of his proposed budgets passed by Congress. His first budget was rejected by all of the members of his own party! The government has been running on CR's sence 2009? So, how did he increase the National Debt?
The Federal Government spent the following:
2008 2.983 Trillion Last Bush Budget that included the cost of the War.
2009 3.518 Trillion Obama's first year that includes the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act $811.9B.
2010 3.456 Trillion that includes savings from draw down in Iraq. Where is the reduction of the war savings and the one time $811.9B from the Stimulus package in the spending level.
2011 3.819 Trillion
2012 3.537 that includes savings in reduced military because of Obama's draw down and final pullout of Iraq.
2013 3.8 is the projected figure that will end the year. It also includes savings from military draw down in Afganastan and savings from the Sequester.
So, you are correct that the stimulus package was By Law a one time action. Yet Obamas budgets have never gone back to the 2008 level that was also inflated to meet the cost of the war. Obama has had over an extra Trillion dollars each of his five years in office. He has used most of this extra money the to dramadically increase the size of the Federal Government hiring hundreds of thousands of new Federal Government employees at salaries and benifit packages that average 84K. Now he needs money to save Obamacare by providing subsities. The short term debt ceiling extention doesn't give him the amount he needs. There will be a huge fight next month for a full extention thru the end of 2014.
Finally, let me quote from the Declaration of Independence which documents what King George III was doing to the Colonies. "He has erected a mulitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance"
Ironside, once again your assertion, "He has used most of this extra money the to dramadically increase the size of the Federal Government hiring hundreds of thousands of new Federal Government employees at salaries and benifit packages that average 84K.', is false. Federal Civilian employment is down by 18.000 from 2009, excluding temporary hires for the 2010 census.
And, I hate to point out that the relevance of King George III's actions to our current situation with elected representatives is nil.
I believe our military reductions account for the overall reduction figure you site. My reference to the Declaration of Independence points out what happens in government when there are no checks and balances. Makes no difference whether it was George III or our politicions in Washington today. Today The Democrats went nuclear on the Republicans and changed the Filibuster rule that has stood the test of time for the entire history of the Senate till today. Another check and balance in our government trampled by Democrats. Our Republic was wounded today.
Ironside, once again let me correct your erroneous assertions. First, the reduction I cited in Federal employment was civilian employees only - no military was involved. Second, the filibuster rule you cite as, "(standing) the test of time for the entire history of the Senate till today* is not correct. The filibuster rule as it existed until yesterday was in effect for about 95 years - not since the creation of the Senate.
And checks and balances still exist. That's one of the reasons we do not have a budget. Nor immmigration reform.
Politics is a nasty business. I could discuss the filibuster "rule" that was changed in the Democratic majority Senate, but I thought I'd mention the Republican House's suspension of regular rules of order. Since the Republicans passed this measure, Boehner and Cantor are the only representatives who can present a bill for a vote on the House floor. If these two choose not to present an immigration bill for a vote, there will be no action on that bill. The Senate's immigration bill? It will never see the light of day. During the shutdown, any passed Senate plan stood no chance for a vote. Just like Reid dismissed the House's Continuing Resolution in the Senate, Boehner road blocked the Senate plan. A pox on both their houses.
Please give your source for the reduction in Fed employees. As for the filibuster:
The first Congress had a "previous question motion" rule which could be used to continue debate for as long as a Senator or group of Senators used it. Aaron Burr argued that the rule was redundant and wasted the Senate's time and that new and better rules needed to be written. The Senate in 1806 wrote new rules that did not provide any way to cut off debate, thus creating the potential for a filibuster. No Senator tried to block a call of a vote by continuing the debate until 1837, when the first filibuster took place. In 1917 the Wilson Socialist Democrats tried to get a Senate rule requiring 51 votes to stop debate and a call for a vote. They compromised with the Republicans and established the Senate rule of 60 votes to stop debate. That rule stood till yesterday. However, the filibuster (continuing debate to stop a vote has been a part of the Senate in one form or another since the first Congress.
Harry Reid has sole control in the Senate on what bills will come to the floor for debate and votes. I do not believe in what was done in the House. Remember our Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution to protect the "Individual's Rights" from government taking them away. That is why the Constitution has the Bill of Rights. Our Founders believed that the government should move slowly and deliberately. They wanted it to be very hard to pass laws and the greater the majority, both Parties voting for the law, the better the law would be for the American People. Our Founders warned us about Political Parties. They did not believe they would focus on the needs of ALL the people, but rather focus on Party agenda to stay in control of the government.
Your site provides the following:
1. 2008 Bush's last year 4,206K
2011 Obama's 3rd year 4,403K
increase 197K
increase includes military for Afgan Surge of 133K, leaving 64K increase of Excutive Branch employees.
2. Your site does not have figures for 2012 or what 2013 will be. Those figures will show the steady growth of government civilian employees.
So, Ironside, since my site is official and ends in 2011 (I would not make up numbers for the sake of a debate), where do you get your numbers for 2012 and 2013?
Forgot one thing - the military did not hire 133,000 for the Afghan surge. The majority of those troops were already on board and trained. For another comparison, try Forbes magazine (not exactly a bastion of liberal politics)


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Protect people from exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke
Evidence and best practices
Benefits and outcomes of creating 100% smoke-free environments
- Implementation of smoke-free policies leads to a substantial decline in SHS exposure.
- Implementation of smoke-free legislation causes a decline in heart disease morbidity.
- Implementation of smoke-free legislation decreases respiratory symptoms in workers.
- Smoke-free workplaces reduce cigarette consumption among continuing smokers and lead to increased successful cessation among workers.
- Smoke-free policies do not cause a decline in business activity of the restaurant or bar industry.
- Smoke-free policies reduce tobacco use among youth.
There is extensive evidence from a number of countries that comprehensive smoke-free laws prompt people – and particularly parents – to make their homes smoke-free. In New Zealand, reported exposure to second-hand smoke in the home nearly halved in the three years after smoke-free legislation was introduced, and in Scotland, children's exposure to second-hand smoke fell by nearly 40% after smoke-free legislation came into force.


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After being inspired by all the cross training at Rotoiti, Jo used the same excuse and competed in the 2011 Laser Radial Nationals sailed at Torbay, where she had a rather good event, and ended up winning overall, strangely enough this was actually the first time she has managed to win the event, as when she sailed the Radial she only ever managed second! (Four years in a row…).
We then got back in the 470 and showed some rust at the NZ 470 Nationals, held at Takapuna – in the middle of one of the recent cyclones to hit NZ. So our three-day regatta was reduced to two days, but still nine races, so they were long and windy days on the water! We found some early form, but struggled in the breeze on the second day, with one very silly capsize which led to us having to pull out of the race as Jo swam away to save the spinnaker pole (they sink), and couldn't get back to the boat… Still worth saving the pole as it was our favourite blue one!
So we ended the Nationals in fourth overall, top women's crew, third kiwi, and a bit disappointed… But looking forward to pay back at Sail Auckland.
After two days off, we were straight into Sail Auckland, held at Takapuna for the first time this year, where we had a much better event. After a slow start, we improved daily, to finish the regatta in second place overall, ahead of all the kiwi guys, but not at all close enough to Nick Rogers and Chris Grube who were here are all the way from the UK, and were clear ahead for most of the event. But we had some good tussles with them, and having them here in NZ for the rest of this month will be a great training opportunity!
So now we are into train hard mode, with a month and a half until we take off to Spain to compete in our first World Cup event of the year in Palma.
Thanx for all the support!!
Jo & Polly
Special thanks to our supporters and suppliers:
SPARC and the New Zealand Academy of Sport, Yachting New Zealand, Donaghys, Kaenon Sunglasses, Harken, Mackay Boats and Quantum Sails.


text: Figure TS-5: Global land-use patterns, shares (%) of croplands and energy biomass, forests, and other categories including grasslands - historical development from 1970 to 1990 (based on B1-IMAGE) and in SRES scenarios. As for the energy triangle in Figure 6-3, each corner corresponds to a hypothetical situation in which land use is dedicated to a much greater extent than today to one category - 60% to cropland and energy biomass at the top, 80% to forests to the left, and 80% to other categories (including grasslands) to the right. Constant shares in total land area of cropland and energy biomass, forests, and other categories are denoted by their respective isoshare lines. For 1990 to 2100, alternative trajectories are shown for the SRES scenarios. The three marker scenarios A1B, B1, and B2 are shown as thick colored lines, and other SRES scenarios as thin colored lines. The ASF model used to develop the A2 marker scenario projects only land-use change related GHG emissions. Comparable data on land cover changes are therefore not available.The trajectories appear to be largely model specific and illustrate the different views and interpretations of future land-use patterns across the scenarios (e.g. the scenario trajectories on the right that illustrate larger increases in grasslands and decreases in cropland are MiniCAM results).


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Stefano Pioli: "It was a deserved victory and a decisive one for the table. The players and the fans were always exceptional with me. The squad is too big going into the transfer window."
Gian Piero Gasperini: "The performance was not up to the task. It is a serious problem if Bologna were hungrier than us. The break for Christmas comes at the right time."
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|Save your money ladies.. shave!
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|Kung-fu monkey shenanigans? Watch "Grandma's Boy"...
|Damn it! Monkeys suck! Wait...new training idea...what if they learn to drive trucks? Do monkeys live to the age of sixteen?
|But then they're drinking your beer.
|And what if someone is drinking a beer? They could lose a hand... Ah, I have the solution. I'll just keep the monkeys drunk all the time; that way, they'll miss the cans. Brilliant, eh?
|They'll shoot full cans.
|That is beyond awesome...and now I want a monkey. I wouldn't teach it Kung Fu, though. (I wouldn't want to repeat that guy's mistake.) I'll just teach them to shoot beer cans with shotguns. What could possibly go wrong?
|Actual news story, not sure if it's real though. Guy trained his monkeys to do kung fu, and they turned on him. Probably fake, but still awesome.
|Is that a new character class?...and I though Peanut with a six-pack was weird enough. (Dunham's puppet)
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|That last "totally" makes me suspicious...Random, do you have a level 30 Blood Druid?
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Colchester have finalised the signing of Ashley Vincent and have also secured Mark Cousins' future.
Last Updated: 29/05/09 4:55pm
Colchester United have finalised the permanent signing of Ashley Vincent and have also secured Mark Cousins on a new two-year deal.
Vincent has committed to a three-year deal with Colchester after impressing since joining the club on loan from Cheltenham Town.
The winger, who scored once in six appearances during his loan spell, is now hoping to help the Paul Lambert's Us clinch promotion to the Championship.
"Signing for Colchester gives me another chance to have a good crack at League One, but in a side that is aiming to play in the Championship," Vincent told the club's official website.
"I want to play at the highest level possible and I feel that I can do that at Colchester United.
"I am aiming to help them get out of the division in what will be a successful season.
Meanwhile, young goalkeeper Cousins has agreed a deal to stay with Colchester until 2011 after making 13 appearances this season.
Cousins said: "It was a good opportunity for me to commit for another two years.
"I played 13 games last season and to me that showed that the manager has faith in me to play me. It has given me a taste for first-team action, and I hope to get more games under my belt next season."


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QCodeEdit is a powerful text editing framework written in C++ using Qt4. It aims to provide a solid foundation on which advanced language-specific editors can be built easily
Version 2 was dual-licensed under GNU GPL and a commercial license. It is no longer actively developed. Unless otherwise specified, this site only concerns QCodeEdit 3.
The upcoming version 3 will be triple licensed under GPL, LGPL and a commercial license. However, until the first stable release it is only available under a GPL license.
- Extensive suite of unit-tests, microbenchmarks and fuzz tests
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make install
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find_package(Qt4 4.6 REQUIRED)
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target_link_libraries(... ${QT_LIBRARIES} ${QCE_LIBRARIES})
QCodeEdit comes with a suite of unit tests which are built automatically along with the library. Tests are grouped by C++ class and the resulting executables follow a simple naming pattern: qce_<class>_test. For instance if you want to run the unit tests for the Document class:
In addition to unit tests, a basic text editor is provided:
./codeeditor ../../test/test-big.cpp
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Are you still using alkaline batteries? If so, alkaline batteries just don't have the power for more than a few pics in a digital camera. Some may have reached their shelf life, and though brand new may even have problems just powering startup of the camera. Digital cameras for the most part should only be used with rechargeable NiMH batteries. Retailers sell these for around $7 for a package of four (about $15-19 for the batteries with charger). Keep in mind they'll save you big bucks in the long run over alkalines, AND they'll last for at least 100 pictures per charge (and probably many many more). You'll be very pleased with their performance, and may slap yourself for not buying them sooner. When at the store, look on the package for a power rating of at least 2500 mah.
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No claims of absolute originality are made for this material. As one man said, "I milk a lot of cows, but I churn my own butter." Please use these sermons as the Lord leads, but nothing on this site may be used for profit without my expressed, written permission!
Mark 10:46-52
Intro: They say that there is no one so blind as he who will not see. I suppose that is true for there are many people walking around in the world today who's eyes work just fine, yet they cannot seem to see that the way they are living their lives will eventually lead them into eternal damnation. In this story, we are presented with a man who was absolutely blind. Bartimaeus could see nothing with the physical eyes with which he had been born, yet he could see things one a spiritual level that others were blind to. This man was blind physically, but he had 20/20 spiritual vision.
As I look out over this congregation this morning I am reminded again of the truth that not everyone who came in here today can see. Oh, your eyes work fine. You didn't have to rely on a white cane, a seeing eye dog, or someone with vision to assist you this morning. However, there are those among us that simply cannot see. Though they can see the world around them, they cannot see the truth of God's love and plan for their lives. Why? They are blind spiritually.
This morning, I intend, from this passage, to help you see that Jesus is who you need. I believe that a close examination of the Scriptures will help restore your spiritual vision and will help you to make the decision for Jesus that you need to make. All I ask from you is that you allow the Lord the opportunity to speak to your heart and that you respond as He leads you today. If you will do this, then you can leave this place in a right relationship with God and possessing 20/20 vision, at least spiritually. Please join with me for these few minutes as we look together at Bartimaeus: A Blind Man With 20/20 Vision.
I. His Pitiful Condition
(Ill. Even though Bartimaeus was blind, he was able to se things that others all around him, who had their vision, could not see. In these verses, Bartimaeus proved that even though he was blind, he still possessed 20/20 spiritual vision.)
I. His Pitiful Condition
II. His Persistent Cry
(According to this verse, when Jesus called, Bartimaeus got up to go. The Bile says that he cast away his garment. This means that he threw aside his outer coat and jumped up to go to Jesus. This coat must have been very valuable to Bartimaeus. He must have known that someone else could easily pick it up and carry it away. He must have known that he could have lost it and this man would not have had the means to replace it. However, he counted the cost and was willing to pay whatever price was necessary just to get to Jesus.)
(Ill. I do not want anyone to leave here today under the impression that coming to Jesus is without personal cost. Sometimes the price we are called on to pay is very high. Some have lost family and friends over a decision for Christ. Some have given up home and even their lives because they chose to follow the Lord Jesus. Everyone who comes to Him has to give up something. Some sin or some wicked relationship, something. You simply need to know that however high the cost may be that you have to pay, in the end that cost is very cheap when compared with the worth of your soul - Mark 8:36-37. Do not be afraid of the cost, what a person receives from Jesus far out ways any price we may be called on to pay.)
I. His Pitiful Condition
II. His Persistent Cry
III. His Personal Cost
(Ill. When Bartimaeus came to Jesus, he was asked a very important question and his response was one of pure faith. He trusted Jesus to heal him and then, the impossible happened, the blind man received his sight was restored to wholeness at the word of Jesus. We need to understand that when Jesus said "hath made the whole" that this phrase literally means, "has saved you". Bartimaeus got far more than physical healing that day, he also got spiritual healing as well.)
(Ill. This is what happens when the lost person responds to the Gospel of grace. Immediately, when faith is exercised, the power of God moves in that person's life and God saves them instantly, completely and eternally! In this day of religion and self-righteousness, we need to remember that salvation only comes about through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, Acts 16:31! If you are trusting anything other than Jesus for you salvation, then you are in for a rude awakening when you leave this world. It is Jesus Christ or it is nothing!)
I. His Pitiful Condition
II. His Persistent Cry
III. His Personal Cost
IV. His Powerful Cure
(Ill. As I mentioned a moment ago, after Bartimaeus was healed, Jesus told him to go his way. Bartimaeus, however, wanted to be near to One who had healed him and had saved him. This is a theme repeated several times in the Gospels. For instance, I think of the Gadarene Demoniac in Mark 5 who wanted to go be with Jesus after he was healed and saved.)
(Ill. This simply reminds us that when salvation comes into a life, that there will be a desire for the things of God. The saved person will want to walk with the Lord in holiness. They will want to be around other saints. They will want to be in the church and be part of what God is doing in the local congregation. There will be a profound change of life. It will be dramatic! In many cases, it will be as dramatic as what happened to Lazarus when Jesus raised him from the dead, John 11. As simply as I can state, it let me just say that when Jesus saves you He makes you alive in Him, Eph. 2:1-10. When this happens, you will be different. And, if you aren't different after you have made a profession of faith, then you probably aren't saved!)
Conc: One day a Christian and a Communist were sitting on a park bench watching the world go by. As they watched, a poor, drunken beggar walked by dressed in rags. The Communist pointed to the beggar and said, "Communism would put a new suit on that man!" To which the Christian responded, "Maybe so, but Jesus Christ can put a new man in that suit."
Folks, you do not need to run over a new leaf. You do not need to get "religion". You do not need to try and make a bunch of worthless external changes. What you need this morning is to be born again. You need for Jesus to put a new person in your suit. If you know you are lost and would like to be saved, then I invite you to come to Jesus right now. He will save you if you will respond to Him.
I would also like to say to those who are already saved that many of God's saints are walking around like blind beggars. If you are saved, you are not supposed to live like a sinner. If there are things in your life that need to be made right with the Lord, then I invite you to come to Him right now. He will receive you, forgive you and restore you this morning if you will only come to Him.
Jesus is passing by! Please do not this opportunity pass, come to Him and be made whole.
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