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4. Create a wvdial configuration.
4. Create a wvdial configuration.
Wvdial is an easy-to-use frontend to PPPd. The configuration is fairly easy to comprehend. This one is probably longer than it needs to be, but I'll include it all. Make sure you replace the /dev/ttyUSB0 line with the node that your USB modem is connected to. Save as
Wvdial is an easy-to-use frontend to PPPd. The configuration is fairly easy to comprehend. This one is probably longer than it needs to be, but I'll include it all. Make sure you replace the /dev/ttyUSB0 line with the node that your USB modem is connected to. Save as /etc/wvdial.conf]]
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I am a recent convert. I think its the usual history .... years of windows, 2 years of Ubuntu, and now seeking something better. I experimented with Arch in Sun VM for a month, and got comfortable with it. This week (Jul 2009) I made the shift and the speed, reliability and responsiveness is terrific. Probably of more importance, I have learned more in the conversion than I ever could in Ubuntu. I believe the reason is that while Arch is minimalist, it is also intelligent. Pacman is infinitely superior to Synaptic for example. The reason is that once you get over the command line phobia, it just works and works fast. Dependency problems are eliminated, and no more seeking obscure repositories to keep up to date.
Anyhow here are some of the key findings from my perspective. Bear in mind the Beginners Guide on wiki.archlinux.org is the bible. I am focussed here on the X60s specific things I encountered. Have fun.
Install from CD - thinkpad X60s
Follow each menu item carefully, and do not skip any of them. Each one has place and a reason. A couple of key ones that have lasting effects: 1. prepare a partition strategy before you begin. Arch has the smarts to give you separate partitions for boot, root, home and swap. Some add others - i did not. I used:
- boot - 128MB
- Root - 20 Gb
- Swap - 2.5Gb (note I have since read that this is on the small side, but I have not seen any performance degradation and swap never gets used on this machine so far. If I did it again I would go for 5 gig. With Arch though you never do again, unless you miss the fun !
- home - the rest - in my case 70Gb
2. take special care in the menu item 'base system". The items that are starred will be installed. /The items not starred will NOT be installed. Why is this important? Arch requires a constant network connection to continue the installation once the CD install is installed. Note the CD does not have openoffice, firefox, Gnome, XFCE or any other things you may have come to accept with other distro cd's. So you MUST have internet installed post the base install. Read down the base list carefully, and look for wireless-tools, and if you are lucky as I was look for the driver for your wireless card. In my case the intel 3945 was there!
So finish the base install, reboot, and you should be have a network hook present.
From terminal do iwconfig and look for something like wlan0 and a description that looks like your wireless card. Lets assume wlan0. Do this (no sudo required, because you are root at the moment - no users installed.
- ifconfig wlan0 up
- iwconfig wlan0 essid "your_network_name" key [your key no brackets]
- dhcpcd wlan0
Next before you try to install anything this next step is essential. Arch is a rolling release model, therefore your install CD is out of date the moment you create it. So you must update your system from the network to ensure all is up to date and all dependencies are correct. I did not do this the first time, and had all kinds of kernel panic, which means your computer has been bricked and you must start over again.
To prevent bricking do this - pacman -Syyu
The yy forces up update to local database register of installed programmes, and the u uprades your system. Follow the prompts as required.
Then ....
Now follow the stuff in the beginners guide at wiki.archlinux.org to install sudo, add users, add to groups, video card driver, then install xorg, xfce4. It is worth to follow that beginners guide step by step.
Once up and running, some additional things that took a little while:
Install s2ram (pacman -S uswsusp and make these changes below. This set of stuff is not well documented, but once I did this it was very smooth.
from http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/uswsusp-fbsplash/uswsusp-fbsplash/uswsusp.install
==> If suspend to ram doesn't work, edit the whitelist.c.diff ==> file to add your machine to the s2ram whitelist with the ==> appropriate methods, then uncomment ==> the line in the PKGBUILD where the patch is applied, eventually ==> add the md5sum of the resulting patch and finally rebuild the package. ==> Use 's2ram --identify' to identify your machine. ==> Be sure to let the suspend-devel list know!
==> The new Software Suspend does not use kernel parameters ==> to determine the suspend partition, instead it consults the ==> /etc/suspend.conf file when booting. ==> You MUST edit this file before you update your initrd.
==> You will need to update your mkinitcpio.conf file to ==> include the hook uresume. Replace your 'resume' hook ==> with 'uresume'. If you do not have a resume hook the ==> uresume hook must go before filesystems but after ide, ==> sata, and/or scsi. ==> Do not get this wrong. Then rebuild the ramdisk with ==> 'mkinitcpio -p kernel26' (or what else needed for the kernel you use)
Note, when I do s2ram --identify This machine can be identified by:
sys_vendor = "LENOVO" sys_product = "1702HFU" sys_version = "ThinkPad X60s" bios_version = "7BETD3WW (2.14 )"
See http://suspend.sf.net/s2ram-support.html for details
It is highly reassuring to see that your system is recognised. If you do not get recognised, there is a hal problem, and your earlier install is not complete.
Next some file edits in policies.
1. sudo mousepad etc/acpi/actionslm.lid.sh comment our everything, and add: if grep closed /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state >/dev/null ; then
# if the lid is now closed, save the network state and suspend to ram netcfg all-suspend pm-suspend
# if the lid is now open, restore the network state. # (if we are running, a wakeup has already occurred!) netcfg all-resume
You should now have suspend working.
Another quirky thing is a hal error on shutdown preventing linux from truning the machine off. From https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-users/2009-June/001783.html I got this patch to /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf
<config version="0.1"> <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable"> <return result="yes"/> </match> <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.shutdown"> <return result="yes"/> </match> <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.reboot"> <return result="yes"/> </match> </config>
This file was blank but by addiing the above, shutdown is now down by linux. I need to study policykit and hal. This is unclear, but my sense is that PolicyKit.conf is no longer used and a better fix is required in either /etc/acpi or /etc/hal.
Finally to get Rogers dongle red stick working, I found all here: http://www.zeroflux.org/blog/post/255 and pased below for reference. Note other accolades at the bottom for this one.
1. Disable CD mode on the device.
Using a Windows machine, plug in the USB device and go through the short install wizard. Once done, close the Rogers app that starts up, then head into the Device Manager (Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager). Under the Ports section, find the COM port that's connected to the USB modem (ignore the Diagnostics one). Connect to that COM port through Hyperterminal, found in the Accessories area of the Start Menu. Connection parameters are
Bits per Second: 115200 Data bits: 8 Parity: None Stop bits: 1 Flow Control: None
Once connected, type the following commands:
This tells the modem not to use CD mode when it's first plugged into a computer. Now exit Hypterterminal and remove the USB modem. You're done with Windows.
2. Setup udev rules.
Create a file /etc/udev/rules.d/90-zte.conf that contains the following:
ACTION!="add", GOTO="ZTE_End" SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0031", SYSFS{idVendor}=="19d2", GOTO="ZTE_Modem" GOTO="ZTE_End"
LABEL="ZTE_Modem" RUN+="/sbin/modprobe usbserial vendor=0x19d2 product=0x0031", MODE="660", GROUP="network" LABEL="ZTE_End"
3. Setup hal rules.
The current version of hal (that I have) doesn't know about the MF636, though it does acknowledge some earlier models. To inform it, create a file /etc/hal/fdi/information/10-modem.fdi with the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device> <match key="info.category" string="serial"> <match key="@info.parent:usb.product_id" int="0x0031"> <match key="@info.parent:usb.interface.number" int="3"> <append key="modem.command_sets" type="strlist">GSM-07.07</append> <append key="modem.command_sets" type="strlist">GSM-07.05</append> </match> </match> </match> </device>
4. Create a wvdial configuration.
Wvdial is an easy-to-use frontend to PPPd. The configuration is fairly easy to comprehend. This one is probably longer than it needs to be, but I'll include it all. Make sure you replace the /dev/ttyUSB0 line with the node that your USB modem is connected to. Save as /etc/wvdial.conf wvdial.conf
5. Dial up to the interwebs.
Now just run wvdial to connect!
- wvdial -C /etc/wvdial.conf
If you see output reporting your PPP local and endpoint IP addresses, then you've won! Crack a beer and troll some forums.
6. Acknowledge the real heroes.
Thanks to the following webpages that gave me all this information:
* http://www.matt-barrett.com/?p=5 * http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1005910 * http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1065934


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|December 3, 2010
|Chicago White Sox traded RHP Scott Linebrink to Atlanta Braves for RHP Kyle Cofield.
WORKHORSE: Appeared in 73 games for the Padres in 2006...with 262 career appearances for the Friars, he is now sixth on the club's all-time list.
AVERAGES: Held batters to a .190 average (29-for-153) before the All-Star break and limited left-handed batters to .208 (33-for-159) on the year.
PLAYOFF PERFORMANCE: Made two postseason appearances, allowing one run on a solo home run (Taguchi) over 1.1 innings of work...his postseason ERA now stands at 3.86 (1 ER/2.1 IP) after having worked in three games over the last two years with the Padres.2005 Tallied an 8-1 record while posting a career-best 1.83 ERA (15 ER/73.2 IP) out of the bullpen...his eight wins established a new career high...matched his career high in appearances with 73 and notched 70 strikeouts...his eight wins in relief were the most by a Padre since Dan Miceli (10) in 1998...allowed only four home runs in 73.2 IP, the lowest ratio of his career...was 3-1 with a 1.90 ERA in 33 games vs. NL West opponents...allowed only 15 of 66 hitters to reach base when leading off an inning (11 hits, four walks) and did not allowed an earned run in 63 of his 73 appearances... the Padres were 44-29 in games in which he pitched...tossed 1.0 inning of scoreless relief in September 30 win over Los Angeles, earning the fi rst save of his career...Linebrink fi nished the season by not allowing an earned run in 23 straight outings, covering a span of 24.0 innings dating back to August 12...his 1.83 ERA was the second-lowest mark by a reliever making at least 70 appearances in franchise history...Ranked among league leaders in several categories including: tied for first in relief wins (8), fourth in holds (26), fifth in relief ERA (1.83), 12th in batting average against (.209), tied for 14th in appearances (73) and 16th in innings pitched (73.2)...Did not allow a run in the final month of the season (16.2 IP)...in the 14 games in which he appeared, he struck out 17 while walking just two on his way to a 3-0 record... Posted a 0.66 ( 3 ER/41.0 IP) road ERA while going 2-0, including holding opposing hitters to a .144 batting average against...was a perfect 5-0 with one save and a 1.59 ERA in 33 games after the All-Star break...held hitters to a .197 batting average with runners in scoring position and .186 with runners on base...Earned his first career save after tossing 1.0 inning of relief (one hit; one strikeout) September 30 vs. Los Angeles. 2004 Appeared in 73 games out of the bullpen this season and logged a bullpen-high 84.0 innings... struck out 83 on his way to posting a 2.14 ERA (20 ER/84.0 IP)... tallied seven wins, all in relief, matching Akinori Otsuka in becoming the first Padre reliever to do so since Kevin Walker posted seven in 2000... posted a 1.86 ERA (8ER/38.2 IP) over his final 34 outings of the season, including a 0.82 ERA (1 ER/11.0 IP) in July and a 1.88 ERA (3 ER/14.1 IP) in August with 17 strikeouts.
CAREER SEASON: Established new career highs in wins (seven), games (73), strikeouts (83) and his 2.14 ERA marks the best tally in his five-year career... his 84.0 innings were second only to his 2003 season where he logged a combined 92.1 between Houston and San Diego... prior to his seven wins in 2004, he had three career victories.
IN THE ZONE: Did not allow an earned run in 15 consecutive appearances (16.0 IP) from July 3-August 12... during the span he struck out 19 hitters while walking just two.
NUMBER CRUNCHING: Along with posting a 0.82 ERA in July, he held opposing hitters to a .088 (3-for-34) average and struck out 13 while walking just two... in bases loaded situations held the opposition to 1-for-9 (.111)... allowed just five hits in 41 at-bats (.122 average) with runners in scoring position with two outs... allowed just 15 of his 54 inherited runners to score... tallied 28 holds, tied for sixth in the National League... posted a 1.78 ERA (6 ER/30.1 IP) over the first two months of the season, including striking out 25 while walking just five.
GIVING A LITTLE EXTRA: Pitched a season high 2.0 innings on 14 occasions... posted a 1.29 ERA (4 ER/28.0 IP) in those outings while striking out 30 in 28.0 innings... made 17 appearances from June 19-July 29 with the Padres earning wins in 16 of those contests, including a stretch of 10 straight from July 3-July 29... in that span posted a 2-0 record with a 0.00 ERA (0 ER/10.0 IP).2003 HIGHLIGHTS: Was claimed off waivers from the Houston Astros on May 29...finished the season with a combined 3-2 mark with a 3.31 ERA (34 ER/92.1 IP)...established new career-highs in games pitched (52), wins (three), innings pitched (92.1) and strikeouts (68)...started six games (all with Houston), going 1-0 with a 4.03 ERA (13 ER/29.0 IP)...registered the first win of his big league career after tossing 5.0 IP, allowing eight hits and four runs in a 7-5 win over the Chicago Cubs May 23...struck out a career-high four on three separate occasions: May vs. Pittsburgh, June 13 at Chicago (AL) and July 29 at Pittsburgh...tossed more than 1.0 IP of relief in 18 of his 46 relief appearances while not allowing an earned run in 32 of those appearances...had a 3.99 ERA in home games (21 ER/47.1 IP) where he registered all three of his wins and a 2.60 ERA (13 ER/45.0 IP) on the WITH THE PADRES: Appeared in 43 games, all in relief...went 2-1 with a 2.82 ERA (19 ER/60.0 IP)...got his first Major League hit, a single, July 13 at St. Louis off Danny Haren..knocked a double, the only extra-base hit of his career, August 12 at Atlanta...won his first game with the Padres after throwing 1.0 scoreless inning of relief in a 3-2 win over the New York Mets August 19. WITH THE ASTROS: Opened the season at Triple-A New Orleans where he went 0-2 with a 2.70 ERA (3 ER/10.0 IP) in two starts with the Zephyrs...had his contract purchased by the Astros on April 17...began the season with three straight appearances out of the bullpen before starting six consecutive games...went 1-1 with a 4.26 ERA (15 ER/31.2 IP) before being designated for assignment of May 22. 2002 Appeared in 22 games for the Astros...finished with a 7.03 ERA (19 ER/24.1 IP) and had no decisions...optioned to Triple-A New Orleans on June 27, recalled on July 2, optioned on July 17...activated from the disabled list on June 17...allowed no runs and no hits in 0.1 innings at Milwaukee...placed on the 15-day DL on May 25, retroactive to May 20, with a strained right elbow...held opposing teams scoreless through six appearances in May, allowing only two hits over 6.1 innings on the mound...first appearance came on Opening Day...gave up one earned run on two hits in three innings, including a solo home run...appeared in 11 games with New Orleans...posted a 1-1 record, while accumulating a 6.75 ERA (10 ER/13.1 IP), walked nine and struck out 14. 2001 Had three stints with the Astros this season (April 3-18; July 29-August 1; Sept. 9-October 7)...finished with no decisions and a 2.61 ERA (3ER/10/1IP).

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And yet, rather than 'raise Cain' over such an assault on the Bible, many of today's church leaders lend their names to the endorsement of the book, i.e.:
"Amy Grant, Benny Hinn, Bill Hybels, Bill and Gloria Gaither, Billy Graham, Chuck Swindoll, Cynthia Heald, Gary Smalley, Gordon MacDonald, J.I. Packer, Jack Hayford, Jerry Jenkins, Jerry Savelle, Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter, John Maxwell, Joni Eareckson Tada, Joyce Meyer, Keith Miller, Kenneth Copeland, Madeleine L'Engle, Max Lucado, Michael Card, Michael W. Smith, Newsboys, Rebecca St. James, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Rod Parsley, Stuart and Jill Briscoe, Tony Campolo, Vernon Grounds, Walter Kaiser Jr., Warren Wiersbe".
A good barometer of the Evangelical Church today are the popular magazines, such as "Christianity Today" and "Charisma." To see how far off Evangelicalism has gotten from the truth of Scripture, just peruse the pages of the latest CT or "Charisma" and see what ministries are being promoted or what conferences are advertised.
For instance, CT published an article about controversial Catholic author Brennan Manning, whose writings present a new age ecumenical mindset. Although many apologetics ministries have exposed this fact, CT ignored this and referred to his book The Ragamuffin Gospel as a "spiritual classic" in an October 6, 2005 interview, though that book is full of very dangerous teachings. The article, "A 'Coward' Who Stayed to Help" was Manning's story of his heroics helping victims during the Hurricane Katrina disaster. In a twist of events, CT had to publish a correction to the story some five days later. It turns out that Manning made the whole thing up and CT editors put an addendum to the story that reads:
"From the Editors: We regret to inform our readers that, following this on-the-record conversation, Brennan Manning called our office to apologize. He reiterated that he had been "disoriented, confused, and depressed" lately and that certain details he provided were not true. He did not help identify a child from his apartment complex. He did not help an elderly woman get a ride. And while he was the last one to leave his apartment complex, "the truth is that there was nobody around here for me to help," he said in a voice message to Christianity Today. "The essential truth: I lied."
In spite of the lies, CT kept the interview up unedited and linked to a former story on Brennan Manning from the June 2004 issue of CT that pointed to all the evangelical leaders who embrace this former Franciscan priest. The list of Manning enthusiasts are a who's who of evangelical leaders such as Eugene Peterson, who wrote "The Message" paraphrased bible and popular Christian counselor Larry Crabb. He is also endorsed by many popular musicians like the late Rich Mullins, Michael Card, Michael W. Smith, and members of U2. These endorsements have given this heretic entrance into evangelical circles and magazines.
Brennan Manning has popularized the idea that the Bible is not to be taken literally and any who do uphold Bible standards are Pharisees and hypocrites. The Bible has to be demoted from the Word of God to a book that only contains the words of men mixed in with the words of God so that ecumenical unity can be achieved between Catholics and Protestants. Both CT and Charisma magazines promote that agenda.
Bible-believing Christians have long been shocked and appalled at the anti-bible rhetoric spewed out by Protestant organizations and movements who once believed in the truth of Scripture. The "Jesus Seminar" "theologians" and people like Episcopal Bishop John Spong have been taken seriously by the secular world as spokespersons for Christianity.
Spong's latest book is called "The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love." In it he claims that the Bible is full of "tribal and sexist prejudices of that ancient time." And yet he picks and chooses the things he likes in Scripture and tosses out the rest – which is the majority of the Bible.
In denouncing the Bible in such terms you would think that the Episcopal church would defrock him, but instead they prop him up and allow his poison to spread throughout an already dead denomination.
The same problem is seen in the United Methodist Church that also gives platforms to Bible haters. One of their own, Susan Cady, co-author of "Sophia: The Future of Feminist Spirituality" pastors one of the oldest Methodist Churches in Philadelphia. She is a closet witch who denounces the Bible for what she calls its patriarchal slant. Rather than receiving discipline for the evils she spreads about Christianity and the Word of God, she gets elevated into positions of prominence. What would John Wesley think of that?
Yet it is the Bible-denouncers in Christendom that get all the press. These are the ones that are featured in secular television documentaries such as the "Mysteries of the Bible" series who are quoted as denying the historical accuracy of the Bible. Who better than a seminary scholar (such as the Christ-denying Jesus Seminar leaders) or an ordained minister of a large denomination to quote as saying that the parting of the Red Sea never really occurred? These churchmen/women are a real disgrace to Christianity and give ammunition to those who hate God.
Many mainline denominations have forsaken the Bible in exchange for the ideas of the popular culture. Practicing homosexuals are embraced in the memberships of these denominations and those who object are marginalized. Churches such as the UCC (United Church of Christ), the Lutheran Church, the United Methodist Church, Disciples of Christ, and the Society of Friends (Quakers) no longer tolerate the teaching of their founders. The "Battle for the Bible" has been lost in the mainline denominations.
The largest "Christian" television network in the world, the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), frequently highlights the "ministry" of their so-called prophet Kim Clement. Clement, along with another so-called visionary of a new church, Tommy Tenney, were interviewed by hosts Matthew and Laurie Crouch on a Praise the Lord program five years ago. Clement shared a video clip of one of his meetings in which he had gone into a "prophetic" frenzy and "prophesied" a glimpse of what the church would look like in the future.
"There shall be a world-wide move of God," Clement shouted to a rock beat by his band in the background. "There will be a world-wide universal move of my spirit and the spirit of the lord says, 'they will prepare for the greatest kingdom that has ever been around, the kingdom of my son. I will change the laws of this country. I will put favor, favor, favor, in the church of the living God. And for seven years you will have the greatest prosperity you have ever dreamed about. And it's yours! It's yours! It's yours! Says the lord. Come on!" [And the crowd shouts and jumps and hollers.]
Back to studio, host Matt Crouch responded, "That is church, the way it's supposed to be!" "All messed up!" added his wife Laurie. "Absolutely chaotic at the hands of Kim Clement," Matt concluded. "And that was an awesome service. That was the last day of the year 2000 . . . And he was prophesying to America. That's what those things are like. And you know when we talk about wrecking church and walking in with the hands folded and stuff (Matt says mockingly) -- you walk in there and you see people going absolutely berserk in the presence of the lord and dancing. When you talked about losing dignity -- there are people that lose their dignity that are hungry and passionate for praise and worship and they will show up at his meetings."
Tommy Tenney piped in, "I think he's got an anointing to kill religious spirits!" "They are dead as a doornail, ha ha ha," Matt Crouch responded.
On an earlier program with the same hosts and guests, Clement taunted church leadership as he perceived it. "We may be young, we may be great looking, we may be very wealthy and rich, we're just provoking them. And we didn't take 20 years to get there. The whole thing's changing. The appearance of Christ is so different in every generation." And then he turned his attach to the Bible. "You know, we aren't even thinking now about Tribulation and seven years of this and pre and mid and post and all this stuff. We don't care about that. We just want to see the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our God. We don't waste our time with that…We are living in the greatest time the church has ever been in, we're living right now. And a lot of people don't want to see that because they'd rather go home and be with the Lord. We don't want to do that!"
This hatred for the church shows in a view of the Bible as passe. Clement does not carry a Bible, put presents his spontaneous "prophecies" as God's word today. His friend Tommy Tenney who wrote the book, "The God Chasers" concurs and reveals further the TBN attitude toward God's Word.
"A God chaser may be excited about some dusty truth," Tenney wrote, "that passed in the path, and how long ago it was. But that's just the problem. How long ago was it? A true God chaser is not happy with just past truth; he must have present truth. God chasers don't want to just study from the moldy pages of what God has done; they're anxious to see what God is doing. There is a vast difference between present truth and past truth. I'm afraid that most of what the Church has studied is past truth, and very little of what we know is present truth."
Examples of the recent attack on God's Word from the TBN camp are too many to number. TBN continues this trend in upholding ecumenism, downgrading the Bible, and elevating teachers who have scandals associated with the ministries. And their network can be seen from anywhere on the planet, giving legs to the forming Mother Harlot.
An on-line news service recently reported: "'The Roman Catholic Hierarchy who penned a document saying that some parts of the Bible are not true, are sadly misguided.' So says best-selling author Ray Comfort… The Catholic bishops of England, Wales and Scotland last week warned their five million worshippers, as well as any others drawn to the study of scripture, that they should not expect 'total accuracy' from the Bible."
Yet this is not news in the Catholic Church. Rome has never held Scripture in high esteem as the actual Word of God. Catholic Church tradition through the writings of their "church fathers" has always had equal clout.
The latest trend in the church today is the "emerging church" movement. One facet of the "emerging church" is a frontal attack on the Bible. The leaders and theologians of this movement promote a new way to speak theologically without using biblical terms such as fall, redemption, salvation, or gospel. These "church" leaders say that those terms are a turn-off to people who are interested in spiritual enlightenment. We should somehow adapt our speech to accommodate unbelievers.
Of course, the Seeker-Friendly, church growth movement paved the way for this to gain admission into the church. It is based on the same principle popularized by Crystal Cathedral's Robert Schuller decades ago when he polled the neighborhood to find out what the public wanted in a church and then found ways to supply it. It is a consumer-based "christianity" that sees church as a commodity.
Ecumenically minded church leaders have latched onto the popularity of the "Purpose Driven – Rick Warren" desire for church growth and have taken it even further away from the solid foundation of the Bible as our basis for faith and life. The emerging church celebrates modern society and commercialism as ideas the church needs to adopt and utilize for the growth and influence of the church. After all, they argue, since people are looking for a spiritual experience the church should supply them with one by packaging Christianity in a way that is palatable to them.
Anyone with any true spiritual eyes can see where this will take the church. History is repeating itself. The Roman Catholic Church of the Dark Ages used the same strategy by blending Christian and pagan outer ritual and art to attract the multitudes into her fold. It seemed to work on the surface, but the church was left with people who did not enter into the straight gate, but came in the back door. The born-again experience was no longer the prerequisite for church membership and therefore the church was taken over by charlatans and apostates.
The "emerging church" glamorizes Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox idolatry by repackaging medieval practices of iconolatry, ritualistic liturgy, use of "sacramentals," and mysticism. Gregorian chants are being merged with modern hip-hop to create atmospheres that appeal to today's experience seekers.
The Emerging church refuses to allow the Bible to set the parameters of acceptable worship or theology. Philosophers and Post-Modern thinkers are their new prophets and they are not limited by "thus sayeth the Lord."
One of their leaders, Brian McLaren, spoke at a recent conference. His topic was called "Emergence and Convergence." He makes a straw-man fallacy that all these post-modern emerging theologians do – he characterizes Christendom of the past 100 years as if it were one giant conglomeration. Everyone who names the name of Christ gets painted with the same brush. Whatever mistakes are made in one denomination are attributed to them all. So every professing believer of the last 100 years – until they arrived on the scene, of course – were legalistic, colonial, and rigid. Once a person sees that stereotype, they are left with no choice but to distance themselves from any church that isn't on the "emerging" bandwagon.
McLaren demonizes the good with the bad in the so-called "old guard" and says Christianity needs to be reimagined. "When they emerge," he says, "they find a natural convergence occurring across race and culture, politics and denominations. That convergence requires us to rethink the way we tell the story of our past. It invites us to imagine a new kind of story for the future."
So in other words, the gospel must converge with our culture's ways of thinking in order to be relevant today. Jesus has to be reinvented to suit the modern man who rejects absolutes. This convergence is reminiscent of the new age movement's attempt of unifying the world as one in its failed "Harmonic Convergence" gatherings in the late 1980s. No doubt this is where these new emerging "prophets" get their inspiration. They didn't invent these ideas themselves
Barry Taylor's mirror as the new Jesus – Peter Ward's "we are god" and the new age's Shirley MacLaine "I am god" – all joining together for the new view of the divinity of man and god is the whole – panentheism.
The general consensus regarding spiritual truth in the secular world is that there's a little truth in every religion and not one faith embodies the whole truth -- at least to those people who are deists or agnostics that think we just can't know. Atheists think all religion is utter nonsense, but they're the minority in America anyway.
The advancement of the new age movement in the secular realm, especially in the area of medicine and philosophy, has permeated secular collective thinking. People by the droves are hungering after anything supernatural or mystical – not in a quest for truth – but a quest for titillation.
The Bible, once held in high esteem in the world, is now seen as just one of many ancient books with no relevance for today. The Gideon Bible is becoming a scarcity in hotel rooms across America. When I asked one innkeeper why there was no Bible in the room he told me it was not politically correct to advance one religious book over others.
The Bible used to be a mainstay in the courts in America, but in many courtrooms it is no longer used for swearing to tell the whole truth. A mere affirmation without a hand on the Bible is now sufficient.
I heard a song on the radio recently that spelled out the secular opinion of Christianity. The male voice sang, "The world is too large for just one religion." America, and the world, has no tolerance for anyone to claim certainty about anything.
Those who believe what the Bible teaches and defend the faith that was once and for all given to the church 2,000 years ago, have been marginalized. They are given labels, depending upon which group is speaking, as heresy hunters, Pharisees, and legalists. This keeps most Christians silent because they don't want to be disliked.
The call today in all streams of Christendom is to allow the secular culture to dictate how we interpret and live out Scripture as those calling ourselves Christian. They say we have to change in order to be relevant and they denounce any who allow the Bible to dictate belief and behavior as dogmatic and backward. The Post-modern theology has no absolutes and the enemy are those who take the Bible literally.
These kinds of ideas could never invade a Bible-believing church with a frontal attack. No, they come in the back door and introduce these ideas in steps so the leaven is incremental. The Bible warns us of this strategy: "For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ" Jude 1:4.
So the question is, Where are they taking us?
A return to idols – iconology;
Celebration of christianized pagan rituals;
Mixture of sacred and profane ideas;
Renouncing of the authority of the Bible for an anything goes tolerance;
Trade in the old stories (of the Bible) for new stories of what God is doing today in all religious traditions;
Spiritism – any and all spiritual experiences are acceptable if they appear positive;
Panentheism – the belief that everything in creation is a part of God's essence;
No doctrines of the fall, redemption, hell in exchange for universalism – all humans are God's people;
Acceptance of the "gay lifestyle" as equal to heterosexual;
All become one and transform the planet into a peaceful place where all religions have truth and celebrate together.
This ecumenical attack on the Word of God is filling a void in the Body of Christ in a time in which a pandemic of lukewarmness has set in. This is due in part to a post-holy-laughter apathy in churches who followed after titillating spiritual experiences that left them empty and unsatisfied when it did not live up to its hype. All the talk of the coming greatest end-times revivals has not happened and so those banking on these coming "moves of God" are left disappointed. They are ready for something new. They like hearing that "God is doing a new thing." What He did in the times of the Old and New Testaments aren't relevant to people today. They want something they can see, hear, taste, smell and touch now. They want something new and now.
Paul ran into this in Athens in Acts 17:16, 21 – "Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols… For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing."
But there is nothing new under the sun. These carnal desires have led God's people into error for thousands of years. These carnal urges caused the Israelites to build a golden calf. These carnal urges motivated the Jewish leaders in Jesus' day to seek after a sign, to which Jesus responded, "It is an evil and perverse generation that seeks after a sign." He directed them back to the writing of the prophets and to the sign of Jonah. New Testament believers are to "walk by faith, and not by sight." But the carnal man can only worship what he can see.
What is emerging is slimy and evil and, for the present time, undefeatable. God has blinded the minds of those who do not love His Word of Truth. The most we can do is rescue a few who stumbled in accidentally and point the way out to them before they are swallowed up and assimilated into the Mother Harlot. She is being formed before our very eyes – "Look up for our redemption draweth nigh!"
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By Kathryn Kopchik
LEWISBURG, Pa. — Acclaimed bluegrass mandolinist and klezmer clarinetist Andy Statman will perform with his Trio on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the Campus Theatre in Lewisburg as part of the American Masterpieces Tour. Statman will perform with Jim Whitney and Larry Eagle.
The performance, presented by the Weis Center for the Performing Arts at Bucknell, is free and open to the public; tickets are not required.
Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. A pre-performance talk will take place from 6:45 to 7:15 p.m.
The New York Times describes Statman's Americana/roots music as "Modern American music with ancient mysteries at the core ..." Statman calls his compositions and performances "spontaneous American-roots music and personal, prayerful hasidic music, by way of avant-garde jazz."
Statman has played with everyone from Izhak Perlman to Jerry Garcia. He has appeared on more than 100 recordings, including 20 under his own name, working with the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Ricky Skaggs and Bela Fleck. A Grammy nominee, he has been the subject of dozens of feature articles, from the New York Times to Billboard to Rolling Stone. He received the 2012 National Heritage Fellowship, America's highest honor in the traditional arts.
Born in 1950 into a long line of cantors, composers, and both classical and vaudeville musicians, Statman grew up in Queens, N.Y. His early musical influences included klezmer records played at family gatherings, Tin Pan Alley and Broadway show tunes, his rabbi in Hebrew school singing Hasidic songs, rock and roll, big band jazz, and classical music. When Statman's older brother started bringing home bluegrass records, Statman took up the guitar and banjo, eventually switching to mandolin under the tutelage of David Grisman.
At age 17, after hearing Albert Ayler, Statman began to study saxophone, which he played in free jazz, funk, rock and Chicago blues bands while expanding his mandolin playing in similar directions. In 1970 he joined the experimental bluegrass group Country Cooking, followed by a stint with David Bromberg's band, and then another experimental group, Breakfast Special.
Statman took up the clarinet and studied Greek, Albanian and Adzerbaijani music. In 1975, he began working with the legendary klezmer clarinetist and NEA National Heritage Fellow Dave Tarras, who wrote a number of melodies for him. Tarras bequeathed four of his clarinets to Statman to carry on his legacy.
In the late 1970s Statman recorded his first albums: "Jewish Klezmer Music", a recording that became a touchstone for the 1970s klezmer revival; and "Flatbush Waltz", a mandolin masterpiece of post-bebop jazz improvisations and ethnically inspired original compositions.
As a clarinetist, Statman began to zero in on the sublimely ecstatic, centuries-old Hasidic melodies that lie at the heart of klezmer music, melodies that were embedded in the religious path he had come to follow. This led to his galvanizing klezmer music with the spiritually oriented jazz of John Coltrane and Albert Ayler and other musics he had explored.
Jim Whitney, who appears in many musical worlds as a bassist, is an original member of the jazz-bluegrass fusion group The Wayfaring Strangers. He has performed with actors Meryl Streep, John Goodman and Philip Seymour Hoffman as a member of the group Parabola under the direction of composer/conductor Carter Burwell.
He has appeared with jazz notables Anthony Braxton, Bill Frisell and Alan Dawson, and worked with bluegrass luminaries Richard Greene, Tim O'Brien, David Grisman and Darol Anger. Also a proficient electric bass player, he appears in the country-rock group Miller's Farm, and is a member of singer/pianist Debbie Deane's soul and groove trio. Whitney has toured extensively, having performed in Europe, Japan, Singapore, Israel, Central America, New Zealand, Canada, and much of the U.S.
Drummer and percussionist Larry Eagle is a founding member of Bruce Springsteen's Sessions Band (which won a Grammy for traditional folk music), and played on R&B/Soul artist John Legend's Grammy-winning second album.
He's played for a Blues Grammy nominee and a Country and Western Grammy nominee, and recorded albums with bluegrass superstar Ricky Skaggs and powerful jazz/soul singer Lizz Wright.
Eagle has performed on The Tonight Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Good Morning America, PBS, the BBC and an ice-breaking Baltic Sea ferry out of Naantali, Finland.
This tour engagement of Andy Statman is made possible by a grant from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation's American Masterpieces program with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The next performance in the Weis Center's 2013-14 Series is a free performance by jazz vocalist Catherine Russell and her Trio on Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Weis Center Lobby. The performance is free and tickets are not required.
For more information about this performance contact Lisa Leighton, marketing and outreach director, at 570-577-3727 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
For more information about the Weis Center for the Performing Arts, go to bucknell.edu/WeisCenter or facebook.com/WeisCenter


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Shot on the original location of the classic Russ Meyer film Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Director Carlos Batts revisions the original film into a surreal sex odyssey. Three Dance Divas – April (April Flores), Cholita (LA Cholita) and Boom Boom (Bunny de La Cruz) – get lost during their cross country dance tour. In the desolate nowhere lives a deranged and sassy dance cult lead by Pa Fuschia Flores the self proclaimed Diva of the Desert. In a jealous rage Pa Fuschai declares her lost friends her mortal enemies and vows to destroy them in a desert wrestling match.
Discover the dolls in residence behind the red door. Adult superstar April Flores is a big, beautiful, porcelain plaything who likes to dress up and get down. Each room she explores inspires an erotic encounter. Queer artist Syd Blakovich fuels her passion for fashion and feet. She experiences ecstasy with prolific performer Ashley Blue and her titillating toys. April and plump porn star Kelly Shibari cast off their beautiful ballet costumes to indulge in each other. The mysterious Matador shows April what an "action" figure can do. And for the Fellini-esque finale, she gives the paparazzi a sensational solo show!
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We're hearing lots of rumblings about Google Voice issues with Android 4.2, starting with the early Nexus 4 review units that went out, but that could've been blamed on pre-release software. Well it seems that the final 4.2 software has the same bits that make the Google Voice app crash as well. Going to the Google Voice app, hitting the button to create a new message and attempting to add a recipient causes a complete force close of the app -- every single time.
Now, this is likely an issue in Google Voice itself, which if we had to choose would be the preferred place to find the error simply because it can be updated quickly in the Play Store. Its still unfortunate to see an update completely break one of Google's own first-party apps. Hopefully the fix is coming soon. In the meantime, if you're a heavy Google Voice user you may want to hold off on that 4.2 update for your Galaxy Nexus.


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Online Extras: June 2009 Issue
Here are the Online Extras for the June 2009 issue.
* To view a video of Marc Spagnuolo using his favorite pushsticks and featherboards, click here.
* To download full size patterns of the Deck/Dock Chair leg profiles in PDF format, click here.
* To view a video showing a simple method for insetting a base plate in the top of the Router Table, click here.
* To view a video about materials used in plane construction, click here.
* To view a video demonstration of tapering legs at the jointer, click here.
* To download a SketchUp model of the Joiner's Tool Chest project, click here.
* To read editor Christopher Schwarz's blog entries about Roy Underhill's new school, click here.


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Subsea 7 has signed a contract with Royal IHC to design and build a new, high-specification reel lay vessel capable of installing complex rigid flowlines including pipe-in-pipe systems.
IHC says that, based on the ratio between top pipe tension and payload to displacement, the US$300 million vessel will be one of the most cost effective vessels to enter the market.
Royal IHC has already delivered eight vessels to Subsea 7. Delivery of the vessel is planned for early 2020.
The vessel will replace the Seven Navica, which is expected to be retired from reel-lay operations in due course. Subsea 7 bought the Seven Navica in 2008 for $62 million.
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It's possible that a general would have revolutionary ideas and have R&D find a way to support them. But for a scientist to just happen to build a robot on a whim (which must cost a lot on R&D) and then look for customers? Unlikely.
First comes demand, and then come supply.
|2011-09-18, 08:42
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I believe Subaru is faster... on the ground. Nanoha is probably more agile, though, and she was also carrying Teana at the time.
Not to mention, it's a common plot point in various shows. I can remember Lex Luthor developing weapons to sell to governments and criminal elements. So it's something I can buy. Corporations are essentially sociopathic entities who care for nothing but profit, and the CEOs are generally sociopathic people who are willing to step on anyone and not care what happens to anyone else, all in the name of profit.
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R&D doesn't wok that way. Higher-ups would never finance a project unless there's a prospect in it, so there's no way the robot would have gone past "doodles someone made at lunch" phase, let alone prototype and testing.
And then there's the fact that StrikerS showed that Gadget Drones are illegal and the Raptors are essentially a step-up. Putting that much trust in a project so risky is suicide, and like you said the corporations love profit, something a risk-taking project does not guarantee.
A more plausible idea would be that someone:
1. Made the revolutionary concept design
2. Find a potential buyer, probably disillusioned high-ranking officers like Graham or Gaiz who're less concerned with legality and controversy as long as the end justifies them
3. Ask the corporation to give a green light, knowing that at least there's someone in the military who will buy them, securing an early market
4. Research and Development
But even then the theory feels rather weak when you realized that many black markets sells surplus military supplies, bought when a great threat like the Cold War materialized only to become a burden when it ended, instead of rare ultra high-tech weapons.
Making completely new weapons is waaaaaaaaaay more expensive than modifying existing ones, with most of its money burned out on R&D. That's why with the threat of a great World War disappearing many high-tech arms research got the ax and the ones already existing got their purchase amount drastically reduced (see F-22 Raptor) while old but battle-proven beasts gets rejuvenation and upgrade programs.
It's mildly more sensible to sell them to war-torn Orussia because there's more market there than the relatively peaceful Midchilda, and selling them strictly to special forces isn't too profitable. Mildly.
Just because it's a common plot point doesn't make it *ahem* "realistic", a term I remember you like.
|2011-09-18, 09:53
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The research for creating people and cyborgs from a genetic template does exist, perhaps confiscated, perhaps not. Between that and all of the gadget drones models and magic and research stolen from MIT, making a humanoid model shouldn't be ground breaking, although I would grant it would be a bit close to the idea of the Mariage for any kind of public comfort.
Although the time factor has potential to be mildly interesting. Is this a new project, or one that's been worked on for a long time, at least as long as the manpower shortage has lasted in the TSAB?
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Indeed, when you're leaving Ixpellia alive, it would be a better idea NOT to tell people that another Lost Logia was at work, but just some random terrorists that all died in the fire.
...I'd launch into criticisizing SSX here, but this isn't the thread for it.
But even if the public honestly don't know about or remember the Mariage, they're going to remember Gadget Drones and Combat Cyborgs.
Combat Android Drones is just too close for comfort. Especially when you give machines life-like human faces. That's just creepy on top of frightening.
This whole business is nonsensical.
|2011-09-18, 11:25
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Before I continue, I want to note that Raising Heart detects Deville disappearing, but he doesn't immediately reappear. He only pops back in AFTER Nanoha's fortress shields have finished spreading out in all directions.
This suggests at least three possibilities.
1) Deville teleports outside of Raising Heart's range, scries Nanoha's location (or recieves such information from the other Huckebein) to wait for an opening, and then teleports in to attack. But this could not be called a Short Jump.
2) Deville enters the dimensional sea and then waits there until he spots an opening, before re-entering realspace and striking. I'd think that should be impossible to survive without spaceship or spacestation, but the Huckebein are tough and he's the Big Guy. But in any case, it's not the speed or range of the teleport that should be amazing.
3) It just naturally takes people some time to re-appear after teleporting; perhaps even an amount of time proportional to the distance they covered? But if so, Deville could NOT reliably use this trick against a moving opponent, and so MUST use this against an opponent he hopes will stay in one place long enough.
The only other way would require the power to observe realspace from dimensional space AND the power to alter his destination in mid-teleport.
Have we ever seen Fate overwhelming anyone with a flurry of close-range attacks too fast to defend against?
No, Fate's great speed is only in movement. In rushing up into (or out of) melee range and circling around to where her opponent's defense is weakest.
But simply turning around to block a strike coming from behind takes much less speed than flanking someone. You're simply turning on an axis, rather than going around someone.
Case in point; Fate DIDN'T block Deville's strike. Check the panel again: Deville is still positioned between Fate and Nanoha, rather than Fate interposing herself between them. That means Deville had to abort his attack against Nanoha to turn and block Fate's sword. (Which further demonstrates that he has adequate reaction/defense speed; possibly better than Nanoha's, because he practices for close-range engagement rather than long-range.)
Deville also immediately demonstrates another thing affecting their battle: power. Everytime their blades connect, Deville can disrupt Fate's combination by THROWING her away with a swing of his blade.
Fate responds with a hit-and-run that avoids his blade, scoring damage without taking a hit herself. He was unprepared for the speed of her attack, because he thought she was a teleporter like him until that strike.
Deville then lets Nanoha leave, while he watches Fate, not engaging.
He then tries to talk his way out of the fight. When that fails, he immediately resorts to Reacting. He doesn't even try to match her speed, he just straight-away switches to a form where she can't hurt him, but ONE good strike from him will end her.
The fight cuts away, and it cuts back in to show Fate blocking a hit from Deville and getting hurtled away by the force. Deville shows absolutely no damage. Fate arrests her momentum, but doesn't move to re-engage. Her expression is grim. Deville makes no move to attack.
The fight cuts away, and when we come back, they're still in that stalemate (or in another one).
At no point do we see Deville attempting to match speed with Fate. He just turned into someone too tough to hurt and too strong to mess with. That last engagement we saw may have simply been Deville defending himself / counterattacking, because he wasn't bothering to try and attack someone he couldn't chase.
And as I said, reaction speed and striking speed are different from movement speed. Fate is the fastest flier by far, but that doesn't mean she has the same dramatic advantage in the other sorts of speed.
Otherwise, Nanoha would not have been able to defend against her flash-moving flanking attacks in the first season. Which Nanoha was very definitely capable of doing.
And why are we even assuming that Deville is slower than Nanoha at flight? It could just be that he's as fast as she is, but he doesn't have any projectile attacks. He's got an axe, and he specializes in melee attacks. Even with Nanoha-level speed, there's no way to get into range to hit Fate without matching her speed.
Or teleporting. Which we don't see him do against her.
1a) Subaru can try breaking her speed with Mach Calibur, but her only point of friction is with the ground. Too much speed and too much breaking, her upper mass will swing forward over her center of gravity, her contact with the ground will break, and suddenly she's hurtling forward.
1b) Nanoha, using the power of magical flight, creates and controls her own momentum without needing friction with any surface. Further, all of her momentum is generated from her center of gravity, keeping her from being flipped over from acceleration or breaking.
Not only can she simply break in mid-air (by stopping her efforts to fly forward and starting an effort to fly backwards, against her forward momentum), but she can also generate momentum to fly in any other direction to begin turning. Especially by simply turning her entire body around on its axis, pointing herself in the new direction she wants, and applying a Flash Move to head off in that new direction.
The only possible issue might be G-Forces and how much a Barrier Jacket can do to counteract those. Obviously, a combat cyborg will handle this problem better, but it's not going to be because of rollerblading.
2a) Subaru can presumably leap off the ground to plant her rollerblades on a wall, then either race along the wall before turning to the ground, or leap off again. If she's not going too fast, she can also hand-stand off a wall, especially if she uses Revolver Knuckle. Her cyborg limbs and joints would be better able to absorb the shocks and generate kick-offs than a normal human.
2b) Nothing prevents an aerial mage from doing the same damn thing. With air breaking to reduce the shock of landing on a surface, and a Flash Move to enhance the kick-off force, Nanoha should have been able to pull the same tricks. And a barrier jacket does a lot to prevent scraping your hands when hand-standing off a wall at high-speed.
Again, the only possible issue is G-Forces, and the solution would sooner be "combat cyborg" than "rollerblades".
Which, yes, COULD mean that Subaru can afford to go faster in tight, sharply twisting corridors than Nanoha. But the flying Numbers should be able to do it EVEN FASTER.
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The same would only be natural of regular teleports.
|2011-09-18, 11:41
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Oh, and I editted my post a few times, so please check it again for new bits.
EDIT: Wait, if that's the case, then a Short Jump might refer to shortness of TIME rather than distance!
Maybe it was option 1 -- teleport far out of range, scry, then teleport back in at a crucial moment!
|2011-09-18, 11:53
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Yeah, exactly. And this is going by Bureau magitech standards--earlier they had concluded that the "Masked Men" were using Bureau equipment to hack them, so I'd assume they'd figure the same about their Dimensional Transfers.
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Given how they displayed the transfer of the defense program in A's, teleportation in Nanoha is likely some form of wormhole traveling. A shortcut, but not instantaneous travel. Short distances only make it seem instantaneous due to its speed.
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That is, they were assuming that the Masked Man was using Bureau-owned, military-grade technology to assist his teleports TO and FROM uninhabited worlds.
I'm assuming that teleporter technology requires you to start from a teleporter-machine or end up at a machine, rather than a machine being able to help you start from one wilderness and end up at a different wilderness.
If that assumption is correct, then the TSAB assumed the Masked Man used a teleport-machine to help bring him back from the planet Nanoha was on, and then to send him TO the planet that Fate was on.
Two trips, not necessarily in a straight line, with a total ETA of 20 minutes.
But how much of that time is spent in transit, and how much of that time is necessary to simply calculate and execute the spell?
It didn't take Vita long to escape once given the chance, but all she needed to do was hop over to another, closer world before making her way back to Earth, to quickly evade pursuit and NOT lead the TSAB right back to her home.
But the question of natural time-delays in teleportation does explain why it should be a little more note-worthy that Deville executed a Short Jump rather than a Flash Move.
Normally, a person could not teleport into a battle to execute an attack in someone's blind spot, since the teleport should take long enough that there's no garauntee the target is still there when you arrive.
But Deville apparently has a special faculty with finishing teleports quickly, if not instantaneously. There's no evidence yet that he can START them quickly, especially if he needs to disappear out of range first, but he definitely has the finishing speed necessary to use teleportation for a reliable ambush attack.
Maybe there's a trade-off between the time it takes to finish a normal jump and the time it takes to start a Short Jump?
If there was no delay in start-up, how would his tactics change? Against Nanoha, it made sense to let her react to his disappearance long enough to spread her shields out, no there's no change.
Against Fate, we don't even see him try. As I said, we never see him try to engage her offensively; he tries to talk his way out, and then he Reacts. Then, for all that we can see, he remains still and waits for her to close in, at which point he counter-attacks.
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Intant teleportation do exist, and we didn't even know how Deville's works, we don't see him make any preparation, plus, his teleport abilities aren't a "magical" powers so it's unlikely we will see Deville chanting arias and make handsigns. The guy just go BAMF! an reappears, we didn't see Deville make any long distance teleport and he apparently can make eye-contact with Nanoha from his point when he K.O.ed Isis(instant teleporters usually can't teleport long distances or without making having knowledge of the place they're attempting to re-appear).
Exactly, we hardly seen what happened, and you pointed out the thrut, without his short jump the best Deville can do against Fate is turtling and trying to counter one of her attacks.And as I said, reaction speed and striking speed are different from movement speed. Fate is the fastest flier by far, but that doesn't mean she has the same dramatic advantage in the other sorts of speed.
Otherwise, Nanoha would not have been able to defend against her flash-moving flanking attacks in the first season. Which Nanoha was very definitely capable of doing.[/QUOTE]
I remind you that Nanoha was utterly secrewed by Fate's speed the first two times, it was only when she cashed on her defensive power and tricky shoot tricks(she isn't as fast as Fate but she can make her bullets as fast as her) that she managed to even thing. And Signum herself admited is pretty difficult to react to Fate's attack-speed and is taking some effort to find an opening. It's kind of a similar situation(direct hits from were able to send Fate backwards and concentrates on her reflexes and defenses to trying to catch Fate when she tries to ambush her). And we're taling about someone that is probably orders of maginute faster than Deville strike-speed wise(we already know that Signum is at least faster than Cypha).
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There is also the fact that Mach Caliber was designed for those sorts of environments, while RH was not.
It could simply be a matter of 'Nanoha and RH are used to much higher speeds where she needs a few hundreds meters to break turns, not a handful, and trying to improvise right now isn't the best of ideas'.
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|2011-09-18, 13:35
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Raptors on their own look kinda ridiculous with that helmet, yes. But let's remember that Raptors are designed to use AEC equipment as well... so they might look a lot better with, say, the Fortress armor equipped; it might help even out the helmet design.
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Well, maybe the out-story intention is to further de-humanize the Raptors in order to not question the heroes for blasting them(that is, if the theory about them becoming an opposing army became true of course xDU).
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Popular Science has its gallery of the "Most Amazing Science Images of 2010" posted now.
There are 72 images in the gallery, and many live up to the billing; it even makes navigating the gallery one picture at a time a little less annoying than the usual interminable Internet gallery. Robots, E.Coli, nanoparticles, bioluminescent creatures, the mummy of King Tut's grandmother, a map of the U.S. made of slime mold, Eyjafjallajokull (oh, come on, surely you remember Eyjafjallajokull), a blast-test dummy getting its head blown off by fireworks…. Some are pretty standard shots of momentous occasions of the year, like the oil spill. Others are, well, more awesome. You can waste a lot of time with these pictures.
So go do that. And then practice saying "Eyjafjallajokull." You never know when you might need to say it again.