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Raleigh Schickel, Manager of uShip Development and self-proclaimed videographer, created two renderings of the Android and iOS team's development efforts of uShip's first native mobile applications. He used Gource, an open source project, to create these visualizations of the uShip code base (https://code.google.com/p/gource/). Gource is a software version control visualization tool that shows the revision and commit history of a code base. According to the Gource website, "Software projects are displayed…as an animated tree with the root directory of the project at its centre. Directories appear as branches with files as leaves. Developers can be seen working on the tree at the times they contributed to the project."
Collin Bass, uShip's resident DJ, added a mix of space-inspired music to guide you through the coding journey.
Why Visualize Software Development?
It's mind-blowingly cool! Renderings or visualizations can help you analyze and uncover patterns and trends in the data. The outcome? Visualizations can help cut time, costs, and make your development strategy more efficient. The analysis helps decrease ramp-up time on similar projects. The analysis also helps engineering understand and manage large software systems more effectively.
Android Visualization
The one that started it all…. The mobile development team made decisions about how to handle next generation applications by running a discovery period. This rendering shows those decisions with an additional 6 months of changes. Once the decision was made to go native, the in-house Android team worked with a head start. Notice in the Android video, there's a distinct section where the entire visualization is wiped out and a new formation appears. That change marks the time when the Android team's discovery period ended and they started native Android mobile app development. They deleted the code base from the discovery period and started fresh from that point.
July 2012 – May 2013.
iOS Visualization
The native iOS app wasn't far behind… The mobile team then brought the dedicated iOS team on board. The delay between the Android and iOS projects explains why the length and patterns of development of the two videos are slightly different. The raw footage is much longer in the Android video. Note that both videos have been sped up to fit in the period of time when discovery, development, testing, and launch took place.
January – May 2013.
Lessons Learned
We sat down with mobile team leads to glean the lessons learned from developing the company's first native mobile apps. These professionals come with years of mobile application development experience. They share their insights on building a successful mobile app for your office in a lean and iterative way.
Matthew de Anda, Android Developer
- Timebox research during the discovery period. For example, the mobile team looked at several solutions from a development strategy standpoint. The solutions they ruled out were based on the limitations of the framework, libraries, and technologies. They looked at each solution based on the need for the following:
- a great user experience
- cost
- scalability
- maintenance
- ability to reuse and share business logic and code between Android and iOS development
- Prototype the solutions. The mobile team used Mono (http://www.mono-project.com/), an open source C# platform from (http://xamarin.com/), to see if they could build a framework to reuse logic and code for both native and Android and iOS app development. They discovered that since the UI was vastly different, they could not share that portion. Even though the business logic was shared, the UI had to have separate code to translate native concepts and standards. In addition, Mono had a steep learning curve, was difficult to maintain, and not enough information was available for research and implementation. The team chose the solution in the discovery period mainly because it was in C#, the programming language developers use in the main uShip.com product, with hopes that the mobile development could be shared among existing developers. In addition, other solutions seemed to be more expensive.
- Discovery and Prototyping may help you decide to Go Native. After the discovery and prototyping periods, the mobile team decided that building native mobile applications would deliver the best user experience.
- Native App Development by Dogfooding the API. The success of native app development which relies on consuming the API depends in close communication between all development teams. If your development team is developing the API for the mobile app, make sure that both the business and technical needs are described clearly so that both parties understand what is needed. Dogfooding the API has the benefit of internal consumption contributing to iterative design that makes the API easier to consume externally. In addition, the API and mobile app can quickly adapt based on Agile development when feedback loops are quickly closed.
- Plan Ahead and Speak Up to Stay in Sync. Building a client-server solution in an almost parallel manner requires a high level of communication between the mobile and API development teams. uShip addressed this issue by having the native team leads to closely plan ahead of the product pipeline to map out an interface for the API team to review and modify based on proper RESTful conventions.
Samuel Downs, Senior iOS Developer
- Each iterative version should have clearly defined goals for the release. Stakeholders can work together to communicate clear goals in the beginning so that teams have time to flesh out the implementation. Fleshing out the business cases 1st helps product managers and developers properly scope the work.
- Start with an 80% prototype to nail down the foundation or major core app functions. The prototype should include screenshots and working mock-ups that you can play and re-play. To nail down 80% the core functions, you get a feel for how the app will work and workflows using this method. When you play and replay the mock-ups, you can accurate test behaviors and real context. Then, when you go to build the app, you'll have de ja vu when using the actual app because you've worked and reworked details and flows in the beginning.
- Keep the feedback loops small and specific. After coding and testing, the changes for each revision should be minimal and not major changes. Each revision is iterative and are large useful chunks of the minimum viable product.


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A couple of weeks ago there were some fliers about for extras casting for the new avengers film due out in May 2015, so out if curiosity I decided to come down and see what was happening.
Came across the below sets for the avengers movie movie below.
As you can see there are green screens and you can see the Avengers 'A' I tried to get in a little closer below.
They had extras running around in what I would describe as S.H.I.E.L.D agent training gear.
And not only that but saw this lovely bike outside, which I can only assume is Captain America's!
As they were obviously filming indoors we left the throng of people watching the outdoors set to where cap's bike was, which was the best decision we made as within 30 mins we saw Chris Evans in full Cap get up, Elizabeth Olsen, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and B.J Britt (from Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, who was checking out the bike below), we also saw a Thor look a like and a Robert Downey Jnr double.
We left as they were setting up for the night shoot, but it was very exciting to Cap in the flesh and watch how a production comes together and the detail involved.
P.S – I would have tried to get pictures of the cast leaving but the security were right behind me, and very strict with a no photo rule.

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ATLANTA (AP) -- Merging eight of Georgia's public colleges will likely involve layoffs, the elimination of some academic programs and name changes at the long established institutions.
That's according to documents released to The Associated Press on Wednesday as part of an open records request. The documents from the University System of Georgia show some administrative positions and overlapping programs may be cut as the institutions merge over the next year.
The documents also show some faculty and staff may be transferred to another campus and at least one campus chief, Middle Georgia College President Michael Stoy, will lose his title once the campus merges with Macon State College.
Chancellor Hank Huckaby has declined to say how much money will be saved by the mergers or how many jobs may be eliminated.
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Summer-Fall 2002: Finalizing list of participants.
February 1, 2003: One-page statements due from participants. See details below.
February 21, 2003: Participants congregate in Durham, North Carolina, late afternoon. Dinner reception and keynote address. See Agenda.
February 22, 2003: Workshop morning and afternoon. Dinner receptions. See Agenda.
February 23, 2003: Participants depart Durham, North Carolina. See initial Project Summaries in password-protected directory.
March 22, 2003: Follow-up statements due from participants.
June 22, 2003: Projects due from participants.
Project summary:
This workshop brings together specialists on Islamist movements, specialists on social network analysis, and leading figures in the study of social movements in order to 1) increase communication among these fields and 2) produce a volume of papers co-authored by teams across these specialty areas, tentatively entitled Networks of Islamist Activism. For too long the study of Islamist movements has developed separately from streams of work in network analysis and social movement studies, with only occasional glimpses across this divide. Over the past three years, the organizers and other scholars have attempted to bridge the divide through conference panels, small conferences, and informal communications; this project seeks to push these efforts to a more ambitious level, with more intense intellectual engagement among the different fields and the concrete outcome of a published volume. The atrocities of September 11, 2001, have only added to the urgency of this collaboration, as social scientists have recognized the need for greater scholarly attention to Islamist movements.
Project description:
Bridging Fields
This project seeks to bring together scholars in three overlapping fields:
1. Islamist movements. We define this field as the study of movements seeking to Islamicize society, either through changing mores and practices or through establishing Islamic states via democratic or violent means.
2. Social movement studies. We define this field as the study of collective behavior, organized efforts for social change, revolutions, and contentious politics.
3. Social network analysis. We define this field as the study of the formal properties of interactions among nodes, be they individuals or collectivities.
The field of social movement studies has drawn increasingly in recent years on social network analysis, and the field of Islamist movements has begun to draw on social movement studies. Yet we feel that these three influential fields within sociology have not engaged with one another to the degree that disciplinary progress and current events require. We propose to hold a workshop series that will allow this engagement to occur.
As academics who have pursued the study of Islamist movements for years, we feel a bit queasy justifying our proposal with reference to the atrocities of September 11, 2001, and the global spotlight that it focused on our area of study. To be sure, the topic of Islamist networks now has a resonance that it did not have several months ago. But the intellectual justification for this project does not rely on the misdeeds of al-Qaida, and is not limited to terrorist networks.
Rather, this project grows out of the recognition, several years in the making, that Islamist movements share network features that would benefit from increased cross-talk with social movement theorists and network analysts. This cross-talk has been minimal over the past quarter century, during which time Islamist movements have received significant academic attention. Few of the major works on Islamist movements make any reference to social movement and network analysis, and Islamist cases are under-represented in the social movement and network literature. While the Iranian Revolution figures in some theoretical work in these fields, there has been little recognition of Islamism as the most active transnational social movement of the past two decades.
Beginning in the late 1990s, scholars studying Islamist movements and social movements in general have increasingly sought to generate cross-talk. The organizers have individually or collectively been involved in three such projects: a conference on Islamic movements held at New York University, a book project based in France, and a series of panels organized by the second applicant at the annual meetings of the Middle East Studies Association. This move toward collaboration has come from two directions.
From one side, several specialists on Islamist activism have called for increased theoretical and methodological rigor in the study of this subject. In particular, there is a movement to fully incorporate the study of Islamism in social movement theory debates. Such an approach would avail itself of the rich array of concepts, frameworks, and research traditions from social movement theory. Whereas most publications on Islamist movements assume that a particular set of grievances, translated into religious idioms and symbols, engenders mobilization, various generations of social movement theory and concomitant debates have demonstrated that other factors are inextricably linked to mobilization patterns, including resource availability, framing resonance, and shifts in the political opportunity structure. By engaging social movement theory, social scientists have developed more sophisticated tools of analysis that will aid in the understanding of the dynamics of Islamist contention.
Within this general push toward social movement theory, many Islamic activism specialists believe their unique contribution to theory-building lies in the area of networks. Scholars have shown remarkable adroitness in studying the intricate and complex networks of social life in Muslim societies, and this skill has been extended to the study of Islamist activism. Through interview and ethnographic methodologies, a number of scholars have delineated the structure, dynamics, and consequences of Islamist networks for society and the polity. The result is a growing body of research that details the intricacies of social networks in Islamist contention and broadens our understanding of micro-level processes.
From another side, social movement theorists have increasingly expressed interest in studying non-Western contention. Dominated by empirical research in the United States and Western Europe, social movement theory-building has been historically contextualized by liberal democratic polities and Western societies, thus narrowing the generalizability of findings and conclusions, as leading scholars in the field have noted. The universe of cases expanded during the 1990s to incorporate less open polities and non-Western societies, including Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Asia. Yet, with the exception of the participants in this project, almost the only Islamist movement to gain significant attention in the social movement field has been the Iranian Revolution, which is in many respects unique among Islamist movements (the Shii theology, the mosque network, the rapid revolutionary success).
September 11 has broadened this interest. Charles Tillys well-known social movement list-server, a cyberspace vehicle for students of contentious politics, including social movement theorists, devoted extensive discussion to al-Qaida, struggling to render radical Islamism intelligible within the established frameworks of contentious politics. Given the central role of networks in al-Qaida, much of this interest is couched in the language of network theory and analysis.
Though rooted in different research traditions, social movement theory and research on Islamist activism find common interest in the role of social networks. We seek to build on this shared interest by offering opportunities for collaboration that will draw together these areas of inquiry. This endeavor provides a forum for the growing community of scholars interested in synthesizing social movement theory and empirical work on Islamic activism with theories and methodologies of network analysis.
The Workshop Format
The workshop will involve up to 20 participants, half of whom are specialists on Islamist activism who have utilized social movement theory in their work or wish to do so. One quarter of the participants will be social movement theorists selected for their interest in expanding social movement theory to the realm of Islamist activism and their prior work on the role of social networks in contentious politics. This includes social movement theorists who have published on recruitment networks, network mobilization under conditions of repression, networks of shared meaning, and informal institutions. One quarter of the participants will be network theorists selected for their interest in engaging with Islamist movements and their prior work on the theory and methodology of network analysis.
The workshop will provide an opportunity for intensive group immersion in discussions about networks and Islamist activism to explore not only how the analysis of social networks in contentious politics can provide theoretical leverage for research on Islamist groups, but how the study of Islamism can help inform social movement theory as well. By bringing together social movement theorists and specialists on Islamist activism, the workshop facilitates creative engagement from different perspectives to formulate an agenda for research on Islamist networks. The participants will develop statements (one page maximum) to be posted on this web-site with password protection three weeks in advance of the workshop, addressing the following issues:
One-page preliminary statements (click here for statements):The morning session of the workshop will begin with a discussion of these one-page statements, including patterns, common understandings about the issues, and possible directions of inquiry. The group will then break up into paired teams composed of an Islamic movement specialist and a social movement or network theory specialist, who will brainstorm possible collaborations: jointly authored articles for an edited volume, tentatively titled Networks of Islamic Activism. After an hour, the pairs will report back to the whole group for discussion and input. After lunch, the group will again break into pairs to examine possible resources for their proposed collaboration (including literature, data sources, and the like). Each pair will create an outline to present to the entire group (PowerPoint, overheads, or other hardcopy presentations). The late afternoon will be devoted to these presentations and further group discussion. A dinner will be held that evening, possibly with a keynote speaker who will address the relationship between the social sciences and Islamic studies. See initial Project Summaries in password-protected directory.
- What do social scientists already know about Islamist networks? A brief list of key references should be included.
- What should social scientists know about Islamist networks (that is, what research is still needed)?
- What might the study of Islamist networks, social movement theory, and network analysis offer one another?
Toward a Finished Product
The structure is intended to create a collaborative atmosphere where the pairs can draw upon the expertise, insights, and suggestions of all the workshop participants. As pairs work on their research and papers, the password-protected web site and a list-serve can be used as fora to discuss ongoing work, seek advice from others, and communicate other related concerns.
In order to maintain momentum, the pairs will issue a one-page progress report and timetable to the group, in electronic format, one month after the workshop (March 22). Drafts of the pairs' chapters will be due two months after that date (June 22). The idea is to move as efficiently as possible from brainstorming to a finished product, that is, the edited volume. Through these relationships and the edited book, the impact of the collaboration will reach diverse audiences and encourage new, more effective, approaches to the study of Islamism that combine theoretical and methodological sophistication with deep empirical understanding and experience. We believe that this project is an important step toward more rigorous understandings about Islamic activism, something which is particularly important given the superficial treatment of the topic by the press and others since September 11, 2001.
Confirmed participants:
|Jon Anderson
|Anthropology, Catholic University
|New media networks in the Middle East and elsewhere
|Janine Clark
|Political Science, Guelph University
|Islamist movements in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen
|Kathleen Carley
|Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
|Network analysis
|Jeff Goodwin
|Sociology, New York University
|Sociology of revolutions
|Mohammed Hafez
|Political Science, University of Missouri, Kansas City
|Islamist movements in Algeria and elsewehre
|Dave Knoke
|Sociology, University of Minnesota
|Network analysis
|Charles Kurzman
|Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
|Islamist movements in Iran and elsewhere
|Paul Lubeck
|Sociology, University of California-Santa Cruz
|Islamist movements in northern Nigeria and elsewhere
|Ann Mische
|Sociology, Rutgers University
|Network analysis of social movements in Brazil
|Glenn Robinson
|Political Science, Naval Postgraduate School
|Islamist movements in Palestine and Jordan
|Maryjane Osa
|Sociology, Northwestern University
|Social movements
|Jillian Schwedler
|Political Science, University of Maryland-College Park
|Islamist movements in Jordan and elsewhere
|Diane Singerman
|Political Science, American University
|Islamist movements in Egypt and elsewhere
|Sarah Soule
|Sociology, University of Arizona
|Social movements
|Doug White
|Anthropology, University of California-Irvine
|Network analysis
|Quintan Wiktorowicz
|Political Science, Rhodes College
|Islamist movements in Jordan, U.K., and elsewhere
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Skip to comments.Atheist Professors Near-Death Experience in Hell Left Him Changed
Posted on 03/13/2012 6:33:56 PM PDT by sreastman
Atheist Professors Near-Death Experience in Hell Left Him Changed
by Mark Ellis, FaithIssues, Godreports
In some near-death experiences, people report they were drawn toward the light. But in this horrifying near-death experience for an atheist art professor, he was drawn into the darkness of hell, which dramatically altered the course of his life.
I was a double atheist, says Howard Storm, who became a tenured art professor at Northern Kentucky University by age 27. I was a know-it-all college professor, and universities are some of the most closed-minded places there are, he notes.
On the last day of a three-week European art tour he led, his group had returned to their hotel in Paris after a visit to the artist Delacroixs home and studio. As Howard stood in his room with his wife and another student, suddenly he screamed and dropped to the floor in agony.
I had a perforation of the small stomach, known as the duodenum, he recalls. At first, Howard thought he was shot, and he glanced around the room to see if he could spot a smoking gun. As he writhed in pain on the ground, kicking and screaming, his wife called for a doctor.
They said I needed surgery immediately, Howard says. Its like having a burst appendix. I was told that if they dont get to it within five hours, youre probably going to die.
Howard had the misfortune of a falling ill on a Saturday in a country with socialized medicine, and no doctor could be found. French doctors do seven surgeries a week, and after they do the seven surgeries, they take the weekend off, he discovered.
They placed him on a bed without sheets or a pillow and offered no pain medication. He waited in the room for 10 hours. I was just lying there going south, Howard says. Meanwhile, intestinal contents were leaking into his abdominal cavity, which would soon lead to peritonitis, septic shock and certain death.
At 8:30 PM a nurse came in and said they were still unable to find a doctor, but they would try to find one the next day, Sunday.
I had been struggling very hard to stay alive, but when she said there was no doctor, I knew it was time to stop fighting, Howard says.
Yet the thought of death scared him. I was terrified of dying because it meant lights out, the end of the story, he notes. It seemed horrible that at 38 years-old, when I felt powerful and successful in my life, it would all come to an end in such a ridiculously pitiful way.
Howard made an impassioned farewell to his wife, and told her to tell their friends and the rest of his family goodbye. Then he lost consciousness.
It wasnt long after he lost consciousness that he had a very unusual out-of-body experience, and found himself standing next to his bed, looking at himself lying there. As he stood there, he noticed he didnt feel the pain in his stomach. He felt more alive than ever, and his senses seemed more heightened than usual.
He tried to communicate with his wife and another man in the room, but they didnt respond, which frustrated him. I was glad I didnt have the pain, but also I was very confused and disturbed by the situation.
I saw my body lying on the bed, but I refused to believe it was me. How could that be me if I was standing there, he wondered.
Suddenly he heard people outside the room calling for him by name. They spoke English, without a French accent, which seemed strange, because everyone in the hospital either spoke French or heavily accented English.
Come with us, they said. Hurry up, lets go.
Howard went to the doorway. Are you from the doctor? he asked. I need to have surgery. Im sick and Ive been waiting a long time.
We know all about you, one said. Weve been waiting for you. Its time for you to go. Hurry up.
Howard left the room and started to walk with them down a long hallway, which was very dimly lit almost dingy. They took me on a very long journey through a grey space that got increasingly darker and darker, he recalls.
They walked a long time, and Howard wondered why he was not tired when he had just suffered the worst day of his life.
Where are we going? Howard asked. How come its taking so long? What is the doctors name?
Shut up, one said. Be quiet, another said. Dont ask questions.
Howards fear and apprehension grew at the same time he lost trust in his guides. Finally it was so dark I was terrified and I said, Im not going any farther. I want to go back.
Youre almost there, one replied.
Howard dug in his heels. Im not going any farther, he said firmly.
His guides began to push and pull at him. Howard fought back, but he was horribly outnumbered.
We had a big fight and the fight turned into them annihilating me, which they did slowly and with much relish, he says. Mostly they were biting and tearing at me. This went on for a long time. They did other things to humiliate and violate me which I dont talk about.
When Howard was no longer amusing to them, he collapsed on the ground, ripped apart, unable to move.
He lay there motionless for a few moments, completely spent. Then he was surprised by a small voice inside his head that said, Pray to God.
He thought, I dont pray. I dont even believe in God.
Then he heard the voice a second time, Pray to God.
But I wouldnt know how to pray even if I wanted to pray, he thought. Whose voice was this, he wondered? It sounded like his voice, but the words were completely foreign to his own thinking.
Then he heard the voice a third time repeat the same message. His mind drifted back to his days in Sunday school as a child. I tried to remember things I memorized when I was very young, he says. He struggled to think of something he could pray.
Then he managed to blurt out, The Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want
When the people around him heard his attempt to pray, they became enraged. There is no God and nobody can hear you, they cried, along with other obscenities. If you keep praying we will really hurt you.
But Howard noticed something curious. The more he prayed and began to mention God, the more they backed away from him.
Emboldened, he began to shout out bits and pieces of the Lords Prayer, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, and God Bless America. Finally, he was screaming any fragments of Gods truth he could muster from the moldy recesses of his memory bank.
It seemed to work! Even in the darkness, he could tell they had fled, but not too far away.
As he lay there, Howard began to review his life. I came to the conclusion I led a crummy life and I had gone down the sewer pipe of the universe. I had gone into the septic tank with other human garbage. I was being processed by the garbage people into garbage like them.
Whatever life was supposed to be about, I missed it, he thought. What I received was what I deserved and the people who attacked me were people like me. They were my kindred spirits. Now I will be stuck with them forever. Feelings of self-loathing and hopelessness filled his mind.
His thoughts floated back again to himself as a nine year-old in Sunday School, I remembered myself singing Jesus Loves Me, and I could feel it inside me. As a child, I thought Jesus was really cool and he was my buddy and he would take care of me.
But even if Jesus is real, why would he care about me? he thought. He probably hates my guts. Im not going to think anymore; Im going to ask him.
Ive got nothing else to lose. Ill give Jesus a try.
Then he yelled into the darkness, Jesus, please save me!
Within an instant, a brilliant light appeared that came closer and closer. He found himself bathed in a beautiful light, and for the first time he could clearly see his own bodys miserable condition, ghastly for his own eyes to behold. I was almost all gore.
Immediately he recognized Jesus, the King of Kings, the Rescuer, the Deliverer. His arms reached down and touched me and everything healed up and came back together, he recalls. He filled me with a love I never knew existed.
Then he picked up Howard, like one football player picking up a fallen teammate on the field, put his arms around him, and Howard cried like a baby in His arms. He carried me out of there and we headed to where God lives.
In his mind, Howard began to think that Jesus made a terrible mistake. Im garbage and I dont belong in heaven, he thought.
They stopped moving, and both Howard and Jesus were hanging in space, somewhere between heaven and hell. We dont make mistakes, Jesus said tenderly.
He could read everything in my mind and put His voice into my head, Howard recalls. We had very rapid, instantaneous conversations.
Then Jesus told Howard He had angels who would show him his life. It was a terrible experience because my life deteriorated after adolescence. I saw I became a selfish, unloving person. I was successful, a full tenured art professor at 27, the department head, but I was a jerk.
In this replay, he saw his heavy drinking and adultery. I cheated on my wife proudly. It was horrible.
For the first time he realized the way he lived his life hurt Jesus. I was in the arms of the most wonderful, holy, loving, kind person and were looking at this stuff. Embarrassing doesnt even begin to describe it.
As they watched together, Howard could see the pain and disappointment on the face of Jesus. When I did these things it was like sticking a knife into his heart.
Do you have any questions? Jesus asked.
I have a million questions, Howard replied, and proceeded to unburden himself of anything and everything he could imagine asking an omniscient being. Jesus answered Howards questions kindly and patiently.
When Howard couldnt think of anything else to ask, he said, Im ready to go to heaven now.
Youre not going to heaven. Youre going back to the world, Jesus replied.
Howard began to argue, but it was to no avail. Jesus told him to go back and live his life differently.
At 9:00 PM, Howard was back in his hospital room in Paris. Less than 30 minutes had elapsed since he lost consciousness.
As Howard opened his eyes, he heard the nurse say, The doctor arrived at the hospital and youre going to have the surgery.
As they wheeled him out of his room on a gurney, he saw his wife in the hallway. Everything is going to be really good now, he said to her. When she heard him, she cried, thinking they were brave words.
When Howard emerged from surgery, with the effects of the anesthesia wearing off, he spoke to his wife. Its all love, he told her. You dont have to suffer anymore.
You need to sleep, she replied, thinking he was slightly addled from the drugs. Then he awakened again and began to tell her about Jesus and the angels and heaven and hell.
She was an atheist and she didnt like it. She thought I lost my mind. Sadly, Howards marriage ended in divorce after she left him many years later.
When his strength returned, Howard began to devour the Bible. Since none of my atheist friends believed me, I started memorizing verses and I would give them Bible lectures, but that didnt go over very well, he recalls.
He grew desperate for fellowship in a church, and began to attend Christ Church in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, part of United Church of Christ. Howards pastor worked with him patiently, and after three years, Howard was ordained as a lay minister in his church.
Sensing a deeper call into ministry, he attended United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio and later pastored a church in Covington, Ohio.
He also wrote a book about his experience, My Descent Into Death, which he says was written primarily to non-believers.
Howard and his second wife, Marcia, a strong Christian, are both involved in missionary work in Belize. He maintains a passion for painting, with much of his art devoted to spiritual themes.
No kidding?
Yes, this story does have familiar pieces of evidence of Jesus rescuing a soul. The little voice that kept telling him to pray to God might have been his guardian angel.
"Its bizzarre. If you really do whiteout into the void, it seems a waste of time to convince people you ###wont###."
Edit: That you WILL
I found this part amusing.
(as an American doctor.)
I found this part amusing.
(as an American doctor.)
I can't say this amused me, but it did make me sit up and take notice.
I can't say this amused me, but it did make me sit up and take notice.
And thank God he listened!
You know you've hit rock bottom when you're almost Al Gore.
- The little voice that kept telling him to pray to God might have been his guardian angel.
— And thank God he listened!
-— Amen!
TO Mortrey and SunkenCiv:
Thanks for your kind words. If you have a purpose in life, you fight hard to fulfill it. I was privileged to work on the book about John Kerry and Vietnam, "Unfit for Command". The Swift Boat Veterans (Against John Kerry) went thru the hell of combat and still had that spark of life after 35 years. Many were wounded. A couple friends of mine were POWS held by the VC and No. Vietnamese, and badly tortured.
Compared to what they went thru, my little episode is an interesting footnote.
It is what you do with your life that counts, and if you are given a second chance, grab it by the balls and hold on tight. It's gonna be one heck of a ride the second time around.
One interesting and pleasant surprise out of this was to see the look on my doctors' faces when I did a basically complete recovery, including climbing stairs in the hospital and chasing nurses down the hall (don't tell my wife). It's hard to do that when you have an IV bag/stand attached to you, but you give it the old college try.
I've got to say that our medical doctors are the finest in the world, as are our nurses, technicians, EMTs, etc. I'm living proof of that.
Another little task of mine is to tell people at FR and elsewhere that if Obamacare had been in practice when I was in my coma, his Deathpanel would have let me die. Too costly to keep me on drugs while I was totally unconscious.
A little personal reason for me wanting to take Obama down besides the fact that he is a traitor, coward, and POS.
Make everyday count, even if it is only to look at the moon and stars, flowers, or birds. I do that with my granddaughter and we have a great time admiring God's creations. Don't miss the show - it's free and awe-inspiring.
I have the Unsolved Mysteries box set and his is one of the stories profiled.
What a phoney. It was probably gas.
Not much of a conversion if he just joined the UCC afterward.
UNSOLVED MYSTERIES - Hell & Howard Storm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMsHacUJbmg
This song/skit from Lighthouse is this man's life.
This song/skit from Lighthouse is this man's life.
We got work to do
Amen my FRiend
And God bless you
John; 11:25. Says it all. Behold the power of a Loving God made flesh through HIS Son, Our Lord and Savoir Jesus Christ.
Have you read Brian J Gail's trilogy novels: Fatherless, Motherless, Childless?
You must!
Then I was not in the hospital room any more.
I was standing on a cloud and my view was of a man, dressed in white with a red robe, also standing on a cloud, with everything lit in a warm golden glow.
I said "If you are who I think you are (Jesus), I don't have much choice in the matter. If you want me to come with you, I will. But if you don't mind, (thinking vividly of my then 2 year old granddaughter we were raising) there are some things I'd like to do first."
He said, "Go back. It is not yet your time."
Next thing, I'm back in the hospital room, coughing up chunks of olive green gunk, one chunk the diameter of a quarter and a quarter of an inch thick. (I saved that one in the kidney dish, to my wife's great distress, just to show it off).
The next morning, the Respiratory specialists are gathered in there remarking about how they were going to put me on a respirator that morning, and that they couldn't believe how much lung capacity had been opened up overnight.
I was home in two days.
There is a there there, Jesus is Lord, and I have no doubt.
Dr. Melvin Morse has writen several books on NDE. Check this out. The books are an easy read too.
Norm - I couldn't have said it better.
Lula, thought you would not want to miss this.
My father had one and, while he didn't have a personal encounter with Jesus or get drawn into a tunnel of light, he said he floated over his body and could later tell the doctor what he did and who came in and out of the room during the brief time that he was dead.
I used to feel resentful of death-bed converts, who, after living dissolute lives, gained heaven. But a sinful life is its own punishment. Does anyone know a happy scoffer?
And of course, we're all sinners. Thank God for His mercy.
Having visited France, I beg to differ!
Good thing he didn't go to Purgatory. It wouldn't have scared the Hell out of him.
Thank you so much for posting that. What an incredible testimony!
I hung on every word. I cried with joy for this man. How lucky to have been touched by the most loving and merciful Man in the universe.
ALL Praise, Honor and Glory to my Lord Jesus Christ.
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Me too! Praise the Lord Jesus indeed!
It's call a "Road to Damascus" experience.
Hmm...hopefully the professor will one day be truly saved.
"They admit in one breath they are clueless about a basic function of our existance, consciousness and how it works/what/where it is, and in the very next breath will tell you with total conviction that they KNOW theres nothing after death."
Do you remember that terrible old movie, "Short Circuit?"
At one point, the female lead mistakes a robot for an alien. Her reaction is to beam and exclaim something like, "I knew you'd come to me."
She thought she was so special that she would be the one the aliens would contact.
Similarly, I think a lot of people reject all religious experience on the grounds—to which they themselves may be completely oblivious—that if God were going to talk to anybody, it would be them. Or, at least, them rather than some stupid Christian.
I'd like to see some informal experiments at leftard cocktail parties, with an experimenter waiting for the right moment, then saying, "Yes, He spoke to me and not to you." I'll bet the reactions would be revealing.
Man, now THAT would be truly frightening!
I don't see that anything he's predicted isn't already in the works.
I was watched man of these things, and being desirous to "prove ll things," (1Ths. 5:21) i have found some of the things Storm says elsewhere in his testimonial to be questionable at best. But not as much as "A Divine Revelation of HELL," by Mary K. Baxter.
I collect NDE testimonies and use them in apologetics, in a limited way, and would recommend you see the entire video called to hell and back, which you can download at http://www.tbn.org/watch-us/our-programs/to-hell-and-back. (I know it is TBN, which is a real mixed bag, but this is one of the good ones)
Also high on the list is Glimpse of Eternity with Ian McCormack,
Glimpse of Eternity with Ian McCormack: stung by box jellyfish: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3682855866783766146
Download: http://www.divinerevelations.info/Documents/ian_mccormack/Glimps_of_Eternity_GoodQuality.mp4
Unlike the most others (i have asked) you can share this freely.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6547221602055506348&q=mickey+robinson&total=57&start=0&num=50&so=0&type=search&plindex=1 ( Mickey Robinson air crash to Christ)
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=390590177647370865&hl=en Heaven & Hell Accounts - Final Destiny
Roman Gutierrez Twice dead: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3754387560159309665
Channel 7 news man raised from dead after 40 minutes: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-2334132798216105638&hl=en
23 Minutes in Hell by Bill Wiese: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1694635918884432260
Matthew Botsford - To Hell and Back http://www.cbn.com/700club/features/Amazing/Matthew_Botsford011206.aspx
Deerinda Lowe Gets A Second Chance http://www.cbn.com/700club/features/amazing/Deerinda-Lowe-120810.aspx
The Day Jeffrey Thompson Almost Died http://www.cbn.com/700club/features/amazing/Jeffrey-Thompson-072810.aspx
And as regards research,
NDE Research: Gary habermas Near Death Experiences and the Afterlife (Video File download) http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/context/lts_fac_pubs/article/1214/type/native/viewcontent
BBC documentary, The Day I Died 1- NDE Documentary Part 1 of 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1vWoUoiaP4
As seen in the latter, souls in false religions can also have similar stories, but counterfeits do not disallow the genuine, but even Christian testimonies are subject to Scripture.
Ping to Post #62
Just noticed that i gave the wrong link to To Hell and back. See here http://media.tbn.org/wmedia/tbn/gallery/To_Hell_And_Back.wvx or here instead: http://media.tbn.org/download/tbn/gallery/To_Hell_And_Back.wmv
They do not sell and would not give me permission to share it for free as a DVD
Also here are various testimonies of God's amazing grace, some more credible than others, http://www.cbn.com/700club/features/Amazing/
Good doc. related to the Jesus movement of the 60's:
http://vimeo.com/6728377 - A Venture in Faith" (History of Calvary Chapel)
And this is very touching: http://www.hulu.com/watch/17789/fox-news-specials-crime-scene-the-amish-schoolhouse-murders
Those kind of things (there are others) which you do not hear in the Hell and Back part is what i was referring to, but could not recall.
I do admit that I like his story and it might even be true.
I am having problems swallowing the whole thing though. I have a book by a doctor that describes similar incidences and I know God is not in a box and He has no limits, and it goes up in my opinion in that Jesus Himself is the one who comes to talk with him.
I just wish Jesus would have given him the gospel. I have to think that the atheist was not the double atheist that he claimed and that he knew what the gospel was all along. He just chose to reject it so he could live the life he wanted.
I'm going to do more research on this pastor to see if I can see the 180 turn he claimed. I hope it's true.
For what it is worth,
On Labor Day 2004, while most Americans had the day off, my surgical team was hard at work, sawing my chest open, stopping my heart for close to an hour, putting me on a heart-lung machine, relocating a vein from my leg and rerouting an artery from my chest to bypass my four blocked arteries.
Of course, I dont remember much about that day, but as I was going under, I do recall seeing dark masks coming toward me, followed by circles of light containing the faces of Hillary, Chelsea and others close to me. They smiled and flew away toward a brightness. Im not quite sure whether it was one of those "near-death experiences" or a life-affirming one perhaps it was a bit of both.
Thanks to God and the great medical team at New York-Presbyterian, led by Drs. Craig Smith and Allan Schwartz, things went very well, and I was soon on the road to recovery. http://www.clintonfoundation.org/what-we-do/alliance-for-a-healthier-generation/why-childhood-obesity-/we-must-act-now-by-bill-clinton
Yeah, I felt the same way as you but who am I to tell God "not" to save someone.
The parable about the workers who agreed to work for a certain wage at the beginning of the day and then paying the same wag for people who came at almost the end of the day shut my mouth.
We are not to compare ourselves among ourselves, it isn't wise and when I do that, I always come out at the bottom of the list. I'm a loser and I thank God for his grace and mercy.
And you are right about scoffers. They are an unhappy lot.
Nothing beats experience, that's for sure. It creates not only unshakeable faith, but a way to constantly surrender to God over and over again.
On the other hand, we are ALL fortunate.
The only difference between us, from a purely spiritual point of view, is how much drama each of us wants.
For example, this guy needed a lot of drama. But ask yourself - do you want that level of drama? God speaks to us constantly, at every level. If we catch the subtleties, we will be led with subtleties, into ever deeper and more profound connections with God. If we want crudities - drama - well, it doesn't seem that God has any problem at all giving us any level of drama that will do the job.
Personally, I do a LOT of praying for the Grace not to need ANY drama. Granted, I haven't turned into a ball of light yet - but it beats the alternative direction.
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By Kendra Moore, USAG HumphreysOctober 25, 2012
CAMP HUMPHREYS -- About 200 runners from across the Korean peninsula took part in the third annual Army Ten-Miler Shadow Run, hosted here Oct. 21.
Sergeant Christopher Mwita, assigned to Company E, 2/1 Air Defense Artillery, was the overall top finisher of the race, designed to mirror the Army's annual run in Washington, D.C., in 1 hour, 6 minutes and 56 seconds. Maj. Trisha Stavinoha, assigned to the 65th Medical Brigade, at Yongsan Garrison, took the women's crown, finishing in 1:13:46. Finishing a close second to Mwita was Men's Master champion, Robert Nott, of Daegu, with a time of 1:07:05.
After finishing, Stavinoha said, "I like winning. It feels good. I'm a sports dietician and I like to practice what I preach."
After finishing, Mwita said, "I feel great. I did (the Shadow Run) the first time and didn't make it. Today, I did."
"Today is a great day for running," said Kim, Chi-hyon, a supervisory sports specialist at the Super Gym, where the race began.
Besides ideal weather and enthusiastic observers, the runners were treated to replicas of Washington, D.C., monuments. The replicas, made of Styrofoam and braced by wood supports, included the Vietnam Memorial, the Pentagon, the Washington Monument, the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials, and the capitol.
"I like doing events like these to stay in shape," said Staff Sgt. Daniel Stanley, assigned to the 20th Military Police Detachment. "It kind of keeps you motivated to work out."
For the first time, the race was run during the day, beginning at 3:45 p.m. In previous years, the race began at night, kicking off almost at the same time as the race being run in the States.
"I'm here to see my father and I came to see him run" said eight-year-old Gerardo Gallardo III, "…and I'm very happy that I can congratulate them and say 'Good job.'"
"I am here to support the many troops that I have that are participating in the Ten-Miler," said Sgt. 1st Class Yolanda English, from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 194th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion. She said she was excited to be there, "just to see the troops willing to support and in high spirits, to build cohesion between the teams."
The Shadow Race had five categories for participants: Men's Open (29 and under); Men's Senior (30-39); Men's Master (40-49); Women's Open (29 and under); and Women's Senior (30 and over). Trophies were presented to the top three finishers in each division and t-shirts were provided for everyone who participated.
"I just really wanted to challenge myself because I have never run that distance before," said Pfc. Rene Vega, assigned to Company B, 602nd Aviation Support Battalion, who ran the race with his daughter in a stroller. "Originally, I wasn't going to do it, but, my wife said, 'You have to do it."' The highlight of the day for him was "just being able to finish."


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By Kamaljit Anand
My recent trip to Neemrana (120 km on NH-8) was a four-hour stifling 'day'mare, whereas I often clocked that to Jaipur with aplomb in the past. One need not travel as far for insightful discoveries on human distress: a trip to Delhi-Gurgaon Toll Plaza would suffice.
Despite building infrastructure, we are lackadaisical in upgrading or even maintaining our set-ups in line with growing demand. Our design needs a stress-detection engine to forecast, auto-recommend and defuse the system overloads in advance.


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By Russell ShimookaJuly 25, 2011
Schofield Barracks, Hawaii -- The Asia Pacific Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Fusion Center recently added a mobile CIED trainer device to help Soldiers identify deadly roadside bombs during their deployments.
The Mobile Counter IED Interactive Trainer consists of four 40-foot trailers outfitted with interactive tools, displays and advanced education technologies.
"We bring in all the senses, feel, sight, sounds and smell. It's in all the trailers," said David Baade, MCIT training white cell coordinator.
Soldiers from the 536th Maintenance Company, 25th Infantry Division recently received the training and were impressed by the interactive features.
"It gives the Soldiers hands-on realistic training, rather than sitting in a classroom, reading textbooks, and viewing PowerPoint presentations," said 2nd Lt. Bryan Hollman, executive officer, 536th Maintenance Company. "Soldiers virtually see how missions are accomplished."
Team or squad leaders train their Soldiers. Interactive quizzes at the completion of the first three modules help reinforce the material covered. The final piece of the instruction pits blue forces against red forces.
"Those of us who are in the gamer generation got into that [simulators]," said Spc. Dominique Kithcart, 536th Maintenance Company. "This kind of training got us into the environment, into the homes and laboratories."
"It was awesome training," said Spc. Sierra Bracken, 536th Maintenance Company. "I've been deployed and everything that went on in there can happen during deployments. Having us go through every scenario, that could save lives downrange."
Baade said that one Soldier who underwent training before deploying in support of Operation Enduring Freedom recognized a patrol route from one of the scenarios.
"The Soldier remembered an IED was placed at this particular intersection in the video scenario," he said. "When his convoy approached the intersection they started noticing some indictors. They checked and there was an IED in the same place just like in the training module. Now that's some relevant training."
Units can schedule training by calling the Asia Pacific Counter IED Fusion Center at (808) 438-5821.


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bootstrapping a community (one preconference at a time)
Here's how I know this year's code4lib preconference was a success: Karen Coombs said
Probably the thing I liked the best was just getting a chance to sit down, play with code, and have other people help me figure things out. The moment that captured the spirit of the conference for me was sitting with Terry Resse and Erik Hatcher talking about and playing with Solr. I learned a lot and got a tangible idea about how I was going to integrate a Solr-based application into my site. When I started the conference I felt overwhelmed with trying to get Solr running and building a usable application. By the end of the conference, my level of confidence was much greater. A great deal of that just had to do with working on stuff and having people answer questions and solve problems. It is a great feeling to come away with and one of the things that I value most about the code4lib community.
Amen to that! A major obstacle to getting more open source software deployed in libraries is the lack of training opportunities for library staff. There are a few people who are good at teaching themselves from websites and reading code, but there aren't enough of those people to do all the work that needs to be done. Far more common is the library staff member who would like to get into open source, or perhaps is already into certain parts of it, but has no local support for picking up new skills or trying out new technologies. And like Karen said, the most useful "training" is often just the ability to play around with something in a supportive environment, where people will help you if you get stuck. (And the opportunity to set aside time to do it!)
I think that this is a gap that code4lib, and the code4lib conference in particular, could fill nicely. Just as hackfest has become an institution at Access, I'd like to see these preconferences become a regular event at code4lib con. They aren't too hard to put together (easy for me to say, right Erik?), they don't cost much, but the benefit for the community is tremendous. In many cases folks can get funding to attend training when they wouldn't have gotten it just to attend the conference (I had many people write to tell me this, that the only reason they got funding to attend code4lib con was because they were also attending a solr/lucene workshop).
I hope someone is going to step up to the plate and organize one for next year. I heard a lot of buzz around xforms, ruby, and cocoon at this year's code4lib, for example. Are there other topics folks would like to see covered? Come on code4lib, who is going to organize next year's preconference?
Posted: March 8th, 2007 under code4lib.
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Fannie Mae Eases Up on Loans for Florida Condos
Fannie Mae will relax some standards on home-mortgages for condominium buildings in Florida, the company said on Thursday.
The government-controlled mortgage-finance company tightened its standards for backing loans for buyers of Florida condos last year. The tighter rules had been designed to protect borrowers from buying units in potentially unstable buildings, but condo owners loudly complained that they would cripple certain projects and would make it harder for existing owners to refinance.
While Fannie has been making case-by-case exemptions to those rules, the company on Thursday said it would review Florida projects and that those deemed "sufficiently stable" would be given special approval. That designation, which will be valid for up to 18 months, will allow lenders to more easily fund loans on the developments.
The tighter rules placed limits on backing loans in buildings that had high rates of delinquency on homeowner association dues or that didn't meet certain occupancy requirements. Lenders had become increasingly reluctant to make loans to Florida condo buyers in recent months, and Fannie's effort is designed to help assuage lenders and to stave off further declines for the state's already ravaged condo market.
The changes announced on Thursday don't apply to new developments, which also faced tighter restrictions last year. Two Democratic lawmakers last June sent letters to the chief executives of Fannie and its smaller rival, Freddie Mac, requesting that the companies "make appropriate adjustments" to those rules governing new developments, which they warned were "too onerous" for certain projects.
Any Floridians care to weigh in: will this help the state's beleaguered condo market?


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Benevento/Russo Duo featuring Mike Gordon,
Saturday, 12/31/2005
Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Set 1: Hatikvah[1] > Cars Trucks Buses, The Beltless Buckler, Welcome Red, Play Pause Stop, Theme From the Bottom, Best Reason To Buy The Sun
Set 2: Dixie Cannonball > Auld Lang Syne, Becky, You Enjoy Myself, Clean Up Woman, Mike's Song -> Also Sprach Zarathustra -> Mike's Song, Hoe-Down, Sunny's Song, Freedom of Choice[2], Passin' Me By[2]
Encore: Goin' Down Slow, My Pet Goat
Encore 2: The Godfather Love Theme > Foam
[1] With Cousin Avi on vocals.
[2] With Matt Durant on vocals.
Notes: "Hatikvah" featured "Cousin Avi" on vocals. "CTB" contained a "Foam" tease. "Theme" contained a "Welcome Red" tease. "YEM" included "Carol of the Bells," "Foam," "Fluffhead" and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" teases. "Freedom of Choice" and "Passin' Me By" featured Matt Durant on vocals. "Goin' Down Slow contained "Auld Lang Syne" and "Becky" teases.
Musicians: Mike Gordon, Marco Benevento, Joe Russo, Matt Durant (Guest)


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Would You Want to Know Your Fertility Deadline?
Emily's post last week on putting off kids until it may be too late drew a lot of impassioned comments. To follow up, here's a roundup of some related news on the topic of postponing parenthood. One piece is on new tests that may help women know in advance when their biological clocks will stop; another is on the economic benefits of delaying motherhood; and another is on a demographic study showing a large increase in childless women over 40:
* New tests may provide fertility "deadline." A test developed by Iranian researchers could let women, even in their 20s, predict within a few months when they will stop being fertile. The test measures levels of a hormone produced in the ovaries that controls development of egg cells. Of 63 women who reached menopause during the study, the average difference between the predicted age and the actual age the women reached menopause was just a third of a year, according to one report. "The results from our study could enable us to make a more realistic assessment of women's reproductive status many years before they reach menopause," the lead researcher said in a news release. Meanwhile, another new test, described here, claims to predict when a women's ovaries will start to fail. Would you want to know any fertility issues in advance, in order to help make family-planning decisions? Or does that creep you out?
* Delaying kids may pay off financially. A new study found that delaying kids may prevent a financial "motherhood penalty," the pay gap between childless women and working moms. Researchers reviewed 35 years of data from some 2,200 women and found that women who had kids in their early- to mid-20s or even younger didn't fare as well economically as those who delayed, USA Today reported. The research found women who got more education and job training before having children end up as successful economically as women who didn't have kids.
* More women in their 40s childless. Nearly one in five American women in her early 40s is childless, according to a Pew study, a large increase from years past. The trend was much less common in the 1970s, when one in 10 women did not have children by 40 to 44, the age bracket researchers use to designate the end of childbearing years, the Washington Post reported. The report cites social and cultural shifts behind the change, including less pressure to have children, better contraceptive measures and expanded job opportunities for women, said the Post.


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Skip to comments.Not your grandfathers B-52
Posted on 05/16/2012 4:26:22 AM PDT by TSgt
The Air Force wants its B-52s to keep flying until 2040, but the airplanes of that era wont look like the ones we all remember from Dr. Strangelove or even the bombers flying today.
According to an official story from the weekend, Lt. Gen. Jim Kowalski, the head of Global Strike Command, says the B-52 is set to receive a round of upgrades that will help both the airmen inside each one and also the top-level commanders moving them around on their maps. Even if that commanders suit is a darker shade of blue:
These upgrades are integral to ensuring the B-52H is both effective and able to fully integrate with other services, as envisioned in the Air Sea Battle concept, according to command officials.
Among the upgrades is a guided smart weapon capability in the B-52Hs internal weapons bay, which provides a 66 percent increase in guided weapons payload. Another current program is an upgrade to the latest Advanced Targeting Pod, which will increase the B-52H effectiveness when performing close air support and other missions.
One of the test aircraft at Edwards AFB also featured an improved on-board communications upgrade called Combat Network Communications Technology (CONECT). The CONECT program brings the B-52H from the analog into the digital age, according to command officials, providing an invaluable data link over which to pass mission and threat data.
With the new defense strategy placing a greater emphasis on the Pacific, its really important that our bombers are fully networked and integrated with the joint force, Kowalski said.
The mind races at the possibilities a carrier strike group commander with B-52s integrated into her air plan? Sensor netting, as weve heard so much about, that lets a commander in Australia see what a bomber is tracking over the North Pacific? You can start to hear Navy Undersecretary Robert Works voice explaining how, of all things, the Air Force could help increase the effective size of the Navys fleet, along with his beloved P-8s, BAMS, E-2Ds and so on.
Part of the problem with imagining the future for this kind of integration, however, is a lack of clarity about exactly what scenarios U.S. planners are using to build it. This is where D.C.-based China fear-mongering gets a little frustrating, because it usually ends with people frowning severely, or arching their eyebrows, rather than spelling out what they believe would be involved with a potential future crisis.
Are American forces going to fight another Battle of Coral Sea with Chinese naval forces? Are they going to encounter a wall of anti-access/area denial missile and submarine attacks if they cross a keep-out line of death? Are they going to have to eject Chinese invaders from Taiwan? All three? Are American forces going to attack the Chinese mainland?
All that planning is on the high side, so it can be tough trying to put Kowalskis comments into a larger context. But whatever Pentagon planners have in their red-edged briefing documents, this story makes it clear theyll be counting on the 60 year-old B-52s to play a key part in it.
just wrong....a Brokeback kind of Strangelove.
"The Old Dog"
Ever seen a BUFF take off up close? Its magnificent. Closest thing to a religious experience I've ever had.
In 1971 I thought the D model in the Lowry training hanger was cool, even as the G & H models were being fielded.
But extending its life to 2040 is a bit beyond ridiculous.
Exactly. A population is better disposed toward occupying troops when they're shell-shocked and bludgeoned into submission with dumb bombs. The sense of defeat is inescapable (e.g., Germany, Japan).
Populations defeated with PGMs are irate because they lack electricity and possibly running water. The only indication of a war was occasional distant booms and palls of smoke, and so they lack the shell-shocked sense of despair and defeat that comes with city-busting carpet bombing (e.g., Iraq).
It sounds pretty awesome as well.
I grew up in upstate western NY. There is a large AFB somewhere near Buffalo that has a lot of these.
One afternoon, in 71 or 72, about twenty B-52's flew over westbound towards Buffalo.
In a word that gets used too much these days, well, it was AWESOME!!
A friend of mine related his experience in the USMC near the Cambodian border when a B-52 dumped its load five miles from his position. It was a little more than a religious experience...
I ask on top of the life extension are these as equal or more ridiculous...
* No national will to build a new bomber from scratch.
* DOD paperwork, lack of risk taking and over-analizing would lead to cost over-runs, over-engineering and the eventual death of the program
* Congress and the Senate Micro-mananging it.
* All tooling for the B-1 is gone, so we can't do a quick and dirty on that...
* All the Dang Treaties with the Russians are a flippin nightmare, and have us boxed in...
My solution?
Massive upgrades ( F119 engines for starters ) for the B-1 and let the Israeli's do it, farm it out since no one has the cohones to do anything here anymore and then take re-delivery of them, that is the only thing I can think of for now to get around all the BS noted above...
Dumb bombs ala WWII are extremely wasteful in many ways. For example, all the WWII tonnage dropped on Germany actually had very little effect on overall war production. (Especially those dropped by the Brits at night, or the blitz the NAZIs inflicted on Britain) You are correct in describing the terror they inspired then, and the psychological effect of the B52 in VietNam.
I used to live in a neighborhood at the end of the runway at what was Larson AFB in Washington state. In the early 60's the B-52's were silver with white bottoms. They were an awesome thing to see landing and taking off. And yeah, they were loud. Then, in the mid-60's most of them were green camo on top and black on the bottom.
My dad serviced the analog computers for the tail guns.
Man, those were interesting times.
What is it that's "wrong" with the B-52 that it's service life couldn't be extended indefinitely?
If the airframes are old, couldn't they be reproduced? I mean, this is 50 year old tech put together with 50 year old processes. Surely these components could be made today just as easily as they were in the last century.
Or is it the design that's inadequate somehow? Why can't it be tweaked rather than replaced with a $multi-billion new model that would be unproven and likely over budget?
It's already been refitted with revised engines (multiple times, IIRC), so presumably that could continue to happen as engine tech evolves.
It just seems to me we have a proven, working platform that has managed to adapt nicely over the years. Aircrews and pilots are familiar with it, training program is established, spare parts are in inventory. I like new planes as much as the next person, but it seems the B-52 has proven itself as effective at what she does.
Or maybe we no longer need a bomber that does what the B-52 can do?
There's nothing wrong with it as long as they are safe.
The airframes are very old...
Yep - hell of an aircraft. To look at it, one has to wonder what has made it so durable as to last this long. Under a full load, the wing tips flex over 20' from resting on the wheel struts to airborne. Freakin' amazing.
".........a round of upgrades that will help both the airmen inside each one and also the top-level commanders moving them around on their maps. Even if that commanders suit is a darker shade of blue:......."
What's this "darker shade of blue" crap? U.N.?
Planning today should be excluding the U.N., NOT including the potential of. Think Positive.
The problem is tooling. They can upgrade/fix the existing airframes with on hand equipment.
To "re-produce" a B52 Boeing would have to make all new tools. The line has been closed for years.
Nothing to do with UN. Has to do with "low observability" paint jobs.
Think "Air Superiority Blue" back when the F-15 was first introduced.
Not "UN".
One little letter makes a HUGE difference.
See my screen-name for another example. ;'}
WOW; just WOW!!
Is that Photoshopped or is that real? How does it take-off from that short a platform?
Awwww, it's PS'd, isn't it?
I've read that too, especially about the Schweinfurt raids. It turned out that the ball-bearing machinery was very sturdy and hard to kill without a direct hit. I've also heard that a single Strike Eagle with PGMs could do far more damage than a whole squadron of B-17s, since each bomb would be a direct or near-direct hit, instead of dozens or even hundreds of yards away. Direct hits from carpet bombing were more of an accident than a fact.
BUFS were one of the few aircraft that made our P-3s look like TIFS.
After WW II we determined that Allied bombing directly hit the target 6% of the time.
The 8th Air Force's bombers primary job in WWII was to draw out the Luftwaffe and to engaged them in high altitude combat. The bombing was a decoy and hitting a target was of secondary importance. Destroying enemy aircraft was job #1.
I was driving home from the Sierras to the bay area, i.e. crossing the central valley, just coming out of the foothills - and a B52 flew across in front of me at maybe 200 feet. Wow!
When I was with the 301st TFW at Carswell AFB in Ft. Worth, TX. I was on the runway arming crew for our birds
F-4DS)> That day they had a full ORI and flushed all of their birds(52s)I was less the 75 yards from from runway. Talk about an experience...my ears still hurt to this day.The only thing better in my life was a backseat ride in an F-105 on a live bombing run at Ft.Hood and an F-4 backseat ride to Meridian, MS.Good memories for life.
"Nothing to do with UN. Has to do with low observability paint jobs......"
Oh, OK! I came from the ground pounder Olive Drab crowd. Don't know about that blue stuff ;)
I don't think its a ground pounder thing - I'm ex-army. Its more of a modeler thing. I used to build models long, long ago.
B-52s with their bays full of:
antimissile drones
'Wild weasel' drones
anti-personnel claymore drones
and providing commo links to operators near the battlefield.
The Navy could provide a carrier group to fill in the spaces, but the Army would be reduced to just providing the brooms (until the political idiots go for 'nation building' occupation).
Saw the aftermath of Arc Light strikes from helos many times. Lots of splinters. Only heard one once at somewhat close range. Insane long drawn out crackling of detonations. Being close would involve bowel control issues. hell, rocket attacks were bad enough. Hard to describe the feeling of helplessness.
domination and consequent subjugation is the objective. The military is a sledge hammer, not a scalpel. I understand the need for scalpels but some folks just don't seem to understand the need for sledgehammers. You claim our dumb bombs were wasteful during WW2 yet we walked away triumphant. Look at our track record since we started relying on PGMs. It's appalling. Our "victories" are victories in name only.
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The Golden Age - Guest Review
by Brian Linnen
On a recent trip into Comix Connection, I picked up an interesting book by Roy Thomas called "The All-Star Companion." If you have been reading comics as long as I have been, you'll recognize the name "Roy Thomas" instantly. Anyway - this book takes a look at All-Star Comics, a title which ran from 1938 to 1951, basically throughout what is considered the "Golden Age" of comics. All-Star Comics featured the Justice Society of America, comicdom's first superhero team, and the obvious forefather to the Justice League of America.
The JSA featured the original Flash, the original Green Lantern, the original Hawkman, the Original Atom, and many more characters (including Wonder Woman, who as a girl, served only as the JSA's official secretary. Different times.... Eventually they let her join full-time.)
The reason I put "original" before all the heroes names above is because during the Silver Age of comics, an editor named Julius Swartz led DC Comics as they recreated these heroes with new secret identities, new costumes, and new backgrounds. This period began in the mid-1950s. You can probably picture the Flash in your head, and when you do, it is the Silver Age version you are most likely thinking of.
For whatever reason, I have always enjoyed these Golden Age versions more than their Silver Age counterparts, and I have been able to read many of the old All-Star Comics courtesy of DC Comic's wonderful Archives line. Many readers of today's comics would be bored by the simplistic storylines, but these adventure tales of an era I will never really know, hold tremendous appeal for me. This is the same reason I enjoy listening to old radio shows featuring the likes of the Shadow and the Lone Ranger or watching old Flash Gordon movie serials.
Also, many comic fans of today criticize the artwork in these old books, but there were many true geniuses working during that time. Seriously. For almost every bad artist a critic can point out to me, I can point out someone producing honest to goodness ARTwork.
* Jack Kirby
* Sheldon Moldoff
* Alex Toth
* Mart Nodell
* Joe Kubert
* Joe Simon
And there are more - these are just names that I could list off the top of my head. I'd rather look at a page drawn by any of these guys than a page drawn by many of today's "hot artists".
There is something about these guys that just seems so fantastic to me. They were creating the entire industry as they went along. Today, creators have 70 years of history to look back at and draw from, but these guys only had each other. I read accounts of groups of creators working non-stop over a weekend in a cramped studio to get books done in time, and to me, it's such an inspiring, romantic image.
I was fortunate to have dinner with Mart Nodell a few years ago at the Harvey Awards, and I heard some of his stories about working on Green Lantern in the late 1930's . I don't think that he looks back on these times as fondly or as idealistically as I'm apt to think of them, but I just can't help it. For whatever reason, I won't let reality intrude upon my vision of the Golden Age - probably because of how much the characters mean to me. I think of their creators as giants and can't compute the idea that they were doing it for the paycheck. I guess I'm being foolish, but I can't help it. Anyway, I know that looking back, they are proud of their work. I saw that talking with Mr. Nodell, and I saw it when I had the chance to talk to Mr. Moldoff and his wife. I could see how happy Mrs. Moldoff was for her husband, and how proud, as we gathered around him looking at original artwork and hearing him talk about the old days. The same was true of Mrs. Nodell, as well.
OK - I'm not going to bore you anymore. Just wanted to write a few lines about this book I got, and I went a little overboard. Can't help it, and who does it hurt? I would recommend this book to anyone who is currently enjoying DC's "JSA" and would like to know more about where these characters came from. It's good, fun stuff, my friends!


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According to a posting on MACHINE HEAD's official web site, the band's vocalist, Robert Flynn, performed Saturday night (May 14) in Chicago as scheduled after battling the flu and a severe viral throat infection for the past several days.In other news, the band's May 22 Atlanta show has been moved to Monday, May 23. Also appearing on the bill are DEVILDRIVER and IT DIES TODAY. MACHINE HEAD are touring in support of their current release, "Through the Ashes of Empires", as well as their upcoming live DVD, "Elegies", tentatively due in August.
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