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Global Virtual Aviation Community or GlobalVAC is a user run community for virtual pilots and air traffic controllers.
GlobalVAC is a community for the enjoyment of Virtual Aviation as a hobby. It consists of:
*A set of network servers that allow virtual pilots flying flight simulation software to connect with virtual air traffic controllers using virtual radar clients.
*A website through which members can sign up to use the network, and communicate with other members of the community.
*Voice servers for voice communication including general chat and air traffic control
*A training system where members can learn to fly and control online.
Virtual pilots flying either Microsoft Flight Simulator or X-Plane can install a piece of software into their simulator as a plugin that allows them to connect to the network. They can then communicate with virtual air traffic controllers using virtual radar clients to receive air traffic control as in the real world. They can also see and interact with other pilots on the network as well.
History and Creation
GlobalVAC was founded in May of 2007 by a group of individuals from the Virtual Aviation community who were unsatisfied with the current network offerings at the time. Kim Gale, Troy Jensen, Ryan Waldron, Brian Wilber, and Robert Zolliecoffer met on the former Flight Project International (FPI) network. They all had active roles in trying to make a success of the United States Division at FPI until the founders of the network closed it without notice in August of 2006.
After the close of FPI, the group was adrift for a short time, and found the International Virtual Aviation Society (INTVAS). There they met Miguel Hernandez, and Tom Cox a friend from an unrelated virtual airline. After months of working in various division and network staff positions, it became clear to the group that the network founder was not willing to make INTVAS the true community that it was claimed to be. Shortly before the closing of INTVAS on June 26, 2007 the group left and founded GlobalVAC.
Reasons for Creation
In addition to time spent on FPI and INTVAS, various members of the group had at one point and time or another also spent time on VATSIM and IVAO. After their experiences on these various networks, they had simply not found a place that they felt provided a true community atmosphere. GlobalVAC was founded as a solution to this problem. Virtual Aviation is all about sharing and enjoying a common hobby. It is an attempt to create a true community in every sense of the word where pilots and controllers can come to enjoy themselves in the practice of flying and controlling online.
Network Structure
GlobalVAC strives to be community oriented in every aspect of the network. There is no organised power structure in the staff, rather staff members are simply there to do the things that need to be done to keep the physical structure of the network going. They have no more say in what goes on in the network than any other member. All decisions on network operations are made by group discussion by the members.
There are no Divisions or Regions at GlobalVAC. Each country interested in publishing the real world procedures in their part of the world is welcome to do so on the website. This only serves to increase the knowledge of the way things are done so that those who wish to operate in emulation of the real world may do so.
Global Virtual Aviation Community or GlobalVAC is a user run community for virtual pilots and air traffic controllers.
GlobalVAC is a community for the enjoyment of Virtual Aviation as a hobby. It consists of:
*A set of network servers that allow virtual pilots flying flight simulation software to connect with virtual air traffic controllers using virtual radar clients.
*A website through which members can sign up to use the network, and communicate with other members of the community.
*Voice servers for voice communication including general chat and air traffic control
*A training system where members can learn to fly and control online.
Virtual pilots flying either Microsoft Flight Simulator or X-Plane can install a piece of software into their simulator as a plugin that allows them to connect to the network. They can then communicate with virtual air traffic controllers using virtual radar clients to receive air traffic control as in the real world. They can also see and interact with other pilots on the network as well.
History and Creation
GlobalVAC was founded in May of 2007 by a group of individuals from the Virtual Aviation community who were unsatisfied with the current network offerings at the time. Kim Gale, Troy Jensen, Ryan Waldron, Brian Wilber, and Robert Zolliecoffer met on the former Flight Project International (FPI) network. They all had active roles in trying to make a success of the United States Division at FPI until the founders of the network closed it without notice in August of 2006.
After the close of FPI, the group was adrift for a short time, and found the International Virtual Aviation Society (INTVAS). There they met Miguel Hernandez, and Tom Cox a friend from an unrelated virtual airline. After months of working in various division and network staff positions, it became clear to the group that the network founder was not willing to make INTVAS the true community that it was claimed to be. Shortly before the closing of INTVAS on June 26, 2007 the group left and founded GlobalVAC.
Reasons for Creation
In addition to time spent on FPI and INTVAS, various members of the group had at one point and time or another also spent time on VATSIM and IVAO. After their experiences on these various networks, they had simply not found a place that they felt provided a true community atmosphere. GlobalVAC was founded as a solution to this problem. Virtual Aviation is all about sharing and enjoying a common hobby. It is an attempt to create a true community in every sense of the word where pilots and controllers can come to enjoy themselves in the practice of flying and controlling online.
Network Structure
GlobalVAC strives to be community oriented in every aspect of the network. There is no organised power structure in the staff, rather staff members are simply there to do the things that need to be done to keep the physical structure of the network going. They have no more say in what goes on in the network than any other member. All decisions on network operations are made by group discussion by the members.
There are no Divisions or Regions at GlobalVAC. Each country interested in publishing the real world procedures in their part of the world is welcome to do so on the website. This only serves to increase the knowledge of the way things are done so that those who wish to operate in emulation of the real world may do so.
Configura Sverige AB is a Swedish software and services company. Headquartered in Linköping, Sweden and with a wholly owned subsidiary Configura Inc. in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, the company has been active in Parametric Graphical Configuration (PGC) ever since its start in 1990.
Configura develops, markets and implements PGC solutions for the Commercial Furniture, Kitchen & Bathroom, Material Handling and Industrial Machinery & Equipment fields. It has clients in ten countries and users in more than 50.
Background
The privately-owned company, Configura Sverige AB, was founded in Linköping, Sweden 1990 by Sune Rydqvist, Göran Rydqvist and Johan Lyreborn. Sune Rydqvist had been facing calculation problems during his whole career within the interior fittings and construction industry. Johan Lyreborn and Göran Rydqvist had graduated with Master of Engineering degrees in Computer Technology from the Linköping Institute of Technology. During their postgraduate studies their research had developed new possibilities to enable the creation of advanced software applications. Together, the three of them agreed to develop and market a new software application to become a planning tool for configurable products.
Today, Configura has clients such as Haworth Inc., Borroughs Corporation, Spacesaver Corp., DeLaval International AB and more.
The Configura group reached $7 million in annual revenue in 2006.
Products
Configura develops three main products: Configura, Instant Planner and CET Designer. All Configura software covers a wide range of functionalities serving a single purpose — to make it quick and easy to quote a configurable product. One of the software’s most important features is the ability to configure products and calculate the correct price.
In 2001, Ridg-U-Rak, a manufacturer of storage racks, signed a contract to implement Configura.
Parametric Graphical Configuration - PGC
PGC - Parametric Graphical Configuration introduces a new approach to the problem of selling configurable and component-based products. PGC is a technology that enables configuration of individual components and/or complete systems linked together by individual components, in a graphical and parametric computer environment. All defined and described in
Configura develops, markets and implements PGC solutions for the Commercial Furniture, Kitchen & Bathroom, Material Handling and Industrial Machinery & Equipment fields. It has clients in ten countries and users in more than 50.
Background
The privately-owned company, Configura Sverige AB, was founded in Linköping, Sweden 1990 by Sune Rydqvist, Göran Rydqvist and Johan Lyreborn. Sune Rydqvist had been facing calculation problems during his whole career within the interior fittings and construction industry. Johan Lyreborn and Göran Rydqvist had graduated with Master of Engineering degrees in Computer Technology from the Linköping Institute of Technology. During their postgraduate studies their research had developed new possibilities to enable the creation of advanced software applications. Together, the three of them agreed to develop and market a new software application to become a planning tool for configurable products.
Today, Configura has clients such as Haworth Inc., Borroughs Corporation, Spacesaver Corp., DeLaval International AB and more.
The Configura group reached $7 million in annual revenue in 2006.
Products
Configura develops three main products: Configura, Instant Planner and CET Designer. All Configura software covers a wide range of functionalities serving a single purpose — to make it quick and easy to quote a configurable product. One of the software’s most important features is the ability to configure products and calculate the correct price.
In 2001, Ridg-U-Rak, a manufacturer of storage racks, signed a contract to implement Configura.
Parametric Graphical Configuration - PGC
PGC - Parametric Graphical Configuration introduces a new approach to the problem of selling configurable and component-based products. PGC is a technology that enables configuration of individual components and/or complete systems linked together by individual components, in a graphical and parametric computer environment. All defined and described in
A Roman Catholic doctrine on civil war, similar in its principles to Just War Doctrine, except that the latter pertains to conflict with foreign nations.
Under "the duties of citizens," the 1994 edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2243, states:
“Armed resistance to oppression by political authority is not legitimate, unless all the following conditions are met: (1)There is certain, grave, and prolonged violation of fundamental rights; (2) all other means of redress have been exhausted; (3) such resistance will not provoke worse disorders; (4) there is well-founded hope of success; and (5) it is impossible reasonably to foresee any better solution.”
Here the Catechism indicates that insurrection is indeed justifiable under certain circumstances, even if insurgents employ armed force as distinguished from Ghandian civil disobedience. On the issue of whether insurrection can be reconciled with Christian morality, Protestant positions run the gamut from Jonathan Mayhew, whose fiery sermons helped ignite the American Revolution; to Tony Campolo who portrays Jesus as a pacifist -- his antithesis in the moral order being Barabbas the insurgent.
The Medieval antecedent to Campolo's view, that armed resistance to the established government is intrinsically immoral, was stated explicitly in opposition to the military exploits of Joan of Arc. The Bishop of Beauvais, Pierre Cauchon, held an elaborate show trial to justify Joan's execution. Significantly, Cauchon suppressed the right of appeal to the Pope when Joan attempted to exercise it.
Cauchon’s articles of accusation attempted to prove that Joan had exercised her influence with the French dauphin and later king, Charles VII, to oppose peace and to ...
"… dissuade him (the dauphin) with all her power, him and those with him, from consenting to any treaty of peace, any arrangement with his adversaries; inciting them always to murder and effusion of blood; affirming that they could only have peace by sword and lance; and that God willed it so, because otherwise the enemies of the King would not give up that which they held in his kingdom; to fight against them thus, is, she told them, one of the greatest benefits that can happen to all Christendom … even for cases which tend openly to violence and effusion of human blood: a proposition the most foreign to all holiness, horrible and abominable to all pious souls."
Twelve decades after the retrial of 1456 posthumously accused Chacon of heresy, declaring Joan a martyr innocent of the charges against her, “Huguenot pope” and Protestant statesman, Philippe de Mornay, wrote in defense of popular resistance to tyranny. Mornay saw proof in Scripture that the failure to resist governmental wickedness was a sin in itself. In other words resistance was a citizen's moral duty. Echoing Mornay in a secular way, the U.S. justifies insurrection on the grounds that citizens have the "duty" of insurrection against despotic usurpations, viz. ..."it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government..."
See the indicated citation re application of the theory of justifiable insurrection to the United States in the 21st century.
Endnotes
Under "the duties of citizens," the 1994 edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2243, states:
“Armed resistance to oppression by political authority is not legitimate, unless all the following conditions are met: (1)There is certain, grave, and prolonged violation of fundamental rights; (2) all other means of redress have been exhausted; (3) such resistance will not provoke worse disorders; (4) there is well-founded hope of success; and (5) it is impossible reasonably to foresee any better solution.”
Here the Catechism indicates that insurrection is indeed justifiable under certain circumstances, even if insurgents employ armed force as distinguished from Ghandian civil disobedience. On the issue of whether insurrection can be reconciled with Christian morality, Protestant positions run the gamut from Jonathan Mayhew, whose fiery sermons helped ignite the American Revolution; to Tony Campolo who portrays Jesus as a pacifist -- his antithesis in the moral order being Barabbas the insurgent.
The Medieval antecedent to Campolo's view, that armed resistance to the established government is intrinsically immoral, was stated explicitly in opposition to the military exploits of Joan of Arc. The Bishop of Beauvais, Pierre Cauchon, held an elaborate show trial to justify Joan's execution. Significantly, Cauchon suppressed the right of appeal to the Pope when Joan attempted to exercise it.
Cauchon’s articles of accusation attempted to prove that Joan had exercised her influence with the French dauphin and later king, Charles VII, to oppose peace and to ...
"… dissuade him (the dauphin) with all her power, him and those with him, from consenting to any treaty of peace, any arrangement with his adversaries; inciting them always to murder and effusion of blood; affirming that they could only have peace by sword and lance; and that God willed it so, because otherwise the enemies of the King would not give up that which they held in his kingdom; to fight against them thus, is, she told them, one of the greatest benefits that can happen to all Christendom … even for cases which tend openly to violence and effusion of human blood: a proposition the most foreign to all holiness, horrible and abominable to all pious souls."
Twelve decades after the retrial of 1456 posthumously accused Chacon of heresy, declaring Joan a martyr innocent of the charges against her, “Huguenot pope” and Protestant statesman, Philippe de Mornay, wrote in defense of popular resistance to tyranny. Mornay saw proof in Scripture that the failure to resist governmental wickedness was a sin in itself. In other words resistance was a citizen's moral duty. Echoing Mornay in a secular way, the U.S. justifies insurrection on the grounds that citizens have the "duty" of insurrection against despotic usurpations, viz. ..."it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government..."
See the indicated citation re application of the theory of justifiable insurrection to the United States in the 21st century.
Endnotes
All About God Ministries Inc. is a non-profit organization based in Colorado Springs, Colorado that produces and maintains evangelical websites. All About God Ministries has written approximately 14,000 pages of information and maintains 77 internet sites about creationism, science, the occult, other faiths, business practices, Jesus, prayer, religion, God, the Bible, popular issues, life challenges, and similar subjects.
All About God states that faiths such as Christian Science, Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses and others are cults. All About God subscribes to biblical literalism and biblical inerrancy. All About God Ministries is a proponent of Young Earth Creationism, believing that the earth is approximately six thousand years old. All About God ministries makes additional claims about science, including casting doubt over the certainty of Einstein's theory of relativity
Staff
All About God consists of 3 paid employees and approximately 100 volunteers serving virtually. It was co-founded in 2002 in Mission Viejo, California by President & CEO, Greg Outlaw and COO/CFO, Randall Niles.
CEO Greg Outlaw
The co-founder and CEO of All About God Ministries is Greg Outlaw. Outlaw grew up in Greenville, South Carolina and dedicated himself to Jesus at the age of 12 though he quickly got caught up in the world. He founded a successful internet company, but he then fell into a life of dissolution.
Outlaw was diagnosed as being terminally ill with pancreatitis which may have resulted from chronic drug and alcohol abuse. He was bedridden and being fed intravenously and on a regime of powerful pain medications.
After rededicating his life to Jesus on December 7, 1999, Outlaw started to read the Bible and pray on a daily basis. His biography suggests that he was miraculously cured when he made a decision to walk away from his dotcom company in April 2001, although chronic cases of pancreatitis can be resolved with reduction of both alcohol and fat intakes.
Outlaw began attending services at Pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback Church and felt a calling to establish an internet-based ministry. Outlaw then co-founded All About God Ministries with attorney Randall Niles, who he met at Saddleback Church.
Outlaw also runs a consulting business for Christian non-profits and Christian-controlled or owned businesses, focussed on increasing web traffic. Outlaw has written a book on search engine optimization called SEO by the Numbers.
COO/CFO Randall Niles
Randall Niles is the co-founder of All About God Ministries. Randall Niles is listed as operations director and CFO of All About God Ministries.
According to one of the "All About God" affiliated websites, Randall Niles spent nearly 20 years as a “practicing atheist” and a "passive participant on the gerbil wheel of life". Niles states that he was "forged in the fires of Georgetown, Oxford, and Berkeley."
Niles speaks at churches, campuses, camps, and conferences. He regularly teaches courses at Colorado Christian University in business, law, and philosophy. Nile has written the books, The Great Pursuit: The Message for Those in Search of God and What Happened to Me? Reflections of a Journey.
Mission Possible Cards
All About God in association with Dean Clark made another ministry called Mission Possible Cards. MPC was founded by a book that cought the eye of a girl working at a Koffee Kiosk.
All About God states that faiths such as Christian Science, Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses and others are cults. All About God subscribes to biblical literalism and biblical inerrancy. All About God Ministries is a proponent of Young Earth Creationism, believing that the earth is approximately six thousand years old. All About God ministries makes additional claims about science, including casting doubt over the certainty of Einstein's theory of relativity
Staff
All About God consists of 3 paid employees and approximately 100 volunteers serving virtually. It was co-founded in 2002 in Mission Viejo, California by President & CEO, Greg Outlaw and COO/CFO, Randall Niles.
CEO Greg Outlaw
The co-founder and CEO of All About God Ministries is Greg Outlaw. Outlaw grew up in Greenville, South Carolina and dedicated himself to Jesus at the age of 12 though he quickly got caught up in the world. He founded a successful internet company, but he then fell into a life of dissolution.
Outlaw was diagnosed as being terminally ill with pancreatitis which may have resulted from chronic drug and alcohol abuse. He was bedridden and being fed intravenously and on a regime of powerful pain medications.
After rededicating his life to Jesus on December 7, 1999, Outlaw started to read the Bible and pray on a daily basis. His biography suggests that he was miraculously cured when he made a decision to walk away from his dotcom company in April 2001, although chronic cases of pancreatitis can be resolved with reduction of both alcohol and fat intakes.
Outlaw began attending services at Pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback Church and felt a calling to establish an internet-based ministry. Outlaw then co-founded All About God Ministries with attorney Randall Niles, who he met at Saddleback Church.
Outlaw also runs a consulting business for Christian non-profits and Christian-controlled or owned businesses, focussed on increasing web traffic. Outlaw has written a book on search engine optimization called SEO by the Numbers.
COO/CFO Randall Niles
Randall Niles is the co-founder of All About God Ministries. Randall Niles is listed as operations director and CFO of All About God Ministries.
According to one of the "All About God" affiliated websites, Randall Niles spent nearly 20 years as a “practicing atheist” and a "passive participant on the gerbil wheel of life". Niles states that he was "forged in the fires of Georgetown, Oxford, and Berkeley."
Niles speaks at churches, campuses, camps, and conferences. He regularly teaches courses at Colorado Christian University in business, law, and philosophy. Nile has written the books, The Great Pursuit: The Message for Those in Search of God and What Happened to Me? Reflections of a Journey.
Mission Possible Cards
All About God in association with Dean Clark made another ministry called Mission Possible Cards. MPC was founded by a book that cought the eye of a girl working at a Koffee Kiosk.