In addition to a snack, homework time and various leisure activities, we, my impact team and I, have the opportunity to tell the four- to twelve-year-old kids about Jesus in the After School Program "Camp Promise". During the short, 20-minute Bible studies it can be quite colorful. Sometimes I wonder what the children learn during this time. Our leader Tracy encourages and motivates us "Only courage, God works in secret" - and how right she is. Again and again, we were able to experience that God is doing things in secret that we would have considered almost impossible. For example, I was totally amazed when a six-year-old child came to me during our snack and wanted to pray with me. God works in secret!
On January 8, 1956, the five missionaries Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Peter Fleming, Ed McCully and Roger Youderian were killed in the Ecuadorian jungle by a group of Waorani Indians. The young missionaries had tried to make contact with the dreaded and hitherto unreached ethnic group to bring them the Gospel. Elisabeth Elliot (Jim's wife) and Rachel Saint (Nate's sister) were on their way to continue the men's mission and live among the murderers of their loved ones later. The peaceableness of the foreigners and the lived forgiveness of the women touched the warriors so much that they decided to give their lives to Jesus and claim his forgiveness. To this day there is a small community in the tribe. Last week we had the opportunity to visit the tribe and the community with a propeller aircraft. I was particularly touched by the encounter with Dyuwi, the last remaining murderer of men. He also became a Christian and I was allowed to meet him and he prayed for us. Instead of shyness, hatred and violence, I see in him now peaceableness and an unbelievable passion in prayer. How great is our God who writes such impressive stories?!
During my impact trip, we worked at the Good News Home organization in New Jersey. Good News Home takes dependent women in and allows them to return slowly to their everyday lives. The organization supports this through a strict daily schedule with lots of lessons, gym and cooking. The women are introduced to the Good News of the Bible and integrated into everyday life - hence the name "Good News Home". At the moment, about ten women are accommodated.
The organisation is dependent on volunteers, because there are no employees for upcoming crafts and gardening. We - my team and I - have cleaned up an old barn, which is now used as a storehouse - as well as a very small house with a single room. In addition, a signboard had to be renewed to advertise an annual festival on the grounds. On one day we met a large group of volunteers who repainted a staircase, among other things. However, we as the impact team had a privilege: The volunteers of Liebenzell Mission are the only ones who are allowed to build up relationships with the women, because "Good News Home" has had good experiences with the impact teams for years.
So not only we worked practically on the ground but we also had dinner with the women and even prepared a short sermon. The women welcomed us from the very beginning and shared their life stories. I admired her openness to talk about her addictions; despite the difficult past, most of them were happy and well on their way to find their way back into everyday life - with God's help.


Ok, so I've been binge-watching "Stranger Things" on Netflix, and I can't get that Clash song out of my mind. But "Should I Stay or Should I Go" perfectly describes the dilemma I faced when I left Fresno in my RV in early December.
As mentioned previously, my plan was to store the RV and car at my uncle's house in Los Angeles. My flight to Seattle was scheduled for December 14th, but since I had an appointment to bring the full rig to the Camping World in Fresno on the 7th, I decided to head for LA the same day. I had to completely unhook and pack up the RV at the campground to take it to the shop, so it made sense to just keep driving.
The most direct route from Fresno to LA is via the "Grapevine", which is where I-5 goes over the Tejon Pass. It's a long and steep climb – I've driven it with a car many times. I was terrified of driving it with my rig, and preferred to avoid it at all costs.
Another alternative is to drive west to the coast, and then south along the 101 freeway. It adds a few hours to the trip, but it's worth the extra time to avoid getting stuck. So I carefully planned that route, studying maps and the Mountain Directory to make sure there were no big hills.
Two alternative routes from Fresno to LA (the coastal route continues to Ventura and then east, but Highway 101 is closed due to recent mudslides so Google maps would not allow me to finish the route).
I didn't have reliable television in Fresno, but the night before I planned to leave, I happened to see an online headline about fires in Los Angeles, and thought I better check it out. I soon learned that a section of Highway 101 was closed due to the Thomas fire, directly along my planned route.
Reluctantly, I researched the Grapevine option, but learned that there were strong wind warnings, especially for vehicles with high profiles. That would be me. Clearly, the drive to LA had to be postponed.
Not wanting to go back to the Fresno campground after the Camping World appointment, I decided to drive south, stay overnight in Bakersfield, and see how things looked the next morning. Highway 101 had re-opened the following day, but the wind was fueling the fires and making everything worse. Should I stay or should I go? If I go, should I drive through the fires, or tackle the steep and windy pass?
The campground in Bakersfield was lovely. It had everything I needed, including cable TV so I could stay informed about the fires. And it just so happened to be directly next door to an RV repair and storage place, which got me to thinking that perhaps I should give up the idea of driving the RV to LA, and store it in Bakersfield instead. So, I checked it out. It cost only $50 per month for storage, and they could do all the repairs I needed. Best of all, storing the RV there would allow me to postpone the drive to LA until next year. It felt like the right solution.
I spent the weekend preparing the RV for storage, and doing my packing. I was able to wash the RV for the first time since May because the campground allowed it, which is rare. I got up on the roof with my big push broom, a bucket and a hose, thinking constantly that this would NOT be a good time for an accident.
But it's a good thing I did go on the roof, because I discovered a big hole in one of the vent covers. Rain water would have poured in, creating a disaster inside. I was able to buy a new vent cover at the local Camping World, and replace it.
My uncle's house was a quick hour and a half drive over the Grapevine in my car, and I spent three wonderful nights in the warmth there before my flight to Seattle. It was an exciting day when I finally got on that airplane with my two 50 pound suitcases, all ready for Christmas with my kids, and then 5 months in Europe….
All I can say Chris, is you are amazing! You are very brave to do all that traveling alone!


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How to Challenge ALPR Searches
Criminal Defender Toolkit
Cell Site Location Information
What the Cops Know
How to Challenge
Cell-Site Simulators
What the Cops Do
Digital Device Searches
How to Challenge/Limit
DDS Cases
Automated License Plate Readers
Landmark Carpenter Decision Changes the Game
In the landmark Carpenter v. United States case, the U.S. Supreme Court held that seizure of 7 days or more of historical cell-site location information (CSLI) is a search requiring a probable cause warrant under the Fourth Amendment and that the Third Party Doctrine does not defeat an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy in their locational history. While the Supreme Court's ruling involved police tracking a suspect using location data obtained from his cellular provider, much of its reasoning applies to ALPRs as well. For example, Chief Justice Roberts wrote that because nearly everyone uses a cell phone, the government's tracking ability "runs against everyone," and "[o]nly the few without cell phones could escape this tireless and absolute surveillance."
ALPR data collection is similarly indiscriminate; anyone who drives on public streets is likely to be tracked and logged in an ALPR database available to police. Roberts also pointed to law enforcement's ability to retrieve CSLI from years in the past, creating a virtual surveillance time machine which "gives police access to a category of information otherwise unknowable." ALPR databases, too, facilitate retrospective searches of cars whose drivers were not under suspicion at the time they were photographed by an ALPR camera. As we wrote in our amicus brief in Yang, "The confluence of these factors—detailed location data collection about a vast swath of the American population allowing retrospective searches—is why technologies like ALPRs violate expectations of privacy under the Fourth Amendment."
Checklist for Challenging an ALPR Search
File a discovery motion requesting the ALPR results, search parameters, and any audits or updates of the ALPR query system.
Where law enforcement fails to obtain a probable cause search warrant for an ALPR search, file a motion to suppress based on the arguments in our Yang amicus brief.
If you are in the 9th Circuit, a single, unverified ALPR match (i.e. software match without visual confirmation) does not justify a traffic stop (See Green).
But in the Georgia Court of Appeals, an ALPR hit alone does justify a traffic stop (See Hernandez-Lopez v. State).
Where law enforcement does obtain a warrant for an ALPR search, refer to our strategies for How to Challenge a CSLI Search.
Challenge the foundation and authenticity of the proffered ALPR record(s).
Rely on more privacy protective state laws.
In some states, ALPR use must meet specific statutory requirements. Some state laws may provide more privacy protection and/or a suppression remedy for statutory violations.
For a list of state ALPR laws, visit: https://eff.org/ALPRstatelaws
Public Policy Arguments
This is an outline for our policy arguments as to why ALPR searches should require a probable cause search warrant under the Fourth Amendment taken from our Yang amicus brief:
ALPR Systems Across the Country Collect and Store Massive Amounts of Data That Can be Used to Identify and Track Drivers
Our vehicles take us to sensitive and private places like our homes, doctors' offices, and places of worship. And yet, for many years now, with little to no oversight, law enforcement agencies and private companies have been quietly scanning and recording the locations of billions of vehicles' license plates across the country.
ALPRs Automatically and Indiscriminately Capture License Plate Data
ALPRs are computer-controlled camera systems that automatically capture images of every license plate that comes into view. ALPRs can detect when a license plate enters the camera's field, capture a photograph of the license plate, the car and its surroundings, capture an infrared image of the plate at night, and convert the image of the plate into alphanumeric data—in effect "reading" the plate.
By design, ALPR collection is indiscriminate. ALPR data is collected on every vehicle, regardless of whether individual drivers are suspected of criminal activity. ALPR operators turn on vehicle-mounted ALPRs at the start of their shifts, and the devices scan plates continuously until operators turn off the system at the end of their shift. Fixed ALPRs have a continuous connection to an ALPR server. Vehicle plates are scanned not just while cars are in motion or parked on public roads, but also while they are parked in privately owned parking lots, on private streets, and driveways of homes.
ALPRs Collect a Significant Amount of Data
ALPR systems record extremely detailed GPS coordinates for each plate scanned. ALPR data includes not just the plate number but also a photograph of the vehicle, which may include the driver and passengers, as well as detailed location, time, and date information that can later place the vehicle and its passengers to within feet of the original scan. This data is stored in massive databases that are accessible to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, even where those agencies do not collect their own data or maintain their own databases. In many cases, this data is retained for more than five years—sometimes indefinitely.
ALPRs Collect Data on Everyone, Without Regard to Ties to Criminal Activities
ALPRs scan vehicles regardless of any association with criminal activity. This means that the vast majority of data is collected on drivers who are under no suspicion of criminal activity or risk to public safety. Public records requests in California have revealed, for example, that out of nearly 4 million plates scanned by a Northern California regional agency, only 985 plates—0.025%—were linked to criminal activity. That means 99.975% of the data—3,995,111 plate scans—was collected from vehicles under no suspicion. Similar rates were recorded in New York (0.01%) and North Carolina (0.08%). Of the 173 agencies surveyed by EFF and MuckRock, "on average, only 0.5%—that is, one half of one percent—of license plate scans" were linked to a hotlist.
ALPR Data Can Reveal Private and Personal Details About Individuals
ALPR data can be used not just to identify and locate a particular vehicle, but also, when combined with other easily accessible data, to identify that vehicle's owner and driver. And because ALPR data is stored for years, ALPR databases allow for retrospective searches that enable law enforcement to infer driving patterns, associations, and sensitive details about drivers' lives. At bottom, searches of ALPR databases threaten to undermine the "degree of privacy against government that existed when the Fourth Amendment was adopted," because they give police a capability unimaginable in the past—the ability to enter a virtual time machine and view suspects' past movements. Carpenter, 138 S. Ct. at 2214.
The Threats to Privacy and Civil Liberties from ALPRs are Well-Recognized
It is widely understood that police tracking of the public's movements can have a chilling effect on civil liberties and speech. The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) has cautioned that ALPR technology creates the risk "that individuals will become more cautious in the exercise of their protected rights of expression, protest, association, and political participation because they consider themselves under constant surveillance." And, indeed, communities that have faced excessive police surveillance—including ALPRs—have feared engaging in political activism, expressing religious observance, and exercising other constitutional rights.
Reviewing Collected ALPR Data Constitutes a Fourth Amendment Search
Individuals Maintain a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy in Their Movements
"A person does not surrender all Fourth Amendment protection by venturing into the public sphere." Carpenter, 138 S. Ct. 22 at 2217; United States v. Jones, 565 U.S. 400 (2012). As recognized by five concurring Justices in Jones and reaffirmed by the majority in Carpenter, "individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of their physical movements" because of the "privacies of life" those movements can reveal. Carpenter, 138 S. Ct. at 2217 (citing Jones, 565 U.S. at 430 (Alito, J., concurring in judgment)).
ALPR Systems Provide the Government with Unprecedented Powers of Surveillance that Upset Traditional Expectations of Privacy
The use of modern technology to seamlessly capture, aggregate, and search massive amounts of ALPR data is separate and distinct from the observation of a license plate of a single vehicle by an individual law enforcement officer. Innovations like ALPR systems remove many of the practical limitations associated with constant location surveillance. As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) explains, use of ALPR data "reduc[es] the work-hours required for physical surveillance." Recognizing the potential for technologies like these to enable invasive surveillance on a mass scale, the Supreme Court has admonished lower courts to remain vigilant "to ensure that the 'progress of science' does not erode Fourth Amendment protections." Carpenter, 138 S. Ct. at 2223. Automated license plate readers infringe on individuals' expectations of privacy for much the same reason that the GPS monitoring of vehicles at issue in Jones and the tracking of cell phones in Carpenter do: they facilitate detailed, pervasive, cheap, and efficient tracking of millions of Americans in previously unthinkable ways.
Detailed nature of the data.
ALPR systems capture much of the same information that we are concerned about with GPS tracking and cell-site location information. GPS coordinates associated with ALPR records can place vehicles at highly specific locations at specific times, locating an individual's car with more precision than the cell phone data at issue in Carpenter or even the GPS tracker in Jones. ALPR location data may be accurate to within 2-4 inches of the camera and within feet of the vehicle. Moreover, ALPR data allows the government to track people to locations that reveal private information about their lives. That is because the geographical precision of ALPR data facilitates inferences about individuals' locations in homes, offices, hotel rooms, and other spaces that receive the highest protection under the Fourth Amendment, and for which warrantless searches using both traditional and technological means are forbidden. Kyllo, 533 U.S. at 40.
Indiscriminate Collection of Data
For the vast majority of Americans, the choice to drive on public streets is not a luxury; it is "indispensable to participation in modern society." In many parts of the country, people have no choice but to drive themselves to work, a grocery store, doctor's office, place of worship, even in some cases to see a neighbor. In one survey, Gallup found that 84% of Americans drive frequently, and 64% drive every day. And once people drive on the public roads or even park in a privately owned lot or in their own driveway, there is little they can do to avoid having their precise location tagged by an ALPR system and made accessible to law enforcement without any suspicion of wrongdoing.
Retrospective searches
Like CSLI, the lengthy and frequently unlimited retention periods for ALPR data allow these retrospective searches. See Carpenter, 138 S. Ct. at 2218 (retention periods of up to 5 years). "Unlike the nosy neighbor who keeps an eye on comings and goings, they are ever alert, and their memory is nearly infallible." Carpenter, 138 S. Ct. at 2219. And access to technologies like these is "remarkably easy, cheap, and efficient compared to traditional investigative tools," id. at 2218, thereby upending traditional protections against pervasive government monitoring on which Americans have long relied.
Searches of ALPR Databases Require a Warrant
Because ALPR data can reveal private and sensitive details about a person's life—details that individuals reasonably expect to remain private—warrantless searches of ALPR databases by law enforcement to find evidence of criminal activity are per se unreasonable. ALPR data can be just as revealing as CSLI, and therefore individuals maintain a similar reasonable expectation of privacy in it. To prevent ALPR searches from feeding "too permeating police surveillance," the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement should apply when law enforcement seeks ALPR records that, much like the GPS tracking in Jones, 565 US 400 (2012), create a detailed, encyclopedic, and effortlessly compiled history of an individual's physical movements. See Carpenter, 138 S.Ct. at 2215, 2217 ("we hold that an individual maintains a legitimate expectation of privacy in the record of his physical movements ...regardless whether those movements were disclosed to the public at large"). See also our Cell Site Location Information cases and our CSLI one-pager. For this reason, ALPR data should be subject to the same warrant requirement as CSLI. See Carpenter at 2223.
Related Updates
Deeplinks Blog by Nathan Sheard | November 22, 2019
About Face: Ending Government Use of Face Surveillance
EFF wants to help end government use of face surveillance in your community. To aid in that effort, we've partnered with community-based organizations in the Electronic Frontier Alliance—and other concerned civil society organizations—in launching About Face. Our About Face campaign is a way for residents in communities throughout...
Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart, Eva Galperin | November 6, 2019
FTC Takes Action Against Stalkerware Company Retina-X
The FTC recently took action against stalkerware developer Retina-X, the company behind apps MobileSpy, PhoneSheriff, and Teenspy. The FTC settlement bars Retina-X from distributing its mobile apps until it can adequately secure user information and ensure its apps will only be used for "legitimate purposes." But here's...
Deeplinks Blog by Eva Galperin, Cindy Cohn | October 28, 2019
Private Companies, Government Surveillance Software and Human Rights
It's old news that governments around the world are misusing private company-sold digital surveillance software track and target people for human rights abuses. Recently, Amnesty International reported finding that two prominent Moroccan human rights defenders had been targeted using Israeli-based NSO Group's software. Just this week WhatsApp sued...
Deeplinks Blog by David Greene | September 9, 2019
Americans Deserve Their Day in Court About NSA Mass Surveillance Programs
EFF continues our fight to have the U.S. courts protect you from mass government surveillance. Today in our landmark Jewel v. NSA case, we filed our opening brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, asserting that the courts don't have to turn a blind eye to the...
Deeplinks Blog by Nathan Sheard | July 18, 2019
Victory: Oakland City Council Votes to Ban Government Use of Face Surveillance
Earlier this week, Oakland's City Council voted unanimously to ban local government use of face surveillance. The amendment to Oakland's Surveillance and Community Safety Ordinance will make Oakland the third U.S. city to take this critical step toward protecting the safety, privacy, and civil liberties of its residents. Local...
Deeplinks Blog by Hayley Tsukayama | July 3, 2019
Victory: Somerville, Massachusetts Stands Up to Stop Face Surveillance
The city council of Somerville, Massachusetts voted unanimously last week to become the first city on the East Coast to ban government face surveillance. It is encouraging to see cities across the country take this proactive step in anticipating the surveillance problems on the horizon and head them off in...
Press Release | June 24, 2019
Hearing Wednesday: California Should Audit Use of License Plate Data
Sacramento – On Wednesday, June 26, at 10 am, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge the Joint Legislative Audit Committee to approve an audit on the use of automated license plate readers (ALPR) by state law enforcement. ALPRs are camera systems that scan the license plates of vehicles...
Hearing Tuesday: EFF Will Voice Support For California Bill Reining In Law Enforcement Use of Facial Recognition
Sacramento, California—On Tuesday, June 11, at 8:30 am, EFF Grassroots Advocacy Organizer Nathan Sheard will testify before the California Senate Public Safety Committee in support of a measure to prohibit law enforcement from using facial recognition in body cams.Following San Francisco's historic ban on police use of the...
Deeplinks Blog by Nathan Sheard | May 14, 2019
San Francisco Takes a Historic Step Forward in the Fight for Privacy
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted today by 8-to-1 to make San Francisco the first major city in the United States to ban government use of face surveillance technology. This historic measure applies to all city departments. The Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance also takes an important step toward...
Deeplinks Blog by Nathan Sheard | May 7, 2019
San Francisco: Stop Secret Spy Tech and Face Surveillance
Government use of many surveillance technologies, and especially face surveillance, can invade privacy and chill free speech. It also disproportionately harms already marginalized communities: it increases the likelihood that they will be entangled with police, ICE, and other agencies with a history of abuse, bias, and unlawful violence. San Francisco's...

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Synopsis | International | International | Uncategorized | Nov 7, 2019
Will Steel Tariffs Mark the Demise of the WTO?
Lucas Siegmund
Scholar argues that Trump's steel tariffs and the responses from other countries endanger the free trade system.
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The United States is at war with free trade. In the past year, the Trump Administration's steel and aluminum tariffs have affected hundreds of billions of dollars of exported goods around the world.
But one scholar argues in a recent paper that the problem is much bigger than a fight over tariffs. If global leaders are not careful, the current trade wars involving the United States could threaten the stability of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the free trade system it protects, argues Yong-Shik Lee, the director of the Law and Development Institute.
In March 2018, President Trump announced the first round of tariffs on imported steel and aluminum products, drawing criticism from trading partners around the world. They viewed the tariffs as a blatant violation of WTO rules. Yet, the actions countries took in response to the tariffs—retaliatory tariffs and quota agreements—do just as much to undermine the WTO and the free trade system, writes Lee.
The Trump Administration issued its initial tariffs under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, following a U.S. Department of Commerce report that steel and aluminum imports affected national security. Under WTO rules, a country can take any action "necessary for the protection of its essential security interests." The Trump Administration argues that a stable supply of domestic steel and aluminum is vital to protect two essential security interests: critical infrastructure and national defense.
Lee challenges both interests. He argues "critical infrastructure" is too broad a category to be an "essential" security interest under WTO rules. The WTO's Appellate Body requires countries to "provide a reasoned and adequate explanation of how the facts support their determination." The Commerce Department's report failed to provide an explanation for why any specific infrastructure item serves essential security interests. This failure, coupled with the United States' long history of imposing protectionist trade measures under the guise of national security, leaves Lee skeptical that the steel and aluminum tariffs meet the WTO's legal standards.
In addition, although Lee concedes that national defense is an essential security interest, he argues the U.S. tariffs are not necessary to support national defense. The Commerce Department's report provides no indication the domestic steel and aluminum industries are unable to meet the production levels necessary for national defense. Given the lack of evidence supporting a threat to national security, Lee predicts that if the issue were disputed the Appellate Body would find the steel and aluminum tariffs violate WTO rules.
Although the world is focused primarily on the U.S. tariffs, the problem does not end there, argues Lee. Both the WTO and the free trade system are further threatened by actions taken in response to the tariffs. Countries responded by implementing retaliatory tariffs or negotiating quotas with the United States to limit their exports of steel and aluminum in return for the United States lifting the tariffs. Lee concludes that both approaches violate WTO rules.
The WTO allows countries to retaliate against tariffs if an original tariff was implemented as a "safeguard." Safeguards restrict imports of specific goods to reduce serious injury to that country's domestic industry. Countries that retaliated with tariffs against the United States, like China and Russia, have argued to the WTO that their responses were justified because the U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs are safeguards.
Lee points to three problems with this defense. First, the United States adopted its tariffs under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, which deals with national security concerns, not Section 201, dealing with safeguards. Second, the Commerce Department's investigation makes no reference to injury to the domestic steel or aluminum industries; rather, it focuses on the need to protect these industries for the sake of national security. Third, to implement a safeguard under WTO rules, a country must notify the WTO Committee on Safeguards and allow the Committee to evaluate the threat to that country's domestic industry. The United States provided no notification to the Committee.
Lee concludes that the steel and aluminum tariffs do not meet the WTO's definition of safeguards. As such, retaliatory measures against the tariffs violate WTO rules.
In addition, Lee argues that the countries that negotiated quota agreements also violated WTO rules. Countries such as South Korea and Brazil agreed to restrict the amount of steel and aluminum they export to the United States in return for the United States lifting its tariffs. The WTO's Agreement on Safeguards, a document governing all WTO member countries, prevents members from seeking any voluntary export restraints, including quotas.
The WTO implemented the Agreement on Safeguards to prevent countries from independently negotiating voluntary restraints on trade. Instead, the safeguard system requires countries to seek approval from the WTO for any measures they wish to take to protect their domestic industry from imports. The quota agreements that countries negotiated with the United States violate this principle and directly conflict with the Agreement on Safeguards.
The U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs, and the subsequent responses from other countries, are issues the WTO must address. But the threat of these tariffs goes far beyond the steel and aluminum industries. The greatest concern, Lee argues, is that the broad interpretation of national security interests, the retaliatory tariffs, and the voluntary quotas negotiated independently from the WTO will encourage countries to violate WTO rules increasingly in other industries.
Lee warns that, if left unchecked, the ongoing trade wars could spell the beginning of the end for the WTO and its free trade system.
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Ричард Винсент Уилан (; 28 января 1809, Балтимор, штат Мэриленд, США — 7 июля 1874, там же) —  прелат Римско-католической церкви, 1-й епископ Уилинга, 2-й епископ Ричмонда, участник Первого Ватиканского собора.

Основатель структур Римско-католической церкви в штате Западная Виргиния. Его имя присвоено одному из корпусов , основанного в 1955 году.

Биография
Ричард Винсент Уилан родился в Балтиморе, в штате Мэриленд 28 января 1809 года. В 1826 году с отличием окончил  в . Богословское образование получил в  в Париже. 1 мая 1831 года в Версале был рукоположен в священники для епархии Ричмонда.

По возвращении в США был назначен клириком прихода в городе Харперс-Ферри на западе штата Виргиния, а также управляющим делами колледжа Маунт Сент-Мэри. Трудился на миссиях в Мартинсберге,  и Бате (ныне Беркли-Спрингс). Совершал пастырские визиты в дома католиков, не имевших возможности присутствовать на богослужении в храмах из-за дальнего расстояния.

19 декабря 1840 года Папа Григорий XVI назначил его епископом Ричмонда в штате Виргиния. Хиротония состоялась 21 марта 1841 года в Балтиморе; основным консекратором был архиепископ , которому сослужили епископы  и . В то время на территории его епархии были сильны анти-католические настроения, подогреваемые Американской партией невежд. До назначения Ричарда Винсента Уилана, который стал вторым епископом Ричмонда, кафедра в течение десяти лет оставалась вакантной. В епархии служили только шесть клириков.

Новый епископ обратился за помощью к миссионерским обществам во Франции и Австрии. В своей резиденции на окраине Ричмонда он основал семинарский колледж. Педагогическую деятельность чередовал с миссионерскими поездками в отдаленные районы своей епархии. Он также основал несколько приходов и миссий, открыл несколько школ.

В 1848 году Ричард Винсент Уилан обратился ко Святому Престолу с просьбой выделить из его епархии территорию ограниченную Аллеганскими горами. Просьба епископа была удовлетворена. Таким образом, 19 июля 1850 года была учреждена епархия Уилинга, а 23 июля того же года Папа Пий IX назначил его первым епископом новой епархии. На кафедру он взошёл 8 декабря 1850 года.

Вскоре после своего назначения, епископ заслужил всеобщее уважение у своей паствы. Он привлёк членов монашеских орденов и конгрегаций к социальному служению на территории новой епархии. Лично участвовал в строительстве церквей и церковно-общественных учреждений, выполняя столярные и каменотесные работы. Занимал активную гражданскую и пастырскую позицию, защищая интересы католиков от посягательств со стороны местных националистов.

С 1869 по 1870 год Ричард Винсент Уилан принимал участие в работе Первого Ватиканского собора. На соборе выступил против принятия догмата о папской непогрешимости, так, как считал подобное действие несвоевременным.

В 1874 году у епископа возникли серьёзные проблемы со здоровьем. Его положили в больницу святой Агнессы в Балтиморе, в штате Мэриленд. Здесь 7 июля того же года он умер от болезни печени. На время его смерти в епархии Уилинга действовали 48 церквей, 29 священников, 3 женских монашеских общины, 6 школ для девочек, школа для мальчиков, сиротский приют и больница.

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Католические епископы США
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Rashford seeks more change after food voucher win
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Media captionMarcus Rashford: "I'm grateful the prime minister changed his decision"
Footballer Marcus Rashford says he wants to do more to help those in need after winning a battle to have a free school meal voucher scheme extended.
His campaign prompted a government U-turn that will see parents claim vouchers for about 1.3 million children in England during the summer holidays.
But he told BBC Breakfast there are "more steps that need to be taken".
Prime Minister Boris Johnson praised the England star's "contribution to the debate around poverty".
The Manchester United forward said he was "grateful that the prime minister did change his decision" and that, in a phone call, Mr Johnson had thanked him "for using what I've built in a positive manner".
Mr Rashford said the extension of the scheme – launched when schools were closed as part of the coronavirus lockdown – has "bought an extra six weeks" to "figure out what's next".
"I don't want this to be the end of it because there are more steps that need to be taken and we just need to analyse the response," he said in an exclusive interview.
"People are struggling all year around so we still need to learn more about the situation people are in and how we can help them best."
The government says £63m is available to support the most vulnerable families through a new local authority welfare assistance scheme, and its Holiday Activities and Food programme offers activities and free meals in the summer holidays.
On Tuesday, Downing Street announced all children eligible for free school meals in term time in England would benefit from a "Covid summer food fund".
'Impressive campaign'
The announcement came despite ministers having defended the decision not to extend the scheme for days beforehand.
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the "involvement of a young, well-liked, articulate and high-profile figure" like Mr Rashford "made that defence less sustainable by the hour".
Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the BBC it was "totally reasonable" for the government to listen to arguments and change its mind, as it had done in this case.
He congratulated Mr Rashford on his "impressive" campaign which he said was conducted with "such dignity and emotion".
Speaking on Sky News, Mr Hancock accidentally referred to the footballer as Daniel Rashford, which he put down to it being "too early in the morning", adding: "I completely misspoke."
Responding on Twitter, Mr Rashford laughed it off, saying: "I've been called much worse over the last couple of days."
Media captionBoris Johnson: "I only became aware of Marcus Rashford's campaign today"
The voucher scheme in England works out at about £15 a week per recipient, and will cost the public purse around £120m.
The Scottish and Welsh governments had already said they would continue supporting families with food vouchers, meal deliveries or bank transfers.
First Minister Arlene Foster has said she will propose an equivalent scheme in Northern Ireland be extended over the summer "if the necessary finances can be secured".
A "wave of unease amongst Conservative MPs over the handling of this latest U-turn" is likely to be aired later, when the prime minister meets the executive of the backbench 1922 committee for the first time since the general election in December, says BBC Newsnight's political editor Nicholas Watt.
One MP told him the issue had been "visible from outer space", while a cabinet minister criticised Mr Johnson's top aide, Dominic Cummings, and said the issue of meal vouchers "should have been dealt with a week ago" when raised during Prime Minister's Questions.
It comes amid heightened concern over the effects of the lockdown on livelihoods.
On Tuesday, official figures suggested the number of workers on UK payrolls fell more than 600,000 between March and May.
The number claiming work-related benefits – which includes the unemployed – was up 126% to 2.8 million, with analysts suggesting poorer areas were being hit hardest.
Charities say research among 3,105 parents suggests half of families receiving universal credit or child tax credit in June had fallen behind with rent or other bills.
Seven in 10 of those surveyed for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and Save the Children said they had cut back on food and other essentials.
The pressure on families was highlighted by Mr Rashford in an emotional open letter to MPs posted on Monday. The 22-year-old drew on his own experience of relying on free school meals and food banks growing up in Manchester.
In the BBC Breakfast interview, he revealed that his mother called him "about 10 times" when his campaign was in the news and he said it was "nice to see her smiling" about the result.
"When she was going through [the hardship], if someone had spoken about it then maybe the situation would've been different," he said.
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Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.
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So much has changed. For the better. I'll post more on my two – year soberversary, but if you're on Day 1, for the first time…. Or the umpteenth time. I was where you are right now.
I was sad and scared and desperate. I had a love/hate relationship with alcohol. I wanted it out of my life but was terrified to say goodbye. I had no clue how to mend the huge hole that its absence would leave.
I know that it was absolutely the right decision.
I started this post 5 days ago and haven't finished it because I've been too damn busy living my life and having F-U-N! Like taking granddaughters to amusement parks and taking long walks with my husband and taking yoga classes and ice skating and going to a cabin in the woods for an overnight visit with our daughter, son-in-law and youngest granddaughter. And watching the RNC, which was fun like watching those videos where people skateboard down stair railings and end up slipping and smashing their crotches is fun. You can't bear to see another second of it, but you just can't tear your eyes away.
I'll have a lot more to say in a few weeks, but for now – a sweet little nap is calling to me….
Oh my God! I love my life.


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British thrashers EVILE have released a digital-only single of the band's cover of PANTERA's "Cemetery Gates".
EVILE recorded "Cemetery Gates" in 2009 for a special Metal Hammer "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott (PANTERA, DAMAGEPLAN) tribute album. Tragically, it was also the last song the band recorded with its late bassist, Mike Alexander.
"Cemetery Gates" is available now exclusively on iTunes, and also features a special version of EVILE's track "Time No More", with Japanese vocals/lyrics.
Commented EVILE lead guitarist Ol Drake: "Finally, people who don't have the amazing Dimebag tribute issue, put out by Metal Hammer, can now download our cover of 'Cemetery Gates' on iTunes. Not only that, but you can also get the Japanese version of 'Time No More', only recently available on the Japanese release of 'Infected Nations'.
"It was such an honour to be a part of the Dimebag tribute, and doing this track really meant a lot to Mike.
"I recently had the pleasure of speaking to Rex [Brown, PANTERA bassist] about a few things, from the 'Gates' cover which he enjoyed, to coping with a loss.
"I love the metal community!"
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Our tender young minds were protected from sex and religion
by Debra DeAngelo
In our house, the stacks of Playboys were hidden in a secret room in the basement. Right next to the family Bible. That's where they kept all the stuff that might scar tender young minds, like the collected works of Hugh Hefner and King James. That said, that room was the worst kept secret on our street. I was a frequent docent for joyful, naughty tours through my dad's spicy library stacks.
My dad was crafty in constructing the "secret" room. He paneled the entire cavernous basement in horrendous '60s era knotty pine (which, in retrospect, is much more horrifying than the room's contents), and aligned the doorway with the cracks between the panels. The hinges were hidden, and the door had no handle. You had to know just where to push on it to make it spring open.
Way cool, huh?
(And by the way, for those who are worried — or hoping — that this column will evolve into lurid tales of a BDSM dungeon or inspiration for "that" scene in "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," relax. The door couldn't lock from the inside.)
Funny, my parents never questioned why us kids spent so much time in the basement. They must've thought we really loved playing on the old pool table, although no cracking of balls or yelps of "rack 'em" ever emanated from downstairs. But it was the '60s, before the onslaught of helicopter parents, and back then, if the kids weren't bothering the adults and no one turned up bleeding, that was good enough for them.
Sometimes, I sneaked into the secret room all by myself, and sat down with the raciest, most magical material of all: a big, fat, white leatherette King James Bible, in such pristine condition that I must have been the first to open it. The contents of its gold-edged pages were mesmerizing — all those flowery thees and thous, tales of talking snakes and burning bushes, raining frogs and multi-headed beasts, and the Great Whore (was that Miss November???). Only Dr. Seuss had a better imagination. And by the way, it didn't escape my young mind that whether the Bible or Playboy, everyone seemed happiest when running around naked.
I thought I was really getting away with something down in that secret room, whether alone or leading a tour, but in retrospect, I think my parents were wise to it. They probably figured we'd peruse the downstairs reading material and ask questions when we were ready.
Questions about sex were no problem in our house. My parents were both doctors, and they answered sex questions as doctors would: boring, ho-hum facts. Sex was just one more bodily function and a normal, natural part of life, and all in all, a good thing, but really, not that big of a damn deal. Religion, on the other hand – big damn deal. Bring up religion and my parents would ice over.
No surprise, then, that my sister and I were raised completely and totally agnostic: no prayer before meals, no dead and dying saviors hanging from crosses on the wall, no church on Sunday, zip, zilch, nada. They didn't bar us from exploring religion, but didn't encourage it either. We were free to explore the various religious paths, or no path at all, and make up our own minds. And it wasn't because my parents didn't have any experience with religion. Quite the contrary. My dad was Catholic and my mother Jehovah's Witness, and as far as their respective families were concerned, completely incompatible.
The story of their engagement announcement, as told to me, was that upon hearing that his daughter intended to marry a Catholic, my grandfather sprung to his feet not to embrace her, but to strangle her, telling her she'd be better off dead than married to a Catholic. Thankfully, she wrestled free, ran out of the house, and before you know it, my someday parents were on their way to Reno to elope. Following that unhappy start, my parents not only walked away from their respective religions, they soon moved 500 miles away from their families, clearly needing a buffer zone. Must've been those stressful early family gatherings and holidays that finally did it, which shouldn't have been a major issue, as Jehovah's Witnesses forgo all the good ones anyway.
How stressful were those early days for the mismatched newlyweds? I'm guessing pretty prickly, because as I reflect on it now, I can't recall a single instance where both sets of grandparents, or aunts and uncles or cousins, were in attendance. It was either one side of the family or the other, but never all together. The one exception was when I got married the first time. The anti-Catholic sentiment ran so deep in my mother's family stood outside during the ceremony because they refused to step foot inside a Catholic Church. They did attend the reception, but even then, never stood close enough to anyone from my father's side of the family for a photograph to be snapped of everyone together.
In the context of my parents' soured religious backgrounds, they were wise to raise their children religion-free. Yes, they got that right, which is quite amazing really, because when it came to child-rearing, my parents got most everything wrong, and I don't mean a little wrong, I mean completely, totally, gloriously wrong — a vein of column material I couldn't exhaust if I mined it every day for the rest of my life. But as for sex and religion, they nailed it: Question about sex? No problem, just ask, no harm, no foul, and a straight answer will be given. Question about religion? Go explore your options — see what you discover, make up your own minds, no harm, no foul, and no guilt or shame will be applied. And by the way, the textbooks are in a secret room in the basement.
Great column, Debra! Thank God your parents got some of it right! Very, very right.
Judy N
Wow, Debra. This is great! I love the voice here and the writing is terrific! Hopefully, this is part of a longer work?
My dad had his playboys in his bathroom and anyone could look through them and because they were out in the open no one cared in my family about nudity. I am glad your parents did something right with you as you seem to be a great writer and good person.
My parents were weirdly Catholic. There was a lot of breast beating and Mea Culpa for my mom and no responsibility whatsoever for my dad. I appreciate your column for the demonstration of the divisiveness of religion.
My dad performed music to make money for our church, but due to being previously married, he was treated like a Mexican in Arizona.
Judy – well, it has inspired me to start doing a few "reminiscing" columns. Gather a few thoughts while I can.
Hollye and Madge – my parents were both VERY damaged people, and minimally adequate, and that's being generous. I'd like to think it was a conscious choice on sex/religion, but it's equally possible that there were just negligent in that area as there were in most things, and those two particular areas caused the least amount of collateral damage.
Jesse – File that story under "hypocrisy."
Carolyn Wyler
We weren't allowed to question anything in my family. If I had even tried to read about other religions, beliefs and been found with a playboy/playgirl magazine, I most certainly would be going straight to hell (which now seems a lot more intriguing and entertaining than any heaven that I've heard about).
As always Debra, great column!


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James Dalziel is Professor of Learning Technology and Director of the Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of Excellence (MELCOE) at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. James leads a number of projects including: LAMS (Learning Activity Management System), including roles as a Director of the LAMS Foundation and LAMS International Pty Ltd; MAMS (Meta Access Management System), a national identity and access infrastructure project for the Australian higher education sector; RAMP (Research Activityflow and Middleware Priorities), a project investigating open standards authorisation and e-Research workflows, and ASK-OSS (the Australian Service for Knowledge of Open Source Software), a national advisory service on open source issues for the Australia higher education and research sector. Prior to his current roles, James helped lead the COLIS (Collaborative Online Learning and Information Services) project, was a Director of WebMCQ Pty Ltd, an e-learning and assessment company, and was a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sydney.
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Two Leading Firms Form Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Company that Services the Public and Private Sectors Across Canada, and Includes Deep Oil & Gas Expertise.
TORONTO – April 3rd, 2017 – It was announced today that OEL Projects Ltd. (OEL), which provides Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Management engineering services, primarily to the oil and gas industry, and McIntosh Perry Consulting Engineers Ltd. (McIntosh Perry), a national multi-disciplinary engineering firm, will join together. This combination includes more than 500 professional and technical staff in nine locations across the country. OEL will leverage McIntosh Perry's expertise in environmental, hazardous materials and remediation. McIntosh Perry will continue to provide infrastructure and building / structural services across the country, including Western Canada.
"This is the next step in our plan to become the premiere diversified engineering firm in Canada," said Gus Sarrouh, CEO, McIntosh Perry. "Over the last year McIntosh Perry has built a broad and diverse national presence. We are fortunate to add a firm with the depth of expertise as OEL to our engineering family, particularly since both firms share a common set of goals and values. Combining the two firms will diversify our service offerings, expand our geographical reach and enhance our client service."
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Temporal and Spatial Variations in Presence: Qualitative Analysis of Interviews from an Experiment on Breaks in Presence
Maia Garau,
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Doron Friedman,
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Hila Ritter Widenfeld,
Hila Ritter Widenfeld
Angus Antley,
Angus Antley
Andrea Brogni,
Andrea Brogni
Department of Computer Science, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Mel Slater
Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK, and ICREA-Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Departament de LSI, Barcelona, Spain
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https://doi.org/10.1162/pres.17.3.293
Maia Garau, Doron Friedman, Hila Ritter Widenfeld, Angus Antley, Andrea Brogni, Mel Slater; Temporal and Spatial Variations in Presence: Qualitative Analysis of Interviews from an Experiment on Breaks in Presence. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 2008; 17 (3): 293–309. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/pres.17.3.293
This paper presents qualitative findings from an experiment designed to investigate breaks in presence. Participants spent approximately five minutes in an immersive Cave-like system depicting a virtual bar with five virtual characters. On four occasions the projections were made to go white to trigger clearly identifiable anomalies in the audiovisual experience. Participants' physiological responses were measured throughout to investigate possible physiological correlates of these experienced anomalies. Analysis of subsequent interviews with participants suggests that these anomalies were subjectively experienced as breaks in presence. This is significant in the context of our research approach, which considers presence as a multilevel construct ranging from higher-level subjective responses to lower-level behavioral and automatic responses. The fact that these anomalies were also associated with an identifiable physiological signature suggests future avenues for exploring less intrusive ways of studying temporal fluctuations in presence during the course of the mediated experience itself. The findings also reveal that breaks in presence have multiple causes and can range in intensity, resulting in varying recovery times. In addition, presence can vary in intensity within the same space, suggesting that presence in an immersive virtual environment can fluctuate temporally and that spatial behavior is consistent with what would be expected in an equivalent real environment.
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High-profile crimes are very problematic for politicians. When something like the murder of Dru Sjodin occurred in 2003, it leads to a panicked "How could this have happened" mindset among legislators, who want to be known for keeping people safe. While the incident was horrific and every parent's nightmare, imagine a world where traffic fatalities were treated in a similar fashion.
The Minnesota State Highway Patrol would need 10,000 officers and photo radar and red light cameras would be placed on every road and intersection. Causing a highway death would lead to a life sentence. Highway fatalities would fall, but the resulting system would be enormously expensive to maintain, as the prisons filled to overflowing.
Unsurprisingly, every time the legislature increases penalties for crimes in the state, the cost of the system increases. Incarceration is expensive and creating new crimes and new and longer sentences for existing crimes adds up.
Minnesota has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the country, but that is not saying much in a nation that has the highest incarceration rate in the world. The ripple-effect set off by the enhancements to penalties after the Sjodin case is now starting to be felt by the state budget, as the Corrections Department runs out of beds in prisons. Building prisons is very expensive and given the experience of other states, should only be considered as a last resort.
Since election year politics makes it unlikely that there will be any sentencing reform at the state-level next year, we may have to wait another year for meaningful reform. Adjusting how some chemical dependency and mental illness cases are handled could reduce some costs, but the solutions to those issues are neither simple nor inexpensive, which means the legislature may be poorly equipped to effectively deal with that issue.


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DSIAC announces the release of BlueMax6 version 2.0. Developed and managed by the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC), BlueMax6 is a pseudo 6-DOF point-mass aircraft flight dynamics model that provides high-fidelity vehicle dynamics and Time & Space Position Information (TSPI) for constructive and virtual modeling simulation and analysis, including aircraft susceptibility, survivability, and vulnerability analysis. The model provides a standalone tool for determining aircraft mission performance, aero-performance, and energy maneuverability. BlueMax6 output can be fed directly into other related models (such as ESAMS, ALARM, RADGUNS, SUPPRESSOR, and JAAM), and the model can be directly interfaced to constructive non-real-time or virtual-real-time environments.
BlueMax6 uses installed propulsion data, trimmed aerodynamic data, flight control laws/limiters, and structural limit data to construct realistic air-vehicle TSPI data for input into other models, analysis tools, and environments. The model incorporates the WGS84 Spheroid and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Digital Elevation Terrain Data (DTED Level 0 to 2) to construct realistic Terrain Following (TF) flight paths.
BlueMax6 flight paths and aircraft maneuvers are constructed as a sequence of flight segments commanded via the Input Scenario File (.scn). Each flight segment is controlled by a set of command variables (such as latitude, longitude, heading, altitude, velocity, g-factor, roll angle) along with the aircraft specific maneuver limits (such as maximum/minimum g-factor and maximum roll rate). The BlueMax6 default frame rate is 100-Hz (0.01 s) and can generate output at any integer multiple of 100 Hz.
BlueMax6 includes an Aero-Performance Evaluation Module that allows the user to assess the specific performance capability of an aircraft with a specific configuration (fuel and payload). The Aero-Performance Module generates data for Ps, Sustained G, Rate-of-Climb, Range, Turn Rate, and other parameters. The Post Processing Tool is then used to plot the results of the evaluation. These plots can be saved as image files and copied into reports or briefings.
BlueMax6 also includes a Real-Time Virtual Mode using the HIVE Virtual Interface. This execution mode allows the user to either display BlueMax6 output in Real Time Mode or execute BlueMax6 in Operator-In-The-Loop (OIL) Mode with a Hands-On-Throttle-And-Stick (HOTAS) interface. The Virtual Interface also allows Multi-Player execution. HIVE has preset displays, controlled by XML input files, which can be reconfigured by advanced users.
Model Input and Output
The Scenario File specifies the aircraft to be used, the terrain option, initial conditions (e.g., position, heading, and airspeed), external store loadout (number and type of stores), internal/external fuel load, output file options, and the details for each waypoint/maneuver flight sequence to be flown.
The aircraft data models are now integrated into dynamic link libraries (dll's). The released database (AircraftRlsDB) with BlueMax6 currently contains 17 aircraft data models. There are 25 additional aircraft data models (individual dll's) that are restricted release due to proprietary data rights. Additional aircraft models can be added easily by building the individual .dll and adding the information to the "aircraftDatabase.dat" file located in the bin directory.
BlueMax6 has nine different predefined output file options, selectable from the GUI. The options include multiple formats for ESAMS, RADGUNS, ALARM, SUPPRESSOR, JAAM, models. Other options include a mission summary, HIVE Replay, and Route Plot file. There is also a user-defined-output (UDO), which allows the user to specify the desired output variables.
Release 2.0 Changes
Notable changes in Release 2.0 of BlueMax6 include the following:
The aircraft data files have been converted to source code (.cpp) files and compiled into libraries (.dll), eliminating the need for a data parser.Two libraries are included with the distribution, one for the Release Aircraft and one for User Aircraft.The User Aircraft library is a template for users who want to create and add their own aircraft to the database.A template for the aircraft source code file (.cpp) is also included with the release.
In this version, the entire Scenario Input File (.scn) is loaded at initialization and stored in the waypoints array.After initialization, each waypoint is commanded and flown sequentially.In the Real-Time Mode, this array becomes the Mission File.
The Maneuver Limits options have been updated to include Auto Pilot Limits, Sustained Limits, and Maximum Limits options.The Auto Pilot Limits Mode allows the user to use the defaults or set desired limits.
The graphical user interface (GUI) has been updated, simplifying the scenario file construction.
A Multi-Player Execution Mode has been added to support Engagement Analysis between multiple players.
A Maneuver Page has been added to construct maneuvers in the Multi-Player Mode.
The Commands have been updated and enhanced to simplify the command inputs and scenario file development.
All control modes have been converted to enumerations, simplifying integration into other real-time or non-real-time environments.Multiple Constructors are included to allow flexibility during initialization and execution from other simulation environments.An ICD is included in the user's manual.
The Aero-Performance Module has been enhanced to allow the user to specify the plots as a function of mach (default), velocity (feet/s or meters/s) or airspeed (KTAS or KCAS).
This release has been integrated with HIVE 7.0, the latest version of the Virtual Real Time Environment.The 3-D models have been updated, and icon files have been added for the database aircraft.
BlueMax6 Release 2.0 was developed primarily on Windows (XP, Vista, 7) platforms using Visual C++ 2012 Express. The model is also compatible with, and has been compiled on, Linux (Fedora). BlueMax6 and HIVE require approximately 3.3 GB of hard drive space, not including the Imagery or Terrain (DTED and CDARG) databases. The Imagery and Terrain databases will require additional space depending upon the user's needs. In addition, the HIVE Input, Models, and Icons files can add additional space requirements as the database is expanded. Note that BlueMax6 Release 2.0 includes DTED Level0 for CONUS only.
For more information on BlueMax6 or to obtain a copy of the latest version, contact DSIAC.
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