text:
To Protect the Pacifica Stations and Mission
The Toxic Loan
Loss of Federal Support
Abandoning the Mission
Pension Plan Delinquency
Property Tax Delinquency
Failures of Fiduciary Duty
Frankenstein Bylaws
Relevant Historical Links
About PSN
BAD NEWS:MEMBER BYLAWS ELECTION STOLEN & SOME GOOD NEWS: BAD DAY IN COURT
PACIFICA BOARD SHOWS ITS TRUE COLORS:
NO RESPECT FOR DEMOCRACY, LAW OR THE COURTS
The Pacifica Foundation Board lost yet again on July 14 when a CA Appellate Court dismissed their recent move to disqualify plaintiff's counsel in L.A. Superior Court. In a pattern of bad behavior, Pacifica has consistently tried to delay the civil action filed against them for malfeasance, misfeasance and mismanagement, but the court just as consistently refused to do that.
An old legal adage says, when you don't have truth on your side, you argue process, and attack the individual's character. For the past seven months, Pacifica's lawyers and the lawyer for the defendants have engaged in every stalling tactic under the sun to delay the lawsuit from moving forward in a timely manner, including completely false and defamatory personal attacks on plaintiff's lawyers and a member of the Pacifica National Board, thus preventing the true facts from emerging about the malfeasance of Pacifica's board of directors. Even worse, Pacifica is using donor contributions from KPFA donors to pay for lawyers, who keep losing at every turn. Are you upset yet?
A statement of a Pacifica Board officer who was quoted as saying "We want to make sure Pacifica pays for our defense, we absolutely can't let them do discovery in the case." What are "they" are afraid of? What will discovery reveal? Could it be:
two sets of books at WBAI, use of hidden accounts, missing equipment?
back door deals involving producers profiting from Pacifica broadcasts?
corrupt conflicts of interest involved with the $3.2 million loan to bail out WBAI?
dark money efforts funded by profiteering snake oil producers?
the cover up of numerous violations of state and federal laws?
major screwup of employee pension plans, NLRB issues?
loss of over $12 Million in Federal CPB funding and the lies behind how it happened?
6 years of bad, late and "qualified, Going Concern" independent audits?
PACIFICA LOSES BYLAW ELECTION, BUT DECLARES VICTORY
56% of voting Pacifica members opted for proposed changes put forward by New Day Pacifica that would implement an effective democratic structure, directly accountable to the membership. But the board of Pacifica insists the failure of the staff of Pacifica to vote for these bylaw changes nullifies the result. Here are the numbers. You can decide what democracy really looks like in Pacificaland.
Listeners:Yes 6640 votes (56%), No 5216 votes (44%)
Staff: Yes 180 votes (41%), No 255 votes (59%)
Total: Yes 6,820, No 5,381
Source: Simply Voting (Pacifica's election services vendor): Listener Results Staff Results
So… 1,439 more members voted YES than NO. But Pacifica's argument is that the staff votes have more weight than the donor votes — In the words of George Orwell's Animal Farm, "Some animals are more equal than others."
The majority of donors who provide all the funding are being negated by a small group with a clear conflict of interest. The suspiciously enlarged staff at WBAI and WPFW have been browbeaten into believing that a new board would sell their stations and with it goes their radio programs. A complete fabrication. As of this date, Pacifica has refused to reveal and vet the station by station votes.
We'll let the New Day Pacifica folks speak for themselves about their view of these election results. YOU must ask yourself who should be in power because the answer seems simple and one based on a genuine democracy – one person, one vote.
The present dysfunctional management of Pacifica will certainly continue to oppose the By-Law election results, and the issue appears to be headed to the courts. Despite all their pro-democracy propaganda to the contrary, it has no respect for democracy, law or the courts.
"Democracy at Pacifica" is a phrase used in arguments against any needed changes, but is not the reality. The only way to save Pacifica from inevitable collapse is through legal action. That is where we really need your help. We are winning in court, but the legal process moves slowly. As we said earlier, Pacifica management is doing all it can to slow the legal process down. The legal expenses to get to the truth comes at a real cost. Your continued tax-deductible donations have allowed us to get this far. Please help us save Pacifica and donate what you can, either by check or through our GoFundMe efforts
Thank you for all your continued support and faith.
-Pacifica Safety Net Volunteers
News & Updates:
Bad News: Member Bylaws Election Stolen, Good News: Another Win in Court 07/16/2021
Pacifica is selling another building! 07/07/2021
Protecting Pacifica, Saving Independent Radio 06/08/2021
3rd Amended Complaint filed with the LA Superior Court 05/31/2021
Ian Masters on "What Happened to KPFK?" 04/27/2021
LA Superior Court Denies Efforts to Dismiss Suit against Pacifica Directors 04/22/2021
Case Broadens Against Pacifica Directors for Malfeasance, Unlawful Conduct 03/08/2021
Saving Pacifica Critical to the Progressive Movement 02/11/2021
First PSN Newsletter 01/21/2021
More Fiction from the Trolls 12/19/2020
NOTICE: This site is not an official Pacifica Foundation website nor of any of its stations: KPFA, KPFK, KPFT, WBAI, WPFW or any Pacifica affiliate station. Pacifica Safety Net has no affiliation with the Pacifica Foundation, Inc. The opinions expressed above do NOT reflect those of the Pacifica Foundation, its management, staff, National Board or listener members. Copyright © 2021 Pacifica Safety Net
Copyright © 2022 Pacifica Safety Net | Powered by Astra WordPress Theme


"Polar Bears Tie by Wild Ties - Blue Polyester"
"Natives of the arctic these polar bears are displayed traveling in pairs or with their cubs among the mounds of snow and ice. The matte texture is soft to the touch and the aqua blue background is calming. Designed by Wild Ties; width measures 3.5 inches. Imported.".


text:
The inescapable
Sometimes the past comes back when you least expect it. It's sneaky that way, always hooking in from the side like a punch you never see coming. One minute you're standing there without a care in the world and the next you're lying on the ground wondering how you got there.
Lately I've been having flashbacks to my formative years, or more precisely, to those relatives who adorned them in ways I can only guess at. What disturbs me is that none of the flashbacks contain enough detail to enable me to reach across the decades and reconnect. The faces and places recede into the distance almost as rapidly as they materialize, leaving me grasping at shadows.
It started late last year after a particularly memorable Thanksgiving dinner. My family had retired to the den to watch a slideshow of old family pictures dating back to the 1950s and 1960s, the slides grainy and speckled with lint and dated not so much for their yellowed tint but for the clothing styles in evidence. I'm pretty sure that style wasn't in our lexicon back then other than poor white trash style, not that we considered ourselves poor or white or trash, though we were white and poor or close enough to it to have some of it rub off on us. Trash is what we took out, also the neighbors to the south. They probably weren't poor but they were definitely trash. They taught me from an early age that the world is an inhospitable place, that no matter who you are or how polite, kind or generous, somebody is going to dislike you for no good reason. I also learned that it didn't matter in the long run. You couldn't let other people run, or ruin, your life. But you better watch out for them, too. With some folks it's never a good idea to let down your guard.
There was a lot of festive jeering and hollering going down that evening. We laughed and yelled and silently yearned our lost who couldn't be there with us. My father was a prodigious photographer back in the day, something I don't think we appreciated as much as we should have, or would later in life after so many of those faces were gone. The old slides of the funny-dressed people with their broad lapels and scarlet pants that barely reached their ankles and the plaid shirts and lime green shoes, could that really have been us? We couldn't remember dressing that way, nor, if we did, would we ever admit it. The best excuse we could offer was that we were merely caught up in the times. We were products of the fifties and sixties, and then the seventies, which were worse in almost every way.
Since then, those faces keep dancing on the periphery of my consciousness. I find myself turning to greet them while a surge of adrenaline hammers through me, but they slip away without a sound.
Other, lesser, memories rise to the surface. Today while I was trimming my whiskers I remembered that I wanted to grow a beard when I was 20. Unfortunately, I worked as a security guard at an electrical transmission plant in northern New Mexico, which meant we were to appear groomed and professional at all times. No beards. Appearances were deceiving, however, because most of the people I worked with were sociopaths, alcoholics, druggies and losers. I wasn't much better. We were damaged people and knew it, barely hanging on to sanity and the distant, if not fading, belief in redemption. We were second chance people. Some of us made it, and some didn't.
This beard-lust phase lasted about a year as I went through a belated, and unrequited, hippie phase brought on by a girl. After a while she left town and I went back to being whoever I was while I was in between everything, and I forgot about beards until 15 years later when suddenly I grew one on a lark.
I never made the connection between then and now, or then and then, as it were. It wasn't as if I grew it as the culmination of an unfulfilled longing. It just happened, like deciding to wear hiking boots instead of tennis shoes. And now, so many years later, the connection pops into my head and I find myself laughing in the mirror. I did it, I thought, I actually grew a beard and liked it so much that it's not come off my face except for two short spells that ended badly, or farcically, anyway. And then I wondered what was so funny about it. Why wasn't it funny before? What changed?
We change, I suppose. One minute we're living our lives, going to work each morning and coming home to the same supper at the same table with the same dishes and dinnerware, and the next we're sitting around with remaining family members laughing at old pictures as if seeing ourselves for the first time, and the picture isn't a pretty one. But it's us, bad fashion styles and all, camping and partying and watching the city grow up around us, and then we're older and the babies start arriving and we drift apart and get old and some of us die and some of us stop talking to each other, until finally we look in the mirror and pieces of our past come filtering through the murk like cars approaching through fog, and we think, wow, I really did it, I lived this long, and it would be funny if not for those stilled voices that come to us like a dwindling echo, those ghosts that haunt us when we least expect them, every precious one of them.
Posted by Tom Parker at 1:08 PM
Two things. One is that wonderful line attributed to Anais Nin: "We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are."
And then there's this. Sometimes, we don't have a clue why things worked out as they did. We don't know the context. When that context gets blown wide open -- or even just cracked a little, for all that -- everything tilts, and it takes us a while to catch up with out own history.
I may have told you about my favorite aunt. I loved that woman. It was a bit of a shock to learn about five years ago that she went to the slammer for embezzlement. As you say, sometimes the past comes back when we least expect it. Sometimes it comes as memories, sometimes as new knowledge. But it always arrives.
"It always arrives." Eloquent, brief and absolutely true. Right now I'm at the tilted stage and the only thing keeping me on course, more or less, is having to prepare for an upcoming art exhibit. My life now revolves around printing photographs with little room for anything else.
Lift my soul to heaven
Honoring Dep. Brian Kenworthy
Cast iron cult
The Patrick and Tracy Show, sponsored by the Marsh...

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Home / Diesel / 325D - 52"/61"
The 325D is powerful machine for mowing applications where diesel power is the preference. This model is currently available with a 61", 4 blade, dedicated rear discharge mowing deck. Awesome machine for between the kiwi or grape vines or commercial mowing for the council.
The 3 cylinder, horizontal shaft, Kubota liquid cooled engine will mow all day at a fraction of the cost of a petrol powered model. Designed for fuel economy and extended service life this machine will mow the distance.


Depends on number and style of players, bets, your position and so on.
Hands such as A-K, A-Q, A-J and even K-Q can be profitable hands to play.Poker Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for serious. what starting hands are "above average. J-5 suited is the closest starting hand to 0%. Poker Tournament Starting Hands – Part I Starting hands are perhaps the most important and easiest thing to grasp in MTTs. Playing the wrong starting hands.By joining PokerStars you can easily learn all the poker rules and poker strategy by playing free poker games.
These hands are the most commonly dominated hands when faced with a raise, and as such will lose you significant money if you get into the habit of calling raises with them.In middle to late position you want to play these hands with due diligence.Keep this in mind to avoid stacking off to random two pairs and sets.The way to make money with these hands is to trap a loose opponent with the same top pair, weak kicker.At a loose table, these hands are great for raising when you have position (and no one has raised ahead of you).
Tune in live for great action from major poker tours, high-stakes cash games, Twitch favorites and more.PLO Poker Tournament Strategy – Close Starting. will quickly realize that smaller pair starting hands are basically unplayable. Best Site For Online Poker.Your home base for the latest poker news from the live pro tours, the Twittersphere and more.Texas Holdem Poker Starting Hands. The first version of the list we present you below has appeared in the arguably best poker book ever written "Texas Hold'em for.
Best Starting Hand in Omaha. no the reason it's the best hand is because it can flop either the nuts in lots of. There are a lot of poker tools out there.And the best way to limit the number of mistakes you make is to reduce the number of difficult decisions you have to make.News and features about your favorite professional poker players from around the globe.An overview of starting hands in Seven Card Stud Poker. Two Plus Two;. Fundamentals of Poker. This is the best starting hand in seven-card stud,.Queens and jacks are right in the middle - below the big pairs and above the marginal pairs.Poker Players in Detroit Hit Biggest Bad Beat Jackpot in U.S. History.
They can be great for indicating which hands might be worth playing (and which should be thrown away), but troublesome if allowed to outweigh all of the other important factors that arise as a hand plays out. Poker tech, must-watch poker videos and more from the lighter side of the poker world.Everything you need to know about 888poker from big online series and promotions to 888Live.The following list the 10 best starting hands in Texas Hold'em. Variations of this list exist but the differences are minor.
Here are the official poker hand rankings and an easy-to. Find the best poker sites to start your. Check below for a list of all poker hands ranked from best to.Poker Room Reviews. The best hand, therefore,. (A23) and double suited on the aces. In general we recommend the following starting hands.So, too, are the different combinations producing the same pocket pairs all equal before the flop in terms of their relative worth.
A poker hand chart illustrating the relative power of poker hands in comparison to each other. This poker hand chart ranks each poker hand best to worst.That being said, these two hands should still be in your list of top 10 most profitable hands.The Best and Worst Texas Hold 'em Poker Starting Hands. Texas Hold'em Poker Starting Hands: What to Hold and What to Fold. Does a Flush Beat a Straight?.
Get all the latest PokerNews updates on your social media outlets.Players Players Poker Tweets Player Rankings WSOP Winners Forum.
Throw away the weaker of these hands when out of position, and only play against a raise if you have a very strong hand or the odds with a strong drawing hand.Deuce to Seven Hand ranking chart poker strategy. Deuce to Seven Triple Draw Hand Rankings. gossip and learn all about the best online poker deals straight.Low Hand Rankings. Low Hand Rankings Test; Best Low Hand. Poker Beginners Guide: Low Hand Rankings (1) Low hands in poker can often be confusing for newcomers to.
Preflop Poker Hands and Position. You want to get as much money in the pot as possible before the flop when you have one of these absolute best starting hands. If you are now starting Omaha you should check out our chart of the 30 best starting hands in. best 30 starting hands in. your Omaha poker career and.
Even those with many years of experience who have little need to consult such charts still find them interesting as debate-starters.Similar to suited connectors, these hands are played only to take down very large pots for a very small investment.
Also according to the hight of your stack and the position your in your able to play more tight or loose, loose make it able to play les good hands and see if it falls for you on the table.
Texas Holdem Poker Tournament Strategy - Starting Hands plus articles and information on Casino-Gambling.
Check out the top online poker sites to play on for real money.all lowball hand rankings explained in. best possible hand when playing any poker game which uses. often known as 7-5 due to the best possible hand starting 7.Since a definitive guide on every hand and how and when to play it in every situation would take more words than a novel, this article will touch on the major points of basic pre-flop hands with broad strokes. You want to fold small suited connectors (if not all suited connectors) from early position.


Chloe interviews stylist and fashion writer Georgia Alexia Benjou and designer Stephanie Ohnmacht about Colorado's burgeoning fashion industry and the challenges facing designers working in Colorado today.
CPR arts reporter Corey Jones provides the lowdown on the Denver Actors Fund, an organization that helps performing arts professionals in Denver struggling with healthcare issues.
In the latest instalment of "Yes, But Is It Art?", our ongoing series that looks at opposing views on cultural matters, Chloe explores the difference between teaching beginners to take their first dance steps versus coaching advanced students who are polishing their practice.
Poet Michael Henry drops into the CPR studio to share a poem from "Gone West," a new collaboration involving Henry's words, music by songwriter/cellist Ian Cooke and movement by Denver's Wonderbound dance company.


When you shop at Puppet.com for all of your puppets and puppet accessories, you're the star of our show! We promise to give you star treatment every time you visit us. All of our puppets and puppet accessories ship factory fresh directly from our warehouse right to your door. We carefully inspect and package your order before shipment to ensure that you're completely satisfied. Plus, we stand behind our products with a full money back guarantee.


Heather Sevcik graduated in 2012 from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing with a Masters of Science in Nursing degree and certification as a nurse-midwife. She initially worked at a rural birth center on the border of Texas-Mexico after graduating, returning to Nashville in 2013 to work with Vanderbilt School of Medicine. There she helped establish a collaborative physician/nurse-midwife practice at NorthCrest Medical Center. In January of 2016, Heather joined the Baby+Company team.
Her special interests within midwifery include physiologic birth, functional medicine/nutrition, herbal medicine, and global health. She is bilingual in Spanish and enjoys caring for women and families from all walks of life. When Heather is not catching babies she can usually be found milking goats, digging in the dirt, running, or spending time with her partner, Jon.


This armor is part of a group of 5 armors made for the Museum-Castle of Beaugency, which was the residence of the famous Dunois, one of the great companions of Joan of Arc.
Do you want to discover how your next jousting armor might look like ?
Do not hesitate any longer !
The castle has re-opened its doors. It is only 1 hour 45 minutes from Paris by train and only 15 minutes drive from the castle of Meung where I have my workshop.
Do you dream about a mobile and comfortable armor with a minimal restriction of movements? Do you dream about a harness that could allow you to easily salute your opponent by raising your lance before each course of joust, or freely couch your lance under the armpit without hindrance ?
Do you want to be able to attend all the most magnificent tournaments and events, especially those which require perfectly historically accurate equipments ?
We can make your dream come true !
Why choosing this type of harness ?
And a beautiful gold plated chamfron (similar to those worn among French and Burgundian ordinance companies) will allow you to match the protection of your mount and your own harness.


text:
Filtered by admin Reset filter
A GALILEO E6-B/C RECEIVER
10. October 2016, admin - Publications Press & Media
A GALILEO E6-B/C RECEIVER: SIGNALS, PROTOTYPE, TESTS AND PERFORMANCE
A contribution to ION GNSS+ 2016, Portland, Oregon, October 2016
by E. Göhler, I. Krol, M. Bodenbach, J. Winkel of IFEN GmbH
as well as G. Seco-Granados of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
and I. Fernandez-Hernandez of the European Commission in Belgium.
gnss receiver
e6-b/c
PRESS RELEASE: IFEN'S NEW NCS TITAN GNSS SIMULATOR - THE MOST POWERFUL AND FLEXIBLE GNSS SIMULATOR, IN A COST EFFECTIVE PACKAGE
13. September 2016, admin - IFEN Products
Poing, Germany - IFEN GmbH, the leading manufacturer of GNSS navigation test and development products and services, today announced the launch of its new NCS TITAN GNSS Simulator.
The unique flexibility and outstanding performance of the NCS TITAN GNSS Simulator is beyond the capabilities of any other simulator currently on the market. With up to 256 channels (and 1024 multipath channels) and up to 4 RF outputs per chassis, the extra complexity and cost of using multiple signal generators is avoided, improving reliability without compromising on functionality.
The innovative design of the NCS TITAN allows users configure channels for any GNSS signals and allocate those channels to any of the RF outputs fitted. This flexibility enables the same Simulator hardware to be used for an extensive range of tests, for all types of GNSS applications. The NCS TITAN sets new standards in the field of GNSS Simulation, in terms of fidelity, accuracy, dynamics, iteration rates and reliability.
"The launch of our brand new NCS TITAN GNSS Simulator represents another milestone for our NCS GNSS simulator products", explains Dr. Günter Heinrichs, Head of Customer Applications. "This shows clearly once again our commitment to ongoing product enhancement and dedication to providing our customers with best GNSS test equipment on the Market". The NCS TITAN GNSS Simulator has been developed in cooperation with WORK Microwave GmbH, Germany.
ncs titan
gnss simulator
SLAB HELPS PUSH GLIDERS TO THE EDGE OF SPACE - STANFORD`S SPACE RENDEZVOUS LAB USING IFEN NAVX-NCS PROFESSIONAL GNSS SIMULATOR
08. July 2016, admin - IFEN Products
For over 17 years the scientists, engineers, and pilots of the Perlan Project have pushed the edge of manned glider flight, using South American mountain winds to surf the air to ever higher altitudes. This July they will attempt to set the world record for high altitude unpowered flight, soaring to the edge of space at 90,000 feet-almost double the previous record of 50,721 feet. The world of competitive gliding is regulated by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) - The World Air Sports Federation, which oversees all aspects of glider flight record attempts and their certification. Specifically, the FAI's Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Flight Recorder Approval Committee determines which GNSS-based flight recorders can be used for high-altitude record attempts. Currently, the LX-9000 is the only approved flight recorder for high-altitude glider record attempts, but it has never been tested above 40,000 ft, that is until SLAB's PhD student Duncan Eddy and GPS Lab's Researcher Todd Walter started helping under the supervision of Prof. Simone D'Amico.
Eddy and Walter used SLAB's high-fidelity IFEN GNSS signal simulator to test Perlan's dual LX-9000 flight recorders with simulated Global Positioning System (GPS) signals similar to those the receivers will see on the day of their world-record-attempt flight late this July. Since the only known winds that can propel a glider to the stratosphere occur in the remote mountains of southern Argentina, the GNSS signal simulator represents the only way to verify the functionality and performance of the flight recorders at that location, before the actual flight. The testing set-up (pictured left) and the rigorous scenario definition, which reproduces the planned climbing trajectory, helped uncover information regarding the behavior of the flight recorders that is crucial for the successful validation of any record setting attempt. This was only possible thanks to the experience gained by Duncan Eddy with the IFEN GNSS signal simulator in the frame of his PhD on advanced algorithms and hardware for precision GNSS navigation in space.
Text Source Space Rendezvous Laboratory / Stanford
navx ncs professional
perlan project
CHINA ADDS 23RD SATELLITE TO BEIDOU CONSTELLATION
15. June 2016, admin - Miscellaneous
The Chinese Beidou system's 23rd satellite was launched into orbit Sunday aboard a Long March 3C rocket. The Long March 3C rocket lifted off at 1530 GMT (11:30 a.m. EDT) from the Xichang launch base in southwestern China's Sichuan province, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.
This is the third new satellite to join the fleet this year. The 21st satellite was launched in February, and the 22nd in March. The satellite was deployed into an elliptical orbit more than 22,000 miles (35,700 kilometers) above Earth. It will power its way into a circular geosynchronous orbit over the equator in the coming weeks.
Text source GPS World
satellite launch
NEXT TWO GALILEO-FOC SATELLITES ARRIVED AT SPACEPORT KOUROU
06. April 2016, admin - Galileo
On April 6th, 2016 the next two Galileo FOC* satellites (Danielè and Alizée) have arrived safe and sound at the launch site in Kourou (French Guiana).
The Launch of the next two satellites is scheduled for May 24, 2016 and will be carried out by Arianespace from the Guyana Space Center in French Guyana. It will orbit two FOC (Full Operational Capability) satellites, and precedes Arianespace's already scheduled launch of four Galileo satellites on an Ariane 5 ES during the fourth quarter of 2016.
With these two launches, six new Galileo satellites will be deployed in 2016, as in 2015, bringing the total number in the Galileo-constellation to 18 by the end of the year. Each of the Galileo satellites is named after one of the children who won the painting competition organized by the European Commission in 2011.
* The FOC (full operational capability) phase of the Galileo program is being funded and executed by the European Union. The European Commission and the European Space Agency ESA have signed a contract under which ESA acts as the development and sourcing agency on behalf of the Commission. The view expressed here does not necessarily reflect the official position of the European Union and/or ESA. Galileo is a registered trademark owned by the EU and ESA and registered under OHIM application number 002742237.
Text source OHB SE Website
galileo satellites
NEW SOFTWARE RELEASE - SX3/SX-NSR V3.2.1
31. March 2016, admin - IFEN Software
The following improvements and new functions are available with SX3 / SX-NSR Software Receiver software version 3.2.1.
New Functionality
New SX3 frontend mode providing sample rate of 100MHz.
SX3 frontend temperature log-file.
Automatic calibration of Galileo E5ab (AltBOC) tracking when using SX3 frontend.
New optional available scintillation monitor module and dedicated configuration 'ScintillationMonitor.nsr'.
New API example "TrackingLoopAdvanced".
New driver model used for SX3 frontend.
Improvements / Bug-Fixes
Updates in SX3 reflectometry package.
Correct issue for 2-bit sample format, this improves C/N0 for tracked satellites.
IRNSS navigation data decoding now can be activated for L5 or for S-Band simultaneously.
Correct gravity model computation in GnssInsKalman modul.
sx-nsr
IFEN NCS ESSENTIAL & REISER SIMULATION AND TRAINING GMBH
07. March 2016, admin - Application & Success Story
25 Years of Excellence meeting 18+ years of Experience - FOR PROFESSIONALS FROM PROFESSIONALS.
Success Story of Reiser
Reiser website
reiser gmbh
navx-ncs essential
avionic application
PRESENTATIONS AT MUNICH SATELLITE NAVIGATION SUMMIT 2016
29. February 2016, admin - IFEN Company, Events, Shows & Trade Fairs
During this years Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, Dr. Günter Heinrichs and Dr. Wolfgang Bär will present three interesting presentations.
Innovations in GNSS Testing and Applications
Dr. Wolfgang Bär
GNSS Testing for the Future - The Challenge
Dr. Günter Heinrichs
GNSS and Today´s Forestry - A Changing Industry
If you are interested in receiving one or all of the presentations, please contact us at Sales.
munich satellite navigation summit
ifen
IFEN NCS ESSENTIAL GNSS SIMULATOR & COBHAM SATCOM
02. February 2016, admin - Application & Success Story
Cobham SATCOM used IFEN´s NavX-NCS Essential GNSS simulator to test their new (D)GNSS receiver successfully for type approval preparation.
Success Story of Cobham SATCOM
Cobham SATCOM website
cobham satcom
INDIA'S FIFTH NAVIGATION SATELLITE LAUNCHED
20. January 2016, admin - Miscellaneous
The fifth satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) constellation lifted off on time Jan. 20 from Satish Dhawan Space Center on Sriharikota Island, on India's east coast.
As in the previous four launches of IRNSS satellites, the navigation satellite rode aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). This is the 33rd launch for the PSLV.
After the PSLV-C31 lift-off at 0401 GMT Wednesday (11:01 p.m. EST Tuesday) with the ignition of the first stage, the subsequent important flight events - strap-on ignitions and separations, first stage separation, second stage ignition, heat-shield separation, second stage separation, third stage ignition and separation, fourth stage ignition and satellite injection - all took place as planned.
We are pleased to announce that the signal quality of the IRNSS Navigation Payload has been tested successfully by using IFEN´s high performance IRNSS Payload Coherence Test Receiver (PCTR).
indian regional navigation satellite system
Galileo will be Europe´s global navigation satellite system, providing a highly accurate, guaranteed global positioning service under civilian control.


Moringa has been referenced to as the tree of life...because all parts of this plant (leaves, seeds, roots, etc) can all be used for something phenomenal.
When I was reading up about this plant, I was amazed at all its claims for possible healing and remedies.
Have a listen for yourself so see what all the fuss is about...click the play button below!!
Want to leave me a comment or voicemail? You can do so very easily from just clicking on the Voicemail tab above this post, or to the right of this post saying "Leave A Voicemail."


text:
A very strong earthquake registered by the EMSC struck northern Molucca Sea, Indonesia at 06:06 UTC on January 18, 2023. BMKG is reporting M7.1 at a depth of 64 km (39.7 miles); EMSC reporting M7.1 at a depth of 60 km (37.3 miles).
The epicenter was located 155.1 km (96.4 miles) NW of Tobelo and 220.1 km (136.8 miles) N of Ternate, North Maluku, Indonesia.
7,000 people are estimated to have felt strong shaking.
Overall, the population in this region resides in structures that are a mix of vulnerable and earthquake-resistant construction. The predominant vulnerable building types are unknown/miscellaneous types and heavy wood frame construction. Recent earthquakes in this area have caused secondary hazards such as tsunamis that might have contributed to losses.
This is the second M6+ earthquake to hit Indonesia since 00:34 UTC on January 18. This Earthquake event today was closely forecasted by solarwatcher.net months in advance via the Global Newsletter longrange monthly Earthquake forecasts(PDF) download: link and details below.
https://solarwatcher.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=9&Itemid=69
Previous articleAnother X-Flare (New AR 13186) | January 10, 2023
Next articleStrong Magnitude 6.8 Earthquake Strikes Santiago Del Estero, Argentina | Jan 20, 2023


Corporate executives take note: In coming decades, the majority of global population growth will occur in countries where gender disparities are greatest and where conservative traditions and customs work against women's rights. Entrenched gender discrimination remains a defining fact of life for most of the world's bottom 2 billion, and that is not only a critical human rights issue but also a pressing economic issue. It causes staggering losses in productivity, economic activity and human capital.
Conversely, the empowerment of women–as customers, employees, entrepreneurs and participants in local, regional and global supply chains–is akin to stumbling on an enormous emerging market. Indeed a recent Booz Allen study suggests that women represent the "third billion," potentially equivalent to the billion-plus-population markets of India and China. Yet that potential will only be realized if women are better educated, are healthier and more secure and are more enabled by their communities to participate in the global economy. That is why the Clinton Global Initiative has chosen "Empowering Girls and Women" as one of the four themes for its annual meeting next week.
Multinational companies searching for growth in the developing world should realize that breaking down barriers and creating opportunities for women makes strong business sense. Just as corporations have found that "going green" can add real profits to their bottom lines, companies that recognize women's empowerment as critical for increasing labor-force productivity, improving the quality of global supply chains and expanding their customer base and distribution networks will enjoy a competitive advantage. With the right brands and promises of investment and employment, the private sector can be a powerful partner to governments and non-governmental organizations in a transformative push for improvements for women.
Some companies are already deploying their assets to improve the lives of women in emerging markets. Tupperware is one, the iconic American company that invented the party-based sales model–by women, for women–back in the 1950s. Today Tupperware is replicating that model overseas. Nearly 50% of its revenues come from emerging markets such as Egypt, India and Indonesia. In India alone, its all-female sales force numbers more than 50,000. As bread-winners, managers and trainers of other women, Tupperware ladies enjoy greater self-confidence and stature and become leaders in their communities.
Standard Chartered Bank, which generates 90% of its income from operations in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, is another company that understands the positive effect of women's empowerment on profitability. To differentiate itself, it focuses on women in markets where they have traditionally been underserved. In India and Pakistan, the bank operates all-female branches; in Africa, it runs the "Diva Club," a savings program that encourages women to save in groups and facilitates networking among them. Standard sees these programs as valuable in building customer loyalty and creating a first-mover advantage. Along the way, the initiatives also bring underserved women into the financial mainstream, helping them become savers for their families, expanding their decision-making and building their businesses through improved financial literacy and access to credit.
Here are five principles to keep in mind for companies that operate in emerging markets and are just now considering women's empowerment.
First, define and measure success appropriately. Obstacles to female empowerment differ across regions, so a company must identify the relevant issues in each market. For example, do female employees need a male family member's permission to work? Do they have access to financial services, so they can actually control their incomes? Do they have transportation and safety constraints different from men?
Second, although donating money to women's empowerment initiatives is a good start, incorporating such objectives into business practices is even better. Bringing business women into the global supply chain has significant potential. Hiring women as salespeople also holds great possibility, as Tupperware's experience shows.
Third, companies should provide skills and resources to female entrepreneurs and business leaders. This can mean expanding financial services to female clients–not just credit but savings products, too–as Standard Chartered Bank has done. Or it might mean support for an existing organization that helps women obtain access to health care, identity cards, or property rights. Leadership training, as well as secondary and university education, is central to developing the next generation of female business leaders, managers and activists.
Fourth, do not shy away from taking on issues. Although companies understandably resist being associated with controversy, they do have an interest in engaging in thorny subjects such as domestic violence (the lost productivity of both men and women in the aftermath of domestic violence is enormous) or women's access to reproductive health care (runaway population growth can strain resources and threaten a country's stability).
Fifth, corporations should not try to reinvent methods that have already been perfected by others, simply to appear innovative and committed. Instead they should look to partner with the many excellent nonprofit organizations that have been working on issues of women's empowerment for decades. Organizations such as CARE, Vital Voices and Women's World Banking are eager to join with the private sector to develop programs that can take advantage of corporations' expertise and assets, including their brands, employees, supplier bases, technology and funding.
Closing the gender gap and improving women's rights in emerging markets may take generations, but the benefits will be huge, and not only for individual women and their families but also for global markets. As companies seek new sources of revenue in developing economies, they will find that gender disparities pose an obstacle. The sooner and harder the private sector works to overcome gender inequality, the better off the world–and companies' own bottom lines–will be.


text:
Q: Matlab vs Mathematica, eigenvectors? function H = calcHyperlinkMatrix(M)
    [r c] = size(M);
    H = zeros(r,c);
    for i=1:r,
        for j=1:c,
            if (M(j,i) == 1)
                colsum = sum(M,2);
                H(i,j) = 1 / colsum(j);
            end;
        end;
    end;
    H

function V = pageRank(M)
    [V D] = eigs(M,1);
    V

function R = google(links)
    R = pageRank(calcHyperlinkMatrix(links));
    R

M=[[0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0];[0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0];[0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0];[0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0];
    [0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1];[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1];[1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1];[0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0];]
google(M)

ans =

   -0.1400
   -0.1576
   -0.0700
   -0.1576
   -0.2276
   -0.4727
   -0.4201
   -0.6886

Mathematica:
calculateHyperlinkMatrix[linkMatrix_] := {
  {r, c} = Dimensions[linkMatrix];
  H = Table[0, {a, 1, r}, {b, 1, c}];
  For[i = 1, i < r + 1, i++,
   For[j = 1, j < c + 1, j++,
    If[linkMatrix[[j, i]] == 1, H[[i, j]] = 1/Total[linkMatrix[[j]]],
     0]
    ]
   ];
  H
  }

H = {{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1/3, 0}, {1/2, 0, 1/2, 1/3, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {1/2,
     0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 1/2, 1/3,
    0, 0, 1/3, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 1/3, 1/3, 0, 0, 1/2}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 1/3,
    0, 0, 1/2}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 1/3, 1, 1/3, 0}};
R = Eigensystem[H];
VR = {R[[1, 1]], R[[2, 1]]}
PageRank = VR[[2]]

{1, {12/59, 27/118, 6/59, 27/118, 39/118, 81/118, 36/59, 1}}

Matlab and Mathematica doesn't give the same eigenvector with the eigenvalue 1. Both works though...which one is correct and why are they different? How do I gte all eigenvectors with the eigenvalue 1?

A: The Definition of an Eigenvector X is some vector X that satisfies
AX = kX
where A is a matrix and k is a constant. It is pretty clear from the definition that cX is also an Eigenvector for any c not equal to 0. So there is some constant c such that X_matlab = cX_mathematica.
It looks like the first is normal (has Euclidean length 1, i.e. add the sums of the squares of the coordinates then take the square root and you will get 1) and the second is normalised so that the final coordinate is 1 (any Eigenvector was found and then all coordinates were divided by the final coordinate).
You can use whichever one you want, if all you need is an Eigenvector.

A: This is because if a vector x is an eigenvector of matrix H, so is any multiple of the x.
Vector you quote as an answer for matlab does not quite check:
In[41]:= H.matlab - matlab

Out[41]= {-0.0000333333, 0.0000666667, 0., 0., 0.0000333333, 0., \
-0.0000666667, 0.}

But assuming it is close enough, you see that
In[43]:= {12/59, 27/118, 6/59, 27/118, 39/118, 81/118, 36/59,
  1}/{-0.1400, -0.1576, -0.0700, -0.1576,
  -0.2276, -0.4727, -0.4201, -0.6886}

Out[43]= {-1.45278, -1.45186, -1.45278, -1.45186, -1.45215, -1.45217, \
-1.45244, -1.45222}

consists of almost the same elements. Thus matlab's vector is -1.45 multiple of Mathematica's.

A: Eigenvectors are not necessarily unique. All that is required of an eigenvector is that

*

*It must have unit norm

*v_m*v_n=0 for all m ≠ n (orthogonality)

*It satisfies Av_m=u_m v_m, where u_m is the corresponding eigenvalue

The exact eigenvectors returned depends on the algorithm implemented. As a simple example to demonstrate that one matrix can have two different sets of eigenvectors, consider an NxN identity matrix:
I=   1     0     0     0
     0     1     0     0
    ...   ...   ...   ...
     0     0     0     1

It is obvious (and can be easily confirmed) that each column of I is an eigenvector and the eigenvalues are all 1.
I now state that the following vectors
v_m=[1,exp(2*pi*1i*m/N),...,exp(2*pi*1i*m*(N-1)/N)]';

for m=1,2...,N form an orthogonal basis set with norm 1, and hence are the eigenvectors of I. Here 1i refers to square root of -1 in MATLAB notation. You can verify this for yourself:
N=50;
v=1/sqrt(N)*cumprod(repmat(exp(-1i*2*pi/N*(0:N-1)),N,1),1);
imagesc(real(v*v'));

Here I've taken the real part because the imaginary part is non-zero (of order 10^-16)due to machine precision effects, but should be zero (you can even do this analytically and it should be zero). imagesc returns an error otherwise.
So, to sum up, eigenvectors are not necessarily unique and both convey the same information; just in different representations.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
Apple's earnings were a mixed bag
Lewis Wallace Jul 27, 2016
https://www.marketplace.org/2016/07/27/apple-s-earnings-were-mixed-bag/
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks about the Apple Watch during an Apple event back in March at the company's headquarters. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Apple has reported its latest profits to much fanfare, and results show iPhone sales have once again slumped, with overall sales down by the billions from this time last year. Still, stocks shot up because the results were better than expected.
To hear Apple CEO Tim Cook talk on the earnings call Tuesday, everything is rose golden.
"Apple Watch continues to be the best-selling smart watch in the world," he said.
Profits were at $7.8 billion for the quarter, compared to $10.7 billion during the same three months of 2015. Comparatively weak iPhone sales were offset by an uptick in the iPad's growth; Cook said more people are purchasing those for work. And revenues were strong in Apple's service areas, including iCloud and Apple Pay.
But the 40 million iPhones Apple shipped out was still a drop from this time last year.
"It's hard to keep growing and growing and growing off the basis of one single product," said J.P. Gownder, a VP and principal analyst at Forrester. The Apple Watch hasn't exactly been a smash hit, so Apple's been aggressively trying to grow in new parts of the world instead.
Anindya Ghose, a business professor at the NYU Stern School, has been following Apple in China and in India, where Apple's sales growth was strong this quarter.
"I'm very optimistic and bullish about Apple's future proliferation in India," Ghose said.
He said Apple will start opening retail stores in India soon. On the other hand, sales in China have slowed, but much of that can be attributed to an overall slowdown in the Chinese economy.
Apple looks to build on strong end to 2020
User data, software updates on agenda at Apple developer conference
Apple shares drop after news of waning iPhone sales
Will the iPhone (RED) boost Apple's sales?
Apple reports record profits in first quarter
Apple, Qualcomm settle lawsuits, paving way for 5G iPhone