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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.We find out about the landmark protest in 1990 when wheelchair users crawled up the steps of the US Capitol Building in Washington DC, campaigning for disability rights.Our expert is Dr Maria Orchard, law lecturer at the University of Leeds, who has carried out research into disability and inclusion.We hear about the 2015 attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunisia's capital, in which 22 tourists were killed.Next, the Gambian woman who in 1997 began making bags and purses out of old discarded plastic and is now globally recognised as Africa's Queen of Recycling.The South African musical King Kong which opened to critical acclaim in 1959 and whose all-black cast defied apartheid.Finally, the invention of the Global Positioning System - GPS - in the late 1970s, which now keeps aircraft in the sky and supports banking transactions.Contributors:Anita Cameron - disability rights campaigner Dr Maria Orchard - lecturer in law at the University of Leeds Hamadi Ben Abdesslem - tour guide Isatou Ceesay - environmental campaigner Nelson Mandela - former President of South Africa Marian Matshikiza - daughter of Todd Matshikiza, jazz pianist and composer Professor Brad Parkinson - chief architect of GPS(Photo: 8 year-old Jennifer Keelan crawls up the steps of the US Capitol, 12 March 1990. Credit: AP/Jeff Markowitz)

This week, Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start off the episode by announcing Arduino co-founder David Cuartielles will be taking the stage as the keynote speaker at Hackaday Europe. In his talk, we'll hear about a vision of the future where consumer electronics can be tossed in the garden and turned into compost instead of sitting in a landfill for the next 1,000 years or so. You'll also hear about a particularly clever manipulation of Apple's AirTag infrastructure, how a classic kid's toy was turned into a unique display with the help of computer vision, and the workarounds required to keep older Global Positioning System (GPS) hardware up and running. They'll also cover DIY toasters, extracting your data from a smart ring before the manufacturer can sell it, a LEGO interferometer, and a new feature added to the Bus Pirate 5's already impressive list of capabilities. Capping off the episode there's a discussion about the surprising (or depending on how you think about it, unsurprising) amount of hardware that was on display at FOSDEM this year, and the history of one of man's most infernal creations, the shopping cart wheel lock. Check out the links over at Hackaday, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!

Shaking Up the World is a collection of stories by the Naval Academy Class of 1957 members. Some classmates watched Japanese planes bombing Pearl Harbor (Tom Marnane). Walt Meukow spent the war as a prisoner in the Philippines; another Art Aronson, was a prisoner in the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. The Shaking and shaping of four years at Annapolis molded men who would spend their lives shaking up the world, large and small, in uniform and as civilians. Brad Parkinson's architecture of the Global Positioning System (GPS) was monumental. Charlie Duke, an astronaut, spent 72 hours on the moon's surface. Jerry Barczak tells about being hijacked by Hezbollah terrorists in a fatal event. The War in Vietnam involved Leo Hyatt's account of imprisonment at the Hanoi Hilton, which is a classic in bravery and loyalty. Larry Bustle's account of being shot down over enemy territory brings back the terrific impact war had on all of us—Bob McElwee's story of his life as a National Football referee

If you see people on public property around Floresville searching for something over a few days next week, they might be geocachers. For those unfamiliar with the hobby, geocachers look for “geocaches” with the aid of Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates. A “cache owner” hides a geocache, which is typically — but not necessarily — a small item that contains a log and, perhaps, another item of interest. A finder validates the find on the log before returning the geocache to where it was found. Finders also log each find into their geocaching app and can award it some points....Article Link

This 80s classic solidified Eddie Murphy as a superstar. Beverly Hills Cop was the top-grossing film of 1984 and earned an Oscar nomination for its screenplay. What became one of AFI's Top 100 comedies almost turned into a very different film with Sylvester Stallone, more action, and less humor. Directed by Martin Brest, the film introduced Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit cop who investigates a murder in Beverly Hills. With its perfect mix of humor, action, and Murphy's charm, the film reshaped the action-comedy genre. Join Tim Williams and returning guest co-host, Chris McMichen, as they dive into Beverly Hills Cop on this episode of the 80s Flick Flashback Podcast.Here are some additional behind-the-scenes trivia we were unable to cover in this episode: Throughout the production, the screenplay underwent constant revisions, which sometimes resulted in actors receiving their lines just before they were expected to deliver them. This posed a challenge for actor Stephen Elliott, who was caught holding a rolled-up script while portraying Police Chief Hubbard. Fortunately, the director believed this detail enhanced his performance, so Elliott is seen holding those script pages in the film. The Beverly Hills Police Department uses a "satellite tracking system" to locate Foley and Rosewood. Although this system was fictional when the story was created, it later inspired the development of modern satellite technology, including the Global Positioning System (GPS). The mansion used in the final shootout between Foley and Maitland is the same mansion seen in the final shootout between Matrix and Arius in "Commando" (1985). Coincidentally, both Foley and Matrix were trying to rescue somebody named Jenny in that mansion in their respective films.Sources:Wikipedia, IMDB, https://www.cracked.com/article_44671_40-trivia-tidbits-about-beverly-hills-cop-on-its-40th-anniversary.htmlhttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/60484/15-things-you-may-not-have-known-about-beverly-hills-copSome sections were composed or edited by ChatGPT We'd love to hear your thoughts on our podcast! You can share your feedback with us via email or social media. Your opinions are incredibly valuable to us, and we'd be so grateful to know what you enjoyed about our show. If we missed anything or if you have any suggestions for 80s movies, we'd love to hear them too! If you're feeling extra supportive, you can even become a subscription member through "Buy Me A Coffee". For more details and other fun extensions of our podcast, check out this link. Thank you for your support! https://linktr.ee/80sFlickFlashback

Japan's space agency says it successfully launched a navigation satellite on its new H3 rocket. The latest launch on February 2 took place as the country aims to develop a more precise positioning system. 日本航天局表示，它成功地在其新的H3火箭上推出了导航卫星。2月2日的最新发布会是该国旨在开发更精确的定位系统的。 The H3 rocket carrying the Michibiki 6 satellite lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center on a southwestern Japanese island. 载有Michibiki 6卫星的H3火箭从日本西南部的Tanegashima太空中心抬起。 Makoto Arita oversees the H3 project for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency known as JAXA. Arita said everything went smoothly and the satellite successfully separated from the rocket as planned about 29 minutes after liftoff.Makoto Arita监督日本航空航天勘探局的H3项目，称为Jaxa。阿里塔（Arita）说，一切都顺利进行，卫星在升空后约29分钟后成功地与火箭分离。 Officials said it should reach its target orbit around Earth in the middle of February. 官员说，它应该在2月中旬到达地球周围的目标轨道。 Japan's current system is called the quasi-zenith satellite system, or QZSS. It started operating in 2018 and has four satellites that serve a regional navigation system. The Michibiki 6 will be the fifth satellite in the network. 日本当前的系统称为准Zenith卫星系统或QZSS。它从2018年开始运行，并拥有四个为区域导航系统服务的卫星。Michibiki 6将是网络中的第五颗卫星。 Michibiki's signals are used to supplement the American satellite system called the Global Positioning System (GPS). It will also improve positioning data for smartphones, car navigation, navigation at sea and drones. Michibiki的信号用于补充称为全球定位系统（GPS）的美国卫星系统。它还将改善智能手机，汽车导航，海上航行和无人机的定位数据。 Japan plans to launch two more navigation satellites to have a seven-satellite system by March 2026. The Japan Science and Technology Agency hopes that will create a more precise global positioning ability without depending on foreign services, including GPS. By the late 2030s, Japan plans to have an 11-satellite network. 日本计划在2026年3月之前发射另外两条导航卫星，以建立七个卫星系统。日本科学技术局希望，它将创造更精确的全球定位能力，而不会依赖包括外国服务（包括GPS）。到2030年代后期，日本计划拥有一个11卫星网络。Sunday's launch was the fourth successful flight in a row for the H3 system. The first attempt to launch last year failed and the rocket had to be destroyed with its payload. 周日的发布是H3系统连续第四次成功的航班。去年发射的首次尝试失败了，火箭必须用有效载荷摧毁。 Japan considers the ability to regularly put satellites into orbit as important to its space program and national security. It has been developing two new leading rockets. One is the large H3 from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The other is a much smaller Epsilon system with the aerospace unit of IHI corporation. Japan hopes to meet the needs of companies for space launch services and improve its position in the growing satellite launch market. 日本认为能够定期将卫星放入轨道上对其太空计划和国家安全至关重要。它一直在开发两个新的领先火箭。一个是来自三菱重工业的大型H3。另一个是IHI Corporation的航空航天单元的一个小得多的Epsilon系统。日本希望满足公司对太空发射服务的需求，并提高其在不断增长的卫星发射市场中的地位。

In the increasingly interconnected landscape of modern warfare, the pivotal role of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology has become indispensable to the operations of the US military. Join Brian "Sunshine" Sinclair and Scott "Roger" Chafian on a thought-provoking episode of On Future War as we explore the intricate nuances surrounding the US military's dependence on GPS, evaluating the vulnerabilities and challenges associated with potential jamming, interference, or destruction of this critical system. Brought to you by Authentic Media with the support of Cubic Corporation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In an era where the Global Positioning System (GPS) is increasingly under threat by jamming and other anti-satellite capabilities, what does the future hold for military-grade Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT)? Today's guest is Dr. Alison Brown, President and CEO of NAVSYS Corporation. Alison and NAVSYS focus heavily on this work, providing a variety of PNT solutions. On this episode, Alisons joins us to discuss all things GPS, from what the military uses it for, to threats to the system, to alternatives that can support our military capabilities in a GPS-denied environment. NAVSYS Corporation: https://www.navsys.com/ Registration is now open for the second annual Emerging Technologies for Defense Conference! Please click here to learn more and register: www.ndiatechexpo.org To receive updates about the conference please join our mailing list here: https://www.emergingtechnologiesinstitute.org/sign-up ETI Website: ⁠https://www.emergingtechnologiesinstitute.org/⁠  https://www.facebook.com/EmergingTechETI https://www.linkedin.com/company/ndia-eti-emerging-technologies-institute https://www.twitter.com/EmergingTechETI

The memorable and noticeable events in First Turnings particularly include * Infrastruture * Exploration * Seeking out corruption, in whatever form it's expected to exist. Rebuilding St. Peter's Basilica falls under the first category, especially when it's being rebuilt for the first time in over 1000 years.     Americans learn of the founding of Jamestown as part of their country's history, as the first successful English colony in the New World and the precursor to the Thirteen Colonies that would eventually rebel against the British. It can also be looked at as the start of the British Empire, and as embodying a spirit of exploration in the aftermath of the victory over Spain.  All of which make it an appropriate instance of a First Turning landmark.    In 1714, the British Parliament approved The Longitude Prize, which offered monetary rewards to anyone who could make it possible for ships to effectively determine their longitude. The smallest prize was £10,000 - the equivalent of millions of dollars today.    The Kingdom of Great Britain was created by The Acts of Union  in 1707. Before then, one would properly refer to the English Parliament, and after to the British Parliament. This epsode crosses over that point in time between the start and the end, so the incorrect adjective may have slipped in once or twice.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1707   The Global Positioning System (GPS) might be considered a comparable sort of infrastructure, but it was created over a long enough period that associating it with a specific Turning is difficult. It also required infrastructure (namely rockets that could put satellites in orbit), and was implemented in short order once those were available. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System       In 1804, Lewis and Clark's "Corps of Discovery" heads north and west from where the Missouri and Mississippi rivers meet, attempting to find a way to the Pacific Ocean. The First Turning encourages Exploration, which continues to use the governmental infrastructure set up during the previous Fourth Turning, but avoids the complications of a open warfare....   Expanding infrastructure is one of the key indicators of the First Turning, and the transcontinental railroad was an infrastructure priority for the United States in the 19th Century.     The organizational strengths and focus that enable infrastructure and exploration are not always aimed at such noble pursuits. Sometimes they find internal enemies, or at least try to seek them out. The fear of Communists infilitrating the entertainment industry led the U.S. Government to pursue a group that became known as The Hollywood Ten. As this hits the edge of the map for the First Turning, we continue on with a short description of our final historical period, the Third Turning, and how we'll be choosing our landmarks there.

Welcome to the first episode of Season 2 of the Fat Bird, Ugly Dog Podcast.  In this episode I talk to Kevin Harcourt of Marshall Radio Telemetry.  Kevin tells us a little about the company, its philosophy, and how he came to be part of the Marshall Radio team. We then distinguish between Radio Detection Finding (RDF)  technology and Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, including components of each system and the way in which each system combines component-specific functions that allow users to keep tabs on a hawk's location. On the GPS side of things, we talk about the LED displays, how to interpret the various LED colors on the transmitter and the pocket link, and how to get additional information from the LED display on the pocket link when trouble shooting or tracking a lost hawk.  Kevin also describes raw data and derived data.  We finish out Part 1 of this 2-part episode discussing the trade off between battery longevity and data acquisition associated with each of the four user-selectable modes (HD, ECO, EXT, and SLEEP).  

In this episode of The IQT Podcast, host Dr. Sarah Sewall is joined by guests Dr. Scott Pace and Steve Poizner to discuss the future of the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS). They delve into the development of GPS, its importance in both civilian life and military capabilities, and the challenges it faces in staying ahead of other global navigation satellite systems. The episode sheds light on the crucial role GPS plays in our modern world and explores potential solutions for its continued success. Tune in to gain a deeper understanding of the complexities surrounding GPS and why it is sometimes referred to as “the invisible utility.”   Topics • Historical and Policy Perspectives on GPS • The Future of GPS and GNSS • Challenges in Upgrades and Modernization • Commercial Uses and Reliability of GPS • Implications and Advocacy for GPS Modernization   Featured in this Episode Sarah Sewall IQT https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahsewall/   Steve Poizner OneNav https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevepoizner/   Scott Pace George Washington University https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-pace-4011311/

Don't miss another episode release and short by subscribing to our YouTube channel. Make sure to subscribe, tick the bell and have the notifications on so you don't miss another episode.Join our FREE online community:https://drvicmanzo.podia.com/This FREE community is only for:1. People who want to break out of the matrix2. People who want to live a soul-filled life3. People who want to create the reality of the desires4. People who want to have self-mastery5. People who want to grow, evolve and show up as the greatest version of themselves.If this is you, then join today!https://drvicmanzo.podia.com/------------------------Trusting the Divine GPS involves surrendering to the unseen forces that guide our journey through life. Much like a Global Positioning System (GPS) directs us on a physical map, trusting the Divine GPS means embracing faith in a higher power that orchestrates our experiences and shapes our destinies. It's about acknowledging that there is a grander plan beyond our understanding and learning to navigate the twists and turns of life with a sense of trust and surrender.In essence, it's a profound belief that every challenge, detour, or unexpected turn serves a purpose in the larger tapestry of our lives. It requires letting go of the need for absolute control and allowing the universe or a higher power to guide us toward our fulfillment and desires. Trusting the Divine GPS is an act of faith, a recognition that the journey is as important as the destination and that even in the face of uncertainty, there is a divine order at play.In today's podcast episode, I will share with you one way that I share with coaching clients on how to get yourself in alignment with your Divine GPS that will help you lead a life more fulfilled while also achieving your greatest desires. Tune in for more and if you enjoy the episode, take a moment and share it with someone who you think would benefit from and if you haven't already, subscribe to the podcast so you never miss another episode.Connect with Dr. VicFacebook - www.Facebook.com/drvicmanzo1Instagram - www.Instagram.com/drvicmanzoTikTok - www.TikTok.com/@drvicmanzoLinkedIn - www.Linkedin.com/in/drmanzoPodcast YouTube Channel: www.YouTube.com/TheMindfulExperimentDr. Vic's YouTube Channel - www.YouTube.com/drvicmanzo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Beam e-scooter hire trial for Broome The Broome Shire Council has approved an application by Beam Mobility Australia for a 12-month trading licence to trial its e-scooter ‘shared micromobility service' in Broome. Three hundred purple e-scooters will be available for hire through the Beam app for pick up and drop off at designated parking areas around Broome. They will feature Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, which will track their location and limit their speed, including in designated slow zones and exclusion zones in busy areas such as Chinatown, Town Beach, and the Cable Beach tourist precinct. The technology will also prevent the e-scooters from straying from designated operating areas by notifying riders and directing them back, with the scooter powering down and slowly stopping if they don't comply. At this stage, the e-scooters will be allowed to operate in a 28-square-kilometre area that includes Old Broome, Cable Beach, Djugan and Bilingurr. Beam will consult the Shire, community, and other stakeholders to develop approved exclusion zones, speed limits, pick-up/drop-off locations, and address other matters. The Shire will have the authority to make changes to the zones as required. ‘Rapid Response Rangers' (RRR) responsible for charging and managing unused scooters will be employed, with Beam committing to having staff available 24/7 every day of the year. According to Beam, this will create between 15 to 20 local jobs in Broome. Broome Shire President Desiree Male said e-scooters are already a common site around Broome because they provide a quick, convenient, and economical way to travel short distances. “I expect they will be popular with locals, but their real value will be in making Broome more accessible to visitors who want to experience more of what our town has to offer.” Cr Male said Beam's intention to engage with the Shire and community members to address any issues and concerns prior to launch will help reduce teething problems. “Once the zones are in place the GPS technology will help ensure that the convenience the e-scooters provide won't be an inconvenience to others.” Beam operates in several other West Australian regional centres including Albany, Geraldton, Bunbury, Esperance, Kalgoorlie – Boulder, and Denmark.

El megaproblema de las megaconstelaciones de las megaempresas Una constelación de satélites es un grupo de satélites artificiales que trabajan coordinadamente. El ejemplo más conocido son las de posicionamiento, como el Global Positioning System (GPS) y sus análogos europeo (Galileo) y ruso (GLONASS). Hasta ahora estas eran las mayores existentes, con 31, 22 y 24 satélites en activo respectivamente. Sin embargo, recientemente varias empresas han manifestado su interés por crear auténticas megaconstelaciones de miles de satélites: Space-X con 30.000, Amazon con 3.000, OneWeb con 48.000, la agencia espacial china… ¡hasta Boeing y Samsung planean unirse a la fiesta! De lograr sus intenciones, en la próxima década podríamos tener más de 100.000 satélites orbitando la Tierra.

Episode 267: Author of "Memoirs of an Ordinary Guy," Danny Olmes redefines what it means to be extraordinary and why being great should be a reflex. Guest Biography Daniel Stuart Olmes is a husband, father of twins, entrepreneur, and aerospace and defense executive residing outside of Washington, D.C. in the Northern Virginia suburbs. He is currently the president and chief operating officer of a mid-sized government contractor and is an avid reader, fitness enthusiast, and volunteer, spending most of his free time watching his kids' sports and on the baseball field as a Little League coach. He has founded two companies—Middleburg Capital and Hellen Systems—the first being a commercial real estate investment firm, and the second, a technology company focused on a national security initiative to create a ground-based back-up for the Global Positioning System (GPS). He earned a bachelor's degree in biology at Virginia Tech in 2000. This episode is brought to you by Runnymede Capital Management. For our market views, subscribe to our email at www.runnymede.com/newsletter. In this episode, you'll learn: The power of journaling to track and reflect upon moments in your life Why greatness should be a reflex Taking the harder road and taking major risks in your life Show notes: https://www.inspiredmoney.fm/267 Find more from our guest: www.dannyolmes.com Instagram Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mentioned in the episode: Viktor Frankl Jamie Clarke Books: Memoirs of an Ordinary Guy: The Everyday Experiences that Changed My Life by Daniel Stuart Olmes Thanks for Listening & Watching! To share your thoughts: Leave a note in the comment section below. Share this show on Twitter or Facebook. Join us at the Inspired Money Makers groups at facebook and LinkedIn To help out the show: Leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser.com, or wherever you listen. Your ratings and reviews really help, and I read each one. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and YouTube.

Verirrt? Die Orientierung verloren? Kein Problem! Ein Blick aufs Smartphone genügt, dank GPS. Doch was steckt dahinter? Was sind Gründe für Ungenauigkeiten und Fehler? Erfahre mehr über die Funktionsweise von GPS, wieso die Erde ein Erdapfel (Kartoffel) und die Höhe von Bergen relativ ist. Zum Abschluss besuchen wir Europas größtes Hochmoor, das Hohe Venn. - Episodenbild: Radfahren im Hohen Venn, Fotoarchiv T. Renzler - Potsdamer Kartoffel Erklärung. ARD "Das Gewicht der Erde": https://shorturl.at/eqA09 ;

In this week's all-new episode of THE IDEALISTS. podcast, host and entrepreneur Melissa Kiguwa speaks with the remarkable Dr. Jess Wade. The 33-year-old London-based physicist has become something of a phenomenon. Both an irresistible force and an immovable object, she was recently invited to Buckingham Palace to receive the prestigious British Empire Medal for her contributions to science. Ironically, she was being honored for her work honoring a whole host of other female scientists lost to history.  Since 2017, the Imperial College Fellow has written nearly 1,800 Wikipedia pages for long-ignored women,  minority scientists, and engineers. Just 19% of English Wikipedia biographies are of women. So, having one's work on the "go-to" site for an estimated 2 billion people per month seeking information about individuals, ideas, and topics large and small, translates to more opportunities and access to grants. Ultimately, what gives Jess the most joy is seeing a scientist, whose profile she created, go on to earn a fellowship or an award. It's truly her passion project as she professes, she's: "never not had someone to write about." There's always someone whose work or story has gone uncredited.Note: the podcast Melissa mentions on the show is “Underestimated” featuring the founder of IFundWomen, Karen Cahn.Highlights:Jess leads off the conversation with a story about a head teacher in the UK who'd claimed only 16% of her A-level physics students were female, but that this was okay because girls didn't like the “hard maths”—the suggestion being that girls are simply not as “able” in the subject. And then, what does it mean when society does such a terrible job—historically across generations—refusing to recognize women scientists in any sort of meaningful way?Next, she relates her passion for her own research as a scientist working on new nanoparticles that can impact climate change and how her side hustle of elevating women and other historically excluded groups has mushroomed into this movement of awareness with people reaching out with ideas, partnerships, conferences, and suggestions. At nearly 1800 pages, the profiles have evolved beyond a white UK scientific community to include the global south and more internationally diverse sources including, The Lancet, TED Fellows, and Next Einstein Africa.Building on this, the process of researching the profiles has revealed not only how many women are out there, but also how extremely closed and privileged the world of science is. In countering this, she relates several healing tales of women scientists from Dr. Gladys West whose work ultimately became the basis for the Global Positioning System (GPS) to Dr. Sumita Mitra whose work with nanoparticles for 3M Oral Care completely revolutionized dentistry.Join the conversation about THE IDEALISTS. and break*through. At our website: https://www.theidealistspodcast.co/On Instagram: @theidealistspodcast_On Twitter: @theidealistspodHelp us to grow! Leave a review of the show on Apple or SpotifyWe're sponsored by the London School of Economics @lsegenerate

What's that up in the sky? … The Buzz 1: “It's only when you're flying above it that you realise how incredible the Earth really is.” [Philippe Perrin, Astronaut, stellar-frontiers.com] The Buzz 2: Low Earth Orbit [LEO] satellite production is booming and innovation is accelerating, with billionaires Bezos, Musk, Branson and others investing in this global game-changing opportunity. A LEO is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less, with at least 11.25 orbits per day…Most artificial objects in outer space are in the LEO region, below an altitude of 1,200 miles. [en.wikipedia.org] The Buzz 3: The global LEO satellites market size was expected to grow to $4.13bn in 2022 at an 18.2% compound annual growth rate, and reach $9bn in 2026, due to increasing adoption of LEO satellites in various sectors; rising importance across communications and defense industries; integration of IoT; machine learning; advancements in aerospace; miniaturization of satellites. [globenewswire.com] The Buzz 4: Under a $2m U.S. Space Force contract, Slingshot Aerospace will develop an analytics tool that uses location data from commercial satellites in LEO to identify potential sources of electronic interference on the ground. [spacenews.com] The Buzz 5: To modernize today's Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite constellation with new technology and advanced capabilities, Lockheed Martin is building up to 32 next-generation GPS III/IIIF satellites. [lockheedmartin.com] How will the Aerospace industry keep booming? Aerospace manufacturers are conquering challenges, creating innovative products that require complex manufacturing with stringent quality levels and compliance. These products must work consistently every time and build strong revenue streams despite global economic variability and turbulence. After all, satellites can't be returned to a store near you. We'll ask Russell Bertwell at Accenture, Chris Schrand at Siemens and Michael Edelen at SAP for their take on Accelerating Aerospace Innovation at Supersonic Speeds.

What's that up in the sky? … The Buzz 1: “It's only when you're flying above it that you realise how incredible the Earth really is.” [Philippe Perrin, Astronaut, stellar-frontiers.com] The Buzz 2: Low Earth Orbit [LEO] satellite production is booming and innovation is accelerating, with billionaires Bezos, Musk, Branson and others investing in this global game-changing opportunity. A LEO is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less, with at least 11.25 orbits per day…Most artificial objects in outer space are in the LEO region, below an altitude of 1,200 miles. [en.wikipedia.org] The Buzz 3: The global LEO satellites market size was expected to grow to $4.13bn in 2022 at an 18.2% compound annual growth rate, and reach $9bn in 2026, due to increasing adoption of LEO satellites in various sectors; rising importance across communications and defense industries; integration of IoT; machine learning; advancements in aerospace; miniaturization of satellites. [globenewswire.com] The Buzz 4: Under a $2m U.S. Space Force contract, Slingshot Aerospace will develop an analytics tool that uses location data from commercial satellites in LEO to identify potential sources of electronic interference on the ground. [spacenews.com] The Buzz 5: To modernize today's Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite constellation with new technology and advanced capabilities, Lockheed Martin is building up to 32 next-generation GPS III/IIIF satellites. [lockheedmartin.com] How will the Aerospace industry keep booming? Aerospace manufacturers are conquering challenges, creating innovative products that require complex manufacturing with stringent quality levels and compliance. These products must work consistently every time and build strong revenue streams despite global economic variability and turbulence. After all, satellites can't be returned to a store near you. We'll ask Russell Bertwell at Accenture, Chris Schrand at Siemens and Michael Edelen at SAP for their take on Accelerating Aerospace Innovation at Supersonic Speeds.

What's that up in the sky? … The Buzz 1: “It's only when you're flying above it that you realise how incredible the Earth really is.” [Philippe Perrin, Astronaut, stellar-frontiers.com] The Buzz 2: Low Earth Orbit [LEO] satellite production is booming and innovation is accelerating, with billionaires Bezos, Musk, Branson and others investing in this global game-changing opportunity. A LEO is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less, with at least 11.25 orbits per day…Most artificial objects in outer space are in the LEO region, below an altitude of 1,200 miles. [en.wikipedia.org] The Buzz 3: The global LEO satellites market size was expected to grow to $4.13bn in 2022 at an 18.2% compound annual growth rate, and reach $9bn in 2026, due to increasing adoption of LEO satellites in various sectors; rising importance across communications and defense industries; integration of IoT; machine learning; advancements in aerospace; miniaturization of satellites. [globenewswire.com] The Buzz 4: Under a $2m U.S. Space Force contract, Slingshot Aerospace will develop an analytics tool that uses location data from commercial satellites in LEO to identify potential sources of electronic interference on the ground. [spacenews.com] The Buzz 5: To modernize today's Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite constellation with new technology and advanced capabilities, Lockheed Martin is building up to 32 next-generation GPS III/IIIF satellites. [lockheedmartin.com] How will the Aerospace industry keep booming? Aerospace manufacturers are conquering challenges, creating innovative products that require complex manufacturing with stringent quality levels and compliance. These products must work consistently every time and build strong revenue streams despite global economic variability and turbulence. After all, satellites can't be returned to a store near you. We'll ask Russell Bertwell at Accenture, Chris Schrand at Siemens and Michael Edelen at SAP for their take on Accelerating Aerospace Innovation at Supersonic Speeds.

In 1714, the British Parliament approved The Longitude Prize, which offered monetary rewards to anyone who could make it possible for ships to effectively determine their longitude. The smallest prize was £10,000 - the equivalent of millions of dollars today.    The Kingdom of Great Britain was created by The Acts of Union  in 1707. Before then, one would properly refer to the English Parliament, and after to the British Parliament. This epsode crosses over that point in time between the start and the end, so the incorrect adjective may have slipped in once or twice.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1707   The Global Positioning System (GPS) might be considered a comparable sort of infrastructure, but it was created over a long enough period that associating it with a specific Turning is difficult. It also required infrastructure (namely rockets that could put satellites in orbit), and was implemented in short order once those were available. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System  

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite constellation that provides very precise positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) data around the globe. Precision agriculture, driverless cars, maritime or aerial surveys, and military applications have all benefited from GPS, which was one of the earliest satellite ... Read more. View detail https://www.rvingbeginner.com/what-does-gps

Antariksh Matters #1: Dual-use Dilemmas in the OEWG on Space Threats— Pranav R SatyanathThe first session of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on Reducing Space Threats was held last week between the 9th and 13th of May in Geneva. The OEWG was created under the requirement of the United Nations Resolution 75/36 which called on member states to exchange views on norms, threats and behaviours in outer space.Deliberations on matters of space security are not new. They’ve been taking place under the framework of the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space (PAROS), with countries divided between two broad themes: first, whether to regulate space capabilities or to regulate space activities; and second, whether to negotiate legally-binding treaties or whether to agree on non legally binding transparency and confidence-building measures.The latest set of deliberations have attempted to focus on the norms, principles and behavioural guidelines that can be established in order to make space a secure environment for all countries. However, since space capabilities and space activities carried out by countries are intrinsically linked, and since space assets have both civilian and military applications, any attempt to regulate space activities will have both direct and indirect consequences on the interpretation of international law. The dilemma of dual-use capabilities, was highlighted in a presentation made by David Koplow of Georgetown University, who pointed to the intersection of dual-use capabilities in space and the Law of Armed Conflict (LoAC). Koplow argues that by making it harder to distinguish civilian and military assets in space, countries may be violating a vital tenet of the LoAC. During an armed conflict, any asset of a country used for military purposes can be targeted by the adversary. Therefore, countries must separate their civilian and military assets to the greatest extent possible.Making this distinction in practice is, however, a challenge as countries regularly use civilian assets for carrying out military activities. For example, civilian rockets are used to launch military satellites and the Global Positioning System (GPS) and similar systems are used for both civilian and military purposes. Some countries also use commercial Earth-imaging services for gathering intelligence on an adversary's military capabilities, making them potential targets during a conflict.One possible solution to this problem was suggested by Almudena Azcárate Ortega, a researcher at the United Nations Institute of Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). Ortega proposed that countries could choose to distinguish their space capabilities into two categories:Dual-use assets: Space capabilities that are designed to perform both civilian and military functions. GPS satellites and similar systems fall into this category.Dual-capable assets: Space capabilities that perform civilian functions but that can be repurposed for military functions. Satellites used for debris removal or on-orbit servicing fall into this category.Categorising space assets as dual-use or dual-purpose may indeed serve useful. However, some capabilities are more difficult to distinguish than others. For example, it is reported that  Ukrainian forces are using Starlink satellites for assisting in drone strikes in Russia. Starlink is a space-based Internet service provided by the American company SpaceX. It is alleged that Russia attempted to cyberattacks on Starlink in order to prevent its use by Ukrainian forces.As dual-use space technologies proliferate to more countries, the need for regulating both capabilities and activity will likely become a greater challenge for the international community.Cyberpolitik: China's Position in OEWG (2021-2025) on Information Security— Megha PardhiBetween 28 March and 1 April 2022, the UN held the second substantive session of the "Open-ended Working Group on the Security of and the use of Information and Communications Technologies" (OEWG (2021-2025)). This is the second such working group constituted by the UN on information security. The OEWG (2021-2025) was formed in Nov 2020 and commenced in 2021. The final report of the working group will be presented to the UN General Assembly in 2025.These working groups are the international community's attempts to shape norms governing cyberspace. Developing norms of behavior in cyberspace has been a contested issue for a long time. Russia was among the first countries to propose rules and norms on cyberspace. However, early attempts fell prey to geopolitical tug of war.In the recently concluded session, many countries have put out statements expressing their position, suggestions, and concerns. In the statement released by the Chinese delegation, the Chinese government seems more worried about cyberspace norms being used against China or basically whoever does not fit into the US' definition of acceptability. The Chinese delegation made four key points:Maintaining peace in cyberspace is crucial. The division of cyberspace into peaceful and non-peaceful periods would send the wrong signal to the international community.Security of cyberspace is necessary for all countries. The statement also has the usual rhetoric of abandoning 'Zero-sum thinking' and 'cold war' mentality.First mover advantage in cyberspace should not be weaponized. China objected to the use of unilateral sanctions and weaponizing the first-mover advantage 'some countries' have over others.The Chinese statement reflected that some countries are creating "deliberately creating closed, exclusive circles for discussing supply chain issues."Objections over the division of activities in the peaceful and non-peaceful periods are understandable. Activities in cyberspace tend to intersect personal and state matters. Wars often blur this distinction. However, normalizing such division in cyberspace might set a dangerous precedent for the norms of behavior in cyberspace.There is a veiled reference to the Quad in the statement. The reference to "closed, exclusive circles for discussing supply chain issues" is similar to the terminology used when Chinese leaders and foreign ministry spokespersons talk about Quad and AUKUS. This again reflects the fact that the Quad and AUKUS have got Beijing worried about similar groupings emerging in cyberspace. Beijing's fear of isolation might seem contradictory as China's own 'Great Firewall' has strived to separate Chinese cyberspace from the world. However, there is a difference between choosing to stay isolated and being forced to isolate. Currently, Beijing decides the rules of operation in China's cyberspace. If states form an alliance to isolate China in cyberspace, the rules would be different. The Chinese government understands it could be detrimental to China's long-term interests.Additionally, the point of reference to the Quad and AUKUS is not just Beijing's fear of isolation. These references and the complaints of a 'cold war' mentality also mean China is trying to project itself as a norms follower while projecting others as 'arm twisting' bullies trying to get their own way. This is most evident in the fourth point of China's statement which roughly says, "this makes people doubt that the real goal of some countries participating in the UN information security process is to build 'international rules of cyberspace that other countries abide by, but they are above all countries’" (这令人不得不怀疑，某些国家参与联合国信息安全进程的真实目标是，构建 "其他各国都遵守，而其自身则凌驾于各国的网络空间国际规则").The war in Ukraine also loomed over the second session of the OEWG (2021-2025). Some states expressed concerns over the way Ukraine War will shape behavior in cyberspace and objections and statements over cyber activities during the war. China's objection to the use of unilateral sanctions and weaponizing first-mover advantage by 'some countries' most likely refers to the sanctions imposed by US and allies on Russia. Again, Chinese leaders have used similar terminology to express their displeasure over sanctions on Russia.Antariksh Matters #2: How Adversaries Might Challenge India’s Use of Space— Aditya RamanathanSceptics sometimes ask me how, in fact, India’s space assets could be threatened in the future and what forms such threats could take. It’s true that it’s hard to envisage what such attacks might look like. Our understanding of space warfare is limited by a merciful lack of precedence. Limited as our understanding may be, it’s worth trying to think of the conditions under which India’s chief adversaries, China and Pakistan, might use space warfare capabilities against it. Broadly, India could face space warfare under three types of circumstances: peacetime (meaning the absence of unusual tensions), crisis (a spike in tensions and/or standoffs, skirmishes) or conflict (a state of violent hostilities in one or more theatres).In the table below, I attempt to map the tools of space warfare to the circumstances India is likely to face.Peacetime In peacetime, adversaries will focus on demonstrating capabilities, probing defences, mounting disruptive cyber attacks, and infiltrating computer worms and viruses. Demonstrations of capabilities can help an adversary deter future threats. These could include ‘dazzling’ satellites with lasers, electronic jamming or spoofing, or conducting non-kinetic rendezvous and proximity operations around a satellite.CrisesIn crises, adversaries will primarily want to signal not just the existence of a capability but also the resolve to use it imminently if its demands are not met. Therefore, while an RPO craft circling around a satellite in peacetime is mainly a demonstration of capability, in a crisis, it is a coercive act meant to shape the outcomes of high stakes bargaining. ConflictIn conflict, the tools of space warfare will most likely be used for effect – to actively deny the use of space and consequently degrade the effectiveness of the adversary’s Earth-based forces. An adversary could strike in six ways during a conflict: A splendid first strike could deny India the effective use of space. Such a strike, usually carried out at the outset of a conflict (the frequently discussed ‘space Pearl Harbor’), would probably be part of a broader plan to degrade Indian forces with simultaneous strikes in space and on Earth. A graduated response would involve managing an exchange of blows and seeking to end it on favourable terms. This would entail targeting specific space capabilities in retaliation and attempting to dissuade the other side from further action.A focused strike targets specific capabilities for a finite set of time in a bid to degrade specific Earth-based capabilities. An Indian strike on Chinese ISR satellites over the Indian Ocean is an example of such a strike.Disruptive strikes create uncertainty about the reliability of space assets. These are low grade, seemingly random strikes that force the state under attack to continually react rather than seize the initiative.Disproportionate retaliation occurs in response to a smaller strike and is meant to dissuade the adversary from launching further attacks. Disproportionate retaliation must remain partial or temporary to provide the adversary an incentive to halt space warfare.A catalytic strike seeks to precipitate third party intervention in a conflict and force its termination on the best terms available. The American political scientist Vipin Narang  argues that Pakistan has, in the past, used the catalytic threat of nuclear strikes to hasten American intervention in crises with India. A kinetic attack from a future Pakistani ASAT missile could catalyse frantic calls for ending a conflict that is tilting in India’s favour.To be clear, none of these types of strikes falls into discrete or self-contained categories. A focused strike can lead to a graduated response, which can, in turn, devolve into disruptive strikes or escalate into disproportionate retaliation. These categories are simply meant to clarify the likely intent behind the waging of space warfare. There are reasons for the aforementioned sceptics to be, well, sceptical about the value of an exercise such as this. In the real world, any target state would find it difficult to accurately gauge an adversary’s intentions while an attack is underway. Also, future contingencies are likely to take unexpected forms and contain surprises. However, the value of this sort of undertaking is that it can (a) help clarify the sort of situations that can trigger an attack on space assets, (b) provide clarity on the sort of challenges India will need to deter in the coming years. As the much-used adage goes, plans are useless but planning is indispensable.Siliconpolitik: The Transatlantic Semiconductor Alliance in the Making— Pranay Kotasthane(First published on takshashila.org.in)Over the last couple of years, we have consistently argued that in order to make the semiconductor supply chain resilient, plurilateral cooperation is a necessity, not a choice. Subsidising semiconductor firms in the hope of achieving national self-sufficiency is counterproductive and futile. Futile in the limited sense that such measures won’t achieve the aim of full indigenisation. Counterproductive because a sole focus on domestic subsidies would displace the opportunity to really make a resilient, China-independent, cutting-edge semiconductor supply chain.Nevertheless, as it so often happens, subsidies are an easier policy option. This pro-business instrument—as against a pro-market one—also suits semiconductor firms better. Subsidies finance their heavy capital investments in the short term. And so, we had a number of national governments—the US, the EU, Japan, South Korea, China, India, and Taiwan to name a few—launch their own versions of semiconductor subsidy programmes.However, it does seem that the tide is now turning from a public and foreign policy perspective. Apart from subsidies, governments are now realising the value of coordinating their efforts. In an earlier post, I had discussed a reported semiconductor alliance involving the US, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Although we haven’t heard about this grouping since then, there is now a new grouping that we need to take note of.The US and EU announced a new initiative on similar lines as part of the US-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) that concluded in Paris on Monday, 16th May. The detailed joint statement shows that the scope of this transatlantic partnership on technology is vast. Initiatives were announced on areas as diverse as solar supply chains, climate and cleantech, rare earth materials, technology standards and semiconductors. For this post, let’s focus on understanding what the announcements on semiconductors mean to the US, the EU, and India.The Transatlantic Approach for SemiconductorsAs part of the initiative, the two parties agreed on two key areas:That the US and the EU will coordinate their respective chip investments so that it doesn’t end up being a ‘subsidy race’ to the bottom. In practice, this means that the US and EU are likely to share information with each other on their planned fab investments, the companies they plan to target, and so on. In ideal circumstances, they would like to reach a stage where the EU has enough production capacity for automotive chips, while the US invests in production capacity for leading-edge nodes. In the future, the two partners would also want to agree on preferential treatment for their own fabless companies to access the fabs in each other’s national jurisdiction. For now, they have agreed on consulting each other on subsidies for semiconductor firms.The two partners also agreed to develop an early warning detection system for supply chain disruptions. A similar announcement was also made as part of the Quad Semiconductor Supply Chain initiative during the last Summit meeting, where the four members agreed to “map capacity, identify vulnerabilities, and bolster supply-chain security for semiconductors and their vital components.” The motivation for this initiative is to keep a closer eye on wafer capacities across the globe so that stockpiling or additional capacity addition can be coordinated.Both the moves indicate the willingness to collaborate with partners instead of going it all alone.The India AngleThese moves are consequential for India. Apart from the US, the EU has a Trade and Technology Council arrangement with just one other nation-state—India. India should use this arrangement and become a part of this semiconductor supply chain alliance. There’s also the opportunity to combine the US-EU effort with the Quad’s Semiconductor Supply Chain Initiative, as the goals of the two mechanisms are identical.With these new semiconductor alliances taking shape, it’s important for India to become a part of these formations. Foreign Policy in the Information Age needs to go beyond the traditional defensive approach of ‘protecting’ one’s critical technologies and instead become a key driver for enhancing India’s high-tech power.Our Reading Menu[Article] Why Drones Have Not Revolutionized War: The Enduring Hider-Finder Competition in Air Warfare by Antonio Calcara, Andrea Gilli, Mauro Gilli, Raffaele Marchetti, Ivan Zaccagnini[Book] The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hightechir.substack.com

At the beginning of the 20th century, Einstein changed the way we think about time. Now, early in the 21st century, the measurement of time is being revolutionized by the ability to cool a gas of atoms to temperatures millions of times lower than any naturally occurring temperature in the universe. Nobel Prize recipient William Phillips, Ph.D., a Distinguished University and College Park Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, talks about laser cooling and ultracold atoms and how they relate to time. Atomic clocks, the best timekeepers ever made, are one of the scientific and technological wonders of modern life. Such super-accurate clocks are essential to industry, commerce, and science; they are the heart of the Global Positioning System (GPS), which guides cars, airplanes, and hikers to their destinations. Today, the best primary atomic clocks use ultracold atoms. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 37727]

At the beginning of the 20th century, Einstein changed the way we think about time. Now, early in the 21st century, the measurement of time is being revolutionized by the ability to cool a gas of atoms to temperatures millions of times lower than any naturally occurring temperature in the universe. Nobel Prize recipient William Phillips, Ph.D., a Distinguished University and College Park Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, talks about laser cooling and ultracold atoms they relate to time. Atomic clocks, the best timekeepers ever made, are one of the scientific and technological wonders of modern life. Such super-accurate clocks are essential to industry, commerce, and science; they are the heart of the Global Positioning System (GPS), which guides cars, airplanes, and hikers to their destinations. Today, the best primary atomic clocks use ultracold atoms. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 37727]

At the beginning of the 20th century, Einstein changed the way we think about time. Now, early in the 21st century, the measurement of time is being revolutionized by the ability to cool a gas of atoms to temperatures millions of times lower than any naturally occurring temperature in the universe. Nobel Prize recipient William Phillips, Ph.D., a Distinguished University and College Park Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, talks about laser cooling and ultracold atoms they relate to time. Atomic clocks, the best timekeepers ever made, are one of the scientific and technological wonders of modern life. Such super-accurate clocks are essential to industry, commerce, and science; they are the heart of the Global Positioning System (GPS), which guides cars, airplanes, and hikers to their destinations. Today, the best primary atomic clocks use ultracold atoms. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 37727]

At the beginning of the 20th century, Einstein changed the way we think about time. Now, early in the 21st century, the measurement of time is being revolutionized by the ability to cool a gas of atoms to temperatures millions of times lower than any naturally occurring temperature in the universe. Nobel Prize recipient William Phillips, Ph.D., a Distinguished University and College Park Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, talks about laser cooling and ultracold atoms and how they relate to time. Atomic clocks, the best timekeepers ever made, are one of the scientific and technological wonders of modern life. Such super-accurate clocks are essential to industry, commerce, and science; they are the heart of the Global Positioning System (GPS), which guides cars, airplanes, and hikers to their destinations. Today, the best primary atomic clocks use ultracold atoms. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 37727]

At the beginning of the 20th century, Einstein changed the way we think about time. Now, early in the 21st century, the measurement of time is being revolutionized by the ability to cool a gas of atoms to temperatures millions of times lower than any naturally occurring temperature in the universe. Nobel Prize recipient William Phillips, Ph.D., a Distinguished University and College Park Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, talks about laser cooling and ultracold atoms and how they relate to time. Atomic clocks, the best timekeepers ever made, are one of the scientific and technological wonders of modern life. Such super-accurate clocks are essential to industry, commerce, and science; they are the heart of the Global Positioning System (GPS), which guides cars, airplanes, and hikers to their destinations. Today, the best primary atomic clocks use ultracold atoms. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 37727]

At the beginning of the 20th century, Einstein changed the way we think about time. Now, early in the 21st century, the measurement of time is being revolutionized by the ability to cool a gas of atoms to temperatures millions of times lower than any naturally occurring temperature in the universe. Nobel Prize recipient William Phillips, Ph.D., a Distinguished University and College Park Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, talks about laser cooling and ultracold atoms and how they relate to time. Atomic clocks, the best timekeepers ever made, are one of the scientific and technological wonders of modern life. Such super-accurate clocks are essential to industry, commerce, and science; they are the heart of the Global Positioning System (GPS), which guides cars, airplanes, and hikers to their destinations. Today, the best primary atomic clocks use ultracold atoms. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 37727]

Today on the show Texas Sues Meta's Facebook Over Facial-Recognition Practices, We have an NFL team that was hacked by a cyber gang and an exciting story about two Marty's. Then, what is going on with Super Hero madness? Next, we have one of the craziest announcements of a new superhero show. Then we explore on our "Technology Insider" why your host is using Bing as my default search tool instead of Google, along with some reasons why I switched. And like always, we have other favorite features including, "This Week in Technology," of course, "Mike's Mesmerizing Moment," and, of course, our "Pick of the Day" whiskey tasting. So sit back, raise a glass, and Welcome to TechTime with Nathan Mumm. "Welcome to TechTime Radio with Nathan Mumm, the show that makes you go "Hummmm" Technology news of the week for February 14th - 20th, 2022.Episode 88:  Starts at 1:43--- [Now on Today's Show]: Starts at  3:33--- [Top Stories In The First Five Minutes]: Starts at 7:11Texas Sues Meta's Facebook Over Facial-Recognition Practices - https://tinyurl.com/z3hekc8cRoblox: The children's game with a sex problem - https://tinyurl.com/5kk56mh5 San Francisco 49ers Hacked by Ransomware Group - https://tinyurl.com/yc67dzk2 Tech bug keeps Mazda radios locked into NPR - https://tinyurl.com/ycycew7s --- [Pick of the Day - Whiskey Tasting Review]: Starts at 22:39Bird Dog Peach Whiskey | 80 Proof | $22.00 --- [Technology Insider]: Starts at 25:16The 4 reasons why I switched from Google to Bing. Is Bing the best search browser we explore why I believe Bing is the Better of the two.  --- [This Week in Technology]: Starts at 35:27First Modern GPS Satellite LaunchesFebruary 14, 1989The first of 24 Block-II GPS satellites were launched on this date. Block-II was the first modern GPS satellite that form the modern GPS system we know today. The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and is now operated by the United States Space Force. --- [Stories You Didn't Know]: Starts at 41:47A Wonder Twins movie is coming to HBO Max - https://tinyurl.com/tf6a84py The DeLorean Is Officially Back, And It's Electric - https://tinyurl.com/2cu7ujub British tax authorities said on Monday they had made their first seizure of non-fungible tokens in a crackdown on suspected criminal activity to hide money. - https://tinyurl.com/mvh9tfzd --- [Mike's Mesmerizing Moment brought to us by StoriCoffee®]: Starts at 52:11--- [Pick of the Day]: Starts at 53:25Bird Dog Peach Whiskey | 80 Proof | $22.00 Mike: Thumbs Down Nathan: Thumbs Down

你有聽過GPS嗎？GPS系統是如何運作？GPS導航系統會出錯嗎？除了開車導航之外，還有哪些用途？有哪些因素會影響GPS系統的準確性？該怎麼避免導航系統出錯呢？ 今天就一起來認識生活科技的【GPS系統】吧！ 小發現別錯過，大科學過生活，「小發現大科學」節目每週三、日，一起認識生活中有趣的科學知識吧！ -----

Let's goooooo (to our destination)! This is the final day of #NaPodPoMo. I succeeded at the challenge of 30 podcasts in 30days! This is also the final episode of Season 3! Thanks so much for listening!

"Finding your pathway as a leader." Greetings, Summit Leaders. Wherever you are on your journey in career and life, we need a way of determining if we are on the right pathway.  Having a written purpose/vision statement for yourself is critical.  First, a vision statement requires thoughtful reflection on where I am, what I have experienced, and where I desire to land when I reach the desired destination. What impact will I have on others? You can protect yourself from unnecessary delays, setbacks, and losses associated with moving from your pathway in career and life. Without vision, people perish, dreams deferred, and opportunities bypass us. What are some of the things we can do to ensure we discover our true north?  A proven approach to finding true north is with a Global Positioning System (GPS). A GPS recognizes your location by compiling the location information provided by multiple satellites that orbit the earth.  If you have one, you can select a 'true north' setting on your GPS, enter your destination, and it will take care of the rest.  Here are some things you can be aware of and do to protect yourself on your life and career journey from getting off course.  Someone once said, "Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you." Here is an action plan.  Review, Reflect, Resolve.  Review: Take time each day to focus on your purpose, vision, and goals for your life. It can be refreshing to rehearse your mission and envision your success.  Reflect: Take the time to think through your experiences so far, what you have accomplished, and insights you are gaining. Often we discover new things about the value we are creating and a process for replicating this in new ways. Also, we become aware of skills, talents, gifts that may not have been apparent. It is in serving that we gain these insights.  Resolve: Be steadfast, immovable, and always abounding in your work and your vision. Be aware of distractions that lure you away from your calling, pathway, and purpose.   "Faster does not always mean better." Summit Leader  Secondly, there is safety in the multitude of counselors (your GPS); people with discernment are willing to point out the need to adjust your thinking and attitude and recommend needed course corrections. Make it a goal to include accountability partners for your life and career. These are the wise people you walk, stand, and sit with during your journey. Finally, we become aware of our thinking. Take captive every thought, not in alignment with your vision, purpose, and goals. Avoid listening to the wrong voices.  Practice by thinking and rehearsing the right thoughts. Be transformed by changing what you allow to dominate your thinking. "Sow a thought reap an action. Sow an action reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character, sow a character, reap a destiny." Ralph Waldo Emerson As a person thinks in their heart, so they are. "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, ... the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." Henry David Thoreau Victory! 

Dr Gladys West is a pioneer in the use of complex mathematics and efficient programming to generate accurate, repeatable and global models of the Earth's geoid that were eventually incorporated into the mapping functions of the Global Positioning System (GPS). This work required her to process early satellite data and use complex algorithms to account for variations in gravitational, tidal, and other forces that distort Earth's shape. In this episode of Create the Future, we speak with Dr West about the methods she employed to calculate an accurate geodetic earth model using a room-sized computer. We discuss her early career, hear what it meant to be awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering's Prince Philip Medal in 2021, touch on her continued passion for education, and ask whether she uses GPS today. To hear more about the engineering behind the Global Positioning System, check out our https://anchor.fm/qeprize/episodes/The-Origins-of-GPS-e9kjd4/a-a16mefr (episode with the winners of the 2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.) New episodes of ‘Create the Future: An Engineering Podcast' every other Tuesday. http://www.qeprize.org/podcasts (www.qeprize.org/podcasts) Follow @qeprize on https://twitter.com/QEPrize (Twitter), https://www.instagram.com/qeprize (Instagram), and https://www.facebook.com/qeprize/ (Facebook)

Dr. Gladys Mae West, American mathematician known for her contributions to the mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth, and her work on the development of the satellite geodesy models that were eventually incorporated into the Global Positioning System (GPS), joins Sophia today to discuss her experience at Virginia State University where she earned her M.S. and B.S. degrees, her 42 year career at the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren, Virginia, and how she is inspiring young people to follow their dreams and pursue careers in STEM. Executive Producers: Sophia Bush & Rabbit Grin Productions Associate Producers: Caitlin Lee & Josh Windisch Editor: Josh Windisch Artwork by the Hoodzpah Sisters This show is brought to you by Brilliant Anatomy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Gladys Mae West, American mathematician known for her contributions to the mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth, and her work on the development of the satellite geodesy models that were eventually incorporated into the Global Positioning System (GPS), joins Sophia today to discuss her experience at Virginia State University where she earned her M.S. and B.S. degrees, her 42 year career at the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren, Virginia, and how she is inspiring young people to follow their dreams and pursue careers in STEM.Sponsors:LinkedIn Jobs - Visit LinkedIn.com/WIP to post your first job for free.thredUP - Get an extra 30% off your first order when you go to thredup.com/WIPSakara - Get 20% off your first order at Sakara.com/WIPExecutive Producers: Sophia Bush & Rabbit Grin ProductionsAssociate Producers: Caitlin Lee & Josh WindischEditor: Josh WindischArtwork by the Hoodzpah SistersThis show is brought to you by Brilliant Anatomy.

It is common knowledge that if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole, it would suck Earth and the rest of the planets into oblivion. Yet as bestselling author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett points out, black holes don't suck. With that simple idea in hand, Bennett begins an entertaining introduction to Einstein's theories, describing the amazing phenomena readers would actually experience if they took a trip through a black hole. The theory of relativity also gives us the cosmic speed limit of the speed of light, the mind-bending ideas of time dilation and curvature of spacetime, and what may be the most famous equation in history: e = mc2. Indeed, the theory of relativity shapes much of our modern understanding of the universe, and it is not "just a theory:" every major prediction of relativity has been tested to exquisite precision and its practical applications include the Global Positioning System (GPS). Bennett proves anyone can understand the basics of Einstein's ideas. His intuitive, nonmathematical approach gives a wide audience its first real taste of how relativity works and why it is so important not only to science but also to the way we view ourselves as human beings. Jeffrey Bennett holds a B.A. in biophysics from the University of California, San Diego, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the lead author of best-selling textbooks in astronomy, astrobiology, mathematics, and statistics and numerous award-winning books for the general public and children. www.storytimefromspace.comFor Your Listening Pleasure all the radio shows available on The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network with our compliments, visit - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv.Our radio shows archives and programming include: A Different Perspective with Kevin Randle; Alien Cosmic Expo Lecture Series; Alien Worlds Radio Show; America's Soul Doctor with Ken Unger; Back in Control Radio Show with Dr. David Hanscom, MD; Connecting with Coincidence with Dr. Bernard Beitman, MD; Dick Tracy; Dimension X; Exploring Tomorrow Radio Show; Flash Gordon; Imagine More Success Radio Show with Syndee Hendricks and Thomas Hydes; Jet Jungle Radio Show; Journey Into Space; Know the Name with Sharon Lynn Wyeth; Lux Radio Theatre - Classic Old Time Radio; Mission Evolution with Gwilda Wiyaka; Paranormal StakeOut with Larry Lawson; Ray Bradbury - Tales Of The Bizarre; Sci Fi Radio Show; Seek Reality with Roberta Grimes; Space Patrol; Stairway to Heaven with Gwilda Wiyaka; The 'X' Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell; Two Good To Be True with Justina Marsh and Peter Marsh; and many other!That's The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv

คุยกันเรื่อง GPS เทคโนโลยีการหาพิกัดบนพื้นโลกโดยใช้ดาวเทียม มาดูกันว่ามันทำงานอย่างไร

Narrated by Jo Sands, the memoir written by Dr. Gladys B. West and M.H. Jackson is the heartwarming journey of the former Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren (VA) Division computer programmer. Dr. Wests is credited with playing an integral role in the developement of the Global Positioning System (GPS).

TRACKING LIVESTOCK MOVEMENTS TO UNDERSTAND THE PATTERNS AND RISKS OF FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE SPREAD IN TRADITIONALLY MANAGED SYSTEMS IN EAST AFRICAIntroduction Livestock are essential to food security and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa, but suffer from poor productivity due to infectious diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). FMD is endemic in this part of Africa, and outbreaks are frequent, driven mostly by unrestricted livestock movements. To control endemic FMD, comprehensive information on the patterns of spread through herd contacts is needed. However, data on livestock movements across the landscape, and how and where contact occurs remain limited. Materials and methods We deployed Global Positioning System (GPS) collars on cattle in 52 different herds to understand fine-scale movements and between-herd contacts in rural areas of western Serengeti, Tanzania, representative of agropastoral systems in East Africa. We used the telemetry data to characterise the patterns of movements and identify locations of interactions between herds that suggest FMD flashpoints. In addition, we examined patterns of contact across a range of spatiotemporal scales, relevant to different FMD transmission scenarios.Results We observed that daily movement of cattle increased with herd size and rainfall. Herd contact rates were highest at large spatial and temporal scales. Furthermore, contact was greatest away from household locations, during low rainfall and close to dipping points. Generally, there were higher contacts proximal to resource areas such as grazing and water holes, but only for smaller spatiotemporal contact scales.Discussion We demonstrate how widespread movements could heighten the risk of endemic FMD spread. Given that risk is directly related to contact, the probability of FMD spreading between herds could be four times higher when virus survival in the environment increases from one to up to 24 hours. Our results point at times and locations of greatest FMD transmission potential and that could be targeted through tailored control strategies, for example when rainfall levels are low, and around dipping and water points. D. Ekwem1,2, T. Lembo1, J. Enright1 , J. Buza2, G. Shirima2, R. Reeve1, G. Hopcraft1, T. Morrison11Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Science, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.2Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, School of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Arusha, Tanzania.EuFMD Open Sessionwww.eufmdvirtual.com

What do Albert Einstein, the Global Positioning System (GPS), and a pair of stars 200,000 trillion miles from Earth have in common?

For decades, the US held a monopoly on the usage of The Global Positioning System (GPS), the satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of the global navigation satellite systems that provides geolocation and time information to a receiver anywhere on or near the Earth.But that monopolistic hold on navigational satellites is quickly loosening due to the new kids on the block. The EU's "Galileo", Russia's "GLONASS", and the bad boy of the trio--China's "BeiDou" (or "BDubs" as we dub it).These new satellites will provide service for telecom companies all over the world and in turn to potentially billions of users. What does this monumental change mean for the future of human navigation?You decide LINKS: Civilian vs. military accuracy Satellite Distances***CONTACT US:Twitter Website ***STREAM US:Google Play AppleSpotifyStitcheriHeartRadioYouTube***SUPPORT US:Markus and Drew can improve bringing you more of this kind of electrifying information with better equipment, software, etc. If you liked what you heard and can afford to help us grow, please throw a couple bucks our way ...and if your budget is too tight but you still want to help please Like, Share and/or leave us a good review. Thank you!PayPalSupport the show (https://paypal.me/phase2phase?locale.x=en_US)

China has successfully put into orbit the final satellite in its BeiDou-3 navigation system, further advancing the country as a major power in space. Tuesday's launch will allow China to no longer rely on the US government-owned Global Positioning System (GPS). The $10bn (£8bn) network is made up of 35 satellites and provides global navigation coverage. It comes as tensions between Beijing and Washington are increasing over the coronavirus, trade and Hong Kong. The third version of the Beidou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) offers an alternative to Russia's GLONASS and the European Galileo systems, as well as America's GPS. Future plans promise to support a more accessible and integrated system scheduled to come online by 2035 with BDS at its core. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s an annual occurrence throughout the Sacramento Valley; something countless motorists have seen while heading north of Sacramento – skilled pilots flying high-speed, GPS-guided airplanes, planting rice over a half-million acres of fields. Rick Richter of Richter Aviation in Maxwell, Colusa County, has been seeding rice fields since 1979. It’s not only his profession, it’s also a great passion for him. “It’s so rewarding to see that rice come up,” Richter remarked. “It’s a beautiful green within a week or two after you plant it, and the whole area turns into just a magic carpet. You watch it all summer long, and then it comes to a golden yellow/brown at harvest, and you just get that feeling that I did this. I provided part of this 500,000-acres in this valley for people around the world to use. It just hits home, I’ll tell you.” May is a spectacularly busy month for rice seeding in California. Pilots frequently work before sunup and after sundown to keep up with the workload.  One of the biggest advancements in this effort is Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, which provides tremendous accuracy for the pilots, who often exceed 100-mph while seeding fields.  Safety is a crucial element for ag pilots, who operate under strict state and federal regulations.  Richter said an extremely helpful program is the Professional Aerial Applicator Support System (PASSS Program), which has been running for more than 20 years, and has proven to lower accident rates. The role agricultural pilots play in farming is huge. Rice grower Kurt Richter relies on the pinpoint work of his cousin Rick and Rick’s son, Nick, to seed his rice fields. “The pilot plays a huge role in the quality of the product that you’re going to put out at the end of the season,” Kurt said.  “The seed application just in and of itself is one of the most important applications of the year…. A good quality pilot can definitely make or break any particular crop.” Here are more comments from Kurt on the important role agricultural pilots play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKA5CDchSX8 For more information on agricultural pilots, here’s a link to the California Agricultural Aircraft Association. Episode Transcript Jim Morris: California rice holds many surprises. Whether it's the vital wildlife connection, the scale and efficiency of growing and milling rice, or the billions of dollars this industry generates for our economy, the impacts are huge. One of the most surprising facets of California rice is happening here in mid spring, planting the crop via airplane, and it is an amazing process. Jim Morris: Welcome to Ingrained, the California Rice Podcast. I'm your host, Jim Morris, and I've been helping farmers and ranchers tell their story for 30 years. I'm in the Sacramento Valley today covering an important part of the rice growing season. Jim Morris: I'm in Colusa County speaking with Rick Richter of Richter Aviation, and you've been an ag pilot for more than 40 years. Let's start with the early days. What was your background and what interested you in this profession? Rick Richter: Well Jim, I started out with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture from Chico State College. It was just so hard back then to try to get into farming, which was what I wanted to do. I had a passion for aviation, so I learned to fly while going to Chico State. When I got to Maxwell, I was looking for opportunities to work and my cousin had just started this business here east of Maxwell, crop dusting business, in 1976. It was perfect timing for me. I talked with him, Paul Richter, and he made a spot for me and we started loading airplanes, and from then it grew to flying their planes, and, three years later, in 1979 was my first a year as an ag pilot. Jim Morris: And so 41 years in, that's an amazing run. How many flights or hours would that be in the air? Rick Richter: Jim, that's about 22,000 hours to date, counting all my flying, which isn't much in the general aviation side. It's mostly ag flying. Jim Morris: Do you ever have dreams about flying when you're resting or can you leave the 9:00 to 5:00 at the office? Rick Richter: It's tough. It's tough. This is our life this time of year. We do five months out here from May to August in the rice business. It's a every day, 4:00 in the morning until dark. Sometimes in the summer, usually around the 4th of July, we'll get a break and start getting Sundays off, so it's kind of a treat for us. Jim Morris: It is a busy time right now in the spring. Tell me what an average day looks like in terms of seeding the rice fields. Rick Richter: Well we're up at 4:00 in the morning, we're here at 5:00 to 6:00, the crews roll in, we're out on the jobs by 6:30 and from then until dark sometimes we're out, depending on the workload. Jim Morris: What happens when they're seeding? You have a pre-germinated seed. I mean, just walk me through some of the major steps in it. It's fascinating to see that seed being loaded. They're working like an Indy pit crew, I think. Rick Richter: Oh yeah, we pride ourselves on the speed that it takes, that we can get the load out. The seed is soaked for at least 24 hours prior to our applications. It's brought to us in bulk trailers, bulk semi-truck trailers, to the airstrips, usually the closest strip within two miles of the field so we can make our turnarounds quicker and get more done. Jim Morris: What speed can you travel? What's the highest speed and what's the lowest altitude you might be traveling depending on the circumstances of each rice farm? Rick Richter: Well, we're probably seeding rice about 30 feet in the air, depending on the wind. The windier conditions require a lower altitude, but spraying, we're within 10 feet of the crop and going about 120 to 130 miles per hour on some of the more modern turbine aircraft. Some of the faster ones will go up to 150, and that's moving fast compared to the old days when it was just 100 miles an hour in an old Ag Cat. The professional ag pilots that we have nowadays don't leave anything for granted. We take pride in what we do and we want to be there for our children and our families at the end of the day. Jim Morris: Talk about the change in technology since when you started and the importance of global positioning system, GPS. Rick Richter: GPS is the biggest breakthrough that's ever come to this industry, and it just changed it forever. It's amazing we can get within three feet of our swath and multiple swaths at a time, the fields all laid out for us, hardly any problems. It's just amazing what it did. It took away the job from the flaggers and the crews that we had to position on each field, and it allowed it for much more efficiency in the operation. Jim Morris: The term crop duster comes up a lot, much more than the term ag pilot. What's the name that you think is most fitting? Rick Richter: Crop duster is just an old moniker from the back of the old days when they dusted crops. But nowadays they're professional pilots. We are required to have training, continuing education every year, licensed by the state, licensed by the Federal Aviation Regulations as commercial pilots. And the operators are actually licensed as commercial ag operators. So there's plenty of regulation in our business. We take it in stride. We understand that we need to have that to keep our skills honed and to protect the crop protection materials. Jim Morris: You have the good fortune of working with your son. When did that start and how does that make you feel, because you're getting closer to retirement? Rick Richter: It just makes me feel great. He's such a major link in this operation. We're getting in the process of turning it over to him. It's kind of hard for me to let go of the reins. The good thing about it, he understands that, and he's taking that in stride. He knows that someday it'll be all his to worry about. Jim Morris: This is Nick, and you have a traditional looking yellow airplane and he has a white one that looks a little different. Now I'm no aviation expert. Tell me the difference of what you fly and what Nick flies. Rick Richter: Well I'm flying a 1979 biplane, and he's flying a 2011 Thrush S2R with a Pratt Whitney engine on it. It goes faster. It carries the same amount of speed, but it's a sleeker, modern-looking airplane, probably the wave of the future. The old biplanes are kind of being in a thing of the past, but they're good, strong, sturdy airplanes and they're more suited to our country where the fields are maybe smaller. You can get a tighter turn out of it. But he enjoys that speed and the wider swath that he gets with the larger wing on that airplane. Jim Morris: With the COVID-19 crisis, agriculture has rightly been deemed an essential industry. And, of course, it's easy here in Maxwell to see that with farms and farm-related industries. But what's your comment about the value of agriculture to California? Rick Richter: It's worth so much to our economy here in California. I'm not sure of the numbers, but just the rice business alone contribute so much to the local economy. Everybody's job in this area depends on rice. Jim Morris: How do you feel when people are eating a rice bowl or risotto, paella, sushi, et cetera, you had a hand in that? Rick Richter: Well, I sure did. I've been to restaurants in the South that have used California medium grain rice in their sushi. I tell them all about it. I say, "Hey, I know where that came from." Jim Morris: Rick, tell me a little bit about your level of pride. You're coming to the end of your career. You've done a lot. You and other ag pilots have done a lot to keep rice on tables. Rick Richter: It's so rewarding to see that rice come up and, it's beautiful green after you plant it within a week or two, and the whole area turns into just a magic carpet. You watch it all summer long, and then it comes to golden yellow-brown at harvest. And you just get that feeling that I did this. I provided part of this 500,000-acres in this valley for the people around the world to use. And it's just, it hits home, I'll tell you. Jim Morris: Farming in California is all about family and there are connections even between growers and pilots. I'm visiting with Kurt Richter, rice grower. Tell me your connection with Rick Richter. Kurt Richter: Well, Rick is a cousin of ours. We share a common ancestor that was actually our original immigrant to California from the area that's now known as Germany. Rick and my father, Paul Richter, were connected from childhood all the way up. Rick has always done all the applications for our family's farming operation. Jim Morris: How important are the pilots to what you do? Kurt Richter: A pilot plays a huge role in the quality of the product that you're going to put out at the end of the season. The seed application just in and of itself is one of the most important applications of the year. For the application to be done in a nice, even way where it's spread out, no skips, no overlaps, no bunching coming out of the bottom of the airplane, so a good quality pilot can definitely make or break any particular crop. Jim Morris: Planting season's never easy. There's always hurdles to clear, but how are things going? Kurt Richter: It has definitely been a year of hurdles. We faced water cuts early and made it past that hurdle. Then we faced aqua shortages and we've now passed that hurdle. And now we've got rain, so it's just, any given week, any number of issues that can crop up, but we're used to this in California rice. We've battled out the weather many times in the last few years and all these other problems are things that come up from time to time. And so you just have to have contingency plans and a strategy for how to work around those issues. And, for our operation at least, I feel like we've done pretty well. We're on track to be wrapped up here very soon. Jim Morris: After planting, it does not take long for the rice plants to emerge. So, throughout the summer, when you're heading north of Sacramento, keep an eye out for those beautiful green rice fields. That wraps up this episode. Thanks so much to Rick Richter of Richter Aviation and Kurt Richter of Richter Ag for their insight. A reminder that there's much more at podcast.calrice.org, including photos and video of rice seeding. Please subscribe to our podcast and send us your questions and comments. Thanks for listening.

On this episode of the Pod, we talk with Mayor Bridge Littleton of Middleburg, VA. Like all communities, Middleburg has been financially impacted by the Coronavirus. But, the Mayor and Council have been proactive in coming up with programs to help.  Bridge Littleton is the President and Co-Founder of Hellen Systems, a technology development company focused on the development and deployment of enhanced LORAN (eLORAN) as a resilient back up system to the Global Positioning System (GPS) being executed through a Public Private Partnership with the US Government. Mayor Littleton received his BS in History and Political Science at Radford University and his Juris Doctor from the University of Richmond School of Law. He is also a certified Value Based Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. Mr. Littleton currently serves as the Mayor of the Town of Middleburg Virginia, having previously served as a member of the Middleburg Town Council and a Planning Commissioner.  

Today we take our navigation for granted. Just a few moments using our phone and we’ve got our quickest route home, the scenic drive to work, and directions to the nearest coffee shop. But have you ever stopped to wonder how it actually works, or who made it? For a special sixth episode of the Create the Future podcast, we spoke to the winners of the 2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering after they received the award from HRH The Prince of Wales, about their work developing the Global Positioning System – GPS. Today, it is estimated that four billion people around the world use GPS. It provides an accessible service for all and a powerful tool that engineers can integrate with their own applications for free. It can help to track disease outbreaks, guide self-driving tractors, prevent shark attacks, and even improve the performance of sports teams. New applications for GPS continue to revolutionise entire industries, and its annual economic value has been estimated to be $80 billion for the USA alone. In this episode, Dr Bradford Parkinson, Richard Schwartz, Hugo Fruehauf, and Anna Marie Spilker, on behalf of her late husband, Professor James Spilker, Jr, recount stories of how they started working on GPS, their individual contributions to the project, the highlights and challenges of the colossal innovation, as well as their thoughts on its future applications. To read more about the winners, and the history of GPS, visit: qeprize.org/news/origins-of-gps

By surprise, when I was interviewing Christian for Cyber Frontiers 58, he mentioned a site for Ham Radio Operators. Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) is an amateur radio-based system for real time digital communications of information of immediate value in the local area. Data can include object Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates, weather station telemetry, text messages, announcements, queries, and other telemetry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Packet_Reporting_System). We also talked about our Black Friday shopping lists, some thoughts from Jim on Plex and Mike covers the new AirPod Pro. I think you will enjoy the show.  Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video

By surprise, when I was interviewing Christian for Cyber Frontiers 58, he mentioned a site for Ham Radio Operators. Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) is an amateur radio-based system for real time digital communications of information of immediate value in the local area. Data can include object Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates, weather station telemetry, text messages, announcements, queries, and other telemetry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Packet_Reporting_System). We also talked about our Black Friday shopping lists, some thoughts from Jim on Plex and Mike covers the new AirPod Pro. I think you will enjoy the show.  Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video

By surprise, when I was interviewing Christian for Cyber Frontiers 58, he mentioned a site for Ham Radio Operators. Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) is an amateur radio-based system for real time digital communications of information of immediate value in the local area. Data can include object Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates, weather station telemetry, text messages, announcements, queries, and other telemetry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Packet_Reporting_System). We also talked about our Black Friday shopping lists, some thoughts from Jim on Plex and Mike covers the new AirPod Pro. I think you will enjoy the show.  Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video

Movies coming in May - https://comicbook.com/movies/2019/04/30/movies-arriving-may-2019/#6Bad sense of smell predicts early death - https://www.newscientist.com/article/2201021-a-bad-sense-of-smell-predicts-early-death-but-we-dont-know-why/CRISPR storing GIFS - https://www.alphr.com/bioscience/1006302/scientists-have-used-crispr-to-store-a-gif-inside-the-dna-of-a-living-cellGames currently playingBuck – Assassin’s Creed Unity - https://store.steampowered.com/app/289650/Assassins_Creed_Unity/Professor– Minecraft - https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/DJ– Mortal Kombat 11 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/976310/Mortal_Kombat11/Other topics discussedA Dog’s Journey (film)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dog%27s_Journey_(film)Isle of Dogs (film)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Dogs_(film)The Professor (film)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Professor_(2018_film)John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (film)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wick:_Chapter_3_%E2%80%93_ParabellumClara (film)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_(film)The Professor & the Madman (film)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Professor_and_the_Madman_(film)Aladdin (2019 disney film)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_(2019_film)Sonic the Hedgehog (2019 film)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(film)Tolkien (film)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien_(film)Rock of Ages (film)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_of_Ages_(2012_film)Bohemian Rhapsody (film)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Rhapsody_(film)Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019 film)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla:_King_of_the_Monsters_(2019_film)Plucking nose hairs is not a good idea- https://www.businessinsider.com.au/why-you-shouldnt-pluck-your-nose-hairs-2016-7?r=US&IR=THow to pronounce GIF- https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/battle-over-gif-pronunciation-erupts/Ways to add CRISPR into the body- https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608898/five-ways-to-get-crispr-into-the-body/A New World Order podcast- https://thatsnotcanon.com/anewworldorderBig Fat Liar (film)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Fat_LiarY2K of GPS- https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-04-05/gps-rollover-global-positioning-system-receivers-satellites/10966218Gal Gadot’s stunt double in Wonder Woman movie- http://www.espn.com/espnw/culture/article/19510724/stunt-double-caitlin-dechelle-wonder-woman-real-life-superpowersMaxwell Klinger (M*A*S*H character)- https://mash.fandom.com/wiki/Maxwell_Q._KlingerShoutouts27 Apr 1922 – Record breaking Sheila Scott was born, she later in life went on to become an accomplished female pilot. In 1966, Sheila made her first around-the-world flight, covering about 31,000 miles in 189 flying hours. It was the first such solo flight by a British subject, the longest-distance solo flight, and only the third around-the-world flight by a woman. Then records began to tumble: between London and Cape Town in 1967; across the North Atlantic the same year; across the South Atlantic in 1969; from equator to equator over the North Pole in 1971, becoming the first woman to pilot a flight circling the world by way of the North Pole in a light aircraft. After her record polar flight, she made a third around-the-world flight, earning her 100th world-class record, including a new time from Darwin, Australia, to London of three and a half days, beating the previous record by one and a half days. In 1967, she set 23 world records in just one year. - https://www.onthisday.com/articles/record-breaking-sheila-the-high-flying-aviator29 Apr 2019 - Dragon Ball Creator Akira Toriyama has been nominated in the "Voters Choice" category for the Eisner Hall of Fame awards - https://comicbook.com/anime/2019/04/29/dragon-ball-akira-toriyama-eisner-award-nomination-2019/30 Apr 1888 – 1888 Moradabad hailstorm: hail stones allegedly as big as oranges kill 246 people and some 1600 sheep and cattle in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1888_Moradabad_hailstorm30 Apr 1989 - World Wide Web (WWW) is first launched in the public domain by CERN scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee - https://www.onthisday.com/people/tim-berners-leeRemembrances29 Apr 2019 – John Singleton, American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was best known for directing Boyz n the Hood (1991), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, becoming, at age 24, the first African American and youngest person to have ever been nominated for that award. Singleton was a native of South Los Angeles, and many of his films, such as Poetic Justice (1993), Higher Learning (1995), and Baby Boy (2001), had themes which resonated with the contemporary urban population. He also directed the drama Rosewood (1997) and the action films Shaft (2000), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), and Four Brothers (2005). He co-created the television crime drama Snowfall. He died of a stroke at 51 in Los Angeles, California - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Singleton29 Apr 2019 – Les Murray, Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spanned over 40 years and he published nearly 30 volumes of poetry as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings. His poetry won many awards and he is regarded as "the leading Australian poet of his generation". He was rated by the National Trust of Australia as one of the 100 Australian Living Treasures. He died at 80 in Taree, New South Wales. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Murray_(poet)30 Apr 1792 - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, a British statesman who succeeded his grandfather Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich as the Earl of Sandwich in 1729, at the age of ten. During his life, he held various military and political offices, including Postmaster General, First Lord of the Admiralty, and Secretary of State for the Northern Department. He is also known for the claim that he was the eponymous inventor of the sandwich. He died at 73 in Chiswick,England - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montagu,_4th_Earl_of_Sandwich30 Apr 1974 - Agnes Moorehead, American actress whose 41-year career included work in radio, stage, film, and television. She is best known for her role as Endora on the television series Bewitched, but she also has notable roles in films, including Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Dark Passage, All That Heaven Allows, Show Boat, and Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte. Moorehead rarely played lead roles, but her skill at character development and range earned her one Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards and six Emmy Awards. She was the first woman to host the Oscars ceremony. Her transition to television won acclaim for drama and comedy. She could play many different types, but often portrayed haughty, arrogant characters. She died of uterine cancer at 73 in Rochester, Minnesota - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_MooreheadFamous Birthdays30 Apr 1921 - Roger L. Easton, American scientist/physicist who was the principal inventor and designer of the Global Positioning System (GPS), along with Ivan A. Getting and Bradford Parkinson. He was born in Craftsbury, Vermont - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_L._Easton30 Apr 1985 – Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model. At age 18, she was crowned Miss Israel 2004. She then served two years in the Israel Defense Forces as a combat instructor, and began studying law and international relations at IDC Herzliya college while building up her modeling and acting careers. Gadot's first international film role came as Gisele Yashar in Fast & Furious (2009), a role she reprised in subsequent installments of the film franchise. She went on to earn worldwide fame for portraying Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe, beginning with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), followed by the solo film Wonder Woman and the ensemble Justice League (both 2017). In 2018, Gadot was included on Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and was listed among the highest-paid actresses in the world. She was born in Petah Tikva, Israel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal_Gadot1 May 1738 - Kamehameha 1, Hawaiian conqueror who united the Hawaiian Islands and formally established the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi in 1810. He was born in Kohala, Hawaii - https://www.onthisday.com/people/kamehameha-i- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamehameha_I1 May 1923 - Joseph Heller, American author of novels, short stories, plays and screenplays. His best-known work is the novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. He was born in Brooklyn, New York - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_HellerEvents of Interest1 May 1786 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Vienna with Mozart himself directing - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mozarts-le-nozze-di-figaro-premieres-in-vienna1 May 1840 - The Penny Black was the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system was first issued. It was not valid for use until 6 May. The Penny Black features a profile of Queen Victoria. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black1 May 1994 – Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident whilst leading the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Ayrton_Senna1 May 1999 - SpongeBob SquarePants premiere on Nickelodeon after the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards. It has received worldwide critical acclaim since its premiere and gained enormous popularity by its second season. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spongebob_squarepantsIntroArtist – Goblins from MarsSong Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)Song Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNMe6kF0j0&index=4&list=PLHmTsVREU3Ar1AJWkimkl6Pux3R5PB-QJFollow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/Email - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.comTwitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamatedSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrSiTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094RSS - http://www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com/topshelfnerdspodcast?format=rss

The greatly hyped, end-of-world Y2K event came and went without anybody noticing. Now, some tech writers are trying to create that same panic with the Global Positioning System (GPS). Kim looks at the latest fears behind the GPS update coming up in April 2019 and how it can affect us.

The greatly hyped, end-of-world Y2K event came and went without anybody noticing. Now, some tech writers are trying to create that same panic with the Global Positioning System (GPS). Kim looks at the latest fears behind the GPS update coming up in April 2019 and how it can affect us.

From CBS News: For the first time, a new network of satellites will soon be able to track all commercial airplanes in real time, anywhere on the planet. Currently, planes are largely tracked by radar on the ground, which doesn’t work over much of the world’s oceans. The final 10 satellites were launched Friday to wrap up the $3 billion effort to replace 66 aging communication satellites, reports CBS News’ Kris Van Cleave, who got an early look at the new technology. On any given day, 43,000 planes are in the sky in America alone. When these planes take off, they are tracked by radar and are equipped with a GPS transponder. All commercial flights operating in the U.S. and Europe have to have them by 2020. It’s that transponder that talks to these new satellites, making it possible to know exactly where more than 10,000 flights currently flying are. Tucked inside the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that was blasted into space on Friday are 10 advanced Iridium Communications satellites, each the size of a Mini Cooper. Once active, they’ll power satellite phone communications, space-based broadband and carry a device which will solve an issue that’s plagued aviation for decades. “Seventy percent of the world’s airspace has no surveillance. Aircraft fly over the oceans and report back their positions to air traffic control every 10 to 15 minutes at best and in between those periods, no one knows where they are,” said Aireon CEO Don Thoma. Aireon, based in McLean, Virginia, was developing the technology to change that even before Mayalasia Airlines flight MH370 vanished over the Indian Ocean in March 2014. But a Boeing 777 with 239 aboard disappearing was a wake-up call, prompting years of safety experts demanding change. “I can find my kids by pinging their iPhone. We shouldn’t have aircraft that disappear anywhere in the world today,” former National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Debbie Herman said back in 2016. To make that happen, the Aireon technology is hitching a ride to space as part of the largest technology swap the universe has ever seen. Iridium is replacing its existing constellation of 66 satellites and 9 spares orbiting the earth built and launched in the mid-90s. Walt Everetts help designed the first generation of Iridium satellites, naming two of them after his sons Nicholas and Andrew. He’ll be in the company’s command center outside Washington, D.C. as his team maneuvers the new satellites into place, simultaneously powering on the new and devastating old. The legacy satellites will then be moved out of orbit where they’ll burn up in the earth’s atmosphere. “It’s kind of like changing a tire on a bus going 17,000 miles per hour,” said Walt Everetts, vice president of satellite operations for Iridium. “With these new satellites that we’re putting up, we have more capacity, more processing capability, more memory … so we are taking an old flip phone and upgrading it into a smartphone.” While not fully complete, the updated network circling the globe 485 miles overhead is already tracking planes. Aireon was able to instantly confirm the last known location of Lion Air Flight 610, the Boeing 737 Max that crashed in the Java Sea last October. “With the Iridium-Aireon system, every airplane is in reach of an air traffic controller … so no matter what happened to that airplane we would know within seconds of where that airplane was,” Iridium CEO Matt Desch said. The technology may also make it possible for air traffic controllers to allow more flights to be in the air at the same time on busy routes over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It could also allow for more direct flight paths, which means more flights, the potential for fewer delays, and shorter flights to places like Europe. From Aerion’s website: ADS-B is an air traffic surveillance technology that relies on aircraft broadcasting their identity, a precise Global Positioning System (GPS) position and other information derived from on-board systems. The data is broadcast every half a second from the aircraft, and is being used by Air Traffic Controllers (ATCs) to identify and separate aircraft in real-time.

OPENING ILLUSTRATION: Do you remember these things? [map slide] This is an ancient artifact from back in the bible times called a map. In the olden times people used these to navigate from one place to another. Can you image handing these to a teen today [Map find the mall]. Practically every family in this room has a devise that serves as a Global Positioning System [GPS]. We tell it where we want to go, it identifies where we are at, it finds our destination and it charts a course, many give every turn by turn directions. It’s a new day.    GPS works because of a concept called TRIANGULATION and a mathematical formula called TRILATERATION. Simply put - your phone knows where you are located based upon where you are relative to satellites orbiting above you.    When we look at Scripture we see it employs a similar strategy in a spiritual sense. The Bible constantly views this present world in relation to Revelation and Culmination. In other words:   What do we know to be true as it is revealed in scripture? Revelation What is the certain goal toward which history is moving? Culmination   As we understand more about those two aspects of reality - the more we will understand how to make good and God honoring decisions in the present.    CONTEXT: Now Genesis 27 is what is called an Anti-type. So in other words I can’t show you how a person honored the principles of Revelation and Culmination in Gen. 27, but I can show you the sad circumstances that occurred when someone ignored those two things.   

Global Positioning System (GPS), one of the most favorite devices made for traveling. Wouldn't it be nice to have GPS for your life journey? Take a listen to this first part of encouragement to get you started!

Hello All and Sundry! In Lieu of our regular episode this week, we proudly present the first episode of Space 3D, hosted by Space Pharmacist Eleanor O'Rangers and Company. For those of you who love learning about the universe and space history, Space 3D is the place to be! Episodes will launch from here initially, then move to their own feed, so give them a try!For their debut, the Space3D crew is traveling to Skylab to learn about the medical aspects and workday anecdotes of life in space! Enjoy, and See you all again next week-Dr JPodcast #1- An Interview with Dwight Steven-Boniecki on Skylab medical capabilitiesDwight Steven-Boniecki was born in Sydney, Australia in 1969, a few months before manwalked on the moon. He spent much of his childhood fascinated with space exploration -growing up in the shadow of Apollo and under the direct influence of science fiction films suchas Star Wars. The latter shaped his desire to work in the film/television industry.Having worked in the television industry in Australia, the United States, Great Britain andGermany for nearly 25 years, Dwight's professional qualifications helped to complement hisunderstanding of the pioneering television achievements of the U.S. space program.Initially to satisfy his own curiosity, Dwight combined his professional background with hisinterest in spaceflight and researched the television systems developed by NASA. To hisdismay, he discovered that while the information was available, it was not easy to access, andhad never been comprehensively written about. He set about to change that, and ended upwriting the ward-winning book, "Live TV From the Moon" as well as “Live TV From Orbit.”An avid space historian, Dwight places a great amount of detail in presenting the story with therespect it rightfully deserves, but is often unfairly denied. To that end, he is also notable forauthoring the Apogee Books 3-book series, “Skylab: the NASA Mission Reports” and isfinalizing a documentary entitled, “Searching for Skylab”, which is planned for a 2018 release.Dwight is married and lives with his wife in Cologne, Germany. He regularly dazzles his workcolleagues with his unusual knowledge of all things NASA television camera related. In hisspare time, he enjoys assuming the virtual controls of Lockheed-Martin's Prepar3d flightsimulator, listening to classic rock (the Beach Boys and Harry Nilsson especially), and watchinga wide variety of feature films.---Emily CarneyA spaceflight blogger and author based on Saint Petersburg, Florida, Emily has written for ArsTechnica, The Space Review, and AmericaSpace. She founded the Facebook group SpaceHipsters in 2011. Her own spaceflight blog is This Space Available (http://this-space-available.blogspot.com). She can be reached at Emily.Carney1@gmail.com. Eleanor O'RangersA clinical pharmacist by training, with a sub-specialization in cardiovascular pharmacology. She maintains an active interest in microgravity pharmacokinetics /dynamics and has lectured and written on the subject. Eleanor was a pharmacology member of the Nutrition and Clinical Care Integrated ProjectsTeam at NASA-Johnson Space Center, whose mission was to provide non-agency perspectiveon pharmacology and nutrition research needs for the U.S. Manned Spaceflight Program. Eleanor also contributed to development of drug reference monographs for Space Shuttle andInternational Space Station medications. Most recently, Eleanor participated as an ExplorationMedical Capability Pharmacist Expert Panelist to advise the agency on medication stability andformulary considerations for future expedition-class space missions.Eleanor has been a guest on;The Space Show and “Travel Medicine Podcast”, and co-wroteand participated in several Emergency at Corpates Base; serials which appear on the “TravelMedicine Podcast”Eleanor volunteers at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., where she has been a docent since 1995.spacepharmd@gmail.com.Tom HillTom Hill grew up in Pennsylvania. He attended Penn State University under an Air ForceReserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) scholarship and graduated in 1990 with a degree inAerospace Engineering. The night before graduation he received a commission in the Air Forceas a second lieutenant. Called to active duty in May of 1991, he entered Undergraduate Space and Missile Training toenter Air Force Space Command. As an orbital analyst, he carried out early orbit and stationkeeping maneuver planning as well as orbital refinement for the Global Positioning System(GPS) and the Defense Support Program (DSP), along with some work on the DefenseMeteorological Satellite Program (DMSP).Tom enjoyed several additional assignments with Space Command as a crew commander,chief of training and operations support flight commander in Turkey and at Vandenburg AFB inCalifornia. While at Vandenburg, he was involved in Titan II and IV launches.Outside of his paid career, Tom maintains an interest in all things related to space. He is an active member of The Mars Society, having led the Analog Rover Project, and founded The Kepler Prize for Mars Mission Design within the organization. He has authored several papers for presentation there, as well as articles for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets and Space Operations Online Magazine, The Space Review, High Frontier (the Air Force journal for space professionals), and Space Times (the Magazine of the American Astronautical Society). As the Mars Society project manager for the Tethered Experiment for Mars inter-Planetary Operations (TEMPO) mission, Tom led project development, public affairs, and fund raising efforts. In this effort, he became an amateur radio operator with the call-sign KB3RXN He currently serves as a JPL Solar System Ambassador. Space: What Now? Is his first published book. He followed it with an illustrated childrens book entitled I Want to go to Mars. Tom is married and he and his wife Deborah have two children. Tom may be reached at: Tom@SpaceWhatNow.com.

Dr. Vernet Joseph is America's #1 Potential, Passion & Productivity Speaker, Strategist & Consultant. A bestselling author of multiple books, he is the founder and CEO of Live To Produce Enterprises and President of Gigaré Lifestyle Magazine. He is also recognized as one of the top 40 Productivity Experts to follow on twitter since 2012, Executive Professional of the Year & recently named Black Wall Street Phoenix Arizona Entrepreneur of the Year for 2016. Peak Performers, Dr. Vernet shares his awesome journey on TheEntrepYou today! Click To Tweet Show  Notes: What is your favourite movie of all time? Coming to America - it's one of the all-time greatest with Mr. Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy must have played about 6 different characters in the movie. One of the other reasons why I love it so much is that it speaks to productivity. Not only is it comical but it makes so much sense business wise as well. How did you become such a Productivity Evangelist? All my life I have had the entrepreneurial bug. I have been around some great people; I've had some great opportunities, great mentors in my life. I Grew up on the streets of Miami, Florida. My parents are from Haiti. All my life I've had the opportunity to seek after my goals. Very early on in my life I needed a MAP (mentality, attitude and focus) which is like a GPS. When you have the right mentality, you have the right attitude and the right perspective on life it is easy to navigate through life. Many people ask, “How did you do it so early?” I am one of those people, when I look around me, I'm a sponge, I'm a life-long learner. I don't like to make mistakes. When I see people make mistakes I like to write that down in my book so I not only learn from the good that people do but I also learn from their mistakes. My life has truly been a wonderful blessing simply because I'm in tuned to my surrounding. Life is going to happen to us all but the question is what do we do with it. What is your perspective? Where other people gave me encouragement or motivation or even when they were trying to discourage me I used that as fuel for me to actually blast off with my potential, passion, and productivity. That's how it all started for me at a young age. Your definition of productivity and why are you so passionate about it? Productivity has thousands of different definitions but for me it is simply doing more with less. Getting the job done the right way in as less time as possible. It is a lifestyle, not just a mindset or a fad. It tells or shows people that you have endless possibilities. There are multiple avenues to get to a destination but what is the most productive way to get to a destination. That's where life truly is different. I talk about it often because it is the only thing I know. Finding and helping people to live their best life, enabling them to do their place of passion. For me that's what true life is all about. What would you say to us to not be distracted? Productivity is a state of mind, it must be perceived as achievable prior to it being achieved. It cannot be achieved if you're not focus. This is what I often use with my clients - Fixed Focused and Dedicated. Without focus, it is impossible to see a destination; it's impossible to see a route, to get from point A to B unless you're willing to wander. Wandering means you don't know where you're going, you're just walking. It's frustrating to want to get somewhere without having the coordinates to get there. It's called wasted space, wasted time. When you get laser focused, it helps you to cut down on that time. It teaches you to do more by doing less. Today we have the Global Positioning System (GPS) because somebody took the time to be laser focused on every destination that gave the steps, tools and strategy to get there even if you didn't know how and as entrepreneurs, business owners, productivity people - focus is absolutely important.

In this episode of DARPA’s podcast series, Voices from DARPA, join program manager Lin Haas of the Agency’s Strategic Technology Office as he shares his expansive view on the current and future roles of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) technology, whose most famous incarnation is known as the Global Positioning System (GPS). Haas reveals ambitious PNT programs that include efforts to develop an undersea system that provides omnipresent positioning capabilities across ocean basins where GPS signals do not go and to exploit environmental signals, such as the electromagnetic features of lightning, for back-up geolocation service if GPS were to become unavailable. You will also learn how a guy ends up with the name Lin.

Seit 1994 versorgt das Global Positioning System (GPS) die Welt mit der notwendigen Infrastruktur zur Ortung von Schiffen, Flugzeugen und Personen. Der Bedarf war riesig und nur in zehn Jahren entwickelte sich das GPS-System zur Basis militärischer Operationen wie ziviler Verkehrsnavigation. Seit ein paar Jahren sinken die Preise für die Technik spürbar und parallel entstehen zahlreiche Geo-Dienste, über die jedermann via Internet Zugriff auf umfangreiches Kartenmaterial und Infrastrukturinformationen über alle Regionen bereitstellt. Eine Geo-Industrie entdeckt im Stundentakt neue Anwendungsfelder und versorgt den Markt mit immer günstiger Hardware zum Ermitteln der Position. Dienste wie Google Earth erlauben zudem die Visualisierung des Planeten in 3D und lassen wiederum ganz neue Spielchen erahnen. Geocaching wird zum Volkssport und die Liveübertragung raumbezogener Aktivitäten aller Art im Internet hat begonnen. Chaosradio stellt Technik, Infrastruktur, Protokolle und Anwendungen im Geospace vor und wagt wie gewohnt auch einen Blick in die nahe Zukunft. Dort stellen neue Entwicklungen wie das europäische System Galileo und die bevorstehende Integration von Positions-Empfängern und Mobiltelefonen neue Fragen. Neben dem unendlich beschleunigten Spieltrieb bringen die neuen Dienste und Produkte auch neue Bedrohungen für die Privatsphäre mit sich. Wir haben eine Mitmachseite im Chaosradio Wiki http://wiki.chaosradio.ccc.de/Chaosradio_116 eingerichtet. Musik: * Korruptor - Divide http://www.mixdepot.net/Korruptor/Divide * Korruptor - Voltix http://www.mixdepot.net/Korruptor/Voltix * RK2 Podcast http://kor.gazaxian.com/ * MixDepot.net - Spread the Sound http://www.mixdepot.net/