8 October 2009 – There is slow but notable progress towards stability in strife-torn Somalia, but international financial support for the transitional government is vital, with speed being the most critical element, the United Nations political chief said today.
"Money received today in Somalia will have far greater impact on stability than that which arrives in three months' time," Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs B. Lynn Pascoe told the Security Council, adding that the "extremely generous pledges" of $200 million made earlier this year need to be fulfilled immediately.
He said he and Under-Secretary-General for Field Support Susanna Malcorra would meet with key donors tomorrow to assess the fulfilment of these pledges.
At the same time, he said, the humanitarian situation has "worsened dramatically" over the past three months due to intensified fighting in Mogadishu, the capital, growing insecurity in much of southern and central Somalia, and deepening drought.
Some 3.7 million people – or about 50 per cent of the population – are now in need of livelihood and humanitarian aid, up from 3.2 million in January.
Presenting Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's latest report, he noted that the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) had overcome repeated attacks by foreign-funded and heavily armed groups, and that the African Union (AU) and its crucial peacekeeping mission in Somalia, known as AMISOM, remained fully committed to bringing peace and stability to a country that has known little of either for the past two decades.
Beyond the international trust for financial support, he suggested that development partners start direct bilateral economic and financial cooperation with the TFG, and he stressed the "urgent need" to provide additional resources for AMISOM, which has some 5,200 troops stationed in Mogadishu, 65 per cent of its mandated strength of 8,000.
Craig Boyd, Director of the UN Support Office for AMISOM, told the Council that contributions to an AMISOM trust fund now stood at almost $25 million, 80 per cent of the total pledged, up from $15 million in July.
Mr. Boyd stressed growing UN services for the force, including the provision of a strategic communications network, increased freight shipping from Kenya, and the prompt arrangement of evacuation flights, ambulances and hospitalizations when AMISOM's headquarters was attacked last month.
Mr. Pascoe noted that the UN and the international community supported the TFG's openness to talks with all parties ready to commit to peace, and the world body is increasing the visits of senior political officials to Mogadishu.
He also praised the role of international navies in combating piracy, the bane of international shipping off Somalia's coast, and stressed the need to cut off the source for the scourge. "It is critical that we strengthen the central Government and the regional authorities and help provide economic opportunities for fishing communities and other rural populations," he said.
"After years of conflict, peace will not come to Somalia overnight," he concluded of a country that has not had a functioning central government and has been riven by sectarian and clan factions since 1991.


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BRISTOL DD 453
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1 Ship Name and Designation History
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3.1 Post office established November 1 1941 - Disestablished October 16 1943
4 Other Information
Ship Name and Designation History
This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.
Gleaves Class Destroyer
Keel Laid 2 September 1940 - Launched 25 July 1941
USS BRISTOL DD-453
Commissioned 22 October 1941
SUNK 13 October 1943 by German U-371 off Algiers
52 of her crew were lost with the ship and remain on duty
Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, USN
Naval Covers
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USS Bristol DD-453 Covers Page 1 (1941-1942)
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Postmark Type
Killer Bar Text
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Locy Type
FDC F
USCS Postmark
Catalog Illus. B-57
Collector supplied postmark from Michael Sanders, ANCS Brooklyn Crew. This is the FDPS and FDC for the ship. George V. Sadworth's tribute to Richard Buchwald
Post office established November 1 1941 - Disestablished October 16 1943
FDPS 3 (A-OTO)
First Day of Postal Service, cachet by Dr. S. E. Hutnick
FDPS 9v
First Day Postal Service. Unlisted in USCS Postmark Catalog
FDPS 9x
3 (A-OTO)
"GREGORY /
SUNK"
Cachet by George V. Sadworth. Postmark commemorates the sinking of USS Gregory APD-3
3z (BBT)
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Locy Type Fz
Catalog Illus. B-57a
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Pz (OXO)
Blue postmark dated 11-November-1942, Locy Type Pz(OXO) killer text "ATLANTA / DODGES / Bombers". Unfranked. Unaddressed. Violet rubber-stamps "ATLANTA DODGES Bombers" and "ATLANTA DODGES Dive Bmr's". Reverse blank. Light age toning as shown in image. Good condition, flap open, no tears or damage. Provisional postmark not listed in USCS Catalog, estimated rarity R-3. Created from Bristol postmark T-3(A-OTO), middle letter of "U.S.S." removed at top of dial, ship name removed from bottom of dial, "NAVY" added to dial, middle killer bar removed. Very likely the killer text was a separate rubber-stamp.
USS Atlanta CL-51. Courtesy of Bruce D. Liddell
USS BRISTOL earned the Europe-Africa-Middle-East Campaign Medal w/ 3 Battle Stars during her Naval career.
NAMESAKE - Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, USN (April 17 1868 - May 13 1939)
Bristol graduated from the Naval Academy in 1887. During the Spanish-American War he served aboard USS TEXAS and participated in the battle of Santiago, Cuba. From 1901 to 1903 he served as aide to the Commander-in-Chief, North Atlantic Fleet. He commanded USS OKLAHOMA BB-37 during World War I and then served as United States High Commissioner in Turkey (1919-27). In 1927 Rear Admiral Bristol assumed command of the Asiatic Fleet. He died May 13 1939.
The ships sponsor was Mrs. Adaline Clayton, wife of Powell Clayton (born Powell Foulk Clayton; August 7, 1833 – August 25, 1914) was an American politician and diplomat who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 1871 to 1877 and United States Ambassador to Mexico from 1899 to 1905. He previously served as the 9th Governor of Arkansas from 1868 to 1871.
Two ships of the US Navy have borne the name BRISTOL - USS Bristol DD-453 and USS Bristol DD-857
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CLARION CO., Pa. (EYT) – Obesity rates in the United States have continued to rise over recent years, and our area is no exception.
The growing obesity trend remains a serious concern both locally and across the nation. It is a leading cause of death in the U.S. and worldwide, with associated health concerns including diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and some types of cancer.
Obesity is defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in terms of Body Mass Index (BMI), which is a measure of weight in relation to height. A BMI of 18.5 to less than 25 is considered normal. A BMI of 25.0 to just under 30 is considered overweight range, and a BMI is 30.0 or higher is considered obese.
– Class 3 obesity, which is sometimes categorized as "extreme," is a BMI of 40 or higher.
According to a two-year study on obesity and weight loss conducted by DietSpotlight, the average BMI for men in Clarion County is 35.0, with a typical weight of 240 pounds, and the average BMI for women is 33.8, with a typical weight of 198 pounds.
In comparison, the national average BMI for men in the U.S. is 26.6, and the national average for women is 26.5.
According to the Pennsylvania Department of Health County Health Profiles, 35% of the adult residents in Clarion County are obese. Looking at other counties in the area, Venango County's obesity rate is 34%, and Armstrong, Jefferson, and Forest Counties' rates are all at 35%.
According to Shaner, taking that first step and deciding to make a change can make all the difference.
According to CDC, eating more calories than you burn in daily activity causes obesity. Over time, these extra calories add up and cause you to gain weight.
– Pregnancy (weight gained during pregnancy can be difficult to lose and may eventually lead to obesity).
Health and Wellness Director of the Oil City YMCA Katie Port said changes now can also help future generations.
Echoing Chelsey Shaner, Port also stressed how much difference those first vital steps can be.
"Movement and eating well are the things our bodies need to function properly, and they affect everything from sleep to mental health to making you less susceptible to things," explained Port.
According to Tina Householder, CEO of the Brookville YMCA, one of the frightening things in the growing obesity trend is that it has become so bad, we continue to redefine it.
Although the CDC indicates there are common causes of obesity, there are also certain medical conditions may also lead to weight gain.
– Osteoarthritis and other conditions that cause pain that may lead to inactivity.
CDC suggests that an individual who is obese and has a medical condition should check with their family physician who may be able to help with weight loss. Being obese may lead to other health problems such as type 2 diabetes; heart disease; high blood pressure; certain cancers, such as breast, colon, and endometrial; stroke; gallbladder disease; fatty liver disease; high cholesterol; sleep apnea and other breathing problems; and arthritis. A physician may prescribe medications or recommend better food choices like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean protein.
With more than one-third of our local population at higher risk of obesity-related health complications, this is a growing epidemic we cannot afford to ignore.


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On January 17, 2014, Governor Brown responded to California's drought by declaring a State of Emergency and requiring that cities work to reduce their water usage by 20 percent. The North Coast, usually a region with relatively high precipitation rates in the Winter and Spring, lacks the infrastructure to cope with a water crisis of the magnitude that our state has faced over the past several years. In many rural communities in Humboldt and Mendocino counties, thousands of landowners and residents are their own water providers, responsible for managing the water that flows through their land for their household and irrigation needs. It is the responsibility of every rural resident to make improvements to their properties and changes in their behavior to ensure that water is being conserved and stewarded, rather than used inefficiently. This is the only way to prepare for extended droughts and to strengthen our water security to meet future needs.
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6G non-cellular large-scale MIMO wireless transmission technology
6g topic (2021- No. 4)
6G-facing non-honeycomb large-scale MIMO wireless transmission technology *
Wang Dongming 1, 2
(1. National Key Laboratory of Mobile Communications, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China; 2. Network Communication and Security Zikinshan Laboratory, Jiangsu Nanjing 2111111, China)
*Fund Project: National Science and Technology Key R %& D Plan (2020YFB1807200)
[Abstract] None of the cell is a new type of networking method, which has important support for 6G ultra-high peak rate, ultra-high spectrum efficiency, massive connection, and ultra-low-time delay and ultra-high reliable transmission. The wireless transmission technology in 6G-facing non-cellular large-scale MIMO systems, including high-frequency sections and low frequency bands, large-scale MIMOs, and network assisted full-duplex, etc., the bottlenecks faced by cellular systems, including Channel information acquisition, distributed transceiver design, cross-link interference, etc., and some solutions to ideas and new research directions.
[Key words] 6G wireless transmission technology; MIMO; no honeycomb large scale MIMO
doi:10.3969/j.issn.1006-1010.2021.04.002
CLC number: TN929.5 Document Sign Code: a
Article number: 1006-1010 (2021) 04-0010-06
Quote Format: Wang Dongming. Wireless transmission technology for 6G non-honeycomb large-scale MIMO wireless transmission technology [J]. Mobile Communications, 2021, 45 (4): 10-15.
5G mobile communication system has commercialized deployment, and its continuous evolution will be integrated with the deep economic economy and form a good 5G industry ecology. In this context, international organizations and governments have plans to carry out 6G mobile communication systems. At present, although 6G has not uniform definitions, there are some initiatives for application scenarios, technical trends and key indicators [1].On June 6, 2021, my country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology IMT-2030 (6G) promotion group officially released "6G Overall Vision and Potential Key Technology" White Paper [2], combing 6G overall vision and eight business application scenarios and corresponding indicator requirements Some key technical indicators of 6G, including: The peak transmission rate of the system will reach the Tbit / S level, the user experience rate reaches 10 Gbit / s, and the time to increase to 100 μs levels simultaneously, the reliability reaches 99.999 99%, etc. And put forward ten key technologies, pointing that 6G will continue to minat the potential of low frequency sections in 5G, improve the spectrum efficiency of the system; the deep tillage millimeter wave frequency band improve the transmission rate and system robustness, and to Taihaz The optical band, expands the spectrum resources of wireless communication, providing ultra-high capacity, large-scale mobile communication services.
Empty port wireless transmission technology has always been an embodiment of the core capabilities of the mobile communication system in the past, and is also the main technical pathway to achieving 6G key indicators. In the spectrum used in the existing 5G (including millimeters and sub-6 GHz bands), the shortage of spectrum resources is still very prominent, and the spectral efficiency needs to be further improved.
Multi-antenna technology and intensive networks as the main method of improving spectral efficiency is widely used in 3g to 5g. The number of transmission antennas of the base station increases from 2 to 5G applications to 5G applications 64 or even 128, and the cell division is also from macro. , Microcell to picocell. However, the problem of physical implementation problems encountered in the centralized system and the interference problem encountered in the cell split, making the spectral efficiency of the 5G system not sustainable. Therefore, it is necessary to break the traditional honeycomb structure and the small-sized way of thinking, using a new type of cellular network and corresponding large-scale collaborative MIMO transmission technology [3].
Due to the low-band spectrum resource, the expansion spectrum resources are the most straightforward way to increase the peak rate, and thus the terahertz from 5G millimeter wave to the higher frequency band is a major solution to 6G peak rate. However, the high-band wide bandwidth, near-optics and easy to be obscribed, so that it faces numerous technical challenges in mobile communication applications. Under the cellular architecture, by collaborative transmission, it is possible to effectively solve the problem of high frequency bands easy to be blocked, and the robustness of the link can be improved.
This paper first introduces the relationship between noncommitted large-scale MIMO and technology, and then introduces key technologies with large-scale wireless transmission without cells, respectively, and discusses the future research direction of cellular large-scale MIMO.
1 Evolution of multi-antenna technology and technical principles of cellular system
1.1 Multi-antenna technology evolution
Multi-antenna technology is an effective way to improve the spectral efficiency of wireless communication systems. From 2G to 5G, the number of base station antennas receives 64 issued 64 issued by 1 to 16, the data stream of the parallel transmission from 1 to 16, and the system's spectrum efficiency is also large. Lifting. As shown in Figures 1 (a) ~ (c), from 3G to 5G, multi-antenna technology has also passed the point MIMO, point-to-point multi-user MIMO and multi-point multi-user distributed MIMO. Commercial 5G uses a small-to-point MIMO technology in the indoor scenario, a large-scale MIMO in the outdoor macro honeycomb in the outdoor macro. The 5G small cellular network enhances coverage and transmission rates by intensive deployment of low-power stations, but its interference problem is difficult to further increase. The 5G large-scale MIMO can greatly increase the spectral efficiency, but at the same time its power consumption, weight and cost is large, and the bottleneck will be encountered by further increasing the performance of the single-station antenna.
In the deployment of the cellular mobile communication system, the remote wireless unit (RRU) of the fiber optic lattice can be enhanced. A simple way is that the baseband unit (BBU) of the base station is allocated different time-frequency resources for different users. When the uplink receives the baseband signals of the plurality of RRUs, they are sent to BBUs, and multiple RRUs are sent when they are sent. The same signal. This common community implementation is still widely used in 5G small honeycombroom deployment, and also the concept of early distributed antenna systems. When the received signals of the plurality of RRUs are transparent to the BBU, multi-user distributed MIMO (as shown in FIG. 1 (c), as shown in FIG. 1 (c)) is used to obtain a spatial multiplex gain and macro set. Different from a common community implementation, multiple users of distributed MIMO can share the same time-frequency resources, and then significantly improve the spectral efficiency of the system [4].
1.2 COMP, C-RAN, distributed MIMO and non-cellular system
The application of the RRU and the application of Cloud Wireless Access Network (Cloud-Ran) provide a support for distributed collaboration transmission. C-RAN introduces the concept of baseband pool, gathering the baseband signals of multiple RRUs to baseband pools, thereby increasing the flexibility of the system and reduces the cost of deployment. C-RAN is a deployment and implementation of a wireless access network that supports collaborative transmission or supports non-cooperative transmission. Currently in the 4G and 5G C-RAN commercial deployment, the cooperative transmission of joint processing is not used.
4G introduced collaborative multi-point transmission (CoMP) technology. The CoMP allows collaboration between multiple access points in a cell and a collaboration of multiple sites in the cell. COMP collaboration transport technology includes joint processing, interference coordination, collaborative beamforming, collaborative scheduling. However, 4G introduced CoMP technology is still based on cellular implementation, and due to the limited capacity of interactions between sites, the number of collaborative nodes and antennas is limited, and the advantage of CoMP has not been played.
The infrastructure of non-honeycomb large-scale MIMO is still dependent on distributed RRU deployment, theoretically, a multi-user distributed MIMO. There is a cellular system that can be used in centralized processing and distributed processing. Centralized processing can be deployed by C-RAN, a baseband signal of multiple RRUs to aggregate to a centralized BBU pool, which is jointly processed in the BBU pool. In theory, this centralized implementation can achieve optimal performance [4]. However, it is difficult to achieve an unlimited expansion of the "non-cellular" scale due to the implementation of the bottleneck in the signal processing capability of the BBU pool.
1.3 Scalable noncommitted large-scale MIMO
Figure 2 shows an extensible implementation without cellular uplink transmission method [5]. There are K users in the system, with n single antenna RRU. For uplink transmission, at each RRU, its receive signal Yn, advance row, the initial detection result of K user signal SK can be obtained, and after quantify the detection result, the next level baseband processing unit is transmitted as needed. . In the baseband processing unit, the detection result of a particular user sent by the plurality of RRUs can be merged, and the final detection result of the user can be obtained.
The above implemented manner has the following advantages:
(1)Distributed coherence reception in RRU implementation, no need to interact with other RRUs;
(2)In theory, even if the conjugated multiplication of simple channels, the number N n tends to be infinite, and the user interference can still be eliminated;
(3)Under the support of the forward network, the user can be implemented in different baseband cells, and an arbitrary expansion of the RRU size and user size can be realized. Therefore, the above-mentioned non-cellular implementation method is scalable.
For downlink, we can still use the scalable implementations shown in Figure 2. It can be seen that distributed implementation, its core thinking is that the transceiver is divided into coherent reception / send, signal merge / distribute two entity modules. In theory, the two modules can be distributed, and the system scale can be expanded. However, there is also the following problems compared to centralized distribution implementation:
(1)Centralized implementation can adopt better receivers and precoding, so concentrated, centrally, can achieve better performance than distributed.
(2)Distributed implementation may initiate an increase in the predecessor, as shown in FIG. Each RRU needs to send each user's detection output to the next level, because the pre-transmission overhead is greatly increased.
As described above, it can be seen that there is a honeycomb large-scale MIMO is a distributed MIMO, a realization of the implementation architecture of COMP, has a certain difference from C-RAN. Below, we introduce the challenges and key technologies that have no honeycomb large-scale MIMO in high-frequency sections and low frequency bands.
2 Low-band no honeycomb large-scale MIMO key technology
In the low frequency band of SUB-6 GHz, the channels of large-scale distributed MIMO have the following characteristics:
(1)Multi users are different from multiple nodes, resulting in greater changes in the frequency domain;
(2)Multiple users to multiple nodes of Doppler are not the same, and when the user moves, the channel is changed in the time domain;
(3)The user and node are large, resulting in a large channel matrix dimension. The above three features lead to challenges, transmission method design, etc. in the three characteristics of the three characteristics.
2.1 Channel information acquisition technology
The time division duplex mode can be used to utilize the empty channel channel, and the downlink channel information is obtained according to the uplink detection, thereby reducing the difficulty of the downlink channel information acquisition. Therefore, there is an important role in the intermodular calibration of the null. With the advancement of radio frequency chip technology, the consistency of multiple channels within a single RRU is more mature. However, the null port calibration between multiple RRUs is required because there is a cellular system. Considering that the distance between the RRUs is large, there is a need to study high-performance calibration algorithms, such as the iterative coordinate decline detection of the iterative coordinates proposed by [6]. In addition, in the actual deployment, since the plurality of RRUs are difficult to do, downlink combined precoding needs to consider clock deviations between the RRUs. Considering the clock deviation between the RRUs, the vaccination signal estimation and tracking can be used, and the vaccination signal between the design RRU is required, and the clock synchronization and the transcordability calibration are realized. Fortunately, due to the flexible frame structure of 5G NR, the empty port signal between the RRU can be transparent to the terminal.
When the user is more than a large number of users, the pilot overhead of the uplink detection channel is an important issue. With the sparseness of the channel power domain, the pilot reuse technique can be used to reduce the pilot overhead [4]. For uplink data channels, we need to estimate the delay between multiple users to multiple RRUs, Doppler and other statistics, using parameterized channel estimation methods, and obtain a more accurate demodulation reference signal channel estimate.
The downlink channel status information reference signal (CSI-RS) has an important aid for channel estimation of downlink shared channels. Tracking reference signals (TRS) using terminal transparent can achieve statistical characteristics of multiple RRU composite channels. However, when there is no cellular large-scale MIMO system with user-centric transmission method [7], only partial RRUs are user service, using traditional TRS, which can cause statistical characteristic measurements. Matching. Therefore, in the user-centered non-cellular large-scale MIMO system, it is necessary to study the CSI-RS configuration and design.
2.2 Distributed transmission method
In order to achieve unlimited expansion of non-honeycomb, it is necessary to consider distributed collaborative receivers and precoding. For uplink receivers, independent multi-user detection can be separated by independent multi-user detection on the RRU side, and multi-user detection can take maximum than merge, zero, minimum mean square error, maximum likelihood and other receivers. The user signal after multi-user detection is quantified to the next level to perform the merge of user signals. For downlink precoding, the RRU can be used to transmit, force zero-pre-encoding or regularization of zero precoding. Considering that the independent receiver or precoding pre-transfer overhead is large, the performance is poor, and the performance of the part RRU combined with a large receiver or the partial RRU combined with precoding is required.
As mentioned earlier, the overall channel has changed in the time frequency. The difficulty of using joint precoding and receivers is the complexity of implementation. For example, when multiple subbands use the same precoding, the subband is not able to be too wide. When the interference of [4] is used to suppress the receiver, the subband width of the same interference suppression matrix cannot be too wide.
There are also power control and downlink multi-user power allocation associated with the upper downlink transmission. Unlike traditional centralized MIMOs, the upstream power control is achieved for the QoS requirements of the terminal for the cellular system. There are more research on the downstream power distribution of collaborative MIMO. However, for cellular systems, the scalability of the algorithm is needed. In addition, when the multi-RRU is combined with precoding, the power allocation needs to consider the power constraint of each RRU. Document [8] proposed a scalable power distribution method implemented by greedy algorithm.
When using the user-centric non-cellular system, it is also necessary to study the association of the user and the RRU. Due to the multi-node collaboration capability, user location information can be obtained using an uplink detection channel and a received signal strength. Depending on the user location information, the association of the user can be implemented, and the reuse of the reference signal can be assisted.
3 High-frequency section without cellular large-scale MIMO key technology
Mmmm is a new technology introduced in 5G. Because of the near-optical, easy to be blocked characteristics, the robustness of the link is one of its main challenges. Therefore, the current 5G millimeter wave does not have a large-scale commercial. In addition, since the symbol duration of the millimeter wave system is short, it is also a technique for realizing low-delay. The collaborative transmission technology introduces the millimeter wave system, on the one hand, its robust problem can be solved, achieving ultra-low time delay, high reliability transmission, on the other hand, can improve the spectral efficiency of the system, thereby increasing the total system throughput. Therefore, millimeter wave large-scale collaboration MIMO combined with non-cellular realization architecture will be one of the key technologies that meet 6G high peak rate, high spectrum efficiency, and low-time delay.
However, millimeter waveless nest large-scale MIMO will face more challenges, including:
(1)Affected by the impact of the phase noise and the consistency of the millimeter wave RF front-end channel, the overall upper and downlink channels have tutaneous and the timeliness of calibration still needs to be studied.
(2)Since millimeter wave systems typically use mixed precoding, multiple nodes and multi-user beam scans require further research in non-cellular systems.
(3)The upstream joint reception of millimeter waves has strong implementability, but is different from the low frequency band, the receiver needs to design analog reception beam. Depending on the uplink detection channel, you can solve analog reception beam. After simulating the receiving beam, the multi-user interference of the upstream can be solved in combination with a receiver similar to a low frequency band.
(4)Deciding multi-user collaboration is a systematic problem, especially how to obtain downlink channel information, and achieve mixing precoding. When the empty mouth is available, a collaborative mixed precoding design can be used [9]. When the empty mouth is unavailable, the terminal feedback downlink channel is required. The use of manual intelligence to realize the channel compression feedback is a recent research hotspot [10], and the feedback overhead is expected to reduce the degree of acceptable degree using the sparseness of the millimeter wave system channel.
4 Network assisted full duplex technology based on non-honeycomb large-scale MIMO
Dual-way way is also a hot spot for mobile communication standards. 5G uses flexible duplex. As the same frequency full-duplex (CCFD) technology is gradually maturing, its application in 6 g is further concerned. However, 5G introduced flexible duplex and CCFD are in the networking, inevitably face cross-link interference issues [11], ie, the RRU in the transmit state is in the reception state, the interference of the RRU in the reception state, and the terminal transmitted by the uplink. Down the interference of the terminal receiving terminal. Collaborative transmission capabilities without cellular large-scale MIMO provide strong support for more free duplex.
Figure 3 shows a schematic diagram of a network assisted full duplex (NAFD) based on a cell-free frame, which realizes the flexible duplex mode [12]. Its main working principle includes: the upper and down line wireless links are simultaneously performed on the same frequency resources; each RRU is connected to the base station baseband processing unit (BBU) through the predecessor link, and implements a combined baseband processing by the BBU; each RRU is Transceivers to implement transmission or reception or simultaneously send and receive, and determine the appropriate duplex mode by the BBU based on the traffic load of the entire network.For the CCFD RRU, the RRU's transmission and reception self-interference can be eliminated on an analog domain, so we can see it as two RRUs, one for uplink, and the other for downlink. On the other hand, for the transmission of the RRU and the interference between the RRU, the channel matrix between the links can be obtained at a very low overhead estimate, and the centralized processing of the BBU allows it to get all terminals in advance. The downlink signal can be eliminated on the digital domain. Therefore, under the condition of cellular framework, multiple semi-duplex RRUs can be used to achieve full duplex, which is why we call this two-way way NAFD.
The NAFD system still has interference from the uplink user to the downlink user. The main way to eliminate the interference includes the following two:
1)When the down user can estimate the channel of interference users, the interference of the uplink user can be eliminated by interference cancellation techniques;
2)This interference is used in BBU using joint up-down user scheduling and packet pairing or uplink power control.
Compared with existing duplex technologies, there is a difference between the following differences. First, compared to traditional time division duplex, NAFD provides low-delayed services; NAFDs can support non-symmetrical services without reducing spectral utilization than conventional frequency divisions. Second, compared to 5G flexible duplex technologies, for the non-cellular architectural NAFD, the RRU can be half-duplex or CCFD, through joint processing, can reduce the intersection of flexible duplex, mixed half-duplex and CCFD network. interference. In addition, the NAFD based on the cellular architecture can support 5G NR flexible time division duplex: When all RRUs operate in half-duplex mode, different RRUs are different, at the same time, part RRU transmission, part of RRU receive The use of NAFD can reduce the intersection interference caused by this scene. In theory, the performance comparison of NAFD and CCFD is similar to the contrast of distributed MIMO and centralized MIMO, and distributed MIMO can obtain additional power gain and macro psex [13]. Due to the increase in RRU density, NAFD can achieve better performance than CCFD.
NAFD is a free duplex method based on a cellular architecture. At present, it is still facing more problems, including:
(1)In the actual 5G NR system, due to the advance reception of the upstream requirements, the RRU is not aligned in time, how to solve this asynchronous interference problem, need to consider when standardized design.
(2)Eliminating cross-link interference depends on the collaboration between the RRU, using a centralized BBU scheme, it can better eliminate interference. When using distributed transmission and reception, the interference elimination capability requires further research.
(3)With full dynamic RRU transmission and reception control, you need to go to the global angle to study the transmission and receiving mode selection [14] to reduce interference, improve system capacity.
5 Conclude
None of the honeycomb large-scale MIMO is an effective way to break the traditional honeycomb structure and achieve large-scale collaboration. Its basic theory is inherited in multi-user distributed MIMO, which has been widely proved to have significant performance gain. With the advancement of the RF device, the air-port calibration can support non-honeycomb MIMO collaborative transmission, which is the spectrum efficiency of the SUB-6GHz system and improves reliability. After nearly 20 years of research and continuous experimental verification [4], there is no such thing as a large-scale MIMO to play an important role in 6G systems. The ideological application of the honeycomb large-scale MIMO is in the millimeter wave system, which will have an important support for super upward, and is an important technical approach to further deep millimeter wave bands.However, it is necessary to see that there is still a lot of problems in millimeter waves, and it needs further research and verifies its achievability through experiments. There is a honeycomb large-scale MIMO is an important means of solving the interference problem facing the CCFD network, but how to solve more free and flexible dual-way ways to interfere, there are still many work that requires further study.
★Original text published in "Mobile Communications" 2021, 4th★
Wang Dongming(orcid.org/0000-0003-2762-6567):Professor, Southeast University, doctoral tutor, doctoral graduated from Southeast University, currently in the national key laboratory and network communication and safety Zikinshan laboratory of Southeast University, and the research direction includes wireless transmission technology and communication signal processing.
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Teenager accused of Lindsay Birbeck murder will not give evidence at retrial
The prosecution and defence have now concluded their case after six days of the retrial at Preston Crown Court
Police at Accrington Cemetery after the body of a woman was found (Image: SS Digital Images)
The youth accused of murdering teaching assistant Lindsay Birbeck will not give evidence to the jury during his retrial.
The prosecution concluded the Crown's case this morning (August 10) on day six of the case at Preston Crown Court.
This afternoon Her Honour Mrs Justice Yip asked defence barrister Mark Fenhalls QC if he would be calling his client to give evidence to the jury from the witness box.
He replied: "I will not be calling him to give evidence."
Mr Fenhalls also confirmed the defence would not be calling any further evidence or witnesses and closed their case.
The Judge will now given legal directions to the jury before final speeches are made by prosecutor David McLachlan QC and Mr Fenhalls.
The 17-year-old defendant, who cannot be named because of his age, denies charges of murder and manslaughter but pleads guilty to assisting in the disposal of her body.
He told police that he played no role in the Lindsay's death and was offered "a lot of money" by an unknown man to "get rid of the body".
Prosecutor David McLachlan QC told the jury the Crown did not accept that plea.
Mum-of-two Lindsay, 47, was found in a shallow 'makeshift grave' wrapped in two plastic bags on August 24 last year - 12 days after being reported missing by her worried family.
Attempts were also made to 'cut off' her leg after she died and a post-mortem examination found 'extensive crushing damage' to her neck.
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Not all glitz at Cannes 2010
Issued on: 07/05/2010 - 04:00 Modified: 08/05/2010 - 16:37
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By: Rosslyn Hyams
With only days before the glitziest event of the year in France - the Cannes Film Festival - tens of thousands of people are the on the edge of their red velvet, or rather, cinema seats to see who will win the coveted Palme d'Or this year.
The Cannes Film Festival, like other film festivals is where art and trade meet for two weeks every May. It's in its 63rd year.
One of those people who seeks films far and wide, as well as at Cannes, is Brussels-based producer Diana Elbaum.
She and Sébastien Delloye run the production company Entre Chien et Loup. Elbaum says that she doesn't notice the glamour at Cannes. She's there to work, describing it as "two weeks of madness".
She "walks and walks, and talks and talks, and drinks" at the Cannes Film Festival while "dreaming with others or by myself," and honing in on filmy trends of the moment.
Like RFI's Elisabeth Lequeret, one of our regular movie reporters, "Cannes is unique because … there are films for absolutely everybody."
Elbaum considers that Cannes' uniqueness is in the extraordinary wide choice it offers each year, from short films by directors just starting out, to new films by the consistently famous, to films for children, or even classics.
For example Manuel de Oliveira, who is more than 100 years old, has a film called Angelica in the section, Un Certain Regard, along with the unclassifiable, yet new wave film-maker Jean-Luc Godard.
However Elbaum recognises that this is a market, like any other, where products are bought and sold.
Entre Chien et Loup are co-producers of the film Un Homme Qui Crie (A Screaming Man) directed by Mahmet-Saleh Haroun from Chad and whose film Daratt (Dry Season) they also co-produced, won a Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2006.
They are hoping the competition jury, chaired by Tim Burton will give Un Homme Qui Crie a bit of a boost. Just being selected as one of the eighteen for the main competition at Cannes is a good start.
While the several thousand producers are in Cannes sweating over their deals at the market, the movie buffs with be lapping up the offerings on screen, and some certainly, will be wishing on a star to rub shoulders with some of the silver-screen gods and goddesses from all over the world.
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'Game of Thrones' showrunners recall failed original pilot
David Benioff (L) and D.B. Weiss said they "made every possible mistake" with the first pilot they filmed for "Game of Thrones." File Photo by Ken Matsui/UPI | License Photo
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May 3 (UPI) -- Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss told Jimmy Kimmel they made "every possible mistake" with the first pilot they filmed for the HBO series.
Weiss confirmed on Thursday's Jimmy Kimmel Live! that HBO did not run the episode, jokingly explaining, "Because they wanted people to watch the second episode."
"We made every possible mistake," Benioff said.
"We'd never done this before," Weiss added.
Benioff said they failed to convey a very important aspect of the pilot's ending scene with Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) and Bran Stark (Ian Hempstead Wright).
"If you remember, at the end of the pilot, Cersei and Jaime Lannister, who are twins, are having sex. It's supposed to be kind of a shock, because they're twins," the producer said.
"We showed the episode to three of our good friends who are writers, very smart people. At the very end we looked them and said, 'Okay, what do you got?'" he recalled. "They didn't know they were brother and sister, so we had messed up the most, kind of obvious storytelling possibilities."
Benioff and Weiss got another chance at the pilot, but said the failed episode cost about $10 million.
"I don't know exactly, but I think about $10.6 [million]," Weiss said. "It wasn't all wasted."
Game of Thrones today is in the midst of its eighth and final season. Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys Targaryen, teased the remaining episodes this week, saying Episode 5 will be particularly "insane."
"Find the biggest TV you can," she advised fans.
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Khloe and Lamar: The Trade!
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So watching this week's episode of Khloe and Lamar was sadder than I expected. Obviously, it's no surprise that Lamar Odom was traded to the Dallas Mavericks after the NBA lockout. However, I was surprised finding out that he actually was traded to New Orleans as well.
The lockout is over, but the drama definitely isn't. Khloe has to fly to New York for a quick event, however she doesn't want to leave Lamar because he's going through all these trade rumours. While she's on her 5 hour flight, Lamar gets traded to New Orleans, Khloe is freaking out because all this happened while she was up in the air. She calls Lamar but there's no answer. She hears his voice on the radio, giving some radio interview and he sounds extremely sad.
And then, only a few minutes later, there's breaking news, and New Orleans pulled out on the Odom trade. So he's not leaving the Lakers, but now he no longer wants to be a Laker since they were so quick to trade him. It was surprising to hear Lamar was even up for a trade, he's been playing well, and has been with the Laker's for years.
Anyways, by the end of the episode Lamar gets traded to Dallas, Khloe stands by her man and is being extremely supportive. It's crazy how fast a trade can change someone's life, Lamar doesn't even have time to pack his things, Khloe stays back to basically pack their entire lives into boxes.
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The 4-Hour Kardashian Special!
The event of the century took place this past Sunday and Monday night. The Kardashian Fairytale wedding aired on two nights…two hours each…and I'm guessing made a whole lot of money for Ryan Seacrest, the E! Network…and obviously the Kardashians. I decided to watch both of them back to back…which unfortunately meant 4 hours of non-stop Kardashian drama. I swear by the end of it, I literally felt like I was part of the family. It was a good episode…as usual…there were enough fake story lines to consume 4 hours of television…and one of them concerned my future husband Rob Kardashian.
If you've been watching DWTS, you'll know that he's gained a few pounds…and he's very self-conscious about this. In the episode, Khloe and Lamar pull a prank on Rob by installing an alarm system on their candy closet door. Of course, at the end of the night the alarm goes off and Rob's sitting on the floor with a box of cookies. So cute.
Another big issue was Kris' plastic surgery fiasco…to tell you the truth I didn't even notice a difference afterwards. But, we do give props to Kris for allowing the cameras to film everything! And I mean everything! From the pre-surgery…to the actual surgery…to post-surgery the cameras were rolling. Kim being the favourite daughter came to Kris' aid…and stood by her side throughout the operation. Later, the entire family throws a party for Kris, letting her know how much they love her.
Kris apparently his real name is Kristian…which would make more sense calling him that because otherwise he just has the same name as his mother-in-law. Anyways, as usual Kris was annoying and fake. I think I get what Kim sees in him…baby daddy! They're babies are going to be some good lookin' babies…and then if she wants she can divorce his a** because I'm sure she has a tightly sealed pre-nup. So Kris feels left out because Kim's making all the decisions about the wedding. Hello! You're a dude, you're not supposed to have an opinion in your wedding…Kim's been waiting for this moment since she was a little girl…and you were right…she probably can fill in any guy for your position so why are you making it difficult!?…and guess whose paying for the wedding! Definitely not Kristian and his family…so he needs to shut his pie hole…and just show up on the day of the wedding.
It was really stupid how 3 hours and 50minutes of the special was dedicated to everything before the actual wedding, and the last 10-minutes was the actual wedding. I would've wanted to see more of that, but the wedding was stunning. The 'altar' looked like an altar you would find in an Armenian church. Everything was beautifully decorated…and Mason was so cute! Robin Thicke performed afterwards…which is amazing…the cake was stunning…everything was just beautiful.
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The Royal Wedding: On E!
August 12, 2011 IC881 Comment
The Wedding of the Century is almost upon us…well sort of.
Luckily for us, 2011 will bring us not only 1 but 2 Royal Weddings!! For less fortunate generations, one Royal wedding is said to be a magical and once in a lifetime event to experience. Thank the E! Gods (and Kris Jenner) that we have the privilege to not only be alive during the Kardashian/Humphries wedding BUT we get to watch it on television!
Once again, Ryan Seacrest and Kris Jenner have found a way to milk the cash chow a.k.a Kim Kardashian. It's no surprise that our beloved Kim K was in search of a potential husband. After her youngest sister Khloe got married…and her oldest sister had a baby…she felt she needed a man to complete her life. And she found her knight in shining armour at a NJ Nets basketball game while living in NYC. Kris Humphries…ofcourse it's destiny, I mean he has the same name as her mother! And they're even spelt the same!!
The wedding will take place August 20th 2011 in California. E! will be airing this two-part episode (Yay! double the ratings) on October 9th and 10th.
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Politics Won't Solve Nigeria's Problem – Kukah
Bishop Matthew Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, has stated that the bad governance in Nigeria is a result of lack of knowledge among those holding the mantle of power in the country and not politics.
Kukah reportedly made this known during a courtesy visit to the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University Dutsinma (FUDMA), Katsina State on Tuesday.
Kukah stated, "I want to end by making a point. If the Universities do not sit up and the respect and respectability do not come back to the universities, which are the highest level of education and knowledge, nothing will happen in Nigeria."
He maintained, "I don't mean disrespect, but we know that only with the late Yar'adua may his soul rest in peace, was the first Nigerian President with a university certificate, to tell you how serious our situation is."
He added, "So whenever I have the opportunity, I like to encourage members of the university community because they are engaged in a long-suffering job that the country itself does not recognise and appreciate."
He posited, "We will continue to hope and pray that sooner than later, the whole problem about the relationship between federal and state government and the university community will be a thing of the past. Because frankly if this does not happen, politics will not change our country, it is only knowledge that can change our society."
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The Smith & Wesson M&P M2.0 Semi-Auto Full-Size Pistol is the successor to the M&P striker-fired, polymer pistol platform used by countless law enforcement agencies and civilians alike for personal-defense sidearms. The polymer frame of the M&P M2.0 utilizes a rigid, extended stainless steel chassis, embedded to frame, to reduce flex and torque when firing. The pistol comes with 4 interchangeable grip inserts to find the perfect palmswell fit and trigger-to-backstrap length for each individual shooter's hand. A new aggressive texture keeps hand in place, and the original M&P 18° grip angle points instinctively on target. The M2.0 trigger has a light crisp pull and a tactile and audible reset; and a sear deactivation lever allows the weapon to be disassembled without pulling the trigger first. A high grip-to-barrel bore axis reduces muzzle flip to sustain accurate shot placement during rapid fire. The Smith & Wesson M&P M2.0 Semi–Auto Pistol has a stainless steel slide and barrel, finished with non-reflective, corrosion-resistant Armornite®. An integral Picatinny rail provides for the attachment of aftermarket tactical accessories. The M&P M2.0 comes with 2 magazines.
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REVIEW: Smith & Wesson M&P M2.0
Emilia Kush from gunsdiscreetsupplies.com
It's been just about three years since Smith & Wesson brought out the second generation of its M&P pistols. These pistols sport improvements—inside and out—over the original M&Ps, but until now there was one thing missing from the second-generation lineup: a subcompact.
The new Smith & Wesson M&P M2.0 Subcompact is offered in 9mm and .40 S&W and with and without a thumb safety. The 9mm and .40 versions are identical but for caliber and capacity. There is also a .45, but that gun is larger in every dimension. The .45 has a longer four-inch barrel, 8+1 capacity and weighs 2.4 ounces more. Every version of the Subcompact, no matter the caliber, is the same price.
I obtained a sample of the 9mm version with no thumb safety for testing because it is likely to be the most popular version. The Subcompact sports a 3.675-inch barrel and a 12-round capacity in 9mm (10 rounds in .40).
Other than its abbreviated size, it offers all the same features found on the Compact and full-size M&P pistols. These are polymer-frame, striker-fired pistols built for rigorous use. Both the slide and barrel are stainless steel and given an Armornite corrosion–resistant finish, and the pistol is rated for +P ammunition.
The steel three-dot sights are set in the same size dovetails as larger M&Ps, so aftermarket sights that fit previous M&Ps will fit the Subcompact.
Factory standard sights are steel with three dots, and the Subcompact has the same dovetails as the larger M&Ps so all of the aftermarket sight options like fiber optics and tritium will fit this pistol as well. The M&P has an 18-degree grip angle, which in layman's terms means it's much closer to a 1911 than, say, a Glock. It arrives with four interchangeable backstraps.
With many striker-fired pistols you'll see a safety lever on the trigger. With the M&P the trigger itself is the pivoting safety lever. There is an internal striker safety as well. As I mentioned, you can also buy the Subcompact with a manual safety. That lever is ambidextrous and is located at the top rear of the frame, similar in position to where you'll find the thumb safety on a 1911.
The new M2.0 Subcompact is offered with or without a thumb safety. Unlike first-generation M&Ps, the M2.0 dispenses with the beavertail.
This pistol comes with two 12-round magazines. One has a flush base pad, the other an extended base pad. With the extended base pad magazine in place, I can get my whole hand on the gun, but when using the flush base pad, my pinkie is left hanging. However, the flush base pad is half an inch shorter, making the gun slightly easier to conceal. I say "slightly" because it is usually the butt of the pistol that prints under clothing.
Before we dive deeper into the details of the pistol, let's look at the changes and improvements between the first- and second-generation M&Ps. The two biggest have to deal with the trigger pull and the grip.
By far, the two most common types of customization done to first-generation M&P pistols have been trigger jobs and increasing the texturing of the grip area, usually through stippling.
First-generation M&Ps have an advertised 6.5-pound pull, which seems to be the standard trigger pull weight for pistols designed to be "service weapons," as the M&P was. Heavy trigger pulls on duty guns are often meant to be an additional safety. The only problem with this is most people buying M&Ps aren't cops, and the American consumer is getting awfully picky when it comes to trigger pulls. Heavy trigger pulls make it harder to shoot accurately, much less quickly, and who wants that?
Smith & Wesson engineers took a long look at what was being done to the first-generation M&Ps to improve the trigger pulls, and so for the M&P M2.0 they reduced the trigger pull weight mostly through improved geometry in the sear and striker. The targeted spec for the M2.0's trigger pull is 5.5 pounds, and that's just what I got with my test gun. I've actually put a lot of rounds downrange through various sizes of M&P M2.0 pistols, and every trigger pull has been within a quarter-pound of that 5.5-pound spec.
More than the trigger-pull weight, what a lot of people didn't like about the trigger pull on the original M&P was the lack of a discernible reset. Reset shouldn't matter in a defensive pistol. In any self-defense scenario, nobody will be worried about the reset on their trigger; they'll just be pulling it as fast as possible until the problem is solved. Still, S&W engineers addressed the problem, and the triggers on the M&P M2.0s have very positive reset; you can both hear and feel it.
Many people thought the factory texturing on the grip of the original M&P was too slick. As a result, hand–stippling was a common sight. Thanks to modern injection-molding techniques, stippling your M&P M2.0 is no longer necessary. The factory texturing on the frame and backstraps of the M&P M2.0 is as aggressive as stippling, and that is no exaggeration.
I've always carried the gun I shot in USPSA competition and vice versa, and for years I avoided stippled grips because I thought the stippling would chew through my shirt. Finally, about 10 years ago I got my first stippled grip, and I will never go back.
I bring this up because, as I said, the Smith & Wesson frame texturing is as aggressive as hand-stippling, but just like stippling, you will not have to worry about it wearing through your covering garment. However, I would recommend having some layer of fabric (a thin T-shirt is all that's necessary) between your skin and the frame of the pistol, or you will suffer what medical professionals term a skin abrasion.
The first-generation M&Ps came with three sizes of interchangeable backstraps: small, medium and large. According to the folks at Smith & Wesson, 80 percent of users prefer the medium backstrap.
M&Ps have never been my first choice for a carry gun simply because the pistol never fit my hand properly. The medium backstrap was just a little too small for me, and the large backstrap adds a little bit of meat on the back, but is mostly just fatter than the medium, which I didn't want. The closer a pistol grip is to round, the less naturally it points.
Apparently, I wasn't the only person who had this issue. The M&P 2.0 in all sizes comes supplied with not three but four backstraps: small, medium, medium-large and large.
One of the big improvements in the M2.0 is the inclusion of a fourth backstrap: a medium-large. The gun also comes with comes with two grip extenders for larger mags.
The big news here is the medium-large backstrap, which has the same girth as the medium but adds a curve at the top to provide more material under the web of the shooter's hand to increase reach to the trigger. On both the full-size and Compact M&P M2.0, I love-love-love the medium-large backstrap, but I was surprised to discover that on the Subcompact the medium backstrap is a better fit for me.
That's the great thing about having four sizes of backstraps. They allow you to fit the pistol to your hand as much as possible. Swapping out backstraps takes all of 10 seconds.
Here is my only complaint about this specific pistol. The M&P M2.0 uses the same proven magazines as the original M&P. I'm guessing Smith & Wesson has a lot of extended base pads left over from the first-generation S&W M&P Subcompact, because the one provided with this pistol does not have that aggressive M2.0 texturing. The extended base pad felt a little slick under my pinkie.
One complaint I've heard about M&Ps for a while is the ambidextrous slide stop. You'll notice S&W doesn't term it a "slide release," because if you're a southpaw and try to release the slide by pushing down on the right-side lever, fuhgeddaboutit. You'll discover it takes about four times as much force as pushing down on the left-side lever. You're much better off just working the slide by hand.
You might notice the lack of a beavertail on the frame of the second-generation M&Ps. Smith & Wesson has eliminated the beavertail, so now the rear of the frame doesn't really stick out any farther than the rear of the slide. On the full-size gun this makes less of a difference than on this subcompact pistol destined for a concealed-carry role.
The scalloped serrations at the rear of the slide haven't changed, but with the M2.0 you'll see S&W has added some minimal serrations at the front of the slide near the bottom where it meets the frame. I wish S&W had been willing to move some of the slide markings to fully serrate the front of the slide, but at least the rear serrations are aggressive.
There are small cutouts at the bottom of the frame on each side to give you a little better grip on the floorplate of the magazine should you have to strip one out by hand.
The internal steel chassis inside the polymer frame is much longer on the M2.0 than on the original M&P. S&W calls it an "embedded rigid stainless steel chassis," and it also has an Armornite coating. In the first-generation M&P the chassis didn't extend much past the front of the trigger guard, but on the new model the steel in the frame goes most of the way out to the end of the frame.
The internal stainless steel chassis extends almost all the way to the front of the dust cover, making it stiffer and therefore even more reliable.
On the original M&P the serial number in the steel chassis could be seen through a window cut into the polymer at the rear of the frame. In the M2.0 the serial number in the steel chassis is located above the tactical rail, visual proof the chassis extends much farther.
This longer, stiffer frame makes more of a difference on the full-size M&P, ensuring there won't be any flex if you hang a big weapon light on the frame's tactical rail. But even with the Subcompact, less frame flex equals greater reliability.
The "loaded-chamber indicator" is simply a hole through the rear of the barrel hood. It is nearly useless in anything other than direct sunlight, but it allows the M&P to be sold in states that mandate certain safety features on guns.
I was lucky enough to enjoy some serious trigger time with the M2.0 at the S&W Academy when the gun was first introduced. At the time, the editor of a major gun magazine remarked he thought the new gun should be called the "M&P 1.1" because in his opinion there weren't many changes to it.
But I'll counter that's because not many things needed to be done to the M&P. Did I mention any changes S&W made to the design to improve reliability, which is the most important aspect of any defensive firearm? No. They didn't make any because none needed to be made. That says a lot.
Range time with the Subcompact brought no surprises. It fired everything I fed it and was nicely accurate for a subcompact.
Notes: Accuracy results are the averages of four five-shot groups at 25 yards from a sandbag rest. Velocities are averages of 10 shots measured with an Oehler Model 35P 12 feet from the muzzle. Abbreviations: FMJ, full metal jacket; JHP, jacketed hollowpoint
The M&P Subcompact is much smaller than the full-size M&P, but it is not a pocket gun, and you will need a holster. That said, it will fit into any holster made for the first-generation M&P Subcompact and conceal under just about any garment.
A good review of this pistol wouldn't be complete without a comparison to its closest competitor: the M&P Shield. A lot of people think one of the reasons why Smith & Wesson was so slow to introduce a subcompact version of the M&P M2.0 is because of the success of the subcompact Shield. They might be right, but these are far from identical guns.
The M&P Subcompact is the same height as the Shield, but it is roughly a half-inch longer, weighs a few ounces more, and is noticeably thicker. The Subcompact looks and feels like a chunk of a gun compared to the very flat Shield. However, that thickness doesn't just offer a nice personality; it gives you substantially more capacity than the Shield.
These pistols are the same height only if the Shield is wearing its flush seven-round magazine. Meanwhile, the Subcompact offers a 12-round capacity. Plus, you can reload the Subcompact with those big sticks meant for the Compact and/or full-size M&P M2.0, which ups your capacity to 15 or 17 rounds. Last, the Subcompact has the four interchangeable backstraps, which the Shield does not.
If this sounds like I'm ganging up on the Shield, I don't mean to. The Shield is definitely easier to conceal and carry than the Subcompact, but that doesn't come without a price. The great thing about the Subcompact is that if you're a fan of the M&P design and wanted a small, concealable pistol, you now have one more option.
American consumers have had access to compact 9mm pistols for decades. I owned a Smith & Wesson 3913 back in the late '90s, and the pistols of today are far superior to those guns of yesteryear.
The Smith & Wesson M&P M2.0 Subcompact is a perfect example. They have better ergonomics, vastly improved reliability, better texturing on the grips, better sights, better everything. And once you adjust for inflation, you'll see that thanks to advances in manufacturing, they cost less, too.
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When the polymer-framed, striker-fired pistol revolution began, most companies were caught flat-footed. Smith &Wesson held a dominant position in the law enforcement market with its broad line of dependable revolvers. But at the start of the "wondernine" craze in the 1980s, an unknown Austrian company arrived in America with a plastic gun called the Glock 17.
Though the gun lacked the aesthetic appeal of traditional firearms, the upstart offered simple operation, great durability and extreme reliability. Police departments and the public took notice, and every gun manufacturer scrambled to adjust to a rapidly changing market.
Although the original M&P was not the company's first stab at a striker-fired polymer gun, it was Smith & Wesson's most successful design. Looking at the gun, it's easy to see why it became popular. It featured an adjustable-size grip, a stainless-steel chassis and very good ergonomics. Plus, the gun looked sleek and modern. As it began to ride in the holsters of lawmen across the country, it looked right at home.
But, as with any first-generation product, the M&P series wasn't perfect. Smith & Wesson took the feedback it received and started designing a new pistol that would upgrade the platform to ensure it retained its position as one of the top combat handguns in the world. The result? The M&P M2.0.
Fully Upgraded
At its most basic, the M&P9 M2.0 that I tested is a striker-fired pistol with a polymer grip frame. It is a duty-sized gun with a 4.25-inch barrel and a 17+1 capacity. Of course, the company also offers .40 S&W and .45 ACP variants as well as compact models, including a new line of Shields. Smith & Wesson M&P M2.0 Full-Size Pistol
When using version numbers, moving from a 1.0 to a 2.0 suggests significant changes and new features. As an owner of the original M&P9, I looked forward to comparing it to the new M&P9 M2.0, and after reviewing the differences, I'd say there are plenty of changes to warrant the M2.0 moniker.
One of the most striking aspects of the M2.0 is its appearance. The M2.0 looks and feels more like a professional combat weapon than the original M&P did. To me, first-generation guns looked like a rookie cop showing up to roll call. His shoes are shined and uniform pressed, but he still looks a little too new. The M2.0 looks like the veteran cop with 10 years of patrol work under his belt. The uniform is still squared away, but there is something in his demeanor that says he's not to be trifled with.
Part of the improved appearance is also a significant performance upgrade: the grip texturing. Older guns had light stippling on the forward edge of the grip and on the palm swells. The M2.0 takes things to the next level with an aggressive texturing on the entire circumference of the grip. You'll also notice that the circular S&W logo has been replaced with the M&P logo.
The new texture is similar in feel to skateboard tape, something that has been used for years to provide better traction. Smith & Wesson's new grip texture is rough but not so rough as to be uncomfortable to hold. I like the feel of it in my hand a lot. However, rubbing against my body while riding in an inside-the-waistband (IWB) holster is far less pleasing. Wear an undershirt if you decide to carry the M2.0 concealed.Smith & Wesson M&P M2.0 Full-Size Pistol
Doing some basic testing, I gripped my first-generation M&P9 and had a partner try to wrest it from my hand. I offered no resistance beyond a firm grip. The gun was easy to twist out of my hand. Repeating the experiment with the M2.0, the gun was much more difficult to dislodge. From a weapon-retention standpoint, this is a definite improvement. I suspected the texture would help control the pistol during recoil, and subsequent trips to the range confirmed that.
Along with the new texture, Smith & Wesson deleted the extended beavertail. Although I understand the theory behind the beavertail, I never saw it as being needed on the original M&P. With my hand as high as possible on the grip of the M2.0, the slide does not come even close to hitting me. During my range time with the gun, I had zero problems with it.
Smith & Wesson always offered interchangeable palm-swell grip inserts for the frame. These inserts let the shooter better fit the size of the grip to his or her hand. New M&P pistols expand the size possibilities from three to four. The new sizes are listed as small, medium, medium-large and large. Presumably, feedback suggested the fourth size, between the typical medium and large sizes, was needed. I have relatively short fingers, so the small insert lets my finger properly address the trigger. Smith & Wesson M&P M2.0 Full-Size Pistol
Of course, like a sports car, looks and comfy seats only get you so far. Often, the real indicators of performance are under the hood. The new gun has an extended internal chassis made of stainless steel. Embedded in the polymer frame, this chassis is designed to reduce flex and torque when firing. Some guns have shown a tendency to flex too much and malfunction when certain combinations of ammunition and mounted lights are used. This chassis helps reduce this possibility.
Another change in the new gun is that the front slide rails are roughly twice as long as before. A careful eye will also notice that Smith & Wesson switched from roll pins to solid pins for the M2.0.
Perhaps the most anticipated under-the-hood change is the trigger. One of the continuing complaints about the original M&P pistol was the trigger. Many people believe it felt mushy and without a clear reset. I'd agree. Though I had no problems shooting my M&P9, the trigger feel was clearly a weak point in the system. With the M2.0, Smith & Wesson promises a new "crisp trigger" with a lighter pull and a more pronounced reset. Smith & Wesson M&P M2.0 Full-Size Pistol
How It Shoots
So, the gun looks tough and comes from a line of proven performers. But does it shoot? Yes, it does. I took it to the range several times and was impressed by its performance. On my second range trip, I took along my classic M&P9 for a direct head-to-head comparison.
Many of you might wonder how the new trigger performed. It depends on your perspective. The pull of the original gun has a substantial amount of take-up with a relatively short travel. I suspect the take-up is what a lot of people find objectionable, as the actual pull and break on my first-generation gun is short and fairly crisp.
The M2.0 still has a significant amount of take-up and a relatively short pull. However, the pull feels a touch longer—though I admit this is purely a subjective perception. The break is much harder and feels more like the break on my S&W SD40 pistol. Checking both triggers with a Lyman digital trigger pull gauge, a five-pull average showed a 5.34-pound pull on my first-generation M&P9. The M2.0 registered an average of 6.09 pounds. Smith & Wesson M&P M2.0 Full-Size Pistol
The new trigger system has no over travel that I could see or feel. This appears to be precluded by the trigger stop molded into the frame as much as anything. I know others will disagree, but for slow precision shooting, I like the trigger pull on the original pistol a little bit better than that of the M2.0. I seem to be slightly more accurate with it.
The reset is much more obvious now. Your finger will immediately feel when the trigger resets. I like this a great deal more than the less-perceptible reset on my first-generation gun. Overall, I believe many shooters will like the new trigger.
The M2.0's recoil seemed to be about the same as the original pistol's. Some people said the new gun might have less felt recoil because of the extended chassis. However, I felt no difference. With standard-pressure and +P loads, the recoil in both guns felt about the same: pretty darn mild.
Something that obviously felt different was the grip texturing. Shooting the guns side by side, the newer texture was much better at preventing the gun from slipping in my hand. In fact, after shooting several magazines with the new M2.0, the original gun felt so slick that it might suddenly spring from my hands. Even though I have owned my M&P9 for years, I was suddenly concerned that the grip texture wasn't adequate for serious work. On reflection, the older texture is fine for self-defense and duty use, but it simply isn't as good as the new texture.
One thing I specifically checked was whether the new palm-swell grip inserts will work with the older gun. I discovered they do, and I plan to track down one of the small M2.0 inserts for my original M&P9 to improve the feel of that gun.
I put a little more than 500 rounds through the M2.0 without a malfunction. Although I've come to expect this from modern striker-fired pistols, it isn't always the case. Fortunately, S&W continues its tradition of building reliable firearms.
The accuracy was also good. Firing off-hand at 7 yards with defensive ammunition, I regularly shot groups less than 2 inches wide. Sig Sauer's 147-grain V-Crown JHPs provided the best five-shot group at less than 1.4 inches. The Federal HST and Winchester PDX1 loads also shot very well, with their best groups around 1.5 inches.
One of the questions I had about the new gun related to its compatibility with existing M&P9 magazines. My existing mags looked similar to the M2.0 mags, but they had different followers. So, I decided to test them out. I fired 100 rounds of 115-grain FMJ ammo through the M2.0 using my original M&P mags without a problem. I then ran another 100 rounds of the same load through the original gun with the M2.0 mags. Again, everything worked perfectly. If I planned to use old magazines for duty or self- defense use, I would want to test them with my carry load. However, for range time, I have no qualms about using them.
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Based on my initial testing of the M&P9 M2.0, I'm pleased with its performance. It was accurate with a wide range of loads and did not malfunction at any point.
Currently, S&W is manufacturing both generations of M&P9 pistols. I don't know if the company plans to do so indefinitely.
For me, the new grip texturing is worth trading up to the new gun. Figuring in the additional features might make it even more appealing, especially when you consider the price difference between the two guns is only $30.
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6 reviews for Smith & Wesson M&P M2.0 Full-Size Pistol
Oneshottokill – April 18, 2020
Oneshottokill ·
Super slick!
Purchased my 9mm almost a year ago now and have had zero issues! Sight may have been slightly out but was adding a laser anyway..,, problem solved. Was worried purchasing online because I like my guns to look immaculate, was so relieved it was flawless!! Cheers to Smith & Wesson!
JOJO69 – November 20, 2020
JOJO69 ·
Just ok
I bought this 2 months ago and fires 250 rounds the sight needs to adjust. I thought that it's been tested and adjusted before they sell it. I will bring it to the range again and try to adjust it. Out of 250 rounds never got jammed , mags sometimes doesn't fully engaged.
Austinmad2 – December 28, 2020
Austinmad2 ·
If it's in stock, buy it!
I've tried different Glocks, FN, Walther, Sig 9mm and prefer the M&P full size or a Shield (have both)
Jon Coba – January 20, 2021
Jon Coba ·
First gun
For my first gun. It excellent buy and so easy to handle. However, it did not come with a case As shown in the advertising. It comes in a unattractive cardboard case. Would love to have a S&W hardcase in each hand gun.
✔ Yes, I recommend this product.
Dave24 – February 21, 2021
Dave24 ·
great pistol
Excellent pistol. Accurate out of the box. This has become my favorite range gun due to the low felt recoil. I bought the full sized M&P 2.0 FDE version, and I just love it. I've put little over 2k rounds through it, and no hiccups… it has cycled fine with all the cheapest ammo I can find. Easy to clean. Improved trigger over previous versions. I also like the aggressive stippling.
SWNine – February 27, 2021
Better Than the Original
Ergonomics, quality, reliability, and usability are great. The 2.0 is everything the original M&P is but much improved in almost every part of design. Yes the trigger is excellent as it is crisp with a great tactile reset. Your will be very satisfied buying this pistol.
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ROYAUME UNI – Coldingham - Archaeologists and citizen scientists have unearthed what may be the monastery of Princess Aebbe, who was born a pagan but later spread Christianity along the northeastern British coast during the seventh century. Once the pagan-turned-Christian princess (615-668) became an abbess, she established the monastery at Coldingham, a village in the southeast of Scotland. But the monastery was short-lived; Viking raiders destroyed it it in 870. Archaeologists have been looking for the remains of this monastery for decades. Excavators have now located a narrow, circular ditch, which is likely the "vallum," or the boundary that surrounded Aebbe's religious settlement, DigVentures, a U.K.-based group led by archaeologists and supported by crowdfunding, announced March 8. Just outside the boundary, the excavation team made another surprising discovery: a giant pile of butchered animal bones, including those from cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, domestic fowl and red deer. These were radiocarbon dated to 664-864, right around the time the monastery would have been up and running.
https://www.livescience.com/64961-monastery-7th-century-scottish-princess-excavated.html
USA – Alcatraz - Isolated in the San Francisco Bay and surrounded by steep cliff faces, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary seemed like the most secure place to keep dangerous criminals in the mid-20th century. But it's recently come to light that every inmate on Alcatraz Island lived above a series of potential escape routes that predated the prison's construction, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. In a new study published in the journal Near Surface Geophysics, archaeologists reported their discovery of structures and artifacts beneath the Alcatraz prison yard, including underground buildings, tunnels, and ammunition magazines. Guided by historical maps, documents, and photographs, they used laser scanning technology and ground-penetrating radar to locate the subterranean fortress close to the surface. The site dates back to the mid-19th century, when Alcatraz Island was used for military purposes. The same natural features that would later make Alcatraz an appealing prison also made it an ideal coastal fortification. Enough brick buildings were built there to house 200 soldiers and enough food was shipped in to feed them for four months. But the fortification wasn't used for its original purpose for very long. It was transformed into the West Coast's official military prison during the Civil War, and in the 1930s, the government turned it into a federal prison. Instead of tearing down the forts and tunnels leftover from its military days, workers left them intact and built over them to save money. Archaeologists plan to investigate the underground structures further without disturbing the historic site. Alcatraz Prison closed in 1963, so the underground tunnels no longer pose a security problem. Today the island is part of the U.S. National Park Service and is a popular tourist attraction.
https://mentalfloss.com/article/576599/alcatraz-prison-built-on-hidden-buildings-tunnels
CHINE - Weng'an - A painted lacquer coffin was discovered in one of three Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) tombs found by a lake in southwest China. Archaeologists from the Guizhou Province Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute said the tomb in which the coffin was found has been dated to 1581, during the rule of Emperor Wanli. All three tombs are thought to have belonged to the same family. The paintings on the coffin include images of phoenixes, bonsai, red-crowned cranes, and China's "Four Mythical Creatures": the Azure Dragon, the White Tiger, the Vermillion Bird, and the Black Turtle. Teeth and bone fragments, gold and silver hairpins, gold earrings, and silver bracelets were also recovered.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-03/11/c_137886651.htm
ROYAUME UNI – Colchester - Recent excavations in Colchester, a town renowned for its rich Roman archaeology, have revealed more evidence from this period, spanning from the time of the AD 43 conquest of Britain into the 2nd century and beyond. An investigation by Colchester Archaeological Trust began last November in advance of major extensions to the Mercury Theatre. They soon uncovered expanses of tessellated floors and the foundations of Roman houses, all dating to the 2nd century AD, together with remnants of underfloor heating systems and painted walls. Further insights into the lives of their inhabitants came from artefacts including a tiny bone die. Yet, while the houses were apparently occupied by fairly well-off people, they seem to have been abandoned and left to fall into ruin. This was indicated by a layer of soil and fragments of wall plaster covering the floors. The process of dereliction is likely to have taken many decades or even centuries, but the absence of any roof tile among the debris suggests that the main structure of the buildings remained largely intact for some time.
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by Steve Benen September 23, 2009 January 9, 2022
WEDNESDAY'S MINI-REPORT…. Today's edition of quick hits:
* The president was well received at the U.N. today: "The United States is ready to begin a new era of engagement with the world, President Obama said Wednesday in a sweeping address to the United Nations General Assembly in which he sought to clearly delineate differences between his administration and that of former President George W. Bush. 'We have re-engaged the United Nations,' Mr. Obama said, to cheers from world leaders and delegates in the cavernous hall of the General Assembly."
* The next speech went less well: "Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, took the lectern at the United Nations on Wednesday morning for his first address at the General Assembly and delivered a long and rambling diatribe — far exceeding the 15-minute limit on speeches — against the Security Council and a host of other perceived enemies, while urging the world to welcome President Obama, referring to him as 'our son.'"
* Guess which part of that paragraph Fox News found important.
* The Massachusetts Legislature gave final approval this afternoon to a bill that will allow Gov. Deval Patrick to fill the state's U.S. Senate vacancy. Patrick will have to declare an emergency in order to legally appoint the interim senator.
* The Fed continues to sound optimistic notes about the economy.
* The White House is exploring multiple alternatives in Afghanistan, "including a plan advocated by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to scale back American forces and focus more on rooting out Al Qaeda there and in Pakistan."
* The House easily extended unemployment benefits yesterday; the Senate intends to do the same soon.
* The White House gets impatient with Republicans' lies about Medicare, issues hard-hitting response.
* New U.S. policy on state secrets.
* The IRS is backing away from ACORN, too.
* The Washington Post hosted a lengthy Q&A today exclusively on ACORN. How very sad.
* The American Association of Justice starts rallying opposition to medical malpractice reform.
* How discouraging can Blue Dogs be? Rep. Jim Marshall (D-Ga.) argued that Medicare is part of a Soviet-style system. Seriously.
* So long, flavored cigarettes.
* Salon's multi-part series on Glenn Beck has been infinitely more informative than that recent Time cover story.
* PG&E has no use for the U.S. Chamber Of Commerce's global warming denials.
* Glenn Thrush extends an important apology to Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.), after running a very misleading transcript provided by the NRCC.
* Bill Clinton has some compelling thoughts on higher ed.
* Glenn Beck hates the 14th Amendment.
* Electric and hybrid cars may be so quiet "that they pose a threat to pedestrians."
* Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) thinks marriage equality is evidence of "socialism." What a clown.
* Quote of the Day: "Many Republican politicians keep a little box filled with government programs that they break open in the event that they run into actual human beings with real problems."
* And finally, there's great symbolism in Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) sleeping during yesterday's health care reform hearing.
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