There's no need to hype this one up. Ireland's meeting with England at the Aviva Stadium is that rare and perfect thing: a contest between two indisputably excellent teams where there is an immense amount riding on the result in both the short and long terms.
It may be the most significant meeting between the two countries since they met with the Six Nations, the Grand Slam and the Triple Crown all on the line at Lansdowne Road in 2003.
Back then, England romped to a 42-6 victory, their eighth win in nine games against Ireland and one which showed that Clive Woodward's team were poised to crown a decade of dominance with a World Cup victory later in the year. The Irish media consoled themselves by pretending that the real story of the day was Martin Johnson's refusal to move his team to suit Mary McAleese.
The Irish management and players, on the other hand, saw how far they had to go and the golden spell which followed was to a large extent the story of how we rose to the challenge posed by England, winning seven of our next eight matches against them. But now the pendulum, despite Ireland's Six Nations victory last year, shows signs of swinging back and England will be seeking a fifth victory on the trot against the home side today.
There have been times in the past when even the biggest Six Nations encounters could be dismissed as sideshows, pale and ersatz imitations of the real stuff being served up on the other side of the equator. Not any more. The All Blacks may still be the undisputed kings of the world game but the combined three wins out of four by Ireland and England against South Africa and Australia in the end-of-year internationals shows how the gap has been closed. Both of these teams are serious World Cup contenders.
But that's getting ahead of ourselves. First there's the Six Nations to be decided and while there are a couple of banana skins remaining for both sides, our visit to Cardiff, their home clash with France, there seems little doubt that whoever prevails today will win the championship and could go on to clinch a Grand Slam.
It's unlikely that either team will be able to do what Ireland did last year and go on to win the title despite losing this game. Because this season both countries seem to have moved clear of the chasing pack and to have improved significantly in doing so.
The additional self-belief which flowed from the remarkable feat of clinching the championship with only a second victory over France in Paris in 42 years was obvious when Ireland outclassed South Africa and won an all-time classic against Australia before Christmas. And it's not long, only two years ago in fact, since England would have folded after the disastrous start which saw them trail 10-0 after just eight minutes against Wales in Cardiff.
Their fightback and the complete dominance they enjoyed in the second half of that game confirmed the impression of progress given by their narrow defeat against the All Blacks and comprehensive victory over Australia. You have a feeling that, with a home World Cup coming up, the English rugby players like their athletes and cyclists in Olympic year are being driven to greater heights by the prospect of achieving ultimate glory on home soil.
This is the biggest test either team will face before the World Cup and victory will be a proof that they need fear no opposition going into that tournament. The quality of opposition today is such that a victory simply can't be regarded as anything other than a major achievement.
The English rugby media and supporters seem possessed by a sense of destiny at the moment and have been displaying levels of chariot-swinging confidence not seen since the heyday of the Woodward team. They would freely admit that this side is not the equal of that magnificent 2003 team but it may perhaps be a new version of the 1991 side which reached the World Cup final and kick-started the most successful period in the country's rugby history.
Winning in the Aviva against a battle-hardened Ireland with a team where no-one has reached their 30th birthday and eight players who are 25 or under would confirm their suspicion that the future is English. It would be the kind of result England have not produced in the Six Nations for some time and would confirm this exciting young team as the real deal.
There's just as much at stake for Ireland. Our last Six Nations triumph was predicted to be a launching pad for even greater things but instead it proved to be a trapdoor. Unlike England, France and Wales, who've regularly put back-to-back outright titles together over the years, Ireland have achieved the feat just once, in 1948 and 1949. A win today can end this boom-and-bust tendency and also set the England project back on its heels for a bit.
Our media and fans have not been as bullish as their English counterparts this season but there is a suspicion that Ireland have a truly big performance up their sleeves and that it will be unfurled today. Hence, in a game almost too close to call, we will begin as the slightest of slight favourites. If the English youngsters who have looked so promising this year do not wilt under the pressure exerted by a fired-up Ireland, they really will be something special.
England will remember the torment they inflicted on the Irish scrum in this fixture two years ago and expect Joe Marler and Dan Cole to hold a decided edge over Mike Ross and Jack McGrath. On the other hand, Paul O'Connell will surely fancy reprising his traditional role as scourge of the English lineout against a moderate second-row pair of George Kruis and Dave Attwood who owe their unlikely ascent to an injury plague which has cost Stewart Lancaster the services of Joe Launchbury, Courtney Lawes and Geoff Parling. The back-row clash between Peter O'Mahony and Seán O'Brien and Chris Robshaw and James Haskell will be worth the admission price on its own.
Ireland will feel the loss of Jamie Heaslip in that area but England will rue the absence of Mike Brown, so influential last year at number 15. His replacement Alex Goode is not in the same class as a counter-attacker and looks certain to be tested early and often by Johnny Sexton's kicking. Ireland's fullback problem is of a different order: how to ensure the prodigious talents of Rob Kearney are more fully utilised.
Ireland would seem to have the edge at half-back where both Sexton and Conor Murray are in the form of their lives. Ben Youngs hasn't quite fulfilled the extraordinary promise of a few years ago while immensely talented as George Ford is, today represents an enormous challenge for a 21-year-old outhalf.
Then again England have Danny Cipriani in the wings, a player who could be either hero or villain depending on how the mood takes him. They also have the outstanding centre of the championship so far in Jonathan Joseph while we wait for Robbie Henshaw to burst from his chrysalis as he undoubtedly will before too long.
There are a host of intriguing individual duels which, when combined, will decide the outcome of today's game and perhaps the direction of the Six Nations in the coming seasons. No-one will be winning this one by 36 points.
And if Ireland lose there won't be much consolation in pointing out that Dylan Hartley obviously didn't appreciate Michael D's latest poem.
You see, if England can beat this Irish team in our own den it will be an awful long time before they fear a trip to Dublin again. So now is the time to take the wheels off that bloody chariot, force it off the road and turn it into scrap. Ireland expects.
It's going to be sheer torture waiting for 3 o'clock. But sheer bliss once that whistle blows.
The dream is still alive. If Ireland's Cricket World Cup win over the West Indies was an exhibition of controlled excellence, the victory over the United Arab Emirates was a masterpiece in the art of getting things done.
After the UAE's pair of Shaiman Anwar and Amjad Javed put together a tournament record seventh wicket partnership to give their side an imposing 278-9, it began to look as though Ireland were suffering that most accursed of sporting phenomena, 'The day when we just couldn't get going'.
Man of the match first day out Paul Stirling exited the scene in quick order and while his fellow hero from Nelson Ed Joyce hung around a bit longer he never recaptured the fluency which had marked their batting against the West Indies.
Fours were so conspicuous by their absence it was though the Gulf state team had thrown up a force field in front of the boundary.
Gloomy sod that I am, it struck me that this was the inevitable follow-up to the first day's heroics. After the soccer team's World Cup victory over Italy came the loss to Mexico; after the Rugby World Cup victory over Australia, shock defeat by Wales was not far away. And now the shockers were about to become the shockees once more.
Enter Gary Wilson and, most importantly, Kevin O'Brien. O'Brien is a great boon to people, like myself, who not having played the game of cricket may not be entirely conversant with the delicacies and intricacies of the batsman's art. As one of the commentators put it, he is not subtle. He just comes on and flakes the ball as hard as he can, like a man driving a post into the ground with a sledgehammer. By God, is it satisfying to look at.
And with O'Brien wielding the big axe and Wilson chipping in alongside him, Ireland came back from the apparently dead, like Glenn Close rising out of the bath in Fatal Attraction.
They looked to be on the way to victory when O'Brien hit two mighty sixes but then he was out next ball. Breathing space once more seemed to be attained after two successive fours by Wilson but he went straight away too and you realised we were going to have to suffer all the way for this one.
It was like being on one of those cunningly designed rides at Funderland which just as you thought you'd regained a bit of equilibrium sent you dipping and plunging once more. The daredevil element was further emphasised by running between the wickets which reminded me of watching Evel Knievel jump his motorbike over a line of cars.
You braced yourself for the impact which proved the enterprise's inherent foolhardiness but it didn't come. Ireland defied the Emirates to run them out and got away with it as the winning runs came from a couple of tail-ender slogs by George Dockrell. The feeling that this campaign is being scripted by an expert in the field of feel-good sports movies was confirmed.
Two wins from the last four games will definitely bring Ireland to the quarter-finals, one might even be enough. I'd be inclined to think the outing against South Africa in Canberra on Tuesday morning can be written off but with this team who can predict anything?
The Saturday morning showdown with Zimbabwe in Hobart is both a must- and a can-win and perhaps as important a match for Irish cricket as there's ever been. It would be great to see a really impressive émigré turnout for that one.
They mightn't be our most powerful national team but right now the cricketers are hands down the most exciting to watch.
The Sigerson and Fitzgibbon Cups are the Rag Weeks of Irish sport, venerable third-level traditions which don't get much love from the general population.
There are other resemblances. While the competitions bring much joy to the youngsters involved, most county and club managers and fans, like the citizens of towns affected by Rag Week, just wish the thing was over and hope that not too much damage gets done in the meantime.
And whereas, during Rag Week, a hardy few bring the concept into disrepute by terrifying OAPs, collapsing on the street in a pool of puke or ending up in casualty, in the Sigerson and Fitzgibbon Cups we have the unedifying sight of teams fighting over the eligibility or otherwise of players and games being delayed by dispute after dispute.
The result in Rag Week is that it's not the money raised for charity which makes the headlines but the anti-social behaviour of a minority. And the result in this year's Sigerson and Fitzgibbon is that the competitions will be remembered for all the disqualifications, objections, counter-objections and reinstatements rather than, for example, what was apparently an excellent football final between DCU and UCC.
Unfortunately, all this creates a perception in the public eye, so that when someone tells you that the Sigerson and the Fitzgibbon deserve the height of respect, they sound a bit like the guys who describe Donegal Tuesday as one of the great fun traditions in Irish life. And your reaction tends to be the same too.
They're decent lads but it'll be great when they've grown out of this.


CMS improves to 8-2 overall with the win and Colby College drops to 5-4 with the loss. The Athenas are currently in the midst of their longest winning streak of the season which has spanned the last four games. The Athenas have outscored their opponents 297-217 during the streak, which began with a victory over Sixth Street Rival Pomona-Pitzer.
The Athenas opened the game and ran out to a 12-3 advantage until just about the halfway mark of the first quarter. That stretch was snapped by a Katie McCrum three-pointer that cut the lead to 12-6. Over that final five minute stretch though, the Colby Mules outscored the Athenas 7-5 to cut it to a four-point margin, 17-13 through the first 10 minutes of play.
At one point in the second quarter, Colby cut the CMS lead to two points with a three-pointer by Paige Russell at the 4:22 mark. Following that made basket, the Athenas went on a 9-0 run to extend the lead to 36-25 with 2:22 remaining before the half.
Love scored 10 points on 4-7 shooting in the first half with eight rebounds including hitting a three-point buzzer beater to send the Athenas into the halftime with a 13-point lead. Love finished with 13 points (5-9 FG) and fell one rebound shy (9) of her fourth double-double of the season. Parrish recorded nine first-half points on 3-4 shooting from the field and the free-throw line, and she finished tied for the scoring lead with 13 points (4-6) off the bench and grabbed seven rebounds.
The third quarter was all CMS as the Athenas held the Mules to two points and recorded 12 of their own to stretch the lead to 53-30 through three-quarters of play. Colby shot just 1-14 (7.1%) from the field in the third stanza, marking the most stingy defensive performance for the Athenas in a quarter this season.
The CMS defense forced 21 turnovers and scored 31 points off of those miscues by Colby. The Athenas worked their 2-3 zone defense into action for one of the first times this season and saw immediate results as they limited any high-post action and saw the Mules force a few three-pointers on the night. Overall, Colby shot 6-25 (24%) from three-point land, including a 0-6 stretch from beyond the arc in the third quarter.
The Athenas did not show much rust from the two-week break and, if anything, their defense looked rejuvenated from the holiday rest holding Colby to 27.6% (16-58) from the field on the evening. CMS shot 34.3% (23-67) from the field, 4-12 (33.3%) from three-point land and 10-16 (62.5%) from the free-throw stripe.
In all, 17 Athenas played at least one minute with Flora Durgerian making her first three-point shot of the season and finishing with three points. Gloria Bates played 15 minutes off the bench and chipped in with four points, Lauren Longo played 20 minutes and tallied four points, and Lia Gagliuso shot 3-3 from the field to record six points over 13 minutes.
Colby was led by Ainsley Burns, who scored 13 points on 6-20 shooting from the field. Burns was held below her team-leading points per game average of 16.3 points by the staunch Athenas defense. Keagan Dunbar entered tonight's game averaging 16.0 points per game and was limited to eight points on 3-7 shooting, and Grace Coutu showed some post presence for the Mules with seven points and a team-leading 11 rebounds.
CMS Women's Basketball has a quick turn-around as they host Kings' College (Pa.) Sunday at 5 p.m. inside Roberts Pavilion. The Athenas will then have a break to celebrate the New Year and will resume SCIAC play on Jan. 5 at Redlands at 2 p.m.


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Prime Minister's panel wants mandatory R&D funding by companies
The council has further asked that line ministries be mandated to allocate at least 2% of their budgets as research and innovation grants for developing and deploying technologies related to priority concerns.
Anubhuti Vishnoi
NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister's Science Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC) wants to make it mandatory for medium and large enterprises in key sectors to set aside funds for research and development after the Economic Survey pointed out the abysmal levels of investment in this area. It had said that R&D investment in India has been stagnant for 20 years at 0.6-0.7% of gross domestic product with that by the private sector at 0.35%.
The high-level panel wants the private sector to step up in this regard and take that share to at least 1% of GDP by 2022. The global average is 1.5% of GDP, which is the overall level that the council wants to see in India over the next five years.
The council discussed the issue in detail at its first meeting on October 9 at which it also deliberated over a mandatory investment model proposed by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). The lobby group had suggested that the pharmaceuticals and biotechnology industries should be mandated to set aside 8% of turnover for R&D, citing a global average of 15%.
For automobiles, it advocated 3% of turnover, 2% for technology hardware and equipment, 5% for software and computer services, 2% for electronic and electrical equipment, 1% each for industrial engineering, chemicals and general industrials and 0.55% for oil and gas as well as construction.
Among the few companies that have exceeded the threshold in their respective sectors, according to CII data, are Dr Reddy's Laboratories, Cadila Healthcare and Cipla, among others.
Loss-making companies may be exempted from mandatory R&D investments. During economic downturns, the panel suggested a threeyear average to calculate the minimum R&D investment for a particular year. The council also said that R&D investment should be calculated at the level of each industry rather than at group level with each sector disclosing this through audits and selfdeclarations.
The council proposed a 100% tax holiday for products emerging out of R&D for the first five years of commercialisation, provided they are patented or pending patent application, to incentivise industry.
The office of principal scientific adviser Vijay Raghavan has also weighed in against the finance ministry's plans to withdraw weighted R&D tax deduction provisions from April 1, 2020, saying this could slow down indigenisation and retard new product generation.
The council observed that while R&D investment may not in itself be a metric for innovation, there is little scope for this in absence of funding.
An Advanced Mission Mode Innovation and Research (ADMIRE) is proposed to be launched by line ministries to provide direct R&D grants to industry on a 50-50 model through competitive bidding.
CENTRE-STATE PARTNERSHIP
Observing the low contribution of states to R&D, the PMSTIAC suggested they partner with the Centre to jointly fund research and innovation programmes through centrally sponsored schemes.
The panel has also pushed for an amendment in corporate social responsibility (CSR) rules to allow contributions to publicly funded universities and institutes, national laboratories and autonomous bodies. The principal scientific adviser's office is learnt to have received unanimous support on the issue from various ministries. The panel has strongly advocated a twofold increase in the central allocation to scientific departments along with a nimbler grant dispensation process and flexibility in grant utilisation.
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Can Momo Keep Going After Last Week's 27% Pop?
Momo (NASDAQ: MOMO) keeps rolling. One of last week's -- and this year's -- hottest stocks moved higher after posting better-than-expected financial results. Several analysts would go on to jack up their price targets on the stock following the blowout quarter.
Shares of the Chinese social video platform operator soared 27.1% on the news last week. The big gain has now pushed Momo into the ranks of stocks that have more than doubled in 2018. Momo shares have risen 103% year to date.
A moving picture is worth a thousand words
Revenue rose 64% in Momo's first quarter, blowing through the 46% to 52% that it was targeting on the top line back in March. Adjusted earnings rose 57% to $0.69 a share, well ahead of the $0.50 a share that analysts were forecasting. Once again, we find Momo beating Wall Street profit targets by a double-digit percentage margin.
EPS (estimate)
EPS (actual)
Q1 2017 $0.32 $0.44 38%
This is the second time in a row that Momo beat analyst earnings estimates by 38% in the first quarter, but this is also the first in more than a year in which Momo's revenue growth rate accelerates from the previous period. Live video has been Momo's bread and butter these days, and the platform itself continues to grow in popularity with 103.3 million monthly active users in March.
Jerry Liu at UBS upgraded the stock from neutral to buy following the blowout financial performance. His earlier concerns about competition and a slowdown in the showroom market are now outweighed by his more upbeat take on the growth trajectory for live video, the segment accounting for 85% of Momo's revenue. He is boosting his price target from $41 to $60.
At least three other Wall Street pros jacked up their price targets last week. Fawne Jiang at Benchmark is juicing up his price goal from $48 to $60 on the strong report and upbeat guidance for the current quarter. Momo sees revenue growth of 51% to 55% in the second quarter, and it has already established itself as a serial lowballer of its actual top-line upticks. Nomura Instinet analyst Jialong Shi at Nomura Instinet is lifting his price target from $43 to $53, with Standpoint Research going from $48 to $54.
The big twist here is that Momo is surprisingly cheap for a stock that has now more than doubled this year. Momo is fetching less than 22 times this year's projected earnings and just 17 times next year's target.
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View all 2016 Lexus LX 570 specs .
Comfortable first- and second-row seats
Excellent audio system
Vibrant wide-screen head-up display
Very quiet at highway speed
Air suspension that lowers when you park
Terrible multimedia controller
Drives like a tank
Polarizing styling
Dismal fuel economy
Third-row design limits cargo room
Hard to enter third-row
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Our 2016 Lexus LX 570 trim comparison will help you decide.
Eight-passenger luxury SUV
Standard all-wheel drive
Standard V-8 engine
Advanced electronic off-road systems
Power-folding third-row seats
Adjustable-height air suspension
2016 Lexus LX 570 review: Our expert's take
By Aaron Bragman
Versus the competiton:
The verdict: Despite being refreshed this year, the Lexus LX 570 still feels like an old-school SUV, with sluggish road manners that reflect its portliness.
Versus the competition: As far as big, three-row luxury SUVs go, the Lexus is mostly competitive, lacking few amenities aside from some of the more advanced safety technologies, but its dated SUV design and behavior won't appeal to some buyers.
The Lexus LX 570 is the flagship SUV of Toyota's luxury brand and a rarity on American roads. Lexus doesn't sell many of these battlewagons, and for good reason: They're extremely expensive.
Built off the Toyota Land Cruiser and sharing that SUV's many, highly capable electronic 4×4 systems, the LX 570 represents an upgrade of sorts. It can do everything the already expensive and luxurious Land Cruiser can do (and arguably more, thanks to its air suspension), but does so while swaddling passengers in a cocoon of leather, wood and sound insulation.
The LX received a refresh for 2016 (compare it with the outgoing 2015 model here), gaining new styling, a new transmission, a new multimedia system, some interior refinements and a bunch of new electronic safety systems. The price has gone up a hair, as well. But with the Toyota Land Cruiser's price landing within just a few thousand dollars of the fancier Lexus, the question becomes: Is the LX different enough to justify paying even more?
Styling & Exterior
On some Lexus models, the new spindle grille and Nike-swoosh headlights work. On others, like on the LX 570, they look like the angry helmet from a Battlestar Galactica Cylon robot. With the long overhangs, relatively short wheelbase and styling that doesn't know when to quit, it just has to be said: The LX is a special kind of ugly.
You can't fault Lexus for making it distinctive, but the Toyota Land Cruiser is a far more attractive, elegant and clean-looking design. I guess when one isn't terribly worried about fuel economy, one can do crazy things with slats, creases, folds, grilles and strakes — and Lexus certainly has.
You're not likely to mistake the LX 570 for anything else on the road, except perhaps the Infiniti QX80, which somehow manages to be equally odd-looking. The Cadillac Escalade, by comparison, is oversized but elegant, with sharp creases and clean lines, while the newly refreshed 2017 Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class successfully brings the S-Class sedan's sweeping lines to a more upright vehicle. Anything from Land Rover is better-looking, as well. It just didn't need to look like this, Lexus.
How It Drives
Your first clue that this is an old-school SUV is the short wheelbase and big overhangs at the front and rear. The second clue is the way it drives, which is slow and ponderous. It feels like a heavy truck because it is. Though smaller than the Escalade, GLS or QX80, at 6,000 pounds it's the heaviest of the four. Combine that with the least-powerful engine in the group — a 383-horsepower, 5.7-liter V-8 — and you have an SUV with lazy around-town acceleration and a general distaste for changing directions quickly. The LX 570 isn't underpowered, but it's tuned toward relaxed responses: acceleration is only moderate unless you really plant your foot, gear shifts are smooth but come early, and the steering behavior is slow and highly boosted.
Highway travel is subdued and stress-free, unless you happen to be driving through a windy environment, where crosswinds play havoc with the Lexus' straight-line stability. The LX 570's air suspension provides for a remarkably smooth and quiet ride, and it can also be set to automatically lower the truck when parked and keyed off, which is helpful when it comes to getting in and out of the tall SUV.
Braking performance is also strong, with a firm pedal that brings the heavy truck to a halt with confidence.
The LX 570 has a host of electronic four-wheel-drive features that reportedly make it quite the mountain goat in rough stuff, but the idea of going off-road anywhere but the fields of the local polo club in an SUV this big and expensive seems unlikely.
All-wheel drive is provided via a Torsen limited-slip center differential that can be locked by the driver. A Multi-Terrain Select system then allows the driver to choose a setting for the all-wheel-drive system that matches the environment: Rock, Rock and Dirt, Moguls, Loose Rock, or Mud and Sand. A low range is also available for serious off-roading, as is the electronic Crawl Control that's been so ably demonstrated on other Toyota SUVs. But all its fancy plastic cladding will still limit the LX's abilities over more challenging terrain.
The LX 570's competitors all feature luxurious, quiet motoring experiences similar to the Lexus, but they all feel nimbler and quicker. The new Mercedes-Benz GLS offers four powertrains, but in price and equipment, the GLS550 matches up best with the LX 570 thanks to its 449-hp, twin-turbocharged 4.7-liter V-8 and nine-speed automatic transmission. The Cadillac Escalade Platinum also compares favorably, with its enormous 420-hp, 6.2-liter V-8 and eight-speed automatic. Even the Infiniti QX80 outguns the LX with its 400-hp, 5.6-liter V-8, but it makes do with just a seven-speed automatic.
The LX 570 is the heaviest of this group and possesses the aerodynamics of an apartment building, and it shows at the pump. Its gas mileage is rated 13/18/15 mpg city/highway/combined, and it delivers on that rating; my week in the LX included a jaunt from Detroit to Toronto during which I netted 15 mpg overall. That's about the same as the four-wheel-drive Infiniti QX80, which is rated 13/19/15 mpg, but the Mercedes-Benz GLS550 is rated slightly better, at 14/18/16 mpg. Topping them all, surprisingly, is the biggest truck with the biggest engine: The four-wheel-drive Cadillac Escalade is rated 15/21/17 mpg, which still isn't very good.
I once criticized the Toyota Land Cruiser for being an excellent $50,000 SUV that costs $80,000, and a big reason for that was its plain, if well-built, interior. The Lexus comes a lot closer to being worth its price ($96,905 for the loaded version I drove) than the Toyota, with significant upgrades to the cabin that make it more competitive with other luxury SUVs. Real wood and lots of leather abound, but it's more than just slapping on some expensive materials; the dash is completely different, as is the multimedia system. The second and third rows are both power-folding affairs instead of being manually manipulated, and gazing around the interior of the LX 570 is far more pleasant than beholding the SUV from the outside.
The interior is comfortable, too, with big seats up front that have standard heating and optional cooling. The second row has plenty of legroom and even a power sliding function, but the third row remains fit for children only due to a lack of legroom. Lexus says you can fit three abreast in the third row, but that would likely be three children.
Visibility is good thanks to a high seating position and tall windows all around. But that same high seating position also makes for an unusual driving setup, with the steering wheel angled more horizontally than in newer SUVs — like that of a city bus or an RV. You get used to it, but it's a little disconcerting at first.
While the Lexus' interior is upscale, it's still outdone by the latest from Mercedes-Benz. The new 2017 GLS-Class also feels far more premium than the Infiniti QX80, and it gives the posh Cadillac Escalade (which is let down by touch-sensitive controls) a run for its money.
As for overall interior room, the Lexus is quite large. Only the Cadillac offers more passenger space, rated at 172 cubic feet versus the Lexus' 159 cubic feet. The Infiniti is third, at 152 cubic feet, while the Mercedes-Benz is rather small, with only 144 cubic feet to play with inside.
Ergonomics & Electronics
The update to the LX brought a new multimedia system, which, sad to say, includes the reviled mouse-like controller we've come to hate in other Lexus products. To say that it's hard to use and a massive distraction while driving is an understatement. Imagine trying to use a laptop and mouse on the center console while you're driving 70 mph, or negotiating a busy city street. That's essentially our impression of Lexus' multimedia system; it's in dire need of a rethink. When compared with the multidirectional knob in the Mercedes-Benz or even Cadillac's touch-screen CUE system, the Lexus system falls well short of being competitive. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are not offered, either.
The LX 570 is a big truck, but its cargo area is compromised by the design of its third row. Like in the Land Cruiser, in order to store the third row the seatbacks must fold forward, then the split seats fold up against the sides of the cargo area. This leaves a decent space in the middle and plenty of height for larger items, but not much width. Cargo volume is rated 15.5 cubic feet behind the third row and is expandable to a maximum of 83.1 cubic feet. Most of these big, three-row SUVs have similar cargo room behind the third row, but the Lexus shows a deficiency in max room — the GLS comes with 93.8 cubic feet of total cargo space, the Escalade is expandable to 94.2 cubic feet and the Infiniti QX80 has 95.1 cubic feet.
The 2016 LX 570 has not yet been crash-tested, but results will be posted here if and when it is.
The LX has received a number of updates to its electronic safety systems for 2016, including the arrival of Lexus' Safety System Plus, which now includes a pre-collision preparation system, pedestrian detection, lane departure warning, all-speed dynamic cruise control, and an intelligent high-beam system for the headlights. A panoramic around-view camera and parking sensors are standard, but more advanced systems like forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking are not available. See all the LX 570's standard safety features here.
Value in Its Class
Like the Toyota Land Cruiser, the fancier Lexus LX 570 does not come cheap, but nor does it need much added; almost everything comes standard. The LX 570's base price is $89,830 including destination fee, and there are just a few options you can add, including a Mark Levinson 19-speaker audio system; a dual-screen rear-seat entertainment system; a luxury package with upgraded leather, cooled front seats and heated second-row seats; and a head-up display. All those options brought my as-tested price up to $96,905.
There are several competitors in this price class, each with varying levels of off-road ability and luxury content. The Mercedes-Benz GLS550 is a solid competitor, featuring a more powerful twin-turbocharged V-8, a more luxurious interior, a better multimedia system and more interior cargo room than the LX 570. It can also tow more, with a maximum 7,500-pound trailer rating versus the Lexus' 7,000-pound rating.
The Infiniti QX80 has a similar pedigree as the Lexus; it's based on the Nissan Patrol SUV, which competes internationally with the Toyota Land Cruiser. Like the Lexus, the Infiniti has been considerably upgraded, with a much nicer interior, a powerful engine and a higher price, though it isn't quite as dear as the Lexus' sticker.
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Q: How to get Admin Label for Attibute Options Cause I don't find an answer for my problem (posted HERE) I try to explain it in other way.
How can I get the Admin Label for Specificed Attribute Options?
With the code below I get the Current Store View's Label for Specificed Attribute but I need to change it to get the Admin Label.
I found THIS ARTICLE and THIS QUESTION but I don't understand what I have to do.
How I have to change the code below?
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Xu, X., Rhines, P. B., Chassignet, E. P., & Schmitz Jr., W. J. (2015). Spreading of Denmark Strait Overflow Water in the Western Subpolar North Atlantic: Insights from Eddy-Resolving Simulations with a Passive Tracer. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 45(12), 2913–2932.
Keywords: Circulation/ Dynamics; Abyssal circulation; Boundary currents; Ocean circulation; Ocean dynamics; Potential vorticity; Topographic effects
https://www.coaps.fsu.edu/bibliography/show.php?record=116
Yu, L., & Jin, X. (2012). Buoy perspective of a high-resolution global ocean vector wind analysis constructed from passive radiometers and active scatterometers (1987-present). J. Geophys. Res., 117(C11).
Keywords: OAFlux; ocean vector; satellite-based; wind analysis
Yu, L., & Jin, X. (2014). Confidence and sensitivity study of the OAFlux multisensor synthesis of the global ocean surface vector wind from 1987 onward. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 119(10), 6842–6862.
Keywords: remote sensing of ocean surface winds; scatterometer; passive microwave radiometer; error analysis
Yu, L., & Jin, X. (2014). Insights on the OAFlux ocean surface vector wind analysis merged from scatterometers and passive microwave radiometers (1987 onward). J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 119(8), 5244–5269.
Keywords: remote sensing; climate record of ocean surface vector wind; scatterometer; passive microwave radiometer; mesoscale air-sea interaction
Yu, P. (2006). Development of New Techniques for Assimilating Satellite Altimetry Data into Ocean Models. Ph.D. thesis, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
Abstract: State of the art fully three-dimensional ocean models are very computationally expensive and their adjoints are even more resource intensive. However, many features of interest are approximated by the first baroclinic mode over much of the ocean, especially in the lower and mid latitude regions. Based on this dynamical feature, a new type of data assimilation scheme to assimilate sea surface height (SSH) data, a reduced-space adjoint technique, is developed and implemented with a three-dimensional model using vertical normal mode decomposition. The technique is tested with the Navy Coastal Ocean Model (NCOM) configured to simulate the Gulf of Mexico. The assimilation procedure works by minimizing the cost function, which generalizes the misfit between the observations and their counterpart model variables. The "forward" model is integrated for the period during which the data are assimilated. Vertical normal mode decomposition retrieves the first baroclinic mode, and the data misfit between the model outputs and observations is calculated. Adjoint equations based on a one-active-layer reduced gravity model, which approximates the first baroclinic mode, are integrated backward in time to get the gradient of the cost function with respect to the control variables (velocity and SSH of the first baroclinic mode). The gradient is input to an optimization algorithm (the limited memory Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS) method is used for the cases presented here) to determine the new first baroclinic mode velocity and SSH fields, which are used to update the forward model variables at the initial time. Two main issues in the area of ocean data assimilation are addressed: 1. How can information provided only at the sea surface be transferred dynamically into deep layers? 2. How can information provided only locally, in limited oceanic regions, be horizontally transferred to ocean areas far away from the data-dense regions, but dynamically connected to it? The first problem is solved by the use of vertical normal mode decomposition, through which the vertical dependence of model variables is obtained. Analyses show that the first baroclinic mode SSH represents the full SSH field very closely in the model test domain, with a correlation of 93% in one of the experiments. One common way to solve the second issue is to lengthen the assimilation window in order to allow the dynamic model to propagate information to the data-sparse regions. However, this dramatically increases the computational cost, since many oceanic features move very slowly. An alternative solution to this is developed using a mapping method based on complex empirical orthogonal functions (EOF), which utilizes data from a much longer period than the assimilation cycle and deals with the information in space and time simultaneously. This method is applied to map satellite altimeter data from the ground track observation locations and times onto a regular spatial and temporal grid. Three different experiments are designed for testing the assimilation technique: two experiments assimilate SSH data produced from a model run to evaluate the method, and in the last experiment the technique is applied to TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 altimeter data. The assimilation procedure converges in all experiments and reduces the error in the model fields. Since the adjoint, or "backward", model is two-dimensional, the method is much more computationally efficient than if it were to use a fully three-dimensional backward model.
Keywords: Data Assimilation, Reduced Space, First Baroclinic Mode, Ocean Models, Vertical Normal Mode Decomposition, Variational
Yu, P., Morey, S. L., & O'Brien, J. J. (2009). A reduced-dynamics variational approach for the assimilation of altimeter data into eddy-resolving ocean models. Ocean Modelling, 27(3-4), 215–229.
Keywords: Ocean modeling; Data assimilation; Variational adjoint methods
Zavala-Hidalgo, J., Romero-Centeno, R., Mateos-Jasso, A., Morey, S. L., & Martínez-López, B. (2014). The response of the Gulf of Mexico to wind and heat flux forcing: What has been learned in recent years? Atmósfera, 27(3), 317–334.
Keywords: Gulf of Mexico; ocean surface forcing; upper ocean layer
Zhang, M., Wu, Z., & Qiao, F. (2018). Deep Atlantic Ocean Warming Facilitated by the Deep Western Boundary Current and Equatorial Kelvin Waves. J. Climate, 31(20), 8541–8555.
Abstract: Increased heat storage in deep oceans has been proposed to account for the slowdown of global surface warming since the end of the twentieth century. How the imbalanced heat at the surface has been redistributed to deep oceans remains to be elucidated. Here, the evolution of deep Atlantic Ocean heat storage since 1950 on multidecadal or longer time scales is revealed. The anomalous heat in the deep Labrador Sea was transported southward by the shallower core of the deep western boundary current (DWBC). Upon reaching the equator around 1980, this heat transport route bifurcated into two, with one continuing southward along the DWBC and the other extending eastward along a narrow strip (about 4 degrees width) centered at the equator. In the 1990s and 2000s, meridional diffusion helped to spread warming in the tropics, making the eastward equatorial warming extension have a narrow head and wider tail. The deep Atlantic Ocean warming since 1950 had overlapping variability of approximately 60 years. The results suggest that the current basinwide Atlantic Ocean warming at depths of 1000-2000 m can be traced back to the subsurface warming in the Labrador Sea in the 1950s. An inference from these results is that the increased heat storage in the twenty-first century in the deep Atlantic Ocean is unlikely to partly account for the atmospheric radiative imbalance during the last two decades and to serve as an explanation for the current warming hiatus.
Keywords: Ocean; Atlantic Ocean; Heating; Kelvin waves; Ocean circulation; Oceanic variability; EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; NONSTATIONARY TIME-SERIES; NORTH-ATLANTIC; CLIMATE-CHANGE; HEAT-CONTENT; HIATUS; VARIABILITY; CIRCULATION; TEMPERATURE; PACIFIC
Zhao, X., Zhou, C., Xu, X., Ye, R., Tian, J., & Zhao, W. (2019). Deep Circulation in the South China Sea Simulated in a Regional Model. Ocean Sci. Discuss, .
Abstract: The South China Sea (SCS) is the largest marginal sea in the northwest Pacific Ocean. In this study, deep circulation in the SCS is investigated using results from eddy-resolving, regional simulations using the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) verified by continuous current-meter observations. Analysis of these results provides a detailed spatial structure and temporal variability of the deep circulation in the SCS. The major features of the SCS deep circulation are a basin-scale cyclonic gyre and a concentrated deep western boundary current (DWBC). Transport of the DWBC is ∼ 2 Sv at 16.5° N with a width of ∼53 km. Flowing southwestward, the narrow DWBC becomes weaker with a wider range. The model results reveal the existence of 80- to 120-day oscillation in the deep northeastern circulation and the DWBC, which are also the areas with elevated eddy kinetic energy. This intraseasonal oscillation propagates northwestward with a velocity amplitude of ∼ 1.0 to 1.5 cm s-1. The distribution of mixing parameters in the deep SCS plays a role in both spatial structure and volume transport of the deep circulation. Compared with the northern shelf of the SCS with the Luzon Strait, deep circulation in the SCS is more sensitive to the large vertical mixing parameters of the Zhongsha Island Chain area.
Keywords: Sea Marine, Oceanography/CIMST, PacificOcean, continuous current-meter, deep circulation, deep western boundary
https://www.coaps.fsu.edu/bibliography/show.php?record=1013
Zheng, Y., Bourassa, M. A., & Dukhovskoy, D. S. (2018). Upper-Ocean Processes Controlling the Sea Surface Temperature in the Western Gulf of Mexico. In American Geophysical Union (Vol. Fall Meeting).
Abstract: This study examines the upper-ocean processes controlling the mixed layer temperature in the western Gulf of Mexico (GOM) through estimating the contributing terms in the heat equation, with an emphasis on eddies' role. The major heat contributing terms for the upper GOM were estimated using two ocean reanalysis datasets: an eddy-resolving HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) and a Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA). Analysis of net surface heat fluxes from four datasets reveals that the long-term mean net surface heat flux cools the northern GOM and warms the southern GOM. Two regions are focused for analysis: an eddy-rich region where LCEs are energetic, and the southwestern Gulf where eddy activity is relatively weak and the features of near surface temperature differ from the eddy-rich region. An eddy-rich region in the western GOM is defined based on the eddy kinetic energy derived from satellite sea surface heights. The long-term mean horizontal heat advection causes a weak warming over most of the eddy rich region, partly attributed to the flow-temperature configuration that the long-term and seasonally mean flow is nearly parallel to the corresponding mean isotherms. By contrast, the temporal mean vertical heat advection causes a strong warming in the eddy rich region, partly balancing the cooling caused by net surface heat flux. The temporal mean eddy heat flux convergence in the western GOM, whose positive and negative values are not small at some locations, appears heterogeneous in space, resulting in a small term for the western GOM when area averaged. The persistent warm water in the southwestern Gulf is primarily caused by the net warming from net surface heat flux rather than from eddies and heat advection.
Keywords: 4299 General or miscellaneous, OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL


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Illustrations of surfing medicine, Life
The psychology of big wave surfing and surfing photography
EASD Life: illustrations of surfing medicine
Did you see Peter Mel win?
One of the most appreciated topics at the first EASD conference on surfing medicine, was presented by Boris Bornemann: "Surfing psychology and neurobiology". He explained the drive behind the question why we surf by the size of reinforcement and the high variability of potential and successful reinforcers: e.g. "Does a wave come by?", respectively "Can I get on it?". The reinforcer was defined by "flow".
The meaning of flow is comprehensively explained in a sports psychologist study, in which 15 world elite big wave surfers participated in in-depth, semi-structured interviews. Previously we summarized the conclusions, but the article is highly recommended to read full text, and not only because of nice personal quotes from top class surfers and their stoke.
Recently a short movie about one of the most famous big wave surfers was made: Greg Long. This movie illustrates not only the psychological side of big wave surfing, but also the medical side of surfing as such.
Steve Long (father of Greg Long): "On so many of these missions, there is a water safety team, designated ski with rescuer, a lifeguard that I would recruit for that day. We would have a resuscitator and a defibrillator on board of the boat. Treating it as a true mission as opposed to a 'let's go surfing'".
Greg Long about his worst wipe out (Mavericks 2008): "I was pushed down to the bottom, bouncing on the bottom, disappeared into the abyss, and blow out my ear drum. You instantly lose all sense of direction, your equilibrium is gone, and not to mention this pain of feeling like an ice pick is stuck into your head".
Although the surfers may receive the more than deserved credits for what they (try) to achieve, there are several surf photographers who deserve a lot of respect for the way they capture all this on camera. Based on what two of these photographers tell, it may be concluded that they at least have to deal with the same circumstances and consequences of (big wave) surfing, and that they are driven by a same sort of flow.
Mickey Smith (Dark side of the lens): "Broken backs, drownings, near drownings, hypothermia, dislocations, fractures, frostbite, head wounds, stitches, concussions, broken elbow and that's just the last couple of years".
DARK SIDE OF THE LENS from Astray Films on Vimeo.
Russell Ord (One shot): "I have no problem with drowning, getting eaten, anything really. If I do drown, it's my own fault. It's gonna be my own fault for not training".
ONE SHOT- an Image and an Attitude (teaser) from Darren McCagh on Vimeo.
To learn more on what 's on the mind of a big wave surfer, take a seat at the QS round table where nine of the best big wave surfers in the world (including Shane Dorian) discuss the future of big wave surfing. Especially the "preparation & safety" episode is interesting. Enjoy.
Arvid Schigt.
EASD Ambassadors, Life
First EASD Ambassador: Yannick de Jager
Yannick de Jager - © Jan Bijl
The EASD is very happy to proclaim Yannick de Jager as our first pro surfing Ambassador to support the EASD.
Yannick (25) is currently the best surfer from the Netherlands and takes part in WQS competitions around Europe. This season he reached the quarter finals of the 3-star Vendee Pro event, beating some of the world's best surfers. Another highlight of Yannick in 2012 was his online video project "Stories from here to There", that surprised and heavily impressed international surf media all over the world.
Being a talented pro surfer who is performing on full time basis and being inevitably concerned about health, injuries, traveling issues, and protection the EASD is having confidence in Yannick as a representative of our cause. By teaming up with athletes the EASD will be able to translate knowledge and experience from the professional surfing world to the wide recreational surfing community.
More than the average focused on knowledge about the human body, Yannick possesses quite detailed information on surf related health issues based on personal experiences and interest. With his enthusiasm and passionate motivation to give something back from what he received from surfing, the EASD is lucky to have him on board.
Yannick, thanks for your support!
For more background information and action footage visit this page.
Illustrations of surfing medicine
Surfing Doctors. Know your classics.
Stoke. A lot has been said and written about the love for surfing. With big marketing campaigns, the surfing industry tries to capture the special feeling people tend to get while surfing. And scientists too have shown interest in "Flow" regarding a big wave surfing psychology article to which we referred previously. Surfing is just something we have to do. Need to do. Once explaining how grasping surfing can be, Kelly Slater said: "It's like the mafia. Once you're in, you're in. There's no getting out."
Surfers. Gonna Surf.
Quiksilver Pro (Hossegor, France) – 2012 © Bas Bartholomeus
Generally spoken, most doctors seem to spend a lot of time in the hospital, not occasionally leading to sleep deprivation. Long working days, preparing for next day's surgery program, after hours clinical in-depth investigations, endless power point presentations, on-call weekends, and night shifts sometimes make it difficult to go out for a paddle and increase your wave count. The surfing doctor is often dependent on a confined amount of weeks for holiday surf trips and a limited amount of long light summer nights and early dawn patrols to maintain his or her stoke. Especially when you're living and working far from the coast. You would love to surf more, but it seems impossible.
Time for change.
Read the article below and improve your quality of life. Instantly. It was published in November 1987 in the LA Times and describes the lives of surfing doctor pioneers Mark Renneker, Tony Moore, Kevin Starr, and Jeff Harris. Their personal stories and some epic quotes will be truly inspiring to you. If you're a doctor and already spending the same amount of or even more time in the water than in the hospital, the article might confirm you're following the right path. For all other surfing doctors it will change their lives. For sure.
You can read it over and over again. It's an evergreen. Enjoy!
What's Up, Doc? : Medicine Men Make No Bones About Their Love for Surfing
November 15, 1987|ALLAN PARACHINI | Times Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO — Every doctor has some galvanizing memory of medical school. Most involve some dynamic moment of enlightenment, like finally grasping the elusively subtle audible differences between heart rhythms.
For Dr. Mark Renneker, an assistant clinical professor at UC San Francisco Medical School, a staff physician at a local poverty clinic and a cancer prevention and education specialist at Samuel Merritt Hospital in Oakland, the memory is of a different kind.
To read this article in its entirety, please use the following link: http://articles.latimes.com/1987-11-15/news/vw-20948_1_surf-medicine


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Feb. 6, 2017, 12:52 p.m.
As a presidential election looms in France, Google and Facebook team up with news outlets to factcheck
LINK: firstdraftnews.com ➚ | Posted by: Shan Wang | February 6, 2017
In France, Google and Facebook are hoping to get ahead of the "fake news" fury that exploded in the U.S. shortly after the November presidential election. Google announced Monday it's teaming up with media outlets from Agence France-Presse to BuzzFeed News to Le Monde on a countrywide factchecking initiative the partners are calling CrossCheck. As a part of the initiative, Facebook is also working with news organizations to reduce the amount of misinformation and hoax stories from appearing on its platform, offering up tools like CrowdTangle to help monitor election-related posts on social media and focusing on other "media literacy efforts."
Particulièrement fiers de soutenir @CrossCheck, projet de vérification collaborative de @firstdraftnews & 17 rédactions françaises #niscpo pic.twitter.com/df3JSl0Xqi
— Google News Lab (@googlenewslab) February 6, 2017
Joseph Lichterman
CrossCheck factchecks will live on a separate website, and interested readers can submit questions about unverified or questionable sites and social posts to the CrossCheck team for debunking or verification. News partners in the CrossCheck network will be producing their own stories based on information gathered as part of the initiative:
Developed from ideas initially shared at a First Draft Partner Network meeting in September 2016, CrossCheck has been designed in consultation with local and national newsrooms in France. Seventeen newsrooms have already joined the project and early partners include AFP (Agence France-Presse), BuzzFeed News, France Médias Monde (via les Observateurs de France 24), France Télévisions, Global Voices, Libération, La Provence, Les Echos, La Voix du Nord, Le Monde, Nice-Matin, Ouest-France, Rue89 Bordeaux, Rue89Lyon, Rue89 Strasbourg, Storyful and StreetPress. Each participating newsroom will contribute their own experience, resources and regional knowledge to speed and strengthen the verification process, and to ensure that accurate reports reach citizens across the country and beyond. CrossCheck partners, including a number of international news organizations, will ultimately make use of these reports in their own articles, programs and social media output.
CrossCheck is also making use of tools like Meedan's Check for collaborative verification and Chicago-based startup Hearken's platform for managing reader submissions. The effort will also include outreach to students. It's a model based in part on work done during Electionland (which also used Check), in which more than a thousand reporters and students scoured the country on Election Day to surface issues people had trying to cast their votes, :
As with Electionland, selected students will receive training to use a combination of pioneering newsroom technologies and advanced search techniques. CrossCheck will invite volunteers from CFJ and Science Po Journalism School in Paris to take part. CrossCheck editors from participating newsrooms will then summarize and add context to each claim, creating a live feed of shareable report cards on the CrossCheck site. This feed will be overseen by the Agence-France Presse.
First Draft Founding Partner Bellingcat will map patterns and behaviors within the misinformation ecosystem as part of a wider research relating to the European elections. Timely reports and graphics produced by Bellingcat will feature on the CrossCheck site throughout this project.
Clamping down on viral fake news, Facebook partners with sites like Snopes and adds new user reporting
Laura Hazard Owen
Fact-checking initiatives are proliferating, led in part by the platforms roundly criticized for their role in (or previous ambivalence towards) the spread of hoax stories on their platforms. In the U.S., Facebook is now working with Snopes, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, ABC, and the Associated Press to verify reports on its platform. Facebook announced a similar effort in Germany last month and is currently looking for other news partners to join the nonprofit investigative outfit Correctiv in checking disputed stories.
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Wang, Shan. "As a presidential election looms in France, Google and Facebook team up with news outlets to factcheck." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 6 Feb. 2017. Web. 19 Jan. 2022.
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Home International North Korea Says Unwilling for More Talks With U.S.
Kim Jong Un (C), top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in meet at the truce village of Panmunjom on June 30, 2019. (Xinhua/NEWSIS)
PYONGYANG (Xinhua) — The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is unwilling to talk face to face with the United States and urged South Korea to stay away from meddling in Pyongyang's affairs, a senior DPRK diplomat reaffirmed on Tuesday.
"Explicitly speaking once again, we have no intention to sit face to face with the U.S.," Kwon Jong Gun, director general of the Department of U.S. Affairs of the Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
Kwon was reaffirming a statement issued earlier by Choe Son Hui, first vice-minister of foreign affairs of DPRK, who said last weekend that the DPRK had no interest in holding another DPRK-U.S. summit before the U.S. election in November, which was proposed by South Korean President Moon Jae-in last Wednesday.
"Time will show whether its efforts will succeed or it will only suffer a loss and ridicule," Kwon said, referring to Seoul's proposal.
Kwon also asked the South Korean leader not to become a "meddlesome man who had again indicated his intention to arbitrate between the DPRK and the U.S. regardless of time."
The South Korean government seems "to have a bad ear or are guided by the habit of always talking in their own favor" as there was no change in their efforts to mediate a DPRK-U.S. summit, Kwon added.
The statement was issued when U.S. special envoy for the DPRK Stephen Biegun is set to arrive in Seoul on Tuesday for talks with his South Korean counterpart amid stalled nuclear talks on the Korean peninsula. Biegun said recently that the proposed DPRK-U.S. summit was unlikely to happen before the U.S. presidential election in November, citing COVID-19 as a reason.
DPRK's top leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump met three times in 2018 and 2019. But talks on denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula between the DPRK and the United States have been stalled since the Hanoi Summit between their leaders in February 2019 failed to reach an agreement.
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In this blog post I will show a modern studio setup that doesn't require a mixing console.
Building a studio from the ground up over the past couple of years not only gave me the opportunity create a custom design, but also to reconsider my equipment and ways to improve the layout. With a space smaller than a typical commercial studio, maximizing every inch was crucial. The studio we designed takes advantage of many great modern-day components including several that sit on the desk, along with the classic studio mainstays of analog equipment in the racks including pre-amps, compressors, interfaces, and effects processors. The one large piece to this design puzzle that didn't fit was a mixing console. I had to have a mixing console, right? All studios require them, don't they? The more I thought about this the more convinced I became that a mixer just wasn't necessary. And besides, I didn't want to give up the desk space. With a lot of head scratching and some research we came up with a plan that would use a combination of standard 1/4 inch TRS and XLR patch bays in the rack which would give us all of the routing flexibility we needed and an easy way to get around.
The key component I found to replace the mixing console was the the XLR patch bay. This was something that I hadn't ever seen before, but was thrilled to learn that they exist. The unit I'm using is a Hosa PDR-369 . This takes the 12 XLR inputs from my snake one the back side and allows me to patch them through on the front to a Neutrik NYS-SPP-L 1/4 inch patch bay. I/O from the interface, pre-amps and effect processors are set up in the rear of the Neutrik patch bay so it's just a matter of patching the correct channel from the snake to the pre-amp of choice and then to the interface input on the front. Patch bays require cables. Lots of them. I purchased mine in volume through monoprice.com. They are good quality cables and their prices are really low. An even better option would be to make your own cables.
This shows the basic setup of the patch bays. This allows complete flexibility to patch any input from the snake into any preamp and patch additional outboard processing into the chain.
This TRS patch bay is pre-configured in "half-normalled" mode with the normalled circuit in the back and a grey or white jack in the front that breaks the normallled connection when a plug is inserted. This turns it into "Isolated" or "Thru" mode. Because this setup uses isolated mode by default it made more sense to flip the PCB boards for each channel. This means that inputs and outputs patched into the back would now be mirrored in the front with no "normal" circuits. This allows for the greatest amount of flexibility between components and safely eliminates the possibility of feedback loops that could damage equipment. Having complete control through front panel access is key to the flexibility of a setup like this one.
***There is one important precaution with this setup. Pulling live cables and mics can cause damage to microphones and equipment so it's always best to turn off phantom power and control room monitors when making patch changes.
Getting back to the desktop, I employ a few very useful components that I like to have within easy reach at all times. First is a Presonus Central Station. Using this Central Station with the CSR-1 Remote, I have instant access to levels, speaker switching, input switching and a talk back mic. The remote is about the size of my hand. I also keep a Frontier Design Tranzport on the desk for easy transport controls, scrolling etc… also about the size of my hand. In addition, there's an Apogee Duet, Countour Design Shuttle Pro (for Final Cut Pro) and an M-Audio Axiom 49 keyboard controller all within inches. But most importantly, my computer keyboard and mouse are sitting squarely and ergonomically in front of me. Operating "in the box" and having the keyboard and mouse in a comfortable position makes the process run faster and smoother, especially over time.
So far this arrangement has worked out great. At some point we may need a second patch bay that operates in a more traditional fashion with normalled connections, but as of today this setup has really served us well.
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One of our directors, Wayne Cowley, will be completing a Million Steps (500 miles) running and walking throughout the next 10 months, with the full support of Trainsure, to raise money for Bradford's children's charity, One In A Million.
Wayne is hoping to raise 1p for every step of the Challenge equating to £10,000. Further information is included in the attachment. If you feel you can help Wayne run a million steps for disadvantaged children and young people please follow this link – justgiving.com/wayne-cowley.


Are you eager to work with the newest technology in an innovative company in growth? Then Questback is the place for you!
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During your first time in Qustback, you will have your own mentor and time will be dedicated for you to learn the different programs, tools and the product you will help develop. You will get to work with modern technologies in a company that focuses on processes and continuously integration. You will work with a true SaaS solution, catering for thousands of customers and users around the world. You will be given the opportunity to work with all aspects of Questback's solution, and need to be prepared for that.
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Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are 'bubble to end all bubbles'
UBS Wealth Management doesn't believe it's legitimate
Published December 11, 2017 at 1:08pm
(CNBC) — UBS Wealth Management is not a believer in bitcoin becoming a legitimate currency even as the launch of futures lead some investors to believe the cryptocurrency will become a more stable market.
"The bubble to end all bubbles continues. Cryptocurrencies only have value if accepted as currencies. However, they cannot be used for the most important transaction in an economy, and cryptocurrency supply can only rise and never fall (making them a poor store of value)," global chief economist Paul Donovan wrote in a post Monday. "To date, using cryptocurrencies requires (effectively) a simultaneous asset sale and purchase of goods or services."
The economist said in an October report that bitcoin's extreme price volatility detracted from its ability to be a "store of value," which is an essential feature of being a currency.
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