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Elina Svitolina Steps Up To See Off Konta And Reach Second Grand Slam Semi-Final
Elina Svitolina advanced to the semi-final of US Open 2019 after beating Johanna Konta in straight sets in a pulsating encounter.
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Elina Svitolina performed brilliantly to beat Johanna Konta 6-4 6-4 at US Open 2019 and advance to her second successive Grand Slam semi-final.
The Ukrainian, 24, is in stunning form. She is yet to drop a set and she must be feeling very confident about her chances of winning her first major title at Flushing Meadows this year.
Svitolina booked her place in the last four by outplaying Konta from the baseline. She chased down the Brit's shots, hit winners when she could and kept her unforced error count to a minimum.
Consequently, she put the World No.16 under intense pressure throughout. And the strain started to tell during a long fifth game, when the Ukrainian earned the first break point of the match.
Konta saved that one, but Svitolina seized her second chance a few points later with a cross-court forehand that the Brit found too hot to handle.
In the next game, the World No.16 was very aggressive. She unleashed a series of powerful groundstrokes that earned her enough points to set up a chance to break. Then the Ukrainian hit a backhand into the net, which sealed the break back and levelled the score at 3-3.
Crucially, Svitolina did not dwell on that game. She immediately re-focused and set about making Konta's life difficult once again. It paid instant dividends, as the Brit made a couple of bad errors to gift her two break points. The Ukrainian then passed her with a superb winner to re-establish her lead.
Although Konta tried hard to break Svitolina again and lengthen the set, the World No.5 held firm to close it out 6-4.
Svitolina keeps the pressure on
The second set followed an almost identical pattern. The first four games passed without major incident, and then the Brit dropped her serve in game five.
Just like in the first set, Konta responded by going on the attack. She forced Svitolina back behind the baseline repeatedly and this led to errors from the Ukrainian. The Brit then seized her first break point of the game with a high-risk drop shot.
However, the World No.16 wasted the break. She made two poor errors and she was punished for two terrible approach shots as she lost her service game to love and fell 4-3 behind.
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Svitolina ensured Konta had no chance of getting back into the match after that. She held serve comfortably to move 5-3 ahead. Then she accepted events philosophically when the Brit saved match two match points in game nine.
This set up a chance to serve for the match. The Ukrainian dealt with it superbly. She won one point with a great serve and then a second by outlasting the World No.16 in a pulsating rally.
Then the next point broke the last of Konta's resistance, as Svitolina finished a stunning point with a brilliant backhand pass on the run to make it 40-15. When the Brit hit a backhand long, the Ukrainian's win was confirmed, and she closed her eyes and looked to the sky with a broad smile.
"It feels amazing," Svitolina said in her on-court intreview. "It was a very, very tough match. I think we were both striking the ball (well) and it was quite even. Then in the end I had to close on my serve, which was very tricky. I'm very, very happy with how I handled the pressure today."
Svitolina hails Monfils effect ahead of potential Serena clash
The Ukrainian also spoke about the influence of boyfriend and hitting partner Gael Monfils, who will take on Matteo Berretini in the quarter-final of the men's draw.
"We are definitely pushing each other," she said. "We are trying to join each other in the semi-final, so now he needs to step up his game."
Svitolina's next match could be exceptionally tough, as she is due to meet the winner of Serena Williams versus Qiang Wang.
If she does face the legendary American, she will not have any recent experiences to draw on because, by a curious twist of fate, they have not met one another since the Rio Olympics in 2016.
On that occasion, Svitolina beat a strangely lacklustre Serena. However, it may not mean much because the Ukrainian is a much better player now and the American has gone through at least two life-changing experiences (marriage and childbirth) since then.
The biggest source of encouragement for Svitolina could be the performance of Simona Halep in the Wimbledon final. The Romanian, who is a similar type of player, anticipated Serena's shots superbly that day and demolished her in a fashion rarely seen during her stellar career.
"It would be exciting to play Serena again," the Ukrainian said. "If I play her, it will be a good match."
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Officials and players are at a disagreement over the rules concerning who is deemed a 'close contact' of somebody who test positive for COVID-19.
The Commissioner for COVID-19 Quarantine in Victoria says she will tolerate no rule breaking by those staying in quarantine ahead of the Australian Open after a fourth confirmed test emerged on Sunday.
Emma Cassar said that there have been incidents of 'challenging behaviour' from both players and members of their teams in relation to the rules set out. Due to the pandemic, everybody has to go into a 14-day quarantine but the process has turned more complicated following a series of positive tests by those travelling on plans funded by Tennis Australia. The latest case involves a member of the broadcast team flying from Los Angeles.
The Australian government has ruled that everybody on board a plane where somebody has tested positive for the virus must go into a stricter form of quarantine where they must remain in their room and are not allowed to train outside. This has affected more than 40 players on two different flights from Abu Dhabi and another from Los Angeles. As it currently stands 62 people have been deemed close contacts of the four cases, three of which were announced on Saturday, according to Fox Australia.
To add to the drama, Cassar has confirmed that some players and their team members have already been given a warning for what she says is 'challenging behaviour.' Branding their actions as 'dangerous acts that we can't tolerate.'
"I can give you two examples – a player who opened his door to try and have a conversation with his training mate down the hallway. Again, he's got a phone, you can pick up the phone and use the telephone as opposed to putting you and others at risk," she said.
"The other was another gentleman who shouted some UberEats to some other people on the floor and was praising his great efforts and opened his door to do so.
"It is very low level, but they are dangerous acts that we cannot tolerate … they have been formerly warned, and Victoria Police will continue to follow up those who haven't been spoken to yet."
Even more extraordinary is the confirmation that extra police have been sent to the hotels where players are quarantined. Repeat offenders have been warned they could be fined or even transferred to a 'complexed care hotel' where a police officer stays outside their door.
Did the players know?
In regards to the quarantine process, some have questioned the transparency of the rules which has been set out. Critics have argued that they were never informed that should someone test positive on a plane everybody on board would have to isolate for 14 days.
World No.12 Belinda Bencic has gone as far as saying that the rules have been changed upon arrival in Melbourne. A view that has also been expressed by Alize Cornet, Yulia Putintseva and Sorana Cirstea.
"We made our decision to come here from rules that were sent to us. Then we arrived and received an information/rule book with more/new rules that we did not know about," Bencic wrote on Twitter.
Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley has addressed those statements by saying that all players were informed that this would be a possible scenario that they would face. Leading up to the quarantine, all players and their teams should have been sent documents detailing their stay.
"The determination of who was and who wasn't a close contact was going to be entirely up to the health department, and they're doing what is necessary in order to keep our community safe," he told Channel 9 TV.
"Obviously what has changed over the last several weeks is the new UK strain, which is more infectious, and there's obviously a great desire by all of us to make sure that doesn't come into our community.
We are joined by Tennis Australia CEO, Craig Tiley, after 50 players were deemed unable to train for two weeks after being on flights with infected people. #9Today pic.twitter.com/tDeqOXXY4v
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Although the motion that the rules have changed in some capacity is disputed by Commissioner Cessar who stated that no adjustments to the policy will be made in the coming days.
"The rules of close contacts haven't changed, and there's no other way you can consider this. If you're on a plane for 16 to 24 hours in air that circulates throughout the plane, you are a close contact," she said.
"The program is set up to keep people safe. We will not be modifying the program or watering it down under any circumstances."
Whilst there are ongoing discussions concerning the scheduling of tournaments taking place during the first week of February, Tiley has confirmed that the Australian Open start date of February 8th will remain unchanged.
It is understood that Kei Nishikori and Victoria Azarenka are among those to be affected by the latest development.
Tennis Australia has been dealt a new blow to their preparations for the Melbourne Grand Slam after it was confirmed two people tested positive for COVID-19 on one of their flights.
A member of the flight crew and one passenger who was on Flight QR793 from Los Angeles Airport have tested positive for the virus. It has been reported by journalist Pablo Amalfitano that the coach of Lauren Davis, Edward Elliot, is the passenger who has tested positive. Although he reportedly claims that the result is a false positive.
A total of 79 people were on the flight with 24 of those being players such as Kei Nishikori, Victoria Azarenka, Sloane Stephens, Alison Riske, Vaskek Pospisil and Tennys Sandgren. Sandgren did test positive prior to the fight but was given the all clear to travel after it was deemed that he was 'viral shedding.'
Due to their possible exposure to COVID-19 Australian health officials have instructed all players to isolate for 14 days and they will not be allowed to leave their room to train in what will be a big setback to their preparations.
"The Chief Health Officer has reviewed the flight and has determined that everyone on board needs to isolate and will be confined to their rooms for the 14-day quarantine," a leaked email sent to players read. "We know this is not how you imagined your preparations for the AO would start but our entire team is here to support you and do everything that we can to get you through this."
There were two positive COVID-19 tests on Santiago Gonzalez's flight to Melbourne from LAX and everyone on it will have to quarantine for two weeks. pic.twitter.com/mS510fWiOJ
— Tumaini Carayol (@tumcarayol) January 16, 2021
News of the positive tests was first reported online by the players themselves after they uploaded a leaked email detailing what had happened before Tennis Australia had a chance to publish a statement.
"We are communicating with everyone on this flight, and particularly the playing group whose conditions have now changed, to ensure their needs are being catered to as much as possible, and that they are fully appraised of the situation," Tennis Australia chief Craig Tiley commented.
"Our thoughts are with the two people who tested positive on the flight and we wish them well for their recovery."
Doubles specialist Artem Sitak, who was on board the plane, commented on the situation by giving an update to his followers on Instagram. The Russian-born New Zealand player is currently ranked 78th in the world and has won five ATP titles so far in his career.
"We're all deemed close contact. I asked for a bike, so hopefully I'll get one and stay in shape," Sitak said. "We'll probably be out on the 29th of January and head straight into the ATP 250 a few days after.
"Obviously not great, but that's the risk we were all taking. They kind of warned us this was going to be at the discretion of the Australian government, Australian health authorities if something like this happened. It's just unlucky that two of them contracted the virus."
In a later update the 34-year-old confirmed that he has had a bike delivered to his room. |
Meanwhile, Japanese media have confirmed that all of Nishikori's team has tested negative for the virus but the former US Open finalist will be training alone in his room.
The first series of tournaments are set to take place in Melbourne a week before the Australian Open on January 31st.
List of affected players
Tennys Sandgren
Nicholas Monroe
Artem Sitak
Marcos Giron
Note – list is incomplete and compiled via news agencies
Tennis Australia Back Tennys Sandgren To Fly Internationally Despite Positive COVID-19 Test
The world No.50 is said to be allowed to fly following intervention from tennis boss Craig Tiley.
Tennis Australia has insisted that adequate health and safety protocols are being followed after it was confirmed that one player will be allowed to enter their bio-secure bubble less than a week after testing positive for CVOVID-19.
Tennys Sandgren, who reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open last year, posted a series of tweets detailing his dilemma. The American said he tested positive for a second time on Monday after also doing so during Thanksgiving before going on to cast doubt on his abilities to travel. However, in a separate tweet written less than two hours later he confirmed that he was on a plane before calling Australian Open director Craig Tiley 'a wizard' for his intervention.
"Wait, hold on I think they are trying to get me on 15 minuets after the plane was supposed to depart.. my bags still aren't checked," Sandgren wrote.
"Wow I'm on the plane. Maybe I just held my breath too long.. Craig Tiley is a wizard," he later added.
The decision to allow Sandgren to head to the 'bio-secure bubble' in Melbourne comes amid what has been dubbed as one of the strictest COVID-19 measurements taken by a country for athletes. All players arriving in Australia are required to go through a 14-day quarantine period where they will be only allowed to leave their rooms for training. Should anybody break the rules they face a fine of up to AUS$20,000 and even deportation.
As to why Sandgren is allowed to enter the bubble despite testing positive is a due to the fact those who recover from the virus can still continue to test positive over the coming weeks. Tennis Australia says their decision has been made after the local health authority reviewed Sandgren's medical file. Although it is unclear as to what evidence they had to prove that Sandgren didn't contract the virus for a second time which is possible.
"In the case of Tennys Sandgren, who has self-disclosed that he previously tested positive in late November, his medical file had to be reviewed by Victorian health authorities," a Tennis Australia statement reads.
"Upon completion of that review he was cleared to fly. Any recovered case must go through this process in order to have an opportunity to travel here for the Australian Open . No one can travel without either proof of a negative test or this special clearance from authorities confirming they are not infectious.'
"Upon arrival all players are immediately placed in a secure quarantine environment for 14 days under the authority of COVID Quarantine Victoria, and will undergo a more rigorous testing schedule than most returning travellers."
Lisa Neville, who is the Australian Minister for Police and Emergency Services, confirmed that Sandgren has been declared as somebody who is 'viral shedding from a previous virus' according to health experts. Neville also stated that anybody who test positive for COVID-19 the first time or are 'infectious' would not be allowed to play in the Grand Slam.
It is estimated that around 1200 players and their teams will be landing in Australia within the next few days to begin their quarantine. Under protocols set out by the local government and Tennis Australia, they will all be subject to daily COVID-19 tests and allowed to train upto five hours a day. Most of the players will be staying at hotels in Melbourne however, the top three players on both the ATP and WTA Tour's will be staying in Adelaide.
The Australian Open will start on February 8th.
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John Tchicai/Irene Schweizer Group: Willi the Pig
By DEREK TAYLOR
Another rarity excised from the attic of time this recording was taped at the first Willisau Jazz Festival, an event that has since provided a forum for some of the finest groups in improvised music. Released initially in a run of 500 copies it quickly went out of print and has since never been reissued. At Schweizer's behest John Corbett opted to include it in his Unheard Music Series and the results of that fateful and far-reaching day are finally in circulation once again.
Of the players on the roster for this date John Tchicai is probably the most widely recognized having taken part in John Coltrane's Ascension, been an integral member of the New York Contemporary Five, and contributed to numerous 'New Thing' sessions in the 1960s and into the 1970s as well as continuing to record today. Schweizer has had a similarly stellar career in Europe collaborating with the likes of Evan Parker, Joelle Leandre and a multitude of others. The rhythm section is somewhat obscure- Niebergall having recorded most famously on Peter Brötzmann's Machine Gun, and Ntshoko's other work being largely unknown.
One long piece penned by Tchicai and Schweizer, "Willi the Pig" is cleft in two by the original limitations of its LP release. Unfortunately the fades at the close of 'Part 1' and the onset of 'Part 2' remain intact as original albums were the only source available for the reissue; the master tapes having been lost in the intervening years. The composition begins with a protracted and melancholy theme statement before the Niebergall and Ntshoko drop out leaving the tandem leaders to quiet conversation that eventually builds in intensity and density. While countless moments of brilliant and inspired invention crop up, the sheer magnitude of the piece makes it somewhat difficult for the players to sustain momentum. I found myself straying from the sounds being divined on several occasions, and even the most attentive ears are likely to lapse a little at points during the lengthy repartee. Highlights include Tchicai's wonderful solo stretches during middle and closing sections of 'Part 1' where he bleeds an absorbing streams of flowing liquid melody from his alto, and Schweizer's dark interlude that dominates the first half of 'Part 2.' Whether the quartet had other opportunities to record is unclear, but what is a certainty is that their work here is well deserving of the careful and reverential treatment afforded by the folks at Unheard.
Track Listing: Part 1; Part 2.
Personnel: John Tchicai: alto and soprano saxes, piano; Irene Schweizer: piano; Buschi Niebergall: bass; Makaya Ntshoko: drums.
Title: Willi The Pig | Year Released: 2000 | Record Label: Atavistic Worldwide
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Spurs youngster Charlie Daniels has been loaned to Leyton Orient for their League One campaign.
The promising youngster, who can play at left back or in midfield, is highly regarded at White Hart Lane and has been sent to Brisbane Road to gain valuable experience.
Orient boss Martin Ling is delighted with his temporary capture and said: "Charlie is a player I've watched a lot in the past year for Tottenham's reserves and he will be a good acquisition for us.
"He is very capable in two positions and Spurs value him as one for the future - in fact, he has just signed a new two-year contract with Spurs and he went on their recent tour to South Africa.
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Lord Nelson: Hero and…Cad!
A cache of recently discovered letters darkens the British naval warrior's honor and enhances that of his long-suffering wife, Frances
By Michael Ryan
"I can only say that no woman can feel the least attention from a husband more than I do," Frances Nelson wrote to a friend in 1801. By then, her celebrated husband—England's greatest naval hero—was openly cohabiting with another woman, and a married one at that. Most everyone in English high society seemed to know about the affair that Horatio Nelson, Vice Admiral of the British Fleet, was carrying on with Emma, Lady Hamilton, a striking beauty—and the wife of one of his closest friends, Sir William Hamilton.
Frances Nelson had little choice but to live with her pain. Perhaps no man in all of Britain was as scandal-proof as the one who had all but annihilated Napoleon's navy at the Battle of the Nile in 1798. As for the notorious Emma Hamilton, "she would have been all over what we now call the tabloids," says Nelson biographer Tom Pocock. "It was a tasty story."
More tragedy than farce, this Georgian soap opera would not end well: the admiral would leave two women's lives devastated as certainly as he devastated the French fleet; one would die wealthy but heartbroken, the other would know depression and disgrace. And the man who served Nelson as both friend and facilitator of his affairs, Alexander Davison, would spend two terms behind bars.
Many historians have accepted the view that Frances, Lady Nelson, was the cause of all this anguish. "If you read most of the Nelson biographies," says Colin White, author of The Nelson Encyclopedia, "Frances Nelson almost without exception was demonized for the breakdown of the marriage. She was said to be incompatible with him, cold, whining." Now that view is changing, thanks to the discovery two years ago of some 70 letters from Fanny, as she has come to be known, Emma, and Nelson to Nelson's friend, Davison.
Written between December 18, 1798, and January 20, 1806, the letters, and some other Nelson artifacts, were sold at Sotheby's in London on October 21 (Trafalgar Day), 2002, for more than $3 million to the BritishNationalMaritimeMuseum in Greenwich and assorted individual collectors. "This amazing archive shows us how wrong people have been," says Pocock, who calls it the most significant discovery of Nelson-related items "for more than a hundred years."
Only Wellington and Churchill rival Nelson's stature in British history. If Wellington, at Waterloo, forever thwarted Napoleon's ambition to rule Europe, it was Nelson who destroyed the French emperor's sea power and ended his plan to conquer England. Few military figures of the modern age—perhaps George Patton is one—have been simultaneously as reckless and brilliant. When Napoleon attempted to conquer North Africa, with the ultimate intent of extending his empire all the way to India, Nelson pulled off one of the most celebrated victories in naval history (one in which the fictional Capt. Jack Aubrey, played by Russell Crowe in Master and Commander, participated).
The Battle of the Nile began when Nelson's scouts discovered the French fleet—commanded by Napoleon's chief admiral, François-Paul Brueys d'Aigailliers—anchored at Aboukir, near Alexandria, Egypt, in 1798. Nelson slipped his warships between the enemy and shore, safe from Napoleon's cannons, which faced the open sea. "In the rapidly falling darkness, confusion seized their fleet," Churchill wrote in his History of the English Speaking Peoples. "Relentlessly the English ships. . . . battered the enemy van, passing from one disabled foe to the next down the line. At ten o'clock, Brueys' flagship, the Orient, blew up. The five ships ahead of her had already surrendered; the rest, their cables cut by shot, or frantically attempting to avoid the inferno of the burning Orient, drifted helplessly." Later, Nelson would gloat to his crew: "It must strike forcibly every British Seaman, how superior their conduct is, when in discipline and good order, to the riotous behaviour of lawless Frenchmen."
While the Battle of the Nile made Nelson a national hero, it was on an October morning seven years later that he became a near divinity in English lore. That day in 1805, Nelson attacked the combined French and Spanish fleets off Cape Trafalgar, between Gibraltar and Cádiz, Spain; in a totally unorthodox maneuver, he split his ships into two parallel lines and sailed them straight at the enemy, cutting it in half. By late afternoon, Napoleon's navy had been vanquished, though Nelson, struck by a musket ball, would himself expire just hours after the battle began. Every English schoolchild since has learned the story of Nelson's collapse on his vessel's bloodstained quarterdeck and his dying request to Lt. Thomas Hardy: "Take care of my dear Lady Hamilton, Hardy; take care of poor Lady Hamilton."
The two women in Nelson's life could hardly have been more different. Frances came from a wealthy family living on the Caribbean island of Nevis, where it owned sugar plantations. Her handwriting in the letters reflects her upbringing: steady, straight, legible and neat. In 1785, when Fanny's father introduced her to 26-year-old Nelson, she was a 24-year-old widow with a 5-year-old son. (Her husband had died, probably from a tropical disease, in 1781.)
Emma Lyon, on the other hand, was a woman of volatile temperament; her handwriting wanders in crooked lines, her letters large and often all but unreadable. Born in Cheshire in 1765, she became a maid in London at about age 12; before long, she had become the mistress of Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh and bore him a daughter. When he jilted her, she took up with his friend, Charles Greville, who introduced her to the painters Sir Joshua Reynolds and George Romney, both of whom did portraits of her. (One of Romney's hangs in the Frick Collection in New York.) Unlike Fanny, who is remote and expressionless in her portraits, Emma appears both fetching and flirtatious. In one of Romney's renderings, she has a beguiling smile, upswept hair and a rose dress with a swooping low bodice. In 1782, Greville's aging uncle, Sir William Hamilton, the British ambassador to the court of Naples, was widowed. In exchange for Hamilton's help paying his debts, Greville sent Emma to Naples to become Hamilton's mistress. She eventually married him, acquiring in the bargain a title, a mansion and a considerable fortune.
Fanny's, Emma's and Nelson's letters might never have come to light had descendants of Nelson's confidant not decided to sell a diamond brooch that had been in the family for almost two centuries. "The brooch is the key to everything," says Martyn Downer, head of jewelry at Sotheby's London office at the time of the sale and author of Nelson's Purse, a forthcoming book about Nelson's friendship with Davison (Smithsonian Books). "It was brought to one of our offices outside England." It is quite likely, though no one can prove it, that Nelson gave the brooch, shaped like an anchor and adorned with the initials "H" and "N" (for Horatio Nelson), to Emma and that she in turn sold it to Davison when she was strapped for cash.
Downer says the Davison heirs, who wish to remain anonymous, told him they inherited the brooch "from their ancestor, Alexander Davison. I kept asking them about Davison, and they finally said, 'Why don't you come to our house? We've got a few papers.' " When Downer walked into the house and saw two 18th-century deed boxes, one bearing the name Davison, "it was," he says with British understatement, "a wonderful moment."
The artifacts include swords, pistols and a blood-soaked purse, which Nelson is believed to have carried when he was killed by a French sniper at Trafalgar, as well as elaborate porcelain pieces, decorated with Nelson's coats of arms (he changed them as he rose in rank) and depictions of his ships. Some were purchased by Nelson for Emma, others bestowed on him by Davison and other admirers. There are gold medals and coins—some struck by Davison, apparently to curry favor with Nelson and his men. And there is a sword, known as Nelson's Scimitar, probably given to Nelson by the ruler of Constantinople.
But the letters from Fanny are the real treasures. "You know we have had so little communication, for some Months that My Lord, has most likely never received my letter," she writes plaintively to Davison in 1799. "I have not had a line from him for Ages," she writes later that year. "I am sure he writes, who can be so wicked as to take my letters. . . . " Although Davison's replies have all been lost, it would appear from Fanny's missives that he did his best to let her down gently, bucking up her spirits without sharing information he was getting from Emma Hamilton in her correspondence with him.
Davison "was a very complicated and intriguing man," says Downer. "When he was 23 he went to Quebec with his brother George and established a business; he made a fortune through the fur trade, the shipping trade, and victualing the British Army in North America. And there's some suggestion, not proved, that he was involved in the slave trade."
Nelson, 24 in 1782, was skipper of the HMS Albemarle, quartered in Quebec City in what the British called the War of American Independence, when he struck up a friendship with Davison. The bond was cemented after Davison talked Nelson out of marrying 22-year-old Mary Simpson, an innkeeper's daughter. Davison convinced the relatively impoverished Nelson to hold out for a rich wife. Nelson had grown up the son of a country parson, the 6th of 11 children, in a little village in Norfolk called Burnham.
Nelson was commanding the frigate Boreas, interdicting trade between the British Caribbean colonies and the United States, when he met Frances Nisbet. "She was accustomed to the grand life, which of course he wasn't," says biographer Pocock. They married in 1787. He was 29; she 26. (Her son, Josiah, then 7, would himself become a Royal Navy captain. She and Nelson would not have children together.) From 1787 to 1793, when Britain was at peace and Nelson and other officers were forced to cool their heels at half pay, he and Fanny lived together in Norfolk, England. But when war with revolutionary France broke out in 1793, the navy called him back to active duty, and he took command of the Agamemnon.
In 1794, Nelson lost most of the sight from his right eye in action during an engagement near Corsica. In 1797, he played a significant role in defeating the French fleet at Cape Saint Vincent, for which he was knighted. The same year, Nelson lost his right arm in an attack on Santa Cruz in Tenerife and returned to England, where Fanny nursed him back to health. A year later, he was sufficiently recovered to defeat Napoleon's fleet at the historic Battle of the Nile.
In that engagement, a wound to the head forced him to recuperate in Naples, where he would visit Sir William Hamilton and his wife, Emma, Lady Hamilton. In late 1798, he began his affair with Emma, under the nose of her doddering husband, who apparently chose to overlook the matter. In time, Emma would take a dim view of Nelson's wife. "What a sad thing it is to think such a man as him should be entrapped with such an infamous woman as that apothecary's widow," she wrote to Davison in a letter dated July 15, 1804.
By this time, Davison, 54, had begun to play a pivotal role in Nelson's economic and private affairs. The vice admiral hired him to handle his claims and those of his subordinates before navy tribunals that parceled out spoils from the Battle of the Nile. (In the British Navy of the time, seamen split the proceeds of the sale of enemy ships and cargoes they captured; official panels determined how much each man, from the highest admiral to the lowliest seaman, would get.)
Davison also helped Nelson juggle the demands of the two women in his life. "From December 1798 to late 1800, Frances writes to her trusted 'friend' a series which it is now impossible to read without a sense of dramatic irony," Downer notes in the Sotheby's catalog of the Davison family collection. In the early letters, about the time Nelson and Emma were beginning their affair, Frances expresses joy that her husband will soon be with her. "All the Boys letters from the Vanguard confirm my dear Lord's intension of coming home," she writes to Davison in the fall of 1798. She adds: "All hands expect my Husband home very soon."
But by the spring of 1799 Nelson has still not returned from Italy, and Fanny complains about nervous illnesses, telling Davison that she "had upwards of eight oz. of blood taken" and adding, "I have had spasms, which has again shook me very much." Still, she seems unaware of any romance between her husband and Emma, and offers to come to Naples to help nurse Nelson back to health. He rebuffs her. "I fixed as I thought a proper allowance to enable you to remain quiet, and not be posting from one end of the Kingdom to the other," he writes in early 1801.
"It's quite clear that she doesn't understand what's happening," says Nelson Encyclopedia author White. "She's bewildered and upset and hurt, and she's blaming herself in classic abandoned wife fashion." Even so, she remains generous toward her husband. "There's one very poignant letter where she tells Davison that she actually destroyed some letters that Nelson had sent her; she didn't want to affect his reputation for posterity. That's not the act of a bitter and estranged woman; that's an act of love."
Apparently unaware of her husband's betrayal, Fanny even entered into a correspondence with Emma. "Lady Hamilton's second letter, I have received it," Fanny writes to Davison in March 1799. "It mentions my Husband's recovery. . . indeed he required Agreat deal of good Nursing and Asses Milk. Sir W. and Lady Hamilton's kindness, attention and real friendship, has been great indeed just such as yours."
But by November 1800, Fanny, in a letter to Davison, appears to realize that Lady Hamilton has become more to her husband than a solicitous friend: "[British Admiral] Lord Hood always expresst his fears that Sir W. & Lady Hamilton would use their influence, to keep Lord Nelson with them: they have succeeded." Finally, that same month, Nelson returned to England. Almost everyone knew that he and Emma were having an affair, and polite society was scandalized. Nelson did spend a few days with Fanny but was soon spending most of his time with the Hamiltons, also returned to London, at their Piccadilly town house, or at Davison's mansion on St. James' Square.
Emma and Fanny would meet on at least two occasions that winter, at a dinner and at the theater. At the second meeting, Lady Nelson helped an ill Emma out of the theater. "The horrible truth that Emma was in the final stages of pregnancy with Nelson's child probably dawned on Fanny on that occasion," says Pieter van der Merwe of the National Maritime Museum. Emma gave birth to Nelson's daughter, Horatia, in either the last days of January 1801 or the first days of February. In mid-January 1801, Nelson returned to his ship San Josef, which had been ordered to the Baltic. In February, Fanny wrote to Davison: "My Mind has not recovered its natural calmness, nor do I think it ever will. I am now distrustful and fearful of my own shadow." But in March 1801, Fanny put on a brave front, hoping that next time Nelson came home he would live with her. She wrote to Davison that "I will receive him with joy."
On April 2, 1801, while attacking the Danes at Copenhagen to try to break up an alliance between Napoleon and the Scandinavian countries, Nelson resorted to another unorthodox action. After the British and Danish fleets had exchanged heavy fire for three hours, the commander of the British ships, Adm. Sir Hyde Parker, raised signal flag number 39, an order to "discontinue the engagement." Nelson reminded his officers that he had only one good eye and then said, "I have a right to be blind sometimes. I really do not see the signal." He continued the attack and defeated the Danes. Sir Hyde Parker went home in disgrace.
After his return to England in June 1801, Nelson chose not to see Fanny. By December 1801, his attitude toward her had deteriorated to something approaching caddish incivility. Nelson sent a letter from his wife to Davison, who returned it to Fanny with the terse note: "Opened by mistake by Lord Nelson but not read."
In August 1805, two months before the Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson spent a few weeks with Emma at Merton, an estate southeast of London that he had bought with the help of a loan from Davison. (Sir William had died in April 1803.) Referring to the Merton idyll, Emma wrote to Davison of "one fortnight of joy and happiness I have had for years of pain. My Beloved Nelson is so delighted with Merton & now he is here—tis a paradize."
After Nelson's death in October, Emma began a slow, painful slide into penury. Her husband had left her 800 pounds a year in his will—not enough to maintain Merton and pay for its elaborate grounds. (For his part, Nelson left her Merton and 500 pounds a year.) Nelson also had asked the government to provide for Emma; the story goes that the Prince of Wales was inclined to grant the request until he stumbled across some papers in which Nelson had ridiculed him. Emma never received a penny from the Crown.
Spendthrift Emma soon had to borrow money from Davison. Apparently she also sold him many of the artifacts that would end up in his possession. Her letters reflect her decline: "The loss of Nelson under this Dreadful weight of Most wretched Misery that I suffer I fell & Hope that I shall be not Long after Him—nothing gives me a gleam of Comfort but the Hope that I shall soon follow," she wrote in November 1805 to Davison. Eight years later she was sentenced to debtor's prison at King's Bench, in London; upon her release a year later in 1814, she fled to Calais with 13-year-old Horatia, putting herself beyond the reach of English law. She died the following year, probably at age 49; her exact birthdate is not known. Today, a monument to her, built in 1994 with the help of an American donor, stands in the Parc Richelieu in Calais. Horatia Nelson married a country curate and lived a quiet life until her death in 1881.
Over the years Davison benefited from his relationship with Nelson and amassed a good fortune. In addition to the mansion on Saint James' Square, he had bought an estate in Northumberland called Swarland. But his ambition got the best of him. In 1802, he tried to bribe voters in an attempt to win a seat in Parliament. In 1804, at the age of 54, he was sentenced to a year in prison for the crime. And in 1808, he was convicted of fraud, in connection with his role as a purveyor of supplies to the British Army, and served another term. Although he lived until 1829, he never recovered his social standing after his release from prison in 1809.
Fanny's loyalty and patience paid off. Faithful to her husband's memory to the end, she received a generous pension from the Crown and was accepted in polite society until her last days. She died at age 70 in 1831, having never remarried. "This was a woman who was continuously and desperately in love with her husband," says Colin White.
For all his indiscretions and downright cruelties, Nelson's place in history remains secure. His tactics are still taught in naval war colleges, and the moment of his death has been immortalized by English painters for generations. By one estimate, more than 2,000 books have been written about his life and half a dozen films have captured his exploits. Nelson's Column holds pride of place in London's huge Trafalgar Square. His flagship Victory is on display at the Portsmouth Naval Base, no less revered than Old Ironsides in Boston.
What made the hero such a scoundrel? "Fanny was devoted to her husband and extremely solicitous of his health and welfare, but ultimately not in the way he craved," says Pieter van der Merwe. "My theory is that Nelson remained in many respects a small boy from a large family who lost his mother very young and spent his life searching for a source of uncritical love. He was almost entirely disappointed in finding it in Fanny, but found it writ larger than life in Emma."
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If you happen to be driving in the DC area and see someone driving like they're on a NASCAR race track instead of a freeway, be warned -- that person may be a member of the United States Government, and they may not get into any trouble for it.
Certainly, Washington DC metropolitan area councilwoman and Democrat Karen Toles didn't, despite having been pulled over for going 105 miles per hour -- a speed which is at least 30 miles per hour in excess of most posted speed limits in the United States, and was 50 miles per hour in excess of the posted one in Prince George's County - a suburb of the DC metropolitan area.
According to Fox Nation, the officer who stopped Toles gave her a ticket for an unsafe lane change, but let her off with a warning about excessive speed when she told him she was a councilwoman. The officer reported having to drive 105 MPH to keep up with Toles' car -- a number that his in-car camera confirmed.
The incident has sparked sufficient outrage that a review panel has been selected to look into all aspects of this traffic stop. Toles issued a statement apologizing, but has been mysteriously inaccessible to news media. This video report from Fox explains the situation:
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TOLES: As you know, public safety is very critical to me in this community.
THOMAS [FOX5 Anchor]: We tried to speak with Toles as she was leaving.
FOX5: You issued a statement last night, why can't you just say it on camera?
THOMAS: It appears she received treatment typically afforded movie stars; security officers surrounded her, and shielded Toles from reporters and cameras, even going so far as to speak for the councilwoman.
SECURITY: She's not seeing with anyone today.
Reportedly, this is not the first time Toles has faced police action for unsafe driving:
No stranger to speeding violations, Karen Toles was cited for an unsafe lane change in March 2010, and driving off a roadway while passing other vehicles in September 2010.
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Gold Standard Announces US$13.4 Million 2016 Exploration Program for Railroad-Pinion Project, Carlin Trend Nevada | Gold Standard Ventures Corp.
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired - Feb. 23, 2016) - Gold Standard Ventures Corp. (TSX VENTURE:GSV)(NYSE MKT:GSV) ("Gold Standard" or the "Company) today announced plans for the 2016 exploration program on its 100%-owned/controlled Railroad-Pinion Project on Nevada's Carlin Trend. The program is expected to cost $13.4 million USD and will include approximately 43,000 m of reverse-circulation (RC) and core drilling in a total of 100 holes with the majority of the drilling focused at the Dark Star and Pinion oxide gold deposits.
The program is designed to aggressively follow-up on 2015 drill results at the North Dark Star oxide gold discovery, expand known resources at Dark Star and Pinion, and test new high-value targets at North Bullion and Bald Mountain.
At the North Dark Star discovery, located north of the Dark Star maiden resource, complete about 10,300 m of RC and core drilling in 22 holes to expand areas of known shallow oxide gold mineralization north and south of DS15-13. Gold mineralization is hosted in favorable carbonate rocks-bioclastic limestone, silty limestone and calcareous sandstone within a coarse conglomerate debris flow unit. This Pennsylvanian-Permian unit also hosts the main Dark Star deposit to the south, and represents a new, unconventional host rock on the Carlin Trend.
Within the 6 km-long Dark Star Structural Corridor, complete about 10,100 m of RC drilling in 22 holes to test new targets south of the Dark Star maiden resource. The Dark Star Structural Corridor is a north-trending horst defined by gravity, CSAMT, geologic mapping, and soil sampling. The corridor is largely untested by drilling.
As background, the maiden Dark Star NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate was completed last year by APEX Geoscience Ltd. of Edmonton, Canada and included an Inferred Mineral Resource of 23.11 million tonnes grading 0.51 grams per tonne (g/t) gold (Au), totaling 375,000 ounces of gold using a cut-off of 0.14 g Au/t (see March 3, 2015 news release). This oxide resource is open in multiple directions. The North Dark Star discovery was made in late 2015. Three holes (DS15-10, -11 and -13) completed 515m north of the maiden resource returned multiple, significant oxidized intercepts containing gold values above the cut-off grade of 0.14 g Au/t. Core hole DS15-13 intersected 15.4 meters of 1.85 grams gold per tonne (g Au/t) and 97.0 meters of 1.61 g Au/t (see January 21, 2016 news release). North Dark Star remains open in multiple directions.
At the new Sentinel Breccia target, 12 RC holes (about 3,700 m) will test for bedrock extensions to gold mineralization identified by surface rock samples. This undrilled target is a hematitic, silicified multi-lithic breccia within the footwall of the north-striking Bullion Fault Zone, located 350m north of Pinion. At a 0.14 g Au/t cutoff, continuous rock chip channel samples returned seven significant weight-averaged, composite intervals that included 27.4m of 0.35 g Au/t and 12.2m of 0.46 g Au/t (see news release dated January 25, 2016).
At the new Irene target, 2.4 km northwest of the Pinion resource, complete approximately 1,800 m of RC drilling. Irene is located along the projection of the South Fault Corridor, an important control on gold mineralization at Pinion. At this location, north and northwest-trending gold-in-soil (values ranging from <1 to 325 ppb) and arsenic-in-soil (values ranging from 10 to 2670 ppm) anomalies are coincident with silicified, quartz-and-barite-veined breccias in the Chainman Formation above the favorable breccia host horizon at the top of Devil's Gate Limestone (see March 25, 2015 news release).
On the northern flank of the Bullion Stock target, drill up to eight RC holes (about 3,600 m) to test new oxide gold targets developed within a 4 km-long west-northwest-striking dike-filled corridor. In 2013, core hole RRB13-01 intersected 56.1m of 1.47 g Au/t including 7.3m of 5.66 g Au/t in oxidized, multi-lithic collapse breccia (mlbx) developed along the contact between the Tripon Pass Formation and the underlying Devils Gate Limestone (see news release dated October 2, 2013). The Bald Mountain mineralization occurs in the same stratigraphic position as mlbx hosted gold at Pinion and North Bullion.
Gold Standard will also initiate permitting, metallurgical and economic studies to move Pinion and Dark Star toward development.
All sampling was conducted under the supervision of the Company's project geologists and the chain of custody from the project to the sample preparation facility was continuously monitored. A blank or certified reference material was inserted approximately every tenth sample. Dark Star samples were delivered to Bureau Veritas Mineral Laboratories preparation facility in Elko, NV. The samples are crushed, pulverized and sample pulps are shipped to Bureau Veritas certified laboratory in Sparks, NV or Vancouver, BC. Pulps are digested and analyzed for gold using fire assay fusion and an atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) finish on a 30 gram split. Pinion, North Bullion and Bald Mountain samples were delivered to ALS Minerals preparation facility in Elko, NV. The samples are crushed, pulverized and sample pulps are shipped to ALS Minerals certified laboratory in Vancouver. Pulps are digested and analyzed for gold using fire assay fusion and an atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) finish on a 30 gram split. All other elements are determined by ICP analysis. Data verification of the analytical results includes a statistical analysis of the standards and blanks that must pass certain parameters for acceptance to insure accurate and verifiable results.
ABOUT GOLD STANDARD VENTURES - Gold Standard is an advanced stage gold exploration company focused on district scale discoveries on its Railroad-Pinion Gold Project, located within the prolific Carlin Trend. The 2014 Pinion and Dark Star gold deposit acquisitions offer Gold Standard a potential near-term development option and further consolidates the Company's premier land package on the Carlin Trend. The Pinion deposit now has an NI43-101 compliant resource estimate consisting of an Indicated Mineral Resource of 20.84 million tonnes grading 0.63 grams per tonne (g/t) gold (Au), totaling 423,000 ounces of gold and an Inferred Resource of 55.93 million tonnes grading 0.57 g/t Au, totaling 1,022,000 ounces of gold, using a cut-off grade of 0.14 g/t Au (announced September 10, 2014). The Dark Star deposit, 2.1 km to the east of Pinion, has a NI43-101 compliant resource estimate consisting of an Inferred Resource of 23.11 million tonnes grading 0.51 g/t Au, totaling 375,000 ounces of gold, using a cut-off grade of 0.14 g/t Au (announced March 3, 2015). The 2014 and 2015 definition and expansion of these two shallow, oxide deposits demonstrates their growth potential.
This news release contains forward-looking statements, which relate to future events or future performance and reflect management's current expectations and assumptions. Such forward-looking statements reflect management's current beliefs and are based on assumptions made by and information currently available to the Company. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein including, without limitation, statements about our proposed exploration programs are forward looking statements. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements, or other future events, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Risk factors affecting the Company include, among others: the results from our exploration programs, global financial conditions and volatility of capital markets, uncertainty regarding the availability of additional capital, fluctuations in commodity prices; title matters; and the additional risks identified in our filings with Canadian securities regulators on SEDAR in Canada (available at www.sedar.com) and with the SEC on EDGAR (available at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml). These forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof and, except as required under applicable securities legislation, the Company does not assume any obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances.


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Q: Generating random numbers from normal distribution via inverse uniform distribution I would like to create a random number generator for the normal distribution via using a uniform linear congruential generator (on uniform distribution) and the inversion method.
However, I'm getting stuck at the final state. Please correct my understanding at any point!
Say i have an LCG, which generates numbers from 0 - 1. It follows a uniform distribution of (0,1).
Now, I want my subsequent normal distribution (X) to follow the same range, so it's standard normal, hence i normalize the area

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Using taylor series as this cannot be integrated, I get

However, now I'm stuck. even if i integrate this, I cannot invert this to y = f(x) due to the powers of y. Am I even going about this right?
Any help will be much appreciated! thank you!

A: To sample from any distribution using uniform distribution you can use inverse transform method, so there is no need in re-inventing the wheel. For this you simply need to use inverse cumulative distribution function (also known as quantile function) of normal distribution
$$ F^{-1}(p) = \mu+\sigma\sqrt{2}\,\operatorname{erf}^{-1}(2p-1) $$
where $\operatorname{erf}$ is error function, and then take uniformly distributed random variable $U \sim \mathrm{Unif}(0, 1)$ and pass it through the quantile function
$$ X = F^{-1}(U) $$
resulting variable $X$ will follow normal distribution.
Most statistical software would provide you with quantile function for normal distribution already implemented (e.g. qnorm in R), but if you need to implement it by hand, you can check the following paper that describes algorithm that is used in R:

Wichura, M. J. (1988) Algorithm AS 241: The percentage points of the
  normal distribution. Applied Statistics, 37, 477–484.

or simply take a look at source code of R's qnorm.

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This past December we learned about BAGGU bags.
BAGGU bags are sustainable and designed to minimize material waste. They are assembled from one continuous piece of material, with the cut out portion used for its carrying pouch. The dye they select for their bags is fully absorbed by the material, which minimizes run off. Nylon is both a long-lasting and infinitely recyclable material, which helps reduce waste as well.
We created a run of 2000 BAGGU bags for Parsons The New School for Design, Office of Admission. The design is based on the foundational design principle of gradation. The lock-up consists of 9 logos, fully opaque at 100% Parsons.
To complement the bags we also came up with a series of folders.
Project completed and delivered in the past few weeks.


THUMPER: It was raining and thundering. It didn't look good for the young prince. There were thousands of dogs, but Bambi wasn't a bit scared. They came closer... and closer. There was nowhere to go. Then a dog that was tall as a tree roared from the shadows, but Bambi was too fast. He jumped up... THUMPER's SISTER: High in the air. THUMPER: And then came crashing... THUMPER's SISTER: Crashing down. Right on the big dog's head. THUMPER: Quiet. I'm telling it. But the best part was... THUMPER's SISTER: The best part was when Thumper helped Flower make his bravest brave face. ALL FOUR: And scared all the dogs away. Oops. THUMPER: Uh-huh. That's how it went. ALL FOUR: Hooray for Thumper! THUMPER's SISTER: Look who's here. THUMPER's SISTER: Oh, the young prince. ALL FOUR: Hooray! THUMPER: You know, they're OK for sisters. Just too bad they're girls. FALINE: Hey. THUMPER: Oops. What do you know, Bambi! BAMBI: Ooh! FRIEND OWL: Well, looks like those antlers are finally coming in. BAMBI: Really? I hadn't noticed. FALINE: Thumper's been telling us quite a story. FRIEND OWL: Yes, yes. The one with the thousands of dogs. BAMBI: Thousands? THUMPER: What can I say? I'm a born storyteller. FALINE: I'll bet it seemed like a thousand dogs. BAMBI: Oh!
FALINE: Ooh! FRIEND OWL: Twitterpated. FLOWER: What's twitterpated? FRIEND OWL: Well, it's... I'll tell you when you're older.


Today at Lawford Mead, we have dressed in our Pyjamas for Children in Need. The children all came in looking extremely snug and comfortable in their PJS! Here is a snapshot of some of us in our Pyjamas!
I want to say a huge thank you to all of the children who made an effort to come in to school in their Pyjamas & to those of you who kindly donated 50p to the charity. It will go towards making a difference to those less fortunate than ourselves.
Year Four's- what was your favourite part of today?
Year 4's fantastic Stone Age work!
We are so proud of all the Year 4s and their outstanding Stone Age work! The effort from all children has been superb!
Firstly in class we have been re-creating Stone Age cave paintings using chalk on gray paper. We worked hard to draw scenes representing animals being hunted by Stone Age people. They look amazing!
We have also been overwhelmed with the homework projects from both classes. It is clear that lots of effort has been taken to produce some exceptional pieces of work! A big thank you to all of you who brought in a project, and to those that helped at home!
Tomorrow marks Remembrance Day. For this, in Cedar class, we have used a poppy template and created Origami flowers and our poppies have powerful vocabulary that is linked to WW1 & WW2. We have done this to remember those soldiers who freed us and allowed us to survive today. That is why we remember them, because they are our heroes.
They gave their today, for our tomorrow.
What a busy week back!
This week has been a very exciting week! On Monday and Tuesday years 1-6 contributed towards making a 3D art display on the theme 'British Wildlife', which can be found opposite the new school library. The children worked exceptionally hard and their artistic flair beamed through.
Then, on Wednesday we had a science day! We began by exploring the question- 'What is science' which really questioned the children as to where we can see or find science. Later on we went on to explore our new science topic of- Solids, Liquids and Gases! We went around the school on a hunt to find what solids, liquids and gases we could find. We then made observational notes as to what happened to a frozen liquid. We then used these notes to write a detailed summary as to what we found out.
Can you name any gases? 1 dojo point for those who can remember the tricky names!
Does your sentence have SWAG?
In Cedar class, we have been working very hard to improve our writing. We now aim use SWAG within our writing everyday as one of our targets for improving the standard of our work. This is what SWAG stands for.
If SWAG is being used in our sentences, the mysterious SWAG glasses are revealed and excitingly the person who has managed to use SWAG in their work will get to wear the glasses.
Here is a child who managed to use SWAG in their work.
Cedar class, can you tell me when we should use SWAG in our work?
We had lots of fun in Chestnut class for Science Day!
We started our new topic 'States of Matter' by sorting different materials into solids, liquids and gases.
We also investigated how long it takes for an ice cube to melt and turn from a solid into a liquid. We made very careful observations using scientific language and then wrote up our findings.
"I really enjoyed today as I learnt lots of new and exciting things!".
Why don't you tell me what you enjoyed about Science Day!


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You are here: Home / Colo / Edge Computing Use Cases: From AI and Telehealth to Factories and 5G
Edge Computing Use Cases: From AI and Telehealth to Factories and 5G
By Rich Miller - August 26, 2020
A wireless tower in Phoenix reflects efforts to blend antennas into the local landscape. Mobile networks are making huge investments in new infrastructure for fifth-generation networks. Analysts expect this to gather momentum in 2021 and 2022. (Photo: Rich Miller)
This portion of a new special report from Data Center Frontier takes a look at some of the most prominent and growing examples of edge computing business cases in 2020 and amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ranging from AI and telehealth to autonomous cars and 5G infrastructure.
Get the full report.
For edge computing to succeed, advances in proximity and latency must translate into business value that can justify the considerable expense of creating a massively distributed network. Who are the users driving demand for edge computing? And what are the use cases that will deliver on this new architecture?
Large enterprise users affirm their readiness to invest in edge strategies, establishing a market beyond the telcos and content players.
"Edge computing gives us that real-time agility and responsiveness at the edge," says Gartner's Bittman. "Digital business is completely disruptive to your infrastructure. We're blurring the lines between physical and digital. It creates new interactions between businesses and people and things."
The earliest use cases will be those that help networks operate more cost-effectively.
Prominent Examples of Use Cases for Edge Computing
AI can make services and devices smarter and is high on the "must-have" list for most companies, especially in the tech sector. A group of hardware startups are developing energy-efficient chips for mobile AI that will bring beefier processing power to smartphones and other edge devices. Some data will be offloaded to aggregation points or directly to the cloud. As AI becomes more powerful and distributed, new edge use cases will emerge. "In the next few years, we'll have a massive switch to the edge," says Steve Jurvetson of Future Ventures, a veteran venture capitalist and chip engineer who was an early investor in Tesla and SpaceX. "AI is potentially going to dominate all other forms of programming, and AI needs the edge. It's difficult to build an intelligent system without an edge presence."
"AI is potentially going to dominate all other forms of programming, and AI needs the edge. It's difficult to build an intelligent system without an edge presence." – Steve Jurvetson, Future Ventures
Content Delivery
The oldest edge use case is more compelling than ever, as traditional CDN use cases get super-sized to handle 4K streaming video at scale. It's not just Netflix anymore, as the emergence of Disney+, HBO Max and Peacock shifts more video onto fiber networks.
The packed arena at the League of Legends championship finals held in November in South Korea, which streamed to 99 million eSports enthusiasts.
(Source: Riot Games)
Perhaps the fastest-growing consumer use case for low-latency connectivity is video gaming and eSports, where "lag" is the enemy. The launch of Google Stadia and other streaming gaming platforms will place significant demand on the latency of existing network infrastructure.
TV and Film Production
The original "Netflix problem" was getting video to consumers. As more streaming services become content producers, they are keen to revamp the on-location film production, in which couriers are used to deliver "dailies" to studios. Netflix, for one, sees edge computing as a way to accelerate this process. It's not an accident that the first Amazon Web Services (AWS) Local Zone is in Los Angeles.
As more streaming services become content producers, they are keen to revamp the on-location film production, in which couriers are used to deliver "dailies" to studios.
5G Infrastructure
Mobile networks are making huge investments in new infrastructure for fifth-generation networks. Analysts expect this to gather momentum in 2021 and 2022.
Existing mobile networks continue to be tested by demand for new services and existing applications. "The care, feeding and monitoring of fiber networks on a backhaul scenario is not sexy, but the economics are significant," says Chris Crosby, CEO of Compass Datacenters. "You have too many 'Things' that require a lot of capacity."
As the factory floor is automated and instrumented, it is producing large volumes of data with potential business value. Having compute power on-site or nearby enables factory operators to run analytics to perform data thinning. Many industrial cities and towns currently have minimal data center infrastructure.
One of the primary pandemic-driven growth sectors is telemedicine, which quickly shifted from an option to a necessity for doctors and patients. Telemedicine services will require more local infrastructure over time as they integrate high-resolution medical imaging like CAT scans.
Attendees at a recent Gartner data center conference in Las Vegas sampling a virtual tour of an NTT/RagingWire data center.
In some ways, the pandemic has been a missed opportunity for VR due to the limited availability of the most popular headsets. Some edge advocates believe edge capacity can reduce latency in a way that can make AR and VR more accessible to a mass audience, including solving motion sickness issues. "Things like this that are just on the verge of working can now cross over," says Adrian Cockcroft, the VP of Cloud Architecture at AWS. "If you can make that (latency) loop tight enough, your brain starts accepting it as reality."
Self-driving cars will be among the most sophisticated edge devices, with massive on-board processing power and wireless connectivity to download and upload data for analytics, forensics and algorithm refinement. Autonomous cars could generate up to 5 TB of data an hour, according to estimates from the Automotive Edge Computing Consortium (AECC). "Autonomous cars are one of the poster children for edge computing," says AECC board member Vish Nandlall.
Business practices also create some challenges. The vision for a new architecture doesn't always align with historic business practices in key tenant segments.
As an example, edge peering at tower sites would be a meaningful shift in how these locations have managed data traffic. The major tenants at towers have been mobile network operators (MNOs), whose antennas provide wireless service for cell phone users. From the tower, each MNO moves data from its base station back to its wireline network, a process known as backhaul. In the mobile world, data often flows from the traffic to the core before it finds its way to its destination — a practice known as "tromboning."
See the full report for a thorough list of the significant players to take note of in the edge computing industry.
And catch up on the first article in the series here that highlighted edge computing and why it matters, while the second explored the many layers and locations of 'the edge'. Next week, this new special report series will finish up by highlighting three considerations to take into account when deploying edge computing solutions.
Download the full report, courtesy of Chatsworth Products, "Edge Computing: A New Architecture for a Hyperconnected World," that explores the possibilities of the edge data center and how edge computing is changing the colocation and data landscape of today.
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I write about the places where the Internet lives, telling the story of data centers and the people who build them. I founded Data Center Knowledge, the data center industry's leading news site. Now I'm exploring the future of cloud computing at Data Center Frontier.
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Let Me Love You Like a Woman ( für "Lass mich dich lieben wie eine Frau") ist ein Lied der US-amerikanischen Popsängerin Lana Del Rey. Das Stück erschien als erste Singleauskopplung aus ihrem siebten Studioalbum Chemtrails over the Country Club.

Entstehung und Artwork
Let Me Love You Like a Woman wurde von der Interpretin selbst, gemeinsam mit dem Koautoren Jack Antonoff geschrieben. Antonoff zeichnete sich darüber hinaus für einen Großteil der Produktion eigenverantwortlich. So war er in Eigenregie für die Instrumentation, Produktion und Programmierung verantwortlich. Für die Instrumentation spielte er unter anderem Akustikgitarre, Bass, E-Gitarre, Hammondorgel, Perkussion, Piano, Schlagzeug und Slide-Gitarre. Darüber hinaus war Antonoff gemeinsam mit Laura Sisk für die Abmischung und Tonaufnahme verantwortlich. Bei den Tonaufnahmen erhielten sie Unterstützung durch John Rooney und Jon Sher. Das Mastering erfolgte unter der Leitung von Chris Geringer, unter der Mithilfe seines Assistenten Will Quinnell. Die Aufnahmen entstanden in den Conway Studios in Los Angeles sowie in den Electric Lady Studios in New York City.

Auf dem Frontcover der Single ist lediglich – neben dem Liedtitel – ein schwarz-weiß Porträt von Del Rey zu sehen. Vom Betrachter aus gesehen befindet sie sich auf der rechten Seite, in der oberen linken Ecke befindet sich der Liedtitel, der mit zwei Rosenblüten verziert ist. Del Rey teilte das Bild erstmals einen Tag vor der Singleveröffentlichung auf ihrem Instagram-Kanal.

Veröffentlichung und Promotion
Die Erstveröffentlichung von Let Me Love You Like a Woman erfolgte als Download und Streaming am 16. Oktober 2020. Die Veröffentlichung erfolgte als Einzeltrack durch die Musiklabels Interscope Records und Polydor, der Vertrieb erfolgte durch Universal Music Publishing. Del Rey selbst kündigte Let Me Love You Like a Woman als Single via Instagram am 1. September 2020 an, jedoch zunächst ohne Veröffentlichungsdatum. Am 22. September 2020 wurde bereits ein Ausschnitt des Liedes geleaked. Das Erscheinen teilte sie letztendlich kurzfristig, einen Tag vor der Veröffentlichung, mit den Worten "Let Me Love You Like a Woman is out tomorrow in the USA" ( für "Let Me Love You Like a Woman erscheint morgen in den Vereinigten Staaten") auf ihrem Instagram-Kanal. Am 19. März 2021 erschien Let Me Love You Like a Woman als Teil von Del Reys siebten Studioalbum Chemtrails over the Country Club.

Um das Lied zu bewerben folgte ein Liveauftritt in der Tonight Show mit Jimmy Fallon. Hierbei handelte es sich um den ersten TV-Auftritt von Del Rey nach Jahren.

Inhalt
Der Liedtext zu Let Me Love You Like a Woman ist in englischer Sprache gehalten und bedeutet ins Deutsche übersetzt soviel wie "Lass mich dich lieben wie eine Frau". Die Musik und der Text wurden gemeinsam von Jack Antonoff und Lana Del Rey geschrieben beziehungsweise komponiert. Musikalisch handelt es sich hierbei um eine popmusikalische Ballade. Das Tempo beträgt 128 Schläge pro Minute. Die Tonart ist C-Dur. Inhaltlich geht es im Lied um eine "romantische Begegnung", bei der die Protagonisten sofort auf "distanzierte" und "respektvolle" Weise an eine gemeinsame Zukunft denken. Del Rey gibt dabei unter anderem zu verstehen, dass sie mit dem richtigen Partner sogar Los Angeles hinter sich lassen würde ("I come from a small town, how about you? I only mention it 'cause I'm ready to leave L.A.").

Aufgebaut ist das Lied auf zwei Strophen, einem Refrain sowie einer Bridge. Es beginnt mit der ersten Strophe, an die sich der Refrain anschließt. Der gleiche Vorgang wiederholt sich mit der zweiten Strophe. Der zweite Refrain klingt mit einem sogenannten "Post-Chorus" aus, der sich aus der wiederholenden Zeile "Take you to infinity. Let me love you like a woman (Let me hold you like a baby)" ( für "Bring dich ins Unendliche. Lass mich dich lieben wie eine Frau (Lass mich dich wie ein Baby halten).") zusammensetzt. Auf den Post-Chorus folgt die Bridge, in der Del Rey unter anderem auf Purple Rain von Prince anspielt, ehe das Lied mit dem dritten und letzten Refrain endet.

Musikvideo
Das Musikvideo zu Let Me Love You Like a Woman feierte seine Premiere am 16. Oktober 2020 auf YouTube. Zu sehen ist zum einen Del Rey, die sich selbst in schwarz-weiß in einem Auto filmte wie sie das Lied singt. Zum anderen zeigt es bunte Zusammenschnitte mit Aufnahmen von Del Rey mit ihrer Familie und Freunden, die während ihrer letztjährigen The Norman Fucking Rockwell! Tour entstanden. Zu sehen ist unter anderem auch die US-amerikanische Countrysängerin Nikki Lane. Die Gesamtlänge des Videos beträgt 3:44 Minuten. Regie führte Del Rey selbst. Bis heute zählt das Musikvideo über 2,3 Millionen Aufrufe bei YouTube (Stand: Oktober 2020).

Mitwirkende

Rezeption

Rezensionen
Emma Wiepking vom Rolling Stone beschrieb Let Me Love You Like a Woman als ruhige und klavierlastige Ballade, mit überlagerten Vocals und dem minimalistischen Einsatz von Westerngitarren, dass im Stil ihres vorangegangenen Studioalbums Norman Fucking Rockwell! daher käme.

Isabel von Glahn von 1 Live ist der Meinung, das Del Rey in dem Stück große Gefühle zeige und sich ihrem Sound treu bleibe. Sie singe von einer schicksalshaften Begegnung, bei der man zu träumen wage. Let Me Love You Like a Woman sei sehr reduziert. Das Piano würde nur ab und zu von einem sanften Beat begleitet, der fast einem Herzschlag gleiche. Im Fokus stehe Del Reys klare hallige Stimme. Obwohl sie sich zu aktuellen Weltgeschehnissen äußere und dabei von ihren besungenen Idealen abkäme, zeige der Titel das veraltete Rollenbild zwischen Mann und Frau und erinnere an Filme aus den 1950er Jahren.

Rhian Daly vom New Musical Express (NME) beschrieb das Stück als Ohnmachts-Ode für einen Neuanfang ("is a swooning ode to starting anew"). Das Stück beinhalte sanft ohnmächtige Gitarrenlicks, die sich über Klavierakkorde und raue Trommeln beugen würden ("gently swooning guitar licks bending over piano chords and brushed drums").

Charts und Chartplatzierungen

Let Me Love You Like a Woman konnte sich nicht in den offiziellen deutschen Singlecharts platzieren, erreichte jedoch in der Chartwoche vom 23. Oktober 2020 Rang elf der Single-Trend-Charts. In den deutschen Downloadcharts erreichte die Single Rang 29. Des Weiteren platzierte sich die Single mehrere Tage in den deutschen iTunes-Tagesauswertungen und erreichte mit Rang 16 seine höchste Chartnotierung am Tag seiner Veröffentlichung dem 16. Oktober 2020. In der Schweizer Hitparade erreichte die Single bei einer Chartwoche Rang 85 und in den britischen Singlecharts ebenfalls bei einer Chartwoche Rang 87.

Für Del Rey als Interpretin ist Let Me Love You Like a Woman der 26. Charterfolg im Vereinigten Königreich sowie der 19. in der Schweizer Hitparade. In ihrer Autorenfunktion ist es der 24. Charterfolg in den britischen Singlecharts sowie ihr 17. in der Schweiz. Für Antonoff ist es in seiner Funktion als Autor oder Produzent der 20. Charterfolg im Vereinigten Königreich sowie der 13. in der Schweiz.

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CCGE Syndrome, also known as Acro-cardio-facial syndrome, is a rare genetic condition. This condition results from a mutation or error in a person's DNA or genes. This can cause birth defects such as cleft lip (gap in the upper lip); genital defects in males; the absence of one or more toes or fingers; seizures as well as intellectual developmental disorders. Although there is currently no cure for CCGE, there are various resources to help treat birth defects, such as surgical correction for cleft lip. Doctors seek help from various therapists and community services to provide support and care for families affected by CCGE.