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Cyathea remotifolia Bonap.
Janssen, Thomas & Rakotondrainibe, France, 2008, A revision of the indusiate scaly tree ferns (Cyatheaceae, Cyathea subgen. Alsophila sect. Alsophila) in Madagascar, the Comoros and the Seychelles, Adansonia (3) 30 (2), pp. 221-376: 312-316
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31. Cyathea remotifolia Bonap.
( Figs 31 View FIG ; 46E View FIG ; 51C View FIG )
Notes ptéridologiques 5: 51 (1917); l. c. 9: 62 (1920). — Type: Madagascar, Toamasina, Andasibe, forêt d'Analamazaotra , 800 m, XII.1912, Perrier de la Bâthie 6121 (holo-, P! [P00404227]; iso-, P!)
. — Madagascar, Antsiranana, Montagne d'Ambre, piste menant de la station forestière des Roussettes à la Route des Mille Arbres, 12°31'38''S, 49°10'20''E, 1130 m, 5.X.2004, Janssen
et al. 2432 (epi-, P! [4 sheets: P00589640-43], here designated; isoepi-, P! [3 sheets], TAN!; one trunk surface mould at P!) GoogleMaps
Cyathea borbonica Desv. var. laevigata
auct.: Bonaparte, Notes ptéridologiques 9: 49 (1920); Christensen, Dansk Botanisk Arkiv 7: 21, pl. 4 figs 18, 19 (1932); Tardieu in Humbert, Flore de Madagascar et des Comores, IVe famille, Cyathéacées
: 14 fig. 1 (6-7).
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Madagascar. Antsiranana, Mt. d'Ambre, 12°31'S, 49°08'E, 800-1000 m, VII.1993, Andrianantoanina et al. 212 (P). — Idem, 12°30'S, 49°10'E, 800-1000 m, VII.1993, Andrianantoanina et al. 215 (P). — Toamasina, Andasibe, Ambatovy forest, 18°50'36''S, 48°19'55''E, 979 m, 16.I.2005, Antilahimena et al. 3178 (MO, P). — Antsiranana, Mt. d'Ambre, 12°31'30''S, 49°10'20''E, 1050 m, 20.X.1988, Badré et al. 2100 (P). — Baron 3187 (BM, K), 3784 (B, K), 6304 (BM). — Antsiranana, 13°47'52''S, 48°48'22''E, 1100-1300 m, 17.IV.2000, Birkinshaw et al. 715 (P). — Antananarivo, Mandraka, 18°55'30''S, 47°55'10''E, X.1948, Corrèard s.n. (P). — Tampoketsa de Tsaratanana, forêt d'Analimahandanivatsy, 16°35'30''S, 47°53'E, 1200 m, 28.VIII.1941, Cours 1621 (BR, K, MO, P). — Antananarivo, Anjozorobe, 18°23'30''S, 47°53'E, 1200 m, 21.I.1944, Cours 1768 (P); 2117 (P). — Montagne d'Ambatosoratra, 14°46'S, 48°52'E, Cours 3255 (P). — Fianarantsoa, Ambatofitorahana, 20°49'S, 47°11'E, 1000 m, 5.III.1951, Cours 4033 (P). — Dpt de Brickaville, d'Andrambolahy kely à Andranampony, 18°50'S, 49°04'E, 300 m, 21.IV.1951, Cours 4499 (P); 4502 (P). — 100 km W Tsiromandidy, vers Maofenobe, 22.VII.1974, Cremers 3289 (P). — Antananarivo, Mandraka, 18°55'30''S, 47°55'10''E, 13.VIII.1906, D'Alleizette 70 (P). — Idem, 15.VIII.1906, D'Alleizette 87 (P). — Prov. Mahajanga, NW of Ambohitsaratelo- Bebao, 18°22'S, 45°35'E, 1200 m, 13.I.1985, Dorr et al.3521 (P). — Fianarantsoa, Mansarivolo-Andrianony, 22°17'S, 46°52'E, 1300 m, 4.XI.1970, Guillaumet 3508 (P). — N des Chaînes Anosyennes, 24°25'S, 46°58'30''E, 700 m, 27.XI.1971, Guillaumet 3981 (P). — Massif de l'Andohahela, vallée de Ranohela, X.1928, Humbert 6109 (BM, P). — Toliara, Andohahela, col de Tsilotsilo, 24°50'S, 46°45'30''E, 1300 m, II.1934, Humbert 14129 (P). — Antsiranana, Tsaratanana, haute vallée du Sambirano, 13°57'S, 48°52'E, 1600 m, XII.1937, Humbert 18292 (P). — Massif du Marojejy, E d'Ambalamanasy, 14°31'30''S, 49°35'30''E, 450-800 m, 1948, Humbert et al. 22104 (K, P). — Fianarantsoa, Andrambovato, 21°31'S, 47°25'E, 800-1000 m, I.1955, Humbert 28454 (P). — Antsiranana, Montagne d'Ambre, 12°31'53''S, 49°10'16''E, 1132 m, 6.X.2004, Janssen
et al. 2443 (MO, P, TAN). — Toamasina, RNI Betampona, Rendriendry, 17°55'48''S, 49°12'E, 310-580 m, 6.XI.2004, Janssen
et al. 2535 (MO, P, TAN). — Idem, Rendriendry, piste Betakonana, 17°55'54''S, 49°12'12''E, 300-500 m, 8.XI.2004, Janssen
et al. 2561 (MO, P, TAN). — Antananarivo, Mandraka, 18°55'30''S, 47°55'10''E, 1200-1250 m, 13.XI.2004, Janssen
et al. 2582 (MO, P, TAN). — Fianarantsoa, Ivohibe, corridor forestier entre RS d'Ivohibe et PN d'Andringitra, 22°25'14''S, 46°55'38''E, 1180 m, 21.IV.2005, Janssen
et al. 2802 (MO, P, TAN). — Mahajanga, massif du Tsaratanana, entre Antetikalambazaha et Mangindrano, 14°11'24''S, 48°56'44''E, 1670-1700 m, 15.V.2005, Janssen
et al. 2960 (MO, P, TAN). — Jardin Botanique de Tananarive 2091 (P). — Antananarivo, Sarobaratra, 19°40'S, 47°33'E, 27.VIII.1937, Jardin Botanique de Tananarive 2884 (P). — Toamasina, Andasibe, Analamazaotra, 18°56'S, 48°26'E, 4.XI.1970, Keraudren-Aymonin et al. 25349 (P), 25350 (P). — Toamasina, Didy, forêt de Tsiazomborona, 18°07'S, 48°32'40''E, 20.XI.2005, Labat et al. 3575 (P). — Tsiroanomandidy, 11.II.1966, Peltier 5671 (P). — Toamasina, forêt d'Analamazaotra, 18°56'S, 48°26'E, 800 m, XII.1912, Perrier de la Bâthie 6122 p.p. (P). — Antsiranana, Montagne d'Ambre, 12°37'S, 49°09'30''E, 800 m, IX.1909, Perrier de la Bâthie 7500 (P). — Tampoketsa de Tsaratanana, entre Mahazamba et Bemarivo, 16°35'30''S, 47°53'E, 1400 m, VII.1920, Perrier de la Bâthie 13209 (P). — Mt. Takarandoha, W de Vatomandry, 19°20'S, 48°59'E, 400 m, XII.1921, Perrier de la Bâthie 14125 (BM, P). — Massif de Tsaratanana, Centre, 14°02'30''S, 48°57'30''E, XII.1992, Perrier de la Bâthie 15256 (P). — Mahajanga, Analamaitso, 16°11'30''S, 48°08'30''E, 800 m, VIII.1907, Perrier de la Bâthie 15841 (P). — Forêt d'Ambre, 12°37'S, 49°09'30''E, IX.1926, Perrier de la Bâthie 17757 (BM, P). — Fianarantsoa, corridor entre les PN de Ranomafana et d'Andringitra,WNW d'Ambatofotsy, 21°44'S, 47°24'E, 760 m, 3.XI.2000, Rabarimanarivo et al. 111 (P). — Idem, WNW d'Ikongo, 21°49'17''S, 47°24'50''E, 700 m, 19.XI.2000, Rabarimanarivo et al. 153 (P). — Antananarivo, RS d'Ambohitantely, NW d'Ankazobe, 18°10'S, 47°17'E, 1200-1650 m, 18.IV.1985, Rakotondrainibe 409 (P). — Idem, 24.VI.1983, Rakotondrainibe 457 (P, TAN). — Antsiranana, Montagne d'Ambre, Lac Texier, 12°32'S, 49°10'E, 1050 m, 24.VI.1992, Rakotondrainibe 1745 (MO, P). — Forêt d'Ambre, versant ouest, 12°32'S, 49°10'E, 1160 m, 19.VII.1992, Rakotondrainibe 1786 (MO, P). — Antsiranana, RS d'Anjanaharibe-Sud, SSW de Befingotra, 14°45'18''S, 49°30'18''E, 800 m, 19.X.1994, Rakotondrainibe et al. 2105 (K, MO, P, TAN). — Idem, 850 m, 24.X.1994, Rakotondrainibe et al. 2187 (P). — Fianarantsoa, RNI d'Andringitra, berges de la rivière Sahanivoraky, 22°13'40''S, 47°01'30''E, 800 m, 16.V.1995, Rakotondrainibe 2590 (P, TAN). — Idem, 22°15'S, 47°01'E, 20.V.1995, Rakotondrainibe 2676 (P). — Toliara, Tolanaro RNI d'Andohahela, NW du village d'Eminiminy, 24°35'S, 46°44'30''E, 840 m, 29.X.1995, Rakotondrainibe 2968 (P, TAN). — Idem, 800 m, 29.X.1995, Rakotondrainibe 2989 (MO, P, TAN). — Idem, 30.X.1995, Rakotondrainibe 3006 (P, TAN). — Idem, 820 m, 1995, Rakotondrainibe 3017 (P, TAN). — Idem, 24°33'30''S, 46°43'E, 8.XI.1995, Rakotondrainibe 3051 (P). — Idem, 24°34'S, 46°43'E, 1500 m, 20.XI.1995, Rakotondrainibe 3150 (P). — Fianarantsoa, RS d'Ivohibe, 22°28'12''S, 46°57'36''E, 850-950 m, 6.X.1997, Rakotondrainibe et al. 4003 (P), 4004 (MO, P, TAN). — Idem, 7.X.1997, Rakotondrainibe et al. 4050 (P, TAN). — Idem, 8.X.1997, Rakotondrainibe et al. 4067 (P). — Fianarantsoa, corridor entre les réserves d'Andringitra et d'Ivohibe, ESE d'Angodongodona, 22°25'36''S, 46°56'18''E, 880-950 m, 16.XI.1997, Rakotondrainibe et al. 4388 (P). — Antananarivo, RS d'Ambohitantely, 18°12'S, 47°17'E, 1400-1450 m, 6.XII.1997, Rakotondrainibe 4422 (P). — Antsiranana, forêt de Betaolana, NW d'Ambodiangezoka, 14°32'18''S, 49°26'18''E, 800-820 m, 10.X.1999, Rakotondrainibe et al. 4891 (P, TAN). — Antsiranana, massif d'Anjanaharibe-Sud, forêt d'Analabe, SW de Befingotra, 12°30'20''S, 49°31'20''E, 26.X.1999, Rakotondrainibe 5038 (P). — Idem, 27.X.1999, Rakotondrainibe 5067 (P). — Fianarantsoa, PN de Ranomafana, forêt de Vatoharanana, 21°16'S, 47°26'E, 3.X.2000, Rakotondrainibe et al. 5841 (P), 5847 (K, P). — Antsiranana, PN de Marojejy, SE de Doany, 14°25'36''S, 49°36'30''E, 800- 850 m, 14.X.2001, Rakotondrainibe et al. 6230 bis (K, P, TAN). — Vohemar, forêt de Binara, SW de Daraina, 6.XI.2001, Rakotondrainibe et al. 6524 (K, P). — Andapa, Doany, forêt d'Ankarongameloka, 14°15'29''S, 49°26'20''E, 1235 m, 10.III.2006, Rakotovao et al. 2945 (MO, P, TAN). — Fianarantsoa, Ranomafana, 21°18'S, 47°38'30''E, 17.XI.1994, Randriambololona 278 (P). — Antsiranana, RNI de Tsaratanana, E de Beangona, 14°14'40''S, 48°39'50''E, 1550 m, 29.XI.2000, Rasolohery 143 (MO, P, TAN). — Toamasina, Zahamena, Ankosy, 26.I.2001, Rasolohery 184 (P). — Antenina, 17°53'S, 49°25'E, 3.II.2002, Rasolohery 650 (P). — Fianarantsoa, Ranomafana, 21°16'S, 47°25'E, 1000 m, II.1989, Schatz 2580 (P). — Idem, 21°13'30''S, 47°27'30''E, 900 m, 10.X.1992, van der Werff et al.12661 (P). — Antananarivo, Anjozorobe, 18°23'30''S, 47°53'E, 1250 m, 6.XI.1992, van der Werff et al. 12846 (P). — Idem, 18°23'30''S, 47°53'E, 1250 m, 6.XI.1992, van der Werff et al. 12848 (P). — Toliara, RNI d'Andohahela, NW Eminiminy, 24°38'S, 40°46'E, 500-1000 m, 6-12.II.1993, van der Werff et al. 12881 (G, MO). — Mahajanga, Andribe, 16°11'S, 48°56'E, 1500 m, 21.X.1994, van der Werff et al. 13547 (MO, P).
FIELD OBSERVATIONS. — Trunk: HT up to 8 m, usually 2-4 m, DT 3.5-6(-8) cm, dead petioles caducous and the leaf scars exposed; trunk surface ferruginous or light to greyish brown, smooth; the trunk may rarely develop ramifications, most likely as a result of a previous injury.
Petiole: with 1 or 2 irregular rows of whitish to light brown aerophores, distributed over the entire abaxial surface near the petiole base; petiole base short to long, but always distinctly sigmoid.
Leaf scars: 1.5-2 × 2-5 cm, obovate to narrowly elliptic, flat or slightly raised, much spaced to rarely contiguous; with 3-7 strong, acroscopic, conical spines, that are up to 1.5 cm long, caducous in older trunks; sometimes several orifices below the scar; spirally arrranged.
Crown: not dense, more or less umbrella-shaped.
Trunk apex: young croziers densely covered with soft, caducous, brownish scales, completely concealed among the very close standing petiole bases.
Lamina: widely elliptic; LL (90-)105-160(-200) cm, WL 50-75 cm, FW 55-70 cm, NP 13-30.
Petiole: (8-)20-40(-70) cm long, 1-2 cm in diameter; green to stramineous, reddish to violaceous brown on abaxial face.
Lamina: pinnate-pinnatisect, herbaceous (not coriaceous), pale green below, shiny light to dark green above, lamina base attenuate, basal pinnae gradually reduced in size, but not reaching the petiole base, reflexed, more or less conduplicate, usually very distinctly caudate; rachis of the same colour as the petiole.
Largest pinnae: 25-40 cm long, distant by 5-9 cm, adjacent pinnae spaced by less than their width to overlapping, usually widest above the middle, their apex shortly caudate, pinnatifid; costae and costulae green.
Largest pinnules:(2.5-)3-5.5 ×(0.4-)0.5-0.8(-1)cm, spaced by less than to about their width, never contiguous, broadly adnate to the costa, more or less strongly decurrent, straight, but in their apical half sometimes falciform, their margin entire, crenulate near the apex, rarely deeply crenate-lobate, their apex acute to rounded, usually gradually more sharply pointed from proximal to distal pinnules, the first proximal pinnule pair sometimes sessile; veins once to twice furcate.
Scales and hairs: scales of the petiole base very caducous, densely imbricate and appressed to the croziers, but petioles of adult leaves more or less naked, rarely with some persistent scales near the petiole base, scales narrowly triangular, soft, 1-2 × 0.2-0.3 cm, straight, dark to light dull brown with a darker centre, but young scales with a shiny centre, margin laciniate-erose, scales quickly withering and often agglutinating before they fall, not indurated, but somewhat thickened at their base, leaving a hardly visible wart-like trace when shed; sparse to moderately dense, appressed, antrorse, brown multicellular hairs on the adaxial face of the rachis and costae; leaf otherwise glabrous.
Sori: subcostular, spaced by about to more than their width, about 0.1 cm in diameter, covering the entire pinnule or its lower half only; indusia globular when young, light brown to stramineous, membranous, caducous, i.e. at maturity only an appressed collar-like rudiment persists around the base of the receptacle; receptacle disciform to capitate, usually longer than the rim of mature indusia, with inconspicuous hyaline to reddish filiform paraphyses, sometimes with very short scaly paraphyses on its apex.
Madagascar, eastern rainforests from North (Montagne d'Ambre) to South (Andohahela); endemic.
(300-) 800-1600 m. Dense evergreen rainforests.
The closely related Madagascan species C. remotifolia
and C. emilei
differ, among other characters, from the Mascarene C. borbonica Desv.
by their pinnules being broadly adnate to the costa. Cyathea remotifolia
has a smooth trunk surface with conspicuous conical spines on the lower rim of the leaf scars and membranous, light brown to hyaline indusia that are persistent as a collar-like rudiment at the base of the receptacle, and a herbaceous (not coriaceous) lamina. Th ese characters distinguish it from C. emilei
. In their natural habitat, both species can be quickly and easily distinguished when observing the trunk surface. However, determination of herbarium specimens not annotated with trunk characters may be difficult in rare cases, because pinnule shape is variable in both species and valvately opening globular indusia exist in a minority of specimens of C. remotifolia
, although these are then lighter coloured and thinner than in C. emilei
Some specimens have deeply crenate pinnule margins (cf. Rakotondrainibe 2968, 3051, 4388). Few specimens have a light brown to hyaline, membranous indusium, which is irregularly lobed and persistent in mature leaves, not reduced to a collar at the base of the receptacle (cf. Andrianantoanina 212, 215, Guillaumet 3981, Humbert 6109, Rabarimanarivo 153, Rakotondrainibe 3150). Such plants are occasionally collected over the entire range of the species and we believe that sorus age and drying conditions are responsible for the observed variation. Very thin trunks with contiguous leaf scars are preserved in a few specimens (cf. Rakotondrainibe 1786, 6230bis). Th e petiole scales of Rakotondrainibe 3150 are up to 1.5 cm long, brown and persist on the petiole and the lower part of the rachis.
Young plants usually have leaves with decrescent basal pinnae, which are light green, reflexed and divided into acute, serrulate segments (as opposed to C. emilei
). Very young trunkless plants, e.g., Janssen
et al. 2561, have stramineous scales ascending up to 20 cm on the petiole and rachis.
TYPIFICATION AND SYNONYMY
This taxon has previously been determined as C. laevigata Willd. ex Kaulf.
( Christensen 1932; Tardieu- Blot 1951; pro forma C. borbonicae
). It differs, however, from C. laevigata
by its pinnules being broadly adnate to the costa, not sessile, and it is most likely not closely related to the Mascarene endemic C. borbonica ( Janssen & Rakotondrainibe 2006)
Two sheets of Perrier de la Bâthie 6121 are available at P.The holotype,identified as "Original"by Bonaparte, is composed of a leaf base, a young and a mature leaf apex.Th e middle part of a leaf constitutes the isotype sheet. Young sori and the lamina are covered with pluricellular hairs frequently found in young leaves, but are of no taxonomic value.Th e type specimen has the characteristic collar-like rudimentary membranous indusium characteristic for the taxon, but it does not preserve nor mention the distinctive features of the species' trunk surface. To unambiguously associate these with the present taxon we designate an epitype including a trunk surface mould.Th e epitype specimen designated here also includes a very young leaf with adherent scales. Further samples of very young scaly croziers are included in some recent collections.
Pinnule shape in C. remotifolia
is variable ranging from linear, oblong pinnules with rounded apices and rather large sinuses (including the type of the species) to forms with acute pinnule apices and narrow sinuses between the decurrent pinnules (more frequently observed and including the epitype designated here). Transitions between these forms are gradual and no formal recognition of the observed variation is possible. None of these forms possess long receptacular paraphyses or short shiny brown petiole scales and we believe that the assignment of the type of C. remotifolia
to C. simulans
by former authors ( Christensen 1932; Tardieu-Blot 1951; pro forma C. borbonicae
) resulted from a lack of suffi cient material for comparison.
FIG. 31.— Cyathea remotifolia Bonap.:A, pinnae abaxially with a fragment of the rachis,sori only partly indicated;B, pinnules abaxially with a fragment of the costa, sori only partly indicated; C, habit; D, sori on the abaxial face of a pinnule, the sorus in the centre with an irregularly dehisced indusium, all other sori with showing rudimentary indusia usually reduced to a collar-like structure at the base of the receptacle; E, basal part of the leaf (from the petiole base up to the fifth pinna pair); F, scales from the base of the petiole (left:a group of agglutinated scales;right:a single scale);G, leaf scars with prominent spines and smooth trunk surface.A,B, D, E, Janssen et al. 2432 (P); C, F, Janssen et al. 2582 (P); G, Janssen et al. 2443 (P). Scale bars: A, E, 5 cm; B, G, 1 cm; C, 1 m; D, 0.1 cm; F, 0.5 cm.
FIG. 46. — Distribution maps for Cyatheaceae (genus Cyathea) of Madagascar and the Comoros. Species are arranged in alphabetical order.
FIG. 51. — Photographic documentation of field characters in Cyathea: A-E, habit; A'-E', trunk apex; A"-E", trunk surface at breast height; A-A", Cyathea madagascarica Bonap.; B-B", C. melanocaula Desv.; C-C", C. remotifolia Bonap.; D-D", C. concava Bonap.; E-E", C. dregei Kunze; A", persistent dead petiole bases removed from the trunk in the upper half of the picture; E, erect habit (above), creeping habit (below); E", branched creeping trunks. A-A", Janssen et al. 2829; B, E, uncollected; B', B", Janssen et al. 2608; C, C', Janssen et al. 2582; C", Janssen et al. 2432; D, D", Janssen et al. 2565; D', Janssen et al. 2579; E', Janssen et al. 2967; E", Janssen et al. 2779. Vouchers at P. Photos B', B", C', D' by G. Rouhan (MNHN); all other photos by T. Janssen. Scale bars: A-E, 1 m; A'-E', A"-E", 10 cm.
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When the Ironman meets strong women
Posted on October 15, 2019 by Christopher Cudworth
I think we'll order this one…
My wife set a PR in the Ironman Louisville race. It wasn't a perfect or "complete" race given cancellation of the swim due to toxic algae. But she's a strong swimmer that has raced well in that component of triathlons all summer. So it's possible to add on the logical time for a 2.4 mile swim and know that she still busted her PR by more than half an hour.
That means quite a bit, because her running is what improved the most over the last two years since she last competed at Louisville. She's worked diligently to improve her form, strength and overall stability in terms of consistency and pace. I've watched that transformation first hand.
Yet she had a setback six weeks out from her Louisville effort. Her running shoes got a little too worn and when she traded them in for new ones a stress fracture popped up in her right foot. The orthopedist confirmed the problem and she was forced to abandon all the run buildup that she and her coach had planned.
Rested and ready
That may actually have helped her in the long run. She did a few Half Ironman races this summer with a PR at that distance as well. There's always a risk of overtraining for the longer distance. The stress fracture actually forced her to back off and rely on the biking and swimming to keep fitness up.
At the 33 mile mark in the hills east of Louisville, Kentucky.
To her credit she got out there on the bike on the worst of days and did multiple century rides in the wind and rain, heat and vagaries of late summer. Nothing fazed my strong woman. "I feel good," she kept telling me. "I feel strong."
To that I can also testify. I'd ride 40-60 miles with her and be happy to tail off after having averaged 19-20 mph on our rides. She'd go on another 30-40 miles with regular stops at the Casey's in Maple Park. Our trusty food station.
Slightly off tracked
She even dealt with a double flat up in the hills west of Madison pretty well. She was 75 miles into a planned 100-miler when some railroad tracks waylaid her on the Ironman Madison course. A kind couple that was up scouting the course for his Ironman drove her back to Rocket Bicycle Studio and got a download from Sue on the course topography. That's about a fair trade, I'd say.
The happy face of an Ironman finisher
It's so seldom that anyone's Ironman training goes perfectly smooth. Yet in recalling her prep for the first Ironman in Madison several years ago, there was an incident with an Escalade SUV that the driver literally parked in the middle of the lane on a country road as Sue and others were coming off a long descent on Campton Hills Road. She had to ditch the bike and it cracked the frame. We had to buy a new bike, get that fitted and off she went, but it was stressful to say the least.
So we're grateful for the great day in Louisville with temps that were cool but manageable. The wind was not something about which Sue was worried. "I'm good in the wind," she told me. To that I can testify as well. I've spent many miles trying to keep up in headwinds, crosswinds, cross-crosswinds and tricky tailwinds that feel like headwinds. We live in Illinois. It's often windy here.
"You're an Ironman!"
Watching her head into the chute after her steady marathon effort was rewarding for me too. As a partner to an Ironman racer there's always a bit of anxiety going on. At one point her tracking icon disappeared off the Ironman app. I panicked for a few minutes and then realized she may have just been riding through some forested areas.
At the long day's end I'd had two tall drinks of Buffalo Trace and Coke at Whisky Dry on Fourth Street in Louisville. I sat there watching her icon slipping along the course map on my phone and looked up at her daughter Sara and grinned. "She's doing great," I smiled. A little tipsy I'll admit.
She even made it past Siren and Bullhorn Man in his bulging Speedo.
There will be other races, God willing. But it always pays to be thankful for the one just completed. Our puppy Lucy was a pretty good girl all day with everyone taking turns holding the leash. It was a great day to be in Louisville, for sure.
What I keep taking away from these races is the pageantry combined with the transcendent humility of doing something that requires perseverance to complete. But I particularly notice the strong women in these events, who defy the formerly stifling limitations of male expectations and sweat with the best of them. You gotta love it when Ironman meets strong women. And my wife is one of those.
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Georgiann Eckheart says:
Way to go Susan . Wish you could have been in Decorah to see us & see Chris's exhibit. Looking forward to another time.
Christopher Cudworth says:
True. But she rested up that weekend and that was vital to her success. :-). We'll be up in Decorah sometime. She likes the place like me.

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Our remote and wild destinations are perfect for photography
All our voyages offer fantastic opportunities for photography and videography. On selected expeditions, a photography expert will offer lectures and presentations to help improve your skills. Whether a beginner or experienced photographer, you will find the presentations and informal tuition, while either on board or during landings and excursions, will help you capture those memorable moments.
Just some of our specialist photography onboard guides
Scott Portelli
Scott is an international award-winning wildlife, nature and underwater photographer. A member of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP), Scott has spent over a decade working in the polar regions with a focus on Antarctica and the Sub-Antarctic areas.
Scott will be our photography guide on:
Iceland, Greenland and East Canada (IAR001G), departing September 2020
Antarctic Explorer (ANP135G), departing in December 2020
Antarctic Explorer (ANP136G), departing in January 2021
Wild Scotland (SCOT16G), departing June 2021
Orkneys, Faroes, Jan Mayen & Svalbard (SFS001G), departing June 2021
Peter Eastway
Peter is an AIPP Grand Master of Photography, Fellow and Honoury Fellow of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography and the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography, and author of Lonely Planet's Guide to Landscape Photography. Peter is also featured in the Tales By Light documentary (available on Netflix).
Peter will be our photography guide on:
Wild Antarctica (ANW001G), departing March 2020
South Georgia & Antarctic Odyssey (ASG80G), departing March 2020
Falklands, South Georgia & Antarctic Peninsula (FSP001G), departing November 2020
Spirit of Antarctica (ANP134G), departing November 2020
Svalbard Odyssey (SVAL53G), departing July 2021
Franz Josef Land Explorer (FJL002G), departing July 2021
Richard I'Anson
Richard is a Canon Master who has published 12 books including five editions of Lonely Planet's Guide to Travel Photography, featured in the television documentary Tales By Light (available on Netflix) and is a Travel Photography Scholarship Mentor for World Nomads.
Richard will be our photography on:
Costa Rica & The Panama Canal (CRP001G), departing April 2020
Arctic Discovery (ARD001G), departing August 2020
Franz Josef Land Explorer, departing August 2021
Svalbard Odyssey, departing August 2021
Photography tips for Antarctica
Ian McCarthy
Photography Guide
Ian has worked as a wildlife filmmaker for over 30 years, mostly for the BBC Natural History Unit based in Bristol. In that time, he's filmed on many of the big David Attenborough series such as Life In The Freezer, Planet Earth, Blue Planet and Frozen Planet and have won a BAFTA for Life In The Freezer and two prime time EMMYs for Blue Planet and Human Planet.
During that time, Ian has lived, worked and camped for long periods in remote wildernesses, from northern and eastern Greenland, Ellesmere Island, the Antarctic Peninsula, Siberia and the Subantarctic islands of South Georgia and Marion Island.
He's swum with huge brown bears in British Columbia and been chased by a musk ox in Greenland. He has howled with wolves in Montana, snorkelled with thousands of sockeye salmon in the icy rivers of Alaska and walked through a mine field in Afghanistan.
Ten years ago Ian moved to Cornwall with his wife Anne and opened The Wild Studio, Cornwall where they exhibit and sell Ian's panoramic wildlife pictures.
"I try to capture the sense of space and grandeur in a landscape and yet bring a feeling of intimacy with the wild creatures that I photograph. My films and photographs come from a lifelong love affair with the natural world. But as the wild places come under increasing threat, I'm constantly reminded how fragile nature is, and with that comes a new wonder for its ephemeral beauty which I do my best to bring to my images".
Antarctica The Arctic
Peter Eastway is a contemporary Australian photographer who is known internationally for his landscape and travel work. A practising professional photographer, he shoots editorially and works selectively in advertising and family portraiture, two diverse ends of the professional sphere.
Peter has been involved in photographic magazine publishing for over 30 years, establishing his own title, Australia's Better Photography Magazine, in 1995. It is now one of Australia's leading photography magazines.
Peter's work has been published and exhibited internationally (USA, UK, Japan, Germany, Greece, India, New Zealand and Australia).
He was the author of the Lonely Planet's Guide to Landscape Photography. His photography has recently featured on the cover of the Lonely Planet's guide to Australia, in articles in the Qantas in flight magazine, and in an Apple television commercial. And he has worked with Phase One cameras, researching and promoting its high-end medium format cameras and Capture One raw processing software.
Peter Eastway is an AIPP Grand Master of Photography, a Fellow and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography, and a Fellow and Honorary Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography. He won the 1996 and 1998 AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year Award.
Peter will be joining us as our onboard photography guide on:
Massimo Bassano
Massimo started his career as a traveller crossing the Ionian Sea, from the South of Italy to the Greek Isles by sailboat at the age of 15. That experience marked him for life. He has been crossing all the oceans on a sailboat ever since, and sometimes even solo. But the "bug" of travelling did not stop on the water. Thanks to his ocean knowledge, Massimo got a job as a fixer for National Geographic, which opened a new vision for his career path, and so he decided to become documentary photographer for the Society. In this way, his passion for human culture, history and wildlife became the reason to explore the planet. After 29 years and 83 countries explored for National Geographic, he still loves to travel and explore, even more than before. His passion for photography is the key to open connections with people and Mother Nature. Massimo loves to photograph the truth. As documentary photographer, he always tries to photograph the reality how it is.
Massimo learned from photographers, working for photographers in the field, so he loves to teach and to give back what he learned and what made him world famous. "Looking at the planet through a lens is one of the best way to travel and explore new places. Camera does not just immortalise your memories, but it also lets you immerse yourself into a situation that you would not look for," - says Massimo.
He sets his camera carefully when on ground, dedicating the software to calibrate a photograph to print. "There is no better way than seeing your photograph printed on paper," – he says - "put it on the wall and admire every day, bringing back memories that are unique, concentrating on those special moments of your life".
There is no better combination for Massimo than travelling on an expedition ship, where the two sides of his life can merge. He lives between London and Vancouver but, sooner rather than later, he will move back to the Mediterranean to produce olive oil (when he's back home from the trips) - his new passion.
Michael Baynes
The Arctic Greenland
Michael is a Freelance Travel Photographer and was born on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, where his love for photography and the environment was ignited at an early age. Michael has worked with a number of global clients, with his images being used in various forms of media.
Michael's love of travelling has seen him explore seven continents and over 50 countries, naturally with a camera in hand. He specialises in landscape and wildlife photography with a particular interest in photographing the Polar Regions.
Michael believes that there is no greater travel experience than exploring the remote Polar Regions, and loves getting off the beaten track with a small group of like-minded passengers aboard the Polar Pioneer. He especially enjoys sharing his passion for photography and assisting others to capture images of these incredible scenes.
Michael also has a Bachelor of Science and is a Director of one of Australia's leading Environmental Consultancies, delivering innovative and practical environmental management solutions for a wide variety of clients.
Richard I'Anson
Antarctica The Arctic Costa Rica Panama Greenland
Richard is a freelance travel photographer & Canon Master who has captured incredible images of people and places around the world for more than 35 years. His work has been published worldwide in books, magazines, newspapers, brochures, calendars, posters, cards and websites; from the size of a stamp right up to a tarpaulin covering a 53-foot truck trailer!
He has also published 12 books including five editions of Lonely Planet's Guide to Travel Photography, was featured in the television documentary Tales By Light (now streaming on Netflix) and is a Travel Photography Scholarship Mentor for World Nomads. Richard has won numerous awards over the course of his career but is most proud of gaining a Master of Photography and one gold bar from the Australian Institute of Professional Photography.
We are excited to have Richard join us onboard the Greg Mortimer's inaugural season as our photography guide for:
Franz Josef Land Explorer (FJL003G), departing August 2021
Svalbard Odyssey (SVAL54G), departing August 2021
Head Photography Guide
Antarctica Scotland The Arctic Iceland Greenland
Scott Portelli is an international award-winning wildlife, nature and underwater photographer. He's a member of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) and is regarded as a leading professional in his field. Scott has spent thousands of hours in remote locations across the globe filming and photographing nature, wildlife, the underwater environment and wild places.
Scott has spent over a decade working in the polar regions with a focus on Antarctica, the Subantarctic and Artic regions, producing a unique portfolio of fine art photography that showcases the intricate environment and its intriguing inhabitants. Working in extreme conditions, Scott's photography provides a rarely seen glimpse above and below the surface in some of the harshest places on the planet.
As a professional nature, wildlife, underwater and aerial photographer, Scott spends a lot of time travelling the world to remote destinations in search of some of the most amazing creatures on the planet. For Scott, it is about the journey, bringing an idea to life by capturing a moment in time or by evoking an emotion. Each image has a unique story that is usually a very intimate moment that Scott may have shared with the subject.
"To create interesting concepts, it sometimes involves me immersing myself in an environment in order to research the location, subject matter and what opportunities may present themselves. I once spent two months on the back of a snow mobile in Baffin Island, Canadian Arctic in minus 37 degrees just to do a reconnaissance of the region for a series of photos I wanted to produce. In the end, I love what I do and I love sharing the natural world through photography."
Scott was awarded at the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year in London in 2016, announced National Winner of the Sony World Photography Awards 2016 and Winner at Travel Photographer of the Year 2015. More recently, he was awarded winner in the Animal Behaviour Category at the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year ANZANG 2017, winner in the Underwater Category of the Asferico International Nature Photography Awards 2018 and runner up in the Behaviour Category at Underwater Photographer of the Year 2019. His conservation documentary also took out two awards at the prestigious French Underwater Film Festival in Marseille.
Scott's other notable awards include:
3rd Prize - National Geographic Travel Photo Contest - Nature Category 2019
Winner - 13th Annual Black & White Spider Awards 2018
Highly Honoured - Nature's Best, Windland Smith Rice International Awards 2018
Winner - Sony World Photography Awards 2016
An accredited licensed RPAS/UAV Pilot, Scott has worked on aerial projects for some of Australia's most sought-after tourism destinations.
Scott runs photography workshops and lectures to show enthusiasts and experts alike the best way to get the most out of their photography. On his Polar tours he specialises in Nature & Wildlife photography bringing the best tips and techniques for photographing in challenging locations.
Scott will be joining us as our onboard photography guide on:
Liz Gifford
Liz Gifford is a sea kayak guide and photography instructor in some of the most remote parts of the world. With her undergraduate degree in Cultural Anthropology and her Masters in Teaching, she is a natural and curious leader, always looking for an opportunity to teach and discuss what she sees around her. Most recently her "office" has included sea kayaking in Alaska and Greenland with humpback and sperm whales, teaching photography under the imposing edifice of Denali, and living her Pippi Longstocking dreams while immersed in the cultures of Fiji and Papua New Guinea.
Liz has always had an affinity for living on or near water and currently calls Juneau, Alaska home where she owns a cozy houseboat named the Myriad. She first moved to Alaska almost 20 years ago to combine her love of the outdoors with her passion for education. She enrolled at the University of Southeast Alaska and obtained her Outdoor Leadership Skills certificate. Her favorite class was by far Expedition Sea Kayaking so when offered a job with the U.S Forest Service as a wilderness ranger travelling primarily by sea kayak, she jumped at the chance. Liz spent three seasons protecting and educating visitors in the remote wildernesses of Glacier Bay National Park and Tracy Arm Wilderness Area.
Liz firmly believes in lifelong education and takes any opportunity to expand upon her skills. Most recently, Liz has been working on gaining more experience on the ocean and how to help people be safer in the outdoors. She earned her Master's 100 Ton Captain's license and is a Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician. Liz is certified through the American Canoe Association to be a sea kayak instructor and has taught kayak courses for the National Park Service. All of these certifications have helped her as a "bi-polar" guide in the Antarctic and the Arctic waters. She has been a sea kayaking and photography guide on small tourists ships that ply the remote ice filled waters of Svalbard, Greenland and Shackleton's South Georgia. This will be her eighth season in Antarctica and as a photographer she is always inspired to photograph ice. She loves the impermanence of each piece, knowing it is only a small matter of time before it melts and changes. Each excursion out into the ice is like a visit to a new and pristine sculpture gallery. Antarctica is like the holy grail for a photographer.
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LET PEOPLE CHOOSE THEIR GP PRACTICE
By Alison Payne, Research Director, Reform Scotland
General Practitioners are often a patient's first and only contact with the NHS in Scotland. However, unlike hospitals which are owned and operated by the public sector, the vast majority of GP practices are actually private sector contractors to the NHS.
Although surgeries can be run directly by the NHS boards in Scotland, most operate under either locally or nationally negotiated contracts. According to ISD Scotland currently only 6 per cent, or 59 out of 943 GP practices, are classed as a "2C practice" – a practice which is run by an NHS board. The other 94 per cent are private sector contractors.
Reform Scotland has no problem with private sector contractors, in this case GP partners, being given public money to deliver public services, and, if structured properly, a diverse range of providers can help raise standards across the board. However, that doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement.
For example, according to a Freedom of Information response Reform Scotland received from the Scottish Government, there are currently no obligations placed on GP practices to publish or provide their health board with a copy of their annual accounts, that is despite the huge amount of public money that is spent in this area. There should be transparency and accountability when it comes to the use of taxpayers' money, which is why Reform Scotland believes that any organisation that receives taxpayers' money should have to publish annual accounts which are available to the public.
There are also restrictions on who can be a GP partner. The Tobacco & Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2009 requires all contracting partners to regularly perform or engage in the day-to-day provision of primary medical services. As a result, commercial companies are prevented from entering into a contract with a health board. However, just because there are restrictions on who can be a partner in a GP practice, does not make that practice less private, it is still a private sector business, contracting with the state to deliver a public service. When the legislation was debated in the Scottish Parliament, Labour MSP Rhoda Grant commented:
"I do not see why one private is good and the other private is bad. I do not understand why one private contractor's motivation is different from another's."
The current situation where some private enterprises can run GP practices while others can't, is illogical. Either you believe that the private sector should not be providing GP care, in which case all GPs should become salaried GPs and be employed by the NHS, or you believe that the private sector can provide GP care, as it currently does. Trying to ban certain types of private sector providers, but allowing others based on their perceived motivation is inconsistent, which is why Reform Scotland believes that the ban on commercial companies running GP practices should be lifted.
There can be a great deal of variation in how GP practices operate. Reform Scotland has previously examined the access arrangements across Scottish surgeries. We found that while some practices allow you to book an appointment a couple of weeks in advance, others only allow you to book an appointment for that day. Some offer extensive extended hours cover, while others offer none at all. Some allow patients to order repeat prescriptions or book non-urgent appointments online, while many others do not. We also found there was no correlation between the size or location of a GP practice and the access arrangements in place.
Surveys such as the Scottish Government's Health and Care Experience Survey highlight patient frustrations. In the 2009/10 survey 81% of respondents found the overall arrangements to get to see their GP 'excellent' or 'good'. By the 2017/18 survey this had fallen to 67%. The survey also noted that only 68% of people said they could book an appointment three or more days in advance, down from 77% in 2013/14, and was "significantly below" the Local Delivery Plan Standard.
Such variability in provision would surely be unacceptable within publicly-owned and operated services, but this lottery is actually a state sponsored monopoly operated by the private sector because patients have little, if any choice in the practice they are registered with.
Whilst some people will live in areas covered by a number of practices, others will be covered by only one. Yet, even finding out what your existing choice is, is not straightforward. To find a GP in Scotland there is a "find local services" tool on the NHS inform website. However, it simply presents you with a list of GP surgery addresses and their distance from that location. It does not tell you whether they cover your area, nor does it give out any useful information. In contrast, the NHS Choices search which covers England informs people whether the practice is accepting new patients and whether it offers online booking and online repeat prescriptions.
Reform Scotland believes that giving individuals greater choice over their GP surgery would mean that people were able to easily walk away from GP surgeries they felt did not provide services that suited them. We don't envisage that such a policy would lead to a mass exodus of patients from GP surgeries, but the potential that they could would give them much greater influence over the way services operated in their area. It is also worth remembering that when the NHS was set up in 1948, information leaflets advised that the first thing people had to do was "choose your own doctor". Therefore, what Reform Scotland is proposing is nothing particularly radical or even that new, but an extension of something which patients were advised they could do when the NHS was set up over sixty years ago.
Reform Scotland's briefing, GPs Offline, can be read here and the report Examining Access: Survey of GP Practices in Scotland can be read here.
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A place for discussion of Israeli life and culture, but most of all for participating in the time honored tradition of arguing politics.
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Всё об Украине. Основное правило: придерживаться общечеловеческих норм общения культурных и вежливых людей. Мат не запрещён, когда это требуется. Сообщения, состоящие преимущество из матов будут удаляться. Можно на "ты" - мы ведь друзья. Мы общаемся на русском, но приветствуем и любим посты на украинском. Мы понимаем украинский и помогаем разобраться тем, кто не понимает. English is fine too. У нас жесткое поддержание порядка. Что нам не нравится - будем удалять и запрещать.
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Trailing by 13 points in the fourth quarter, it looked like the Celtics might finally pick up their third loss of the season. But Kyrie Irving was not having it.
Irving scored a game-high 47 points on 16-of-22 shooting to lead the Celtics to a 110-102 overtime win over the Mavericks. After two loses to start the season, Boston has now won 16 straight.
Efficient shooting had not been Irving's calling card early this season, but he caught fire Monday. He drilled 5 of 7 from beyond the arc, while providing most of the Celtics' offense. Irving is the first Celtics player to score 45-plus points on 70 percent shooting since Larry Bird (Nov. 10, 1989).
Irving, a major advocate for the world-is-flat theory, received a little social media love from Celtics general manager Danny Ainge after the game.
The Celtics (16-2) currently have a convincing four-game lead in the Eastern Conference, but LeBron James and the Cavaliers are finally rolling, having won five straight games.
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Hornets center Dwight Howard dominated the Timberwolves by scoring 25 points on 8-of-10 shooting with 20 rebounds in a 118-102 win. It marked the 48th 20-20 game of his career.
Pacers guard Victor Oladipo scored 29 points with nine rebounds, seven steals and five assists in a 105-97 win over the Magic. Oladipo, acquired in the Paul George trade, has now scored 20-plus points in six out of his last seven games.
Sixers point guard Ben Simmons scored a career-high 27 points on 13-of-24 shooting with 10 rebounds and four steals in a 107-86 win over the Jazz. Simmons now has four straight double-doubles, and seven in his last nine games.
The Pistons: Handed an opportunity to prove the tide was turning in the Eastern Conference, the Pistons were embarrassed 116-88 at home against the Cavaliers. Tobias Harris led the Pistons with just 11 points, as all five starters finished with at least a minus-19 rating.
Anthony Davis led the Pelicans to a 114-107 win over the Thunder with 36 points and 15 rebounds after teammate DeMarcus Cousins was ejected for a Flagrant-2 foul.
Bulls (3-11) at Lakers (7-10) 10:30 p.m. ET - NBA's only game of the night features two red-hot freshmen in Lakers' Kyle Kuzma and Bulls lottery pick Lauri Markkanen. Lonzo Ball enters the game fresh off his second-career triple-double, but his poor shooting and his outspoken father still dominate headlines.


Allowances are the financial benefits that are provided to the employees by the employers over their regular salary. While some allowances are taxable under the head salaries, some are partly taxable or fully non-taxable.
In India tax rules are different for individuals earning income from salary and individuals having other types of income. E-Filing of Tax is a boon to them. However, they still have to declare their salary income in a form online or offline to file their returns and knowledge of allowances that are paid by employers to meet various costs can come in handy while filing their return.
An allowance is the financial benefit given to the employee by the employer over and above the regular salary. These benefits are provided to cover expenses which may be incurred to facilitate the discharge of service for example Conveyance Allowance is paid to foot expenses incurred for commuting to workplace. Some of these allowances are taxable under the head Salaries. A few of them again could be partly taxable and few others are non-taxable or fully exempt from taxes.
Entertainment Allowance: Employees are allowed the lowest of the declared amount --one-fifth of basic salary, actual amount received as allowance or Rs. 5,000. This is an allowance provided to employees to reimburse the expenses incurred on the hospitality of customers. However, Government employees can claim exemption in the manner provided in section 16 (ii). All other employees have to pay tax on it.
In Metros i.e Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai or Kolkata, as much as 50% of basic salary or else 40% of it if the accommodation is in a non-metro.
Any amount of House Rent Allowance received after claiming such deduction is taxable.
Special Allowance:A special allowance paid to employees is covered under section 14(i) and does not fall within the purview of a perquisite. It is essentially for performance of a duty is partly taxable.


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Virtual Super Resolution (VSR) is AMD's answer to the Nvidia Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR).
This technology has some advantages and some disadvantages. One advantage is playing a game over the resolution of your monitor to provide improved graphic quality with superior performance to the saving of using filtering Anti-Aliasing.
The disadvantage is that many games are not optimized to run at high resolutions, at this point it would only be possible with the use of a high-end graphics from AMD side such as Radeon R9 290x, so in that case it is better to play with AA activated only.
The new technology which is implemented is FreeSync, FreeSync technology allows you to control the dynamic refresh rate and synchronization with the graphics card from AMD Radeon or APU, making it possible to minimize the impact of the delays in displaying and reduce or even completely eliminate image artifacts while playing games and movies. The first Free-Sync monitor will arrive early in the next year (2015), as it will be necessary to use the latest version of DisplayPort port.
AMD Catalyst Omega brings improvements in the quality of video which is concerned with new technologies such as Fluid Motion Video (improving the fluidity of the image), Detail Enhancement (re-scale content higher resolution without losing quality) and Adaptive upscaling.
These drivers promise to improve the performance of an AMD Radeon GPU by up to 19 percent or 29% compared to the first drivers who received the APU.
Comes support monitors with a resolution 5K (5120 x 2880p @ 60 Hz) and Eyefinity is now capable of handling up to 24 monitors simultaneously.
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The designation of certain officials of the Roman Curia, whose duty it is to hear ( Latin audire ) and examine the causes submitted to the pope. They cannot, however, give a decision unless they receive delegated jurisdiction. They are, therefore, not judges in the strict sense of the term. These officials have been part of the Roman Curia since the Middle Ages. Amongst the principal dignitaries bearing this title are: (1) Auditor Papae. This official was at first the adviser of the pope in consistorial and theological matters, but he afterwards received also judicial power in civil and criminal cases. Since 1831, however, his duties are restricted to certain ecclesiastical affairs, such as assisting at the examinations of episcopal candidates for Italy and the transaction of matters relating to favours, etc. (2) Auditor Camerae or Auditor General. This official originally had very extended powers, such as judging appeals against the decisions of bishops, and proceeding against bishops themselves in important cases and even punishing them without a special commission from the pope. He could also take cognizance of cases of criminal, and mixed jurisdiction in the States of the Church. Nearly all these and similar powers have now been withdrawn, and the tribunal of the Camera Apotolica is at present limited almost entirely to expediting commissions in certain well-defined cases. (3) Auditors of the Rota were originally chaplains of the pope. By degrees they were constituted into a tribunal, and are said to have derived their name from the round table ( Latin rota ) at which they sat. Important cases laid before the Holy See by sovereigns and nations were referred to the Rota for judgment, and its decisions became precedents for all other tribunals. It also served as a supreme court for civil cases in the States of the Church. At present, however, the Auditors of the Rota are restricted practically to giving deliberative opinions in processes of beatification or canonization and deciding questions of precedence between ecclesiastical dignitaries. They are generally also attached as Consultors to various Roman Congregations.
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Dudley Webb, of the Webb Companies, said work started Thursday on removing one of two tower cranes used to build the 12-floor office tower, a Marriott hotel and a Residence Inn on the city block between Main and Vine streets. The Webb Co. development formerly known as CentrePointe also includes a Jeff Ruby Steakhouse, Starbucks and other restaurant and retail space.
"The other crane will be there until April or May," Webb said.
The Marriott hotel has been "topped off," but construction still continues on the exterior and interior of the Marriott and the Residence Inn. To take down the tower crane — it's more than 300 feet tall — a taller, temporary crane has been assembled on the site, Webb said.
The hotels are scheduled to open in the fall, along with the 12-story office tower next door. Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse is scheduled to open in April.


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Q: How to receive list of binaries from server in iOS In my iOS app, I am trying to get a list of serialized objects from an HTTP              server.
Which Apple API should I choose to get the binary from server?
I have read about NSURLSession, NSURLConnection, and others, but not sure which one to choose.

A: Both will do. NSURLSession is much more powerful tool than NSURLConnection.
If your task is simple - use NSURLConnection. If you need all that fine features of NSURLSession - go for it.
There's a great tutorial on using NSURLSession NSURLSession tutorial. It also states diff between both tools
Also, take a look at AFNetworking framework - makes everything much easier

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Q: How to query a graph of documents of different types at once in Marklogic? Background
I'm using NoSql database supporting graphs for the first time. It is a huge medical application handling thousands of patients. It is a greenfield project and we as a team are struggling with our persistence layer. We don't know how relationships should be represented and if we should use Triples to handle queries involving huge amount of data. We are using Java API.
Data structure
Imagine that there are 3 types of JSON documents in our Marklogic database: Patient, Event, File Evidence.

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*There are thousands of patients in the application

*One patient can have multiple events associated with this patient (admitted, discharged, transferred, prescribed medications, added note, changed internal status etc.)

*each event can have multiple files attached to it as an evidence

Assume there are hundreds of thousands of patients, events and files.
Question
Is it possible to query patients with events and files at once? Is using semantics (possible triples: 'patient has event', 'event has file') recommended in our case?
Our approach
We try to use triples to provide relationships between our documents, add them to one graph, use combination query to fetch IRI first and then in the second call fetch documents by IRI. We tried self-paced trainings and exploring https://github.com/marklogic/marklogic-samplestack but with no luck. Help of someone who has done that in the past and would like to share his experience would be great.

A: I your situation, keep in mind that you can also store the triples in each of the documents themselves (with the inferred subject being the document itself). Then in your example, you could be combining cts:triple-range-query with standard cts:search.
Example:
If I had events and embedded a triple such as [this event-> ownedByPatient -> [iri/for/patiens#12345]
Then I could query:
search for events filtered by fragments where the cts:triple-range-query states that the events are owned by patient 12345
This approach is a combination of semantics and MarkLogic search  - using triples to link the appropriate types.
As for different types of documents, triples do not care what they are pointing at - an IRI of a person, event, etc. Its just about how you model you data itself and the ontology used to describe the relationships. So, you can also approach this as managed triples (not embedded) and treat it all as a graph database pointing at your content (like the approach you are describing)
Once you get further along, you may also decide to force restrictions on the types of relationships using RDF rules.

A: You've given us very little information to work with to answer such broad questions.  Nevertheless, I'll do my best with what you gave.
One option is organize the data however is most intuitive to you, and use server-side Javascript (SJS) to combine the documents at query time into whatever you need for a particular query.  That SJS could be in the form of a resource extension or search response transform.  A resource extension has the advantage that it could do multiple queries across different document types and piece them together to form an answer.  A search response transform, on the other hand will be given the results of only one query but could do additional queries as needed to bring in more data.  Since you only have hundreds of thousands of records, you may not need to stress too much about raw speed.
If you plan to scale to millions of documents and want raw speed, you could keep everything you want to query about one patient in the patient record.  That would allow you to find a patient by full-text search through all their records plus field-match on patient-specific data.
That assumes the only search results you ever want are patients.  If you want something else, you'll need to let us know what other search results you might want.
When you say "attachment" I think of binary documents with scanned images, no metadata, and no full-text to search.  Those would obviously be stored as separate binary documents.  If they have metadata or full-text, you'll have to decide whether any of that should be in the big patient record for fast queries or in separate documents.  All "attachment" documents that are separate JSON files could have a field that points to the patient by id.
I'd avoid triples at first.  As David Ennis pointed out, you can combine triples and search, but it's a bit of a ninja move.  One big JSON document per patient is much easier for most developers to understand.


In Posthumanity, Brian Cooney examines this philosophically turbulent era, in which the products of our latest technology will include a new kind of reality, new kinds of minds, and new sorts of bodies for those minds. Until now, major technological innovations have always had an important effect on human history. But our newest technology will alter the human animal to such an extent that the next era could end up being posthuman. Posthumanity introduces key concepts in philosophy in a creative and provocative manner guaranteed to engage the attention of first-year students and other newcomers to the study of philosophy. Using examples from films, television, and science fiction, Cooney advances a fascinating and original argument about technology while simultaneously acquainting students with the foundations of philosophy.
Anfang und Ende in der Philosophie.


The sonata was written in 1798 when the composer was 27 years old, and was published in 1799. Beethoven dedicated the work to his friend Prince Karl von Lichnowsky (the second Prince Lichnowsky and a Chamberlain at the Imperial Austrian court, he is remembered for his patronage of music and his relationships with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven). Although commonly thought to be one of the few works to be named by the composer himself, it was actually named Grande sonate pathétique (to Beethoven's liking) by the publisher, who was impressed by the sonata's tragic sonorities.


Tianchi ultrasound machine uses the light touch key,it is easy to operate,convenient to carry and with high accuracy,displaying by super large screen.It is suitable for the diagnosis of pigs, horses, cattle, sheep, cats, dogs and other animals.The B ultrasound produced by Tianchi can realize real-time,freeze,store,callout,flip up and down, flip left and right and large-capacity movie playback of the image.It has the functions of multi-level scanning depth, dynamic range, frame correlation coefficient adjustment and focus number, and focal position adjustment.
(1)Environment temperature range: -5?— +40?
Signs on the packing box conform to Iconograph and sign of packing, storage and transportation(GB/T191-2008). Simple shockproof establishment is fitted within the box, which applies to aviation, railway, highway or steamship transportation. Keep dry, avoid inversion and collision.
hours, and then pack it correctly and keep it in a warehouse. The device must not be piled, and do not place it closely against the floor, walls or roof.
(2)Keep it well ventilated, do not expose it to strong sunlight or caustic gases.
Henan Tianchi is a manufacturer specializing in the production of ultrasound machine.The product TC ultrasonic system is derived from the latest generation of digital system structure and can provide high quality two-dimensional images.Compared with the traditional desktop and portable black-and-white b ultrasound, the handheld b ultrasound is more small and convenient.Ultrasound machine is favored by livestock industry because it is easy to carry and has high accuracy.


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Data discovery continues to be the biggest challenge for CIOs to execute encryption strategy
By Priyanka Dadhich on	 August 23, 2019 No Comments
In the Database Encryption market, most of the companies are increasingly adopting new technologies, strategies on expansion, and collaborations to maintain dominance in the market. With rise in the use of technologies, the risk associated with them has also increased. With that, many CIOs and IT executives recognize encryption of data records at rest as a significant step in the security landscape.
IT leaders are responsible for keeping their company's information safe and secure. This should go without saying that protecting such sensitive information should be a top priority for CIOs and security representatives. But then, are they successfully planning and implementing a preventative encryption strategy?
nCipher Security surveyed around 340 IT security professionals and found that the companies in the Middle East (ME) are increasingly adopting encryption for the safety of their data against cyber-attacks.
The Middle East Encryption Trends Study 2019 by Ponemon Institute reveals trends on use of encryption technologies by businesses in the Middle East. Here are the key findings:
Influence of security is declining
The Middle East is among the most digitized regions in the world, having a sharp migration rate of sensitive data to the cloud environment. Yet, just 17% organizations have influence of security in directing encryption strategies. It has in fact declined significantly in last three years.
With 38%, IT operations continue to have the most influence in outlining the direction of encryption strategies, according to the report.
Encryption is growing in emerging use cases
The evolution of cloud and driving technologies like IoT (Internet of Things) and Docker containers bring new security risks. This year, 31% of respondents said they use encryption for IoT devices, up from 23% last year, and 37% use encryption for Docker containers, up from 29% in previous year which is the highest for any region.
There is no doubt about the potential these technologies hold, but then the most problematic concern is their security. Consequently, many CIOs in organizations now are adopting methods to focus on data protection solutions.
In the Middle East report, 36% of respondents said their organizations now has enterprise-wide encryption strategy, a number that has been consistently growing since 2015 but with a slower pace.
Finding where sensitive data resides in organization is the biggest challenge
While encryption strategy use has been growing fast, its implementation depends on the context of information that is being processed as well as choosing the relevant business information. And while encryption may sound easy, but with that it has its own set of challenges that should be taken care of while planning an encryption solution to protect data.
nCipher Security, in its study discovered the main challenges of encryption in the Middle East region. It found that discovering where the sensitive data resides is the main challenge which CIOs are facing and this continues to be the highest from past four years.
Data discovery has declined to 58% yet continues to be the biggest challenge in planning and executing a data encryption strategy. The second biggest challenge is initially deploying encryption technology with 40% of respondents citing this as one of the main challenges. Here is the list of six biggest challenges from highest to lowest:
Discovering sensitive data
Initially deploying the encryption technology
Classifying which data to encrypt
Lack of training on how to use the encryption properly
Ongoing management of encryption and keys
Determining which encryption technologies are most effective
Data types routinely encrypted
At 61% and 56% respectively, financial records and intellectual property are the two most routinely encrypted data types in this region. Interestingly, employee/HR has shown the sharpest decline over the past two years, rising from 65% to 70% two years ago to only 43% now.
Health information is found to be the least common data type to be encrypted with just 14% respondents likely to encrypt that.
Hardware Security Modules for app protection reach a new height
The use of hardware security modules (HSMs) is growing rapidly. Fifty-two percent of respondents have said the HSMs are important in encryption or key management strategy and 70 percent of respondents are indicating a rising requirement for deploying HSMs in the next 12 months with higher levels of trust for both data-at-rest and applications.
When asked how HSMs are used in the organizations, 58% said they have a centralized team that offers cryptography as a service, while 42% said that each individual application owner/team is responsible for their own cryptographic services, including HSMs.
This move to a centralized model in companies in the Middle East is almost close to the global average of 60 percent of respondents.
Besides this, most of the organizations (84%) in the Middle East use cloud computing services or are planning to move to cloud platform in the next 12-24 months. It was revealed that 76% rate want encryption solutions to support both cloud and on-premises deployment, specifying the region's growing focus on cloud security.
One of the crucial problems in encryption is key management. 64 percent respondents have rated key management as very painful. The main reasons for key management pain are lack of adequate management tools, lack of clarity in ownership, and isolated or fragmented management systems.
When we take a closer look at the region, organizations are under pressure in order to protect their business' sensitive information and applications, but the huge number of data, challenge in discovering sensitive data and policy enforcement, combined with a shortage of cyber security experts makes this the biggest challenging environment.
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Marvel UK – Genesis '92: Part 06 – Unpublished Projects Developed during 1992 – 1993
Developed during 1992
Owing to increasing amount of information discovered about the later years of Marvel UK, our "Genesis 1992" section has now been broken up into more pages
Part 1 – Published Comics 1992 | Part 2 – Published Comics 1993 -1994 | Part 3 – Published Comics 1994 – 1995 | Part 4 – Frontier Comics | Part 5 – Unpublished Projects Developed during 1990 – 1991 | Part 6 – Unpublished Projects Developed during 1992 – 1993 | Part 7 – Other Unpublished Projects Developed during 1993 | Part 8 – Unpublished Projects Developed during 1994 | Part 9 – 1994 (Marvel UK branded) Core Relaunch | Part 10 – Final Unrealised Projects 1994 – and a Postscript
Doctor Who/Doctor Strange Crossover
Writer: Andrew Cartmel Artist: Lee Sullivan
While Steve Moore's project unfortunately went nowhere, this didn't dampen my enthusiasm for trying to get spin-off Doctor Who projects off the ground. That included the Doctor Who newspaper strip pitched at the Daily Express, and a story by Andrew Cartmel featuring a Doctor Who and Doctor Strange crossover. It was at this point I learnt of Who's disfavour by Marvel US, even though Tom deFalco was a fan of the show).
Andrew's story involved an ageing rock band who had made a deal with a demon to ensure their success. Lee Sullivan drew a promotional image for the proposed series. There's a little more information on this abandoned project here.
Developed during 1993 – Red Mist 20-20 line
Red Mist 20-20
Writer: Alan Cowsill and Simon Jowett
Artist: Andrew Currie, Charlie Adlard (Dougie Braithwaite created a series of trading cars to promote this series)
Alternatively written as 20/20 in some places, the press adverts went with the 20-20 version of the title. A six-part crossover planned for selected October and November 1993 titles. The participating titles were all cancelled and the crossover abandoned. Had it been published the stories would have run in this sequence:
"Red Mist: 20-20 was a crossover made up of the first two issues of three four-issue mini-series," Simon Jowett tells us. "Roid Rage (written by Alan Cowsill, art by Andrew Currie), Death Duty (also written by Alan) and Bloodrush (written by me with art by Charlie Adlard). Each mini-series concluded in their two post-crossover issues. Art for all four issues of Blood Rush was completed (because that Adlard is a machine), but I have no idea how much was lettered or where the pages may have ended up."
Had the crossover not been pulled, it would have played out in the following sequence: Wild Thing #8, 'Death Duty' #1, ''Roid Rage' #1, 'Bloodrush' #1, Wild Thing #9, Super Soldiers #9, 'Death Duty' #2, ''Roid Rage' #2, 'Bloodrush' #2, Wild Thing #10 and Super Soldiers #10.
The stories in Wild Thing and Super Soldiers were described as Red Mist 'Touchdowns' in a Marvel Age magazine feature.
In addition, 'Death Duty', ''Roid Rage' and 'Bloodrush' would all have been promoted with a set of inter-locking covers across their debut issues. As with some of their previous releases (such as the Gene Pool comics), they would also have been bagged with another set of trading cards featuring art by Dougie Braithwaite and Andy Lanning, complete with descriptive text on the rear of each card".
Bloodrush art by Charlie Adlard for a solicited but unpublished Marvel UK series written by Simon Jowett. With thanks to Adrian Clarke
Bloodrush
Writer: Simon Jowett
Art: Charlie Adlard
Solicited but cancelled, Charlie Adlard had completed art on this series, but it wasn't published.
A number of pages from the project have been posted on ComicArtFans.
Death Duty
Writer: Alan Cowsill
Art: José Fonteriz
Sharing a title with the later published Fury/Black Widow: Death Duty one-shot comic featuring Night Raven, a comic also using the Death Duty title was first promoted in Body Count and solicited in Marvel Age #130 (November 1993), with the artist José Fonteriz attached, but was subsequently delayed (as reported in Comic World Issue 22, December 1993). Designed as a prequel to the Red Mist saga, it was cancelled along with the rest of the line. Fonteriz did draw Nocturne, published by Marvel US (see above).
• More info here on the Starlogged blog
The Cover of Roid Rage #1 – which was at the printers when the book was cancelled. With thanks to Alan Cowsill
Sample pages from the unpublished Roid Rage. Art by Andrew Currie and Bryan Hitch. The series was cancelled just as the first issue reached the printers.
The cover of Roid Rage #3 by Andrew Currie
Art: Andrew Currie and Bryan Hitch
A Super Soldiers spin off Marvel UK were planning back in the day that, former editor Alan Cowsill reports "got canned as the book was at the printers!"
"It was all part of the Red Mist saga. It's also the first time Agent Keller, a character who re-surfaced in Revolutionary War, appeared… he didn't last long though!"
Chris Halls, who was production designer on Alien 3, did some promotional art for the series.
Marvel UK: Useful Links
• It Came From Darkmoor: itcamefromdarkmoor.blogspot.co.uk
Terrific blog about Marvel UK and British Marvel heroes
• Starlogged: starlogged.blogspot.co.uk
Charting the history of many British comics, including their promotion. The site has a fantastic list of every Marvel UK title published, in chronological order, here
• A Distant Beacon
The web presence of author Rob Kirby, who's working on a book on the history of Marvel UK, From Cents to Pence
• Comics Pending – January 1993
This document compiled by John Freeman outlines some of the unpublished comic strips planned for Overkill, and his thoughts on the future of some of the company's title such as Motormouth and Warheads, in January 1993, when he was in the process of leaving the company to take up life as a freelancer.
The hand-written notes refer to "Paul" – Paul Neary, Marvel UK's Editorial Director; and editors Tim Quinn, Jacqui Papp and Bambos Georgiou.
This section is compiled with thanks to: Adrian Clarke, Alan Cowsill, Andrew Currie, David Elliott, Carl Flint, Glenn Dakin, Alan Green, Richard Green, Rob Kirby, David Leach, Carlos Pacheco, Tim Quinn, Simon Jowett, Mark Roberts, John Ross, Cam Smith, and others