I have a trick question I like to ask people from time time. If you do thirty sit ups, where do you make the most progress? Which sit up is the most important? The 1st, the middle, the 10th, the last? Which do you think. And the usual answer I get is the 30th. It should be the last one. I then tell them the answer is the 31st. Its not meant to be a real question someone can answer because it is misleading. But the entire purpose of it is to get you thinking this phrase " 1 more". You can always do one more, cant you? When we do our drills and exercises in class I am trying to get everyone to push it until they feel the burn. Then do 1 more. That one more attitude will help you keep making progress because as you get stronger it will take more to make you feel that burn. But once you do you will have this awesome attitude of doing just 1 more.
I am sharing a video today from a motivational speaker whos name is Eric Thomas. He has a fantastic message about being motivated in life. This Lion mentality will help you be successful in life. I encourage everyone reading this to take 5 or 10 minutes each day for yourself and read or listen to some motivational material. Just a little break to help you get refocused and re charged. I hope you enjoy the video.
Progress is progress even if it is slow.
wEIGHT LOSS!! wE CAN HELP.
Remember our kickboxing program is a fitness program. There is no contact. Its all about helping you be the best you you can be. Our class is high energy and non stop action the entire time. With that being said , you can take the class at your pace. Just the other day I was talking to a student who sad she tried a class before ours and she said there was a lot of advanced and new people. However the class catered toward the advanced. We try to eliminate that by giving quick options to let you take it to the next level if your ready. My point with all of this is if you want to lose weight you will love our class. You will get a full body workout that will help you burn fat and you will have fun with great music while doing it.
I love the fact that everyone knows what this means and I love that I hear people say this when summer starts getting close.
I WANT TO MAKE THIS CLEAR. MY BEACH BODY IS DIFFERENT THEN YOUR BEACH BODY. YOUR BEACH BODY IS DIFFERENT THEN SOMEONE ELSE S BEACH BODY.
What I mean is you do not have to have a flat stomach and six pack abs. The popular vision of what we " should " look like is unrealistic. So don't set outrageous goals for yourself that would require you to spend 4-5 hours at the gym each day. I know I don't have that much free time. But I do have the time to workout enough to be healthy and maintain strong muscle tone. Thats my beach body.
So the reason I said I love hearing people say " I gotta get ready for the beach" is because it motivates them to work a little harder to reach a goal. So with all that in mind, lets get to work on getting your beach body ready.


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MRI in the assessment of congenital heart disease
By Aparna Deshpande, MBBS, MRCP, FRCR
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a vital role in the investigation and follow up of patients with congenital heart disease both in terms of anatomical and functional analysis.1 Congenital heart disease (CHD) has a prevalence of about 0.9%. Over the last several decades the overall survival of individuals with an underlying CHD has improved dramatically from 20% to about 90% of individuals reaching adulthood.2 This improvement results from better surgical techniques, medical treatments and percutaneous intervention for later complications.
Various noninvasive imaging investigations for follow up include echocardiogram (TTE and TEE) and cardiac MRI. Cardiac computed tomography (CT) is increasingly being utilized, particularly when cardiac MRI is contraindicated, such as in those patients with a pacemaker or defibrillator.3 However, CT employs ionizing radiation.
This article reviews the basic image sequences routinely used in imaging CHD (Table 1). It also demonstrates various imaging findings of the most common congenital heart pathologies.
It is important to ensure the patient is not claustrophobic. Younger patients may require sedation; general anesthesia and a dedicated anesthetic team may be needed for the duration of the scan in children to ensure a safe airway and assess the patient. If there are any devices or pacemakers present, confirmation should be made that these are MRI conditional.1
The ECG trace is used to synchronize the cardiac cycle with cine image acquisition. Retrospective ECG gating is performed throughout the cardiac cycle over several heartbeats if the heart rate is regular. Arrhythmia rejection may be used if there is an occasional ectopic beat. Prospective ECG gating is used if there is underlying arrhythmia. There is a trigger delay from the R wave and the images are obtained over a set acquisition window. Scanning in end diastole may be missed resulting in underestimation of volumes and function.4, 5
Sequences and techniques HASTE
This is a spin echo sequence also referred to as black blood imaging. Anatomical assessment is useful with HASTE images.1, 5 This sequence has lower SNR (signal to noise) than the gradient echo sequence, although it is less prone to cardiac and respiratory motion due to rapid imaging.4 This acquisition is performed in the axial plane, but additional views in sagittal and coronal planes can be performed. Visceral position, atrioventricular and ventricular-arterial concordance can be evaluated. Systemic and pulmonary venous return as well as position of the aortic arch can be determined. The HASTE sequence is also useful to assess for extracardiac abnormalities.2
Standard gradient echo cine imaging
Gradient echo cine images are obtained using spoiled gradient echo pulse sequences or SSFP sequences.5 The standard views are four, three and two chamber views, LVOT and aortic valve cine views.4 These sequences allow initial visual assessment of the ventricles, atria and valves. Short axis cine views are performed to assess the left ventricle.1, 3 Similarly, an axial cine view or 4-chamber stack view can be performed to assess the right ventricle.1 Ventricular volumes and systolic function can also be analyzed on the short axis and axial cine stack views. Additional sequences assessing the right ventricle include pulmonary valve cine and RVOT cine views.4
Contrast-enhanced (CE) MR angiogram
Gadolinium-enhanced MR angiography plays a crucial role in assessing vasculature structures. Gadolinium-based contrast reduces the T1 time of blood, improving contrast between the blood pool and surrounding tissues.6 It has high spatial resolution and 3D reconstructions may be performed.6, 7 Conditions such as aortic coarctation and Marfan's syndrome may require aortic angiography. The pulmonary vasculature is assessed in Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) and follow up of surgically corrected transposition of the great arteries (TGA). In single ventricle pathology, angiography is performed to assess circulation and a Fontan circuit, if present. Time-resolved CE MR angiogram is used for sequential assessment as the contrast passes through the vasculature and to assess for collaterals and pulmonary arteriovenous malformations.2, 7
Velocity encoding phase contrast cine imaging (VEPC imaging)
This technique can be performed to assess peak velocity across a valve or regurgitant fraction using "through plane" phase contrast cine imaging.1 In-plane cine imaging is used to assess the direction of blood flow, which is particularly important in septal defects.8 The ascending aorta, aortic valve, pulmonary valve and branch pulmonary arteries are assessed with these sequences. Shunt fraction can be calculated by assessing forward flow in the main pulmonary (Qp) and ascending aorta (Qs). A Qp:Qs of 1.5:1.0 indicates a significant shunt, resulting in elevated right heart pressures and pulmonary hypertension.
Navigator sequence
This technique is a balanced SSFP acquisition used to obtain anatomical information. A T2 preparation increases signal of the blood compared to myocardium. The sequence is triggered to end diastole to avoid cardiac motion. A navigator is used to monitor diaphragmatic movement and avoid respiratory motion artefact. The scan may be performed without contrast, however administration of Gd-based contrast improves the SNR and CNR (contrast to noise ratio).7 It may be used to cover the entire heart and assess vasculature. Often it is used to assess the origins and proximal course of the coronary arteries.
LGE imaging
These sequences are used for assessment of fibrosis or infarction. This is normally performed 10-20 minutes following administration of 0.1-0.2 Mmol/kg Gd-based contrast. The LGE sequences used are the segmented double inversion recovery sequence; the phase sensitive inversion recovery (PSIR), or the single shot acquisition. An initial inversion pulse is used to null the myocardium (TI time).7 A PSIR sequence is less sensitive to a suboptimal TI time.9 A single shot acquisition can be performed within a single R-R interval; however, this has a lower SNR and CNR10 compared to segmented images. Fibrosis may act as a substrate for arrhythmia. Enhancement may be seen if there has been surgical patch repair, scar from previous surgery or postsurgical infarction.6
Spectrum of cardiac anomalies
Atrial septal defects (ASD)
Atrial septal defects constitute the most common shunt lesion detected de novo in adulthood.11 Secundum ASD is the most common type (50-70%), while primum ASD12 is less common at 15-30% and is often associated with defect of the atrioventricular valve.11 Sinus venosus and coronary sinus defects are rare (Figures 1 and 2). Cardiac MRI plays an important role in assessing and quantifying right ventricular overload, visualizing the defect and calculating the shunt fraction. En face phase contrast cine imaging allows measurement of the defect.12 By the 5th decade about 75% of patients suffer from exertional dyspnea.13 Elevated right ventricular volumes and a shunt fraction (Qp:Qs) of 1.5:1.0 is an indication for ASD closure12 by surgery or percutaneous means. Following ASD closure, cardiac MRI is important to assess for any residual shunting, the degree of reduction in right ventricular volumes and for assessment of complications such as device dislodgement.
Ventricular septal defects (VSD)
Ventricular septal defects are the most common CHD, making up 20% of congenital heart anomalies. They may be associated with TOF, TGA and atrioventricular canals.12 There is an increased association with Down's, DiGeorge's14 and Turner's syndromes. They may be muscular, inlet, outlet or membranous VSD. About 80% are membranous VSDs, while 20% are muscular VSD.11 Membranous VSDs occur just under the aortic valve at the level of the tricuspid valve (Figure 3). The septal leaflet of the tricuspid valve may close the defect or the aortic cusp may prolapse into the defect.12 It may be associated with aortic or tricuspid regurgitation. Cardiac MRI has a vital role in assessing the defect, quantifying ventricular volumes and the shunt fraction.
Coarctation of aorta
Coarctation occurs at the junction of the distal aortic arch with the descending thoracic aorta. It can occur due to protrusion of tissue extending from the posterior aspect of the aortic wall to the opposite wall, contiguous with the ductus arteriosum.15 Coarctation may be associated with other conditions, such as Turner's syndrome and bicuspid aortic valve,16 and accounts for 5% of CHD.17
Surgical management includes resection and end-to-end repair, subclavian flap repair, prosthetic patch aortoplasty, interposition graft or extra-anatomic bypass graft.17 Late complications include recurrent coarctation and pseudo-aneurysm at the repair site.17 Cardiac MRI is useful to assess location and severity of the coarctation, as well as the peak flow velocity. Collateral flow can be assessed by quantifying flow just proximal to the coarctation and in the descending aorta at the level of the hiatus.18 The aortic valve can be assessed for morphology and stenosis or regurgitation. Aortic angiogram is obtained to assess the coarctation site, collaterals and remainder of the thoracic aorta17(Figures 4, 5). The aortic arch may be hypoplastic. Left ventricular hypertrophy16 due to coarctation or aortic valve stenosis may be visualized on the SSFP cine sequences.
Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF)
TOF is the commonest of the cyanotic congenital cardiac conditions and consists of a perimembranous VSD (80%), subpulmonary infundibular stenosis, overriding aorta and right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH). Right-sided aortic arch may occur in 25% of cases.19 Management in infancy includes closure of the VSD with RVOT muscle resection (infundibulectomy), transannular patch or right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery conduit. Infundibulectomy is performed when there is moderate RVOT obstruction in the presence of a normal pulmonary valve annulus.19 A transannular patch is performed when there is associated pulmonary valve stenosis (Figure 6).20 Complications include chronic pulmonary regurgitation and right ventricle dilatation.19 A right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery valved conduit is performed when there is pulmonary atresia, which constitutes the most severe form of TOF.19 Late complications include conduit degeneration with stenosis or regurgitation.
About 2-5% patients may have a residual VSD.20 Recurrent or residual pulmonary stenosis may occur in the RVOT, at the level of the pulmonary valve or branch pulmonary arteries.2 Left ventricular dysfunction is a late complication due to poor ventriculo-ventricular interaction.20 Tricuspid regurgitation may be seen in 10% cases.19
Pulmonary valve replacement or percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation (PPVI) is considered when the right ventricular end diastolic volume is greater than 150 mL/m2 with impaired RV ejection fraction less than 47%.21
MRI sequences include RVOT cine SSFP sequences which demonstrate the transannular patch with bulging and akinesis of the aneurysmal patch. In infundibulectomy, the RVOT is of normal size and contractility on cine images unless there are complication such as RVOT stenosis.20 The right ventricle to pulmonary artery conduit and pulmonary regurgitation are also visualized in this sagittal view. Contrast-enhanced MR angiogram can be used to assess dimensions of the pulmonary arteries and thoracic aorta. 3D reconstructions may be performed for PPVI work up. Flow analysis of the valves and across conduit and branch pulmonary arteries can be performed with VE PC cine imaging. LGE sequences will show enhancement around transannular patch repair due to formation of fibrosis.20
Transposition of great arteries (TGA)
This entity represents about 5% of all CHD.22 In D-TGA, there is atrioventricular (AV) concordance with ventriculoarterial (VA) discordance. The aorta arises from the right ventricle via a subaortic infundibulum while the pulmonary artery arises directly from the left ventricle.2 This is associated with other abnormalities, includingVSD, in 50% of cases. Pulmonary outflow tract obstruction and aortic coarctation occur in about 5 % cases.23 TGA is one of the common forms of cyanotic heart disease, and initial management can include atrial septostomy to treat the initial cyanosis.22 Subsequent surgery options include Mustard/Senning baffles, arterial switch or Rastelli surgery.
Arterial switch is performed when there is an intact ventricular septum. This was first performed by Jatene.22 The 20-year survival is nearly 90%.22 The aorta and pulmonary artery are transected above the level of the valve sinuses. The pulmonary trunk is moved forward into a new position anterior to the aorta and the great arteries are sutured in place. The coronary arteries are sutured into the neo-aorta. The aorta and pulmonary artery are transected above the level of the valve sinuses. The pulmonary trunk is moved forward into a new position anterior to the aorta and the great arteries are sutured in place. Coronary arteries are sutured into the neoaorta. Long-term complications include supravalvular pulmonary outflow obstruction, neo-aortic regurgitation and arrhythmias. Branch pulmonary artery stenosis may occur at a rate of 1% per year (Figure 7).2
A Rastelli procedure is performed when there is a subaortic VSD and pulmonary VSD.23 The VSD is utilized as part of the LVOT to direct blood from the left ventricle to the aorta. The pulmonary valve is oversown and a conduit placed between the right ventricle and pulmonary artery. Complications include PA-RVOT conduit degeneration and stenosis.23 In atrial switch surgery or a Mustard –Senning procedure, VA discordance is maintained. Venous baffles direct deoxygenated venous blood to the pulmonary artery via the left ventricle. The pulmonary venous baffles allow circulation of oxygenated blood through the right ventricle to the aorta.23 Superior venous baffle obstruction occurs in 5-10 % of cases.24 Baffle leak is more common than baffle obstruction. These are seen more easily with transoesophageal echocardiogram rather than with cardiac MRI23 (Figure 8). Right heart dysfunction and tricuspid regurgitation may develop.2 Pulmonary hypertension occurs in 7% of cases.23 Arrhythmia is a cause for sudden death.25
Cardiac MRI is important to assess biventricular and valvular function with SSFP gradient echo sequences. Neo-aortic dilatation and regurgitation can be assessed. Branch pulmonary artery stenosis can be evaluated with CE angiogram and peak velocity calculated with VEPC imaging. Baffle leaks and obstruction can be detected. The oblique coronal view is used to assess systemic baffles while the oblique axial plane is used to assess pulmonary venous baffle.2 With severe SVC baffle obstruction, a dilated azygous system can be sought. In baffle leaks, Qp:Qs can be measured with phase contrast cine imaging to calculate shunt fraction.25 LGE images provide an indicator of systemic RV failure following atrial switch repair.26 The RV to PA conduit in the Rastelli is best seen with sagittal oblique SSFP sequences or turbo spin echo images. To assess stenosis, an SSFP gradient echo sequence will demonstrate the dephasing jet through the site of obstruction. VEPC cine imaging can be performed to assess peak velocity and regurgitant fraction.25 The Navigator sequence may be used to assess anatomy and origin of the coronary arteries.
Cardiac MRI has a vital role in CHD follow up. It allows accurate anatomical and functional assessment. The workup for potential surgery or percutaneous procedures may also be performed with the help of cardiac MRI. This article has highlighted some of the commonest noncyanotic and cyanotic conditions requiring regular follow up with cardiac MRI.
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Ridgway JP. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance physics for clinicians: part I. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2010;12(1):71. doi:10.1186/1532-429X-12-71.
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Biglands J, Radjenovic A, Ridgway JP. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance physics for clinicians: part II. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2012;14(1):66. doi:10.1186/1532-429X-12-71.
Srichai MB, Lim RP, Wong S, Lee VS. Cardiovascular applications of phase-contrast MRI. Am J Roentgenol. 2009;192(3):662-675. doi:10.2214/AJR.07.3744.
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Wildgruber M, Settles M, Herrmann K, Beer AJ, Rummeny EJ, Huber AM. Inversion-recovery single-shot cardiac MRI for the assessment of myocardial infarction at 1.5 T with a dedicated cardiac coil. Br J Radiol. 2012;85(1017). doi:10.1259/bjr/57965172.
Wang ZJ, Reddy GP, Gotway MB, Yeh BM, Higgins CB. Cardiovascular Shunts: MR Imaging Evaluation1. RadioGraphics. 2003;23(suppl_1):S181-S194. doi:10.1148/rg.23si035503.
Rajiah P, Kanne JP. Cardiac MRI: Part 1, Cardiovascular Shunts. 2011;(October):603-620. doi:10.2214/AJR.10.7257.
Teo KSL, Disney PJ, Dundon BK, et al. Assessment of atrial septal defects in adults comparing cardiovascular magnetic resonance with transoesophageal echocardiography. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2010;12:44. doi:10.1186/1532-429X-12-44.
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Karaosmanoglu AD evrim, Khawaja RD eedar A, Onur MR uhi, Kalra MK. CT and MRI of aortic coarctation: pre- and postsurgical findings. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2015;204(3):W224-W233. doi:10.2214/AJR.14.12529.
Kimura-Hayama ET, Meléndez G, Mendizábal AL, Meave-González A, Zambrana GFB, Corona-Villalobos CP. Uncommon congenital and acquired aortic diseases: role of multidetector CT angiography. Radiographics. 2010;30(1):79-98. doi:10.1148/rg.301095061.
Konen E, Merchant N, Provost Y, McLaughlin PR, Crossin J, Paul NS. Coarctation of the Aorta before and after Correction: The Role of Cardiovascular MRI. Am J Roentgenol. 2004;182(5):1333-1339. doi:10.2214/ajr.182.5.1821333.
Hom JJ, Ordovas K, Reddy GP. Velocity-encoded cine MR imaging in aortic coarctation: functional assessment of hemodynamic events. Radiographics. 2008;28(2):407-416. doi:10.1148/rg.282075705.
Norton KI, Tong C, Glass RBJ, Nielsen JC. Cardiac MR Imaging Assessment Following Tetralogy of Fallot Repair. Radiographics. 2006;26:197-211. doi:10.1148/rg.261055064.
Ordovas KG, Muzzarelli S, Hope MD, et al. Cardiovascular MR Imaging after Surgical Correction of Tetralogy of Fallot: Approach Based on Understanding of Surgical Procedures. Radiographics. 2013;33(4):1037-1052. doi:10.1148/rg.334115084.
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By Aparna Deshpande, MBBS, MRCP, FRCR| February 05, 2018
Categories: Clinical Departments|Imaging Modalities
Aparna Deshpande, MBBS, MRCP, FRCR
Dr. Deshpande is a Consultant Cardiothoracic Radiologist at Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester, England.

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What Marquez did was despicable but Rossi has himself to blame.
"In another race they would have tried to overtake but not in this one, We are Spaniards and it was right that the title remain in Spain".
That sentence from Jorge Lorenzo after the race in Valencia is really all you need to know.
A shameful day for MotoGP. A sad day for a segment of Spanish sport and yet another opportunity to keep his trap shut missed by Jorge Lorenzo.
The now three time champion (who announced his happiness at having joined the ranks of 3 timers like Ayrton Senna.....?) claimed the only reason Rossi was ever leading was because of his own bad luck. Presumably like when he blamed his fogging helmet for his poor riding in the rain at Silverstone.
Few liked this man before, despite his enormous talent. Even less will like him in the future, not after he tried to get his teammate banned after Malaysia... except maybe for Max Biaggi.
Marquez. If this is the future of the sport then perhaps it's time to tune out.
He once again rode to protect Lorenzo's rear. Check out the time sheets sometimes, look how his lap time dropped after Pedrosa tried to attack. In that brief moment Marquez, who had been content to sit staring at Lorenzo rear for 28 laps, suddenly looked like the rider who gave Rossi no quarter in Malaysia.
But in the final analysis, it is Rossi who needs to look at himself in the mirror. Marquez has acted in pathetic, petty, bitchy way but Valentino is pushing 40, he should have know better than to stir the pot and fall into Marquez' trap.
That most other riders offered Rossi little resistance as he sliced though the field today speaks volumes on how many were calling bullshit of Marquez's behavior in Phillip Island and Malaysia. Everyone was obviously onto the Spaniard.
Rossi may come out of this season as the "People's Champion" but how he thought it a good idea to continue to pound on it leading into the final race where he knew his only chance was a an honest race by Marquez, more of a mystery.
A self fulfilling prophecy.
MotoGP is the big loser despite the enormous interest in today's race. There will forever be an asterisk next to Lorenzo's third title, mud on Marquez, regret for Rossi and a question for all fans:
How amazing would the season finale had been as a straight fight?
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The Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, upheld Wells Fargo's practice of freezing bank accounts of Chapter 7 bankruptcy debtors. In re Young, 439 B.R. 211 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 2010). In ruling that the administrative freeze was not a violation of the stay, the Court denied sanctions against Wells Fargo.
We are advising our bankruptcy clients to move their bank accounts (checking, savings, CDs etc.) to other banks when filing a Chapter 7 bankruptcy. To our knowledge, Wells Fargo (and Wachovia which was merged into Wells Fargo) is the only bank that has taken this position. This avoids panicked calls from our clients when their bank account is frozen and they learn that it may take 30 days for the trustee to abandon any non-exempt interest in the account.
For the time being, this ruling is only applicable to Chapter 7 cases. The Court in Young unequivocally stated that its holding should only apply to Chapter 7 cases and that it would view an administrative freeze on accounts in a Chapter 11 or 13 as a violation of the automatic stay. The Wells Fargo administrative policy may be limited to accounts of $5,000 or greater, but I wouldn't trust that they won't freeze an account with less. The reasoning behind them holding the money for the bankruptcy trustee to decide what to do with it applies when a bank account has less than $1,000 in it due to the low personal property exemptions in the State of Florida.
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Nerone è un film del 1930, diretto da Alessandro Blasetti, scritto e interpretato da Ettore Petrolini.

È il primo dei tre film sonori interpretati dall'attore che, affiancato da alcuni componenti della sua compagnia teatrale, si esibisce qui in alcune delle sue maschere più popolari: Pulcinella, Gastone, Fortunello, Nerone.

Regia
Blasetti, pur definendosi solo "coordinatore tecnico", al puro servizio di Petrolini per documentarne la recitazione, fa ben sentire la sua presenza, a partire dall'idea dei titoli di testa "recitati" da Petrolini, mettendo in scena il teatro stesso, compreso il pubblico in sala, e lasciando il suo segno nella scelta delle inquadrature e nei movimenti di macchina, fra cui l'elaborato carrello iniziale, dalla realizzazione tecnicamente molto impegnativa per l'epoca.

Satira
Nella parodia della Roma imperiale e del famigerato imperatore romano si è voluta leggere una satira antidittatoriale e antimussoliniana. Secondo Gianfranco Gori questo è improbabile, vista la lealtà verso il regime fascista sia di Petrolini che di Blasetti; Gori ritiene che gli elementi satirici siano involontari e comunque leggibili solo a posteriori.

Conservazione
Non esiste una copia integrale del film, ne sono rimasti solo dei brani all'interno dell'Antologia di Petrolini curata nel 1952 dalla Cineteca Nazionale in occasione della Mostra del Cinema di Venezia.

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Film commedia
Film diretti da Alessandro Blasetti

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A: The Form 1098-T is a statement that colleges and universities are required to issue to certain students. It provides the total dollar amount paid to your student account for what is referred to as qualified tuition and related expenses (or "QTRE") in a single tax year.
Q: When will I receive my Form 1098-T's?
A: For those who qualify to receive one, Form 1098-T is available electronically on the 1098TForms.com website. Herring Bank provides a link on the AccessKC web portal. (A link is also provided on Kilgore.edu.) Students must specifically OPT IN to receive their 1098-T electronically. Electronically received 1098-T's may be saved, printed, or emailed. For students who do not specifically opt to receive their 1098-T electronically, paper forms were printed and mailed from Herring Bank. Please allow 7-10 business days for mailed forms.
Q: Is there a special circumstance that might prevent me from receiving my 1098-T?
Q: Can I call the Business Office or see someone at the Cashier's Window with questions on my 1098-T?
A: The best and most accurate source of information about the amounts that you were charged will be the statements and receipts prepared for you during the year. You can access your account online through your AccessKC portal, and further information is available online at www.IRS.gov. The Business Office and Cashiers do not provide copies of prior student records and will refer you to this FAQ.
Q: Why don't the numbers on Form 1098-T equal the amounts I paid to Kilgore College during the year?
A: There are potentially many reasons for this difference. First, QTRE does not include charges like insurance, room and board, which – though important – are not considered mandatory education expenses for tax purposes. Second, Form 1098-T reports amounts that you actually paid during that year. Effective 2018 (reporting 2019), Institutions are required to report payments received. The best and most accurate source of information about the amounts that you paid will be your Student Statements and Payment Receipts prepared for you during the year. You can access your account online through AccessKC.
Q: Does the 1098-T include charges for books?
A: No. You should consult with your tax advisor to determine if payments for books and other expenses and fees should be considered when preparing your income tax returns.
Q: What semesters are included in my Form 1098-T?
A: Typically, charges are posted to your student account in November or December for the Spring semester and as early as March for the other semesters. Depending on when you registered for classes, your Form 1098-T could include payments for different semesters. Your Student Statement details the specific dates when charges were posted to your account and is a valuable resource for determining the semesters that are included in your Form 1098-T.
Q: I graduated in May of 2017, do I have a 1098-T for 2017?
A: Since the form is based on amounts paid to your account in 2018, there may not be any Spring charges if you registered before January 1. If you registered after December 31, however, you may receive a 1098-T form.
Q: How do I prepare my taxes without a 1098-T?
A: Kilgore College cannot advise you on how to claim tax benefits. We recommend that you seek the advice of a tax professional for tax-related information. It is the responsibility of each taxpayer to determine eligibility for educational tax benefits and how to calculate them.
Q: My accountant says I need a form with information in Box 1 (amounts paid). I need an updated form.
A: Your Student Statements and Receipts reflect payments posted to your account in the calendar year, and you may wish to provide them to your accountant in addition to your Form 1098-T. You can access your account online through AccessKC.
Q: My SSN is wrong on my form. Can I have a new one sent to me?
A: Some students may have incorrect SSN or taxpayer identification information on file if they either did not know or did not have accurate taxpayer identification information at the time they applied to the College. If your SSN is incorrect, you will need to complete IRS Form W-9S and deliver it in person to the Registrar's Office (903)983-8607.
Q: I took Continuing Education classes but did not receive a 1098T form.
Consistent with IRS regulations, if you did not take any classes for credit, you will not receive a 1098T form.
Q: What address was my 1098T mailed to?
1098T's are mailed to the student's current mailing address on file with the Registrar's Office. If your address is not current, you will need to see the Registrar's Office to correct the address. Eligible students may access and print their 1098-T at 1098TForms.com.
Q: I don't understand what to do with this form. HELP!
A: We are unable to provide tax advice. For guidance you may want to consider IRS Publication 970 in addition to consulting a Tax Professional.


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RBL Bank plot thickens; Rs 300 crore loan reason behind RBI's intervention?
videos | December 30, 2021, 11:22 AM IST
By Abhishek Kothari | Dec 30, 2021, 11:22 AM IST (Published)
According to a news report, a loan of Rs 300 crore was written off within 7 months of its sanction and this was the key reason for the Reserve Bank of India's sudden intervention in RBL Bank.
The loan was given as a part of consortium lending in 2018 and RBI has been seeking details with respect to the exposure in the company for the last few months from the risk management team of RBL Bank.
On December 25th, Yogesh Dayal, the RBI appointed director mentioned that the continuation of CEO Vishwavir Ahuja has become untenable and RBI would have no choice but to supersede the board as it did in the case of Yes Bank and Laxmi Vilas Bank if Ahuja had not stepped down immediately. Therefore, Ahuja had to leave within the given time.
Also Read: Wealth destructor of 2021: RBL Bank among top 5 losers in BFSI space
CNBC-TV18 approached RBL Bank. However, the bank refused to comment on this.
Also Read: RBI's move on RBL Bank due to delay in identifying successor
Watch the accompanying video of CNBC-TV18's Abhishek Kothari for more details
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PRESENT-DAY
NEW EARTH NOW
When Mary Magdalene continued teaching after the resurrection of her beloved Yeshua, she and many other members of the Essene community established themselves first in the land of Gaul (France) and later, together with other members of the community, she moved to Avalon in the UK (modern Glastonbury).
She named her ministry
'The Way of Love'.
✨ THE WAY OF LOVE
When Mary Magdalene was teaching with her beloved Yeshua (Jesus) 'back in the days', the teaching was simply called 'The Way'. The teaching was meant to continue in 2 ways; The outer teachings would be spread by most of the male disciples, led by Peter, who was to be 'the rock', the foundation of this new movement. The inner teachings, 'the inner Mysteries of the Way', would be taught by John, James, Thomas and Philip, this group being led by Mary Magdalene.
This was a common practice among the ancient Isis Mystery Schools of Egypt, from which both Mary Magdalene and Mary Anna (mother of Jeshua) were high Initiates and reincarnates since the days of Akhenaten in Egypt (about 1.300 years BC). This pattern of teaching was supposed to support each other, as the outer group would be open, in public, while deflecting attention away from the inner group. The inner teachings would need a more quiet environment in order to develop the subtle work along the esoteric and Gnostic lines.
Unfortunately, after the resurrection Peter did not accept Mary as an equal leader in spreading the teachings, and by taking this position he began the rift between the mainstream teachings of the Way. The Way, over longer periods of time manifested in the outer teachings of the Catholic & Orthodox churches, and its Gnostic counterparts as the inner teachings. This led to the final persecution and elimination of all Gnostics as heretics. Paradoxically, these persecutions were carried out by the very part of the movement, which had been originally designed to nourish and protect the inner teachings.
As Islam has the Sufi movement, the Judaism has the mystical Kabala, so Christianity should have had its own mystical and Gnostic core. The loss of this core has left the Way with a permanent wound from which spiritually, it has never recovered.
So how can we use this knowledge now?
This knowledge can enable us to put the past into the right perspective and in this way, release the energies of that time to enable us to move forward. Working with this knowledge during our workshops & Sacred Site tours will open up a way to clear and purify this deep rooted pain, bringing balance to the Father-Mother, male-female principle, within ourselves and for the entire human collective.
Let's move our present consciousness forward into the Light!
✨THE PRESENT-DAY MAGDALENE
You are the present day Magdalenes.
We all are.
Living the legacy of the Magdalenes.
Our daily life NOW is the modern Mystery School.
No need to go anywhere.
Just to BE in our ONE Heart.
Catherine Ann Clemett writes:
"What characterizes a present-day Magdalene?"
"It is not someone who is necessarily Christian or believes in a certain way or follows the Bible or religious protocol or set of rules. It is someone who has compassion and empathy for all life and all people. It is someone who more and more is learning to live from their heart, not their head.
It is someone who honors all life and all paths and see the interconnectedness of everything. It is someone who has evolved enough in their journey to do their own inner work to clear their own faulty beliefs and look within to see what trauma is there and what needs to be healed rather than lashing out and blaming everyone around them. It is also someone that is beginning to look inside to discover that the answers lie within them and the journey to experiencing and realizing divinity starts within.
Know that as present-day Magdalenes, you are here now because you have a piece to share or peace to share- something uniquely needed by the whole because of you and through you. You as a present-day Magdalene have been an initiate in the temples for many lifetimes to prepare you for your journey today. The Light is 'seeded' within you for that is what Magdalenes do, they seed the light.
You are not here on this blog by accident, nor are you even here in this lifetime by accident. It is all by Divine Design, designed by you and Mother/Father God. To unfold your path and awareness as a Magdalene, it is to first be willing to be more attuned to your intuition and inner guidance and learn to follow that for that is your inner guidance system.
It is also to take some time each day to be grateful for all that you have and to go within and start developing a greater relationship with your own I AM presence and your own councils of light giving you guidance from within.
It is also to not get hung up on labels, even the word Magdalene for ultimately all is ONE. Bless yourself for your willingness to receive and to open to great realms and to being of greater service and all will continue to unfold."
✨ THE NEW EARTH IS NOW
You Are the New Earth ✨
You Are Co-Creating the New Earth, Every Breath ✨
In times of a great shift of awakening, like the one we're experiencing on our planet today, we journey to Sacred Sites of heightened spiritual energies as contact with these energy-lines (below and above the earth) work like a spiritual catalyst to our awakenings ✨
Sacred Sites are imbedded and encoded with the resonance and energetic signatures of the already existing high frequencies of the Earth, and it is here where these frequencies can be most easily & directly accessed, remembered and received.
It's true that we don't have to be in a specific location to connect with the energy of a place. What our Sacred Site tours & workshops bring forth is a sacred Journey, a healing of the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine within. When you show up at a specific location you're connected to in the past, you open a portal to that past and these openings can allow major inner shifts to occur.
When you decide to be in a specific Sacred Site location, it opens up ways for miracles to happen in ease, grace and fun. This opening of portals allows for personal and collective repairs, reprogramming and repositioning of the circumstances that caused certain rifts in the fabric of the reality in the past. Those choosing to be present in this way co-create significant shifts in the human collective.
✨ SACRED SITE TOURS WITH HIRA
During different spiritual tours & workshops, HiRa is physically visiting sacred sites around the world in Egypt, Israel, France, UK, Ibiza and more. Do you feel the call to join?
Check out HiRa's worldwide events & workshops here
HiRa loves to guide tours & workshops also in countries like India, Greece, Wales, Australia, Turkey, South America, Africa and other power-places, so if you're reading this and if you feel that organising a workshop or tour resonates with you, feel free to contact HiRa directly.
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If you'd like to go deeper into all this information, we highly recommend reading 'Anna, grandmother of Jesus' and 'Anna, voice of the Magdalenes' by Claire Heartsong & Catherine Ann Clemett.
The 3 books written by Stuart Wilson & Joanna Prentis, especially the 'Power of the Magdalene: the hidden story of the women disciples' are beautiful too.
As always, keep at heart your own resonance wile reading. There's always more to the story, right?
And if you're still eager for more ;-)
HiRa also recommends 'The Magdalen Manuscript' by Tom Kenyon & Judi Sion.
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"I want to thank you Hira & Chloe for the amazing workshop Avalon Priestess - Sacred Women's Pilgrimage in Glastonbury that has been really amazing, the best I have experienced. The Abbey House was the perfect location where it was possible to enjoy amazing inspiring views: being surrounded by Nature was a great support for the energetic work.
Both Hira and Chloe are beautiful souls who are able to share their knowledge and experience totally from the Heart. They have so different personalities but they are able to melt together so perfectly. They had the ability, together with all the beautiful Priestesses who joined in, to create a sacred feminine space where we all have felt protected, acknowledged and loved.
We had the chance to open up for a deep healing within ourselves and to reach out to a very high level of awareness. There's a strong bond that created itself spontaneously among us which will always be there beyond time and space. Difficult to transcribe this magic with words! I want to express my deep gratitude and blessings for their work, highly recommended. Looking forward to the next experience! Thank you from the bottom of my Heart"
Silvia Mariti, Avalon Priestess Pilgrimage, Glastonbury 2018
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LHC seeks Accountant General reply on PSB vs PFF
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November7November 7, 2012
KARACHI: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has ordered the Accountant General of Pakistan to submit his reply in the case pertaining to the writ petition filed by the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) against the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) within two days.
The LHC adjourned the hearing till next Monday.
Sources told 'The News' that the Accountant General, one of the respondents, argued that there was no need to summon him, but the court said that there was a need to summon him as he was a respondent and that he should submit his reply within a couple of days.
The legal experts of the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) and the PSB were also present on the occasion.
The PFF was forced to go to the court after the PSB convened a meeting on October 1 to discuss the issue pertaining to the implementation of the national sports policy.
The court issued a standing order a couple of days before the meeting which forced the Board to postpone it.
The PFF president Faisal Saleh Hayat will also be affected if the tenure restriction clause is implemented by the government.
The PSB wants to implement the policy in the light of the Supreme Court's May 8 verdict which says that the government has the power to frame rules and implement them.
The POA chief Lt Gen (retd) Arif Hasan is also to be affected by the judgement as the name of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) is clearly mentioned in the policy.
Arif says that the POA was not affiliated with the Board and so was not affected by the apex court's verdict. But the government is of the view that after the Supreme Court judgment Arif has lost his status and is no more a POA president.
Source: The News
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An unexpected technical hitch in Friday's Sochi opening ceremony, marring an otherwise perfect program, prevented tens of millions of television viewers world-wide from not thoroughly enjoying the show. Despite being treated to a brilliant and spectacular walk-through of 1000 years of stunning Russian culture and (some not so brilliant) history, the expected portrayal of centuries of oppression, massacres and murder of the Russian people under the Tsars and later Stalin didn't eventuate because someone in charge failed to press the right button in time. Instead, he gave a brief speech declaring the games open and sat down to enjoy the nice bits along with everyone else.
A little misunderstanding with a nearby country in the 1940's (which resulted in the estimated deaths of 15 million Russian civilians alone) also failed to get a mention. But that was probably because the dispute has long since been patched up and they are all pals again, and buy lots of things like gas from each other and what-not.
True to form, Channel Ten's commentator team excelled itself again. Aussie-battlers, clearly still trying to get their heads around this culture thing, making brave but determined efforts with the pronunciation of notoriously difficult Russian words and names. They did however have some success with a few of the non-Russian names, but not a lot.
One commentator struck a big blow for Aussie culture by strongly inferring that War and Peace, which is compulsory reading for Russian school children, should be avoided by Australians at all costs because it is 1200 pages long. Here again we have another telling insight into the recruitment criteria Ten uses for its commentators. And literacy is clearly not one of them.
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Egypt Signs 10 New Contracts for Gold Exploration with $11 MM
Wednesday, 17th February 2021
by Lobna Hefny
The Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Tarek El Molla, witnessed the signing of 10 new contracts for gold exploration with investments more than $11 million.
El Molla assured the success of gold bid rounds for gold mining, as the results of first phase will develop the mining sector in Egypt. This came during the signing with four English, Canadian, and Egyptian companies to exploit 17 new areas for gold exploration with the Egyptian Mineral Resources Authority (EMRA) with total investment of about $11.2 million.
AKH Gold, which is owned by Naguib Sawiris, signed four contracts with total investment of about $4.1 million to explore gold in nine areas in the Eastern Desert. The Canadian Red Sea Resources Company signed three contracts with a total investment of about $5.5 million, while North Africa Mining Company signed two contracts to explore two areas with about $1 million of investments. Finally, one contract was signed by Al-Abadi Mining Company to explore one area with about $636,000 of investments.
As per the statement, Sawiris said the new mining law and its executive regulations gave a strong push for international and Egyptian mining companies to apply for the bid round.
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I was tasked with designing and developing the Cutting Edge brand, a new range of premium male grooming hair products for both professional and consumer markets. I acted as Art Director for the development of the brand visual identity, logo, products and packaging.
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Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Some 84 million people suffer from some form of cardiovascular disease in this country.
Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), a form of heart disease, occurs when the arteries that supply blood and oxygen to your heart become narrow, restricting or blocking blood flow to your heart muscle. Most often this narrowing is due to atherosclerosis, a buildup of plaque or when a plaque particle breaks apart causing a blood clot within the artery. When blood flow and oxygen to the heart are compromised you may experience angina or a heart attack.
The most common symptom is angina. Angina is the chest discomfort experienced when the plaque or clot causes a decrease in the amount of blood supply therefore lack of oxygen to your heart muscle. The discomfort experienced may also present as chest pressure, chest heaviness or left arm, neck, or jaw pain. A heart attack may then occur if the blood supply to the heart is totally blocked. A heart attack can cause permanent damage to the heart muscle.
The risk factors (habits or conditions) that increase your chances for developing CAD are: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, overweight, diabetes, stress and smoking. Having more than one of these risk factors increases the prediction of coronary artery disease risk. These risk factors can be prevented and/or controlled.


The Cultural Village Foundation – Katara recently opened the 1st edition of the Photography Festival through an exhibition featuring five well-known photographers of different nationalities, in a celebration of communities and their art.
An inaugural event was held on Wednesday, 19 October at Katara Building 19. The exhibition is scheduled to run until 30 October, and is open to the public from 10 am to 10 pm. Exemplary works of photographers from Germany, Lebanon, Qatar and the Philippines is now on display, each with their own perspective and showcasing individual style and creativity.
One of the photographers featured in the exhibition is Marhaba's very own Andrea Buenafe. Andrea started taking photos four years ago when she was new in Doha and trying to find her way out of Souq Waqif. Her mobile phone was her first 'camera' and the alleys and corners of Souq Waqif became her 'training' ground. Andrea's career in the media industry also gave her a chance to practice and enhance her photography skills.
Her photographs, according to her, try to capture the beauty in her surroundings. While she was mostly in her element capturing lines in landscapes and structures – colours, movements, and a general feeling of well-being permeated from her frames. She has won at least three times in MIA InstaMeet and one time at Fanar QND contest. She is officially the eyes behind the beautiful video posts of Marhaba online.
Aside from Andrea, visitors will also get a chance to see the exemplary work of Jordis Schloesser from her trips around the world, Tony Hage's innovative work as well as pieces by the popular Qatari brothers, Nasser and Hassan Al Emadi.
Jordis Antonia Schlösser has worked in almost every part of the world for prestigious magazines like Geo, Stern, National Geographic and Spiegel. In 1998, she was admitted to the World Press Joop Swart Masterclass. Among other awards, she received the prize for the 'International Yann Geoffroy Competition' and a 'World Press Photo Award'. After long years in Havanna and Paris, Jordis Antonia Schlösser has been living and working in Berlin since 2008.
Tony Hage earned himself a place in the world of fashion during the Paris Fashion Week. Through the Gamma and MaxPPP agencies, his photographs were published in some of the most prestigious publications including Time, The Times, The Independent, Le Figaro Magazine, Gala, Voici, and Paris Match. He had an exhibition earlier last year 'Pris sur le vif'' at Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) in Paris.
Hassan and Nasser Al Emadi have been capturing Doha in photos since 2013. While Hassan is very dynamic, with a strong focus on commercial and fashion photography, Nasser's strength lie in nature and architecture. Hassan actively gives back to the community by offering photography workshops to Qatar Red Crescent, while Nasser has taken part in several local and regional shows the most notable being 'My Heritage is My Responsibility'.
During the inaugural ceremony, the General Manager of the Cultural Village Foundation- Katara, Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, stressed their aim to make Katara a 'hub' and an essential 'station' for amateur and professional photographers.
The renowned photographers will also be conducting workshops for photography enthusiasts during weekends throughout the duration of the festival. These workshops will be based on some of the key elements of photography, and will address topics such as 'Street photography', 'Reportage Photography', 'Digital Photography' and 'Studio Lighting'. Jordis, Tony, Andrea and Hassan will present the topics respectively. Each topic will be presented twice to accommodate at least 160 participants.
For more information about the Katara Photography Festival, visit the Katara Cultural Village website through this link.


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Adventure Stories, Bikerafting, Packrafting History
A Brief History of Bikerafting (aka "Nature Biking," aka "Hell Biking," aka Anything But "Bikepacking," please)
Posted on March 5, 2018 January 7, 2021 by Alpacka Media
Biking & Rafting (aka Bikerafting): An Early History of Two Human-Powered Travel Methods From the Perspective of Some Legendary Adventurers
By Lizzy Scully, with significant help from Steve "Doom" Fassbinder and Roman Dial
"Bikes and rafts are a really cool combination, one that will make you feel clever, especially when you ride up to the river with your boat on your bike, then paddle down it with your bike on board your boat. Yes, one of the all-time coolest feelings in my estimation." ~Roman Dial, APA Forum, April 2008
Writers have explored packrafting history and adventures extensively since Dick Griffith introduced the concept to Alaskan adventurers in 1982, and bikes have been mentioned regularly along the way. However, no one so far has written a comprehensive story of the integration of these two methods of human-powered travel and how and why they work so well together.
In this series of blog posts, we attempt to compile some of that history as a continuous story. We invite you to share your tales (tall or otherwise), along with your photos, and links to other information we are missing. We will keep track, starting with a list of known articles and forum posts to be shared at the bottom of this post. A broader history still remains to be told; let this be the first step.
It All Started With…The Packraft, Of Course
Dylan Kentch, paddling across Icy Bay (Mt. St Elias in the back) in one of the first versions of the Alpacka Raft, August 2008. Photo: Eric Parsons.
"We are at our core problem solvers and improvisers and so it is no surprise that modern adventurers have been toying with solutions for decades, and the first person to break through with a stroke of genius was Dick Griffith. Born into ranching life in Colorado in the 1920s, Griffith's first attempt at river adventure came in 1946, when he floated the White River on a self-made wooden raft, which he promptly capsized and lost; unwilling to deal with the weight and hassle of wood, he turned to rubber military surplus rafts hitting the market after World War II. In 1952, he and his wife Isabelle and a small team of Tarahumara used a small Air Force survival raft to descend the Urique River deep into Mexico's Sierra Madre Occidental, the first successful river run of the Barranca De Cobre. And thus began the age of packrafting." ~Steve "Doom" Fassbinder, "Hike. Bike. Raft." Adventure Journal, Summer 2016
According to Alpacka Raft Founder, Sheri Tingey, it took nearly three decades from the time Griffith first "packrafted" in Mexico for him to introduce the concept to America's northernmost state. He brought those "funky little things" to the inaugural Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic race in 1982 and blew the minds of the other competitors and the adventure community in general. He competed against legendary Alaskan explorer, then just in his twenties, Roman Dial. Upon reaching the raging Skilak River one evening, Tingey says, Roman and his partner had decided to cross the next morning when less ice melt meant the still-cold (35 degrees) river would at least not be so high. But just then, Dick showed up with a packraft," Tingey says (July 2017 interview).
"The 1982 Wilderness Classic was meant to be a self-contained, carry-all-your-gear-and-food overland footrace between the Kenai Peninsula towns of Hope and Homer, Alaska, but Dick Griffth and his rubber ducky changed all that. At 55, he caught the front-running racers half his age as they hesitated to swim a swift, wide, and deep glacial river. Here, Dick donned a fuzzy Viking hat, inflated his raft, crossed the river, and passed his youthful competition with the quip, 'You may be fast, but you young guys eat too much and don't know nuthin'. Old age and treachery conquer youth and skill any day.'" ~Roman Dial, "Packrafting: An Intro & How To Guide"
The next leg of the race took the other competitors 15 hours of "thrashing through alders," wrote Fassbinder in the Adventure Journal article, "but Griffith covered it in just three, floating happily downstream." After that inaugural event, Dial says, the Classic became a pack rafting wilderness race, its competitors skilled in packing and rafting.
Within a couple years, says Tingey, the "Alaska Crazies" (aka hardcore adventurers) had fully adopted the concept of using inflatable rafts to cross rivers, lakes, and other water bodies, either building their own or buying the coveted Sherpa Rafts (a snowshoe company that made lake fishing rafts for one year) or other rafts built by Sevlor or Curtis Designs.
"Sherpa had the idea right," Tingey explains. "They were way ahead of the others, and almost ten years ahead of themselves. But they didn't have the tools to manufacture in large quantities."
In 2003, Sheri and Thor Tingey tried to put a bike on a boat for the first time. Photo: Jim Jaeger.
About that same time, Thor Tingey, Sheri's son, began envisioning on his own Alaska traverses. "One of those early Wildneress Classics came right down by our house in Alaska," Tingey recalls. "Thor was in grade school at the time. He remembered Roman stashing a bike at our house, and these people coming through. The finish line was just a little ways from the house." By the time he was a teenager, the junior Tingey would be embarking on his own wild trips across Alaska.
"In 1996, Roman made an 800-mile, seven-week traverse of the Alaska Range on bikes and rafts, a journey that was covered by National Geographic—and read by Thor Tingey, who was inspired to make his own packrafting traverses and eventually founded Alpacka Raft with his mother, Sheri Tingey." Fassbinder writes in his Adventure Journal article.
Thus, Alpacka Raft was born, and the course of packrafting history would be forever changed. But that's another story that you can read about on our website, "The Alpacka Story." Now on to the bicycles.
The Late 1980s: Roman Dial Envisions Bikes on Boats
Roman and Paul on the glacier silt laden Nebesna River, Alaska. Photo by Bill Hatcher
"So let's just get it straight, at first in the 1980s the bike was the main tool and the raft came along to get the bike across. I had been doing a bunch of long-distance wilderness traverses by foot and ski and packraft for about five years when I got my first mountain bike and realized that I could do the same trips with a bike. Then in the 1990s my friends got rafts, and now we could float our bikes when the brush was bad. We did the Grand Canyon as a one-off since I was sort of in an 'outlaw stage.' So far as we knew nobody had done anything like it [ride in from St. George, hike into the North Rim down Whitmore Wash to the Colorado, strap bikes onto Sherpa packrafts, paddle to Diamond Creek, and then pedal out to the South Rim]. Dick Griffith would do the whole Canyon in a Sherpa Packraft soon after to make sure he did it before we did!" ~Roman Dial, Interview February 2018.
People have been packing their gear on two-wheeled, human-powered contraptions for centuries, traveling for hundreds of miles to buy and sell goods, to get from one place to another more quickly than they would be foot, or just for the fun of it. Mountain bikes made it easier to do in the backcountry. But lashing bikes onto boats? Unsurprisingly, it was adventurer and naturalist Roman Dial who first envisioned this combination and then actualized it in 1987.
"I had never heard of anybody else doing it before me," Dial explains. "It was my own idea with my first mountain bike. I wanted to explore an area for moose hunting on the far side of the Delta River, a big glacier river in the Alaska Range. I used a Sherpa Packraft to get across, rode buffalo trails, and ended up shooting a moose and using the bike to wheel meat to the river and then ferry it all over in my raft."
Just one year later, Dial, his long-time climbing partner Carl Tobin, and cross-country ski racing champ Jon Underwood did a 150-mile mountain bike traverse across the Wrangell St. Elias National Park with mountain bikes and a single packraft that they used to cross several very big rivers (two bigger than the Colorado)—the Nabesna, Chitistone, and Nizina rivers. The men had met while mountain bike racing and had begun to ride and/or climb together.
For Carl Tobin, a mountaineer "hooked on climbing," who spent years obsessing over alpinism, ice and mixed climbs, walls, anything really, from a very young age, this trip (and others he did with Roman) took his wilderness explorations to another level. "In phases of my life, at least, I only saw alpine challenges, surrounded by landscapes that complicated my or my bank account's ability to get across the bergschrund and start climbing," he explains (February 2018 interview). "The packraft told me that the possibilities for going along many routes I'd never thought of going along were many, and allowed me to consider going on those types of routes." The first route he chose was Roman's. It was in keeping with his adventure philosophy… If something absolutely, positively had to go wrong, he wanted to be there.
"The range is so rugged, vast, and dynamic that for its entire 300-mile length no roads cross it. Our route would follow no pavement, no graded road, no maintained doubletrack, no marked trails. For 150 miles we would bash over river bar boulders, crash through wild game trails, portage over dizzying scree slopes and canyon cliffs, and paddle across raging glacial rivers." ~Roman Dial, October 1989 Mountain Bike Magazine
Likely the first wheeled-vehicle crossing of its kind through the St. Elias, the trio wanted maximum mountain bike riding "of the highest expedition ethic—fast, light, bold." They went ultralight, leaving behind shelter, stove, and other "luxuries," and strapping their sleeping bags, extra clothes, and food (about 20 pounds all together) on their bikes, so they could focus on riding. They also brought a paddle and a four-pound, two-person inflatable nylon raft, which Dial carried on his rack. "Without it we would never have succeeded," Dial writes in the Mountain Bike mag article. "…paddling was safe and painless compared to wading some of the creeks too fast, narrow, or shallow to deploy the raft."
"Only six feet long and less than four feet wide, the packraft proved adequate for ferrying three men and their babies. First, I'd paddle Carl across, then return for the bikes, layered like pancakes across the bow of the 'nylon bubble," as Jon called the yellow craft.
Even securely bound to the boat, my cargo of Klein, Yeti, and Victor worried Jon. Holding the boat as I climbed aboard, he pleaded, 'Don't you think you're a little top heavy? Remember you've got $4,000 worth of bikes piled on there!"
'Yeah, yeah, Jon. And it's all threatening to pop this $400 nylon bubble. But I'm in this to survive, and the bikes are the last of my worries."
In big water, as the boat climbed up then rode down four-foot waves, I'd dig hard with the kayak paddle to keep on course. Charged with adrenaline, I'd gouge my knuckles on naked dropouts, shave my shins on chain ring teeth, yet feel nothing until I reached the safety of the far shore." ~Roman Dial, October 1989 Mountain Bike Magazine
According to Underwood, now a Fairbanks-based trail designer and builder: "Roman proposed the trip, insisting it could be done despite the lack of a trail, that it was not just a stunt like rappelling off a cliff with your bike over your shoulder. It turned out he was correct, and we rode our rigid-frame bikes a surprising distance over gravel bars, cane terraces, and game trails along the 155-mile route." It didn't take Underwood and Tobin long to realize that long, unsupported trips deep into the wilderness were possible and that they could begin to think more creatively when planning routes.
The trio would proceed to do a variety of trips in the 1980s. These trips, Underwood recalls, often involved "some fairly sketchy, two-man river crossings in 1980s-era packrafts designed for one person." On one trip, they rode 250 miles in the Alaska Range, including 75 across glaciers and up and over a high glacier pass, over 14 days.
"About 20 miles into the trip we realized we had forgotten the maps (no GPS in those days!), but decided we had memorized the route well enough that we could wing it for the remaining 230 miles. Surprisingly we were able to traverse the route with almost no mistakes in navigation. I travelled the last 100 miles without a pedal on my bike, just the stump of the pedal axle protruding from my crank arm. It was on this trip that we discovered that glacial ice can be a lot like slickrock. Often the surface of the glacier is very rough and covered with sand and gravel to provide traction. Roman coined the term, 'sliprock' to describe it." ~Jon Underwood, Interview March 2018
High volume, swift, and cold rivers can represent barricades (existential sometimes) to a backcountry traveler, especially with a bicycle, which makes a poor swimming accessory, Tobin explains. "I suppose all of us wanted a light, dependable inflatable, that would fit in a pack or on a rack." And, despite the totally undependable early versions, they found this in the early packrafts.
The Early 1990s: The Epic Adventure of All BikeRaft Adventures
Expedition members descend a thousand feet toward the Black Rapids Glacier by bike. Photo: Bill Hatcher.
In the early 1990s, multi-sport adventurers and brothers Steve and (now deceased) Rocky Reifenstuhl started experimenting with bikes and boats, specifically during the Wilderness Classics and while on traverses of the Alaska landscape. (I couldn't find much on their adventures with packrafts, so that's a hole to be filled in future articles).
"In the year 2000, [Rocky] and brother Steve, a fisheries biologist in Sitka, won the Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic, one of the toughest races in the world, in brutal conditions. Competitors ended up bogged down in an unusual summer snowstorm that led racer Roman Dial, another prominent Alaska adventure sport racer, to coin the phrase 'pussy bedwetters' as he chastised competitors to try to get them moving along the trail."
~The Anchorage Daily News, September 2016
As well, Roman Dial added a longer list of partners to his adventures—Yod Branch, Steve Garro, Bill Hatcher, Paul Adkins, Andrew Liske, Mark Stoppel. With various combinations of these partners, Dial did a 200-mile Brooks Range trip from the Arctic Ocean at Kaktovik to Alaska's interior at Arctic Village, "with two bikes, paddling salt water lagoons, crossing rivers and floating 50 miles down the Chandalar River" (1990); a 150-mile Kenai Peninsula trip, with 90 miles of single track, a 90-mile hike-a-bike across the Harding Ice Field, with a 30-mile float down the Fox River, and 30-mile road ride to Home (1995); and various other trips in Alaska and the Southwest.
Photo by Bill Hatcher. "Carrying below the Hayes Range. Alaska's Alaska Range Mountains. The adventure rs were on a seven-week, 775-mile expedition traveling east to west across Alaska from the Yukon border to the Aleutian Range in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. (Travel on Black Rapids Glacier.)"
In 1996, all these trips culminated in what many might consider one of Dial's crowning achievements—an 800-mile mountain bike traverse of the Alaska Range that took seven weeks, on which they utilized bikes and packrafts.
"We're 11 days into a seven-week bike trip from one end of the Alaska Range to the other, a journey no one has ever made before. Stretching more than 700 miles from the Yukon border in the east to the base of the Aleutian Range in the west, the mountains span a wilderness of boulders, brush, and belly-deep bogs that would be a chore to traverse by foot or mountain bike, were it not for the game trails, gravel bars, and glaciers that crisscross the landscape…" ~Roman Dial "Biking Across the Alaska Range: A Wild Ride," May 1997 National Geographic
And though they were able to ford some of the creeks and rivers by foot, across others they were forced to strap their bikes to rafts and run the whitewater. What it came down to for Dial was that he liked riding bikes and boating, and he really liked wild landscapes, so why not put them all together? "Hiking is so straight-forward," he writes (January 2018 Interview). "But riding a bike through wilderness requires a lot more skill and experience and decision making. And if you're in wilderness there'll be big rivers or bays to cross without bridges, and so you'll need a raft and if you have partners why not have them bring a raft, too?"
Late 1990s-2000s: Proof of Concept
Roman Dial on the Lost Coast Tour. "Back in 2011 three of our group tutored under expeditionary beach-boating bike pioneers Dylan Kentch and Eric Parsons," wrote Roman Dial in a Revelate Designs blog post. "Through salt, sand, and surf we bike'n'boated the wild end of the Lost Coast. That 200 or so miles of coastline south from Yakutat to Glacier Bay included ten days of June sunshine, big beaches, big boulders, bad brush, tidal rides, and a nasty cop at the end (Pedal, Paddle, Push). Our Lost Coast South trip was 60% pedaling, 30% paddling, and a full 10% nasty pushing, carrying, and sometimes throwing bikes." Photo: Fassbinder.
"Advancements in boats and bikes and other technical gear has allowed those things to be combined more safely and easily, due to the functionality of the bikes and the lightweight durability of the boats these days. The first time someone threw a bike on a boat, it probably didn't go that well. The boats weren't up for it. Now the technology makes these trips possible and safer. And the general public is also more in tune that these things are possible. In 2000 there were three Alpacka Raft packrafts in the world, and now there are thousands." ~Steve "Doom" Fassbinder, Interview, March 2018
In the late 1990s, a handful of younger multi-sport adventures, aware of Roman Dial's bike and raft adventures and with extensive backgrounds in long-distance mountain bike racing and/or rugged backcountry bikepacking, started testing the waters using Alpacka rafts; Steve Fassbinder, Erik Parsons (Revelate Designs owner), Dylan Kentsch, Bjorn Olson, and Lacemine 29 Owner Mike Curiak all began lashing bikes onto boats.
For Fassbinder, Roman Dial's trips were "proof of concept"—they showed people could do these huge traverses once done only on foot or by ski, now with bikes and boats. Of course, he adds, "Alpacka packrafts didn't exist back then, and the boats they were using were horrible and just barely got by. They'd have to be repaired every day of use. They'd put five pounds of tape on the rafts each time they used them. When real boats—Alpacka rafts—existed 15, 20 years later, that was proof of concept that the materials worked. It was so much more realistic and less dicey; you could still make a trip risky, but it wouldn't be dangerous because your equipment fails on you…"
An expanded version of this article, with more history, was published in Mountain Flyer Magazine.
List of published articles or forum discussions about packrafts and bikes
Canoe & Kayak Mag interview with Dick Griffith
Canyons & Ice: The Wilderness Travels of Dick Griffith
"Live to Ride, Ride to Die Mountain Bikes from Hell!" October 1989 Mountain Bike Magazine article by Roman Dial
Some history of the use of packrafts in the Wilderness Classics
"Packrafting: An Introduction and How To Guide," by Roman Dial, (has some information about lashing a bike onto a raft)
"Bike. Pack. Raft." By Steve "Doom" Fassbinder, 2016 Adventure Journal article
"Bikerafting: A Beginner's Guide," by Huw Oliver & Annie Lee, Bikepacking.com
"The Alaskan beach bike, birding, packrafting, bar hopping, fishing extravaganza!" By Eric Parsons.
Early APA forum thread
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The Scales of Injustice is a Virgin Missing Adventures original novel written by Gary Russell based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Third Doctor, Liz Shaw and UNIT.

Plot
The Doctor suspects Silurians are afoot when a child goes missing in a seaside community, a policewoman begins drawing cave paintings, and the employees at the mysterious Glasshouse project are desperate to hide something. Meanwhile, his assistant Liz Shaw teams up with a journalist to search for people who don't exist, and Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart copes with personal and UNIT crises. And how does all this link back to the very heart of the British Government?

Continuity
This novel begins a trilogy concerning the Pale Man and the Irish Twins which continues in Russell's two Past Doctor Adventures Business Unusual and Instruments of Darkness.

This novel provides the departure scene for the companion Liz Shaw. In the television series her final appearance was in the last episode of Inferno, but she is not seen to leave the Doctor. In the Terror of the Autons her departure was announced by the Brigadier.

The novel is also designed as a prequel to the events of the television serial Warriors of the Deep. Specifically, this story explains how the Doctor knows Icthar and how he knows of the Triad and the Myrka.

References

External links
The Cloister Library - The Scales of Injustice

1996 British novels
1996 science fiction novels
Third Doctor novels
Virgin Missing Adventures
Novels by Gary Russell


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Franklin Square family holds organ donation fundraiser
Posted Tuesday, October 13, 2020 12:17 pm
The Hearts for Russ virtual fundraiser, on Oct. 8, raised $37,000 for organ donation organizations, the nonprofit's president, Doug Housman, announced.
Russ Housman
The Housmans, a Franklin Square family, host a golf and dinner fundraiser every year to raise money for organ, eye and tissue donation organizations and to help alleviate the financial burdens families face while loved ones wait for transplants. But since many people who support the Housmans' nonprofit, Hearts for Russ, are organ recipients themselves and are on immunosuppressants, the family decided to hold the fundraiser virtually this year, on Oct. 8.
"I know many of you are totally sick of Zoom," Hearts for Russ President Doug Housman said as the event began. But, he added, "Tonight is a celebration. It's a celebration of Russ."
Doug's younger brother, Russ, was born in 1968 with transposition of the great arteries — a rare but serious heart defect in which the two main arteries leaving the heart are reversed — and a hole in the wall between the two upper chambers of his heart. Doctors told his parents, Joyce and Russ Housman Sr., that Russ Jr. might not survive, and they had him baptized immediately.
Fortunately, however, Russ managed to have a normal life until he was 10, according to the Hearts for Russ website, when he had a heart attack while playing at a friend's house, and in 1977 he became the second child in the world to receive a pediatric pacemaker.
He started dating Pam Cruickshanks in 1986, and they were married in 1992 and moved to Franklin Square, where they raised two daughters, Carollynn and Cydney. Russ became a master woodworker, electrician and salesman. But in 2012, he began to experience shortness of breath. That November, his pacemaker was replaced with a smaller and more powerful defibrillator, and he and Pam found out he was eligible for a heart transplant.
In January 2013, Russ was placed on the list of New Yorkers who needed heart transplants, and was told that, in the meantime, he needed a left ventricular assist device to support his heart. But the device couldn't do so for long, and that April, he had an artificial heart implanted — a pump that circulates blood and replaces heart ventricles that are diseased or damaged — and could not leave the hospital until he received a transplant.
Russ waited for more than a year for a viable donor, and eventually his muscles deteriorated, his kidneys shut down, he lost his appetite and he was placed on a ventilator. He couldn't walk or talk, and he kept getting chest infections.
"I was scared on a daily basis, terrified of just losing him," Pam said in a video about Russ's life, "and I felt bad hoping for somebody to pass that could help him."
Finally, on Aug. 4, 2013, Pam was told that a viable heart had been found. The transplant took 23 hours, but was unsuccessful. Russ died on Aug. 7, 2013, at age 42.
"It was really amazing how he worked through a broken heart pretty much his entire life," Doug said, describing his brother as a Good Samaritan. "He was a shirt-off-his-back kind of guy who was always willing to help others."
To help keep that spirit alive, the Housmans founded Hearts for Russ as a nonprofit in 2014, and have since raised over $100,000 for organizations that help those who need organs, organ recipients and their families. Hearts for Russ also seeks to educate the public about the need for organ donors, and honors those in the transplant community who have made a difference.
At last week's fundraiser, participants heard from representatives of the organizations Hearts for Russ supports, including Aisha Taotr, executive director of Donate Life New York State, which operates the donor registry; Missy Rahman, executive director of Harboring Hearts, which used a grant from Hearts for Russ to provide housing and transportation for eight families at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset; and the Long Island Chapter of the Transplant Recipients International Organization, which supports transplant patients and promotes organ donation.
The Long Island TRIO also worked with Hearts for Russ to make three 30-second videos about organ recipients' lives for the Department of Motor Vehicles, which were shown during the fundraiser. They featured a woman named Shelby Caban, who said she needed a heart transplant at age 10 to survive end-stage heart failure, and now tries to be generous "because I have someone else's life inside of me"; an emergency medical technician named Jack Cloonan who underwent three liver transplants before he turned 2; and Jennifer Lentini, who had a heart transplant when she was 13.
"If it wasn't for someone making a decision," Lentini said, "I wouldn't be here."
Many others echoed that sentiment when accepting their awards from Hearts for Russ. Chris Klug, a three-time Olympic snowboarder who had a liver transplant a year and a half before winning a bronze medal at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, said he wanted to show the world what an organ recipient could accomplish. And Bill Corbett, who received a kidney transplant from his wife, former Floral Park Mayor Ann Corbett, said he hoped anyone who was watching would consider being an organ donor.
"I'm just stunned and amazed when I see what organ donation can do," Doug Housman said.
Dr. Robert Montgomery, the chairman of surgery at NYU Langone, who pioneered a laparoscopic kidney transplant and received a heart transplant himself from a hepatitis C positive donor two years ago, said that improvements are always being made to transplant surgery, including the use of bio-artificial organs and organs that have been genetically engineered.
"It's a journey," Doug said, "and your support helps us continue it."
Hearts for Russ raised a total of $37,000 on Oct. 8, breaking its previous fundraising effort. To donate, go to www.HeartsforRuss.org, and to sign up to be an organ donor, go to www.OrganDonor.gov or visit your local DMV.