SEACAD seizes 114 grams of meth
February 6, 2020
In coordination with Southeast Alaska Communities Against Drugs, the Petersburg Police Department conducted a controlled delivery in town that resulted in the seizure of 114 grams of methamphetamine.
According to Police Chief Jim Kerr, the case is still under investigation, so details of the bust can't be released at this time. He said search warrants have been filed and charges are pending against the individuals involved.
As a part of SEACAD Petersburg works with officials throughout the region, such as the Juneau Police Department and US postal inspectors, to get drugs off the streets....


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In this book you can read about Dr. Horrible's and Moist's origin story, Penny's love life, Captain Hammer being his usual arrogant jackass and what happened that day in the park with Johnny Snow.
This is a great opportunity to see the Evil League of Evil in action. And boy... are they EVIL!
How is it?
Before we continue there's one question you should ask yourself. Have you seen Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog? No?! The go there and see it. I'll wait.
Have you seen it already? Yes?! Cool then lets continue.
This book revolves around the Doctor Horrible Sing Along Blog's story, in fact all these stories are prequels. There is no particular reading order these tales are not connected to each other, just with the musical.
Moist: Humidity Rising is all about the character of Moist how he came to be Dr. Horrible's henchman. This story also tells the Moist's origin story. Moist wasn't always a damped and suety man. He was once a normal kid with skin dehydration problems. One day his dad brought home a soviet cold war looking humidifier. In good superhero fashion that'll go horribly wrong and as a result Moist is born.
The Evil League of Evil shows just how evil the Evil League of Evil can really be. This is something we don't see in the musical, so its great to finally see them in action. Also explain what happened in the park that night with Johnny Snow.
Dr. Horrible is the origin story of Dr. Horrible. In the musical we learn the Dr. Horrible isn't that bad a person. He is actually a nice guy. Then why does a nice guy chose to be a super-villain?! That is masterfully told in this story. Also some of the first battles with Captain Hammer.
Eric Canete, Farel Dalrymple, Jim Rugg and Joelle Jones are in charge of the art department and they do a good job at it. The art varies a bit from story to story but overall is very good. Its a bit cartoony, but that fits the mood of the book very well.
The art style is very clean and well define with vibrant colors. They capture the likeness of the actors from the musical very well, with the exception of Captain Hammer in the first story.
The stories in Dr. Horrible and Other Horrible Stories don't really add nothing very important to the mix. However they do flesh these characters out very well. And they're a joy to read but only if you've watched and liked the original musical.
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This is a cool book. However it only makes sense to buy this one if you've seen and liked Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog. If that is the case, then track this book and you'll get a real kick out of it.
On the off-chance you didn't like the musical, then there's no reason to get this one.
Publisher: Dark Horse
Authors: Zack Whedon, Joelle Jones, Jim Rugg, Farel Dalrymple, Eric Canete
Originally Published at Reading Graphic Novels http://readinggraphicnovels.blogspot.com/2013/02/review-dr-horrible-and-other-horrible.html

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In fact, the start of the career of American actress Kristen James Stewart, born in April 1990, was promising. Few people manage to “light up” at the age of 9 in one of the Hollywood series, even if not in the most successful one. And at the age of 12, she does play the role of the daughter of Judy Foster herself in the film Panic Room. By the way, in this film, Kristen “inherited” the role from Nicole Kidman herself!True, then Kristen’s career somehow did not work out. For various reasons, she never became a star of American cinema. Having starred in several quite ordinary projects, she was remembered by the audience, perhaps, in the film “Twilight”, where she played Bella Swan. Then there was a sequel, where her partner in the film, Robert Pattinson, already had the official status of Kristen’s husband. This is where it all started …Recognition in unconventional tastes
Very quickly, the young couple began to pursue quite naughty scandals:
- the husband accuses Kristen of having connections with one of the actors;
- then Stuart herself will announce her intrigues;
- then they completely officially announce their bisexuality.
As an indisputable proof of the last argument, the actress put on display a frank lesbian set Kristen Stewart nude, in which she, though she appeared quite dressed, but was only surrounded by half-naked beauties.
Hollywood usually looks at such things, as they say, through their fingers. But this time it was different. This is not to say that Kristen was a Hollywood star. But she was obviously not the “Cinderella” of American cinema either. After all, she has more than 30 roles in various film and television projects.
Not to mention the fact that once she was the official face of several perfume and cosmetic brands, including Chanel. Nevertheless, despite the fact that Stewart is still trying to act in films, her ambiguous reputation is firmly rooted in the minds of ordinary people.
Moreover, the girl herself often frankly provokes her fans. As if competing with Dua Lipa nude photo shoots, where in the performance of a popular singer, everything looks quite decent and even modest, Kristen is increasingly deliberately showing all the charms with which nature has awarded her. And the lower the level of a project, the more frank the scenes look on the screen and the sets of photos on the Internet …

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'The person you arrested is leaving before you'
ROSEBURG, Ore. -- As the Douglas County Jail reaches capacity more often, officials say it's causing some alleged offenders to walk free.
On Saturday, a Roseburg area transient caused a small explosion behind Rite Aide on Stephen's Street. According to the Roseburg police logs, Rex Tanberg, 52, was cited and released after allegedly causing the explosion.
Roseburg officials say that jail overcrowding is to blame.
Saturday's citation and release at the scene isn't an isolated incident.
Sgt. Jeff Eichenbusch of the Roseburg Police Department says overcrowding has happened for years, but he adds that it's been more frequent lately. "In the past, it would happen every month or two, we would get a notice in the jail saying please cite and release when possible," he said. "Lately, it's become more frequent, and it's probably almost on a daily basis it seems to be."
Eichenbusch says that it can be frustrating for everyone involved.
"If we deal with someone who's a problem in their neighborhood and take them into custody, they can be back within their neighborhood within a short amount of time," Eichenbusch said. "It can be really frustrating for us also because you're working on a case or you're trying to resolve a problem, and then you get to the jail and you can't always take care of that problem. You have to turn around and the person you arrested is leaving before you."
Eichenbusch adds that overcrowding only effects low level offenders.

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- McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski said Tuesday that items cut to improve operations during the pandemic will likely return, although it is "unlikely" that the menu will return to its pre-pandemic length.
- According to Kempczinski, McDonald's customers are looking for more variety than what's currently on menus.
- Kempzcinski also said that the pandemic has led the chain to shelve plans for new menu items.
Now, as the fast-food chain slowly reopens U.S. dining rooms, it's looking to bring back some menu items, according to CEO Chris Kempczinski.
"We will certainly add things back to the menu. Whether it goes all the way back to where we were pre-Covid, I think that's probably unlikely," Kempczinski said Tuesday during a virtual Evercore ISI investor conference.
"But I think that it's equally unlikely that we'll stay with the current menu because the customer is looking for a broader array of menu items than what we currently have," he added.
The limited menu helped McDonald's fill drive-thru orders quickly, even if its kitchens were short staffed. It cut certain items that were more complex or didn't sell as well and limited breakfast to only morning hours. About a year ago, the chain had phased out some items, like its line of premium burgers, in a bid to speed up its service times.
McDonald's management could face some pushback from franchisees. The board of the National Owners Association, an independent advocacy group for U.S. McDonald's franchisees, said in early June in an emailed update to the association's members that keeping menus simplified was its top priority.
The company is also thinking about how to launch new menu items. As consumers spent less money at restaurants and McDonald's same-store sales declined, the company shelved some of its plans.
"In the U.S., this is going to be up to Joe Erlinger, our U.S. president, working with the local owner-operators there to figure out the right timing to go do this," Kempczinski said.
Kempczinski appeared to refer to a delayed launch of its chicken sandwich, which was created to rival those of Chick-fil-A and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen. McDonald's tested its Crispy Chicken Sandwich in two markets in December and January.
"We certainly believe that there's a big opportunity for us in chicken, but wasn't the right time to go after that," Kempczinski said.
Other halted plans included news around baked goods and breakfast, according to Kempczinski. Consumers have been eating more breakfast at home due to the pandemic, and lost breakfast sales accounted for more than half of McDonald's U.S. same-store sales declines in May.
Stifel analyst Chris O'Cull wrote in a note to clients that recovering breakfast sales will become a "critical factor" for future revenue and profitability.
"Prior to COVID, breakfast represented 25% of US sales, and was [McDonald's] most profitable daypart, primarily due to beverage margin," O'Cull said.
Shares of McDonald's closed up less than 1% on Tuesday after the company reported that its global same-store sales fell almost 30% during the first two months of its second quarter. The stock, which has a market value of $147 billion, has fallen 3% so far this year.

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2006 Lincoln Navigator Q&A
2006 Lincoln Navigator Question: check engine light
To accurately check the O2 sensors will requires a 2 channel lab scope and you need to know the correct / incorrect wave forms of the good/bad sensors under different conditions. I'd leave this to a professional - otherwise you might spend $$$ for unnecessary parts. Zee - ZeeTech
Shakes when idling and engine light blinks when I get on the highway.
A vacuum leak from the PCV grommet vacuum leak can cause the Check Engine Light to illuminate. The molded rubber hose connections may crack and collapse, causing the vehicle...
The check engine light came on . it has 108,000 miles.
The light just came on last night.......not the check engine light
my suv was parked for 3 months and i told my son to pick it up he drove it for a mile or so got it up to highway speed and it started knocking he pulled over it died and now will not turn over i ha...


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Discussion in 'Transportation & Travel' started by luvthemansion, Mar 21, 2010.
is it ok to take sandwiches on our ba flight to orlando? I know theres a liquid ban or is there now?
This is what BA say on their website.
Specific restrictions on liquids
Restrictions on the quantities of liquids, gels or pastes are:
•they must be held in individual containers not exceeding 100ml
•the containers must be carried in a separate, clear-plastic, zip-top or re-sealable bag
•the bag must not exceed 20cm x 20cm (8ins x 8ins) in dimensions
•the bag must not exceed one litre (1.75 pints) capacity
•the bag must be completely closed
•the items must fit comfortably in the bag
•the bag must be x-ray screened separately from other hand baggage at airport security points.
You can purchase duty-free liquids at the airport or on board if your journey is wholly within the EU.
For other journeys and destinations, you should refer to the specific country restrictions.
There's no restrictions on food but if you don't eat it all then you'll probably have to leave it on the plane as the US has a lot of restrictions on what foods can pass through their borders.
(teabags are fine )
Separate names with a comma.

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Just ask this therapist: laughter is definitely the best medicine
Teeheeheehee, yuk yuk yuk, ho ho ho, BAHAHAHA — no matter how you do it, laughter can boost your mood, lower your blood pressure and help prolong your life.
“It’s spontaneous; it’s contagious; it’s incredibly powerful,” said Cindy Miles, a certified laughter therapist based in Sylva.
These factors are some of the reasons Miles sought out laughter therapy training. Laughter therapy uses the positive benefits of genuine, mirthful chuckling to help alleviate problems such as stress, high blood pressure, lethargy and depression.
“It’s a very simple way to manage stress,” Miles said. “We know that laughter relaxes blood vessels.”
And, it’s cheap. The only cost is Miles’ time and training.
“It’s a way to get a powerful result with very little money,” she said.
Burns calories, increases blood flow to the brain, strengthens the immune system and releases endorphins are among the other listed benefits of laughter therapy.
“100 percent of the people who actively participate feel better,” Miles said.
Miles works for the Southwestern Commission Area Agency on Aging as family caregiver resource coordinator.
In her job, Miles sees strained caregivers ignoring their personal needs in order to support a disabled, terminally ill or elderly family member. As a result, caregivers report a deterioration of their health, higher rates of depression and poor eating habits. And, it is not uncommon for caregivers to die before the person they are assisting.
“One thing I encounter with family caregivers is they are so stressed,” she said.
A tenant of the therapy is that laughter begets laughter. By performing one of more than 100 different activities, laughter therapists’ goal is to trigger fits of guffaws, which lead to various degrees of side splitting, floor rolling and ebullient eye watering.
“They are designed to stimulate laughter (and) it’s better in a group setting,” she said.
Exercises include pretending to be laughter-powered airplanes or simply playing a clip of baby’s cracking up — something that, at the very least, is hard not to snicker at.
“Laughter ends up being the outcome,” she said.
One thing you won’t hear at a therapy session, however, is jokes.
Jokes are typically made at the expense of others, Miles said, adding that poking fun at other people is not condoned.
Laughter therapy has not only benefited the people Miles works with, but it has also improved her already cheery disposition.
“I am more mindful of the need to laugh,” she said.
Children giggle hundreds of times a day, Miles said, but as adults, people forget to chortle on a regular basis.
“If we get 15 laughs a day, we have a good day,” she said.
Miles said she has only encountered one Scrooge during her sessions. A police officer attended one of the events in full uniform and had trouble laughing because he was constrained by a bulletproof vest.
“He just could not bring himself to do it,” she said.
Otherwise, even people who have experienced a recent tragedy have been able to find humor and healing in Mile’s therapy sessions. Miles’ specifically recalled a woman who had lost her father the week prior chortling.
“I was just amazed that she was able to participate,” she said.
Spreading the cheer
Miles was first certified in 2010 and attained advanced certification a year later. She is one of about 6,000 laughter therapists certified by World Laughter Tour Inc., an organization founded by psychologist Steve Wilson. World Laughter Tour trains people and promotes the use of laughter therapy worldwide. Miles is the only laughter therapist in area, according to the organization’s website.
“I am pretty much it in this part of the state,” she said.
However, that could change in the next couple years after Miles completes the final level of training. Once she is named a master trainer, Miles can teach coworkers at the Southwestern Commission and people in similar position around the state how to lead laughter therapy sessions.
“After we saw how well it was received, we sent her for additional training,” said Mary Barker, director of the Southwestern Commission Area Agency on Aging. “I think it’s a great thing to relieve caregivers stress. They get so wound up in taking care they forget to take care of themselves.”
With more certified laughter therapists, the commission will be able to host more sessions and expose more people to its benefits.
“It is so popular that she can’t fill all the requests she is getting,” Barker said.
And at some point in the future the Southwestern Commission hopes to partner with a university to track the psychological and physical effects of laughter therapy.
“We are definitely looking at that, and the state is encouraging us to do that,” Barker said.

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Sunday Mar 2
Greek star Sotirios Kyrgiakos hopes to attract A-League attention with Sydney Olympic stint
Former Greek international Sotirios Kyrgiakos has agreed to a two-game guest stint with NSW Premier League side Sydney Olympic.
Five free agent stars your club could still sign
The transfer window might have slammed shut last week, but Premier League clubs can still add to their squad past deadline day.
Why Liverpool Won't Lose Sleep over Loan Transfer of Defender Sebastian Coates
In Brendan Rodgers' mind, Sebastian Coates may no longer have been a Liverpool player anyway when news emerged, as per Subrayado , reported by This Is Anfield , that the Uruguayan defender is to return to his homeland on loan for six months.
Three of Greece's most famous footballers could be playing semi-professional football in Australia next season as Sydney Olympic are on the cusp of signing Euro 2004 winners Angelos Charisteas and Pantelis Kafes plus former national team defensive stalwart Sotirios Kyrgiakos.
5 Liverpool Players Fans Want Sold
All smiles: but is Rodgers happy with the current squad he has at his disposal at Liverpool? Mike Hewitt/Getty Images With the summer transfer market set to close in less than a month's time, Liverpool still have the chance to offload any unwanted players, and from having listened to and read many Reds fans' opinions on the matter, there are a ... (more)


Generators are known to supply electric power in times of need in the blackout areas. They work on the principle of conservation of energy. They convert the mechanical form of energy to its electrical form. As we know, that energy cannot be created nor be destroyed, only it can be transformed from one to another form. The same principle is applied in case of generators that produce power to meet the deficiency of the blackout areas.
Electricity is very essential in hospitals that need a continuous supply of power. Power is required to provide light, power air filtration devices and keep the patients alive. In case of failure of power grid, the generators are required to make the most important machine functioning. Under no circumstances, due to lack of power the lives of the patients should come under trouble.
The construction sites need a huge amount of power. Diesel Generators supply power that is required by the workers to run the tools and carry on their work. The work efficiency of the workers is in the hands of the generators that provide power to the construction sites.
They are also known to provide backup energy for emergencies. During natural calamities like flood or fire, a good generator is the best friend of man. They provide energy to keep your family safe and warm, with hot food as well as light, during the emergency period. The blessings of the generators help the human life to survive in peace, even in such disastrous situation.
New Diesel Generators have become an integral part of our life. It is impossible to think of this life, if there is no alternate source of power. Alternate source of power is essential and it makes everything operational, up and running. Life without power is too difficult to bear and generators are meant to resolve the power related problems of our life.


Oct 5, 2013, 6:45 PM EDT
The 19-year-old was selected seventh overall in the 2012 NHL Draft. His parents will be on hand.
All warm and fuzzy feelings aside, the defenseman wants to carry over an impressive preseason into high-level action for the Wild. Head coach Mike Yeo seems eager to see if he can pull it off.
“I’m excited for him,” Yeo said. “This guy’s a big part of our future. He’s had a really strong camp, so I’m excited to get him there and see how he goes out and performs at this time of year. We’ve seen it. We saw it Game 1 for us, the pace of play, the intensity picks up right now, so you want to see how he handles that.”
Dumba had a great 2012-13 season in the WHL, scoring 42 points in 62 games for the Red Deer Rebels. He also got his feel wet with the AHL’s Houston Aeros, though he failed to register a point in three regular season and five postseason games at that level.
Who knows how many games he’ll get a crack at with the Wild this year; a lot of that depends on his short-term work and the team’s long-term plans.
- Injured Crosby, Malkin will miss start of Pens’ camp 3
- Selanne rips Boudreau in book 13
- Just how damaging are heated negotiations between Jackets, RFA Johansen? 19
- Panthers owners say they’re committed even though team has lost ‘tremendous amounts of money’ 11
- Update: Wild’s Harding out indefinitely with fractured foot 20
- Johansen heads home from Columbus as talks get even messier 23
- Kesler accuses Vancouver media of making up stories, ‘throwing people under the bus’ 22
- Jackets reveal Johansen offers — including an eight year, $46M deal 52
- Mike Yeo is pretty unhappy with Minnesota’s goalie situation 22
- Much to his relief, Lecavalier will start season at center 21
- Heeeeeere’s Johnny! Davidson shreds Johansen’s agent for ‘baffling, nonsensical’ contract demands (61)
- Chiarelli: At some point, I’m going to have to trade a defenseman (56)
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For more than two decades, Armin van Buuren has been a global ambassador for trance, and is widely recognised as one of the biggest DJs in the world, placing an incredible five times in the number one position of the critically acclaimed DJ Mag Top 100 poll, not to mention being voted the best trance DJ in the world at the International Dance Music Awards and the DJ Awards. The Armada label head continues to sell out stadiums and arenas around the globe with his Armin Only and A State of Trance tours as well as playing countless top festivals and nightclubs every year with a relentless tour schedule.
The GRAMMY-nominated artist is also no stranger to the White Isle. He’s held numerous residencies there over the past 12 years, including for his highly successful A State Of Trance party at Ushuaïa Ibiza in 2014 and 2015 where he captivated clubbers each week with his seamless and inspired selections. It’s with this same passion for Ibiza and ability to transcend boundaries between his music and the audience that he now brings to U R at Hï Ibiza, the concept of which will blend the beauty and spirituality the island is so well known for.
Armin will be joined by an array of big name guest DJs on this exciting new journey – watch this space for a lineup announcement coming soon!
“I’m looking forward to bringing my new concept U R to Hï Ibiza this summer. Ibiza is my favourite place in the world and I’m super excited to build a completely new home for myself. After being a resident for more than 12 years, it feels great to have this new challenge in a brand new club!” – Armin van Buuren
Book your place at U R this summer at www.hiibiza.com.
Also read – Hï Ibiza Announces Eric Prydz Residency


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BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — Shortly after Mary Rice was booked into the Santa Rosa County Jail, she had a visitor, her court-appointed attorney from Alabama, Spencer Davis.
“My first impression was she was scared to death. She was lucky to be alive, very grateful to be alive,” Davis said.
Rice faces capital murder charges in Baldwin County for the murder of Peggy Broz. She was shot and killed in the front yard of her Lillian home, her car stolen.
“She was not a willing participant in anything,” said Davis. “She was there because of threats and abuse from Mr. Boyette. She is as much as a victim in this case as anybody.”
He’s only had the case a week but he is already formulating a defense.
“If someone’s life is threatened and their family’s life is threatened, they might be willing to do things that they wouldn’t otherwise do,” Davis explained.
Davis says once all the information is gathered and the investigation complete, it will show there were actually five victims of Billy Boyette and only one survived.
“I look forward to representing Miss Rice. I think she’s got a good case,” he said.
Davis says there has been a rush to judgment of Rice. Even law enforcement thought at first she was a hostage and later decided she was an accomplice.


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Merlin’s Cave is excellent for a multitude of reasons. It’s a catchy name, the whole place is wrapped up in a blurr of mediaeval mythology, and its an awesome place to paddle in a kayak. In fact paddling it in a kayak is definitely the way to appreciate this dramatic place because the approach from land is a bit over-commercialised. Or so I’ve been told, because every one of over thirty visits to this amazing place has been by sea.
Legend states that wannabee monarch baby Arthur was washed up on the sand at the entrance to the cave.* . He was discovered by the wizard Merlin who lurked within** and was nurtured to his place on the throne of the castle on top of the cliffs high above. Surrounded by Sir Lancelot et al.
*lucky it wasn’t high tide or he would have gone right through **hope he had a good set of chest waders
It’s all good stuff, and the knights and their entourage could not have chosen a more spectacular location for their castle. Tintagel island is great hulk of a rocky peninsular which is lashed by wind and battered by a booming swell for most of the year. It’s only on a handful of days during the summer that conditions are anything like suitable for a (relaxed) visit by sea kayak. For exploring the caves and tunnels the open sea swell has really got to be less than two feet….which isn’t very often.
Access by kayak isn’t that straightforward. It’s either a two mile paddle up from Trebarwith which is an exposed surf beach, or a four mile paddle down from the much more sheltered launch site of Boscastle Harbour. This has got to be the best route because it takes you past a couple of superb islands and the sandy beaches at Bossiney.
Merlin’s cave is even more remarkable because it passes through the neck of Tintagel island and for the kayaker bypasses almost a mile of the most savage rocky coastline imaginable around Tintagel island. Vertical black cliffs and a sea which is restless even when everywhere else is flat calm. It’s a hostile place and I’ve had a hairy moment or two here. This is the tip of Tintagel head:
The cave is in such a perfect place for sneaking between Tintagel Haven and West Cove, you can’t help thinking that a bit of wizardry was involved in its creation.
Approaching from the other direction (west) is not only magical from a scenery point of view, but also because the door of the cave seems to suddenly opens before you as you paddle towards blank cliff.
The tunnel is one hundred metres in length which, I’m pretty sure, makes it the longest in SW England. I’ve paddled the whole coast and don’t think I missed a better one.
It is only the realm of the kayaker from two or three hours either side of high tide when the sandy base of the cave is covered. During that time it is heaving with land-based tourists.

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Dhenkanal: Once served the country with blood and sweat, their passion and dedication to safeguard the sovereignty of the nation is as strong as ever. This is a story of a group of former servicemen who are providing free training to youths in tribal-dominated Kankadahad area of Dhenkanal district with an aim to help build the next line of defence for the nation's frontiers.
The jawans who served in various positions in the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force have now turned instructors to provide training to local youths aspiring to join the armed forces. They have set up a training camp at Bhalutangar to nurture the local youths.
Hundreds of youths from Dhenkanal, Keonjhar and Jajpur have joined the camp and are receiving training to join the defence forces. Apart from physical training, the ex-veterans are also training the youths to crack the army recruitment examinations.
“When I retired in 2018, I saw many local youths have good physiques, but due to lack of facilities they are not able to pursue a career in serving the country at the frontiers. I then held discussion with some former army jawans to impart training to the youngsters to help them join the defence. We started the training camp in November,” said an ex-serviceman.
“As our area does not have proper training facilities, so we planned to begin the camp to provide training to the youths and make them eligible to get through the recruitment,” said another jawan who retired in 2018.
Narrating his experience, an Air Force retiree said, “The youths have the spirit to serve the nation. Apart from making them physically fit, I also prepare them to crack the exams."
The local youths too are all praise for the ex- servicemen and hope that under their guidance they will fulfil the dream of joining the armed forces.
“A complete training needed for a jawan is being provided to us. We are receiving the training for the last one month. We have to report a 6.30 am everyday. Various physical trainings like long jump, high jump, crocodile race, roping, 100 metre sprinting are given here,” said a youth.
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Spunk!/ Saddle Creek
Adrianne Lenker has a deep understanding of songcraft, developed over almost two decades in music. Her guitar playing began at six years old, there was a first solo record was released at 14, and a few years ago her dream of finally starting a band was realised. Big Thief's debut - a lifetime in the making - was called"Masterpiece", filled with intimate autobiographical and allegorical storytelling. The new songs are just as powerful, expressions of personal and universal mysteries; of interconnectedness, family, identity, suffering and transcendence.This sublety and complexity is mirrored in the arrangements, which draw on indie, rock and folk traditions.
"Janus" is the debut solo album from the extradinarily talented and extremely prolific Ella Thompson, well known for her other projects including GL, Dorsal Fins, Axolotl and The Bamboos. "Janus", named for the Roman god of beginnings, is indeed something of a new start, but also builds on Ella Thompson's extensive catalogue, blending soul, synth-pop, ballads, electro, and boogie styles.
"Multi-Love" is the third album from Ruban Nielson's Unknown Mortal Orchestra; a characteriscally vibrant mix that represents a new stage in the artist's evolution. There's the lo-fi breakbeats, affecting vocal performances and fuzzed out guitars that marked the earlier records, and there's also the addition of more instruments and a richer range of pop, prog and soul songwriting. Serving as something of a new blueprint for psychedelic funk, "Multi-Love" is an expansive record that's equally introspective in its explorations of life and relationships.
Melbourne outfit Hiatus Kaiyote continue to innovate and captivate with their second album. Having already impressed local and global audiences with their Tawk Tomahaw album and extensive touring, Hiatus Kaiyote demonstrate once more their extraordinary strength and versatility as performers on record. The music presented covers a wide spectrum of styles, blending soul, jazz, funk, electronic, beats and even arcade game soundeffects amongst other hybrid forms.
"The Magic Whip" marks the anticipated return of Blur. The iconic English group rose to prominence during the Britpop era of the 1990s, but remain a vital force in contemporary music. These new songs serve as a reminder of Blur's unique skill for pop and rock writing, and also demonstrate the band's continued drive toward experimentation in their arrangements.
The self-titled debut from Marlon Williams is an exceptional album of soaring soul and rock and roll. The New Zealand born, Melbourne-based artist has earned a reputation for his captivating live shows, and the same emotive vocal delivery and skilful balladry are on full display across this collection of songs.
Rough Trade/Remote Control
A kaleidoscopic rock and psychedelic soul record from the American outfit led by Brittany Howard. Heavy rhythms, soaring vocals and rich instrumentation combine to produce a compelling, and unique listening experience.
Bedroom Suck Records
Down Time is the debut LP from Melbourne four-piece Totally Mild, led by Elizabeth Mitchell; a captivating album of blues-inflected rock and atmospheric pop that draws on classic songwriting yet feels completely new. Down Time transports the listener with its impressive performances and spacious production, creating a rich listening experience of vivid melodies, crisp percussion, hazy textures and beautiful harmonies. The songs linger like a blissful daydream.
"Carrie & Lowell" is a softly spoken album with immense emotional impact. Over his career Sufjan has demonstrated great versatility, capable of producing grand orchestral compositions as well as more intimate folk recordings. This record returns to those sparse acoustic sounds, offering an affecting backdrop to Stevens' lyrics. The songs themselves are a deeply personal exploration of grief, relationships, family, love and loss.
The third album from hip hop artist Kendrick Lamar has already been acclaimed as a masterpiece and instant classic. To Pimp A Butterfly is a detailed narrative journey and meditation on contemporary American society and history; it’s a personal and universal account, covering politics, race, and religion. Musically the record is also complex, drawing from numerous sources including P-Funk, jazz, spoken word and soul.
XL Recordings/Remote Control
Ibeyi is the recording project of French-Cuban fraternal twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díazan. Their debut self-titled album is a fascinating hybrid, filled with music that draws upon their Yoruban heritage as well as their love of hip hop, electronic pop, soul and jazz. The result is a collection that's beautiful, haunting, personal and powerful.
Marathon / Remote Control
Courtney Barnett is a unique voice in modern rock; a master lyricist and musician who draws from every aspect of life to compose songs that are as playful as they are profound. Previous EPs and singles have all become cult classics, and this album - filled with more eloquent observations and subversive garage rock, blues and pop jams - is destined for the same status.
Dick Diver return on their third album with another show of inspired songwriting. The Melbourne band's inimitable style of classic guitar pop is on full display, a musical backdrop to musings and deep lyrical reflections on life, memory, place and relationships. There's some subtle, and also some dramatic shifts from previous records here as well; contemplative ballads and bold rock arrangements filling the album with varied pace and sonic texture.
Dot Dash / Remote Control
Pretend You're Mine is the anticipated debut album from Melbourne three-piece Pearls. Formed in 2011, the group have spent the past few years refining their distinct musical identity in the studio and on the stage, drawing from and building upon a number of rock traditions. The result is a collection of bold musical arrangements as well as subtle and seductive melodies, combining elements of glam, shoegaze, psych and classic guitar pop.
Jessica Pratt's debut album was a pure revelation when it arrived in 2012. Like an undiscovered folk masterpiece of the late '60s or early '70s, the record was a perfect showcase for Jessica's compelling voice, acoustic melodies and melancholic stories. The recordings were homemade, and exhibited an uncommon warmth and intimacy in their gently faded, tapeworn state. Jessica's second album On Your Own Love Again is eagerly anticipated, and provides another glimpse into her unique songwriting world. Plaintive, contemplative, uplifting and inspiring, the album shows how very much can still be produced with the essential elements of songcraft and a subtle ear for melody and atmosphere.
Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper is a vivid showcase of the distinctive psychedelic sound that Noah Lennox has pioneered and perfected during his career. It's a unique musical experience with layered and looping melodies, percussion, synths and vocals. As always there are elements of rock, folk, hip hop, electronic and abstract pop, as well as undefined and unexplored styles. It is also a philosophical experience, as Panda Bear shares reflections on life, mortality and identity.
Riot-grrrl legends Sleater-Kinney surprised all with the sudden release of their first studio album in ten years. It's a passionate, powerful and concise set by songwriting pair Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein, along with drummer Janet Weiss. No Cities To Love is full of the bristling energy, complex post-punk melodies, and searing lyrics that made the Olympia, Washington trio an icon of '90s alternative rock.
Chapter Music/Merge Records
Twerps' second full-length is laced with seemingly effortless melodies and some of their most immediate pop hooks to date. Range Anxiety, the band's follow-up to their 2011 self-titled debut and first release since signing to US label Merge Records, is a deceptively simple guitar-pop record, which sees the Melbourne band further refine their jangly and familiar sound. With this album, recorded in 2013 before last year’s Underlay EP, Twerps continue to expand their repertoire of timeless Australian pop songs.
Enjoy the Holidays!
After another incredible year of music, Triple R's Album Of The Week will return in 2015.
"The Hum" is a confident return for Leeds-based band Hookworms. The album draws from a rich history of punk, noise, psychedelic pop traditions, propelled in parts by strong motorik rock rhythms. There's a variety of pacing too, with meandering melodies and gentle drones forming the basis of absorbing songs such as "On Leaving."
Cut Copy have spent years producing and performing cutting edge dance music but they are also discerning DJs and selectors, a fact fully displayed on "Oceans Apart". The 19-track release is an impressive survey of some favourite Melbourne producers, and a celebration of this city's club culture and influential dance music scene. The vinyl/digital compilation features a range of leading artists including No Zu, World's End Press, Andras & Oscar, Speed Painters, Tornado Wallace and many others.
"Playmates" is perhaps the most definitive statement of intent yet from Sydney's Jack Ladder. A master of melodrama and intrigue, Jack Ladder is here accompanied by his all-star cast of Dreamlanders, the exceedingly talented Kirin J Callinan, Laurence Pike and Donny Benet. Production is handled by Kim Moyes of The Presets, and the sum of these parts adds to an emotionally engaging and musically adventurous trip. There's elements of cold wave, 80s synth pop, country, and rock ballads, all anchored by Ladder's distinctive baritone.
To expect the unexpected is a safe approach to any new Ariel Pink record. For starters Pom Pom is the first album in a highly prolific career to be solely attributed to Ariel Pink, but by his own admission it’s also the most collaborative. Spiritualized’s Jason Pierce, and famed/infamous Kim Fowley of ‘70s rock group The Runaways contribute to the collage, along with other band members (including Melbourne's own Shags Chamberlain). The result is a characteristic, unpredictable mix of wistful AM radio rock, strange tape textures, stream of consciousness skits, and stream of unconscious pop, including standout single Put Your Number In My Phone
Interstate 40 Music/Remote Control
The anticipated new album from Melbourne's Black Cab is another inspired collection of songs, this time themed broadly around the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. Evoking the tension, exhilaration and sonic spectrum of the time, Black Cab once again prove masters of mood and narrative. Early electronic, analogue dance music, synths, and spoken word samples are all employed to craft a unified record that extends on their earlier post-punk and psychedelic styles. Crafted over several years, the LP also features contributions from Lowtide's Lucy Buckeridge, Mon Brumby, Shags Chamberlain, and former Black Cab members Steve Law, Anthony Paine, Rich Andrew and Alex Jarvis. Needless to say, it's a Gold Medal performance all around.
Chapter Music / Dopeness Galore
Café Romantica is the brilliant second record from friends and collaborators Andras and Oscar. Otherwise known as Andras Fox and Oscar Key Sung, the two Melbourne artists have spent years refining their craft, and earning a reputation for their hip hop, boogie, R&B and dance music. Their forces combine on this album to produce another collection of instant classics. The title is a nod to the after-hours eatery where the two would rest and relax following work in the studio, a place to meet friends and make memories. The music draws from early analogue house recordings, and evokes the gently melancholic, romantic haze of the early hours of the morning. There’s traces of modern soul, 80s funk, and a distinctive local vocabulary of sounds unique to Andras and Oscar.
Highway 20 Records
An extraordinary double-album from an artist whose work has been instrumental in defining and shaping alt-country and Americana music. The expansive collection presents Lucinda Williams' lyricism at its most incisive and illuminating, encompassing her personal experiences and the whole human condition. Musically the country blues, soul and rock arrangements are rich and generous in detail, with each musician performing at their best.

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In the palatial bungalow, my life began as a servant girl at the age of seven. With a European landscape garden, a generous portico and lavishly furnished drawing room, it was a beauty to set one’s eye on. I barely remembered how I had landed there. My primary responsibility was to look after Avir, a four-year old boy. Every morning I would brush his teeth and wash his face. After breakfast, I would massage his body with olive oil under the sun. Before noon, I would bathe him and then rub him dry with a soft towel. Then I would dress him up with fresh clothes and comb his hair. The most important part of my job was to feed him lunch and dinner on time. My other daily duty was to wash his clothes after feeding him lunch.
By the time I was around twelve, I attained puberty. Thereafter, I was relieved of my duties for five days in a month. During those five days, I was not allowed to enter the bungalow nor touch Avir. During those five days, a boy called Rosard, who was about a year or two older than me, took care of Avir. As I grew up, new charges were added to my list of responsibilities. I had to dust the furniture of the house, sweep and mop the floors, and change the bed linens of all the bedrooms. Avir’s mother was a beautiful woman with benign eyes. She found fault in everything I did. A slap or two during the day was never an unexpected reward. Yet I was grateful to her as she was the one who had given me a name immediately after my arrival. Until then, everyone had called me “Oyi girl”.
Avir’s father was an unpredictable man. When this tea planter drank alcohol, he would become ferocious, and his wife would lock herself up in the bathroom and spend the entire night there. By morning, the crisis would pass, along with it the noisy violence. There would be peace again until his next session of alcohol.
Avir’s elder sister Vimmi was kind-hearted and she was very gentle with the servants. Since I had never gone to school, she taught me how to read and write the alphabets. Within a few months, it made me capable of expressing myself through meaningful sentences. She also taught me how to swim in the river that ran by the southern boundary of their tea estate. But I often felt sad for her. Although she desperately wanted to please her mother and her father and be proud of them by being caring, loving and studious, it never seemed to happen. By the time Avir was eleven, he was sent to a boarding school in Darjeeling. He would come thrice a year during his vacations and we would play badminton. When he grew up and became taller, he loved to play cricket with Rosard. Rosard was a loving boy. He would occasionally gift me a thing or two- bangles, lipstick and sometimes a nail polish. But I never wore them for the fear of reprimand by Vimmi’s mother. Rosard promised me that he would marry me one day. I began to have a sense of myself as having a happy future. But in their bungalow, as a rule, a servant girl could not marry a servant boy.
Avir grew up to become a handsome young man. It was not until he completed his pilot training and came for a week that my confused dream turned out to be a nightmare. Avir was to leave and his mother caught us red handed while he was handing me a gift- a saree. After he had left for the airport, their mother became furious. I cried and screamed as she dragged me to the backyard slapping and kicking. She hastily locked me up in the room where cattle feed was stored. With my hands and feet tied, I was left without food. In the middle of the night, Rosard secretly sneaked into the room with food. He untied my hands and legs and then washed my face. As I ate the food, he ruffled my hair.
“I’ll soon get you out of this place!” He said hopefully.
But the next morning, on the strength of the estate doctor’s medical certificate which mentioned that I was not mentally sound, I was packed off to a lunatic asylum. This whole thing was done without the knowledge of the servants or anyone else including Rosard.
After a little over six years in the asylum, one summer morning I was released. I had no money. I had nobody to give me a job. In Jokaisuk, no family would employ a woman with the history of an unbalanced mind. There was no one to help me live my new life. Rosard was my last hope. I was sure he would help me with something to live my new life. With that intent, I walked on for miles under the scorching heat with my only belonging- a bag carefully clung to my shoulder. It had my clothes and the certificate from the asylum doctor that I was now mentally sound. I had a little over twenty rupees in my hand which could fetch me half a meal.
I reached the bungalow. But the security guard didn’t allow me to enter the gates. He told me that Rosard had fled the bungalow a few years ago, and Vimmi was married and lived in a foreign country. Disappointed, I returned to the estate market and entered a tea stall. It was a noisy place, full of workers who were sipping tea and talking loudly. A well built man, apparently a truck driver, entered the stall and sat down on the chair across the table. As I sipped my tea, he gave me a smile and asked a thing or two. I answered him reluctantly. But it seemed that he had a soft heart. He assured me of a job in a town where he was going to deliver a truckload of tea chests. With the possibility of an earning, my mind was relieved from the immediate anxiety.
“Are you this nice to every woman you meet?” I asked him.
“No,” he replied, “your innocent face just happened to catch my eye.”
I set out on that journey with him. There was another man with him. He was the handyman. We travelled for hours and then in a little town, they stopped for their meals. The driver told me that he would get my food there. I sat in silence. An hour later, they returned with two other people. One was a monstrous figure with an old pair of boots at his feet and a tattered leather jacket around his body. And the other was a woman wearing a black robe that covered her face all but her eyes. She stared at me curiously as though she had known me for a long time and was now somewhat surprised to see me in the cabin of the truck. The monstrous man inspected me from head to toe and said something to the driver. The driver handed me a banana and then winked his eye at the giant man. They exchanged wicked smiles. I spotted an evil motive in their glances.
As the driver set the truck in motion, my nervous fear continued to rise. We were now driving through a hilly forest with gigantic tropical trees. After a while, I gathered enough courage to ask the driver where he was taking me. The brows of the giant man rose dangerously in suspicion and his face turned grave. My throat went dry.
“Let me get down!” I shouted. All of a sudden, the giant man turned towards me and gave me a tight slap. I felt a terrible pain spreading from the ear down to my jaws. I started to cry. I was now sure about one thing that they were heartless demonic creatures.
My midnight, it seemed like they reached their final destination. It was a dense jungle. We were ordered to get down and then led across a tall bamboo gate. There were wooden cottages hung from a height of about twenty feet above the ground on forks of giant trees. The surrounding area was barely visible due to the pitch darkness caused by the dense canopies of tall trees. A wooden stairway led to each tree-house. Outside, jackals were hauling. Sometimes we heard strange sounds of branches of trees twisting and breaking and falling to the ground. An owl hooted from time to time.
In the morning, we noticed that there were more cottages, and there were more men and women inside them. We could presume from their conversations that most of the men were visitors but the girls and women seemed to be permanent dwellers. They lived in tree houses beyond ours. And then there were men with guns on constant vigil.
In the evening, sitting around a fire in the open area, some men were drinking and smoking. Khushboo, my co-passenger on the truck and I peeped through the windows. They were talking and laughing loudly. Some of them made jokes of one another and laughed. Then a few girls wearing very little clothes appeared on the scene. They began to entertain the drinking men by swaying their hips and waving their hands in the air. After a while, some of the men rose to their feet and began to twist and swivel their bodies. An hour later, they became wilder. They yelled at each other and fought fiercely like wolves. Two young men got angry with one another for a girl. One of them wanted to take her away to a tree house while the other felt offended by this act. In the scuffle that followed, one pinned down the other on the grass. Then two other men rushed to the spot and held him down by his neck on the ground as he fought back swinging his legs vigorously in the air. The giant man with the old pair of boots at his feet and the tattered leather jacket around his body got so infuriated with them that he took out a small gun from inside his jacket and shot through the forehead of the young man on the ground. His body convulsed violently and within a few moments he died.
We had no idea how we had spent those painful years in immoral captivity. From the very first day we had landed there, our minds started to think how to escape from those demons without having our bodies shredded by their primitive fingers. But an escape without being devoured by tigers or trampled by wild elephants looked impossible. Despite the daily pain, our fondness for each other grew and it brought light to our crushed hopes. Khushboo’s idea of an escape had slowly been turning my fears into boldness in some invisible way. One day the sky was overcast. In the afternoon, sitting on a wooded stool behind her, I was combing her long hair. We were getting ready for our duties of the night. After some time, there was lightning and thunder in the sky. A rain started to pour. The smell of earth around us from the first shower of the season delighted us in some way. Accompanied by a fierce wind, soon the rain progressed into a torrential downpour.
It had been raining incessantly for days. The base of the giant old trees weakened. And one night, the tree with the tree-house where the giant man lived, came crashing down. There was much shouting and yelling as the security guards, servants and some of the customers of the night rushed to the spot of the avalanche. As the commotion rose, we quietly climbed down the staircase of another tree-house where we were entertaining two customers. We slipped through the gate without being noticed.
Intermittent lightning illuminated the vast wilderness, showing the stretch before us. It was a pathway the mountain people used to ascend to their orchards up in the high hills. We hurried through the dense forest, Khushboo following close behind me. We could only hear the wind rushing through the trees, twisting them this way and that. It was full of leeches, beetles and poisonous snakes and yet we braved forward, descending the distance rapidly along the narrow track. Sometimes we slipped, fell and then rose to our feet again. Sometimes we bruised our arms and legs and our chadors were ripped. But we stumbled on. Pain swept through our flesh and bones. We could feel the silvery threads of rain were drumming down on our tainted and wounded bodies. On our way, we noticed a leopard dragging down the body a dead deer into the hollowed recess along the base of the cliff we were climbing. At another place, we noticed that a family of wild elephants was breaking tree branches and munching the wet leaves. The streaks of lightning glinted on their big bodies. We swiftly lowered our heads and took shelter behind a bushy tree. Our legs went numb and the fear caused cramps in our stomachs. We waited with impatience. A few moments later, the herd slowly melted away into the trees. We hurried along the slippery footpath, moving through the deepening shadows. At one point, we reached a swift-flowing river. We waited with anxiety dreading if the security guards were following us along the footpath. If they found us, they would certainly recapture us and then return us to the filthy prison.
The sky was turning maroon under the slowly rising sun. We took off our soggy clothes that had soaked the rain water for hours. We made them into two bundles and tied them each to our back. Both of us plunged headlong into the waters. The current under the surface was so fierce that we were nearly swept away. Every time we drifted along the current, we managed to swim a few inches toward the opposite bank. Our muscles had gone weak. Just as I was reaching the bank, I heard a scream. It was Khushboo. She was being swept away at a frantic speed. It was so slippery that I kept sliding down at the shore. Khushboo was screaming incoherent words of panic. Before I could have a grip on the exposed roots of an oak tree, Khushboo’s faint voice was gone. By the time I realized what a grave tragedy had struck me, the fear of the security guards returned. So I quickly dressed up. Without wasting a moment, I hurried down along the footpath.
At the end of those nine strenuous hours, I reached the town the demons had stopped for their meals. I noticed a bus with its destination painted in bold in its front- Jokaisuk. I boarded it and sat down wearily. When most of its seats were occupied, it started off honking loudly. I slept the entire length of the journey.
By noon the bus reached Jokaisuk. I got down and walked past a line of garments shops, a petrol pump, a pharmacy and reached the bank of the Brahmaputra. The wind blew the damp smell of the river in my face. Fishermen were netting fish. At the sight of the river, I felt like taking my bath. Hiding behind tall grass that grew on the sandbank, I washed my clothes first and then hung them under the sun on the river weeds. And then I had my bath. It felt as if the waters of the mighty river washed away the dirt from my body and mind alike.
I returned to the main road and sat down at the foot of an acacia tree. I had been so heavily burdened with the thought of my survival that I hardly had had the time to think about Khushboo. I couldn’t save her. I began to grieve. I broke down into lonely sobs. I cried inconsolably as the slow sense of regret pierced through my heart.
“Oyi Lonita! Aren’t you Lonita?”
I heard someone calling me. I didn’t know when I had fallen asleep. When I opened my eyes, I noticed a familiar face. I rose to my feet and then stood in front of him. I could not believe my own eyes. He looked on for a full minute. He was decently dressed in a white shirt and a pair of brown trousers. I stepped closer and was ready to hug him, but I stopped in time. I stopped because I knew how I looked in my ragged mekhela and chador. He stepped closer and then put his arms around me. Words failed to come out of my quivering lips. And suddenly he hugged me. I could feel my tears were running down his shirt. I felt his right hand fingers rolling through my hair.
As we walked away from under the tree, I wiped my tears with the chador. We walked past a line of shops and entered a restaurant. We sat down at a table for two. He ordered two meals for us. As I spoke, he listened to me with undivided attention. When the meals came, we began to eat, and our conversation continued. He looked keenly at the scars of cigarette-burns on my face- the evidence of torture inflicted by the demons. As I narrated the events of the bygone years, he could not believe his ears. There was a remarkable transformation in his appearance and manners. The boy of my childhood was now a handsome man. We were meeting after what looked like eternity and I was so busy telling about my life that I almost forgot to ask him if he was married and if he had children. Then he began to tell me about himself. Not long after my departure from the bungalow, one day Vimmi’s mother had discovered that a gold necklace was missing from her wardrobe. The family had concluded what appeared to them as the obvious and handed over Rosard to the police.
“A criminal case of theft went on for over a year and then the court sent me to the prison where I spent a few more years.”
He went on.
“With the experience of all those years I realized one thing that the question of one’s survival depends not on one’s endurance but on the person’s capacity to free themselves from evil and stay away from its sources.”
He paused for a minute.
“There was no light in my life after you had suddenly disappeared from the bungalow. And after I was released from the prison, I roamed the streets of Jokaisuk like an unsettling spirit.”
Despite the fact that I had shared with him about all the misfortunes of my life of the intervening period, Rosard accepted me wholeheartedly. His old love for me sprang up as did mine for him. The old memories made his eyes bright and shining. They shone on me and on all about him. I felt a strange joy. It left me hungry for I knew not what. His words were beginning to fill my heart with a sudden something, perhaps hope and meaning.
Rosard was running his own business with a dozen cars and jeeps that transported tourists to the Himalayas. He lived in a village which was a few hours’ away in the lower Himalayas. He frequently visited Jokaisuk on work. We finished eating. He paid the bill and then we left the restaurant. Walking slowly, we reached his car which was parked under a tree. He started the engine and then stared into my eyes with an expression that was both tender and affectionate.
“Why are you looking at me like this?” I said to him, feeling nervous as I was and not knowing how to react. He modestly lowered his eyes. My lips began to quiver. As my face grew pink, he remained silent and his eyes now looking at the road ahead. I felt as though I was standing between two mirrors. I could see my images on both, one of the horrid past and the other of a bright future.
We got down from the car and began to mount the damp uneven stone steps. A giant panda cub was munching bamboo leaves. He paused to greet us with a friendly look. It was a semi-circular footpath that led to a hilltop. When we reached the top, a beautiful little garden revealed itself. It was full of flowers and orchids. We entered the cottage through its little portico. As I stepped inside the cosy drawing room, a pleasant smell of the Himalayan teak greeted my nose. Rosard led me into his bedroom. We looked across the large window and the snow-capped oceanic waves spread before us, one after another in endless rows. To the left, lay beneath the sky a mountain lake. To the right, the four-hundred year old monastery stood with hope and optimism. With the drawing room, two bed rooms, the kitchen and the small veranda, it was a beautiful cottage. We reached the backyard and Rosard showed me his orchard at the slope of the hill. On the slopes below, clouds were sweeping the lush canopy of the trees.
“Can you imagine we’re standing at an altitude of three kilometres from the level of the Arabian Sea!’ Rosard smiled.
My new life began with a regular walk in the woods. It helped me relax and release all the negative energies of the past. Then a teacher, upon Rosard’s request, started to give me advanced lessons on the English language. I wanted to become a tourist guide so that I could help Rosard in his business. A second teacher trained me on ethnic dance. Dancing broke the inertia of my body and mind alike. I began to respect myself as it broke down the sense of hatred towards my own body. It repaired my mutilated self-esteem and uplifted my shattered sense of dignity. It lessened my hatred towards the male voice, the male scent and the male groans of ecstasy. Dancing gave expressions to my hidden optimism. I overcame fear, the fear to trust someone, the fear to live life, the fear of disease and the fear of death.
Rosard helped me to learn how to let go my regrets and angst that disturbed my mind again and again. He taught me how to shift the mind from negative thoughts to positive imagination. Rosard made me feel how much I mattered to him. Overall, I felt myself complete; physically, emotionally and spiritually.
One day, I realized that I was pregnant. It immensely delighted Rosard and the sense of creating another human being brought enormous pleasure to my mind. In a few months, the baby began to kick inside me. I craved to hear its first cry. Rosard frequently took leave from his work to take care of me. He would make my bed and fluff my pillows. He would give rubs to my back and massage my head. I often wondered how true love could act as a source of pure delight and the absence of it could be a source of agonizing pain.
When the day arrived, I began to feel the cramps. Rosard quickly shifted me to a hospital an hour’s drive away. I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. We named him ‘Rolon’, ‘Ro’ from his father and ‘Lon’ from his mother. We came home after a week. I became busy with Rolon. After he went off to sleep, I would do the household chores, and then I would sit down by the bay window and write. Looking at the scenic lake, I would pen down the events of my life. It launched me into a creative odyssey. Thus I began the celebration called ‘life’.
About the author:
Sidd Burth is an Indian novelist and short story writer. He was born in Assam and attended Guwahati University and Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Sidd is a social enterprise expert and runs a management consulting company which helps start ups to become successful enterprises. He began writing fiction in 2007. His first novel The Poison Earrings (2016), is an adult mystery romance set in India, USA and France. His upcoming work of social realism entitled The Attackers of the Night is set in Assam, London and Mojave.


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So many of you have said that my post on choosing the best doctor was so helpful that I’ve decided to take it a step further and elaborate on an area I’ve worked in for a long time: oncology. As a certified oncology nurse, I know how important it is to have a doctor who’s not just knowledgeable about your particular type of cancer but who also makes you feel as comfortable as possible during this critical time in your life. It’s also crucial to look beyond the individual specialist and research other factors, such as their support team and any related services.
Here are the most important factors to consider before deciding who will be your caregiver while you fight your cancer battle:
- Choose a board-certified or board-eligible oncologist. Depending on the type and stage of cancer, a patient may prefer a specialty oncologist, such as a hematologist, thoracic oncologist, surgical oncologist, etc.
- Ask for a second opinion. Have the materials from the first doctor reviewed by an outside institution to ensure proper diagnosis. Duke University, Johns Hopkins Hospital, MD Anderson and UNC-Chapel Hill are excellent examples of major academic institutions that offer top-notch second opinions and treatment evaluations. Key opinion leaders in oncology are generally on staff at this type of major academic center.
- Find out what services are offered at the physician center. Questions to ask:
- How many physicians are part of the practice or department?
- Who covers for your physician when he is out of the office or on vacation?
- Are there supportive-care services for cancer patients at this center? This includes, but is not limited to, nutritionists, support groups, cancer treatment funds, social workers, prosthetic services (wigs, make-up, biomedical devices, etc.), chaplaincy services, acupuncture, pet therapy, hospice, etc.
- Where is everything located? This includes imaging centers, laboratories, and clinical areas where you will be evaluated. How much is parking? Does the center pay patient parking? How long will you be at the site during treatments? Will a patient need to stay overnight the day prior to their treatment for laboratory analysis and scans? What hotels are convenient, if required? What out-of-pocket costs do you need to consider, and what costs can the hospital assist with (meals, housing, etc)?
- Does the center offer clinical trials? This is critical so that patients can have new and innovative treatment options available to them.
- Is the doctor at a hospital or outpatient clinic? If you need surgery or are hospitalized, does he have admission privileges? Do you like this hospital?
- Learn how the cancer treatment center organized. The answer to these questions may be the make-or-break factor in your decision. Major factors to consider: Where will you receive infusions? Can a family member be with you during treatment? How many infusion chairs are at the center? Do they have a procedure room or private treatment room in the infusion center if you are not feeling well?
- Research the treatment site’s standard of care.
- How often will be scanning be done?
- What standard medications are ordered for your specific chemo treatment in case of nausea, vomiting, etc?
- What is your treatment regimen’s cycle? Every three weeks, once a week?
- Is it IV or an oral agent or combination therapy?
- Consider whether or not you (not your friends or family) like the doctor’s bedside manner.
- How much face-to-face time did the actual physician spend with you and your family?
- Were you treated with respect when your cancer diagnosis was initially presented to you? If the doctor was cold-hearted, uncaring, or in a hurry, GET ANOTHER ONCOLOGIST IMMEDIATELY.
- Were you encouraged to think about the treatment options presented? Were you given materials to take home and read, review, and discuss with your family? Ex: informed consent forms for clinical trials or specific disease-related materials.
- Ask how you (not the nurses or other supporting staff) will be able to communicate with the oncologist.
- Via email, or through a nurse, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, or secretary?
- Will you have communication between treatment visits? Is someone on the oncology team available to you between treatments?
- Does the oncologist communicate with your primary care physician? For example, are copies of your oncology medical records forwarded to your primary care physician?
- If you require a language besides English, are there interpreters, printed materials, etc., available in your language?
Discovering you have an illness such as cancer can be one of the most traumatic events you and your family ever experience, but the process can be far less distressing if you go into it armed with the information to make educated decisions. Not only will you know what to expect going in, but being informed will empower you to ask the hard questions and to get the treatment you deserve.

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HOCKEY Albury Wodonga’s Capital League teams travel to Canberra today for the toughest test of their new competition.
The Spitfires take on defending champions Central, which is unbeaten after four games and has banged in 33 goals.
The Strikers take on the same opponent, but with a little less imposing record than the men.
Coach Tony Jones said the Strikers needed to sharper at the start.
“We probably went into last week’s game a little complacent having not really been tested in the opening games,” he said.
“We gave up two goals early and then played catch-up for the rest of the game.
“Like many of these teams we know very little of Central, but looking at their results they seem to be on a similar trajectory to us.”
Jones said the Strikers would be without young gun Brooke Purtell, who was injured in the Steakhouse Cup against Wagga last Sunday, and would tinker with its line-up ahead of captain Nan Latta’s departure on national duty.
“Nan is away for something like six weeks with the Australian over-40 side in Holland,” he said.
“We are making some changes with that and moving Alison Nicholson to the middle of the attack — Sadie Butler has gone from defence into centre half and Sam Daley will drop back into the backline.”
Spitfires coach Matt Smart said his team faced a tough game with a long injury list that saw five of the regular starting squad missing.
“Clearly Central is a well-polished outfit, but until we play them we don’t know exactly how polished,” he said.
“We may be a little undermanned but there is little point flooding the defence against these sides because generally they move the ball well enough to overcome that.
“It is often better to go man on man — make them more accountable.
“We can only stick to our gameplan, make minor changes depending on their structure and learn as we go.
“What we have found so far is we need to lift the speed of our hockey, our intensity and talk.
“If we can do that against this side that will be a good start.”


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OKWILAGWE, Oshiotse Andrew
BA, MA, MLS, M.Litt, Ph.D
Professor of Publishing and Copyright Studies.
Department of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
OTOAYELE, Aliyu (CLN)
B.Ed (Hons), MPCS, MLIS (Ibadan),
Department of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan.
This study investigated the relationship between publishers’ sales representatives’ demographic characteristics and perception on book as a product for branding and marketing in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. The study is a survey research of correlational type. Total enumeration sampling technique was adopted using thirty sales representatives each from thirty publishing companies at a national training workshop in Ibadan. The data gathered were analysed using descriptive statistics and ANOVA. The findings show that there was no significant influence of sales representatives’ demographic characteristics on perception of book as a product worthy of branding for marketing. The findings are a collective prognosis of unhealthy future for book marketing in Nigeria. It was recommended that sales representatives should be trained for cognitive, technical and socio-economic skills needed for effective book marketing; otherwise book marketing will remain the “Archilles heels” of the book publishing industry in Nigeria.

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10 January 2018
JACK WHITE is back! Today he officially announced his new solo album,
titled BOARDING HOUSE REACH. A precise release date follows later.
Accompanying the news White also launched the first single & its b-SIDE.
CONNECTED BY LOVE
Passionate & soulful love cry out with a big organ sequence. Intense stroke.
Sounds like two/three songs in one. Far-out blues electricity. AWESOME!


Restrictions are raining down all over surge and some people are not happy about it one bit and are making that extremely known.as COVID-19 cases
The whole state is currently under a “limited stay at home order” in which a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew is in place, and outdoor dining and gatherings in Los Angeles County are banned.
Protests have broken out all over Southern California, from outside the homes of Governor Gavin Newsom and LA County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer to public places like the Santa Monica Pier and Huntington Beach.
This past weekend, people gathered in Beverly Hills, and an organizer called for people to protest the curfew later that evening in Santa Monica.
The protest was planned to happen at the Santa Monica Pier…which was closed.
This didn’t stop the protestors (about 80 of them) who instead walked around the downtown Santa Monica streets cheering.
A protester carried a boombox blasting “MAGA” themed songs as a man yelled into a megaphone, “Come on, guys, show me your energy! Freedom!”
The curfew protests started shortly after the 10 p.m. curfew was enacted in the state last week on November 21, with some gathering outside Gavin Newsom’s home that weekend.
People protested in Huntington Beach, waving both American and “Trump 2020” flags, on November 22.
The protest drew a big crowd, many of them running through the streets, blocking traffic and cheering.
A stricter “stay-at-home” lockdown order has not yet been issued in California, but the state is on the brink of one believed to be coming very soon.


For the second time this year, Paddy Pimblett is set to make the walk to the Octagon in front of his home crowd.
After his success in England’s capital in March, lightweight prospect Pimblett will be looking to bring the party to London once again on July 23. On Friday, the promotion confirmed that “The Baddy” will share the cage inside The O2 with Dana White‘s Contender Series alum Jordan Leavitt.
Despite only debuting in 2021, Pimblett (18-3) has certainly grown into a prominent name on MMA’s biggest stage. The former Cage Warriors champion promised to steal the show at UFC London earlier this year, both with a memorable walkout and his performance. With the crowd reaction and his first-round submission win against Rodrigo “Kazula” Vargas, it’s hard to argue that he did just that.
Now, having gotten off to a 2-0 start inside the Octagon, both of which came via first-round finishes, Pimblett is set for perhaps his toughest test to date in the form of Leavitt (10-1), who perhaps comes as a surprise opponent given that Ottman Azaitar appeared to be lined up to face the Liverpudlian in a recent matchmaking leak.
After earning a contract with an impressive and quick arm-triangle choke submission against Jose Flores on DWCS, “The Monkey God” made a statement on debut in December 2020, knocking Matt Wiman out with a brutal slam.
While a defeat to Claudio Puelles, which has aged well given the Peruvian’s recent form, provided a brief setback, Leavitt’s victories over Matt Sayles and Trey Ogden since have earned him a featured spot on the UFC London 2.0 card opposite one of the fastest-rising names in the sport.
Given Leavitt’s talented grappling and submission talents, he’ll likely pose a unique threat to Pimblett, and one that we’ve yet to see “The Baddy” face in the UFC.
With Pimblett’s celebration last time out and Leavitt’s always-entertaining dance routine post-fight, it stands to reason that The O2 crowd will be in for some moves regardless of who has their hand raised on July 23.
The current fights expected to take place at UFC London on July 23 are as follows:
Tom Aspinall vs. Curtis Blaydes (heavyweight main event)
Darren Till vs. Jack Hermansson (middleweight)
Paddy Pimblett vs. Jordan Leavitt (lightweight)
Alexander Gustafsson vs. Nikita Krylov (light heavyweight)
Molly McCann vs. Hannah Goldy (women’s flyweight)
Paul Craig vs. Volkan Oezdemir (light heavyweight)
Muhammad Mokaev vs. Charles Johnson (flyweight)
Makwan Amirkhani vs. Jonathan Pearce (featherweight)
Marc Diakiese vs. Damir Hadzovic (lightweight)
Nicolas Dalby vs. Claudio Silva (welterweight)
Mandy Böhm vs. Victoria Leonardo (women’s flyweight)
Who do you think will have their hand raised at UFC London, Paddy Pimblett or Jordan Leavitt?


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text: Here in Amata Anangu Community we are 115km due south of Uluru, and about 5.5 hours from Alice Springs. It was 300km on dirt, west from the Stuart Highway; the main drag between Adelaide and Darwin. After a 3 day trip with nearly 4year old Isaiah (whom everyone calls ‘Min’) and just-turned-1 year old Emmeline, and our two idiot dogs, Lottie and Spencer in tow, we are here. We made it. After years of my husband applying for leadership jobs in education up here so that we could support our family, and after gut-wrenching despair after missing out on several positions, I was facing the prospect of returning to work in Adelaide after my second baby; this one was our last shot. My husband was over the rejection and needed a break and I reeeeeaaaalllly didn’t want to return to my role as a Registered Nurse in the Emergency Department of a major metropolitan hospital. Not that I don’t love it – I felt uneasy going back to work this time around and really wanted to bring the kids home to country. Because of the significant cultural disconnect I have, I feel there are huge limitations to the cultural education I can provide for them. They need to be surrounded by, and immersed in, their culture, language, stories and art. So we were thrilled when my husband Matt got the Learning Co-ordinator role at the school; a role that was made for him, as curriculum innovation and learning by inquiry was at the centre of his role in the city. After weeks of sorting out details of the move, renting out the house and packing all our stuff – we were finally here and it was almost surreal. Driving through the red dust, seeing the wild horses, donkeys and eagles (I was so disappointed to not see a camel – of which there are hundreds of thousands in Central Australia) I felt like I could breathe again; like whilst living in the city I was surviving on tiny gulps of air – but here on the land of my ancestors I could breathe deep and fill my lungs. Fill my lungs with 60,000 years of history. Amata is like many other communities across the APY lands – it has a school, a police station (which is more like a compound, which contains the police housing, all within a fenced…. well, compound I guess?!) it has a shop, a TAFE training centre, an art centre (which I cannot wait to visit but I am conscious of the privacy of the artists), a clinic and a pool. The houses are all much the same, transportable housing with corrugated steel outers. All with iron bars over everything. Apparently crime is rife in the APY. Our house is lovely – and when we closed the front door, the back was painted in multicoloured awesomeness! The Deputy Principal commented that this place must be made for us! Over crowding is a continuing issue for the Anangu up here – so it saddens me to know that I have my 4 person family in a huge house to ourselves, while down the road they might have 15-20 people or more under one roof. The other thing I noticed were the dogs; Anangu and I think Aboriginal people in general, love their dogs. There are up to 10ish dogs per house lying around in the heat. Its too hot today to do anything other than lift a head or saunter over, but they can get aggressive in defence of their territory. When our two half-wits got out of the car, they were soon told who was boss – and it wasn’t them! So there we were, first night in our new house in the APY. It was real – we live in a remote Aboriginal community. Have we made the right choice?


text: For those who are serious about their Native American jewelry. Elvira Bill is the daughter of renowned Navajo artisans Emerson Bill and Rita Touchine. We bought a lot of her pieces years ago when she worked at a New Mexico trading post. She expressed her desire back then to go into the nursing field. She went to school to do just that and eventually went to work at a New Mexico hospital and either ceased or cut way back on making jewelry. But creative habits are hard to break and here we are with a great cuff made by Ms. Bill. Total inside circumference of this cuff is seven inches. Thus it will fit someone with a total wrist circumference (measured around the wrist bone) of 6 and 7/8th's up to 7 and 1/8th-inches. It's massive and won't lend to reshaping so measure twice; buy once. This piece of wearable art weighs 171-grams, or 6-ounces! It is 2 and 1/8th-inches lengthwise across the top. And we would expect nothing less of Elvira Bill than to choose an outstanding No. 8 Mine turquoise cabochon as icing on the cake. Hallmarked "Elvira Bill (third photo)." Complimentary USPS tracked Priority shipping within the U.S. Enjoy!


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At the end of October, I visited Dr. Dan Marinic in Sedona to do a photo shoot for his next marketing piece. He had opened a new practice from scratch in July. No patient database and an office that required full buildout.
The first thing Dr. Marinic did was to send out custom magazines we made for him. We distributed to select neighborhoods in and around Sedona and he took some around to local businesses. The result: 158 new patients in 3 1/2 months. This number included new patients asking for procedures such as dental implants, full-mouth rehabilitation and cosmetic work.
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Our approach is always custom and based on what will best achieve our client’s practice goals. In Dr. Marinic's case, he wanted to fill his practice quickly and at the same time make himself known for being able to offer procedures to take care of people's more complex dental needs. The custom magazine was able to do both.
We use market research and surveys to create marketing that talks directly to your potential patients, attracting, interesting them and motivating them to book an appointment at your office. Since 2007, we have been providing internet, digital and print marketing that have generated millions of dollars for our clients. We work with general dentists and dental specialists of all kinds in all areas of the U.S.
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“Gilleard Dental Marketing is not your normal marketing company. They have done major research into the prospective patient pools and have isolated an exact understanding of what patients are looking for.
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As companies operating in the online video world go, Zoomin.TV and NewBeTV have little in common beyond their Dutch roots.
Zoomin is an Amsterdam-based multi-channel network and a big one, by European standards. It boasts a cadre of some 2,000 content creators (or video journalists) around the world and a hectic production schedule that delivers 400 news, entertainment and pop culture-focused videos every day to media clients in more than 50 countries in as many as 17 languages.
NewBeTV’s reach is modest by comparison. The prodco, which also calls Amsterdam home, is more apt to emphasize the creative side of the industry, working with just a handful of Dutch YouTubers (including the Netherlands’ top influencer Enzo Knol), and producing scripted shows for the likes of the OTT arms of Dutch pubcasters.
Truth be told, said NewBeTV’s Jeroen Koopman in an email interview with StreamDaily, “We couldn’t be further apart in terms of what we do and what our focus is.”
But that hasn’t stopped the two companies from forging a partnership — one that aims to develop a slate of original, unscripted programming for a global market by merging their respective talents.
Indeed, said Koopman, it’s precisely because of the differences between the two “that made this deal interesting for the both of us — we, as the creative company.”
To that end, NewBeTV has confirmed it has developed more than 20 programming formats which are deliberately designed to be reproduced across languages relatively quickly and respond to current events. The formats capture universal themes that appeal to a wide international audience and encourage content sharing over social media, including man-on-the-street-style vox pops on trending topics to genres that fall more in line with a live game show. The idea is to continue to use video captured by Zoomin’s large, on-the-ground creator network.
Using the same formats, Zoomin’s team will produce the shows, and dub them in post-production to fit the needs of the target audience, or in some cases, totally recreate them in each locale.
Koopman said the shows will be about four to seven minutes in length, with production expected to start in the next two months. The first of the shows are slated to launch in December and will be packaged within the existing output deals Zoomin has with publishers such Yahoo, AOL, MSN (and offered on an individual basis to publishers that aren’t included among Zoomin’s clients). Koopman said the programs will also be available on Roku, Fire TV and AppleTV, as well as platforms in China (though he didn’t specify which ones).
The partners said they also intend to have at least five long-form formats ready for distribution over linear TV, as well as ad-supported VOD and SVOD platforms by early 2016.
Zoomin’s recent majority-share purchase by Swedish media co MTG is expected to strengthen its e-sports offerings, both in terms of reach and talent.
“The strategic value of MTG for Zoomin.TV is not so much operational but (mainly) strategic so Zoomin can deploy its products and formats over a much wider client base,” said Jan Riemens, Zoomin CEO, in an email.
Riemens added the partnership with NewBeTV will allow Zoomin to extend its output from free form and semi non-scripted to formatted and semi-scripted.
“Our global and local clients have a huge need for more content and streams and we fill that demand by utilizing our unique network of global VJ presence and come up with formats that only Zoomin can make… NewBe, known to us for its creativity in online formats, developed several formats for that … and we can’t wait to show you the first results,” he said.
Photo: Zoomin.TV news crew via Zoomin.TV


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Stretch and Roll Out:
Complete 3-5 rounds of the circuit below. Hold each exercise for 30 seconds to 1 minute. Try not to rest between exercises. Rest as needed between rounds no more than 1 minute.
Warrior II Hold
High Plank Hold
Glute Bridge Hold
Stretch and Roll Out:
Hold as long as possible and really focus on activating the correct muscles. This is a great recovery workout and can even be shortened into a nice little warm up.
Toe Hold – Stand with your feet only a few inches apart. Then lift up onto your toes. Do not rock to the outside of your feet. Try to get up onto your big toe as much as possible. Hold that position. To make this move harder, do a single leg balance, lifting up onto the ball of only one foot.
Warrior II Hold – Set up in a nice wide stance with one foot forward and one foot backward. Turn the back toe out so your feet are perpendicular. Sink down into a lunge, keeping the back leg straight. Try to get your front knee bent to 90 degrees and your quad parallel to the ground. The lower you sink in the lunge, the harder the move will be. Do not let your front knee cave inward. Squeeze the glute and keep the knee in line with your hip and your ankle. While in the low lunge, open your arms out at shoulder height. Reach one forward over the front leg and the other back over the back leg. Keep the chest open and do not lean forward. Keep your weight centered in the lunge.
Scapular Hold – Stand with your back to the wall. Step a couple of inches away and bend your arms to 90 degrees. Keep your elbows in by your sides and drive them back toward the wall. Lean onto your elbows on the wall. Do not let your upper arms or back touch the wall. Relax your head back. Pinch your shoulder blades down and back while keeping your core tight as you lean into the wall. You should feel this move low between your shoulder blades. To advance the move, move your feet a bit further from the wall.
High Plank Hold – Set up on your hands and toes (advanced) or hands and knees (beginner). Feet are together and hands are underneath your shoulders. Draw your belly button into your spine and squeeze your quads, glutes and adductors. Your shoulder blades should be down and back and your shoulders shouldn’t be up by your ears. Do not let your upper back round. Keep your head in line with your spine. If you really draw your belly button in and tilt your pelvic forward, your abs should almost instantly start shaking.
Glute Bridge Hold – Lie on your back. Bend your knees and place your feet flat on the ground about hip-width apart. Bring your heels in close enough to your butt that you can touch your heels when you extend your arms down by your sides. Then bend your arms to 90 degrees with only your forearms on the ground. Drive up through your heels, lifting your glutes up as high off the ground as you can. Squeeze your butt and keep your core tight. Do not hyperextend your low back. Also make sure your knees do not fall open and you are not pushing yourself backward. You want to drive straight up. Beginners will want to stick with a two-leg glute bridge while more advanced exercisers will want to progress to a single leg glute bridge.

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Day Two Features
Taipei landmark, the Grand Hotel
Alex Shvartsman's Sligh vs. Toby Tamber's Nutsack Warrior
In the shadow of the Grand Hotel, Taipei Grand Prix's top 64 players continued their second day of Extended competition. Sligh continued to play very well for Alex Shvartsman who went undefeated until round 10, where he lost to Toby Tamber playing Nutsack Warrior (see day one report for decklist and back story.) GP players had to compete with a winding, spiraling line of people to enter the venue as over 400 players waited to enter the Nemesis prerelease. Players were very excited to see this newest set with some of the favorite cards being Rootwater Thief and Mindswords.
Card trading continued at a lively pace as fans capitalized on the GP and prerelease's large crowds. Fans with binders filled the entry hall tables and floor space then spilled out onto the front steps of Taipei's Jian Tan Youth Center. Meanwhile, curious fans crowded around the GP top players to watch the action. Among the decks played on top tables, Sligh, Sliver and Control decks were prominent. However, newcomer Nutsack Warrior made a big splash and held onto table one for several rounds.
Psi-Duck helps Nicholas Jonathon Wong with some key plays...
While some newly certified judges take the Pepsi Challenge.


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