Hello everyone, welcome to the Straight Talk Vermont show. I'm Bruce Wilson, Executive Director of Service Rending, Incorporated, and Straight Talk Vermont is one of our programs along with Arts are Wonderful and United College Club, GIFI Vermont, a lot of programs. And so I'm very very excited today to be here with my friend Jim Condis. Jim, welcome sir. Thank you Bruce. Thank you for coming on the show. My pleasure. Oh wow, and so we got a lot to talk about. Yeah we do. So first of all let's talk about you in Vermont. So how do you know what what's your memories or what you know why were you born here? I was not born here I was born actually in New Jersey but my family moved here when I was four years old. I grew up in K through 12 in Burlington and South Burlington schools. I went to the old Adams School elementary school on South Union Street which is no longer. Then went to Burlington High School junior high school at Edmonds and then Burlington High School for I think through into my sophomore year when we moved to South Burlington. Finished up in South Burlington, went to the University of Vermont, graduated from the University of Vermont, and then stayed here my whole work career. So before we get to the last part of your career you know the Secretary of State which is a big deal. Let's just talk about at the go through you know your experience in Vermont you know you know I came in 1989 was a white-state American and then some people say it still is number one but they say it's number two you know which is awesome I mean my I actually made a difference you know.  So I think for me it was a little bit different because I came from New Jersey all my all my relatives were in New Jersey in the oranges norc area and so and many of my relatives are still down that way and so I was accustomed to it I mean it was not anything real surprising to me I think at the time I think there were two black families and in Burlington I think one was the Washington's and and I forget the other the Heinz family and and so it was really it was very little impact on on my life for sure but I think it was again I because I we used to go to New Jersey to visit relatives I was yeah and you know we would interact with people neighbors of my grandparents and or my aunts and uncles so it was it was to me it was not any kind of right when you're shocked or anything like that but yeah but I get it I mean I understand how some people yeah you know what it was a shock and I personally think and you know before we were talking a little bit about immigration and I'm as I explained to you I'm second-generation American all four of my grandparents came to the United States for a better life and when they got here they were treated like dirt as well because they were foreign and they didn't speak much English and and I think you know if I look back on my different cousins my aunts and uncles the things that that they were able to accomplish and I remember when I first got elected to city council in South Burlington my my father was there and he had tears rolling down his eye from his face and and I said to him dad what's the matter and he aren't you happy that I'm on city council and he goes no I just wish your grandfather could have seen this what an honor right I know I know is how honorable he felt for you being so you know and as I explained earlier you know I I served 18 years on the South Burlington City Council I served eight years in the state Senate representing Chittenden County and then the last 12 years I've been secretary of state so you know I've had a long career I've accomplished a lot in my career and I'm looking forward to retirement I'm I'm definitely of the age so so so you're Greek you know I'm when I leave here I'm going to one I sit on Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission I'm on the board of directors and in one of our equity manager gonna take me to lunch and I'm saying we're talking about Greek I'm like dang I want Greek food is there any Greek restaurants in around there used to be several actually there used to be several I don't think to my knowledge I'm not sure that there are any anymore I mean my my father was in the restaurant business and he worked with my uncle they had my uncle owned two restaurants I guess you could call them Greek restaurants and then there were other ones there was the Park Cafe which was owned by the Papas's there was another group of Papas's that owned another Greek restaurant there was a couple of the diners that were in town they were owned by Greeks and and you know I mean obviously Greek food is it's good I mean I like it was is it hero hero hero hero it's it sounds like the H-E-R-O but it's pronounced it's spelled G-Y-R-O and you know I mean I and I remember the Sunday night dinners with when we were being New Jersey at my grandparents when all the relatives would come over for dinner you know we'd have 25 people sitting around the my grandfather had like two picnic tables and in the in the kitchen and and everybody'd be sitting around and there'd be like 25 conversations going on and everybody knew what everybody else was talking about so so all the education into the middle school high schools and college and that balled up to be Jim Connors and so how do you become how do you become interested in like politics you know well I it's not something I ever thought I would get into but I was living in South Burlington and there was a zoning issue that came up and there was someone from our neighborhood was walking around talking to people and I said well it'd be better they wanted to convert a residential house into some kind of a business office building and and I remember saying well that's better than if they were trying to make it into a McDonald's or something and they said yeah but the zoning doesn't even allow that and that's when I first started to get an inkling in it and you know I served on the South Burlington City Center Committee in 1985 then I was on the zoning board in the later 80s and then I went from there to the City Council I became the chair in 1999 and at the time that I became chair one of my first phone calls was to Mayor Peter Clavel to talk about how we can build more affordable housing between South Burlington and Burlington where you were trying to do or doing anyway right in South Bronson and so so so you're on the city count I mean I didn't be on the city council for 18 years six three year terms I'm just saying I know I know Bronson had like two year terms in that mayor Clavel got it shipped to three years but um so you is where you to go so long on the city council I guess South Burlington City yeah it was just because I was involved and you know like you I served on the on the Chittenden County Planning Commission I served on the MPO which dealt with federal dollars for transportation I served on CCTA which is now Green Mountain Transit so you know all all these different organizations I served on so I had a vast knowledge as I was growing into this area and then I ended up I remember one friend was leaving South Burlington and said to me I guess I'll see you in the State House at some point and I said no you'll never see me there and then two years later Governor Dean recruited me to run for the Chittenden County Senate and I guess as I say the rest is history right right so so let me ask you let's go back to 1985 when this city center you know where they're building up now right this soft probably build up the whole city center which is looking incredibly nice on Merchant Street or Merchant's Row whatever you call that street Senate Merchant Street market market street market street now now why did it take so long I mean it fair is it because of tiffs fell well I think that was part of it I think also there was the landowner it was owned pretty much most of the land was owned by one landowner and he has since passed away but you know the he was obviously he wanted to make money on it and you know we kept telling him well we'll put these rules in place so you can do bigger projects but he wasn't interested he's a he was an earth mover and and you know he built streets and roads and things and it was it was tough to convince him at that time that this was the right thing to do and we tried to incorporate the University Mall involved in that right and I think that in the future you're gonna see some changes with the University malls are going out yeah they have a lot of land yes and I think they got six acres or something the University mall so maybe more but um yeah I know I know I've seen the plans before how was you know with the previous owners what they would they envision your time in like movie theaters and housing putting in street street grids with with apartments residential units and I think that was a part of the I think what really helped us with not only city center but also with affordable housing was when we changed some of the zoning for instance down on Shelburne Road where the Shaw's is across from the price chopper that land behind there was basically wasteland it was it was zoned for big boxes and it was about 25 acres and we increased the zoning density on that land to about I forget it was about 20 20 acres 20 units per acre or something and now when you go down through there you have over 500 units of residential housing yeah which is on the bus line yeah it's right next to grocery stores banks you know all the drug stores everything you need and it was there was subsidized housing there was affordable housing there was rental units there was market rate housing units for you know individually owned condo type and then there was market rate and then and then we also worked with Champlain housing to build senior housing in that area so you had a complete cross-section yes nice and South Burlington actually won an award a national award for smart growth with that project I used to go back to all the time when I when I used to go I was sitting on some things for the United Way into them yeah I think they're still there in one of those places yeah so so nice so many houses so many those buildings have like I've been in them they have like fitness centers and they all have like where you can do barbecue to have all these grills outside and all kind of cool things as in Santa's place when we used to when in working with Champlain housing the Burlington Land Trust all the different affordable housing units I remember as we were building different neighborhoods around the city I was sort of famous for saying we don't we don't build projects we create neighborhoods no doubt about it and that was the I kept saying to people we have to stop talking about projects oh yeah because that's got a bad connotation we want to go to neighborhoods because that's neighborhoods means it's about people exactly and I got from Chicago something about projects so yeah you know and I think you know I think my whole political career has always been about people yeah and I think everything you served on is all been about people you know you people who you are you serve in and so so you so a lot of things have come apart in soft Burlington and City Council and I work with some of those individuals still and so now why didn't you why didn't you go for a city manager I know my good friend that's not my that's not my cup of tea all right but you was you was in charge of a lot of stuff and South Burlington Chuck Hafter was our city manager and he was a really good city manager he was the first city manager South Burlington had that was actually trained as a city manager really and the city manager has to be so I'll use the word fluent in all the different aspects you are in human resources in project development in planning and vision and you know all these different things budgetary yeah so the city manager really has to you know they have a good manager there now Jesse Baker you know I think it's sometimes city managers are hard to come by sure Chuck became city manager the week before I became a city counselor so we kind of grew together in that role yeah he retired what's the guy was his treasure so who retired with him he was his longtime guy I can't think his name but he was they were like but anyways Chuck I've known him for many years and he supported my youth programs and projects and events and and his daughter was on my youth advisory board at one point and he did a lot for us and the youth and families around that area and he always looked out for us and and I you know he exactly what you said he's he was all in it you know and so he had a he went to a training and the city managers had to go I mean I guess we have to go get I don't know there's there's a international city manager group that meets every year and Chuck used to go to that pretty much every year and and I you know he like his daughter and my his oldest daughter and my daughter were the same age they were in the same classes together and then of course he had his younger daughter Laney but yes he was on my youth advisory board and you know there was a lot going on I mean you know I remember the days with with my daughter and you know I was worried about what road she was gonna go down and and but you know she's now an accountant that's a big deal she has two kids and lives in South Burlington oh and that awesome she stayed man because it's one of the things about youth who graduate from our wonderful universities and colleges you know they they don't stay man well she came back she came back so she was she went to school down in Atlanta at Georgia State University got her degree got her CPA and worked with a large account national accounting firm then requested she and her husband requested a change to move north and they moved to Somerville Massachusetts and they were there for about three years before they moved back to one once she had the two kids she wanted to get back to Vermont and her two kids are now enrolled in the same elementary school she was in while she went to wow that's so nice to hear people because one of our situations and we have a college program called United College Club and there's different colleges around the state and working with students and and one of the things and as you know we want to try to retain our students we don't want them to go away from Vermont but a lot of the situation is like the whatever they major in they don't necessarily have that major for them to participate in you know jobs for them here in the state and that's the sad part about it like you know like health care and you got social service and these type of people are engineering jobs and all kind of other type of jobs that youth major in we just don't have it for him so they're forced to go right forced to leave you know it's it's you know you you're caught between a rock and a hard place because you you have to have more development more growth in order to have the jobs available for our youth coming up and and that's kind of a balancing act and that's what we always tried to do in South Burlington was to kind of balance that growth and development versus protecting the environment and in fact it was you know I was used to say to people you have to look at the map you have Burlington South Burlington curls around from the east to the south the natural place that we're gonna have growth is gonna be in South Burlington the question is how do we grow and how do we manage that growth true true yeah that's not for a growth problem and so now you might be able to have answers this because obviously if something before I got here how do the Burlington Airport get to be Burlington Airport and it's South Burlington well it I think it goes back to the 1920s maybe even the 1910s but Burlington Burlington was looking at it building an airport and they picked that hundred acres or whatever out there and and the airport started it was just a small small airport at the time and you know it just grew from there and and you know there's been a lot of you know obviously we have the air guard that's there and that's been an important fact because we've gotten a lot of federal dollars for the airport for instance the fire and rescue that are is at the airport just a hundred percent paid by the federal government it's under the auspices of the air guard and it's the air the the airport is such an economic development factor for Vermont I think it really started to take off once what's his name with last name was Watson who was the CEO of IBM used to come to Vermont to go skiing okay and then turn around and said we're gonna build a plant in Vermont oh and they built it nice when he did a nice so and and I think that was where the airport really started to take off and grow more you know there have been times where people have said well we need to move the airport way you don't just move an airport yeah I don't know where you're moving to well that's the question where it's got to be an area that's pretty open it's like it's like there's no parking you know I mean you're gonna move out for but let me ask you a question about the airport another question too because you know you you know you've been around and you know some you got answers now I used to have that the the air guard down there on the airport these have the Green Mountain boys up there why did they take that down that I don't know I thought it was still up there but no there's still that's there if you want to call it call sign for the air guard is the Green Mountain boys I used to have a I think I still have the Newsweek magazine or Time magazine I forget which I think was Newsweek right after September 11th when I used to live right near the airport less than a quarter of a mile from the airport and I remember on after September 11th after the attacks on the US every four hours there were two jets taking off two F-16s fully loaded fully armed with two pilots heading to New York City to fly protective cover for for New York City and there was a picture that was taken of two F-16s from another plane of the two F-16s and it's right on the side it said Green Mountain boys who are right and you can see you know New York City behind it but you know the and Vermont's air guard has been one of the if not the top air guard in the country I'm so glad they there you know they got it if they have the scramble for some reason thank God and we have them right near us so what people didn't realize and I remember I visited some of them have been friends of mine some of the pilots but but at the airport there were always two F-16s fully loaded fully armed and ready to go on the runway two pilots that would be on 24-hour call so they were always on 20 there was a 24-7 approach to it because they had the primary if you want to call it defense once if a Russian bear came across the ocean sure and came by Greenland our guys would pick them up and travel with them down and hand them off to Virginia or or New Jersey or something but but it used to take from the time the sound the alarm sounded for the for the air guard it would be two minutes they were in the air seven or nine minutes they were out over the Atlantic and that's from here in Vermont so we're not gonna talk much about this but since we're talking about their air guard and F-16s so what's your feeling about the F-35s you probably knew I was gonna say that yeah it's a it's a it's a tough piece but I think we have to remember the mission that they have and they have a defensive mission and the F-35s are just you know it was because our air guard was so good that the F-35 we were the first to get that was the first F national guard or air guard that received F-35s so it you know it's it's it's tough I've been over to the airport I went deliberately to listen to the noise to see how bad it was I you know I said like I said I used to live next to the airport and and I just you know I I get it it can be disturbing at times but it's not it's only for a few seconds why was it why they allowed it in F-16 I mean it's the engine the way the engine is alright so so you live in Montpere now but so does it have something well you you're a state senator for eight years right from Chittenden County from Chittenden County State Center so how was that I mean what did you do did you accomplish anything yeah well I was a chair of the Education Committee at one point and then chair of the Senate government operations which Senate government operations actually oversees the Secretary of State's office and you know all the election stuff retirements labor issues so I I was heavily involved in those discussions and bills as they processed for instance we we did back in around 2005 the first major retirement reform issues to bring it kind of under control and of course it continued to spiral after that but that was for other reasons but but you know I think there was a lot of things going on at the time you know like I said I was the chair of this group and then when Secretary Markowitz before me decided to retire herself she ran for governor you know she suggested that I consider running for Secretary of State and I did awesome so it's Secretary not Secretary of State but State Senate Senate of two-year term or four-year term it's a two-year term I serve for two-year terms yes and it was elected and as is Secretary of State is two-year terms as is the governor's and lieutenant governor's office so Vermont is one of two states left in the country that is two-year terms it's us in New Hampshire every other state has gone to four-year terms oh wow and so the people elected to yes and ice ice actually support four-year terms because I think it allows for better planning and vision yeah the future yeah exactly you know you really say you're not always running yeah exactly because you know what you have to two years you have to run you start running six months after you start so I know that's but you know yeah so it's important that you be able to be able to do what you say you know me because if your platform is just that another then you want to be able to do it but if you need more like then one term to do it if you got right well you know if you're doing for instance it projects solutions for it takes more than two years yeah sure you got to do all the planning first before you actually go to an RFP and then start the implementation yeah so you need to go more than two years on that and you know when I first took office Bruce it was everything we did in the in the office all divisions of the Secretary of State's office it was done on a piece of paper yes you know you filed your annual report for your business on a piece of paper you filed a lean on a piece of paper you filed for your professional license on a piece of paper all your campaign finance reports for elections were on a piece of paper and it was really problematic and and I think by 2015 we had converted everything so it took five years but we converted everything over to a digital environment and you know I mean I even had lobbyists coming to us because they had to file their their reports on paper and they said we'll pay more but we need to do this right on a digital environment so we were able to accomplish all that and that's that is probably one of the if I had to pick one thing that we did aside from the voting rights issues but it's the one thing that we did that went across the entire Secretary of State's office was going from a paper environment to a digital environment because it allowed us we had literally zero percent activity on online right and then we had now over 98 percent yeah so so you so a Secretary of State which you retired from town you know you retired you retired tired in January so are you actually smiling about this 12 years okay so my man man man secretary of state office have so many categories on anything you know they had to corporate and this then you know your names you name all right so we have the first one obviously is corporate registration so if you want to do business in Vermont you have to register with our office through our office that's the first thing if a business has a lean against another business that gets filed in our office annual reports non-profits they have to file reports with us second one is the state archives and records management unit we have a state archives I had when I took over it would they had just completed a new state archives which is a state of the art archives our most precious documents were kept there the Vermont Constitution the bill of rights that we saw that the you at that the Vermont legislature signed and sent to Washington for the US bill of rights we have those documents in in the archives when Hurricane Irene hit Vermont and wiped out hundreds of bridges and hundreds and hundreds of miles of roads right after the agency of natural resources and the agency of transportation were in our archives pulling the old maps out so they could see where the roads used to be so they knew how to rebuild how to rebuild the state yeah right so the archives then we had the office of professional regulation which is the licensing we have over 50 professions 80,000 licensees nursing tattooist barbers cosmetologists pretty much all the health care fields except for the doctors which remain under the Department of Health but everything else is is with us what about DMV that Department of Motivation is that underneath in three states it's under the Secretary of State Maine Illinois and Michigan in Vermont it's under the transportation so but you know and then of course the one that probably the office is best known for is elections now so you saw um so the treasuries you signed the checks right no that's not that's the treasurer actually does that okay okay okay so so what is you think when you're 12 years being the Secretary of State which is a gigantic position that's something you had to run for at all I did have to run for it oh okay I have to get elected that's right you gotta get elected for I'm one of the I'm one of five constitutional officers and so I'm independently elected from the governor so that's why I don't have to listen every time so it's so it's um it's just you know I think what do you think you think people vote for you because of your service or they see your name because your name is probably a little bit of both I think I think you know I've earned a reputation of running the office in a nonpartisan fashion you know I held it my staff to that high high bar that we're not going to pick sides we're gonna follow the law that you know we look to be as efficient as possible one of the first things we did when I took out over in 2011 was to do you have a higher a professional firm to come in and look at the entire organization you know look at the different positions and and make suggestions to us on how we can improve efficiency and and my goal was some people thought oh he's gonna fire people no my goal was to make it make people's jobs easier to accomplish more and that's what we were able to do so you know I'm from a budgetary standpoint we the Secretary of State's office used to get 1.8 million a year from the general fund the legislature would appropriate it and I realized shortly after I took over that we really didn't need it because we had we had enough in our fees coming in so we gave that 1.8 million back to the legislature and said you guys keep it and use it where you want and and you know so I I've always been about efficiency productivity about changing to a digital environment about being fair and honest with my staff you know I think it's it's always I'm only as good as the staff that I have worked and and you know we had good people in the office and I think every time we we had an opening of it if there was a vacancy of someone left we wouldn't just automatically fill it we would look at it and say do we need it do we need it doing what it's doing now or could we use that position for something else so we were always looking at how we could adjust and be better yeah that's cool so we got like four minutes like four minutes left okay so Jim what do you think of the state of the Vermont now we hey we think what the where we headed to is it in a good direction or you feel like what do you think about everything about what's going on right now I Bruce I think that Vermont is in a good place I think we're we're well suited and well set up for climate change as it as it starts to occur and it has been and I think COVID showed us that a lot of people were moving to Vermont and and I think you know we just have to make sure we we don't overspend we don't that we don't overuse some of the functions we need to pay attention more to what the people and families need I think that's important and I think that it's you know you know I think what we've done with elections to make it accessible for as many people as possible I've always said that you know when people talk about voter fraud as is really big across the country right now right well in my opinion the true voter fraud in this country is denying any eligible American the right to vote yeah and you know it really disgusts me to see what's going on around the country but I can't I couldn't deal with what they were doing I had to deal with what I had no doubt about it so you know so now you can deal with some other issues you can look at some broad issues you know some candidates for our national seats in the country are you know our kind of different from how normal traditional ways of say how president exactly you know so and it's kind of interesting you know because a lot of people believe in somebody and hundreds of thousands of people believe in some of the people like who's not traditional in a way how presidents usually are you know which is you know kind of weird to me but you know I always I always say whether it's at city council level or a state Senate or a statewide office or a national office experience matters no doubt about you write about that you write about that experience matters so what else you want to watch it so I'm what you say is gonna see your grand kids after this yeah I mean I you know I've taken the I started my retirement the night before I was retiring I contracted COVID so I made it through three years without it then the night before I retired I got it so I was kind of down and out for about two to three weeks and since that time I just been doing stuff around the house I'm anxious to get outdoors and working in the yard and garden and stuff and I've got you know two grandkids on my side and two grandkids on my my partner side so you know we're really interested in being able to travel as much as possible awesome so we want to do some traveling anyway you need to you know you should maybe you should drive around see check out stuff you know you've been you know you know you've been a Vermont lots you've done a lot for the state and I want to thank you for all the things that you've done for people who you serve you know people like me and in the state is in a good place always has been a good place and I've looked over how many times you have to look over the Secretary of State's website and it's a good order to you know because you can actually check you know find what you're looking for you know you don't have to you know God don't do it I'll forget it you know I mean you actually find what you're looking for go to that left side of you know up top bro you know a lot of work smiling face a lot of work goes into it and my my successor will do will be great she'll she'll she'll be fine like me she was chair of the committee in the in the house that oversaw the Secretary of State's office so Sarah will be very good at what she does going forward I'm you know we periodically meet to have coffee and talk about it and you know I'm I'm really hopeful that things will be in good shape going forward sure and a lot people need to probably come back and ask you questions you know because how to do this how to do that this is the easiest thing they could do if they talked to a person I'm here you're there well you got anything you want to ask her no this has been great you know like I've got over 35 years is in public look good looking fresh and you know nice I'm not the bar that blazer so it's it's just it's been a long time coming but I'm ready yes sir well thank you for being with straight to our show sir and thank you everyone for tuning in to the straight talk with Mancho and see you next time


We talked about working on some mechanical things. You were missing just a couple of ticks. Did you feel like the mechanical issues were the same tonight and perhaps led to the lower velocity? I'm not sure. That's something I'm going to have to look at tomorrow. I wasn't really thinking about my mechanics out there, just because I'm in the middle of competing. I'm just thinking about competing out there. Yeah, so the mechanics I'll look at tomorrow. How do you assess what happened tonight? I didn't feel great. I didn't really have the good fastball. Didn't have a breaking ball to put guys away with. Was able to get the two strikes on some guys, but just couldn't make pitches to put them away. Just not a good night for me.  I think it'll come in time, but it's definitely something that I want to address and look at going forward. Thank you. We'll go to Kristi Eckert. Hey, James. Have you had that velocity back since you've come back from the surgery, or is this something you're building back up to? Something I'm building back up to. I haven't had the velocity up to the mid to higher 90s since the surgery.  No pain. No pain at all when I'm throwing. I just felt a little sluggish tonight, and I didn't feel like it was really live. Thank you. Are there any additional questions for James? Thank you, James. Oh, one more. George King, last one for George. Sorry about that. James, do you feel bad about not getting out of the second inning in your first start of the year? Yeah, absolutely. I'm not happy with it. It's not how I want to start the season. That being said, I have to put this one behind me and focus on what's next.


I am native of the East End. I grew up, my neighborhood still is predominantly Black, was when I was growing up. So we combating all types of stereotypes here. I think Richmond is a great place. It has its war, it has its challenges. So it currently serves here as pastor of the Mount Carmel Baptist Church. The congregation has been around for 135 years this year and is really steeped in some of the civil rights tradition of our city and the asset to making the city the best that it could be. Particularly on the East End, there's a lot that needs to be done in terms of violence that's happening for our kids, being able to support them, whether it's at school and support their families, so that they can process what's going on. But also there's a need for there to be some preventive action. It's not just one person's responsibility to be present for a child. It's all of us together. No person lives on the island, a child definitely does not. And for a lot of these students, they don't have somebody to talk to at home. And so me just being there and listening, even if there's nothing that I can do to fix the situation that's going on at home, just being there and doing active listening, which is something that sounds super easy, but a lot of these clients really just don't have that. They don't have that person. So I think it's very necessary. It's a very much needed service. I'm watching you, I'm paying attention to you. I'm dedicated and I'm voting all of my attention to you in this moment. So in being present, one, and in being present with them, that's what it's about. But having clients tell me that they trust me and that me just being there for them, even though I can't fix their situation, means the world to them. Sometimes we can get into a mode of wanting to fix things and make things right. And sometimes what is needed is for us just to show up. Yes, there's a lot of strategy and therapy and study and research and all of that that goes into the work that the child saver does. But really, it's about the power of presence. It's about letting people know that there is someone who will show up for you. The work that it takes for children, for adults to get to their best selves, it takes everybody. It takes faith communities. It takes organizations like Child Savers. It definitely takes healthcare professionals like we have a centera to be a part of that process of being spiritually, physically, emotionally, mentally, and mentally healthy. And that's the goal.


What is up you guys, Realistic Gaming here and today we are in Nightmare in Bikini Bottom.   Oh yeah, and apparently they removed the oof sound I believe yesterday, Roblox. By the way, RIP oof sound, but apparently there is a way where you go into like the Roblox files and like you can get the old sound back. I don't know, I just seen a video on that on Think Noodles, he uploaded like a short. So check that out if you want to get the oof sound back on your Roblox. Alright, so let's go ahead and begin with chapter one. Let's buff that menacing freak. I need to find out five patties to leave, okay? Alright, so, oh my god, it's so dark in here. Mother trucker dude, okay, we just started, yo, what is going on with this? Oh look, there's a squid we're painting, okay, there's planks, dude, it is way too dark in here. Okay, they say something about when the lights, oh, when the lights flicker, we need to hide, okay, hurry, hurry before it's too late.  Enough of our flashlight, because I'm not sure if we're safe or not, if we have our flashlight on. Okay, there is our first crabby patty here, oh my god, get it in my belly. And there we go, this place looks abandoned, duh, did he just realize this? Okay, um, I assume, okay, we can grab the hammer now. Now let's go knock down these planks, okay, either use hammer, uh-oh, there it is again. Hopefully we're not too late. Oh man, I think we're gonna die, I think we're gonna die. Oh, yo, I was right there, oh man, we gotta be quicker than that. We're back at this, why was this boarded up? I'm not sure dude, but we gotta hurry up. Okay, where the heck, another crabby patty's nice, hurry, hurry before the lights start flickering, dude. Okay, another patty, I wonder if, oh, there's a button, hurry, no. Gotta be fast, there we go, go, that was way too close. Okay, so we pressed the button and there was, there were some bars down below, go check that out. Okay, well you look at that, it actually opened these bars here, lifted them up. Okay, now it's so dark, dude, I don't even know where to go. Okay, I'm stuck, um, leave while you can, oh great, not again. Dude, this guy comes out like every 10 seconds, like it makes it impossible for us to try to collect all the crabby patties before he comes out and kills us.  Oh, handsome Squidward, okay, where the heck is the crabby patty? Oh, there's one right there, what? How do we get inside of there? Don't be greedy. Okay, I'm not, I'm sure to say I'm not a greedy person, long as it comes with food before I mean, if it's food involved then we're gonna fight, bro, because who doesn't love food. Okay, there's a button here and we should have opened this. Okay, there's no exit, dang it, there's always no, oh no. No, dude, it takes forever, like, lowest ever, dude, one more, I just need one more. Oh, okay, this opened up. Hey, that is weird, where the heck am I going now? Warning, the red mess is coming Squidward, it's all your imagination. Oh gosh, okay, oh, you can actually collect that. Okay, I suppose they're like secret posters throughout the maps we're supposed to collect, which we've only found one. Okay, where's the crabby patty at? Oh, great. Food, come on man, these jump scares. All right, we got the last patty, the last, okay, that's the last one. Okay, now we have to escape. Now I assume we run back all the way to the entrance where we came in, that's probably the escape, but let's go through that. And there is the door escape, yes. Hey, woo, made it out, you escaped. Wait, now what? Can you find the secrets? I don't know, maybe, maybe not. Right, more coming, oh. The heck, we just died. All right, let's continue off on chapter two, oh my gosh, one's right there. Complete your to-do list. Or maybe making this place 24-7 was a great idea. I didn't hear the office when the lights flicker. Be hiding this room when the slasher is hunting? To-do? Collect me money from the cash register. Clean the grill, pack up the extra patties, find me keys, lock up and leave again. Wait, this is like the actual nightmare in Bikini Bottom. I played this game like a long time ago. It was about like Dave microwave games. Oh, oh, oh, it goes out. Okay, we go back. Where is me money though? I don't see me money anywhere. Oh, look, there's another suicide Squidward poster. Okay, so we're supposed to actually do it in order, in order for the game to work. So I love the sound of being money. Okay, now we clean the grill. Hopefully we can do two in one before the hatchling is slashed. Dude, I'm pushing it. No, no, no, no, let's go, let's go. I swear these get longer and longer every freaking time. You try to do the objective like, are you going any slower than this? Okay, before the incident, sponge always clean this. Wait, what happened to SpongeBob? Okay, pack up the extra patties, find me keys. Got to be in the kitchen, right? Where else would they be? Maybe in the toilets? Okay, no? What? Okay, patties. Okay, nice. Dude, they're all blocked. Heavy patties in the shape of squares. Maybe they made them out of SpongeBob, dude. Just talking about the incident. Oh, no. Okay, now we need to find the keys and then lock up and leave. They got to be out here somewhere. There it is, the key. Oh, no, it's going slow again. Come on, hurry. We lock up and leave. Okay, we should be able to leave through the main door. Yes. All right, I'm ready to leave. All right. Hey, and we made it. You escaped. Now what? Move on to chapter three. Chapter three. I need to get out the pliers, hide the lockers and the lights flickers. Okay, we need to find Kelpo. Where the heck do we find Kelpo? Could be right here. Pick up Kelpo. Come on. Wait, there's only one objective. This place looks like it's been abandoned for a while. Find chocolate. Not the chocolate. Chocolate? Did you say chocolate? Okay, we need to find the chocolate. Okay, nice. Chocolate is right here. Thankfully, we didn't have to go through every aisle. We found the right way. I love chocolate. Find the mail.  All right, that'll last you for like a whole month. Find the hot sauce. Okay, so the hot sauce is in this room. Grassy crab pizza is a pizza. That's Sriracha, bro. I love me, Sriracha. Okay, hurry up. Hopefully, let's find the weapon. Where the heck am I going to find the weapon here? Oh my God. I should have expected that. Oh, the last poster. Okay, so we got a badge. That's it. Come on. Oh, the weapon is right here. It looks like a granny's bat or something. All right, exit through the front. Hey, are we about to fight SpongeBob or something? Dude, we did get it. Oh, hurry up. Hurry up. Come on. Come on. Come on. Wait, that's not the exit. I'm freaking dead. Okay, right here, there's the red door, of course. It reminds me of the left or dead doors. I don't know why. Okay, we made it. Wait. Oh, so we're not going to beat up SpongeBob? I think it was the whole point of grabbing the baseball bat, dude. Oh, I guess for chapter four, since it did say that there's going to be a chapter four on the way. Well, that is the end of Nightmare and Bikini Bottom. If you guys enjoyed the video, make sure to drop a like and drop a comment and share and all that good stuff. And I will see you guys in chapter four, hopefully.


Basically when you see red and green in something that is gonna be good like that's a national color Yo, what's going on everybody welcome to a special episode of fun grows food And I'm here with LA native Nelson champ from Hooping life and Mexican foodie Chris Ortiz in case you guys didn't know There are a lot of different types of Mexican food We got north southeast west Caribbean inland all the way up to your Taco Bell Chipotle and all that good stuff So this spot Pepe's behind me is a late night staple in this area the food originates from Mexico City But it has a California twist. So I'm pretty excited guys. You ready for this. Yeah, this is Mexicali food. Let's go Okay, all right. All right, man Nelson you went to elementary across the street from here Yeah, I got a Ramona elementary been eating here since sixth grade. I used to get the chili cheese fries They used to be three dollars and thirty three cents. I always remember that number as a kid I didn't really have much, you know money So I have to save up for the week in order to get myself some chili cheese fries Real quick man. What drinks are we looking at?  Yeah, how would you describe hibiscus to people? Hibiscus is kind of like sweet but sour kind of plant. Kind of flowery, right? A floral taste No, I'm not gonna lie, man. Every time we drink our chata, it's kind of like dessert first because it's so creamy But it's really good if I'm gonna eat a lot of spicy food because all that cream is gonna pack it down All right, man. You guys ready for round one? I can't wait Color that looks like a flag. We'll start from here. This is just round one here We have the carne asada fries. This is probably their most famous dish big scuba guac here. Oh God, it's so good. You got melted cheese So good sour cream So good and tasty got your pico de gallo right here Mmm If the chili cheese fries was a three series and then a side of fries is an M3 What it is? This is probably the most I would say accessible Mexican food carne asada fries Mmm, the side of fries is good till the cheese fries have a special place in my heart This has a lot going on, you know from the pico de gallo the sour cream the guac the asada This is more takes mix because of the cheddar cheese the sour cream Mexicans really don't do sour cream I love sour cream man four out of five. Wow. Yeah, we saw me shoot at first late night sharing I mean look at how much you get it. I like the colors. I eat with my eyes I'm gonna have to give it a three out of five. Okay. I'm also gonna have to give it a three out of five One of the things that Pepe's is famous for is the tokyo's with guacamole Guacamole I heard was something that came from more the Mexican colonial days to guacamole He's been around for a minute. I mean we call them taquitos here in Soquel But they're actually flouta see how they're rolled in deep fried. They're right here So this is covered in guac some other late night Mexican spots. Their guac is a little bit more watery But this one's real chunky. That's a whole lot of guac man taquitos, but I mean flouta Even though I'm allergic to avocados still good though. It wasn't worth it worth it. What's gonna happen? My tongue started getting itchy even if I hit it with a little bear day sauce Little green Green on green crime. It's letting the carnitas shine. There's not a lot of sour cream and cheese I like sour cream and cheese, but this is kept a little bit more simple. Oh, man I got to give the taquitos a four out of five the simplicity of it the flavor It just pops I would give it a four out of five, but I'm actually gonna give it a 3.5 out of five because I felt like the meat was a tad dry That chicken was dry Real dry I'm gonna give it a four out of five right here. We got your taco con queso We're typical the chuga tomate the classical staple of mexican dishes on a hard shell taco hard shell taco or soft shell Soft shell taco all the time I've got to say that is one loaded taco that is packed bro. All right guys hard shell taco This is not your taco bell hard shell taco. Let's bite into it. No sauce first hard shell tacos One more bite some rad sauce Rojo Eating tacos was a little interesting because you get certain bites of a lot of meat And then you get certain bites that it's just veggie the heart of eating a taco is to get everything in one bite I don't know my mouth big enough for that. It's a mouthful Also the thing about hard shell tacos, it kind of has this tendency to crack man This is good. I mean look how much cheese is on top. It's almost like it's got like a afro of cheese That's not a fan of the cheese. So I took it off. It was too much man.  Let me get a little custom there too. I'm going to take some of this guac That's in here from the flauta put that on right there So I'm going to take some sour cream from the carne asada fries put that on right there Muy bien, ma'am.  I'm sorry. I know you love this Andrew But I'm gonna have to give it a 2.5 out of 5 man. The taco itself is too greasy. This is too techsome experience All right, I'm gonna have to agree with it man 2.5 out of 5. I was just like it was just way too much cheese for me Look at this. This is like a blob of cheese. I'm gonna give it the 3.5 out of 5 overall I would say you guys got to try it. Come here. This is the carnitas wet burrito So looking at this with the shredded lettuce tomatoes and the cheese can we rank how authentic this is? Just by the looks of it the queso looks a little bit americanized three and a half terms of authenticity And then I'm excited about this one. This one's the chili rellenos I'm excited about this one guys So this is uh chili rellenos burrito This has egg has cheese. It has cheese inside of the chili. I got my expectation set high I don't know why. Oh, there's no meat in this. No, it's just egg chili rellenos Give me the pops Yo for a no meat dish. Tell me that wasn't good 4.5 out of 5 To me if it had me I would have given 5 out of 5 But just from the egg and the cheese this cheese this white cheese inside I mean the egg and the pepper that's why it was a very unique combination that I've actually never had before This right here. I'm surprised I haven't eaten this way back Done they scoop out all the seeds. It's not as hot. It's not that spicy But it's still got the great chili pepper outside. I'm gonna have to give us a 4.5 out of 5 Wow, that's actually super good. You got to try the no meat. Yeah 4.5 out of 5 man Nice guys do not slow down just yet. We got more to go here. We have a wet burrito here We got the enchiladas. What's the difference enchilada? How come it's not a burrito? It's rolled inside with some cheese in there and I guess that's what makes it enchilada Typically most burritos don't have cheese in here. That's a so-called thing for sure Cheese in a burrito is an american thing just so we know right. We got rice. We got beans. We got meat The tortillas is everything right thick with double seeds just how I like it We have to acknowledge it is kind of heavy now. This is why it's a great late night food the wet burrito Let's try this Very light in its flavor. I would disagree. You probably ate one with no sauce Yeah, I really like the sauce on the wet burrito. Unfortunately there is beans in it I'm not a fan of beans, but this wet burrito does taste really good It's kind of like a light gravy what really stands out is the refried beans. The pecoiles the beans have Really good flavor usually beans don't have flavor and they really made them tasty just elevates this dish Beans does have a lot of flavor packing and flavor like when I'm eating this burrito I taste a lot of the beans what I disagree is actually I don't like beans Did this make you like beans momentarily like for a second? Yes The beans do taste really good. I give it a 3.5 out of 5 based off my bias the beans 3 out of 5 I'll give it a 3.5. Oh All right, this is the enchilada. What kind of sauce is on enchilada? You call it chili the edible I can't even see the enchilada. Oh my gosh. Is that a chili? Oh That's not even enchilada. This is another chili relleno My man You're not originally from soca. You're originally from El Paso, Texas That's right. I'm actually from El Paso and we share a border with Juarez, Mexico 95 population of mexicanos. That looks like a really tasty bite. You see how much red sauce there is You see the chili relleno.  I kind of got high hopes for this bite the enchilada You were locked in on that enchilada. You you were speechless for some reason. I don't know You guys went silent for a straight 30 seconds. What's going on guys? Tell me that was good No bueno was way too overwhelming the cheese is way too much It was just the cheese overload in my mouth with enchilada. I really like how soft the wrap was I can see what christian is saying about the cheese being you know a little bit too overwhelming But I felt like it was a little more well balanced with the other stuff There was a lot on that plate and if you eat it all on one bite, it was crazy It was pretty good, but I'm not a big fan of enchiladas and even though the chili relleno was there I gotta give it three out of five. I'm gonna have to give it a two out of five You're not gonna be allowed at pepe's anymore Me I would give it four out of five I feel like it has a really good balance and combination But everyone you know has different tastes this chili relleno though I gotta say this is the mbp to me so far. Give me a bunch of those a little bit charred too from the grill So in round two we got The wet torta the drowning torta the torta. I'll gotta I'll gotta and then we got the uh your favorite No, favorite your little friend Oh I love it just trade Go at it man chili cheese fries you're beloved. All right. Nelson you've put your pants back on right? Let's go into these chili cheese fries, man. I don't even gotta eat it and I know my score already. Give me one bite I'm kidding. I'm kidding. All right. Yeah, this jalapeno got the seeds in it. Yeah, that's a spicy bite I like the jalapeno the pork carnitas in here did a great job Not the type of chili I was expecting that's a mexican chili This is actually the sauce on the wet burrito, but not overfaring like the other dish I will give you this it does taste different. I gotta give it a four out of five four out of five Nelson you're gonna kill me 3.5 out of five just because I was expecting okay. That's not bad That's not bad. It's a bum average. Yep. I mean, you already know Five by five might slightly be over hyping it just a little bit because you know with nostalgia hips But realistically at least a 4.5 out of five for the general public But for me five out of five we got the wet torta. It's like a sandwich burger, right? Yeah, it looks like a hamburger come to poppy poppy. Yo, look at this monstrosity the wet torta That was a slipper and that came in late in the game You know what we had eaten a lot hunger is the best sauce so when you're full and something still tastes good That's when you know it's good I'm getting pretty full, but I might have to take another bite real quick 4.5 out of five not too much cheese But just enough had that nice smear of refried beans on the inside that was killing it What a pie for me. Wow being an authentic dish and being that it was represented well, I'm gonna have to give it a 4.5 Before we get into the last round of burritos. These are not traditional burritos. This is the california style This is a machaca and then you got the breakfast burrito here, which is probably not traditional What's the machaca? It's kind of like a brunch burrito now the breakfast. This is the brunch That's the dinner burrito because you got fries carne asada. You don't even have any greens in there I was the carbon meat. All right. All right cut out the muscle burrito right now. Let's go in burritos If I gotta rank it on the burrito itself might give it a 3.5 out of five, but with the verde sauce 4 out of 5. I love the verde sauce. Yeah, I loved it. It has that fresh hotness The breakfast burrito here is definitely really heavy. They pack in a lot of potatoes in there Taste wise it still tastes pretty good, but I think it's just packed way too much potato in there Give it a 3 out of 5. Okay. If you take a look at this burrito, there's no greens There's nothing that really brings out freshness. It's all meat cheese and potatoes that alone I'm gonna have to give it a 2 out of 5 super dry Traditional california burrito has something to bring out the freshness in the meat. Yo. Nelson had to stand up You can't sit no more. Stop giving up. All right. We'll just do the outro like this The standouts to me was the chile relleno surprisingly. I don't even mess with that My favorite part was definitely the wet quarter. It was a sleeper. It just blew my mind that chili sauce they got back there That is good stuff. One of my favorites was the floutas floutas. Yeah, it was good It was really simple, but it just it packed a lot of flavor. I would add on to that list this machaca burrito I wish I could eat more you taking that death bite afterwards. Yeah, of course chili relleno I knew that was gonna be good just because I like chilies Of course the chili cheese fries came through with the different kind of chili I thought that was cool, man My major takeaway is the fact that just because something isn't authentic doesn't mean it's not tasty There are so many different types of mexican food here that I would never would have known A lot of chinese people when they first came to america or asian people they didn't come over as chefs But they were the ones who started the restaurants But in that you have to cater that food to america in general using american ingredients So that's how you get americanized chinese food or americanized mexican food, you know All right, let us know in the comments below what other types of food you want us to try and rank and look into Thank you so much for watching that video and until next time we out. Peace The puerco you know you got the The onions, you know, I feel like I feel like you just saw Like that girl that you always love from like sixth grade Finally said I'm crushed. Yeah your lifetime crush and you just saw her again and you can't even really understand what you're saying


Possibly going to select what voices you will listen to and be able to travel through life on borrowed light. The voice you must learn to heed is the voice of the Spirit. The Spirit's voice is ever-present, but it is calm. The adversary tries to smother this voice with a multitude of loud, persistent, persuasive, appealing voices. Murmuring voices that conjure up perceived injustices. Whining voices that abhor challenge of work. Seductive voices offering sensual enticements. Flattering voices that puff us up with pride. Commercial voices that tempt us to spend money for that which is of no worth. And our labor for that which cannot satisfy. In your generation you will be barraged by multitudes of voices telling you how to live, how to gratify your passions, how to have it all. There will be all sorts of software, satellite receivers, and communication networks that will suffocate you with information.  As I contemplate this prospect, I am reminded of TS Eliot's words. Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? I have suggested a simple solution for selecting the channel which you will attune yourselves to. Listen to and follow the voice of the spirit. This is an ancient solution, even eternal, and may not be popular in a society that is always looking for something new. This solution requires patience in a world that demands instant gratification. This solution is quiet, peaceful, and subtle. This solution requires you to walk by faith in a world governed by sight. Learn to ponder the things of the spirit and respond to its promptings. Ponder out the static generated by sight. As you become attuned to the spirit, thine ear shall hear a word behind thee saying, This is the way. Walk ye in it. Harkening to the voice of the living God will give you peace in this world and eternal life in the world to come. This is the greatest of all the gifts of God.


You're exposing yourself right there, right? All of them for you. You do hard landings, and you come to me and I'm not in the right place. Just go ahead and leave me in there. I'll pull you up, right? So, I'm going to go to get your gear back. I'll be right back. Hello, Nick. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. Thanks.


So the reason I'm making this video right now is because it is almost 1am and I am currently directly across the street from where the shootings at Michigan State occurred. I am 21 years old and this is the second mass shooting that I have now lived through. Ten years and two months ago I survived the Sandy Hook shooting and when I was crouched in the corner in school in Newtown Connecticut on 1214-12 I was hunched in the corner with my classmates for so long that I actually got a PTSD fracture in my L4 and L5 in my right lower back. I now have a full-blown PTSD fracture that flares up anytime I am in a stressful situation or anything occurs that's aggressive like that. The fact that this is the second mass shooting that I have now lived through is incomprehensible. My heart goes out to all the families and the friends of the victims of this Michigan State shooting but we can no longer just provide love and prayers. It needs to be legislation. It needs to be action. It's not okay. We can no longer allow this to happen. We can no longer be complacent. I'll forever be Sandy Hook strong and forever be Spartan strong. That TikTok is going viral because as she eloquently explained the MSU shooting that took place last night where three people were killed and five more were injured isn't her first mass shooting. She survived Sandy Hook as well. Now what's astonishing is that this isn't the only MSU student to see a second mass shooting. One MSU student Emma Riddle tweeted 14 months ago I had to evacuate from Oxford High School when a 15 year old opened fire and killed four of my classmates and injured seven more. Tonight I am sitting under my desk at Michigan State University once again texting everyone I love you. When will this end? Now that's not all because the auntie of two MSU students tweeted this. Active shooter on MSU campus reported 23 minutes ago still roaming next door to my nephew's dorm. He has taken cover. I'm waiting to hear the same nephew that was in the classroom next door to the active shooter at Oxford High School November of 2021. Now there's even more as Insider reports Jennifer Mancini the mother of one MSU freshman told the Detroit Free Press that she had just spent a year helping her daughter deal with losing two of her closest friends in the Oxford shooting where she was a senior. She said that she had PTSD Mancini said of her daughter that a Detroit Free Press reported. She said she can't believe this is happening again. So think about how insane that is for multiple MSU students this is not the first mass shooting that they've lived through. That's where we're at in the United States but it's not just students at MSU who happen to live through multiple mass shootings other individuals around the country have also experienced this. For example three friends who survived the Las Vegas shooting in 2017 where 60 people were killed at a country music festival ended up surviving another mass shooting just two years later in 2019 at the Gilroy garlic festival where three people were killed by a mass shooter. Also veteran Brian Kelly survived two mass shootings within the span of one year the Las Vegas shooting and then the shooting in Thousand Oaks California at borderline bar and grill where a gunman killed 11 people in 2018. Now another man actually experienced the same two mass shootings but wasn't as lucky as the last individual he survived the Las Vegas shooting but died in the shooting at borderline bar and grill. The point is mass shootings in the United States are so common that people are living through multiple mass shootings. That's where we're at. Now let's get to some details about the MSU shooting as the New York Times reports the gunman first opened fire at Berkeley Hall home to the university's College of Social Science shortly before 8 30 p.m killing two people Chris Rosman the interim deputy university police chief said at a news conference on Tuesday morning. The gunman later moved to the Michigan State Student Union a popular place for students to eat and study where he killed a third person. The two buildings just minutes apart on Grand River Avenue were both unlocked and opened to the public not long after the shooting began the university sent an email alerting students many of whom were in dormitories libraries and other campus buildings to shelter in place or evacuate safely while the authorities searched for the shooter after a three hour manhunt the university police said the gunman was found off campus around 11 30 p.m and had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound shelter in place orders were lifted and students quickly returned to their homes or were reunited with their families now at the time that I record this not much is known about the shooter or his motives but he was reportedly a 43 year old loner and he does have ties to the community but that's really all that we know at this point in time and now this is the part of the video where I as a political commentator am supposed to come up with solutions but I'm not going to do that we already know solutions I'm not going to entertain the arguments from bad faith actors about oh my god why did this happen maybe it's mental health maybe it's violent video games maybe it's a lack of prayer in schools maybe it's a lack of security we know why this keeps happening it's because guns we have more guns than people and until congress actually takes meaningful action to reduce the number of guns then this will keep happening period end of story and we don't even have to come up with some original solution we can just copy australia's homework because after a mass shooting in I believe 1996 they did gun reform and they haven't had a mass shooting since so this isn't something that we need to keep pretending to faint ignorance over or trying to have this conversation that isn't happening in good faith with the other side we know why it's happening and we know the solutions it's a matter of whether or not we have the political will to implement the solutions and obviously we don't so this will keep happening and more and more people will experience multiple mass shootings so long as this continues to occur in this disgustingly violent country


The purpose of this study was to measure the inter-rater and inter-rater reliability of active lumbar extension and flexion movements using dual inclinometer with two different landmarking techniques. Two examiners and two separate observers took repeated measurements from 40 participants, including both male and female patients with mild or symptomatic lower back pain, as well as healthy control subjects. Three sets of three alternating active lumbar extension and flexion movements were performed for an initial warm-up. Prior to each trial, the examiners used two different landmarking techniques to identify the start and end points of the movement. The results showed that the two landmarking techniques produced a high to very high inter-rater reliability, inter-class correlation coefficient 0.73 to 0.91. This suggests that the two landmarking techniques are reliable methods for measuring active lumbar extension and flexion movements. This article was authored by Isshak Ahmed, Muhammad Ali Mohseni Banpe, Syed Amir Jilani, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


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