Sometimes it may seem that trying to lose weight fast can be both possible and impossible at the same time. You must not alarm about it though as taking control of the problem and managing it by being smart is the method to go. There are so numerous possible ways to tackle the task but only choose few are really going to be effective and assistance to get the job done. What is most significant always is to keep going no issue what is standing in your method and do what others aren't willing to do.
One method to get a head start when trying to lose that additional baggage is to use a weight loss food to help you out. There are numerous options available when it comes to foods but you must approach it in a cautious way. Always put care first and make sure that you are applying an effective product that has a good status and a strong company behind it.
So numerous people just jump on board when the next "big thing" is unrestricted but this is an error that must be avoided.
Ensure that you study thoroughly in order to acquire insight which will enable you to live in the best healthy lifestyle.
It comes down to doing your study and getting all of the facts and information that you can. Then make an idea that you know will work and stick to it. Make it a commitment to get your goals and never quit. Here are some great ideas to help you get to your goals in a much easier method.
Don't Rush and pressure your Self!
Focus on trying to decrease about two lbs per week and make your aim to do it on a daily basis. When just starting out you may try and lose numerous more such as 5lbs per week but the name of the game is a regularity. There are numerous health specialists out there who advocate losing weight according to the slow and steady way as previously stated. Losing too fast can be detrimental to your fitness because you may practice a decrease in muscle tissue and feel pain dehydration too.
Contrary to popular certainty, fasting doesn't mean that you don't eat anything for a lengthy period of time. Fasting just means that you abstain from "weighty" and rich nutrients and stick to more fluids like meal replacement bad vibe and fresh juices. The mainstay of a fast is fresh fruits and vegetables and as much H2O as you can drink to help flush out poisons and keep you feeling full.
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Following a fit diet doesn't have to be a big deal. Just effort and stay away from all fried and fatty nourishments along with anything that is processed and overloaded with sodium. Focus on fresh fruits and root vegetable along with lean sources of protein. Make certain that you also drink plenty of water with lemon to help detox the physique and keep you feeling fresh. You will also want to eat less important more recurrent meals throughout the day in order to really kick up your metabolic rate.
Even if you don't change your nutrition at all, following a regular high strength exercise program will help to speed up your metabolic rate and get you losing those pounds faster than ever. Make certain that you combine weight training circuits with bouts of circulatory training such as power-walking or doing the oval at the gym. You can also buy different workout videotapes and train from your home.
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One method to help you take the steps that you essential and to keep going is to give yourself small prizes along the way. This may be purchasing that new outfit that you wanted or maybe those latest headphones to wear at the gym. Whatever it is, make certain that you acknowledge that you made another small step in the direction of your big goal. To implement these ideas and watch yourself lastly achieve your weight loss goals and get into the form that you have been striving for.


Chef and owner Zachary Golper and his wife Kate Wheatcroft) opened up Bien Cuit in 2011. Golper had trained in bread and pastry at multiple locales from rural Oregon to France learning everything from the basic, and ancient techniques of bread making to pastry skills taught by a 3rd generation patissier. At Bien Cuit, the tradition of artisanal bread making lives on. In translation, bien cuit refers to the darkest, crunchiest loaves which are baked to the exact point of perfection. And perfection is certainly the goal at this bakery. If you're out for a walk down the busy Smith Street in Brooklyn's Boerum Hill neighborhood (just a couple stops passed Brooklyn Heights on the F train) you'll find a neighborhood filled with new artisan shops and local restaurants. Passing by, you would probably notice right away the simple glass store-front with the simple typing 'Bien Cuit' on the window. Stepping inside to join Brooklynites and young French families sipping from large mugs of coffee, you'll be hit right away with the smell of freshly baked bread. A favorite on our Brooklyn Brownstone Eats Tour, this French bakery is so much more than your local bakery/coffee shop.
On their menu you'll find a variety of breads from their "Miche" ( blended rye & wheat flour with a 68-hour fermentation) to the "Broa de Milho" (corn & wheat flours, fermented with milk), to more complex flavors such as their "Multi-Grain" (cracked rye with oats, spelt and sunflower) or the "Raisin Walnut "(sourdough with raisins, walnuts, and pink peppercorn). And then, of course, there are the pastries, sandwiches, quiche and tartines… We love the Almond Croissant (twice-baked with brandy) and the Fresh Fig Danish (made with Neufchatel cheese & fresh figs). Take your coffee break to the next gastronomic level, and have it with some deliciousness at Bien Cuit.


Notes George Yabu + Glenn Pushelberg. For Biographical article + portraits -- SEE: "The World According to YP", AZURE, July/Aug.1998 pp.36-39.
SEE ALSO: 108 MUTUAL STREET. Formerly the Sears (Mail-order) Warehouse building. Completed in 1910. Altered in 1916 by Max Dunning from the Chicago architectural firm of Burke, Horwood & White. Altered in 1930s by Frank Corley, a staff architect with Simpson's (Department Store). Converted to condominiums in 1996 by Toronto architect Paul Northgrave.


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Music Stream Playlist
Looking for help EMO
Chablans December 29, 2022, 3:00pm 1
How can I get EMO to stream my playlist?
edward December 29, 2022, 3:14pm 2
If you are talking about your own music playlists on your mobile cp, well I'm sorry to disappoint you because there is no such way EMO can do that at this time…Still, on the plan, Let's hope for the next firmware updates.
Unfortunately playing music through Bluetooth and using EMO as a speaker is also not a feature at the moment.
Would be pretty cool that's for sure. I believe a few EMO owners have asked for this as well. Feel free to push this suggestion to the topic below if you wanted.
What Improvements/New Features Would You Like For EMO In The Future?
Best Regards and Keep Safe!
edward Closed December 29, 2022, 5:57pm 5
edward Opened February 2, 2023, 7:52pm 6
Simoncbrown February 2, 2023, 7:49pm 7
I've had Emo for over a year and this is a flat out lie and piece of deceptive advertising. Emo cannot and does not stream music from your playlist.
And don't tell me 'it will be available in a future feature'. It says on YOUR homepage that it streams music… Which is FALSE
NendosColl February 3, 2023, 3:39am 9
I agree, all those "we are planning to add it in the future" features should be in their own "Our future ideas" section of the description. Yes, that would reduce EMO's advertised capabilities to a half (or even less) but at the same time it would prevent many rightfully unsatisfied complaints.

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What Do You Get The Yorkie Boy That Has Everything?
Whether you're looking to buy a gift for your little Yorkie boy, or you want to surprise a friend with a gift for their Yorkie boy, it's tough to decide on what to get.
Buying a collar charm might not seem like enough. After all, this is a little Yorkie boy, and they deserve the best. So, why not go all out, and buy the Pampered Boy Luxury Gift Hamper? It covers everything a stylish Yorkie Boy would need for a day out.
First, there's the ever important blue and white luxury parka. With a fleece lining and a faux fur hood, this parka is sure to keep your pup warm. And, it has elasticized hems and arm holes, so wind won't sneak in and freeze your boy.
Then we have the classy blue argyle sweater. There's been an increase in popularity with argyle in the last few years, thanks to Stuart Stockdale. So why not follow the trend and dress your boy in argyle?
For the casual, warmer days where a parka isn't required, your gift hamper has a blue cotton hoodie. Made of 100% cotton, this hoodie comes with a vintage style "Rock Star" design, sure to impress all the Yorkie ladies. Everyone loves a rockstar, right?
And again, for casual days, there's a harness lined t shirt. It comes in every Yorkie boy's favorite color, blue, and states "Security On Patrol" on the back, so everyone knows who's in charge. And, since it's harness lined, your Yorkie boy will be safe and secure, and not pull out of his shirt if he decides to perform security detail.
Lastly, the gift hamper is rounded out with a manly collar. This faux crocodile collar has a crystal encrusted buckle, a large sparkling diamante charm, and 3 large diamante bones attached to the collar. All the lady Yorkies will know he's the man to set their sites on with this fashionable collar.


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Donald Trump Is Just Barely On Track To Win The GOP Nomination
Mar. 2, 2016 , at 4:55 PM
By Aaron Bycoffe
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks Tuesday at the Signature Flight hangar at Port Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio.
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Donald Trump's Super Tuesday delegate haul was no blowout. He won 254 delegates, Ted Cruz won 217, and Marco Rubio took in 97. But Trump beat FiveThirtyEight's delegate targets, which estimate the number of delegates each candidate needs to win in each contest to be on track to win the nomination. If Trump continues to meet or exceed those targets through the remainder of the primaries, he'll end up with just enough delegates to secure the Republican nomination.
It's true, as The Associated Press reported, that Trump hasn't won a majority of the delegates awarded so far; he's won about 46 percent of them. But when you look at the states that have voted, that's about 5 percentage points better than he should have done, based on polling data, demographics and social media data, which factor into our delegate targets.
How do they work? We know, for example, that Trump pulls a disproportionate share of his support from voters without a college degree, so he tends to do better in contests with less-educated electorates. Our targets take these kinds of demographic dynamics into account. Looking forward, Trump should win more delegates in states with fewer college-educated voters. If Trump hits his targets in the remaining contests, he'll end up with 1,276 delegates out of 2,472 — 52 percent.
The table below shows what percentage of delegates the top three Republican candidates currently have, and what percentage they'll end up with if they hit all their remaining targets. Note that with three candidates in the race, only one will be able to hit his targets.
AWARDED SO FAR
IF REMAINING TARGETS ARE HIT
Trump 46% 52%
Cruz 32% 44%
Rubio 16% 45%
Being on track for a 2 percentage point majority of delegates doesn't give Trump much room for error. Slip-ups in the winner-take-all states of Florida or Ohio on March 15 would knock him off track, as would even a slight underperformance in states that allocate their delegates proportionally.
And Trump could fall short on March 15. Those winner-take-all states are the homes of two of his rivals: John Kasich (Ohio) and Marco Rubio (Florida). Although FiveThirtyEight's polls-plus forecast gives Trump a 68 percent chance of winning Florida and its 99 delegates, Rubio is expected to focus his efforts there in the next two weeks. Expect a barrage of anti-Trump ads on Florida television sets. In Ohio, which will award 66 delegates to the winner of its primary, our polls-plus forecast gives Kasich a 41 percent chance and Trump a 39 percent chance of winning.
Trump's Super Tuesday performance was impressive, and no GOP candidate can claim he has nearly as plausible a path to 1,237 delegates as Trump. However, Super Tuesday's results suggest a strategic shift: The effort to stop Trump may no longer call for consolidation around one alternative; it's now a multifront war led by multiple candidates and disparate factions of the party with the singular aim of preventing Trump from winning 1,237 delegates.
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The American Academy of Manipulative Therapy (AAMT) Fellowship in Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy is accredited by the American Physical Therapy Association as a post-professional fellowship program for physical therapists in orthopaedic manual physical therapy. Graduates of the 12-month distance-based AAMT Fellowship program are eligible for the FAAOMPT credential. The next fellowship cohort begins March 1, 2019. AAMT Fellowship Applications should be submitted to fellowship@spinalmanipulation.org. Early applications are advised due to rolling admissions.
How can I apply for the March 1, 2019 cohort?
Fellowship applicants will be selected for the March 1, 2018 cohort based on information provided to AAMT via the AAMT Fellowship Application Form and the RF-PTCAS application. Admission will be primarily based on relevant clinical experience and the completion of specialty training or certifications in the areas of orthopaedic physical therapy and/or manual therapy. The deadline for applications for the 2019 cohort is February 5, 2019. However, we begin awarding placements in the AAMT Fellowship after October 1, 2018, so earlier applications have a greater chance of acceptance due to "rolling" admissions.
How will I be notified if I have been selected to be part of the March 1, 2019 – March 1, 2020 cohort?
AAMT may decide to contact you via email or phone during the application process on a case-by-case basis. If selected for the AAMT Fellowship program, you will receive an acceptance letter via email within 10 days of submitting your AAMT Fellowship Application Form and RF-PTCAS application. In addition, the final status of your application will be posted to RF-PTCAS.
What are the entrance requirements for the AAMT Fellowship program?
1. Applicants must be a licensed physical therapist in the state that they plan to complete their clinical mentored training within.
Applicants may apply to AAMT with a temporary physical therapy license in the state that they plan to conduct mentored training in.
Foreign applicants may apply, but they must be licensed to practice in the state that they will conduct training prior to the start date of the fellowship.
What are the costs associated with the AAMT Fellowship program?
The cost of the AAMT Fellowship in Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy for the 2018 cohort will be $12,500. Payments may be made in a lump sum or divided into quarterly payments. Please note that this does not include mentor fees. While some physical therapy clinics have FAAOMPT mentors that are organic to their clinic, others may have the need to import a mentor and/or send fellows-in-training to where they can receive mentored training. While the fee for organic mentors may be little to no cost, the fee for arranging external mentorship may be substantial. Fellows-in-training may request financial support to pay for the fellowship and the mentorship from the clinic they work for in return for reduced pay and/or owed time after completion of the fellowship.
If I have already taken courses through Spinal Manipulation Institute or Dry Needling Institute, can I apply them toward the fellowship requirements?
What are the requirements for mentorship?
Fellows-in-training may work with any mentor, as long as they hold the FAAOMPT credential. That is, the mentor does not need to be a graduate of the AAMT Fellowship and may have completed any one of the orthopaedic manual physical therapy fellowships offered through the APTA. While we recognize that having a mentor that is familiar with the AAMT philosophy of treatment may be advantageous, we understand that this may not always be possible.
Per ABPTRFE, fellows-in-training must complete 310 hours of mentor accessible time, whereby the fellow-in-training is seeing patients independently and the mentor is accessible by phone, text, Skype, email, etc. In addition, fellows-in-training must complete 130 hours of 1:1 time, whereby the fellow-in-training and FAAOMPT mentor are treating patients together.
Do I need to move to Columbia, SC to join the AAMT Fellowship?
How can I contact AAMT about the fellowship?
Further inquiries about the 12-month accelerated, APTA-accredited, AAMT Fellowship program should be made directly to the AAMT Fellowship Coordinator, Dr. Raymond Butts, PhD, DPT, MSc (NeuroSci), Dip. Osteopractic, MAACP (UK), Cert. DN, Cert. SMT at fellowship@spinalmanipulation.org.


If you have invested a lot of money into your tires for that comfortable ride or performance in inclement weather or on the track, examining your tires for premature uneven wear is critical to retaining your investment.
In fact, even if you are driving on a standard all-season, you can take a few minutes every month to double-check your treadwear on the tires during the daylight hours and take preventative measures. Many times, you simply need an alignment, tire balancing, or adjustments to the air pressure. Letting these problems progress unnecessarily taxes your income and can reduce your safety. Let's consider the different problems and the signs they can create in your treadwear below.
When your tires are underinflated, they tend to wear down faster along the outer edges. This is because the tire is designed to have a specific footprint and develops excess heat and friction in areas where the tread is not thick enough for continual contact. The solution is simply to inflate your tires to the ideal air pressures and to check for leaks if they are low again a few days later.
If your tires are overinflated the wear will be more significant in the center of the tire. This is because the tires blow up and become rounder when you overinflate them. If you simply adjust the air pressure and correct the PSI to match the number listed on your doorjamb, you will save your tires from premature wear and improve your handling. The key sign of overinflated tires is skittish handling that feels nervous and like your car is on stilts.
While wear on both sides usually indicates underinflated tires, wear on one side is indicative of an alignment problem. You may feel a pulling sensation to one side and experience it when you simply let your hands off the wheel. The solution is to take your vehicle to a shop that calibrates the ideal alignment using high-tech laser equipment.
However, if both of the front-end tires have to wear on the edges, this could mean that you are simply taking turns too fast and compressing the tires in the sharp bends. Your tires may also squeal when you are taking turns as indications that the alignment is bad or that the tires are underinflated.
You will have this zig-zagging type of wear when the alignment is off. This is caused by the vibration of the front-end and the bouncing of the pressure oscillating on different angles of the tire. A front-end alignment will keep this in check.
Now that you know how to identify the potential patterns and problems that can lead to uneven tread wear, let's consider how you check tires for uneven wear at home. The easiest method is to simply turn the steering wheel to the right or left at a hard angle to get a good view of the tire tread surface.
If you have a flashlight, this will help you see the tread in better detail. You can carefully roll the car forward slightly in neutral on a flat lot to see the entire tread surface.
For the rear tires, you may have to jack up the vehicle and spin them to get a good look. Always be sure to use a professional auto jack and appropriately rated jack stands rather than the spare tire worm-gear jack in your trunk.


Khiri Travel will emphasise sustainability and business growth at PATA Travel Mart in Phnom Penh, 18 & 19 September. The Khiri team invite travel industry partners and media to visit them at booth J2 at the Mart. Khiri management will elaborate on the opportunities that are now available following the opening of Khiri Travel Indonesia in March and Khiri Travel Sri Lanka on 29 August. The company now has 15 offices open in 8 countries and a sales office in the United States.
Andre van der Marck, VP Khiri Travel and Chris Gramsch, Sales Manager, Khiri Travel Cambodia will update PTM visitors to the booth about new products. Graham Read, Khiri Travel's Sustainable and Responsible Tourism Manager, will also welcome visitors at the sustainability pavilion (N22).
On 19 September, Willem Niemeijer, Founder & CEO, will address the theme, "Sustainable Tourism in Asia: Visitor Dispersion as a Solution" in a hosted PTM talk, 11.10-11.30 a.m.
Niemeijer will tell the audience that mass tourism is impacting the environment and cultural heritage of the famous sights in the region, while the benefits often fail to reach those not in direct proximity.
The Khiri Travel team are available for media interviews including updates on recently introduced experiences such as Bagan to Mrauk U in remote Myanmar, Kontum in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, and the PATA Grand Award winning Banteay Chhmar Tented Camp adjacent to ancient temple ruins in northwest Cambodia.
Meet the Khiri team and find more at PATA Travel Mart.
As you may be aware, the Thai Military has declared martial law in the country at 3 am this morning, Bangkok time.
The Lao government prepares the nomination dossier to inscribe the Plain of Jars to become the third Lao UNESCO World Heritage site, after the ancient town of Luang Prabang in the north of Laos and the ruined Khmer temple of Vat Phou (Champasak province) in Laos' South.


Brome Lake Books has been a cornerstone in Knowlton for 20 years. Its owners, Danny McAuley and Lucy Hoblyn, are pillars in the shifting downtown landscape and they have, in their own discreet and skillful way, literally been putting Lac-Brome on the map in the last decade.
Married with 3 children, in 2006 they bought Brome Lake Books where Lucy had been working for years. "Knowlton was busier then. It was a shopping town with outlets," says Lucy. In a way, the closing of the Woolrich store recently marked the end of an era, being the last "name store" in town. As Lucy puts it, over the last decade or so, there has indeed been "a change in times." More changes are yet to come as the building across the road in which the bookstore used to be as well as the Mill Pond Plaza next to it will be razed by the town in 2019 who plans to make way for the farmer's market and possibly a welcome centre.
With ebooks and the relentless rise of Amazon, Brome Lake Books has gone through phases too but being the only exclusively English bookstore in Québec, outside of the island of Montreal and Quebec City, does help. That, and the fact that the store is accredited to sell its books to institutional buyers such as libraries and schools. As I learned from Lucy and Danny, the province of Québec has an Act[i] requiring institutional buyers to purchase books from accredited bookstores in their administrative regions. One of the conditions for a bookstore to be accredited is that they have over 6,000 titles in inventory. It's no wonder this small-town bookstore's shelves are so well laden!
Although the choice is exhaustive, the floor space on Lakeside Road is vast and the room breathes with its high ceilings and natural light. The beautiful wood shelving and jars of candies by the door give the place a friendly and heart-warming general store feel. Comfortable sitting areas prompt customers to leisurely browse and get acquainted with the books. When probed, the busy owners and well-read staff will gladly leave their duties aside to answer your questions. If you bring the kids, be sure to make time: new and old favourites, a puppet theatre and two very discreet fairy houses will delight them. Danny even moves the furniture around and makes mini-books for the fairies to read. Many details obviously make this independent bookstore a place where people come to over and over again.
Louise Penny lives in Knowlton and she has been a long-time customer at the bookstore. Lucy confided, "The previous owner of the bookstore was one of the few to read her first manuscript back in 2004." Before she even became a phenomenon, Lucy and Danny befriended Louise and supported her as a writer. This is why they will be organizing Louise Penny's 14th book launch on November 24th at the Theatre Lac Brome. Lucy and Danny advise to sign up to Louise Penny's newsletter to get the insider's cue. Last year, places sold out in an hour and a half.
If the Gamache series appeals to you, make sure you visit Brome Lake Books. Somehow I am convinced the low-profile, kind and very generous owners helped make Three Pines the friendly place it is known to be.
For more information on the bookstore, Louise Penny or the Three Pines Tour, visit bromelakebooks.ca, louisepenny.com and threepinestour.com.


Having a crow caller in your kit isn't essential when decoying , but it could improve your bag by 10 fold.. This time of the year is more difficult when trying to entice the corvids in, as they are more interested in building nests for there young, father then trying to find food source.
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Meeting of Experts on ICT and Sustainable Development for South-South Cooperation

Date: 1st to 2nd March, 2016

Venue: Bangkok

Title: Lingustic and Cultural Diversity on the Internet - Considerations for Policy

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It's easy to take the performance of your dishwasher for granted when it reliably cleans your dishes year-after-year. The contribution of this important kitchen appliance is often appreciated only when it is on its last leg.
The average lifespan of a modern dishwasher is approximately 6-10 years.1 Over time, major components like the motor or pump may wear out, and out-of-warranty repairs can easily run $400-$600 or more once parts, labor and trip costs are calculated. In recent years, repair costs have increased while the cost of new dishwashers has decreased.1 This means it could be better to replace a dishwasher that is failing than to fix it.
If you attempt to run your dishwasher and all you hear is a humming sound, it is possible that the motor is failing. Your repairman may turn off power to the dishwasher at the circuit breaker before checking to see if the fan blades move easily. If they do not, it is possible that the motor is the problem. Compare the cost of purchasing a new machine versus replacing the motor.
If your dishwasher does not properly circulate water during the wash cycle or the water fails to drain at the end of the cycle, you may have pump problems. The water circulation pump has bearings that may wear out over time. When this occurs, you may hear a low-level drone when the pump is operating. A failing drain pump will also get noisy as it wears out. If your pump fails, you'll need to decide if you want to replacement of the pump or the entire dishwasher.
The heating element serves two purposes. It keeps water hot during the wash cycle, and it helps with the dry cycle as well. When a heating element fails, dishes will not come out as clean or dry as they once did.3 Although the part is not that expensive, labor and trip costs sometimes are.
When major components break or wear out, dishwasher repair costs can easily escalate. It is also possible that an aging unit may require more repairs in the future. When a dishwasher is on its last leg, it might make good economic sense to reward yourself with a new, energy-efficient model.
Synchrony Financial financing is available through our many partners who sell appliances. Find one in your area now.


True Value Solar are national solar providers installing systems for residential, small business and large commercial systems.
Twin Solar are a locally owned and operated business supplying and installing solar power systems and solar panels.
Ultimate Solar Solutions are Sydney based Clean Energy Council accredited solar panel installers supplying solar power and battery energy storage solutions to homes and businesses.
Ultraclean Solar Sales & Services is a family owned and operated solar power and battery energy storage system installation company located in Hamilton, a large town in south-western Victoria.
Uni Industries is a Queensland based solar power company with offices located in Brisbane and Sunshine Coast.
Universal Power & Light provide electrical and solar panel installation services for homes and businesses in the Castlemaine and Bendigo areas.


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Embly99: Finding her Place in the YouTube Community
Introduced to the world of YouTube just a mere two years ago,"Emi" Shepherd is now a prominent YouTuber in the London community, as well as the Host of London Phandom meetups. Looking back at how all of this came to be, Emi contemplates the friendships she's made in the small London Youtube community.
In the short two years since "Emi" Shepherd created her YouTube channel Embly99, she has flourished into an integral member of the London YouTube community. It is not, however, the almost three thousand subscribers, the fifty-six thousand views of her AS level video, nor the popularity of her "Phandom Meetups" in which most of her pride resides, rather it is the close friendships that she's formed that means the most to her.
"my internet friend, Camryn, suddenly started squealing a lot during a Skype session"
"I first got into YouTube in October 2013," Emi reveals one morning over a Facetime, "Because my internet friend, Camryn, suddenly started squealing a lot during a Skype session." The occasion that prompted this raucous reaction, involved two "YouTubers" who would soon have a huge impact on Emi's life. They were "Dan and Phil."
It is often a phrase of platitude when one propels the notion of a dignitary celebrity figure entering one's realm, who then changes the course of his or her life forevermore. The application of this almost fanciful circumstance onto Emi's personal experience after discovering Dan and Phil however, would not be a hypobole.
"Dan and Phil really started everything for me"
"Dan and Phil really started everything for me. They really got me into YouTube," recalls Emi, "Because I was exposed to it more, I started using Twitter a lot more and I then began watching other big YouTubers, Emma Blackery and stuff."
Being inspired by her new YouTube idols, Emi then went on to embark on a course to find her place in this new world. Mustering up her passion for YouTube, Emi became part of a "Collab channel." This type of YouTube channel often involves a group of friends making individual weekly videos on a specific theme, Emi however, would soon find this constricting.
Despite being in a channel with various Facebook page admins with similar interests Emi found, "I felt like I was really different from the other people in the channel. I was different, the videos I made were different and I had a different idea on what I wanted to do on the channel." Pausing momentarily, Emi retreats from her webcam for a moment of contemplation. "I didn't really get on well with anyone that well, and I argued a lot with this person," she discloses darkly.
"The collab channel restricted me from what I wanted to make, which was why I needed my own channel because the only person that can decide what to post is me"
Emi discloses that the main motivation for leaving the collab channel at the closing of 2014 was, "I found that the collab channel restricted me from what I wanted to make, which was why I needed my own channel because the only person that can decide what to post is me."
Starting her own channel with her online pseudonym, "Embly99," she discovered the freedom that she was looking for. With an air of one finally being released from the shackles of bureaucracy, she expresses, "If there was a relevant topic for a video that I wanted to make as soon as possible and needed to go up quickly, I could now do it. If there was a time sensitive video about a gathering or on an important topic, I now didn't need to wait three weeks to post it or wait for them to post 6 videos first. I now had the freedom to post it immediately."
"I now had the freedom to post it immediately"
Although it wasn't without drama, it would be wrong to assume that 2014 was a year of despondency, for it was also during that year, Emi stumbled upon an entirely new world, the world of YouTube gatherings. It would be YouTube events and Twitter in unison that would cement internet friendships in her life. Emi recalls the Upload Tour, April 2014 for being particularly significant for it was the incitement for her meeting with Mikey, her first small YouTuber friend. Emi comments, "Just before Upload Tour 2014, I tweeted saying I was going to that and then someone tweeted me back, "omg, that's really cool, I'm really jealous tell everyone I said hi.""
Upload Tour 2014, and Emi's contact with Mikey was hugely significant for her place within the YouTube community. She acknowledges, "It was through Mikey and his videos that I started getting into a community a bit more, going to Youtube conventions for example because I met up with him at my first Summer in the City."
Being her first YouTube convention, Emi admits to knowing almost nobody, "I went to Summer in the City (2014) knowing almost no-one, just three people in total, including Mikey and Camryn, but Mikey knew some people in the small YouTuber community so he introduced me."
"Summer in the South was like, we all met at the station and wondered around all day. There's more of us now, so that's what's changed over the last year"
Although on a technicality, one could consider Summer in the City as Emi's first important experience of a large YouTuber gathering, she instead considers the "Summer in the South" gathering as her first. Set in Bournemouth just three days later, it was the first of the many park based gatherings she would attend from this day on. "Summer in the South was not only very different from YouTube conventions but also very different from the more organized gatherings I go to and organize these days such as "Russell Square Stay in the Park," which was like a picnic with lots of musical instruments. Summer in the South was like, we all met at the station and wondered around all day. There's more of us now, so that's what's changed over the last year."
"I was like "Oh, hello, lets add each other on Facebook." That's how Emonia started"
Everyone can recognize a moment, an event, from their past that molded together the friendship group they are part of now. The Summer in the South gathering was Emi's true entry into the small London Youtuber community. "Right after the gathering, I added everyone on Facebook and then I got invited to my friend's birthday gathering,"reveals Emi. Recalling the moment she met her friend Toni, she recalls, "I saw a girl wearing the same hat as my best friend at the time, so I went up to her and said "Oh, hello, lets add each other on Facebook." That's how Emonia started."
By early 2015, Emi took the next step in her journey in becoming more involved with the small YouTuber community. She started to become familiar with less visible British vloggers including Doddleoddle, Nicky and Sammy, and thus started attending the gatherings and meetups they were part of. In February of that year, she attended her first London Phandom meet up.
" It's with that group of friends that kinda made me feel I was in a YouTube community"
These "Picnics in a park" style YouTube gatherings were crucial in Emi's search for her place within the community. "During that time, I hung around with my YouTube friends a lot more, in gatherings, picnics, gigs and just hung around with them in general. It's with that group of friends that kinda made me feel I was in a YouTube community. Although there are lots of little groups and cliches, we all link together to form a larger community."
"There are now thirty people in this group chat, including Jedward"
Physical gatherings aren't the only way Youtubers get to know each other, Emi explains how a Facebook group chat "Junicorns" has connected a huge varied collection of Youtubers, from Jedward to friends in Germany and the Netherlands. "(We the Unicorns" originally started for a gathering that was held in May, but then after the gathering was over, we added more people and then more people. There are now thirty people in this group chat, including Jedward." These large group chats are surprisingly personal too, Emi recalls, "Jedward once called our friends weird for getting drunk. I don't drink tho. I am a good egg. There are a lot of group chats, but I'm only in one, and a lot of people that are in it aren't necessarily the London people. We have friends in Germany and the Netherlands and Scotland. There's a lot of them, they're all people in our friendship group, and we all meet up a lot."
"I couldn't go anywhere without bumping into someone I knew"
The culmination of Emi's extensive participation in various YouTube and Phandom meetups in 2014/15 was Summer in the City 2015. "I couldn't go anywhere without bumping into someone I knew." This disparity in experience from her first Summer in the City a mere year ago radiates the transformation of Emi's role within the community.
"I'm someone who goes to a lot of gatherings, and that's how I meet people, however I know that lots of people come into the community by watching my videos"
Something that amazes Emi even to this day, is the different ways people come into the community. "I'm someone who goes to a lot of gatherings, and that's how I meet people, however I know that lots of people come into the community by watching my videos," says an excited Emi, "For example, my friend Will subscribed to me because he saw my GCSE results video and came to my Christmas gathering, "Emblymas" from that." Emi explains that this can be done by pretty much anyone, anywhere, "You have to go on the lookout on Twitter and search for indirects to find (meetups)" in your local area. Will's entrance into the community is an example of how even a viewer can get involved in the small YouTuber community, showing that having connections with YouTubers isn't a pre-requisite.
"I've noticed that people who want to meet their internet friends and Twitter mutuals are the people who come to these gatherings"
It's an almost utopian notion suggesting that anyone from any walk of life can become involved in the small YouTuber community, however, the acknowledgment that only a quite specific demographic tend to be in the community does diminish this belief. "I've noticed that people around our age group (Teenagers to early twenties) who want to meet their internet friends and Twitter mutuals are the people who come to these gatherings." That isn't to suggest that there's a lack of variety in the demographic, "There are small YouTubers there obviously, but there are also their friends, Facebook admins, Twitter fan accounts, their friends, and generally lots of people taking photos, filming things and having a laugh."
"I don't really monitise my videos and I'm not on a network. I make videos for myself"
Emi doesn't see her channel changing significantly in the foreseeable future, believing the self-fulfilling approach of producing the content that she wants for herself, as the healthiest basis for her channel. "I don't really monitise my videos" explains Emi, "I'm not on a network, I make videos for myself. Even with my A level results video, yes it has over 50,000 views which is insane, but I made that video for me." This approach can also be seen in Emi's recent "PMS" monthly vlogs, which are huge half-hour long vlogs recording the time she spends with her friends, "I don't want to make them short because I make these for me, so I can remember the times I've spent with my friends."
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4 thoughts on "Embly99: Finding her Place in the YouTube Community"
Chai says:
Emi is legitimately one of the best content creators I know. When I was explaining her and her group of friends (such as Aaron Carson, Will Priddis etc) to my mother, I described her and them as 'bright young things', and honestly that phrase is my go to phrase to describe her. She puts in so much effort and is uniquely devoted to her friends and to maintaining relationships. Emi and I aren't friends as such, but we have mutual friends, and I know how much she means to a lot of people. Emi is a good, good egg.
caraar12345 says:
IT ME I SEE ME
dontstrapthemin says:
I love YouTube because you can choose to make it a career with money behind it or do it all for your own joy, like she is! I'm so glad there's something like Youtube to help people come out of their shell, be themselves, and then make others feel 'safe' and accepted as well!
Amy @sushirollphan says:
I'm so proud of her! She's so sweet and when I first met her at the Russell Square meet up she made me feel so welcome and took charge of everything so well. I hope to be like her one day and be prominent in the YouTube community.
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VATICAN CITY Pope Francis on Tuesday pushes open the huge bronze Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica to formally launch his yearlong "revolution of tenderness" amid unprecedented security aimed at thwarting the threat of a Paris-style attack at the Vatican.
Hundreds of extra police, carabinieri and soldiers have been deployed around Rome, and a no-fly zone imposed on its skies, to protect the projected 10 million Catholic pilgrims who over the next year will flock to Rome on foot, by car, train and plane to take part in Francis' Holy Year of Mercy.
Francis launched the 12-month jubilee to emphasize what has become the leitmotif of his papacy: to show the merciful and welcoming side of a Catholic Church more often known for its moralizing and judgment.
With Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI on hand, Francis on Tuesday morning will celebrate the evocative Holy Year ritual, opening the Holy Door and walking through it to symbolize the pilgrimage of life's journey and the sacrifices that must be endured.
On Tuesday night, the Vatican will lend itself to another one of Francis' leitmotifs, environmental protection. A coalition of humanitarian groups has banded together to screen images of nature by well-known photographers and filmmakers on the facade of St. Peter's.
Ahead of the big day, police patrolled St. Peter's Square as the first of an estimated 100,000 people expected for Tuesday's Mass arrived to collect their pilgrim packets.
Holy Years are generally celebrated every 25-50 years, and over the centuries they have been used to encourage the faithful to make pilgrimages to Rome to obtain an "indulgence" 'Äî the ancient church tradition related to the forgiveness of sins that roughly amounts to a "get out of Purgatory free" card. Unlike in Martin Luther's time, these indulgences are free and available to those who pass through the Holy Door.
The last Holy Year was in 2000, when St. John Paul II ushered in the church's third millennium and some 25 million pilgrims flocked to a Rome that had undergone a multi-million dollar facelift for the occasion.
In typical Francis fashion, the pope made clear from the start that he wanted this Holy Year to be a more sober occasion. For the first time, the pope instructed all cathedrals around the world to open their Holy Doors to pilgrims to encourage the faithful to mark the jubilee at home rather than coming to Rome.
Nevertheless, Italian officials seized on the excuse of the jubilee to allocate millions of euros for dozens of public works projects around the capital, practically none of which has been completed.
The Vatican's lead organizer for the jubilee, Archbishop Renato Fisichella, lamented last week that the Vatican had essentially wasted four months of planning time thanks to a local political scandal that resulted in Rome's mayor being ousted midway through the jubilee preparations. Fisichella said all the Vatican wanted were refurbished sidewalks leading to St. Peter's to make sure pilgrims don't trip on potholes or crooked cobblestones. Several of those streets remain closed as construction work continues.
Francis announced his Holy Year on the second anniversary of his papacy, saying his aim was "to give comfort to every man and every woman of our time." It was in keeping with his priority to make the church a "field hospital" for injured souls, where the wounded are welcomed and loved, not judged.
The jubilee year will feature a host of special Masses and extra general audiences to accommodate the throngs of pilgrims, while Francis himself has set aside one Friday each month to slip out of the Vatican to perform an act of mercy himself, in private.
In keeping with his aim to make the sacrament of confession more readily accessible during the Holy Year, Francis in September announced that all priests around the world could absolve women of the sin of abortion, usually reserved to bishops. He also allowed priests of the schismatic Society of St. Pius X, who have no legal status in the church, to hear confessions. And he appointed 800 "missionaries of mercy" 'Äî a roving band of priests who can absolve people of the five sins that are "reserved" to the Holy See, including desecrating the Eucharist and breaking the confessional seal.
For all the pomp of Tuesday's ceremony, Francis technically launched the Holy Year of Mercy last week in Central Africa Republic, when he pushed open the Holy Door of the Bangui cathedral. His aim was to give the conflict-weary Christians there a spiritual boost, and show the universality of his message of mercy.
Elsewhere around the world, Holy Doors will be opening at cathedrals starting this Sunday.


This is the First Annual Meeting of the HiggsTools Initial Training Network. The meeting starts at 9am on 15 April and finishes in the evening of 17 April.
There will be an opportunity for all ESR's to make a presentation. In addition, there will be meetings of the Young Researchers Assembly and the Supervisory and Training Boards.


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By Maya Mabern
October was a great month for new music releases — a few of my favorites being Adrianne Lenker's album "songs," SZA's single "Hit Different" and of course, Miss Ariana Grande's magnum opus, "Positions" — but no album has lived rent free in my mind more than "Featuring Ty Dolla $ign" by, you guessed it, Ty Dolla $ign.
I'll start with a disclaimer: this is in no way a piece of well-informed, fleshed-out music criticism. This is going to be a rambling of why I'm obsessed with this album, having never listened to — nor thought about — Ty Dolla $ign in my life. Is it objectively good? I think so, but that's not entirely relevant here. All that matters (here and in general) is what I think.
Despite its humorously self-aware album title — because I'm sure a lot of us knew him as "that guy" — the album proves maybe the 38-year-old musician is good on his own, even though it does feature every other artist on Earth. The features include, but are not limited to, Future, Post Malone, Nicki Minaj, Skrillex (what year is it again?), Anderson Paak, Kanye West and Thundercat.
The last three are all featured on "Track 6," which is inexplicably my favorite song on the album. I could say it's because everything Anderson Paak touches turns to sexy liquid gold, but I honestly loved it even before his signature drums and bass kick in halfway through. It's disappointing this song doesn't seem to be getting anywhere near the amount of love that other, lesser tracks have gotten.
Then, of course, there's "Ego Death," the sinister catwalking banger at the end of the album. It has the most streams so I feel like I have to talk about it, but it does kind of deserve it. The booming bass line paired with the classic dance sample "You Used to Hold Me" by Ralphi Rosario — and yes, Kanye — make the track a standout.
The album is both lush and catchy in a way that makes me long to dance in a "TRON: Legacy"-style frat basement. That's something I've never longed for in my life — and maybe I never will again — but that's just the power Ty Dolla $ign has.
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Everything Except Me: On Percival Everett
Books & the Arts
In Assumption a murder mystery becomes a lesson in how much we do not know.
By Laila LalamiTwitter
In an age when writers are routinely advised to stick to one genre, promote themselves online and even, like car manufacturers and soda companies, build their brands, Percival Everett has consistently done the opposite. Over a career that has spanned nearly thirty years, he has published seventeen novels, three short story collections, three collections of poetry, one book for children and one novella. His interests have ranged from westerns (Wounded, God's Country) to science fiction (Zulus), from retellings of Greek myths (Frenzy, For Her Dark Skin) to political satire (A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond). He doesn't actively advertise himself or his work—he doesn't have a website or social media accounts, for instance.
By Percival Everett.
Buy this book.
His latest novel, Assumption, was recently published to typically little fanfare. It reads, deceptively, like a simple detective story. Deputy Ogden Walker is investigating the murder of Mrs. Bickers, an old woman whose long-barrel .22 pistol he had confiscated earlier that day. The killer appears to be familiar with her house—she was found beneath a hidden trapdoor—but there isn't a clear motive for the murder. Who would kill a woman like Mrs. Bickers? As far as anyone knows, she has no enemies. She's not rich. And she lives in the "middle of no place," as one character remarks. (The middle of no place is a small town in a "hick-full, redneck county" in New Mexico.)
There is only one item of value in Mrs. Bickers's house: the deed to a parcel of land, where Walker will find dozens of holes in the ground—evidence that someone was looking for something. Then the bodies of four men are discovered, apparently smothered to death in the back of a stolen van. One of them was in a photo in Mrs. Bickers's living room. To complicate matters, FBI agents turn up at Walker's door to let him know that the man from the picture is one of their own, working undercover.
So far, so genre.
But in Everett's hands, this murder mystery is complicated at every step by the assumptions that Walker and others around him make about murder victims, criminals and the police, and about race, religion and sexual orientation. Walker disarms Mrs. Bickers because she fired two shots through her door when she "heard a noise," waking up the whole neighborhood. "Now you're taking my protection away," she says, echoing, almost perfectly, the periodic complaints of right-wingers in this country, especially after the election of Barack Obama. But what, or whom, Mrs. Bickers thinks she needs protection from defies her expectations.
Walker is not immune to baseless conjectures. When the body of one of the four victims in the van, a teenager named Jose Marotta, disappears from the funeral home, Walker wonders aloud if it's because Marotta was a drug mule and the drugs had to be recovered from his stomach. (Once again, that assumption is disproved, in a surprising but satisfying way.) Even readers' expectations about tough detectives in mystery novels are periodically challenged; Walker neglects to ask for the identification of a woman who walks into the crime scene and claims to be a relative of Mrs. Bickers. Instead, he offers her condolences and a place to stay while she's in town.
As clues begin to pile up, Walker grows increasingly taciturn, not sharing his theories of the case with anyone. But he solves the mystery swiftly—almost abruptly—before being presented with another one. In the second part of Assumption, Caitlin Alison, a young Irish tourist, is looking for her cousin, a certain Fiona McDonough, last seen in the middle of no place. Walker's investigation leads him to a remote cabin outside town, where he finds a woman who has been shot. It just isn't Fiona. In the last mystery of the triptych, a fish-and-game patrolman named Terry Lowell is found dead, just a few hours after arresting a poacher, and the last person to have seen him alive is Walker. By now, however, the novel has trained its readers that no piece of information can be taken at face value. (I read this book on a plane, and when I reached its conclusion I gasped loudly, leading my seatmate to give me a suspicious look.)
Everett's ability to play on readers' expectations in Assumption hinges on his use of an almost objective third-person point of view, with a lot of scenes, some descriptions of past events or current action, but few insights into the emotional or psychological inner life of Ogden Walker. What we know of Walker comes to us in the form of a few paragraphs, placed mostly in the early parts of the novel. Walker is a native of the middle of no place, an Army veteran, and he works as a sheriff's deputy because, well, he doesn't know what else to do with his life.
His father, dead many years, would have disapproved of Walker's job and would have called him a traitor, "a traitor to what would have remained forever unclear, but it would have been tinged with the language of race and social indignation." Walker's father was black; his mother is white. Walker also suffers from intermittent insomnia. To relieve his stress, he spends hours in the evening tying trout flies—streamers, grasshoppers, zug bugs—and imagining the fish he can hook with such bait.
As the mysteries unfold, readers are forced to take clues from lines of dialogue or descriptions of bodies in crime scenes, and interpret them in light of their own beliefs about the world, and about Walker. Those beliefs may well include beliefs about race, so that, before long, readers may wonder whether they see only what they want to see, what Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man called "only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination—indeed, everything and anything except me."
Invisibility is a theme that Everett has explored several times before, particularly in Erasure, the best-known of his novels. Erasure is ostensibly a journal kept by Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, an avant-garde writer and college professor, respectably published but not widely read. Monk's latest novel, one reviewer says, is "finely crafted," but "one is lost to understand what this reworking of Aeschylus' The Persians has to do with the African American experience." One agent advises him that he could sell many books if he would "forget about writing retellings of Euripides and parodies of French poststructuralists and settle down to write the true, gritty real stories of black life."
While in Washington, DC, for a conference of the "Nouveau Roman Society," Monk goes into a Borders, a chain he despises, and decides to see if they have his books, "firm in my belief that even if they did, my opinion about them would be unchanged." But his work is not stocked under Literature. Nor is it under Contemporary Fiction. It's under African-American Studies, a catch-all category for any writer who happens to be black, regardless, apparently, of the subject matter of the book.
On his way out, Monk notices a poster advertising a reading by Juanita Mae Jenkins, the author of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, a novel whose film rights, Monk's sister helpfully informs him, were sold for $3 million. The book is exactly what its title promises: a barely literate work filled with clichés and racial stereotypes. Jenkins is an Oberlin-educated middle-class woman, but she has decided to write about the "authentic black experience" after a two-day visit with distant family in Harlem.
Monk returns to Los Angeles, only to find out that his latest novel has received its seventeenth rejection because, his agent says, he's not "black enough." Monk asks:
"How do [the editors] even know I'm black? Why does it matter?"
"We've been over this before. They know because of the photo on your first book. They know because they've seen you. They know because you're black, for crying out loud."
"What, do I have to have my characters comb their afros and be called niggers for these people?"
"It wouldn't hurt."
Meanwhile, Monk's sister, an abortion provider, is murdered; his plastic-surgeon brother announces that he got divorced and has lost everything; and his mother is diagnosed with dementia. Each of these developments is a kind of erasure, and in his own act of self-obliteration, Monk decides to write the authentic "black novel" everyone seems to expect of him. Under the pen name Stagg R. Leigh, he produces My Pafology, the memoir of Van Go Jenkins, a black teenager in a nameless ghetto. Van Go has four babies by four different women, saddling them with the names Aspireene, Tylenola, Dexatrina and Rexall. All ten chapters of My Pafology (numbered from "Won" to "Tin") are included in Erasure.
Monk's novel is immediately sold to Random House, published under a new, equally explosive title—Fuck—and showered with praise. Critics do not notice that the plot and characters of My Pafology are hackneyed, or that the language is a parody of the "authentic" black vernacular, or that the author's name is a respelling of Stagger Lee, a murderer immortalized in popular song. Fuck becomes a New York Times bestseller and is chosen for the book club of an Oprah-like talk show hostess. "It's the real thing," says one of the judges for a literary prize called, simply and pretentiously, The Book Award.
That Erasure, the novel of Everett's that deals most overtly with the subject of race, is his best-known work says more about critics' and readers' penchant for categories than it does about him. Satirizing the publishing industry's fixation with racial authenticity is a central concern of Erasure, but the novel's other merits have attracted far less notice. There is, for instance, its formal experimentation: a novel in the form of a journal, which also includes a full-length fictional novel. Three authorial figures hover over the narrative, each writing for a slightly different audience: Everett is writing a novel for an undefined reader; Monk is writing a journal for himself; Stagg R. Leigh is writing for editors, critics or judges—professional readers all—who can't tell a parody from "the real thing."
Erasure also includes the full transcript of the academic paper that Monk delivers at the Nouveau Roman Society, something that will perhaps be fully intelligible only to devoted readers of Roland Barthes. There are several transcripts, presented in italics, of imaginary conversations between artists (Rothko and Resnais, D.W. Griffith and Richard Wright) on topics such as aesthetics, politics and the intersection of the two. It is a testament to Everett's skill that none of these interludes take away from the strength or pleasure of reading Erasure but instead lend the novel more texture and nuance.
Unlike the sort of book it satirizes, Erasure was published by a small press. It was eventually carried by chain bookstores, though it was sometimes shelved under "African-American." And Everett was thereafter assailed with questions about race, perhaps confirming that a novel's reception is often a matter of what its writer looks like. I was reminded of this when Deputy Walker tries to reassure a coffee shop owner he feels is suspicious of him. "It's just a uniform," he tells her, "under it, I'm just like you."
Laila LalamiTwitterLaila Lalami is the author of Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside.


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Biografia
Per due stagioni tra il 2013 e il 2014 ha condotto prima con Andres Diamond e poi con Alessandro Bruni Ocaña, il programma televisivo Occupy Deejay in onda su Deejay TV. Nel 2017 ha partecipato allo show televisivo Pechino Express in onda su Rai 2, vincendolo insieme a Ema Stokholma. Nel 2018 ha partecipato, in coppia con Luca Marin, alla seconda edizione di Dance Dance Dance, venendo poi eliminata alla seconda puntata. Nel 2020 ha condotto su MTV insieme a Emis Killa il programma YO! MTV Raps.

Dal 2017 è la compagna di Edoardo Manozzi, in arte Boss Doms, conosciuto durante la sesta edizione di Pechino Express, con il quale ha avuto una figlia - Mina - nata nel 2018.

Filmografia
 Il sesso degli angeli, regia di Leonardo Pieraccioni (2022)

Televisione
 Occupy Deejay (Deejay TV, 2013-2014)
Pechino Express (Rai 2, 2017)  - Vincitrice
Dance Dance Dance (Fox Life, Fox, TV8, 2018)
Yo! MTV Raps (MTV, 2020)

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Infinity CCS on why cloud software isn't right for every business, and how combining the cloud with other delivery solutions can maximise benefits.
Infinity CCS discuss GDPR and the opportunities it creates to improve customer experience across the board.
Infinity CCS has moved to newer and bigger premises in Birmingham's prestigious Brindleyplace.
Infinity's solutions have strengthened Webhelp's ability to win business and delivered efficiency gains of 20% in operation.


The families of five Irish students and one Irish-American who died in the Berkeley balcony collapse in California in June 2015, and the seven survivors of the incident, have reached a partial settlement in their US legal actions.
Substantial payments are to be made to the families and the survivors by the companies responsible for the construction of the Library Gardens apartment block in Berkeley.
Defendants that were involved in the design and building of the balcony agreed to pay the compensation during the discovery phase of the civil litigation before the California courts.
The legal actions against the property's owner, US asset management company Blackrock, and manager, Greystar, taken by the families of the deceased and the survivors, are proceeding in the California Superior Court for the County of Alameda, which covers the city of Berkeley.
Lawyers for Ms Donohoe's family said in a statement that the partial settlement was made with some of the defendants responsible for the construction work done during the building of the apartment complex.
"The Donohoe family will continue to push for legislative changes to the building codes and related to establishing a reporting requirement to the contractors licensing board for contractors who settle claims related to poor construction work," said the Donohoe family's lawyer, Eustace de Saint Phalle.
"The Donohoe family does not want negligent contractors to be able to hide the settlements of claims related to faulty construction through the use of secret settlements.
"It is necessary that this information be provided to the contractors licensing board so that they can properly regulate the construction industry," said Mr de Saint Phalle, of San Francisco firm Rains Lucia Stern St Phalle and Silver.
A date for the trial against the remaining defendants has been set for early 2018.
The Donohoe family's law firm has said "the bereaved families and survivors look forward to presenting the evidence supporting their claims to a fair and impartial jury".
Last month the US construction firm that built the apartment block, California-based Segue Construction, had its building licence revoked by the industry regulator, the California State Contractors Licensing Board.
Dry rot caused by water damage to the supporting joists under the balcony was blamed for the collapse.
The licensing board found that if the balcony had been built as designed, the load of the 13 students was "well within the design limits of the balcony structure" and would not have collapsed.
Segue, the board alleged, "willfully departed from accepted trade standards for good and workmanlike construction in the building of the Berkeley apartment complex".
Forensic examination of the balcony uncovered "extensive dry rot/decay around the balcony's joists, due to poor waterproofing and substandard materials used in the balconies construction.
The amount being paid in the settlement is not being disclosed. The lawyers for the families of the deceased and the survivors have said the figures are confidential.
"This settlement will never restore health or life but reflects an element of justice from the wrongdoers for the deaths and serious injuries caused by the tragedy," said attorney Matthew Davis, who represents the families of the six deceased students and six of the survivors.
Mr Davis, of the San Francisco firm Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger, said he would not be making any further comment.


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Q: JSTL variables not working I wrote the following code:
<%
        int accountNumber = Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter("accountNumber"));
        int depositAmount = Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter("depositAmount"));
    %>
    <sql:query var='account' dataSource="jdbc/bank">
        select * from account where AccountNumber=<%= accountNumber %>
    </sql:query>
    <c:forEach var="result" begin="0" items="${account.rows}">
        <c:set var="balance" value="${ result.balance + depositAmount }" />
        <c:out value="${ balance }" />
    </c:forEach>

The problem is that for <c:set var="balance" /> it isn't actually adding the two values together.
I'm assuming that depositAmount isn't recognized? I'm not sure why.
Can someone please explain how I can use JSTL to get the request parameter (balance) and add it to the balance obtained in the query?
This is a homework assignment where I must use JSP.
Thank you

A: Scriptlets (those <% %> things) and EL (those ${} things) doesn't share the same variable scope.
Get rid of scriptlets and use EL only. Request parameters are in EL available by just ${param.name}.
<sql:query var="account" dataSource="jdbc/bank">
    select * from account where AccountNumber=${param.accountNumber}
</sql:query>
<c:forEach var="result" begin="0" items="${account.rows}">
    <c:set var="balance" value="${result.balance + param.depositAmount}" />
    <c:out value="${balance}" />
</c:forEach>

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The wine selection looks at different Designations of Origin within Spain, primarily using the same grape variety (all clones of Tempranillo), named in Toro as Tinta de Toro, in Ribera del Duero as Tinta del País and in Rioja, Tempranillo.
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Gov. Obaseki Splashes N5m Reward On Falconets For Thrashing Tanzania
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has rewarded the Falconets with a cash gift of N5 million for beating Tanzania 3-0 in the U20 Women's World Cup qualifier in Benin City on Saturday.
Rasheedat Ajibade's brace plus Lilian Tule's opener ensured Christopher Danjuma's ladies overcame their visitors at the packed Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium.
Obaseki, who hosted the delegations of Nigeria and Tanzania for a dinner party at the Banquet Hall of Government House, said hosting the encounter was to support women's football and bring back the glory of the sports.
He backed the Falconets to subdue the East Africans in the second leg in Dar-es-Salaam, adding that the cash donation was made to spur the girls to the next stage.
He said: Certainly, we hope to hosts the Falconets again.
"This is the first time in a long while we are hosting a national team.


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Sam Smith has become a legend in the dance music world for his early work with Disclosure, but the English singer-songwriter has built quite a resume for himself in the time since "Latch."
Now, he's re-entering the dance music world by way Scottish DJ/producer Calvin Harris on their new song "Promises," out this Friday.
To say that this collaboration is a surprise is an understatement – there's not even been any chatter or rumors about it as far we can tell. And yet, this proves to be one the biggest collaborations the year when all is said and done.
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Personal Loan Bhilwara, 17 January 2020 from shamrao Vithal Co-op Bank
Wedding Loan from shamrao Vithal Co-op Bank in Bhilwara
Bhilwara, a town in the Mewar region of the Indian state of Rajasthan, is the 7th largest city in the state. The city has several seasonal rivers like Kothari, Menali, Bedach, Banas, Khari and Mansi meandering through it. The city depends upon its ponds and dams for irrigation. The major industry in Bhilwara is textiles. There are more than 850 textile manufacturing units that specialize in the synthetic fabric used in trousers. Bhilwara is also the one and only center in India that produces insulation bricks. The city has around 33 units for it. Bhilwara also has a thriving mining industry in which large-scale mining is done for sandstone, soapstone, feldspar, quartz, China clay, mica, etc. The city has recently caught the attention of the iron ore industries as it has enormous deposits of low-grade iron. A huge plant for iron ore mining and beneficiation has been set up at Bhilwara recently, which has made this city a magnet for all the major steel companies of India and has simultaneously made Rajasthan an important name for the steel industries of the country.
Low interest rate Wedding Loan in Bhilwara, 17 January 2020 from shamrao Vithal Co-op Bank
The SVC Bank was initially registered as a Co-operative Credit Society on 27 December 1906. In 1907, cumulative deposit scheme, fixed deposit scheme and saving bank deposit were introduced by the bank. The bank in opened first Co-operative store in 1910. In 1915, the first Co-operative housing society was built in Bombay. In 1927, the Fidelity Guarantee Fund was launched simultaneously with Distress Relief Fund in 1931 and Staff Gratuity Fund in 1954. In 1964, Safe Deposit Vaults were introduced by the bank. In Fiscal 2016, the deposits of the bank crossed 13000 crores. In 2002, the corporate office was opened by the bank at SVC Tower in Vakola. In 2003, Genius I Core banking solution was implemented in all the branches of SVC bank. In 2006, the SVC bank successfully sold the software. In 2007, AD-I license was offered to the Shamrao Vithal Co-operative bank. The SVC bank was also allowed to sell the core banking software services to small co-operative banks. By 2010, the bank sold software services to around 25 other banks. The 193rd branch of the SVC bank was opened at Khmagaon. The Bank is present in 10 States of India. Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Delhi, Rajasthan, Haryana, Goa, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh


THE ISSUE: President Trump recently issued an executive order to withhold federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities, which are local jurisdictions that attempt to limit their cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
President Trump campaigned on cracking down on illegal immigration, so his [sanctuary city executive order] was a very explicit way for him to suggest that he was doing that.
The term sanctuary city generally refers to local jurisdictions that in some way limit their cooperation with federal immigration authorities, typically by refusing to honor detention requests from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE).
There are dozens of publicly declared sanctuary cities in the U.S. and about 600 counties that have some degree of sanctuary status.
In January 2017, President Trump issued an executive order that would withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities.
President Trump campaigned on cracking down on illegal immigration, so this was a very explicit way for him to suggest that he was doing that.
A few days after the executive order was issued, the city of San Francisco sued the Trump administration, arguing that the order represented constitutional overreach, and it's likely that other cities will follow suit.
Research shows that sanctuary cities are on average safer and have lower crime rates than the national average.
The new executive order could actually make cities less safe by deterring immigrant communities from coming forward to report criminal activity for fear of deportation.
Many sanctuary cities receive significant funding in grants from the federal government, which are used for a wide range of purposes including transportation and infrastructure, which is something the Trump administration has promised to spend more on.
This represents something of a contradiction on the part of the Trump administration: on one hand Trump has promised to invest in places to create new jobs, but on the other hand he is threatening to hold back that same money to enforce immigration policy.


Anyway, it's late. I'm tired. The day hasn't been kind, so I come out here to breathe. Breathe and forget. There's no need to hold my head up high in a place like this. There's nothing nice to see anyway. The city looks like its choking. Sometimes the people do, too. They dig for dreams in concrete graves lined with furniture. But I think the world is still in the lead (for now) because whenever dawn comes around the birds continue to sing their tunes. They sound happy, and I'll take theirs sounds at face value only because I don't want to dwell on the alternative.
I don't quite know where I'm going with this. But I do know that I can't wait until morning arrives. I can already imagine the cold kitchen, the warm coffee, and my boredom, despite the early hour.
I'm not thinking straight right now. I don't like my mind. It keeps wandering to places I'm not comfortable with.
I'll probably leave here soon—everyone else has—but I've still got half a carton. And you always told me that I need to leave with whoever I brought with me. But I came here with someone I can't reach anymore. He's six feet too far.
The sky outside is clear though, so that's nice. Usually. There are days, however, as I'm caught in this summer heat, that I wish the rain of what I feel right now would just come down. Beat down upon everything, so I have an excuse to stay home. Where the world is small and the music is steady; where I can sleep for an age and not be bothered with life and its happenings. Outside of my bedroom door, the surroundings are always so noisy. I understand that life itself is vibrant and filled with sound, but some days, it's a little too deafening for my taste.
As per usual, I'm tired. Excruciatingly so.
Sometimes I feel like I'm underwater and that I won't ever resurface again. The light at the top gets further and further away, and I just keep sinking deeper into the abyss, breathless in a cold world with no end. The darkness is going to consume me. Swallow me whole. It'll accept these long half-empty remains and gift me with reprieve.
I'll lay adrift between the realms of consciousness—that sweet holy divide where I can get lost forever, trapped in torpid comfort where I'm neither angry, nor content; neither tired, nor awake. It's bliss. It's agony. It's just me there, in a place light will never reach. Those strips that are always too busy slipping through my fingers or mockingly lingering on the edge of my vision whenever I try to reach out will be gone completely, and, as always, I will be left alone with my thoughts, with this diseased mind of mine that I'm quite sick of. But that's beside the point. Because, ultimately, I will be left alone—with nothing to worry about or ruminate over.
But it's hard to be concerned.
Numb… or something. Wow. And I call myself an author. Eloquent, right? Even trapped might've sounded better. But I'm on my phone, typing this at an ungodly hour (5:08am) because I can't bother to do anything else, and I promised myself that I wouldn't use back to delete anything (except typos).
Wait. Let me try again.
I feel like the worth of what I say I love has diminished, and is now equal to everything else I have no opinion on. Like the air is too viscous to move in. Like there's a lantern with a depressing light, casting shadows over the world as it revolves in a place I can't find. I need the off switch. I hope it has one.
Rereading the second, I can't help but think that holy hell, I'm good at describing things in such a pretty (and angsty) fashion.
But my awful, borderline narcissistic humor aside, I wholeheartedly believe that if, at this moment, I just ceased to exist, then I'd count it as a blessing.
I hate my recurring thoughts. They speak of truths that I'm already familiar with, of instances in my head that I once twisted to suit my own weaknesses, of past problems that I don't need bogging me down—I already have too many of those. Too many.
I don't need reminders of the days when it hurt to be alive because there they are, always lingering one step behind, prepared to pounce on me should I unwittingly open that door. Hell, sometimes I'm not even near it, sometimes I'm just sitting down utterly bored or way too happy and the thing flies right open. As if forced to by a gale of cruelty that I don't understand, but I know one thing… it has this tendency of following me around. Of vanishing and returning at the strangest of times. I'm not dense enough to not realize what that cutting wind might be, neither do I seek help for it. It's there, and that's that. I know the draft will pass, and though they may turn into full blown hurricanes, even those lose their potency in the face of the unyielding sea.
I have never once needed help trying to compartmentalize all the thoughts that run rampant inside my mind.
I suppose, what I'm really trying to say is that… today, I'm just tired of feeling tired.
You keep asking me to help you even though you can see me already caving under the weight of my own burdens. I can't carry yours, too. But if you can find the will to walk with me, then I won't mind pushing you forward every now and again.
Stay wrapped here in my arms, where space between us doesn't exist. Where sighs are downed by the press of ribs against ribs and the rest of the world becomes the dream.
A bit more bitter than usual?
I've never been the type of person that needs help sorting thing out in my own mind. No matter how utterly dreary my writing can get sometimes. I have volatile, self-deprecating moods, and I learned long ago that alone time can do wonders for the soul—for my soul.
For me, it's a necessity. I need periods of utter silence to function. Tranquility in the morning for my first cup of coffee, more calm in the night when I just want to sit, listen to music, and forget about the rest of the world. Independent to a fault. So unuse to living with others that that's how I've become. I adore you for trying to break through the transparent bubble around me and going out of your way to find a place for yourself, but you've brought a hammer and all that surrounds me is soap. It pops easily. And you do it so abruptly that it startles me away.
People are always different. I'm not the type that will suddenly decide to help you tear down my defenses if you keep approaching me with constant callousness. Do you know how astoundingly difficult it is to find the will to do things when the world is talking over my thoughts? When the safety net I surrounded myself with is forced to grow to fit someone else?
I don't need any more voices. Rest assured, I'll call you when I do. Respect that I need to sort things out in my head, that I need time to prepare myself on my own because my mind doesn't take kindly to the unsolicited.
I am perfectly willing to let you in. But at my own pace. I promise not to take too long. I'm not such a failure of a man to keep someone waiting to the point of doubt, of restlessness, of irritation.
For now, take a hint. I need space.
You cared for me when I didn't think I was worth caring for.
I'm kind of not-so-secretly in love with you.
I wonder when you'll call me out on it.
I wonder when my lips will be able to tell you, despite knowing the frown it'll bring to your own.


Photo by Dan Falloon Quinn Moberg (centre) celebrates his win in the Fat Tire Crit alongside Cody Canning (left) and Craig Richey (right).
Quinn Moberg saved his surge.
After Victoria's Cody Canning, the provincial criterium champion, had led for two-and-a-half laps as riders bore down in the Whistler Village finish line in the Fat Tire Crit, Moberg made his move. Craig Richey ended up in third place in the first pro race of this year's Crankworx festival.
"Coming up to the line hurt a little, but that extra motivation to win kind of dulls the pain," he said. "(With) the five guys we rode with, it was how I imagined it would play out."
Moberg estimated he let Canning hold the advantage until about 30 metres left, at which point he put on the afterburners.
In the women's race, Jean Ann Berkenpas of Valemount defended her title from 2014, cruising to a significant win over Whistler's Chloe Cross. Cross' coach, Chrissy de Vall rounded out the podium.
Berkenpas said the win last year was a much tighter one, but in some ways, may have actually been a bit easier.
"In a way, it was maybe a bit more painful because you don't have the distraction of tactics with another person," Berkenpas reasoned. "It's kind of fun racing from the front, too."
Each champion received $500 for the win.


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Can we get a refund or defer our accommodation package if we need to cancel?
Unfortunately there are no postponements under any circumstances. However, refunds are available until the 30th of April minus a 25 % administration charge. There are no refunds after the 1st of May. In order to qualify for a refund, you need to provide official proof that one of the riders in your team cannot take part in La Leyenda for a reason that occurred AFTER you had registered.
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Vikings PFF grades: Where does the offense rank after the regular season
Tyler Forness
January 9, 2023, 12:06 PM ·4 min read
The Minnesota Vikings finished the regular season with a 13-4 record but aren't getting much respect across the league. One place where they do get respect is in the PFF grades.
Throughout the season, we have tracked how the Vikings have been ranked in terms of PFF grades and they have consistently ranked well per position.
As the regular season has just wrapped up, here is how the Vikings finished at each offensive position
QB Kirk Cousins
Sep 11, 2022; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins (8) throws a pass as Green Bay Packers defensive tackle Kenny Clark (97) and linebacker Preston Smith (91) defend as offensive tackle Brian O'Neill (75) blocks during the first quarter at U.S. Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jeffrey Becker-USA TODAY Sports
Overall: 77.4 (T12/40)
Passing: 76.1 (9/40)
RB Dalvin Cook
Jan 8, 2023; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Minnesota Vikings running back Dalvin Cook (4) runs the ball during the first quarter against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field. Mandatory Credit: Daniel Bartel-USA TODAY Sports
Overall: 67.4 (51/59)
Rushing: 72.1 (46/59)
WR Justin Jefferson
Dec 24, 2022; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson (18) celebrates the win after the game against the New York Giants at U.S. Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Matt Krohn-USA TODAY Sports
Overall: 90.4 (3rd/103)
Receiving: 90.5 (2nd/103)
WR Adam Thielen
Jan 8, 2023; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Adam Thielen (19) celebrates his touchdown reception during the first quarter against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field. Mandatory Credit: Daniel Bartel-USA TODAY Sports
Overall: 65.0 (70th/103)
Receiving: 65.6 (69th/103)
WR K.J. Osborn
Dec 17, 2022; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Minnesota Vikings wide receiver K.J. Osborn (17) celebrates the win against the Indianapolis Colts after the game at U.S. Bank Stadium. With the win, the Minnesota Vikings clinched the NFC North. Mandatory Credit: Matt Krohn-USA TODAY Sports
Overall: 65.1 (68/103)
TE T.J. Hockenson
Dec 24, 2022; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Minnesota Vikings tight end T.J. Hockenson (87) catches a touchdown pass against the New York Giants during the first quarter at U.S. Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Matt Krohn-USA TODAY Sports
Overall: 70.2 (12th/43)
Receiving: 73.3 (11th/43)
Pass Blocking 51.1 (62nd/80)
Run Blocking: 57.3 (41st/80)
LT Christian Darrisaw
Sep 25, 2022; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Minnesota Vikings running back Alexander Mattison (2) reacts center Garrett Bradbury (56) and offensive tackle Christian Darrisaw (71) after scoring a touchdown against the Detroit Lions during the fourth quarter at U.S. Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jeffrey Becker-USA TODAY Sports
Overall: 90.3 (2nd/73)
Pass Blocking: 81.8 (10th/73)
Run Blocking: 90.2 (3rd/73)
Pressures Allowed: 20 (33rd/73)
RT Brian O'Neill
Oct 10, 2021; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Minnesota Vikings offensive tackle Brian O'Neill (75) warms up before the game against the Detroit Lions at U.S. Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Matt Blewett-USA TODAY Sports
Overall: 83.1 (8th/73)
Pass Blocking: 77.9 (21st/73)
Run Blocking: 83.3 (5th/73)
Pressures Allowed: 24 (44th/73)
LG Ezra Cleveland
Minnesota Vikings offensive tackle Ezra Cleveland (72) defends during an NFL football game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
Pass Blocking: 53.2 (61/73)
Pressures Allowed: 53 (71st/73)
RG Ed Ingram
Sep 11, 2022; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins (8) prepares to throw a pass as guard Ed Ingram (67) blocks against the Green Bay Packers during the first quarter at U.S. Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jeffrey Becker-USA TODAY Sports
Run Blocking: 63.4 (29th/73)
C Garrett Bradbury
Oct 10, 2021; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Minnesota Vikings center Garrett Bradbury (56) and quarterback Kirk Cousins (8) in action during the game between the Detroit Lions and the Minnesota Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports
Story originally appeared on Vikings Wire
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Chiefs TE Travis Kelce suddenly questionable for AFC championship game due to back injury
Although he was a full participant in practice Friday, Travis Kelce is apparently dealing with a back issue.


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Thankfully It Ends
by Kevin Neibauer | Apr 29, 2022 | Flyers, NHL
Thankfully, it ends. If you are of the religious ilk, when you chat with your supreme being…thank him or her for ending this debacle that was alleged, a Flyers season. A memorable season (only because it was that bad), finally concluded with, what else? A loss.
Should I Bother Recapping?
The Philadelphia Grounded Flyers (25-46-11) ended their season with a lackluster 4-2 loss to the Ottawa Senators (33-42-7). The good news? Philly had a half-season worth of power-play goals (2).
Opening Stanza
A scoreless 18:31 was ended by James van Riemsdyk hitting his 24th off an Owen Tippett and Ivan Provorov set up on…wait for it…a power-play goal! That would be all the first-period scoring with boos raining down from the brave souls who came to see two of the worst teams in the NHL.
To the second. Another one goal period. This time it would be Ottawa lighting the lamp at 11:51 with James Norris notching his 35th with help from Brady Tkachuk.
💥 BIG TIPPER 💥#OTTvsPHI | @TippettOwen pic.twitter.com/zDW848whIN
— Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) April 30, 2022
The Final Twenty
Travis Harmonic put Ottawa in front 2-1 at the 1:56 mark. Owen Tippett made it a 2-2 affair with his 10th assisted by Morgan Frost and Ivan Provorov on the advantage for the final goal of the season at 12:33. Tkachuk hit his career-high 30th on an Ottawa advantage with help from Thomas Chabot and Tim Stutzle. With Flyer goalie, Martin Jones pulled, Ottawa put an end to the 4-2 win to end the season for both teams.
This was the third-worst season in Flyers history. A Coach was fired…a Captain traded…three long losing streaks. The worst power play in the league is complemented by the third-lowest goals scored on average. Break out the dynamite. Thankfully, it ends
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