1) Analyzes stock concentration: See what your largest holdings are and if you have too much of any one equity position.
2) Analyzes domestic equity sector exposure: Identify if you are overweight or underweight in any one sector and see how well you are diversified. You can compare your portfolio to the S&P 500 as well as our Tactical Weighting recommendation, which is based off equal weightings across sectors instead of market cap weightings.
3) Analyzes US equity style: See how your portfolio stacks up among large, mid and small cap stocks vs our Tactical Weighting recommendation and the S&P 500. Many people do not have much small cap exposure and might be too overweight in large cap stocks or vice versa.
Below is a screen shot of what you should see when you log on to your Dashboard. Simply click "Investing" in the top right and then click "Investment Checkup" to get started.
The following screen shots are examples of what the new Investment Checkup features can do for you.
1) Stock Concentration: A snapshot of your individual holdings and feedback on the diversification of your portfolio based on stocks, sector, and style.
2) Domestic Equity Exposure: A snapshot showing your portfolio is very overweight in technology based on our Tactical Weighting suggestions. You can also click on the S&P 500 button to see how your portfolio stacks up to the S&P 500 market cap weighting.
3) US Equity Style: A snapshot of your portfolio's composition based on style vs. our Tactical Weighting recommendations and the S&P 500 composition. In this example, your portfolio is underweight Mid Cap Core and Small Cap Core.
1) Log on to your Personal Capital dashboard.
4) Click STOCKS to get an assessment of all your investment accounts.
5)) Click the down arrow in ALL ACCOUNTS to toggle between investment accounts for more specificity.
Hopefully this simple, yet powerful new Investment Checkup feature will give Personal Capital investors an easy tool to measure their portfolio composition over time. We recommend you run the new feature before having a conversation with your financial advisor in order to have the most effective conversation possible.
Thanks for the great updates. I had missed the old golden cube showing the large, mid and small-cap weighting.
The cubes were not loved by many people and the response to the new bar graph visual for equity style seems to be going over well. Also we added the ability to switch between tactical weighting and S&P view for comparison.
Good stuff Jim. How long did it take for your team to implement all the new features?
Also, what are your thoughts about Smart Indexing vs. the S&P 500's market cap weighted approach? Having an equal balance across sectors sounds fine, but surely some sectors are growing faster than others and one might like to overweight them. This is something one can easily have their financial advisor at PC do yeah?
Sam, Craig a member of our investment committee and one of our CFP's helps by doing a lot of the number crunching so the coding and design work comes out of that. Like much of what we do, the design work takes the longest so that we deliver something that's visually appealing, clear, and simple.
This is such an important addition. So many investors lack important understanding and depth in the composition of their portfolio holdings. I can't wait to check it out.
Thanks Barbara please let me know if have any suggestions for improving on it. We are constantly updating our tools and adding features and I rely on user feedback to help provide direction on where to focus.
Great new additions that leverage the consolidated view of all assets that Personal Capital provides!
Most brokerage houses only show estimated annual income on a monthly statement in PDF or Paper format, which is very labor intensive to consolidate by hand into a single view of estimated income for one's entire portfolio of holdings.
Its not really necessary to focus on dividends for each holding. For a 30 year retirement inflation and portfolio growth are more important factors. Certainly a portion should be income producing, but so long as a portfolio is growing, you draw out your dividend as a conservative share of the total portfolio.


Who doesn't love the classic fruit gummy bear? No one. I can personally throw back about 100 of them in one sitting, which is definitely not the healthiest choice….
That's when my gears started turning and I realized that we could probably make them at home! With 3 ingredients, it was a no brainer. Your favourite juice, a little sweetener and some gelatin. Voila! GUMMY BEARS! It was so easy, I could barely believe it myself.
**You'll need a great mold [we bought these molds for cheap] but these and these and these are also amazing.
Kid Friendly || Heck, yes!
Thanks to SPUD Organics for having all these awesome products delivered right to our doorstep! Makes cooking with kiddos just that much easier and accessible!! Also feels good knowing you're getting the good stuff in them, too!
3 tbsp Great Lakes unflavoured Gelatin [you can also amp up to 4 tbsp, but we found that a little too gelatin tasting and preferred the lower dose].
In a small saucepan, mix the juice & honey together and heat until it's steaming hot and just before boiling, but not boiling. The honey will be liquified.
Turn the heat to it's lowest setting, and stir in the gelatin 1 tablespoon at a time. Make sure the gelatin is FULLY dissolved in the liquid before adding the next.
Once fully dissolved, remove from the heat and use a dropper to add the liquid to your gummy mold.
Put in the refrigerator to firm up. Our gummy bear molds took about 13 minutes to be firm enough to pop out.
*One batch makes about 100+ gummies, and since our molds wouldn't fit that many, we simply reheated/melted our extra mixture over low heat and used again when our molds were empty. Store gummies in a sealed container in the fridge. Few Notes: These gummies can be made with ANY flavour of juice, however we recommend sticking to the stronger fruit flavours for more impact. Also use 100% pure juice, no added sugars.
Work one flavour batch at a time. The gelatin sets quite fast, so it's easier to manage one flavour at a time.
Choose the highest quality juices and gelatin for this one. When you are only using a few ingredients, it's smart to choose the best. Gelatin is a superfood in itself! It's great for your gut health and very healing for your immune system, too. It's 100% pure collagen, which is amazing for your hair, nails and skin [sign us up!].


Ok, so I am starting to get over my fear of rigging anything above the knee...I hope!
The latest release is part of a match-collab (means the items go together, but the workflow was not shared) with Cubic Cherry! This is our second match-collab, and our items will be available at The Liaison Collaborative on Nov 7th!
My contribution is the Harvest Corset Dress! It comes rigged for Maitreya (exp), Slink Physique and Slink Hourglass! You can either purchase two-packs (light and dark of each color), or the light or dark pack. Demo is available at TLC! It's also materials enabled!
The new Cubic Cherry release are these cute leafy circlets to accessorize with! Single colors or fat pack are available!
As per usual, these items are 100% original mesh!


Take the classic black liner look into softer territory with this intensely pigmented eggplant-hued kajal pencil. This smudgable formula offers a way to infuse color while still defi ning and elongating the eye.
Place your pencil point at the outer eye corner (just under the brow bone and the end of your eyebrow) and draw a delicate line from the outside into the middle of your eyelid in the crease. Use the tip to diff use the line for an instant contoured smokey eye.
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How Bloomberg Media has changed its events business
May 29, 2020 | By Lucinda Southern
Patrick Garrigan took up his new position of global head of events division Bloomberg Live on March 2. By day two, it was very apparent that in-person events were going to be challenged to the point of extinction. Within the next 72 hours, Garrigan and the team had drawn up its plans to pivot.
Bloomberg Live has hosted five events in April and May and has another seven scheduled, with more in development. These events are virtual iterations of its franchises like Bloomberg Invest, Bloomberg Equality, tech series Sooner Than You Think, Bloomberg Breakaway series and newly-created Bloomberg Reports. The company is in the enviable position of tapping into engines like Bloomberg Intelligence and Bloomberg Global Data to help power its virtual events.
So far, attendees for its virtual events regularly reach the thousands, according to the company.
In some cases, virtual events have news clout. U.S. billionaire Ray Dalio made headlines during the first Bloomberg Invest series by saying his investment management company, Bridgewater Associates, estimates a hit of $20 trillion to the global economy. This specific event drew over 3,000 viewers asking over 350 questions for an average of 54 minutes, (despite the show lasting only 46-minutes long). The show airs across multiple platforms: Bloomberg TV, Bloomberg.com, social media and on the Bloomberg Terminal.
"These are news-making," said Garrigan. "The mission of Bloomberg Live is to elevate stories and bring them to audiences who need them. Folks see these as moments to share their perspective, connect with audiences directly, using the Q&A and polling feature, to get closer to the speakers and what they are feeling."
Interactions over webinars and Zoom calls can feel stilted or basic, but the volume of companies chewing over this problem — 32% of publishers said branded content programs and "virtual events" are taking up more resources and attention — are propelling forward improvements. Publisher in-person events teams have been cut deeply as businesses figure out virtual alternatives that take less of an operational heavy lift. In May, publishers revealed events revenue was down by 60%.
Bloomberg Live's most ambitious event to date, Invest Global, is a three-day conference covering the roiling economic impacts of coronavirus across four global regions in June. The schedule starts in Hong Kong before moving west to Dubai, London and New York throughout the day. Invesco QQQ, a previous client, is sponsoring the U.S. track for Invest Global.
The majority of Bloomberg Live's upcoming events are sponsored by companies like healthcare company Optum and software company OutSystems. Upcoming sponsors are choosing to sponsor a series of four events.
In-person events cost more to put on but also drive more revenue than virtual events. In general, sponsorship rates for virtual events are about half the rate as an in-person event, said vp of marketing at digital events platform ON24, Tessa Barron.
"From a sponsorship perspective, everything we knew had changed," said Garrigan. "We asked [clients] 'what are you solving for?' We aim to be the strategic partner, so we ask 'how do you want to be in this space, what does success look like?' The perception around the value of virtual events has changed."
Defining the success of virtual events is still being worked out. Reach, amplification across linear broadcast and social plays a part, as well as thought leadership, brand awareness and audience interactions. Garrigan said that clients view events as being part of a larger conversation rather than a more transactional value exchange. But how virtual events will drive business outcomes is no doubt on clients' minds.
Interaction data is the main advantage over in-person gatherings. These can be used to drive sales instantly if a sponsor promotes a related offer, like a demo or sales meeting, and uses the conversion rate as their metric.
"It's very powerful to say 'my virtual event drove 1,000 attendees and 10% of that audience raised their hand and said they were interested in our solution,'" said Barron.
Smart advertisers are using virtual events as elements of a broader digital campaign strategy, this means the return on investment calculations also change. Events are being used for branded content, reworked into podcasts or social video series. Publishers are also getting interest from packaging up the event footage for archives.
"It's no longer about signage or cocktail napkins, but content creation, audience engagement and measurable results," said Barron. "Thinking about virtual events as a tentpole for a big digital umbrella will ultimately help drive more revenue."

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'Vikings': The Real Reason Rollo Reacted in Shocking Ways Towards Ragnar Lothbrok's Sons
Amanda Spence
Rollo (Clive Standen) was a drunken fool for a while before he became a formidable force backed by the armies of Francia. He spent a good majority of his life trying to find a way out of his brother Ragnar Lothbrok's (Travis Fimmel) shadow throughout the series Vikings. Eventually, he finds a way but only through betraying his brother one final time and everything he's ever known.
Rollo is searching for a way of feeling better about his choice to betray his brother and his world. His connection to the sons of Ragnar is undeniable and he is arguably looking for a way to make amends for his actions.
Rollo chooses sides
Clive Standen | Daniel Zuchnik/FilmMagic
Rollo becomes Duke by seizing an opportunity. He finds himself left in Francia with the camp and is approached by Emperor Charles (Lothaire Bluteau) to betray his brother and choose a life as a noble lord and the husband of Princess Gisla (Morgane Polanski). He chooses a new life and kills everyone left in the Viking camp with his soldiers.
Rollo goes raiding with Bjorn Ironside
His first real strange encounter with a son of Ragnar face to face after the Vikings' failed attempt to raid Paris again comes when Bjorn Ironside (Alexander Ludwig) decides to travel and raid new places. He must venture along the coast of Rollo's territory which Rollo allows as long as he can raid alongside them. The Mediterranean Raid is considered a successful one, and Rollo gets a taste of his old Viking life. He clearly misses his adventures in a lot of ways and relishes the time spent with Bjorn, even though his wife Gisla is truly angry about the whole thing.
He helps Ivar the Boneless and Hvitserk
Rollo soon finds himself faced with a choice between the sons of Ragnar. He decides to offer assistance to Ivar the Boneless (Alex Høgh Andersen) in his takedown of Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick). It's a shocking turn of events that begs to question why Rollo would betray Lagertha and Bjorn. It could be because he felt a connection with Hvitserk.
Standen, who plays Rollo, spoke to ET Canada about Rollo's shocking decision. "He sees Hvitserk (Marco Ilsø) in himself and he needs to give him these soldiers and his boats so Hvitserk can go back to Ivar, this brother that is so like Ragnar," Standen explained. "He is giving him a chance to shine and make himself famous."
Rollo offers assistance to Lagertha and Bjorn
Batten down the hatches #tbt pic.twitter.com/l5IPwwSxjS
— #Vikings (@HistoryVikings) October 24, 2019
After Lagertha loses the kingdom of Kattegat and her crown, Rollo returns to offer his assistance to her and her son Bjorn. Rollo agrees to give them safe passage to Francia with him where they can live in safety. Lagertha asks him why he would do this now after he helped Ivar take back Kattegat. Rollo clearly feels that Bjorn could be his son so he's willing to help them escape Ivar while at the same time exploiting the benefits from a relationship with Kattegat.
"You know I have always loved you, Lagertha, and that Bjorn is my son," Rollo says to Lagertha. Lagertha denies that Bjorn could be his son, and refuses his help. Rollo even confronts Bjorn about things and he isn't exactly convinced either. "I have heard something to that effect," Bjorn says to him. "But rumors are a doubtful truth."
"We had a very special relationship together when you were a child," Rollo tells him. "It was if you knew."
"You may be my father, but then again you may not," Bjorn says. "At the time of my conception, you may have been laying with my mother, but then again, so was Ragnar. So, who do I look most like? Who do I resemble most in spirit and principle? Now that is of most importance. And for that, undoubtedly, Ragnar."
Rollo may have betrayed his brother Ragnar on more than one occasion, but he's tried in his own twisted way to make some sort of amends with the remaining sons. Hopefully, Rollo will be back for the final season of Vikings before it's all over.


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Penn State vs. Rutgers Preview
Audio/Story posted February 19, 2016 in Sports, CommRadio by Tom Shively
David Arroyo,Tom Shively, Jon Grss, and Joe Murphy preview this weekend's matchup between the Rutgers Scarlet Knights and the Penn State Nittany Lions.
Coming off a 79-75 shocker over No. 4 Iowa, the second top-five win in the Pat Chambers era and the second win over a ranked opponent in as many home games, Penn State looks to string together back-to-back conference victories for the first time this year. The Nittany Lions (13-13, 4-9 Big Ten) will avoid the THON weekend festivities as they head east to face Rutgers (6-20, 0-13), the only remaining winless team in the Big Ten.
Brandon Taylor continues to shine for Penn State, scoring 18 points in the upset win on Wednesday to push his team-leading scoring average up to 16.5 ppg. He has scored in double figures in every conference game this season.
Donovon Jack had the game of his career against Iowa, scoring 19 points on 8 of 9 from the field as well as registering two blocks.
The Scarlet Knights will have to find alternate ways to score without leading scorer Corey Sanders, who was suspended for two weeks following a violation of team rules. Second leading scorer and leading rebounder DJ Foreman has also missed most of the season, only playing in seven games due to a violation of team rules as well.
Mike Williams is the leading eligible scorer at 12.2 ppg. Freshman Jonathan Laurent has stepped up as well, scoring 18 points and grabbing 11 boards in a loss at Illinois.
Rutgers got the better of Penn State last year in Piscataway 50-46 for one of their only two conference wins of the season. The Lions returned the favor three weeks later with a blowout win at the Bryce Jordan Center.
Three-point shooting will be at a premium in this matchup as Penn State and Rutgers are the two worst teams in the Big Ten when it comes to the long ball. Rutgers shoots at a 30.5 percent clip while Penn State comes in at 29.5 percent. The Lions were able to get their three-pointers going early against Iowa as they hit eight in the first half and 10 on the game, which really contributed to confidence down the stretch.
The Scarlet Knights have been torched on defense all season, giving up a conference-worst 80.1 ppg including over 100 twice at home. They have yielded under 70 points only once in conference play, an 11-point loss at Michigan.
Prediction: Penn State 55, Rutgers 45
The Lions are riding high after a win over Iowa, and the momentum will continue into a relatively painless win over the Scarlet Knights. The shooting woes will continue for both teams, but Penn State will make a few more shots in crunch time. Brandon Taylor and Shep Garner will both score in double figures, and the Nittany Lions will force 20+ turnovers from a Rutgers team that carries a 13.6 turnovers per game average.
Tip off is set for 1 PM and can be seen on ESPNU.
Tom Shively is a freshman majoring in broadcast journalism. You can contact him at shivelyt97@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter @t_shives.
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Jonathan Gross
Senior / Broadcast Journalism, International Politics
Jon Gross is a senior from Upper Saddle River, New Jersey double-majoring in broadcast journalism and International Politics. Gross currently serves as a Sports Director for Penn State's CommRadio, where he has also broadcasted for ten Penn State sports teams. During the summer of 2018, Gross was the Director of Broadcasting for the Saugerties Stallions of the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League. He was also the radio play-by-play voice of the Penn State Women's Volleyball team for the 2017 season. Gross has interned in the sports departments of WCBS-TV (New York) and WTAJ-TV (Altoona-Johnstown-State College).
You can contact him at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and follow his twitter @j_gross31.
Tom Shively
Tom Shively is a senior from Ashburn, Virginia. He is one of the CommRadio sports directors for the 2018-19 school year. He serves as the women's volleyball and men's basketball producer and has broadcasted several Penn State sports including the 2018 NFL Draft as well as hosting a talk show airing weekly on CommRadio. Tom also works for GoPSUsports.com, doing feature-style coverage of women's volleyball and women's basketball. Last summer, he interned at Blue Lion Multimedia, a local film company in the Washington, DC area. E-mail him at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or follow him on Twitter @t_shives.
David Arroyo
David Arroyo currently serves as one of two General Managers for CommRadio. David is a former arts & entertainment director, social media director and editor for the station. He has produced for multiple Penn State sports while in CommRadio, has done play by play for Penn State sporting events such as football, basketball and volleyball and co-hosted and produced his own talk show. During the fall of 2017, David was an anchor, producer and reporter for the Centre County Report. David most recently interned at WPVI-TV, 6abc in Philadelphia during the summer of 2018. While at 6abc he was a programing intern and helped in the production of their weekly show "FYI Philly." David has interned at B94.5 (State College) and Center City Film and Video (Philadelphia). Follow him on Twitter (@_arroyodavid) or email him at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Joe Esquivel-Murphy
Joe Esquivel-Murphy is a senior from Bay Head, NJ, majoring in broadcast journalism and Spanish. He has done play-by-play and beat writes for almost all the sports from CommRadio. His two talk shows, Murph's Lounge and Road to Russia, covered various different topics as the later previewed the qualification process to the World Cup with the former discussing relevant sports events. Joe also had an internship for Shore Sports Network (an affiliate of Town Square Media) before his junior year. To contact Joe, email him at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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'I ask for God's forgiveness:' Pope Francis apologizes for Canada's residential school system
by Ian Down April 4, 2022
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president Natan Obed, who led the Inuit delegation, said he said he was "touched by the way in which he expressed his sorrow, and also the ways in which he condemned the actions of the Church in particular regards." NNSL file photo
Pope Francis has formally apologized for the Catholic Church's role in Canada's residential school system.
The Pope issued the apology to Canada's First Nations, Inuit and Métis delegates during the last of this week's meetings on Friday.
He said he was "deeply grieved" by the stories he heard from delegates, particularly stories related to the residential school system.
He said he felt "sorrow and shame for the role that a number of Catholics, particularly those with educational responsibilities, have had in all these things that wounded you, and the abuses you suffered and the lack of respect shown for your identity, your culture, and even your spiritual values."
"I ask for God's forgiveness, and I want to say to you with all my heart: I am very sorry."
In a press conference following the meeting, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president Natan Obed, who led the Inuit delegation, said that the apology was "long overdue," and that "individual survivors and intergenerational survivors all will have very different feelings and perspectives about today."
"A heartfelt expression from the Church that was delivered by Pope Francis in an empathetic and caring way."
He said he was "touched by the way in which he expressed his sorrow, and also the ways in which he condemned the actions of the Church in particular regards."
"There is much more to do, and so an apology is part of a much larger picture."
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Ayanna Howard: Robots are the Future of Learning
February 28 - Sarah Ashlock
FIRST THOUGHT: Liar, Liar
"Liar, liar, pants on fire." I still don't really get what that saying means. People lie to us every day and we lie right back. If your gut has been wrong way too many times (I'm looking at you, exes), here are some ways to help you spot a liar using research from the Harvard Business Review: Liars use a million words when just a few will do. They also tend to use more curse words and third-person storytelling, like he did that, she said this. Liars who do so through omission don't get away with it as often because silence leaves us feeling suspicious. If you have a hunch that someone's playing you, ask neutral questions to get a sense of their body language and eye movement, then ask direct questions about what seems fishy.
An even better way to find out the truth? Put on your Internet sleuthing hat, honey. Speaking of computers, each year, there's a bigger and bigger push for getting women in STEM, even though only 28 percent of computer science degrees are earned by women. We might think computer-based careers are a snooze, but any woman with an informal degree in Internet stalking might say otherwise.
WOMAN TO WATCH: Ayanna Howard, Founder & CTO at Zyrobotics LLC
Of course, computer science can be useful for more than sussing out a dude before the first date. As one of "the most powerful women engineers," Dr. Ayanna Howard is an example of a woman who is using her computer expertise to make radical change.
Ayanna's honors are immense: MIT Technology Review included her as one of the top 100 Young Innovators of the Year, and she acted as the senior robotics researcher for NASA. Now, she's taking on an exciting venture as the founder and chief technology officer at Zyrobotics.
Following an active professorship at Georgia Institute of Technology, Ayanna is now offering a model in educational tech through Zyrobotics. Born as a Georgia Tech startup, it won the 2017 Summer Awards for best educational app and has been recognized by Google as a small business in Georgia that's making an economic impact.
Through her university's venture lab incubator, Ayanna has been able to license the research done in the lab so the public can learn from it. Some of her interests include home-based assistive robots and remote robotic exploration. (You know, just super casual curiosities, y'all.)
Zyrobotics "changes the way kids learn" through programs like STEM Storiez and TabAccess. The former offers interactive kid's books with a focus on math and science and would be an invigorating addition to the classroom. There are visual, tactile and auditory elements to each book as a way to hone in on a child's particular strengths.
The latter, TabAccess, is one of Zyrobotics most exciting innovations, as it enables interaction with tablet apps that otherwise would be difficult with those of varying abilities. Using button switches and grasp switches, it provides a more inclusive play experience.
For Ayanna, it's not just about putting something out there that's innovative; it's about providing equal access to everyone. Regardless of gender, race or disability, Ayanna says she wants technology to improve kids' ability to be on an equal playing field.
One woman who has come in to so many people's lives and shared their stories is Oprah Winfrey. As she said:
"Honor your calling. Everyone has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you."
October 28 Hannah Shaw: We're Crazy for This Cat Lady
July 5 Hilda Solis:
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September 12 Doreen Lorenzo: The Art of Creative Leadership
January 7 Indra Nooyi:
Why It Can Get Lonely (and Tiring!) at the Top
October 22 Monica Eaton-Cardone:
How Working Hard When You're Young Pays Off


On my second day in Jamaica, I wanted to go and explore a random area so I took a bus to the supposedly dangerous Downtown Kingston with a girl and a boy from the hostel I'm staying at in the centre of Kingston.
We took a bus from Half Way Tree bus terminal which is a huge transport hub walking distance from where I'm staying. The JUTC buses go from there which are the official big buses here (as opposed to route taxis – taxis which work a bit like buses… and maxis – minibuses which work a bit like buses).
The JUTC buses are the easiest and probably safest option of public transport in Jamaica because in the terminal there's actually a sign saying which stand you need to wait at for which destination, and there's an information desk if you need any more help, so it's quite easy to find the right bus.
You pay when you get on and the fare for my bus was 100jmd (equivalent to 1 US dollar). I think this is similar for most routes. They stop a lot of times along the way and you just press the red button when you want to get off.
To go to Coronation Market, just find a bus with the destination 'downtown'.
If you get one that goes the fast way, it's only about 15 minutes away, but if you get one that goes a long route (like we did accidentally), it takes more like 35 minutes. You'll be able to tell when you reach downtown because there are loads of street vendors selling clothes and food (Coronation Market).
If you have a local sim card with data, you can just follow on Google Maps to make sure you get off at the right place. Google Maps also actually tells you which buses you can take if you select the 'public transport' option when looking for a route from A to B.
As soon as we got off, I saw my favourite type of man – a jelly coconut man! I wasn't sure how much jelly nuts should cost here and I was very aware that we might get ripped off, but he charged me 100jmd which seemed reasonable.
I later found out that 100jmd is the standard price, so I was happy that he didn't take advantage.
We walked down the street that seemed to have the most things for sale, and loads of people stared, shouted or spoke to us. Some were annoying boys shouting stupid things like "WHITEY!" to me and the other girl. Some were simply trying to sell us things (fair enough), and some wanted to know where we were from and what we were up to.
Also, just to warn you, the moment you take out your phone or camera, local guys will start posing and shout "snap me!". Sometimes this results in you taking a picture of them posing and a friendly conversation happening after, or sometimes they turn out to be annoying, or sometimes you can just ignore them.
This guy seemed quite friendly and after trying to sell us cold water, wanted to take a selfie with me. It was quite funny.
From what I understood from these random conversations with people, the main market day is Saturday, and even during the week it's quite packed, but we went on a Sunday which is the day when no one really goes, which may be why people noticed us so much, because the streets were quite empty. This also meant that the main part of the market, the inside part, wasn't open that day.
In general I tried to keep my phone in my pocket and only took it out to take a few photos. The atmosphere seemed fine, not particularly intense or scary, but the fact that we were being noticed by EVERYONE and they didn't really have anything else to concentrate on (because there weren't many people shopping) made me feel a bit weird.
We took the bus back from pretty much the same place we got off at, and we just asked a market vendor which numbers we could take and where exactly we should wait for it.
In general I would recommend going on a weekday or Saturday, going with someone else or a few people, preferably including a man, finding out the approximate prices of anything you plan to buy beforehand by asking a local person and sticking to the main market streets unless you know a Jamaican who's taking you to another part.
Oh how I miss Coronation Market….and missing Jamaica. I was on those streets every 2 weeks getting my fresh products and I miss it terribly!
Love that you went to Coronation Market! Not many tourists would have it on their radar, that's authentic Jamaican culture right there.


Scientists with the international scientific collaboration known as the "Walk Again Project" use noninvasive brain-machine interfaces in their efforts to reawaken damaged fibers in the spinal cord.
Part of the training in Miguel Nicolelis' research involves having a patient with spinal cord damage learn to use an avatar to walk in virtual reality, while being given visual and tactile feedback.
The findings, published in Scientific Reports (one of the Nature journals), suggest that damaged spinal tissue in some people with paraplegia can be retrained to a certain extent — somewhat the way certain people can regain some brain function following stroke though repetition and practice. In fact, this isn't a new idea for treating injuries of the spinal cord. Even people with severe injuries can regain some sensation and function through physical therapy if some nerve fibers remain.
The eight paralyzed people in the Brazilian study didn't regain enough mobility to support their own weight on their legs, but Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, a neuroscientist and physician with Duke University who led the research, says his experimental subjects did make "partial recovery" — improvements that significantly helped their quality of life. They had better control of bowel and bladder functions, he says. Some men were able to have erections and one woman decided to deliver a baby vaginally. "She could feel the baby for the first time," he says. "She could feel the contractions."
The study of the first 12 months of training didn't document the most dramatic quality-of-life improvements that Nicolelis announced in a telephone briefing with reporters. But it did describe some of the improvements in sensation and movement.
Nicolelis previously garnered worldwide publicity for his work by arranging for one of his patients to kick out a ceremonial soccer ball during the World Cup tournament in Rio de Janeiro in 2014. The build-up for that moment was more dramatic than the actual event. But it did highlight Nicolelis' ambitious efforts to help people with paralysis improve their mobility through robotics, through an international scientific collaboration known as the Walk Again Project.
"For the first time in many years they were able to voluntarily control their muscles," he says. "They could move their legs or contract muscles under voluntary control." Some people had their level of paralysis upgraded to a less severe rating of "incomplete paraplegia."
"This has not been seen before," he says. "I call this an important milestone."
But Edelle Field-Fote, director of spinal cord injury research at the Shepherd Center at Emory University, wasn't so rhapsodic. "I would not say it's unprecedented," she tells Shots. "I'd say the intervention [used in Brazil] is unprecedented."
Nicolelis' therapy involves not just the virtual-reality training; it includes physical therapy and extensive stimulation as the robotic machines move their muscles. "If you gave anybody [with some remaining spinal cord] 12 months of therapy, you'd see improvement," Field-Fote says, even years after an injury.
"If you exercise with the body-weight support and treadmill training, you also get improvements," says Monica Perez, a scientist at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis who studies mechanisms involved in the control of human movement.
"The question is whether this is superior to previous approaches and which are the mechanisms," Perez says. "This was a long period of training, so it's hard to compare."
"Overall, the study is plausible and interesting," says Dr. Lyn Jakeman, a neuroscientist who oversees extramural research on spinal cord injury for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. But she also notes that the participants had so many different interventions, it's not entirely clear whether the visualization exercises or some other combination of factors was responsible for the reported effects. And the study had no control group for comparison.
These independent experts couldn't evaluate the claims Nicolelis made in his press call but didn't include in his published report.
Nicolelis tells reporters that two women in his study who had been paralyzed for more than a decade showed the most improvement. They "can generate leg movements, move their legs out and in and flex their knees," he says. Some of that is captured in a video he released with the published study.
"They are continuously improving," he says, beyond what he reports in his peer-reviewed paper. One woman now has enough mobility to get out and about, Nicolelis said. "Now she can sit [and] she can basically drive."
Nicolelis says it's possible that people with even weak muscles in their legs can more easily control the robotic machinery that he and his collaborators are developing. He suspects that residual nerve fibers through the spinal injury are able to carry sensations up to the brain, along with some rudimentary commands from the brain down to the muscles.
There are roughly 25 million people worldwide with severe spinal injuries. Nicolelis acknowledges that his experiments have been expensive. But if the virtual reality training is indeed key to the improvements he has documented, that could be the basis of less expensive therapy, he believes. Given the success he has seen with his first eight volunteers, he says, he's planning to expand his research to a new study group.


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Rich, S. D. Gouverneur, was born in Hailesborough in November, 1831. He learned the milling trade and followed it for many years, He enlisted August 12, 1862, in Co. I, 11th N. Y. Cavalry. His regiment was stationed at Washington from 1864 to 1865. Mr. Rich has been in the hotel business in Hailesborough twenty one years and is widely known all over St. Lawrence county, both because of his life long residence here, his success and geniality, and also for his uncompromising political opinions, being an aggressive Republican. In 1856 he married Lucy Walde, and they have one daughter, Mrs. F. N. Kilburn of Copenhagen. Mr. Kilburn owns one of the finest stud farms in America.


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Slowdive at Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis (31 Oct 2014)
Halloween with Slowdive
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Slowdive Setlist
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"Halloween Theme" by John Carpenter
Golden Hair (Syd Barrett cover)
Low Setlist
No Comprende
Shame/Laser Beam
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11/03/14 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
11/04/14 Seattle, WA The Neptune
11/05/14 Portland, OR McMenamins Crystal
11/07/14 San Francisco, CA Warfield Theatre
11/08/14 Los Angeles, CA Theatre At Ace Hotel
12/19/14 London, United Kingdom The Forum
[1991] Just for a Day
[1993] Souvlaki
[1995] Pygmalion
This January, a mysterious text read, "here she comes…", a song from Slowdive's second album, Souvlaki; and with that, the long-awaited reunion was in motion for this Reading, UK shoe-gaze …
Attention then shifted to the small Satellites stage for Duluth's Low, who opened with two new songs from their latest, The Invisible Way (Sub Pop Records) before drummer Mimi Parker took over for a slo-core …
Shoegaze band Slowdive are currently on a reunion tour, stopping by Minneapolis' Fine Line Music Café, after being absent from the city in twenty-two years!
Local DJ Jake Rudh played some 80s music for fans waiting for the band to take the stage. Originally music videos, but after Low, there was no video screen, so it was just audio.
Low came on stage as ZZ Top, complete fuzzy guitars and horseshoe moustache on drummer Mimi Parker. The band Duluth band have been busy playing support dates for Slowdive on this current tour, which singer/guitarist Alan Sparhawk described Slowdive "as sweet as they sound."
The slo-core band played a block of The Invisible Way early in their set ("Plastic Cup", "On My Own", and "Holy Ghost") and filling out the rest of their limited set with songs from their previous other albums. Since it was Halloween, the band said it was fitting that they played "Murderer".
The audience was completely attentive and quiet, which is the perfect crowd for Low's music... but a few of us wondered why there was the rare barrier to the stage at the Fine Line Music Café. It was probably because it was sold out (but I've attended many sold out shows at the Fine Line and they never had a barrier), but it's probably more likely that it was set up to give easier access to photographers.
Before we talk about Slowdive, you have to get yourself familiarized with Shoegazing music, which is typically full of guitar effects and layers with melodic vocals blending in. Check out our 40-min podcast on the subject, which we discussed Slowdive (later Mojave 3), among others. That type of music took roots in the early 90s, but almost immediately went away as the popular Britpop genre that took over England in the early to mid-90s. With the recent revival of Chapterhouse and My Bloody Valentine, it might be worth your time to check out some of these bands' back catalog to get a complete picture of the genre.
Anyway, Halloween shows are always fun, because half the fun of watching the band is also watching the audience for some great costumes. Usually bands will come on stage in costumes, but for Reading-based Slowdive, they went all out! Not only was everyone, including the audio techs and sound engineers, dressed up, but they went the extra mile and dressed their stage with various Halloween fun like cobwebs, handmade pirate flags, skulls, pumpkins, candies! This tells me the band are really committed to show us a good time!
Talking to fans before the show, there were a lot of people who never caught the band the first time around when they came to the US with Ride in 1992, so they were all eager to see Slowdive for the first time. Fans drove as far as from Oklahoma City (a six hour drive) just to see this Slowdive appearance.
As soon as Slowdive came on stage to John Carpenter's "Halloween Theme", the band handed everyone in front glowsticks to get us into the dark mood. In addition to the Halloween decorations, the band also had a custom stage projection of graphics to their songs. With Slowdive's live set, they did a great job reproducing tracks from their three studio albums (Just for a Day, Souvlaki and Pygmalion) with some great vocals from Slowdive's two main songwriters, Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell. In fact, most of the primarily original band members (drummer Simon Scott, bassist Nick Chaplin, guitarist Christian Savill) were really tight on their instruments, as if they have been rehearsing since the 90s.
In the middle of their set, the band handed us Halloween candies, which was such a treat. They would later hand us candies again on their encore. I've attended a lot of Halloween concerts, and this is the first time the band brought us sweets.
The biggest cheers of the night had to before "Machine Gun" and "Alison". The set closer, "Golden Hair", Syd Barrett cover, had Rachel leaving early to let the rest of the band play an extended jam as the audience cheered on until the band left the stage, only to come back for the inevitable encore. Two tracks "Albatross" and "40 Days" were played to perfectly end their show.
With a lot of interests and rumors of Slowdive to record a fourth studio album, we all hope they'll return back to the city soon and not take another 20 years to come back. I doubt anyone in the audience will likely forget this show.
Slowdive will be in Vancouver, Canada, on November 3rd and continues to the West Coast (Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and ending in Los Angeles) before returning to London at the Forum for a two night residency. If those dates are not already sold out, you must do yourself a favor and get a ticket.
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Jimmy Kraft is a San Francisco-based vocalist, saxophonist, pianist, composer, arranger, and educator. He splits his time between performing around the Bay Area, writing and arranging music, and teaching. He is currently a member of the faculty at the acclaimed Stanford Jazz Workshop and the Berkeley Jazzschool, and he maintains a sizable roster of private students from around the world. He holds a bachelor's degree in Jazz Studies and Music Composition from University of the Pacific, where he played a pivotal role in a number of musical endeavors.
Jimmy has a knack for interpreting standards, infusing a unique subtlety and virtuosity into every tune he sings. He is particularly known for his vocal improvisation, a skill he has honed through years of listening and independent study. Jimmy's original music is indicative of his appreciation for a vast array of styles, but his love of jazz harmony and intricate lyricism shine through the mix.
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July 13, 2021 Recent News
Utahns Choke in Smoke from Western States
According to IQAir.com, the PM2.5 concentration in Salt Lake City air is currently four times above the World Health Organization's exposure recommendation. Thirty-three wildfires in Idaho, California, Oregon and Washington have brought unhealthy air quality into Utah. The National Weather Service predicts the smoke will get worse, due to California's largest fire of the year, the Beckwourth Complex fire north of Lake Tahoe, and the Bootleg fire in Oregon. The smoke from wildfires could cause dangerously high concentrations of particulates in our populated areas.
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According to the 2019 State of the Air report, the Salt Lake City area, which includes Provo and Orem, ranked 7th out of 217 metropolitan areas for worst 24-hour particle pollution, and 11th out of 228 metropolitan areas for worst ozone pollution. These ratings place Salt Lake City in a similar position to Los Angeles for 24-hour PM2.5 and Denver for ozone pollution.
Brigham Young University researchers found that Utah air pollution reduces the average resident's life by anywhere from 1.1 to 3.5 years (Errigo I., et al. (2020). Human health and the economic costs of air pollution in Utah.) Excessive air pollution is particularly harmful to sensitive groups, including children, the elderly, and those with heart and lung disease like COPD, asthma, and lung cancer.
How to protect yourself from air pollution? Health experts recommend:
Air purifier (home and car)
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A murder case has been registered against the minor accused and he has been arrested, police said.


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Work previous to my state and city books took up the history of popular politics and culture, the culture of the industrial factory, the nature and meanings of work, and the history and theory of individual and collective social identities. My interests were then, and are still, in the nature of class and its relationship to demotic/popular forms of collective identity. The publications page lists this earlier work. I am also interested in the theory and the practice of the writing of history, having written on the subject of history, postmodernism and the cultural turn (see my most recent article in this area, on the shift away from the cultural turn, in the Feb., 2010 edition of Past and Present "What is the social in social history?", which is available on this site [ Download (210.9 KiB)] ).
I was Board Chair and a founder of the AHRC Network on Inequality, Social Science and History, which ran between 2012-15. This took up the subject of inequality in historical fashion, something which has not characterised public discourse in Britain. The network aimed with a variety of workshops and seminars to link the study of inequality with current social theory and new historiographies. It was also linked to questions of policy, particularly in Britain. Pedro Ramos Pinto of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, is the organizer of this initiative, which has a web presence at www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/inequality
For my current intellectual and political interests see the Research page
I was born in west London and grew up in Paddington and Notting Hill in the post-war years. This was a Catholic and Irish upbringing, my parents being immigrants from Co. Mayo and Co. Wexford in Ireland. The two flanking figures in Koudelka's great picture of Ireland on the homepage are two close family relations of mine. I was born and brought up near Harrow Road, and on the homepage there is a photograph of this area by the brilliant (though misleading) street photographer Roger Mayne. My street was marginally posher than this one, and Brindley Road, photo to the left, these margins being very important for us locals. I attended a Secondary Modern school, even though I passed the notorious 11-plus examination, this kind of school being almost the lowest level of the class-driven state schooling then available. After school from the age of 16 I worked in a variety of jobs, more or less menial, and then attended the University of Keele in the 1960s (University motto: "Thanke God for All"). I did my graduate work at Balliol College, Oxford and then taught in London, followed by a long period at Manchester University, to 2007. After this, retiring in order to get some work done, I have been peripatetic. For those who wish to have further information see my articles "More Secondary Modern Than Postmodern", which is available on the site, and the Field Day Review essays of 2014 and 2015. MY background is a major presence in Going to my father's house (Verso, 2021)
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Factoring startup Benefactors has been named winner of the Rwandan leg of the Seedstars World startup competition, and will now pitch at the global final in Switzerland next year for the chance to win US$1 million in equity investment.
Seedstars is back on the road following the culmination of the last edition of the competition in April, which was won by Ghanaian startup AgroCenta. African selection heats have already been held in Egypt, Tunisia, Zimbabwe, Morocco and Ghana.
Nine startups were selected to compete at the Kigali-leg of competition on Friday, July 20, which took place at local hub Westerwelle Startup Haus, with support from kLab.
Factoring startup BeneFactors, which offers specialised financial services helping firms to shorten their cash cycles, was named the overall winner, and will now represent Rwanda at the global final in Switzerland.
"We are extremely proud and honoured to have been selected the best tech startup in Rwanda by Seedstars World, amongst a group of nine really good startups. We're headed for the African regionals by the end of this year and the global pitch competition in Switzerland in April 2019 – not to mention the incredible journey we're about to embark on with the Seedstars community of global tech leaders and innovators across the world," said Olivia Zank, Benefactors' chief executive officer (CEO) and co-founder.
The other startups that took part were student recruitment platform BAG Innovation, artificial intelligence solution for the blind BLAIVA, solar startup Comparisol, freelancing platform eJobu, bus ticketing app Favouriapps; event ticketing solution Raisin Ltd; ed-tech platform the Einstein, and TIVA Motos, an e-commerce app for motorcycle taxi drivers.