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When you become self-employed it means you are carrying on your own business rather than working for an employer and there are a number of things to take into consideration. Working for yourself can have a number of advantages and disadvantages. For example, it means you are in control of what you do, so you can organise your own hours. On the other hand, it can involve working very hard and you may no longer have a regular income.
When you start a business you can do so either as a sole trader, partnership or limited company. The type of structure you choose depends on the kind of business you are carrying on, with whom you will be doing business and your attitude to risk. Here we look at setting up as a sole trader. That is, when you set up a business on your own. Being a sole trader is relatively straightforward to set up, but if your business fails, all your assets could be used to pay your creditors.
The Start Your Own Business scheme provides tax relief to people who are unemployed for at least 12 months and getting a qualifying social welfare payment and who set up a qualifying business. It runs from 23 October 2013 to 31 December 2016 and provides a two-year exemption from income tax (up to a maximum of â¬40,000 per year) for people who have been unemployed for at least 12 months prior to starting their own business. You can read more information in this Revenue guidance on the Start Your Own Business Relief.
Much of the process of preparing for self-employment is about starting a business. This is the same information whether you are a sole trader or a partnership or company. The guide to self-employment, Toil and Trouble (pdf), is available on the Department of Social Protection website. The Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed have published a leaflet on starting your own business (pdf). Local Enterprise Offices and local development companies provide supports to local businesses that are starting up or developing. Businessregulation.ie is a portal to help you identify the main regulations which affect your business.
If you are a non-EEA national you can find information about starting a business in our document, Coming to set up a business or invest in Ireland.
Registration of Business Name
You may carry on your business using your own name. If you wish to use a business name you must register your business name with the Companies Registration Office - see 'How to apply' below. You will then be issued with a Certificate of Business Name which you must display prominently at your place of business. There is an information leaflet on registering a business name (pdf).
You may need to have a business account with your bank. This allows you to keep your business income separate from your personal income. In general, you will need your Certificate of Business Name to open a business bank account.
The main legal obligation when becoming self-employed is that you must register as such with Revenue. In order to set up as a sole trader you must register as self-employed for income tax with Revenue - see 'How to apply' below.
As a self-employed individual you pay tax under the self-assessment system. You pay Preliminary Tax (an estimate of tax due) on or before 31 October each year and make a tax return not later than 31 October following the end of the tax year. You must keep proper records to allow you to fill out your annual tax return.
Since 1 January 2011 the Universal Social Charge has replaced the health and income levies. You pay this directly to Revenue when you make your annual tax return.
You must keep accounts which record:
- All purchases and sales of goods and services and
- All amounts received and all amounts paid out
- You must keep supporting records of the above such as invoices, bank and building society statements and receipts.
- You may claim certain business expenses against tax as well as your contributions to your personal pension. Further information on tax is available on selfemployedsupports.ie, from Revenue and in the Revenue booklet IT 10 A Guide to Self Assessment.
- You must register for Value Added Tax (VAT) if your annual turnover exceeds or is likely to exceed the following annual limits: â¬75,000 in respect of the supply of goods or â¬37,500 in respect of the supply of services.
Subcontractors: If you are a self-employed subcontractor working in construction, forestry or meat processing there is detailed information about Relevant Contracts Tax on the Revenue website.
If you are self-employed you pay Class S PRSI contributions. This entitles you to a limited range of social insurance payments including, Widow's, Widower's or Surviving Civil Partner's Contributory Pension, Guardian's Payment (Contributory), State Pension (Contributory), Maternity Benefit and Adoptive Benefit. In 2014 Class S PRSI contributions are paid at a rate of 4% on all income or â¬500 whichever is the greater. If you earn less than â¬5,000 from self-employment in a year you are exempt from paying Class S PRSI but you may pay â¬500 as a voluntary contributor.
You should register for Class S PRSI with Revenue - see 'How to apply' below. The Department of Social Protection has published a leaflet PRSI for the Self-Employed-SW74.
Family Members and PRSI
If a self-employed sole trader either employs, or is helped in the running of the business by specified family member(s), this is known as family employment and these family members are not covered by the social insurance system.
Before 2014 spouses and civil partners of self-employed sole traders who worked in the business (as employees or in another capacity) were not liable for PRSI. From 2014 spouses and civil partners of self-employed sole traders who work in the business are liable for PRSI. The â¬5,000 income threshold applies to spouses or civil partners in the same way as other self-employed people, so if a spouse or civil partner earns less than this threshold they are not liable to pay PRSI.
If you are an employee of a limited company that is owned by your spouse or a family member, you are insurable at PRSI Class A (or Class J). If you are not an employee but participate in the running of the company or if you hold a directorship or shareholding position and have control over its operations, you may be treated as a self-employed contributor and liable to pay Class S PRSI (provided you earn more than â¬5,000).
Two or more family members who operate a business as a partnership and share the profits are insurable as self-employed contributors at Class S (if they earn over â¬5,000). Family members employed by a partnership pay Class A (or Class J).
Although you are not legally obliged to be insured when you are carrying on a business, it generally advisable to have insurance cover for various situations. In particular if the public have access to your premises you should have public liability insurance.
You may also want to look into other types of insurance such as health insurance. The Irish Insurance Federation provides a free insurance information service where you can obtain information and advice on all aspects of insurance.
Planning Permission
If you are working from home you may need planning permission, for example, if you are using part of your home for business purposes or if you were to build a shed or an office in your garden. You should contact your local authority for advice about planning permission.
How to apply
To register with Revenue as a self-employed sole trader you do this using Revenue's online service. Certain people can only register on paper using the tax registration form TR1 (pdf) and you can find information about them here. This form can be also be used to register for VAT - see above. You will receive a "Notice of Registration" confirming that you are registered for income tax and, if applicable, for VAT.
When you register with Revenue you are automatically registered for Class S PRSI. For information on PRSI for the self-employed you can contact your Intreo centre or social welfare office or the Self-Employment Section of the Department of Social Protection.
To register your business name you apply to the Companies Registration Office (CRO) using Form RBN1 (pdf) or online using CORE (Companies Online Registration Environment).
For further information about the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance scheme contact the Employment Support Services of the Department of Social Protection.
Where to apply
Contact your local tax office.
Contact your Local Enterprise Office.
Contact your local development company.


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Washington, DC 20006
(202) 737-4215
Washington's premiere art museum is actually a triple treat for art lovers looking for the best art museums in Washington. In the West Gallery, you'll find paintings, sculptures and graphics from the 13th to the 21st centuries, with a superb collection of Italian Renaissance and Impressionist art. The East Wing embodies the best of modern art, with masterpieces from Picasso, Pollock, Lichtenstein and Calder. The outdoor sculpture garden's massive pieces delight and amuse people of all ages. Open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Corcoran Gallery of Art
500 17th St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20006
(214) 639-1700
One of Washington's first art museums remains one of its finest. From works by early American artists Gilbert Stuart, Rembrandt Peale, Mary Cassett and John Singer Sergeant to contemporary living artists, the Corcoran's collection continually draws crowds. Founded "for the purpose of encouraging American Genius," the museum gives a boost to artists from the Washington area, many of whom study at the Corcoran's School of Art. Fans of photography will always find a compelling reason to return as many special exhibits feature photography. Open Wednesday through Sunday.
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Washington, DC 20009
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America's first museum of modern art started as a house. When homeowner and museum founder Duncan Phillips bought Pierre-Auguste Renoir's festive "Luncheon of the Boating Party" in 1923, he predicted, "People will travel thousands of miles to our house to see it." One of Washington's best art museums is also known for its special exhibits that offer fresh perspectives of contemporary and modern artists all shown in a former house, albeit a grand one, that has been added on to over the years. Open Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.


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News Feature
Originally published in Seasonal Guide, January 2, 2014
Is it just the "winter blues?"
Seasonal affective disorder: what it is and how to combat it
by Jessica Brophy
There are many names for it. Cabin fever. Winter blues. Going stir crazy. Sometimes, a downturn in mood during the winter months can be a sign of a serious issue: seasonal affective disorder.
SAD is a form of depression, according to the National Institutes of Health. SAD is a "serious mood change" often brought on during the fall and winter months, when there is less natural sunlight. The disorder usually lifts during spring and summer.
According to the Maine Senior Guide website, SAD affects at least 6 percent of the population, and common symptoms include:
• Social withdrawal
• Decreased energy and concentration
• Lethargy
• Increased appetite, carbohydrate craving, which might lead to overeating and weight gain
• Lack of interest in normally pleasurable activities
• Oversleeping
It is thought that SAD is caused by changes in the circadian rhythm, which regulates the body's internal clock. The shorter days and longer nights disrupt our sleep/wake cycles, and the increased darkness elevates the hormone melatonin, making people more prone to sleep and depression.
SAD is more common among women, between the ages of 15 and 55; in those who have a close relative with SAD; and those who live in areas far from the equator—such as Maine, according to Tricounty Maine's website.
What can be done
The American Psychiatric Association recommends exercise, counseling, light therapy and antidepressants.
For people with mild symptoms, the APA suggests trying to increase outdoor time in the sun to an hour per day. Try a new activity, such as snow shoeing or skiing, as a way to encourage outdoor exercise in winter.
The NIH also recommends getting enough sleep—but not too much, as SAD often encourages oversleeping—and eating healthy foods. Avoiding alcohol is also recommended.
Light therapy, according to the APA, is a common prescription. It is thought to help reset the circadian clock. During light- or phototherapy, patients sit facing a "light box" with a bank of fluorescent bulbs of up to 10,000 lux total intensity for a half hour session during the winter months, preferably in the morning hours. The eyes are kept open, but not directed toward the light itself.
According to the Mayo Clinic website, antidepressants are most effective at treating SAD if treatment begins before the season changes.


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EmPower New York (New York)
Last modified on February 12, 2015.
Financial Incentive Program
| New York
|EmPower New York
|Incentive Type
|State Grant Program
|Applicable Sector
|Low-Income Residential, Multi-Family Residential
|Eligible Technologies
|Building Insulation, Duct/Air sealing, Furnaces, Lighting, Refrigerators, Heath and Safety Measures, Other Cost-Effective Improvements.
|Active Incentive
|Implementing Sector
|Energy Category
|Energy Efficiency Incentive Programs
| No cost for qualified customers
|Funding Source
|Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (EEPS)/Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)
|Installation Requirements
| Services are delivered by Building Performance Institute accredited contractors and participating Weatherization Agencies.
|Program Budget
| EEPS Electric (2012 - 2015): $73.7 million
EEPS Gas (2012 - 2015): $97.9 million
|Program Administrator
|New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
| http://www.nyserda.ny.gov/Energy-Efficiency-and-Renewable-Programs/Residential/Programs/Low-Income-Assistance/EmPower-Overview.aspx
The primary focus of EmPower New York is to provide cost-effective electric reduction measures, such as replacement of refrigerators and installation of high efficiency lighting. This program also offers cost effective home performance measures such as insulation, air sealing and heating system repair or replacement, as well as health and safety measures. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) currently contracts with Honeywell International to implement the EmPower New York Program.
Funding is limited, and services will be targeted to customers on the basis of energy usage and the potential for energy-saving measures. In order to qualify customers must live in a building with 100 or fewer units, and either participate in a low income utility assistance program; are eligible for regular Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) benefits; or have an income at 60% or less of the median income. The program was formerly limited to customers in certain utility service territories, but has been expanded over time with additional funding sources to offer assistance throughout the state for both electric and gas efficiency measures. There is no cost to the customer for these efficiency improvements.
Incentive Contact
|Contact Name
|EmPower New York
|Honeywell International
|P.O. Box 2489
|Syracuse, New York
|Zip/Postal Code
| (800) 263-0960
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Background and activities
Professor at The Regional Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Child Welfare, Central Norway, NTNU.
Research interests:
Early Child Care
Student-Teacher Relationships
Child mental Health
Intervention Research
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2018) Together and alone a study of interactions between toddlers and childcare providers during mealtime in Norwegian childcare centres. Early Child Development and Care. vol. 188 (3).
- (2018) Screening for mental health problems in a Norwegian preschool population. A validation of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire: Social- Emotional (ASQ:SE). Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
- (2017) Elevated cortisol levels in Norwegian toddlers in childcare. Early Child Development and Care.
- (2017) The Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management Programme in Kindergartens: Effects of a Universal Preventive Effort. Journal of Child and Family Studies. vol. 26 (8).
- (2016) Hva betyr gode hverdagssituasjoner i barnehagen for de yngste barna?. Paideia.
- (2016) Does the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management Training programme have positive effects for young children exhibiting severe externalizing problems in school?: A quasi-experimental pre-post study. BMC Psychiatry. vol. 16 (362).
- (2015) Kjønnsforskjeller i skolefaglige prestasjoner - forklaringer i elevenes holdninger til og væremåte i skolen, samt relasjonelle forhold. Paideia.
- (2015) Video feedback compared to treatment as usual in families with parent–child interactions problems: a randomized controlled trial. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health. vol. 9 (3).
- (2014) Comparing two evidence-based parent training interventions for aggressive children. Journal of Children's Services. vol. 9 (4).
- (2013) How are Closeness and Conflict in Student–Teacher Relationships Associated with Demographic Factors, School Functioning and Mental Health in Norwegian Schoolchildren Aged 6–13?. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. vol. 57 (2).
- (2013) Factor Structure of the Student-Teacher Relationship Scale for Norwegian School-age Children Explored with Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. vol. 57 (5).
- (2013) Symptom changes of oppositional defiant disorder after treatment with the Incredible Years Program. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. vol. 67 (2).
- (2013) Association between parental involvement in school and child conduct, social, and internalizing problems: teacher report. Educational Research and Evaluation. vol. 19 (4).
- (2013) Associations between high levels of conduct problems and co-occurring problems among the youngest boys and girls in schools: A cross-sectional study. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. vol. 67 (4).
- (2012) Partnership between parents and caregivers of young children in full-time daycare. Child Care in Practice. vol. 18 (1).
- (2012) Relationships between young children in full-time day care and their caregivers: a qualitative study of parental and caregiver perspectives. Early Child Development and Care. vol. 182 (9).
- (2012) Teacher report of children's problem behavior on the Sutter-Eyberg Student Behavior Inventory-Revised (SESBI-R) in a Norwegian sample of preschool and school children. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. vol. 56 (2).
- (2012) Evidensbasert foreldretrening: Hvordan kan forskning bidra til at flere barn med atferdsvansker får bedre hjelp?. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. vol. 49 (2).
- (2012) International Epidemiology of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology II: Integration and Applications of Dimensional Findings From 44 Societies. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. vol. 51 (12).
- (2012) Age for enrolling in full-time childcare: a qualitative study of parent and caregiver perspectives. Early Child Development and Care. vol. 182 (12).


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Forty-two feet below street level in downtown Fort Worth is a forgotten tunnel.
The passageway once housed a tiny but extremely popular transit system. From 1963 to 2002, the M&O Subway ferried shoppers from a remote parking lot on the north end of downtown to Leonards Department Store and later the Tandy Center mall at RadioShack's headquarters.
But the tunnel has been nearly untouched in the 13 years since the subway was shut down. Today, one entrance is buried under the Tarrant County College Trinity River Campus, and the other end is secured by a padlocked chain-link fence that stretches across an archway in a limited-access high-rise office at 300 Throckmorton St.
"If I was going to shoot horror movies and have zombies, and they were coming out of the center of the Earth, that is exactly the type of scene I imagine they'd be living in down there," said Ryan Johnson, asset manager for Spire Realty Group, which owns the tunnel. "I think even our maintenance people think it's a little bit spooky and creepy, so they try to stay out."
Scary or not, the roughly 1,000-foot tunnel tells an important story — the tale of Fort Worth in the 20th century as it grew from a cattle and railroad town into a modern retail and forward-thinking destination.
With RadioShack now mired in bankruptcy and hot summer weather on the way, the Star-Telegram longed for a chance to visit the cool confines of the old tunnel, to experience the spookiness and perhaps search for artifacts or other memorabilia beneath the slick structures of downtown.
So Johnson agreed to give the newspaper a one-hour tour on a recent morning, with members of the Leonard family tagging along. A few security guards also joined the team of urban explorers to look at the tunnel and help carry enough hand-held lighting to make the visit possible.
Left on its own since Aug. 30, 2002, the tunnel — which runs under Taylor Street — has briefly housed a colony of bats and an occasional cockroach. On its far north end, where the portal was buried by Tarrant County College construction, the tunnel makes a gentle dogleg west and ends with a concrete wall.
There, it is practically absent of light.
Perhaps the most surprising feature is a bizarre and beautiful form of natural art that has taken shape over the years along parts of the tunnel's corrugated metal ceiling and concrete walls and flooring: stalactites and stalagmites, or at least mineral deposits resembling them.
Because the walls have constantly oozed condensation over the years, smooth layers of mineral deposits have gradually been left on them, creating formations that resemble off-white curtains.
For members of the Leonard family, visiting the M&O Subway tunnel was a chance to briefly relive the past — or for those too young to remember the famous department store, at least to get a taste of it.
Leonards was a one-stop shopping destination that stretched across several blocks downtown. In the days before American cities were dotted with Wal-Mart Supercenters and Super Targets, shoppers could go to Leonards for fashion, automotive parts, groceries, toys, farm feed and much more.
The store, which opened in 1918, was sold to Tandy Corp. in 1967. It continued to operate under the Leonards name until being sold to Dillard's in 1974.
Lauren Leonard, 32, is the great-granddaughter of Obie Leonard, one of the famous Leonard brothers who founded the store nearly a century ago. She is now curator of the Leonards Museum at 200 Carroll St. in west Fort Worth, where visitors can check out hundreds of artifacts, newspaper clippings and filmed footage of the store.
For her, the tunnel visit was a chance to walk the rails, which still appear to be in good enough shape to support subway cars. She also got to throw a railroad switch, which was surprisingly well-oiled. An old-fashioned spouted oil can was still perched next to the turnout's gears.
She and a cousin, Marty Leonard, daughter of founder Marvin Leonard, used a permanent marker to sign their names on the concrete wall at the north end of the tunnel.
"Remember the M&O," Marty Leonard wrote, adding her signature and the date.
The Tandy Center was renovated after RadioShack moved its headquarters a few blocks north in 2005. Now, Spire Realty Group is seeking retail and office uses for the City Place development but has no plans for the tunnel, Johnson said.
Lauren Leonard said: "I think I got a little emotional when we reached the very end. I guess it was kind of symbolism — like it's over and it's not going to run anymore."
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"Why incur the expense of generating and collecting all of this IoT data if you're not going to monetize it?"
Organizations are racing to embrace the Internet of Things (IoT) as the pundits create "visions of sugar-plums dancing in their heads." McKinsey Global Institute released their study "The Internet of Things: Mapping the Value beyond the Hype" in June 2015 that highlighted the staggering financial value that IoT could create! (See Figure 1.)
Figure 1: Potential Financial Impact of IoT
The folks at Wikibon provided a perspective on the sources of "IoT monetization" in their recent research titled "Harvesting Value at the Edge" written by the always delightful and provocative Neil Raden. To quote the Wikibon research:
IoT, though a useful application of available technology, and well-defined at the hardware and network levels, the heart of IoT, that part that yields the real value, is edge analytics. Making sense of the sensor data before it comes home. We already know how to stream massive amounts of data into data lakes for later analysis, but analytics at the edge begs a different approach.
I didn't necessarily agree entirely with Neil's assertion that most of the value would be created at the edge. While it's true that there are lots of insights at the edge, especially in enabling a new family of operational use cases, most of the insights at the edge are very tactical.
Just as there is a big difference between data and analytics, there is an even more significant difference between insights and action, which is the difference between having insights versus making insights actionable. Insights without action are…well, why bother. Insights are not valuable until they are delivered to a user that can apply those insights to make better decisions. And for the more operational and strategic use cases, those decisions happen at the core and cloud.
There is even more strategic value as you move further back to the core and cloud (see Figure 2).
Figure 2: N-tiered IoT Analytics Architecture
Note: while there seems to be much industry confusion about terminology concerning the IoT analytic tiers, for purposes of this blog I will be using Edge, Core and Cloud to represent the different tiers. This analytics architecture looks like a Neural Network, especially when one considers that there could be multiple layers at the Core or middle tier.
The analytics being performed at the different IoT tiers include:
- Edge analytics: real-time analytics to monitor device or sensor performance, flag anomalies, and optimize performance of the individual device or sensor. Analytics performed at the edge are event driven, reactive model execution (not model development) with real-time data compression and decision-making
- Core analytics: distributed, near-time analytics to optimize performance and utilization of cluster of devices or sensors that comprise a larger community such as a wind farm, building, airplane or oil drilling platform. Analytics performed at the core are localized predictions to drive near-time decisions that optimize group performance and yield using data from the clusters of neighboring devices or sensors.
- Cloud analytics: centralized analytics to optimize more strategic business and operational use cases across all tiers. Cloud analytics create predictive and prescriptive analytic models to support more strategic use cases such as demand planning, capacity planning, predictive maintenance, pricing, asset usage optimization and new product introductions. Analytics performed at the cloud process data from all devices plus integrate external data sources to facilitate analytic model development, refinement and continuous learning.
Adding decision latency – where decision latency is the amount of time required to process the data and take action – across the tiers helps clarify the optimal location of the IoT operational and business use cases. Figure 3 shows sample use cases (and typical data sources) at each of the analytic tiers mapped against the latency of decisions necessary to support those use cases.
Figure 3: IoT Use Cases and Data Sources
Combining the use cases with decision latency guides us in determining what data we are going to need, the latency of those data sources, and what sorts of predictive and prescriptive analytics we are going to need at the different tiers across the IoT analytics architecture.
Creating an IoT Monetization Roadmap
Ultimately, the goal of any IoT initiative should be to couple these new sources of IoT data with advanced analytics to power the business. We can use the Big Data Business Model Maturity Index as a guide to help us to create an IoT Data Monetization Roadmap (see Figure 4).
Figure 4: IoT Monetization Roadmap
For example in the Utilities industry, we can then map the top priority IoT operational and business use cases against the Big Data Business Model Maturity Index to create a use case roadmap that drives the IoT Monetization efforts (see Figure 5).
Figure 5: Utilities IoT Monetization Roadmap
See the blog "Difference between Big Data and Internet of Things" for more details about the unique data and analytic requirements necessary to exploit the IoT monetization opportunities.
Creating an IoT Monetization roadmap should be the top priority for any IoT initiative. Take the time to identify, validate and prioritize those use cases with the key business stakeholders and constituents to ensure that you are focused on the right use cases in the right order. There is no value in generating and collecting the data if you don't have a plan for how to monetize that data.
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People sacrifice time and money to raise their children. They also help their nieces, nephews, brothers and sisters, though to a less extent.
Sometimes people help friends, but strangers are pretty much out of luck. Compared by degree to what people do for their offspring, their help toward strangers is nominal.
"Blood really is thicker than water," Professor Martin Daly said.
Diminished affection toward people outside one's family tree was the provocative theme of Daly's talk March 16 at MU's three-day Life Sciences & Society Symposium. This year's symposium examined kinship and its connection to evolutionary biology and psychology.
In his talk, Daly argued that the "favoritism" Homo sapiens show toward kin has evolutionary roots.
Daly joined the MU anthropology department last November after retiring in 2011 as professor emeritus of psychology, neuroscience and behavior at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. As a distinguished research professor, he teaches one course a year, advises students and performs research. In 1998, Daly was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
With the recent hiring of him and Napoleon A. Chagnon, an anthropologist famous for his research of the Amazon tribe the Yanomamö, the department is poised to be a leader in evolutionary anthropology.
"The quality of MU's faculty is reaching new levels, and that is translating into attracting even more top scientists to our campus," Provost Brian Foster said. "Through these new faculty, our students will be exposed to some of the world's greatest minds."
Daly said he was drawn to MU because of the department's emphasis not only in cultural anthropology, but also behavioral endocrinology (the study of hormones), developmental psychology and evolutionary theory. He's currently researching the link between economic inequality and homicide rates.
The Canadian has been a leader in evolutionary psychology for decades, with a particular interest in kinship studies. His 1988 book, Homicide, written with his late wife, Margo Wilson, debunked the notion that people are more likely to kill relatives than strangers. Another well-received work by the writing team was The Truth About Cinderella: A Darwinian View of Parental Love, published in 1998.
Known as the Cinderella Effect, the idea is that parents are at risk to showing bias against stepchildren, probably, Daly said, because they are not the children's biological parents. "In a stepfather household, kids are far less able to get economic support for college," Daly told an audience of scholars, students and the curious in Jesse Auditorium. "In a stepmother household, less money is spent on them, such as for dental care."
But it gets worse. Stepchildren from birth to age 5 are at risk of being killed by their stepparents. In the national homicides archive in Canada from 1974 to 1990, stepfathers killed children in this age group at a per capita rate that's 120 times higher than those killed by biological fathers.
Sitting in his office in Swallow Hall, his feet propped on a chair, Daly said there's utility to his research. "I lean toward the view, which is possibly naïve, that getting better information about anything that is a social problem improves the likelihood something can be done with it to help people."
Daly embraces the late evolutionary biologist W.D. Hamilton's inclusive fitness theory, formulated in 1964. In Darwinian thought, an organism's fitness is how many offspring it creates through mating. Expanding on this, Hamilton showed mathematically that an organism preserves its genes for the next generation through kin relations.
For example, a brother and sister share half their genes, and if the sister has a baby, the brother indirectly accomplishes Darwin's imperative.
Gene sharing creates favoritism; the brother might help his sister secure a well-paying job, or contribute to the child's college fund. Chances are the brother won't do either for a friend or stranger, though there are exceptions.
The brother is unconscious of his primordial motivations, Daly said.
"A huge bit of our stream of consciousness between our ears is that business of building a coherent narrative of who we are and what we are up to for our public consumption and private consumption," he said.
OK, so blood relations rule for Homo sapiens. But what about friends? A lot of people are emotionally closer to friends than family.
Some scientists argue that friendship is a holdover of tribalism, where alliances outside kinship offered benefit to the tribe, such as bolstering a hunting party or reciprocating favors.
Daly did not disagree, but he brought up a recent study by a McMaster University postdoc. In the study, participants were offered a choice: $75 for you and $75 for your friend, or $105 for you. Most participants took the $105. But when the potential benefactor was a sibling, participants liked to split the $75. This was the case even when the participants said they were closer and spent more time with friends than with family.
"Friendship can be extremely close, but it can also be disrupted," Daly said. "You have really close friendships, and then you move apart and it goes away. But you can't get rid of your bloody relatives."


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I had to roll on my side and catch my breath. It was raining tuna. What a weird, wild, and wonderful thing.
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Importance: Although some swimmers might have abandoned their workout routine with the interruption first by the anchovy, then the grunion and finally the falling tuna, Cox did not. She considered the experience to be a thing of wonder.
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Visitors to Cumbria in 2017
Tourism Intelligence
Understanding our visitors, why they visit and what they do helps us to develop and promote one of Britain's truly world-class destinations.
Understanding our tourism businesses, what they are offering and how business is going in this highly competitive environment helps us provide the appropriate support.
Research is key in achieving a continuously improving tourism destination that enhances the visitor experience and keeps people coming back again and again. An evidence-based approach is used to inform tourism management, development and marketing to help maximise resources. The research department delivers core activity to provide tourism organisations, businesses, and other partners with vital market intelligence and up-to-date analysis of business performance and economic impact.
Research for the Sector
Regular research undertaken by our research team includes:
- Monthly occupancy surveys with all types of accommodation providers, over 300 participants.
- Countywide visitor surveys, 2015 survey the most recent.
- Data collection from Tourist Information Centres and visitor attractions.
- Annual tourism economic impact assessment.
- Regular analysis of accommodation stock composition.
- Tourism Business Performance Surveys every six months.
- Biannual Tourism Research Newsletter.
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- Visits to Visitor Attractions 2017
- Cumbria Tourism Accommodation Occupancy 2017/18
- Comment: 2018 and Beyond
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KQED 9: Thursday, June 13, 2013
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Schedule is subject to change. Please visit kqed.org/tv/schedules/daily for the most up-to-date info.
12:00 amCharlie Rose [#19123H] (original broadcast date: 6/12/13)
Fashion designer John Galliano's first television interview since his 2010 hate speech incident at a Parisian bar. duration 56:46 STEREO TVRE
1:00 amNightly Business Report [#32136Z] Tonight on Nightly Business Report, are the world's biggest economics undergoing a major shift that could impact your investments? NBR will look at everything from stocks to bonds and commodities. And, are the cards stacked against the little guy? We'll tell you why some traders have access to a closely watched, market moving consumer confidence number before it's released to the public and individual investors. duration 26:46 STEREO TVRE
1:30 amIl Volo We Are Love The three, young Italian tenors, Piero Barone (19), Ignazio Boschetto (18) and Gianluca Ginoble (17) of Il Volo proved to win the hearts of PBS viewers nationwide with broadcasts of their special from the Detroit Opera House, "Il Volo Takes Flight." Now, they return with their second special, "Il Volo We Are Love," at The Fillmore Theatre in Miami, Florida.
Aside from providing a stunning vocal framework, "We Are Love," by songwriter/producer Mark Portmann (Celine Dion, Josh Groban) and Latin Grammy winner Edgar Cortazar, also allows Il Volo to show off their multilingual prowess, as they sing it in English, Spanish, French and Italian. Il Volo and album producer, Humberto Gatica again turned to Diane Warren for the album's lead track "Questo Amore." Besides being the perfect vocal opener it's a fresh Italian take on Warren's huge hit for Aerosmith, "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing". Warren also supplied the exquisitely sensitive English song "I Bring You To My Senses." The special also features a film song in "Historia De Un Amor," by Panamanian songwriter Carlos Eleta Almaran. A choice of many international artists including Nana Mouskouri and Cesaria Evora, it appeared in the 1956 Mexican movie of the same name. duration 1:29:50 STEREO TVG
3:00 amJoe Bonamassa: An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House On July 3, 2012, Joe Bonamassa brought a very special and exclusive acoustic presentation to the Vienna Opera House, a sublime cultural iconic venue steeped in history and heritage, and the perfect backdrop for such a dramatic and original music presentation. Supporting Joe on his vintage acoustic instruments, an eclectic assortment of craftsmen of disparate World flavors, provided by top artists from around the globe, including: music historian and traditional Irish fiddler Gerry O'Connor; Swedish multi-instrumentalist Mats Wester playing the Nyckelharpa; Los Angeles Keyboard maestro Arlan Schierbaum; and legendary Puerto Rican percussionist Lenny Castro. duration 1:29:18 STEREO TVG
4:30 amProtect Your Memory with Dr. Neal Barnard Nothing is more important than your health, family and loved ones. Your connections with other people, entire relationships, and everything your loved ones have ever meant to you could be entirely wiped out, if you run the risk of memory loss, dementia or Alzheimer's disease, based on family history and lifestyle.
In this program, Dr. Neal Barnard proves with groundbreaking research that there is in fact, lots you can do to protect your brain and memory! He dives into 3 simple steps you can take to derail the degenerative processes that could otherwise derail you and your memory: Skip "bad fat," Knock out free radicals, Exercise your brain. Dr. Barnard also warns against potential threats to the brain, including medications, drug interactions, sleep deprivation and physical conditions that can put your memory at risk.
While research has led to clear answers about how to prevent lung cancer and reduce heart attacks, most people have absolutely no idea that it is possible to protect their memory, brain and connections with loved ones. Dr. Barnard provides viewers with the researched-backed information, giving them the power to protect their memory, beyond simply "waiting and seeing." duration 1:26:57 STEREO TVG
6:00 amRaggs [#141] Manners The dogs help teach Raggs and his teddy bear how to have good manners at their Teddy Bear Picnic. At their Fancy Dress Party, the dogs help teach Rude Pirate Razzles that it is important to be polite, have good manners and follow the rules when you play together. duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
6:30 amCat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! [#108H] Rain Game/No Sssweater Is Better * Rain Game - Sally wants to water the plants in her backyard, but it's hot and sunny outside. They need rain, and lots of it! Good thing the Cat in the Hat knows exactly where to go to get some: the rain forest! With the assistance of some toucans and the singing of howler monkeys, they explore each level of the rain forest, eventually reaching the top and the rain!
* No SSSweater is Better - Nick's favorite sweater is too small and he doesn't want to change it. The Cat in the Hat has a friend with the exact same problem! He brings them to meet Slyde the snake who shows Nick and Sally how he sheds his skin when it gets too small for him. duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
7:00 amDaniel Tiger's Neighborhood [#114H] Thank You, Grandpere Tiger!/Neighborhood Thank You Day * Thank You, Grandpere Tiger! - Grandpere Tiger comes to visit, but is only in town for a short while. Daniel is sad that Grandpere can't come to the special Thank You Day celebration later that day. Daniel learns to be thankful for the time they DO have together, and is then surprised when Grandpere appears at the celebration after all!
* Neighborhood Thank You Day - The neighborhood celebrates Thank You Day by putting notes in the Thank You Tree. Daniel has trouble deciding what to put in his note. Then, when a gust of wind blows the notes off of the tree, Mr. McFeely saves the day by catching and delivering everybody's thank you notes! duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
7:30 amCaillou [#502] Can Do Caillou Caillou Roller Skates: Caillou wants to learn how to roller skate... until he realizes roller skating is very difficult. With a little help and guidance from his pre-teen friend, Daniel, Caillou decides to keep practicing, so his skills will improve - just like Daniel's did! Educational Objective: Perseverance; the importance of practicing skills in order to improve. Say Lettuce!: Caillou wants to take a picture of a bunny rabbit in Grandma's garden, but it proves a harder task then he originally thought. With a little perseverance (and a little lettuce from the garden) he finally sees the task through to the end - and gets a photo he's proud of! Educational Objective: Perseverance. ' Caillou Tries to Whistle: Clementine can whistle, and Caillou can't! Caillou tries his best to learn and practices every where he goes... but he just can't seem to get the hang of it and this embarrasses him. Mommy and Daddy reassure him this skill will come with time, but Caillou feels much better when he realizes there are things he can do that Clementine can't do - like wiggling his ears! Educational Objective: It's okay to admit you can't do something. duration 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
8:00 amCurious George [#206] All-New Hundley/Signs Up * All-New Hundley: Although they are friends, George and Hundley are quite different. George loves nothing better than bounding about and exploring new things, while Hundley loves to guard his lobby and maintain order. So on one morning George is very surprised to find Hundley bouncing, running and playing all around the apartment building. And when this "new fun" Hundley makes a total mess of his beloved lobby, George knows that all is not what it seems. But how can he prove it? Using his camera and his sharp investigative skills, George sets out to solve the mystery. Has George's proud friend changed personalities - or could there be a look-a-like Hundley on the premises?
* Signs Up: Deciding that a collection of signs would make a cool display for his room, George sets out to gather them from all around town. But when people start losing their way and go in the wrong directions, George realizes how important signs are and starts putting them back - but not quite in their proper places. As a result, things get even more chaotic. Can George figure out where the signs are supposed to go so that the picnickers stop eating in the bears' den and the bicyclists don't run over the ducks in the animal crossing?


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Things that will probably happen to Yum in the future
This is a rough list of the significant features that are "planned" for yum, this means that we are planning on these being done (but they aren't done yet, so buyer beware :). We've tried to put them into two groups of difficulty but this is based on how much time it'll take to implement that particular feature.
2011 Goals
- Adding a "simple" C-API to allow you to install/update/remove/query yum. Simple in this sense is "coverage", as in you should be able to do "simple" things.
- General maintainance, this includes all the smaller projects that don't make this list and bug fixes etc.
- Weak dependencies (in repo. metadata). There are multiple parts to this, and some of it requires distro. rel-eng work. This is just for the yum parts (so it might not actually be usable anyway :).
- Saving a bunch more data in history:
- A lot of the rpmdb/yumdb data, this will almost certainly hang off of pkgtup+checksum
- Possible we'll save some updateinfo, Eg. CVEs/BZs/security.
- Merged updateinfo, and probably creating some core updateinfo API.
- Better support for simple/"blocked" transactions:
- Improve load-ts to make it fail if the end rpmdb is different (much more assurance that everything is identical to a test run).
- Something like the "updater" plugin (http://james.fedorapeople.org/yum/plugins/updater.py), or yum-safe-update (https://github.com/timlau/YumTools/blob/master/yum-safe-update/yum-safe-update.py).
Longer term. Goals
These are the things people might want us to do for 2011, but are not guaranteed to happen. Some _might_, some are much more unlikely to happen due to time/etc. If you want to see something move from here to the above list, you probably need to speak to someone with the power to make it happen (or do it, and provide us patches :).
- Revamp downloading, again.
- Parallel Downloading.
- Background downloading.
- External calls for downloads (isolating the install code from the download code etc.).
- Event notification/querying (traps/events/querying). This might be only MEDIUM, depending on the required features.
- Repo. metadata overhaul:
- Repo. metadata deltas.
- Repo. metadata format change (should get it smaller/less to download).
- Repo. detached x509 sigs for pkg signatures, and repomd.xml. This requires significant work in non-yum parts (Eg. distro. rel-eng).
- Replacing the depsolver.
- Revamp downloading, again.
- Make the user feel the impact of the yum/transaction lock less often, and the user/root split (some of this is tied with background downloads etc.).
- Allow plugins to provide "library" like functions.
- Repo. metadata "xz" compression. Possible to switch to XML metadata, for download efficiency.
- Python 3 support.
- Documentation of at least our public interfaces. This isn't really hard, but to do fullish coverage it would be time consuming.
- Storage for "verify", so you can "store" config. changes etc. (see the puppet usage etc.)
- Installed groups ... groups as objects / whatever.
- Show in list_trans/history any pkgtups we didn't find from load-ts/undo/rollback. Maybe add excludes too.


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Columbia, Maryland (PRWEB) October 09, 2013
Advantage Engineers, a leading provider of specialized engineering services, announced that Marshall Knight has joined the firm as the Director of Telecommunications. Marshall will focus on developing, building and optimizing the Telecommunications team, and ensuring operational excellence across the division. Marshall will also utilize his vast background in Site Development to help grow Advantage's real estate offerings. Marshall will report to John McGrath, Chief Operating Officer.
"I am absolutely thrilled to step in to this new role at Advantage. As a leading Engineering, Environmental and Geotechnical firm, Advantage has enormous potential for growth, and I look forward to leveraging my almost 15 years of wireless telecom experience to help grow the Telecommunications Division; ultimately helping Advantage fulfill its mission of becoming the preferred provider of specialty engineering services, while maintaining the highest level of customer satisfaction," commented Marshall Knight.
Prior to stepping into his role with Advantage, Marshall served as COO & General Counsel for Site Link Wireless and Site Link Construction. For over 9 years, he was responsible for leading the overall strategy and operational execution for both Site Link companies. Marshall provided conceptual direction and daily operational management, and was also responsible for all corporate legal matters including contract negotiation and corporate compliance. With experience in Site Acquisition and Land Use, Marshall has managed numerous projects with all of the largest wireless carriers throughout the United States. Prior to joining Site Link in 2004, Marshall was an associate with the law firm of Stephen E. Garner, P.C. Marshall earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehouse College and received his Juris Doctor from The George Washington University Law School. Marshall holds licenses to practice law in the states of Maryland and Texas.
Company COO, John McGrath, commented, "We are very fortunate to have someone of Marshall's experience and caliber join the Advantage Engineers team. Marshall brings expertise and ideas that will strengthen our management team, expand our service offering, and help us achieve our growth objectives in the coming years."
Advantage Engineers Telecommunications Division provides expert consulting and engineering services to design, procure, and deploy communications networks for commercial and government clients. Employing over 140 engineers, project managers, technicians, and scientists, Advantage provides network development services that include program planning, network assessments, engineering, real estate, regulatory support, and project and construction management.
Recognized nationally as one of the 100 fastest growing engineering firms (Zweig Letter 2013 Hot Firm), and as a Top Telecom Firm (ENR 2013 Top 500), Advantage Engineers provides innovative solutions for complex telecommunications, environmental, and geotechnical engineering challenges. From five offices in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey, the firm provides services to government agencies and private clients throughout the region. More information is available at http://www.advantageengineers.com.


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Chris Ellis, a reserve defensive end for the Bills, will miss Sunday's game at Miami because of a family emergency the team announced Saturday.
Buffalo provided no further details on Ellis' situation.
He is now the seventh Buffalo player ruled out of this week's game joining tackle Demetrius Bell, DT John McCargo, corner Leodis McKelvin (who was placed on IR this week), LB Paul Posluszny and safeties Bryan Scott and Donte Whitner. Tight end Shawn Nelson and DT Kyle Williams are probable.
So a tough season for the
0-3 1-2 (oops, it just feels like 0-3) Bills just keeps getting tougher.