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Q: Method which returns all children of firebase node as Map Android I am trying to write a method which returns a map that should contain all children of a node in Firebase, but since I have to use callbacks the method returns an empty map.
public Map<Date, String> getChildrenAsMap(String nodeId) {
    DatabaseReference refernce= dbRoot.child("childName").child(nodeId);
    final Map<Date, String> childMap = new HashMap<>();

    refernce.addListenerForSingleValueEvent(new ValueEventListener() {
        @Override
        public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {

            Map<Date, String> data = (Map<Date, String>) dataSnapshot.getValue();

            for (Map.Entry<Date, String> entry : data.entrySet()) {
                childMap .put(entry.getKey(), (String) entry.getValue());
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void onCancelled(DatabaseError databaseError) {
            Log.w("TAG", "onCancelled", databaseError.toException());
        }
    });
    return childMap;
}

A: This happens because Firebase queries happen asynchronous and the listener gets called after you returned your map. To keep it simple: You cannot make an asynchronous method like this because the ValueEventListener already is an interface that does exactly this. If you wanted a method like this to work you'd need to create a class that handles it for you, but this is no need because you have everything you want provided by Firebase for Android:
DatabaseReference refernce= dbRoot.child("childName").child(nodeId);

deviceHistory.addListenerForSingleValueEvent(new ValueEventListener() {
    @Override
    public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
        Map<Date, String> childMap = new HashMap<>();

        Map<Date, String> data = (Map<Date, String>) dataSnapshot.getValue();

        for (Map.Entry<Date, String> entry : data.entrySet()) {
            childMap.put(entry.getKey(), (String) entry.getValue());
        }

        // handle your childMap modifications in here, this gets executed after the value is retrieved
    }

    @Override
    public void onCancelled(DatabaseError databaseError) {
        Log.w("TAG", "onCancelled", databaseError.toException());
    }
});

I wrote another similar annotation (although for Swift, but that is not the relevant point) here. You will just have to write your logic into the ValueEventListener everytime you want to use it. It already is a method, so you do not need to create a new one.


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"The government is rapidly leaning into the lessons it learned from the SARS outbreak of 2002-2004, and which proved highly effective during the COVID-19 pandemic."
Dr. Michael Gates, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2025, raises with his supervisor the idea of function research on influenza viruses but to no avail. He thinks the threat these now pose will be worse than COVID-19. Across town, FBI and Secret Service agents discuss social credit scores and conspiracy theories. Gates calls the Chinese ambassador who funds the research.
Flashing forward to the Secret Bioresearch Lab at a naval base in China, Dr. Johnson, a top American researcher sent to work with the lab, observes the Chinese steal a dangerous sample and is arrested during a call. Desperately realizing what the Chinese stole "could make COVID-19 look like a minor annoyance," Gates informs the president of what he suspects from his truncated call with Johnson. Agents appear at Gates' door, and he discovers he is being investigated for subversive activities by Homeland Security. An agent is run over and killed as he pursues the matter. A second agent narrowly avoids kidnapping by giving a black ops group the slip. She is led to a clandestine group for answers, and the plot thickens.
Stock deftly weaves in references to popular culture, such as the movie The Manchurian Candidate, 1984, and Vonnegut's Welcome to the Monkey House. All have been banned, but each obliquely refers to present conditions. The book could be macabre, but humor prevails. For example, the underground resistance hub to which the escaped agent seeking answers retreats is called The Dark Side. "On the Dark Side" plays as she walks in, and she is greeted with "Welcome to the Dark Side" after an elaborate special coded knock. Fans of thrillers dealing with global threats that could prove all too real may wish to read this book.
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Home Politics and government Protest and reform The 1913 Great Strike
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The Great Strike of 1913 was in fact a series of strikes between mid-October 1913 and mid-January 1914. It was one of New Zealand's most violent and disruptive industrial confrontations. Between 14,000 and 16,000 workers went on strike, out of a population of just over one million.
The strike wave of October 1913 began with two relatively small disputes: one at a Huntly coal mine, the other on the Wellington waterfront. The key issue of the Great Strike was a power struggle of militant unionists against organised employers and farmers, backed by the government. Most of the striking unions were affiliated to the United Federation of Labour, the 'Red Feds'. They had withdrawn from the country's arbitration system in favour of direct negotiations with employers, during which they had the right to strike.
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The strikers were opposed by the New Zealand Employers' Federation and the Farmers' Union. Farmers and rural labourers formed the core of the mounted special constables, who were known derisively as 'Massey's Cossacks'. The specials were sent into the main urban centres to open up the wharves. Prime Minister William Massey's Reform Party government gave full state backing to defeating the striking unions.
The strike began with watersiders' and miners' unions. They were later joined by seamen, drivers and builders' labourers.
The strike affected most port towns and coal-mining settlements. Generally the 'moderate' unions – those still participating in the arbitration system – refused to join the strike. In Auckland, however, there was a general strike from 8 to 22 November, involving arbitrationist as well as Red Fed unions.
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Sir Tom Jones sings in the New Year with Blue Moon ahead of The Voice UK return – WATCH
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Tom Jones discusses receiving his coronavirus vaccine
Sir Tom Jones turned 80-years-old this year as his birthday tour was sadly postponed due to the pandemic. Nevertheless, the singer has kept positive and most recently performed for Jools Holland's Annual Hootenanny on New Year's Eve. And in the last 24 hours, he's posted a clip of his performance of Blue Moon with Celeste for fans to enjoy.
Sir Tom wrote on Instagram: "The moon was blue last night with the boogie-woogie of Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra and the magical Celeste. Happy new year to you all x." Fans can watch the full New Year's Eve show on BBC iPlayer.
Meanwhile, tonight sees the return of The Voice UK with Sir Tom once again joining the judges.
The 80-year-old posted a picture of himself with lightning coming out of his left hand.
He wrote: "Tis the season to hit some buttons! The Voice UK returns tonight 8.30pm ITV."
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Meanwhile, Sir Tom has posted his Spotify for Artists stats for 2020 and was very pleased to see that his extensive back catalogue has been streamed millions of times.
In total, Sir Tom was streamed on Spotify 88.7 million times last year, for 3.9 million hours.
This was made possible by 14.1 million listeners from 92 countries around the world.
The 80-year-old thanked his fans in December and said he was excited for what 2021 will bring.
Sir Tom wrote: "Music has been there for us all this year!
"It has brought great comfort to me, so it humbling to see so many of you have continued to listen to my tunes throughout 2020, so thank you. Here's to lots of exciting things to come in 2021!"
The Welsh singer's postponed UK and European tour will now kick off in Germany from May 19, 2021.
Sir Tom will mainly tour the UK in June, with a few more dates set for July and August.
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"God has been good to me and my voice is still there. So as long as it's there I wanna get up… singing live to people is the thing."
At the time of his birthday on June 7, the star posted on Instagram: "Wow 80 years young today! It's a great feeling to hit this milestone.
"I've been blessed with so many extraordinary experiences and have had the privilege of meeting and working with outstanding, talented and inspiring people across many generations. It's amazing when I think about it!"
Sir Tom added: "To have a life in music, along with love, family, friends, and the most loyal fans throughout the years – who have allowed me to continue to record and tour the world for over fifty years, is truly an honour.
"Seeing and reading your goodwill birthday messages today especially during the lockdown, have really lifted my spirits and I am really looking forward to the future.
"Getting back out on tour and releasing new music, when the time is right. We will celebrate again."
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Binge Club: Five reasons why you should watch The Magicians S1
News posted 09:15am on Fri Jan 6, 2017
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"THE MAGICIANS IS Syfy's best show in years," say the critics.
And we have to agree.
The debut season of this "Harry Potter for adults" has cast a spell on audiences everywhere.
Now we can't wait for the magic to happen again during the season two premiere on January 28 on Syfy.
But just in case you're coming in fresh to one of the true sleeper hits of 2016, Syfy will be running a back-to-back marathon of season one on January 26 from 6am.
We almost envy your upcoming magical bingefest: which is why we're making S1 our latest episode of Binge Club.
Before you enter the next semester of Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, join us as we swot up on this amazing world and its enchanted people.
What is The Magicians about?
Based on the fantasy novels of Lev Grossman, The Magicians stars Jason Ralph as Quentin Coldwater, a troubled, brilliant young man obsessed with a series of books called Fillory And Further, which tell the tale of a mythical magical land called Fillory.
Yet upon graduation from high school he is amazed to learn that magic is real – and he is accepted as a student into New York's secret Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy.
There he meets the gifted but shy Alice Quinn (Olivia Taylor Dudley), who is searching for the truth about her brother; hard-partying older student Eliot Waugh (Hale Appleman) and his too-cool-for-school bestie Margo (Summer Bishil); the talented but brusque mind-reading "Traveller" Penny (Arjun Gupta); and Penny's girlfriend Kady (Jade Tailor).
Two more facts complicate Quentin's studies: the knowledge that Fillory is also real and also in danger: and the presence of a magician known as The Beast, who is preying on Brakebills and its inhabitants.
Meanwhile, Quentin's best friend Julia (Stella Maeve), rejected from Brakebills despite possessing innate magical ability, explores Brooklyn's underground Hedge Witch scene.
Five reasons why you should watch The Magicians S1
We love the main character
Getting the central character right is Priority No.1 for any new show.
And we're loving what Jason Ralph brings to role as Quentin.
If he pushed the nerd-o-meter too far to the left we wouldn't sympathise with a bookish loner with a passion for the Narnia-esque land of Fillory.
Bring him too much out of his shell and we wouldn't relate to his coming-of-age journey and his struggle for happiness.
As it is, he plays it just right.
It's fun
Imagine if Ron, Hermoine and Harry had graduated from Hogwarts and, done with all the business with Voldermort, were young adults ready to let their hair down.
From wild parties and random hook-ups to booty calls and even true love, it's all here at Brakebills.
Plus we love the sense of humour, particularly the droll one-liners delivered by Eliot.
It's relatable
We love that the magic our heroes cast looks great on screen. From The Flash to Game Of Thrones, we now live in a world where technology is sufficiently advanced to give our favourite visual feasts the special effects they deserve.
But it's the down-to earth human stakes at the heart of The Magicians that keep us glued to the screen.
It's a fantasy world, but it grapples with real-life issues such as a young person's quest to find a place in the world; what they believe in; and who they want beside them on that journey, whether it's studying for exams or travelling to the fantasy world of Fillory.
It's based on great books
This is one page-to-premiere you shouldn't miss.
One of the main reasons Game Of Thrones is so fantastic is that it's based on George R.R. Martin's fabulous books, complete with amazing characters, fantastic dialogue and a deep, fully realized world.
The Magicians is based on three best-selling, critically acclaimed novels: The Magicians, The Magician King and The Magician's Land.
We've read them and we love them. But if you're into Ned Stark-style surprises, best read them after you've seen all the seasons.
It gets the seal of approval from the master himself
"The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea … Hogwarts was never like this," wrote George R.R. Martin.
Season 1 of The Magicians runs back-to-back on Syfy on January 26 from 6am EDT. S2 premieres on Syfy on January 28 at 8.30pm EDT.
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Daily Recap: 5/4/2014: Cardinals 5, Cubs 4
The Chicago Cubs have not swept the St. Lohis Cardinals since April 7-9, 2006. Yadier Molina had other plans. Jason Hammel faced off against Lance Lynn on Sunday Night Baseball from Wrigley Field, as the Cardinals were able to prevail in game three of this three game set.
The Cubs had to rally to get back into the game. Down 3-0 after three innings, Jason Hammel helped his own cause in the fourth with a two run single, scoring Ryan Kalish and John Baker. Four innings later, in the seventh, the Cubs continued their comeback, as Luis Valbuena scored on Carlos Martinez's wild pitch. But then Yadier Molina singled in the top of the ninth, scoring Randal Grichuk and Mark Ellis, and lifting the Cardinals to a 5-3 lead. Trevor Rosenthal shut the door, but not after the Cubs scored once more.
Mark Ellis had three hits for the Cardinals. Lance Lynn pitched six innings and allowed two runs on three hits. He struck out five and walked four. Luis Valbuena led the Cubs with two hits. Jason Hammel drove in two runs, and pitched six innings of three run ball. He allowed seven hits, struck out five, and walked two.
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Lil Jon is an American rapper, actor, DJ, and a record producer. The rapper is very enthusiastic, loud-mouthed, and regularly adorned with a bejewelled pimp chalice at hand. He is known for his hip-hop style called "crunk".
Lil Jon was born on 17 Jan 1971 in Atlanta, the US as Jonathan Smith. He was raised by a middle-class working family. While in Frederick Douglass High School in Atlanta, he met his lifelong friend Robert McDowell, Dwayne Searcy and Vince Philips. Lil Jon started learning 'DJing' at the age of 15. He was the popular kid in the neighbourhood.
Jon started working as a DJ at various Atlanta nights. Then he worked at a record label from 93 to 2000. Later he formed the group "Lil Jon & The East Side Boys", in the mid-90s. The group released many hits such as Get Crunk, Who U Wit: Da Album (1997), Put Yo Hood Up (2001), We Still Crunk!! (2000), Crunk Juice (2004), and Kings of Crunk (2002).
After the band was broken, he started his solo career and collaborated with many rappers such as LMFAO, Soulja Boy, R. Kelly. His biggest solo hit is Crunk Rock (2010). He is also won a "Grammy" and MTV Video Music award. He also has stars and cameo in many TV shows and movies such as "Scary movie: 4", "Chappelle's Show", "Celebrity Apprentice", and "The Jenny McCarthy Show".
Lil Jon has been with quite a lot of movies, and the rumour says he was in a serious relationship with American actress Julianna Rose Mauriello. However, they didn't date for long. Then he finally married Nicole Smith in 2005, and they had a son named Nathan Smith. They are going strong still together.
Lil Jon's Net Worth
Lil Jon has a very illustrated music career and has hit with Usher, Snoop Dog, etc. He is regularly featured in the US Billboard top 100. His net worth is estimated by some to be somewhere around $30 Million.
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Your body routinely produces 200 billion red blood cells every day, yet you could spend years at a lab bench attempting to artificially synthesize all of the raw materials that those cells are made of. Your cells manage to do that - and to assemble new cells out of those raw materials - with relative ease. Synthetic biology aims to design and construct biological systems to make valuable products or perform constructive tasks. The tremendous diversity in the natural world provides us with a versatile and complex set of biological tools. We'll discuss how synthetic biologists apply and hone these tools, and to what ends.
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With no public announcement, the Bush administration has given the go-ahead to two new natural gas wells in the Padre Island National Seashore, which boasts the nation's longest stretch of undeveloped beach and 11 endangered species. Oil and gas drilling have occurred in the Texas park before, but the rate of drilling dropped sharply in the last 20 years. Environmentalists say the new wells will further threaten the world's smallest and most endangered sea turtle, the Kemp's ridley, which uses Padre Island as its principal nesting ground in the U.S. To build the new well, heavy trucks will now drive about 20 times a day over nesting grounds. The Sierra Club said it would sue to stop the drilling.
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It is very important, probably the most important thing before getting a haircut for the first time, to dress and look the way you want to be on that special occasion when you take your new look.
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Communication is the key, not only when he meets her stylist, but every time he goes to the hairdresser for a new haircut or a color job. We recommend you take a picture with him, even if you just want a little change, because wanting to be blonde can mean many different things.
Remember not to take criticism to heart. Did Liv Taylor would put the lock or Salma Hayek Paris Hilton platinum? May need a professional eye to see that something does not work for you Your stylist may have suggestions on what haircut can complement your face or what color your tone can accommodate up, without leaving much of the appearance you want.
If you ask most hairdressers where they come from communication problems, most would say that the distractions. Cell phones and things of that nature are usually the problem. It is quite difficult to communicate with someone when they're on the phone. This is a good time to leave and work stress aside.
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Sometimes things do not go exactly as planned. Stay calm. Most times the hair color just need to adjust the tone or a small settlement. If you choose not to continue with the hairdresser, talk to the manager so that you find someone more comfortable. If they can not do that, is in the wrong hairdresser.


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But the restaurants… oh, how I miss the restaurants. Not necessarily the fancier, upscale restaurants either – we have our share of those within driving distance of me now, including the world famous Eigensinn Farm, and the less famous but still fun Ted's Diner . No, what I miss are the ethnic foods.
Chinese (real Chinese, mind you – not that sugary crap that passes as Chinese food in the rest of the world). Thai. Middle Eastern. Vegetarian East Indian. Halal East Indian. West Indian. Caribbean. Ethiopian.
I just spend three days back in Toronto, and within four blocks of my hotel I was able to eat Dim Sum, middle eastern, superb Thai, mouth meltingly hot Jerk Chicken, Korean subs, Japanese and Chinese BBQ. Never once did I spend more than $15 on a meal. Usually, I spend less than $10.
French Bulldogs are sort of like these restaurants (even if this might initially seem like the world's most labored analogy).
Not for us the subtle nuances of Golden Retriever coat colors – shades and shadings of Gold, hotly contested by breeders and aficionados, to be sure, but still virtually indistinguishable to the casual observer. Not for us the slight choice between Chocolate and Black of the Labrador.
No, Frenchies come in a feast of spicy flavors. Brick red fawns, with sharply marked masks that make their expressions seem fierce. Sweet creams, with limpid eyes and appearances of softness. Deep brindles, from jet black to vividly striped layers of orange and black. Silvery fawns with pale masks. Pieds, in all colors and with markings from heavy to barely freckled. Even the forbidden or disqualifying colors have their charms – the steely blues and striking black and tans.
All of this variety, and right at our fingertips – sort of like living in a neighborhood with dozens of great restaurants all within walking distance.
See? I told you I'd tie this all together eventually.
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HTC Car Profile – Carey McMahon's Nissan Skyline GTS-R
The original factory six-cylinder flyer still sounds sweet – and came close to being Lowndes' first Bathurst challenger!
WITH over 100 log booked Heritage Touring Cars covering the Group A and C eras of Australian touring car racing, there are some fantastic stories relating to the histories of the cars in the category.
A Historic category that caters for the 'Legends of Bathurst', this is the third in a series of stories covering the histories of the cars that make up the HTC field on racetracks across Australia.
In this feature we focus on the Nissan Skyline GTS-R raced by Carey McMahon.
This car is one of four, six-cylinder Skylines – often also known as HR-31s – in existence and one that regularly runs at the front of the Heritage Touring Cars field.
In fact, it was the first of the GTS-R Skylines built by Gibson Motorsport in 1988 and is distinguishable from its sister cars by its black interior.
"When they got it, it was an existing road car or one that came from the factory," says current owner McMahon.
"It's the only one of the four that remains black on the inside so it has its own identity from that. The later ones came from Nissan Motorsport and were specially pressed bodyshells, about 40 to 60 kilograms lighter."
George Fury first raced the car in 1988 at the Adelaide International Raceway round of the Shell Australian Touring Car Championship after a range of delays that had put back its debut.
Glenn Seton and Mark Skaife raced it in later rounds of the ATCC before it became the #30 Fury/Skaife car for the Sandown and Bathurst endurance races. The car failed to finish in either of the enduro classics.
It became the spare chassis in 1989 when Jim Richards joined the team and re-appeared as the #12 car for Skaife to drive in selected rounds of the championship from Mallala onwards.
The car would be an important one in Skaife's ATCC/V8 Supercars Championship career given he used it to collect his first podium finish – third at Winton behind Fury and Peter Brock's Sierra – later that season.
It was not used in the endurance races, however was raced – and crashed! – by Skaife at the Adelaide Grand Prix. Repaired, it was taken to New Zealand for the end-of-season Nissan Mobil 500 races as a display car.
However, when Win Percy crashed the car he shared with George Fury in Wellington, the display car was pressed into action for the Pukekohe event the weekend after.
The race parts were transferred across from the crashed car and the duo finished sixth in the car's final appearance with the factory team.
Privateer Chris Lambden purchased the car for the next season and he ran it in Beaurepaires colours in the 1990 ATCC and then in the endurance races with Greg Crick as co-driver.
They finished ninth at both Sandown and Bathurst with the car making its last appearance in Lambden's hands in Group A racing at the Nissan 500 at Eastern Creek. He and co-driver Des Wall were one of the early retirements of the inaugural race at the venue.
The recession hit touring car privateers hard in 1991 and the Skyline did not take to the track. The same was the case in 1992, with a lack of sponsorship scuttling plans made by Lambden for Formula Ford hot shoes Stephen White and a very young Craig Lowndes to drive the car in that year's Bathurst 1000.
Lambden placed the car up for sale, however given the demise of Group A and arrival of new five-litre and two-litre touring cars, it proved difficult to sell.
He raced it at Winton in 1993 as a Sports Sedans and it was eventually sold to Terry Ashwood, who raced it prior to purchasing the Gibson Motorsport car collection.
It then found a new home with Rod Markland for approximately five years before current owner Carey McMahon purchased it in 2010.
"It was the only car I saw on the market at the time that had an unbroken history, it looked kind of cute and it was something I could maintain myself," says McMahon.
"Half the reason for me was that I enjoy the engineering side of things. I wanted something I could maintain myself. I never really set out to buy a Nissan at all. It was clean, simple and came with a massive list of spares."
"On the first day I took it out to Eastern Creek and John Bowe came out and taught me a few things. I was stunned by how difficult it was to drive. It had no horsepower below 5000rpm and then the thing would go off like a grenade!
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"I thought it was going to be impossibly difficult to drive, but I persevered and went around and got back into things and started to learn by the end of the first year."
"I changed my driving style so I was braking far earlier than I would have and getting on the throttle way earlier so by the time you got to the apex, the power was coming in."
"It really is an underrated car. For a little six cylinder, it's just phenomenal. The times were did at Phillip Island this year were just amazing!"
McMahon and the Skyline claimed victory in the Heritage Touring Car races at the Australian F1 Grand Prix at Albert Park in 2012, though after competing in the last round of the HTC Series recently at Sydney Motorsport Park, he's decided it's time to sell the GTS-R.
Having recently purchased the 1991 Bathurst-winning GT-R – which is intended to be back on the track later in the year – something had to give, and the GTS-R will soon hit the market.
"We had a misfire through the weekend at the last round in Sydney. We got it back on the Monday and had a closer look and the engine has to come out. It was just a minor oil ring thing."
"But we've going to retire the car now, tidy it up and make it look pretty and I'm reluctantly going to sell it."
It's one very special Nissan that will soon be looking for a new home – but it's given us a fantastic opportunity to drive down touring car memory lane with the distinct rasp of the two-litre, six-cylinder turbo flyer!
And had history been a little different, we could very well have been talking about it as Craig Lowndes' first Bathurst 1000 challenger!
Keep checking back to the Heritage Touring Car website for more Car Profiles on interesting and important cars in the weeks and months to come.
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LAS VEGAS – Family members rescued after spending about 48 hours in the frigid wilderness of northern Nevada last week say they don't think they would've lasted two more days out in the cold.
Christina McIntee told NBC's "Today" show (http://on.today.com/19NcbTa) Monday that it was "rough" seeing search aircraft pass overhead as they waited near their overturned Jeep.
The interview was the first public appearance by McIntee, her boyfriend James Glanton and the four children since their rescue Tuesday. The six were taken to the hospital, but all were released by Thursday. They've previously declined interview requests.
The six had gone to play in the snow north of Lovelock when their Jeep hit a patch of ice and flipped. They started a campfire and rationed food to survive temperatures that dipped well below freezing.


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The track 'My Sweet Dani', which I wrote for my girlfriend, is featured on the hugely popular Armada Lounge compilation, alongside tracks from artists such as Chicane, Sunlounger, Dash Berlin, Delerium, Way out West and more. It's a more relaxed and laidback vibe from my other stuff, but I love…
My new track 'Cruising' has been released on Laidback Luke's 'Mixmash Records' on the 30th of January. It's a progressive house track with bigroom melodies and some huge house beats. A preview has recently arrived on the Mixmash Soundcloud. So be sure to check it out! A perfect match for…
Bringing you the real taste of summer, taking you in with warm, sun-drenched beats, is the latest piece descending from Michael de Kooker's studio: 'Beam'. Weather might be looking gray and rainy today, but there's no smile 'Beam' can't fix. 'Beam' was recently selected for Misja Helsloot's brand new compilation, 'Beyond Tomorrow', where it…
Thinking outside the box is to think differently. Let go of boundaries, stepping outside the comfort zone. If anyone knows how to handle this, it's Michael de Kooker. He's done anything from deep, dark prog to moving, melodic trance, housy madness and techy violence. You'll rarely find a producer so…
The festival season hasn't had its official kick-off yet. Not until this one kicks in. It crawls from the deep, builds towards madness, till it eventually breaks like the sun through the clouds. We're dealing with 'Raw' here, and it's about to hit your speakers. After releasing his 'My Little…
Welcome to the website of Dj / Producer Michael de Kooker.
September 2008 release news
So it's time for some release news again 😀 Of course I've been really busy, so more stuff is on the way.. But these are my upcoming releases: Michael de Kooker – Oasis / Hot Senorita Oasis will be released together with a new track called 'Hot Senorita'. It's a…
New website online!
As you can see I'm updating my website. It's got a fresh new lay-out and some new and cool functions. It's also more interactive for the visitors of this website: -You can now leave comments at newsposts by clicking on the news title. -You can rate tracks in my discography…
Michael signs exclusive deal with Cloud 9 Music
So it's probably not much of a surprise since I was already releasing a lot of tracks at the labels of Cloud 9 Dance but today I signed an exclusive agreement with Cloud 9. Basically it means that I will be releasing my new tunes at one of the labels…
I made a small selection of some (upcoming) albums which feature tracks of me. Go and check out these compilations 🙂 Dutch Trance vol. 3 Cd1 – track 5: Veracocha – Carte Blanche 2008 edit Cd1 – track 12: Michael de Kooker – Coconuts Cd2 – track 13: Michael de…
September news update
Lately some of my stuff has been posted on various websites. Check it out on these sites! Crystal Clouds – Dj Spotlight DJdownload – August top 10 chart Cloud9Dance – Artist Profile
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Zambia to Increase Power Output By 600mw
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ZAMBIA is expected to increase the total electricity output by 600 Megawatts (MW) by the end of this year after completing power generation projects in selected parts of the country.
According to the latest edition of the Africa Report, Zambia has invested heavily in electricity infrastructure for mining expansion and enlarged sales in the Southern Africa Development Community region.
"A series of new power plants to come on line this year will make the country's electricity production surge. Zambia currently produces a little more than 2,200MW per annum, but this is set to increase by more than 600MW by the end of the year as the Kariba North Bank extension and Maamba power plant begin production," says the report.
The report says electricity supply in Africa's second largest producer of copper will be further boosted by output from the 120MW Itezhi-Tezhi Hydro-Power generating station, which is slated to start production in 2015.
As a member of the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP), which has facilitated electricity sales, Zambia already provides up to 100MW of emergency electricity to neighbouring Botswana.
Electricity supplier Zesco is also on course with the 750MW Kafue Gorge Lower power station project.
The proposed completion deadline of the Kafue Gorge has been adjusted from 2018 to 2021 due to difficulties in securing financing of up to US$2 billion.


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UBS HONG KONG OPEN
Fanling, Hong Kong
Q. Tell us how good a start this is in Hong Kong?
JORDAN SMITH: I was really happy how I played.
Q. How familiar were you with the course and what did you expect?
JORDAN SMITH: Well, obviously I played the practice round on Tuesday. Did our homework. Knew it was going to be tough and the greens were seriously quick.
Q. Is this one of those events that you've noticed down the years and thought, one day, I'll end up playing there?
JORDAN SMITH: Well, obviously I've seen it on TV and stuff and dreamed of playing on The European Tour, and managed to accomplish that.
Q. What do you make of it as a traditional style like this?
JORDAN SMITH: I like it, yeah. Bit tighter, bit shorter and bit more fiddly and sort of tough greens.
Q. Is there any difference stepping out on The European Tour as a member?
JORDAN SMITH: Yeah, for sure. Well, there was a bit more pressure for me but I was coming off the back of a good year but had a lot of confidence and standard is incredible. Just got to go out there and keep it going.
Q. Still bubbling and got that confidence rolling on?
JORDAN SMITH: Didn't have a great round last week, but the Friday round I played really good. So there's good signs this week.
Q. Obviously this is the end of a year but it's also the start of a season. Do you get a moment to sit back and reflect and change targets, ambitions?
JORDAN SMITH: After Oman on The Challenge Tour, took a week or so off and sort of reviewed things, set targets for this year. Do the same after Christmas and New Year's.
Q. Do you modify expectations?
JORDAN SMITH: The goal I set myself this year is just to keep my card and once that's accomplished, I can look at obviously going on and winning an event.
Q. As you're here in Hong Kong, any chance to have a look around or is it all golf, all business?
JORDAN SMITH: We've done a little bit of sight seeing the last couple days. Played early in the practice round and done some sight seeing afterwards. Walking around the area and enjoying it.
My game is in good shape and I'm feeling good for the 2017 season.
Q. What do you have planned for the rest of the week?
JORDAN SMITH: Just to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully that's enough.
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A Doctor that treats animals (usually dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, rabbits, rats, mice, and opposite "pocket pets").
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A new chapter begins as Season One of TV's most popular and widely acclaimed detective series, Murder, She Wrote, comes home to Blu-ray for the first time ever, now fully restored and in high definition! Angela Lansbury stars in the role that earned her 12 consecutive Emmy® nominations as everyone's favourite super-sleuth, Jessica Fletcher, a famous mystery writer who has a knack for solving murders on and off the page. Along with the quirky residents of Cabot Cove, Maine, Jessica is joined in her deliciously suspicious tales of mystery and mayhem by some of the most celebrated guest stars of screen and stage, including Jerry Orbach, Leslie Nielsen, Joaquin Phoenix, Andy Garcia, Martin Landau, Milton Berle, Peter Graves, Vicki Lawrence and many more. Investigate all 22 Season One episodes including the suspenseful original pilot movie, The Murder of Sherlock Holmes, of the illustrious and thrilling series that will have you guessing "whodunit" until the very end.
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Media News NICEIC and ELECSA launch asbestos awareness partnership
NICEIC and ELECSA launch asbestos awareness partnership
NICEIC and ELECSA have launched a partnership with Central Compliance UK (CCUK) to provide training on the dangers of working with asbestos.
Figures from the Health and Safety Executive suggest that 14 people will die prematurely every day as a result of being exposed to asbestos this equates to around 5,000 deaths a year. It is the single greatest cause to work related deaths in the UK and is considered a major factor to many health complications.
Although receiving a total ban in 1999, there are an estimated 12.5m properties in the UK that could potentially contain asbestos.
Working with CCUK, NICEIC and ELECSA contractors can take online or fact-to-face training in asbestos awareness courses, fully certified by the UK Asbestos Training Association (UKATA).
Mark Smith, Marketing Director for NICEIC and ELECSA said:
"Tradespeople need to know that they are working in a safe environment. These figures are a startling reminder of the work that needs to be done to protect those who are at greater risk of being exposed to asbestos.
"These courses will highlight what to look out for if they believe asbestos to be present in their vicinity and what immediate action they need to take to prevent themselves and others around them from being exposed to this harmful material."
Billy Quinn, Managing Director for CCUK said:
"We are delighted to be working with NICEIC and ELECSA who share the same passion to help standards and improve knowledge amongst construction workers.
"There are potentially thousands of contractors who are still not aware of the dangers surrounding asbestos. At CCUK we strive to get the message across that professional training can change the way today's workers operate so they don't put their lives at unnecessary risk."
NICEIC and ELECSA contractors can book online training at a special discounted rate of £15 (inc. VAT).
Visit www.centralcompliance.uk/certsure to book your course.
More information can also be found on the NICEIC website www.niceic.com/asbestos
First stage of the Electrical Apprentice of the Year Competition comes to an end
More than 540 electrical students battle it out to claim top prize
Contractors energised at TechTalk events
Electricians attend regional shows in record numbers
MCS and RECC announce a NEW partnership
MCS and RECC announce a new partnership, as they combine forces in a bid to place standards and consumer protection at the heart of home-grown energy


Fuel as opposed to treats?!
How do you view food and drink?!? When I was at my heaviest I always viewed food as a treat, I realise now this was ones of the reasons I got to a size 16. I know to some people that might not sound like a big size, but to me it made me feel… Read More Fuel as opposed to treats?!
Is wine really fine?!? Is gin a sin? Does lager make us larger?!
Do you like a drink? Not squash, or diet coke but an alcoholic drink? Are you ever disappointed with your weight losses? Then read on…. Evidence shows that alcohol is having an increasing impact on managing our weight. It's not only the calories in alcohol itself – we know that alcohol is high in Syns… Read More Is wine really fine?!? Is gin a sin? Does lager make us larger?!


Creative people are often more sensitive to the rhythms and cycles of nature, and it's important to work with your own perceptions, moods, and intuition, rather than trying to force your muse to co-operate rigidly.
The seasonal changes are a very prominent influence for many people – the visual changes are stimulating, and the temperature changes elicit responses from our minds and bodies. People vary in the ways they react to the different seasons and understanding your own response can help you to work more efficiently with the type of energy you have at certain times of the year.
Spring is a very energetic time, full of freshness and new beginnings. This is a perfect time to start a new project, or breathe new life into one that may have become stale. Spring is very visual, and artists may find themselves using more vibrant colours and being motivated by the sight of bright flowers and new shoots to dabble in some nature-inspired pieces, even if this is not their normal field.
Whether or not you consider yourself a good artist, why not celebrate spring by splashing the colours you see around you onto a piece of paper or canvas. Don't worry about form and perspective – just capturing the colours is an excellent way to wake up your senses after a long, dark winter.
Summer becomes warmer and more lethargic unless you're lucky enough to live in a mild summer climate. This is a time to put your nose to the grindstone and work diligently on an ongoing project – perhaps the one you started enthusiastically in spring. Summer encourages us to take things a little slower and conserve some energy. You're settling in for the long-haul marathon, but you still have good supplies of energy in reserve.
Don't forget to get outside during summer. Recoup the energy you expend on your creativity by soaking up some sun rays. Get plenty of exercise and keep your visual skills strong by taking notice of the changes in colour and intensity of the world around you.
Autumn is another visual feast – very different to spring and summer if you're lucky to live in an area where leaves turn red and golden at this time. Treat yourself to these colours and fill your home with paintings in shades of red and orange. Have fun carving pumpkins and, if you're in the Northern Hemisphere, start making decorations and plans for the end of the year.
Autumn is the time of harvesting – so use this time to assess the work you've done so far and consider your way forward. Is it ready to harvest? Or will it need another year or more? Does it need pruning, reshaping, rethinking? Do you need to put it aside for a while to allow it to ferment?
Winter is this time of fermentation, hibernation, and regeneration. Do you feel sluggish and uninspired during the colder months? You need a rest. Winter may be a good time for you to do some gentle investigation of ideas that may have come up during autumn's assessment, or make initial contact with people you would like to network with. This is a good time to put feelers out for like-minded people to join a writers' or artists' group starting in the spring. Relax your mind, and, as Julia Cameron says, let the creative well be refilled. Read books you've been meaning to get around to. Watch movies and plays, and enjoy the creative expression of other people. Let the ideas mull around in your mind.


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Dairy Dialogue Map
Colby Vorland, Andrew Brown & David Allison
Dataset published via IUScholarWorks
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Rapid differentiation of plasticity in life history and morphology during invasive range expansion and concurrent local adaptation in the horned beetle Onthophagus taurus
Patrick T. Rohner & Armin P. Moczek
Understanding the interplay between genetic differentiation, ancestral plasticity, and the evolution of plasticity during adaptation to environmental variation is critical to predict populations' responses to environmental change. However, the role of plasticity in rapid adaptation in nature remains poorly understood. We here use the invasion of the horned beetle Onthophagus taurus in the United States during the last half century to study the contribution of ancestral plasticity and post-invasion evolution of plastic responses in rapid...
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Low costs of adaptation to dietary restriction
Roy Moger-Reischer, Elizabeth Snider, Kelsey McKenzie & Jay Lennon
Dietary restriction (DR) is the most successful and widespread means of extending organismal lifespan. However, the evolutionary basis of life extension under DR remains uncertain. The traditional evolutionary explanation is that when organisms experience DR, they allocate endogenous resources to survival and postpone reproduction until conditions improve. However, this life-extension strategy should be maladaptive if DR continues for multiple generations due to tradeoffs between longevity and reproduction. To test this prediction, we subjected the budding...
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Data from: Temporal dynamics of outcrossing and host mortality rates in host-pathogen experimental coevolution
Levi T. Morran, , Ian A. Gelarden, Curtis M. Lively & Raymond C. Parrish
Cross-fertilization is predicted to facilitate the short-term response and the long-term persistence of host populations engaged in antagonistic coevolutionary interactions. Consistent with this idea, our previous work has shown that coevolving bacterial pathogens (Serratia marcescens) can drive obligately selfing hosts (Caenorhabditis elegans) to extinction, while the obligately outcrossing and partially outcrossing populations persisted. We focused the present study on the partially outcrossing (mixed mating) and obligately outcrossing hosts, and analyzed the changes in the host...
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Data from: Nematode-bacteria nutualism: selection within the mutualism supersedes selection outside of the mutualism
Levi T. Morran, McKenna J. Penley, Victoria S. Byrd, Andrew J. Meyer, Timothy S. O'Sullivan, Farrah Bashey-Visser, Heidi Goodrich-Blair, Curtis M. Lively & Farrah Bashey
The coevolution of interacting species can lead to codependent mutualists. Little is known about the effect of selection on partners within verses apart from the association. Here, we determined the effect of selection on bacteria (Xenorhabdus nematophila) both within and apart from its mutualistic partner (a nematode, Steinernema carpocapsae). In nature, the two species cooperatively infect and kill arthropods. We passaged the bacteria either together with (M+), or isolated from (M−), nematodes under two different...
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Data from: Density-dependent fitness, not dispersal movements, drives temporal variation in spatial genetic structure in dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis)
Eric B. Liebgold, Nicole M. Gerlach & Ellen D. Ketterson
Some studies have found that dispersal rates and distances increase with density, indicating that density-dependent dispersal likely affects spatial genetic structure. In an 11-year mark-recapture study on a passerine, the dark-eyed junco, we tested whether density affected dispersal distance and/or fine-scale spatial genetic structure. Contrary to expectations, we found no effect of pre-dispersal density on dispersal distance or the proportion of locally-produced juveniles returning to the population from which they hatched. However, even though density...
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Data from: Modulation of the cutaneous silent period in the upper-limb with whole-body instability
Nathaniel R. Eckert, Brach Poston, Zachary A. Riley & Nathanial R. Eckert
The silent period induced by cutaneous electrical stimulation of the digits has been shown to be task-dependent, at least in the grasping muscles of the hand. However, it is unknown if the cutaneous silent period is adaptable throughout muscles of the entire upper limb, in particular when the task requirements are substantially altered. The purpose of the present study was to examine the characteristics of the cutaneous silent period in several upper limb muscles when...
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Data from: Phylogenomics reveals three sources of adaptive variation during a rapid radiation
James B. Pease, David C. Haak, Matthew W. Hahn & Leonie C. Moyle
Speciation events often occur in rapid bursts of diversification, but the ecological and genetic factors that promote these radiations are still much debated. Using whole transcriptomes from all 13 species in the ecologically and reproductively diverse wild tomato clade (Solanum sect. Lycopersicon), we infer the species phylogeny and patterns of genetic diversity in this group. Despite widespread phylogenetic discordance due to the sorting of ancestral variation, we date the origin of this radiation to approximately...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.182dv Cite
Data from: Thermal adaptation of cellular membranes in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster
Brandon S. Cooper, Loubna A. Hammad & Kristi L/ Montooth
1. Changes in temperature disrupt the fluidity of cellular membranes, which can negatively impact membrane integrity and cellular processes. Many ectotherms, including Drosophila melanogaster (Meigen), adjust the glycerophospholipid composition of their membranes to restore optimal fluidity when temperatures change, a type of trait plasticity termed homeoviscous adaptation. 2. Existing data suggest that plasticity in the relative abundances of the glycerophospholipids phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and phosphatidylcholine (PC) underlies cellular adaptation to temporal variability in the thermal environment....
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.96pr7 Cite
Data from: Weak coordination between leaf structure and function among closely related tomato species
Christopher D. Muir, Miquel À. Conesa, Emilio J. Roldán, Arántzazu Molins & Jeroni Galmés
Theory predicts that natural selection should favor coordination between leaf physiology, biochemistry and anatomical structure along a functional trait spectrum from fast, resource-acquisitive syndromes to slow, resource-conservative syndromes. However, the coordination hypothesis has rarely been tested at a phylogenetic scale most relevant for understanding rapid adaptation in the recent past or for the prediction of evolutionary trajectories in response to climate change. We used a common garden to examine genetically based coordination between leaf traits...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1r8c2 Cite
Data from: Trade‐off between reproductive and anti‐competitor abilities in an insect–parasitic nematode–bacteria symbiosis
Sofia Bertoloni Meli & Farrah Bashey
Mutualistic symbionts can provide diverse benefits to their hosts and often supply key trait variation for host adaptation. The bacterial symbionts of entomopathogenic nematodes play a crucial role in successful colonization of and reproduction in the insect host. Additionally, these symbionts can produce a diverse array of antimicrobial compounds to deter within‐host competitors. Natural isolates of the symbiont, Xenorhabdus bovienii, show considerable variation in their ability to target sympatric competitors via bacteriocins, which can inhibit...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.r5q5v1p Cite
Data from: Concordance of bacterial communities of two tick species and blood of their shared rodent host
Evelyn C. Rynkiewicz, Chris Hemmerich, Clay Fuqua, Keith Clay & Douglas B. Rusch
High-throughput sequencing is revealing that most macro-organisms house diverse microbial communities. Of particular interest are disease vectors whose microbiome could potentially affect pathogen transmission and vector competence. We investigated bacterial community composition and diversity of the ticks Dermacentor variabilis (n = 68) and Ixodes scapularis (n = 15) and blood of their shared rodent host, Peromyscus leucopus (n = 45) to quantify bacterial diversity and concordance. The 16S rRNA gene was amplified from genomic DNA...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.gb538 Cite
Data from: Delegating decisions: recruiting others to make choices we might regret
Mary Steffel & Elanor F. Williams
Consumers typically prefer freedom of choice, but when faced with a choice they might regret, they may prefer freedom from choice. Eight experiments show that people delegate difficult decisions, regardless of the decision's importance, and regardless of their potential surrogate's expertise. Delegation stems from a desire to avoid responsibility for potentially making the wrong choice rather than simply the desire to avoid the possibility of a poor outcome: although anticipated disappointment with the outcome and...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.4n7dv Cite
Data from: Genomic islands of divergence are not affected by geography of speciation in sunflowers.
Sebastien Renaut, Christopher J. Grassa, Sam Yeaman, Zhao Lai, Nolan K. Kane, Brook T. Moyers, John E. Bowers, John M. Burke & Loren H. Rieseberg
Genomic studies of speciation often report the presence of highly differentiated genomic regions interspersed within a milieu of weakly diverged loci. The formation of these speciation islands is generally attributed to reduced inter-population gene flow near loci under divergent selection, but few studies have critically evaluated this hypothesis. Here, we report on transcriptome scans among four recently diverged pairs of sunflower (Helianthus) species that vary in the geographical context of speciation. We find that genetic...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9q1n4 Cite
Data from: Genomic evidence for the parallel evolution of coastal forms in the Senecio lautus complex
Federico Roda, Luke Ambrose, Gregory M. Walter, Huanle L. Liu, Andrea Schaul, Andrew Lowe, Pieter B. Pelser, Peter Prentis, Loren H. Rieseberg & Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos
Instances of parallel ecotypic divergence where adaptation to similar conditions repeatedly cause similar phenotypic changes in closely related organisms are useful for studying the role of ecological selection in speciation. Here we used a combination of traditional and next generation genotyping techniques to test for the parallel divergence of plants from the Senecio lautus complex, a phenotypically variable groundsel that has adapted to disparate environments in the South Pacific. Phylogenetic analysis of a broad selection...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pv24v Cite
Data from: A stochastic neuronal model predicts random search behaviors at multiple spatial scales in C. elegans
William M. Roberts, Steven B. Augustine, Kristy J. Lawton, Theodore H. Lindsay, Tod R. Thiele, Eduardo J. Izquierdo, Serge Faumont, Rebecca A. Lindsay, Matthew Cale Britton, Navin Pokala, Cornelia I. Bargmann & Shawn R. Lockery
Random search is a behavioral strategy used by organisms from bacteria to humans to locate food that is randomly distributed and undetectable at a distance. We investigated this behavior in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, an organism with a small, well-described nervous system. Here we formulate a mathematical model of random search abstracted from the C. elegans connectome and fit to a large-scale kinematic analysis of C. elegans behavior at submicron resolution. The model predicts behavioral...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.35qv6 Cite
Data from: Complex selection on a regulator of social cognition: evidence of balancing selection, regulatory interactions and population differentiation in the prairie vole Avpr1a locus
Alejandro Berrio, Rafael F. Guerrero, Galina V. Aglyamova, Mariam Okhovat, Mikhail V. Matz & Steven M. Phelps
Adaptive variation in social behavior depends upon standing genetic variation, but we know little about how evolutionary forces shape genetic diversity relevant to brain and behavior. In prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster), variants at the Avpr1a locus predict expression of the vasopressin 1a receptor in the retrosplenial cortex (RSC), a brain region that mediates spatial and contextual memory; cortical V1aR abundance in turn predicts diversity in space-use and sexual fidelity in the field. To examine the...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2d7b8 Cite
Data from: Factors essential for L,D-transpeptidase-mediated peptidoglycan cross-linking and β-lactam resistance in Escherichia coli
Christiane Bouchier, Jean-Emmanuel Hugonnet, Michel Arthur, Dominique Mengin-Lecreulx, Yves Brun, Michael Van Nieuwenhze, Louis B Rice, Alejandro Monton, Tanneke Den Blaauwen, Etienne Carbonnelle, Carole Veckerlé & Kuyek Tu
The target of β-lactam antibiotics is the D,D-transpeptidase activity of penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) for synthesis of 4→3 cross-links in the peptidoglycan of bacterial cell walls. Unusual 3→3 cross-links formed by L,D-transpeptidases were first detected in Escherichia coli more than four decades ago, however no phenotype has previously been associated with their synthesis. Here we show that production of the L,D-transpeptidase YcbB in combination with elevated synthesis of the (p)ppGpp alarmone by RelA lead to full...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.t5r8m Cite
Data from: Habitat, predators, and hosts regulate disease in Daphnia through direct and indirect pathways
Alexander T. Strauss, Marta S. Shocket, David J. Civitello, Jessica L. Hite, Rachel M. Penczykowski, Meghan A. Duffy, Carla E. Cáceres & Spencer R. Hall
Community ecology can link habitat to disease via interactions among habitat, focal hosts, other hosts, their parasites, and predators. However, complicated food web interactions (i.e., trophic interactions among predators, and their impacts on host density and diversity) often obscure the important pathways regulating disease. Here, we disentangle community drivers in a case study of planktonic disease, using a two-step approach. In step one, we tested univariate field patterns linking community interactions to two disease metrics....
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.4t9f2 Cite
Data from: Plant-soil feedbacks shift from negative to positive with decreasing light in forest understory species
Lauren M. Smith & Heather L. Reynolds
Net pairwise plant–soil feedbacks (PSF) may be an important factor structuring plant communities, yet the influence of abiotic context on PSF is not yet understood. Abiotic factors such as light availability can alter plant–soil interactions, potentially resulting in strong context dependence of PSF. Here, we present an experiment in which we measured whole-soil net pairwise feedbacks amongst six common forest understory species across a gradient of light availability. Light treatments were imposed throughout both phases...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ns7bv Cite
Data from: Social feedback and the emergence of rank in animal society
Elizabeth A. Hobson & Simon DeDeo
Dominance hierarchies are group-level properties that emerge from the aggression of individuals. Although individuals can gain critical benefits from their position in a hierarchy, we do not understand how real-world hierarchies form. Nor do we understand what signals and decision-rules individuals use to construct and maintain hierarchies in the absence of simple cues such as size or spatial location. A study of conflict in two groups of captive monk parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus) found that a...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.p56q7 Cite
Data from: Validation of a rodent model of source memory
Jonathon Crystal, Wesley Alford, W. T. Alford & J. D. Crystal
Source memory represents the origin (source) of information. Recently, we proposed that rats (Rattus norvegicus) remember the source of information. However, an alternative to source memory is the possibility that rats selectively encoded some, but not all, information rather than retrieving an episodic memory. We directly tested this "encoding-failure" hypothesis. Here, we show that rats remember the source of information, under conditions that cannot be attributed to encoding failure. Moreover, source memory lasted at least...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.jq470 Cite
Data from: Guidelines and considerations for designing field experiments simulating precipitation extremes in forest ecosystems
Heidi Asbjornsen, John L. Campbell, Katie A. Jennings, Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur, Cameron McIntire, Pamela H. Templer, Richard P. Phillips, Taryn L. Bauerle, Michael C. Dietze, Serita D. Frey, Peter M. Groffman, Rosella Guerrieri, Paul J. Hanson, Eric P. Kelsey, Alan K. Knapp, Nathan G. McDowell, Patrick Meir, Kimberly A. Novick, Scott V. Ollinger, Will T. Pockman, Paul G. Schaberg, Stan D. Wullschleger, Melinda D. Smith & Lindsey E. Rustad
1. Context. Precipitation regimes are changing in response to climate change, yet understanding of how forest ecosystems respond to extreme droughts and pluvials remains incomplete. As future precipitation extremes will likely fall outside the range of historical variability, precipitation manipulation experiments (PMEs) are critical to advancing knowledge about potential ecosystem responses. However, few PMEs have been conducted in forests compared to short-statured ecosystems, and forest PMEs have unique design requirements and constraints. Moreover, past forest...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f301j26 Cite
Data from: Evolving from static to dynamic signals: evolutionary compensation between two communicative signals
Emilia P. Martins, Alison G. Ossip-Klein, J. Jaime Zúñiga-Vega, Cuauhcihuatl Vital García, Stephanie M. Campos & Diana K. Hews
Signals that convey related information may impose selection on each other, creating evolutionary links between different components of the communicative repertoire. Here, we ask about the consequences of the evolutionary loss of one signal (a colour patch) on another (a motion display) in Sceloporus lizards. We present data on male lizards of four species: two pairs of sister taxa representing two independent evolutionary losses of the static colour patch (S. cozumelae and S. parvus; S....
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.351qg Cite
Data from: The model marine diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana likely descended from a freshwater ancestor in the genus Cyclotella
Andrew J Alverson, Bank Beszteri, Matthew L Julius & Edward C Theriot
BACKGROUND: Publication of the first diatom genome, that of Thalassiosira pseudonana, established it as a model species for experimental and genomic studies of diatoms. Virtually every ensuing study has treated T. pseudonana as a marine diatom, with genomic and experimental data valued for their insights into the ecology and evolution of diatoms in the world's oceans. RESULTS: The natural distribution of T. pseudonana spans both marine and fresh waters, and phylogenetic analyses of morphological and...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8663 Cite
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Home FEATURED M-Pesa Foundation Partners With Gertrude's Hospital For A Telemedicine Initiative
M-Pesa Foundation Partners With Gertrude's Hospital For A Telemedicine Initiative
From left, Gertrude's Children's Hospital Dr. Robert Nyarango, Gertrude's Children's Foundation Chairman Les Baille, Chief Executive Officer, Safaricom PLC- Peter Ndegwa, M-PESA Foundation Chairman- Michael Joseph holding a dummy cheque worth KES 168 Million. This was during the launch of Daktari Smart telemedicine program at Gertrude's Children's Hospital in Muthaiga which is targeting over 32,000 children in Samburu, Homabay, Baringo and Lamu Counties. Daktari Smart is a three-year program that aims to use telemedicine technology to link and provide treatment to 32,400 children in six hard-to-reach counties in Kenya. [Photo/ Courtesy]
M-Pesa Foundation and Gertrude's Hospital Foundation have launched the Daktari Smart telemedicine program targeting over 32,000 children in Samburu, Homabay, Baringo and Lamu Counties. Two other counties will be brought on board in the next phase of this program.
The project aims to reduce the number of referrals of sick children by allowing county health facilities to have access to specialists. It will also optimize the capacity and reach of healthcare delivery systems.
According to the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board, the doctor to patient ratio currently stands at about one doctor for every 6,355 people which leads to difficulties in getting access to a qualified medical professional. This ratio increases when it comes to specialists. The participating counties in this program have only one or no paediatrician to treat children in these areas.
"Daktari Smart aims to address the delays in receiving adequate healthcare in rural and underserved areas through telemedicine. Patients who would otherwise have to spend a significant amount of time and money to travel long distances to urban areas to seek care, will now be able to receive specialist care from their local health facility," said Michael Joseph, Chairman, M-PESA Foundation.
M-PESA Foundation has committed over Ksh168 million towards the initiative while Gertrude's Hospital Foundation will invest over Ksh35 million in the next three years.
"Our mission as Gertrude's Hospital Foundation is to transform communities by improving access to quality healthcare services to needy and disadvantaged children in the country. This involves embracing innovation and technology, as well as research. The Daktari Smart program will enable us to provide the much-needed specialist care to children in far flung areas, as well as develop appropriate data and information to support paediatric healthcare in the country," said Les Baillie, the Chairman of Gertrude's Hospital Foundation.
Daktari Smart is a kit that compromises electronic medical devices such as the Electronic Stethoscope, Vital Signs Monitor, Derma scope Camera, Ultrasound Machine, Otoscope (examine the condition of the ear canal and eardrum) and the electrocardiogram (ECG) used to check the heart's rhythm and electrical activity.
Unlike the conventional video conferencing, Daktari Smart allows the health care worker at the local partner health facilities, to place the electronic medical devices such as a stethoscope or vital signs monitor on the patient.
The specialist at Gertrude's Children's Hospital is then able to see the patient and hear the sounds real time without the interpretation from the health worker at the local facility.
The bandwidth requirement for the equipment is low, ranging from 512Kbps to 2Mbps. This means that the platform can be installed in rural and underserved areas that do not have fiber connectivity.
Screens will also be used for video conferencing to facilitate regular capacity building for over 300 health workers serving in the rural health facilities; and training of 360 social workers and community health volunteers (CHVs) in the local community who will support in social mobilization.
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William Lyman Underwood (1864 – January 24, 1929) was an American photographer who was also involved in the research of time-temperature canning research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1895 to 1896.

Biography

A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Underwood was the second son of William James Underwood, one of the nine children of William Underwood, the founder of the William Underwood Company.

In late 1895, the William Underwood Company decided that they had had enough with tin cans that had "swells" in them, causing a great deal of product loss. This was a problem they had experienced since the company's founding in 1822. William Lyman decided late that year to visit MIT for assistance with this problem.

Underwood approached William Thompson Sedgwick, the chair of the biology department at MIT about the concerns he had with the recent product swells and explosion of clams. Sedgwick then summoned his assistant Samuel Cate Prescott and apprised him on the issue. From late 1895 to late 1896, Prescott and Underwood worked on the problem every afternoon, focusing on canned clams. They first discovered that the clams contained some heat-resistant bacterial spores that were able to survive the processing; then that these spores' presence depended on the clams' living environment; and finally that these spores would be killed if processed at 250˚F (121˚C) for ten minutes in a retort.

These studies prompted the similar research of canned lobster, sardines, peas, tomatoes, corn, and spinach. Prescott and Underwood's work was first published in late 1896, with further papers appearing from 1897 to 1926. This research, though important to the growth of food technology, was never patented.

During the research process, Underwood provided photomicrographic images of the bacteria that were involved in the research, which were magnified 650 times in 1896. A later research article in 1898 showed photography of bacteria magnified 1,000 times.

This research proved beneficial to the William Underwood Company, the canning industry, the food industry, and food technology itself. Underwood retired from the William Underwood Company in 1899 to devote himself entirely to bacteriology studies at MIT. He would work at MIT without pay. This research and friendship with Prescott would continue until Underwood's death in 1929.

Death and legacy
In the late 1950s, the new president of the William Underwood Company, George Seybolt, was brought over by his predecessor, W. Durant, to MIT to meet Prescott (William Lyman Underwood had died in 1929). At the Institute of Food Technologists Northeast Section (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont) meeting at Watertown, Massachusetts, in April 1961, the William Underwood Company dedicated a new laboratory in honor of both Prescott and William Lyman Underwood. Following Prescott's death in 1962, the Company created the Underwood Prescott Memorial Lectureship in memory of both Underwood and Prescott. This Lectureship would run until 1982. In 1969, Seybolt donated US$600,000 to MIT to create the Underwood Professorship, followed up with an Underwood Prescott Professorship in 1972. Three MIT faculty have held this professorship since its inception: Samuel A. Goldblith, Gerald N. Wogan, and since 1996, Stephen R. Tannebaum.

Underwood was also a talented photographer. Besides images in microbiology, Underwood also photographed natural environment. His photographs were part of a book by John Burroughs as shown in the second and third external links listed below. One of Underwood's two brothers, Loring, was also an accomplished photographer as well.

References
Goldblith, S.A. (1993). Pioneers in Food Science, Volume 1: Samuel Cate Prescott - M.I.T. Dean and Pioneer Food Technologist. Trumball, CT: Food and Nutrition Press. pp. 21–29, 60, 125–6, 128, 130, 171–3.
Powers, J.J. "The Food Industry Contribution: Preeminence in Science and in Application." A Century of Food Science. (2000). Institute of Food Technologists: Chicago. pp. 17–18.
Schloss, C., J. Snyder, R. Lyons (Editor), L. Underwood (Photographer), and W.L. Underwood (Photographer). Gentleman Photographers: The Work of Loring Underwood and William Lyman Underwood. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
Wanucha, Genevieve. "Two Happy Clams: The Friendship that Forged Food Science". Food Technology. November 2009. p. 88.

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History of entrepreneurship at MIT
Photographs by Underwood
Woodchucks near their hole photograph
A fawn photograph

American food scientists
American microbiologists
American photographers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Artists from Boston
1864 births
1929 deaths

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