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Rufous-necked hornbill -- 棕颈犀鸟 (Aceros nipalensis)
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Rufous-necked hornbill fact file
Rufous-necked hornbill description
Order Coraciiformes
Family Bucerotidae
Genus Aceros (1)
Instantly recognisable as belonging to the hornbill family, the rufous-necked hornbill is very large with an impressive downwardly curved bill and block-like casque on top of the head and bill. Males have a rufous head and underparts with black back and wings, whereas females are dark brown to black all over. There is a ring of bare, blue skin around the red eyes and the bill is yellow with black and white barcode-like stripes. Both sexes call with a soft, barking kup (2) (4).
Length: 120 cm (2)
Visayan wrinkled hornbill
(Aceros waldeni)
Plain-pouched hornbill
(Aceros subruficollis)
Papuan hornbill
(Aceros plicatus)
Rufous-necked hornbill biology
The life of a female rufous-necked hornbill is an extraordinary one, as she spends four months of every year incarcerated within a nest in a hollow tree. With help from her mate, she seals herself into the hole, between 6 and 33 metres above the ground, using semi-digested leaves, oil globules, and regurgitated mud. A slit-shaped entrance is left through which the male feeds the female and their chicks, and the female defecates, creating a large pile of guano at the base of the tree. The female lays about two eggs in April which she incubates through the dry season so that hatching is synchronised with the onset of the rainy season. After a total of 125 days of incarceration, the female breaks the nest's seal and leaves, the chicks following shortly afterwards (2) (4).
Searching for fruit in the canopy, the rufous-necked hornbill is thought to prefer nutmegs, pears and figs, but will rely on whichever plant species are fruiting at the time. It is also known to eat crabs, beetles, cicadas, lizards, earthworms, frogs and birds, picking these from the leaf-litter and from the trunks and branches of large trees (1) (4).
Rufous-necked hornbill range
Found in Bhutan, Myanmar, China, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and northeast India, the rufous-necked hornbill has suffered a huge population decline, and is thought to be extinct in its historical range country, Nepal (1).
Species with a similar range
Senegal bluetail
(Ischnura senegalensis)
Common scarlet-darter
(Crocothemis erythraea)
(Rusa unicolor)
Rufous-necked hornbill habitat
This hornbill species is found in mature, dense, evergreen and broadleaved forest, mainly in the hills up to altitudes of 1,800 metres. It searches for large trees in which to nest (1) (2).
Species found in a similar habitat
Lesser horseshoe bat
(Rhinolophus hipposideros)
Peloponnese slow worm
(Anguis cephalonnica)
Wied's black-tufted-ear marmoset
(Callithrix kuhlii)
Rufous-necked hornbill status
Classified as Vulnerable (VU) on the IUCN Red List 2006 (1) and listed on Appendices I and II of the CITES (3).
Rufous-necked hornbill threats
As slow-growing, long-lived birds that have few offspring each year, rufous-necked hornbills are particularly susceptible to over-hunting and unfortunately it is a continuing threat to them. Hunting is most common in China, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam where the meat is said to be good to eat and the casque is often also sold, leading to the extreme rarity of the rufous-necked hornbill in all but the most remote areas (4).
The rufous-necked hornbill is also at risk from habitat loss due to its preference for very large living trees at nest sites. It is these trees that are first selected by commercial loggers for felling. The hornbill also requires very large areas of land for foraging and so fragmentation as a result of logging and road-building can quickly reduce the viability of a population (4).
Rufous-necked hornbill conservation
Despite the inclusion of the rufous-necked hornbill in several wildlife laws, including protective acts in China, India, Bhutan, Myanmar and Thailand, it is persistently hunted. It has proved extremely difficult to protect the species through the law or through the use of rangers, but the governments of Laos and Vietnam are now tackling the problem through controlling gun ownership (4).
Habitat loss is also a wide-ranging problem with extensive underlying political and economic influences. The government of Bhutan has committed to ensuring 60% of the country remains covered by forest and that preservation of the environment takes precedence over economic benefits resulting from its exploitation (4).
The rufous-necked hornbill is present in low numbers in a large number of reserves, sanctuaries and national parks across its range, but the majority of these areas would benefit from improved management systems (4).
View information on this species at the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
For further information on this species see
BirdLife International. (2001) Threatened Birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book. BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK.
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Guano
Accumulated droppings found where animals such as seals, bats or birds occur; it is rich in plant nutrients, and can be used as a fertiliser for plants.
IUCN Red List (May, 2006)
http://www.iucnredlist.org
Banglapedia (February, 2008)
http://banglapedia.org/ht/H_0155.HTM
CITES (May, 2006)
http://www.cites.org
Asean Regional Centre for Biodiversity Conservation (May, 2006)
http://arcbc.org/cgi-bin/abiss.exe/spd?SID=29133493&spd=961&tx=AV
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Q: How to get percentage prediction for every class in multi-classification model I have trained a sequential model for 10 classes.
classes = ['Begin', 'Choose', 'Connection', 'Navigation',
            'Next', 'Previous', 'Start', 'Stop', 'Hello', 'Web']

Model output:
out = loaded_model.predict(image_sequence)
print(out)
[[5.3001270e-02 1.8615163e-05 3.5275782e-05 1.8662749e-02 3.3778408e-01
  3.2624280e-01 2.6934301e-02 2.2875501e-03 2.3302139e-01 2.0118954e-03]]

I want to get the prediction percentage for each class like this:
Begin: 80%
Choose: 10%
Connection: 6%
and so on.....

A: classes = ['Begin', 'Choose', 'Connection', 'Navigation',
            'Next', 'Previous', 'Start', 'Stop', 'Hello', 'Web']

out = [5.3001270e-02, 1.8615163e-05, 3.5275782e-05,
      1.8662749e-02, 3.3778408e-01,  3.2624280e-01,
      2.6934301e-02, 2.2875501e-03, 2.3302139e-01,
      2.0118954e-03]

percentage_list = []
for i in range(len(out)):
    percentage_list.append("{0:.2%}".format(out[i]))

my_result = list(zip(classes, percentage_list))
for i in range(len(my_result)):
    print(my_result[i])

Result:
('Begin', '5.30%')
('Choose', '0.00%')
('Connection', '0.00%')
('Navigation', '1.87%')
('Next', '33.78%')
('Previous', '32.62%')
('Start', '2.69%')
('Stop', '0.23%')
('Hello', '23.30%')
('Web', '0.20%')

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Apple rolling out TV shows to Apple TV and iTunes in the Cloud in Germany
Jordan Kahn | Oct 4 2012 - 8:24 am PT
Apple appears to be rolling out an update to Apple TV users in Germany that brings access to a TV shows section in the main UI. According to tips from readers and local reports from iFun, it is unclear if the new UI is a mistake. Apple could very well be in the midst of rolling out the update to all users. Oddly, reports also claim the Movies icon has been removed from the main section. Meanwhile, TV shows are only available to purchase and not for renting (as was the case with iTunes in Germany previously). It is likely the removal of Movies is temporary.
iFun also said users are reporting iTunes in Germany, as well Switzerland, now list TV shows as purchased content. This indicates Apple might be preparing to roll out iTunes in the cloud for TV shows in the country. Currently, Apple only lists Music, Apps, and Books support for Germany.
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Francis J. Murnane (1914–1968)
By Michael Schepps
Francis J. Murnane was a longshoreman, labor leader, writer, and preservationist. He was described in his obituary as the "cultural and historical conscience of Portland." He was an advocate for leftist politics, fighting for the freedoms of immigration, speech, and association. He was also an advocate for historic preservation, and his campaigns saved many significant structures in Portland from demolition and abandonment.
Murnane was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 12, 1914. Raised in the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, he attended Lincoln High School and Columbia University (now the University of Portland). As a child, he accompanied his father (who sharpened axes) into logging camps, where he was exposed to the traditions and ideals of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Those experiences instilled in him a lifelong love of unions and a belief that organized labor could bring about a world in which work was rewarded with a living wage, dignity, equality, and social justice.
A devout Catholic, Murnane considered entering the priesthood in his early twenties but instead went to work at a plywood mill. In 1937, a conflict between the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) led to a nearly three-year lockout at the Plylock Plant in Portland. Murnane took on a leadership role, serving as president of the CIO-affiliated International Woodworkers of America Local 9-102. He filed a suit in 1938 on behalf of the locked-out workers, which resulted in the payment of over a million dollars to the strikers. As part of the Portland Industrial Union Council, he organized the Harry Bridges Defense Committee in 1939, which was devoted to helping prevent the deportation of Bridges, the Australia-born founder of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), because of his Leftist beliefs.
Murnane was drafted by the U.S. Army in 1941 and served as an engineer during World War II until he was discharged in 1944. By 1946, he was working as a longshoreman. He established the Julia Eaton Ruuttila Defense Committee in 1948 to raise funds for the journalist. Ruuttila had been arrested during a months-long labor action organized by the International Woodworkers of America. He also ran for the legislature as a candidate for the United States Progressive Party while defending union members during the McCarthy era.
During his twenty-two years of active membership in the ILWU, Murnane served on the executive board and as president of Local 8, and he testified before Congress in support of organized labor. Local 8 had a history of racial discrimination, an issue that Murnane dealt with by attempting to strike a balance between the anti-racist ideals he shared with the ILWU and the prejudice of longshoremen who made up a portion of Local 8's membership. Under his leadership, Portland's seaports operated for twenty years without a major work stoppage.
From 1949 to 1951, Murnane sought to expose the Portland Police Bureau's "subversive activities" unit, known as the Red Squad. He compiled detailed records and testimony, documenting a campaign of surveillance, harassment, and the misuse of immigration laws. Murnane's reports to Mayor Dorothy McCullough Lee were largely dismissed, but his thoroughness and publicity efforts contributed to the public recognition of the Red Squad and aided in its eventual censure.
A prolific and eloquent writer, Murnane advocated for education about labor history and was a prime mover behind Portland's marches commemorating "Bloody Thursday," the police murder of two strikers during the 1934 West Coast waterfront strikes. His love of historic preservation put him at odds with those who supported eliminating structures to make way for automobiles, and his efforts helped save some of Portland icons from destruction, including the Benson Bubblers, the Pittock Mansion, the sternwheeler Portland, Skidmore Fountain, and Portland Firefighters Park.
On April 10, 1968, four days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Murnane went to Local 8 and called for a moment of silence, but was repeatedly interrupted by jeers and denunciations from some of its members. Minutes later, he suffered a fatal heart attack. His funeral was attended by five hundred mourners, including Oregon Senator Wayne Morse, Mayor Terry Schrunk, Harry Bridges, and many "old time union men." The Port of Portland was shut down for twenty-four hours in his honor.
The Francis J. Murnane Memorial Wharf, the first monument in Oregon to a labor leader, was established in 1979, just south of the Burnside Bridge and close to Skidmore Fountain. As the power of the ILWU waned and Murnane's contemporaries died or retired, the dock was forgotten, the bronze plaque was stolen, and the city began to refer to it as Ankeny Dock. In 2009, labor historian Michael Munk learned that the city was planning a new cantilevered walkway for the site, which would hide the memorial. His efforts spurred an unsuccessful campaign to refurbish and preserve the space, but the walkway was nevertheless built, and the remnants of Murnane wharf are now inaccessible. Though the power of organized labor has diminished, Murname is gaining new attention by the Local 8 for his work with the ILWU, his contributions to preserving Portland history, and his reputation as a "longshoreman with the soul of a poet."
Francis Murnane and State Treasurer Sig Unander dedicated a monument to Simon Benson in June 1959. Both worked to restore the Benson Bubblers..
Courtesy Portland Oregonian
Francis Murnane Memorial, Portland Waterfront.
Courtesy ILWU
Murnane's obituary, Oregonian, April 11, 1968.
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"'Cultural Conscience,' Francis Murnane, Dies." Portland Oregonian, April 11, 1968
Francis J. Murnane Papers, Mss 1438, Oregon Historical Society Research Library, Portland.
"Murnane was 'A Dedicated, Steadfast Union Man." The Dispatcher: Published by the International Longshoremen's and Warehouse Union. 26.9 (April 26, 1968): 3.
Munk, Michael. "Oregonian Saw Red Squad in Different Light in 1930s." Lewis & Clark College, January, 2001. https://college.lclark.edu/programs/political_economy/student_resources/past/
Munk, Michael. "Portland's Red Squad: A Long and Ongoing Tradition, Part I." Lewis & Clark College, December, 2000. https://college.lclark.edu/programs/political_economy/student_resources/past/
Polishuk, Sandy. "'They Can't Come in through the Front Door Because You Guys Won't Let Them': An Oral History of the Struggle to Admit African Americans into ILWU Local 8." Oregon Historical Quarterly 120.4 (2019): 546–563.
Saker, Anne. "Seeking to Restore the Memory of a Portland Labor Leader - Francis J. Murnane." Portland Oregonian, April 22, 2009, https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2009/04/seeking_to_restore_the_memory.html.
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NJ housing: Rev. Soaries to speak at statewide housing, economics conference
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FRANKLIN (Somerset) - DeForest B. Soaries Jr., senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens, will deliver the keynote address later this month at the 2019 Governor's Conference on Housing and Economic Development, Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver announced.
The conference will be held Sept. 15-17 at Harrah's Waterfront Conference Center in Atlantic City.
As a pioneer of faith-based community development, Soaries's impact on First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens and the community has been tremendous, Oliver said.
"I am so excited to share the news that Dr. Soaries will be headlining this year's conference. He is a true pioneer in the faith-based community who has dedicated his life's work to spiritual growth, educational excellence, and economic empowerment," Oliver, who serves as commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs, said in a statement. "New Jersey's housing and economic development professionals will greatly benefit from hearing Dr. Soaries speak with his extensive background in community development and profound ability to marry scripture to relevant issues we face in our communities."
READ: Church's free conference focuses on financial freedom
Soaries founded the Central Jersey Community Development Corp, a nonprofit organization that specializes in revitalizing distressed neighborhoods. He also founded the Harvest of Hope Family Services Network Inc., which develops permanent solutions for children in the foster care system.
Soaries also served as New Jersey's first African American male secretary of state. He currently serves as an independent director at three companies - Independence Realty Trust, Federal Home Loan Bank of New York and Ocwen Financial Corp.
"The daunting challenge facing our nation is to prove that freedom can translate into full economic participation. We will have arrived when every community offers equal access and opportunity to employment, housing and health care resources. Committed and collaborative leaders can make New Jersey the model for the nation in achieving those goals," Soaries said in a news release.
The Governor's Conference for Housing and Economic Development is co-hosted by the Department of Community Affairs, the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, the New Jersey Redevelopment Authority and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority.
Registration is still open for the conference. For more information or to register, visit www.njhousingconference.com.


Two years after the initial announcement of the Switch, the console seems to be enjoying the wide success that its older brother, the Wii U, would be massively jealous of. Stellar games such as Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey have rocked the gaming community and received widespread acclaim, while third-party games that people never thought would ever grace the annals of Nintendo games have been announced and released (I'm looking at you, Diablo 3).
Yet while there's a lot about the Switch to celebrate, that doesn't mean it's without its fair share of criticism. So let's take off our hype goggles for a moment and look at how the Switch has been disappointing to some of us.
Nintendo has never been one for ugly designs, so I'm curious as to why the Switch UI is so simple. It's not bad, it's just… eh. The black (or white) design is too plain and feels too empty. I wish Nintendo would follow the precedent they set in the 3DS and implement customizable themes, pins, and badges to add some flair to the menu. Of course, the Main Menu is fully functional and that's what truly matters. But would it truly be that hard to offer more customization to the players? When the console first launched, I imagined that it was something that would come later because they were more focused on releasing the console. Two years passed since then, and there hasn't even been a mention of it. Come on Nintendo, get with it.
Profiles are bland – they're no more than a simple image – and friends lists are barebones and unimaginative. And although I appreciate the fact that your profile says how many hours you've played a game for, I do miss the Activity Log that was included in both the 3DS and the Wii U. There was a simple satisfaction in seeing the average amount of time I played a game, the total time I played the game, etc. The new system is no more than a mere approximation of how much I've played, and it pains me to play a game for a couple of hours and not see the timer move up. Perhaps I'm just being overly nitpicky.
Let me start by saying that the eShop is an unmitigated disaster for a simple reason: There is no eShop jingle.On a more serious note, the eShop has some flaws that could be fixed. Perhaps I'm spoiled because of Steam on PC, but unless I know specifically what game I want, finding a cool game on the eShop is very hard. There are far too many games out there, and not enough ways to sort through them or even a decent amount of curation. Perhaps there could be a way to recommend games to you based on what you played or what you've bought in the past. As it stands, the games that are most noticeable are the AAA best-seller and recent releases.
It's been almost two years, and people are still getting defective Joy-Cons when they purchase their Switch. I got lucky and have had mine work straight out of the box, but many people have had to send theirs to Nintendo for repairs.
To make matters worse, Nintendo recently announced a Super Mario Party bundle with a pair of Joy-Cons for $99.99 and I'm reluctant to buy it because I don't want defective Joy-Cons. Ever since launch, there have been occasional mentions of a possible fix by Nintendo, but a simple search through Reddit shows that people are still having issues with the Joy-Cons.
The Switch is not necessarily a modern home-entertainment console, but why couldn't it be one? Up until a few days ago, the only available video software was Hulu – which is only available in the United States. But why stop there?
As I was writing this section, YouTube decided to finally release an app on the Switch. Thanks, Nintendo, for the serendipitous release. Still, I would like to see other video streaming apps on the Switch such as Twitch, Crunchyroll, and Netflix. Honestly, that last one not being on there is a huge surprise. Of course, these aren't deal-breaking pieces of software, but it would be kind of nice to have them available on the Switch. But even then, the UI is such a mess that it makes it a hassle to scroll for software, so perhaps it's a good thing that there isn't much software out?
Yes, the Switch is currently receiving a record-breaking amount of support from third-party developers, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. Most of the third-party games that are currently on the Switch (or about to be) are old games that most people have already played. Games like Diablo 3, Wolfenstein, or Dark Souls are fun to have on the go and are great for those who have never experienced them, but they're not new games. Where's Fallout, Assassin's Creed and Red Dead Redemption 2? It's not the end of the world to not have them on this console, but it sure is a bummer.
Although games such as FIFA are released simultaneously on Switch and other consoles, the Switch versions tend to be lacking and subpar in comparison to the others. FIFA 18, for example, did not have the Story Mode that was a huge part of the game's marketing. I guess it's better than nothing though…Even a personal favorite of mine, Dragonball FighterZ, came out seven months after the initial release. Fighting games thrive with a strong community, and the one on Switch is almost non-existent because most people already owned the game – some even already owned it twice. It's even worse because the Switch has no built-in Ethernet capabilities (you need to buy a $30 adapter) so a game that is heavily dependent on timely inputs suffers from it. For many, there's barely any point in buying this version, unless you want to play it on the go. But I guess that's the main selling point of the Switch.
Overall, there are still many things about the Switch that could be better. Don't get me wrong: I love the Switch to death; it is the perfect console for on-the-go gaming and an excellent indie machine. All of the first-party games released on it so far have been superb too, and the Joy-Con functionality some of them get (such as Mario Party) is incredibly innovative.
It is exactly this love that makes me critical of the Switch. It's great, but I want it to be better. Nintendo has shown us time and time again just how capable they are. I'm certain that in the future, most of these issues will have been resolved – Nintendo has just been a bit too slow on the uptake.


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You're less likely to become a victim of burglary if you have a well-fitted and maintained burglar alarm system, according to the Gardai and a Which? survey of ex-burglars. The best type of intruder alarm for your home depends on your personal preferences, your budget, where you live, what your home is like and what level of protection you need. A key consideration is what you would prefer to happen when your alarm goes off. Bells-only alarms make a noise, but don't contact anyone (such as the Gardai or the homeowner). A speech dialler system meanwhile, automatically contacts you or other nominated friends and family when the alarm is triggered. Alternatively, you could get a monitoring contract, whereby you would pay a company monthly or annually to take action or call the guards if the alarm goes off.
Wireless or wired burglar alarm?
Alarms can be either wired or wireless. Wireless alarms look nicer, are generally easier to install and can be removed more easily if you move house. They use battery-powered sensors that communicate with a control panel using radio signals. While this type of alarm tends to be cheaper to install professionally, the alarms themselves can be more expensive. Wired alarm systems usually need to be installed by a professional, as the wires will need to be hidden, so labour costs may be higher. However all properties vary so the best thing to do would be to give Brian from ESP Security a call to discuss your needs.


All too often, the perfect shave can bring razor blades too close for comfort. Even the toughest skin feels on fire, hurts like heck. Nature's rescue-unit, including soothing Chamomile, Cucumber and Winterbloom, douse the "flaming-feeling" fast to leave razor-scraped skin cool, calm and totally comfortable again. There's no stinging, no smarting, no ouching. But there is an added boost. Refreshing Eucalyptus and tingly Peppermint rev your engines to give you a burst of get-up-and-go. Best for all skin types.
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U.S. regulators shut down a New Mexico nut-processing facility Monday after the plant was linked to an outbreak of salmonella earlier this year.
The Food and Drug Administration's decision to suspend the registration of the Sunland Inc. plant in Portales, New Mexico, comes after health officials traced the June outbreak to nut butter produced at the facility. In a statement announcing the move, the agency said it would reinstate the company's food facility registration "only when FDA determines that the company has implemented procedures to produce safe products."
Posted by: CNN Wire Staff
Filed under: Health News • Nuts • Recalls • Salmonella • Tainted Food
Seminal TV chef 'Mr. Food' dies at 81
Art Ginsburg, who as "Mr. Food" demonstrated recipes and cooking tips in 90-second segments for millions of TV viewers over more than 30 years, died Wednesday of cancer, a company official said.
Ginsburg, 81, died at his home in Weston, Florida, said Howard Rosenthal, an executive at Ginsberg's Florida-based Mr. Food Brand.
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Waffle House CEO in alleged sex scandal
A former personal assistant of Waffle House's CEO accused him of forcing her to "perform sexual services," among other degrading acts, during her nine years of working for him, according to an Atlanta police report.
Police blacked out the woman's name in the report, but gave a graphic account of her accusation, based on an interview that she gave Atlanta police on September 28. CNN obtained a copy of the police report Friday, as news of the allegations against Joseph Rogers Jr. spread around the media.
Filed under: Chain • Restaurants • Waffle House
Beef tongue recalled, tonsils possibly still attached
The United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Friday that Black Earth Meat Market Inc. is recalling approximately 99 pounds of beef tongue products because they may not have had the tonsils completely removed.
Posted by: CNN Wire Staff, Eatocracy Editors
Filed under: Food Safety • Health News • Mad Cow • Recalls • Tainted Food


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Thank you guys so much for the amazing review. You guys really "get" what I was after with this product line – a way to toss some terms into the creative and inspire your muse on many different planes. Glad you had fun playing!
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News of the impending departure of Columbus Crew SC midfielder Artur were, as it turned out, greatly exaggerated.
It appeared last week that the 21-year-old Brazilian would be returning to Sao Paolo FC following a year-long loan spell in Ohio, but on Tuesday Crew SC announced that they had secured a permanent deal for 2018.
Artur contributed three assists during the regular season, before scoring his first goal for Columbus in a 4-1 victory over New York City FC in the first leg of the Eastern Conference semifinals.


PCC is recognised as a key element of quality in health care. The aim of this review was to identify the features of PCC relevant to dentistry and ascertain the current research evidence base underpinning its use as a measure of quality within general dental practice.
Searches were undertaken in PubMed, Medline, PsychINFO, SocINDEX, Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source, The Cochrane Library ,CINAHL, HMIC, Web of Science, Goggle and Google scholar. Any study that investigated the concept of 'patient-centred care' within any aspect of dentistry was considered.
; Research findings describing a conceptual framework for patient-centred care or its constructs.
None of the three studies sought the views of patients.
Some distinct differences were noted between the key features of PCC reported within the dental literature and those developed within the NHS Patient Experience Framework.
Delivery of patient-centred care is an important aspect of providing quality dentistry, but there appears to be a poor understanding of the term within the existing literature. This paper demonstrates that there is only limited evidence to provide an understanding of patient-centred care within dentistry and the research, which has been published, does not relate to general dental practice.
The review has employed an extensive search of the literature so is unlikely to have missed any important studies. It is disappointing then that so few general practice based studies have been carried out , particularly as this is where most dentistry is carried out and also that the involvement of the 'patient's voice' has been sadly lacking. The reviews discussion is interesting and the observation that some of the domains of PCC may be different within dentisty deserve further investigation.
Mills I, Frost J, Cooper C, Moles DR, Kay E. Patient-centred care in general dental practice–a systematic review of the literature. BMC Oral Health. 2014 Jun 5;14:64. doi: 10.1186/1472-6831-14-64. PubMed PMID: 24902842; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4054911.


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Dutch football players are well-known worldwide for their talent and skills. This was so in the past and it is still so nowadays. The best examples in current times are the youngsters from Ajax Amsterdam, Matthijs de Ligt and Frenkie de Jong. With their team they were the biggest surprise in the Champions League this year.
But also this year's winnerLiverpool has two great Dutch players in the team: Virgil van Dijk and Georgino Wijnaldum.
Dutch football stars in the past
There has been a remarkable number of talented Dutch players that over the years have crossed borders to pursue their careers abroad. Well-known names from the past are Johan Cruyff (CF Barcelona), Frank Rijkaard, Marco van Basten and Ruud Gullit (AC Milan), Dennis Bergkamp (Internazionale, Arsenal), Arjen Robben (Chelsea, Real Madrid, Bayern München) and many, many others. Also nowadays a lot of Dutch talented players play in the best European competitions.
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Equally as important as the materials themselves are those responsible for creating access and caring for the materials within the library and archives. The Texas Collection is pleased to welcome two new members to our staff and faculty at Baylor University.
Meet John Wilson, originally from Ohio and Director of The Texas Collection, in our last staff post giving you a peek into the day-to-day work of The Texas Collection.
When I arrive at work each morning, I am never certain what I will discover, learn, and see. The suspense of unknown waiting treasures provides great enjoyment for me as director of The Texas Collection. I have been in this role a little over three years, and it is an unusual day when I do not receive an email from a donor, a phone call asking a Texas-related research question, or an inquiry from a faculty colleague about some aspect of Baylor's past.
My day generally begins with reviewing after-hours emails and telephone calls. Once those inquiries have been answered, I try to speak with each one of the staff, then say hello and ask for collection processing updates from our graduate students, and finally try to speak with each of our undergraduate student workers. There are always interesting and new finds from the work our students are accomplishing. These finds might include identifying an early Republic of Texas document with Sam Houston's signature or discovering that we own an original Tom Lea drawing.
Old Baylor at Independence. We worked with UMHB to restore and rededicate the columns in 2013.
I then begin work on two or three pressing projects. This involves multitasking throughout the day. My first project of the day might involve planning or maintenance concerns dealing with Old Baylor in Independence. Once or sometimes twice a month, I travel to Independence to walk the grounds of Windmill Hill or inspect the columns at Academy Hill. On these trips, I also visit a Baylor graduate or donor and check in with Peggy Ward, who manages the day-to-day operations in Independence and works closely with our community partners, the Independence Historical Society.
In addition to leading and managing The Texas Collection, I work closely with two parts of our extensive holdings, our map collection totaling nearly 17,000 items and photograph collection of more than 1.4 million images. I might review a print or online dealer catalog for both maps and photographs.
Another project that might be pressing for my attention is planning a lecture by a guest speaker such as the Honorable Tom Phillips. This type of special event and all of its many details are vitally important to the outstanding reputation and continued outreach necessary to having a vibrant and active special collection. Our speakers have researched in The Texas Collection and connect with our resources and the audience, particularly our students.
On a daily basis, I work with donors to acquire new archival collections that will enhance and strengthen our holdings. We are always searching for early Texas collections from the Spanish Colonial period, the Mexican period, and the early Republic of Texas period. We are also interested in Waco history, the Civil War, Baylor-related items, and of course, print materials dealing with Texas. I am closely involved with the budget, endowments, and fundraising.
One of the most interesting parts of my job is talking with people about The Texas Collection. These days, we talk with and reach out to more people than ever before due to our social media outlets. Flickr, Facebook and this blog are followed and read by fans across Texas and around the world.
I think the most rewarding part of my job is working with Baylor students. This could involve teaching a class, collaborating on a project, or advising students on studying abroad in Italy (another one of my interests). The students are the reason I have stayed at Baylor for 26 years. Our students are smart, talented, and willing to work hard for their Baylor degrees. I am fortunate to work with a great staff and exceptional students.
The Texas Collection turned 90 this year! But even though we've been at Baylor for so long, we realize people aren't quite sure what goes on in a special collections library and archives. So over the course of 2013, we have been featuring staff posts about our work at The Texas Collection. See other posts in the series here. We hope you've enjoyed learning more about our work.
Staying up to date with binding is not easy with as many active titles as we have–more than 3,000!
As a Library Information Specialist, I am responsible for a myriad of duties that keep my days interesting and unique. From quality control of student work to preservation to stacks maintenance, my job touches on many aspects of library work.
One of my favorite jobs is maintaining the website, as it is perhaps one of the most frequently utilized gateways to our materials as well as to our staff. Keeping the vast amount of information up to date and organized in an easily accessible manner is not always as easy as it sounds, but is most rewarding.
This includes keeping the homepage fresh for returning users by updating the Flickr slideshow, the blog RSS feed, and the Facebook feed. I also create new pages for exhibits, events, and sometimes to showcase collections. This particular job allows me to express my creativity in a manner that benefits The Texas Collection as well as our patrons.
Here at The Texas Collection, keeping the humidity and temperature at acceptable levels is always a concern, as is the case with many libraries and archives. The age and construction of our building presents unique challenges in this endeavor, as the building has a history of leaks, mold, and wide temperature swings. To help counter this, we use temperature/humidity monitors for each floor as well as our secure rooms. I keep track of the data recorded on these monitors, which help assist us with assessing and preventing environmental threats to the collection.
Another important aspect of my job requires the handling and filling of interlibrary loans (ILLs). We receive many requests for either the duplication or lending of materials. When a request comes in, we must first assure that the item is in a condition to allow lending. Once this has been determined, either scans of the requested pages are made, which I then upload to the ILL server, or the item itself is sent out for circulation.
I also am in charge of overseeing all of the serials (such as magazines and journals) here at The Texas Collection. This is a gargantuan job in itself and requires the assistance of several student workers. Binding, processing, shelving, shifting, and making sure the holdings are accurately reflected in the record takes up a large portion of my time.
One of the microfilm readers. I have spent many hours assisting patrons with this machine.
I have a lifelong love of electronic equipment, and it is my pleasure to be able to assist patrons and the staff with troubleshooting the equipment here at The Texas Collection. From the antiquated slide projectors to the microfilm machines to the computers and scanners, I am the first point of contact for troubleshooting. Usually I can figure out what the problem is and correct it, but occasionally, we do need to call ITS.
My absolute favorite job, however, is assisting patrons at the circulation desk. I enjoy helping people find what they are looking for and hearing their interesting stories. It is very rewarding to me, when at the end of the day, I can look back at the people I helped and the materials I kept safe for another day.


FINAL EXAM NEWS: The date and time of the final exam are now officially set: Sunday, December 3 from 1:00 to 3:00. We don't yet know the room. Please note that plane reservations are not a sufficient reason to reschedule the final exam.
Calendar - Check in here for a brief review of what was covered each day in class, homework assignments, and any general announcements.
Official office hours: MWF 1:45 - 3:00 and TTh 11:00 - 12:00.
Other office hours: Email me to set up an appointment (this will usually work) or just drop by the office (this plan is a bit riskier).
Exams: The date, time, and format of all exams are yet to be determined.
Makeup policy: Homework will be assigned (almost) every class period, and will be due at the next class meeting. No late homework will be accepted for any reason, but your three lowest homework scores will be dropped before computing your grade. Thus you may miss up to three homework assignments without penalty.
Makeup tests will only be given in case of legitimate emergencies.
Tutorial: At this point, it seems unlikely that there will be a tutorial for math 14. More information as it becomes available.
Collaboration is encouraged during the process of thinking about homework problems, but is not acceptable while writing up your final solutions. That is, working together on homework is fine, but copying is not.
No collaboration of any form is acceptable during exams.
Students with disabilities: Any student with a documented disability needing academic adjustments or accommodations is requested to speak with the professor by the end of the second week of the term. All discussions will remain confidential, although the Academic Skills Center may be consulted to verify the documentation fo the disability.


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Evaluation of adverse events focusing on infection associated with infliximab originator and biosimilar using a spontaneous reporting system database
Iku Niinomi1,
Keiko Hosohata1,
Yasuhiro Mori1,
Yuki Yamaguchi1,
Tomohito Wakabayashi1,
Mayako Uchida1 &
Kazunori Iwanaga1
Infliximab (IFX) has changed the management of many life-threatening immune-mediated diseases. The high cost of IFX and its patent expiry have led to pharmaceutical companies developing a biosimilar; however, its safety profile remains unknown in the real world. The purpose of this study was to clarify the adverse events associated with IFX originator and its biosimilar using the Japanese Adverse Drug Event Report (JADER) database.
Adverse event reports submitted to the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency between the third quarter of 2014 and the fourth quarter of 2018. We calculated the reporting odds ratio and 95% confidence interval for each adverse event.
We obtained 2771 reports of adverse events associated with IFX originator and 402 reports with IFX biosimilar. Signals were detected for pneumonia, interstitial lung disease, tuberculosis, and sepsis with both IFX originator and its biosimilar, whereas there was no signal for infection with the biosimilar.
The strength of the association between IFX originator and its biosimilar with adverse events is partly different, but reports were quite limited for the biosimilar compared with originator. It is recommended that research be continued in order to accumulate a wide variety of information, and that newly reported data be placed in the multifaceted viewpoints for improvement of care levels.
Infliximab (IFX) is an anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha chimeric monoclonal antibody used in the management of autoimmune inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriasis, Crohn's disease, and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). These inflammatory diseases reduce the quality of life of patients [1], so the introduction of IFX has changed the therapeutic approach [2]. Despite its efficacy in biological therapy, IFX as well as other anti-TNFα agents are expensive and have become a burden on pharmacy budgets in most countries, possibly restricting access for many patients [3, 4]. However, many biological products have reached or are close to patent expiration. This has led to the development of biosimilar drugs [5].
Biosimilars are biological medicinal products containing a version of the active substance of an already authorized original biological medicinal product, for which they are required to have similar efficacy, safety and immunogenicity. The similarities between the originator and biosimilar were determined in two phase III clinical trials in patients with RA (PLANETRA) [6] and ankylosing spondylitis (PLANETAS) [7]. However, its safety profile remains unknown in the real-world setting. Especially, the main concern regarding anti-TNF therapy, as well as other biological agents, is the greater susceptibility to infections such as interstitial lung disease, pneumonia, sepsis, and tuberculosis (TB).
Recently, spontaneous reporting systems have been used as a crucial source of post-marketing drug safety surveillance for the detection of adverse drug events [8, 9]. The Japanese Adverse Drug Event Report (JADER) database is a large published database managed by the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) for pharmacovigilance [10,11,12]. The objective of this study was to assess adverse events focusing on infection associated with IFX originator and its biosimilar using the JADER database.
Data were extracted from the public release of the JADER database of PMDA, covering the period between the third quarter of 2014 and the fourth quarter of 2018. The main reason for limiting our research to this period was that IFX biosimilar was first launched in November 2014 in Japan. The data structure of JADER consists of 4 data sets: patient demographic information (DEMO), drug information (DRUG), adverse events (REAC), and medical history. Preferred terms (PTs) in the Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA) serve as the terminology for registration of adverse events in the REAC table. After we removed duplicated data from each table because the same case report will be received from different sources [13], the DEMO table was linked to the REAC and DRUG tables using the ID number.
The contribution of the medication to adverse events was classified into three categories: "suspected medicine," "concomitant medicine," and "interaction," as described previously. In order to exclude the masking effect, defined as the condition whereby the effect of a given drug-event pair might be hidden by the presence of another product [14], we extracted cases that were classified as "suspected medicine." Of the IFX biosimilars, "IFX biosimilar 1", "IFX biosimilar 2", and "IFX biosimilar 3" were launched in 2014, 2017, and 2018, respectively [15]. In this study, we excluded the reports of "IFX biosimilar 2" (n = 5) and "IFX biosimilar 3" (n = 9) from analysis since insufficient number of reports were provided.
Next, we calculated the reporting odds ratio (ROR). The ROR is the rate of reporting a specific adverse reaction caused by a particular drug divided by the rate of the same adverse events caused by all other drugs present in the database. A signal was considered to be present when the lower limit of the 95% CI of the ROR was > 1.
In this database, age, height, and weight information are indicated in the form of age in decades, height in centimeter-denominated ranges, and weight in kilogram-denominated ranges. Because these data are not continuous variables, we could not conduct multiple analyses using them. All analyses were performed with JMP Pro 12 (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA.).
The total number of drug and reported adverse event co-occurrences with IFX originator was 2771 (494 different events) and 402 (113 different events) with IFX biosimilar. Of those, infection-related adverse events (Table 1) with IFX originator (657 reports) accounted for 23.7% and those with its biosimilar (88 reports) accounted for 21.9%. Adverse event reports with IFX biosimilar were fewer than with its originator. Among the infection-related adverse events associated with IFX originator, the most common was pneumonia, followed by interstitial lung disease, TB, infection, and sepsis in this order (Table 2). As for those with IFX biosimilar, the most reported adverse event was pneumonia, followed by interstitial lung disease and sepsis.
Table 1 Definition of infection of interest. MedDRA, Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities; PT, Preferred Term
Table 2 Disproportionality analysis of infection-related adverse events of IFX originator and biosimilar
Interestingly, IFX biosimilar was no associated with infection, with the number of co-occurrences being only seven. On the other hand, the report of infection was high for IFX originator (n = 112), and signal was detected (ROR 3.54, 95%CI 2.93–4.29).
The primary emphasis in biosimilar development is on evaluation of the similarity in physicochemical structure and biological function between the biosimilar and originator biologic. There may be minor differences due to their complex nature and production methods; however, when approved, any variability and differences between the originator and its biosimilar will have been shown not to reduce effectiveness [16]. Indeed, several cohort studies in IBD patients treated with IFX biosimilar showed outcomes comparable to those in patients treated with IFX originator [17, 18]. As for the safety profile, clinical trials are considered to be insufficient for fully evaluating their safety profile due to the limited selection of patients, and so pharmacovigilance such as through the JADER database is considered important.
Our results revealed that signals were detected in pneumonia, interstitial lung disease, TB, and sepsis both with IFX originator and its biosimilar. TB is a serious adverse event accompanying the administration of IFX. TNF-α plays a major role in defence against infection and in the formation and maintenance of granulomas; therefore, treatment with TNF-α inhibitors is recognized as a risk factor for TB [19]. The PLANETRA study [6] and PLANETAS study [20], which were conducted to compare the efficacy and safety of IFX originator and its biosimilar, revealed that the incidences of latent TB were very similar for IFX originator and IFX biosimilar. On the other hand, a prospective and observational cohort study showed that no cases of TB were identified during follow-up in 353 patients with IBD receiving IFX biosimilar therapy [21]. In our results, the association of IFX originator with TB was stronger than that of its biosimilar.
In this study, signal was detected for infection with IFX originator, but not in its biosimilar. There is immunogenicity between IFX originator and its biosimilar. Immunogenicity is associated with a reduced response and other adverse events [20]. The degree of immunogenicity is not the same for all biologics, and only minor differences in the formulation, purity, or packaging of a biological drug can affect the immunogenicity profile. However, the difference in this study is considered to be due to a number of factors other than immunogenicity. Adverse event reports were limited for the biosimilar compared with originator. If the reports increase in the future, the conclusion may change. Further studies are needed.
This pharmacovigilance study using the JADER database has several limitations. First, as in all pharmacovigilance studies, we were unable to calculate the true incidence rates, notably due to: 1) lack of the total number of patients receiving the drugs of interest and 2) under-reporting. Adverse events commonly caused by drugs that are well-known are less likely to be reported. Second, the ROR does not provide a robust indication of the signal strength. In spontaneous reporting systems such as JADER, control populations are not included, so the ROR is different from the "odds ratio" that is commonly used in epidemiological studies. In real terms, the ROR indicates an increased risk of adverse event reporting, and not the risk of adverse events. Finally, the present method did not provide us with detailed clinical information on the patients [22].
The dataset supporting the conclusions of this article is included within the article.
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Education and Research Center for Clinical Pharmacy, Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 4-20-1 Nasahara, Takatsuki, Osaka, 569-1094, Japan
Iku Niinomi, Keiko Hosohata, Yasuhiro Mori, Yuki Yamaguchi, Tomohito Wakabayashi, Mayako Uchida & Kazunori Iwanaga
Iku Niinomi
Keiko Hosohata
Yasuhiro Mori
Yuki Yamaguchi
Tomohito Wakabayashi
Mayako Uchida
Kazunori Iwanaga
IN and KH conceived of the study and conducted the statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript. IN, KH, YM, YY and TW collect and analyzed data. MU and KI helped to interpretation of data. KH and KI participated in its design of the study. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Keiko Hosohata.
Niinomi, I., Hosohata, K., Mori, Y. et al. Evaluation of adverse events focusing on infection associated with infliximab originator and biosimilar using a spontaneous reporting system database. J Pharm Health Care Sci 5, 21 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40780-019-0149-z
Received: 10 April 2019
Accepted: 29 July 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40780-019-0149-z
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Eileen Neff, The Golden Leaf, 2015, Archival Pigment on Dibond, 12 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Edition of 15. Bridgette Mayer Gallery
Nathaniel M. Stein
(i)The steps to this particular abstraction… are, like the ascent to any of the abstractions that interest us importantly, an ascent through illusion which gathers round us more closely and thickly, as we might expect it to do, the more we penetrate it. – Wallace Stevens
Metaphor moves in a flare of intuition that is both the recognition of an abstract likeness and the event of a poetic transformation. Arrested, I see: this is that, although it is not. A metaphor is an impossible being, an alchemy of logic and magic, a dun-white horse who – pausing, turning, breathing – returns one's regard from the verge of a deep dark wood. As in metaphor, similitude is estranged and remade in the tropical grove we enter with Eileen Neff – sometimes in a pitch-dark night, sometimes in the lambent green light of day.
In January 2014, Eileen Neff held a three-week artist's residency at Monte Azul, a unique amalgamation of contemporary art center, eco-resort, and nature preserve set in the rainforest of southern Costa Rica. While not documentary in any usual sense of the word, the works that comprise Traveling Into View are drawn from her experiences of the residency – experiences of transit and arrival, of the forest's fecundity and her own limitations in face of such fecundity, of close looking amid profuse stimulus, and of repeated passages (as by foot between her casita and Monte Azul's café, or by car over the mountain road linking the compound to parts beyond). The photographs Neff made in Costa Rica became the raw material for the digitally-crafted pictures that take on physical forms and spatial relationships in the gallery – all of which has as much to do with painting, sculpture, and literature as it does with the insular traditions of photography. Neff's constellations of image-objects displace linear coherence with the sensibilities of collage, a mode of expression that draws close to experience while declining to represent causes and effects in a prosaic manner.
As Neff's work often has, the current project posits a kind of dream-like photographic narrative and then fractures that narrative over the razor edges of temporality and perception. In its introductory passage the installation suggests the unfolding arrival of a beholder who is both rapt by technologically augmented vision and savvy to it. The god's-eye vista of Window Seat receives a reflexive jab in Pre-Viewing, in which the shadow of a superimposed postcard rack reveals a picturesque view of Costa Rican landscape as a constructed surface. (ii) A knowing gesture, the postcard rack is also a reference to Neff's oeuvre, as well as a synecdoche for the larger ecosystem of photographic imagery that preconditions the traveler's perception and representation of the world. Fast on the heels of this canny dialogue comes Mountain Road, a (roughly) three-and-a-half by five-foot gulp of experience in which earthbound sensory overload seems to overflow cerebral maneuver. As the beholder is sped through unfamiliar, sublime terrain, roadside foliage blurs against landscape, and the relation between figure and ground scintillates.
If there is a suggestion in these works that some type of distance may be necessary for sense-
making, there are complex ripostes throughout the project. Two pendants to Mountain Road embody immediate examples. Evoking, respectively, the parted curtain of enlightenment painting and the beady gaze of the taxonomist, The Golden Leaf and Moon-Tropic broach historical modes of looking and picturing that have served to bring the phenomenal into a visual order. These two pictures seem to promise both a grand spectacle and still, close, concentrated seeing. Scrutiny, however, works both ways. In Moon-Tropic, what appears to be the fronds of a tropical plant in the compass of a botanist's magnifying glass is in fact a reflection, caught in a mirrored disc Neff brought with her as potential working material, along with the roll of Mylar film she used to create Reflected and Reflected 2 (two chromogenic prints that appear later in the installation). At some point in the artist's process, the photographed mirror-double of botanical fact was twined with the celestial bodies of the Costa Rican night.
Circuits of resemblance are also much at issue in The Golden Leaf, a photograph (and a title) that describes the form of a curtain tie-back, the appearance of a pictured curtain, and the effect of gold pigment on the surface of a print (as in, gold leaf) – not to mention a parallel realm of reference to tropical flora and the grasping fantasies of explorers-cum-treasure hunters. Here the curtain is drawn back on glinting indices of disappeared phenomena, artifacts of the lens made inscrutable in a conjured night. In Neff's characteristically precise visual language, these first pictures seem simultaneously to reinforce the allure of vision and qualify its capacity to discern. In a related vein, consider the lightbox transparency, Green Honeycreeper, installed alone in an alcove between the front and rear spaces of the gallery. The work stems from a recurrent experience during Neff's residency: she passed this tangle of trees and the eponymous bird on the walk between the café and her living quarters – (iii) "a regular, brilliant moment had several times each day."
There is a sensual universe even within minute proximal encounter, a telescoping intensity for which the gesture of isolation here provides a kind of felt analog. A thatch of vines and branches knits the world together, while sprays of color and the very luminescence of the object seem to pull towards a wilder revelation. The experience of keen looking is both irreducible and rich. So rich, in fact, that its expression tends to undercut and overflow representation's urge towards structure and distance. In the front space of the gallery, across from Mountain Road, gathers a coterie of pictures (though more than pictures) of leaves and birds. This portion of Neff's project has been aptly described as "a kind of portrait gallery where each leaf is celebrated for the remarkable individual that it is."(iv) Personified in stature and represented with a penetrating attention usually reserved for revelations of psychological depth, each leaf seems to harbor an interior life, hinted at by the play of shapes and shadows above or below its surface. Individuality, however, is a funny concept in a body of work in which similitude is a magnetic force. To individuate is to break an extensive field into a collection of singularities, but these particular individuals are pulled back to a more fluid state of identity in so many ways. In their analogousness to persons, certainly, they seem to oscillate between this and that. But they are also fluctuant as objects. Permuting the relationship between frame, print, and space of display, these pictures do not settle onto the wall in a way that allows one to forget their presentness as things. (Neff often pushes her work into this territory, as is evident from the very first here – Window Seat, for example, seems not so much hung as suspended in the act of gliding past the wall.) In the leaf gathering, frames float or land in a manner that suggests both a portrait gallery in mid-hang and the pell-mell visual incident of the rainforest. One frame gives up the ghost and allows its occupant to lap waxily onto the floor. Elsewhere in the installation, a few leaves break completely free of frames and present themselves as leaf-green, leaf-shaped leaves (of paper, yes, but isn't paper just a plant in another form anyway?). Brazenly, these leaf-leaves also have no problem using the furniture to adopt an eye-level posture, or casually taking a seat.
There is a one-to-one ratio migrating through this body of work that tests the boundaries of representation and facsimile. Like a metaphor (or, arguably, a photograph) Neff's leaves are abstractions that conjoin with the basic structure of the real by magical identification, by the being of resemblance, by metamorphosis. She teases out this kind of slippage with lucent, minimalist humor: amid a grove of uncannily personified plants, perch two birds and a tropical flower that is uncannily like a bird. If the point of taxonomy is to order by articulating difference, then taxonomy is both invoked and exploded here. Names refract and multiply meaning while they identify, and even the material form of an object is fluid – specific and significant, but mutable rather than fixed. In the rear space of the gallery, Neff's testing and teasing out of analogy becomes both distilled and prismatic. Forms of resemblance cascade through this portion of the installation – doubling, reflection, replacement, and all of their unruly kin are present. One way to approach the variety and complexity at play among these works is through an idea that describes photography as well as metaphor: to reprise is to place into relation, which is to transform.
In addition to a structural relationship between a photograph and that which it pictures, one could argue that all photographs stem from a relation between subject and author. Portrait photographs force the point, however: a portrait is generated in an exchange between two beings, real or imagined. Many of the works in the installation can be understood as portraits of leaves or animals, but while there is more portraiture here than in all of Neff's prior work, there are only two pictures in which the artist levels the camera at a human subject. First Scene and Second Nature feature a young Costa Rican man who helped Neff with the roll of Mylar film she brought to Monte Azul. At some point during their collaboration, she asked the man to hold a mirror disc in front of his face, and photographed him. While playful, these portraits are also disconcerting – because they hollow out the subject, but perhaps even more so because by de-facing the subject they picture the absence of the beholder. In place of relation between subject and author is a mirror that shifts the gaze to a third space, a move which is itself redoubled when the natural reflection in First Scene is digitally replaced with another landscape in Second Nature. It is poignant that although the beholder's gaze is deferred in depictions of a human subject, that look is met by the like-but-unlike subject of Oh Brother. The animal (and, perhaps, the forest) is to the human that which is alike but in excess. So, an ascent to metaphor spirals back to the haunting regard of a lone white horse. In this regard is the beholder met – arrested, disclosed, metamorphosed, and returned. Perhaps, although never pictured, it is this being – the beholder – who is traveling into view, estranged and remade in the pitch-dark of an animal eye, on the verge of a deep dark wood.
Nathaniel M. Stein is a curator and scholar of photography. He holds a doctorate in the History of Art and Architecture from Brown University and is currently the Horace W. Goldsmith Fellow in Photography at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
i Wallace Stevens, "Three Academic Pieces," The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951), 81.
ii The postcard rack has been important for the artist both as motif and as an element of installation, for example in Here and There (2012), Postcloud (2012), and International Forest (1990). There are other returning elements here as well: actual pieces of furniture appear for the first time since The Mountain a Bed and a Chair (1992).
iii Eileen Neff, email communication to the author, February 18, 2015.
iv Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Bridgette Mayer Gallery Announces A Solo Exhibition By Gallery Artist Eileen Neff.
Through April 18th, Traveling into View, Eileen Neff at Bridgette Mayer Gallery, 709 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 tel 215 413 8893 fax 215 413 2283 bmayer@bridgettemayergallery.com
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Matthew Broderick already knows what he's getting for "Christmas" — a new job.
The two-time Tony winner has been cast in Fox's "A Christmas Story" live musical airing on Dec. 17 that's based on the beloved 1983 film and 2013 stage adaptation.
Broderick takes on the adult Ralphie Parker, who looks back on an unforgettable holiday. Jean Shepherd voiced the part in the popular movie, which has run as a holiday marathon on TBS and TNT for the past 20 years.
Set in the 1940s, that action follows young Ralphie, who wants only one thing for Christmas — a Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot Range Model air rifle with a compass in the stock.
But the kid's parents, teacher and department store Santa all tell the 9-year-old the same thing: "You'll shoot your eye out."
The response inspires a hilarious song by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, whose Broadway score for "A Christmas Story" was nominated for a Tony.
The songwriting team — who've since won a Tony for "Dear Evan Hansen" and an Oscar for "La La Land" — are composing several new songs for the three-hour broadcast.
Raphie's desire for a BB gun inspired a great song in Broadway's "A Christmas Story."
Broderick, 55, joins "Saturday Night Live" alum Maya Rudolph, who was previously announced to play Ralphie's mother.
Broderick knows his way around musicals — on stage and on television.
He won a Tony for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" in 1995. And he starred in the 2003 TV movie of "The Music Man."
Additional casting for "A Christmas Story" will be announced soon.


Odd Salon might sound like a place to get your curls set for Burning Man, but it is in fact a series of evening cocktail gatherings in which speakers, from the amateur to the professionally obsessed, present lectures on odd topics. This week, the subject up for discussion at Public Works revolves around stealing—from the pillaging of King Tut's tomb to the little-known grave robbing proclivities of our Pilgrim forefathers. With six speakers scheduled, there's bound to be much to mull over as you stumble home from the club.


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Do worker bees feed the queen?
The worker bee is just that – a bee that works. Depending on her age, she has many different roles in the hive. These bees nurture and feed bee larvae. They take on the job of processing incoming nectar, feeding the queen, as well as making and capping the honey.
What is the difference between queen bees and worker bees?
The worker bees are female, but they do not breed. The queen bee is female and creates all the babies for the hive. The drone bees are male and do not have a sting. Bees communicate with each other about food sources using dances.
Why do worker bees follow the queen?
A queen is constantly attended to by a "court" of worker bees. These workers feed and groom her. They also carry away her waste and actually digest her food for her. Without the constant care of her attendants, the queen would die.
How does a worker bee become a queen?
A bee becomes a queen bee thanks to the efforts of the existing worker bees in the hive. A young larva (newly hatched baby insect) is fed special food called "royal jelly" by the worker bees. The larva is enclosed with a cell inside the hive, where it makes pupae and develops into a queen.
How does royal jelly look like?
Royal jelly, which also is called "bee milk," looks like white snot. More than half of it is water, the rest is a combination of proteins and sugars. Special glands in the heads of worker bees secrete the stuff, which gets fed to babies.
How is royal jelly different from honey?
Royal Jelly is a milky-white, rich, nutritional substance secreted by worker bees and fed to all bee larvae. Honey, on the other hand, is a byproduct of nectar collected by worker bees and consumed by all adult bees other than the queen.
Why are worker bees female?
Workers are nevertheless considered female for anatomical and genetic reasons. Genetically, a worker bee does not differ from a queen bee and can even become a laying worker bee, but in most species will produce only male (drone) offspring.
How do you know if a wasp is a queen?
Wasp Queen Size If you look at queen wasp pictures, you'll find that the queen is sometimes a little longer than worker wasps, perhaps a quarter inch. And in some varieties of wasps, queens have a pointed lower abdomen and narrow waist that the non-royal members of the colony do not have.
How do bees make royal jelly?
Production. Royal jelly is secreted from the glands in the heads of worker bees and is fed to all bee larvae, whether they are destined to become drones (males), workers (sterile females), or queens (fertile females).
Whether it becomes a queen, a worker or a drone, all honeybees must make the transition through the four stages of metamorphosis; egg, larva, pupa and adult. The queen lays her eggs in the cells of the honeycomb. Fertilised eggs become workers (or a new queen) while unfertilised eggs become drones.
What are the roles of queen bees, drones and worker bees?
Hives include one queen, hundreds of drones, and thousands of worker bees. The worker bees are female, but they do not breed. The queen bee is female and creates all the babies for the hive. The drone bees are male and do not have a sting.
Why do worker bees not get royal jelly?
Worker bees do not get fed Royal Jelly which means they will never become Queen. A Queen has a longer body than a worker bee. The Royal Jelly causes the full development of her ovaries which allows her to lay eggs.
Where does a queen bee lay her eggs?
The queen lays her eggs in the cells of the honeycomb. Fertilised eggs become workers (or a new queen) while unfertilised eggs become drones. The worker bees work hard feeding the rapidly growing larvae. Finally, the honeycomb cells are capped over so the larvae can spin their cocoons and pupate in private.
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termination of construction contracts in the 16 Local Government Areas in Ekiti State, Nigeria.
people at the grassroots to effectively enjoy the benefits of these infrastructural facilities.
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An over-populated, concrete-filled Los Angeles drives Maggie into fear and isolation. On the edge, her cries for change are neglected by her husband, Ben. When she turns to her friends, Alex and Kyle, they propose an overnight camping trip to get away from the confines of the city and escape to the solitude of the mountains.Deep in the mountains, they encounter a self-proclaimed radical environmentalist, Birch. Although worlds apart, she and Maggie have an undeniable chemistry, encouraging Maggie to find her inner strength. New information sends the foursome on a journey where masks are ripped away and secrets are revealed. Accusations lead to violence, and desperation fuels an irreversible chain of events.