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Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, who is in a Beijing hospital after leaving the U.S. embassy on Wednesday, says he wants to meet visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and be allowed safe passage with his family to the United States. U.S. lawmakers and American-based human rights activists are also urging help for the blind activist who has spoken out against forced abortions and sterilizations in China.
During a Thursday hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Republican Representative Chris Smith of New Jersey spoke with Chen by cell phone.
Chen said he wants to meet with Secretary Clinton, to thank her and ask her for more help to go to the United States so he can rest. He added that he is worried about the safety of his relatives in eastern Shandong province, where he was under house arrest. Chen also requested that his freedom of movement be guaranteed.
He spoke from a hospital in Beijing, where he has been staying with his wife and two children, while being treated for a foot injury. Friends and activists in Beijing say they have been prevented access to the hospital.
A senior State Department official said there are indications that U.S. officials will be able to see Chen on Friday. Clinton, who is in Beijing, where she has spoken about the importance of human rights in China, has not mentioned Chen publicly.
Human rights activists say they have received reports that Chen might have been coerced into leaving the U.S. embassy in Beijing, just as Secretary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner arrived for security and economic talks.
U.S. officials say Chen left the embassy willingly, after an agreement was reached with Chinese authorities to allow the eventual relocation of his family and grant Chen permission to study law at a university in China.
During the hearing, Representative Smith expressed displeasure with the deal.
"There are many questions and there are even more concerns. How will the United States and China agreement on Chen and his family's safety be enforced? What happens if Chen or any member of his family suffers retaliation" he said.
Another Republican representative, Frank Wolf of Virginia, promised an investigation.
"Was there any coercion, subtle coercion, forced coercion or pressure involved? What were the internal State Department and White House deliberations? When the dust settles ((i,e., soon)), I intend to formally request to review all cable traffic, classified or otherwise, that surrounded these negotiations," he said.
Wolf said what initially seemed to be a diplomatic triumph, when Chen fled house arrest to the safety of the U.S. embassy, has turned into a "diplomatic fiasco."
Pastor Bob Fu, president of the U.S-based Christian human rights group ChinaAid, told the hearing that he was shocked and disappointed by Chen's departure from the U.S. embassy.
"Why is there no other option on the table offered to Chen? For instance, why would the U.S. embassy not tell Chen that, 'You have a choice, that you can stay, we can continue to negotiate with the Chinese government to allow your wife and two children to come to the U.S. embassy, so that you can have a safe environment to discuss your future," he said.
Other activists said there are reports of a new crackdown on activists close to Chen and on others seeking broader human rights in China. They said it is important for U.S. officials to take these matters seriously and to take bold action to secure Chen's freedom.
Chen was released from four years in prison in 2010 and was placed under house arrest. Chen, who is self-taught in law, has been an outspoken critic of forced abortions and sterilizations in China.


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If you are in a church where:
- The Bible is read (in a language you understand)
- The Bible is preached (in a language you understand)
- You sing songs based off Biblical truths (in a language you understand)
- Pray prayers (in a language you understand) and are Biblical in content
- You are taught that you are justified by grace alone through faith alone by Christ alone
Even more than that, on a non-religious level, we probably wouldn't have the form of Republican government that we have today. A Democracy, capitalism, the sciences (as we have them today), educational system, and family life as we do today.
Sociologist Peter Burger said the reformation is the most amazing organizational achievement in the history of man, based on the network of friendships, and these men pressing forward toward the same goal to change churches and nations.
Martin Luther, who sparked the start of the Reformation, is said to be amongst the top 3 most influential men of last millennium.
Even if you just have the Bible in your own language, then you can thank God for the Reformers.
So what is the Reformation?
Since many don't know what this holiday is let me give this brief overview:
On October 31, 1517 a obscure German monk by the name of Martin Luther nailed a list of 95 theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg. He was protesting the abuse of indulgences in the church. In particular he was offended by Johann Tetzel, one of the Monks who had been sent out by the Pope to raise money for the building of St. Peter's basilica in Rome.
In Roman Catholicism indulgences were a remission of a certain amount of time in Purgatory granted to the repentant sinner for a number of different reasons. One way to gain an indulgence was to go on a pilgrimage to a distant land. Today an
opportunity to go to the Holy Land would be considered a special privilege. But travel in medieval Europe was a major hardship, filled with many dangers - and a trip to Israel would only be undertaken because of the granting of an indulgence. To be fair we need to say that Roman Catholic theology required that the penitent sinner have a godly sorrow for his sins for the indulgence to be of any value. Tetzel, though, was going around selling indulgences as a "get out of jail free card." He had a little slogan he used to promote his activities that went "As soon as a coin in the coffer rings, a soul from purgatory springs."
Luther's initial protest was not against the granting of indulgences but against abuses of granting indulgences practiced by Tetzel (and against the Pope's authority). It needs to be remembered that what Luther did in nailing his theses to the church door was not an act of rebellion. This was the normal method used by scholars to call for debate on an issue. Support for this statement lies with the fact that the theses were written Latin (the scholarly language) and not in German (the common language).
However, some enterprising students copied the theses, published them - and within a few weeks they were all over Germany. This was the precipitating event of the
Reformation of the church. The flame of reformation was soon kindled across
Europe. Ulrich Zwingli in Switzerland, Thomas Cramer and Hugh Latimer in
England and John Knox in Scotland were just a few of the reformers that God used
to awaken His church.
The changes that God brought about through the Reformation were not merely
cosmetic. Though there were massive changes in the liturgy, the fundamental change was the recovery of the Biblical Gospel as seen in the slogan of the reformers -
"After darkness light!"
Another change that came about was a radical departure from the medieval way of interpreting Scripture. The church had gotten off track very early through the influence of Origen who promoted allegorical interpretation. Today we use the literary historical method which examines the text according to the literary form (such as historical narrative, didactic or teaching texts, poetry, etc.) and asks the question, "What did the author mean in this text? (This question requires us to consider the historical setting.) This change in our understanding of how to interpret Scripture was not just a reformation, but a revolution!
Often the Reformation is understood in light of the five "solas," (sola being the Latin word for alone.)
Sola Scriptura - Scripture aloneThe scriptures were seen as the formal cause of the Reformation. It was the issue of
Sola Gratia - Grace alone
Sola Fide - Faith alone
Sola Christus - Christ alone
Soli Deo Gloria - All to the glory of God alone
authority - the Bible or the church - that was behind the other issues in question. Was the Bible the only authority for all faith and practice or was it the church, as Rome said. The principle of Sola Scriptura did not mean that there was no teaching office in the church. It meant that the church must interpret the text according to what it actually teaches and not according to the traditions of the church.
The absolute necessity for and the sufficiency of the Grace of God in the salvation of
every individual was seen by the reformers as a critical issue. This truth did not come first from the pen of John Calvin. Martin Luther was proclaiming Sola Gratia years before John Calvin was even a Christian. Luther's book, The Bondage of the Will, was written as a response to The Freedom of the Will written by the Roman Catholic humanist scholar, Desiderius Erasmus. Erasmus' position (on this subject) was essentially the same as the Arminian position that is so prevalent in the church today.
Sola Fide was called the material cause of the Reformation. The material cause was the doctrine over which the battle raged. It was in the foreground while Sola Scriptura was in the background. The reformers said that faith alone was the means of our justification. It must be remembered that the Roman Catholic Church did not deny the necessity of faith. What Rome opposed was "faith alone." The reformers acknowledged that true faith would produce good works, but said that those works
followed faith and did not contribute to our acceptance by God. We are saved, they
said, by faith alone, but not by a faith that is alone.
Sola Christus says that Christ alone is the meritorious cause of our salvation. Roman Catholicism said that while our works were not as meritorious as those of Christ, they did have sufficient merit that it was fitting to reward them. It has been well said that Jesus Christ supplemented is Jesus Christ supplanted. That is, if you add anything to the requirement of Christ alone for salvation, then you have replaced him.
Soli Deo Gloria taught that since the other solas were true, all honor and glory
belonged to God for our salvation. While no one would be so bold as to say that the
glory for our salvation should be shared and deny that all glory belonged to God, that was the net affect of the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. What the
reformer's clearly saw was that the Bible taught that our justification was by Grace
Alone through Faith Alone in Christ Alone - all to the Glory of God Alone.
There was also an essential difference in the understanding of the doctrine of
justification between Protestants and Roman Catholics. Luther and the other
reformers said that justification was the legal decree of God that we were righteous
based on the imputation of Christ's righteousness to our account. (Abraham believed God and He reckoned it to him as righteousness). This righteousness, they said, was an alien righteousness, one that came from outside of ourselves. Our righteousness
was as "filthy rags."
In contrast, the Roman Church said that in order for God to declare us righteous we must actually be righteous. This is sometimes called analytical righteousness - that is God analyzes us, and when He see's that we are righteous, He declares us to be righteous. It was this teaching that so vexed Martin Luther. He used to spend hours in the confessional meticulously reciting his sins of the previous day but without finding peace.
Most of us have defense mechanisms that allow us to continue to function despite our sins. Luther saw more clearly than anyone else of his day that his efforts to placate a Holy God were useless. But, God broke through his despair and awakened in Luther the truth of the Scripture - "The just shall live by Faith" Romans 1:17.
In Luther's own words:
For further knowledge on the Reformation I suggest watching the following two videos that will give you a little more in depth overview: The Protestant Reformation 1 of 2 (9:29) & The Protestant Reformation 2 of 2 (10:43)
In conclusion I thank God for these men, for they revived the true saving gospel. A gospel that relies on God for our salvation not any works of man:
- Galatians 2:16
Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith."
- Galatians 3:11
You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
- Galatians 5:4
Oh sinner, let me plead with you, trust Christ, there is NO hope in the flesh, no hope in your good works, no hope in keeping the law. There is only hope in believe what Christ says to do, to repent, and to trust alone in Him for your salvation.
Christian, let us not go back to any system that teaches a false gospel:
-- not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.
As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man?
If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel.
For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it,
but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
- Galatians 1:6-12
Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, noone get's to the Father except through Him! (John 14:6)
Soli Deo Gloria!
jason d.


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More details are coming out about the last days of Steve Jobs. Reuters reports that a few weeks before his death, the author of his tell-all biography (which hits shelves Oct. 24), Walter Isaacson, met with Jobs to perform one final interview with the Apple founder. As it turns out, part of the reason he agreed to the book is so that his kids can better understand him and know why he wasn't always there for them.
"I wasn't always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did," Jobs told Isaacson as he was curled up in pain in a downstairs bedroom of his Palo Alto home. He moved to the bottom floor because it became too difficult to climb the stairs every day. Even in his last days though, Isaacson notes that his mind and humor were still sharp.
All over the country, many are remembering Jobs by purchasing Apple products and visiting the company's many stores. Our own Andrew Couts was moved by his visit to the Manhattan 5th Ave. Apple store yesterday. The mood inside Apple is hopeful, but somber. Some Apple departments have held meetings about his death and company therapists are on hand to help employees deal with the loss.
"Deep down there's sadness," said Cory Moll, a part-time Apple employee. "We have lost someone who touched us all."
Now the big question remains: what will happen to Apple now?
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As indicated in my May 29, 2013 posting related to the shipboard fire on the P/V GRANDEUR OF THE SEAS, I sent a letter to RCI's President and CEO, Mr. Adam Goldstein. Mr. Goldstein designated Eleni P. Kalisch, Vice President, Government Relations, as our point of contact. Today, RCI responded to the requests in my letter. Notably, RCI has established a dedicated hotline for guests with issues related to these canceled sailings. In the U.S., RCI guests who have a related canceled sailing may call 1 (888) 824 0012, and outside the U.S., guests may call 1 (408) 916 9000.
As noted, RCI answered my earlier letter to Mr. Goldstein. In response, RCI stated the following:
Furthermore, RCI has canceled the following cruises that were to sail after May 31, 2013:
In terms of returning to service, RCI notified my office that the company currently anticipates the GRANDEUR OF THE SEAS will be out of service until July 12, 2013.
Lastly, please note that the company has also posted information on its website, and the following link will lead you to the RCI company page with the update: http://www.royalcaribbean.com/contentPage.do?pagename=important_updates
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The total number of runners for the systems in this book during
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These laying systems were compiled using data from 2015 and this
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Check out my new sunglasses!
I am a robot from the future.
I went to the eye doctor and they dilated my eyes. Then they gave me these really awesome new shades!
(I'm sorry I had to use the word shades. I spent a long time once, convincing my German friend that it was no longer cool to say "shades." But in this case, I think it really applies.)
I will save these and incorporate them into my next Halloween costume, trashcan Robin. Who wants to be Batman?


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Science-Fiction Five-Yearly
Science Fiction Five Yearly (SFFY) has been published every five years since 1951.
It was originally edited by Lee Hoffman and has taken on several different editors in several different roles over the following 55 years. Bob Toomey was the first Assistant Editor in 1971, and then Terry Hughes (Mota, Fuck The Tories) in 1976, Dan Steffan (Boonfark) in 1981, and Patrick and Teresa Neilson Hayden (Izzard) in 1986, along with Art Director Stu Shiffman. Other editors included Randy Byers (Chunga), Geri Sullivan (Idea), and Andy Hooper (Chunga). Editors for issue 12, Byers and Sullivan, have announced that issue 12 will be the final issue since Hoffman passed away early in 2007.
Among the contributors are Calvin Aargh, Greg Benford, Robert Bloch, Claire Brialey (Banana Wings), Rich Coad, Harlan Ellison (as Nalran Nosille) (Science Fantasy Bulletin), Richard Eney (A Sense Of FAPA), Dean Grennell (Filler, Grue), Christina Lake (Head, This Never Happens), Walt Liebscher (Chanticleer), Denny Lien, Jeff Schalles (Rune), Robert Silverberg (Spaceship), Geri Sullivan, Bob Tucker (Le Zombie, Science Fiction Newsletter), Kip Williams, and Ted White (Void).
Artists include Harry Bell (Grimwab), Bill Rotsler, Stu Shiffman, Steve Stiles, Dan Steffan, ATom (The ATom Anthology), and Lee Hoffman.
Reprints from fanzine such as What About Us Grils?, and others, were also featured.
Science Fiction Five Yearly won the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in 2007.


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In 1994, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr. — teenagers who came to be known as the West Memphis Three — were convicted of murdering three little boys in a Satanic ritual. There were a lot of things wrong with their trial, and in 1996 filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky stirred up public interest with "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Woods" — the first of this set's three features. Despite the subsequent activism by their supporters, it was 17 years before the boys-now-men were released. Along the way, Berlinger and Sinofsky made two follow-ups — subtitled "Revelations" and "Purgatory" — in 2000 and 2011.
All three are included in this set, along with a fourth disc that adds an hour's worth of extras — mostly deleted scenes and interviews. Each individual disc repeats the extras from the original stand-alone DVDs, bringing the grand total to something like three hours. It's a testament to the films' quality that, despite each being over two hours, most of this extra material is completely absorbing.
Yet another unrelated documentary on the subject, Amy Berg's "West of Memphis," is scheduled to open in December. Being a single film, it's far less detailed than the Berlinger/Sinofsky trilogy, but Berg has the advantage of greater distance from the events: as soon as the first Berlinger and Sinofsky movie was shown, the two men themselves became significant characters in the story they were following. Berg's film is first-rate, and it whets the appetite for the trilogy rather than supplanting it.
"The Paradise Lost Trilogy Collectors Edition" (Docurama, DVD, 4 discs, $49.95)
ANDY KLEIN is the film critic for Marquee. He can also be heard on "FilmWeek" on KPCC-FM (89.3).


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Wispy Dust and Gas Paint Portrait of Starbirth
This active region of star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), as photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, unveils wispy clouds of hydrogen and oxygen that swirl and mix with dust on a canvas of astronomical size. The LMC is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
This particular region within the LMC, referred to as N 180B, contains some of the brightest known star clusters. This image was taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in 1998 using filters that isolate light emitted by hydrogen and oxygen gas.
N 180B in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Acknowledgment: Y.-H. Chu (University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign) and Y. Nazé (Universite de Liège, Belgium)


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Age: 40
Occupation:Restaurant Manager
Number of Cruises: 5
Cruise Line: Delta Queen
Ship: American Queen
Sailing Date: June 4th, 2004
Itinerary: 3 day cruise
For the past few months I had
been looking towards this cruise, because I really wanted to see the difference
between a steamboat and major cruise ship experience. What I found was that if
you have the time and money to take a steamboat cruise …you SHOULD!!!
My friend and I drove up to the Delta Queen office/warehouse and we were pleasantly surprised to find out, that parking is free, how rare is that? We left our luggage with the security personal and proceeded into the offices to check in. We were issued our on-board cards, and directions on boarding the ship. We also both asked where we might find something to eat, since neither of us had eaten all day. The young lady stated that the rear Paddlewheel Lounge would have snacks, till departure.
We got on board the ship, Kris the Riverlorian, greeted us, explained a few things, and off we went to find our cabin. By the time we got to the cabin, our bags were already inside, and the a/c was on full blast (be careful of that, it really can get too cold in the room). As we were boarding the ship, they crew and other passengers were going about the business of the lifeboat drills, all we had to do, was put them on, make sure they were on right, the crew member then would tell us we could then leave the area.
We then wondered up stairs in search of snacks, we found the Paddlewheel Lounge, and yes there were hot appetizers and also popcorn on each table. The bartender would not fix any drinks, as long as the drill was still going on, however it seemed that while we kept waiting for the end of the drill, the more people found this bar, and it filled up. When the drill was over, the 1 bartender could not keep up with all the orders, and then a cocktail waitress came into the bar, took about 15 orders, rang them all up, then she had to wait for some drinks too. (would have made more sense to get 2 bartenders in that 1 bar, until after the boat sailed). Quite a few people cancelled their orders since they had to dressed for dinner.
After leaving the bar, we went upstairs to watch the ship depart, quite interesting to watch the ship turn around, then take off down the river. Dinner on the first night was great, I hope you like seafood, cause you will get a lot of choices. Lobster and steak on that first night, great desserts, and very nice table companions and a great waiter "David".
After dessert, we walked around
the deck, and turned in. The rooms were kind of small, but we are both average
in size, the bathroom is larger than 1 on the Largest Carnival ship, score lots
of points for that !!! I do wish the beds could have been longer, I was too tall
for the bed, or at least if the guests wanted it, the beds pushed together.
The next day, included a stop at Oak Alley Plantation. I was not sure how much the ship was charging for tours, but you can just get off, and walk up the to the portable ticket office, and buy tickets there. The Oak Alley stop is a photographers dream, the place is great, and the girls on the tour are very nice, give a great tour, if somewhat scripted. After that you either stroll around the levee or get back on board for some sun up on the sun deck & pool. Later that evening another great meal.
The 3rd day out, the stop for the day is Baton Rouge. There are several excursions you can do, one of the best is the "Big House" and you get to drive by Angola Prison and various other places. We had tried to sign up the evening before for the tour of the USS Kidd-destroyer navy ship, but since they did not sell enough of that tour, it was cancelled. The tour would have cost us ten bucks each. When we woke up, we noticed that the AQ was tied up, right next to the military ship, so we got off the ship, wondered over to the museum, paid six bucks each to tour the ship and museum. Kind of interesting. After that we went to the Argosy Casino, and signed up for players cards, you get free stuff doing that. Then went back to the boat for lunch. About 1pm, the ship departs for a 2-hour cruise around the port of Baton Rouge. After that we return back to get the folks who stayed on shore, then we depart for the port of New Orleans.
My over all impression of this cruise was very good-excellent.
The tipping/grat guidelines were too high
The first afternoon in the Paddlewheel Lounge
Not enough chairs on the front porch
Beds too short
Shortage of TV sets, Pres Regan died and Jo-L got married (missed it all)
Drinks should look like advertised pictures
Great Bathrooms
Great food and servers
Friendly Guests & Crew
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> Which of the league's nine new head coaches best fits his team?
Jeff Caplan, NBA.com: I really like the grittiness of Lionel Hollins in Brooklyn, the mind of Stan Van Gundy in Detroit and I applaud Cleveland for thinking out of the box in hiring David Blatt. But, I'm most intrigued by Phil Jackson's guy, Steve Kerr in New Yo … er, Golden State. Kerr might be a rookie coach, but he has so many weapons to work with and if that squad can stay healthy, I feel we're going to see a very free and loose team hustling up and down the floor and putting up a lot of points.
Sekou Smith, NBA.com: As much as I'd love to give the nod to Byron Scott and that underdog bunch the Lakers have put together this summer, I can't go there. David Blatt, on the other hand, has the perfect canvas to work with in Cleveland with LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and whoever else remains on that roster by the start of training camp. It's rare that you will get a coach with the experience and accomplishments Blatt has compiled over the years coaching what looks like (and should be) a contender. Everything Blatt says and does will be magnified a zillion times because of LeBron's presence, but he seems to have the perfect temperament to handle such things. I'm looking forward to seeing what Blatt can get out of Irving and some of the Cavs' other young talent (provided some of those youngsters are still on the roster in October).
John Schuhmann, NBA.com: We don't know exactly what kind of coach Steve Kerr will be, but if he's been influenced by both Gregg Popovich and Phil Jackson, he needs bigs who are multi-skilled. And the Warriors entire frontline – Andre Iguodala, David Lee and Andrew Bogut – can pass and make plays. With all their talent, Golden State ranked just 12th offensively last season. It will be interesting to see if a new system can push them into the top five or six on that end of the floor.
Lang Whitaker, NBA.com's All Ball blog: First of all, I didn't even really realize that one-third of the NBA has new head coaches — I guess that wheel is still spinning. To me, the most interesting fit is in Detroit, where Stan Van Gundy takes over. The very public way that things collapsed in Orlando makes it easy to forget just how good Van Gundy was for most of his time there. The Pistons have an odd assortment of pieces, particularly if they bring back Greg Monroe, and last year's experiment of playing Josh Smith at the three went about as well as any Atlanta Hawks fan could have told you it would go. But Van Gundy has always used a system to fit the pieces available to him, and I'm guessing he'll do the same in Detroit and make the best out of what he has.


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At $84,000, new Gilead drug sets off payer revolt
New York - As Gilead Sciences touted its $1,000-a-pill hepatitis C cure to investors in a hotel ballroom in San Francisco last week, a group of about 20 protesters milled outside. "GileadGreed," one sign read.
"I'm glad people have the new drugs, but I'm concerned about the prices," said protester Orlando Chavez, 62, a hepatitis C and HIV counselor. He worries that insurers will see Gilead's price and force patients to try a less effective, older and cheaper therapy first, he said.
He has good reason to worry.
Payers face billions of dollars in new drug costs as pharmaceutical companies develop increasingly complex products in the years ahead. Express Scripts Holding, Catamaran, Aetna and CVS Caremark are among others protesting the high cost of Gilead's drug. They're discussing how to pit similar drugs against one another, refusing coverage for some, or subjecting treatments to more review by outside experts and refusing to pay a premium based on one drug being more convenient to take than another.
Gilead's new drug, Sovaldi, costs $84,000 for a 12-week treatment. Such breakthrough treatments and their stratospheric price tags have "absolutely" caused insurers to reconsider covering high-priced hepatitis, diabetes and other treatments, said Sumit Dutta, chief medical officer of Catamaran, the fourth-biggest U.S. pharmacy benefit manager, or PBM.
"You can't manage exclusively by the techniques PBMs have used in the past," Dutta said by telephone. "We're seeing the shift, where payers are finally going to say, 'It's $84,000, and the other therapy is $50,000 - what am I getting?'"
For drugmakers and biotechnology companies that have zeroed in on high-priced treatments to replace blockbusters such as Lipitor, the Pfizer cholesterol drug that once drew more than $12 billion a year before losing ground to generics, the change may affect how shareholders value their stocks, according to Les Funtleyder, a health industry expert and author of the book "Health-Care Investing."
"There's been a feeling among investors that biotech drugs are immune from price competition," Funtleyder said in an interview. "We're getting to where we may have may reached a pain point."
Prescription drugs comprise an increasing share of U.S. health care spending. Spending on hepatitis C drugs alone is projected to rise seven-fold from $3 billion a year in 2011 to $21 billion in 2018, according to market research firm Decision Resources Group LLC. U.S. drug spending will grow 6.5 percent a year from 2015 to 2022, faster than overall health costs, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That's mostly driven by rising prices and a leveling off of generic drug use, according to the U.S. report.
Payers thinking twice
It will take Gilead three to six months since its approval Dec. 6 to formalize coverage with payers and PBMs, Chief Operating Officer John Milligan said in an e-mail. In the meantime, most plans are covering it, he said.
When eventually combined with a second drug Gilead is studying, the regimen's price could rise to $100,000 or more per year, compared to what Catamaran says is about $66,000 for the current standard of care.
That's still cheaper than treating complications of hepatitis C, which can lead to liver damage or failure and the eventual need for transplant, said Gilead's Milligan.
"In our conversations with payers, pricing is a consideration, but efficacy, safety and treatment guidelines are equally important," Milligan said.
Besides, payers already have plenty of tools to push back on costs and force patients to try cheaper medicines first, and they use them, said the drug industry's Washington trade group, Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America. "Typically by the time the patients get through the various steps they need to get to the product, they really do need it," said Lori Reilly, PhRMA's head of policy.
Even so, payers are thinking twice before opening their wallets. Jeff Park, Catamaran's chief financial officer, said some prescription plans managed by his company are already pushing patients to try older therapies first, moving to the more expensive ones only and only if they fail.
"You can get to these more expensive treatments," Park said in an interview in San Francisco during the JPMorgan Chase & Co. health-care conference. But to do so, "you have to outweigh the costs of the first, more cost-effective treatment."
Tough decisions
That's a big concern for patients and advocates such as Chavez who say that strategy will force them to stick with side- effect-heavy older hepatitis C treatments that rely on difficult weekly injections, making a patient feel as if they have the flu over and over again.
Chavez contracted hepatitis C before the latest treatments were available. Now recovered, he helps others get hepatitis C as well as HIV treatment in the San Francisco Bay area. He took injections of interferon, an older drug, for almost a year to rid his body of the virus. It was a brutal regimen, he said, though it worked.
"It was terrible," Chavez said. "I was up against it, so I had to do it, But if I had the choice today I wouldn't."
He and others may not have that choice.
Last year, Express Scripts stopped covering insulins and a diabetes injection made by Novo Nordisk A/S in favor of products from Eli Lilly & Co., AstraZeneca Plc and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. In the last four weeks, prescriptions of Lilly's insulin Humalog are up 15 percent compared with the four weeks before Express Scripts' change, while prescriptions of Novo's Novolog are flat.
Express Scripts and other pharmacy managers have since said that they're ready to block other drugs from coverage.
"We will identify which drugs can be pitted against each other and make some really tough formulary decisions," the company's Chief Medical Officer Steven Miller said in a December interview.
In Britain and Europe, health regulators regularly weigh the benefit of drugs against their cost when deciding what the countries' national health systems will pay for. Bristol-Myers stopped selling a diabetes drug in Germany last month after the government refused to meet its price, for example.
Obamacare could have a similar effect as individuals begin to weigh the cost of insurance products, said Jami Rubin, an analyst with Goldman Sachs Group. With the Affordable Care Act's insurance expansion, millions of new customers in the law's health care marketplaces will be picking and choosing among drug plans based on cost and coverage, instead of having their company pick a plan for them.
"What will society pay for a cure?," said Rubin. "Is a cure worth $1,000 a day?"
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The City of Rogers pumps an average of 25 million gallons of water in the non summer months, however during the summer months water demand increases to about 100 million gallons of water a month. This spike puts significant stress on the aquifer and pumping equipment. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) also requires cities to address water conservation proactively. Consequently, the City of Rogers has adopted water restrictions.
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- New Sod: If you have new sod or seed you are eligible for a 30 day exemption permit available at no charge, you would then be exempt from the odd-even restrictions for unattended watering during the first 30 days following planting. Visit the Permit Portal Public Works Page and choose "New Lawn Water Exception" Permit Type.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency over California's finances Wednesday and ordered three days off without pay per month for tens of thousands of state employees.
The tactic is being seen less as a move to preserve cash than to pressure state legislators to negotiate a state budget that is more than a month overdue and needs to close a $19 billion gap.
"Without a budget in place that addresses our $19 billion budget deficit, every day of delay brings California closer to a fiscal meltdown," Governor Schwarzenegger said in a statement. "Our cash situation leaves me no choice but to once again furlough state workers until the legislature produces a budget I can sign," he wrote.
Schwarzenegger's declaration noted the state's government is projected to run out of cash no later than October should its budget stalemate persist as expected.
But analysts call the emergency declaration a political pressure tactic.
"The furlough idea is a tactic to try to get the unions to negotiate more favorable contracts," says Tony Quinn, a former GOP legislative aide and co-editor of California Target Book. He says the very generous pensions handed out under previous Gov. Gray Davis are costing the state $6 billion annually.
"These contracts were decided back when no one ever thought the housing prices or stock market would drop and are now costing the state enormous sums of money," he says. "Schwarzenegger is trying to get these people to go along with whatever leverage he has."
The move puts pressure on both parties, says Barbara O'Connor, director emeritus of the Institute for Study of Politics and Media at California State University, Sacramento.
"It creates enormous pressure for the Democrats to finally come to the table with a consensus proposal," she says. Right now, she says, they are floating one idea in the state Assembly and a different one in the Senate. "This move creates havoc, and out of havoc usually comes forced consensus," says Ms. O'Connor.
Meanwhile, the governor is at an economic summit in San Diego with business leaders who are getting close to wanting to be out campaigning for fall elections. A Field Poll released Thursday shows Attorney General Jerry Brown and Sen. Barbara Boxer with narrow leads for governor and US Senate respectively, but also shows a large number of undecided voters.
"There are a ton of undecideds out there and so there will be lots of unhappy campers out there on the campaign trail if we don't have a state budget," says O'Connor.
Besides political consequences, there are fiscal drawbacks to the state's instability as well.
"These yearly crises are a significant negative for California's ability to compete for entrepreneurs and talent," says Stephen Levy, Director and Senior Economist of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy in Palo Alto. "As the years drag on, more and more people think of California as the state that can't or won't get its act together," he says.
The worrisome state of California's finances extends beyond business, says Jack Kyser, Chief Economic Advisor at the Southern California Association of Governments. "People are concerned about the long-term impact on California … on education, especially the University of California," and on transportation and other infrastructure spending, he says.
There is talk among analysts that there may be no state budget until Schwarzenegger leaves office in January. But one silver lining could be that voters might evaluate the wisdom of California's high requirement to pass a budget – two-thirds of the legislature. And if they are angry at legislators, things could change.
"This requirement may be reduced to a simple majority if Prop. 25 passes in November," notes Robert Stern, president of the Center for Governmental Studies. "Polls show [Prop. 25] has 60 percent support because it contains a provision that forfeits all legislative pay forever during the time the budget is overdue."


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Hello. For the last 5 days, I begun to learn C (with K&R alongside with "C primer plus" for that little bit of extra explanation).
I know it's a bit early to ask questions, but I try to push myself.
So I decided to write a program in C that takes all of my .wav files in my dir and make them mp3 with tags. So far, I have this:
#include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdlib.h> void remove_enter( char *s ) // function to remove enter from stdin { s[strcspn( s, "\n" )] = '\0'; } int main() { char artist[40]; char album[40]; char genre[20]; char year[4]; printf("Enter artist name:\n"); // input name, move to array, remove \n fgets(artist, 256, stdin); remove_enter(artist); printf("Enter album name:\n"); fgets(album, 256, stdin); remove_enter(album); printf("Enter year:\n"); fgets(year, 256, stdin); remove_enter(year); printf("Enter genre:\n"); fgets(genre, 256, stdin); remove_enter(genre); char argv[512]; // create array to pass lame switches snprintf(argv, 512, "/usr/local/bin/lame --ta %s --tl %s --ty %s --tg %s *.wav", artist, album, year, genre); // lame to array system(argv); // pipe exec to system return 0; }
I also would love some criticism about how correct is the code. (again, I know it's not much ).
Thank you.
$ cat test.c #include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int i; for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) printf("%d:\t%s\n", i, argv[i]); return 0; } $ gcc test.c $ a.out 0: a.out $ a.out 1 2 three 0: a.out 1: 1 2: 2 3: three $
Writing lots of simple programs (less than 20 lines...) like what I have indicated above is very important as you teach yourself how to answer your own questions. This is the sign of a good programmer -- one who thinks through the problem, identifies what they know, what they don't know, & does the research needed to answer unknowns themselves.
Once you have mastered The C Programming Language, I would recommend C Traps and Pitfalls next. Andrew Koenig is also one of the original AT&T elite who penned seminal books on the subject. C Traps and Pitfalls points out where C inconsistencies frequently bite newbies & experienced professionals alike.
For bonus points, you might also want to consider how your program could be written as a shell script. After all, the logic of your program is simply manipulating some strings followed by spawning another shell to execute a constructed command.
The problem with many professional C programmers (especially if they only have proficiency in the one language...) is that they think that everything can & should be written in C. While it is true that C is flexible enough to handle general usage, it may not be the most advantageous choice. Scripting has its place, & many scripting languages have special facilities for handling string manipulations far more flexibly than C. Yes, shell scripts are limited to what can be spliced together via sed(1), grep(1), awk(1), etc., the newer scripting languages such as Perl, Python, & Ruby excel at string manipulations. Learning regular expressions can be a very useful tool in your ever-expanding bag of tricks.
Thank you VERY much ocicat for the advice and the help.
As for the second post, I've already done that in perl. I want to achieve it in C (as well as some other simple scripts) just for the excercise and the excitement. I see that many simple scripts can be a hell to achieve with C, but they are a great learning experience. No pain, no gain after all.
To further elucidate, your initial code posted was interactive -- requiring user input during execution. Specifying everything (all titles, artists, tracks...) on the command-line would be cumbersome & scale very poorly.
If you have lots of files to process, you might want to consider making the application more batch-oriented as opposed to interactive. To do this, you might want to look at figuring out a file format which would then be parsed by your code. All information could be manually written to a text file which is then read & processed by program logic. The file would include all information needed to tag tracks. Processing different tracks would then mean that only this one text file would need to be modified.
Since I suspect this application is simply educational in nature, you might consider mixing command-line input with interactive prompts for specific values -- track names, artist names, etc. In this fashion, filenames could be specified at the command-line explicitly and/or via wildcards, & then the program logic would then ask for more information for each specified track.
Just a thought. There are lots of ways of doing the processing desired.
Last edited by ocicat; 11th November 2011 at 11:46 PM.
#!/bin/sh for i in *.wav do lame $i `basename $i .wav`.mp3; done
But he's trying to learn C so it doesn't matter that using a shell might be better.
After one week and not so much time on my hands, I achieved it. I have some questions about the way I did it though.
With the first try, I achieve it like this:
#include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stddef.h> void remove_enter( char *s ) /* function to remove enter from stdin */ { s[strcspn( s, "\n" )] = '\0'; } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { char artist[150]; char album[150]; char genre[40]; char year[8]; char track[50]; /* check for command line arguments and print msg */ if (argc < 2) { fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s filename\n", argv[0]); exit(1); } printf("Enter artist name:\n"); /* ask for input, read to array, remove enter */ fgets(artist, sizeof(artist), stdin); remove_enter(artist); printf("Enter album name:\n"); fgets(album, sizeof(album), stdin); remove_enter(album); printf("Enter year:\n"); fgets(year, sizeof(year), stdin); remove_enter(year); printf("Enter genre:\n"); fgets(genre, sizeof(genre), stdin); remove_enter(genre); int pid, status; int i; /* count files *.wav and fork() with counter i<=tracks_number + ask for track name */ for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) { printf("Enter track name:\n"); fgets(track, sizeof(track), stdin); remove_enter(track); pid=fork(); if (pid==0) { char *command[] = {"/usr/local/bin/lame","-V 2","--tt",track,"--ta",artist, "--tl",album, "--ty",year, "--tg",genre,argv[i],NULL}; execvp("lame", command); sleep(1); } else { wait(&status); } } return 0; }
/* same as above to save space */ #define LEN 1000 struct tag_t { char artist[LEN]; char album[LEN]; char year[LEN]; char genre[LEN]; char track[LEN]; } taglist; void remove_enter( char *s ) /* function to remove enter from stdin */ { s[strcspn( s, "\n" )] = '\0'; } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int max; /* check for command line arguments and print msg */ if (argc < 2) { fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s filename\n", argv[0]); exit(1); } printf("Enter artist name:\n"); /* ask for input, read to array, remove enter */ char *artist = (char*) malloc(50 *sizeof(char)); fgets(taglist.artist, LEN, stdin); remove_enter(taglist.artist); /* same for album, year and genre to save space in post */ int pid, status; int i; /* count files *.wav and fork() with counter i<=tracks_number + ask for track name */ for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) { printf("Enter track name:\n"); fgets(taglist.track, LEN, stdin); remove_enter(taglist.track); pid=fork(); if (pid==0) { char *command[] = {"/usr/local/bin/lame","-V 2","--tt",taglist.track,"--ta",taglist.artist, "--tl",taglist.album, "--ty",taglist.year, "--tg",taglist.genre,argv[i],NULL}; execvp("lame", command); sleep(1); } else { wait(&status); } } free(artist); return 0; }
Sorry for the very long post and a big thank you to anyone who reads it.
Comments about the structure of the code are also welcome.
Ocicat, I cannot thank you enough for your help. I understand fully what you said about the structures and also thanks for the clarification or the function.
And a last question for free(). When I use it on a char object inside a structure, I target it by name (for this example free(artist)) or by first referring to the structure name (free(taglist.artist))? Is it a good solution to free after use the entire structure by free(taglist)?
I hope I'm making some sense...
printf("Enter artist name:\n");/* ask for input, read to array, remove enter */ char *artist = (char*) malloc(50 *sizeof(char)); fgets(taglist.artist, LEN, stdin); remove_enter(taglist.artist);
Recognize that the name "artist" is being used in two completely different contexts. One, naming a field within a global structure. The other, a variable defined within main(). To illustrate, study the following example:
$ cat addresses.c #include <stdio.h> struct struct_name { int foo; } global_sn_instance; int main() { struct struct_name sn_instance; int foo; printf("global struct:\t%u\n", (void*) &global_sn_instance.foo); printf("local struct:\t%u\n", (void*) &sn_instance.foo); printf("local variable:\t%u\n", (void*) &foo); return 0; } $ gcc addresses.c $ a.out global struct: 1006645888 local struct: 3485315520 local variable: 3485315516 $
$ cat memory.c #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> struct a { char *s; }; struct b { char s[8]; }; int main() { struct a a; struct b *p; a.s = (char*) malloc(8 * sizeof(char)); scanf("%s", a.s); p = (struct b*) malloc(sizeof(struct b)); scanf("%s", p->s); printf("a:\t%s\n", a.s); printf("b:\t%s\n", p->s); free(a.s); free(p); return 0; } $ gcc memory.c $ a.out abc xyz a: abc b: xyz $
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South African Journal of Science
On-line version ISSN 1996-7489
Print version ISSN 0038-2353
S. Afr. j. sci. vol.103 n.7-8 Pretoria Jul./Aug. 2007
The diversity of culturable airborne fungi in an active South African gold mine
C.H. PohlI, *; W. KrielII; P. VenterIII; E. Van HeerdenI; J. AlbertynI
IDepartment of Microbial, Biochemical and Food Biotechnology, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
IIDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of the Free State. cUnit for Applied Food Safety & Technology, Department of Agriculture and Environmental Development, Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Several studies have been conducted on the presence and diversity of airborne fungal spores in residential and occupational areas. This is the first investigation on this topic in the mining environment. The impact of fungiespecially as opportunistic pathogenson their health and productivity needs to be assessed, considering the compromised health of a large number of HIV-infected miners in South Africa. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to determine the abundance of fungal spores as well as the diversity of culturable airborne fungi in an active gold mine. The results indicate that three of the sampled sites in the mine contain abundant numbers of culturable airborne fungi. The first site was next to an auxiliary extraction fan, which could act as an accumulator for airborne fungal spores from the rest of the mine. The two other sites had high human activity, disturbances from which may contribute to an elevated fungal load in the air. The presence of timber supports at one site may serve as a growth substrate for several fungal genera. The diversity of filamentous fungal genera increased from outside the mine to deeper into the mine, whereas the diversity of yeast genera followed an opposite trend, with no yeasts detected deep in the mine. Although most of the isolates identified are not pathogens, they could still have a negative impact (either as opportunistic pathogens or allergens) on workers, especially immunocompromised persons if exposed to them for prolonged periods.
No assessment has yet been made of the impact of fungi on the health and performance of mine workers, although extensive research has been conducted on occupational hazards associated with the unique and often harsh conditions of mining activities. The ability of fungi to act as opportunistic pathogens in immunocompromised persons is of specific importance.1 It is known that fungal diseases are increasing among HIV-infected people, and almost any fungus is now considered to be able to cause disease in an immunocompromised person. Furthermore, fungi and their spores are known to be allergenic, causing occupational asthma, irritation of the respiratory system and dermatitis in otherwise healthy people.24 In addition, the respiration of fungal spores and the subsequent low-level exposure to mycotoxins and β-D-glucan could have adverse effects on workers' immune systems.5
This study aims to provide a better understanding of possible diversity of pathogens and/or allergens in the air circulating through mines because the mining environment provides a unique habitat for fungi.
See appendix.
Results and discussion
Table 1 (see supplementary material online at www.sajs.co.za) lists the average CFU/m3 air count obtained for each sampling site. The main observation that can be made from these data is that the site with the greatest CFU/m3 air value was next to the auxiliary ventilation fan. Since the literature records that there is a positive correlation between wind speed and spores/m3 in the air,12 it is expected that this site will also have the highest recorded wind speed (5.97 m s1). During an extensive literature search, no health-related limits to permissible amounts of fungal spores in the air could be found, although several governments are formulating guidelines for building owners and occupational-health officers. Our counts do not appear to be excessively high compared with other reports of viable and non-viable spores/m3.12,13 However, Bush and Portnoy3 state that indoor CFU/m3 counts of 1000 or more are deemed as hazardous indoor fungal contamination. If this is taken into account, this site, as well as the active drilling site and the stope would be of concern, as counts of more than 1000/m3 were obtained for these three locations. We suggest that it is unlikely that fungi are actively growing next to the auxiliary ventilation fan, but that this site rather acts as an accumulator of fungal spores that are present in the rest of the mine. The origin of fungal contamination at the active drilling site needs further investigation. The timber supports in the stope can be a possible source of fungal growth and contamination at this site. Because these samples were taken in winter, it would be interesting to compare these counts with results for summer, when higher spore counts would be expected.12
The diversity of filamentous fungi and yeasts obtained from these samples is shown in Table 2 (see supplementary material online). The majority of the isolated filamentous fungi are known to occur either with cellulose-containing material, such as wood, or other living or dead plant material or as soil fungi. These substrates are abundant in and around the mine and may serve as sources of fungi. The isolated yeasts were found to be mainly those associated with soil and humans, elements of the mining environment.
Although no specific trend is evident regarding the total number of genera (filamentous fungi and yeasts) from the different sites, it is interesting to note that the number of recorded filamentous fungal genera, increased from outside the mine (6 genera) and at the beginning of the level of the ore dumping site (5 genera) to deeper in the mine (7 genera at the ventilation fan and active drilling site; 9 genera at the stope). In the light of this observation, the higher diversity in the refuge bay (9 genera) is against expectation, as it has a direct air supply from the surface. This may indicate the presence of growing fungi in biofilms that line the ventilation ducts of the refuge bay. The findings regarding the number of yeast genera show a contrasting trend. There are more yeast genera obtained from the samples taken outside, and no yeast isolates obtained from the samples taken in the stope.
Although very few human pathogens were identified in this study, we identified several opportunistic pathogens. This could constitute a health hazard, especially for those mine workers who are HIV positive or who have conditions such as tuberculosis.
We conclude that certain mining sites, especially those with high wind speed and human activity, contain health-risk related numbers and diversity of culturable fungal spores in the air. Although most of the fungal isolates identified were not human pathogens, inhalation of these fungal spores could have a negative effect on the health and productivity of mine workersespecially those with HIV or other pre-existing conditions, such as tuberculosis.
This is the first study of this nature in the mining environment, and several interesting questions still await investigation. Some of these include the seasonal variation in fungal spore diversity and numbers, together with a study to determine the correlation between the occurrence of fungi and reports of fungal related disease.
This study was funded by the Safety in Mines Research Advisory Committee (Grant no. SIM 03-06-02). We thank O. Moloko, S. Fuku and K. Pudumo for their assistance.
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This article is accompanied by supplementary material online at www.sajs.co.za
* Author for correspondence. E-mail: email@example.com
Sampling sites
The samples were taken during winter in an operational gold mine in the Free State province of South Africa (Clark 1880 coordinates: Y20955.883; X3128473,179; Z1394.456). The shaft chosen is one of the main ventilation shafts for the mine and is divided into two sections, one that allows fresh air to enter the mine and another by which air is returned to the surface by means of extraction fans. We took samples at six different sites in order to obtain information on the distribution of culturable fungal spores throughout the shaft.
Because fungal spores circulating in the air in the mine could be entering from outside the mine, the first site of interest was at the intake of the down-cast shaft, which serves as one of the main sources of air for this part of the mine. The second site was at the beginning of the level (at a depth of 668.5 m) where the main activity was ore-dumping. The third site was next to an auxiliary ventilation fan that returns air to the surface. The fourth site was inside a refuge bay. Of note is that these bays have a separate air supply directly from the surface. The fifth location was an active drilling site, with high human activity. The sixth site was a stope, with high human activity as well as the presence of timber props.
Sampling techniques
An SAS Super 90 single-stage impactor was used, with three different media, in order to detect the greatest diversity of fungal species.6 These were dichloran glycerine selective agar (DG18), containing 5.0 g l1 peptone, 10.0 g l1 dextrose, 1.0 g l1 monopotassium phosphate, 0.5gl1 magnesium sulphate, 0.002 g l1 dichloran, 0.1g l1 chloramphenicol, 18.0 g l1 glycerol and 15.0 g l1 agar; 2% malt extract agar (2% MA), containing 20.0 g l1 malt extract and 15.0 g l1 agar as well as 2% malt extract agar supplemented with pentachloronitrobenzene (PCNB) to restrict the growth of zygomycetes. The sampling time was 30 seconds at 30 l min1. In addition, wind speed was recorded for each site.
Different incubation temperatures (25º and 37ºC) were used as the objective was to determine the diversity of culturable fungi, including possible pathogens. Randomly selected representative colonies were further purified on 2% MA at the two temperatures. Standard safety procedures were adopted when handling potential pathogens.
Enumeration and identification
The number of colony-forming units (CFUs) counted on the surface of the plates was recorded to determine whether significant numbers of culturable spores are present in the air at the different sites. Data were corrected for the statistical possibility of multiple spores passing through the same hole in the sampler. The corrected or probable count was used to calculate the average colony-forming units (CFU) m3 air sampled. Filamentous isolates were identified to genus, and where possible, species level, using standard taxonomic keys based on colony characteristics and morphology.710 For identification of yeast isolates the D1/D2 region of the 26S rDNA was PCR amplified using primer pair NL1 (5'-GCATATCAATAAGCGGAG GAAAAG) and NL4 (5'-GGTCCGTGTTTC AAGACGG).11 Sequencing reactions were performed with the ABI PrismTM Big Dye terminatorTM V3.1 cycle sequencing ready reaction kit, and data collected on an ABI Prism 377 DNA sequencer (Applied Biosystems). Sequences were reverse complemented and compared by using Sequence Navigator V 1.0.1 and assembled using Auto-assembler V1.4.0.
Supplementary material to:
Pohl C.H., Kriel W., Venter P., Van Heerden E. and Albertyn J. (2007). The diversity of culturable airborne fungi in an active South African gold mine. S. Afr. J. Sci. 103, 277278.


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Relative to the offensive tackle position, the interior of the Atlanta Falcons offensive line has fewer questions to answer this summer. Instead, the Falcons will be hoping to see their projected starters gel into a cohesive unit and hope that one or two of the journeymen behind them can morph into quality reserves.
The move to the zone-blocking scheme under new offensvie coordinator Kyle Shanahan should be a beneficial one for this unit. Right guard Jon Asamoah, who was the anchor of the entire offensive line a year ago, should fit right at home with the scheme change. After all, he excelled for three years as a starter with the Kansas City Chiefs playing in that exact scheme.
Asamoah's ability to block on the move was a key reason why the team incorporated a lot more pulling into their blocking scheme in 2014. He'll once again be asked to get out on the move with the new scheme on stretch plays and the like. Asamoah is also an excellent pass protector, holding his own against the league's premier pass-rushing defensive tackle in Tampa Bay's Gerald McCoy last season.
Asamoah is expected to be joined once more by center Joe Hawley, who missed the last 12 games of last season with a knee injury. Hawley has indicated that he isn't completely recovered from the injury, but expectations are that he'll still be able to play this summer at a relatively high level. He too should benefit from the scheme change, hoping it will harness his abilities much like it did for long-time center Todd McClure when the Falcons employed the same scheme under Jim Mora from 2004 to 2006.
But keeping an eye out for whether there are any signs that Hawley's knee is bothersome will be worth monitoring this summer. If he is forced to rest through camp, it will open opportunities for backups to get increased reps with the starting lineup.
Fortunately for the Falcons, their depth at the center position should be stronger than it was a year ago. James Stone filled in at the position during the second half of 2014 and flashed potential. Stone's athleticism and mobility should make him a good fit in the new scheme also. He'll simply need to concentrate on become a stronger and more physical blocker at the point of attack, something he struggled with throughout 2014.
He'll be pushed by undrafted rookie Valerian Ume-Ezeoke, who excelled at getting position and walling off defenders during his days at New Mexico State. Ume-Ezeoke should provide a competitive camp for Stone and is good enough to outright win the backup job behind Hawley if Stone doesn't take that next step.
The team also has options in Chris Chester, Peter Konz and Harland Gunn, all of whom have experience playing center and could mix them into the competition for backup center. However Chester isn't likely to get much work at the pivot since he's expected to start at left guard, replacing long-time starter Justin Blalock at that spot.
Chester is experienced in the new blocking scheme, having played in it for the past several years as a starting right guard for the Washington Redskins. Chester adds some veteran experience and is not a powerful player, but is an impressive athlete that is good when asked to block on the move like Asamoah. Chester struggles at times in pass protection, but typically that mainly comes when he's facing top interior pass-rushers from around the league. The hope is that a move from the right side to the left will benefit him in that arena, as he should get more help from the center as opposed to being left on an island as is often the case for right guards.
Chester is probably not worried about looking over his shoulder as far as competition for the starting spot goes. The Falcons signed him to a one-year deal worth $2.8 million, which eclipses the combined cap hits of Konz, Gunn and Mike Person this season. If the Falcons didn't believe that Chester was capable of starting, then they would not have paid him as much.
That leaves Konz, Gunn and Person duking it out with Stone for the chance to be the top backup off the bench, functioning as the team's sixth offensive lineman on gamedays. Person might be the best candidate given the fact that he was working in the starting lineup at left guard throughout the offseason prior to Chester being signed in May. Despite spending four years in the NFL, Person has seen very limited action in actual NFL games. But he's a player that the coaching staff is somewhat familiar with given that head coach Dan Quinn worked with him in 2013 when both were in Seattle. That certainly could give him another leg up in the competition, making him the front-runner to be the team's top interior reserve.
Konz will have to prove that the move to the zone-blocking scheme which emphasizes mobility and athleticism in its blockers is not too much of a stretch. Konz routinely struggled over the years when asked to get out on the move and block.
That was a relative area of strength for Gunn the past two summers, showcasing excellent pulling ability in that span. But while a better fit in the new scheme, Gunn will still have to prove it on the field with his play.
Also in the mix are Jared Smith and Adam Replogle. Both players are converted collegiate defensive tackles. Smith was drafted by Seattle back in 2013, but his only real action was four preseason performances as a rookie before an injury sidelined him for the entirety of 2014. Replogle looked green last summer in his first on the offensive side of the ball, and will need to show that he made the most of his time on the practice squad last season with stronger performances.
While both Smith and Replogle are long shots to leap frog the other more experienced backups on the depth chart, both are prime candidates for the practice squad. The same can be said of undrafted rookie Eric Lefeld, who is making the transition from collegiate left tackle to play inside at guard. Lefeld is a technician that should benefit from the move inside given a lack of athleticism to hold up at offensive tackle. He'll have to show that his lack of power won't be problematic when it comes time to competing with opposing defensive tackles this summer.
While backups like Konz, Gunn, Stone and Person are looking to prove themselves this summer, their collective experience indicates that the Falcons are better off at this position depth-wise. The expectation is that through the power of competition, the cream will rise to the top; and whichever player(s) emerge this summer will have proven capable of being called upon in the event of an injury to one of the starters.
It's why both guard and center should be one of the more competitive position groups on the roster all summer, with the expectation that the five or six players kept on the roster will give the Falcons both capable starting and depth options.


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Recipe: Tangy Apricot Barbecue Sauce
This tangy-sweet barbecue sauce is just right for grilled chicken breasts, turkey burgers or salmon steaks. If you can't find fresh apricots, substitute frozen apricots.
Start to finish: 20 minutes
Makes 3 cups
3 large apricots, pitted and chopped
1 medium yellow onion, chopped
3/4 cup (6 ounces) pineapple juice
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
4 cloves garlic, chopped
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
In a small saucepan over medium-high, combine all ingredients. Bring to a simmer and cook, stirring often, until the onions are tender and the apricot chunks begin to break down, about 10 minutes Transfer to a blender or food processor and puree until smooth. Return to the saucepan and simmer over medium heat until reduced by a quarter. Transfer to a bowl and use immediately or cover and refrigerate up to a week.
Nutrition information per 2 tablespoons: 20 calories; 0 calories from fat (0 percent of total calories); 0 g fat (0g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 4 g carbohydrate; 0 g fiber; 3 g sugar; 0 g protein; 40 mg sodium.


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