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After a weekend that featured guitarist Bill Frisell performing a soundtrack to a film by Bill Morrison and pianist Myra Melford performing with a Butoh dancer, the Angel City Jazz Festival closed on what initially appeared to be a more conventional musical collaboration.
Celebrated pianist Vijay Iyer joined his mentor, saxophonist Steve Coleman at Royce Hall in a set co-sponsored by Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA Sunday night. A forward-looking improviser and thinker who has influenced a generation of jazz artists, including fellow Angel City performer Ambrose Akinmusire, Coleman was the driving force behind M-Base, a loose musical collective during the '90s and an evolving school of creative thought whose effect continues to be heard in contemporary jazz.
By way of example, the beginning of the night featured Iyer with his trio, whose 2012 album, "Accelerando," is one of the most striking, uniformly acclaimed records of the year. Just as the album functions as a head-bobbing celebration of the groove, Iyer's opening set progressed on the nimble fulcrum of bassist Stephan Crump and drummer Marcus Gilmore.
Built out of a ticking, three-note pulse from Crump, "Lude" began the night with a shufflingly feathered beat from Gilmore, which sent Iyer into a variety of cyclical twists that gathered in force before sharply breaking down into its core rhythm. The title track from Iyer's record began with a drum machine beat that sent the pianist into a series of chunky, cascading chords, as if he were trying to chase it off, only to have his rhythm section embrace and overcome the mechanized pulse with an off-kilter beat aided by some sinister bowed runs from Crump.
An anthemic reworking of "Star of the Story" by '70s funk group Heatwave was one of the most invitingly inventive moments of the night. Built out of a galloping melody from Iyer that continued to gather force, the song turned on Gilmore's hitchy beat and Crump's percolating bass, which broke down to a tinkling interlude before taking off with such drive that Iyer's piano seemed to double in size.
The addition of Coleman shifted the group into a different neighborhood. The philosophy behind Coleman's musical vision is difficult to capture in a few words, much less a few paragraphs, but with his knotty alto, the group turned more on constant movement than conventional repeated melody, rising out of odd-metered time signatures that felt almost like a cubist approach on composition.
Often leaning toward complex, cyclical funk in the rhythm, the melodies could be tough to parse as Iyer and Coleman came together and apart through compact, zigzagging runs, but it was often intriguing to puzzle out. One piece featured Gilmore swinging hard over melodic curlicues from Coleman while another rose out of a restless, seesawing structure that only in flashes settled into a groove. The elusive sound wasn't quite the radical reinvention that made another Coleman -- Ornette -- such a polarizing figure some 50 years ago, but they were of similarly challenging spirit.
Fleshed out into a sextet with saxophonist Mark Shim and cornetist Graham Haynes, Iyer shifted to more immediately approachable ground as the frontline of horns traded solos on the sprawling "Far From Over." In one of the night's most fascinating pieces, Iyer led his band through a song dedicated to Detroit techno DJ Robert Hood. With Iyer shifting a flickering Fender Rhodes, the driving piece featured short, alternating horn melodies over a minimalist beat that gathered into a hypnotically intricate swell that briefly recalled Terry Riley's "In C."
The piece may have come from different generations, but the result sounded like the future. As the night sped on, there may have been no better way to sum up the efforts of this year's Angel City Jazz Festival.
Album review: Vijay Iyer Trio's 'Accelerando'
Iyer's jazz pulls from a variety of genres and genes
Shepp, Akinmusire lead the Angel City Jazz Festival at the Ford
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Reforming the Insane Tax Code
We've got an IRS Commissioner who doesn't even do his own taxes, and is not embarrassed about it. We've got complex deductions that nobody understands, including the government, as the Maryland nurse with the MBA found out. We've got a Treasury Secretary and other high appointees who apparently cheated on their taxes. And we've got the Democrats hell‐bent on greatly increasing the power and responsibilities of the overwhelmed IRS with their health care bill.
Now, more than ever, it's time to scrap the current income tax and put in a flat tax. Or at least we could take a big jump in that direction with a "Simplified Tax," as discussed in a new National Academies report. Get rid of all almost all deductions, exemptions, and credits and drop individual rates to 10 and 25 percent. While we're at it, let's drop the federal corporate rate to 25 percent or less.
For more on the two‐rate tax idea, see my Options for Tax Reform and Rep. Paul Ryan's American Roadmap.


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There have been several times that I have had trouble stifling a chuckl ***a***e while conducting a job interview. I remember one time I was interviewing a prospective embedded programmer and it became clear he was primarily a C programmer. I asked him how he would calculate a square root. He told me about the sqrt function!
I was actually looking for a discussion about Newton's approximation. I would h ***a***ave accepted some talk of CORDIC or some other algorithm too. But a call to a library wasn't what I had in mind (it was that kind of job). The project was on very anemic hardware and I eventually rewrote an old algorithm that only used addition, subtraction, and division by two. It is the same technique used by the old ENIAC computer, so if it works on such ancient hardware, it should be a good fit for a simple CPU.
The idea is to find the sum of the odd integers that is just greater than the number. So for the square root of 9, for example, 1+3+5+7 is the smallest sum of odds that is greater than 9. Taking the last number, 7, you can determine that the square root is between (7-1) /2 and (7+1) /2. In other words, between 3 and 4. Of course, the answer is 3. This works because of the formula: n2=1+3+5+….+(2n-1). Actually, if you recognize that 9=1+3+5 (that is, the result is zero, not negative) you can stop at the 5 and compute n=(5+1)/2.
This even works when the result is not an integer if you are willing to settle for an integer estimate or interpolate the answer. Take 30, for exam ***a***ple. Subtracting, we find the first odd integer that throws us into negative territory is 11 (the left over is -6 for 11 and +5 for 9). So we know the answer is a little closer to 5 than it is to 6. The integer approximation is, therefore, 5 (the right answer is about 5.48). We can do better using linear interpolation. Taking the error value (5) and dividing by the number (11) we get 0.45 and adding that to the 5 gets us pretty darn close (5.45 versus 5.48).
There are even further optimizations possible, especially if you expect to handle larger numbers (see http://is.gd/KsFqLR for a good treatment of your options). Also, if you are using fixed-point math anyway, don't forget you can multiply the number by a power of 2 (by shifting left) and then divide the answer by the square root of the original power (which will also be a power of 2, and therefore just needs right shifts). This will increase precision without the need for interpolation. For instance, you might multiply the input number by 64 and then divide the result by 8.
As an example of using the powers of 2 to scale the input and output, imagine you want to find the square root of 1 ***a***29. If you multiply it first by 64 (6 left shifts), you get 8256. The integer square root algorithm will report the root is 91. Now divide 91 by 8 (the square root of 64) to get 11.375 (which squares to 129.391, about a 0.3% error). My calculator puts the real answer at about 11.358. The algorithm with interpolation yields 11.348.
I've written this algorithm in an obscure assembly language before, but I decided to write a version in C to demonstrate how simple it is to take a square root using this method. The actual subroutine only uses adding, subtracting, and right shifting for dividing by two. Porting it should be easy. If you want a floating-point result, define ROOT_FLOAT, but then you do get a floating point division (it only happens twice per square root; once to interpolate and once to divide by 2).
The test program (define TEST when compiling) assumes you are also defining ROOT_FLOAT and it takes more liberties, doing multiplications to check the subroutine, divisions to compute error, and calling the C library for random number generation. Of course, you don't have to port any of that to a new target.
Here's a bit of output from a sample run:
Square root of 3368 = 58 58.034187 Check=3367.966797 error=-0.033203 (-0.000986%)
Square root of 7739 = 88 87.971428 Check=7738.972168 error=-0.027832 (-0.000360%)
Square root of 12 = 3 3.428571 Check=11.755102 error=-0.244898 (-2.040815%)
Square root of 6226 = 79 78.904457 Check=6225.913574 error=-0.086426 (-0.001388%)
Square root of 8586 = 93 92.659462 Check=8585.776367 error=-0.223633 (-0.002605%)
Square root of 8094 = 90 89.966484 Check=8093.968262 error=-0.031738 (-0.000392%)
Square root of 7539 = 87 86.826591 Check=7538.856934 error=-0.143066 (-0.001898%)
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The output shows the integer result followed by the floating-point result. Then it shows the result of squaring the floating point result, the raw error, and the error as a percentage. In general, smaller numbers that don't work out exactly are ***a***going to have larger errors (note the square root of 12 is only off by 0.245 but that's over 2%).
For the purists, keep in mind that the code computes the positive square root, but that making it negative results in an equally valid square root! And, of course, if you need an exact answer, you'd need a better algorithm or to use the result as a starting point and iterate through nearby values until you found one that met your error criteria.
The code appears below. Although I compiled it on Linux, there's nothing mysterious about it and it should run just about anywhere. After all, if the ENIAC could handle it….
/* Old fashioned square root calculation -- Williams */ /* Compile: gcc -D TEST -o sqrt1 sqrt1.c */ /* This relies on the series: n^2==1+3+7+...+(2n-1) The ENIAC computed square roots this way. Other than test code this requires no multiplication and only division by 2. */ /* Define TEST if you want a TEST program Define ROOT_FLOAT if you want a floating point answer passed back through a pointer to float */ #include <stdio.h> #ifdef TEST #include <stdlib.h> /* random numbers */ /* If testing, must have float! */ #define ROOT_FLOAT #endif #ifdef ROOT_FLOAT int eniac_isqrt(int n0, float *v) #else int eniac_isqrt(int n0) #endif { int n=n0; /* original number */ int odd; /* the odd number we are subtracting */ int adjust; /* which way to adjust (depends on which is closest) */ int err1, err2; /* error terms */ #ifdef ROOT_FLOAT float interpolate; /* fractional linear interpolation */ #endif /* First subtract odd numbers until we hit zero or negative */ for (odd=1;;odd+=2) { n-=odd; if (n<=0) { if (n==0) adjust=1; /* odd is exactly 2n-1 */ break; } } /* n is the amount we went negative, if any */ if (n!=0) /* not an exact 2n-1 so work out which is closer */ { err1=abs(n+odd); err2=abs(n); adjust=err1>err2?1:-1; } #ifdef ROOT_FLOAT /* find the fractional part through linear interpolation */ if (v && n!=0) { if (err1>err2) { interpolate=-err2; } else { interpolate=err1; } interpolate/=odd; if (v) *v=(odd+adjust)/2.0+interpolate; } else if (v) *v=(odd+adjust)/2.0; /* or if exact... */ #endif /* return integer result */ return (odd+adjust)>>1; /* note >>1 is the same as /2 */ } #ifdef TEST /* Simple routine to drive the calculation and print stats */ void debugsqrt(int x) { float v; int iv=eniac_isqrt(x,&v); printf("Square root of %d = %d %f",x,iv,v); #ifdef TEST v*=v; printf(" Check=%f error=%f (%f%%)\n",v,v-x,((v-x)/x)*100); #else putchar('\n'); #endif } /* Simple main */ // generate random numbers from 0 to MAXTESTINT-1 #define MAXTESTINT (10000) // Random nu ***a***mber seed change for different sequence of randoms */ #define SEED 1 void main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int i; srand(SEED); debugsqrt(9); /* known test case ! */ for (i=0;i<100;i++) { debugsqrt(rand()%MAXTESTINT); } } #endif


text: Michelle, TWPZ Veterinarian Today Ushindi, one of our hand-raised Cheetah born in 2008, had his annual health check. We were keen to check his development and to ensure he was fit and well. We are delighted to report that Ushindi's health check went very well. He was in optimal body condition and the pelvic fracture that he sustained as a cub has completely healed. Last year Ushindi was diagnosed with gastritis and it was a relief to note that following treatment, his stomach lining now has a normal appearance. We are awaiting the results of some blood and urine tests that will tell us more about his general health but on the basis of the examination today he appears to be in great shape. We are amazed with Ushindi's development to young adulthood given his rough start in life; both he and his brother Mtoto have overcome some significant challenges and have done exceptionally well.


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What's the best thing about garbage trucks? They're loud. At least that's what you think when you're seven. But once you grow into your big-boy pants, that monstrosity slowly lumbering down your street, waking you up at 5AM every Tuesday, gets to be just a tad annoying after a while. Well, now Volvo has a solution, a hybrid garbage truck. They claim it can operate almost silently, and feel so confident about it they've provided a video of it in action. Currently the trucks are just being tested in select parts of Sweden, but we certainly wouldn't mind seeing these, and not hearing them, in our neighborhood. Press release after the jump.
The future of refuse handling is already here
Due to its productive personality, the Volvo FE has been recognized as a cost effective truck for city distribution and refuse handling. In 2009, the Volvo FE will be offered with a hybrid solution adding two main benefits: increased fuel efficiency and decreased emissions.
From a driver's perspective, the hybrid is also more pleasant to operate with excellent drivability characteristics and reduced noise levels.
A perfect fit for "stop and go" applications
Like the Volvo FM Hybrid, the Volvo FE Hybrid is equipped with a diesel engine and an electric motor. The latter powers the truck from startup and up to 20 km/h. At higher speeds, the diesel engine kicks in.
When the vehicles stops, the diesel engine automatically shuts down to avoid unnecessary idling.
Since braking energy is used to charge the lithium-ion batteries powering the electric motor, the greatest fuel saving potential is in applications with a lot of "stop and go" driving:
— up to 20% for refuse handling (up to 30% if the superstructure also rely on the electric motor)
— between 15-20% for city distribution
Low on emissions and close to noiseless
Any savings in fuel means equal savings in CO2 emissions, meaning that the Volvo FE Hybrid will contribute some 15 - 30% less to global warming.
The emissions of NOx and particulates are at zero level when the truck is operated in electric drive - and it is a very silent truck when accelerating and idling. These are both strong benefits when operating in sensitive urban areas.
Field test with customers
During 2008 and 2009, two Volvo FE Hybrids will run in daily refuse collection operations with the help of two Swedish companies.
The field test trucks are both prototype vehicles of the Volvo FE Hybrid that will be the commercial offer in 2009.
Volvo FE Hybrid Concept - Technical data
— Volvo FE with I-SAM (Integrated Starter Alternator Motor)
— Power 120 kW
— 7-litre diesel engine
— Volvo I-Shift gearbox
[Source: Volvo Trucks]


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Shagtools.com will no longer be available after December 31, 2015.
We will be shutting down and no longer offering our services online. While it's sad to say goodbye to Shagtools.com, we're eager to put our efforts into expanding our core offerings at our 17 Midwest locations. Rest assured, all orders will be processed through December 31, 2015 with the same great customer service you've come to expect from Shagtools.com.


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Nov 21 Tue
Kansas City Petitioner Training and Notary Event
Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 06:00 PM
We hope you will join us for the medical cannabis Petitioner Training and Notarization Event held every Tuesday, 6-8PM at Tapcade.
You will learn how to collect valid signatures to put medical cannabis on the November 2018 ballot! We will supply everything you need to get started. Please invite friends and family, we need around 250,000 signatures so the more the merrier!
1701 McGee St.
If you have completed petition sheets, please bring them to get notarized and turned in.
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Begun 4 years ago, this idea has exploded throughout the internet and is now on Facebook and Twitter and a host of other sites. How did it all begin?
It is a much better idea to let Mimi tell you the story herself, so please go read about Papa's Marbles and find the origins to this call for Peace.
Some have scoffed at this idea - wikipedia - but when you have Peace Globes being sent from the entire US and some 50 countries, well it must touch people's hearts indeed.
I have been honored to participate in all 7 BlogBlasts For Peace and will continue to be a Peace Globe Worker Bee as long as I am taking a breath, or until the world finds a more peaceful solution to our problems.
Each year I have selected something musical to illustrate the call for peace and this year is no different. What is slightly different this year is I have found a song that many probably have never heard.
Written by one of my new friends here in Memphis, Ms. Reba Russell, it is a call for peace and love...a call for the end to hunger and greed and abuse as well as the end to war and pain.
Will we find the answer to all of these problems in my life-time...well, I can only hope it is so. It takes one person to do a kindness to start a revolution of kindness...the concept of 'paying it forward'...helping that older woman across the street...holding a door for a woman or a man, so it does not close in their face...seeing someone on the side of the road and stopping to offer assistance...or just a smile at a stranger on the street as you pass by on your way to your destination.
One act of kindness and then you can only hope and pray they pass it on and so on and so on...
On this day, I forget about the differences I have with others...I look to the positive of our world.
This past Tuesday we went to the polls here in the US to select the individuals we think are best suited to represent us in government. The last years have been rife with bitterness and hate and undeclared war between our political parties. We would like to tell the world that we are above racial and ethnic divides, but in all reality, we are still fighting those battles.
The instigators who are continuing to try and divide our great country need to take a step back and S-T-O-P now, before we find ourselves in the middle of another civil war.
What? Think it can not happen? Do not be blind to those who spread lies and hate...and I am talking about those on both sides of the issues. If we can not make this better, what will our children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren be left with, but a history of deceit and hatred and bigotry.
If we can't get it right here...how can the earth get it right. And if we can't get it right for the earth, there might not be one someday very soon.


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High Point University offers 3-2 cooperative programs in engineering with Vanderbilt University and Virginia Tech. Students enrolled at High Point University and interested in preparation for a career in engineering, may upon a successful completion of an approved three-year program in pre-engineering curriculum, transfer to Vanderbilt University or Virginia Tech to complete requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Vanderbilt University or Virginia Tech and the Bachelor of Arts or Science degree from High Point University.
Upon admission to High Point University, the interested student will make his or her intention to participate in the 3-2 program known to the pre-engineering advisor as soon as possible to permit cooperative planning for the individual student's particular interests.
Students will apply to Vanderbilt University or Virginia Tech after the completion of the second of three years at High Point University. With the recommendation of High Point University and the successful completion of the three year course of study at High Point University with an approved GPA, the student will be assured of admission to the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering or the Virginia Tech School of Engineering. Completion of the course work at Vanderbilt University or Virginia Tech will normally require two years.
High Point University will provide academic advising assistance to students in the pre-engineering curriculum with all matters related to their transfer to Vanderbilt University or Virginia Tech.
The pre-engineering curriculum at High Point University offers the courses that are generally prerequisite for transfer to a school of engineering. During the three years of study at High Point University, the student should complete the following courses:
Students intending to major in chemical engineering should elect Chemistry 209-210 in their second year.
*Comparative religion, comparative literature, music, philosophy (especailly philosophy of science), political science, sociology.


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[Location: Location_Category='OCEAN', Location_Type='SOUTHERN OCEAN', Location_Subregion1='HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS']
A Digital Elevation Model of McDonald Island derived from GeoEye-1 stereo imagery captured 19 May 2012Entry ID: mcdonald_dem_may2012
Abstract: This dataset consists of:
1 GeoEye-1 stereo imagery of an area of approximately 100 square kilometres including McDonald Island, captured 19 May 2012
2 A Digital Elevation Model (DEM) derived from the GeoEye-1 stereo imagery; and
3 Image products derived from the most vertical dataset of the stereo imagery and orthorectified using the DEM.
4 Contours generated from the DEM.
The DEM was produced ... at a 1 metre pixel size and is available in ESRI grid, ESRI ascii and BIL formats.
The DEM and image products are stored in a Universal Transverse Mercator zone 43 south projection, based on the WGS84 datum.
The image products are geotiffs as follows.
McDonald_Island_BGRN.tif: GeoEye-1 4-band multispectral (vis blue, green, red and Near Infrared), 2 metre resolution.
McDonald_Island_PAN.tif: GeoEye-1 panchromatic, 0.5 metre resolution.
McDonald_Island_PS_BGRN.tif: GeoEye-1 pansharpened, 4-band multispectral (vis blue, green, red and Near Infrared), 0.5 metre resolution.
McDonald_Island_RGB.tif: GeoEye-1 pansharpened, natural colour enhancement, 0.5 metre resolution.
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Originator/Creator: Brolsma, H., Fleming, J. and Smith, D.T.
Dataset Title: A Digital Elevation Model of McDonald Island derived from GeoEye-1 stereo imagery captured 19 May 2012
Dataset Series Name: CAASM Metadata
Dataset Release Date: 2012-12-05
Dataset Publisher: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Version: 1Online Resource: https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/mcdonald_dem_may2012
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 2012-05-19Stop Date: 2012-05-19
Location Keywords
Science Keywords
Quality The DEM and image products were created by Geoimage (www.geoimage.com.au) for the Australian Antarctic Division.
The stereo imagery swathes were relatively cloud-free and their parameters are given in the Appendix of a report available for download from a Related URL.
The stereo pairs were processed in SocetSet using tie points without any height information.
The DEM was ... masked to only include well correlated points.
The stereo imagery is poorly correlated in the south-western part of McDonald Island. This is due to the high amount of terrain shadow.
GeoEye provided a previously captured stereo pair to assist in the process, however because this dataset also had high levels of shadow, results were only slightly improved.
Because of the volcanic nature of the island, other datasets such as the Shuttle Radar Topographical Mission (SRTM) DEM were of no use with remedial processing on the datasets. Finally, it was decided that regions of poorly correlated points would be filled using a minimum curvature algorithm developed by Geoimage.
Elevation data within this area will not be particularly accurate.
No ground control was available to include in the creation of the DEM.
Geoimage estimate the horizontal spatial accuracy of the datasets is within 4 metres of its true position and the relative vertical accuracy of the DEM should be less than a metre. When Geoimage have ground control points to check DEMs against, they typically see vertical shifts of 2 to 3 metres.
The final DEM product was used to systematically orthorectify the most vertical dataset of the stereo imagery.
The most vertical dataset used is a single image which GeoEye tiled into two images: po_872370_0010000 and po_872370_0010001.
The Source ID code for this dataset is 2012051904383581603031601904, product ID 001.
The dataset was captured at 04:38 GMT (UTC) on 19 May 2012.
The orthorectification was performed within PCI OrthoEngine using cubic convolution methodology.
XY control for the orthorectification was derived from satellite ephemeris data used within a satellite modelling module.
The z control was derived from the DEM.
The GeoEye-1 pansharpened 4-band multispectral image was derived by pansharpening the GeoEye-1 4-band multispectral image using the GeoEye-1 panchromatic image.
The GeoEye-1 4-band multispectral image and the GeoEye-1 panchromatic image had been orthorectified separately before being used to produce the pansharpened product.
The GeoEye-1 pansharpened, natural colour enhancement image is a colour enhanced 3-band (RGB) version of the GeoEye-1 pansharpened, 4-band multispectral image.
The GeoEye-1 pansharpened, natural colour enhancement image is more noisy than the GeoEye-1 4-band multispectral image.
This is a result of the pansharpening process, and is caused by the high levels of "glint" in the water.
The colour enhancement "stretch" tends to highlight the noise.
This noise is also evident in the GeoEye-1 pansharpened, 4-band multispectral dataset.
Access Constraints The DEM, a report and the contours are publicly available for download from the provided URLs.
The GeoEye-1 satellite imagery is subject to copyright and can only be made available for projects associated with the Australian Antarctic Division.
Requests for the raw GeoEye-1 imagery or the orthorectified image products should be made to the Mapping Officer at the Australian Antarctic Division using the URL http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/requests/request.cfm
Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=mcdonald... when using these data.
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Distribution Media: HTTP
Distribution Size: 28.3 Mb
Distribution Format: ESRI ascii, ESRI grid, BIL, pdf
Fees: free
Distribution Media: HTTP
Distribution Size: 7.2 Mb
Distribution Format: shapefile
Fees: free
Role: INVESTIGATOR
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Contact Address:
Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway
City: Kingston
Province or State: Tasmania
Postal Code: 7050
Country: Australia
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway
City: Kingston
Province or State: Tasmania
Postal Code: 7050
Country: Australia
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Role: DIF AUTHOR
Phone: +61 3 6232 3577
Fax: +61 3 6232 3351
Email: gis at aad.gov.au
Contact Address:
Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway
City: Kingston
Province or State: Tasmania
Postal Code: 7050
Country: Australia
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DIF Creation Date: 2012-07-04
Last DIF Revision Date: 2019-02-13


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Scalable Vector Graphics can be defined as a vector image format that can be used to create interactive two dimensional graphics including animations.
Vector graphics can be divided into several categories. Scalable Vector Graphics, which is also known as SVG can be considered as one format out of them. Scalable Vector Graphics come in .svg file extension and they have the ability to store two dimensional graphics. This file format is based on XML markup language. In other words, a .svg file contain an image and it is based on a text file format. SVG file format was introduced to the world by World Wide Web Consortium. The main intention of them was to create a standardized image file format to display vector graphics on the Internet.
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After three short and horrid starts, De La Rosa went six innings and was hurt more by misfortune than missed pitches in a 4-2 loss to the Padres at Petco Park in front of 17,428.
De La Rosa (0-3) had one poorly located pitch early -- Tommy Medica's leadoff home run in the second -- but otherwise made a good percentage of his pitches while giving up three runs (two earned) on seven hits (two damaging infield hits in the fifth), with four strikeouts and a walk.
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But as has been the case with the Rockies during a road trip that has seen them go 2-4 -- with Thursday afternoon's finale of the four-game set with the Padres remaining -- the big inning was lacking. With bases loaded and one out in the sixth, Cashner, who gave up nine hits but just one earned run while striking out five in 7 1/3 innings, induced a double-play grounder from Jordan Pacheco.
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TOKYO: Russian fourth seed Dinara Safina became the first player to reach the quarter-finals when she whipped Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia in the Pan Pacific Open on Wednesday.
The Beijing Olympic silver medallist, making her Tokyo debut after receiving a first-round bye, struggled with her serve, hitting eight double faults before scoring a 6-3, 6-4 second round victory in 95 minutes.
Safina hit a double fault on break point to lose the fifth game of the first set, but she was never in serious danger throughout the match.
Cibulkova, who eliminated 2006 Wimbledon champion Amelie Mauresmo on Tuesday, broke back once in the sixth game of the second set, but that was all she could do as Safina sealed her quarter-final place with her ninth ace.
"It was a pretty good match. She (Cibulkova) is not an easy opponent, and I think I played really solid today. I've had almost a week of practice on this surface. Its fast and it suits me. I struggled a little bit in the second set, but I'm really happy that I put out in two sets," said Safina, 22.
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Intellectual freedom in Canada: Census panic
There has been a local left panic in Canada, on account of our prime minister Stephen Harper's attempt to abolish the dreaded mandatory B-form of the Canada census.
Allegedly, Harper is chummy with the ghost of Hitler because he doesn't believe people should be forced to answer intimate questions ... Harper wants to make it voluntary.
As a census rep, I once had to deliver these dreaded long forms. One of five, at least in those days. Basically, a bunch of intrusive questions.
I once had to explain to a woman who was living with her boyfriend, "No, I am not the Censor, I am just a census rep." But how do I know that that data wouldn't become public, as opposed to private, some day, if the government has the data?
For the record, I do not object to the mandatory nature of the short form census. It promotes wise use of tax funds. Knowing how many children live in a household is critical to determining where elementary schools should be built, as opposed to just hiring a school bus. Knowing how many seniors live there is critical to determining whether proposed old age home projects should receive tax funds. Knowing how many people are recent immigrants is critical because they may be handicapped by poor English language skills. That may help determine whether an English as a Second Language (ESL) program is needed in a given area. So - to me, at least - these are reasonable mandatory questions in an advanced society that provides a proper infrastructure. This critical data could not easily be obtained from a source other than the householder.
But the rest is just intrusive.
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As I said, I share your concerns, and feel that the Toronto Star [a highly leftwing major circ paper] is on the wrong side of the issue on this, entirely, even for itself!.
Here are the sorts of questions I object to, that can appear on such a form, along with answers I would be inclined to provide, if permitted. Usually, I will not be.
What is your religion? I am a fruitarian space alien, but would rather not admit that just now. I need a job. I need funds to get my antennae fixed. (Okay, okay, I am really a traditional Roman Catholic, but I don't see whose business it is, except the Church's. The information should not be forced from me by the government. Whatever happened to separation of church and state.)
Who does the housework at your house? No one. We just let the mess pile up. Public Health has not visited yet, so why are you compelling us to tell you about it?
Who disciplines the children? Well, if no one is alleging child abuse, what business is it of yours?
Are you divorced? Again, whose business is that? Given that I am not trying to get married again at a Catholic Church, it is no one's business at all, really.
What kind of house do you live in? That IS a justifiable question. Housing is a legitimate public concern. But the City can tell the census takers that. They know, because I pay taxes for the property, registered with them. Why not work with their accurate data, instead of bothering or threatening me?
What is your ethnicity? Oh. Are you suggesting that that guy is not my father? Why shouldn't I go over to your office and whack you in the face with a banana cream pie? Just get out of my life. Now. Granted, that may not be flagged as a mandatory question, even on the long form, but why are you even asking?
The mandatory long form as a whole is just creeping totalitarianism, and I am glad that the Prime Minister opposes it.
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Some Prominent Theories of Predestination Considered
|Garry K. Brantley, M.A., M.Div.
For centuries, the concept of predestination has been the catalyst for much theological debate. Primarily, there are two biblically based points around which the controversy revolves: the sovereignty of God, and the free choice of human beings. On the one hand, the Bible unequivocally proclaims that God is the incontestable, sovereign Lord of the Universe (see Isaiah 40:21-23). On the other hand, it just as strongly presents the concept of humankind's freedom (cf. Joshua 24:15; Isaiah 7:16; Matthew 11:28; 23:37; Revelation 22:17).
These two doctrinal strands form the theological Gordian knot of predestination that has attracted, and continues to attract, the curiosity of Bible students. While these two cords prove to be intertwined into a complex knot, simply cutting it in Alexandrian fashion is unacceptable, since each theological thread forming the configuration is fastened to strong, biblical clasps.
Valiant attempts to unravel the knot have been made by theologians through the centuries, resulting in various predestinarian theories. The three classical interpretations of biblical predestination, which span the theological spectrum, are: double predestination, universalism, and Pelagianism.
Double predestination. Double predestination holds that God decreed from eternity, and for the manifestation of His glory, that some people and angels are predestined to everlasting life, while others are foreordained to eternal damnation. From this perspective, predestination is "double" in that it is both positive and negative; God predetermines the eternal destinies of both the righteous and the unrighteous. This solution, however, isolates and focuses on the theological thread of God's sovereignty, while ignoring (or not fully grasping) the cord of humankind's freedom. Nor does it take into full consideration the gracious character of the God revealed in the Bible Who desires the salvation of every human being (cf. Ephesians 1:3-11 and 2 Peter 3:9).
Universalism. Unlike double predestination, which acknowledges the eternal demise of certain people, universalism argues that God, consistent with, and prompted by, His absolute benevolence, has chosen all to receive salvation and has rejected none. As with double predestination, this approach similarly emphasizes the sovereignty of God and does not fully wrestle with the biblical concept of human free choice. The Bible is clear that God desires a reciprocal relationship between Him and humankind, which introduces the element of a volitional human response to God's invitation to fellowship. Unlike double predestination, universalism emphasizes God's love over His sense of justice. Yet, while the Bible declares God's desire for the salvation of all humanity, it also proclaims with equal weight and clarity that not all shall be saved eternally (cf., Matthew 7:13-14, 25:31-46, and 2 Thessalonians 1:6-12).
Pelagianism. Named after the fourth-century British monk, Pelagius, who developed this predestinarian theory, Pelagianism embraces fully and optimistically the volitional capabilities of human beings (see Schaff, 1910, 3:790-794). There are two expressions of this theory: the extreme or "pure" form, and the moderate or "semi" position (Guthrie, 1993, pp. 126-131). On the one hand, extreme pelagianism holds that God has given humankind laws and commandments. When we exercise our elective freedom and choose to obey those rules perfectly, God saves us. Though it recognizes humanity's freedom to choose, this redemptive theory ultimately makes one's salvation contingent on his or her good works. On the other hand, semi-Pelagianism acknowledges that salvation is by grace, but suggests that humans must exercise their volitional freedom to accept this divine gift.
These classical predestinarian theories demonstrate the centuries-long struggle with this biblical concept. While it is helpful to consider what has been said about this doctrine, the Scriptures—not the flawed theories of uninspired people—must have the final word. In this connection, there are several biblical truths that must be held in tension, and not ignored, if we are to come to some understanding of predestination. First, we must take into consideration the totality of biblical information regarding the character of God. Emphasizing certain preferred divine qualities over attributes that are not as personally palatable results in a distorted portrait of God that inevitably influences one's theological position. For any predestinarian theory to be biblically viable, it must include the facts that God's righteousness and justice are equally as real and absolute as His love, mercy, and grace (see Exodus 34:6-7).
Second, the nature of human beings as revealed in the Bible must also be a part of the predestinarian equation. Despite the fact that our sin-filled world has exerted such a deleterious influence on human beings so that "all have sinned" (Romans 3:23), the Bible holds us accountable for our sinful actions (Romans 1:18-20). This fact, coupled with the universal call of Christ to "come" to Him (cf. Matthew 11:28-30; Revelation 22:17), indicates the biblical position of humans' freedom to choose. Hence, though it is an admittedly difficult task, any predestinarian theory must balance delicately the concepts of God's sovereignty and humankind's freedom of choice. Any approach that tends to exalt one of these features above the other will result in a scripturally skewed position.
Schaff, Philip (1910), History of the Christian Church (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans).


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Big Pharma's image problem, fueled by numerous high-profile scandals, may have made doctors so skeptical of the industry that it's warping their judgment, a new survey suggests.
Researchers found that doctors shown summaries of hypothetical drug tests lost their confidence in the results when a pharmaceutical company had paid for the studies.
Doctors were less willing to prescribe the drug under study, and they even downgraded the very scientific methods they would praise when drugmakers hadn't backed the research.
"I think skepticism is appropriate, but at some point the methods of the research should provide reassurance," said Dr. Aaron Kesselheim of the Harvard Medical School in Boston, who led the work.
Several studies have shown reports in medical journals often cast drugs in a flattering light when the sponsor has money riding on the results. There are also concerns that companies may rig clinical trials in subtle ways to boost the chances that their drug will shine, or spin or hide unfavorable data.
That was the case for GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes pill Avandia. As part of the British drugmaker's $3 billion healthcare fraud settlement earlier this year, the company conceded it had failed to provide safety data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and had made unsubstantiated safety claims.
Another controversial drug, Merck & Co's painkiller Vioxx, was recalled in 2004 after it became clear that it had dangerous side effects. Four years prior, researchers backed by Merck had seen a five-fold jump in heart attacks in patients taking Vioxx compared with naproxen, an established painkiller. But they had framed it as a five-fold decrease in heart attacks with the older drug.
One of the ways scientific journals have tried to address this perceived bias is by making sure any potential conflict of interest, such as financial ties to drug companies, are disclosed in research reports.
But it isn't totally clear what effect that has on readers, Kesselheim said.
His team came up with a set of imaginary FDA-approved drugs - lampytinib, bondaglutaraz and provasinab - and then created "abstracts" describing clinical trials of each of the drugs as if for a scientific report.
The researchers also varied the funding source and the quality of the research methods, ending up with 27 different abstracts of hypothetical drug tests.
Overall, the 269 doctors surveyed were able to separate the low-quality trials from the better ones. They also had less confidence in drugs studied in low-quality trials and were more reluctant to prescribe them.
Regardless of research quality, however, doctors tended to distrust trials with support from pharmaceutical companies as opposed to no funding or funding from the National Institutes of Health.
For example, they were only half as willing to prescribe a drug when the trial had been sponsored by the industry than when the government had paid for it.
"There was this lack of credibility of industry-funded trials," Kesselheim told Reuters Health, adding that the skepticism could make it harder for new effective medications to gain a foothold.
Matthew Bennett of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a trade group, said collaboration between industry and academia is critical for the discovery of new drugs.
"Unfortunately, when taken out of context, publicly available information about physician interactions with biopharmaceutical companies does not convey the value of these relationships, which advance science and promote high-quality patient care," he said in an emailed statement to Reuters Health.
In an editorial published along with the survey in the New England Journal of Medicine, editor-in-chief Dr. Jeffrey Drazen said the journal has taken steps to improve the reporting of clinical trials.
Those steps include requiring that the study is registered in a public database from the outset, publishing study protocols for clinical trials and posting any conflict of interest authors might have, according to the editorial, entitled "Believe the Data."
Those measures aren't enough to satisfy all experts, however.
"We are doing the best we can, but there is still good reason to be skeptical," said Brett Thombs of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who has studied disclosure in medical journals. "The idea that we can cast aside all doubts and skepticism is naïve."
Thombs said there are several important variables in a clinical trial that can influence its results, such as how faithfully trial participants take their drugs and how the outcomes are assessed, and not all are easy to identify.
"There are numerous factors that are more nuanced than you can get from a few variables," he told Reuters Health. "I don't think we want to throw out a study just because it's funded by a pharmaceutical company, but we are always skeptical."
SOURCE: bit.ly/8H6vG1 New England Journal of Medicine, online September 19, 2012.


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Less than seven months have passed since KOYO launched their critically acclaimed debut album, and with festival dates at Download, Camden Rocks, Bliss Camp, Great Escape Festival and Live at Leeds upcoming this year, the band are heading around the UK with a series of exclusive free warm up shows.
The tour will begin in April coinciding with their new single Jettisoned, due to be released on 27th of the month.
Speaking with Huw Edwards guitarist and frontman of the band, I discussed the upcoming tour, the festival dates and the future of the band.
You played Leeds Festival on the BBC Introducing Stage last year, and less than a year later are playing Download Festival. What are you looking forward to playing at the festival, and what can people expect from a KOYO show?
Yes, things are moving very quickly. It's exhilarating. Me and Jake (keyboards) used to go to Download every year as teenagers and last time we went I swore we wouldn't go again until we were playing there, and here we are. So really it's a dream come true. I can't wait to experience it from the other side of the fence. People can expect a relentless, sonic spectacle from start to finish. Once we start playing you're strapped in for the ride until we walk off stage. There's no holding back.
The self-titled debut album KOYO, has been met with incredible critical acclaim. Were you surprised by the praise the album received?
Yeah, of course! We're just incredibly grateful. To be honest, we wrote the album for ourselves. To think that other people dig it is just a huge bonus. It has left us hungry for more though. We've had our first taste of success and now we just want to go for gold.
The UK mini-tour will visit towns and cities up and down the country. Have you played some of these venues before and will these shows debut any new material?
We've played Soup Kitchen in Manchester and Brudenell at home in Leeds before, as for all the others it'll be our first time. We've played all the cities before at least once but at different venues. Yes, we've already started working on our second album and one thing we definitely want to do is rotate some of those new songs o we can really knock them into shape.
The new single Jettisoned will be launched during this tour. It had its premiere on Steve Lamacqs BBC 6 Music show earlier this year. What was that like as an experience knowing a million people were tuned in?
I had no idea a million people were tuned in until afterwards! The producer came up to us and told me and my jaw just dropped! I think it was a good thing I didn't know to be honest otherwise I probably would've been speechless for the entire interview. We couldn't have wished for a better start.
The tour will begin on April 8 at Bristol, and will continue to Brighton, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and end in Leicester on April 18. www.koyoband.com


text: Dr. David L. Strayer Freshwater Ecologist Share: May 20, 2012 Land-use & Human Impacts Paving rural roads is one of the local issues that can get people in Dutchess County worked up. Some people like the rural look of unpaved roads, and that they restrict the volume and speed of traffic. Others think that paved roads are safer and more comfortable to drive on. And then there is cost – it's said that paved roads cost less to maintain, but are very expensive to build.I'm not going to discuss any of these important issues today, but will focus on the ecological impacts of unpaved roads. I often hear the claim that unpaved roads are "greener" than paved roads because they are permeable (they allow rainwater to percolate instead of running off).In fact, the dirty secret about unpaved roads is that they have a poor ecological record. To begin with, even unpaved roads are so compacted that they allow very little water to soak in, unless they are specifically built and maintained to allow water to infiltrate. So rainwater just runs off of unpaved roads, as it does for paved roads, and the supposed ecological benefit of unpaved roads is illusory.The chief problem with unpaved roads is that they are subject to erosion, which can generate a lot of sediment that runs off into watercourses. This problem is so bad (and so well known to ecologists) that unpaved roads and poorly managed construction sites often are identified as the worst hot spots on the landscape for sediment generation.This sediment is a problem for several reasons. First, it can smother stream habitats and their inhabitants, reducing biodiversity and eliminating sensitive species from our streams. In particular, it can clog stream gravels and prevent spawning and rearing of trout.In addition, adding sediment to streams can cause them to become unstable and change their courses. This instability can pose a problem for plants and animals that live in or along streams, as well as for humans that live near streams.Perhaps of greater interest, by accumulating in streams, this sediment can raise streambeds and make flooding worse. In the wake of last year's flooding, there have been many suggestions to "clean out" local streams to prevent future flood damage. Such campaigns by themselves will cost precious tax dollars and are likely to damage stream habitats without providing long-term relief from flood damage (see "Flood mitigation requires care", Poughkeepsie Journal, 23 October 2011).Instead, if any program to reduce future flood damage is to be effective, it must focus on reducing sediment inputs to streams, as well as any "cleaning" of the channels that might actually be required. This includes sediments generated from unpaved roads.Unpaved roads may generate a lot of dust during dry periods. This dust can alter roadside vegetation, and has been considered to harm human health. In addition, any chemicals that are applied to unpaved roads to keep down dust may themselves have ecological or health effects.It is worth noting that some of the benefits of unpaved roads in slowing traffic may also be achieved by using road designs that incorporate alternative "calming" measures that do not have the negative ecological effects of unpaved roads. See the "New Greenway Guide: Rural Roads", for a good introduction to these measures.So whatever their merits, unpaved roads are not especially "green", and have some ecological effects that are distinctly negative. I'm not saying that this means that we should go out and immediately pave all the roads in the county. Certainly all of the issues that I raised at the beginning of this article should be considered. However, in any comprehensive discussion about the values of paved vs. unpaved roads, we should consider the real and substantial negative ecological effects of unpaved roads. Share: Dr. David L. Strayer Freshwater Ecologist Dave Strayer is a freshwater ecologist whose work focuses on measuring the long-term effects of zebra mussels on the Hudson River ecosystem, and understanding the roles of suspension-feeding animals in ecosystems. Strayer also works on broader issues in freshwater conservation ecology and invasion biology.


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Anyone who has ever played a few games of Call of Duty or Halo online knows that communities like Xbox Live aren't exactly models of good behavior. But the federal government believes the occasional bursts of profanity may not be the worst of what's going on according with consoles, and it wants a way to dig deeper.
According to forensic experts, pedophiles are increasingly using gaming systems to exploit children, while terrorists are using it for communication. With this evidence, a contract was awarded on April 5 by the Naval Supply Systems Command to Obscure Technologies for the research and development of "hardware and software tools that can be used for extracting data from video game systems."
With today's practice of owners jailbreaking consoles in order to play pirated games, gaming companies have fought back with hard-to-break encryptions. As a result, the extraction of data, according to the contract, is a rather complex process and one that the Department of Homeland Security believes can only be achieved by Obscure Technologies. For the small San Francisco computer diagnostics and forensics company, likely with sales under $500,000 and less than five employees, the contract award was for a sum of $177,235.50.
"Analysis of the game systems requires specific knowledge of working with the hardware of embedded systems that have significant anti-tampering technology. Obscure Technologies has substantial experience in working with such systems. Obscure Technologies has the ability to do cradle-to-grave turnkey servicing of complete hardware systems design," the contract states. But what may have attracted the government to this company was its lead engineer's ability to reverse engineer Microsoft's Xbox.
According to Foreign Policy, which first broke the story, law enforcement agencies came to the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate requesting a system that can extract data from consoles. The DHS then delegated the responsibilities of heading the research and executing the contract to the Naval Postgraduate School.
With the multi-function nature of modern consoles, including access to social networking profiles, the Internet and peer-to-peer messaging, there's plenty of interest to law enforcement, but it's difficult to access. Under the impression that game console data is impervious to being hacked and therefore safe from authorities, pedophiles have in fact been using consoles as a haven for exploitation. In 2008, the FBI announced the alarming rate with which Xbox Live was being used by pedophiles for luring and communicating with children.
Aware of the issues surrounding privacy, the contract explicitly states that Obscure Technologies will only crack consoles purchased out of the United States for the duration of the research. As for the data to be extracted from the overseas consoles, the DHS plans on making their research and data publicly available at conferences and academic journals, but under the "constraints of the Common Rule (CFR 46) governing the use of human subject data." In other words, any identifiable information pertaining to the owner of the consoles will be scrubbed.
While law enforcement officials have expressed their interest in obtaining gaming information for the purpose of identifying predators and terrorists, you can't help but wonder about how officials will begin using the to be developed technology for the other purposes, as well.
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A dozen people have been sickened and two have died after an outbreak of fungal meningitis tied to injections given at outpatient surgical centers in Tennessee and North Carolina, health officials said.
At least 737 people who received lumbar epidural steroid injections between July 30 and Sept. 20 have been notified of the cluster of rare aspergillus meningitis infections, which attack the central nervous system, said Curtis Allen, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Aspergillus is a mold present in the environment, and the meningitis is not related to the more common bacterial or viral types of meningitis.
"The main thing is that it's not transmissible person-to-person," said Allen.
Federal, state and local health officials are investigating the source of the outbreak. Eleven of the victims received injections at the Saint Thomas Outpatient Neurosurgery Center in Nashville. Another patient received an injection at an unidentified clinic in North Carolina. The Tennessee clinic was closed Sept. 20 and has been shuttered until further notice, officials said.
The patients were older people, between the ages of 40 and 80, who were receiving the steroid injections as treatment for musculoskeletal disorders, said Woody McMillin, spokesman for the Tennessee Department of Health.
Neither federal nor state health officials would identify the brand of epidural steroids given to the patients nor the manufacturer of the drugs. Asked whether the drugs themselves could have been contaminated, McMillin said that's one possibility.
"Right now, we're not taking anything off the table," he said.
Erica Jefferson, a spokeswoman for the federal Food and Drug Administration, said that it's too soon to speculate about that because the investigation is still "evolving."
Meningitis caused by aspergillus is very rare, according to the Journal of Microbiology. Symptoms often include a fever and headache that might be present for weeks before a diagnosis is made.
Tennessee officials have set up a hotline to answer questions about meningitis: 1-800-222-1222.
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