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AT&T began offering 4G LTE capability in Lawrence last week. This makes AT&T the second telecommunications company to provide 4G LTE coverage in Lawrence, coming six months after Verizon announced its LTE services would become available in Lawrence.
LTE, or Long-Term Evolution, offers users faster processing speeds. Users with LTE-compatible devices will benefit decreased lag time and better use of AT&T's WiFi spectrum, according to an AT&T release.
4G LTE was already available in Wichita and the Kansas City area, making Lawrence the third area in the state to gain AT&T's latest form of mobile coverage.
AT&T boasts that its 4G LTE should of-
fer processing speeds close to ten times
as fast as its 3G devices and that AT&T's
4G LTE technology is faster than that of
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Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile.
Student AT&T customers are excited about the implications 4G LTE will have on their mobile communications experiences. Still, some students are concerned with some of the other issues AT&T needs to address to iron out all of its service wrinkles.
"I'll be just as excited as the next person to get LTE coverage. I just hope they aren't expecting us to pay a premium for it," Ben Tumbleson, a freshman from Leawood said. "I feel as though a more appropriate response for AT&T would be to fill in the dead zones across the U.S."
AT&T is next looking to increase the number of customers with LTE-capable devices so that more customers are able to take advantage of the technological advancement.
Reid Eggleston
The Big Event is having Spring Awareness Week this week to promote the third annual event, is scheduled on April 13 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Big Event hosts week of promotions
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Thomas Plummer, director of external affairs for the Big Event, said the purpose of awareness week is to register volunteers and to give students and faculty information about the event.
"People recognize our brand and see the Big Event logo." Plummer said. "It's important that we explain what it is, what we do and how to get involved."
Big Event committee members will have tables set up on Wescoe Beach each day this week to allow students to ask questions and sign up to volunteer.
On Wednesday,students can bowl at
Jaybowl from 7 to 9 p.m. Students can purchase tickets for $4 at the Union Programs Box Office or at the event. On Thursday, a percentage of the proceeds from anyone who eats at Fuzzy's Taco Shop and mentions the Big Event will be donated to the event.
Volunteers will distribute fliers to recruit community members to register their homes or businesses as volunteer sites on March 10 starting at 1 p.m. in the Memorial Stadium parking lot.
Kayla Boal, the Big Event's programming co-chair, said the day of volunteer service is a way to learn more about the community while showing Lawrence residents the University's appreciation.
Last year's Big Event had approximately 2,000 participants volunteering at 200 sites, and this year, organizers hope to double those figures.
"Going to a school so big, it's easy to get caught up in other activities and classes. You sometimes forget that there are people who make Lawrence their permanent home for more than four years," Boal said. "The Big Event is sort of a way to say thanks for putting up with us."
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Child born with AIDS appears to be cured
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — A baby born with the AIDS virus appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who's now 2½ and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.
There's no guarantee the child will remain healthy, although sophisticated testing uncovered just traces of the virus' genetic material still lingering. If so, it would mark only the world's second reported cure.
Specialists say Sunday's announcement at a major AIDS meeting in Atlanta offers promising clues for efforts to eliminate HIV infection in children, especially in AIDS-plagued African countries where too many babies are born with the virus.
"You could call this about as close to a cure, if not a cure, that we've seen," Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health, who is familiar with the findings, told The Associated Press.
A doctor gave this baby faster and stronger treatment than is usual, starting a three-drug infusion within
30 hours of birth. That was before tests confirmed the infant was infected and not just at risk from a mother whose HIV wasn't diagnosed until she was in labor.
"I just felt like this baby was at higher-than-normal risk, and deserved our best shot," Dr. Hannah Gay a pediatric HIV specialist at
the University of Mississippi, said in an interview.
That fast action apparently knocked out HIV in the baby's blood before it could form hideouts in the body. Those so-called reservoirs of dormant cells usually rapidly reinfect anyone who stops medication,
more aggressive treatment of other high-risk babies. "Maybe we'll be able to block this reservoir seeding" Persaud said.
But "it opens up a lot of doors" to research if other children can benefit,
said Dr. Deborah Persaud of John Hopkins Children's Center. She led the investigation that deemed the child "functionally cured" meaning in long-term remission even if all traces of the virus haven't been completely eradicated.
"You could call this about as close to a cure, if not a cure, that we've seen."
Next, Persa I. team is planning a study to try to prove that, with
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he said.
Better than treatment is to prevent babies from being born with HIV in the first place.
HIV in 2011, mostly in poor countries where only about 60 percent of infected pregnant women get treatment that can keep them from passing the virus to their babies. In the U.S., such births are very rare because HIV testing and treatment long have been part of prenatal care.
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300,000 chil-
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"We can't promise to cure babies
who are infected. We can promise to prevent the vast majority of transmissions if the moms are tested during every pregnancy" Gay stressed.
The only other person considered cured of the AIDS virus underwent a very different and risky kind of treatment — a bone marrow transplant from a special donor, one of the rare people who is naturally resistant to HIV. Timothy Ray Brown of San Francisco has not needed HIV medications in the five years since that transplant.
The Mississippi case shows "there may be different cures for different populations of HIV-infected people," said Dr. Rowena Johnston of amFAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. That group funded Persaud's team to explore possible cases of pediatric cures.
It also suggests that scientists should look back at other children who've been treated since shortly after birth, including some reports of possible cures in the late 1990s that were dismissed at the time, said Dr. Steven Deeks of the University of California, San Francisco, who also has seen the findings.
"This will likely inspire the field, make people more optimistic that this is possible," he said.
In the Mississippi case, the mother had had no prenatal care when she came to a rural emergency room in advanced labor. A rapid test detected HIV. In such cases, doctors typically give the newborn low-dose medication in hopes of preventing HIV from taking root. But the small hospital didn't have the proper liquid kind, and sent the infant to Gay's medical center. She gave the baby higher treatment-level doses.
The child responded well through age 18 months, when the family temporarily quit returning and stopped treatment, researchers said. When they returned several months later, remarkably, Gay's standard tests detected no virus in the child's blood.
Ten months after treatment stopped, a battery of super-sensitive tests at half a dozen laboratories found no sign of the virus' return. There were only some remnants of genetic material that don't appear able to replicate. Persaud said.
In Mississippi, Gay gives the child
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Dr. Seuss had his 109th birthday over the weekend. There used to be a Dr. Seuss club at KU that would do a 24-hour reading on Wescoe Beach
each year on his birthday.
POLICE REPORTS
Information based on the Douglas County Sheriff's Office booking recap.
- A 26-year-old male was arrested yesterday on K-10 under suspicion of possession of controlled substances and criminal possession of a firearm. A $3,000 bond was paid.
- A 27-year-old male was arrested yesterday on K-10 under suspicion of possession of controlled substances. A $1,000 bond was paid.
- A 26-year-old male was arrested yesterday on K-10 under suspicion of possession of stolen property. A $500 bond was paid.
- A 20-year-old male was arrested yesterday on the 1300 block of Vermont Street under suspicion of possession or use of a fake driver's license, possession, purchase, or consumption of alcohol by a minor, and criminal damage to property. A $300 bond was paid.
- A 21-year-old female was arrested Saturday on the 1200 block of Kentucky Street under suspicion of operating a vehicle under the influence. A $500 bond was paid.
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