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In the District of Columbia (DC), the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) case rate is nearly 10 times the U.S. rate and higher than comparable U.S. cities, such as Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, Detroit, and Chicago.1,2 In June 2006, the DC Department of Health (DCDOH) began implementing CDC's 2006 recommendations for routine, voluntary HIV screening in health-care settings.3 To describe recent trends in HIV disease and testing, CDC and DCDOH analyzed DC HIV case surveillance data, HIV testing data, and data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).4 This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which indicated that the rate of newly diagnosed acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) cases decreased consistently, from 164 cases per 100,000 in 2004 to 137 in 2007 and 107 in 2008. Among newly diagnosed AIDS cases, the number and rate were higher among blacks/African Americans compared with whites and Hispanics/Latinos. During 2005-2007, BRFSS results showed a significant increase in the proportion of the population that had been tested for HIV within the past 12 months, from 15% to 19%. Although the causes of the improvement in these indicators are unknown and cannot be linked to any specific intervention, they suggest improvements in the delivery of HIV testing and linkage to care services in DC. To address continuing racial disparities, DCDOH has increased HIV education and prevention efforts through enhanced collaborations, working with DC residents as spokespersons for local marketing campaigns and creating toolkits for health-care providers to expand HIV testing and linkage to care.5
In 2006, CDC revised its HIV testing recommendations to include implementation of routine, voluntary HIV testing in health-care settings for all persons aged 13-64 years.3 To implement these recommendations, DCDOH engaged multiple community-based and clinical providers throughout DC to perform rapid HIV screening, launched extensive social marketing campaigns to educate DC residents and providers about routine HIV testing, and trained providers to facilitate immediate linkage to care among those testing HIV-positive.5
To describe recent trends in HIV disease and testing in DC, DCDOH used several indicators, including (1) AIDS diagnoses, (2) the proportion of persons entering HIV care within 3 months of diagnosis, (3) client-level data on publicly funded HIV testing data, collected through the Program Evaluation and Monitoring System (PEMS), and (4) the prevalence of self-reported HIV testing among participants in the 2005 and 2007 BRFSS. AIDS diagnosis currently is the best indicator for the status of the HIV epidemic in DC. Since 1981, DCDOH has required that all laboratories and health-care providers report confirmed cases of AIDS by name, including HIV-related laboratory data and clinical diagnostic information.6 In 2001, DC added code-based HIV reporting. Only in November 2006 did DC begin integrated, confidential, named-based HIV and AIDS reporting, and no name-based HIV diagnosis data are yet available.
DCDOH used HIV case surveillance data for residents of DC reported to DCDOH through December 31, 2009, to determine the number and percentage of adolescents and adults aged >12 years newly diagnosed with AIDS during 2004-2008, overall and by race/ethnicity (black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, and white) and sex.* Data are reported through 2008, the most recent year for which data are available, and are not adjusted for reporting delays. Cell sizes of five or fewer persons were not reported in accordance with DCDOH practice. Rates were calculated using DC population estimates from U.S. Census data.† Estimated annual percentage changes (EAPCs) in new AIDS diagnoses were calculated using Poisson regression, with p<0.05 indicating significance.
The proportion of cases that had a CD4 count within 3 months of a new HIV diagnosis was used as an indicator of entry to HIV care. Since the start of AIDS reporting, DCDOH has received laboratory reports of CD4+ cell counts, and in more recent years, HIV viral load tests, and has matched these reports to HIV case surveillance data.‡ In accordance with national recommendations,7 DCDOH recommends that the first visit to a health-care provider be within 3 months of HIV diagnosis.
DCDOH used client-level data on publicly funded HIV testing data, collected through the Program Evaluation and Monitoring System (PEMS), to calculate the number and percentage of tests conducted during 2004-2008 by race/ethnicity and year of test.8 These tests are paid for by CDC and administered throughout DC at both medical and nonmedical sites. Data are collected on all persons tested, inclusive of client demographics, testing site, HIV test results, and referrals. In addition, data from the 2005 and 2007 BRFSS,4 a telephone survey on health behaviors among DC residents, were analyzed to evaluate the impact of increased testing efforts at a population level; sampling-weighted frequencies and percentages were used to describe testing by race/ethnicity. Logistic regression was performed to evaluate the difference in proportions in 2005 compared with 2007, with p<0.05 indicating significance. For 2005 and 2007, the Council of American Survey and Research Organizations (CASRO) response rate was 44.7% and 38.6%, and the cooperation rate was 75% and 67%, respectively.§
During 2004-2008, a total of 3,312 new AIDS cases were diagnosed among blacks/African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, and whites in DC. Blacks/African Americans accounted for the highest proportion of diagnoses overall (86%) and for 82% and 94% of diagnoses among males and females, respectively. During this period, the overall number and rate of newly diagnosed AIDS cases decreased 35%, from 164 cases per 100,000 to 107 cases per 100,000 (EAPC = -9.2; p<0.001). The decrease was 58% among Hispanics/Latinos (EAPC = -17.8; p<0.001), 32% among blacks/African Americans (EAPC = -7.1; p=0.002), and 23% among whites (EAPC = -6.9; p<0.001).
The overall proportion of persons newly diagnosed with HIV who had a CD4 count within 3 months of diagnosis increased, from 62% in 2004 to 64% in 2008 (p=0.006). The only significant increase in this proportion by racial/ethnic group was observed among blacks/African Americans, from 60% in 2004 to 63% in 2008 (p=0.009).
During 2004-2008, the number of publicly funded HIV tests in DC increased by 335% (from 16,748 tests in 2004 to 72,864 in 2008) among community-based and clinical providers, including a 415% increase among blacks/African Americans (from 10,924 in 2004 to 56,278 in 2008). The number of persons testing positive increased by 353%, from 246 in 2004 to 1,115 in 2008. The proportion of persons testing positive in 2004 and 2005 was 1.5% and 1.8%, respectively. This proportion peaked in 2006 at 2.5%, and then decreased to 1.4% and 1.7% in 2007 and 2008, respectively.
During 2005-2007, the overall proportion of persons self-reporting tests for HIV within the past 12 months increased, from 14.9% in 2005 to 18.7% in 2007 (p<0.001). The highest overall testing proportions and the largest increases in these testing indicators were among blacks/African Americans.
T West-Ojo, MSPH, R Samala, MPH, A Griffin, MSPH, N Rocha, S Hader, MD, District of Columbia Dept of Health. AD Castel, MD, M Befus, George Washington Univ School of Public Health and Health Svcs. MY Sutton, MD, L Willis, PhD, HI Hall, PhD, Y Lanier, PhD, TH Sanchez, DVM, A Satcher Johnson, MPH, PH Kilmarx, MD, Div of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC.
This report indicates several favorable trends in indicators of the HIV epidemic in DC for 2004-2008. Although an analysis such as the one presented in this report cannot definitively link trends to specific interventions, these trends might be related to a comprehensive prevention, care, and treatment portfolio implemented by DCDOH in 2006 to address the HIV epidemic. In addition, in June 2006 (in anticipation of the September 2006 publication of CDC's recommendations for routine HIV screening in health-care settings3), DCDOH launched a citywide initiative to increase HIV testing and treatment programs. After the interventions, more than a threefold increase occurred in the number of publicly funded HIV tests conducted by community-based and clinical providers, and a 26% increase occurred in the proportion of persons who had been tested within the past 12 months.
Other favorable trends occurred during 2004-2008. DC residents with HIV had small but statistically significant increases in CD4 counts within 3 months of diagnosis, suggesting improvements in early linkage to care. Also, fewer AIDS diagnoses occurred over time. Like the other favorable trends, these cannot be attributed definitively to specific interventions, but they might indicate some success in DCDOH efforts to engage local providers through increased HIV education and social marketing campaigns.
Only a minimal increase occurred in the proportion of newly diagnosed HIV-infected persons being linked to care within 3 months of diagnosis. Efforts are ongoing to improve community and clinical linkages that promote HIV care and treatment and support appointments being made within 72 hours of a new HIV diagnosis.5 Also, a recent analysis indicated that during 2004-2008, HIV-infected DC residents were being diagnosed at earlier stages of HIV disease, as indicated by higher CD4 counts at diagnosis and a decreasing proportion of late testers (i.e., HIV diagnosis occurring within 12 months of AIDS diagnosis) among AIDS cases.9
The burden of disease among blacks/African Americans in DC is especially high. In 2008, blacks/African Americans represented 55% of DC's population, but accounted for 78% of those living with HIV infection and 86% of newly diagnosed AIDS cases (1).∥ The HIV prevalence among blacks/African Americans in DC was 4.7%.1
The findings in this report are subject to at least four limitations. First, DC transitioned from a code-based system of reporting HIV cases to confidential, name-based reporting in late 2006. DCDOH estimates that 5% of the cases reported before 2006 were duplicate cases.1 Second, delays in HIV and AIDS case reporting have been observed in DC. DCDOH expects that the number of cases diagnosed in 2008 will continue to increase as new reports of cases are received. Third, HIV testing data reflect the number of tests conducted and cannot be used to infer the number of persons tested in DC, because a person could be tested more than once in a single year. Finally, sampling bias is possible with BRFSS data because it is a telephone survey and the sampling frame includes only those adults with landline telephones; the growing population of persons with only cellular telephones has not yet been sampled through BRFSS in DC.
Research exploring sociodemographic factors in areas of high AIDS and high poverty rates in DC, which occur disproportionately among blacks/African Americans, suggest that lack of knowledge of one's HIV status and partners' HIV status, and missed opportunities to diagnose HIV in routine clinical settings, are contributing factors to the HIV epidemic among blacks/African Americans in DC.2,10 This report suggests that ongoing and increased HIV testing and efforts to ensure linkage to care are warranted.
Blacks/African Americans are disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic in the District of Columbia (DC).
What is added by this report?
Starting in 2006, the DC Department of Health expanded HIV testing and linkage to care by increasing education and social marketing efforts with local health-care providers; by 2008, increases were observed in DC residents who were tested for HIV within the past 12 months, and fewer AIDS diagnoses occurred over time.
What are the implications for public health practice?
Increased prevention efforts with social marketing and HIV education, as well as expanded HIV testing and linkage to care, might counter this epidemic and decrease racial/ethnic HIV disease disparities in DC.
* Newly diagnosed cases are those that have not been previously reported to the DCDOH HIV/AIDS surveillance system. They do not necessarily reflect newly infected or incident cases of HIV infection.
† Available at http://www.census.gov/popest/estbygeo.html.
‡ Lower CD4 counts indicate more immune suppression and potentially more advanced HIV disease, with a CD4 count <200 cells/μL indicating advanced HIV disease. CD4 counts and viral load tests typically are only conducted after an HIV diagnosis has been made and a patient begins seeing a health-care provider for HIV care.
§ The CASRO response rate is the percentage of persons who completed interviews among all eligible persons, including those who were not successfully contacted. The cooperation rate is the percentage of persons who completed interviews among all eligible persons who were contacted. The BRFSS cooperation rate is an outcome rate with the number of completes in the numerator and the number of eligible respondents who are capable of completing the survey in the denominator. Question asked for BRFSS 2005 and 2007: "Have you ever been tested for HIV?"
∥ Based on U.S. Census data, available at http://www.census.gov/popest/estbygeo.html.
Expanded HIV Testing and Trends in Diagnoses of HIV Infection—District of Columbia, 2004-2008. JAMA. 2010;304(3):264–266. doi:
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This is a problem from Mathematical Analysis by Zorich, from the chapter on continuous functions.
Definition: Let $P_n$ be a polynomial of degree $n$. For a function $f:[a,b]\to\mathbb{R}$, Let $\Delta(P_n) = \sup_{x\in[a,b]} |f(x)-P_n(x)|$. and $E_n(f) = \inf_{P_n} \Delta(P_n)$. A polynomial $P_n$ is the best approximation of degree $n$ of $f$ is $\Delta(P_n) = E_n(f)$.
I have already proved the following:
There exist a polynomial $P_0(x) = a$ of best approximation of degree 0.
If $Q_\lambda(x) = \lambda P_n(x)$ for some fixed polynomial $P_n$. Then there exist a polynomial $Q_{\lambda_0}$ such that $\Delta(Q_{\lambda_0}) = \min_{\lambda\in \mathbb{R}} \Delta(Q_\lambda)$
I'm stuck on proving the following:
If there exists a polynomial of best approximation of degree $n$, there also exists a polynomial of best approximation of degree $n+1$.
My intuition is to prove $\lambda_0 x^{n+1}+P_n$ is the $n+1$ best approximation for $f$. Where $\Delta(\lambda_0 x^{n+1}) = \min_{\lambda\in \mathbb{R}} \Delta(\lambda x^{n+1})$ and $\Delta(P_n) = E(f(x) - \lambda_0 x^{n+1})$.
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NOTE: While approved for public distribution, this version may contain some strong language. Registered alumni may contact the High Kappa for brother-only editions.
- Cornell Songs
- Alma Mater of Cornell University
- The Evening Song
- My Old Cornell
- The Song of the Classes
- Fight Songs
- Give My Regards to Davy
- Hairy-Chested Men (To Hell With Pennsylvania)
- Godiva
- Lambda Chi Alpha Songs
- All Hail
- We're All Good Brothers
- Hip Hip Hooray
- Magic Carpet Ride
Cornell Songs
Alma Mater of Cornell University
The Alma Mater was written by Archibald C. Weeks '1872 and his roommate Wilmot M. Smith '1874, who set the verses to the ballad "Lovely Annie Lisle." Cornell insists it is the first school to use the tune, which is played at the noon concert on the chimes.
Far above Cayuga's waters with its waves of blue
Stands our noble alma mater, glorious to view.
Lift the chorus, speed it onwards, loud her praises tell.
Hail to thee, our alma mater: Hail, all hail Cornell!
Far above the busy humming of the bustling town,
Reared against the arch of heaven looks she proudly down.
Evening Song
The Evening Song was first published in 1877 in the Cornell Era, and it is played on the chimes daily to close the day. This arrangement is by Henry Tyrell '1880; it has been sung to "O Tannenbaum" since at least the 1909 edition of Songs of Cornell.
When the sun fades far away
In the crimson of the West,
And the voices of the day
Murmur low and sink to rest.
Music with the twilight falls,
O'er the dreaming lake and dell,
'Tis an echo from the walls
Of our own, our fair Cornell.
Welcome night, and welcome rest,
Fading music, fare thee well.
Joy to all we love the best,
Love to thee our fair Cornell.
The Alumni Song
Words by Louis Carle Ehle '90 and music by William Luton Wood.
I am thinking tonight of my old college town,
I am dreaming of days that are flown,
Of the joys and the strife of my old college life—
Ah, those days were the best I have known.Then here is the toast we will drink:
A good rousing health to Cornell.
Let your classes clink,
A good excuse I think,
Is the toast to her we all love so well.
I'm rejoicing tonight o'er her vit'ries again
Though I helped not the triumph to gain;
I will shout with my might for carnelian and white,
And her honor for ever maintain.
My Old Cornell
This cheery song for alumni is actually only the refrain of the original song penned by Will Dillon '1917.
Oh, I want to go back to the old days,
Those good old days on the hill.
Back to my Cornell, For that's where they all yell,
Cornell, I yell, Cornell. (Cornell!)
Far above Cayuga's waters I hear those chiming bells.
Oh, I'm longing and yearning And always returning To my old Cornell.
Song of the Classes
Many more and less politically correct versions of this song exist.
I am the Freshman all timid with fear
I was nursed by my mummy, but now I drink beer
I miss my old bottle, it's sad for to tell
For soon I'll get busted right out of Cornell
Oh, it's one two, and three four, we all fall in line
To the tune of our profs we must always keep time
And it's work like a Turk till your eyes ache like hell
In this grand institution, this school of Cornell
I am the Sophomore with debonair look
My vile freshman manners I long have forsook
I used to date girls from Elmira and Wells,
But now in my opinion the best are Cornell's.
I am the Junior a-takin' my ease
I go to my classes whenever I please
I frequent the bars, and the barmaids as well;
I've not been a-wastin' my time at Cornell
I am the Senior tormented with doubt
You see, my time at Cornell has almost run out
The world situation has me quite annoyed:
I'm magna cum laude, but still unemployed.
Fight Songs
Give My Regards to Davy
The official fight song of Cornell University, written by Charles Tourison '1905 and sung to "Give My Regards to Davy." It is sung by a freshman (piker) to Registrar Davy Hoy '1891 and Professor "Tee Fee" Thomas Crane about getting "busted" out of school for drinking too much. The second, unofficial verse appears only in our songbook and apparently refers to an attempt under former Cornell President Deane Malott to ban room parties in fraternities in the 1950s. "Jim's" refers to the pub at 400 Stewart Avenue later known as The Chapter House, which burned down in 2015.
Give my regards to Davy, remember me to Tee Fee Crane.
Tell all the pikers on the hill that I'll be back again.
Tell them of how I busted, lappin' up the high high ball.
We'll all have drinks at Theodore Zinck's when I get back next fall.
Give my regards to Ezra, remember me to Andy White.
Tell all the virgins on the hill that I'll be back some night.
Tell them just how I licked it, lappin' up the brew at Jim's.
We'll all take shots at Deane Malott's when I get back again).
Hairy-Chested Men
A song for football rival University of Pennsylvania, sometimes known simply as "Don't Send My Son to Harvard." Many versions of the song exist both at Cornell and at other institutions, though the tunes vary. One theory has it a parody of "Don't Send My Boy to Prison," a folk song performed by Billy Bennett in the 1920s, whereas another traces it to "Sing a Song of Colleges," of even older and more uncertain origin.
The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
The sun came out and dried up all the rain
And the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again
Harvard's run by Vassar, Vassar's run by Yale.
Yale's run by Wellesley, Wellesley's run by tail.
Princeton's for the pretty boys and drunkards go to Penn,
But far above Cayuga's a race of hairy men.
Oh we are the race of hairy chested men, hairy chested men, hairy chested men.
Oh we are the race of hairy chested men, and we are from Cornell.
We are from Cornell, we are from Cornell (Cornell!)
Oh we are the race of hairy chested men and we are from Cornell.
Don't send my son to Harvard, the dying mother said.
Don't send my son to Yale, I'd rather see him dead.
Send him off to Dartmouth, or better yet, Cornell.
And as for Pennsylvan-i-a, I'll see him first in hell!
To hell, to hell with Pennsylvania,
To hell, to hell with Pennsylvania.
To hell, to hell with Pennsylvania.
To hell with U of P— P-U!
(innocently) We were only, only, foolin',
We were only, only, foolin',
We were only, only, foolin'—
The hell we were! P-U! P-U!
If I had a prick of steel and balls of solid brass
I'd find a marble statue, and ram it up her a__
We'd breed a race of giants, who'd roam throughout the land
To swell the glorious chorus of "the Quakers be damned."
An adaptation of Godiva's Hymn, sung to "Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Godiva was a lady who through Coventry did ride,
To show to all the villagers her lovely pure white hide.
A most observant villager— a Lambda Chi, of course—
Was the only one to notice that Godiva rode a horse.
We are, we are, we are, we are, we are the Lambda Chi's
We can, we can, we can, we can demolish forty ryes.
Drink up, drink up, drink up, drink up and come along with us,
'Cause we don't give a damn for any old man who don't give a damn for us!
Now men will come a long, long way, and men may go so far
To take Godiva from her horse and stand her at the bar.
But the one who took her from her horse and bought the girl a rye
Was a bloodshot-eyed fraternity man, a drunken Lambda Chi!
Lambda Chi Alpha Songs
Possessive of its independent musical heritage, Omicron Zeta has never regularly sung tunes from the national songbook, but they remain in the collection.
All Hail
All hail, all hail to Lambda Chi,
Our fair fraternity
We'll laud her praises to the sky
Wherever we may be
In East, in West, in North, in South
Is found our faithful band;
To colors, purple, green, and gold
We pledge both heart and hand.
We're All Good Brothers
Oh, We're all good brothers, each one the other's friend
and we'll be good brothers until this world shall end.
So while we're together lets give a rousing cheer,
for Lambda - Chi - Alpha, the bond we hold so dear.
Put your arm around your brother, stand together man to man,
As we grow older, we're brothers in a band
That binds us together until the day we die
We're faithful forever to dear old Lambda Chi.
Hip Hip Hooray for Dear Old Lambda Chi
Let's give a hip hip hooray, for dear old Lambda Chi,
Let's give a hip hip hooray, and shout it to the sky.
We'll make all of the rafters ring when all of the brothers sing,
About the cross and crescent, because it's the grandest thing.
We'll shout it all day long, We'll shout it loud and strong,
For we want the whole world to know, (to know),
We stand together to now, we stand to win, and how!
For dear old Lambda Chi.
Magic Carpet Ride
A Steppenwolf song adopted by Lambda Chi Alpha chapters across the continent, although no member of the band attended college or had any other known association with Lambda Chi Alpha. Words and music by Rushton Moreve.
I like to dream,
Right between my sound machine
On a cloud of sound,
I drift in the night
Any place it goes is right.
Goes far, flies near,
To the stars away from here;
Well, You don't know what we can find,
Oh why don't you come with me little girl,
On a Magic Carpet Ride,
You don't know what we can see,
Why don't you tell your dreams to me,
Fantasy will set you free.
Close your eyes girl,
Look inside girl,
Let the sound take you away
Last night I owned Aladdin's Lamp
And so I wished that I could stay.
Before the thing could answer
Someone came and took the lamp away
I looked around,
A lousy candle is all I found!


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A bill introduced by a local legislator keeps the military in mind when it comes to fishing and hunting in North Carolina.
RALEIGH � A bill introduced by a local legislator keeps the military in mind when it comes to fishing and hunting in North Carolina.
Sen. Harry Brown, R-Onslow County, has sponsored a bill that would allow all active duty military of the armed forces of the United States, regardless of where they are serving, to obtain hunting, fishing and trapping licenses as a resident of the state.
�It�s one thing we can do for our guys,� said Brown.
Currently, military personnel, their spouses and dependents under the age of 18 stationed at an in-state military facility are deemed residents for the sake of obtaining licenses.
The bill adds a provision to regulations that considers all active duty military residents if they plan to do a little fishing and hunting while in North Carolina.
While the requirements and provisions for each license vary, Brown said the general idea is that the fees for resident licenses are lower than those for nonresidents.
According to license information on the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission website, an annual basic statewide hunting license costs $15 for residents and ranges from $60 to $125 for nonresidents.
An annual Coastal Recreational Fishing License is listed as $15 for residents and $30 for nonresidents.
Brown said the legislation would keep the costs low for all active duty military visiting or living in North Carolina.
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The legislation, Senate Bill 25, was referred Feb. 4 to the Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources Committee. If favorable, it will move on to finance.
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Des Plaines Public Library / Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin Guadalajara
1501 Ellinwood Street
Des Plaines, Illinois 60016
Phone: 847-827-5551
Contact person: Jill Franklin
Des Plaines Public Library has a Sister Library relationship with the Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin in Zapopan, Mexico outside Guadalajara. We have had two staff exchanges. First we hosted a librarian from the Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin for one week. Our visiting Mexican librarian observed public service desks, attended meetings, and acquired a small taste of Chicago and American public libraries to share with his colleagues back home. In April 2008 one of us spent one week in Mexico immersed in Mexican culture. She toured rural and city libraries (public, academic, special) in the Guadalajara region and spent several days learning how the unique Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin operates.
In 2008 we had two projects (in addition to the one-week librarian visit): (1) children's book exchange, (2) children's artwork exchange.
Children's book exchange: We selected Spanish translations of popular & classic American children's books, labeled them with our library bookplates, and mailed the package to our Sister Library's tiny children's section. Our goal was to share a typical American child's experience.
Children's artwork exchange: We held a Youth Services program where children made collage drawings illustrating themselves and their families. We attached a photo of each child to the art. We then hand-delivered the pictures on our next book-buying trip to Mexico. In exchange, our Sister Library gave us a selection of artwork made by their local children, which we will soon display. We wanted to bring our patrons directly into the Sister Library project and thought children would be the best voices of culture. We hope that ultimately our children and their Mexican peers will learn about each other's lives and culture.
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Why are top scientists increasingly interested in researching human consciousness? Because the quest to solve the puzzle of human consciousness - the very essence of our being - is one of the great problems of modern science. For 2000 years, the questions surrounding human consciousness - how the everyday inner workings of our brains give rise to a single cohesive 'reality' and a sense of an individual 'self' - have been the province of philosophers from Plato to Descartes to Spinoza.
Descartes is remembered for his dualist theory of consciousness in which the physical body is separate from the immaterial mind (or soul), and in large part because of his famous 'sound-bite' about human consciousness," I think, therefore I am."
However, modern brain imaging seems to indicate that it is Spinoza's concept of an integrated mind-body that is closer to reality. And psychologist William James' great work on consciousness in the late 1800s is slowly regaining the pivotal position it deserves in understanding and interpreting human behavior.
Scientists have studied the evolution, the mechanisms and the function of the brain, but have difficulty teasing apart the complex processes that give rise to human consciousness in part because of the difficulty in measuring individual subjective experience.
Nobel-award winning researcher Dr. Francis Crick, who devoted the last 15 years of his life to the study of consciousness, wrote the following in his foreword to Christof Koch's The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach:
"Solving the problem of consciousness will need the labors of many scientists, of many kinds, though it is always possible that there will be a few crucial insights and observations. ... A few years ago one could not use the word 'consciousness' in a paper, for, say, Nature or Science, nor in a grant application. But thankfully, times are changing, and the subject is now ripe for intensive exploration."
In fact, technological advances in brain imaging have given scientists a new range of tools to more accurately observe and measure the apparent causes and manifestations of consciousness. fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) produces vivid images of the areas of the brain that respond to a variety of stimuli. Instead of trying to measure a purely subjective response, such as "that made me feel good," scientists can also see what part of the subject's brain is responding, for how long, and to what degree.
Many scientists believe that we are beginning to learn how a subjective, personal experience can be observed objectively. For the scientist, this makes all the difference between valid research and speculation.
In addition to major scientific publications, such as Science and Nature, the scientific journal Consciousness and Cognition reports scientific research relative to the study of consciousness and cognitive processes. Trends in Cognitive Sciences also often features research bearing on the question of consciousness. And the Journal of Consciousness Studies contains a wide variety of reflections by academic scholars and researchers in anatomy, computation, physiology, psychology, artificial intelligence, religion, philosophy and more.


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Home-cooked takeout. It's an oxymoron, but you know what it means.
There are loads of articles in cooking and health magazines touting the benefits of making your own takeout favorites. It's no surprise. At-home takeout is more affordable, healthier and often tastes better.
Without a doubt, my favorite takeout food is Chinese and Thai, which unfortunately is usually loaded with sodium and excess fat from oil. So I often make my own.
With a few tweaks, fried rice can easily become a healthier takeout dish. In this recipe for Shrimp Brown Fried Rice, brown rice and added vegetables boost fiber and complex carbohydrates while reduced-sodium soy sauce and unsalted cashews keep sodium levels in check. Boldly flavored toasted sesame oil is more flavorful than regular sesame oil, so less is needed without sacrificing flavor.
Shrimp Brown Fried Rice
Makes 6-8 side servings.
3 large eggs, lightly beaten (or 2 whole eggs and two egg whites)
3 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce
1 tablespoon light brown sugar
1 1/2-2 tablespoons fresh grated ginger
2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil, divided
24 medium shrimp, deveined, cleaned, and tails removed (about 2/3-3/4 pound)
1 shallot, finely chopped
1 small red or green chili, minced
1 red bell pepper, diced
4 cups cold cooked brown rice
3/4 cup frozen peas
3 tablespoons unsalted cashews
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh cilantro
Sliced green onions, for garnish
1. Place a small frying pan coated with cooking spray over medium high heat. Add eggs; cook until nearly set. Flip once, and cook until set and no longer runny. Set aside. Cool and cut into small strips.
2. In a small bowl, whisk soy sauce, brown sugar and ginger; set aside.
3. In a wok or large, wide, deep pan, heat 1 tablespoon sesame oil over high heat. Cook shrimp until bright red, but not browned. Remove from pan and set aside.
4. In same wok or pan, heat remaining 1 tablespoon sesame oil. SautA(c) shallots and chili for 1 minute, or until fragrant. Add red bell pepper for 1 minute. Add brown rice, and cook for about 8-10 minutes, or until lightly browned and crisp. Add soy sauce mixture and stir. Return shrimp to pan. Add eggs and peas and stir until well combined and heated through, about 2-3 minutes. Stir in cashews and cilantro. Garnish with sliced green onions, and serve immediately.
(Susan Russo is a freelance food writer in San Diego. She publishes stories, recipes and photos on her cooking blog, Food Blogga. One for the Table is Amy Ephron's online magazine that specializes in food, politics, and love. http://www.oneforthetable.com/.)


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Former Houston Texans safety Ed Reed is out a substantial amount of dough according to Houston police, who are investigating the theft of $50,000 from his vehicle on Wednesday.
Reed, who was released by the Texans in November and quickly signed by the New York Jets, was inside a Houston bank when the incident occurred. Reed was to help the Jets during a late-season playoff push.
A window was smashed on his gray 2006 Audi and a bag containing the cash, in $100 bills, was stolen while Reed was inside a Bank of America location in the 12000 block of Westheimer, according to the police report. He had just left a bank down the street, leading police to believe Reed was followed.
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It was September 1989, and the cellphone industry was booming. Companies were building new towers as fast as they could, using the prevailing analog technology, but they were encountering problems with capacity and quality of service. Earlier that year, the industry had decided to move to digital transmission using time-division multiple access. TDMA shared the airwaves by slicing up each available frequency channel into time slots. A caller's phone transmitted digitized signals in short bursts during the slot assigned to the handset. It wasn't a particularly efficient use of the broadcast spectrum, but it worked.
Irwin M. Jacobs, chief executive officer of what was a little San Diego company called Qualcomm, believed he had a better approach. He wanted to take an idea then being used for secure military communications—Code Division Multiple Access, or CDMA—and adapt it to commercial cellphone networks, which would allow multiple conversations to share the same frequencies at the same time. He knew this technology could serve many more customers with fewer towers. But an awful lot of people didn't believe he could pull this off, and time was running out. The more companies and consumers purchased TDMA equipment, the harder it would be for a new technology to gain a foothold.
In June, Jacobs had pitched CDMA at an industry meeting in Chicago. But talk would go only so far. He had to show industry executives that CDMA worked. The trouble was, it didn't. Not yet. Still, Jacobs believed that if 1989 ended before CDMA went live, neither CDMA nor his company would survive. He set a November date for a demonstration and sent invitations to more than 100 executives of companies that built cellphones or operated cellphone systems. Most of the engineers working for him thought he was nuts.
7 November 1989: Demo day arrived. Qualcomm had installed CDMA equipment on two cellphone towers and in a van. The people Jacobs assembled heard a few presentations about how CDMA worked and why it would help the industry. Jacobs then took the podium, prepared to make a few remarks before sending the executives out to drive around in the van and make phone calls, when he spotted one of his engineers in the back of the room frantically gesturing at him to keep talking. Jacobs didn't know exactly what was going on, but he could guess—the gear wasn't working. Forty-five agonizing minutes later, he got a sign that he could release the crowd. The CDMA equipment was fixed.
"If that demo had failed, we probably would have been dead," Jacobs recalls. The problem, it turns out, wasn't with the CDMA technology. The two demonstration base stations set their clocks to synchronize with each other via signals from the then-nascent Global Positioning System. That morning, one of the GPS satellites was itself out of sync. While the engineers working to diagnose and solve the problem were certainly sweating, Jacobs was remarkably calm. He believed in CDMA with all his heart.
Today CDMA technology powers all 3G cellular networks and continues to expand its reach with 4G. It is for making that happen, for "leadership and fundamental contributions to digital communications and wireless technology," that Irwin M. Jacobs is being awarded this year's IEEE Medal of Honor.
Jacobs's story starts back in Massachusetts, where he worked from the time he was in fifth grade or so as a grocery-store clerk, a lifeguard, a photo developer, and even a lumberjack. As he approached his 1950 high school graduation with top grades in math and science, he expected to study engineering in college. His guidance counselor, however, told him there was no future in science or engineering and suggested agricultural school. When Jacobs rejected that idea, the counselor asked about his parents' work. Jacobs's parents then had a small restaurant, so the counselor pointed him to Cornell's School of Hotel Administration.
Jacobs went through a year and a half of training there, and he worked as a cook at a country club the summer between freshman and sophomore years. He might have stayed on that track had it not been for his college roommate, a chemical engineering major who teased Jacobs about his easy courses, insisting that Jacobs wouldn't be racking up such good grades were he studying engineering. "You can only listen to that for so long," Jacobs says. Halfway through sophomore year he changed his major to electrical engineering and never looked back, going on to earn a doctorate at MIT and eventually teaching there. Then in 1966, drawn by the opportunity to help launch a new engineering school and by California's weather, he put his family in a used Ford Falcon van and drove cross-country to accept a post at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
Before he left MIT, Jacobs and fellow faculty member John M. Wozencraft had written a textbook on communications theory, Principles of Communication Engineering, first published in 1965 and still used. The book helped bring Jacobs consulting work, and in 1968 he joined with professors Leonard Kleinrock and Andrew Viterbi of the University of California, Los Angeles, to start a consulting company, Linkabit Corp. It began developing products of its own, including very-small-aperture terminal satellite systems for business use and VideoCipher, a home descrambler for satellite television. In 1972, Jacobs left UCSD to manage Linkabit full time. In 1980, Linkabit merged with M/A-Com, and on 1 April 1985 Jacobs left, having netted about US $20 million from the deal.
He could have retired more than comfortably. But starting a company, something he'd initially had doubts about, turned out to be "great fun," he says. "I liked doing the systems and the overview and the long-term thinking, but I also liked all the detail work, going through each aspect of the company, learning best how to do each job, and then bringing in very good people to take over that responsibility."
So after he was finished with Linkabit, he decided to do it all over, joining with six others, including, once again, Viterbi. The group started Qualcomm in 1985, each founder putting in $1500 or so. They intended to initially fund themselves with contract work.
One of those first contracts, a technical review of a proposal by Hughes to develop a mobile satellite system, lit the firecracker that turned out to be CDMA.
The Hughes proposal used conventional spectrum-sharing techniques, which split up the available bandwidth by time slots or by frequencies. Providers of commercial communications weren't considering CDMA, then used for jam-proofing military communications, because it was generally thought to be too complicated.
But on the drive back to San Diego from a meeting with Hughes engineers in Los Angeles, while chatting with Viterbi and another cofounder, Klein Gilhousen, Jacobs got to thinking about gaps in conversations, those moments when people pause to gather their thoughts. He wondered whether you could somehow squeeze parts of other conversations into those gaps. "I realized that CDMA might be able to do this," Jacobs says, "and that this was a significant potential advantage for a mobile communication system."
A few days later, Gilhousen observed that CDMA offered another advantage for cellphones: It's designed to work with interference. TDMA couldn't do that, so cellphone operators had to avoid interference by making sure they weren't using the same frequencies at nearby locales, much the way adjacent cities don't use the same television broadcast channels. Being able to use the same frequencies at every cell site would mean that a cellphone network could handle a lot more calls.
Given these two big advantages, Jacobs and his partners thought that perhaps working through the complexities of CDMA would be worthwhile.
One of the biggest complexities involved controlling the power of the signals sent from the phone and received at the cell tower. A cellular communications system in which different conversations are separated by time or by frequency is like a conversation taking place in a private room; it isn't really critical how loud two people in the room talk. But in a CDMA system, conversations take place in the equivalent of a noisy room, where a few loudmouths can drown out everyone else. Jacobs and the other engineers at Qualcomm had to make sure this didn't happen.
Jacobs and his engineers laid out a plan that managed the power of the communications signals in three ways. First, he envisioned a rapid-response system: CDMA phones would monitor the power of the signal coming in from the tower; if the signal suddenly dropped, say, when a user walked into a building, the phone would crank up its transmitting signal, figuring that if it was having trouble hearing the tower, then the tower would have trouble hearing the phone. Next, equipment at CDMA towers would take a handful of received bits and calculate an average signal strength; if that signal fell above or below a preset threshold, then the tower would prompt the phone to lower or raise its power. And, finally, the thresholds for each conversation would be adjusted depending on the rate at which incoming packets of information had to be dropped because they couldn't be decoded properly. Digital communications depend on decoding sequences of bits. But these sequences don't have to come through perfectly; the decoders expect some errors. And a strong signal will have fewer errors than a weak one. So the Qualcomm engineers designed the decoders to report when the error rate got higher or lower than normal, so that this information could also be used to adjust signal strength.
"Someone else might have looked at all the complexities and the concerns and concluded that it just wasn't possible," said Richard Atkinson, former president of the University of California. "But Irwin didn't back away."
Making CDMA work was perhaps the easy part. Selling it to an industry already on the TDMA bandwagon was much tougher. The successful San Diego demonstration helped a lot, but it took years for CDMA to be truly accepted. Jacobs repeated the demonstration in January 1991 in New York City, where skeptical executives at wireless carriers thought CDMA would fail when confronted with a sea of tall buildings. He weathered the critics, such as the professor at Stanford who told people that CDMA violated the laws of physics, and The Wall Street Journal, which ran a September 1996 article claiming that Jacobs's hype was causing carriers and cellphone manufacturers to throw away billions of dollars. "He was a lot cooler than I was," recalls Viterbi, who went on to receive the 2010 IEEE Medal of Honor. "I got upset with the detractors. He just carried on."
So Qualcomm went ahead to develop the chips needed for handsets and base stations. Jacobs, meanwhile, offered to create an experimental network to test any problematic scenario the skeptics could come up with. "We had a whole group of manufacturers working with us to try to break the system," Jacobs recalls. "The data produced turned out to be very handy when we went through the standards process."
The Telecommunications Industry Association approved CDMA as a standard in July 1993, and the first commercial system began operation in Hong Kong in late 1995. Today, CDMA is the dominant cellphone technology, and Qualcomm, with Jacobs's son Paul at the helm, is a $115 billion company. His dad's being smart "was just table stakes," says Paul. "What made Qualcomm successful was passion and persistence—even though everyone said it couldn't be done, even though he was getting personally attacked, he had a fundamental belief that he was right and that would lead to victory."
Jacobs himself, according to Forbes last year, is worth about $1.5 billion. Thanks to the way he's spending that wealth, Jacobs won't be remembered only for CDMA. In fact, many don't connect him at all with technology. Instead, he's the guy who pledged about $120 million to put the San Diego Symphony on solid financial ground. He put another $120 million or so into engineering education at UCSD, where the school of engineering is now named after him. He also made significant donations to MIT, Cornell, and Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. He and his wife, Joan, also support the La Jolla Playhouse, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the San Diego Natural History Museum, and local public radio and television. They recently funded a new central library for the city. The San Diego Union Tribune has called him the city's philanthropist in chief.
His current passion is High Tech High, a charter school focused on STEM education. Since 2000, it has grown from one high school to five high schools and four middle schools and will soon include three elementary schools. And he's been involved in supporting local and national Democratic candidates for decades. He has joined a philanthropic campaign cofounded by Warren Buffet called The Giving Pledge, promising to donate at least 50 percent of his wealth before he dies.
Jacobs himself isn't a flashy billionaire: Movies aren't made about him, he doesn't wear an iconic turtleneck or hoodie, and he lives fairly modestly, at least from the outside, in an older neighborhood of average-size ranch homes. His son Gary says his father taught them that "just because you have it doesn't mean you get to spend it all on yourself."
Jacobs's house, built on land purchased in 1968 for $37 000, has a spectacular view. The interior boasts art collected from around the world and a large room designed for chamber music concerts. But, Jacobs points out, he has only one house. He received his first Ferrari as a 70th birthday present from his four sons. Paul Jacobs says his father had wanted a Ferrari for 45 years and had been able to afford it for decades, but he would never have bought it for himself.
When people do recognize Jacobs and his wife, they're likely to stop and say, "Thank you." What for? Well, Jacobs says, it depends on the person. The music lover will thank them for supporting the symphony; the educator for support of the university; the art lover for support of the Museum of Contemporary Art; the book lover for support of the Central Library; the theatergoer for their efforts with the La Jolla Playhouse. And then there are the folks who worked for or invested in Qualcomm over the years, who thank him for making it possible for them to buy their houses. The funny thing is, most of the people who stop him are carrying mobile devices that work as well as they do only because of his patents and persistence. But that's something they rarely mention.
In an interview with IEEE TV, Irwin Jacobs discusses his career, the challenges ahead for today's engineers, and how he avoids burnout.
This article originally appeared in print as "Captain Cellular."


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The current context of very weak yields on the lowest risk assets has made liquidity buffer management much more complex for banks. Against this backdrop, outsourcing this service to an asset manager carries a number of advantages.
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Christopher Rouse is known for orchestral scores that possess a driving, sometimes brutal energy * In recent years, a new current of lyricism has emerged in his music * His scores have been performed by every major orchestra in the U.S. and an increasing number in Europe and Asia * Champions include conductors Alan Gilbert, David Robertson, Leonard Slatkin, Marin Alsop, and David Zinman * Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his Trombone Concerto and a Grammy (Best Contemporary Composition, 2002) for his guitar concerto, Concert de Gaudí * Among soloists, noted interpreters include Emanuel Ax, Evelyn Glennie, Sharon Isbin, Yo-Yo Ma, and Dawn Upshaw
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Der Gerettete Alberich (1997) for solo percussion and orchestra
Flute Concerto (1993) for flute and orchestra
Phaethon (1986) for orchestra
Odna Zhizn (2009) for orchestra
Compline (1996) for flute, clarinet, harp, and string quartet
Looking Ahead: Nashville Symphony Orchestra performs (and records) a concert of Rouse works, including his acclaimed Concerto for Orchestra in April. The live recording of the performance will be made available for future release.
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Comics are no strangers to legends and mythological heroes, and comic artist Will Sliney (Farscape, Pigs) is reaching back into his own Irish heritage to tell the story Cú Chulainn. To be published in 2013 by O'Brien Press, Celtic Warrior: The Legend of Cú Chulainn shows Chulainn's battles against Queen Maeve and her army against the picturesque backdrop of Ireland.
"I've wanted to do this for years," Sliney said in an interview with IrishComicNews.com. "I've always been a huge fan of these stories and I think now is the right time for it."
The story of Cú Chulainn is one that's seen a marked rise in popularity recently, with X-Men: First Class star Michael Fassbender lobbying to be in a movie about the Irish hero. When rumors of Sliney's adaptation reached Ireland's top TV network RTE, they sent out a film crew to break the news on live television -- a rarity for any comic.
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Just before Jesus was taken up into heaven He told His disciples: "You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to …Read More
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The Oklahoma tax commission has rejected the request for a personalized license plate that supports LGBT rights because of its "sexual connotation."
Boy Scouts Ban Openly Gay Troop Leader
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Eat for Eight Bucks: Lentil Soup Recipe
Dinner recipes that will keep your stomach and wallet happy from Cara and Phoebe of Big Girls, Small Kitchen
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1 onion: $0.50
3 carrots: $0.75
Lentils: $1.25 Baguette: $2.00
Pantry items: Olive oil, garlic, dried thyme, tomato paste, salt, pepper, red wine vinegar.
Total cost (for 4 portions): $4.50
After last week's simple buttery pasta controversy, I hesitate to post my no-nonsense lentil soup. Nevertheless, here it is, because as far as I'm concerned it's really perfect December eating: healthy (unlike party food), flexible (who knows what's left in your larder), relatively fast (you're busy), perfect for making in advance (ditto), and warmly sustaining (weather outside possibly frightful, etc.). And if you count lentils and onions as pantry items, this classic churchmouse supper costs practically nothing.
This recipe is liberally adapted from Everyday Food Great Food Fast, but I never make it the same way twice. If there is bacon around, I start by cooking a few strips of bacon, chopped, and use that fat instead of olive oil. We are cumin addicts and so usually use 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds in addition to thyme. Celery often finds its way into the pot, as do other stray vegetables. I haven't tried a Parmesan rind, but it occurs to me now that that would probably be tasty. What are your lentil soup secrets?
(To preempt the question in the air: yes, the Bellingers do sometimes eat nothing but bread and soup for dinner. We are small and thrifty people. If your appetite demands more, you've got $2.50 left over to buy whatever you need to round out the meal: another vegetable, cheese, fruit for dessert, a bottle of plonk?)
Lentil Soup
- Olive oil
- 1 medium onion, peeled and chopped
- 3 medium carrots, peeled and chopped into 1/4-inch half moons
- 1 tablespoon chopped garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
- Salt
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 1/2 cups lentils (French or regular both good here)
- Pepper
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
Heat the oil in a soup pot over a medium heat. Add the onion and carrot and cook, stirring, until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic, thyme, and 1/2 teaspoon salt and stir for 30 seconds. Stir in the tomato paste and cook for 1 minute; then add the lentils and cook, stirring, for 1 minute more. Add enough water (or stock, if you have it) to cover the lentils by a few inches, 4-6 cups depending on your pot. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer 30-45 minutes, until the lentils are completely tender. Taste for salt and pepper. Stir in vinegar just before serving.
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Art.No.: A150074
This seat grows with the child and can therefore be used for up to 11 years.
In Group 1, the Pallas M features an adjustable safety cushion. In the case of a frontal collision, the force of impact is distributed across the entire surface of the cushion, similar to an inflated airbag. For Group 2/3, the seat can be easily converted into a Solution M.
Adjustable safety cushion (group 1)
The adjustable safety cushion reduces the risk of serious neck injuries without confining the child (patent pending).
The forces of an impact are dispersed over the cushion and reduced by its energy absorbant materials. This system resembles an inflated airbag and helps reduce the forces in the event of an accident. The belt does not injure the child, and the sensitive head and neck areas as well as the internal organs are protected. The newly designed, one-hand adjustable safety cushion (patent pending) adjusts for highest comfort perfectly to the child's body and additionally offers more freedom of movement of the upper body as well as maximum safety especially in frontal impacts when compared to conventional five-point harness systems.
2-in-1 seat
This seat grows with the child and can therefore be used for up to 11 years.
In Group 1 the adjustable safety cushion doubles as an inflatable airbag and, in a collision, protects against neck injuries without being restrictive. For children from approx. 3 years and above, the seat can be easily converted into a Group 2/3 seat from the Solution series.
Individually adjustable linear side-impact protection
The individually adjustable Linear Side-impact Protection (L.S.P. System Plus) absorbs the impact energy in case of an accident at a very early stage.
The force of a side-impact collision is systematically absorbed by individually adjustable side protectors as well as by the shoulder and head protectors. Simultaneously, the kinetic energy of the body in an accident is absorbed at an early stage and the head is actively guided into a safe position. The L.S.P. protectors can be individually adjusted to fit the interior of the car.
Comfortable one-hand recline function
Ensures a relaxed and peaceful journey
Thanks to a comfortable recline function the seat can be easily adjusted with just one hand.
3-position reclining headrest
The CYBEX patented 3-position reclining headrest guarantees optimal protection in the case of a side impact.
The 3-position reclining headrest cleverly prevents the child's head from falling forward while asleep. In the case of a side-impact collision, the child's sensitive head remains within the safety zone of the seat, ensuring optimal protection. The patented 3-position headrest offers a more comfortable sleeping position for a safe and peaceful journey.
• Energy-absorbing shell The flexible material structure absorbs the force of an impact
• Optimized ventilation system: Maintains a comfortable body temperature
• Dimensions: L 426 mm x W 540 mm x H 700 mm
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The getdevvp() function creates a vnode for a device of type type with a device number of dev, and returns a pointer to it in vpp. Its arguments are: dev The device number of the desired device. vpp Where the vnode will be returned on success. type The type of device, either: VBLK For a block device, or VCHR for a character device. bdevvp() and cdevvp() use getdevvp internally, specifying the third argu- ment. bdevvp() will create a vnode for a block device, and is used for the root file system and swap areas, among other things. cdevvp() will create a vnode for a character device and is used in kernfs and in some console handling.
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Granted, these critters aren't getting this shit on the street: "Hey, baby, why don't you smile? You'd be so much prettier if you smiled!" But watch this series of animals flash 7th grade class picture-style grins from the tiny cockles of their hearts. And the frog! Ahhh, the frog!!
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RAPIDS, Iowa — The Perfect Game All-American Classic presented by
Rawlings is an annual event that showcases the top high school talent
in the country. This year, the game's 10th installment, will be played Aug. 12 at PETCO Park in San Diego.
prestigious event has produced 117 first-round picks in the MLB Draft,
including: Justin Upton, Buster Posey, Madison Bumgarner, Andrew
McCutchen, Jason Heyward and Eric Hosmer.
year the All-American Classic will feature the 48 top high school
prospects, including Dane McFarland.
6-foot-4, 205-pound McFarland is a right-handed hitting outfielder and
pitcher from JSerra Catholic HS in Laguna Niguel, Calif. He's
played in several Perfect Game events, including the National Showcase
in Minneapolis earlier this summer. McFarland's performance there —
which included a 6.5 60-yard dash and two homers in the home run
derby — led to his selection onto the All-American Classic roster.
really enjoyed (the National Showcase) and had a lot of fun," he
said. "Just meeting guys was nice to get a taste of the talent
across the nation … After one of the games, I was invited to the
All-American Game. It definitely came as a surprise to me."
won't be able to play in the Classic due to a torn labrum
in his right shoulder. He had surgery on it last month, and won't
be fully recovered until December.
Almora was held out of last year's Classic, but that didn't
affect his draft value. He was selected sixth overall by the Chicago
Cubs in June.
the injury, McFarland will be in San Diego this week to enjoy the
three-day All-American experience, which includes a visit to Rady
Children's Hospital in San Diego. The proceeds from the event are
donated to aid in treatment of pediatric cancer.
high school teammate Austin Hedges, who played in the 2010 Classic,
has relayed encouraging words about the event.
says it's a great time and a great experience," McFarland said.
"I'm looking forward to it."
reminded that the Perfect Game All-American Classic presented by Rawlings has produced players such as
Bryce Harper and Carlos Correa in recent years, McFarland offered a
humble response.
really hasn't hit me yet, but it's pretty amazing to think that
these guys have moved on and are now doing bigger things," he said.
"It really makes you feel good about yourself."
17-year-old played with the ASD Bulldogs travel team in the 2010 and
2011 PG/Evoshield National Championships, and has committed to play
at Oregon following his senior season. But the latter doesn't
necessarily mean he'll ever wear a Ducks uniform.
by Perfect Game as the No. 31 overall prospect in the high school class
of 2013, McFarland will likely draw plenty of interest from teams in
next year's draft.
really haven't put much thought into it," McFarland said about
the possibility of being drafted. "I'm just taking that process
slow. I want to see how my rehab and my senior season go. Getting my
arm back to full health would be my primary goal.
just have to keep working every single day. My goal is (to be
drafted) in the top 15-20 rounds. I've been playing since I was
eight or nine years old, so it's always been a lifelong dream to
play baseball professionally."
he can pitch, McFarland prefers to play the field because it allows
him to hit. He's confident in his bat, but admits he needs to
improve against off-speed pitches. In the outfield, his 6.5 speed and
rocket arm allow him to run down fly balls and throw out base-runners, much like his favorite player Josh Hamilton does.
though McFarland was raised in southern California, he's not an
Angels fan. His mom grew up in New York and has "bred" her son to
root for the Yankees, her hometown team. He grew up idolizing Derek
Jeter, but after attending several Angels' games this summer, he's
quickly becoming a fan of Mike Trout.
Perfect Game's scouting notes on McFarland -- Exciting combination of power
potential and speed with five-tool potential -- are any indicator,
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Hello there people!I'm writing the quadratic equation to scheme lisp and i need some help with the results printing:
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Dr. Greene's Answer:
CT scans are usually the best imaging studies for looking inside the skull following head trauma. They are also the best imaging studies for other specific situations, including looking inside the lungs for cancer.
After a head trauma, the advantages of CT scans are most clear for those children under 2, those experiencing dizziness, vision, or behavior changes, those with skull fractures, and those with a mechanism of injury likely to cause a serious problem (this is one reason I'm such a big fan of bicycle, skateboard, scooter, and motorcycle helmets). If the doctor has a high degree of suspicion that there is a problem, a CT scan can be the wisest thing to do.
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USA Gymnastics competitive training is available for both boys and girls at all levels, including elite. Fairland has sponsored many gymnastics competitions at the state and regional level.


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The Internal Revenue Service recently issued temporary and final regulations which will substantially compound our problems on these payments effective July 1, 1990. Our preliminary reading of these regulations indicates that the State will be required to withhold income tax and social security tax on these payments. It is not our intent to include items which are not required to be reported. Because severe penalties may be imposed for willful failure to report and the state's past compliance has been questioned, it is our intent to demonstrate a good faith effort to bring the state into compliance.
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Blue is a lovely color for bedding. With so many hues, it has many faces, from light and soothing to dark and moody to graphic and dramatic. Be it aqua, turquoise, dusty, navy or royal, I've rarely met a blue I didn't like.
Regardless of color, it's exciting to see increasing choices in organic bedding. With more manufacturers and designers going eco-friendly, organic duvets, sheets and pillow covers are becoming more affordable, like the Target Home Organic Sheet Collection (Photo 3).
Shown above from left to right:
1. Organic Ikat Scroll Duvet Cover and Shams, $24.00 - $109.00 from West Elm (Eco-friendly!)
2. Blissliving Home Mallory Twin Duvet Set in Aqua, $161.00 from All Modern
3. Organic Cotton Collection, $22.99 - $53.99 from Target Home (Eco-friendly!)
4. Set of Two - Chinoiserie Pillows, $85.00 from Studio Tullia
5. Charles Street Bedding Collection, $40.00 - $160.00 from Kate Spade
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