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|Shortage Of Sony PS3 Expected At Launch - Drives Prices To $10,000 On eBay
|Thursday, 26 October 2006
gamers and eBay speculators lined up at Game Stop and EB Game stores
across the country on October 10, 2006. With the size of the lines
wrapping around the block you might think they were there get their
hands on Sony's Blu-ray based Playstation 3 video game system, however
the system doesn't hit the streets in the USA until November 17, 2006.
So why the lines a month before the launch date? These game fanatics
were there in hopes of being lucky enough to plunk down a $100 deposit
to reserve one of the only 400,000 Sony Playstation 3 consoles
available November 17 in the USA.
With a receipt in hand, that is as coveted as a golden Willy Wonka
ticket, many of the 6 to 15 lucky gamers at each store headed
immediately to their computers to log on to eBay. By the droves, eBay
filled up with auctions and "buy it now" postings for PS3 units that
were not even in the hands of the people listing the auctions. Auctions
with "buy it now" prices as high as $10,000 were hitting eBay, with
several listings for $4,000 to $6,000. The $10,000 auction was geared
towards rap and sports stars who want to be the first one with the
system, and the seller even promised to fly it personally to the winner
as soon as it is available.
eBay became aware of this situation and began removing these pre-release auctions through their VERO system for fear that they could possibly be fraudulent. Although ticket owners are guaranteed a system, there is also a chance that the lucky few that have Game Stop or EB Games receipts will not get their system on or around the launch date. eBay, knowing this does not want to subject their users to purchasing items for great sums of money only to find out there will be a huge delay in shipping them to the auction winners.
The general consensus among gamers is that the only way to get a system will be to camp out in advance, be lucky enough to get in on one of the various pre-orders at stores like Toys R' Us, Wal Mart etc, or pay through the nose on eBay for one. Once the frenzy of the launch morning sales are over and the first batch of PS3s are on the street, expect to see another surge of listings for the systems on eBay. Besides dealing with a shortage of PS3 systems due to a lack of blue laser diodes for the Blu-ray drives, Sony also faces competition from the new Nintendo Wii system. Priced much lower than the $599 deluxe PS3 unit, Nintendo's next generation system simply called Wii (pronounced like the French word for yes "oui") is geared more towards young gamers with more cartoon-like graphics, and has a price tag of only $250. Where the PS3 can be a pivotal part of a home theater system with its Blu-ray based drive and HDMI high-definition capable output, the Wii, is a game only system without a DVD player but features a new one of a kind motion sensitive remote control. On a sports game such as tennis, swinging the wireless remote makes the player on screen swing at the ball. Swinging the nun-chuck attachment around makes the character Link on the new Legend of Zelda game swing his sword or cast his fishing pole to fish for food. This revolutionary game controller had people lined up waiting for hours to play the system at the E3 videogame expo in Los Angeles earlier this year.
Sony's stock took a hit as news hit Wall Street about the small numbers of systems that will be available at launch. Nintendo took that as an opportunity to let the gaming world know that they would be upping production of their much easier to produce Wii to roll out 4 million systems by the end of the year in the US, while experts expect around 600,000 PS3s to be on the streets by the end of this year. Sony is doing the first ever worldwide simu-lanch of a system in the same week and expect to have 2,000,0000 systems worldwide, most of these being in Japan. Some US gamers have said if they can't get their hands on a US PS 3, they will purchase a Japanese version and a voltage converter.
Reports that the PS3 actually costs Sony around $900 per system makes one wonder why they are pushing this game format at all. However what they are doing with this system is putting a Blu-ray Trojan horse into what will be millions of homes by the end of 2007. Many gamers don't have HDTV's at home yet but will someday soon realize that the same Blu-ray discs they covet at retailers such as Best Buy and Amazon.com will play on their video game system too.
Sources: GamesIndustry.biz, PS3land.com, eBay.com, Yahoo News


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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.103 no.3 Cape Town mar. 2013
Acute asthma treatment guidelines: Reducing morbidity and mortality in South Africa
H J ZarI; U G LallooII
IDepartment of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town. email@example.com
IIDepartment of Pulmonology and Critical Care, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
Asthma is the commonest chronic disease in children and also affects millions of adults throughout the world, with approximately 1 in 7 of the world's population affected. Data from the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) have provided a reliable method for assessing time trends in the global prevalence of asthma in children, using standard written and video-presented questionnaires. ISAAC has shown that approximately 13% of 13 -14-year-old adolescents worldwide have symptoms of asthma, and that the global prevalence is increasing.[1,2]
The increase in prevalence is occurring particularly in low- and middle-income countries.[1,3] Moreover, such countries report more severe disease, where under-diagnosis and under-treatment are common.[1,4] Of concern, in many of these areas, more than 30% of children with severe asthma symptoms have never been diagnosed with asthma.[4] In addition, over 80% of asthma-related deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.[1]
The magnitude of the burden of asthma is under-appreciated, in part owing to health systems that are overwhelmed by communicable respiratory diseases such as pneumonia or tuberculosis. This is especially true in South Africa (SA), where the burden of respiratory diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and HIV-associated lung disease is well known but the burden of asthma is under-appreciated. Asthma is the commonest non-communicable disease in SA children, with almost 20% of adolescents reporting asthma symptoms.[3,6] Data on adults in SA are less reliable, but it is estimated that the prevalence of asthma is between 6% and 10% and is rising. Under-diagnosis and under-treatment remain problematic, as indicated by a large proportion of adolescents with asthma symptoms who have never been diagnosed or who continue to experience severe symptoms despite diagnosis.[4]
While asthma-related mortality appears to have decreased, mortality rates are still high, especially among formerly disadvantaged racial groups,[7] with SA ranked fourth or fifth highest in the world for asthma mortality.[5] Despite the availability of medications including inhaled corticosteroids, asthma remains poorly controlled in many patients.[8,9] Doctors and patients differ markedly in their assessments of what constitutes asthma control.[9] Collectively, these data indicate that diagnosis and management of children and adults with asthma in South Africa is suboptimal.
SA has a well-developed healthcare system, an essential drugs list that includes the main drugs needed for management of acute and chronic asthma in children and adults, an active national asthma education programme, and professional societies that are closely involved in the development of evidence-based guidelines for management of childhood and adult asthma.[10] Several studies have shown that with effective management of asthma, including appropriate controller therapy and timely treatment of acute asthma exacerbations, asthma mortality and morbidity can be substantially reduced. However, as a consequence of poor recognition of asthma and inadequate use of effective controller therapy, many patients present for the first time with an acute exacerbation of asthma associated with longstanding uncontrolled airway inflammation and progressive airflow limitation. Acute asthma exacerbations and hospitalisation account for much of the economic burden of asthma. Appropriate treatment of acute exacerbations and implementation of controller medication are essential to reduce asthma-associated morbidity and mortality.
It is therefore timely that updated national guidelines for the management of acute asthma have been produced, both for children and for adults.[11,12] These guidelines are designed to ensure best practices for the care of children or adults with acute asthma, and they also recommend implementation of long-term controller medication. The guidelines emphasise better utilisation of inhaled bronchodilators (beta-2-agonists and ipratropium bromide) and oxygen, and immediate administration of oral or intravenous corticosteroids. Administration of intravenous magnesium sulphate has proved beneficial in severe acute asthma that is refractory to usual treatment.
There is still reluctance to use a metered dose inhaler with spacer to administer relatively large doses of beta-2-agonists in mild to moderate acute asthma. This is a cost-effective method of administration that facilitates immediate implementation of treatment in primary healthcare settings. Administration of an inhaled beta-2-agonist, via a metered dose inhaler with spacer, is as effective as nebulised treatment, and is associated with fewer side-effects, making this an effective first-line therapy.[13] The guidelines continue to emphasise immediate administration of systemic corticosteroids for acute asthma, to promote rapid resolution of the exacerbation and prevent relapse.
The guidelines that appear in this edition of the SAMJ[11,12] are consistent with international guidelines for the treatment of acute asthma and have been simplified for ease of implementation in all healthcare settings in SA. While it is disappointing that no new or novel interventions have been developed for acute asthma, current treatment strategies are effective in the vast majority of patients, especially when initiated early in the asthma attack. Furthermore, the emphasis should always be on effective control of asthma to prevent acute attacks, for which regular inhaled corticosteroids remain the most effective first-line therapy. This has been achieved in many regions of the world and has led to a decline in mortality and reduction in intensive care admissions. But it remains a challenge in many low- and middle-income countries, including SA.
Even the best guidelines cannot impact on care, or improve outcome, if they are not disseminated or implemented. The importance of guideline dissemination and uptake has recently received greater attention.[14,16] There are a number of challenges to successful implementation, due to factors within the health system and as a result of individual behaviours of healthcare providers and of patients or caregivers.[14] Socio-economic and structural barriers that impair access to health services remain obstacles. Moreover, educational programmes for healthcare personnel and for the public that are effective in changing practice are needed for effective implementation.
Ultimately, effective implementation depends on healthcare workers who can correctly diagnose and manage asthma, access to appropriate inhaled and other therapy, environmental control of potential triggers of asthma, and education of patients and caregivers on the most effective management strategies. Educational interventions, delivered to patients, caregivers or both,[17] reduce the risk of subsequent unscheduled doctor visits, attendances at emergency facilities and requirement for admissions to hospital. Education given during admissions is effective in reducing subsequent exacerbations, emergency visits, oral steroid use and rehospitalisations.[18]
In SA, improper or inadequate implementation of guidelines is a major reason for poor asthma management. The Asthma Guidelines Implementation Project (AGIP) was established to improve implementation of the South African Guidelines for Asthma in Adults and Adolescents in primary care facilities in the Western Cape province. AGIP has highlighted several deficiencies, including inability of healthcare workers to adequately distinguish asthma from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; lack of assessment of control of asthma as recommended by the guidelines; failure to demonstrate or assess the patient's inhaler technique; and lack of patient education.[8] Access to care is an additional important factor limiting effective implementation of guidelines. As evidence of this, low socio-economic class was closely correlated with fatal or near- fatal asthma in a South African study; asthma mortality was highest over weekends, when access to care was poorest.[7]
Although primary care facilities are within reach of most communities, loss of income, waiting times in clinics, cost of transportation, inconvenient hours, lack of trained and qualified healthcare personnel, and lack of availability of essential asthma medicines and spacer devices (especially relevant to children) constitute potentially major barriers to care.[10,19] Future challenges include provision of educational programmes for healthcare professionals and for the public that are culturally and language appropriate, combating cultural misconceptions around asthma care, and ensuring access to and availability of new controller medications such as combination therapy.[19]
Asthma is a controllable disease - with current, available therapy, almost all those with asthma should be able to enjoy a regular lifestyle and achieve normal activity. Death or hospitalisation from asthma are preventable, and usually represent failure to implement appropriate management. The aim of producing evidence-based national guidelines for asthma management is to ensure appropriate treatment for all South Africans. Given our large burden of paediatric and adult asthma and the associated morbidity and mortality, effective implementation of such guidelines should be considered an urgent priority.
1. Asher MI, Montefort S, Bjorksten B, et al., and the ISAAC Phase Three Study Group. Worldwide trends in the prevalence of symptoms of asthma, allergic rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema in childhood: ISAAC Phases One and Three repeat multicountry cross-sectional surveys. Lancet 2006;368(9537):733-737. [ Links ]
2. Pearce N, Ait-Khaled N, Beasley R, et al. and the ISAAC Phase Three Study Group. Worldwide trends in the prevalence of asthma symptoms: phase III of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC). Thorax 2007;62(9):757-765. [ Links ]
3. Ait-Khaled N, Pearce N, Anderson HR, et al., and the ISAAC Phase Three Study Group. Global map of the prevalence of symptoms of rhinoconjunctivitis on children in Africa: The International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) Phase 3. Allergy 2009;64(1):123-148. [ Links ]
4. Lai CK, Beasley R, Crane J, et al. International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood Phase Three Study Group. Global variation in the prevalence and severity of asthma symptoms: Phase Three of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC). Thorax 2009;64(6):476-483. [ Links ]
5. Masoli M, Fabian D, Holt S, Beasley R; Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) Program. The global burden of asthma: Executive summary of the GINA Dissemination Committee report. Allergy. 2004;59(5):469-478. [ Links ]
6. Zar HJ, Ehrlich RI, Workman L, Weinberg EG. The changing prevalence of asthma, allergic rhinitis and atopic eczema in African adolescents from 1995 to 2002. Pediatr Allergy Immunol 2007;18(7):560-565. [ Links ]
7. Zar HJ, Stickells D, Toerien A, et al. Changes in fatal and near fatal asthma in an urban area of South Africa from 1980-1997. Eur Respir J 2001;18(1):33-37 [ Links ]
8. Mash B, Rhode H, Pather M, et al. Quality of asthma care: Western Cape Province, South Africa. S Afr Med J 2009;99(12):892-896. [ Links ]
9. Greenblatt M, Galpin JS, Hill C, Feldman C, Green RJ. Comparison of doctor and patient assessments of asthma control. Respir Med 2010;104(3):356-361. [ Links ]
10. Lalloo UG, Walters RD, Adachi M, et al. Asthma programs in diverse regions of the world: Challenges, successes and lessons learnt. Int J Tuber Lung Dis 2011:15(12):1574-1587. [ Links ]
11. U G Lalloo, G M Ainslie, M S Abdool-Gaffar, A A Awotedu, C Feldman, et al. (Official Working Group of the South African Thoracic Society). Guideline for the management of acute asthma in adults: 2013 update. S Afr Med J 2013;103(3):189-198. [http://dx.doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.6526] [ Links ]
12. S Kling, H J Zar, M E Levin, R J Green, P M Jeena, S M Risenga, et al. Guideline for the management of acute asthma in children: 2013 update. S Afr Med J 2013;103(3):199-207. [http://dx.doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.6658] [ Links ]
13. Cates CJ, Crilly JA, Rowe BH. Holding chambers versus nebulisers for beta-agonist treatment of acute asthma. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2006;3:CD000052. [ Links ]
14. Boulet LP, Fitzgerald JM, Levy ML et al. A guide to the translation of the GINA strategy into improved care. Eur Resp J 2012;39(5):1220-1229. [ Links ]
15. Baiardini I, Brado F, Bonini M, et al. Why do doctors and patients not follow guidelines? Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol 2009:9(3):228-233. [ Links ]
16. Grol R, Grinshaw J. From best evidence to best practice: Effective implementation of change in patients' care. Lancet 2003:362(9391):1225-1230. [ Links ]
17. Boyd M, Lasserson TJ, McKean MC, et al. Interventions for educating children who are at risk of asthma-related emergency department attendance. Cochrane Database Syst Rev: Reviews 2009(2). [ Links ]
18. Espinoza-Palma T, Zamorano A, Arancibia F, et al. Effectiveness of asthma education with and without a self-management plan in hospitalised children. J Asthma 2009;46(9):906-910. [ Links ]
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MACON, Ga. – Posting a 25-point, 18-rebound, double-double in her first game in Purple and Gold, Lipscomb redshirt sophomore Ashley Southern has been named the Atlantic Sun Conference Newcomer of the Week as announced by the league on Monday.
The Tuscumbia, Ala. native went 10-of-19 from the field in 44 minutes of action in Sunday's overtime loss to Morehead State. She also added a team-high four assists in the contest.
The award is the first weekly conference honor for Southern.
The Lady Bisons hit the road on Tuesday night for a nonconference tilt at UAB in Birmingham, Ala.


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I want to share soemthing I am thankful for..... a 19 week neg hiv antibody test and a 17 week neg hep c pcr.....wooo hooo I am done, not worried, happy, moving on. However , i enjoy reading your posts so I may stop by on occassion
Your new ex ww and no longer a fluffernutter.... SB
Hi SB,
WOO-HOO and Happy Thankschristkwanzaakkah to you!
You make a much better x-filer than fluffernutter.
I'll repost your story below from the archives in the hopes other fluffernutters will follow your lead.
Be well. Stay well.
Dr. Bob
Dr. Bob...Porn guys says thanks and knows he is a fluffernutter Nov 18, 2010
Hey Dr.B,
I agree just watched Sara P. and wow did I want to toss my cookies. Thanks again for your reply. I do have 2 more questions before I can leave for my wonderful Thanksgiving in New Orleans...
Hep c/Hiv coinfection- would only the HIV antibody be delayed and Hep c still shows? With acute hep c would my SED rate be high?
I still have generalized swollen lymphnodes and keep reading only hiv would cause them to last for 4 months or longer? Is this true? If I did just catch a virus could they just stay larger for life? My doc keeps saying thousands of things cause them to swell but I cant find anything that keeps them swollen.
Thanks, packing my swim trunks now.
SB, your new fav fluffernutter
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hi SB,
Stop worrying about extremely rare events! Do you worry about being zapped dead by an errant lightening bold every time you walk outside in the rain? If not, you shouldn't worry about hepatitis C/HIV coinfection delaying HIV seroconversion either. If you're worried about hepatitis C, your doctor can easily screen you.
No, absolutely not true. I agree with your doctor.
Now stop worrying and finish packing or I'll make you watch multiple reruns of Sarah Palin's dreadful TV show. Worse yet, I make you watch Bristol dance!
Dr. Bob
WOOH000---Porn guy appreciates all Nov 5, 2010
Thanks, I am accepting my neg test and moving on. I did a 14 week, figure 2 neg tests after window period are accurate and definitive. I may stop by on occasion to say hello and read posts.
Thanks Dr. Bob, you are a lifesaver.
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hello SB,
Stop by anytime. I always enjoy visits from our X-filers (ex-worried wells).
Be well. Stay well. WOO-HOO!
Dr. Bob
Porn--1 More Reassurance Oct 22, 2010
As you can tell I am a pretty anxiety driven person. As I sit here I have one last question: to recap I have had DNA HIV 1 PCR (13 and 28 days) blood drawn antibody test on 13,23,28,45 days rapid oral swab on 42,56,70,77 days rapid blood test on 84 days.
still have confirmed swollen lymph nodes in neck, arm, elbow, leg. fatigue, severe muscle and joint pain twitching eye on occasion
is there anyway given all those tests that HIV slipped through and went undetected or am I borderline fluffernutter status and need to be confident in the results? 2) Lymph nodes swollen since 15 days woudlnt antibodies be present by now?
Thanks again, SB
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hello SB,
OK, one last time: HIV is not your problem. No way. No how.
You state: ". . . I am a pretty anxiety driven person." I absolutely agree, except you can leave off the "pretty"! (There is nothing pretty about anxious wrecks!)
Is there any way HIV slipped through? Nope.
". . . Am I a fluffernutter?" Yep!
Regarding swollen lymph nodes, symptoms are notoriously unreliable in predicting who is and is not HIV infected. A negative HIV test outside the window period trumps symptoms each and every time. I think you need to reread your previous posts and my responses.
Stop worrying. Start WOO-HOO-ing.
Dr. Bob
Reflection ...3 months lost Oct 14, 2010
Dr. Bob,
I took some time today to reflect on my recent scare and realize I have just lost 3 months of my life worried about something I could have prevented myself. I have to say to all those reading now and in the future three things 1) be safe, one bad decision has a whole world of consequences 2) trust your tests and doctors and 3) symptoms are notoriously wrong or misleading.
I found myself doubting everybody in my real life and turning to the internet and strangers for advice; not the way to go. Dont let your fear keep you captivate for 3 months like it did me. I missed out on so many events in my life over the past three months because of my fear. I tested 16 times, yes 16 times in 12 weeks thinking the next test was going to be the one. Get tested at the appropriate time, understand your risk, and accept the outcome. I now know that one test would have been enough regardless of the outcome.
DR. Bob thanks for your words of advice and karma. You provide a great service and for that I am ever appreciative. I have made a donation to your foundation for all the work you do in helping people survive with HIV. I leave this forum with a new perspective on life, a respect for all those who work to support people living with HIV and a prayer for all those affected by HIV that one day there will be a cure.
Kind Regards and Best Wishes, SB
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hi SB,
Thanks for taking the time to write in and share both your personal story and newfound insights! I hope they will provide comfort to others still trapped in their own self-induced worried-well hell.
Thanks for your thanks and your donation to The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation (www.concertedeffort.org). Both are warmly appreciated.
Be well. Stay well.
Dr. Bob
Porn follow up can I woooo hooo...please make it official Oct 13, 2010
Dr. Bob,
Did my 12 week (84 days) rapid blood test today and it is neg. Is this conclusive? Can I let out a big W*********!!!???
As for Tooheys, I have had my share and agree that could be the reason. I was a VB fan myself.
1 last questions? Do you see any need to test out to 6 months?
Thanks a million, you are great. I have leared a heap of information from you and others who have posted. If I can share one bit of information to others who are readin it is "symptoms are not a good indicator, trust your tests....
Best, Not so scared boy anymore
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hey Not-So-Scared-Boy-Anymore,
Yep! WOO-de-frickin-HOO!!!
No additional HIV tests are warranted.
Be well. Stay well. I'll down a VB while toasting your good health.
Dr. Bob
Porn 11 week and Australia Oct 11, 2010
Dr. Bob,
Good on ya mate, Today was week 11 and tested neg with rapid oral test...pretty happy and excited. Think I can make it one more week. That Karma you send is amazing.
As for Australia I agree neither one are good exports and yes a funnel web spider is not something I would like to encounter, nor a red belly black snake for that matter.
Can you answer 2 questions for me? 1)where did the extra "I" come from in aluminum? Can't figure that one out. 2) Why do they put beet root on everything. A big mac should not come with beet root.
Hope you enjoy your trip, I love Sydney, Darling harbor is amazing.
Hope my 12 week come out ok!!!Will be sending one final donation. Thanks,
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hi SB,
Yeah, a burger with beet root wrapped in "aluminium" foil is indeed difficult to explain. Perhaps it relates to the toxic effects of too many tins of Tooheys?
I'm confident you'll soon be WOO-HOO-ing like a banshee in heat making more noise than a talented aborigine playing a didgeridoo!
She'll be apples mate!
Dr. Bob
porn star 10 week neg and Australia Oct 4, 2010
Dr. B,
Thanks for your support. Did my 10 week test via rapid oral and came back negetive. From what I gather this is great news. Question about 12 week vs 90 days. Does it matter? Do 10 week results ever change?
Thanks, I was reading about how you are going back to Oz. I lived there for 2 years outside of Cairns. Best time of my young life, I worked on a snorkel boat in the reef. Where are you visiting this time? Are you a fan of Vegemite? Bundeberg Rum?
anyway, thank you for all your support. Should I start to practice?
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hey S.B.,
Whether it's twelve weeks or 90 days makes no difference. The immune system doesn't really care. A negative test prior to three months can be considered encouraging, but is not definitive or convulsive. That said, it's worth noting that the majority of HIV-infected folks will have detectable levels of anti-HIV antibodies in their blood within four to six weeks from the date of exposure/infection.
Regarding the land down under, it's one of my favorite travel destinations. I've been to Cairns a number of times. This trip focuses on New Zealand, Tasmania, Melbourne and Sydney. Doubt I'll get up to the reef this time around.
Vegemite and Bundeberge Rum are not two of Australia's finest exports, in my opinion. However I do prefer them to, say, funnel web spiders.
Should you start practicing your WOO-HOO? Absofrickenlutely Mate. She'll be apples.
Dr. Bob
porn star follow up Sep 15, 2010
No need to post. I just wanted to clarify that my donations were from the heart. After being on this site and seeing the compassion, humor and wit you show others, I felt there was no better organization to donate too. I can tell you that you will see others over the years. I find what you do to be remarkably inspiring and for that I will provide some support as often as I can.
Keep up the good work; its nice to see such great people in the world. I am working diligently on my Woo-Hoo.
Response from Dr. Frascino
Many thanks for your very kind comments! I'm doubling my dose of good-luck karma coming your way. I'd suggest you begin practicing how to WOO-HOO like a banshee in heat!
Be well! Good luck.
Dr. Bob
Donated twice still no post...Kind of Hurt Sep 14, 2010 Dr.B,
I know you are a busy man but I have sent many questions none answered. I do bet you get a lot daily.
Here are my questions, hope you can help. After a potential exposure (medium risk) unprotected vaginal, short time period with a girl who may be a porn star/escort. I had symptoms come on at 15 days (swollen lymph nodes, loss of appetite,weight loss, muscle and joint pain,and elevated liver enzymes. So I am totally scared.
I have had a 13 and 28 day hiv-1 DNA PCR both Neg. I have had a 13, 23, 28, 42 and 45 day HIV1/2 antibody test. All have come back negetive.
If these symptoms were due to hiv woudl the antibody tests be positive by now?
How accurate is a combo 28 day hiv dna pcr and antibody test?
any other suggestions. I am totally scared and need some guidance. I will continue to donate, you do great things.
Scared Boy
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hello Scared Boy,
Most likely yes, and the qualitative DNA PCR would be detectable as well.
Difficult to say, because the DNA PCR is not FDA approved for diagnostic testing. Most (but not all) HIVers will have detectable levels of anti-HIV antibodies in their blood within four to six weeks following infection. The HIV DNA PCR is usually detectable well before HIV antibodies are.
As for suggestions:
Never place yourself at risk for HIV (or other STDs) by having unprotected sex again.
When trying to decide if the gal you're schtupping is as porn star, merely check her DVD collection, and if you see her name plastered over titles like "For Your Thighs Only" or "Lawrence of a Labia," you'll know!
The escort question is even easier to determine. If she asks for a Ben Franklin when you're finished popping your cork, you'll know.
As for your anxiety, I'd suggest you spend some time reading through the wealth of information on the site and the testimonials in the archives of this forum. You should find the information both enlightening and encouraging.
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Some folks might consider Christmas movies sappy. But if films such as It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street qualify, then so do reveling in family gatherings, caring for your community and enjoying warm holiday wishes on a cold December evening. And many of us will accept that "sappy" cup of cheer any day of the year.
Some folks might consider Christmas movies sappy.
But if films such as It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street qualify, then so do reveling in family gatherings, caring for your community and enjoying warm holiday wishes on a cold December evening. And many of us will accept that "sappy" cup of cheer any day of the year.Drexel Theatre
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Admission: $6, or $3 with a canned-food item
• It's a Wonderful Life (1946): C'mon: Run through the streets of snowy Bedford Falls with George Bailey (James Stewart). . . .
Showtimes: 7 p.m. Dec. 12, 11 a.m. Dec. 14 and 1 p.m. Dec. 15
• Elf (2003): Will Ferrell plays the man-elf, with James Caan and Bob Newhart as his father figures.
Showtimes: 7 p.m. Dec. 19, 11 a.m. Dec. 21 and 1 p.m. Dec. 22Gateway Film Center
1550 N. High St.
Contact: 614-247-4433, www.gatewayfilmcenter.comHoliday Classics series
Admission: $5, or free with a toy donation for the open shelter
• Miracle on 34th Street (1947): Edmund Gwenn stars as a man who is locked up for pretending - or is he pretending? - to be Santa Claus.
Showtimes: 2 p.m. Friday and
2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday
• Meet Me in St. Louis (1944): Judy Garland stars as one of four sisters whose family is uprooted from St. Louis to New York. ( Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is part of the soundtrack.)
Showtimes: 2 p.m. Dec. 6 and
2 and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 7, 8 and 11
• It's a Wonderful Life (1946): . . . Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! . . .
Showtimes: 2 p.m. Dec. 13 and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 14, 15 and 18
• White Christmas (1954):In the finest "Hey, Let's Put on a Show" tradition, Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye play old Army buddies who stage a Christmas show to save their old commander's failing inn.
Showtimes: 2 p.m. Dec. 20 and
25 and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 21 and 22Purple Snowflakes series
Admission: $5, or free with a Columbus Metropolitan Library card
• Home Alone (1990): What child doesn't enjoy seeing an 8-year-old boy (Macauley Culkin) outwit a couple of doofus bandits (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern)?
Showtimes: 11 a.m. Friday, 11 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and 2 and 7 p.m. Tuesday
• The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992): Michael Caine stars as Ebenezer Scrooge in the Muppets' retelling of A Christmas Carol.
Showtimes: 11 a.m. Dec. 6, 11 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Dec. 7-8 and 2 and 7 p.m. Dec. 10
• Elf (2003): Maybe the concession stand will stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corn and syrup.
Showtimes: 11 a.m. Dec. 13, 11 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Dec. 14-15 and 2 and 7 p.m. Dec. 17
• Gremlins (1984): While the kids enjoy the antics, parents can entertain themselves by keeping an eye out for famous faces in lesser roles - including movie producer Steven Spielberg and Dancing With the Stars host Tom Bergeron.
Showtimes: 11 a.m. Dec. 20, 11 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Dec. 21-22 and 2 and 7 p.m. Dec. 24Beer tasting
• National Lampoon ' s Christmas Vacation (1989): If a movie character ever needed a beer, Clark Griswold did. Empathize with the sad sack (played by Chevy Chase) with a variety of samples and snacks, plus a pint to enjoy with the film.
Showtime: 6 p.m. Dec. 15, with tasting beginning at 4:30
Admission: $15Movie Tavern Mill Run
3773 Ridge Mill Dr., Hilliard
Admission: $7, or $6 for students, senior citizens and active military personnel; or $5 for 11:30 a.m. screenings
Contact: 614-777-1012, www.movietavern.com
• Home Alone (1990): What if those burglars had really taken all those pratfalls? Read a doctor's diagnosis from 2012 on The Week website (visit theweek.com and search for "home alone").
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 3 and 5, 11:30 a.m. Dec. 4
• A Christmas Story (1983): I double-dog-dare you to watch the holiday favorite.
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 10 and 12, 11:30 a.m. Dec. 11
• National Lampoon' s Christmas Vacation (1989): Light up the neighborhood with bumbling Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase).
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 17 and 19, 11:30 a.m. Dec. 18
• It's a Wonderful Life (1946): . . . Merry Christmas, you wonderful old building and loan! Hey! Merry Christmas, Mr. Potter!
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 24, 26, 31 and Jan. 2; 11:30 a.m. Dec. 25 and Jan. 1Studio 35
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Contact: 614-261-1581, www.studio35.com
• "Bad Movie Nite": The organizers never release the title beforehand, but word is the screening will have a Christmas theme.
Showtime: 11:30 p.m. Dec. 6
Admission: $5
• A Christmas Story (1983): I triple-dog-dare you to watch the free showing. (Note: The annual beer-tasting and screening of the movie, scheduled for Dec. 8, is sold out.)
Showtime: noon Dec. 7
Admission: free
• Bad Santa (2003): Have a beer with the world's most repulsive Santa (Billy Bob Thornton).
Showtime: 11:30 p.m. Dec. 13
Admission: $5Other theaters
Contact: www.fathomevents.com
Admission: $15
• The Nutcracker: The Royal Ballet of Great Britain will stage the Christmas classic. The film will also offer a peek at the Royal Opera House.
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Roy Halladay, perhaps the best pitcher in the American League, was scheduled to start in this series but an ailment took him out of the present rotation. Toronto won the first two games behind rookie pitchers. All the two rookies did was strike out 20 in 15 innings while they were on the mound.
Well, we face another rookie this afternoon, lefty Brad Mills. It is his major league debut.
Roster Move
Rauuuul was placed on the DL and John Mayberry Jr. recalled from Lehigh Valley. Todd Zolecki has the complete story.
We've signed 26 of the 49 players selected in the First-Year Player Draft last week.
Among the top 10: #2, OF Kelly Dugan; #5, LHP Matthew Way of Washington State U.; #10, RHP Joshua Zeid, Tulane U. and #11, SS Nicholas Hernandez, U. of Tennessee.
Deadline for signing players is August 15.
Alumni Coaches
Nick Leyva, Phillies manager in 1989-1991, is the third base coach for the Blue Jays. The Orioles are in town for three weekend games starting tomorrow night and Juan Samuel, another Phillies Alumnus (1983-1989), is their third base coach.
Tuesday we begin three games in St. Petersburg. The Rays' third base coach? Former Phillie Tom Foley (1985-86).


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Manning, Garnett, Pujols Star In Wheaties Fuel Launch
July 23, 2009: NFL quarterback Peyton Manning, NBA all-star Kevin Garnett, MLB all-star Albert Pujols, gold medal-winning decathlete Bryan Clay and triathlete Hunter Kemper will be part of a new campaign from General Mills to support the launch of Wheaties Fuel, which will join the 85-year-old Wheaties on shelves in January. Wheaties Fuel is being formulated to target the nutritional needs of men, "with the specific goal of fueling athletic performance."
Marketing support begins with a six-part Web series at www.Wheaties.com/evolution that features Manning, Garnett, Pujols and the others and "provides an unprecedented, insider account of the process behind the development of the new evolution of Wheaties," according to the company. Lead agency is Saatchi & Saatchi. Print and POP will follow. The new tag is, "Fuel. Win. Evolve."
The Webisodes use humor to show how the product is evolving. In one spot, Kemper and Clay are eating Wheaties while discussing their respective endeavors. "My sport is three sports, it's exciting," says Kemper. "We have ten events," replies Clay. "[The triathlon] is continuous, it's intense," says Kemper. "You do ten events in two days." "I'm pretty sure ten is more than three," offers Clay. "Well, yeah, if you are doing math," says Kemper.
The aforementioned athletes, along with a panel of consumers selected by General Mills, have been consulting with Wheaties food scientists and sports nutritionist Dr. John Ivy to create the final formula, which is scheduled to be unveiled on 09/09/09. In order to avoid a marketing catastrophe similar to when Coca-Cola replaced its iconic brand with a new formula, then had to bring back Classic Coke when consumers revolted, General Mills is stressing that "the new product will be different from Original Wheaties, but will not replace it. Together, the two products will make up the evolved and expanded Breakfast of Champions product portfolio." Back to Home Page


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By Mike Batista
I'm not going speak legalese here.
The facts are that the NFL Players Association and the owners couldn't come to an agreement before Friday's deadline. Now the owners have locked out the players, the union has decertified and blah, blah, blah ...
It's too early to tell if we're going to lose any regular-season games because of this mess. But has anyone looked at a calendar and seen when the first Sunday of the NFL regular season would be?
If the NFL maintains its recent pattern of starting the regular season after Labor Day, there would be the Thursday night opener hosted by the Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers (which I say through clenched teeth) on Sept. 8. Then the first Sunday of the regular season would be on Sept. 11.
That would be the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, the day known simply as 9/11. If the start of the NFL season is delayed by just one week, there would be no football on Sept. 11.
The first Sunday of a new NFL season would be a welcome diversion as America mourns the most solemn day in its modern history. Teams hosting games that day would have a chance before kickoff to honor those lost, thank those fighting for our freedom and celebrate the American way of life in a spectacular manner.
It would be a shame if stadiums were empty that day because of greed.
OK, so Polamalu was hurt
When I finally got around to reading Sports Illustrated's account of Super Bowl XLV, I didn't believe it when I read that Troy Polamalu was hurt during the postseason.
When he came back for the regular-season finale in Cleveland, he was all over the field in the first half. And even though he was largely a non-factor against the Ravens and Jets, I remember one play in which Polamalu was at least 20 yards downfield and ran all the way back to make a tackle near the line of scrimmage.
I didn't buy the theory that Polamalu was hurt. I just thought he had a bad Super Bowl.
Now, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says that Polamalu was battling an injured Achilles tendon throughout the playoffs.
Of course I do need to employ a healthy skepticism here. This could be excuse-making. But the story uses unnamed sources, so this wasn't something Polamalu came out and announced himself. He's a private person and doesn't strike me as the type to make excuses.
But the revelation that Polamalu was injured doesn't make me feel any better.
Now I've gone from a "wtf?" mentality about Polamalu's disappearing act in Dallas to an "if only" mentality. A healthy Polamalu almost certainly would have been enough to tilt that tight Super Bowl in the Steelers' favor.
Considering how hobbled Polamalu was, it's amazing how close the Steelers came to another championship.
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Firstly, an apology: this post will, almost by necessity, be unfocused and meandering.
I've lately become anxious over the extent of my own ignorance. Only a few years ago, I would quite happily have accepted that I knew next to nothing about politics, history, science, etc. I mainly knew about rap music and The Simpsons. I think I was happier then.
Now, I feel like I have some sort of responsibility, to both society and myself, to be well informed. The trouble is, I don't have nearly enough time in the day to be nearly well-informed enough. Also, I feel like everything I read might well be revealed, by some other article or book I've not read and don't have time to read, to be bollocks, except that when I read it I am inclined (and, given aforementioned time restrictions, almost obliged) to believe it to be correct.
Is this an anxiety that others on here experience? Perhaps the sheer tumult of information and competing opinion that the internet has released is something to do with it. What do people do on here to be well-informed? Do others feels that they SHOULD be well-informed, and - if so - should this aim be confined to certain specific areas of information, given that every area of information is so labyrinthine and complex that it's well-nigh impossible to be well informed about even ONE thing?
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Discover more about Huntley & Palmers by exploring these six themes or by playing an interactive game.
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A look at the growth of Reading before Huntley & Palmers - and also at some of the other industries that developed in the town during the nineteenth century.
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Huntley & Palmers built their reputation on the quality and variety of their biscuits which numbered 400 by the early 1900s. This theme illustrates the changing taste of the British public and the advertising used by the firm. Use the recipes to make your own Huntley & Palmers biscuits!
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Huntley & Palmers tins appeared in all shapes and sizes and often resembled another object so closely that it was difficult to tell it was still a biscuit tin. This section details the story of Huntley & Palmers tins from their beginnings in the 1830's through to the modern tins of the late twentieth century
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From a small back room with one piece of machinery to a fully mechanised 5,000 acre site with its own railway sidings, this section details the development of the factory during the Victorian era and the World Wars through to its closure in the 1980s
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NAVAJO TERRITORY, ARIZ. – The wind rips across this harsh, yellow land, sand blasting anything in its path. Dust gets between your teeth. Your eyes water. The slow burn from the sun, the sand and the wind tints your face.
If you don't walk carefully here the wind will knock you down.
White people rarely come to this place the Native Americans call Naataanii, a sparsely populated divot in the expansive Navajo reservation. It is hard to believe this place is in America.
There is no center to Naataanii, no town. But if you let your eye wander across the horizon, you can see small dwellings, including a shack and a trailer.
The shack, a wood structure that would be condemned if it were in Orange County, is the home of Lillie Redsteer and Harold Begay, 87 and 85 years old, respectively. The trailer is where Lillie's son, Robert, 56, resides.
A plywood ramp leading to the trailer's front door nearly buckles as Robert Redsteer limps across it with his cane.
Lacking indoor plumbing, Lillie and Harold have strategically placed buckets to collect rainwater for drinking. To drink, they have to drive to get water from wells, but they don't trust the water. The federal government started mining coal and uranium decades ago, and much of the groundwater is contaminated.
In front of their house, you can see the outline of a pair of blue jeans buried in the topsoil, as if the person who wore them disintegrated and became part of the dust.
Their property is typical in Naataanii, a two-hour, neck-jarring drive northeast of Flagstaff.
In 2010, Gary Christmas, 48, came to Naataanii with a pure heart, hoping to help Native Americans, whose lives for hundreds of years have been compromised by outsiders. Christmas, of western European descent, quickly found out how difficult it is to help someone who considers you the enemy.
In 25 trips to the Navajo reservation, Christmas has battled mistrust, hatred, stubbornness, his own ineptitude and enough petty drama for a reality TV show. In his enthusiasm to help, he has unknowingly offended, sometimes spectacularly, almost every Native American he has met.
And through it all, Gary Christmas has become the orchestrator of miracles – mind-blowing miracles that may change not only the Naataanii landscape and the Native American culture but also may have a ripple effect that stretches around the world. Christmas even helped bring ancient Native American enemies closer together.
Robert Redsteer, who doesn't trust easily, now calls Christmas "my white brother."
Gary Christmas remembers an important day when he was a teenager in Texas in the 1980s. He was drinking Jack Daniel's and smoking pot when he started "cussing at God."
He screamed, "What's wrong with me?"
Something clicked.
"A feeling of peace dropped on me like an egg."
On that day in 1983, he had the first of what would be several life-altering visions. Through his drunken drug haze, he said he saw himself with short hair sitting in an office.
Christmas cut his hair and moved to Orange County in 1984 to be near his father, who lived in Long Beach and had divorced his mother years before.
Christmas worked in data processing and advertising. He worked as an executive for The Pennysaver. Along the way, he began to do some yoga and meditate. "I send people love," he said.
Today, he's single, living in Costa Mesa and working as the broadcast manager at Online Trading Academy, a company that teaches people the ins and outs of the stock market.
In the mid-2000s, in search of a bigger purpose for his life, Christmas began volunteering for Project Peace on Earth, an organization that promotes peace and music through concerts around the world. He said he meditates as often as 100 times a day.
But Christmas, hard-charging and driven, needed even more purpose, some project in which he could take a leadership role.
It is said that white people see the poverty of Naataanii, and Native Americans see Mother Nature – thundering wild horses, soaring red-tailed hawks, towering rock formations that change color depending on the angle of the sun.
Naataanii is sacred.
Once when he was meditating, Gary Christmas heard a voice. "Start with sacred land."
He doesn't know where the voice came from or whose voice it was. This was his "Field of Dreams" – If you build it, they will come – moment. When he told his friend, children's book author Kimberlee Schultz about his vision, she told him about the dilapidated Naataanii community.
Naataanii is in the middle of tribal land formerly known as the "Bennett Freeze," the name of one of the saddest chapters of U.S.-Native American relations in recent history. In 1966, Robert Bennett, then the U.S. commissioner of Indian Affairs, reacted to a bitter land dispute between the Navajo and Hopi tribes by declaring 1.6 million acres "frozen."
In other words, if the Navajo and Hopi people couldn't decide whose land it was, then the U.S. government decided to make the area so inhospitable no one would want to live there.
For more than 40 years – until President Barack Obama overturned the freeze in 2009 – Native Americans were not allowed to build new homes or repair the homes they already had.
When a window broke, it stayed broken. When the roof leaked, it stayed leaking. Planes patrolled the Bennett Freeze, enforcing the law. A 1997 study found that 3 percent of Freeze residents had electricity and 10 percent had running water. Since 1966, the study said, the population grew by 65 percent, to a bit less than 20,000, without a single new home being built. Generations of extended families were forced to live together.
Just like Lillie, Harold and Robert Redsteer.
Shortly after Thanksgiving in 2010, Christmas was on his way back to Orange County from Texas when he decided to visit Naataanii for the first time.
He was blown away by the need.
It wasn't long before Christmas' idea – an Earth Day celebration to raise awareness about the Navajo – was born.
By April 2011, Christmas and Schultz had gathered a bunch of their like-minded friends from Orange County. They pitched a tent for the small gathering outside Lillie and Harold's shack. They brought guitars, wore crystals and donated blankets and clothes. The white and Navajo people prayed to Mother Earth and cried.
Michelle Anderson of Coto de Caza, a wife, mother and tour guide specializing in visits to sacred lands, felt drawn to join Christmas' nameless group. Among Christmas' huggy friends, she is the huggiest. "
She drove nine hours to get to Naataanii blasting Three Dog Night's "Road to Shambala," Rare Earth's "I Just Want to Celebrate," John Lennon's "Imagine" and Golden Earring's "Radar Love" – among other hippie songs.
"Love is going to change everyone's programming," Anderson said. "We're all nourished by the same sun."
You can't stop Gary Christmas, a force who at times seems as formidable as the Navajo wind.
The first time he walked into the round darkness of a hooghan, a holy place in Naataanii culture, he turned to the right and took a couple of steps counter-clockwise. He was quickly halted by angry elders.
Walking counter-clockwise in a scared place is, as Christmas quickly learned, more than frowned upon.
So is asking Native Americans to find sticks and feathers on their land to sell at fundraisers – a gaffe Christmas also made.
"You just don't say that," said Robert Redsteer, himself a smart and successful Orange County businessman who once lived in Anaheim Hills and sold computer parts to the U.S. military. "Gary needs to take some classes."
But Christmas, realizing his mistakes, keeps pushing the goodwill forward. He doesn't run a registered charity, though he says he's spent more than $10,000 of his own money to buy necessities for the Navajo people. He sees himself more of an inspirer of donations, most of which go straight to the Navajo people without a middleman.
When an Oregon company donated a two-story- tall bio-dome to help grow crops in Naataanii, Christmas thought the giant white orb was a brilliant addition. He and his band of Orange County friends formed a prayer circle around the structure. They chanted so much around it they began calling it the "Om Dome."
For a while, the Om Dome was bountiful. Using the sun's rays and a dripping (aquaponic) water system in which plants hang above the ground in skinny beds, the Om Dome grew alfalfa, squash, tomatoes, pinto beans and cabbage.
Then, there was a problem with the generator. Then, there was a problem with the pump. Robert, Lillie and Harold didn't or couldn't fix the Om Dome's problems.
Over time, the Om Dome fell into disrepair. Now all the plants are dead.
There was a cultural problem, too, that Christmas didn't anticipate. The Om Dome – when it still grew food – grew food from water. That's not the Navajo way.
"We grow food from the ground," Redsteer said.
Still, Christmas is diving head first into a problem the U.S. government hasn't touched. Even the Navajo government doesn't have a handle on how to improve the lives of many of its people.
"Gary and his friends are doing a great thing," said Ronald James, a Navajo from Fort Defiance, Ariz. James sells handmade jewelry at Christmas' Earth Day events. "The people out there (in Naataanii) don't appreciate it. The people out there are so stubborn."
And, sadly, there is the story of the tree.
Christmas noticed that such harsh, barren land would benefit from the presence of trees.
So he did research and found the perfect gesture. He would plant a Royal Paulownia, known on the Internet as "The World's Fastest Growing Tree" (10 to 15 feet in its first year). It would reach 30 to 60 feet, has a history of growing in the harshest ground and flowers in a beautiful purple.
And what made it more perfect: Lillie Redsteer's favorite color is purple.
So Christmas brought a Royal Paulownia, spent hours with a pick, piercing hard clay. When he was finished with the hole, Lillie informed him that she hoped a water line would be going there someday, and he had to start over in a new spot. Finally and lovingly, he placed the tiny sprig into the ground. The participants in the celebration showered the tree with water collected from rivers and lakes around the world.
Then, unexpectedly, Native American activist Shannon Rivers, who was attending the event with some dignitaries, angrily called out Christmas for planting a tree that was not indigenous to the area.
The Native Americans collectively turned their backs on the tree.
The tree was never watered again. But Christmas didn't let that stop him.
"A Thousand Trees for the Bennett Freeze" will now focus on cedars, he said, a tree that's indigenous to the area.
Christmas could quit. But he's not wired that way.
"This place didn't get broken quickly, and it won't get fixed quickly," he said, steadfast in his commitment to help. "There is no peace without conflict."
If he quit, he wouldn't be around to see the miracles he helped create.
In 2011, Christmas invited Rex Lee Jim, vice president of the Navajo Nation, to his first Earth Day celebration. What are the odds that a tent filled with Orange County hippie-types and Gary Christmas playing guitar would attract the second most powerful Navajo official?
But Rex Lee Jim came. And he decided to help.
Prompted by Christmas, Jim freed up enough Navajo funding to build four new houses – one of them purple – in the former Bennett Freeze. The purple house still needs plumbing and electrical work before Lillie and Harold can move in. But it's the first development in the area in more than 40 years – and Christmas helped get 24 more houses approved.
"That house changed things," Christmas said.
"That house … they just did it, and that surprised me," said Robert Redsteer. "I didn't know about it. They just showed up and did it."
He has vowed to stay in Naataanii until that house is complete.
Over time, Christmas has learned to ask how he can help rather than suggest what is needed.
"I'm learning as I go," he said.
Christmas' housing miracle also attracted the attention of the Navajos' nearby enemy.
For decades, the Navajo and their neighbors, the Hopi, have been in a dispute over land. It's what sparked the Bennett Freeze and it's what's kept Navajo and Hopi from bonding even as the region fell into squalor.
But, almost inadvertently, Christmas' work has brought the two cultures closer to something that looks like peace.
Last December, the Hopi sent representatives to a prayer day hosted by Christmas.
"The seed of peace was planted that night," said Ruben Saufkie, a Hopi. "They (the Navajo) were willing to let go. So we gave them our hearts."
In April, representatives from the Hopi tribe also attended Christmas' third Earth Day celebration. There were a few squabbles, but there has been a clear breakthrough in the relationship between the tribes.
And if the Navajo and Hopi can get together, why not other longtime enemies? That's what Steve Robertson, founder of Project Peace on Earth, wants to know.
After Robertson heard that Christmas had helped broker some peace between the Navajo and Hopi, he invited Christmas and representatives of the two tribes to Israel.
"I asked them to participate in this world forgiveness project," Robertson said. "Gary is a great, loving, caring human being. … He's one of the few people walking the Earth with a heart of gold."
In December, Christmas plans to stand with Navajo, Hopi, Israelis and Palestinians in Bethlehem.
"There is this whole energy that has never happened before," Christmas said. "And it's happening right now."
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Japan's Nikkei Stock Average NIK, +0.33% and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index HSI, +0.15% each ended 0.9% lower.
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The decline came after a lower finish on Wall Street Monday, before the start of the fourth-quarter earnings season this week, with markets also watching political developments to resolve the debt ceiling issue. Read: U.S. stocks retreat after last week's climb.
Several exporters weakened in Tokyo as the dollar USDJPY, -0.05% slipped to ¥87.44 from ¥87.83 in late North American trading on Monday and ¥88.13 on Friday. Read: Dollar falls as traders watch ECB, Fed.
The drop for Tokyo stocks came even as Kyodo News reported, citing unnamed sources close to the matter, that Japan's emergency fiscal stimulus package to boost its economy will be worth more than 20 trillion yen ($229 billion).
Furthermore, the yen advanced as ministers were quoted in other media reports as saying the government will make a 2% inflation target part of a new policy accord with the Bank of Japan, but won't set a deadline for reaching that target.
"[The] yen appears to be stabilizing as investors wait for the next Bank of Japan meeting," said Sullivan, adding that traders were also mindful of technical indicators suggesting the market was "overbought."
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Good luck commissioners
County Commissioners Randy Dallke and Dan Holub set an ambitious goal for the upcoming budget process — cutting county property taxes by about three mills, or 4.4 percent — while Roger Fleming remained fairly quiet on the matter. That would be an impressive reversal of a trend that has seen county property taxes increase 13.1 percent since 2007. Taxes have increased every year in that time.
I wish them luck. It takes a lot of willpower to cut taxes, because that means cutting budgets. Yes, cutting taxes is popular with the general public, but commissioners hear more from department heads than from the general public, and department heads are more motivated to keep their budgets steady than Joe Q. Taxpayer is to see his taxes go down. Even a three-mill decrease in property taxes is only a $17.25 difference for a $50,000 home.
Cutting property taxes will require the willpower to say "no" to a lot of requests. Having covered the commission for most of the past five years, I feel safe saying commissioners have the willpower to do just that, if they decide that is what they really want to do.
Fortunately, the commission isn't so foolish as to make a blanket edict that every department cut its budget by 4.4 percent. To make intelligent cuts, department heads and the commission will have to take a careful look line item by line item to decide what needs to stay and what can go.
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