aasutton on 43 Things

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1. Plant 450 trees through Trees for the future.
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2. Eat more fruits and veggies=2000 a year (5.5 a day)
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3. Eat 1,000 fruits in 2009.
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4. Write 1,000 minutes about an imaginary creature that lives in my head and likes to go to Yahtzee camp in July, and throws weekly secret sardine parties.
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5. declutter one thousand things.....
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6. Be a math specialist, spend 1,480 minutes on the internet about math for students that need help in math.
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7. Donate 1 million grains of rice through freerice.com
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8. Lift weights over 1,000 minutes in 2009.
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9. have 25 secret sardine parties (13 so far)...
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10. Get three degrees
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11. see a cure for HIV in my lifetime
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12. give to Nothing But Nets
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13. donate 100,000 grains of rice through freerice.com
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14. Donate 100 pounds of food to the local food bank
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15. 2nd song to get one million hits on utube
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2nd song to get one million hits on utube

BNL=Brian Wilson 4 weeks ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMfneL5eU8A

Oct 09, 10:38PM PDT | 0 comments

This song should have a millions hits on utube

Brandy best one hit wonder song ever...we can argue later.... 4 weeks ago

HIT the link….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-tRXewCAmU&feature=fvw

Oct 09, 10:03PM PDT | 0 comments

see a cure for HIV in my lifetime

Delta 32 mutation 5 months ago

There is a company (Sangamo Biosciences) that is in phase one of a study. Here is the link. In normal terms if you can make a t-cell in a human body become the delta 32 mutation t cell the t cell will destroy the virus. The virus (HIV) cannot infect the white blood cells with the delta 32 mutation.

The one article that sums up everything:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122602394113507555.html

http://www.sangamo.com/about/about.html

More about the study:

http://investor.sangamo.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=363201

More about delta 32 from PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/previous_seasons/case_plague/interview.html

The New England Journal of Medicine:

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/360/7/692

Patient (HIV+) before study now has no viral load (no HIV) in blood. That was two years ago…Still a long way off. BUT…..

another study: (sums up)

http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2008/06/zinc-finger-hiv.html