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Well, I co-co-hosted a pageant. With Kristi Lauren Glakas (Miss Virginia 2005/badass) and Hannah Kiefer (Miss Virginia 2007/badass). You can see pictures here.
Both of my esteemed colleagues did well at Miss America as state title holders, finishing at 3rd runner-up; so they know their pageants. My main job last Saturday night was to utilize my dorky charm to set the audience at ease. Should be easy for someone who sets people at ease over the topic of AIDS, right?
Well...
Usually I'm confronted with an audience that asks questions about my personal life. That's easy, because I know all the answers to those. And if I do...
Source: Shawn's HIV Blog - December 16, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Tags: Hannah Kiefer Kristi Glakas Source Type: blogs
Dec 15 /08 Outsourcing HopeEmail this article to a colleague.
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First a big thank you to Kosta, fighting the mobs in Athens who made the next suite of banners!
For the last twenty minutes I’ve been trying to write this post. Every time I sit down, take a sip of my coffee I have to running over to the can. It was getting a rather bit discouraging.
Don’t worry folks I’ve sanitized my hands for your protection.
Now who says my FAB article was an overstatement?
During brunch yesterday amongst a large group of us, a fellow sitting close to me happens to be a comedy writer. We both chuckled over a couple of anecdotes, David Sedaris, when I just had to tell him that apparently not on...
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - December 15, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: a wee tale recovery newtag Source Type: blogs
Dec 13/08 This Dating Season Reality Show Finale.Email this article to a colleague.
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Once again after having just watched the finale of Paris Hilton’s “My New BFF” my life has run a microcosmic parallel.
However in my reality show, I there was only one candidate, and sadly I had to vote him off prospective island of romance. It may be an island, but it seems to only have room for my three pooches and me these days.
In fact if it weren’t for these reality shows, and judicial mentors, I would have never been able to tackle such endeavors with such a distinctly crafted sense of detachment.
Having to have these discussion has been a major barrier to dating. I much prefer to be the recei...
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - December 14, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: Glamour on the Go! a wee tale canine moments ramblings traveling on my road Source Type: blogs
Happy about my membership in the DHHS HIV Adult and Adolescent Guidelines PanelEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Nelson Vergel's HIV Blog - December 14, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Tags: DHHS panel Adult and Adolescent Guidelines Panel Nelson Vergel Source Type: blogs
kearns to la city council: medical cannabis as civil disobedience (1092)Email this article to a colleague.
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richard kearns
AIDS activist & long term survivor
medical cannabis patient & advocate
poet and journalist
i stand before you today to advocate
for the medical cannabis community.
because we are a community
because our lives & well-being
are in jeopardy from a government
agency attempting to influence
public health policy by perpetrating
armed, terrorist-style attacks
against the citizenry
many people suggest to us
that the issue of medical cannabis law is
best resolved at a federal
level. i suggest that the most
persuasive argument we can
present to the federal government
is the establishment of a working
local...
Source: aids-write.org - December 14, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen journalism contains rks original photogra Source Type: blogs
Home for the HolidaysEmail this article to a colleague.
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I really do like this time of year.
Actually, from October through January, it is a fun time to be alive. Halloween offers pumpkins, the coolness of the spooky, and the first taste of cold weather. Thanksgiving offers food, friendship, the family we choose. And Christmas/Solstice is, for me, an excuse to bake and share the stuff I make. And to examine my life, figure out what is working, what is not. And make changes accordingly
A terrific lady from the ferret shelter just left my place with her arms loaded with cheerios bars (three kinds) and about 36 cupcakes. She is having some sort of gathering with the kids she tea...
Source: Jonathan's HIV Blog - December 13, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs
Twenty-three years now...Email this article to a colleague.
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It was 23 years ago on a gray Thursday afternoon that the phone rang and I picked it up. That call changed my life forever. It was my Infectious Disease doctor calling to tell me that she was very sorry to break the news to me that I had tested positive for HIV. I remember going into a kind of trance that was only broken when my office mate walked in and asked me what was wrong. "You look like you have seen a ghost," he said to me.Ha. My own.I still see it now and then, but with all of this time, there are days when the specter of my death is vague and distant. Categories: HIV AIDS HIV/AIDS anniversary testing
Source: 2sides2ron - December 12, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
My hand in the hospitalEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Nelson Vergel's HIV Blog - December 12, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs
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Source: Nelson Vergel's HIV Blog - December 12, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs
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Back in the Summer of 1973, I was spending a day in Boston with a friend and his wife. His wife took off shopping while he and I made our way to the Bull & Finch pub for a pint. On the way we were walking through Boston Common when he asked, "who do you identify with?" I looked at him puzzled, he repeated his question then pointed to a homeless guy curled up sleeping on a park bench, "that's who I identify with. You, me, anyone could wind up where he is under the right set of circumstances, but nobody wants to think about that, it's just too frightening. Some day we may all be facing his fate, just remember that and be tha...
Source: Nightmare Hall - Welcome to my nightmare - December 12, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs
Computus interruptus, Part DeuxEmail this article to a colleague.
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My computer woes continue but I am getting used to the necessary changes (taking the elevator to the computer centre just off the front lobby of my building, for example. While I try to look presentable it need not be a fashion show.)
To add insult to injury the web-based email which is associated with [...]
Source: My journey with AIDS - December 12, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: 002 HIV/AIDS CD-4 autobiography bipolar health-care medical update mental health personal journal type-II diabetes viral load Source Type: blogs
Dec. 12 2008 RecyclingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Since a friend paid good money (thank you Barry!) for me to see Mr Sedaris, I can’t let that good money go to waste and not give you some morsels of his stories.
Real life people are usually the best source of material. Given he meets an over abundance of strangers, he has more interesting stories than me. Well, not completely.
Anyway, this is a green blog, we like to recycle here.
Over the course of his book signing he met several flight attendants. One recounted how one gets gassy when up in the air, and that she couldn’t resist under the auditory camouflage of the jet engines, while rolling a cart up the ai...
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - December 12, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: a wee tale travel newtag Source Type: blogs
Heart Feldt: A Tribute to DavidEmail this article to a colleague.
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Gwenn and I are finally home, having swept in and out of "The Little Apple", Manhattan, Kansas this week, our last talk of World AIDS Week 2008.
We just made it to K-State, too. Wisely we'd taken the first flight out from Richmond, which meant we landed in Kansas City before a snowstorm hit. When we woke up from a very long nap, the ground was white. Drivable for us (the school was two hours away), but enough to cause flight delays. On the way back home the next day, we heard someone saying that a few of the later flights had been cancelled.
But travel turmoil- averted or otherwise- is not what you want to read about. Yo...
Source: Shawn's HIV Blog - December 12, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs
kearns to la city council: sanctuary city savings & personal AIDS medical update (recalled) (1091)Email this article to a colleague.
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richard kearns
aids activist & long-term survivor
medical cannabis patient & advocate
poet and journalist
publisher of aids-write.org
i of course was stunned to hear yesterday
that the city is operating with an $86million
defecit, & that, in terms of cost-cutting,
everything needs to be put on the table.
i have a suggestion to make that
seems kind of obvious, at least to me
have you explored how much money
you’d save by declaring los angeles a
sanctuary city for medical cannabis &
refusing to allow LAPD assistance —-
which means LAPD expenditures —
to current & upcoming
DEA smash-&-gra...
Source: aids-write.org - December 12, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen journalism contains rks original photogra Source Type: blogs
Crutches for my Stumbling Christian walkEmail this article to a colleague.
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It's raining cats and dogs again today, talk about up to 3" before the mercury drops. I think I saw Noah navigating his ark down my street this morning. I had to get out, plus I was out of half and half, bread and a few other essentials., so I ventured out and drove to Micro Center, along the crazed cell phone zombies in their SUV's. People are really getting psycho on the road, which is one reason I no longer find driving pleasurable.I went with a mission, to find some decent Bible software and pick up one of the flash drives they had on sale, 8 GIG for $14.95. I found a pretty comprehensive Bible study program for a reas...
Source: Nightmare Hall - Welcome to my nightmare - December 11, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs
December 11, 2008 I hate being a girlEmail this article to a colleague.
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I went to see David Sedaris last night. He is to literature as John Water’s is to film in my world.
Never had I gone to see an author before just read. It was just like seeing John Water’s at the Phonex, as I’d never seen a director perform either.
Both were very funny, and the anecdotes recited were far too numerous for me to remember.
Before getting settled I went down to the washroom to have my yet again Lithium-induced pee (the stuff makes me tinkle far more often that I prefer, making me start to think more fondly of June Allyson that I care to admit).
As I crossed the line up formed around in a mini-airport-lik...
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - December 11, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: a wee tale Source Type: blogs
Nata clinic has a new signEmail this article to a colleague.
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Nata clinic was the center of attention whey the clinic received a new sign directing the public in the right direction. Now, the whole village including tourist can find their way to emergency medical attention. The sign was made possible by the local Business people, Student nurses, Nata clinic, and the Orphan Trust. Working together to accomplish another community project.
Source: The Nata village blog - December 11, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: natavillage Source Type: blogs
Student nurses say good bye to Nata clinicEmail this article to a colleague.
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The student nurses are finally done with their four months of training in Nata Villag. Before their departure the student nurses decided to build a mission statement pillar in front of the clinic. The students will attend classes for approximately five more months, before they actually become register nurses at Nyangabwe referral hospital, located in Francistown. With the staff's assistance and training at Nata clinic the student nurses will do an excellent job in their final report. The staff at Nata clinic wishes well in their medical work adventures.
Source: The Nata village blog - December 11, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: natavillage Source Type: blogs
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For decades, the best part of having a Dad who was a member (and often President) of the local Civitan's Club in North Carolina was the Brunswick stew. The group, mainly consisting of older guys, made themselves useful by performing acts of civic awareness. They built ramps for the wheelchair-bound in the community, they delivered food to homeless shelters, and did all sorts of cool things for people with developmental disabilities. And they raised money two ways; a hot dog stand at the city's 4th of July street fair, and an annual Brunswick Stew sale.
This was some heady stuff, this stew. Prepared in huge cauldrons, st...
Source: Jonathan's HIV Blog - December 11, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs
December 10/08 Good Gracious, now I’m causing stigma. Yipeee!Email this article to a colleague.
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This is a cheat, I posted this on the HIV Stigma Website, I’m trying to save on work this morning.
This is how I fight HIV stigma, and at the same time accusations of
causing it. I dress up my 1.75 pound Chihuahua puppy, and take her for
a walk with me tucked away in my coat.
What’s your strategy?
Oughh thank god I seem to be coming out of that recent bout of tipping into the land of depression.I wrote a piece for FAB’s holiday dinner party season, which happened to fall on World AIDS Day (WAD).
Originally I wanted to write an open letter apologizing to the community for having lived with this virus for so l...
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - December 10, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Day four, only notEmail this article to a colleague.
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I am done digitizing for the night.
My gift to Mom, and if they want it, the rest of the family, is the entirety of the family album. Every photo we have taken as a family or individuals, from 1950 to the present, reconstructed, refined, corrected, and placed in an archival album. The upside? All the photos on disk, in DVR format, and also stored in a glossy archival quality album that replaces roughly three feet of photo album space on the families' bookshelf. And mine, of course.
The downside? All the tricks and tweaks I learned as a graphic restorer makes this thing come out to about ten minutes per photo, on average....
Source: Jonathan's HIV Blog - December 10, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs
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I had a chiropractor appointment this morning, in hope from my doctor that I might get some relief, which I have not. I have to get some walking exercise in to slow down the wasting in my legs, but today we went from sub zero temperatures to the low 60's today with heavy tropical rain all day, turning into snow tomorrow. Since it was on my way, after leaving the chiropractor's office I stopped at a local mega-mall, walking the various levels I could at least get a couple of miles in between sitting rest stops. The parking lot was packed, but there were not many people in the stores, few laden down with shopping. Like many ...
Source: Nightmare Hall - Welcome to my nightmare - December 10, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs
kearns to LA city council: a wisdom of AIDS (long play) (1090)Email this article to a colleague.
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chers—
public comments went really well at the LA city council meeting today [tuesday, december 9, 2008].nine medical cannabis patients & advocates testified there, many for the first time. other patients showed up for support as well. our speakers also got applause from the many members of the carpenters’ union present, who were attending about another issue.
we hit the bricks running — we were cut down to a minute apiece instead of the usual two for brown act public comments. councilmembers rosendahl and labange asked for a report back on LAPD involvement in the several DEA actions that took place last...
Source: aids-write.org - December 10, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen journalism contains rks original photography, graphic art criminalizatio Source Type: blogs
lisa miller, newsweek cover story: our mutual joy (1089)Email this article to a colleague.
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Our Mutual Joy
Opponents of gay marriage often cite Scripture. But what the Bible teaches about love argues for the other side.
by Lisa Miller
NEWSWEEK
cover story
From the magazine issue dated Dec 15, 2008
Let’s try for a minute to take the religious conservatives at their word and define marriage as the Bible does. Shall we look to Abraham, the great patriarch, who slept with his servant when he discovered his beloved wife Sarah was infertile? Or to Jacob, who fathered children with four different women (two sisters and their servants)? Abraham, Jacob, David, Solomon and the kings of Judah and Israel—all these f...
Source: aids-write.org - December 10, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: 08 elections aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen journalism cultural activism faith-based activism first Source Type: blogs
4 of 4 from the box turtle bulletin: US hasn’t decriminalized homosexuality either (1088)Email this article to a colleague.
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Guess Who Else Isn’t On Board With the U.N. Resolution to Decriminalize Homosexuality
Jim Burroway
December 5th, 2008
Mark, at Slapped Upside the Head, has a good take on yesterday’s news that the Vatican is opposing a U.N. resolution calling on member states to rescind laws outlawing homosexuality — which in some countries includes the death penalty. We discussed the Vatican’s intrinsically disordered logic here. Mark has his own take here.
There are a lot of countries which have already signed on to the declaration, including: Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Uruguay, New Zealand, Norway, Swit...
Source: aids-write.org - December 10, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: 08 elections aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen journalism community blogger criminalization of HIV/AIDS Source Type: blogs
3 of 4 from box turtle bulletin: uk bishops nix homophobic language (1087)Email this article to a colleague.
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UK Catholic Bishops Instruct Priests Not To Offend Gays
Jim Burroway
November 29th, 2008
New instructions from UK Roman Catholic Biships:
Roman Catholic priests have been banned from using ‘heterosexist’ language in their churches in case they offend gay worshipers. They have been told by their bishops not to assume that every churchgoer is a heterosexual and to reflect this ‘in language and conversation’. ‘Remember that homophobic jokes and asides can be cruel and hurtful - a careless word can mean another experience of rejection and pain,’ say the bishops in a leaflet advising priests and worshippers how to ...
Source: aids-write.org - December 10, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: 08 elections aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen journalism community blogger criminalization of HIV/AIDS Source Type: blogs
2 of 4 from box turtle bulletin: balony from mahony on gay marriage initiative (1086)Email this article to a colleague.
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A Patronizing “Pastoral Message”
Timothy Kincaid
December 6th, 2008
Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, Archbishop of Los Angeles, has issued A pastoral message to homosexual Catholics in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles assuring gay Catholics that they “are cherished members of the Catholic Church, and that we value you as equal and active members of the Body of Christ”.
I know what the Cardinal is trying to say. He just wants gay Catholics to know that this very personal action that he encouraged to harm their life wasn’t personal. It’s not out of some desire to hurt them, you see, it’s just out of Mahony’s absolute...
Source: aids-write.org - December 10, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: 08 elections aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen journalism community blogger criminalization of HIV/AIDS Source Type: blogs
1 of 4 from box turtle bulletin: protest at vatican over same-sex marriage (1085)Email this article to a colleague.
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Hundreds Protest Vatican’s Opposition to Decriminalization of Homosexuality
Jim Burroway
December 8th, 2008
According to AFP, about 250 people protested in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday over the Vatican’s opposition to a U.N. resolution calling for member nations to decriminalize homosexuality.
Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi exhibited more of the Vatican’s intrinsically disordered logic by saying the Church opposed “all forms of violent or discriminatory penal law regarding homosexuals…. No one obviously wants to defend the death penalty for homosexuals.” Some 80 countries have laws against homosexuali...
Source: aids-write.org - December 10, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: 08 elections aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen journalism community blogger criminalization of HIV/AIDS Source Type: blogs
john james, AIDS treatment news daily alerts: check out survivorship a-z (1084)Email this article to a colleague.
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thanks for the heads-up to john james, aids treatment news daily alerts
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Source: aids-write.org - December 9, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen journalism community blogger cultural activism faith-based activism Source Type: blogs
The moral to the story is...Email this article to a colleague.
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I've always enjoyed movies and shows that have a moral to them or left me with something to think about after the show was over, which is why The Twilight Zone and Outer Limits were a couple of my favorite TV shows. No matter if the story was wrapped around an alien theme or not, each story explored human frailties, the seven deadly sins, etc. Each story usually had a surprise ending.A couple of people I have known poo-poo'd my enjoyment of such drivel, saying the stories were dumb and too preachy for their liking. I guess most people don't like having human weaknesses presented.Today's links have the usual tin foil helmet...
Source: Nightmare Hall - Welcome to my nightmare - December 9, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs
New Leadership in South Africa brings hope for AIDS ReformEmail this article to a colleague.
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72% of the 5.5 million South Africans who are HIV-positive are in need of antiretroviral (ARV) drug treatment. In leading the movement against ARV drugs, recently removed South African President Thabo Mbeki denied millions of his people HIV treatment. He believes that the AIDS pandemic was created by Western pharmaceutical companies to take advantage of Africans and maximize their profits. Mbeki also sides with dissident scientists in denying that the HIV virus causes AIDS and in 2003 he was quoted as saying, “Personally, I don’t know anybody who has died of AIDS” and when asked if he knew anyone infected with HIV he...
Source: The AIDS Pandemic - December 9, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: David Wessner Source Type: blogs
December 8th 2008, This shit make me laughEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Soup: The View 11/28/08
I’d make the effort to write a real post, but my laptop has died and needs probably a new hard drive. I’m using the laptop that runs as if it were a Commodore 65, plus is an off the shelf basic Vista laptop operating system in Spanish.
I ran out and bought this right after I kicked the wall in anger as I was in the midst of glamorously relapsing in Puerto Vallarta, a place where I’m sure not to have been the first. My newly bought MacBook after a year of running back and forth of dealing with an eventually replaced iLemon, my patience was wearing then for my only source of bein...
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - December 8, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: Uncategorized ramblings newtag Source Type: blogs
Fado: Mariza sings "Gente da minha terra" in a Special Fado MomentEmail this article to a colleague.
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I just posted a note on a Facebook account to David da Silva Cornell. He shared a video of Fado performer Mariza performing the song "Gente da minha terra" or "People of my Land."Here is what I wrote to him:WOW! I wept! Thank you for sharing this here. I will post it on my blog as well. Those without Fado in their lives need to see this performance through to the end.The lyrics listed below are taken from this page and indicate that this traditional Fado was written by Amalia Rodrigues. I have subsequently edited the English translation to try to better capture the bits of the original poetry that I can pick up.Ó Gente da...
Source: 2sides2ron - December 8, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
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Adam is asleep in his chair, which is par for the course on our Sunday night standing date. I just cleaned out the ferret cage, installing the new supercool Superpets bed I won yesterday at the shelter holiday party. Richard won a flea egg comb, which looked enough like a lice nit comb for me to give him hell about it.
He said I could have it, so now I finally have my nephew something for his stocking.
All in all, a good weekend. Had terrific food, watched some cool movies with my two best Atlantans, played about five hours' of DDO with my dear friends from across the country (and around the world) and am just about don...
Source: Jonathan's HIV Blog - December 8, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs
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You can check out photos from last week's World AIDS Day travels by going here. Thanks again to Southeast Community College (Lincoln, NE), the AIDS Task Force of Greater Cleveland, Baldwin-Wallace College (Berea, OH) and the University of Toledo for having us! I'll be posting a proper blog soon!
Positively Yours,
Shawn
Source: Shawn's HIV Blog - December 7, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs
ahf suit: court orders medical coverage for impoverished HIV (not AIDS) patients (1083)Email this article to a colleague.
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California health agency ignored law helping impoverished HIV patients, judge rules
The department is ordered to carry out the program that helps provide Medi-Cal coverage for HIV patients. The department says the plan won’t work.
By Jordan Rau
December 5, 2008
Reporting from Sacramento — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration flouted a six-year-old state law by failing to enact a program intended to provide medical care to impoverished Californians with HIV, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled in a decision made public Thursday.
Writing that the state “has not fulfilled its statut...
Source: aids-write.org - December 7, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: aging and HIV/AIDS ahf aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen journalism cultural activism faith-based activism gay guys with Source Type: blogs
kearns to la city council on LAPD-backed DEA med cannabis raid at liberty bell temple, odetta (long play) (1082)Email this article to a colleague.
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[friday, december 5, 2008] my name is richard kearns. i am a 57-year-old gay man alive with AIDS for more than 20 years. i am a long-term survivor. i am an AIDS activist. i am a medical cannabis patient and advocate. i am poet-secretary of the patient advocacy network.
i am here today because tuesday, the DEA, backed up by the LAPD, raided a church, the liberty bell temple in Silverlake. agents, supported by LAPD officers, also broke into reverend duff’s residence, not covered by the 30-page search warrant that editorializes about the california attorney general’s medical cannabis guidelines. agents issued no receipt f...
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I know it's rather presumptuous of me to write Part One of a blog, when I haven't even taken time to write both parts yet. But I woke up this morning with two distinct ideas in my head, and would rather split them up than write a schizophrenic blog. Of course, I have certainly done so in the past. Just not on purpose.
Pedestals.
Something a good friend wrote in the "comments" section of an earlier blog forced me to examine a few things, and not exactly without some painful realizations. I suppose any realization that's worth anything is at least a little painful
It was recently brought to my attention that there has bee...
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michael carter, NAM: unsafe sex among HIVers over 50 (1081)Email this article to a colleague.
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Older HIV-positive gay men as likely to have risky sex as younger gay men with HIV
Michael Carter,
Thursday, November 27, 2008
A significant number of people living with HIV in London are aged over 50, researchers report in the December edition of Sexually Transmitted Infections. The study was conducted amongst patients attends NHS HIV clinics in north-east London. Overall, 10% of patients were aged over 50, and this increased to one-in-seven gay men, the primary focus of the research.
Another finding of the study was that the proportion of gay men aged 50-plus reporting unprotected sex with men who were HIV-negative or w...
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jonathan magbie story: end of saga of 2004 medical cannabis death after incarceration in DC (1080)Email this article to a colleague.
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D.C. Pays Dearly After Letting a Medical Marijuana Patient Die in Jail
posted in chronicle blog
by scott morgan
thu, 12/04/2008
StoptheDrugWar.org
As a toddler, Jonathan Magbie was stuck by a drunk driver. He survived for 23 years, paralyzed from the neck down, until one day he was arrested for using medical marijuana to treat his pain. Magbie died in jail four days later.
This week, Magbie’s family settled a wrongful death suit, bringing this unfathomable tragedy back into the spotlight:
Attorneys for his mother, Mary R. Scott, declined to provide details of the financial settlement, which she reached with the city, p...
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federal judge orders california to pay $8 billion for 7 new inmate medical facilities (1079)Email this article to a colleague.
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Judge: Calif. must pay for prison health care
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press Writer
Posted: 10/06/2008 01:04:30 PM PDT
SAN FRANCISCO—A federal judge scolded California officials on Monday for failing to provide the billions of dollars a court-appointed receiver says is needed to upgrade the state’s prison health care system.
U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson made it clear he expects California to pay $8 billion for seven new inmate medical facilities. But he stopped short of immediately holding Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state Controller John Chiang in contempt for failing to turn over the money.
The judg...
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weho mayor jeff prang: city joins amicus brief challenging prop 8 validity (1078)Email this article to a colleague.
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Jeff Prang and spouse Raymundo Viszcarra - Photo by Ryan Gierach.
Message from the Mayor
December 4, 2008
Dear Neighbors:
The last weeks have left me feeling full of frustration and hope. While we have cause to celebrate the election of President Obama and a new Congress, the passage of Proposition 8 is extremely disappointing. However, we must not allow this disappointment to linger and support the fight to repeal Proposition 8 already which is already underway.
The City of West Hollywood has joined the amicus brief filed in the California Supreme Court charging that Proposition 8 is invalid because the initiative process...
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The LeapEmail this article to a colleague.
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Out of anger and resentment comes redemption. Out of jealously and bitterness comes acceptance. Out of chaos comes peace. But only if you believe. And that nonaction is a struggle that has to be repeated daily like a mantra and a chore. I have always been lax at daily maintenance whether my own, embarrassing to say but even hygiene, or that of my surroundings. It's safe to say there is at most a 50-50% chance of me doing something when I say that I will do it. I do however try to keep my promises and appointments which is why I find it so hard to commit, even return calls and uphold contacts, and why I am fundamentally lon...
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Things my parents taught meEmail this article to a colleague.
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I was born into a blue collar Catholic family in a declining Massachusetts mill town. Mom stayed home until I was well into my school years. Most of my relatives and everything we needed were within 1-15 miles from home.Dad had been a Navy Sea Bee during WWII and was at Normandy. I was born in 1947, the same year as the transistor and and Roswell crash. Dad had always been a fireman and lived the fireman's creed. He was a devout Catholic but told me as a boy, "forget about the saints, pope, Mary, etc. Take all your cares and prayers to the Lord himself", pointing to the crucifix that hung over the front door.My family was ...
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Ponies and PiratesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Just wanted to direct you all to a piece that the Newark Star Ledger did this past week on me for World AIDS Day. The reporter spent some time with me at the barn...and met my horses, who play a big role in keeping me sane, relaxed, healthy and outdoors. As I write this, I'm contemplating whether or not I really want to go spend two hours in the freezing gloaming...but then I think about how I'll feel when I walk into the barn and my horses whinny because they're happy to see me (and know I will be giving them carrots and Cracklin' Oat Bran ((their favorite cereal))) and it makes it possible to suit up in my winter gear an...
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Tsunami AlertEmail this article to a colleague.
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There's a whale of a tsunami approaching and most don't seem to notice or care. All of the household pets are finding a way to sneak out to a safer haven. Those with the means are moving to higher ground, while the majority of sheeple keep their backs turned to the shore, "if I can't see it, it can't be happening" until the massive wave of financial and social chaos sweeps them away.Some readers may call me a fool, but as I get older I have lost all but a remnant of faith in any human systems and find myself returning to God as personified by his only son Jesus Christ for guidance, wisdom and strength. Many Christians woul...
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Day 2Email this article to a colleague.
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A fever dream, from the arctic explorer, lost in the wilderness, in which he fancies himself on another life, in another time. A freelance writer and recovering actor in the American south. And whilst he enjoys the snark of this particular series, another world, arguably a real one, does creep in from time to time.
It is cold here, but not snowing.
Woke up a few days ago with a montrous crick in my back/neck. Sleeping the last few days seems to be making it worse, but Ibuprofen helps some. I am writing this stooped over, as it seems to the the only comfortable position. Perhaps later, I will try a soak in a hot tub, thou...
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Muncha Buncha LinksEmail this article to a colleague.
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I'm up to my eyebrows in medical paperwork and forms, so have not been motivated to write, plus with the even more cheery daily news, what can I say.As I've said I don't necessarily agree with the contents of every link I post here, but find them either entertaining, informative to downright spooky. And remember there are no new world order conspiracy theories, they're right in our faces.So click and enjoy, or click and be enlightened, aggravated, etcMonty pythonThe first Zulu WarBBC Panorama Daylight RobberyPropagandand the CFR9-11 Illuminati Media PropagandaDr. Dennis Cuddy EugenicsExposing the Satanic Empire Final Cut (...
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jkinatl2 in exile Day 1Email this article to a colleague.
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It has been a stormy day. The winds have taken the stars. Our camp has decided to hoist tents for the duration.
The dogs are restless, perhaps seeing something, someone, that we do not.
I am trying to get drunk from the medical supplies, in a vain attempt to forget the obvious; that my party and myself are scoured from the group. We are in exile. We are forcibly removed because we dared to be smart and strong. Smarter, perhaps, and stronger than we deserved.
We, our group, still had much to contribute to the cause. We value science, to the last of us. We value honesty, to a fault. We want to make places safe, make them ...
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My high standards of literacyEmail this article to a colleague.
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It has come to my attention that I have been mean to someone.
Someone who was not at all kind to me, and has not been kind to other forum members for a while now.
Apparently, by calling the person on his behavior, whilst never once mentioning his literacy or his word usage, I am mean.
Apparently, people who are cruel and dismissive of others are allowed to behave badly, whereas those like myself who treat them as adults and hold them to standards of behavior, not literacy, are punished.
This bodes badly for the forums, when voices like my own are silenced, and attacks on me and others are allowed to perpetuate.
I am s...
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