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    <title>Shawn&apos;s POZ Blog</title>
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    <updated>2009-11-06T18:59:49Z</updated>
    <subtitle>Shawn Decker, contributing writer for POZ</subtitle>
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    <title>It&apos;s Your Call: Will Reform Happen?</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2009:/shawn//14.2343</id>

    <published>2009-11-06T18:08:38Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-06T18:59:49Z</updated>

    <summary>Yesterday in DC, opponents of health care reform gathered to wave signs and chant their claims that they are more patriotic than those who want to provide decent, affordable and ethical health care to their countrymen.As Tool Academy standout and...</summary>
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        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
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        Yesterday in DC, opponents of health care reform gathered to wave signs and chant their claims that they are more patriotic than those who want to provide decent, affordable and ethical health care to their countrymen.As Tool Academy standout and...
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<entry>
    <title>&quot;V&quot; Is For Virginia</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2009:/shawn//14.2339</id>

    <published>2009-11-04T05:53:08Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-04T08:36:53Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[When I was a kid, I loved the sci-fi series, V.&nbsp; So I was optimistically excited about the premiere of the new take on the story of aliens who descend on Earth and gain our trust before revealing... a darker...]]></summary>
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        <![CDATA[When I was a kid, I loved the sci-fi series, V.&nbsp; So I was optimistically excited about the premiere of the new take on the story of aliens who descend on Earth and gain our trust before revealing... a darker...]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Hate Crime Legislation, Ryan White CARE Act, HIV Travel Ban</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2009:/shawn//14.2337</id>

    <published>2009-11-02T17:04:34Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-02T18:10:12Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[In the last several days, President Obama has signed anti-hate crimes in law, the Ryan White CARE Act Reauthorization Bill and also lifted the travel ban on people with HIV.&nbsp; Here's video of him explaining who Ryan White was, and...]]></summary>
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        <![CDATA[In the last several days, President Obama has signed anti-hate crimes in law, the Ryan White CARE Act Reauthorization Bill and also lifted the travel ban on people with HIV.&nbsp; Here's video of him explaining who Ryan White was, and...]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Hemo2Homo on The End of Geocities</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2009:/shawn//14.2329</id>

    <published>2009-10-24T00:28:18Z</published>
    <updated>2009-10-27T06:42:19Z</updated>

    <summary>On Monday, October 26, 2009, Geocities, one of the first internet communities, closed it&apos;s cyberdoors. I didn&apos;t even know it was happening until word started to spread around Facebook today. You could call Geocities the original Facebook. If there was...</summary>
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        On Monday, October 26, 2009, Geocities, one of the first internet communities, closed it&apos;s cyberdoors. I didn&apos;t even know it was happening until word started to spread around Facebook today. You could call Geocities the original Facebook. If there was...
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<entry>
    <title>Poz Coverboy Takes On Oprah</title>
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    <published>2009-10-23T23:48:44Z</published>
    <updated>2009-10-24T00:23:23Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[Apparently I missed Oprah's recent show on HIV/AIDS; sounds like I saved myself a bunch of grief.&nbsp; Instead of having positive examples on prevention and awareness, it sounded like yet another "positoid-as-monster" story.Jack Mackenroth is a proud positoid, Poz coverboy...]]></summary>
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        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
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        <![CDATA[Apparently I missed Oprah's recent show on HIV/AIDS; sounds like I saved myself a bunch of grief.&nbsp; Instead of having positive examples on prevention and awareness, it sounded like yet another "positoid-as-monster" story.Jack Mackenroth is a proud positoid, Poz coverboy...]]>
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    <title>Ryan White: A Reason to Smile</title>
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    <published>2009-10-23T02:21:45Z</published>
    <updated>2009-10-23T02:55:21Z</updated>

    <summary> With all the concerns over health insurance reform and how that would help out people living with HIV, positoids managed to score a major victory on the Hill this week when the Ryan White CARE Act was extended for...</summary>
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        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
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         With all the concerns over health insurance reform and how that would help out people living with HIV, positoids managed to score a major victory on the Hill this week when the Ryan White CARE Act was extended for...
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    <title>Band of Blood Brothers: COTT Turns Twenty!</title>
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    <published>2009-10-21T07:31:14Z</published>
    <updated>2009-10-21T07:41:29Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[ One of the biggest thrills I've had lately was being invited as a "hemophilia humorist" to the 20th anniversary of the Committee of Ten Thousand (COTT) on October 2nd in Washington, DC.&nbsp; COTT was formed by people with hemophilia...]]></summary>
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        <![CDATA[ One of the biggest thrills I've had lately was being invited as a "hemophilia humorist" to the 20th anniversary of the Committee of Ten Thousand (COTT) on October 2nd in Washington, DC.&nbsp; COTT was formed by people with hemophilia...]]>
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    <title>Last Weekend&apos;s Rally, Interview and Video</title>
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    <published>2009-10-15T15:37:43Z</published>
    <updated>2009-10-15T15:56:48Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[Check out this page on Poz.com, which has video of last weekend's HIV/AIDS rally.&nbsp; You can see a clip of me and Marshall kicking things off with a Synthetic Division jam.&nbsp; Sean Strub introduced us in his "Tainted Bloods" jacket...]]></summary>
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        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
        <uri>http://www.mypetvirus.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[Check out this page on Poz.com, which has video of last weekend's HIV/AIDS rally.&nbsp; You can see a clip of me and Marshall kicking things off with a Synthetic Division jam.&nbsp; Sean Strub introduced us in his "Tainted Bloods" jacket...]]>
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    <title>Rocking for Equality in DC</title>
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    <published>2009-10-12T16:40:05Z</published>
    <updated>2009-10-12T17:14:21Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[Went for a third consecutive weekend in DC, this time playing some music with my bandmate, Marshall Camden.&nbsp; Here's a picture of us looking all rockstar-like on the Ellipse in front of the White House, where the rally took place....]]></summary>
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        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
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        <![CDATA[Went for a third consecutive weekend in DC, this time playing some music with my bandmate, Marshall Camden.&nbsp; Here's a picture of us looking all rockstar-like on the Ellipse in front of the White House, where the rally took place....]]>
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    <title>Equality to End AIDS This Saturday in DC</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2009:/shawn//14.2296</id>

    <published>2009-10-07T17:08:23Z</published>
    <updated>2009-10-07T17:41:30Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[ Normal 0 0 1 526 2999 24 5 3682 11.1282 0 0 0 This Saturday my band, Synthetic Division, will be kicking off the Equality to End AIDS Rally/Vigil in Washington DC.&nbsp; All the pertinent information is below- but...]]></summary>
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        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
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        <![CDATA[ Normal 0 0 1 526 2999 24 5 3682 11.1282 0 0 0 This Saturday my band, Synthetic Division, will be kicking off the Equality to End AIDS Rally/Vigil in Washington DC.&nbsp; All the pertinent information is below- but...]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Accepting the Courage Award and Dedication to Ethan</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2009:/shawn//14.2293</id>

    <published>2009-10-06T16:27:42Z</published>
    <updated>2009-10-06T17:15:29Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[I was somewhat concerned going into the district with the highest infection rate in the United States dressed as a lemon.&nbsp; But when I took the stage after Don from Whitman-Walker introduced me as someone living with AIDS, I posed...]]></summary>
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        <![CDATA[I was somewhat concerned going into the district with the highest infection rate in the United States dressed as a lemon.&nbsp; But when I took the stage after Don from Whitman-Walker introduced me as someone living with AIDS, I posed...]]>
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<entry>
    <title>The Reveal of Me as &quot;LemonAIDS&quot;</title>
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    <published>2009-10-05T07:30:43Z</published>
    <updated>2009-10-05T07:40:09Z</updated>

    <summary> This past weekend in DC was incredible. I had the privilege to do a My Pet Virus reading at the Committee of Ten Thousand&apos;s 20 Year Survivors on Friday evening, then got to walk with Team Supersnack in the...</summary>
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        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
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         This past weekend in DC was incredible. I had the privilege to do a My Pet Virus reading at the Committee of Ten Thousand&apos;s 20 Year Survivors on Friday evening, then got to walk with Team Supersnack in the...
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<entry>
    <title>Our Dear/Deer Friends at Berry College</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2009:/shawn//14.2291</id>

    <published>2009-10-05T06:56:30Z</published>
    <updated>2009-10-05T07:28:06Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[Gwenn and I ended September with a long overdue trip to Berry College last Wednesday. It all started a couple of years ago, when a peer educator named Michelle saw us speak at a conference.&nbsp; Since then, she has been...]]></summary>
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        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
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        <![CDATA[Gwenn and I ended September with a long overdue trip to Berry College last Wednesday. It all started a couple of years ago, when a peer educator named Michelle saw us speak at a conference.&nbsp; Since then, she has been...]]>
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<entry>
    <title>An Evening Without Politics</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2009:/shawn//14.2289</id>

    <published>2009-10-02T01:39:36Z</published>
    <updated>2009-10-02T02:42:28Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[I've been a little political as of late; if you call thinking that health care reform and health care in general shouldn't be motivated solely by profit margins.&nbsp; So it was quite refreshing when I was invited to last Friday's...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
        <uri>http://www.mypetvirus.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[I've been a little political as of late; if you call thinking that health care reform and health care in general shouldn't be motivated solely by profit margins.&nbsp; So it was quite refreshing when I was invited to last Friday's...]]>
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<entry>
    <title>AIDS Walk Goal Met... Walking As a Lemon</title>
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    <published>2009-09-28T18:54:54Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-28T19:14:55Z</updated>

    <summary> Check out the thermometer below- Gwenn and I met our goal of raising $2000! Thanks to everyone who donated to the AIDS Walk DC, which is this Saturday. Of course, the fundraising isn&apos;t over yet- Team Supersnack never stops,...</summary>
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         Check out the thermometer below- Gwenn and I met our goal of raising $2000! Thanks to everyone who donated to the AIDS Walk DC, which is this Saturday. Of course, the fundraising isn&apos;t over yet- Team Supersnack never stops,...
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