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    <updated>2010-02-08T08:30:26Z</updated>
    <subtitle>Shawn Decker, contributing writer for POZ</subtitle>
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    <title>SnOMG Super Black AIDS Bowl Weekend</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2010:/shawn//14.2540</id>

    <published>2010-02-08T06:47:45Z</published>
    <updated>2010-02-08T08:30:26Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[The weekend was so packed with snow and events that I didn't have time to load the rest of my iMovie trailers from seven odd years ago.&nbsp; So you'll have to wait for Alien Pen and Rusty the Vampire Deer...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
        <uri>http://www.mypetvirus.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[The weekend was so packed with snow and events that I didn't have time to load the rest of my iMovie trailers from seven odd years ago.&nbsp; So you'll have to wait for Alien Pen and Rusty the Vampire Deer...]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Snowsquatch is Coming...</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2010:/shawn//14.2537</id>

    <published>2010-02-05T15:13:48Z</published>
    <updated>2010-02-05T15:20:44Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[ Everyone is afraid of the snow, but I'm afraid of something else.&nbsp; I made this back in 2003, looks like "next winter" finally arrived.&nbsp; Be safe, and remember that Mother Nature is formidable, but scared humans will always be...]]></summary>
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        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
        <uri>http://www.mypetvirus.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[ Everyone is afraid of the snow, but I'm afraid of something else.&nbsp; I made this back in 2003, looks like "next winter" finally arrived.&nbsp; Be safe, and remember that Mother Nature is formidable, but scared humans will always be...]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Decker&apos;s Daily Band of the Month: a&apos;tris</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2010:/shawn//14.2533</id>

    <published>2010-02-04T09:12:50Z</published>
    <updated>2010-02-04T10:09:39Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[ Today was a very busy day for Decker's Daily Coffee. I set the alarm- something I seldomly do- to meet our fellow College Agency friends, Kelly and Becca, who were raising awareness at JMU about sexual assault.&nbsp; Even though...]]></summary>
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        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
        <uri>http://www.mypetvirus.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[ Today was a very busy day for Decker's Daily Coffee. I set the alarm- something I seldomly do- to meet our fellow College Agency friends, Kelly and Becca, who were raising awareness at JMU about sexual assault.&nbsp; Even though...]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Shawn&apos;s Sick Days</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/archives/2010/02/shawns_sick_days.html" />
    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2010:/shawn//14.2529</id>

    <published>2010-02-02T06:04:51Z</published>
    <updated>2010-02-02T06:32:41Z</updated>

    <summary> I have a lot of links at the bottom of this page- Shawn&apos;s book, Shawn&apos;s music, Decker&apos;s Daily Coffee (sublimely shameless and joyously updated)... but one thing is missing. The absolutely absurd amount of time that I spend sick....</summary>
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         I have a lot of links at the bottom of this page- Shawn&apos;s book, Shawn&apos;s music, Decker&apos;s Daily Coffee (sublimely shameless and joyously updated)... but one thing is missing. The absolutely absurd amount of time that I spend sick....
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<entry>
    <title>She Won!  Positoids Rejoice!</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2010:/shawn//14.2527</id>

    <published>2010-01-31T09:25:18Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-31T10:10:58Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[ Caressa Cameron, Miss Virginia, completely rocked the Miss America pageant tonight, winning the title of Miss America in the process.&nbsp; This is the first time since 1997- when Kate Shindle took the crown- that a Miss America has had...]]></summary>
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        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
        <uri>http://www.mypetvirus.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[ Caressa Cameron, Miss Virginia, completely rocked the Miss America pageant tonight, winning the title of Miss America in the process.&nbsp; This is the first time since 1997- when Kate Shindle took the crown- that a Miss America has had...]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Miss(ing) America</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2010:/shawn//14.2526</id>

    <published>2010-01-28T07:41:18Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-28T08:37:15Z</updated>

    <summary> No, this isn&apos;t a blog entry about longing for the days of President George Bush after last night&apos;s State of the Union Address by President Obama. You&apos;d know I have dementia if that were the case. This entry is...</summary>
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         No, this isn&apos;t a blog entry about longing for the days of President George Bush after last night&apos;s State of the Union Address by President Obama. You&apos;d know I have dementia if that were the case. This entry is...
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<entry>
    <title>The Pregnancy Pact</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2010:/shawn//14.2522</id>

    <published>2010-01-27T07:07:42Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-27T08:05:18Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[In June of 2008, there was an article in Time magazine that set off a media frenzy.&nbsp; It told the story of the unusually high rate of teenage pregnancy in one particular Gloucester, MA high school. Thus last weekend, in...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
        <uri>http://www.mypetvirus.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[In June of 2008, there was an article in Time magazine that set off a media frenzy.&nbsp; It told the story of the unusually high rate of teenage pregnancy in one particular Gloucester, MA high school. Thus last weekend, in...]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Helping Positoids in Haiti</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/archives/2010/01/helping_positoids_in.html" />
    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2010:/shawn//14.2517</id>

    <published>2010-01-20T23:00:18Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-20T23:26:40Z</updated>

    <summary>Haiti has long been associated with the AIDS epidemic, due to the high numbers of people living with the virus. Poz magazine just posted an article online about this, and Poz Blogger Oriol Gutierrez just posted about the situation, providing...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
        <uri>http://www.mypetvirus.com</uri>
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        Haiti has long been associated with the AIDS epidemic, due to the high numbers of people living with the virus. Poz magazine just posted an article online about this, and Poz Blogger Oriol Gutierrez just posted about the situation, providing...
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<entry>
    <title>Who Is HIV Hoax... Guy?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/archives/2010/01/who_is_hiv_hoax_guy.html" />
    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2010:/shawn//14.2511</id>

    <published>2010-01-19T06:40:19Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-19T06:47:03Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[Uh, I got this video from an anonymous source.&nbsp; It's really, you know, scary.&nbsp;&nbsp; *NOTE: This only makes sense if you have seen the debunked HIV Hoax Lady YouTube vid or read my previous blog entry, HIV Hoax Lady's Viral...]]></summary>
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        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
        <uri>http://www.mypetvirus.com</uri>
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/">
        <![CDATA[Uh, I got this video from an anonymous source.&nbsp; It's really, you know, scary.&nbsp;&nbsp; *NOTE: This only makes sense if you have seen the debunked HIV Hoax Lady YouTube vid or read my previous blog entry, HIV Hoax Lady's Viral...]]>
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<entry>
    <title>HIV Hoax Lady&apos;s Viral Video</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/archives/2010/01/hoax_ladys_viral_vid.html" />
    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2010:/shawn//14.2507</id>

    <published>2010-01-18T04:00:29Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-18T19:43:25Z</updated>

    <summary> You may or may not have seen the viral video of a young woman&apos;s scare tactic to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS by claiming that she has the virus and intends to spread it, or did... I&apos;m not sure, the...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
        <uri>http://www.mypetvirus.com</uri>
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         You may or may not have seen the viral video of a young woman&apos;s scare tactic to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS by claiming that she has the virus and intends to spread it, or did... I&apos;m not sure, the...
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<entry>
    <title>Ethan Zohn Returns Home </title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/archives/2010/01/ethan_zohn_returns_h.html" />
    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2010:/shawn//14.2502</id>

    <published>2010-01-12T23:04:52Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-12T23:29:45Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[On Sunday HIV/AIDS advocate and Survivor Africa Winner went home after 20 days in the hospital, undergoing a complete stem-cell transplant to eradicate cancer.&nbsp; Ethan spent the entire year of 2009 dealing with a cancer diagnosis, finally meeting his nemesis...]]></summary>
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        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
        <uri>http://www.mypetvirus.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[On Sunday HIV/AIDS advocate and Survivor Africa Winner went home after 20 days in the hospital, undergoing a complete stem-cell transplant to eradicate cancer.&nbsp; Ethan spent the entire year of 2009 dealing with a cancer diagnosis, finally meeting his nemesis...]]>
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<entry>
    <title>How I Ended 2009 In the Hospital</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/archives/2010/01/how_i_ended_2009_in.html" />
    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2010:/shawn//14.2497</id>

    <published>2010-01-10T02:28:55Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-10T08:38:10Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[2009 wasn't the best year for me health wise, as illustrated by my multi-part series about World AIDS Week in December a few weeks ago.&nbsp; Since then, I've figured that I spent at least 1/6 of the year at less...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
        <uri>http://www.mypetvirus.com</uri>
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/">
        <![CDATA[2009 wasn't the best year for me health wise, as illustrated by my multi-part series about World AIDS Week in December a few weeks ago.&nbsp; Since then, I've figured that I spent at least 1/6 of the year at less...]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Uganda&apos;s Proposed &quot;Gay Death Panels&quot;</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/archives/2010/01/sean_strub_on_uganda.html" />
    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2010:/shawn//14.2494</id>

    <published>2010-01-07T00:16:57Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-07T00:53:00Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[Been hearing bits and pieces of this story for the last month, and the proposed anti-gay laws in Uganda in which it would be punishable by law to not report someone whom you suspected of being a homosexual.&nbsp; In addition,...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
        <uri>http://www.mypetvirus.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[Been hearing bits and pieces of this story for the last month, and the proposed anti-gay laws in Uganda in which it would be punishable by law to not report someone whom you suspected of being a homosexual.&nbsp; In addition,...]]>
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<entry>
    <title>My Avatar: Interplanetary Traveler (by Lauren Hoffman)</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/archives/2010/01/my_avatar-_interplan.html" />
    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2010:/shawn//14.2489</id>

    <published>2010-01-04T21:09:48Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-04T21:45:38Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[One of the best things about 2009 was having iced mochas with Gwenn and our friend, Lauren Hoffman.&nbsp; Her daughter, Evelyn (I call her "Evie") joins in on most of these occasions, stealing foam from the top of Gwenn and...]]></summary>
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        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
        <uri>http://www.mypetvirus.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[One of the best things about 2009 was having iced mochas with Gwenn and our friend, Lauren Hoffman.&nbsp; Her daughter, Evelyn (I call her "Evie") joins in on most of these occasions, stealing foam from the top of Gwenn and...]]>
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<entry>
    <title>My Person of the Year 2009: Ethan Zohn</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/archives/2009/12/my_person_of_the_yea.html" />
    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2009:/shawn//14.2486</id>

    <published>2009-12-31T07:16:54Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-31T07:55:39Z</updated>

    <summary>When the mood strikes, I like to get in on the Person of the Year honors the same way that Time Magazine does. In the past, honorees have included Steve Carrell (2001) and last year&apos;s upset kid of 2008, Mike...</summary>
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        <name>Shawn Decker</name>
        <uri>http://www.mypetvirus.com</uri>
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        When the mood strikes, I like to get in on the Person of the Year honors the same way that Time Magazine does. In the past, honorees have included Steve Carrell (2001) and last year&apos;s upset kid of 2008, Mike...
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