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Looking for My Blog?
6/27/2006 7:50:07 AM
As I posted a while back, I've been in the process of moving my blog entries to my permanent domain. The process is near completion, and if you are wondering why there haven't been many blog entries here, it's probably because they are over here.
Never fear. This blog will stay put (for historical purposes), even though all the entries have been transferred, it will just revert to a free account (I've had a paid account for a while, and can't really justify it any more, especially when I have a ton of bandwidth available to me over here.
So reset your bookmarks or your RSS/Atom feeds to point to my new journal, and I hope to see you visit soon!
Blue Skies & Sunshine
6/14/2006 7:44:46 AM
See, I told you :). The weather has been superb over the last two days. In fact, I have some burn going on - courtesy of KW sun!
After my little burn out the other day, I got a lot perkier. I ended up dropping my classes for the short summer period, and that reduced my stress levels down A LOT. Those classes had the potential to really ruin this vacation, so it turned out for the better.
So far this visit I've had two drag queens reach into my shorts and check things out. Not sure what the purpose of that is given that nothing would ever come it. Still, it was something to blog about.
And now we can get back to more relaxing.
LJ Transfer Discovery
6/6/2006 10:29:02 AM
I discovered today, that when I transferred all my blog posts over from LiveJournal to my new blog tool, that the private messages all became public. Never fear, I've gone through and passworded the posts, so you can see it exists, but can't read it. I'm not sure if this is how I'm going to handle blog posts like this, and I've discovered that one of the downfalls of the new blog tool, is that unlike LJ, I can't have groups and then choose to display certain posts to just those groups. I guess that is where the password protects come in.
HIV/AIDS Prevention (Part II)
6/1/2006 10:40:20 PM
Earlier in the week, I made a post about UNAIDS new report on the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic. Part II of this posting theme relates to the current activities occuring in New York city. The United Nations is holding a summit on HIV/AIDS prevention, with the intention of updating a 2001 declaration that provided the momentum for a worldwide campaign against AIDS.
According to the Guardian, "[m]ore than 140 nations are attending the UN summit in New York which began on Wednesday", however it appears that the United States is opposing measures to reference homosexuals, prostitutes and drug addicts in the resolution as it provides for support in the use of condoms and needle exchanges. "The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which represents Muslim countries, vehemently opposes references in the declaration to homosexuals, prostitutes and drug addicts, saying these should not appear in a public document. The US is supporting the OIC."
The OIC is also working with other mainly patriachal governments to reduce the requirement of signatories to "promote gender equality and empowerment of women and girls," and instead "promote and protect the rights of the girl child." (Source: Washington Post). The article notes that "[s]ome observers see that as a subtle expression of patriarchy, which might be threatened if girls, too, were empowered."
Indeed!
Frontline: The Age of AIDS
5/30/2006 11:20:05 AM
On PBS tonight, FrontLine will be showing the first of a two part series called "The Age of AIDS." If you are in the DFW area, this will be shown on KERA13 at 8PM.
More information can be found by clicking on the link (or on the the logo). Also, to coincide with this program, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) released its 2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic earlier today.
While the report outlines some progress in the treatment of HIV/AIDS throughout the world, one area which is not improving is the level of HIV prevention education that is being made available to those at greatest risk. One figure from the report, states that "only 9% of men who have sex with men received any type of HIV prevention service in 2005" - nine percent! Education is an important - if not the most important - component of an effective treatment against the ongoing spread of HIV, so why is this number so low?