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World Aids Day -- 12/01/2009

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:27:26 -0500

Today is the day we commemorate World Aids Day. It is sad for me to still see and hear the stigma, ignorance, and even hate that surrounds this disease. There are a lot of places that you can go on the web to gain a better understanding of this plague. Several big misunderstandings are as follows. HIV = AIDs. It doesn’t. Only “they” the despicable underbelly of our society can get this disease. Also not true. This disease is striking young, old, gay, straight, drug using, and non drug using. In short, anyone can catch this disease. There are quite a few precautions that you can take to reduce your risk. I won’t go into them all but wearing a condom is one of them. Check out the following three websites to gain a better understanding of this disease. http://www.worldaidsday.org/ http://www.thebody.com/ http://www.poz.com/

Do yourself a favor. Do the world a favor. Go get yourself tested. The worst that can happen is that you find out that you are positive. There are treatments that slow the progress of the HIV disease. You can stop unwittingly spreading this disease. Working together we can stamp out this modern plague and prevent future generations from having to deal with it.

Today is the day that YOU can make that step and get tested. Knowledge is the best weapon we have. Just do it. :-)

Here in St. Louis you can get tested for free in quite a few places. One of which that comes to mind is the:

Saint Louis Effort for AIDS
1027 S. Vandeventer #700 » Saint Louis, MO 63110
314.645.6451 » Monday - Friday » 9 am - 5 pm
http://www.stlefa.org/

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For all of you animal lovers.......

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:01:24 -0500

Calling all animal lovers..

This is pretty simple… Please ask ten friends to each ask a further ten today!

The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily so they can meet their quota of getting FREE FOOD donated every day to abused and neglected animals. It takes less than a minute (about 15 seconds) to go to their site and click on the purple box ‘fund food for animals for free’. This doesn’t cost you a thing.

Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising.Here’s the web site! Please pass it along to people you know.
http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/
(Verified on Snopes.com)

—mak

Mathew A. Koeneker”Be Kinder Than Necessary,
Because Everyone is Fighting
Some Kind of Battle.”

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JUSTICE - Why must she be so blind?

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:12:40 -0500

“It is a pity that the only justice that can be found in my country
is that of the all mighty dollar. Dear Lady, please take off the blindfold.
All you get is the best money can buy, TRUTH has no bearing.” That is my rant for the day. I just had to get that off my chest.

—makMathew A. Koeneker

“Be Kinder Than Necessary,
Because Everyone is Fighting
Some Kind of Battle.”

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The poem running thru my head......

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:50:09 -0500

INVICTUS - by William Ernest HenleyOut of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have not winced or cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance,
My head is bloody but unbowed.Beyond this place of wrath and tears,
Looms but the horror of the shade.
And yet the menace of the years,
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
A poem that resonates with me. Surrounded by darkness but focused on the light.
—mak

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An Irish Blessing

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:59:33 -0500

May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sunshine warm your face, the rain fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again, may G-D hold you in the palm of his hand.This small blessing always brings me peace.
May it do so for you as well.

Namaste,
—makMathew A. Koeneker

“Be Kinder Than Necessary,
Because Everyone is Fighting
Some Kind of Battle.”

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:13:26 -0400

Just a brief note to ya’ll on my blog. ;-)
http://ping.fm/gL5kr

Gut Shabbos! :-)—mak

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Words to live by:

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:52:30 -0400

James Craemer

M…thats how i roll…you cant take it with you, ya know….good friends, good music, good food..tis what make this race worth running

Darn if that bucko isn’t good or what. :-)—mak

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Op-Ed Contributor - A Case of Chronic Denial - NYTimes.com

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:52:38 -0400

EARLIER this month, a study published in the journal Science answered a question that medical scientists had been asking since 2006, when they learned of a novel virus found in prostate tumors called xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus, or XMRV: Was it a human infection?

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XMRV is a gammaretrovirus, one of a family of viruses long-studied in animals but not known to infect people. In animals, these retroviruses can cause horrendous neurological problems, immune deficiency, lymphoma and leukemia. The new study provided overwhelming evidence that XMRV is a human gammaretrovirus — the third human retrovirus (after H.I.V. and human lymphotropic viruses, which cause leukemia and lymphoma). Infection is permanent and, yes, it can spread from person to person (though it is not yet known how the virus is transmitted).

That would have been news enough, but there was more. XMRV had been discovered in people suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, a malady whose very existence has been a subject of debate for 25 years. For sufferers of this disease, the news has offered enormous hope. Being seriously ill for years, even decades, is nightmarish enough, but patients are also the targets of ridicule and hostility that stem from the perception that it is all in their heads. In the study, 67 percent of the 101 patients with the disease were found to have XMRV in their cells. If further study finds that XMRV actually causes their condition, it may open the door to useful treatments. At least, it will be time to jettison the stigmatizing name chronic fatigue syndrome.