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Larry Kramer's long awaited new novel, The American People: Volume I, subtitled Search for My Heart, is finally seeing the light of day this April. It's just the first volume, though "just" may not be the right word, since it's 800 pages. There are times when the reader will feel like the audience at "Springtime for Hitler." One will also find oneself laughing out loud, thinking hard, and being thrilled that someone has taken on American history from the viewpoint of gay people. The book is the history of syphilis, hepatitis, hatred, ostracism, the settling of America, concentration camps — American and German — Jews, the CIA, and something called The Underlying Condition (which we suspect will become, in the second volume, AIDS). It begins in pre-Columbian Florida, with monkeys in the Everglades, and goes on to the Puritans, the American Revolution, the Civil War, and World War II, ascribing same-sex desire to George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, and so many other figures central to American history that there is no point in listing them here. It also contains the moving saga of a young boy growing up in Washington, D.C., during World War II, who learns he's a "sissy." In Washington, Kramer writes, "Moderation is everything," but in this novel moderation has no place; with hundreds of characters, from nuns to Nazis, this book is in essence a fantasia on American history. How historians will receive it is hard to predict — but Kirkus Reviews called it "breathtakingly well written," and the Publishers Weekly reviewer said it left him wondering "what the hell will happen next." To find out, I sat down with Larry in his apartment on Washington Square Park in Manhattan.
I just finished reading your new novel, The American People: Volume I. Is it true that you started writing it in 1975?
I started when I finished Faggots, long before AIDS came along, and I kind of put it to the side. I wrote a couple of plays in between, so it was done in bits and pieces over the years. And it wasn't until I got really sick, when I had the liver transplant [in 2000], that I got serious about making it as a whole. Because I didn't think I was going to live. Now I've got to finish Volume II.
If you started it before AIDS had even emerged, what was the impetus then to write the book? Was it the idea that gays have been written out of history?
Oh, I don't know. Why does every gay writer start out? To write his Proust? And so I wrote my Proust. The title comes from that speech by Reagan which really did hit me, where I knew he was talking about "the American people," and I knew that I was not part of that crowd that he was talking about. It was so obvious. There has never been any history book written where the gay people have been in history since the beginning. It's ridiculous to think that we haven't been here forever. First, I started doing research into people who I felt were important, like Washington and Lincoln, and —
So far we've got George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, Baron von Steuben, Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson — which really surprised me — Hawthorne, Melville, John Wilkes Booth, Mark Twain, Eleanor Roosevelt, of course, James Forrestal, Richard Nixon, Herbert Hoover. You're writing three kinds of history in this book. There were times when you would quote from a book you had read, and you would acknowledge the author and the source. To me, that's just history. Then there were times when I was in a kind of phantasmagoria nightmare scene, and I thought, This is not history anymore; we're now in Larry's imagination. And there's the most deceptive category, the middle, in which it seems to me that you were mixing real source material with imagination. You didn't want to write a history in which you simply extracted little-known facts about gay people in history and put it together as straight history?
No, originally I didn't want to call it a novel, I just wanted to call it The American People and let people figure out what it was. There isn't anything in the book that I don't agree with, or have some belief in, and if I couldn't find some source that would give me the right to say it, I said my version of it, as with John Wilkes Booth. Did you ever look at the pictures of all the guys who were charged with murdering Lincoln?
You go on about how good-looking Lewis Powell [a co-conspirator of Wilkes Booth] was. He was just a real hot number.
A hot number, and he knew it. They were such an unlikely lot of people. And the women had nothing to do with it, and how did they even get together? I had never read anything where they've been able to convince me why they were all in the same group somehow. Just to say they were Southerners and all that shit. I didn't buy that.
So what you're saying in a sense is that you used gaydar?
I used gaydar. What else have I got?
This is a book that starts in the pre-Columbian era in the United States, with monkeys in the Everglades in a kind of James Michener way. You're taken back to the foundation of the continent, and there's a great deal about colonial times, the American Revolution, the Civil War, up to the '50s and the McCarthy era — and that's just Volume I. So it's this huge, sprawling, wide-ranging thing, which halfway through breaks off into a pretty conventional story about a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., in which one of the characters, Daniel Jerusalem, grows up dealing with the fact that his father beats him up and has called him a sissy.
What then became clear to me was this was really about where did AIDS come from. And by the end of Volume II I will tell you where it came from, and what I think caused it. And what should have been done, that wasn't done. Because, we are gay, they wouldn't do it.
I think most people know or expect this book to be about AIDS. But this is also about German scientists that came to the United States, it's about the science of eugenics, it's about Henry Ford, it's about anti-Semitism, and it's about the four horsemen of the apocalypse, which are amoebas — what is the line? I love this line.
Piss, shit, amoebas and —
Piss, shit, and it's the history of blood, it's the history of diseases, it's the history of concentration camps. You found a way to write about anything that interested you. The history of syphilis is in this book. How did you know when to leave stuff out?
It was once much longer and it was much wilder. I can write in a crazy way, making things up, and I made a lot of drugs' names up and symptoms up, and then one of the editors, along the way said: "You really don't have to make that up. Why don't you just use the real one?"
What are you expecting reactions to be? You got very good reviews in Kirkus and [Publisher's Weekly].
Oh unbelievable. I always expect to get trashed for everything. I never got a good review before in my life. Even Normal Heart.
How much of Volume II is written?
I'm writing. It has to come out a year after this one. And also, the phenomenal success of the movie of The Normal Heart has touched me a lot. It was one of HBO'S biggest shows ever. And you realize, more people saw my play in those two hours that one night, than you could fill a theater with for years.
To take it as a prophylactic, just so you can go out and fuck at the Mineshaft. So you can take a pill and not worry. And that's, again, what caused all this trouble we're in, in the first place. A lot of people died in 35 years. And I guess I came to realize that I'm angry that I've been allowed to die. I was much more hopeful earlier on. I'm not saying I'm not hopeful, but I'm not hopeful. And part of what depresses me is how passive most of the gay population is about this issue. So now we have Truvada and you can get laid on Saturday night, and surely, we deserve more than that from 35 years of waiting. We could have so much if we just used the power that was there to be taken, if we could just learn how to take it. Why are there still so few people saying that? Why hasn't there ever been another Larry Kramer? And I don't mean that as self-serving.
But Larry, what do we want power for? We want power to have happiness in our own lives. I live in a little town in Florida now, and over the years my street has changed. I now have two women living together two houses down. And a man across the street, a new neighbor, came over right away, and, in a nice way, basically said, "I have no trouble with gay people." It has trickled down to this little street in this little town in Florida where I feel less endangered.
You must not accept that as enough, or as all that you're fighting for.
Things have improved in some ways.
Oh that's what people say: Why are you complaining? You have so much now. Well, I don't think we do.
Who's the guy who just came out? Joel Grey?
Been trying to get him to do that for 20 years. He replaced Brad Davis in Normal Heart at the Public. So I've known him a long time. I'm one of the first people he sent the article to, that he'd come out. I don't know why, now, at age 82 [laughs]. We're so much better than most people, and we're not getting our due for it from them, or even from each other — how much we contribute to the culture of this country. And none of that has been bought with power. It's been bought with talent. And what would we get if we combined the talent with the amount of money that's available in this population? How second rate the gay people who made it in the government are. When you look at the list of gay presidents, for instance, with the exception of Washington and Lincoln, all the other ones are really just jokes.
Who do you think is the most powerful gay person right now, behind the scenes or in front of the scenes, in governmental life or public life?
I have no idea. There are a couple of exceedingly rich gay men who have foundations, such as Tim Gill, Jon Stryker. What is that money buying? We have to be able to get to the people with power, and we still can't do that. You can't call the president and see him like you should be able to. And [Bill] Clinton did us more harm than good.
What do you think about Hillary Clinton?
I hope she gets elected. I think she's been around long enough and knows how to play the game that needs to be played. I think she would be more available to us than anyone else.
How do you feel about the state of gay literature these days?
I don't follow it very closely. I belong to Lambda Literary, and they put out quite a good newsletter. I still don't see us tackling the big themes. Why is everything sexual? Why is everything about love affairs that do or do not work? We seem very limited in our ambitions.
That's why this book is so extraordinary to me. It's such an act of chutzpah, of taking on absolutely everything.
What else is there to take on? What else is there to do with your time? You've experienced as much of life as I have. Did you like the book?


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Science the GNU Way, Part I
In my past several articles, I've looked at various packages to do all kinds of science. Sometimes, however, there just isn't a tool to solve a particular problem. That's the great thing about science. There is always something new to discover and study. But, this means it's up to you to develop the software tools you need to do your analysis. This article takes a look at the GNU Scientific Library, or GSL. This library is the Swiss Army library of routines that you will find useful in your work.
First, you need to to get a copy of GSL and install it on your system. Because it is part of the GNU Project, it is hosted at http://www.gnu.org/s/gsl. You always can download and build from the source code, but all major distributions should have packages available. For example, on Debian-based systems, you need to install the package libgsl0-dev to develop your code and gsl-bin to run that code. GSL is meant for C and C++, so you also need a compiler. Most of you probably already are familiar with GCC, so I stick with that here.
The next step is actually the last step. I'm looking at compiling now so that I can focus on all the tools available in GSL. All the header files for GSL are stored in a subdirectory named gsl. So, for example, if you wanted to include the math header file, you would use:
#include <gsl/gsl_math.h>
All the functions are stored in a single library file called libgsl.a or libgsl.so. You also need a library to handle basic linear algebra. GSL provides one (in the file libgslcblas.so), but you can use your own. Additionally, you need to link in the math library. So, the final compile and link command should look like this: Garrick, one line below.
gcc -o hello_world hello_world.c -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm
There are optional inline versions for some of the performance-critical
functions in GSL. To use these, you need to include
-DHAVE_INLINE with
your compile command. To try to help with portability issues, GSL offers
some functions that exist only on certain platforms (and not others). As an
example, the BSD math library has a function called
hypot. GSL offers
its own version, called
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platforms. Some functions have both a general algorithm as well
as optimized versions for specific platforms. This way, if you are running
on a SPARC, for example, you can select a version optimized for SPARC if it
One of the first things you likely will want to do is check
whether you are getting correct results from your code or if there were
errors. GSL has a number of functions and data structures available in the
header file named gsl_errno.h. Functions return a value of zero if everything
is fine. If there were any problems in trying to complete the requested
action, a nonzero value is returned. This could be an actual error
condition, like a wrong data type or memory error, or it could be a
condition like not being able to converge to within the requested accuracy
in the function call. This is why you always need to check the return value
for all GSL function calls. The actual values returned in an error
condition are error codes, defined in the file gsl_errno.h. They are
defined as macros that start with
GSL_. Examples
include the following:
GSL_EDOM— domain error, used by functions when an argument doesn't fall into the domain over which the function is defined.
GSL_ERANGE— range error, either an overflow or underflow.
GSL_ENOMEM— no memory available.
The library will use values only up to 1024. Values above this are available
for use in your own code. There also are string versions of these error
codes available. You can translate the error code to its text value with
the function
Now that you know how to compile your program and what to do with errors,
let's start looking at what kind of work you can do with GSL. Basic
mathematical functions are defined in the file gsl_math.h. The set of
mathematical constants from the BSD math library are provided by this part
of GSL. All of the constants start with
M_. Here are
a few of them:
M_PI— pi.
M_SQRT2— the square root of 2.
M_EULER— Euler's constant.
There also are capabilities for dealing with infinities and non-numbers. Three macros define the values themselves:
GSL_POSINF— positive infinity.
GSL_NEGINF— negative infinity.
GSL_NAN— not a number.
There also are functions to test variables:
gsl_isnan— is it not a number?
gsl_isinf— is it infinite?
gsl_finite— is it finite?
There is a macro to find the sign of a number.
GSL_SIGN(x) returns the
sign of x: 1 if it is positive and –1 if it is negative. If you are
interested in seeing whether a number is even or odd, two macros
are defined:
GSL_IS_ODD(x) and
GSL_IS_EVEN(x). These return 1 if the
condition is true and 0 if it is not.
A series of elementary functions are part of the BSD math library. GSL provides versions of these for platforms that don't have native versions, including items like:
gsl_hypot— calculate hypotenuse.
gsl_atanh— the arc hyperbolic trig functions.
If you are calculating the power of a number, you would use
gsl_pow_int(x,n), which gives you x to the power of n. There are
specific versions for powers less than 10. So if you wanted to find the
cube of a number, you would use
gsl_pow_3. These are very efficient and
highly optimized. You even can inline these specialized functions when
HAVE_INLINE is defined.
Several macros are defined to help you find
the maximum or minimum of numbers, based on data type. The basic
GSL_MAX(a,b) and
GSL_MIN(a,b) simply return either the maximum or
minimum of the two numbers a and b.
GSL_MAX_DBL and
GSL_MIN_DBL find
the maximum and minimum of two doubles using an inline function.
GSL_MAX_INT and
GSL_MIN_INT do the same for integer arguments.
When you
do any kind of numerical calculation on a computer, errors
always are introduced by round-off and truncation. This is because you can't exactly
reproduce numbers on a finite binary system. But, what if you want to
compare two numbers and see whether they are approximately the same? GSL
provides the function
gsl_fcmp(x,y,epsilon). This function compares the
two doubles x and y, and checks to see if they are within epsilon of each
other. If they are within this range, the function returns 0. If x < y, it
returns –1, and it returns 1 if x > y.
Complex numbers are used in many scientific fields. Within GSL, complex data
types are defined in the header file gsl_complex.h, and relevant functions
are defined in gsl_complex_math.h. To store complex numbers, the data
gsl_complex is defined. This is a struct that stores the two
portions. You can set the values with the functions
gsl_complex_polar(x,y). In the first, this
represents x+iy; whereas
in the second, x is the radius, and y is the angle in a polar representation.
You can pull out the real and imaginary parts of a complex number with the
GSL_REAL and
GSL_IMAG. There is a function available to find the
absolute value of a complex number,
gsl_complex_abs(x), where x is of
type gsl_complex. Because complex numbers actually are built up of two
parts, even basic arithmetic is not simple. To do basic math, you can use
the following:
You can calculate the conjugate with
gsl_complex_conjugate(a) and the
inverse with
There are functions for basic
mathematical functions. To calculate the square root, you would use
gsl_complex_sqrt(x). To calculate the logarithm, you would use
gsl_complex_log(x). Several others are available too.
Trigonometric functions are provided, like
gsl_complex_sin(x). There also
are functions for hyperbolic trigonometric functions, along with the relevant
inverse functions.
Now that you have the basics down, my next article will explore all the actual scientific calculations you can do. I'll look at statistics, linear algebra, random numbers and many other topics.
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Joey Bernard has a background in both physics and computer science. This serves him well in his day job as a computational research consultant at the University of New Brunswick. He also teaches computational physics and parallel programming.
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"My Second Home" Top 5 Page for this destination Malta by Dick33
Malta Travel Guide: 5,546 reviews and 13,412 photos
This is me in St Georges bay sat on a car we rented in November 2004. I have spent a lot of time in Malta for a tourist I feel like it's my second home. I like to holiday in Malta at least once a year, I can't always but if I skip a year I try at least twice the next. The thing that keeps me going back is the warm friendly Maltese people.
One day I would very much like to have my own home in Malta
The first time I came to Malta I was still in my teens and it was my first holiday, Michelle booked it she booked cheap she always did.
My brother Colin thought it would be funny to make me nervous so he said "you will get to Newcastle airport and a huge thunderstorm will break, as the lightning strikes you will be given seats 13a and 13b and when you get to Malta the hotel will have been pulled down."
Of course I told him he was full of crap but as we got to Newcastle the sky was black and a thunderstorm started I laughted it off as coincidence then we got seats 13a and 13b and I laughted at that too.
When we got to Malta they told us what bus to goto but I overheared a rep saying to another couple the bus went to St Pauls so I asked why are we being put on the wrong bus? He said just get on the bus. So I went back to our rep and he was trying to get away from me but I caught up with him and demanded to know what was going on and he told me the hotel we booked had been pulled down and was still under construction.
I thought well I'll be he was right 3 times and started to laugh he must have thought I had gone mental, Michelle by this point was sat in the car park crying. She didn't really like Malta but I loved it from the off.
Here is me and Jack I put this photo on because we look like we have been put on another photo. It was lovely out on the terrace we spent quite a lot of time out here.
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Yes, it is a porn cinema - think it's closed down now though
The day you went, Kinemastic were probably holding a film screening there.
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Just saw this post. Actually that's not Maltese Rabbi but someone must have tampered with the text on the board removing the last letter "T" thus it should read Maltese Rabbit! In fact Rabbit in Malta is considered to be one of the best local dishes.
ha-ha we saw the same sign on the costa brava in october last year "privet" indeed "
The same happened to us last year at Valletta waterfront. It was a very busy evening and so we had to park quite a way up the road. Again with us the guy asked "how much you want to pay" and so we knew it was a scam!
Your Malta pages brought my memories back. Thanks. Best wishes from Istanbul. Bora
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It is good you are honest and don't leave out your jokes!
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Imaging of Cognition, Learning, and Memory in Aging
This study is currently recruiting participants. (see Contacts and Locations)
Verified February 2016 by Columbia University
Yaakov Stern
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
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This investigation is designed to study how the brain functions when it is performing explicit memory tasks, and furthermore how the brain systems supporting performance on these tests change as a function of aging. Implicit memory tasks may be distinguished from explicit memory tests in that explicit memory characterizes the directed or intentional recollection of previously learned information or events. In contrast, implicit (or nonconscious) memory is expressed in the facilitation of performance on some task or judgment on a stimulus owing to a prior presentation of that stimulus, without any necessary conscious awareness of the prior presentation. The investigators propose to use functional Magnetic resonance Imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity during the performance of carefully designed explicit memory tasks. Comparison of brain activity during the different test conditions will provide information about the brain areas that are involved in mediating specific aspects of performance. Both older and younger individuals will be tested in order to understand age related changes in the brain activity. In order to examine the interactions between participants' differential levels of amyloid burden and their performance on cognitive tasks and fMRI neural activation, the investigators also propose PET imaging of older participants.
Alzheimer's Disease
Drug: Florbetaben
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|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional
|Official Title:
|Imaging of Cognition, Learning, and Memory in Aging
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Genetics Home Reference related topics: Alzheimer disease
MedlinePlus related topics: Diagnostic Imaging MemoryU.S. FDA Resources
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Cognition as measured with cognitive evaluations [ Time Frame: cross sectional ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]We will assess the relationship between the presence of amyloid and cognition as measured with standard cognitive and neuropsychological tests
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|March 2011
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|December 2016
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Participants aged 60-70
Participants age 60-70 will receive Florbetan PET tracer to identify presence of amyloid burden.
Drug: Florbetaben
Other Name: F-18 BAY
|Participants aged 20-30
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|20 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Probability Sample
Study Population
Subjects will be recruited from ads placed in local newspapers and notices posted in the vicinity of Columbia University, the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, and in local senior centers that provide written consent for notice placement. We will also utilize a market mailing approach. Letters will be sent to appropriately aged potential subjects randomly selected from commercial lists. Additional elderly subjects will be recruited from the Sergievsky Joint Database. Informed consent will be elicited from all subjects.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Aged 20-30 or 60-70
- Residing near Columbia University Medical Center
- Must be willing and able to participate
Exclusion Criteria:
- Have a contraindication to PET (e.g, metallic implants, pacemaker, claustrophobia, or cannot lie flat for one hour)
- Pregnancy
- Lactating Women
- Current, past, or anticipated exposure to radiation
- Significant active physical illness
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Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01297114
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01297114
|Contact: Oksana Tatarina, MA
|United States, New York
|Columbia University Medical Center
|New York, New York, United States, 10032
|Principal Investigator: Yaakov Stern, Ph.D.
Sponsors and Collaborators
Yaakov Stern
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
|Principal Investigator:
|Yaakov Stern, PhD
|Columbia University
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Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on July 28, 2016
|Responsible Party:
|Yaakov Stern, Professor of Clinical Neurology, Aging and Dementia, Columbia University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01297114 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|February 14, 2011
|Last Updated:
|February 25, 2016
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
|Individual Participant Data
|Plan to Share IPD:
|Plan Description:
|We will share dei-dentified data based on NIH regulations
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Alzheimer Disease
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Neurocognitive Disorders
Mental Disorders
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on July 28, 2016


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Re: 12% Off Giftcards this Saturday. EAT THAT BCP LOVERS!
I agree...I don't really see anything unethical with this. If Discover allows 5% on department stores which I don't think Walmart would qualify for anyway, but say it does and then 5% on top of that and then 2% on Oct 6th then it's legit...Discover could care less what you buy from Walmart whether it's a $1000 gift card or $1000 TV.
If you return that TV to walmart and they give you a Walmart gift card that is fine as well...you will do business with them again.
Now if Walmart lets you use their gift card to buy a Amazon, Best Buy or Gas gift card that's their stupid policy and its on them. Personally they are losing money anyway on that deal but then again they could simply just give you money back on your discover if you return an item.
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The Atlanta Braves look to get back to their winning ways when they open up a three-game series at the New York Mets on Tuesday. After winning seven of eight games to jump squarely into the muddled wild-card picture in the National League, the Braves dropped a pair at Cincinnati over the weekend while falling to 4-3 on their current 10-game road trip. Atlanta managed six runs in their final 34 innings against the Reds, leaving 10 men on base in a 5-3 loss on Sunday.
The Braves sit one-half game behind San Francisco for the second wild-card spot in the NL and seven games ahead of the Mets, who salvaged the finale of a three-game set at the Los Angeles Dodgers with an 11-3 triumph on Sunday. Lucas Duda stayed hot with a pair of home runs, but New York saw third baseman David Wright (neck) and second baseman Daniel Murphy (calf) removed from the game early. Wright, who said he hopes that the injury will not rob him of any playing time, is hitting .215 with no homers in 35 games since the All-Star break.
TV: 7:10 p.m. ET, SportSouth (Atlanta), SNY (New York)
PITCHING MATCHUP: Braves LH Alex Wood (9-9, 3.05 ERA) vs. Mets RH Dillon Gee (4-6, 3.84)
Wood stayed on the right path with seven strong innings in a no-decision at Pittsburgh on Wednesday, allowing two runs and four hits. He is 2-1 with a 1.89 ERA over his last five starts and owns a 2.83 mark in 18 starts on the season. Wood helped the Braves defeat the Mets on June 30, when he let up three runs and struck out seven in six frames.
New York has lost six of Gee's last seven starts, during which he has posted a 5.71 ERA. The rough patch began after a win over Atlanta in which he surrendered a run in seven frames. That outing helped Gee drop his ERA to 2.80 in 13 career starts against the Braves.
1. Braves LF Justin Upton went 0-for-9 with three strikeouts in the last two games of the Cincinnati series after hitting .413 during a 13-game hitting streak.
2. Duda leads the majors with 12 home runs since the All-Star break.
3. Atlanta RF Jason Heyward is 8-for-24 with a homer and six walks against Gee.
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The Florida Cabinet agreed this morning to allow University of South Florida researchers to continue with the next steps in a project started two years ago in Marianna.
The agreement is to account for all burials at Dozier School for boys in Marianna. The USF teams will unearth all skeletal remains and hopefully identify each of them.
USF students, using ground penetrating radar, have already come up with some 50 burial sites. That's 19 more than state investigators had countied in another investigation 4 years ago.


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In a new radio & video interview with Take Part (the YouTube channel from some of the people behind An Inconvenient Truth), Dan Savage discusses Merle Miller's 40 year old essay "On Being Different: What it Means to Be a Homosexual," the impetus of the LGBT activist movement, and what "being different" means today.
In the video, he talks about what life was like for a gay person forty years ago and how things are different today. He also talks about how coming out is a form of activism and why it's so important because back in the day, kids felt alone, like they were the only ones who felt different.
Check out the video below to look at how far we've come thanks to the leaps and bounds made by the gay community, young and old.
"What do you think about vaginas?" That's the question that Davey Wavey had several different gay guys answer, including himself. I don't even know what I would say when asked with such a broad, awkward question.
Let's face it, as gay men we know a lot about penises, but vaginas are a whole other world we know little about. To be literal, this is what Wikipedia says about vaginas: "A fibromuscular tubular tract which is a sex organ and has two main functions; sexual intercourse and childbirth." In the video, the guys talk about what they look like, how they feel and more. It's actually quite funny to see the reactions of some of them when they first hear the question.
By the end of the video, all of the guys say "thank you" to vaginas because at the end of the day, they are where we came from and we owe our lives to them. Haha. Watch the funny video below.
Gary and Larry Lane were born and raised in Goldsboro, North Carolina and grew up in a very religious family. As they started to get older, they discovered that they were both gay. The two talked about their coming out experience this past week on The Jeff Probst Show and it's very fascinating!
Partners in crime, they've starred in movies, reality show competitions, and actually won $50,000 on NBC's Fear Factor and also $50,000 on ABC's Winter Wipeout! Their lattest venture is called Hollywood to Dollywood. The twins grew up listening to Dolly's music and always thought she was an amazing person. So they decided to write a screenplay about her, and go on a cross country roadtrip to try to put it in her hands! They also asked her for fifteen of her songs to use in the film.
The guys are very inspiring to me, seeing how they are grabbing life by the balls and are there for each other every step of the way. Listen to their interview with Jeff Probst below. Hmm, maybe they'll be on Survivor next? Can you image… "Wait, did I make an alliance with you, or your brother?"
It's kind of a tongue twister, but that's the latest video response that originated about a month ago with unique approach to getting the message about marriage equality across: "Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends". Following that first video came the response from straight men, and more recently, "Gay Women Will Marry Your Boyfriends." Now, the straight women have something to say.
In this video, the girlfriends of the straight homophobes speak up and say how "f*cking awesome" it would be for them to marry the gays that have said they would marry them. "The ladies that want fairytale weddings would actually get it, to a degree they never could have imagined," says one woman. She later adds, "My dad wanted me to tell that he doesn't hate you because you de-virginized me. He knows you didn't de-virginize me." LOL. Watch & enjoy the new video below.
Uploaded only a couple days ago, a new YouTube pilot for a gay web series has close to 20,000 views and with a such a positive response, they have another episode coming out soon.
Here's the premise of the series: "My Gay Roommate centers on the unique relationship forged between a straight boy from Ohio and his very gay freshman roommate. It follows their experiences, altercations, and the slightly absurd situations they find themselves in as first time college students — everything from losing their virginities to cleanliness and everything in between. #MGR #Diva #Fiercebetch"
The show was created by Noam Ash and Austin Bening, and stars Noam Ash as Nick Cohen and Philip Lockwood-Bean as James Thatcher. When the boys first meet, one of them is dancing in his underwear to Katy Perry's "Peacock" and caught of guard when the other steps into the room. "When a guy is peacocking, don't come-a-knocking?" No, that was bad. #jokefail. Just watch the video below.
YouTube star Davey Wavey has an interesting way of telling things like it is, and his latest video is no exception. In this video titled "Gay Things Straight Guys Do," he lists and/or demonstrates various things that straight guys do that can seem pretty gay in the eyes of gay men.
The first example, as you can see above, is wrestling. "Wrestling is pretty much the gayest thing in the world. The only difference between wrestling and like 90% of gay porn is that… there actually is no difference – so they're the same thing." Following that statement, Wavey and his straight friend demonstrate some wrestling, but it gets cut short when he says, "Stop! I'm getting hard!" LOL.
As always, Davey Wavey is just having some fun with the topic and it's not to be taken seriously. If anything, he demonstrates that gay guys and straight guys have a lot more in common than one might think. Watch and enjoy the video below.
A new gay magazine about men who date men based out of Australia is launching this January called Hello Mr. and it has been described as follows: "It's the overdue response to the unending clichés that surround current gay lifestyle publications. Rather than pushing agendas or perfecting appearances, it's about relevant material for a misrepresented generation with an evolved range of interests. A chronicle of everyday life, and the narratives which define it."
The magazine will be published twice a year (starting in January), and each issue will contain written and visual contributions from people all around the globe. The concept description combined with their promotional images and video really caught my attention. This Kickstarter Project, headed by a guy named Ryan Fitzgibbon will only be funded if they reach their goal of $20,000 by November 24. So far, they are about halfway there. I just pledged this morning and am told that I can expect to receive my first issue in February 2013 (they do ship worldwide). I'm not sure what to expect, but there's no harm in checking it out! I've seen some criticize the idea completely already, but I personally feel that that is just a symptom of when gays are harder on each other. Sometimes we are our own worst enemies and don't support each other. In my opinion, there's plenty of room in the market for another gay magazine that ventures to take a different angle on connecting with gay readers. Sure it may not end up being everyone's cup of tea, but then again, what is?
Check out their intriguing promo pictures and video below. I've also included the link to their Kickstarter page below as well, should you be interested in more information and/or supporting the project.
The writers and editors of The Stranger have a book out called How To Be A Person: The Stranger's Guide to College, Sex, Intoxicants, Tacos, and Life Itself and coming out of the closet is one of the many subjects they cover. In promotion of the book, the've release a little video sharing a suggestion on how to come out and tell someone you're gay. The book has tons of info on things that everyone else "forgot" to tell you, including:
"How to have a conversation, how to turn a crush into something more, everything there is to know about physics (in a single paragraph!), what the music you like says about you, spoiler alerts for big novels so you can flirt with English majors as if you've already read them, how to come out (should you happen to be gay), how to deal with a hangover, how to binge drink and not die, how to do laundry, how to do drugs (and which ones you should never do), sexual positions you should try, how to write a great sentence, and a state-by-state guide to the U.S. of A. It's all here, along with Dan Savage's very best advice about sex and love."
The cute video below shows how to come out in a very simplistic way. Hopefully it helps someone get both feet out the door!


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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_eu/eu_italy_shroud_of_turinI'm not sure if I believe this is actually a name written into the Shroud or not, but it is interesting to me that scientists refute the claim that it could actually be the burial shroud of Christ without even considering the historical accounts of Jesus being taken down from the cross by St. Joseph of Arimathea. Yes, historically the bodies were left on the cross to decompose but a written account of one instance where the rules were bent has to be considered.
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QUECHEE A New Hampshire woman involved in a head-on crash in Quechee on a dangerous stretch of Route 4 has died.
The crash happened last Thursday on Route 4, near exit one on Interstate 89.
Police said 72-year-old Ingrid Neuwirt of West Lebanon was driving when she crossed the center line and crashed into 43-year-old Shirley Adams of White River Junction.
Police said Neuwirt died Monday.
Police say five people have died on this stretch of Route 4 since March.
On Friday, Gov. Peter Shumlin announced a series of safety improvements for the road, including an immediate repaving and installation of rumble stripes and long-term plans to rebuild it.
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