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There's absolutely nothing to say about Messi, because he's just Messi; everyone knows what it means, no one can articulate it as eloquently as those sparkling feet. Messi.
Otherwise, that was a really good game. Barca's midfield, perhaps the best and certainly the most soul-crushing that there's ever been, isn't quite what it was - the dominance isn't quite the same. Where once, there was no way of playing against it, Betis showed that a team brave enough to put it under pressure can create chances. It wasn't enough, but on another day it would've been plenty.
Anyway, thanks for your emails, sorry I couldn't use them all - night night.
90+3 min: Betis win a corner and Adrian races up from his goal, but the kick is floated towards the bear post and cleared without alarm nor surprise.
90+2 min: With Betis doing all they can to fund an equaliser, Barca break with Messi and Thiago. Messi squares it left, but it's behind his man, who retrieves the ball and cuts inside, carving a decent opportunity before slashing wide.
90 min: There'll be three added minutes, which is nowhere near as many as there ought to be, which is the case in pretty much any football match ever played. It's about time for a law change: stop the watch every time that the ball goes dead, and play, say, 35 minutes halves.
90 min: So many people seem to find so much joy in fouling Alexis. Nacho is the latest, and is booked for his trouble.
88 min: Messi has been quiet this second half. Rubbish.
87 min: Barcelona's midfield hasn't been quite there tonight - my fingers are flinching as a type, but Xavi doesn't quite have the legs to arrange what happens anymore.
83 min: Astounding miss from Alba! Thiago makes an immediate impact, breaking down the left and clipping a shot ball into Messi, who juggles to himself until he's ready for a shot, which Adrian diverts onto the bar. He's prone on the floor when Jordi Alba appears on the scene, ready to tap in the winner and saunter off to proclaim his magnificence with his friends as they dance in his honour. But instead, he rattles the bar from 0.216mm, and everyone laughs at him. Unlucky, son.
82 min: Thiago comes on for Pedro, helped off the pitch by Chico when he dallies and tarries.
80 min: Molina and Castro exchange passes in centrefield and break at speed, Molina drifting wide and firing over a cross, but Pique extends a go-go-gadget leg to divert. But Betis comes again, and Pozuelo marmalises a bouncing ball against the angle from the left side of the area. Barca aren't exactly hanging on, but they've enjoyed every scrap of luck on offer here.
77 min: Alexis espies Pedro in hectares, right of centre, and curls a ball in his direction, which he collects ably enough. But with only the keeper to beat, he mislays his conviction and allows Adrian to save with his legs.
77 min: There's not really a whole lot to criticise about this game, which is no fun for anyone.
75 min: Another change for Betis, Pozuelo replacing Salva.
74 min: Betis aren't giving Barcelona time to settle at all, and their passing isn't as crisp as you'd expect. If they can keep them out, they could easily find an equaliser.
70 min: Barcelona escape - Betis win a corner on the left, which Benat whips into the near post. pique gets his head to it, but is relieved when it bounces back off the post, to the amusement of Victor Valdes, who is in perfect position to catch it.
68 min: Xavi's influence is increasing, and he links up with Alba by way of short, sharp passes, winning Barca a corner. It comes to nothing, but it's been a while since Betis have mustered any real threat.
66 min: Jorge Mollina has replaced Arsenal's Joel Campbell, I'm "reliably" informed by Muneer Khandwalla. In the meantime, Benat races forwards before undoing his good work with a loose pass.
64 min: These last few minutes have been better from Barcelona, Pique suaving his way forwards to prompt attacks. Then, a long ball appears for a moment to have set Messi away in the inside-right channel, but Adrian scoots out to kick clear.
61 min: Betis have been the better side this half, and Barcelona mount their first attack in a while. Iniesta conjures his way past 5,671 tackles before the ball finds its way to Alexis, who scrambles past one and flins himself roughly to the floor. While he scrunches his face in anger, Betis break and win a free-kick thirty-five yards from goal. They attempt a cunning move involving a ball down the outside of the wall, but succeed only in ceding possession, and when Barca break, Vadilla has no choice but to introduce Alexis to grass. He's booked.
59 min: Arsenal loanee Joel Campbell departs - research is currently underway to determine who replaced him. But Joel Campbell is on-loan for Betis from Arsenal.
58 min: "Valdes is one of the best distributors of the ball on that pitch," chides Joshua Everest. "A keeper is 'last line of defence but first line of attack'!"
That's true, but all he needs to do is tap it out. I'll be surprised if David De Gea hasn't nicked his spot in the next few years.
56 min: Dorato crunches Alexis to the floor, reducing his temper to temporary dishabille. But we're all friends again now, and the game resumes.
55 min: There are so many absurd statistics about Messi as to be absurd. Here's one: only Betis, Madrid and Atleti have scored more as a team than he has by his own self.
54 min: Breaking news! Messi stumbles over the ball! Overrated.
51 min: Betis aren't giving up, though, contrary to convention, and almost equalise. Salva crosses a bouncing ball from the left touchline and Valdes leaps to collect it by the bar. But it's trickier than he's imagined, and he can only flap it downwards, where in bounces in between him and Ruben Castro, both tantalised by powerless proximity - before Valdes grabs it at the second attempt. It's remarkable a team as good this, with as much cash spent on it as this, has him in its net.
49 min: Betis are still into this, and Nacho collects a crossfield pass on the left touchline, where Adriano gently clotheslines him. The free-kick, from just outside the box, down its left-hand side, is taken too quicky, so Betis get another chance, Benat, whipping hard and high to the near post - but Pique is first to rise, and heads it clear.
49 min: Alexis is in all sorts of get-up - unless he's actually a Power Ranger.
47 min: I suppose we'd better allow an affronted Ryan Dunne to justify himself: "Hey, I like Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David as much as any other maladjusted MBMer!" he protests, a little vociferously for my taste. "I'd maintain that Super Ally is a funny guy, by footballer banter standards."
Similarly, in Lilliput, Danny Devito is considered a giant.
46 min: Off we pootle, with the news that Mascherano has replaced Puyol.
While I collapse into a lump of gibbering skin, Phil Podolsky is doing actual thinking:
"Alexis' outside-to-inside run for Messi's first, dragging the last defender and making space for Messi, is precisely the thing David Villa never does - hence, I believe, the much publicized bust ups between the two. Villa, the greatest centre-forward of Spain's greatest generation, has the temerity to make decisions based on factors other than what would most benefit Messi - hence he's benched for overwhelmingly less talented players, such as Pedro. "the runner", and Alexis "the slightly more technically proficient runner". The obvious answer is to say whatever benefits Messi should trump everything else - but I'm not sure. Being a one-man-team has its minuses too, you know. "
A side-point, but I disagree about Pedro - if nothing else, he's a brilliant, composed finisher. It is odd, but, that Messi plays inside and Villa outside - but it's hard to argue against. If there was a way of stopping Messi, it might be different, but there doesn't appear to be.
Wherever you stand on the all-time greats - I'm an eighties kid, so it's impossible to conceive of someone better than Maradona - there's never been anyone quite like Messi, a true original. His combination of grace, accuracy, speed, invention and dexterity has reinvented our conception of the possible, which, ultimately is what we're watching for. Ri-diculous.
45 min: Betis are climbing into this one now, swarming Barca in their own half, which seems to make more sense than letting them find their better ball-players. Barca will be pleased to hear the half-time whistle, which will be blown following two additional minutes.
44 min: Humour deficieny aside, Ryan Dunne has a point - pleasantness is not necessarily a preference, just some sort of personality.
42 min: "Is being a nice guy necessarily the sort of connection fans want with their players?" wonders Ryan Dunne. "Perhaps the vicarious pleasure people take in their players applies also to their stereotypical bling and hoes, sexy bad-boy off the pitch exploits? Of course, as a fan of the Glorious Glasgow Rangers, it helps that Super Ally McCoist (two golden shoes in a row!) is a great player, from the Glorious Glasgow Rangers' catchment area, and funny and charismatic too."
Ally McCoist, funny? That's your Upper Hand and My Family audience, right there.
GOL GOL GOL! Real Betis 1-2 Barcelona (Ruben Castro 39)
Yes, that was probably inevitable. For the first time since the opening minutes, Betis find some space around the Barca box, and Canas zips a ball between Adriano and Pique. With Alba playing him onside, Castro draws the keeper - and it's a pretty good likeness too - before opening his body and passing a hard, low finish into the far corner.
39 min: Betis are still trying and all of that, but there's an air of doom that's palpable from York Way.
36 min: "If you type Messi in a text message," says James Lace, "as I just did, P=predictive text makes it messiah."
That's pretty pleasant - I always liked Painles and Highs, otherwise known as Scholes and Giggs. Though not as much as the bloke I know whose surname is Scobie, which comes out as Rancid. Anymore for anymore?
34 min: Pedro and Alexis combine down the left, the latter slipping the ball square to where, inevitably, Xavi is waiting. He looks up and thunks a shot that fades right before arcing sharply left back towards Adrian, and he prangs out a hand to send divert it away from goal.
32 min: When you've a player as goods as Messi, must you always play him in the middle of the pitch? I find it a little odd, for example, the Ronaldo is still a nominal winger, when he's no interest in tracking back and Madrid don't have reliable strikers.
31 min: "Unbelievable player and clearly a great bloke to boot," says Craig Trainor, which minds me of a fight in the Guardian office earlier this afternoon. Does it matter whether you feel a connection to the players who represent your club, or should they just be good at football?
29 min: Change for Betis - Juan Carlos managed to avoid recovering after fouling Adriano, so departs, Vadillo replacing him.
TOO EASY, YET NOT EASY AT ALL! GOOOOOAAAL DE MESSINGTON! Real Betis 0-2 Barcelona (Messi 25)
This is just vomitously good. Adriano breaks down the right and comes infield, moving the ball across to Xavi, who eases a pass outside him to Iniesta. ZIpping towards goal, instead of shooting, he rolls his studs over the ball and moves it behind for Messi, who calculates another perfect finish into the same bottom-left-hand corner - without looking, just for a laugh. He's laughing, they're all laughing, how not to laugh? That's his fifth brace in as many games. Yes. It is.
23 min: Barcelona are dominating now, Adriano setting off on a punishing sprint that forced Juan Carlos to race after him all the way to the area, where he loses patience a playground fouls him. For some reason, no one appeals for a penalty, but it certainly ought to have been one.
22 min: Kiran Phuyal has an idea. "I work with bacteria, he boasts, "so I wish everybody called him Lionel "la bacteria" Messi. And here is why.
Just like active swimming bacteria observed under the microscope he runs fast, he is unpredictable, and he makes his opponents sick."
It might catch on. It might not.
18 min: With everyone still marvelling at Messi, poor bedressed Iniesta was shamed into reminding of his existence, chipping a scrumptious chip over Adrian that he was forced to tip over the bar. Iniesta earned himself a clap from Messi for his trouble.
...BUT GOAL DE MESSI! Betis 0-1 Barceolona (Messi 16)
This is a classic Messi goal, if there is such a thing that isn't any manner of goal, scored in any manner. Receiving possession on the right, there was nothing on - he was plenty far from goal, with no obvious path to it. But he set off upon a jaunt across the face of the Betis line anyway, somehow hypnotising its members into amazed apathy, arriving at the left of the area with three defenders passed - before dragging a precise shot back across goal and into the bottom right-hand corner.
15 min: Jaker ahmed has an idea for our intrepid hero: "Lionel Messi trivial pursuits: 100 goals in all competitions in one season. Considering his 73 last season (29 assists!), improbable perhaps, but not impossible."
Sorry to interrupt...
13 min: More passing from Barca. I've got it saved.
11 min: Canas and Benat put together a dextrous exchange of passes in centre-field, Canas lifting a ball over the top for the chasing Salva. Pique, eager to avert the danger, managed to get a thigh to the ball, but diverted it onto his hand - and Betis appealed for a penalty that would have been a reasonable outcome - but the linesman, though looking straight at it, was having not of it.
10 min: Fabregas is down with yellow-boot fever, exchanging grimaces with himself. He's up now, but only to depart - Alexis Sanchez replaces him.
8 min: Barca are taking control now, your MBMer insighted. They're passing it right to each other, in the Brendan Rodgers grand style, and karma's Salva loses patience, arrowing his studs into Busquets's feet.
6 min: Pursuits for Messi, now that he's mastered football. Justin Kavanagh, inspired by The Guardian's Hobbit banner (that'll be £129 commission, thank you please), suggests a career as an actor, while Ryan Dunne sees him primarily as a song-and-dance man.
3 min: First chance of the game, and it's for Betis. Adriano loses possession in midfield, and the ball's switched right to Campbell (who's on-loan from Arsenal!) He saunters wide of the chasing Puyol, turns back inside onto his left foot, and clips over a cross that Salva reaches first - but he can't find the power to trouble s Valdes.
1 min: Betis are sitting off Barca when they have possession in their own half, but within seconds, that's irrelevant. Fabregas is already complaining to the referee.
1 min: Off we go. He's not scored yet.
The Furry Piranha. In the spirit of Gerd "Der Bomber" Muller, that's what I'm calling Messi henceforth. If you've any better - as if - let's be having them.
Barca are in the tunnel. They've got tracksuits tops and everything.
Recurring blasphemous exclamation dept: Juan Carlos Valeron is still playing for Depor. What an utter, unarguable boss; the death of the schemer is to be lamented.
Evening sweepstake: how many times will we be informed that Joel Campbell is on-loan to Betis from Arsenal?
First email of the night, and it's Matt Jarrett: "Fingers crossed for Messi tonight, question: what's the next record in his sights should he pass this one?"
I've not the remotest, I'm afraid. Cutest genius?
Everything needs to be compared to something nowadays - it's the newest addition to the social contract, apparently. So here's the sportsman who reminds me most of Messi, Mark Cavendish. And before you laugh, hear me out won't you hear me out: it's the preternatural way he seeks out tiny gaps at full speed.
What do you mean, no formations? Numbers? No thanks!
Oh, I say! It's there! Messi plays. Your teams in full, courtesy of Mr I Nternet:
Real Betis: Adrián; Chica, Amaya, Dorado, Nacho; Cañas, Beñat; Salva, Juan Carlos, Campbell; Rubén Castro.
Banquillo del Betis: Casto, Ángel, Rubén Pérez, Pozuelo, Nosa, Vadillo y Jorge Molina.
Barcelona: Valdes; Adriano, Pique, Puyol, Alba; Busquets, Xavi, Fabregas; Pedro, Messi, Iniesta.
Banquillo del Barcelona: Pinto, Alves, Masche, Song, Thiago, Alexis y Villa.
Radamel Falcao has ten minutes in which to complete a double hat-trick. Yes, a double hat-trick. That is Maccabi League behaviour. Just take a moment to consider it, before dissolving in impotent inadequacy.
Preamble Apparently, there are people out there for whom numbers are beautiful - a formula, algorithm or equation as aesthetic as a waterfall, a painting or a Hawksmoor ribeye. So for some, the fact that Lionel Messi might tonight break Gerd Muller's record of 85 goals in a calendar year is a reward in and of itself, the curvaceous, symmetrical 8 and rounded, ergonomic 6 signifying all you need to know.
But this is Lionel Messi about whom we're talking; there aren't the words, expressions or emotions to do him justice, the affirmingly, mortifyingly beautiful genius. Evaluating Messi by numbers is like calling Bob Dylan a poet or Tony Hart a painter; they are, but they're so much more.
Let's hope he's playing, eh,
the malingering, teasing killjoy.
Daniel Harris will be here from 7.30pm. In the meantime take a look at Scott Murray's take on the legendary Gerd Müller, as Lionel Messi chases down his goalscoring record.
Bayern Munich's old Grünwalder Strasse ground. A cross loops in from the right. Standing in the penalty area, the home side's No9 meets the ball as it drops, planting a header into the right-hand corner. A decent finish, although by itself the goal is hardly worthy of comment, certainly not the kind of strike worth rooting around on YouTube for, more than four decades after it was scored.
But let the clip run on. Seconds later, that cross is looping in again. It's got to be an action replay: the ball's sailing at the same speed along the same parabola, and the striker is standing in the same position. Except no, it's not an action replay. The striker meets the ball with his head again, but this time he sticks it away bottom left. Each time the keeper goes after the ball; each time he's got no earthly hope of reaching it. In eight seconds of footage, the genius of Gerd Müller – if not statistically the greatest goalscorer of all time, then the player who distilled the art of striking into a pure tincture – is perfectly illustrated. Unspectacular, unpredictable and utterly unstoppable.


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Yes, I meant the minority by "jewish cult", not the traditional judaism. It's more proper to say "the jewish version of the cult". It was so different in its nature from the judaism and never got popular among jews. But in greek and roman society the cult was so familiar and readily accepted without hesitation.

I don't agree with this. For one thing, Jesus never was accepted among the Jewish religion as a whole. (Those Jews who do believe that he was the promised Messiah of Old Testament prophecy are known as Messianic Jews, and I understand that they're in the minority.)

The egyptian origin was already suggested since renaissance era, though open discussion of such issue was a taboo in christian europe. But serious students of biblical studies cannot miss it. Freke(author of The Jesus Mysteries) says his work is of no novelty. He only collected and summarized the works of already-present biblical studies.

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James Frazer's "The Golden Bough" is a strong recommendation if you're interested in this topic, tho' I didn't read it myself yet. Beware, nevertheless, it may weigh a good portion of a ton!I am not quite sure what you mean by "well known among Biblical scholars" or "tons of other books". Admittedly, I've never read The Jesus Mysteries, so I'm a little at sea here... I'm familiar with another book that deals with the topic that (I think! ) you're dealing with, but unfortunately it was a borrowed book; as I remember, it's called "The Second Babylon."

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Tyrese Tanner posted her third-consecutive 20-point game and the Tigers followed her lead, as the Auburn women's basketball team defeated Tulane, 72-52, Wednesday at Auburn Arena to advance to the quarterfinals of the WNIT. Auburn improves to 19-14 with the win while Tulane falls to 24-9.
"I'm very proud of our young ladies," Auburn head coach Terri Williams-Flournoy said. "Tulane's a very good team, and we knew that they were good. Obviously we had played them before, so we knew how good they were, and we knew how well they took care of the ball versus our press. I'm very proud of our young ladies for hanging in there, going through the runs that they made at us and just taking care of the ball and just making shots and making plays when we needed them."
Tanner led all scorers with 25 points and 11 rebounds in her first career double-double. She also added three steals, three blocks and two assists in the effort. Tra'cee Tanner added 12 points and seven rebounds, while Blanche Alverson tallied 10 points and five rebounds.
Tulane had trouble finding its shot from the field, shooting just 33.3 percent on the night. Danielle Blagg led with 11 points, while Tiffany Dale added 10.
Auburn stayed strong on the boards, out-rebounding the Green Wave 46-33 and picking up 19 second-chance points.
"We've put a big emphasis on using our abilities to get to the offensive glass," Alverson said. "If we can do that, we have an advantage over everybody because we're long. If we can do that and get easy put-backs, that just fuels us, and we can jump to our press."
Auburn awaits its next opponent and will face the winner of Drexel and Bowling Green Thursday night in Bowling Green, Ohio.
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As lesbian, bisexual, and gay soldiers (not to mention future recruits) celebrate the end of "don't ask, don't tell," the transgender community will continue to serve in silence — if at all. The repeal is, according to many transgender people, the community's bridesmaid moment.
The Transgender American Veterans Association reports there could be up to 300,000 transgender military veterans in the U.S. today. In 2005, when the TAVA put a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Solider, there was a transgender person representing every U.S. military conflict since WWII.
Still, the very psychological diagnosis that allows transgender folks to get medical care — Gender Identity Disorder — makes them ineligible to serve. And those who've gone through corrective surgeries are listed as having "physical abnormalities." Anyone who is caught wearing clothing of the perceived opposite sex receives a court martial.
According to "Transgender People in the U.S. Military: Summary and Analysis of the 2008 Survey" by the Transgender America Veterans Association the vast majority of transgender vets are trans women (of those using VA hospitals, 13% identified on the FTM spectrum, while 82% identified somewhere on the MTF spectrum) although trans men were three times more likely than trans women to have been asked by an officer about their sexual orientation (33% versus 11%).
Some trans vets have become notable anti-war protestors (like Midge Potts, a 38-year old Gulf War vet who was become a vocal opponent of Middle East occupations). But like Potts, many of the 300,000 transgender vets are still proud of their service. We talked to four of them.
Calpernia Sarah Addams
Age: 40 ("But only about 18 years into life as my true self. I still feel like a teenager!")
Served: U.S. Navy, attached to the Marines during the first Gulf War. "I served a four-year enlistment beginning in 1990. During my time as a Field Medical Combat Specialist in the Navy Hospital Corps, I served in Chicago, Memphis, North Carolina, Saudi Arabia and on a tiny, remote Alaskan island."
Now: An actress, singer, musician, activist, author, writer, and producer in Hollywood, California. "You have to do more than one job to make it in Hollywood." Addams starred in Woman's Picture and in the Logo reality dating show, Transamerican Love Story.
Home life: "I am single, open to dating but really focused on my art these days."
Coming out: "Toward the end of my enlistment, I fell in with a group of what I called 'wilderness lesbians' and began to explore my sexuality and gender for the very first time in my life. The support of those women helped me embark on a path to self-discovery right at the moment my enlistment was up, and within the year I was back home in Nashville, working as a female entertainer and beginning my transition."
Why the Navy? "I was a smart and creative child who unfortunately grew up in what I call a Christian fundamentalist cult, where education was energetically discouraged because it would 'lead me away from God.'" College was off the table, so Addams shipped off to Navy Basic Training within a year. "I joined to get away from an oppressive upbringing with no future. At age 18, I had never seen a movie in a theater, never been allowed to listen to modern music, and had never been allowed to socialize with my peers. The Navy jammed me in amongst my peers and made all of us work together to better ourselves, and in the process I learned about the world outside the cult in which I was raised."
How being trans affected her military career: "When I was a toddler, I remember running through church wearing a paper nun's hat screaming, 'I'm Sister Batrille!' because I wanted to be Sally Fields' character from The Flying Nun on television. I had no words for my feelings like transsexual or transgendered, I just knew that I often fantasized deeply about being a girl and crushed on boys. I was a sensitive and perceptive child. I knew from earliest ages that my feelings were bad, so I did my best to hide them. The job I chose in the Navy was in the Hospital Corps as a combat medic (NEC 8404), perhaps one of the few military jobs where someone perceived as male was allowed to show empathy and nurturing. I was often told that my voice had a particularly soothing quality to children in the emergency room, and I was never ashamed to hold someone's hand if they were in pain or frightened during a difficult medical procedure. I gave professional comfort to many men, women, and children in some of the most difficult and vulnerable moments of their lives, and I will always consider that among my most worthwhile achievements."
On whether trans people ever be allowed to serve openly: "I don't know if the Armed Services will ever allow transgender or transsexual members. I'm very pessimistic in general as to what I expect from the world. We've only just recently 'repealed' don't ask, don't tell, and I put that in quotes because there are still cases pending against soldiers, sailors, and marines because of their sexuality. Transition is among the most difficult times of someone's lives, so in any case I would recommend that someone finish transition before joining the military. I'd have wanted to be very secure in something as basic as my body and social gender presentation before I went through the trials of boot camp, the Gulf War, and harrowing emergency room medicine. I don't forgive society for treating GLBT people like third-class citizens, even if they begrudgingly give us partial legal rights now. They're not sorry, and I haven't forgotten."
What part of your military service is most memorable for you? "My time in the war was so surreal that it's difficult to focus on it nowadays. Instead, I often dream that I'm back on the remote Alaskan island where I drove an ambulance through snowstorms up and down the sides of a volcano, or shivered in my parka as I searched for a vein shrunken deep under the skin by the cold, or flew to a tiny neighboring island to rescue a downed Chinese airliner full of injured passengers. Pewter grey ocean framed by elemental clouds lit from behind as they must have been at the very beginning of time while we lived our lives surrounded by the rusted ruins of military operations reaching back to World War II."
Would you do it all over again? "For me, in my unique circumstances, the military took me out of a soul-killing home situation and exposed me to the world at large. It taught me strength, discipline, self-reliance, and skills that carried me through all the rest of my life. Today, even as a cabaret singer and actress, I walk onstage knowing that I have hefted an M16 assault rifle across desert sands in defense of my hospital and pressed my bare hands against the gushing lifeblood of a wounded soldier. And after that, what is there, really, to be scared of?"
Read more about Calpernia's time in the military or in Alaska as a Navy medic.
Autumn Sandeen
Age: "I'm between 50 and 55 years of age."
Served: United States Navy, 1980-2000 on four ships — the USS Mahlon S. Tisdale (FFG-27), USS Ford (FFG-54), USS Gary (FFG-51), and USS Coronado (AGF-11). "My service on the USS Gary was during the Persian Gulf War — even though I showed up in the Gulf two months after the ground war ended, I'm considered a Persian Gulf War veteran." Most of her Navy career was spent in Long Beach and San Diego, California as a fire controlman. Fire controlmen work on the electronics and electro-mechanical equipment (such as radars, computers, synchro-servo systems, and hydraulics) used to point missile launchers and ships' guns.
Now: After retiring from the U.S. Navy, Sandeen was evaluated by the Veterans Administration for disability and is now disability retired. However, the San Diego, Calif. resident writes a weekly column for San Diego's LGBT Weekly, and for the blog Pam's House Blend.
Home life: She's divorced and has three children. "I'm still supporting my oldest son while he's in an apprenticeship and school program for a career," says Sandeen, who has made headlines in recent months as one of the GetEqual 6, and GetEqual 13. "We handcuffed ourselves to the White House fence — the veterans in uniform — for the repeal of DADT."
Did your departure from the military have anything to do with your gender? "Not exactly. I retired normally after 20 years of service. However, after I figured out I was transgender, and might transition after I left the military, I decided to stick it out until retirement. I knew that there was a lot of stigma to being a transsexual, so I wanted to have at least some income coming to me after leaving the military. So in a sense, my departure from the Navy did have something to do with my gender, but not in the way you were probably thinking."
On why she served: The recession of 1980. "I was 21 and had no job skills, so I joined the military to have a job and obtain some marketable skills."
Coming out as trans: "I knew before I joined the military I was transgender. I first knew at age 14 I was a transsexual, and then talked myself out of it due to being raised in a Pentecostal church. And because I wasn't attracted to men I thought I must be a transvestite — I was under the impression that to be a transsexual that one had to be heterosexual in my target sex."
Will the military ever allow trans soldiers to serve openly? "Yes. But I believe it'll be a generational change. It took 17 years for the repeal of DADT, and I believe it'll take somewhere in that range of years for trans people to be able to serve openly."
Most memorable part of service: "Being sexually harassed in my last year of military service because of my feminine gender expression," Sandeen recalls. "If you look up Autumn Sandeen and HRC, you can find my DADT story relating to my sexual harassment up on the web."
Would you do it all over again? "I don't know. Being disabled, I fell into a huge safety net because I retired from the military, and because I was evaluated as disabled by the VA — and my bipolar condition is considered a service-connected disability. Yet on another level, I wonder what my life would be like if I transitioned at a younger age. The reality is I can't go back and change my life — even if I wanted to — so I don't really worry about what other arcs my life could've taken. It's an interesting question, though."
Calahan Miller
Age: 48
Served: Army, September 1983 to January 1986. Completed Basic Training and AIT School for Light Wheeled Vehicle and Power Generator Mechanic (MOS: 63B) at Ft. Jackson, SC. First Duty Assignment: B Company, 141st Signal Battalion, 1st Armored Division, Barton Barracks, Ansbach, Germany. Last assignment: HHC USAEPG, Ft. Huachuca, Arizona. Honorable Discharge with the rank of E-4 (Specialists).
Now: Lives in Los Angeles and is on disability for obsessive compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder.
Home life: Miller has been with a partner for nearly a decade, and the two helped raise her son (who is now an adult).
Why the military? "I wanted to serve in the military primarily because I grew up as an Air Force brat, so the military life is what I knew. I knew I could get money for college and I knew I could travel. When I signed up I requested an overseas assignment in Europe."
Did you know you were trans when you signed up? "I struggled with my gender identity beginning at the age of 15. I didn't know the term transgender until, in 1994, I was introduced to an FTM through a co-worker. When I got my first home computer in 1999, I began exhaustive research," says Miller, who began his transition in 2001, when he was 37. "While I was in the Army, when I was in uniform, on duty, my gender was more androgynous. In uniform we were not so much male or female as we were all soldiers." The only time Miller wasn't just a soldier was when the servicemembers were required to wear their formal "dress greens" — which meant females wore skirts. "Ugg, I hated that," he laughs.
Gender in the military: "My job as a mechanic. Working in the motor pool was a non-traditional job for a female. While I worked I didn't have the constant reminder of my body's gender, while I worked I felt male. Out of uniform, off duty, was another thing," recalls Miller, who struggled with gender issues on a day-to-day basis because he was living as a lesbian and in a lesbian relationship. "Additionally, because I was a military service member and 'a lesbian' I had to keep my personal life a secret, by not acknowledging it and outright lying about it. All the while hating that I was stuck in the female body, because if I had been born in the right body and been the man I knew I was then I wouldn't have to hide and lie about who I loved."
Will trans people ever be allowed to serve in the military? "I do not think the Armed Services will ever allow transgender soldiers as long as being trans is classified as Gender Identity Disorder, or Gender Dysphoria, a mental illness or medical disorder, listed in the DSM-IV."
Most memorable time in the service: The good and the bad. The bad: the investigation into Miller's relationship with a female service member. "I had met and began a relationship with a soon-to-be-divorced woman at my first duty station. Her soon-to-be ex-husband had found some letters written by me to her and set out on a mission to destroy us. They launched an investigation and tried to pursue criminal charges. Luckily the contents of my letters where vague and therefore not proof of any transgressions, and so it was dropped because all they had was the accusations of a scorned ex-husband."
And the good: "I really liked the military; I liked my job, I liked the structure and routine of the military. I was in great physical shape, and more often than not felt comfortable in my skin."
Would he do it all over again? "Yes," he says emphatically. "I would."
Cheryl Costa
Age: 59 ("I've been Cheryl for 22 years, was Carl Costa for 37 years.")
Service: U.S. Air Force 1970 to 1972 – Telephone lineman: Lackland AFB, Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, Yokota, Japan. E-4 U.S. Navy 1974 to 1979 – Qualified in Submarines – Navigation & Radar tech; Groton, CT E-5. U.S. Navy Reserve 1979 to1981 – Electronics Instructor; Binghamton, NY E-6
Now: Now a senior information assurance engineer in the aerospace industry, Costa lived in Washington, D.C. for 26 years but has called Syracuse, N.Y. home for the last five.
Home life: Costa is "now married to an awesome lady — as a result of the recent New York legalization of same-sex marriage!"
Did your departure from the military have anything to do with your gender? "Yes in a way. I was trying to have a career but my marriage of that time went south and I lost confidence in my ex to keep her mouth shut, concerned she would rat me out to my superiors just to be mean."
On why she served: "I was a poor kid in an upstate New York mill town, who wanted to see the world, have some adventure, and perhaps have a high-tech career. My electronics instructor in high school encouraged me to get out of dodge and join the service to pursue the high-tech career and educational opportunities."
Did you know you were trans? "Oh yes, I knew from an early age, but in the mid-1960s there was no such thing as an open and out LGBT community," Costa recalls. "I was 16 when Stonewall happened. I watched the news footage, from the New York City TV stations, of the big-haired queens jeering at the cops from the police lines — I could only whisper to myself, 'Go get them girls!' I realized that to do this life change I was going to have a good job and good skills. I resigned myself to doing that and being a poor kid, the U.S. military was the way to do it. I hid my nature hoping for a day when I could be open and out about it." Later as a civilian, Costa was part of a local support group and in 1985 the tabloid Weekly World News outed her and other members of the group. "After that I had nothing left to lose. I executed my changed over the next four years."
Will transgender soldiers ever be allowed to serve? "I would hope so — eventually. My experience with trans persons is that most of them are among the brightest people I know. Give them a chance to be who their inner spirit tells them they are and they'll blossom into loyal, highly productive, and creative people."
Most memorable military moment: "I loved the submarine special missions, the Tom Clancy sort of stuff," she recalls. "It was interesting and adventurous. Those missions tested your mettle and technical expertise. Wish I could be a part of it today."
Would you do it all over again? "Yes, in a heartbeat!" she says. "Had I not feared negative exposure and the risk of discharge under less than honorable conditions, I most likely would have done a long career in the service. I loved the work, the travel and enjoyed the lifestyle."


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On Monday, "Entourage" creator Doug Ellin tweeted a pic of the cast with the simple message, "It's a go. love you all."
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The comedy series, which followed a young movie star (played by Adrian Grenier) and his circle of guy friends on the loose in Hollywood ran on HBO from 2004 to 2011. Almost from the moment the series ended, all involved, including Ellin and executive producer Mark Wahlberg, have expressed their firm commitment to getting a feature film follow-up mounted.
After a protracted period of negotiations, it appears the core cast members, including Grenier, Piven, Jesse Ferrara, Kevin Dillon and Kevin Connolly are about to sign on for the feature film, according to the Hollywood Reporter, which says production is expected to start in January.
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Morning Brief: October 20
An Opera Opening with Protection
The controversial opera "The Death of Klinghoffer" will open tonight at the Metropolitan Opera after months of protests and threats. The opera is about the 1985 hijacking of a passenger liner and some, including the daughters of deceased real-life subject Leon Klinghoffer—claim it's anti-semitic. The Post reports that the NYPD—both in uniform and plainclothes—will have a heavy presence at Lincoln Center to keep things running smoothly.


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Heroes Producer: Honored To Be The Most Unauthorized Downloaded Show
from the recognizing-the-future dept
This talk was given by Tim Kring, creator of the popular TV show Heroes, and he made some interesting points -- noting that he's "honored" that Heroes is the most "illegally" downloaded TV show out there, because "we'll take audience anywhere we can get it." But he's not just sitting back. The reason he doesn't care if people are watching the show on TV or elsewhere is because they're really working on ways to connect with fans in much deeper ways, including creating a pretty complex and massive alternative reality game that had true fans of the show actively involved -- such that they knew about certain characters and important plot points way before they appeared on the small screen, and were made to feel like actual participants in the story. As he noted, "people want to participate in their TV shows."
Again, this is a point that has been made before -- but so many of the suits upstairs still seem to think that TV is a purely broadcast media, not one where people want to communicate and participate in meaningful ways (and, yes, that means a lot more than just calling or texting a phone number to "vote" on something). It's great to see the folks actually making these stories are understanding this, because eventually that thinking will begin to become more common, rather than seem like some crazy idea to appease "the internet folks." We're not there yet, of course. NBC, which airs Heroes is still freaking out about those illegal downloads and wasting tons of money and resources claiming that it must be stopped -- all while its basic network schedule has been a huge disaster. If NBC top brass listened to folks like Kring, and realized the challenge is to make people happy, rather than spending so much time trying to force them into "the way NBC wants things to work," perhaps the network wouldn't be in so much trouble.


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Sotheby's is seizing on a revival of interest in Irish art by putting on a show of some of the finest in Dublin – and then selling it in London next month.
The events feature leading artists of the 20th century including Sir John Lavery, Sir William Orpen, Jack Butler Yeats, Walter Osborne, Paul Henry, Roderic O'Conor, along with Louis le Brocquy, who died in 2012. In an innovative move, there is also a selection of works by contemporary Irish artists.
The sale marks the 20th anniversary since the time when Sotheby's became the first international auction house to hold dedicated sales of Irish art.
"Over the past two years our global buyer base has expanded," says Arabella Bishop, head of Sotheby's Ireland. The loyal following of collectors seen from the first sale in 1995 is now bolstered by more demand from those outside Ireland, she said.
Among the works is Lavery's "Japanese Switzerland," an oil-on-panel work with an estimate of £300,000 to £500,000 (as much as €685,000 or about $760,000.) Lavery's family was visiting Wengen, in the Bernese Oberland, at the end of November 1912, after a heavy snowfall. The painting's title is misleading: while the work resembles a Japanese Ukioye print, it depicts Lavery's wife Hazel, and step-daughter, Alice, his most consistent models in Wengen. Hazel was to become the most familiar "Irish" face in the 20th century, being featured on the Irish currency up to 1975.
Another highly-estimated work also has some roots outside Ireland. Orpen's "Nude Girl Reading," an oil-on-canvas work from 1912, also estimated at as much as £500,000, shows his model and mistress Yvonne Aubicq in Paris.
There are a number of Jack Butler Yeats oils on offer, including the semi-abstract "The Talkers," (as much as £250,000) dating from the last decade of his life.


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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Gov. Nikki Haley is hosting legislators at the Governor's Mansion to discuss education funding reform.
The governor invited Republican and Democratic leaders to a discussion over breakfast Wednesday that is closed to the public. Her office did not release a list of who's invited.
The breakfast is meant to begin a dialogue Haley requested in her State of the State address.
Haley said she wanted to start a conversation on how to help poor rural districts without taking money from other districts. She's given no direction on how to do that but wants to make it a priority.
Conversations on overhauling education funding formulas started decades ago. But legislators have applauded Haley for reaching out and getting involved.
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Jersey City Medical Center is poised to become a member of Barnabas Health, under a definitive agreement signed this morning by both parties.
Barnabas Health, the largest nonprofit health care system in the state, will acquire the 316-bed teaching hospital after receiving approvals from state and federal authorities, most likely in the fall of 2013. Both hospitals will explore new avenues for sharing their programs and services.
"Becoming part of Barnabas Health will give our hospital an opportunity to continue to grow our services and better serve the health care needs of this quickly growing community," said Joseph F. Scott, president and CEO of Jersey City Medical Center. "For a $300 million organization to combine with a $2.6 billion organization, I think this will really shore up Jersey City Medical Center for the future."
Scott, who has headed up the Jersey City hospital for five years, set out two years ago to find a partner that could help the hospital offer expanded services to the growing Hudson County community.
"The number-one issue was whether culturally the two organizations fit together," Scott said. "It was clear to us that Barnabas Health and Jersey City Medical Center had the same values."
Barry H. Ostrowsky, president and CEO of Barnabas Health, is excited that Barnabas will be making an entrance into Hudson County.
"What attracted Barnabas to Jersey City was the hospital's commitment to the community," he said. "In today's world, providing all the services necessary for the community requires more and more resources, and those resources are scarce. If we take the resources of both organizations and put them together, it will enhance patient care and accessibility and help our ever-shrinking resources go farther."
Scott will stay on in his position, and said he doesn't anticipate any layoffs or major changes at this time.
"The staff is revved up to be a part of the Barnabas Health System and to provide a much higher level of service to the community," he said.
Barnabas Health is one of the largest nonprofit health care delivery systems in the nation, caring for more than 2 million patients each year. Jersey City Medical Center, a part of Liberty Health, is the largest provider of health care services in Hudson County, with more than 18,000 admissions and 80,000 emergency room visits each year.


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"Paper and digital technology each has certain capabilities, functions, and conveniences the other lacks." ~The Myth of the Paperless Office.
Small, portable scanners and on-line scanning services are becoming more available. Going paperless is a hot and heated topic. Technology has simplified bill paying, bank services, information access, research and communication with family, friends, and colleagues.
Here's the thing. Technology is limited when it comes to accessibility.
More importantly, the IRS does require original paper documents to support computerized records. A scan is a computerized record.
"If you use a computerized system, you must be able to produce legible records of the information needed to determine your correct tax liability. In addition to your computerized records, you must keep proof of payment, receipts, and other documents to prove the amounts shown on your tax return." ~ IRS Publication 552
The reality is nine times out of ten, you are keeping a piece of paper to prove yourself to the IRS. So before you jump into your paperless home office consider the following:
- There are a limited number of support records you need to satisfy the IRS and a smaller number of vital documents you must retain for personal and financial reasons. Would a digital copy of these items give you peace of mind?
- A majority of people only need one file drawer to keep the IRS required three years of tax records. This same drawer would have plenty of room for important financial, health and home records. Would it be easier for you to scan receipts and digitally log the details required by the IRS? The other option is a quick note on the back of each receipt, placed it a yearly tax file.
- Only those who run a home business would need an additional file drawer to store the six to ten years of recommended support documents. Will your bank and credit card company provide six to ten years of statements online? If not, how will you access these if requested by the IRS? What if you close your account? Or your account is canceled?
- Technology doesn't cure procrastination or fix a poor system. Good categories, action and maintenance, are still required. Do you currently have a categorizing system for filing your papers and are you actively maintaining your records?
- You still need to know what papers to keep, why you should keep them and where you will find them. Do you know this information?
A digital system could work well for you if you answered yes to the majority of questions above. Even then don't take technology for granted. We expect our digital records to remain accessible for years. Realistically technology has a number of hazards that do not exist in a good old-fashion filing system. Relying on hardware, software, online applications and third-party practices create conditions outside of your control. Including…
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Technology changes daily. Will your records be converted, accessible and available in three to six to ten years?
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On a related note, Williamson apparently approached David Irving for advice in how to present his conspiracy theories to the public in a manner that would not cause such an uproar. Irving suggested that he admit the extermination of Jews in three camps (without mentioning any numbers, because those "need to be checked"), but went on to say that Williamson was the target of a Jewish plot designed to distract from the attacks on Gaza:
Israel set off this storm against the church, led by a German pope, to distract the world from the massacre in Gaza.
To round out the insanity, upon his arrival in London, Williamson was met by Michele Renouf. Renouf had previously supported Irving during his trial for Holocaust-denial in Austria. Renouf claimed that Williamson was the victim of an unreasonable persecution by the adherents of a new religion: "Holocaustianity".


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Plaintiff: Vedra L. Smith
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Interested_party: SSA Noticing
Case Number: 1:2015cv02033
Filed: September 16, 2015
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Presiding Judge: Wiley Y. Daniel
Nature of Suit: Disability Insurance
Cause of Action: 42:405
Jury Demanded By: None
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Monkey Bread | Homemade Gift Ideas for the Holidays
Monkey Bread has been a family tradition of ours since, well... my entire life. On Christmas Eve, we would come home from Granny's house and make the Monkey Bread for the next morning (as you'll see from the instructions, it only takes minutes to make). Waking up on Christmas morning to the smell of yeast bread rising is such a good memory. Even now as 30-year-old+ adults, Monkey Bread is still a Christmas tradition.
My Mom made Monkey Bread from frozen Rhodes Dinner Rolls. She rolled them in butter, cinnamon and sugar, put them in a bundt pan and let them thaw and rise over night. When we woke up in the morning it went into the oven for 30 minutes. The gooey, warm rolls were too much to resist... we were licking cinnamon and sugar off of our fingers before we were done opening presents! They are our annual Pre-Christmas morning Brunch snack... an appetizer.
This holiday season, share your Monkey Bread with your friends, neighbors and co-workers as a homemade gift. I baked this Monkey Bread in a disposable baking bundt pan (available in my store, 4 for $14) and wrapped it in cellophane and satin ribbon.
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1 package of frozen uncooked yeast rolls (Rhodes brand)
1 stick of butter, melted
1 cup of brown sugar
2 tablespoons of cinnamon
Spray a bundt pan with non-stick spray. Melt the butter in the microwave. In a separate bowl, combine the brown sugar and cinnamon. Roll the frozen rolls in the butter, then in the sugar mixture. Place all of the coated rolls in the bundt pan. Place a towel over the pan of rolls and place it in a warm spot over night to rise.
Rolls should have doubled in size in the morning. Bake them at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes until golden brown.
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Monkey bread makes me smile -- thanks for the recipe!ReplyDelete
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I will look for the tag later today! Great idea for those little neighbor gifts that you know will be enjoyed. Putting the container store (in OP,KS) on my list of stops this weekendReplyDelete
I have so enjoyed your website. After hosting numerous Thanksgiving Day dinners - I putting your spreadsheet to work this year - I want to enjoy the day too!
We have met before - you help my sister (Paula D) host a holiday open house in Lees Summit.
- Jenny3:37 PM
The bundts I used were about 7 inches tall and wide. Each recipe will make two of the smaller bundts. If you'd like, you can cut the rolls in half to make them more appropriate for the size of pan. The baking time for me was the same, but be sure to watch them at the end. Good Luck!ReplyDelete
Jenny, I would like to make these as a hostess gift for a party I'm attending. Where do you find the paper bundt pans?ReplyDelete
Thank you! Susan


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