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Mike Penner was a shy, talented sportswriter who loved soccer, punk rock, and his wife. Then he became... Christine Daniels, an outgoing, talented sportswriter who loved slingback pumps, Legally Blonde, and her ex-wife.
Christine had the eyes all the girls wanted, translucent turquoise marbles fringed by strawberry blond lashes. And the smile. Wide and natural, but somehow coy and elusive, too.
You could work for years and not get that right. Her peach-colored blouse draped just so on her six-foot-one frame, the silky skirt skimming her calves. She had let her sun-streaked blond hair grow to chin length, and she helped it along by pinning on a little hairpiece that grazed her broad shoulders.
Amy LaCoe was an earthier, more androgynous type. At 59, a decade older than Christine, she didn't even bother to dye her hair as she grew it out, just wore it straight and silver, and stuck to jeans and pastel cotton V-necks, with a modest pink cameo on a chain around her neck. Like the rest of the transition group at the Los Angeles Gender Center, she marveled at Christine's feline grace in the summer of 2006, how everyone seemed to turn toward her, unconsciously, like a source of heat on a cold day.
Not that that would make it any easier for Christine when she went full-time, as she was planning to do in the coming year. Probably the opposite. The others had more marginal careers or at least less glamorous ones. Some were self-employed. Others, like Amy, a career counselor at a community college, could hide in academia, which was full of sympathetic hippie types. Christine's transformation from Mike Penner, a name that had appeared in the sports pages of the Los Angeles Times for twenty-five years as an NFL writer, an Angels beat reporter, a tennis columnist, was likely to be cataclysmic. Others could change their identity and never again speak their male names aloud, but a byline haunted you forever.
Anyway, Christine, who had chosen her new name to honor Christine Jorgensen, the first well-known transsexual, and two iconic Chrissies, Evert and Hynde, had no intention of living in anonymity as a diner waitress in Fresno or a 7-Eleven clerk along the Las Vegas strip. Being a sportswriter at the Times was everything she had wanted since she was a boy back in Anaheim, interning at the local daily while still at Cal State Fullerton.
But a transgender sportswriter? As a reporter, she knew it would be a big story. She remembered Renée Richards's transition in 1975, how the caustic tennis player who went to court to compete as a woman had been a media obsession for decades.
And then there was Lisa to worry about. Most of the ten or so in the group had wives, but none had a marriage as symbiotic as Mike Penner and Lisa Dillman's. They'd been together for two decades, ever since they fell in love covering the U.S. Open in Flushing Meadows, New York. They even worked side by side—he'd long ago helped her move to the Times, where she covered tennis and had become the lead Olympics reporter. And because they'd never had children, they seemed even closer. Lisa played midfielder for the Scribes, a rec-league soccer team that Mike had co-founded and coached. On weekends their apartment in Long Beach shook with the sounds of Mike's music—he followed punk and indie rock, everything from the Clash to Nirvana to the Rapture, as closely as he did his beloved Arsenal of the English Premier League, and regularly sent his pals mix CDs labeled with his own personal radio call letters, KPEN. When other couples had dinner with Mike and Lisa, listened to them retell the story of how they fell in love, the wives would fuss to their husbands: Look at them. So nice, so loving. Why can't we be like that?
Lisa had known for years that her husband sometimes dressed as a woman, and she'd accepted it reluctantly as long as it was out of sight. But going full-time was a completely different thing, and Christine refused to dwell on how Lisa would react. Living without her was unthinkable, Christine told Amy on that first afternoon they went for something to eat after group. Lisa had been the best part of him for twenty years. Since they were kids. Since that day when he first met her, an open-faced midwestern girl barely out of her teens with Minneapolis Star Tribune press credentials dangling around her neck.
Hadn't other wives made their peace and stayed on, Christine reasoned as the waitress brought them their blueberry pie. What about Jennifer Finney Boylan, the Colby College English professor and novelist who had written that memoir, She's Not There, detailing how her wife stuck by her? It would be hard, sure, but not impossible: Lisa would come around. Surely she would realize that it wasn't about her; it was something Christine had to do to survive. She was the same person inside. She still loved soccer and the Raconteurs. She still needed Lisa as much as Mike had, maybe more.
Amy was quiet as the waitress refilled their coffees. In her experience, that just wasn't how it worked. The year before, when Amy told her wife of thirty-nine years that she was a woman and planned to live as one, she had screamed obscenities and thrown Amy's estrogen tablets out the garage door. Called her a queer, a freak. Not that Amy blamed her for being upset. The poor woman hadn't signed on for this. Sure, she had known that Amy dressed on the sly for decades, that she kept plastic tubs of girl's things in the back of the station wagon. But hormones—that was too much. She had every right to expect to get old with the man she married, rely on retirement benefits from his job, play together with the grandkids, die with him. Amy couldn't imagine how Christine thought it would all work out. She would be transgendering in the same workplace as her wife, something no one in the group had ever heard of. Lisa might not be the type to heave things, but that didn't mean she was going to adjust to it and carry on with a woman for a husband.
Still, it was hard not to get swept away by Christine's enthusiasm, her optimism. She clasped her hands to her chest at the sight of slingbacks that fit. She cooed at the flared poodle skirt on a rack at Countessa's Closet, a store in Studio City that catered to cross-dressers and transsexuals and let them keep lockers there. She never got tired of watching Legally Blonde. "I just feel so good," she would say, squeezing the arm of Amy's cardigan.
"It was contagious," Amy recalled recently. "She could make you forget all the things you came in worried about."
Maybe Christine would be the one in a million who could pull it off, Amy recalled thinking back then, watching Christine take out a compact—who used those anymore?—to put on fresh lipstick. Maybe she could do this and not lose everything. Wouldn't that be amazing?
"Old Mike, new Christine." That's the headline the editors chose for her coming-out column, which ran on April 26, 2007. Christine spent much of the previous night on the phone with Susan Horn, a pal she had met through Countessa's Closet. Horn, 49, a former lawyer who had been living full-time as a woman since January 2006, stayed on the line with her as Christine paced the tiny studio on Sepulveda Boulevard in West L.A., where she'd moved a few months earlier, each of them checking the Internet compulsively to see if the news had leaked out. "She was terrified," recalled Horn. "She was sure the response would be devastating, brutal." The column began:
I am a transsexual sportswriter. It has taken more than 40 years, a million tears and hundreds of hours of soul-wrenching therapy for me to work up the courage to type those words. I realize many readers and colleagues and friends will be shocked to read them.
That's OK. I understand that I am not the only one in transition as I move from Mike to Christine. Everyone who knows me and my work will be transitioning as well. That will take time. And that's all right. To borrow a piece of well-worn sports parlance, we will take it one day at a time.
The e-mails started streaming in at 2 A.M. By 6 P.M., there were more than 500, all but a handful supportive. Christine spent most of the day in tears, elated, says Horn. "She couldn't believe it; she just kept reading through them, weeping."
At first she hadn't wanted to write about it at all. It had been hard enough to tell her boss, sports editor Randy Harvey, a guy she had known since the 1980s, when they had both come to the paper as young pups: Randy a hotshot from the New York Daily News, Mike from the Anaheim Bulletin, the shitty little hometown daily where he had been made sports editor at 23. But Harvey had taken the news with remarkable equanimity. Christine later marveled to friends that he leaned back in his chair and said simply, "Okay, wow, how are we going to deal with this?"
Announcing the change to the entire world, though—that seemed overwhelming. Mike had never liked a lot of attention. Within the paper, he was widely acknowledged as one of the section's most stylish writers, a favorite of Harvey's but notoriously circumspect. Whatever emotion he had he seemed to put in his columns.
"Everyone thought of him as incredibly talented and really kind but standoffish," said Larry Stewart, a Times sportswriter for more than twenty-five years until he was laid off in 2008. "Sometimes halfway through a sentence you'd lose him. His eyes would go to the ground, and you'd wonder what had happened."
Christine's original plan was to retire the Mike Penner byline quietly and start writing as Christine Daniels a few weeks later. She had mapped out the timing during months of phone calls with Christina Kahrl, her guru in such matters. Kahrl, now 42, co-founded Baseball Prospectus, the stats bible, in 1996 and transitioned seven years later. She had done it gradually, without fanfare, and hadn't done interviews. The plan had worked well; Kahrl's transition had been as seamless as these things could be. The baseball world was just as eager for her pronouncements as it always had been. Her divorce was amicable; both her best man and the maid of honor remained her close pals.
"I told Christine that there's attention from every corner of your real life when you do this, that that's hard enough to deal with," Kahrl, a tall redhead with a square jaw, subtle jewelry, and finely arched eyebrows, recalled over tropical cocktails and tapas in a restaurant near her home in Chicago in January. "I thought that writing a column, doing this all so publicly, was a terrible idea, and I blame the paper for that. Christine wasn't ready for what it would bring."
But Harvey, a bearish man with gentle brown eyes, made a good argument. It was important for her to own the story, to control it, he told Christine. Otherwise, speculation would spread across the Internet like a fungus. "I knew she didn't want that 'gotcha' thing to happen," he said during an interview in his glassed-in office in the ornate, slightly bedraggled Times building downtown.
"I am a transsexual sportswriter. It has taken more than 40 years, a million tears and hundreds of hours of soul-wrenching therapy for me to work up the courage to type those words."
Christine's wasn't the only awkward, painful transition at the paper in the spring of 2007. Just two weeks before, the ailing Tribune Company accepted a buyout offer from Sam Zell, the irascible real estate billionaire. The specter of an unpredictable new owner and more layoffs made an already grim newsroom funereal. In that context, Mike Penner's travails seemed downright uplifting. "It gave people something to feel good about, made everyone feel as though they were breaking ground," said Kahrl.
"People figured that we were sports guys, that we'd be Neanderthals, but that just wasn't the case," said Harvey. "Sure, it was unusual and some people had questions, but this is a pretty sophisticated place."
The reaction of Christine's own family was more mid. Joan Penner had sent her son Mike to Catholic school for nine years, and she was horrified. The Dillmans didn't want anything to do with Christine, either. But Christine's 42-year-old brother, John, who had followed Mike to the_ Anaheim Bulletin_ and now worked on the Times copy desk, was still talking to her, which she considered a great victory.
The national press, of course, went nuts. Hundreds of newspapers and the networks picked up the story, flashing the stilted snapshot from Mike's ID badge next to a blurry photo of Christine. There were countless interview requests, from NPR to the Toronto Sun. Evan Wright, an award-winning Vanity Fair reporter, was dispatched to do a profile. David Kuhn, a well-known New York literary agent, pursued her to do a book.
Christine was exhilarated by the response. "She really blossomed," said Harvey. Billy Witz, an L.A. Daily News sportswriter who played for the Scribes, asked her to help coach his 9-year-old daughter's soccer team, and to everyone's surprise, none of the parents objected. A couple of trans friends persuaded her to join them performing a number from Dreamgirls for an AIDS fund-raiser at a local church. The annual CD compilation, cheekily relabeled KGAL, arrived on schedule as spring melted into summer. Long plagued by writer's block, Christine told people she had never felt more at home in her prose.
She even took Harvey up on his offer to write a blog, "A Woman in Progress," about her transition. She began spending more time in the office than she ever had as Mike, stopping by colleagues' desks to chat and flirt. She laughed easily, covering her mouth with a well-moisturized hand. When she interviewed Vin Scully, the legendary Dodgers announcer, for a front-page profile, she gushed to colleagues that it was the best day of her life. "She hugged me on the walkway when I ran into her," said Larry Stewart, the former Times sportswriter. "She seemed really ecstatic."
You probably don't wake up in the morning glad for your penis. Maybe you run a hand through your hair or notice that your breath still reeks of scotch and the cigarette you wish you hadn't smoked last night, but if you're not a sex addict or a narcissist, you probably don't start the day thanking God or nature for your gender.
But if you're sure you aren't meant to be a man, your gender is everything. You open your eyes and reach for the only thing that can save you: a shiny tablet of estrogen or the syringe you jab into your glute. You can opt for the patch if you don't like needles, or ask the doctor to implant a time-release pellet under a buttock. The important thing is to get that daily hit; it's the air you need to survive. Only slightly less important is the anti-androgen. You wash the tab down with your coffee to block the effects of testosterone. Later in the day, you pull out another syringe and pump yourself full of progesterone to coax your breasts to swell. You will do anything to escape the hairy, stinky prison of your body. Anything.
No one knows how many men suffer from Gender Identity Disorder—the official term used in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—but the American Psychiatric Association puts it at one in 10,000. Nor is there agreement on why some of us wind up believing we're the victims of such a cruel cosmic joke. A rough scientific consensus has emerged over the past decade that the disorder is at least partially explained by some sort of aberrant neurochemical reaction born of hormone exposure—or a mysterious lack of it—in utero. A few studies suggest that transsexual brains are measurably different from the brains of people who are comfortable in their gender, but transgendered people have normal hormone levels—until the pharmaceuticals kick in—and thus far no one has isolated a genetic or organic cause.
Gender discordance exists on a continuum. (Transvestitism, a.k.a. cross-dressing, is classified as a different disorder, a fluke of straight men who get a sexual charge from wearing panties or a skirt.) Most people who are convinced their genitals don't match their true gender will never go as far as getting sexual-reassignment surgery. Fewer than 1,000 such procedures are performed each year in the United States, where it can cost up to $30,000. (It's much cheaper elsewhere.) About three-quarters of the operations are male-to-female, partly because female-to-male surgery hasn't been perfected—it's a lot harder to add than take away.
Male-to-female technique has been so refined that the result is virtually indistinguishable from the real thing. The testicles are removed, and the penis is essentially inverted and reconfigured into a vagina, which is elongated with a graft of skin from the scrotum. You don't have orgasms like you used to—many newly minted females say they don't come at all—but most post-op transsexuals say there's plenty of sensation.
Anyway, sex is not really the point. "People assume that if you want to be a woman, then underneath it you really want to have sex with men and just can't deal with being gay," said Susan Horn. "But a lot of us aren't even thinking of whom we will have sex with. We're thinking about ourselves, that we want to be perceived by the world the way we perceive ourselves. We just want things to match."
Roughly half the men who become women wind up with another woman. "If you're interested in women before, you generally still are, even after you transition," said Horn. "Which, if you think about it, is the ultimate proof that gender and sex aren't as closely linked as we thought."
In the trans community, Christine was an instant headliner. "She was the public face everyone was hungry for," said Autumn Sandeen, who transitioned in 2003 and blogs for the popular LGBT Web site Pam's House Blend. "Someone with a visible career in a traditionally male field. Someone people couldn't ignore or diminish." Since January 2007, Christine had been a member of the Metropolitan Community Church in West Hollywood, where fashionable gay Hollywood worshipped. The Sunday after her coming-out column ran, the charismatic minister, the Reverend Neil Thomas, rhapsodized about her in his sermon.
She was the main attraction at a couple of major transgender gatherings that summer and fall, but the height may have been a giddy weekend at the National Lesbian Gay Journalists Association conference in September. There were four transwomen in attendance: Sandeen, Ina Fried of CNET, Diane Barnes of Global Security Newswire, and Christine. Sandeen loaded them into her secondhand Hyundai, and they visited what passed in San Diego for gay bars, the only places that might not balk at the sight of them coming through the door. "We were four fairly large women stuffed in a small car, windows down, cruising down the freeway, incredibly, insanely happy," recalled Sandeen. Later they discussed whether they would stay in the public eye or attempt to lead a quieter life. "Christine told me she felt it was her responsibility to be out there," said Sandeen. "She didn't want the younger girls to have to go through what we'd gone through."
When David Beckham debuted that July with the L.A. Galaxy, Christine blogged about making her appearance at the press conference, her first, at the stadium.
*He arrived wearing a silver-gray Burberry suit, surrounded by a phalanx of assistants and yes-people, on his way to a temporary stage assembled on the Home Depot Center soccer pitch, where he would say hello to adoring fans and talk to the media about his new $250-million gig with the Los Angeles Galaxy._
I arrived wearing a golden-hued top from Ross and a multi-colored paisley skirt from Ames and a pair of open-toed tan heels from Aerosoles, surrounded by nobody, just me and my press credential on our way to the far southwest corner of some very uncomfortable and unshaded stadium seats to listen to him talk and write about what he said.
The details are not important. What mattered to me on Friday was: David Beckham arrived. And so did I.
The attention seemed to embolden her in ways that would have been anathema to Mike. Rick Reilly, who began his career in the Orange County bureau of the Los Angeles Times before going on to become the world's highest-paid sportswriter at _Sports Illustrated _and ESPN, was signing books at Borders in Westwood in May 2007 when he looked up to see a large woman with honey-colored hair staring at him. "It's me," Christine said. It took a moment for him to realize that this was the guy he'd played hoops with every Friday back in the late '80s at Mile Square Park near Huntington Beach.
"I was thrown briefly, but then, hey, whatever," Reilly said recently. "She seemed happier and more comfortable than he'd ever seemed." After the signing, Reilly and his wife, Cynthia, took Christine out and killed a couple of bottles of Chardonnay. Christine told them about playing princess dress-up with her male cousins as a child, how her need to dress as a woman, to be a woman, had escalated till it became unbearable, how she'd kept a red toolbox of women's clothes behind the headboard through the years with Lisa. She said it was transgendering or death. Christine became a regular that summer at the Reillys' house in Hermosa Beach. "She and Cynthia would sit on the roof deck, and my wife would tutor her on all the details of being a woman," said Reilly. "Where to get the best shoes, how to wear a push-up bra."
She talked a lot about getting the surgery. First she had to live full-time as a woman for a year—the Benjamin Standards, a medical protocol developed in the 1970s by German-born endocrinologist Harry Benjamin, required it. Next summer, she planned to go to Trinidad, Colorado, where Marci Bowers, a surgeon who transitioned more than a decade ago, practiced. The Reillys had a second home in Denver, where she would recuperate.
But there was one subject that always brought the mood down: Lisa. If only she would come around, Christine would say, as Reilly topped off her glass. If they could only still be close, everything would be so perfect. "Christine honestly couldn't fathom it," said Reilly, "I said, 'Dude, why would you think this would be okay with her?' But she couldn't let Lisa go."
In fact, the media attention was crushing Lisa, who had filed for divorce in January. "They had been really private about it, and that was bad enough, but now, all of sudden, her tragedy, her pain—it was all out there," said Scott French, a co-founder of the Scribes, who met Mike at the Rose Bowl during the 1994 World Cup. Christine scrupulously avoided mentioning Lisa in interviews, but reporters kept pressing. "It's extremely painful," she told an NPR interviewer. "That's really a personal side of this conversation I'd rather not have."
Lisa was a stoic midwesterner, not some reality-show-ready California type who could easily spill her guts in public. She told her friends not to talk to the press and has never spoken publicly about her husband's saga. (She didn't respond to repeated requests to be interviewed for this story.) "What is there for her to say?" asked a fellow sportswriter who was close to both of them. "These were two people who were completely in love. Can you imagine what that's like?"
Everyone on the sports staff knew Lisa was suffering, and no one knew how to help. If Mike had been married to a suburban housewife, someone people hardly knew, it would have been different, abstract. Instead, Lisa was one of them. "People were nice to Christine, happy that she was happy, but they felt terrible for Lisa," said Larry Stewart. "Everyone in the newsroom sort of felt like they had to take sides. And they all chose Lisa. She's a lovely, fun person whom everyone loves. It wasn't an issue of Mike's becoming a woman; it was that Lisa was really broken up."
That giddy, golden summer of 2007 faded as the reality of being a midlife transwoman, single and lonely, set in: the stares as you pass on the street, the department-store salesgirls who whispered to one another as though you were deaf, the jarring sight of a stubbornly rugged jaw in the rearview mirror. "She would say that she had spent forty-five minutes putting on her makeup and still she saw Mike staring back," Amy recalled.
In December, Randy Harvey called Christine at home to share a joke: The Olympic committee had declared 2008 the Year of the Woman in sports. "I thought she'd get a real kick out it, but she got really offended," Harvey said. "I tried not to worry, but inside I knew there was something really wrong."
One night in February, Reilly was out late, getting hammered with Gene Wojciechowski, an ESPN colleague who'd worked with Reilly and Penner at the Times. On a whim, they dialed Christine to jaw about the old days. "She was totally touched that we included her," said Reilly. "She said she was going through a hard time with people she loved not accepting her. Then she cried, but I didn't think anything of it. Hell, she was always crying."
Around this time, Autumn Sandeen noticed that the activists had grown cold toward their poster girl. They sniped that she wasn't substantial enough, that "A Woman in Progress" spent too much time cataloging the new shoes in her closet and not enough mining the political turf. "They considered her frivolous," said Sandeen. "They didn't want to hear her talk about how great the Times had been about the transition or how Beckham gave her goose bumps. None of that highlighted the injustices and inequities that most transpeople go through. They wanted her to be a role model, a crusader. She was crushed. She just wanted to be Christine."
Then there was the matter of sex. Early on, Christine had dropped hints to Amy and Susan that she wanted to experiment with men, but as the weeks and months passed, she grew more withdrawn and uncertain. When they suggested she go out on a date to see how it felt, she demurred. "She said she had already had her great love," said Amy. "She said she couldn't fill that void."
It was late, almost midnight, when the phone rang at Amy's apartment in Redondo Beach. She knew right away who it was.
The death of Christine's mother the month before had been drawn-out and traumatic. Joan Penner had never accepted Christine and in her final dementia had vacillated between treating her as the daughter she never had and an abomination. The_ Vanity Fair_ piece that Christine hoped would show her as a complete, happy woman had fallen apart over differences about the photography and the direction of the reporting. "She realized that what she had envisioned, something glamorous and romantic, was never going to happen," said Sandeen. Then there was the divorce. Christine hadn't really believed Lisa would go through with it, but she could no longer ignore the documents that kept coming. They lay on the raw wooden table in her apartment amid tangled necklaces and a pile of old newspapers.
Amy had never had big expectations for her late-life transition—all she wanted was to die an old woman instead of an old man—but Christine had been convinced that becoming a woman would solve everything. Amy had tried to make her understand, from the beginning, that the act of becoming a woman itself wouldn't make you happy, any more than glasses would make you observant. But Christine just smiled that perfect smile. Until she didn't anymore.
She took a leave from the paper. Randy Harvey hadn't asked what was wrong, just told her to take care. She quit returning calls, even from Reilly. Mostly she sat in her apartment, the Audrey Hepburn posters on the wall failing to cheer her up, staring for hours through the sliding door to the dreary balcony and the busy street beyond.
So when Amy picked up the ringing phone, she braced herself. "I think I'm in kidney failure," Christine said.
Amy drove her to the hospital at Century Plaza. It was the third time in the past few months Christine had gone to the emergency room and the doctors had found nothing. But Amy couldn't let Christine go alone; hospitals were hard on the transgendered. The scanty gowns, the overworked staff poking and prodding you, some with barely concealed disgust. The fluorescent lights didn't do anyone any favors, even Christine, who had been so religious about electrolysis.
She was in bed in the ER, getting woozy from the sedative, when Amy took her hand. "I hope you won't be upset," Christine said, her voice faint, "but I'm thinking of pulling the plug on my transition." She couldn't live without the warmth, she stumbled to explain as the drugs kicked in. Without Lisa.
It was like watching a tennis ball attached to a rubber band stretched too tight and then released, Amy thought. It would snap back, but not all the way. You couldn't go back. Not really. That much Amy was sure of.
Christine came to stay at Amy's apartment after she got out of the hospital, spending most days under a coverlet in the spare room. She stopped taking her hormones, wasn't shaving her legs or bothering with makeup.
When Amy's sisters invited her to visit them in Oregon in August, she couldn't say no. The girls, who shared a house on ten wild acres, had been surprisingly supportive when she told them their only brother was going to become a woman. Going up there meant flying as a woman for the first time—she worried about what would happen if she couldn't pass and people stared on the plane—but the fear was worth being able to drink iced tea on the deck and fish on the river.
Christine got out of bed to drive Amy to the airport. They didn't talk much on the way. Amy knew it was the last time she would see Christine.
"You don't actually think Lisa will come back to you, do you?" Amy asked quietly.
"No, not really," Christine said, her eyes on the steamy freeway ahead. Amy didn't believe her, but what was there to say?
When Amy flew back into LAX two weeks later, Mike was waiting for her in his old Toyota Camry. He was wearing jeans and sneakers and a loose short-sleeve button-down shirt from Costco; his lank blond hair was chopped to the shoulder. Amy kept things light in the car, but it was hard. She had promised to be there for Christine no matter what, but this felt like a death.
"It's okay if you want to call me Christine," Mike told her, his voice a gruff whisper.
But Amy couldn't bring herself to do it; that would violate everything it meant to be trans. You got to be called what you wanted to be, what you decided you were. That was the whole point.
"If you're Mike, you're Mike," she said.
He moved back to the apartment on Sepulveda. He was broke and needed to go back to work. Randy Harvey tried not to ask too many questions, just limited it to "Will you be coming back as Mike?" Harvey suggested taking over "Totally Random," a short column of feature items. It was a simple assignment, a way to ease in. Before he returned, Mike asked the online editors to take down "A Woman in Progress." They obliged by obliterating every trace of it in the system—not an easy task, and a first in the history of the paper. Harvey wasn't entirely comfortable with the idea of altering the record, but the guy's mental health was at stake, he told himself.
At first Mike came into the office every few days, like Christine had, but it was awkward. He was a shell, hollowed out to the rind. "He wasn't there anymore," said Harvey. Someone heard him make a reference to wanting to kill himself, and he wound up back in the hospital for a few weeks around Christmas.
After he got out, he stuffed Christine's clothes in plastic bags and brought them to Goodwill. Slowly he got rid of the jewelry stands shaped like little Victorian dolls that had brightened up the apartment; he gave Amy the necklace with the blue glass beads that she had always admired and a pair of peridot earrings.
Much of the trans community was angry with him, and he didn't blame them. Transsexual regret was a radioactive subject, especially with someone so well-known. Fewer than 5 percent of transsexuals come to lament their decision, but there it was, a USA Today story about his reversal: FOR SOME, SHADOW OF REGRET CAST OVER GENDER SWITCH. Susan had dropped him, betrayed. The vibe at church the one Sunday he ventured back had been so hostile that Reverend Thomas later took a few bitter congregants aside.
When Thomas called to make sure he was okay, Mike told him he had never stopped being Christine but that he just couldn't take the expectations, the loneliness, the loss. "He knew it was irrational," Thomas said, "but there was part of him that believed he could get his old life back."
As 2009 wore on, Amy was the only one he seemed comfortable with. She had liked Christine better than she liked Mike, but she kept reminding herself not to be judgmental, that they were the same person in all the ways that counted. Fridays, after deadline, he would come to her apartment for dinner and a DVD. The night they screened a favorite, Wonder Woman, he gave her his Wonder Woman costume, size 10. Christine used to wear it whenever they watched. Amy told him she would hold on to it, in case Christine ever came back. "She's not coming back," he said. "Christine is gone."
At least Lisa was willing to see him again, to have lunch or a cup of coffee; an hour with her made him happy. Amy could tell when he had seen her. His voice brightened on the phone, and when he came over, his eyes glowed turquoise again. "Lisa told him she was glad all that silly stuff was over, that she was happy he was back," said Amy. "He nursed some kind of hope it would develop beyond that."
But as the months slid into fall, the light dimmed. There were crushing bills, and no more mentions of Lisa's laugh over an afternoon latte. When Amy asked him if he'd seen her lately, he just said, "She's moved on."
November 2009 was unusually chilly for L.A., a damp cold that rarely settled over the city. The night before Thanksgiving, Mike called Amy and asked if she had a gun. "You know I can't help you with that," she said. She drove to his apartment, but when she got there he wouldn't talk about it. She dragged him to Marie Callender's for some chili, but he just stared past the chintz curtains at the cars whipping by in the darkness.
Amy was going to the home of a colleague for Thanksgiving dinner, a woman who had urged her to bring Mike along. "If you don't want to come, at least sit in my apartment and wait for me there," Amy pleaded.
"I'm driving through the Jack in the Box, and I have some errands," he told her. "Don't worry about it."
The call came in at 8:15 P.M. on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. One of the neighbors and her boyfriend had spotted the Toyota as soon as they pulled into the parking structure below the stained stucco apartment building on Sepulveda. The motor was running, and a vacuum-cleaner hose snaked through the passenger-side window. A man was slumped against the seat. The boyfriend pulled him from the car, tried some CPR, and the girl dialed 911 on her cell phone.
By the time the EMS had taken Mike to the hospital in Culver City, the building manager had let two police officers into his apartment. At first, the 500-square-foot studio seemed like the typical lair of a transient single man: nothing on the walls, jeans draped over the generic pine furniture, the small fridge virtually empty. "Then I looked at the unopened mail," recalled Antonio Vasquez, one of the officers. "There was a lot of it, and most of it was addressed to a woman."
On the bed, in an envelope, was a handwritten note. For two decades, Mike Penner had crafted subtle sentences that teased the ironies out of the self-important world of sports; Christine Daniels, the woman he became for eighteen months, added self-revelation and raw emotion to the mix. But in the end, there were only terse instructions. Call my brother, John. And Chris Foster, a close friend and colleague from the Los Angeles Times. And Lisa. Of course, Lisa. To her, "All my love."
Princess Di. Farrah. Cher. They are all here, or at least their wigs seem to be, at Christine's memorial service, on a Saturday afternoon in January at the Metropolitan Community Church. Some of the women sit together in the pews, reaching behind one another's broad backs to gently pat a shoulder; others come in alone, drawing fringed wraps or generously cut jackets around themselves to ward off the chill. By 5 P.M. the room is filled, both with full-timers and those who are living as men but have slipped away to pull on a dress and pumps to remember Christine.
There was a funeral in Long Beach a couple of days after Mike's death, a farewell to "Lisa and John's idea of who Mike was," said Scott French, who was asked to speak. "The story line was that he was depressed and had tried a lot of things and they didn't work." In the entryway there was a single image: a head shot of Mike, his mouth a closed-lipped smile. French and a few Los Angeles Times colleagues spoke about Mike's gentle impenetrability, his boundless love of soccer, the teammates who called him the Gaffer, British slang for "the boss." They praised his talent and mourned the sadness that dogged him. The only acknowledgment that their friend spent a year and a half as a woman was when Billy Witz got up to describe Christine's joy over the first goal by the shyest of the girls they had coached. The room was silent.
Amy was the only trans at the funeral, and she sat quietly in the back. John Penner had called to invite her; they had run into each other time after time at the hospital. Another transwoman, Michelle Evans, who had struck up a friendship with Christine through the blog, had shown up with her wife of twenty-seven years, but Lisa had insisted that John turn them away at the door.
Six weeks later, at the Metropolitan Community Church memorial, an ebony-skinned transwoman in a black-and-yellow dress belts out "Walking Around Heaven All Day" like Cissy Houston. Amy LaCoe, nervous speaking in front of so many people, looks down at her notes and recalls that Christine was "as elegant in a pullover and jeans as she was in an evening gown." Susan Horn, a size 22 in a maroon silk sleeveless top, straps on a vintage Gibson ax and launches into "Travelin' Thru," from the soundtrack of Transamerica, which she and Christine often watched over trays of cocktail franks and glasses of Sauvignon Blanc. By the end of the song, the crowd is weeping. A photomontage flashes across the fifty-inch screens that flank the stage. The music is Talking Heads, "Once in a Lifetime." Christine at an awards luncheon with a toothy smile. Christine at the microphone at a conference, her hand chopping the air. Christine in a soft blue sweater, her head thrown back with laughter.
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BEDMINSTER, N.J., and DUBLIN, Ireland, April 8, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Amarin Corporation plc (Nasdaq:AMRN), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the commercialization and development of therapeutics to improve cardiovascular health, announced today additional data from Amarin's previously announced MARINE and ANCHOR Phase 3 clinical trial results of Vascepa® (icosapent ethyl) related to the effect of Vascepa on apolipoprotein C-III (Apo C-III). The lipoprotein Apo C-III is thought to inhibit the clearance of triglycerides from the blood. People who do not produce Apo C-III have lower levels of triglycerides and lower instances of cardiovascular disease.
In Amarin's MARINE and ANCHOR trials, the 4 gram dose of Vascepa achieved reductions in Apo C-III levels of 25.1% (p<0.0001) and 19.2% (p<0.0001) compared to placebo, respectively. Amarin previously announced the efficacy and safety results of its MARINE and ANCHOR trials, including achievement of the primary endpoints of these studies with respect to triglyceride reduction as well as the positive effect of Vascepa with respect to levels of apolipoprotein B (Apo B), non-high-density lipoprotein (non-HDL-C), total cholesterol (TC), and very low density lipoprotein cholesterol (VLDL-C). The data on Apo C-III were collected from post-hoc analyses of the MARINE and ANCHOR trials. Amarin plans to present additional data related to Vascepa's effect on Apo C-III at an upcoming scientific meeting.
"Amarin is proud of the robust performance of Vascepa in the MARINE and ANCHOR studies," stated Steven B. Ketchum, Ph.D., President of Research and Development of Amarin. "The Apo C-III data announced today are another example of these positive results."
About Amarin
Amarin Corporation plc is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the commercialization and development of therapeutics to improve cardiovascular health. Amarin's product development program leverages its extensive experience in lipid science and the potential therapeutic benefits of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Vascepa® (icosapent ethyl), Amarin's first FDA approved product, is a patented, ultra pure omega-3 fatty acid product comprising not less than 96% EPA. For more information about Vascepa visit www.vascepa.com. For more information about Amarin visit www.amarincorp.com.
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I inherited this book. All I know is that it was purchased from the Heritage Book Shop in Beverly Hills, CA and is a first edition copy of Babe's autobiography and signed by Babe himself. I have the receipt as well.
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Texas expects to complete a deal with Charlie Strong to be its new football coach by Sunday, a senior University of Texas official told USA TODAY Sports on Saturday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, said Texas is very confident the hire will be completed Sunday. The official announcement would be followed by an introductory news conference on Monday.
EARLIER: Strong meets with Louisville staff
Strong, who is 37-15 at Louisville, interviewed with Texas last week. Before accepting Texas' offer, he told Texas officials he wanted to meet in person with Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich. But Jurich was out of town on vacation in Colorado and has had difficulty because of bad weather in getting back to Louisville.
The Texas official said Strong felt obligated to Jurich, who gave him his first head-coaching job. "We've got to respect that," the official said. "We fully expect him to be here."
The Associated Press reported that the meeting between Strong and Jurich occurred later Saturday and that Strong informed the school that he is leaving for the Longhorns.
Per his contract, Strong will owe Louisville $4.375 million, with that amount due within 21 days of his final day of employment.
Mack Brown resigned last month after 16 seasons at Texas. The Longhorns finished 8-5 with a 30-7 loss Monday to Oregon in the Alamo Bowl. Although the Longhorns won a BCS national championship and played for another, the program slipped precipitously in the last four seasons. They were 4-16 in their last 20 games against ranked opponents.
Strong, 53, a native of Batesville, Ark., made his reputation as a defensive coordinator at Florida. Last season, he coached Louisville to a victory over the Gators in the Sugar Bowl. This year, the Cardinals won 12 games including the Russell Athletic Bowl, a 36-9 win over Miami.
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What area of the city offers buyers the best return for their investment? Without getting into the 89 mls sub-districts, but broadly looking at the 10 districts (areas if you are jargon averse and want to avoid confusion with political or other city drawn disticts) which one has performed the best? SF real estate statistics surround us like a sea, but are they useful?
Our team just didn't vibe with a company-made chart presented at this week's sales meeting. Which got us digging into a bunch of charts and numbers and suddenly we were down the San Francisco real estate data wormhole. How often we find ourselves in this place. Or, well, at least I do. Here's the company chart that we don't vibe with (it seems to be this thing I do):
Zephyr used a quarterly basis for their numbers with quarterly values calculated using 3 month rolling averages. And while I agree those are reasonable paramaters, I also disagree. I pulled number using both average and median sales price, but looked at the average or median sales price for the year. I used YTD 2016 for 2016.
I did this because our sales volume and velocity, as well as all the linked market dynamics vary a lot by quarter. To average out that variation, I'm more comfortable using the average or median sales price based on the entire year's sales and not a rolling average from one particular quarter that has some seasonality bias for lack of a better made up term?
Zephyr dropped D8 and D6 becauase they aren't major single family areas. Which is, again, fair. But they do exist, so we think the annual average is a reasonable compromise and our chart includes them.
Using those adjustments, we come up with our own chart below using median sales price:
Our chart, using median sales price, agrees that the Richmond (d1) area of the city saw the highest single family home price appreciation. Our data isn't as optimistic on any of the neighborhood gains as the Zephyr chart, but we both agree on the first place area.
That's where we diverge. Our data ranks both the Sunset/Parkside area (d2) and the Excelsior/ Bayview/Hunters Point area (d10) as outperforming the Potrero Hill/Bernal Heights/Mission (d9), and life in Pacific Heights (d7) has actually been rather nice, 20% appreciation on a $4,000,000 investment isn't anything to call the attorneys about.
But if you feel like arguing with us, we're one step ahead of you. We just need to use average sales price, an argument we could make because the annual average sales price uses amongst the largest data sets (all sales, all months) and thus is big enough to "absorb" any skewing by outliers and the neighborhoods areas are small and similar enough and homogenous enough in price that the mean average still presents an accurate picture of neighborhood price appreciation:
If we work off of the mean average sale price numbers, the Bayview/Hunters Point (d10) area zooms to first place, followed by Sunset (d2), Stonestown/Lakeside (d3), Potrero Hill/Bernal Heights/Mission (d9) then Castro/Noe Valley (d5), West of Twin Peaks (d4), then finally Richmond (d1) followed by the hills Russian and Nob (d8), Pacific Heights and north (d7), and Hayes Valley/Civic Center (d6).
So is the Richmond the hottest market or the seventh hottest? Did it appreciate at 28% or 48% or 76% since 2013? We could argue about it forever. But remember: you can't buy a neighborhood. You can only buy a specific home in it, so our suggestion is to focus most of all on a particular home's unique value to your life. It's an investment you live in.


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Android and iOS have become the indisputable leaders in the mobile computing revolution that has taken place over the last five years. As such, whenever a high-end flagship Android is announced, or a new iPhone revealed, it's inevitable that we pit them against each other.
So just how does the new iPhone stack up against the competition? To answer that, we first have to take a look at the new features and hardware introduced with the iPhone 5.
At 7.6 mm thick, 18% thinner than the 4S, and 112 grams, 20% lighter, Apple is touting the iPhone 5 as the thinnest phone in the world (which it's not).
One of the most popular rumors surrounding the iPhone 5 before release was the screen size, which has indeed seen a bump to 4.0-inches, at 1136 x 640, for a pixel density of 326 PPI. The new display on the iPhone 5 also sees a bump in saturation and clarity, thanks to in-cell technology. Which is already being used by several different Android manufacturers.
The iPhone 5 is the first iPhone to include HSPA+, DC-HSDPA, and LTE. Apple's LTE chip puts voice and data into one chip, and is paired with a 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz WiFi radio.
The processor in the iPhone 5 has been bumped up from the A5, to the A6. Apple has always been quiet on a lot of the core numbers on their in-house processors. They promise things like 2x faster performance in everything you do with the A6 over the A5. I would imagine chips like the latest Exynos and Snapdragons will have no problem keeping up.
Camera buffs have always bragged about the quality of the iPhone's camera over other smartphones. Rival manufacturers have definitely caught up at this point, which is why Apple is yet again bumping up the camera in the iPhone 5. Made out of sapphire crystal, the camera on the iPhone 5 is a an 8-megapixel, backside illuminated, hybrid IR filter shooter with advanced processing for better low-light condition and noise filtering. Manufacturers like Sony and LG are really stepping up their cameras this year as well, it'll be interesting to see how they perform.
Along with the larger display, enhanced camera and faster processor, the iPhone 5 comes with better battery life, three microphones, new speakers and a highly improved (but still proprietary) Lightning connector.
The only thing new software wise, that wasn't detailed back in June, is, well, nothing actually. Of course there's Apple's new Maps app, and Passbook, but that's it really. No mobile payment systems. No widgets or interactive app icons. But Siri will tell you what your favorite sports team's scores are. If you ask nicely.
In terms of hardware, and raw specs, the iPhone 5 barely manages to keep up with the latest flagship Android devices, let alone anything that may debut before the end of a year. But specs alone aren't enough anymore. It's about the entire user experience. The package of hardware and software. The iPhone 5, paired with iOS 6, will deliver. And so has the Galaxy Nexus with Jelly Bean, Android 4.1, and so has the Nexus 7, and the next Nexus device will as well.
We've finally reached a point where the release cycles of Android hardware and software, and Apple hardware and software, aren't as revolutionary as they once were, at least not compared to the massive updates that were mere months apart from each other in the past. They're refinements of what are already good products. And that's not a bad thing. It finally gives us, as consumers, a chance to catch out breaths. But it still manages to keep pushing the envelope forward.
To answer the question from the title of this post, it stacks up well. The iPhone 5 will continue to break records, continue to be a smash hit with consumers, and continue to maintain its position of power in the market place, just as it will continue to be one of the only non-Android devices on the market to keep Android manufacturers moving forward.
Just don't be foolish and think for one second that any new device on the market, be it from Apple, Nokia, RIM or whoever else, is going to make Android any less of the powerful, versatile, world leader it is today. Android is here to stay, but there's room for more than one at the top. The iPhone 5 is certainly capable of more than filling that role.


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Six injured as head-on crash at Kybong closes Bruce Highway
TWO men were trapped in their cars, one of them for an hour and a half, after two vehicles collided head on at Kybong, injuring four others.
The crash on the Bruce Hwy near the intersection of Mulally Rd happened about 4.30pm yesterday and closed the Bruce Hwy in both directions for hours.
The cars involved were a Ford Laser being driven by a male with his female passenger, which ended up in the middle of the highway, and a Mitsubishi Lancer containing five people, believed to be related, which rolled and ended up in a nearby ditch.
The male driver of the Laser and a male passenger who had been asleep in the back seat of the Lancer were airlifted by the AGL Action Rescue and the Emergency Management Queensland helicopters to Princess Alexandra and Royal Brisbane hospitals.
Witnesses at the scene said the male driver of the Laser had to be cut out of the car by firefighters.
A Department of Community Safety spokeswoman said one of the male patients airlifted had leg and pelvic injuries while the other had leg, pelvic and chest injuries.
She said both were last night in a stable condition.
Four other patients were taken by ambulance to Nambour General Hospital.
At least one was in a serious condition but was later reported to be stable.
It was believed one of the people involved in the crash did not require treatment. Witnesses described the scene as "hectic". Traffic was diverted via Traveston Crossing Rd and Mary Valley Hwy as the site was cleared but that soon became a parking lot according to motorists.
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A Fall River company has been selected by Cape Wind to be the electrical outfitter for the 130-wind turbine project planned for Horseshoe Shoals in Nantucket Sound.
A Fall River company has been selected by Cape Wind to be the electrical outfitter for the 130-wind turbine project planned for Horseshoe Shoals in Nantucket Sound.
The offshore wind developer revealed Fall River Electrical's involvement in the project Tuesday, when it announced that Weeks/Manson will be the project's construction contractor. Weeks/Manson is a joint venture between New Jersey-based Weeks Marine and Washington-based Manson Construction Co.
Fall River Electrical Vice President Dana Johnston said in a statement that his company is "looking forward to being a part of the Cape Wind and Weeks/Manson team."
"This is a great opportunity for local businesses like ours to help bring the clean energy industry to Massachusetts," he said.
Rick Palmer, vice president of Weeks Marine, said his company's contract with Cape Wind "has been a long time coming." Prior to Tuesday's announcement, Weeks Marine had invested in building a jack-up barge specifically to use for installing wind turbines offshore.
"Weeks Marine was committed to the emergence of the U.S. offshore wind industry and confident enough to make significant investment required to build an installation vessel," Palmer said. He called the barge "an important early link" for a domestic supply chain for offshore wind.
Before turbines are installed, Palmer explained, workers from Fall River Electrical will help outfit the turbine towers with electrical equipment. That work will be done onshore, although Palmer said he could not comment on what port — New Bedford or Rhode Island's Quonset Point — would host the work.
Palmer said five companies applied to be the electrical subcontractor, but did not know where they were all located.
Cape Wind spokesman Mark Rodgers said that having Fall River Electrical as the subcontractor shows that Weeks/Manson is "very interested in maximizing potential for local and regional subcontractors."
"The workers who build Cape Wind will be coming from the local and regional work force," he said.


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DANVILLE, Va. – Shenandoah University erupted for 28 points in the third quarter on its way to a 45-17 USA South Conference football victory over Averett University Saturday afternoon.
Shenandoah (5-3, 4-2 USA South) ensures itself of its best season since 2004 with the victory over AU (3-6, 2-4).
With one game left, SU will finish at least the .500 mark for the first time since the 2004 USA South co-champion squad went 7-4.
The Hornets led just 10-3 at the break but scored four touchdowns in the third to seal their eighth victory in 12 lifetime meetings with Averett.
The defense was the story of the day as SU picked off AU quarterbacks four times, returning two of them for touchdowns, and set up the offense with a short field on two additional occasions.
John Ludden and Larry Gibbs had the interception returns for touchdowns - this is the second time in the past three trips to Danville that Shenandoah has returned two Averett passes for scores.
Shenandoah used a muffed Averett punt to key its first scoring drive. Gunner Philip Volz recovered the Anthony Terry fumble at the Cougars 23, and six plays later Daniel Wright found Rico Wallace on a fade pass for the 1-yard score.
Another special teams mistake, this one an unsuccessful fake punt, led to a nine-play, 27-yard SU drive that ended with a 22-yard Andrew Lloyd field goal.
Early in the third, a forced fumble led directly to what proved to be the game-breaking score.
Ke'Von White fumbled on his own 10, and thanks to a Donny Dotson recovery at the 9, SU had prime position for its second drive of the half.
It took just one play to cash in, as Brad Martz busted through the middle for his fourth rushing TD of the season and the Hornets led 17-3 with just over 11 minutes remaining in the third.
Two plays later Byron Mitchell gave SU another short field with his fourth interception and the offense over on the AU 5. Wright found Martz on a 4-yard TD pass and the Hornets had all of the points they would need to seal the win.
The offense was outgained 420-277, including 224-78 through the air. Carl Joseph accounted for nearly half of the Hornets 197 rushing yards with his school-record 88-yard TD with 6:47 to play in the third.
Gibbs paced the defense with 11 tackles (seven solo) and had the 84-yard 'pick six'.
Shenandoah completes its season, and its run in the USA South, next Saturday with a 1:00 contest at N.C. Wesleyan.


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Styrene PolystyreneHigh Impact Polystyrene (HIPS) offers a consistent, easily printed matte surface for either one or two sided printing applications. This polystyrene product, available in HIPS sheet or rollstock form, is especially suitable for digital printing of displays, POP graphics, signs, translights, tags and cards. It can also be contour cut.
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Galaxy Anfitrion del Sueño MLS
Galaxy host Sueño MLS tryouts at The Home Depot Center
CARSON, Calif. (Wednesday, April 24, 2013) – The LA Galaxy will host more than 500 soccer hopefuls at The Home Depot Center this weekend as part of Sueño MLS 2013 – Presented by Allstate, the premier, nationally televised search for the best undiscovered soccer talent in North America.
Now in its seventh year, Sueño MLS is returning to its roots as Los Angeles is where the first tryouts were held in 2007. This is the third time that the Galaxy have participated in Sueño MLS and the first time the regional tryouts will take place at The Home Depot Center, with past tryouts being hosted in Riverside in 2009 and in Glendale in 2010. The Home Depot Center will also be the site of the Sueño MLS 2013 Finals, which will be held from May 9-12.
While pre-registration for the event is full, players are encouraged to sign up in person for the "walk-up" list starting Saturday, April 27 at 8 a.m. (PT) at The Home Depot Center's Track and Field Stadium. At the conclusion of day, 30 players will be invited to come back Sunday, April 28. Of those final 30 players, only six, including one goalkeeper, will move on to the Finals.
All six of the Los Angeles finalists will receive an invitation to a week-long trial with the LA Galaxy Academy.
Friends and family of participating players are invited to watch the tryouts and enjoy the interactive fan zone presented by event partners. Univision Network's República Deportiva personalities Felix Fernandez and Natalia Saenz, along with a host a host of former MLS players currently coaching in the LA Galaxy Academy— Mauricio Cienfuegos, Ted Eck, Clint Mathis, Ante Razov and Alex Yi— will be in attendance to help with the tryouts and admission is free.
For more information about Sueño MLS, please click here.
SORTO AND VILLARREAL TO TRAIN WITH THE U.S. U-20: The LA Galaxy Homegrown duo of defender Oscar Sorto and forward Jose Villarreal were each included in the U.S. Under-20 National Team roster for their training camp, which is being held this week at The Home Depot Center. Villarreal helped the U.S. qualify for this summer's FIFA U-20 World Cup in Turkey, leading the team with three goals in four games at the recent CONCACAF U-20 Championships. Sorto, who captained the Galaxy at the Dallas Cup, played the full 90 minutes in the Galaxy's 1-1 draw with Seattle in the Reserve League. Sorto and Villarreal are joined by Galaxy Academy defender Javan Torre, who played his freshman season at UCLA in 2012 and was part of the U.S. U-20 team that qualified for the World Cup. Former Galaxy Academy defender Jeffrey Payeras is also included in head coach Tab Ramos' 24-man squad. Payeras signed a contract in Guatemala with Municipal in January.
ROMERO AND WRIGHT TO TRAVEL TO ITALY WITH U.S. U-15: Two LA Galaxy Academy players were named to the U.S. Under-15 roster for the Tournament Delle Nazioni in Grandisca, Italy by head coach Tony Lepore. Goalkeeper Abraham Romero and forward Haji Wright, both of whom play with the LA Galaxy Academy U-16's, will travel to Italy for the tournament from April 26 – May 7. Romero, who was most recently in camp with the U-15's in March, has played in 10 games for the Galaxy Academy U-16's this season in Development Academy play. Wright, who has appeared in 17 games for the Galaxy U-16's, is currently third on the team with five goals.
AJEAKWA, LOPEZ and NUNES TO TRAIN WITH U.S. U-14: Midfielder Ateno Ajeakwa, goalkeeper Eric Lopez and forward Jesus Nunez were three of 29 players named by U.S. Under-14 Head Coach Hugo Perez to a week-long training camp that will take place this week at The Home Depot Center. In November, the Galaxy trio led the club's U-14's to a share of the of the SCDSL title with a record of 8-0-1. Ajeakwa and Nunez were part of an offense that scored a league-best 43 goals, while Lopez was part of defense that posted three shutouts and allowed just eight goals in nine games.
GALAXY U-18 DEFEATS PATEADORES: The LA Galaxy Academy's U-18 team registered an impressive 3-1 come-from-behind win over Pateadores last Saturday at Orange Coast College, extending their winning streak to five. Pateadores opened the scoring with an 11th minute goal from midfielder Kyle Mikael Pizano, but just before halftime, midfielder Drew Murphy equalized for the Galaxy, sending the teams into the halftime break tied at 1-1. The Galaxy dominated the second half, completing the comeback behind goals from Paul Arriola and Jaime Villarreal. Arriola, playing in his 10th game of the season, scored his fourth goal of the year in the 61st minute, to put the Galaxy in front for good. Fellow forward Jaime Villarreal came off the bench to complete the scoring, tallying his second goal of the year to give LA a 3-1 win.
The win was the Galaxy's 15th of the season and fifth straight, moving them to within four points of first place Real Salt Lake-Arizona with a game in hand. The Galaxy, who are 15-4-3 on the season, will host RSL-Arizona at The Home Depot Center on Sunday, May 5.
GALAXY U-16 DRAW 1-1 WITH PATEADORES: The LA Galaxy Academy's U-16 team earned an important road point against rival Pateadores last Saturday at Orange Coast College by securing a 1-1 draw. Pateadores, who are sixth place in the Southwest Division standings and still alive in the playoff hunt, scored first just before halftime when Mel McCurrie blasted a corner kick rebound into the back of the net in the 40th minute to go up 1-0. LA equalized five minutes into the second half as an alert Steve Martinez intercepted an errant backpass to the Pateadores goalkeeper and tapped the ball into an empty net for his team-high 13th goal of the season to level the scoreline at 1-1. With the tie, the Galaxy are now 5-9-8 on the season and are in seventh place in the Southwest Division.
GALAXY U-14 AND U-15 TEAMS VICTORIOUS IN NATIONAL CUP OPENER: The LA Galaxy Academy teams are off to a good start in the Cal South National Cup, which is the qualifying tournament for the US Youth Soccer National Championship Series Far West Regionals. The U-15's opened pool play with a 6-0 shutout win over Riverside Futbol Club last Saturday at the Lancaster Soccer Complex. Playing at the same complex the following day, the U-14's posted an impressive 7-1 victory over Pacific Coast Soccer Club.
Next up for both teams is a trip to Escondido's Ryan Park this weekend. The U-15's have two games there, first against Attack B97 Green on Saturday at 12 p.m. and then against Capo FC Sunday at 8 a.m. That game is followed by the U-14's, who close out pool play against United Futbol Club Sunday at 10 a.m.
GALAXY U-14'S ADVANCE TO U.S. SOCCER FUTSAL SEMIFINALS: The LA Galaxy Academy U-14's will face rival Chivas USA in the semifinals of the U.S. Soccer Nike Youth Futsal LA Invitational on Wednesday, April 24, at 6 p.m. The winner will advance to the Championship Match, against the winner of the Pateadores vs. Real So Cal semifinal, at 8 p.m. on the main tennis court of The Home Depot Center.
Futsal is a key training tool of the LA Galaxy Academy and U.S. Soccer, helping to develop technical skills while also speeding up a players' decision making ability. The Galaxy had two teams in the tournament, one in Group Blue and another in Group Black. The team in Group Black, coached by LA Galaxy legend Mauricio Cienfuegos, made it to this stage of the tournament by beating out San Diego Surf, Strikers FC and Real So Cal to win the group.
GALAXY U-12'S WIN LA'S MEXICAN CONSULATE'S COPA VENTANILLA: The LA Galaxy Academy U-12 Orange County Team took home the LA-Mexican Consulate's Copa Ventanilla U-13, 5v5 Soccer Tournament championship. Playing up an age group did not appear to trouble the Galaxy, whose squad was split into two. Both Galaxy teams showed a lot of technical ability as they beat affiliates of two Mexican clubs en route to the finals. Galaxy B beat Santos U.S.A. 3-1 while Galaxy A got past Tiburones Rojos with a score of 6-4. In the final, Galaxy B outlasted Galaxy A 6-3 to win the title. Coached by Braeden Cloutier, the tournament was the first for the recently formed Galaxy Academy Orange County U-12's, who are coached by former MLS player Braeden Cloutier and trains with Galaxy Alliance club West Coast F.C.
Game Date
LA Galaxy U-14's vs. Chivas USA – U.S. Soccer Nike Youth Futsal LA Invitational Wednesday, April 24
Game will be played at The Home Depot Center – Main Tennis Court at 6 p.m.
TBD vs. TBD – U.S. Soccer Nike Youth Futsal LA Invitational – Championship Game Wednesday, April 24
Game will be played at The Home Depot Center – Main Tennis Court at 8 p.m.
LA Galaxy U-14's vs. United Futbol Club – Cal South National Cup Group Stage Saturday, April 27
Game will be played at Ryan Park in Escondido – Field 7 at 12 p.m.
LA Galaxy U-14's vs. United Futbol Club – Cal South National Cup Group Stage Saturday, April 28
Game will be played at Ryan Park in Escondido – Field 7 at 8 a.m.
LA Galaxy U-14's vs. United Futbol Club – Cal South National Cup Group Stage Sunday, April 28
Game will be played at Ryan Park in Escondido – Field 1 at 10 a.m.
LA Galaxy U-18's vs. San Diego Surf Sunday, April 28
Game will be played at the San Diego Polo Club – Field 8 at 11 a.m.
LA Galaxy U-16's vs. San Diego Surf Sunday, April 28
Game will be played at the San Diego Polo Club – Field 8 at 1:30 p.m.
Times and locations for all games are correct as of Monday, April 22. Click here for a complete schedule of games in the Southern California Development Soccer League and U.S. Soccer Development Academy, which includes the Galaxy Academy's U-16 and U-18 teams.


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citifari - New York by Night photo tour
Saturday, January 10, 2015 from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
Event Details
Citifari New York by night photo tour includes the UN Headquarters, 42nd street, Grand Central Terminal, the Chrysler building, the Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall.
A tripod is required for this tour.
Citifari tour starts at the corner of 43rd st. and 2nd av. next to Goodburger restaurant, look for your photographer guide, he is the one wearing the white citifari hoodie.
- bring your best camera, a tripod (unless you are renting one), a remote control, a couple of lenses if you have (a standard zoom should be enough but you might want to be able to play a bit),
- remember to charge your battery and have a memory card that will allow for some 100 shots (~ 10 shots per spot),
- wear comfortable clothing and walking shoes according to the weather,
- most of the tour occurs outside, remember nights are colder than days, bring gloves, a warm coat and shoes and a hat for colder days,
- bring some refreshments / snacks
- as it is customary in the US, if you like your tour, please tip your photographer guide accordingly
The tour lasts between 2-1/2 hour and 3 hours and will end close to Grand Central Terminal or Radio City Hall depending on timing.
We look forward to citifaring with you.
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Join citifari's (www.citifari.com) professional New York City photographers for a compact and exclusive 2-1/2 hour tour. Our guides have diligently scouted the most unique vantage points for many of the city's famous landmarks - all for your benefit. During the citifari walking tour, they share with you these privileged corners of NYC along with various, must-have, techniques so you can shoot your own stunning photographs.
Your guide will direct you to the most appropriate location for each picture and then helps you:
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The centre-back announced his decision to call time on his playing career on Thursday, and is set to leave as the club's second-highest appearance maker of all-time.
And Rodgers, who has recently reinstated the Bootle-born defender to his starting XI, believes Carragher's qualities will be sorely missed.
"For me, he'll be irreplaceable. I don't think that type can been replaced," the Reds coach told reporters.
|Jamie Carragher is 11/1 to score at any time against West Brom with Bet365
"He's an outstanding leader and organiser in the team, and to find someone with all those capabilities and who has got the heart the size of a lion, is very, very difficult to find.
"You won't find that type [anymore]. You obviously have to look for other types of players with other qualities, and that's what we'll have to do."
The Northern Irishman also revealed that he had attempted to persuade Carragher to postpone his retirement for another season.
"I've had many conversations with Jamie this season so I knew all along what was in his mind. He's obviously thought long and hard about it over the last 18 months," he added.
"In terms of staying on it was clear that it was something I wanted him to do. Jamie had thought about this last summer.
"I came in and we had some good conversations and I persuaded him to stay on.
"He's been a giant for me since I've come in here. An incredible man and one of a dying breed. Someone who's got real old-school values and ethics.
"As you can see from his last performances in two big games, he's still got the qualities to play at this level.
"He's put his body through a lot over the course of these last 18 years and he's got a beautiful young family he may want to spend some time with.
"The supporters should really enjoy watching him because he's a real iconic player for this club."
The 40-year-old went on to admit that he is unsure what Carragher will do next, with the defender having seemingly ruled out an immediate switch to coaching.
"From now until the end of the season he just wants to concentrate on his football and doesn't want to look too much into the future," he continued.
"He's still very fit. He's 35 years of age but how committed he is to football has allowed him to stay in peak condition.
"At the moment he's only concentrating on doing everything he can to finish the season as a success. Beyond that, it's too early to say."


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When deducting career-related expenses on your tax return, remember that you must have paid or incurred them during the tax year for which you're filing, and they must be "ordinary" and "necessary" in your line of work. According to the Internal Revenue Service, "An expense is ordinary if it is common and accepted in your trade, business, or profession. An expense is necessary if it is appropriate and helpful to your business. An expense does not have to be required to be considered necessary."
That said, your expenses still have to fall within the rules established by the federal tax code. Even though you and I as performers may completely agree that an expense is ordinary and necessary in our industry, it must also be "fair" in regard to those outside the industry. Let me give you a great example: the cost of watching movies, cable TV, and theatre. Every performer must be familiar with what's currently happening on stage and screen. Nevertheless, the IRS classifies these expenses as entertainment rather than education, because that's how the rest of the world sees them. That's why they're immediately denied as deductions in most audits. When you explain that without watching these productions, you can't participate in the industry as an actor (a valid argument), the IRS will ask you to produce your viewing log.
That's because it's your responsibility to prove how the expense is ordinary and necessary to your business by presenting evidence. A viewing log -- a written list of the films, TV shows, and theatrical productions you saw and what you learned from each one that will advance your career -- accomplishes that. Even if you write that you learned nothing from a project, saw no roles for yourself, and just list the director and casting director, that's enough to establish the educational value of the expense.
Every auditor has the discretion to allow or deny deductions based upon his or her interpretation of IRS rules. That's why there is no standard list of deductions that are acceptable to the IRS. You're allowed to challenge an auditor's decision with his or her manager because, even in the same office, two auditors may allow different deductions. Just bear in mind that after a few weeks, most auditors have figured out how their manager interprets the tax code.
This explains why one tax preparer may say yes to a write-off when another says no. In our office, we say yes only when we know the deduction will pass any auditor's inspection and a strong no when we know it won't. We also inform you when something falls into a gray area, meaning the decision could go either way depending on the auditor's interpretation. In that case, we let you make the choice, as you're the one signing the return. The following list is only a guide to assist you in understanding the types of performer expenses that will pass any audit. You may find more-extensive lists that include expenses not indicated here, but this one covers the significant areas.
-- Advertising and publicity (headshots, résumés, post cards, websites, ads, etc.)
-- Gifts for business (limited to $25 per person per year)
-- Purchase and maintenance of professional costumes (only clothing not usable for general street wear)
-- Research supplies (sheet music, books, tapes, scripts, props, etc.)
-- Business use of a telephone (the amount you spent on business calls on either your land line or cell phone; you can deduct the entire cost of a dedicated business line)
-- Lessons (acting classes, dance classes, coachings, casting director workshops, etc.)
-- Trade publications (Back Stage, The Hollywood Reporter, etc.)
-- Accompanist and audition expenses (pianist fees, copying sides for auditions, etc.)
-- Union dues and initiation fees (include your 2 percent Actors' Equity Association dues)
-- Legal fees (related to your work) > Occupational taxes (such as business licenses) > Passport fees (related to your work)
-- Automobile and mass transit expenses (related to your work)
-- Major equipment purchases (such as a computer or video camera for use in your work)


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