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OCALA, Fla. - A man has been arrested and charged after an attempted murder at an Ocala barbershop.
On Nov. 30, police responded to the Alpha Barbershop on Magnolia Avenue in reference to a robbery and attempted felony murder, in which authorities said two people were shot and robbed of their money and cell phones.
Police received information on Dec. 9 that the stolen phone was at Spring Manor Apartment on Northeast 7th Street.
As they were traveling westbound on Northeast 3rd Street, police made contact with two women, who live at the apartment complex, walking with baby strollers.
An officer asked if either of them had a cell phone, in which one of them showed the officer a black phone with a broken screen. Police asked her if she had another one, and then pulled one out of her back pocket. The black phone had a chrome screen protector, which was similar to the one described by one of the shooting victims.
Police then took the two women to the police department for an interview. The woman said that her friend "J" gave her the phone as a gift on Friday. She said that "J" told her he bought it from somebody would not tell her from whom.
The woman said she had been talking to the guy for a while and only knew him by "J," but somebody from Spring Manor told her his name of Lenz.
After a photographic lineup with Orenzo Fitzpatrick included, the woman positively identified him as the one who gave her the phone.
Police then conducted a recorded controlled phone call to Fitzpatrick with the woman. During the interview, Fitzpatrick told her, "I told you it was in a robbery," when describing how he got the phone.
When the woman told Fitzpatrick she called the voicemail and it said Alpha Barbershop, Fitzpatrick told her, "I told you not to use the phone." Police said a warrant was then obtained for Fitzpatrick for dealing in stolen property and tampering with evidence.
On Friday, police found Fitzpatrick in the area of Spring Manor Apartments and then fled on foot. He was then taken into custody in front of the Winn-Dixie on Northeast 14th Street.
Fitzpatrick told police that two men asked him about getting a gun so they could do a robbery and they talked about places to rob. He was later called by the men and was told they robbed and shot two guys, according to police.
Fitzpatrick also said that he met up with the robbers and he received the Sprint Evo from the robbery.
Fitzpatrick was charged with principal in the first to robbery with a firearm and principal in the first to attempted felony murder.
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III. Develop and evaluate methods for the prenatal diagnosis of genetic disorders using improved cytogenetic, biochemical, and nucleic acid techniques and amniotic fluid cells or chorionic villi in these patients.
|Tay-Sachs Disease Porphyria, Erythropoietic Leukodystrophy, Globoid Cell Metabolism, Inborn Errors
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Patients are evaluated annually or biannually, depending on disease status and progression. Patients undergo a complete medical history, an extensive family pedigree, and a physical examination. Patients undergo general laboratory, imaging, physiologic, and clinical laboratory studies according to their disease type. Patients undergo specialized laboratory studies including plasma and leukocyte enzyme assays, quantitative urinary mucopolysaccharides and oligosaccharides, urine and plasma glycolipids, plasma and urine amino acids, urine organic acids, lymphoblastoid culture, DNA isolation from peripheral leukocytes, skin biopsy for fibroblast culture (if indicated), and medical photography. Patients also receive consultations with various specialties including ophthalmology, ENT, cardiology, pulmonary, gastroenterology/nutrition, hematology, neurology, orthopedics, rehabilitation medicine/physical therapy, and dermatology.
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- Suspected diagnosis (homozygous or heterozygous) of a genetic disorder including, but not limited to, one of the following: Tay-Sachs disease (adult form) Congenital erythropoietic porphyria Galactosemia Mitochondrial myopathy Globoid cell leukodystrophy (Krabbe disease) Methylmalonic acidemia Isovaleric acidemia Morquio type A Glycogen storage disease type 1AB Ornithine aminotransferase deficiency Ceroid lipofuscinosis Glutaric aciduria type 1 Citrullinemia Other malformation syndromes, lysosomal storage disorders, or peroxisomal disorders
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The first weekend of the Sundance Film Festival begs the question: Would you like your cider with or without rum? Through the fog of more than 300 events and parties, it can be hard to keep your eye on the film-watching prize. In the fifth episode of Film Society's Daily Buzz podcast, we grapple with the issues posed by one documentary (After Tiller) and two narratives (Escape from Tommorrow), discuss festival sales with John Sloss, and more.
Ten years after the success of his indie comedy Funny Ha Ha, director Andrew Bujalski looks at a digital game through an analog lens in Computer Chess. Using cameras from 1969 and a book from the 1980s, Bujalski asks if computer intelligence is really intelligence and how digitization has changed the meaning of the word.
"I'm a terrible chess player, but I started reading a book written in the 80s about chess-playing and computer chess, which started to plant images in my head about this funny little world," Bujalski explained during his Daily Buzz interview. "As I worked on it more and more I delved into my own childhood memories of computers coming into our lives. It was both very exciting to a young child and scary, in that I'm still intimidated by digitization of our world."
Bujalski began his film without any concern over its commercial success, but wanted to tell a story intutively from start to finish. Computer Chess does just that in its story of a few geniuses trying to create the perfect chess program.
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Entering our childhood psyches even further is director Randy Moore's Escape from Tomorrow, about family man Jim White, who has just lost his job but curbs the bad news by taking his family to an amusement park. Sparking a legal debate about fair use (the film was shot without permission on a Canon 5D inside Walt Disney World), Escape from Tomorrow is much more than its surrounding controversy (which you can read more about here).
"Disney is in everyone's DNA now. Even if you try to shelter your kids from it, it's impossible. It's everywhere you look. But on a more personal note, my father moved to Orlando after my parent's separated and I spent all my time going to that park," explained Moore. "The emotions that I felt being there and my relationship with my father merged together … I just wanted to write from the heart and not think about any implications, which may have been foolhardy, but it was the story that just came out."
In the film, Jim seeks distractions by following around two teenage girls, which begins innocently enough, but morphs into creepy obsession and blurs the line between fantasy and reality. Moore explains his emotional ties to the park and how childhood memory and current reality were blurred for him as well.
"The father and the park are symbiotic because I can't separate my father from Disney World. When I went back with my own kids the space that was so magical and so wonderful started to change because I saw stuff that I didn't pick up on before: Parents having nervous breakdowns trying to calm their kids, fathers that looked miserable," explained Moore. "It became a different experience. I tried to link the two and go back to what it felt like with my father."
Moore has not spoken to his father in a long time and felt like the film was a strange sort of message to him. Escape from Tomorrow, although deeply personal for Moore, is also a strange sort of message to his audience about emotional connections to space and the surrogate for intimacy technology provides.
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Product arrived with front roller broken from shipping but was quickly sent replacement roller without hassle. After remembering to look ahead of me, I was able to ride and get decent exercise the first try. Resistance is decent with shifting gears, but it gets loud once you get going...could be my gravel bike tires have a bit much tread, but I don't notice it on the road. Way more fun than stationary and a good workout. I have improved a lot over a couple weeks. The edges have kept me on when I get lazy, but I have still gone over the side a few times.
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M&M Cookies
I'm entering into my Power of Pink Challenge. There are quite a few breast cancer awareness events this month. I saw this M&M cookie recipe and I knew I had to try it. Growing up, my mom made M&M cookies using yellow cake mix. They're quite tasty but I really don't like using cake mix (I know, I've become a food snob). So I've been in search of a great M&M cookie recipe for about a year now. I made monster cookies and they were great, but weren't exactly what I was looking for… This recipe really hit the spot. The large amount of brown sugar keeps these cookies sweet and moist. I love the texture and the bits of pecan in cookie.
I took these to our second week of beer pong league. I did have one person ask if the M&M were leftover from Valentine's Day. I explained that they were for Breast Cancer Awareness. Seriously, do you think a bag of M&Ms could last in my cabinets for 8 months?!? (I happen to love M&Ms in everything – on ice cream, with pretzels, and by themself, frozen of course). Enough babbling from me, on to the recipe…
M&M Cookies – from Delish – originally from the Cookie Bible
2 cups all-purpose flour
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1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar – I used Splenda Brown Sugar blend
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Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Stir together flour, baking soda and salt; set aside. Beat butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar and vanilla in a large bowl until well blended. Add eggs; beat well.
Gradually add flour mixture, beating until well blended. Stir in 3/4 cup M&Ms and all the nuts.
Drop by rounded teaspoons onto cookie sheet. Press 5-6 of remaining M&Ms on each cookie before baking. Bake 9-11 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely.
Yields about 3-3 1/2 dozen cookies. I made a double batch which yielded a about 6.5 dozen cookies. I used my cookie scoop to portion the batter.
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Mmmm… pink cookies. Can't go wrong with M&M. Awesome post for a great cause.
Your blog has a huge influence on my hunger, I suddenly want some cookies! Do they have special bags of M&M's with the pink ones? Very cute cookies!
Thanks Clara! These cookies are SO GOOD. I could make another batch today… maybe I will…
Sorry Steph. Yes, there are special bags of pink M&Ms. Most grocery stores and CVS-type places have them.
Oh CUTE! I love the pics. too funny b/c I made ones very similar this last week. LOVE them! 🙂
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Brain cancer, or brain tumors, is one of the few cancers that affect children. Brain tumors are growths inside the brain. There are two types of brain tumors; malignant tumors, which are cancerous tumors, and benign tumors, which are non-cancerous tumors. Brain tumors that begin in the brain and spread to other parts of the body are called primary brain tumorsé. Brain tumors that begin somewhere else in the body and spread to the brain are called ésecondary brain tumors.é Secondary brain tumors are more common than primary brain tumors.
Tumors form when normal cells mutate. The abnormal cells grow into a mass. Doctors canét always pinpoint what causes a brain tumor, but they seem to be more common now than in decades past.
The brain works as the central control room for the entire body. Therefore, anything that affects brain function is serious. Whether benign or malignant, brain tumors can trigger a host of complications such as seizures, personality changes, vision problems, hearing loss, headaches and even death.
Without knowing what causes brain cancer, ités hard to know what to do to prevent it.
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Did you feel a slight shift under your feet today — as though something were very different, but you couldn't quite put your finger on it? Well, be mystified no more: Hilary Duff has left her ombré roots in the dust and returned to her Lizzie McGuire-era allover blonde locks.
"Bye bye ombré hair! Just a strait Blondie," the star Tweeted along with a selfie of the new do, adding a shout out to pal Casey Miller: "@uppercasey love kickin it wif ya."
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You can always use some extra shade on your pontoon boat. The Pontoon Gazebo accommodates both 96" and 102" wide boats and extends out to 8' of coverage. Constructed from Hot Shot marine-grade polyester fabric, this top is strong, yet still lightweight. Supported by a shock-corded fiberglass pole framework that breaks down for easy storage. Large interior radius provides excellent head room. After initial installation of permanently mounted hardware to your playpen rail, the Gazebo attaches and comes down in minutes. Hardware and storage bag included. Measures 96"L x 102"W x about 50"H from mounting point. Not for use while underway.


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The wildfire started Tuesday morning after a burn pile at Red Hills Vineyard got out of control, taking out 296 acres off Highway 29 southeast of Kelseyville, according to CAL FIRE.
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COLUMBIA COUNTY, Fla. - A White Springs man was arrested Wednesday on a charge of grand theft in connection with the theft of scrap metal from a construction site in northern Columbia County.
Norfolk Southern Railroad is conducting railroad maintenance on the railroad trestles on U.S. 41 North at the Columbia County-Hamilton County line.
The job foreman found that nearly 200 pounds of scrap metal and steel was stolen over the weekend from the construction site, deputies said.
A deputy went to various metals recyclers in Columbia County to investigate and found some of the stolen materials at two scrap yards. The scrap metal was verified to have belonged to Norfolk Southern, deputies said.
The deputy determined that Tarveine Scott, 50, was the person who sold the stolen material to the recyclers. Scott was arrested at his home by the White Springs Police Department.
He was booked into the Columbia County Detention Facility with bail set at $15,000.
The value of the stolen materials is estimated to be more than $5,000.
The Columbia County Sheriff's Office said it is continuing to investigate the case to determine if Scott has been involved in previous thefts from the same construction site.
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Indians drop series despite Bauer's quality start
Prospect Ramirez delivers RBI double after callup from Triple-A
MINNEAPOLIS -- Ninety minutes before the first pitch off a 3-1 loss at Target Field on Wednesday, first baseman Carlos Santana posed a question to the Indians' clubhouse.
"Who's pitching for Minnesota today?" Santana asked.
Reliever Marc Rzepczynski chimed in from the corner: "Frank Viola."
After expected starter Kyle Gibson was scratched late Tuesday with lower back stiffness, his replacement was not the 1988 American League Cy Young Award winner, but rather Anthony Swarzak, a bullpen arm who last started a game in 2012.
"We've seen him a bunch," manager Terry Francona said. "He's not going to pitch different just because he starts. We've seen him a lot. He's aggressive. He throws strikes, and he moves the ball in and out."
Swarzak threw 74 pitches -- 22 more than his season high -- to hold Cleveland to one run on two hits through five innings, more of a Viola performance than anyone in the Indians clubhouse expected.
"Swarzak is such a valuable guy to a team," Francona said. "That's not easy to do what he did. Coming out of the bullpen, and I think he's averaging one-plus [innings] an outing. He goes five, and he held his stuff, which was pretty impressive. That kind of set the game up for them, where they can get to their bullpen and not have to go longer on guys than they wanted to."
Meanwhile, Indians starter Trevor Bauer succumbed to a plucky Twins lineup that sunk the Tribe with timely hitting. The 23-year-old managed a quality start (six innings and three earned runs), but he couldn't hold an early 1-0 lead.
"He threw the ball well," catcher Roberto Perez said. "Some of their hitters just found the hole. I don't think they hit the ball hard, but they just found the hole and scored some runs. You can't do anything about it when you make pitches."
The Indians got on the board in the third inning, but their only lead was short-lived.
David Murphy reached on a single off Swarzak -- the first hit of the day for Cleveland -- and then advanced on a sac bunt by Perez. After a Chris Dickerson walk and a Jason Kipnis popout, Jose Ramirez lined a double into left field that drove in Murphy.
Playing his first big league game since May 19, Ramirez was called up on Wednesday to sub at short while Asdrubal Cabrera works through lower back pain. Ramirez accounted for two of the Tribe's five hits, and he almost got a rally started in the eighth with a single that forced Brian Dozier into a throwing error and put runners on second and third.
But the rookie's third-inning RBI was the only Indians run of the day, thanks in part to an outstanding diving catch by Eduardo Nunez to rob Michael Brantley up the middle and strand the runners.
"That was the play of the game, hands down," Swarzak said. "That's why we won. Great diving play."
Danny Santana tripled to the right-field corner off Bauer in the third, and then came home on a Sam Fuld single up the middle.
After Swarzak sat down six straight Indians, the Twins' lineup went to work again.
Santana singled and advanced on a wild pitch before Dozier doubled him home for Minnesota's first lead. One inning later, Oswaldo Arcia sent a 2-2, two-out fastball from Bauer packing to the right-field concourse.
"It was exactly where I wanted to put it," Bauer said. "Good for him. He hit a good pitch. Sold out for it."
Cleveland's last real threat came in the eighth, after Ramirez's second hit and Dozier's error.
"Because of his speed, he gave us another chance where Dozier tried to glove it over there," Francona said. "So we got the tying run on second with Brantley hitting. We'll take that."
But there would be no heroics on Wednesday afternoon, as Brantley popped out to third base to end the inning.
Both teams' relievers did solid work in the later innings, and the Indians couldn't do much against a bullpen platoon capped by All-Star Glen Perkins, who collected his 24th save.
Wednesday's result was the Indians' second loss in three games against the Twins. Cleveland had not lost a series since June 27-29 at Seattle, and the Tribe hovers one game over .500 at 51-50.
Alex M. Smith is an associate reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @asmiff. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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If You Don't Know Who Andrew Beyer Is, You Probably Don't Bet on Horses
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Andrew Beyer is not broke. Andrew Beyer is not well on his way to dying penniless and bitter, raving about the sure-thing nag who quit in the back stretch. Andrew Beyer, in fact, is quite comfortable and happy and financially secure.
Which, as horse players go, is saying something. It helps, of course, that Beyer is considered by many in the business to be the best--and most important--handicapper in America.
Ask Michael "Roxy" Roxborough, the man who sets the Vegas line (Cigar Aficionado, Summer 1995) and an avid horse player:
"When Andrew Beyer walks through the grandstand of anyracetrack in America, he's the most recognizable person in the crowd. He has more enthusiasm for betting on horses than anyone in the sport."
If you don't know who Andrew Beyer is, you probably don't bet on horses. If you do, you're probably aware that Beyer, 52, the author of four best-selling books on handicapping, is the syndicated horse racing columnist for The Washington Post, a position he's held since 1978. To those who regularly peruse the Daily Racing Form, the horse bettor's bible, his name is legendary: he is the eponymous creator of the revolutionary Beyer Speed Figures, possibly the most powerful tool in horse handicapping since the invention of the stopwatch.
Not long ago, Cigar Aficionado spent a day at the track with Beyer, getting an insider's view of how he computes his figures, how he picks the ponies and, ultimately, how he beats one of the toughest games in the world. In the course of analyzing, betting and, yes, agonizing over, a full card of races, Beyer reveals why he is one of the most interesting characters in the world of gambling.
When you arrive at Beyer's house in a woodsy, embassy-speckled neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C., you become immediately aware that it is not the home of a degenerate gambler struggling to come up with enough spare change to bet the daily double. Beyer and his wife, Susan Vallon, an interior designer, live in an airy, modern place--"one of the 20 houses in Washington that isn't a colonial," Vallon jokes. Filled with tasteful furniture and beautiful art, there's only one painting in the house that has anything vaguely to do with horse racing, a Post-Impressionist blur of color and motion depicting a group of ponies charging for the wire.
Andy Beyer's home office is similarly devoid of tacky equine posters and portraits of Triple Crown winners on black velvet. Bookshelves filled with hundreds of old Racing Forms and a small library of handicapping tomes sit opposite a large desk containing all manners of computers and other electrical accoutrements. The only memento adorning Beyer's otherwise spare workplace is a framed horseshoe, worn by the legendary Secretariat when he won the Bay Shore Stakes at Aqueduct in 1973.
"I'm a numbers guy, not a real visual type," Beyer says. "I have no skill at all judging the physical animal. I can't tell if a horse is feeling badly, or if he's ready to run the best race of his life, just by looking at him. My focus is on the fundamentals."
It is this disregard for all that is extraneous and irrelevant--Beyer, in fact, seldom refers to a horse by its name, only its racing number--that has made him a handicapping success.
When Andy Beyer was 12, his parents took him to a now defunct track called Randall Park, outside of Cleveland. Since that day, he has been captivated by handicapping horses. But not because he was intoxicated by the romance or beauty of the sport. His love was born, he says, of the "puzzle aspect" of picking winners. "I've always enjoyed games and puzzles. I went through a chess phase and a bridge phase and a long poker phase. I always liked games that had a mathematical component," Beyer says as he settles into the press box at Baltimore's Pimlico, home of The Preakness. "But I never had world-class ability at any of them. Even at that young age the gambling bug was germinating. Pinball, cards, whatever--I liked playing games. As soon as I had my first look at the Daily Racing Form, I was entranced."
In high school, Beyer dabbled in horse racing with an indulgent bookie, who took his one- and two-dollar bets. When he went on to Harvard, where he was supposed to be majoring in English literature, Beyer spent most of his class time playing the ponies at Suffolk Downs, getting an advanced degree in going broke. Instead of reading Homer and Shakespeare, he immersed himself in Herbert O. Yardley's classic, Education of a Poker Player, and financed his horse racing habit with all-night card games. "I was flying blind," Beyer recalls, making handicapping notes with a red magic marker. "There was little published literature on betting horses at the time. I decided that if I ever learned enough about horse racing I would try to become the Yardley of horses."
Beyer never did graduate. His final exam on Chaucer fell on the same date as the Belmont Stakes.
While working as a sportswriter--which subsidized his losses at the track--Beyer realized what he wanted to do most was write about racing. And learn to win. In 1970, both dreams started to come true when an editor at the Washington Daily News let him write a horse racing column--and he began experimenting with speed figures.
Previously, like so many desperate horse players, Beyer had stumbled down any number of blind alleys: a system that graded horses on their winning percentage versus number of times in the money; a system that charted the "Z" pattern in a horse's running line; a system that assigned power points based on a horse's pedigree. "All my handicapping was based on angles, not fundamentals. None of these angles ever addressed the key issue: Who is better than whom? The orthodoxy back then said that 'class' was the measure of a race," Beyer says, while making hieroglyphic notations in the margins of his race program. "For instance, if a $10,000 claimer was running against a slower $200,000 claimer, the assumption was that the slower but 'classier' horse would win. I was looking for a way to verify--or contradict--that assumption."
The concept of speed figures by no means originated with Beyer. A number of now-forgotten handicappers fooled around with them in the 1950s. But nobody had ever produced a reliable model that could be trusted over the long run, one that could tell you, for example, if one horse runs six furlongs in 1:11 and another runs seven furlongs in 1:24, which is a better time.
Beyer took a stack of old Daily Racing Forms and did the laborious math by hand, sifting through years of data, applying the analytical skills he had developed as a games-playing child. "'Six furlongs in 1:13 equals seven furlongs in 1:26 and a fifth' was my E=MC2," Beyer says, laughing. By 1972 he had managed to construct a reliable speed chart that incorporated the important element of track variance, a measure of track speed and bias, which was previously calculated by an antiquated--and, in most cases, inaccurate--system. Beyer devised a highly specific, sophisticated method for determining track variances, a method that accounted for the times turned in by different types of horses.
By combining his newly minted speed ratings with his fresh perspective on track speed, the young columnist invented the Beyer Speed Figures.
"As crude as they were, the speed figures were a revelation," Beyer remembers, gazing happily at the Pimlico track below, watching the horses load into the starting gate for the first race. "Newton couldn't have been more excited. You've got to understand, class was still the big deal. For example, a horse wins a $10,000 claiming race and moves up to $20,000 and nobody would touch him. And according to my figures, this long shot sometimes was actually the fastest horse in the field. There were times when I'd be one of three guys out of a thousand that knew this. It was like having the Rosetta stone."
In those giddy days, Beyer not only made a handsome profit, but more important to the inveterate horse player, he understood. "I had hit on the core truth of the game. I had a way to measure every horse! Now, the rational decision would have been to forget my job, keep quiet about my discovery and bet as much as possible," Beyer admits. "But I wanted to be Yardley."
In 1975, Beyer wrote a book outlining the theory and practice behind his speed figures. "With a system so complex, I didn't think anyone would be particularly interested." His book, Picking Winners, received a rave review from a closet horse player at The New York Times; Sports Illustrated wrote that "a generation of Beyer disciples was born." He suddenly had the best-selling horse book of all time.
Beyer sees an interesting value in the second race at Pimlico and bets the three horse (Fuelonthefire) in an exacta box with the six horse. "The three is a legit four-to-one going off at nine-to-one," Beyer says. "And the six is the second best horse in this race." Per his prediction, the three runs a valiant race, finishing second to the favorite. The six, though, is never in contention. Beyer nods thoughtfully and continues his story.
Before 1987, when Beyer started selling his speed figures to the public, and especially before 1992, when the Daily Racing Form started publishing them, Beyer cashed tickets on a lot of 20- and 30-to-one shots. "Them were the days, as they say," Beyer jokes. "But I've never been an entrepreneur. I liked being a writer and a gambler." As the years passed and the Beyer Speed Figures became a widely accepted concept, their creator no longer felt like "the one guy at the track with a magic code."
Indeed, these days the Beyer Speed Figures have become an omnipresent factor in the horse game, so popular that, according to Roxy Roxborough, "The figures are not only used by handicappers but by trainers and owners as well. They've become a standard part of the industry."
Beyer admits that using his figures alone is no longer an adequate method for beating horse racing. Beyer's formerly proprietary information is already built into the odds, lowering the "price," often making certain horses overbet and overvalued. Ponies that once might have gone off at 25-to-one are being bet down to three-to-one. "I compensate for the increasing difficulty of finding good betting values," says Beyer. "Instead of merely looking at the number, the Figure, I look for other factors to stay ahead of the crowd, such as what kind of circumstances were in place to earn that number."
Even so, he admits, the game is becoming increasingly difficult to beat. "The track used to be the place to play a lucky number. Now there's slots and state lotteries and so forth. So the people who are left are a pretty sophisticated crowd. The margins have shrunk. Still," Beyer says, "with full-card simulcasting, you can still find five or six overlays a day. And this game still has one redeeming virtue: you can still make huge scores on relatively small investments."
To illustrate his point, Beyer bets a twin trifecta--picking first, second and third in two consecutive races--on Pimlico's third and fifth. He invests $250 on the number two horse (Chocolat Delight) boxed with the numbers one, three, five and six horses, giving him 84 possible winning combinations. "The two horse's last three races have been very good until his last one, where he was lousy. I'm willing to dismiss the results on account of mud that day." Beyer is particularly fond of twin trifecta bets. In 1990, at the Laurel track in Maryland, he hit the Double Triple for $195,000. A year later he hit it again for $134,000.
On this day number two runs well, as Beyer had hoped. But "an inscrutable performance" from the seven horse, a nag Beyer completely discounted, kills the trifecta chances.
"At heart I'm an exotic bettor," Beyer says. "I get more of a rush. I make some straight bets now and then, or with small exactas, but I prefer to go for the big-paying long shot. I tide myself over with singles and doubles, but I'm really going for the home run."
Such a strategy requires a placid, almost phlegmatic temperament. Beyer has one. "The worst thing you can do in betting horses is to be thrown off-kilter by emotional highs and lows. You must totally erase close losses and go on," he counsels. "Near misses are an inescapable part of the game."
As his odds-on favorite in the fourth race at Belmont--which is being simulcast at Pimlico--falters in the stretch, Beyer smiles as if to say, "See what I mean?" He sighs lightly. "Not off to a very auspicious beginning."
At lunch in the clubhouse, Beyer scans his program and announces, "I've got an opinion on the fifth race. This might be the most interesting situation of the day." According to the master handicapper, only three horses (the three, four and five) of the eight-horse field have any real speed; the others are plodders. Beyer bets a $40 exacta box with his three picks. "If two of the three can get the lead from the start, they should run away with the race," he predicts. The four is the favorite; the three and the five, how-ever, are coming off bad races and are paying long odds. If Beyer's analysis is accurate, the payoff should be large. As the horses go to the post, the four goes up to four-to-one, the three is bet down to 10-to-one and the five is the public's least favorite at 16-to-one.
Per Beyer's prognostication, the four and the five break early and fast, taking a two-length lead by the quarter-pole. "This looks good," Beyer says, nodding.
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To get an idea of the friendship shared by Ronda Rousey and Marina Shafir, accept an invitation to spend 10 minutes with them in a sauna.
"You got a credit card you don't care about?" Shafir asks as the thermometer sits at well north of 160 degrees.
Upon receiving the expired piece of plastic, Shafir hands it to her best friend and roommate, otherwise known to the world as the UFC superstar who reigns the women's bantamweight division.
Rousey proceeds to scrape sweat off Shafir in order to keep it from evaporating and keep her friend's body from cooling down. As a result, more sweat is produced and more water weight is lost.
Rousey smiles and says, "Want to know how much I like her? I like her enough to scrape the sweat off her body and then scrape it across my forehead."
Which she promptly did.
Such is the bond between the former judokas, who met when they were 11 and later competing for the United States in tournaments around the world.
So close is the connection that Rousey invited Shafir to move from Albany, N.Y., to live and train with her in Southern California.
Shafir (2-0) is looking to follow Rousey's path to mixed martial arts stardom. She has her third amateur fight Saturday - and her first since moving west in December - at Tuff-N-Uff: Mayhem in Mesquite II in Mesquite, Nev., where she will take on Danielle Mack (0-2) in a 150-pound fight.
Shafir's long-term game plan consists of continuing to soak up all she can from Rousey and her team of striking coach Edmond Tarverdyan and strength and conditioning coach Leo Frincu.
The 24-year-old also trains on her own with renowned Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighter Romulo Barral at Gracie Barra in Northridge - a choice Rousey fully endorses.
"I think it's good she has a little separate from me, her own jiu-jitsu place that she goes to and her own group of guys that are her friends," Rousey said. "You come into a new city and you don't really know one person, sometimes the only people you know are who they know. So she's really branching out and settling in in L.A. She's doing fantastic."
When Shafir isn't training with Rousey - like when she went with the camp to Big Bear to help the champ train for her first title defense against Liz Carmouche last month at UFC 157 - she's quick to defend her.
Especially against those who don't appreciate their elite judo backgrounds.
"She's done a lot for the sport, but that's what Miesha Tate and all these girls are hating on her game. Like, you need to appreciate!" she said. "She may have only been doing MMA two or three years, but hard work has been put in since she was 11. Who are you? Who ARE you? You have no leverage. I'm sorry. Not in my eyes, you don't."
And not lost on the native of Moldova, who moved with her parents to Albany when she was 5, is the incredible opportunity.
"It means the world to me. I was saying, the transition from Albany, New York, to here, one thing I really like is it's still very family-based. You've got family values still here," Shafir said. "Everybody carries themselves here like they're family. The loyalty's there and that means a lot to me. Because that's what I was raised on. That's what I know. It means a lot to me. I can show them what I know is also in their game plan. That's why we get a long so well and are moving forward and going in the right direction."
While she's been living with Rousey in Venice and working out for the past four months, Shafir says it took a couple months to get in a groove.
Rousey says she has seen tremendous growth in someone who looks like a completely different person in the ring.
"I think this fight is gonna be a progress report. She's gonna grow so much more after this," Rousey said of Saturday's fight, for which she will be in Shafir's corner. "Not that she doesn't look amazing now. She looks amazing now. There's been so much improvement so fast that I can't wait to see what the next year's gonna look like."
Among the plans, according to Shafir, is to turn pro at the end of the fall. The hopes are for the women's 145-pound division to get healthier and more attractive to be considered by the UFC, which offers only the 135-pound division for women.
One possible destination is Invicta Fighting Championships, an American MMA organization focused on female fighters. That is where longtime Rousey nemesis Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos resides after recently requesting her dismissal from the UFC because she felt she couldn't safely cut down to 135 pounds.
Shafir relishes that fight somewhere down the line.
"Ohhhh ... I may not be ready for her yet, but I know I will be. Give me like a year. Give me a year of steady training," Shafir said. "I would love to get my hands on her. I would love to. I would love to.
"I think about it all the time. It butters me up. Training just gets that much easier and I get that much more aggressive."
And for those wondering whether Rousey and Shafir would ever square off in the Octagon, forget it.
Shafir acknowledges she has a bigger frame and Rousey thinks Shafir would be more effective at featherweight.
Plus, Shafir envisions a day when she and Rousey are both UFC champions.
"I see us taking over women's MMA," she says matter of factly. "Us next to each other - her holding the 135-pound belt, me holding the 145-pound belt."
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Lisa Zeno Carano has stepped down from her clerk of courts post with the Stow Municipal Court to take a position with another Summit County court.
Her new post is court administrator with the Summit County Court of Common Pleas Probate Division, working under Judge Elinore Marsh Stormer.
Her resignation from the municipal court was effective Dec. 31, 2012. Her six-year term would have expired Dec. 31, 2015.
Zeno Carano did not immediately return a call for comment Tuesday.
Lisa was great to work with . . . she really made a lot of changes that saved money [at the court], said Stow Mayor Sara Drew.
According to the Summit Board of Elections, the Summit County Democratic Central Committee was scheduled to meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Cuyahoga Falls High School to pick a replacement.
The person appointed would serve in the position until the November election, when the unexpired term would be on the ballot.
Zeno Carano was appointed to the municipal court post in April 2007, replacing longtime clerk Eric Czetli who stepped down to take another job. She was elected to finish the unexpired term that November and was elected to a full six-year term in November 2009.
She had served as an At-Large Councilperson for the city of Tallmadge prior to being appointed to the municipal court.
Communities served by the Municipal Court District include: Boston Heights, Boston Township, Cuyahoga Falls, Hudson, Macedonia, Munroe Falls, Northfield, Northfield Center Township, Peninsula, Reminderville, Sagamore Hills, Silver Lake, Stow, Tallmadge, Twinsburg and Twinsburg Township.


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As we continue our celebration of the Whole Grains Council's Grain of the Month Calendar, we are joining with them again to spotlight amaranth for the month of May. At Bob's Red Mill, all of the amaranth we sell is completely organic and packaged in our separate gluten free facility.
If you haven't tasted amaranth yet, it is a grain known for its subtle slightly nut-like flavor and a natural, earthy aroma. It is an exceptionally nutritious addition to any meal, having huge amounts of protein, amino acids, and fiber. In fact, amaranth is higher in protein than milk, soy, barley, wheat, peanuts, and corn.
At first glance, whole grain amaranth looks almost like golden poppy seeds. The tiny seeds have a resilient bran layer that stays crunchy no matter how long you cook it, and it's earthy and assertive flavor pairs well with the spicy, herbal seasonings of its South American home. Amaranth cooks to a hearty porridge or polenta, and can even be popped like tiny popcorn.
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Oil prices may hold within a sideways trading direction this week, as the short-term rally contends with a building bearish divergence on the daily stochastics oscillator. Near-term support may come from weakness in the dollar, yesterday's assurance of accommodative Fed policy from Chairman Bernanke, and from expectations of improving economic data (housing and Philadelphia Fed on Thu). There's a growing potential for pressure, however, from a bearish divergence on the stochastics oscillator, weakness in oil demand, and the prospects for supply growth to outpace that of demand. Saudi Arabia may also add pressure after the country assured oil supplies in a statement yesterday. If the growing divergence can pressure WTI, we'd look for a rebound after a test of the $91.50 level as well as a narrowing of the Brent-WTI spread. We favor holding our June WTI-Brent trade entered on Jan 4th at -$14.25 with a target at -$8.00.
Oil prices advanced 58c/bbl in WTI yesterday and $1.24/bbl in Brent. WTI seemed to underperform based on the refinery outage at Phillips 66's Wood River plant in Illinois as well as due to the potential for bickering in Washington over the debt ceiling. The Wood River facility is due to be restarted "within a couple of days," according to Phillips, following a power outage on Saturday. A press conference held by Pres Obama yesterday saw him reiterate his intention not to negotiate with Republicans over raising the debt ceiling. He indicated that he wants more revenue and would be okay with raising the ceiling without many spending cuts. He said that obstinate Republicans can't get everything they want, although he sounded obstinate himself. A Politico article implied that Republicans may be more willing to shut down the gov't than expected. The fight that's developing pressured the dollar, which in our view, added at least a short-term boost to energy prices. If the debt ceiling debate continues to falter, it could eventually become a negative for oil prices. But if the dollar continues to weaken, oil may benefit. The dollar also fell yesterday after Apple Computer cut in half its orders for 65 mln iPhone 5 screens.
Until any downside momentum can be achieved, energy markets may remain firm with support offered by the easy monetary policy. Friday's CFTC data showed that large funds are positioning for such a case, with non-commercials adding 16,700 contracts to their net-long and managed money accounts adding 24,691. Fed Chairman Bernanke yesterday appeared to walk back some of the hawkish suggestions in the FOMC minutes published a week ago which said that several members though accommodation could end sooner than previously communicated. Mr. Bernanke said that the recovery remains fragile and that it shouldn't be hampered by fiscal cuts that are too sharp. Earlier in the day, Fed Presidents Evans and Lockhart raised concern about the effects of QE but signaled that it would be three years until it is unwound. There were also dovish comments made in Japan and China as well, which may have supported energy prices. The prospect of easy money needing to find an investment home could be bullish for hard assets like commodities.
Natural Gas
Feb futures settled 4.6 cents higher yesterday, as the focus remained on colder temperatures. CWG predicted below-normal temps in the eastern U.S. from Jan 19th-23rd, and last week's NOAA maps showed most of the country engulfed by the color blue. Friday's COT report showed that managed money accounts subtracted 5,060 contracts from their net short, while non-commercials subtracted 7,468 contracts. That may suggest that they were exiting short positions possibly at the end of the week, but it's not large enough to suggest that large funds are exiting their bearish strategies. Managed money has bounced 7,511 contracts in the last two weeks, but fell 110,904 in the month of Dec.
It's difficult to get very bullish beyond the next day or two given technical resistance at $3.53, stable/rising gas rig counts, and an inventory withdrawal Thursday that will likely be smaller than the five-year average. Technical resistance at $3.53 is taken from the top of the 2H December consolidation pattern. Rig counts for natural gas drilling bottomed on Nov 2nd at 424 before stabilizing and now steadily increasing to 434. Horizontal counts fell to around 1,100 in early-Nov and are now 1,119. Lastly, inventories are expected to fall 129 bcf this week and is less than the 144 bcf shown in the five-year average. Next week's inventories could potentially fall around 150 bcf which is less than the five-year average decline of 176 bcf. The bottom line is that even with short bouts of below-normal temperatures, inventories are on tap to end the withdrawal season with above-normal stock levels. Our end-of-season forecast is 2068 bcf and compares to the five-year average of 1714. We'd look for potential bearish action close to the $3.53 resistance level this week to think about a possible short position.
Global Economic & Dollar News
» Japanese PM Abe said that he wants to see the BOJ achieve its 2% inflation goal within the next few years.
» China's Shanghai Composite advanced more than 3% due to speculation that the gov't will expand the amount of capital that foreign institutional investors can put into Chinese markets.
» Fed Pres Evans (dove, voter) said that the current QE program could be wound down if the U.S. economy started creating 200K jobs for several consecutive months. He said that the Fed will likely begin raising rates in 2015.
» House Republicans are toying with the idea of shutting down the gov't, according to Politico. The article suggests that more republicans are signing on to the idea than people realize.
» Fed Pres Lockhart (centrist, non-voter) said that he's concerned about the size of the Fed's balance sheet. The risk is that the Fed's share of treasury markets could have adverse effects on market functioning and stability. Said that QE is open-ended now, and that it may take 3 years to reach 6.5% unemployment.
» Pres Obama said that a debt ceiling failure by Congress could mean a recession. Said that he will not have another debate with this Congress about whether they should pay bills that they've already racked up. Said that the job of deficit reduction can't be done through spending cuts alone.
» Fed's Bernanke said that the U.S. is in a relatively fragile recovery and that it shouldn't be unduly hampered by fiscal cuts that are too sharp. At the same time, he said that there's a need to think about long-term debt sustainability and that the federal budget must be brought under control.
Energy News
» Saudi Arabia said that its cut in production in December was not designed to push prices higher. December output fell 4.9% to 9.025 mb/d and was the lowest in 19 months. It added that it is committed to a stable market.
» The Brent-WTI Spread will narrow to $6/bbl in Q2, according to Goldman Sachs. It said that gasoline is vulnerable to an upside spike in prices during the summer because of low European refining runs.
» Natural Gas Truck & Bus Sales may reach 930,000 worldwide by 2019, according to Transport Topics. Currently, about 75% of the sales are to the Asia Pacific region despite high prices of natural gas there.
» Covanta and Clean Energy partnered to develop CNG filling stations at Covanta locations.
» Phillips 66 Wood River Refinery shut a crude unit at its 356 kb/d facility due to an electrical fire on Jan 12th. The unit will return to production "within a couple of days."
» Chevron's El Segundo Refinery in southern California experienced a fire which was reported to have damaged equipment.
Upcoming Events
Tue - API Inventories (4:30pm EST)
Wed - Iran-IAEA Meeting
Wed - EIA Weekly Oil Inventories (10:30am EST)
Thu - IEA's Monthly Report
Thu - CPC Monthly Weather Update
Thu - Natural Gas Inventories (10:30am EST)
Jan 20th - German Local Election
Jan 29-30 - FOMC Meeting
Feb 12th - EIA's Short-Term Outlook
Feb 24-25 - Italian election
Mar 1st - Sequester Begins
Mar 14th - Debt Ceiling
May 31st - OPEC Meeting
EIA Inventory Preview
The oil stocks number this week may reflect a more decisive change in direction from recent weeks where oil stocks fell sharply and products witnessed strong increases. Oil stocks typically gain throughout the first five months of the year after liquidations take place in December. If that's indeed the case again this year, oil stocks could witness a larger increase than that suggested by the five-year average as late-2012 conditions unwind. An 11.1 MB drawdown was reported in the last week of December and reflected refineries' intentions to convert raw crude into products. A slowdown in utilization coupled with high levels of imports should create an above-average increase this week. Cushing stocks could increase again this week, as the Seaway pipeline was closed for part of the week in front of Friday's ramp-up. Cushing should level off or begin to fall with next week's data.
Gasoline inventories have gained 10.0 MB in the last two weeks while distillates increased 11.4 MB. High levels of utilization have been partly to blame and should begin to pull back a bit this week, in our view. Lower levels of production should add pressure to stocks, but demand has been weak as well and may prevent a drawdown. Distillate stocks have benefitted from higher production and weak demand but may receive pressure this week from lower production and continued exports.
Natural gas inventories are expected to be -129 bcf. NOAA's HDD calculations were between 179 and 199, which compares to the previous week's 238. Last week's draw of 201 bcf was at the larger end of the consensus range, and was a bit higher than our model had predicted. There could be a small amount of retrenchment in this week's figure as a result. Temperatures were above-normal in the northern Great Plains during the survey week and may help to dampen the withdrawal. The east coast saw near-normal temperatures.
*The API convergence figures are the amounts that EIA data need to change in order to match the previous day's API figures
Grains Commentary
Published Monday morning, 1/14/12
The USDA never ceases to amaze many as once again it appears that the game is back on regarding the concern of old crop corn supplies. The markets are being driven by the spreads once again with CN-CZ gaining over 25 cents from last Friday. The market now needs to assess at what level rationing is implemented.
The CO of 602 will most likely the lowest number that the USDA will issue but saying that it still prevents the market from getting comfortable with supply anytime soon and will prevent any significant break as this would only attract additional demand. The wheat stocks are now shrinking as well and with Russian supplies along with SA concerns the shift of feed to wheat may not be as profitable in years past. The bottom line to grains as this will give the market some volatility for the next 3-5 months and if there are any hiccups in early US weather then 2013 could be the year of grains once again.
The bean CO of 135 is a bit less compelling as SA will be the focal point from here forward on how quickly and efficiently will they be able to export in the coming weeks? We all know that their crops are massive but this may not be fully felt until later in 2013 when they typically die off in the export channels and the US comes back online, this may not be the case this year as they will have product to sell through the balance of 2013.
The weather in SA is good; at this point it's more about harvesting weather than it is growing weather. The US will quickly start to be monitored again and as of now most of the growing region is still well short of what is needed, yes there has been better moisture over the past 6-8 weeks but much more is needed to replenish last year's drought. For example we have been told that in some areas of IL that corn roots went down 6 feet to find moisture last year, if that is repeated this summer the roots will have to go even deeper to find moisture. Don't go buying CZ today based on this but rather something to monitor.
The OI in corn increased by 16378, wheat was down 6870, beans were up 2388, meal was up 113 and oil increased by 2325.
The outside markets are mostly higher but not any significant market influences, the DCE closed higher in the soy and lower in corn while Matif is higher in all markets. The options markets did what they typically do for USDA reports get pumped up going into the report and quickly exhaling when the figures are released. The bean put skew remains very steep which still favors doing 1x2 put spread or looking to sell puts and buy calls with futures adjusted. The old crop corn story is once again alive and well and with this look to sell CH put spreads to buy call spreads, such as selling the CH 7-670 put spread to buy the 750-800 call spread. The deferred corn options remain at a premium with CZ trading at 25%, look to do similar structures of buying call spreads and selling put spreads. The BO remains cheap at 20% and given the fact that the funds are short and the meal story seems to be slowing continue to look for upside opportunities. The wheat cards are pointing that there could be some decent upside potential based on global situations along with the near record fund short, The WH 8-850-9 call butterfly for 6 cents is a low cost upside play.


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THERE were tears of joy, moments of shock and even a bunch of flowers as young adults gathered to collect their A level certificates.
Despite the overall pass rate falling nationally for the first time in over 30 years students at Peter Symonds were hailed triumphant as they achieved some of the best results across the county.
For the college it was one of the most impressive years yet with 99 per cent of A level students achieving a full pass rate.
Of those students, 82 per cent had grades between A* to C and 62 per cent had A* to B.
And it wasn't just the A2 students who were shedding a happy tear or two.
The pass rate for AS level students was 91 per cent, with 68 per cent achieving grades A to C and 46 per cent getting A to B.
There were 602 A* awarded this year, an increase on last year, accounting for just shy of 12 per cent of the total grades given.
Some 17 students scored a remarkable 700 or more UCAS points – the equivalent of five or more A levels at A*.
Head teacher Stephen Carville said: "They are outstanding results and it makes us so proud when you see people crying their eyes out with joy. I was amazes that 33 per cent of the grades are either A* or A which is astounding. To achieve an A* is a tremendous amount of work and its testament to the hard work the teachers have given over the last two years of the course.
"So much has gone on in the press about standards dropping and exams getting easier but it's so much hard work. A huge congratulations to all the students because I know they have worked so hard for a long time to achieve what they have."
The second highest performing student at the college – with four A* and two As - was Rachael Walker, 18, who lives at Anthill Close in Denmead with her mum Elizabeth and dad Colin. She studied geography, English literature and language, sociology and an extended project for her A* as well as general studies and history.
"I'm really happy and a bit shocked I guess," she said. "My parents are really happy. I'm going to Durham to study geography because I'm interested in human geography and current affairs and the world."
The highest performing student, who wasn't able to make it along on Thursday (August 14), was Lucy Holland who was awarded four A* as well as an A for her extended project, an A for general studies and A at AS in English literature.
Tom Hilbourne, 18, of Gillingham Close in Kings Worthy, achieved four A* grades, in maths, further maths, physics and chemistry.
He said: "I want to find my physics teacher – I'm going to give him a hug. I got full marks in physics. As a teacher he was really inspiring. When you're inspired, you do well.
"I'm really happy. I was worrying last night, but I'm happy now. It was hard doing four A levels but I really enjoyed it."
Tom has big plans for the future, but he said university is going to have to wait.
"I'm taking a gap year and going to Uganda for seven months to teach in a primary school. It should be really exciting. After that I'll apply to Cambridge for natural sciences."
He has already been to Uganda for a month but is already looking to 2019, when he is likely to finish university.
"At the moment I'd quite like to do research in particle physics and nuclear physics, or I might do a PhD," he said. "We'll have to see."
Hannah Tickle, 18, of Church Lane in Owslebury, was so happy with her results she very nearly knocked her friends over as she ran to hug them.
She earned herself an A* in English Literature, two As in politics and her extended project and a B in history.
"I'm going to do English with American literature at Exeter," she said. "I don't think anyone grasps how hard it is. It' been the hardest two years of my life – when I think of the number of panic attacks and amount of crying – anyone who even gets a C I would applaud."


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News of Newhall seniors protesting the removal of a Christmas tree from their community room this week because, they said they were told, it was a religious symbol prompted a national outcry -- a collective bah humbug from Christmas defenders.
It was, many said, another example of the so-called "war on Christmas" and political correctness run amok.
The issue isn't new, but the debate over appropriate public demonstrations of traditionally religious holidays has now spread beyond blatant symbols like the cross and Nativity scenes to the unassuming Christmas tree.
Chalk it up to the melting pot, experts say.
"The country is becoming more religiously diverse over time so that raises all kinds of questions about how we get along," said Eric Rassbach, deputy general counselor for The Becket Fund for Religious Liberties, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit organization.
"These issues come up every year, and I think it's borne out of people trying to figure out how to deal with the religious diversity we have in our country."
The recent controversy at The Willows senior apartment complex in Newhall illustrated how passionate Americans can be over their Christmas tree and their freedom to view it in communal spaces.
Residents said they were told by building staff that they had to take down the Christmas tree because of the presence of Christ's name in Christmas tree.
"I enjoy the beauty of this lovely tree as a symbol of harmony and kindness that is displayed at this time of year," Frances Schaeffer told the Daily News during an informal protest at the complex.
The 92-year-old Jewish resident said she's lived at The Willows for 23 years and has always looked forward to seeing the Christmas tree displayed during the holiday season.
Ultimately, management decided to keep the tree -- saying the whole incident was a miscommunication -- and even hosted a Christmas tree decorating party on Thursday.
But that didn't erase the more than 900 comments posted on the Daily News website that expressed anger at the management company for trying to tear down one of the most popular symbols of the holiday.
Residents from the East Coast to the South and beyond expressed everything from disgust to shock and bafflement.
"I'm appalled that we have come down to this level in this country," said Sue Brown of Elkhart, Ind., in an email to the Daily News on Thursday.
"Political correctness is out of hand. It's just another tool to abuse people."
In other email, self-described atheist Robert Jaimes of Peoria, Ariz., said, "Let them have a holiday tree, x-mas tree, or -- PC Police forbid -- a Christmas tree or menorah.
"It is decor and nothing else. The symbolism is held in the individual person, not the objects themselves," he said. "The holidays are a celebration in this country, regardless of religion or lack thereof."
But cultural observers say the Christmas tree is now becoming a polarizing symbol.
"All kinds of expressions that are rooted in the Christmas tradition are becoming targets," said Sabina Magliocco, a professor of anthropology at CSU Northridge who specializes in folklore and religion. "Even saying `Merry Christmas' is looked upon in some circles as not being politically correct because you're assuming everyone celebrates that Christian holiday.
The Christmas tree is part of that."
Congressman Buck McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, said rules prohibit congressional leaders from sending their constituents any religious happy holiday greeting.
"We can't say Merry Christmas, we can't say Happy Hanukkah, we can't say anything that even alludes to a religious celebration or specific holiday greeting. We can't even use the colors red and green," he said. "Are these great American holiday traditions next to go?"
But local attorney William J. Becker Jr. doesn't see that happening. He represents the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Committee, which is planning to appeal a city ban on the nearly 60-year tradition of displaying Nativity scenes at Palisades Park.
"There are people who are trying to force religious neutrality, and that's never going to happen," Becker said. "There are at least as many people who respect the traditions as there are people who don't respect the traditions."
Even nonbelievers, Magliocco said, often adhere to the Christian-rooted traditions of America.
"If you look at American culture, officially: `Congress shall make no law that governs religion.' But historically, the United States was settled by Christians, so there's a level at which our daily life is influenced by that," Magliocco said, pointing to several of the country's customs tied to the yearly celebration such as school vacations.
Yet that doesn't prevent the yearly battles over the holiday symbols -- even when those fights appear to be resolved.
In the 1980s, the Southern California American Civil Liberties Union attempted to bar displays of a Jewish menorah and a Christmas tree at Los Angeles City Hall.
The California Court of Appeal settled the issue, allowing the government building to continue having a Christmas tree in the City Hall rotunda and a menorah -- which Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa lit during a ceremony Friday.
"There needs to be an admittance that there are plenty of religions here and then we've got to embrace it," Rassbach said. "The government shouldn't just put its hands over its ears and say, `I can't hear you."'
The office of Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich couldn't agree more.
"We don't consider this issue touchy at all. It's a clear issue with no gray area at all," said Tony Bell, spokesman for Antonovich. "There is a Christmas tree that celebrates the birth of Jesus and the menorah that celebrates the Festival of Lights and those are holidays that are celebrated by the vast majority of residents of Los Angeles County. There are some people who don't celebrate those holidays and they can do it. But we're about inclusive celebration of the holidays, not exclusivity."
"Religion is that one hot potato. It is and always will be," attorney Becker said.
"We're in an intolerant age right now. But the bottom line is, if you don't have a similar tradition, you should not deprive others from celebrating their traditions."


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College of Saint Mary volleyball player Baylee Collins has been named the Midlands Colligate Athletic Conferences Dr. LeRoy Walker Champions of Character Award winner.
Collins celebrated the nomination by excelling on the court Tuesday. She had a match high 38 digs in a five set win over York College. CSM improved to 14-17 on the season and 7-4 in the MCAC. York fell to 9-18 overall and 3-5 in conference.
The Dr. LeRoy Walker Champions of Character Award is one of the most prestigious awards in the NAIA and is named after Walker, who was the first African-American president of the NAIA and also president of the U.S. Olympic Committee.
The award is given annually to an NAIA student-athlete who has outstanding academic achievement, campus and community leadership, and who embraces the five core values of the Champions of Character program-integrity, respect, responsibility, sportsmanship and servant leadership.
Collins was selected from five nominees for the honor.
Collins, a junior and a 2010 graduate of North Platte High, was recently named the MCAC Womens Volleyball Libero of the week for the week ending Oct. 14.
Collins averaged 7.45 digs per game during the week as the Flames posted a 2-1 record. In 3-1 wins over Central Methodist College and Central Baptist College, Collins had 35 and 34 digs, respectively.
Also, she previously won the conferences Libero of the Week honor on Sept. 23, when she averaged 6.57 digs a game for the week, including a career-best 40 digs in a 3-1 win over York College.
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When your dogs are barking, there's no sweeter relief than a pair of flats that fight for a woman's best friend.
I've always been an animal lover: It's in my blood. My great-grandfather William Randolph Hearst has his own zoo. (Hello, polar bears and zebras!) My mom now lives on a farm with chickens, ducks, and geese. Given the current locavore craze, that may not sound so exotic. But her alpacas and emus? Not exactly your average household pets. Thanks to my family, loving and respecting animals is all I've ever known. But it wasn't until an adorable dachshund/Chihuahua mix melted my heart that I felt compelled to take on the fight for animal rights.
Three years ago, I bought my dog, Finnegan, at a pet store in New York City. I know what you're thinking: Why not adopt from a shelter? It's true, adoption is ideal, but one glance at Finn and I was done—you can't help who, or what, you love. Sure, I'd heard the stats: More than 90 percent of pet store dogs are from puppy mills, those notorious facilities where female dogs are bred until they die and animals are forced to live in cramped, crippling crates. But the shopkeeper told me Finn was from a trusted, loving breeder, even giving me his family tree. Well, that was a lie. With help from the Human Society of the United States (HSUS), I did research into Finn's background and learned that he was, in fact, among that 90 percent. Even worse, his mother was still there and likely never to get out.
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