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Used for Centuries to Navigate Routes Over Earth and Sea, Antique Maps Now Attract a host of Collectors--and a Few Thieves
Fitzhugh Lee Opie, a great-great-grandnephew of Gen. Robert E. Lee, was nabbed by a detective at the Library of Congress as he left the building on March 7, 1992, with two mid-nineteenth-century Pacific Railroad Survey maps swiped from the library's map collection.
The stolen maps (and two old military books from the library later found in Opie's car) were valued at $1,200. Opie, once an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Alexandria, Virginia, and a well-known antiquarian dealer in that city's elegant Old Town section, had been stealing from the library for 10 years, according to prosecutors. He got six months in prison, plus placement of his name on a different kind of social registry--that of bandits, gentlemanly or otherwise, who have bestowed a backhanded tribute on the growing popularity and value of antique maps: they steal them.
Until the early 1970s, the world of antique map collecting was a fairly circumscribed one, an esoteric realm best known to historians, librarians and a small cadre of collectors--mostly men--who sometimes called their passion "cartomania." By the middle of the '70s, however, obsessive devotion to the work of cartographers began to spread. The intensifying interest was spurred by the
shrewd marketing of a few dealers who recognized that these beautifully engraved remnants of ages past and lost worlds would have enormous appeal for corporations with offices to adorn, investors with capital to spare, and collectors who realized that some astonishingly lovely antiques were available for modest sums.
"When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales." --Mark Twain (Life on the Mississippi, 1883)
Although map collecting still is considered largely the province of men, surely typical of the new generation of map collectors is a savvy young stockbroker for an investment bank in Hong Kong, Ailsa R. Cuthbert, 34, who already has accumulated "loads of maps," most of them dating from 1550 to 1750, after just five years in the hobby. Like many collectors, she began by reading books about maps, roamed through dealer galleries and shops, became friendly with other map collectors, and now concentrates on a few areas, typically regions that have a personal meaning for her. The majority of her maps are of Asia, where she has lived for 19 years, but she also has one of Edinburgh, where she was born, and a sea chart of the United Kingdom.
"I like the sense of discovery about them," says Cuthbert, "the transition of a place through time, and also the references to history, if they have a cartouche [title drawing] depicting costumes or other things from daily life at that time." Cuthbert is willing to spend up to $3,000 for a map--"more if I am feeling rich, or if it is an especially good piece," she says. She still is surprised that "you don't need to spend much more than $10,000 to get almost museum [-quality] stuff."
The vast majority of antique maps remain far more affordable, with many 300- and even 400-year-old items going for a few hundred dollars or less. That is lure enough for the 20,000 or so collectors who subscribe to Mercator's World, a bimonthly magazine devoted to the multifaceted aspects of map collecting, and the untold number of more casual collectors who poke around print and map-dealer shops.
"You don't have to be in Wall Street to buy maps; you could be a farmer," says Kenneth M. Newman, 71, owner of New York's The Old Print Shop Inc., which is celebrating its centennial this year. Although prices have "taken off in the past 15 to 20 years," he says, many high-quality maps from the eighteenth century (a prime period) still fall into the $800 to $10,000 range.
"They've always lagged tremendously [behind] the prices in [other] antiques, paintings, jewelry, boats, mink coats, cigars--anything you can think of," says W. Graham Arader III, 47, an exuberant, brash, extremely articulate fine arts entrepreneur whose aggressive marketing skills have made him one of today's top dealers in antique maps. At last January's Winter Antiques Show in New York's Seventh Regiment Armory (where he says 80 percent of his business has been generated over the years), Arader had approximately $1 million worth of maps for sale. While catalogues from Arader's seven galleries (in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Texas and California) feature maps that run as high as $350,000, he maintains a client list of some 4,000 customers that begins with those who have spent as little as $1,000 in his shops.
It is the escalating value of especially rare and desirable maps, however, that has turned the once-sleepy map market into a booming business that shows no sign of slowing down--and has transformed some previously respectable professionals into pilferers.
In its March 1997 issue, Money magazine featured a "Hot Stuff" story on map collecting, dubbing it "a new way to double your money." The magazine noted that a 15-inch-by-13-inch 1853 map of San Diego that sold for $60 in 1991 is worth more than twice that today, while the first map to call our continent "America," printed in Rome in 1507, has gone from $80,000 a decade ago to $135,000 now. Arader recalls that when he began selling maps in 1971, a classic 1635 map of America engraved and printed by the renowned seventeenth-century Dutch mapmaker Willem Blaeu sold for just $200 to $300. Now it fetches $12,000 to $13,000. The Old Print Shop's Newman muses: "As with everything else, [the price of maps] has moved along. I have to remind myself that the subway was a nickel in 1946."
Who are the people willing to pay Arader $15,000, say, for an 1810 map of the Southwest United States based on the explorations of a Lt. Zebulon Pike (of Pike's Peak fame), or $350,000 for four sixteenth-century Venetian wall maps of Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia? Newman's assurances notwithstanding, you can guess the answer: Wall Streeters. "What do they say, there are going to be 2,000 people that get $5 million bonuses or more on Wall Street?" Arader observed last December, just before the mammoth Christmas bonuses were doled out in the big brokerage houses. "Those are the people."
As a consequence, potential thefts such as Opie's have become a major concern for scholarly repositories previously unaccustomed to large-scale larceny. Once proud of the open access to their treasures, libraries and universities are having to rethink security procedures and institute tighter controls. Among the gentlemen crooks purloining maps have been Andrew P. Antippas, a professor of English at Tulane University, who pleaded guilty in 1978 to stealing five rare maps from Yale University, and Robert M. "Skeet" Willingham Jr., the head of special collections at the University of Georgia, who was convicted in 1988 of stealing rare maps, books and documents from his own library.
The most spectacular case thus far involved a map dealer, albeit one with a questionable background. On December 7, 1995, Jennifer Bryan, a curator for the Maryland Historical Society, was doing research inside the elegant, 117-year-old cast-iron and gold-leafed stacks of the George Peabody Library of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore when she grew suspicious about the movements of a supposed fellow researcher nearby. He was Gilbert Joseph Bland Jr., a 47-year-old dealer in rare maps from Tamarac, Florida. Bryan alerted library security personnel, who confronted Bland, only to have him bolt from the building. Chased several blocks, he tossed a notebook into some bushes before he was cornered. Retrieving the notebook, the security officers found three maps worth about $2,000 inside, sliced from a valuable 1763 book, The General History of the Late War by John Entick. Bland had used a phony University of Florida ID card bearing the name James Perry to gain access to the Peabody stacks. After questioning by the security officials and Baltimore police, Bland offered to pay $700 to restore the damaged book, and the police advised the library to let him go.
In his haste to leave, however, Bland left behind his notebook. Looking it over, Peabody director of security Donald Pfouts found a chilling list of rare maps, along with the names of major libraries that had them. Hastily surveying their own collection, Peabody officials found that a dozen more eighteenth-century maps were missing from other books that Bland had requested on a previous visit. Hopkins alerted other university libraries. Distressing reports began coming in that "James Perry" had really made the rounds: in all, 18 institutions, including the universities of Virginia, Duke, North Carolina, Brown, Delaware, Chicago, Northwestern, Washington State and Florida, had been visited by Bland. The sixteenth- to eighteenth-century books he had asked to see now were missing maps. They had become the stock of his increasingly active trade in antique maps.
Not surprisingly, FBI agents found that Bland--whose record included arrests on charges of possessing a stolen car and defrauding the federal government in an unemployment compensation scheme--had abruptly emptied and closed his small shop, Antique Maps and Collectibles, leaving a cryptic note for his landlord. It simply read: "See you later." The FBI, however, managed to track Bland down in Coral Springs, Florida, where he surrendered on Jan. 2, 1996.
After a month of bargaining, Bland told police where he had stashed his booty, a storage locker in Palm Beach Gardens that contained approximately 150 antique maps. The maps, together with 100 others that were recovered from Bland's clients throughout the United States, were worth an estimated half-million dollars. Plea bargains in federal and several state courts netted him an order to pay $70,000 in restitution for damages, along with prison terms on which he ultimately served 17 months. In the view of many of his victims, it was an appallingly light sentence. "He was violating the trust of practically every community in the country, committing crimes against our his-tory," Hopkins' Pfouts told writer Miles Harvey of Outside magazine.
The map thieves represent a glaring exception in a pursuit long dominated by knowledgeable, cultivated collectors and trustworthy, devoted dealers who trade in documents they revere more for their reflection of past glories than their potential for future profits.
"I think if you're going to buy a map as an investment, you ought to buy the S&P Index instead," W. Graham Arader says with a touch of sarcasm. "People who buy maps to make money lose; people who buy maps for passion make a fortune.
"If you let passion rule your decisions, you will always be followed by like-passioned people later, who will pay you much more for your maps. If you buy maps for investments, you will be followed by other, cheap people who are looking for maps as investments and will niggle you down. So you'll collect in a category that investors collect in, and you'll make all the classic mistakes that nonpassionate map collectors make. If you want to go into maps as an investment, don't. If you want to go into maps because you passionately love them, you'll definitely make money."
"Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst." --Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote, 1615)
The desire to make maps may be inherent in humankind. Clearly, people have always wanted to show how to get from one place to another on land and how to navigate the seas. They felt compelled to show potential travelers where rivers had to be crossed, where mountains posed barriers, what the place they lived in looked like. They were intensely interested, understandably, in the planet they inhabited. In essence, curiosity, commerce--and politics--compelled mapmakers and those who bought what they created. As the nations of Europe more meticulously surveyed their own realms and expanded their dominion over previously uncharted areas of the globe, they wanted maps of their new acquisitions and motherlands; their rivals also were interested in those maps, the better to determine the vulnerability of potential enemies in times of war.
While maps were meant to be used, they appear to have always intrigued collectors. "The interest in maps has been around for 500 years," says Arader. "There was a bishop in Spain who collected them in the fourteenth century!" The annals of mapmaking contain names only dimly remembered from high school or college history lessons, such as Ptolemy, the second-century Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer whose theories on the Earth's size, oceans and land masses dominated mapmaking for centuries; and Gerard Mercator, a renowned sixteenth-century Flemish mathematician, instrument maker, cartographer and engraver whose "projection" charts of the world established a foundation that eventually enabled seafarers to navigate more accurately.
There are names that either are synonymous with maps (William H. Rand and Andrew McNally) or are not readily associated with them. The ranks of American cartographers and map printers include at least one Founding Father (Benjamin Franklin); the father of another (Peter Jefferson, Thomas's dad); and the "father of American geography," Jedidiah Morse, a Connecticut publisher of geographic books whose son, Samuel, created Morse code--that shatterer of distance.
American mapmaking's roster includes Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, the eighteenth-century surveyors whose boundary line defined the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland--and in time became the cultural demarcation between the North and South. Also on the honor roll is John Charles Fremont, called "The Pathfinder" for his mapping of the Midwest and Far West in the mid-nineteenth century. In 1856, he became the Republican Party's first nominee for president. The party's second nominee, in 1860, had been a part-time surveyor in Sangamon County, Illinois, in the mid-1830s and had far more modest mapmaking skills. His name was Abraham Lincoln.
Misconceptions in mapmaking have had a mighty long shelf life--and mapmakers whose identities largely are unknown today coined names and concepts that had immense, enduring impact. For example, around 150 A.D., Ptolemy published an eight-volume book, Geographia, that contained a world map, 26 regional maps and many smaller ones. No original copies of this book or his maps survive, but maps based on Ptolemy's theories were the first to come off the Renaissance's printing presses, and his calculations of the circumference of the world influenced mapmakers and geographic thought well into the 1700s--indeed, long after many of them knew better.
Ptolemy's key accomplishment was the introduction of a formal grid of longitudinal and latitudinal lines, devised on the basis of astronomical observations and mathematical calculations. Yet as Lloyd A. Brown observed in his classic 1949 book, The Story of Maps, Ptolemy's text "was both a keystone and a millstone." Initially a breakthrough, it ultimately assumed an unwarranted status as dogma, preventing newer, better maps from being printed. Nevertheless, as map historian Tony Campbell observed, "Ptolemy's shortcomings were to be a positive advantage."
"By favoring the shortest of various Greek estimates of the circumference of the earth and thus arriving at a much reduced value for a degree of longitude," Campbell wrote in his 1987 book, The Earliest Printed Maps, "Ptolemy seriously understated the distance between western Europe and the supposed position of China. Columbus, who owned [a copy of] the 1478 edition of Ptolemy's classic, believed, or pretended to believe, that only...about 2,400 nautical miles...separated Lisbon from Cathay. Had Columbus realized that the true figure was nearer 10,000 nautical miles, it is conceivablehe would never have set out on his first, momentous voyage."
Ironically, while one mapmaker's mistake helped send Columbus on his way to the New World, it was another mapmaker's misguided beliefs that denied Columbus an honor that his discoveries merited.
Martin Waldseemüller, born in Germany around 1473, adopted the nom de plume of Ilacomylus, a Greek/Latin form of his name, when he became a cosmographer (an expert on the known universe) under the patronage of the Duke of Lorraine. The Duke was believed to have had a copy of a 1502 book, Mundus Novus ("The New World"), which detailed the voyages of the Florentine seafarer Amerigo Vespucci, who had followed in the wake of Columbus. Waldseemüller and his text writer, the poet Matthias Ringman, were so impressed with what Vespucci had done that in 1507 they published a new geographic book, Cosmographiae Introductio, which ignored the accomplishments of Columbus and instead labeled the new continent "America," in honor of Vespucci. Within a few years, Waldseemüller had second thoughts about whether Vespucci deserved the honor--but by then too many copies of Cosmographiae Introductio had been published and the name "America" had stuck.
"So geographers, in Afric maps/With savage pictures fill their gaps,
And over unhabitable downs/Place elephants for want of towns."--Jonathan Swift, 1733
Generally speaking, an "antique" map is one that is more than 100 years old. The earliest printed European maps were produced in the fifteenth century from wooden blocks on which the image was carved out in relief. By the early sixteenth century, the preferred printing method became engravings on copper plates, in which the image was cut in reverse. Beginning in the early nineteenth century, steel--a far more durable metal--replaced copper. Finer lines could be etched on steel and more maps could be printed from plates made of it. Most engraved maps after 1830 were etched on steel. Mapmakers also began using lithography, or drawings done directly on specially prepared stones, in the early 1800s. Modern machine lithographic printing technology was developed by the late nineteenth century. Maps could be made even more quickly and cheaply, but much of the earlier decorative quality now prized by many collectors disappeared in the process.
The period from the mid-1500s to the 1700s is the one that most interests deep-pocketed collectors, with the 1600s often called mapmaking's "Golden Age," an era when Dutch and Flemish cartographers turned out especially exquisite examples of the mapmaker's art.
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A 25-year-old Ukiah man was arrested Wednesday night after he was stopped while riding his bike on Lovers Lane and allegedly found in possession of a knife and methamphetamine, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies patrolling at 11 p.m. Feb. 20 in the 1400 block of Lovers Lane spotted a man riding a bike with no lights and stopped him, according to the MCSO. They recognized the bike rider as Robert K. Gardner and knew he was on probation locally.
Deputies searched Gardner and found a 6-inch knife hidden in his pants, according to the MCSO, and arrested him on suspicion of possessing a dangerous weapon and violating the terms of his probation.
Deputies noticed Gardner appeared to be under the influence of a controlled substance and evaluated him, finding him allegedly under the influence of methamphetamine. Gardner also had burglary tools and about 0.2 grams of methamphetamine he allegedly threw on the ground as deputies were talking to him, according to the MCSO.
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And it was. At just 16-years old and a junior at Hueytown High School, Courtney's life drastically changed.
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Dale W. Dickson Scholarship awards support to Traci Alt of Salesville
A first-year Muskingum College student has been awarded financial support from the Dale W. Dickson Endowed Scholarship Fund. Traci Alt, a Buckeye Trail High School graduate from Salesville, will begin her studies at Muskingum this fall, where she plans to pursue the pre-medicine program. She is the daughter of Kevin and Debbie Alt of Salesville.
As a student at Buckeye Trail, Traci was a member of the National Honor Society, Student Council, Students Helping Students and Students Against Drunk Driving. She also participates in volleyball, basketball and softball, and was recently selected as a recipient of the John Wells Memorial Scholarship.
The Dale W. Dickson Endowed Scholarship Fund was established in 1998, following his death, by his family, friends and the Mace Club, a social club at Muskingum. Dickson, who graduated from Muskingum in 1965, was a member of the Mace Club and served on its advisory board after his graduation. The purpose of the fund is to make it financially possible for deserving and qualified students, preferably from Guernsey County, to attend Muskingum College.
Dickson was a teacher and coach at Meadowbrook High School, Cambridge High School, Cloverleaf High School near Cleveland, and Mt. Vernon High School. Beginning in 1986, he was employed by Cambridge Savings Bank, where he served as vice president and secretary and as a board member of Camco Mortgage. He also was the high school football coach of Cambridge native Dom Capers, who is defensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins. Capers also won coach of the year honors in the NFL as head coach of the Carolina Panthers.
Dickson was a member and past president of the Kiwanis Club, the Cambridge Area Chamber of Commerce Board, the Guernsey County United Way campaign and the board of directors of the Southeastern Ohio Regional Medical Center. In tribute to his college athletic career, he was inducted into the Muskingum College Hall of Fame in 1993.
Two other Dickson Scholarship recipients, Jessica Miller and Alexe Monday, both of Cambridge, will continue their studies at Muskingum this year. Matthew Gilmore, another Dickson Scholar, recently completed his studies at Muskingum with a bachelor's degree in History.
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Remains in Larimer not confirmed flood-related
LOVELAND — Human remains were discovered Monday in flood ravaged Larimer County, but there was no immediate confirmation whether they belong to the lone unaccounted-for person.
The Reporter-Herald reports that two contract workers for the Environmental Protection Agency discovered the remains in a debris field west of Loveland Monday afternoon (http://bit.ly/18Lfg87 ).
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Just one person remains unaccounted for after the September flooding, Patty Goodwine of the Cedar Cove area of the Big Thompson Canyon.
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How-to: Make Reusable Items From a Broken Tote Bag
Writing for Crafting a Green World has made me stop procrastinating and finish those U.F.O.'s (Un-Finished Objects) that have been dying for attention. Yesterday, I finally went to work and de-constructed a broken zip quilted tote bag and turned it into a magazine basket, lid handle holders and some coasters.
The zipper broke the first week I bought the bag and I've been using it without being able to close it for a long time. I was ready to part with it because the straps were too long and thin and it was awkward to carry. I didn't feel right about donating a broken bag, so it's been collecting dust and I desperately wanted to upcycle it into something useful.
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The sneaker game has changed massively from where it was in 2003-08. It probably didn't help that the Canadian dollar got stronger, so more peeps headed to eBay and other online venues to grab stuff. I felt that it got too big too fast. Not only did Goodfoot go deadpool, but so did North trooper, Cartel and Stolen Riches.why did they close? was it lack of sales?


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WILTSHIRE skipper Mike Coles says his primary focus is keeping his players' feet on the ground, despite the county's irresistible form.
Wiltshire needed little more than two overs to wrap up a dominant 10-wicket victory over Oxfordshire on Tuesday morning as they opened their Unicorns Championship campaign in impressive fashion this week.
Jayden Levitt hit a scorching 152 during the county's first innings whilst Tahir Afridi and Jake Roberts took five and six wickets across the course of the match respectively.
"We bowled really well to get them all out for 220-odd on the first day and then we batted superbly – Jayden gave us a great platform and allowed everyone else to bat with freedom," said Coles.
"It was a little bit of a shame that we couldn't see them off before the end of the second day. The officials gave us the extra 30 minutes but they put a late partnership together.
"The atmosphere after the game was fantastic but between myself and Shards (Neil Shardlow, team boss), our job has been keeping everyone focussed and grounded."
John Cater hit 92 for Oxfordshire, who batted first after winning the toss, but Afridi (4-58) and Roberts (3-58) did the damage as the hosts were skittled for 228.
Levitt's spectacular knock was then well supported by Coles (55), Clark and Henry Langford (both 41), with Wiltshire stretching their lead before being dismissed for 377.
The visitors then tore through Oxfordshire a second time, with Roberts taking 3-38 and Ashur Morrison claiming 3-24 as the home side fell for 177 midway through the 58th over.
That left Levitt (19 not out) and Adam Miles (10 not out) to guide the county to 29 without loss.
Wiltshire batsman Clark added: "We're playing fearless cricket at the moment and long may it continue."
- WILTSHIRE have added Tom Morton to the squad that beat Oxfordshire for Sunday's Unicorns Knockout Trophy quarter-final clash with Norfolk at Corsham.
Wiltshire team to play Norfolk: Michael Coles (Corsham) (Captain), Tahir Afridi (Henley), Joe Breet (Lechlade), Neil Clark (Potterne), Tom Foley (Corsham), Henry Langford (Brockhampton), Jayden Levitt (Bromsgrove), Adam Miles (Cardiff), Ashur Morrison (Corsham), Tom Morton (South Wilts), Jake Roberts (Potterne), Ed Young (Potterne).
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Forsythe, Maybin are ready for game action
SAN DIEGO -- A pair of not-so injured Padres are heading to Arizona to play in games Friday, as infielder Logan Forsythe and outfielder Cameron Maybin work their way back from the disabled list.
Forsythe, out since March 31, retroactive to March 22, because of plantar fasciitis in his right foot, will head to the team's temporary workout facility in Surprise and will serve as the designated hitter in Friday's game.
Maybin, on the disabled list since April 17 with right wrist impingement, worked out with the Padres on Wednesday. He'll head to Tucson on Wednesday and play for the Padres' Triple-A affiliate on Friday.
Forsythe is on the 60-day disabled list while Maybin is on the 15-day DL.
"Back in action," Maybin said. "I'm ready to do some baseball activities. I've been feeling good and I'm ready to get out of here and get back on track."
Forsythe figures to spend considerably more time in Arizona than Maybin because he's missed so much time.
Maybin, who was hitting .091 in 33 at-bats at the time of his injury in April, might get around 30 or so at-bats with Tucson, though Padres manager Bud Black will have a better idea once he starts playing.
"It's good to see Cam and Logan playing," Black said.
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Understanding financial professionals' fees and compensation, Part 4
In recent weeks, I have written about the general differences between a fee-based planning model and the commission-based model. This week I'll take a more detailed look at fee-based financial advisers.
In most states, in order for financial professionals to carry the title of adviser, they typically must pass either the series 65 or 66 exam, or obtain a highly qualified professional designation such as the CFP (certified financial planner). Also the individual must be an investment adviser representative of a registered investment advisory firm (also known as an RIA).
These distinctions give advisers the ability to charge you fees for their planning advice, as well as the ability to charge you a fee based on a percentage of your portfolio assets (whether they manage it directly or solicit it to a third-party money manager). This differs from commission-based representatives who only charge when they buy or sell assets.
Fee-based representatives may be appealing to people that like the idea that their adviser is not motivated to buy and sell positions just to get paid. The belief is that fee-based advisers will do their best to grow the assets since the adviser's compensation is tied directly to the success of the customer's portfolio. Some feel this ties the adviser to the wants and needs of their customers more so than other compensation models.
Upon entering an agreement with advisers, they will disclose their fee schedule. This schedule cannot change unless a new agreement is entered into. The adviser also will supply you with an ADV Part 2b. This is a document that covers areas on which advisers may advise clients, and areas on which they cannot. This also will give a history of the adviser's record. If there were any complaints in the past, it would be disclosed here.
The state sets maximum amounts that can be charged by advisers, and it is up to the firm to set its own fees within these limits. These fees will be found in the firm's ADV, so it is in your best interest to look around and see what others are billing.
You want to do what is best for you and your hard-earned money, so taking the time upfront, doing your homework and interviewing multiple professionals that offer different pricing options is a wise way start. Going in with a list of questions to ask during the interview is always a great idea. This will help you to better understand the person sitting in front of you and may help you pick that one professional you can feel comfortable with for years to come.
Joe Wirbick is president of Lancaster financial services firm Sequinox and specializes in retirement planning and distribution. This allows him to concentrate on developing strategies that help address the unique issues that confront retirees and those approaching retirement.
* Read Joe's previous entries on the fee-based planning model and the commission-based planning model.


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Trans Nasal Insuflation for the Treatment of Snoring (TNI)
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This research is being done to examine if a nasal cannula can be used to keep the throat open during sleep, thereby treating sleep apnea.
People with sleep apnea and people who snore without sleep apnea may take part in this study. Sleep apnea is a disorder caused by pauses in breathing due to repetitive closure of the throat. The most common form of treatment for sleep apnea is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy. While CPAP therapy remains the simplest and most effective treatment for snoring and sleep apnea, patients have to wear a nasal mask throughout the night. For this reason, patients often have difficulty sticking to therapy.
Participants enrolled in this study will spend 3-nights in a sleep laboratory. In all nights, the investigators will monitor your sleep and your breathing throughout the night. The investigators will apply several electrodes (sensors) to your scalp and face to monitor your sleep and breathing, and other sensors to your chest, abdomen, cheek, and a finger to monitor your breathing and oxygen level.
|Obstructive Sleep Apnea
|Device: Trans Nasal Insuflation (TNI) [nasal canula]
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case-Only
Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional
|Official Title:
|Trans Nasal Insuflation for the Treatment of Snoring and Obstructive Sleep Apnea
- Change in inspiratory airflow [ Time Frame: 2 nights ]
- Change in sleep apnea severity (AHI) [ Time Frame: 2 nights ]
- Change in Ratio of apnea-to-hypopnea events [ Time Frame: 2-nights ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|July 2004
|Assigned Interventions
Sleep apnea
Patients with diagnosed obstructive sleep apnea
Device: Trans Nasal Insuflation (TNI) [nasal canula]
Trans Nasal Insuflation, or TNI, uses air at flow rates delivered through a small nasal canula to reduce the severity and frequency of sleep apnea events.
By using TNI we hope to increase the amount of air that the patient can breathe during periods of obstructive sleep disordered breathing.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|21 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Consenting adults over the age of 21
- Diagnosed obstructive sleep apnea
Exclusion Criteria:
- Unstable cardiovascular disease;
- Uncontrolled hypertension (BP > 190/110);
- Severe intrinsic lung diseases (supplemental O2 > 2 L/min during the day);
- History of chronic renal insufficiency;
- History of hepatic insufficiency;
- Pregnancy;
- Bleeding disorders or Coumadin use;
- Sleep Disorders other than OSA;
- Tracheostomy;
- Allergy to lidocaine
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00832026
|United States, Maryland
|Johns Hopkins University
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21224
|Responsible Party:
|Hartmut Schneider, Johns Hopkins University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00832026 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|January 27, 2009
|Last Updated:
|January 28, 2009
Keywords provided by Johns Hopkins University:
sleep apnea
sleep apnea treatment
Trans nasal insuflation
Open CPAP
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Sleep Apnea Syndromes
Sleep Apnea, Obstructive
Sleep Disorders, Intrinsic
Sleep Wake Disorders
Respiration Disorders
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Signs and Symptoms, Respiratory
Signs and Symptoms
Nervous System Diseases
Respiratory Sounds
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Topic: One month since his passing
Hard to believe that today is exactly one month since my husband passed away. It's been busy month and still not everything taken care of. Interesting, that throughout his illness, I was saying that it's been a rollercoaster ride. Seems that it's still is - just different type of rollercoaster....
I've been reading the series of booklets about grieving stages and processes and it recommends to join a grieving group or write a journal, but for me, adressing people here who have been through it and in a way - writing about it - what helps the most.
Had few "visits" from him - mentioned few days ago, that his night light in the bedroom was on few days ago, and then it was on almost every night since. I do know that at least twice my 6 years old turned it on, but it happened at least 5 times.
I wish I had a hidden camera to see how it happens!
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Every Wednesday during the Advent-Christmas season, we will post a reflection from Larry Livingston, CFCA church relations director. We hope these reflections help you on your own journey through Advent.
ì…for nothing will be impossible for God.î (Luke 1:37)
An unopened Christmas present is a wondrous thing. When I was a child, many times I would park myself under the Christmas tree and gaze at a brightly wrapped package with my name on it, trying to guess what was inside.
My imagination would always kick into high gear on such occasions. This was possible because of the simplicity of a childís mind, which knows nothing of recessions, budgets or the laws of physics.
As far as I was concerned those presents could be anything, and believing that gave me the freedom to dream big.
Sadly, that sense of infinite possibility tends to fade away as we grow older, especially where God is concerned.
Instead of embracing the glory and wonder of our Creator, in our limited imaginations we try to rein God in.
The Scripture readings for the Fourth Sunday of Advent include two stories of people struggling to understand the limitlessness of God. In each situation, God lovingly reminds the person in the story of who he or she is dealing with.
In the first reading King David wants to build a temple to house the Ark of the Covenant ñ in other words, a house for God. While his intentions are good, what David proposes would essentially put God in a box.
The king is reminded that all he has achieved and would achieve in the future is due to Godís power. How could such a wondrous God be contained in any structure, however grand?
Davidís failure here is one of vision. He wants to do right by God, but his limited imagination bogs him down in conventional thinking.
It was the same struggle Mary would have centuries later when approached by the Angel Gabriel to become the mother of Jesus.
Mary wants to surrender completely to Godís will but has an understandably hard time wrapping her mind around the notion that she could remain a virgin and give birth to the Savior.
The angelís simple response: ìNothing will be impossible for God.î Mary accepts the angelís word even without understanding it, and we know how that turned out.
David and Mary are two of the great heroes of salvation history, yet even they struggled with the idea that God can transcend any and all boundaries.
What each learned, ultimately and to their credit, is that the more humble the circumstances, the more profoundly Godís glory is revealed.
CFCA sponsors are blessed to know that God has been revealed to them in the lives of their sponsored friends and others who live in great poverty.
The leap of faith they took in saying yes to sponsorship may not have been as courageous as the yes of Mary in becoming the mother of Jesus, but that doesnít matter.
In each case ñ as in every life-affirming decision ñ the love of God is made manifest.
So as we move toward Christmas, let us ponder the God of the possible ñ the God of David, the God of Mary, and the God who dares us to dream big.
Related links
- Seeing the face of Christ through sponsorship [1st Advent reflection]
- God shares in our humanity [2nd Advent reflection]
- Choosing to be 'eager,' not anxious [3rd Advent reflection]
- Glorifying God with fully human lives [Christmas reflection]
- We are God's partners in serving others [2nd Christmas reflection]
- Recognizing Christ when we find him [3rd Christmas reflection]


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One of the requirementsand perksof this job is to travel the country attending car shows. The bad news is, since we fly a lot, we dont get to drive our rods and customs to shows as much as wed like, and theres zero fun in driving a rental car to a hot rod shindig. But every fall, as the fly-around show-season is winding down, we get the opportunity to drive our junk to some local California shows that always end up knocking our socks off. One of the fall shows that we always look forward to is Billetproof, held at the Holiday Bowl in Hayward, California.
Now in its fifth year, this self-billed Worlds Least Important Car Show has fast become one of the best places to see the coolest low-buck homebuilts on the West Coast. Its among those rare shows where the preferred patina is primer and homegrown hot rods rule. Its also very refreshing to hit a show with such a mellow, attitude-free vibe; no power parking, no velvet ropes, no embroidered lawnchairs, just regular old car folks getting together and enjoying a day in the sun with their friends, old and new. The real credit goes to the volunteers who help make everything run smoothly. The head honchos, Jay Ward and Kirk Jones, are quick to point the finger at the Vultures Car Club for their support: Bill Martinez and Paul Borrmann, who worked the gate; Nick Scott, Jason Fredriksson, and Todd Mountain, who made sure everyone got a good parking spot; and Steve Merritt, Tony and Rachael Basso, Tricia Ward, Marilyn Fredriksson, Christina Jones, Stormi Rindels, and Roger and Dirty from Detroit for volunteering.
Those predisposed to sunburn were lucky enough to have the covered parking area to hide in; this area also housed the small vendor area. Upstairs, the folks were treated to live music by The Sore Thumbs and The Dynotones, which was punctuated by the unmistakable sound of balls striking pins.
This show started with about 25 entrants in its first year and hit its limit of 200 vehicles within 2 years. It just keeps getting better every year with more and more great cars coming out. This year the cap was upped to 300 cars, which made it 50 percent bigger than last year, but the show is precariously close to exceeding the limitations of its venue. This would turn out to be a shame, since the bowling alley adds a certain down-home vibe. Mark September 28, 2002, on your calendar because this show is not to be missed. For info, hit www.billetproof.com.


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This is from the official Redskins message board, really weird nothing has hit the pressed at all
I didn't see this posted anywhere, so please excuse me if this has been already.
I was just talking with my father and a lady from work asked him if he had gotten a letter from the Washington Redskins asking about a homicide that happened during the Sunday Night football game between them and the Colts at Fedex Field. Apparently they are trying to find witnesses who saw anything. I'm assuming it must have been a fight, but I don't know.
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A RADIO presenter was so moved by a guest on his show he offered to fund a month of lunches for lonely older people out of his own pocket.
John Campbell, who presents a show on Forest FM as a volunteer, put his hand in his pocket after interviewing Kate Moulton from the monthly lunch club for older|people in Verwood.
Dorset Partnership for Older People Project (POPP) established the club, run by volunteers on the first Tuesday of each month at Verwood Methodist Church Hall.
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Did not see your post until just now. Quite frankly, "something else to let go of" is very much to the point. It is not saying don't ask questions or do not talk about your experiences, it is not saying that to ask for reassurance is bragging nor is it saying that one is stupid, but it is pointing to the fundamental point that it is all too easy to get caught up in the "experience" and the wanting of the "experience."octathlon wrote:How about letting go of posting the "something else to let go of" quote whenever someone asks a question about their experience? Speaking for those of us who don't have access to a teacher, when we are dealing with new experiences as a result of our practice, the message is that we're not going to get any help here either and we shouldn't ask. That quote is criticising them as either bragging or stupid, when I think many times people are trying to get a little reassurance that what is happening is normal, or how they should deal with what can be quite unsettling experiences.
Nothing to forgive. I think you were feeling a bit frustrated, and it can be frustrating trying to sort all this out, especially when it is so new. Just be gentle with yourself and with your practice.householder wrote:Ok thanks both, will carry on. Sorry to criticise tilt and I ask for your forgiveness for the harsh speech.
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We're in the middle of a series about five ways to "visit" your sponsored friend that don't involve an actual mission awareness trip!
A CFCA mission awareness trip to Costa Rica.
So far we have two ways:
1) Cook a meal native to your friend's ethnic cuisine and 2) Do something your friend likes doing.
The third is to:
3) Research your friend's country.
Our country pages are a great place to start. Watch a video, see photos and learn more about your friend's community.
Questions to consider:
ï Is your friend's community urban or rural? Is transportation accessible?
ï What is the traditional costume of your friend's country? Do you know the history behind it?
ï What's the weather like?
ï The U.S. Census fact sheet from its 2005-2009 survey found that the average U.S. family size was 3.19. What's the average family size for your friend's country?
ï What is the country's school system? The language(s) spoken there?
ï Does knowing more about the country help you understand your friend better? Why or why not?
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This weekend, Carshalton Athletic host Lowestoft at Colston Avenue in their battle to beat relegation out of the Ryman Premier League.
When the teams last met in October, the Robins were hammered 5-0.
However, the match is not remembered for the scoreline – more for triggering yet another chapter in the feud between the club owner Paul Dipre and the Carshalton Athletic Independent Supporters Club (CAISC).
Even before the CAISC was formed in February last year, Dipre and a section of Robins fans were at loggerheads.
In fact, there have been disagreements and antagonism since Dipre took over the club almost six years ago.
CAISC secretary Peter Randall will tell you his organisation wants only to open talks with Dipre, and that this is written into their constitution.
He will also tell you that their ultimate aim is not to remove Dipre from power, rather work together for the betterment of the club.
However, Dipre will tell you that, after almost six years of alleged harassment at the hands of fans who are now part of the CAISC, failed discussions and broken promises, the doors to dialogue are firmly shut.
So, into this volatile atmosphere came Lowestoft.
The manager at the time, Ian Hazel, contacted Dipre – who was not at the game – after the match to tell him he would be stepping down after being subjected to alleged abuse from a group of Robins fans.
Dipre's own investigation led him to the doors of Randall and fellow fan and CAISC member Colin Loadman, who were subsequently banned from Colston Avenue pending an investigation.
Randall admits he and Loadman did have a conversation with Hazel, but deny a confrontation took place, and that they have evidence to back up their claim.
Dipre will tell you that his past experience of the pair, his belief in Hazel's honesty and statements he have gathered all point to the contrary.
Dipre is still waiting on a response from the pair, and until he gets it, they remained banned.
Confrontation? Ian Hazel and fans at October's Lowestoft match
Randall says the pair will co-operate, but not with Dipre, saying: "The alleged incident at Lowestoft is a complete stitch up.
"A friend of mine spoke to Ian [Hazel] not long after and asked why he had told Paul Dipre that Randall and Loadman had been having a go, and he said: 'I didn't say that to Paul'.
"So what is the truth? I suspect Paul said: 'Were Randall and Loadman there' and because Ian said he had spoken to us, the answer was yes, and Paul used it for his own purposes. Colin and I have not been allowed in the ground since."
He added: "Colin and I have said that we are quite happy to co-operate with an independent enquiry, but not something where Paul sets himself up as accuser, judge and jury. That would be unfair."
Dipre said: "I had a complaint I had to deal with. I had to make a judgement on what was the best thing to do. That's what happened.
"We collected many statements, and they [Randall and Loadman] are the only people not to provide one."
He added: "They know that is what happened, we told them that is what happened, but it did not stop them harassing us and being extremely unhelpful, writing things about us and telling people we made up stories, such as I forced Ian into the job."
Dipre took ownership of the Robins in 2008, with the club teetering on the brink of relegation, and his financial backing kept the side in the Ryman Premier League.
Community club: Former Robins chairman Frank Thompson, second left, picks up the FA Charter Standard Community Club in 2012
Since then, the club's work has been rewarded with three FA community club of the year awards, and a runners-up spot in last year's UEFA community club of the year.
Despite this, Dipre maintains that the CAISC's ultimate aim is to remove him from power, and that the group publicly questions every decision he makes to fuel ill-feeling and undermine his position.
He said: "All they want to do is see the club do badly, with the intention of trying to remove me.
"If you are going to ask me if I have done everything right over the past five years, absolutely not, but one thing I have never done is be spiteful and unkind in the way they have.
"I may not be a saint, but all I am trying to do is the best for the club. They are trying to stop it, and they have tried to stop it and object to it on every single thing we have done for five years.
"The budget is too high, the budget is too low. Investment is too much, investment is too little.
"Whatever we do, they will object and we cannot continue that way because it will destroy the social fabric of our club."
He added: "We have banned them, we have let them back in, they have made all manner of promises. I have been threatened, my family has been threatened. It is pointless for me to say anything.
"I am tired of defending myself. I have nothing to defend myself for.
"Ask yourself a question – if I am the person they say I am, the devil incarnate, does it make sense that all the people at the club work for me, and support me and that we've won community awards? Does that make sense?
"If the answer is no, then you have to ask yourself why are these people saying such things about me? Who is the monster here?"
Happy and sad: Life under the leadership of Paul Dipre has seen both sides of the football coin at Colston Avenue - a run in the FA Trophy in 2012, including a 3-1 win over Lincoln City, and being saved from relegation to Ryman Division One South by virtue of another club being docked points
Randall said: "When Paul came in, he probably rescued the club financially, but within a fairly short period people who had volunteered to help the club one by one fell away.
"People who had given money as shareholders were made to feel they were hindering the club. We have had some awful shareholder meetings where Paul refused to talk to the shareholders.
"There were some strong feelings about changing the club badge, the colours of the club, a lot of people were not happy with Paul's self-appointment as manager with no qualifications and we saw where that ended up with the team at the bottom of the division.
"We feel if there had been a dialogue between people with different views other than the coterie of people Paul chooses to surround himself with, the club would be in a far better situation."
He added: "We think there is a great emphasis on the money earning sides of the club – the academy, the many teams that the club now runs, the planning application for a 3G pitch, that all generates an income. Where is that income going to be used?
"What are Paul's long-term intentions? I don't know. But the evidence from his previous statements make it quite clear that money gained from the business venture is not going to end up near the first team.
"The feeling is that the first team is being marginalised in favour of all the other things at the club."
In the job: The CAISC say their aim is not the removal of Paul Dipre
He added: "Removing Paul is not our aim. There is no way we can remove Paul. We want to have a dialogue. We represent the interests of our members. We want to have a good relationships and dialogue with the club."
The latest issue surrounds the banning of six fans for reasons as yet undisclosed by the club, and the apparent injustice of a ban without explanation has caused an explosion of hatred on Twitter directly mainly at Dipre and the club.
Dipre said: "If I did say why they have been banned, number one it would expose people who have been involved in the discussion, and number two, they would deny it anyway, so it makes no difference.
"We've been having this for five years, it serves no purpose all this 'he says, she says, I said this, you said that'.
"It means absolutely nothing because whatever we say at the club, they will claim it is untrue. It does not matter, it is pointless."
He added: "We have tried all manner of things, we have had meetings, I have let them back into the club, we have had more meetings, and it has not worked.
"So our objective now is to say nothing, do nothing, batten down the hatches, because we want it go away."
Randall said: "Saying people are scared of retribution is a very easy get out, why is he afraid to talk to people? There has never been any violence or hooliganism at the club.
"We want to open a dialogue. We sent messages to Paul last year, and increasingly the replies became more abusive.
"But talking is still one of CASIC's objectives and it takes two to tango, but at the moment there is only one doing the tango."
Further reading:
Carshalton owner slams plastic pitch veto
Massey is all about the football at Colston Avenue
Letter to the Editor: Fans not being consulted over Carshalton Athletic 3G pitch
Letter to the Editor: Response to concerns over Carshalton Athletic 3G pitch


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A BOYS' choir will perform at a Proms concert in the Royal Albert Hall to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War.
The Cambiata Choir, which caters for the changing voices of teenage boys, practises at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, in Blackburn.
The boys will perform in the War Horse Prom, which also features the cast and horse puppets from the National Theatre's play, and Gareth Malone's Military Wives.
The choir, named after the Latin word for change, has more than 90 members from across the north west and Northern Ireland.
Each member of the choir has his own part so they don't strain their vocal cords.
One of the trip's organisers, Clitheroe Royal Grammar School student Ben Fourie, 16, is thrilled to be taking part.
He said: "It's very hard to have a lads' choir full of teenagers whose voices are changing.
"However we do it, and most importantly we will be remembering boys just like us who went off to war, and didn't come back. It wouldn't have quite the same effect if it was an adults' choir.
"It will be amazing for us to take part. Each year we have an annual concert but this is definitely the biggest thing we have ever done.
"The performance is one of the most famous Proms, working with the National Theatre and a lot of big names."
Ben and friends associated with the choir – Nic Walker, Thomas Gray, Matthew Thomas and Christian and George Powlesland and Matthew Thomas – are playing various instruments in a fundraising concert at the United Reformed Church in Clitheroe, on Sunday from 7pm to help with their trip expenses. Admission is £4 including refreshments.


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"We are thrilled for Helen to join the BRNI team as director of this important project," said Shana Phares, Chief Executive Officer, the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute. "Together, we will make strides in fighting Alzheimer's and ensure we have the best information possible about the horrific disease."
The AORP bridges the gap between understanding how to diagnose and treat the patient and how to empower the caregiver. The unique program develops and deploys continuing medical education programs to help keep physicians informed about the latest techniques and treatment, and help providers support care givers through the disease progression. In addition to these programs, the AORP maintains the West Virginia Alzheimer's Disease Registry, collecting information on Alzheimer's cases from hospitals, physicians and other caregivers to create reports that are used for research and the development of policy to support the growing number of Alzheimer's cases in the state.
"There are more than 44,000 West Virginians suffering from Alzheimer's and more than 88,000 working hard each and every day to care for them," said Matheny, "I am proud to be joining the team at the Alzheimer's Outreach and Registry Program in the fight to eradicate this horrific disease."
Matheny brings more than 20 years of experience in designing and implementing strategic communications programs to the AORP. Prior to joining the program, Matheny was the Chief Executive Officer of the West Virginia Medical Foundation, the educational and charitable organization of the West Virginia State Medical Association. She also served as the Executive Director of the Partnership for a Healthy West Virginia and the West Virginia Center for Electronic Health Best Practices. In July 2005, West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin appointed Matheny to the state's Healthy Lifestyle Coalition.
"BRNI welcomes the addition of this great leader to the Alzheimer's Outreach and Registry Program," said Lane Bailey, Chairman of the Board, the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute. "We are confident that she will prove invaluable in helping to arm health care providers and the brave family members caring for those battling this disease with the information they need to better diagnose, treat, and care for those afflicted."
To learn more about the Alzheimer's Outreach and Registry Program, visit www.wvaorp.com.
SOURCE Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute


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mgilbert wrote:BentElbow11 wrote:Interesting...was there a big spread in weight of the 2 Saints you were throwing? Even in Opto Air discs it can make a noticeable difference. The other being the wind conditions, especially when throwing lighter weight 'Air' discs. The Saint is a pretty easy disc to throw straight and fairly long, especially in Opto Air. Good luck.
The first one was 150g, and the second one is 148g. Both were being thrown late in the evening in dead calm air - the only way to really compare two discs. I took the new one back out today, and if I throw it flat, it turns right, and never comes back, traveling about 250', landing 30 or 40 feet or more to the right of the throw line with no fade back whatsoever. If I put a few degrees of hyzer on it on release, it straightens up, turns a little right, and fades back to the left for a nice, straight "S" throw. The first sticky topic in this category is about inconsistencies in Latitude molds. Interesting read.
I've also got a Bolt and a King. The King is supposed to be more stable. It isn't. If I don't release the King on a hyzer, it turns right and never comes back, landing with no fade, well right of the throw line. The Bolt tends to go straight if released flat. Maybe I just throw weird.
"If I put a few degrees of hyzer on it on release, it straightens up, turns a little right, and fades back to the left for a nice, straight "S" throw."
This sounds more like how the Saint should fly...under adequate power.
There is inconsistency in Latitude 64 and other mfgrs molds from one run to the next, but it's usually related to the amount of dome or lack there of. That can change stability right there, especially PLH where the flat topped disc will pull the leading edge up, and the domey disc will result in it drooping down lower. Maybe match those 2 Saints up side by side and compare the amount of dome and PLH, see if there's a big variance.
I've always felt the Bolt and King are the same disc with different names. Again, discounting wildly inconsistent throws on your part, compare dome and PLH on the Bolt and King too.
Then there's differences in stability among the same mold based on which plastic. The three main contributors to flight variation within a mold are weight, plastic, and molding inconsistencies. Molding inconsistencies are a pain when buying new discs which you expect to fly as advertised, or when replacing discs, especially online.