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Sebastian Vettel described Red Bull as "phenomenal" after securing his fourth consecutive world championship at the Indian Grand Prix.
Victory at the Buddh International Circuit handed Vettel his fourth title with three races of the 2013 season still remaining. Speaking on the podium, Vettel said he had been in a state of shock when he finally confirmed the championship and praised the team for giving him a car to win on such a consistent basis.
"I'm speechless," Vettel said. "I crossed the line and I was empty. I took ages to think about something to say and it's one of those moments when you wish to say many things but you can't. It's been a phenomenal season. The spirit inside the team is so strong that I said on the radio it gives me so much power; it's a pleasure to jump in the car and go out for the guys and just try to give it all I have. The car was phenomenal today; it was phenomenal all season to be honest so I couldn't ask for more."
Vettel referenced the booing he has received on occasions this season as something that has affected him personally but was overwhelmed to join an elite list of four-time world champions.
"I want to say a big thank you to the team, to all the people that were behind us. It was for sure not an easy season, even if people from the outside get the idea that we had it in our hands for quite a while in the last couple of races. I think it was a difficult season all-in-all and a difficult one for me personally; to receive boos even though you haven't done anything wrong. But to overcome that and to finally give the right answer on the track and finally get the acceptance I think we are all looking for as racing drivers makes me very proud. To join people like [Alain] Prost, [Juan Manuel] Fangio and Michael [Schumacher] is unbelievable."
Speaking about the doughnuts he carried out in celebration in front of the Indian fans after the race, Vettel said it wasn't a planned move.
"I hadn't really thought about it. Rocky - my engineer - called for the usual procedure but then I said 'Not this time!' There are so many people here in the main grandstand so I had to do it. Usually we are not allowed to but it felt so right at that time."


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Courses designed by so called professionals
Why is it so many courses are designed by so called professionals> I am biting my tongue on names<and they end up sucking and then the local core of players is left with a crappy course and they don't want to maintain it and the park or municipailty gets the notion that disc golf is not a popular sport and the courses are overgrown and unpopular. This is the bane of our sport IMHO complain about crap courses but the few who have the credentials seem to just throw in crap and run after they collect a consulting fee or whatever fee they receive. There are a number of terrible courses near me that go to waste and if you go to a county park they say...Oh that sport that no one plays ok thanks for calling...GRRRRRR! I almost wanna go steal the baskets and consider it a rescue mission I swear!
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I have a course around me that's like that. Sucks so bad no self respecting disc golfer would bother, especially when their are some really good courses near by also. If they are going to spend the money to put a course in, at least make sure it's up to par.
Im lucky I guess. Home course was originally designed by Steady Ed and some of the others in the area, Danhyzer; who posts here from time to time, has done a lot of work with them.
Im highly critical but they are all very playable and decent courses
I am not saying what is being talked about here does not happen, but there are a lot of factors that come into play that are not always too obvious when looking at an end result:
1) The constraints put on the designer (what land was allowed to be used, what trees could/couldn't be cut, what size buffers were required in the design, etc).
2) Commitments from the park people that were not followed through on....such as, clearing of underbrush, installing concrete tees at a later time, trash cans, signs, regular mowing, etc.
3) Internal club or local politics. People can and too often do get caught up in petty turf wars and end up not seeing the bigger picture.
4) Some courses take years of regular play to get "beaten in" (not to mention gallons and gallons of round-up and continuing work by dedicated locals). I remember Renaissance when it was new had briars, kudzu and poison ivy everywhere. Lots of areas had weeds that were chest high where your disc would often land.
On a related note, I find it interesting that some courses are wildly popular even though they are nothing special, while very similar courses less than 5 miles away get almost no play. This is a local thing I am seeing in the north Chicago burbs. I am still trying to figure out why this happens. How this ties into this discussion is that if an activity is popular, the park folks will most likely do a better job maintaining it (and there will be a larger player base that might have some caring worker bees).
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You must be in the wrong state. In wisconsin it is very rare, no matter how crappy the course, that a course is not packed every single beautiful day and many miserable days. We have more of a problem with vandalism and poor etiquette.
And to Dave242, I agree with the wildly popular nothing special courses idea. I also can't figure it out.
I do not really want to even get into this discussion....but.....I will point out some first hand experience on my part.....Even though the disc golf course designers group and many others so often admonish everyone to have an experienced designer involved in course design; I would have to note that there are quite a number of courses designed by individuals that are technically supposed to be "our quality" designers; that are poor to begin with; and then, never see a return from these "experts".
In my personal experience, it is persons with largely no financial gain; but, rather, a love of the sport; who make course maintenance and improvements happen. This is not meant to slander all members of the design group, or other "official designers"; as there are quite a few good people amongst that crew. I am just pointing out; that just because you have a bit of a "title" in front of your name; doesn't automatically make you a good designer/person. There are bad apples in all carts.
Also, the post by Dave242 concerning things that happen to course design; once the parks and rec become involved should always be considered when critiquing a course; because, this is almost always the case, i.e. the design is almost always altered from original intent. This can be major or minor. In some cases, you will find that the course has been changed nearly completely, from the original intent. These types of instances are where long term work with the parks and rec (or other appropriate entities) becomes very important....sometimes it takes a full ten years or more to get the course to the level originally hoped for....
Those purely in it, for financial gain, or social prestige, simply do not have the time or inclination to stay the course....in such cases.
the Allentown area is a little saturated with courses, no? I mean with so many courses, good courses, some are going to be left behind. Kinda like the Wal-mart/BestBuy effect on local economies.
But why not petition to the Park and Rec to take the baskets and transplant/donate them to others that need replacements? I think that's a brilliant idea. With local gov't budget cuts this year, courses are going to be neglected/unplayable/closed. Might as well put the equipment where it can be of use.
The PDGA Course Design doc on Choosing a Designer makes it clear that being a member of the DGCD is just one of several things a Park Dept or property owner should consider when selecting a designer and not necessarily the most important. Not choosing a designer or design team properly can backfire simply by choosing someone who happens to have paid the dues to join DGCD and hasn't either developed the experience or doesn't follow the guidelines. But at this point, it's too costly for the small amount of money available for designing courses (compared with ball golf) to develop a curriculum, testing and evaluation to do formal certification of designers. So, caveat emptor.
I will say that some of us who do many courses couldn't possibly make the effort to take care of all of the courses we've designed like many dedicated locals will do for their own courses. It's similar to the architect for your house that you've likely never met or even know their name. Hopefully, they did a good job but you don't expect them to take out the trash, fix the gutters, replace the furnace or patch the roof when the time comes. If you want to add a room, there are building codes and permissions required for changes in the outside shape of your house. Unfortunately, we don't have someone overseeing course "building codes" when changes are sought even though we do have a good set of guidelines to follow if they are followed.
Anyone with good speech can talk a city council into letting them design a course for their local park. So, keep this in mind. I am just glad there is a group of professionals that do take care in making some great and fun courses.
It wasn't until after I wrote my reviews and really enjoyed all of my local courses that I realized that Houck Design was at the very least a contributor to almost every one of my favorite courses.
That's saying something.
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University Theatre to present off-Broadway musical 'The Fantasticks'
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Athens, Ga. - The University Theatre will celebrate its 80th season at the University of Georgia with performances of the musical "The Fantasticks" in the Seney-Stovall Chapel Feb. 5-10 at 8 p.m. with an added matinee performance Feb. 10 at 2:30 p.m.
A lighthearted, modern twist on "Romeo and Juliet" featuring musical numbers such as "Try to Remember" and "Soon It's Gonna Rain," "The Fantasticks" features neighboring fathers in a feud over a shared wall, their love-struck offspring and a hired villain with his troupe of traveling actors. The young lovers face the conflict between moonlight fantasy and the reality of harsh sunlight as the question of "who gets the girl" is not quickly answered.
With music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones, "The Fantasticks" opened off Broadway in 1960 and went on to become the longest-running musical in history, playing continuously for more than four decades. Directed by UGA professor Farley Richmond, the University Theatre production features musical direction by Rachel Townes.
"Much of 'The Fantasticks' distinctive charm derives from its minimalistic style, which stands in contrast to the theatrical extravagance of most musical blockbusters," Richmond said. "The stage is virtually bare, with audiences' imaginations filling in most of the details."
The primary scenic element is a wall created by a character, performed by undergraduate theatre major Connor Brockmeier, called simply the "Mute."
"The musical's stripped-down style makes it ideal for the University Theatre's Studio Series, which is dedicated to highlighting the actors' skill, humanity and intimate connection with the audience," said David Saltz, head of the department of theatre and film studies.
The Seney-Stovall Chapel, on the Lucy Cobb grounds on North Milledge Avenue, "is the ideal setting to celebrate the University Theatre's 80th anniversary, since it was the University Theatre's first home and was initially converted into a theatre precisely for that purpose," Saltz said.
Tickets for "The Fantasticks" are $12 for the general public and $7 for students. They can be purchased at http://www.drama.uga.edu/box-office, by phone at 706/542-4400, in person at the Performing Arts Center box office or at the door before the show.
The cast is made up of Christopher Sapp, a freshman vocal performance major from Calhoun, as Matt; Stephanie Bacastow, a freshman vocal music performance major from Cumming, as Luisa; Edward McCreary, a senior theatre and economics major from Atlanta, as El Gallo; Jim Barrow, a senior theatre and political science major from Athens, as Bellomy; Caleb Huett, a sophomore theatre and public relations major from Carrollton, as Hucklebee; Connor Brockmeier, a junior theatre and English major from Woodstock, as The Mute; Mark Zavaletta Fowler, a masters of fine arts student from Galveston, Texas, studying performance, as Henry; and Daniel Wagener, a senior theatre and English major from Johns Creek, as Mortimer.
The production is sponsored by Brian P. Hall General Dentistry. For more information on the UGA department of theatre and film studies, see drama.uga.edu.
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Candidates come to WP
Hundreds of politically savvy locals packed the main hall of the Rachel D. Murrah Civic Center for the Winter Park Chamber of Commerce Political Mingle on Monday, July 23.
Working his way through the room after racing across town from the City Commission meeting, Mayor Ken Bradley beamed about the packed room in his hometown.
"Isn't this great?" he said. "So many people participating in the process."
Despite a torrential downpour during most of the event, the main hall was a close-quarters elbow-rubbing cavalcade of candidates, including some who came from Tallahassee for the event.
"It was a great turnout," Chamber President Patrick Chapin said. "I applaud the candidates who participated because they draw the crowd. That helps us and they're really supporting the chamber.
"Some of these candidates know they're not going to win the straw poll, but it's great for the community, great for the chamber, so they still come out. It takes a lot of courage to come out there in front of people who aren't your supporters necessarily."
Florida District 37 Rep. Scott Plakon, campaigning for District 30, said hi to would-be voters, as did a few other state-level officials.
Florida Senate majority leader Andy Gardiner shook hands with passers by as he campaigned for the new District 13 seat on a business development platform. He'd been out in Brevard County in recent weeks talking to NASA and the possibility of bringing more jobs to the UCF area.
"I just vote on things in Tallahassee," Gardiner said. "The people in this room, they're the ones that make it happen."
Across the room, District 13 candidate Chris Pennington was talking about local business versus international titans and his role in representing the little guy.
When the Mingle's straw poll numbers came out, there were few surprises in the final tally, but some close races kept things exciting.
Gardiner's 201 votes beat runner-up Pennington, who had 58. But Pennington said he was happy with the result.
"I thought it was a pretty good showing," Pennington said. "It was Andy's hometown, it's a chamber event, which is conservative."
Chapin said he liked the style of the event, which brought about more relaxed politicking than the norm.
"I talked with [Gardiner and Pennington], the three of us for 10 minutes," he said. "It's a great chance to just mingle, instead of a contentious debate format. It's low key, it's fun, it's festive. The people are relaxed and ready to have an open dialog."
Some of the straw poll winners (Winners in bold):
U.S. Representative, District 7
Sandra "Sandy" Adams
John Mica
State Representative, District 30
Scott Plakon
Karen Castor Dentel
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Andy Gardiner
Leslie Waters
Christopher Pennington
Orange County School Board, District 6
Patricia Fox
Sandra Maldonado-Ross
Nancy Robbinson
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Gina Duncan
Ted Edwards
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DOBSON — Typically one of the more overlooked branches of local government, the Surry County Board of Elections was relatively showered with attention Monday as visitors descended on the office to observe the post-election process.
Controversial for many reasons, last Tuesday's general election included several hotly contested races, the most notably that for North Carolina's governor.
Unofficial results show Attorney General Roy Cooper defeating Republican incumbent Pat McCrory by about 5,000 votes.
On Monday, local staffers began the post-election process of sample precinct audits, reviewing provisional ballots and collecting absentee ballots.
Susan Jarrell, director of the local board, explained that the high-profile election didn't dictate the office's post-election procedures.
"It's the same procedure we use as any election," Jarrell said. "We're just being watched this time."
Sample audit
Every county conducts a sample hand-to-eye count of ballots in randomly selected precincts and one-stop locations to confirm results tabulated by machine, according to information provided by the N.C. Board of Elections.
In Surry County, the two randomly chosen precincts included the one-stop voting site in Mount Airy and specified a double-check of the presidential election.
"That's our largest one-stop site," Jarrell said. "We anticipate we will be going on until late Thursday."
In a back room filled with stored printer cartridges and voting signs, Tracy Leftwich, Hannah Hambrick, George Hiett and Linda Haney set about the painstaking process.
Leftwich read the results from a scrolled printout issued by a voting machine.
Hambrick watched Leftwich, and Hiett and Haney each kept a separate tally of the results.
"Oh we just love it," Leftwich joked about the work. "It's tedious and it's slow, but it's something that has to be done after any election. I've done this many, many times. It always adds up."
In a conference room on the other side of the office, a similar group followed the same procedure for the other precinct.
Though counties must conduct their hand-to-eye counts in public, it's rare that members of the public take advantage of that right, Jarrell said.
David Crawford, a local resident and, as he put it, "known cohort of the democratic party," dropped by Monday to observe.
"I'm just curious," he said. "I'm retired and I had some friends that just wanted to feel comfortable that the process is done the way it's supposed to do."
Though the governor's race was of top concern, "I don't view this process as a particularly partisan process," he said. "The whole pre-election casting doubt whether the election is fair is really dangerous. I think people have to have confidence the election system is fair."
Provisional, absentee ballots
The review of provisional ballots, which began at 1 p.m., drew a bigger crowd that included N.C. Rep. Pricey Harrison, D-57, of Guilford County, and Ryan Butler, a Greensboro attorney.
Harrison said she and Butler were part of a team of Democratic Party volunteers sent by Cooper to every county in the state.
"We want to make sure all votes are counted accurately," she said, explaining that a few votes per county could make the difference in the governor's race.
Harrison and Crawford conversed briefly in the election office before the provisional review began.
"I feel confident these people up here are running a straight ship," Crawford said.
"We didn't mean to imply by our presence that we thought otherwise," Harrison said. "Hopefully this is just a chance to visit Surry County."
The provisional ballot review consisted of Jarrell reading the names of those on the ballot and the reason the ballot had been submitted provisionally.
Members of the board, Dwayne Carter, Karen Tate and Angela Crews, either approved or denied the 412 ballots, which will be counted later this week.
Six members of the public, which included Surry County Republican Party chair Dan Kiger, Edwin Johnson and James Freeman, as well as Crawford, Harrison, Butler, sat in the audience, following along and marking off a manifest.
Though unused to it, Jarrell seemed unshaken by the attention.
"We're proud of what we do here," she said.
According to the N.C. State Board of Elections, county boards of elections will certify results at public meetings held at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 18. and statewide results for all federal, statewide, multi-district and judicial contests will be certified at a public meeting held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29.
Results in each contest are not considered official until that date.
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Review: Best Coffee In Michigan
So what are the factors that lead to becoming the best coffee company in the entire state? The answer to this question can be somewhat complicated since some might think that it's all about how reasonable the price is and for others it can be about the convenience or experience factor. But before reaching the verdict on the best coffee shop, one has to analyze the customer reviews, sample the coffee and specialty drinks and interview the owners, managers and baristas. And doing all this made Black Owl Café as the number one coffee provider in Michigan.
At Black Owl Café it's all about fun. They are absolutely passionate about sharing their intense enthusiasm for coffees and teas. All their coffees are roasted precisely in small batches with their probat coffee roaster which is located in Downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. Black Owl staff knows about the importance of learning about the distinct characteristics of each coffee variety. That's why people at Black Owl put significant amount of effort to conduct roasting with the intent to bring out the unique and pleasing characteristics of each coffee. Not only coffee but also tea is made with a unique method that involves handpicking organic Michigan fruits which add local flavor to their blends. Before the products are placed into their in-house designed packaging, they are all treated with extra special care.
Besides coffee and espresso, the winter beverages of Black Owl have also been favorites of customers. Best in Michigan is their Chai Latte which costs $3.75 of 16 oz. and is a house-made blended chai tea which carries 14 raw ingredients with just the right balance of sweetness and spice, steamed with customer's choice of milk. Then there is the Real Mint Americano which costs $3.75 for 16 oz. which is a double-shot Americano made with organic peppermint tea rather than hot water. It is naturally sweet and is considered the best of both worlds! Their Café Miel which costs $3.75 of 16 oz. is also quite popular which is espresso blended with local MI honey, just a dash of cinnamon and customer's choice of steamed milk.
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In the tradition of ethnic-themed movies like My Big Fat Greek Wedding comes Everybody Wants to Be Italian. And it's a charmer—a sweet, flavorful romantic comedy with one of the year's freshest and most appealing casts. This is one of those films where everyone is a virtual unknown or discovery. Novice director Jason Todd Ipson has put together a group of performers who seem comfortable with one another and are hugely charismatic on screen. You get the feeling you're watching a group of actors who are going on to great things after this modestly entertaining confection.
The plot is simple: Jake (Jay Jablonski) is an unlucky-in-love Boston fishmonger who can't get over his breakup with Isabella (Marisa Petroro) even though she left him eight years ago and is now married with three children. His co-workers Steve (John Kapelos) and Gianluca (John Enos III) fix him up with beautiful veterinarian Marisa (Cerina Vincent) at a party for single Italians. The only catch is Jake is Polish. Instantly switching his identity, he passes himself off as an Italian lad, which works for a while as romance blooms with Marisa, but then his ex decides she isn't over him either. This causes great conflict as Marisa takes off for—where else?—Italy, and Jake must decide what he wants his future to be about.
Clearly this is familiar stuff; the key to a comedy like Everybody Wants to Be Italian is in the casting. Like Mystic Pizza and Greek Wedding, you need characters the audience will become invested in, and that's exactly what happens here. Jablonski will get female hearts fluttering, and their male counterparts will be able to relate to this regular guy with severe women problems. As Jake, he suffers from extreme romantic confusion so convincingly we have to wonder how he stays in any relationship. Jablonski has movie-star ingredients and looks like someone who, with the right career choices, could become a major player. Petroro and Vincent are enormously attractive romantic partners for Jake and never go over the top in their portrayals of regular neighborhood girls who fell, at different moments in their lives, for the same hopeless guy. Kapelos and Enos ably fulfill the standard buddy roles, while veteran actor Richard Libertini wins our hearts with what could be the stereotypical role of Aldo "Papa" Tempesti. Penny Marshall as the understanding florist Teresa has brief moments, but the part is so small she is hard-pressed to make much of an impression. Dan Cortese is appropriately unlikable as Marisa's current flame. A slew of Italian supporting players add to the authenticity of the enterprise.
Everybody Wants to Be Italian doesn't break any new ground, nor is it the kind of movie that will even generate much discussion afterward, but with a first-rate cast of newcomers and a pleasant atmosphere surrounding them, this is a very agreeable way to kill a couple of hours. If that's not amore, it's close enough.
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Strange Behavior in Manual Focus with XE-1
If you press teh AF-L button while you are in Manual focus mode the camera will assist you and autofocus the Fuji lenses.
It sounds as though you are accidentally covering the af-l button with your thumb. When you half press the shutter button, you are squeezing the camera and pressing the button and getting the assisted manual focus function.
Try making sure that you are gripping the camera with your right thumb to the left of the raised metal section, just near the dial and it wont do the AF if you half press the shutter
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I purchased an XE-1 the other day and almost immediately noticed this strange behavior...
When I put the camera into manual focus, I saw that the manual focusing was very quick and I was happy about that. However, when I pressed halfway down on the shutter release, I noticed while looking through the viewfinder that the camera focused again as if it was still in auto focus. Not sure exactly why it would do that, I did a test where I did one shot manually focusing on a subject and another where I had left the manual focus purposely on a different subject at a different distance. In each situation, the half press seemed to cause the camera to auto focus (at least it did so on the lcd through the viewfinder) but only the one in which I did manually focus correctly came out in focus in the photographs.
Thinking that this was just a strange quirk to this camera, I didn't think much more of it, but later that night I tried all this again and this time, anytime I half pressed on the shutter button, it did NOT auto focus in the viewfinder as it had been doing earlier in the day. Everything worked the way I would think it should work in manual focus.
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THOMASTON, ME: Visit Thomaston Place Auction Galleries all this week for a special preview of items to be sold at its Summer Fine Art and Antiques Sale on August 25 & 26. The gallery is all decked out for this outstanding auction, which features the most amazing collection of art ever offered at Thomaston Place. They will be open on Monday, August 20 through Friday, August 25 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day. Previewing will also be available on auction days, Saturday, August 25 and Sunday, August 26, from 9:00 to 11 a.m. each day.
The auction will present a huge selection of Maine art, including paintings from Monhegan Island, plus fine automobiles, antique furniture, estate jewelry, oriental antiques, silver, Native American pieces, and carpets.
Thomaston Place owner and auctioneer Kaja Veilleux said: "We have the makings of a perfect Maine summer auction, with many great pieces that represent our State's brilliant artistic and nautical trade history. While it's easy to participate in our sale on the phone or internet, I hope everyone will take the opportunity to come to our gallery and see these amazing items firsthand."
The George X. Schwartz Memorial Monhegan Art Collection will be the centerpiece of the fine artwork presented at the auction, featuring works by 35 different artists, including: Andrew George Winter (NY/ME- 1893-1958), William Trost Richards (PA/RI, 1833-1905), Robert Van Vorst Sewell (NY/CA, 1860-1924), Eric Hopkins (NY, 1864-1932), Frank Alfred Bicknell (CT, 1866-1943), Alice Kent Stoddard (PA, 1883-1976), and Constance Cochrane (PA, 1888-1962). Mr. Schwartz spent many years supporting Monhegan's lobster business, and he developed a deep appreciation for its art during his many visits to the Island. .
The auction will also feature a diverse array of artwork created by Maine artists. An oil on canvas painting, 'The Great Blue Heron', by N.C. Wyeth (PA/ME, 1882-1945) will lead this group. There will be two works by Andrew Newell Wyeth (PA/ME, 1917-2009) – an India ink drawing entitled 'In the Georges Islands' and a watercolor/gouache, study for "The Insider", painted in 1971. Other Maine artists will include Carl Sprinchorn (ME, 1887-1971), William (Horace) Muir, (ME, 1902-1964), Lee Winslow Court (MA/ME, 1903-1992), William Thon (NY/ME, 1906-2000), and Abraham Bogdanove (NY/ME, 1886-1946). Works by contemporary Maine artists such as Colin Page, Ronald Frontin, Eric Hopkins, Brian Kliewer, Timothy Parks, Marlene Loznicka, and Peter Rolfe will also be offered.
The marine category will include fine ship paintings by S.F.M. Badger (MA, 1873-1919), William Gay Yorke (NY, 1817-1892), and Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen, (NY/NJ, 1850-1921). A standout in the nautical collection is a magnificent early 19th Century carved wooden ship's eagle form figurehead, probably from a US Customs cutter, that was found in a Bath, Maine barn. The sale will also include a variety of ship models, dioramas and other items representing Maine's rich maritime history.
Three estate automobiles will be sold in this auction. These include a rare, single-owner, 1956 Dodge Coronet V-8 convertible; a 1974 Triumph Spitfire soft-top convertible in emerald green with 4-speed transmission; and a 2001 Jaguar XJ8 with V-8 engine and four-speed automatic transmission.
Featured furniture will include a circa 1765-1785 Boston Chippendale Cuban mahogany block front kneehole bureau and an English figured mahogany thirty-drawer apothecary cabinet. Of local interest will be a Maine ten-leg Colonial Windsor bench with single plank pumpkin pine seat and a 19th Century Maine step-back cupboard in dump cart blue paint with simple two-panel doors.
In the silver category, the highlight will be a circa 1745 sterling tea pot by Boston silversmith Jacob Hurd (1703-1758), one of 17 known to exist in the small globular Queen Anne form with asymmetrical Rococo decoration that Hurd introduced to the Colonies. Other examples of fine silver will include a Russian enameled silver tea cup and saucer made in Moscow between 1899 and 1908 by the Grachev Brothers under the Imperial warrant and a 1930s sterling silver coffee & tea service by Juvento Lopez Reyes of Mexico City.
There will be many wonderful pieces of estate jewelry, such as: an 18K white gold ring set with an 8.00 ct oval shape natural emerald surrounded by 14 round, brilliant cut diamonds; a platinum Art Deco design handmade link bracelet set with sapphires and diamonds; and an 18K white gold link Art Deco necklace set with 573 diamonds.
This spectacular auction will also offer an excellent selection of treasures from the Far East, featuring items from the Marvin Sadik collection. Art expert Sadik served as museum director at Bowdoin College, founding director of the Art Museum at the University of Connecticut, and, from 1969 to 1981, director of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Highlighted Asian pieces will include: a Chinese Han Dynasty wood and lacquer flask (Bian Hu) with gilt bronze base rim and mouth rim; a puddingstone top Chinese altar with 19th Century red lacquer stands as supports; a late 19th to early 20th Century Japanese cloisonne tray attributed to Namikawa Sosuke featuring a cock and hen on a celadon field; and a reticulated Chinese celadon jade offering bowl with Qianlong mark on underside (1736-1795).
Over 75 lots of outstanding Native American items will be featured, including collections of important Navajo blankets and rugs, Hopi-Tewa and Santa Clara Pueblo pottery, Apache baskets, 19th Century northern Plains/Sioux beadwork items, Inuit art and Northwest Indian carvings.
The auction will offer several lots of Imperial Russian porcelain and glass produced in St. Petersburg for palace use in the late 19th and early 20th Century. A rare Civil War Iron Pivot Cannon made by Sparrow Foundry of Portland, Maine will also be sold.
The auction will begin at 11:00 a.m. on both sale days. A complete, full color catalog, with detailed descriptions and photographs, is available, and all lots can be viewed at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries' website, www.thomastonauction.com.
In addition to live bidding in the auction hall, Thomaston Place accepts bids via absentee, telephone, and on the internet (via www.thomastonauction.com, www.artfact.com, www.invaluable.com and www.auctionzip.com). The buyer's premium is 15%. Please call 1-207-354-8141 for more information, or to reserve seats in the auction hall.
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries will host an evening preview and reception on Thursday, August 23, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries is Maine's premier auction and appraisal company located on U.S. Route 1 in Thomaston. Thomaston Place is a leader in discovering Maine's antique and fine art treasures by offering Free Appraisals each Tuesday at the Gallery, creating fundraiser events for civic and charitable organizations using its unique Mobile Appraisal Laboratory, and providing house call appraisal services. Their expertise in researching and marketing antiques and fine art has earned Thomaston Place the respect of buyers, collectors and experts worldwide.


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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Super Bowl events next year will require a dramatic but temporary overhaul of parts of the North Texas transportation system, including a temporary rail station in Arlington and changes to highway lanes.
Speaking in great detail, the person leading the local transportation effort laid out many changes while visiting the North Texas Super Bowl Host Committee booth here Saturday.
Michael Morris, a host committee member and transportation director for the North Central Texas Council of Governments, talked about plans for rails, highways and buses.
There also will be transportation VIP treatment for groups ranging from league executives to the thousands of media members covering the Super Bowl.
"You have a lot of customers with high-end needs," Morris said. "So you have to layer your transportation system and provide the services for each of those groups, from the NFL owners to the NFL teams to obviously the teams. ... This is not a cookie-cutter initiative."
Morris said special consideration will be given to the obvious - team buses driving to the Super Bowl, as well as media buses traveling to press conferences and league officials going to organized events.
A large part of the transportation effort also will involve getting people out of their rental cars and into trains. Morris said transportation agencies plan to offer a one-week rail pass during the Super Bowl to cater to those from out of town.
Rail stops already exist near major Super Bowl venues, including the NFL Experience at the Dallas Convention Center and Taste of the NFL at the Fort Worth Convention Center.
Commuter rail service also will arrive temporarily in Arlington on Feb. 6, 2011. Transportation officials are negotiating with the Union Pacific Railroad to use their rail line, which passes about a mile from Cowboys Stadium.
If everything runs smoothly, transit agencies will send 10,000 people to the Super Bowl on commuter rail trains. A temporary station is planned for a site just north of Arlington City Hall, near Center Street.
Bill Lively, president and CEO of the North Texas Super Bowl Host Committee, said the region will have to be aggressive in marketing this temporary service.
"It won't be live the day before or the day after," he said about rail service to Arlington. "No one here is going to be familiar with it. No one from out of town is going to be familiar with it."
Morris said South Florida officials hoped that about 3,000 people would use rail to get to Sun Life Stadium for the Pro Bowl last week. He said the projections turned out to be nearly 10 times too high, but they were hoping for better numbers for the Super Bowl today.
The North Texas rail effort could cost at least $250,000. The plan also calls for shuttle buses to use dedicated lanes on Center and Mesquite streets to take fans the rest of the way to and from the stadium.
The rail ticket probably would be sold in advance and would only be available at the last minute if capacity were still available. Lively said it would cost significantly less than parking at the stadium.
Morris said the proposed North Texas rail deal would allow the Union Pacific to transfer its freight trains to the Trinity Railway Express line just north of Arlington during Super Bowl Sunday. That's a major break from the usual North Texas transportation system. Arlington does not have rail service, and the TRE is closed Sundays for maintenance.
If this deal can't be finalized, Morris said fans could use the TRE line and its CentrePort/DFW Airport station, which is about six miles northeast of the stadium.
He said using the Union Pacific line would allow the host committee to transport more fans via rail, shorten the shuttle trip and reduce the number of buses required.
Although rail will be heavily emphasized, buses with a high-tech twist will remain one of the most important elements of the transportation plan.
On Super Bowl Sunday 2011, Morris said he expects to have about 400 to 500 buses transporting officials, guests and others to Cowboys Stadium. Each private coach will be monitored by GPS to determine whether it's following its recommended route.
"The security algorithms know when a bus deviates from its route," Morris said.
They'll also receive real-time information to help them avoid backups if necessary. More speculative but potentially as important, Morris said he'd like to work with GPS to factor in the Super Bowl traffic patterns.
"They might have the typical situation when they route you," he said about the navigation systems. "Super Bowl travel congestion is not typical.... The message right now would turn off your navigation system. By the time we have the Super Bowl, we might be able to integrate the information."


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neat stuff. It's exciting to see this. It's like Cambodia is revisiting its colonial past with the French colonial style tourist spots like this. I like how some foreign investors choose to renovate the old French colonial buildings instead of opting for a modern styled one. Now that retro style is back, it's cool to see newly renovated French colonial style buildings around Phnom Penh.
If someone come up with an idea to like preserve a block or two of the city and restore in its original form, that could be like an attraction spot, too. I'm sure many people would love that. It's like a museum in the street.
I got lot of ideas that don't necessarily mean good business but they sound pretty interesting, I think haha. Now just got to find myself some bored big time CEO that doesn't have anything better to do with his money. lol
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Screenterrier reported last month on five of the new actors joining Series 8 of Waterloo Road which is currently filming in Glasgow.
Here's some more faces, both familiar and new, also set to appear in the new series.
Tommy Knight (now known as Tommy Lawrence Knight) who played Luke in the The Sarah Jane Adventures. Tommy (represented by Curtis Brown) from Kent took time out from filming SJA to complete his A levels but will now be back on our screens when the new series of Waterloo Road returns in the autumn.
22 year old Abby Mavers (represented by AllStars Casting) from Liverpool will be playing Dynasty Barry. Abby is the daughter of Liverpool actor Gary Mavers. Abby had her first screen role when she was six, appearing in ITV's Peak Practice.
Also from Liverpool is 24 year old Carl Au (represented by Diamond Management) in his first TV role. Carl trained in Musical Theatre at Arts Ed, and appeared in Jersey Boys in the West End. He plays Dynasty's brother, bad boy Barry.
Bananafish Management), who plays the youngest Barry sibling Kacey.
In future episodes of the popular drama the Barry kids, whose mother is played by Zoe Lucker) arrive at Waterloo Road as headmaster Michael Byrne's (played by Alec Newman) newest recruits for his pupil referral unit as they come from a hell-raising Liverpudlian criminal family. And if Waterloo Road can turn them into model students they'll be the schools' greatest success story but it's a shame they have anything but top grades on their minds.
The Barry family are set to make their on-screen debut next year in episodes currently being filmed on location in Waterloo Road's new home in Greenock, Scotland.
Waterloo Road is currently filming its eighth series on location at the former Greenock Academy school building which has been transformed into the new Waterloo Road set and production base. Filming started in April this year on an initial 50 one-hour episode commission, to be filmed over two years.
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Good Points
It's a flatbed scanner. It's 36 bit color. It has lasted for a very long time.
Bad Points
It's large, much larger than the new scanners with the same bed size. It's noisy. It's slow. It has no controls on the unit itself but the power switch.
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This is an older flatbed 26 bit color scanner. This scanner has been around for a while and has been used alot. It's slow but it meets my needs. I would prefer a newer unit, but this one works ok, and if I got a new one it would be USB and I would have this expensive SCSI card doing nothing. I do not know how much this scanner cost when it was new, because I got it for free. UMAX, I have been told, is a very good name brand. Yeah, I would recommend this unit- if you found one for cheap (They are not made anymore, I am sure).
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A Barnsley MP has slammed 'depressing' figures which show women earn 80 pence on average for every pound earned by men.
Michael Dugher said the Office of National Statistics figures showed that the Government was not doing enough to close the pay gap - and that it was increasing.
The Barnsley East MP added: "It seems extraordinary in an age when girls are outperforming boys at school, going to university in greater numbers and running FTSE 100 companies that pay inequality still exists. Women in Barnsley deserve better."


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October 9, 2016
England news: Arsenal's Kieran Gibbs called up to Three Lions squad after injury to Ryan Bertrand
Arsenal defender Kieran Gibbs has been called up to replace Ryan Bertrand, with the Southampton star pulling out after picking up an injury in Saturday's win over Malta.
Bertrand started the 2-0 win, but was taken off after 19 minutes and replaced by Tottenham's Danny Rose.
With a game against Slovenia coming up on Tuesday, Bertrand has been replaced by Gibbs to ensure caretaker manager Gareth Southgate has cover for the left-back position.
Gibbs has previously won 10 caps for the Three Lions, making his last appearance in 2015.


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Tracy Anderson is the kind of friend who isn't afraid to call her pals out for being on the chunky side — even if said pal is Gwyneth Paltrow. In an eye-opening, wide-ranging interview for beauty website Into the Gloss, the fitness guru opened up about her early struggles with body image, starting her fitness empire, and meeting the Oscar-winning actress who would one day become her friend and business partner.
PHOTOS: Get an at-home workout with celeb trainers
Anderson, who trained to be a professional dancer but felt held back because of her build (she measures just 5 feet tall and "by dancers' standards, I was fat," she explained), first met Paltrow in 2006, after she gave birth to her second child, Moses, now 7. "She said, 'I know you have a son -- I just had Moses -- and I can't get this weight off. I've never had a problem like this in my life,' " Anderson recalled.
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Paltrow "had 35 extra pounds on her. Her butt was long and she had outer thigh problems," the celeb trainer, who has also helped sculpt Madonna's body, detailed. "Gwyneth is lucky because she's really tall, so she can hide it really well in clothes, but she had significant problem areas."
PHOTOS: Gwyneth Paltrow's amazing bikini body
Fortunately, Anderson decided to take on the famous mom of two as a client. "I felt so badly for her, and thought I could really help. So, I agreed, and she did everything I asked. Now, seven years later, she looks younger every year; she's totally transformed," Anderson raved.
This article originally appeared on Usmagazine.com: Tracy Anderson on Meeting Gwyneth Paltrow: "Her Butt Was Long" and She Was 35 Pounds Overweight


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By Courtney E. Smith
There's a specific kind of storytelling woven into the shape of some songs; the kind that goes from A to B to C, telling the story of a narrator. It's not terribly popular these days, but the spine of songwriting was built on the idea of telling the capsule of a story that tapped into some greater idea. Songs can be a short story (or a long one), detailing the travails of a person. They can be funny, dramatic, heroic, whatever humanity's got.
With those story telling songs in mind, we've picked out 15 that would make excellent movie adaptations. We've selected a director, some featured stars and given them a short plot. If you'd like to see them, put on the song, close your eyes and play the movie inside of your head. It won't cost you $17 and the price point on store-bought popcorn is far more reasonable.
1.The Band Perry – "Better Dig Two"
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Viggo Mortensen
Director: Ang Lee
Synopsis: Mortensen plays an old man who Johansson has known and had a crush on all of her life. She's young and inexperienced when they marry and move out West to his secluded ranch. What starts as a quiet love story turns dark when she finds he's contemplating infidelity and she vows to stop it by any means necessary.
Tagline: If the ties that bind ever do come loose, she'll tie them in a knot…like a hangman's noose.
2. Miranda Lambert "Mama's Broken Heart"
Starring: Elizabeth Olsen
Director: Sophia Coppola
Synopsis: Olsen is the only person we seen on screen for the duration of this film, which takes place inside her apartment, as she gets over a devastating break up. We see glimpses of her relationship and family in photographs, getting the story of just when things went wrong and exactly how the influence of her controlling mother was behind it all.
Tagline: My mama came from a softer generation, where you get a grip and bite your lip just to save a little face.
3. Leonard Cohen – "Hallelujah"
Starring: George Clooney, Michael Cera, Chelsea Handler, Penelope Cruz, Chloë Grace Moretz, Channing Tatum and Willem Dafoe as Lucifer
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Synopsis: A group of angels existentially wrestle with the end of days: humanity, time, space and their very being, on the night before Judgement Day. Their conversation encompasses the mysteries of humanity and the universe from beginning to what will happen when there is, once again, nothing. Do angels get unemployment?
Tagline: Even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song, with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah.
4. Taylor Swift – "22"
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Bree Larson
Director: Amy Heckerling
Synopsis: Woodley and Larson play Romy & Michelle for millennials. This comedic Themla and Louise explore female friendship and what society makes of it during one wild night out in Toledo, OH where they "fall in love with strangers" and "keep dancing like they're 22." Instagram filters act as another character in the film, highlighting every emotional moment.
Tagline: We're happy, free , confused, and lonely in the best way.
5. Garth Brooks – "The Thunder Rolls"
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Diane Kruger
Director: Frank Darabont
Synopsis: Sarandon and Jones are a happily married Boomer couple who live in suburbia. Married young, the duo seem to have one of those storybook romances, until Sarandon uncovers Jones' secret: an affair with Kruger who is 30 years his junior. And one dark and stormy night, Sarandon decides to deal with his infidelity through supernatural methods.
Tagline: Another love grows cold on a sleepless night.


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Making terrific music is its own reward. In a way, though, it's also the gift that keeps on taking. Excellence creates expectations of greatness every time out, and no one this side of the river Styx (not to mention the band Styx) can pull that off. As a result, good albums by artists capable of more can seem like disappointments simply because they fall short of genius -- and that ain't fair.
Which brings us to Streets of Sin. By any objective standard, the disc is a solid, intelligent piece of work brimming with Texas wisdom and guilt-free twang. "Fightin' for My Life," penned by Flatlanders collaborator Butch Hancock, sports striking couplets such as "I used to read the Bible and Paradise Lost/Now it looks like everybody's been gettin' double-crossed," and Ely sings them with the steely authenticity he's spent several decades honing. Elsewhere, he demonstrates his narrative skills via "Flood on Our Hands," a deliberately paced saga with Faulknerian echoes, and the title cut, a heartfelt slab of electric folk in which the protagonist is certain he can make it back home by closing time as long as he can "hitch a ride on a DC-9."
So what's the rub? For one thing, a DC-9 is the same type of plane feted in "Dallas," a Jimmie Dale Gilmore composition that Ely delivers so indelibly on Musta Notta Gotta Lotta, a 1981 long-player that's among his finest recordings; 1977's Joe Ely, 1978's Honky Tonk Masquerade and 1980's Live Shots are arguably even better.
And so it goes throughout Sin: The CD sports some fairly rote turns ("Run Little Pony," "Carnival Bum"), but even the impressive tracks, like "Twisty River Bridge," bring to mind earlier, meatier, more deeply satisfying offerings.
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For those who haven't committed Ely's oeuvre to memory (and judging by his record sales, he's long been criminally underappreciated), such issues are completely superfluous. A person fortunate to be starting at square one will probably like the platter just the way it is, completely unaware that it represents mid-level Joe rather than a high-water mark. Ah, blissful ignorance.


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I've been developing a quasi-Roman Empire political structure for a story, and in my research I ran across the concept of "lictors." (If you have a working knowledge of imperial Roman society, skip the rest of this paragraph). As I understand it, lictors were a kind of ceremonial honor guard/bodyguard for Roman Magistrates that also held some police powers, but they were not soldiers. The number of Lictors a given magistrate had was directly related to the imperium (power) of the office he held. The higher a magistrate's imperium, the more Lictors he had. The Lictors' job was to remain with their magistrate at all times. They stood on the platform with him when he spoke publicly, and preceded him as he moved, clearing the way ahead and making certain the people gave the magistrate proper respect. At the direction of the magistrate, they could arrest and punish people, I believe even to the point of carrying out an execution. As a badge of office, they carried bundles of wooden rods tied with ribbon, called fasces (from where we get the modern word fascism), wrapped around the handle of an axe (the axe symbolized the magistrate's power over life and death in his sphere of dominion). When the magistrate entered Rome proper (the pomerium), the axes were removed, since executions there could only be ordered by the Consuls, Dictator or Emperor.
Got all that? I decided to create a similar office to Lictors, although these will be more like bodyguards. They'll be clones, imprinted with near-identical minds (The reason they aren't perfectly identical is important in the story, but isn't relevant here) so they can think and act in concert to protect their assigned magistrate. Like the historical ones, they aren't soldiers, nor are they allowed to be.
Problem is, I really don't like the term "lictor". I've written a couple of scenes using the name, but it just doesn't fit very well. I would like to use either an historical term or a word dervied from one and I can't seem to think of any. I've ruled out "legions" and "centurions" since those are Roman military terms, and lictors were not soldiers. I've also ruled out various Oriental terms, unless someone can come up with a derivation that sounds fairly Roman/Latin or possibly Middle Eastern. I've anagrammed lictors into Clotris as the name of the planet/system of their origin.
The closest I've come so far is "Janissaries" or some derivative, but I'm still not happy.
Any ideas, fellow hatrackers?
As for a name for these bodyguards, I like Fahrion Kryptov's suggestion of ligate, although it reminds me of chemistry or biology. (I don't think that anyone will think of chem or bio when reading your story though.) I'll think about it more and see if I can come up with anything.
Bondsman? Bonder? Bounder? (You bounder, you cad!) Binder?
If not, then you could try something closer to how you envisage them, like executor (a modern term that would probably be underused in your milieu...though it might be interesting to consider that these servants might also serve as a executors in the modern sense).
quote:I like Fahrion Kryptov's suggestion of ligate
I think "ligate" would be too close to "legate", a term used for ambassadors as well as assistants chosen by governors.
quote:Is the terminology of this Empire directly derived from the Latin?
A lot probably will be, but not necessarily if I find a term I like for something.
Keep the ideas comin' folks...
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You could also combine words, such as vigil (meaning watch or sentry) and ligare (to bind), resulting in something like vigiligate, which would mean "a bound guard." (Though that is a bit unwieldy...)
Or combining simulo (to look like) and tego (cover/protect/defend/hide) and get simulotect.
You can similarly get armavinx, integumentor, clipeator... or something completely different...
Or use something descriptive... We forget that the Roman's thought in Latin, so a Latin word would have a literal meaning to them. So, when your characters think of the office, the name of the office and it's function are the same in their mind... and since you are tranlating their words to English, you would be tranlating the office name/description of function as well? Something like "enforcer" or "van" (short for vanguard)?
Ted in PA
If they have cloned minds then their minds must be a copy, however imperfect, of an original.
This original must have been considered the epitome of the class the powers-that-be intended to create. If not, they would not have chosen him as the pattern.
If this 'original' was the epitome of the class, then his name would probably be synonymous with the class.Therefore you could have the whole class named after the original.
Such a thing has a precedent in Rome. The name Caeser became synonymous with emperor and led to such variations in other lands as SHAH, TSAR, CZAR and KAISER -- all state offices named after our friend Gaius Julius in order to 'borrow' his prestige.
For instance, if the "original's" name was Marcus Flaggelatus the class of "lictors" may well be called something like The Marcusian Guard. Or the Flaggelati
IF you don't like that idea:You could go for a name that incorporates both the concept of a duplicate/double (as per the cloned mind) and someone with developed martial skills but who is not a soldier. The name POLLUX comes to mind.(From the Greek twins Castor and Pollux the former a skilled horseman, the latter a strongly built man who was a powerful boxer.)
Although Pollux is Greek, the Romans venerated him and had a temple dedicated to Castor and Pollux. They called Castor; Castore and Pollux they often called Polydeucus. In later Roman mythology, Pollux was considered to be the 'divine' or 'immortal' one of the pair.
So you COULD call them something like the POLLUXI or even Polydeuci. Depending on the way LATIN has morphed in your world you could use a variation, eg: PRUXII.
I like it, but then I'm not writing the story.
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The whole plot of the story is loosely based upon the Biblical narrative of King Saul, David and Jonathan (yes, I do realize the Roman Empire showed up much, much later) so I'd like the terms used to come from that general area of the globe.
quote:How about "bailif?" since your descripition seems to describe the function that bailiffs perform in the courtroom?
These guys are probably closer to a cross between the clone troopers of Star Wars and members of the Secret Service presidential detail, with just a hint of the creepiness of the Bene Tleilax gholas from Dune thrown in, but thanks for your input.
quote:f this 'original' was the epitome of the class, then his name would probably be synonymous with the class.Therefore you could have the whole class named after the original.For instance, if the "original's" name was Marcus Flaggelatus the class of "lictors" may well be called something like The Marcusian Guard. Or the Flaggelati.
For instance, if the "original's" name was Marcus Flaggelatus the class of "lictors" may well be called something like The Marcusian Guard. Or the Flaggelati.
Hmmm...there's a thought. I might ponder that further. "The Marcusian Guard" has a nice ring, but not quite the "punch" I'm after for these guys, though it might fit well elsewhere in the story.
Ares: "Etymologically his name may mean destroyer or Avenger"
Phobos: the name means fear
Deimos: Terror
Eris: Strife
Enyo: Horror
One more name suggestion: The Apollyon Guard.
One of the reasons I'm looking up Greek mythology is that I'm in the middle of writing a story set in that time. BTW, it has 16275 words and not quite done yet.
Criminators : Accusers
Persecutii and Insequori : both mean 'Pursuers'.
Mactovir which means men who magnify, glorify, honor but also means men who slay, fight and punish.
Muammadam is Turkish for 'secret-men' or 'enigma-men'
Anyway, nuff said. I could go on and on with this.
It did lead me to the idea of Mithra.
Are you aware of Cultores Solis invicti Mithræ in the Ancient world?
The followers had a 'rank' system based on levels of ascension. like this:
First word is name of rank (in ascending order), second is astrological symbol, third is emblem.
Corax (Raven) / Mercury / Wand, beakerNymophus ("Bride") / Venus / Crown, lamp, veilMiles (Soldier) / Mars / Helmet, spearLeo (Lion) / Jupiter / Thunderbolt, "fire-spade"Perses (Persian) / Moon / Persian sword, scytheHeliodromos (Sun-runner) / Sun / Crown, torch, whipPater (Father) / Saturn / Ring, staff, cap
For a simple discussion on Mithraism just google, or see: Wikipedia Mithraism however that link leads to an article that is considered to lack neutrality.
For more unnerving/complicated information on Mithraism see: Mysteries especially the discussion on The Cult of Mithra and Imperial Rome here
What about Mithradites?
quote:Are you aware of Cultores Solis invicti Mithræ in the Ancient world?
Er...no, at least not in depth. I've heard of Mithraism before, but never had occasion to look at it in any detail. I'll certainly take a peek at those links.
I may end up doing something like what Donaldson did in the Thomas Covenant series, with the Haruchai being the racial name for the people from whom the Bloodguard came.
I feel a little bit like Charlie Brown talking to Lucy at her Psychiatric stand. She keeps throwing out the names of various phobias, and then Charlie Brown suddenly yells, "THAT'S IT!" when she mentions pantophobia. One of these days, it'll hit me.
"If everyone agreed with me...they'd all be right."
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PASSAIC VALLEY SEWERAGE COMMISSIONERS v. ST. PAUL FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANYAnnotate this Case
DANIEL BECHT, and
f/k/a COREGIS INSURANCE
Argued January 25, 2010 - Decided
Before Judges Rodr guez, Reisner and Chambers.
On appeal from the Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division, General Equity, Essex County, Docket No. C-320-02.
Daniel R. Bevere argued the cause for appellants/cross-respondents (Piro, Zinna, Cifelli, Paris & Genitempo, attorneys; James M. Piro and Ralph J. Lamparello, of counsel; Mr. Bevere, Mr. Piro, Angelo Cifelli, Jr., and David M. Paris, on the brief).
Kevin E. Wolff argued the cause for respondent St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company (Coughlin Duffy, L.L.P. attorneys; Mr. Wolff, on the brief).
Darcy L. Ibach (Bollinger, Ruberry & Garvey) of the Illinois bar, admitted pro hac vice and Marc R. Jones argued the cause for respondent/cross-appellant GE Commercial Insurance Company, Inc. (Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, P.C., attorneys; Mr. Jones and Ms. Ibach, on the brief).
This is a dispute over insurance coverage involving two insurers, Coregis Insurance Co. (Coregis) and St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance, Co. (St. Paul), each of which insured plaintiff Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission (PVSC) during a different time period.
PVSC appeals from a March 24, 2008 order granting summary judgment, dismissing its claims against Coregis for indemnification in connection with the settlement of a 2000 counterclaim filed against PVSC by Spectraserv, Inc. (the Spectraserv litigation). Coregis cross-appeals from a December 19, 2005 order, granting summary judgment in favor of St. Paul on the grounds that the St. Paul policy did not cover the Spectraserv litigation. Concluding that both orders were legally correct, for reasons thoroughly and cogently explained by the trial judges who entered them, we affirm.
We begin by addressing the claim against St. Paul. The following factual background is needed to put the claim in context. PVSC was created by the State to manage and regulate the collection and disposal of wastewater generated in a four-county area along the Passaic Valley River basin. Its function is to protect the waterways of the basin from pollution. As part of this function, PVSC maintains an extensive sewer system and operates a wastewater treatment plant in Newark.
In order to ensure compliance with federal and state law, PVSC has adopted rules and regulations for the users of the system, and issues sewer use permits to its significant industrial users. The permits establish monitoring and reporting requirements, set effluent limits, establish complaint schedules and identify penalties for violations and other special conditions applicable to the users.
In addition, PVSC bids on contracts advertised by other public entities. In doing so, PVSC competes with the industrial users it regulates. One such industrial user is Spectraserv, a private business that constructs wastewater facilities and hauls and treats wastewater. It owns and operates a facility within PVSC's statutorily-defined district, and is required to maintain a permit with PVSC to discharge its filtrate into the PVSC system.
In 1997, when PVSC was covered by a policy issued by Coregis, Spectraserv sued PVSC, claiming that PVSC was abusing its regulatory authority over Spectraserv and unfairly competing with Spectraserv for customers. The 1997 lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice pending settlement efforts. When there was no settlement, Spectraserv revived its earlier claims in a 2000 counterclaim, which reiterated the same essential claims first asserted in the 1997 lawsuit. In fact, the 2000 counterclaim, and later amendments, specifically referenced the 1997 lawsuit and characterized PVSC's alleged wrongs as a continuation of the conduct that gave rise to the 1997 lawsuit.
When the 2000 lawsuit was filed, PVSC was covered by a policy issued by St. Paul. However, the St. Paul policy only covered claims "first made" during the policy period and excluded claims "arising" from earlier litigation. The pertinent portions of the St. Paul policy address claims "first made" as follows:
When This Agreement Covers
During this agreement or the limited reporting period. We'll apply this agreement to claims or suits for covered loss only when they're first made or brought:
while this agreement is in effect; or
during the limited reporting period if it applies.
. . . .
When we consider a claim or suit to be first made or brought. We'll consider a claim or suit for covered loss to be first made or brought on the earliest of the following dates:
The date that we or any protected person receives a written claim or a notice of suit.
The date that we receive, from any protected person, a notice of a wrongful act that subsequently results in a claim or suit. However, we won't accept such a notice unless it describes with particularity details of the wrongful act, including the date and identity of involved persons and what loss may result from the wrongful act.
The policy further addresses the issue of "arising out of" in the following language:
We'll consider all claims or suits arising out of the same wrongful act or series of related wrongful acts to be one claim or suit and to have been made or brought on the date that the first of such claims or suits was first made or brought, regardless if that date is before or during the policy period. Only that coverage and those limits applicable to the period when the earliest of such claims or suits is first made will apply.
Series of related wrongful acts means two or more wrongful acts that have as a common nexus any fact, circumstance, situation, event, transaction, cause, or series of related facts, circumstances, situations, events, transactions, or causes.
In granting summary judgment to St. Paul, Judge Levy found that the policy exclusion was unambiguous and applied to the 2000 lawsuit. Judge Levy reasoned that the 2000 lawsuit revived claims of unfair competition and abuse of the police power which were first made in 1997 but extended the scope of those claims to include additional examples. In other words, the claim was first made in 1997, and the 2000 suit was based on the same allegedly wrongful course of conduct that gave rise to the 1997 suit. Therefore, Judge Levy determined that St. Paul did not owe a duty to defend or indemnify PVSC in the 2000 Spectraserv litigation, because it was a continuation of the 1997 lawsuit.
On this appeal, our review of the trial court's summary judgment decision is plenary, using the same legal standard applied in the trial court. Turner v. Wong, 363 N.J. Super. 186, 198-99 (App. Div. 2003); Brill v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of Am., 142 N.J. 520, 540 (1995). Likewise, the interpretation of an insurance policy "is a question of law which we decide independent of the trial court's conclusions." Simonetti v. Selective Ins. Co., 372 N.J. Super. 421, 428 (App. Div. 2004). The principles we follow in that task are well understood:
[W]hen interpreting an insurance contract, the basic rule is to determine the intention of the parties from the language of the policy, giving effect to all parts so as to give a reasonable meaning to the terms. When the terms of the contract are clear and unambiguous, the court must enforce the contract as it is written; the court cannot make a better contract for parties than the one that they themselves agreed to.
[Ibid. (citations omitted).]
The parties agree that the coverage issue was ripe for summary judgment; they disagree on the result. Having reviewed the record, including the insurance policy, the 1997 complaint, and the 2000 counterclaim and amendments, we agree with Judge Levy's cogent analysis of the issues, and we affirm for the reasons he placed on the record on December 1, 2005. Coregis' appellate contentions on this issue are without sufficient merit to warrant further discussion here. R. 2:11-3(e)(1)(E).
We next turn to PVSC's claim against Coregis. Again, all parties agree the matter was ripe for summary judgment, and our standard of review is plenary. Turner, supra, 363 N.J. Super. at 198-99; Simonetti, supra, 372 N.J. Super. at 428.
The background is as follows. When PVSC requested defense and indemnity with respect to the 2000 lawsuit, Coregis agreed to defend under a reservation of rights. However, because PVSC had its own attorneys who were familiar with the matter, Coregis agreed that PVSC could use its own defense counsel. Coregis and PVSC had a subsequent dispute over the costs of the litigation, with PVSC initially claiming about $4 million in attorney fees and costs and later demanding $6 million.
Coregis and PVSC eventually settled their dispute over defense costs, when Coregis agreed to pay $1.2 million. They could not, however, resolve a dispute over indemnification. Relying on provisions of its policy limiting its indemnification obligation to reimbursement for "money damages," Coregis declined to indemnify PVSC for a settlement it entered into with Spectraserv in the underlying litigation, because the settlement did not require PVSC to pay any "money damages" as defined by the insurance policy.
Against that backdrop, we first review the language of the insurance contract. The Coregis policy was a "claims made and reported" policy, and provided:
The Company will pay on behalf of the Insureds Loss as a result of civil Claims made against the Insureds by reason of a Wrongful Act, provided that Claim is first made during the Policy Period and written report of said Claim is received by the Company during the Policy Period or within sixty (60) days thereafter.
The policy contained the following definitions:
H. "Claim" means a demand for Money Damages as of right.
All Claims against any insureds arising out of the same Wrongful Act, or logically or causally connected Wrongful Act, will be considered one Claim. All such Claims will be considered first made at the time the earliest such Claim was made against any insured.
I. "Money Damages" means monetary compensation for past harms or injuries.
. . . .
L. "Loss" means Money Damages which the insured becomes legally obligated to pay by reason of a Wrongful Act.
Loss does not include:
1. Punitive damages, exemplary damages or the multiplied portions of any damage award;
2. Sanctions, fines or penalties;
3. Liquidated damages as provided under a contract or statute;
4. Return of taxes, assessments, penalties, fines and/or fees; [and]
. . . .
6. Matters uninsurable under the law or against public policy[.]
The Coregis policy also contained the following exclusions:
This policy does not apply to the following, regardless of the cause of action or legal theory alleged:
A. any Claim or Loss Arising Out of any Insured gaining profit, remuneration or advantage to which any Insured was not entitled.
B. any Claim or Loss Arising Out Of any criminal, dishonest, malicious, fraudulent or knowingly wrongful act or omission.
C. any demand or proceeding seeking relief or redress in any form other than Money Damages, including any form of injunction or other equitable relief, including, but not limited to, restitution, replevin, unjust enrichment, declaratory judgments, or an accounting.
. . . .
I. any Claim or Loss Arising Out Of inverse condemnation, temporary or permanent taking, adverse possession or dedication by adverse use.
. . . .
M. any Claim or Loss Arising Out Of breach of contract, whether oral, written or implied, except any Employment Contract.
There was no dispute that PVSC did not pay Spectraserv any money to settle the lawsuit. The issue was whether Coregis was required to pay for the value of services PVSC agreed to provide to Spectraserv or its customers, and assets PVSC claimed it surrendered (including PVSC's agreement to waive penalties it could have levied against Spectraserv) as part of the settlement. Judge Vichness found that the Coregis policy was unambiguous, and that PVSC had not paid Spectraserv any money damages as part of the settlement. We agree with Judge Vichness that the Coregis policy unambiguously defines "money damages" and that none of the elements of the Spectraserv settlement meet that definition. We affirm on that point for the reasons stated in his oral opinion of March 7, 2008.
In a creative effort to sidestep the policy language, PVSC also argues that even if its claim would otherwise be barred under the policy, it should recover because Coregis allegedly breached its duty to defend PVSC against the Spectraserv litigation. This contention is without merit.
We agree with Judge Vichness that Coregis did not breach its duty to defend PVSC. Rather, Coregis agreed to defend under a reservation of rights, and then agreed that PVSC could use its own counsel to actually conduct the defense. Coregis later declined to pay what it considered to be PVSC's inflated claim for $4 million in defense costs, and the parties settled that claim for a little over $1 million. Under these facts, Coregis has no obligation to pay for the projected costs of the PVSC-Spectraserv settlement, a claim barred under the unambiguous language of the Coregis policy. Since there was no breach of the duty to defend, PVSC's reliance on cases such as Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. v. Security Insurance Co., 72 N.J. 63, 71 (1976), and Griggs v. Bertram, 88 N.J. 347, 364 (1982), is misplaced. In light of this determination, we need not address Coregis' additional arguments in support of the December 19, 2005 summary judgment order.
After this appeal was briefed, PVSC settled its claim against St. Paul and therefore is not pursuing an appeal from the judgment in favor of St. Paul. In its cross-appeal, Coregis seeks contribution from St. Paul for defense costs in the Spectraserv litigation.
The Coregis policy contained a similar definition of a "first made" claim: "All Claims against any insureds arising out of the same Wrongful act, or logically or causally connected Wrongful Act, will be considered one Claim. All such Claims will be considered first made at the time the earliest such Claims was made against any insured." (emphasis added)
The settlement followed the trial court's order dated September 11, 2006, determining that Coregis had a duty to defend PVSC on three out of the fourteen counts of the Spectraserv counterclaim. Neither PVSC nor Coregis has appealed from that order.
PVSC's remaining arguments, including its claim against Coregis for counsel fees in connection with this coverage litigation, are without merit and do not warrant discussion here. R. 2:11-3(e)(1)(E).
March 8, 2010


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I suggest you to keep him reading this title:
Visible Ink Press :: The Handy Answer Book for Kids
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The Amulet of Samarkand: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 1
The Golem's Eye: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 2
Ptolemy's Gate: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 3
It might be a little late for another recommendation but I have noticed that one of my favourite books (as a child) is available in English too. It is not a well known one so the chances that your daughter has already read it are not too high.
Title: The Museum of Stolen Memories
Short description:
Stone figures suddenly come to life and prowl round the dark museum. Memories disappear from the heads of people. Strange things are going on in Berlin.
When the twins Oliver and Jessica return home from their holidays, they have forgotten all
about their father. All that remains is an unsettling feeling of emptiness. There is absolutely no trace of their father. The police appear on the scene - they, too, are looking for Thomas Pollock, claiming that the twins' father has stolen an ancient golden statue from the Pergamon Museum.
Maybe an idea
How about Roald Dahl books? Danny the Champion of the World is my favourite.
I had wandered away from this thread and was delighted to find more suggestions posted here today. Thanks again to all of you for sharing the books you've enjoyed.
Some sound perfect!
I appreciate hearing all your ideas. (Even if she doesn't read that trilogy, I think I may!)
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.
What about The Railway Children, since you wrote oldies are OK? I actually never read it, but I loved the movie when I was about your daughter's age.
I find Terry Pratchett's Discworld books absolutely hilarious. If you like them too, there are some especially for younger readers.
I'll second posts #16 and #18; I can't think why I, or somebody else did not come up with Dahl and Pratchett before this. They are great fun, and very popular with young people - and with the not-so-young.


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Crystallised objectives in a new progress report, a revamped website and a renewed push to engage Queenstown Lakes district residents underscore the ongoing Shaping Our Future initiative, proponents say.
The eight-page report released last week by the group behind the project declares its statement of intent, who is driving it, what has happened so far, identifies priorities, explains how to get involved and what is happening now.
Shaping Our Future participants developed a draft vision and priorities which are the summation of the opinions and thoughts of 1000 people over 18 months.
The process was designed to use the expertise and knowledge of people who lived in the district, instead of expensive external consultants.
Spokesman David Kennedy said the objectives of the report and the website were to encourage the widest possible engagement of the people who lived in the district about the future of the area.
"The concept of Shaping Our Future is simple. It is a chance for all residents to truly have a say, and hopefully an influence, in what the future of our district could look like," Mr Kennedy said.
"One thousand people have guided us with their thoughts on what they think is important.
"Some of these people have contributed more time and expertise to task forces.
"When you look at the priorities in front of us, the work that's been done to date is just the tip of the iceberg," he said.
The report is designed to be spread by social media although a limited number of copies will be printed. The website is interactive, with browsers asked to register, log in, then make their comments, Mr Kennedy said.
"We encourage people to use the website to share information and put up their hand for task forces or priorities they'd like to be involved in.
"It's an inexpensive way to get people involved although we do understand some aren't as technically engaged as others so we also have a plan to reach out through community organisations over the next year to keep the process moving."
Queenstown Lakes Mayor Vanessa van Uden, who is chairwoman of the steering group which guides the process, said Shaping Our Future held "great potential".
"If we can build real engagement across all sectors of our community, we can create a way forward that would allow us to really be responsible for our future.
"There is opportunity to effect change right through all levels of governance if we can get together and work towards how we want things to be," Ms van Uden said.
Shaping Our Future is on course to become an incorporated society and holds its first annual meeting early in the New Year.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council agreed to become an established member of the society and last week appointed the mayor as its representative.


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