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Board of Selectmen
Roadway Acceptance Procedures
Adopted January 14, 2014
Revised March 31, 2015
(link to full text can be found at top of page)
Compliance with the Roadway Acceptance Procedures is the legal and financial responsibility of the applicant. The Roadway Acceptance Procedures are not intended to give legal advice.
The applicant should meet with the Town Planner to review any outstanding issues or missing information with the subdivision and/or file before initiating the Roadway Acceptance procedure. Applicants should also consult with their own attorney to ensure compliance with the Roadway Acceptance Procedures. The applicant is responsible for ensuring all documents are correct and that the Town boards, departments, and Town Counsel are satisfied with the supplied documentation. Acceptance of a road as a public way involves three (3) steps:
the Board of Selectmen must lay out the road as a public way in accordance with the requirements of M.G.L. c. 82, §§21-24, which includes a referral of the layout to the Planning Board for its recommendations in accordance with M.G.L. c. 41, §81I.
Town Meeting must vote to accept a road as a public way.
the Board of Selectmen must acquire by gift, the deed in the road and drainage, water, sewer, utility, access, buffer, and/or other related easements (the "appurtenant easements") within one hundred twenty (120) days from the close of the Town Meeting at which the road is accepted as a public way.
Compliance with all three (3) steps is necessary for a road to become a public, Town way.
If you are interested in having the Town accept a street layout at either a Spring or Fall Town Meeting (usually held the first week of May or November), contact the Town Planner six (6) months prior to the Town Meeting to discuss any outstanding items left unfinished for your project. The Town Planner will outline the Roadway Acceptance steps found in the Town of Middleton's
Roadway Acceptance Procedures
that are necessary to have the Town accept your roadway layout.
It is imperative that applicants, attorneys, and engineers review, understand, and follow these procedures. Please note the required documents and the deadlines listed in the Town of Middleton's
Roadway Acceptance Procedures
in order to eliminate confusion and delay to all parties involved.
Below is an estimated timeline to be followed for Roadway Acceptance - please refer to The Town of Middleton Roadway Acceptance Procedures (link at top of page) for the full text.
Necessary Actions
May Town Meeting
November Town Meeting
Submit Petition to Selectmen
Selectmen vote their "intent to lay out the way." They refer the petition request to the Planning Board for recommendation.
Warrant Article created
Selectmen notify owners and hold Public Meeting to "adopt order of layout."
Selectmen file signed order of layout, the layout plan, & legal descriptions with Town Clerk.
Late April
Late October
Town Meeting Vote
Applicant submits updated Title Certification within 14 days of Town Meeting
Acquisitions, layout, & Town Meeting vote recorded at S. Essex Registry of Deeds within 120 days of Town Meeting
Early September
Early March
Any remaining balance of fees held for Street Acceptance returned to applicant by Town after receiving proof of recordation


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Having just pulled into town we were eyeing for a 'local' spot for a quick bite and as always to pay into the local economy, when a car honked and someone waved at us. Not too many of those since we started our trip but sure makes for a good feeling and a smile. A couple of blocks later we pulled into a parking lot to regroup and what a surprise!, Bruce & Lori, the couple that we met in Parsons at the laundry who told us about Bear Inn. They were in town returning and picking up a furnace for the house they just bought. We talked again about their move to Tennessee, from Illinois they found this area by looking on the Internet. They really love the area and remodeling the house is a labor of love. They left behind twelve grandchildren (and they look like they're our age!)! Eventually we had to move on because we needed to have lunch and we still had about 10 miles to Pickwick Lake State Park.
After giving up our search for a sandwich shop we found a fish house, which down here in Savannah, the catfish capital of the world, is fried catfish and hush puppies, mmmm. Must admit we do love the coleslaw in the south and decided the reason it tastes so good is that they shred AND chop the cabbage. We decided to start ordering dessert as long as our only options for meals are deep fried, we figured what the heck
The last five of the ten miles we had left were difficult to say the least, feeling terrorized by semi-tractor trailers followed closely by pick-ups, ...s c r e a m i n g by, filling us with a fear that was telling our better senses to get the h-e-double-toothpick off the road, where sometimes there was not much if any room to pull off before possibly sending us down an embankment. We would then have to stop, pull off in the grass and let the line of traffic pass, then remount our bikes and ride on. If we had stopped any more than we already had it would have slowed our progress to the point we would have been on that road past dark; and that, we decided, we didn't want to happen; notwithstanding the dam and bridge over the Tennessee River that was ahead at the end of our route! We certainly become spoiled by those 8-foot wide shoulders that we almost forgot that some roads are narrow and winding with absolutely no shoulders. Those last five miles would have had us with no nails left at all, not even a nail bed if we hadn't had our nails dug so deep into our handle bars that we had to pry them out! Finally, we saw the 'pot o'gold', the dam. It was graced with a welcomed raised sidewalk and we couldn't help but notice that for some unknown reason, along here the cars would move over into the oncoming lane when passing by us?
After we got to the lodge and for the first time on this voyage, we took advantage of their swimming pool and soothed our tired muscles and tensed bodies while allowing ourselves to luxuriate in the water. Just then Larry swam by and said, "I can't say that we're practicing for an Iron Man, but then again, I can't say that we're not!" Times up! We're off to the lodge's restaurant for yet another catfish buffet dinner!

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How to cut vinyl siding to vent bathroom fan?
Hi everyone,
I am new to this website and need a little help. Currently I have 2 bathrooms on the second floor. Both of the bathroom exhaust fans are currently vented in the attic to the soffit. But they never actually cut a hole in the soffit. They just ran that flex tubing over and sat it on top
of the perferated soffit. My house uses the soffit and ridge vent for attic ventilation. I have read running the bathroom exhaust over to the soffit is a bad idea when you attic is ventilated this way.
So I had an energy audit done at my house. They recommended getting my attic air sealed and running the exhaust fans out the side of the house. There is plenty of room to do this.
But my house has vinyl siding and I am concerned how they are going to install this new vent. I want to make sure it is water tight. Well as much as it can be with vinyl siding.
I plan on asking these contractors how they are going to install this vent before letting them cut holes in my house. If I don't like there answer then I will tell them to forget it.
So what are the steps to properly install a vent through vinyl siding? I have read about vinyl surface mounts???
Put the vents through the roof. You don't have to deal with the siding profile and the sidewall vent.
Venting a bath fan through the roof with a proper roof cap is the preferred method. But-a bath vent fan can be run through a soffitt, again with the proper vent cap. IF you have to run the vent(s) through the wall of the house, the contractor should install a box where the end of the vent will exit. This box has J-channel made onto it for the vinyl siding to mate to, and again, use the proper cap on the end. Good Luck, David
Thanks for the responses. I am just curious why the preferred method is through the roof? I live in New England and we get a lot of snow on the roof. I always wondered how these vents worked when they are covered with snow. Both of my bathrooms are on the ends of my house. So the run to the outside wall would actually be the shortest path to the outside. Shorter than running it up to the roof and shorter than the current run to the soffit.
Is there a problem with just having the contractor cut the hole in the vinyl soffit and adding the soffit vent? It is run over there with the flex tubing. Should I have them replace this with the solid insulated tubing instead? Putting in the soffit vent would be the easiest solution, but I have read stories why it is bad to vent out of a soffit when the attic uses the soffit/ridge vent combination.
Punching a hole in the roof is NOT the best way.
Your workers will probably use tin snips and a drill. A little blocking---
Some screws and flexible caulk.
Snow blowing into roof vents and condensation inside the vent pipe going to the roof vent are problems discussed here all the time!
Sound like you have it handled---MIKE---
Yes one the insulated duct--Or bury the vent under a blanket of fiberglass insulation.
Condensation inside the vent is a big pain --keep the tube warm with a blanket-Pitch the pipe so and moisture runs away from the fan,if possible.-MIKE-
Todays post about roof vents and snow-Snow in through Bathroom Exhaust Vents - DIY Chatroom - DIY Home Improvement Forum
Thanks for the response everyone. I am going to grill the contractors when they show up. I am going to ask the following about them venting it out of the side of the house in the attic.
1. Are they going to use solid insulated tubing instead of flex tubing.
2. Make sure they pitch the insulated duct down so all condesnsation
runs out of the house and not into the bathroom fan.
3. I will ask how they plan on flashing the vent through the vinyl siding.
Now I have read that they should actually take some of the vinyl off
of the house. The vent should have its on built in wall mount which
flashes itself. Then they should put the vinyl back on and screw the
vent into the wall mount.
I have read how some people just blast a hole through the siding and then screw the vent directly into the vinyl siding and then just caulk around it. This doesn't seem like the proper way to me.
What do you guys think?
Please don't drive the workers nuts by telling them how to do a job that they are experienced in performing .
Seldom is the siding removed to install a vent cover,I've installed over a hundred of them and never removed the siding.
Relax and learn by watching --Lots of advice on the internet is based more on theory than real honest to god life experience. Take most internet advice with a grain of salt.-MIKE--
these can be used in the soffit instead of thru the wall
sure you can install a vent without pulling the siding and flashing it properly,but i wouldnt
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text: Smell the Coffee: Can't make your own decisions? By Karin Fuller September 10, 2011 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I'm a lover of travel who seldom gets to be on the road. I dream about travel and write about road trips and study maps to find potential destinations within a few hours of home, but lately, no amount of desire can deter our house and car from their competition to be Champion of Deterioration, so there have been no vacations for us.And so I remained quiet while my dinner companions recently talked about their vacations and their beloved GPS devices. They raved over how much better their trips were, thanks to the apparatus; how they could relax while driving, waiting for the machine's next instruction; could press a button and locate the next rest area; could access an app recommending restaurants or another that reviewed potential sites in the area.There was something about their cherished devices that didn't completely sit well with me, but I couldn't pinpoint what it was. Later, I was mulling it over, wondering if perhaps it was simply that GPS units make having a good sense of direction seem suddenly superfluous. I'd always been proud of my ability to find my way around, even in unfamiliar territory, but that seems to have gone from being a blessing to being something as outdated as a mullet.It was right about this time in my thoughts that there came a commercial for a smartphone app that uses location-awareness technology to give users the ability to instantly access reviews for restaurants, stores, attractions and businesses of all sorts. The commercial said something like, "If you're walking at a park and come to a landmark, the phone can automatically display information that tells you why you should find the site interesting." And that's when it clicked.These devices -- along with the abundance of reviews on articles and products and restaurants and, well, everything -- are robbing us of the fun of discovering something new and wonderful on our own. The app is going to tell us why the site is interesting because -- what? We can't decide that for ourselves?Instead of developing our own skills and decision-making abilities, it seems as though we're being steered toward becoming more dependent on others, electronic devices included. People are often lazy and clueless enough without gadgets enabling them to be even more impaired. How often do we hear about folks being stranded in remote locations because they trusted their GPS units more than their own common sense? You'd think that when the paved road turns to gravel then to mud, their own personal wrong-way warning system should engage.A bit of blundering about isn't so bad. Sometimes that's how you find the best places, learn new things. Earn self-respect.Basing most every choice based on someone else's review in an effort to avoid the bad stuff -- that isn't savvy or clever. It's lazy. Sheeplike. Better to experience on your own and decide for yourself. You can't appreciate the good unless you experience some bad. And the bad? That's usually where the best stories begin.Perhaps if I traveled more often, I might feel differently about GPS units and smartphones. They're certainly useful and impressive and perhaps, sometimes, even life saving. I can imagine what a blessing they are to the directionally challenged. But they should be tools, not crutches. These things should help us, not think or decide for us.Perhaps if I had a job where I traveled on a regular basis or if I had to venture about in a big city, safety alone would be reason for having one. But for me and for now, I'm glad there's no need. I don't want someone -- or something -- holding my hand everywhere I go.Not all who wander are lost.Reach Karin Fuller via email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 South Charleston man indicted a second time on murder charge 2 WVU baseball makes NCAA tournament for first time since 1996 3 Gander Mountain gift cards no longer accepted 4 Former Winfield football coaching great Leon McCoy dies 5 Carhartt honors Gritt's Farm with Fathers Day documentary, new sign Clay exhibit showcases 25 years of collecting Previous Story Mind Your Manners: Texting: The good, the bad and the ugly Next Story


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BOV to compensate ineligible investors
Bank of Valletta said this afternoon that, as it had already stated last June, it would cooperate fully with the Malta Financial Services Authority and compensate ineligible investors in its property fund.
Mazars, an audit firm tasked by the financial services regulator to review the client files, has drawn up a list of bank clients who were not experienced investors and so ineligible to invest in the property fund.
The report was handed over to the MFSA last week and the authority said it will forward the list to BOV for compensation.
BOV said it was looking forward to receiving the list. It said it remained committed to do all it could to conclude the issue satisfactorily for the benefit of all concerned.
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Principal Works
Andria [The Girl from Andros] 166 b.c.
Hecyra [The Mother-in-Law] 165 b.c.
Heautontimorumenos [The Self-Tormentor] 163 b.c.
Eunuchus [The Eunuch] 161 b.c.
Phormio 161 b.c.
Adelphoe [The Brothers] 160 b.c.
The Comedies of Terence (translated by Sidney G. Ash-more, 2nd ed.) 1910
Terence. 2 vols, (translated by John Sargeaunt) 1912
The Complete Roman Drama, Volume II (translated by George E. Duckworth) 1962
Terence: Comedies (edited by Robert Graves; based on the translation by Lawrence Echard) 1963
Terence: The Comedies (translated by Betty Radice) 1965
The Comedies of Terence (translated by Frank O. Copley) 1967
The Complete Comedies of Terence (translated by Palmer Bovie, Constance Carrier, and Douglass Parker) 1974
Overviews And General Studies
Richard Levin (essay date 1966)
SOURCE: "The Double Plots of Terence," in The Classical Journal, Vol. 62, No. 1, October, 1966, pp. 301-05.
[In the essay below, Levin focuses on the two-level plot structure tracing parallel love affairs that is characteristic of several of Terence's plays.]
Certainly one of the most striking features of Terence's plays is his use of a double-plot structure which combines the stories of two pairs of young lovers. Virtually all the commentators, from Donatus and Evanthius down to the present day, have dealt with this aspect of his dramaturgy, and virtually all of them have found that it contributes materially to his unquestioned artistic achievement. On the nature of that contribution, also, there appears to be quite substantial agreement, for while these discussions have been as various as the points of view which have been brought to bear upon the subject, the specific advantages claimed for the Terentian "duality-method" generally focus around two basic topics: the enrichment of the comic complication that results from the interaction of the two plots, and the illuminating contrasts that this provides between the parallel characters—the two adulescentes, the two senes, and sometimes others—of these plots. There is, however, yet another dimension to this dual structure which has been neglected in these studies, even though it seems to have figured significantly in Terence's conception of that structure, and in the influence it was to exert upon later drama.
This additional dimension becomes evident as soon as the comparison is extended beyond the individual characters in these two romantic stories to the nature of the two romances themselves. In the four comedies built upon the double-plot structure (this does not include the Andria, since Charinus' love for Philumena never leads to any action that might constitute a separate plot), the parallel love affairs have been clearly differentiated along the same lines: in each play one pair of lovers (Clinia and Antiphila in the Heautontimorumenos, Chaerea and Pamphila in the Eunuchus, Antipho and Phanium in the Phormio, Aeschinus and Pamphila in the Adelphoe) are eventually united in a legal and socially accepted marriage, while the other pair (Clitipho and Bacchis, Phaedria and Thais, Phaedria and Pamphila, Ctesipho and Bacchis respectively) only form an irregular sexual liaison. From this, moreover, there follows another important difference in the nature of the action appropriate to the two kinds of romance: in the "marriage-plot" the central problem is always the social status of the young woman, which seems to disqualify her as a wife, and the resolution therefore typically turns upon a cognitio revealing her true parentage; in the "liaison-plot," on the other hand, the problem is not the status of the woman (which never changes), but the ability of the young man to obtain or to keep possession of her, and this is resolved through some stratagem, usually involving money, initiated by him or his allies to that end. This does not mean, of course, that all four plots in each category are identical, for the pattern admits of considerable variation in detail from play to play, and there are even a few which do not exactly fit it in all respects; thus the marriage in the Adelphoe requires no cognitio, and the money to maintain the liaison in the Eunuchus is not acquired by the usual trickery. But, as a general formula, it does indicate a fundamental contrast between the combined plots which is developed so consistently in this group of plays that it surely must have been the result of Terence's conscious intention, either in his initial choice of Greek models or in the alterations he made in them.
A few modern critics have noted this pattern, without attaching much significance to it; but more often it has simply been ignored, especially by those who attempt to reduce all the products of New Comedy to a single archetypal scheme. Moses Hadas, for example [in his Roman Drama, 1965], asserts that in this genre the following story is "repeated with only minor changes from play to play":
a young man is in love with a girl owned by a white slaver who is about to dispose of her elsewhere; his cunning servant defrauds the young man's father of the necessary sum; the girl is discovered to be of good birth (having been kidnapped or exposed in infancy) and hence an eligible bride.
And Gilbert Norwood [in his Plautus and Terence, 1932] constructs a similar "composite photograph" of the plots of Plautus and Terence:
A young Athenian is in love with a charming but friendless girl who is the purchased slave of a leno … He wishes to purchase her and keep her as his mistress … Here intervenes his slave, loyal to his young master but otherwise conscienceless, who saves the situation by an elaborate ruse either to defraud the hero's father of the needed sum or to induce the slave-owner to part with the girl. When discovery of this deception arrives, all is put right by a sudden revelation that the heroine is really of Athenian birth (but kidnapped or lost in babyhood) and can therefore marry the hero.
And another such "conventional" plot, couched in Freudian terms, is presented by Northrop Frye [in his "The Argument of Comedy," English Institute Essays 1948]. All formulations of this type, it can be seen, conflate the two distinct kinds of romantic attachment and of dramatic action which Terence has managed to separate by his dual structure, and it is therefore not surprising to find that scholars operating from these reductive schemes will fail to appreciate this aspect of the structure, and may even criticize it unjustly, as when Norwood, for instance, complains of the Eunuchus that "the dualism would have been perfect had Thais been legally possible as a wife for Phaedria." But that would have meant a second marriage-plot for this play, with a second cognitio, which is just what Terence has always avoided.
One reason for avoiding such duplication seems obvious enough: Terence probably realized that two separate discoveries of long-lost daughters would have been too much for his audience to accept. The use of this same coincidental resolution for each plot would make them both much less "probable." Moreover, it would make them much less interesting, because of the predictable and boring repetition. The sense of fascinated excitement which Terence is able to engender depends in large measure upon the variation of situation and incident provided by his formula, since it brings together two very different kinds of comic action—one presided over by a benevolent Fate, where the principal errors and ironies result from an essential ignorance, shared by all the characters, which is innocent of human contrivance and which is finally dispelled in a happy, and equally uncontrived, revelation of the truth; and the other directed by a shrewd schemer who carefully arranges most of the confusion and invites us to enjoy the cleverness of his deceptions and the ridiculous discomfitures of his victims. In terms, then, of both credibility and variety, it is easy to see the advantages of the special formula adopted by Terence.
This may account for his formula on the level of the contrasted actions combined there, but we have still to consider the effect of the contrast between the two kinds of romance portrayed within these actions. It is not a simple matter, since it involves the emotional and moral coloring of those romances, and that is determined not by the real-life attitudes toward marital and extramarital love to be found in Terence's society in second-century Rome, nor in the fourth-century Athens of his models, but by a dramatic convention which has created an artificial exotic world of its own kept at some distance from the audience, the world of the palliata. Some of the nuances of feeling implied in this contrast, therefore, may well be irrecoverable. Because they are defined by the convention, Terence is able to assume these affective values instead of establishing them through his action, which is concerned not so much with the romantic affairs themselves as with the conflicts precipitated by them between the two young men and their fathers (or between the two fathers in the Adelphoe and, to a lesser extent, in the Heauton). There are very few scenes bringing the young lovers together (indeed, often the girl is never seen); their emotional relationship has usually been formed before the play opens and undergoes no real development, being treated in terms of the convention as a kind of donnée. And the attempts to describe the passion of the adulescens, either in his own words or indirectly through others, are seldom very helpful in distinguishing these two sorts of love. In the liaison-plot as in the marriage-plot this passion is called amor, of course, and in both he typically reacts to the threatened loss of his beloved with the same despairing thoughts of death or exile, and to their prospective union (or reunion) with the same rhapsodic delight.
Nevertheless, Terence seems to have taken some pains to provide his audience with an explicit statement of this crucial distinction. Thus in the Heauton Clitipho compares the haughtiness and avarice of the meretrix he loves to the virtuous modesty of the virgo loved by Clinia (223-7), and in a later scene Bacchis enlarges on this comparison from the woman's point of view (381-95); each young man in the Phormio contrasts his plight with his friend's, Phaedria arguing that Antipho is more fortunate in having married a respectable lady (162-72), and Antipho that Phaedria is better off since his problem was solved as soon as he paid the leno (820-27); and in the Adelphoe a number of persons point out the basic difference between Aeschinus' attachment to Pamphila, whom he had promised to marry, and his supposed infatuation with the slave-girl he bought for Clitipho (326-34, 469-77, 724-5). But it is through the action itself that the distinction emerges most clearly. In the marriage-plots of the Heauton, Phormio, and Adelphoe the young man has been living with a decent girl, though apparently of humble or foreign birth, whom he already regards as his wife, so that when the climactic discovery occurs it does not alter his attitude toward her, but simply allows their relationship to be regularized. The liaison-plots really involve two different kinds of love-object—in the Heauton and Eunuchus she is a free woman, a professional courtesan whose favors the youth has been enjoying for some time, while in the Phormio and Adelphoe she is a music-girl (citharistria or psaltria) who is owned by a slave-dealer and is at first unattainable—yet the liaisons themselves are akin in that they always require money (to maintain the courtesan or buy the girl) and are always transitory, the thought of marriage never crossing anyone's mind. There also seems to be a calculated effort to debase these affairs even further. In the first two dramas the young man is made to complain of his mistress' infidelity or cupidity, the usual stigmata of the meretrix, and his romantic posturings are severely qualified during the final episode by the ease with which he consents to share her in a ménage à trois, in the Heauton, or, in the Eunuchus, to abandon her completely. The other two denouements leave the youth in undisputed possession of the slave-girl, but the carnal basis of his affection is emphasized by his eagerness to rush her off to a drunken bedroom "party," and the closing lines here, too, serve to belittle their relationship, in the condescending permission he is given to take her home, as if she were a new toy or pet puppy that he would soon outgrow.
This would suggest that the contrast between the two kinds of romance in these plays has also been designed as a contrast in emotional tone—that the marriage-plot is meant to be more serious and more elevated (while still remaining, of course, within the bounds of comedy) than the plot with which it is combined. And the difference already noted between the two types of comic action should contribute to this same effect. The seriousness of the liaison-plot is deflated because that plot is resolved through the farcical trickery of a contest of wits and butts, just as the seriousness of the other plot is enhanced by the resolving role of a benign Fortune operating above (and often defeating) the plans of the human intriguers. The most crucial determinant of this difference in tone can be found, however, in the issues upon which each of these resolutions is made to turn. In the liaison-plot this issue—the goal of the scheming and the means of uniting the lovers—is typically money, as is pointed out, for instance, in the Phormio: hic simul argentum repperit, cura sese expedivit (823). This necessarily affects the audience's view of the action, reducing it to a kind of confidence game, and of the romance itself, which becomes a commercial transaction; but, more important, it makes everything less serious precisely because it is an external object, loss or gain of which does not really change the characters or their place in the world. In the marriage-plot, on the other hand, the basic issue is never money, but someone's identity. It is not a very profound conception of identity, to be sure, since it is defined in familial and social terms, but it is still much more elevated than money and much more internal, in that it does alter people's lives radically and permanently, the public acceptance of the marriage at the close of these plots being in fact the guarantee of this.
The kind of love depicted in each plot, then, and the kind of action dramatized there, seem to work together in establishing the two distinct emotional effects. Moreover, since the plots interact causally and are juxtaposed through a sequence of alternating episodes, these two effects will tend to reinforce each other by way of contrast, the presence of the more serious marriage-plot making the liaison-plot seem more farcical, and vice versa. Thus it would seem that Terence's duality-method develops a "foil" relationship, not only between parallel characters in the two plots, but also between the plots themselves—or, more strictly, develops the liaison-plot as a foil to the marriage-plot. For the latter action appears to be the more important in each of these dramas (although in some the difference in magnitude is not very great), so that there is a foil arrangement here in the most meaningful sense of that term—a devaluated back-ground fashioned to set off and enhance the superior values, both esthetic and moral, of a more significant centerpiece. This response is not so effectively realized as it might have been, one must admit, since the playwright seldom focuses on the love affairs as such, yet it does provide an artistic rationale for the specific pattern he utilized in all his double plots. (In fact, he may even be striving for this in his two single-plot comedies, both essentially of the "marriage" type, by suggesting a contrast between his chaste heroine and a courtesan—Chrysis, the supposed sister of Glycerium in the Anuria, and Bacchis, the supposed rival of Philumena in the Hecyra.)
It is instructive to find a very similar arrangement in some of the comedies of the Elizabethan period, where a more or less sentimentalized pair of lovers in the main plot is juxtaposed to a much less romantic and much more comic pair in a subplot. The source of these subplots is always traced back to certain episodes in the so-called "native" tradition of the Mystery cycle and Morality play, in which clownish characters, often servants, are shown trying to mimic the deeds of their "betters" in the major action. But there is no valid reason for excluding Terence as a possible source of this structure, especially since his influence upon other aspects of comic theory and practice in the Renaissance has been of such obvious importance. Of course, one must allow for the modification required by a different set of dramatic and social conventions; thus the main action in these comedies is not resolved by a classical cognitio but, usually, by some change in the characters' feelings for each other, and the subplot terminates in another wedding rather than in concubinage. Yet, given these necessary translations, the Terentian pattern can be discerned in the treatment of the subplot couple as foils for the more serious lovers of the main action; and the traits they are given for this purpose—earthiness, cynicism, cunning, and the like—often could have been derived from the intriguers of Terence's liaison-plots. Shakespeare was particularly fond of this arrangement, for almost all his romantic comedies contain "anti-romantic" subplots of this general type (Don Armado and Jaquenetta in Love's Labor's Lost, Bottom and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Touchstone and Audrey in As You Like It, Sir Toby Belch and Maria in Twelfth Night, Benedick and Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing), and many other examples could be cited in the works of his contemporaries. In fact, the fundamental scheme reappears in the nearest approach to an indigenous popular drama that our country has yet produced, the musical comedy, which has evolved a definite formula in terms of two parallel courtships contrasted along Terentian lines—a main action where a lyric soprano ingénue finds true love, and a sub-ordinate action where a much more jaded lady, in a husky contralto, settles for considerably less. The line of transmission from Rome to Broadway may be very long and tenuous, but the continued popularity of this same pair of love stories testifies to the effectiveness of the idea that Terence embodied in his double-plot dramas.
Walther Ludwig (essay date 1968)
SOURCE: "The Originality of Terence and His Greek Models," in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1968, pp. 169-82.
[In the following essay, Ludwig attempts a balanced assessment of...
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The Girl From Andros
Terry McGarrity (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: "Thematic Unity in Terence's Andria," in Transactions of the American Philological Association, Vol. 108, 1978, pp. 103-14.
[In the essay below, McGarrity examines the father-son relationship between Simo and Pamphilus in The Girl from Andros.]
Scholarship on the Andria has focused primarily on two additions by Terence: first, the freedman Sosia in the opening scene, and then the second young lover Charinus and his slave Byrria. The attention on these two alterations has been directed particularly toward a consideration of Menander's Greek original of the Andria. The...
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The Mother-In-Law
David Konstan (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: "Hecyra: Ironic Comedy," in Roman Comedy, Cornell, 1983, pp. 130-41.
[In the excerpt below, Konstan contends that The Mother-in-Law interrogates the traditional Roman values of amor and pietas (love and filial duty) and in the process "challenges and confounds their customary meanings. "]
The tension between father and son in new comedy was available … as a vehicle for representing issues of caste and class in ancient society. At a certain level, to be sure, these issues manifest themselves as moral conflicts, which we may interpret according to the traditional Roman...
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The Self-Tormentor
A. J. Brothers (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: An introduction to Terence: The Self-Tormentor, edited and translated by A. J. Brothers, Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1988, pp. 1-26.
[In the excerpt below, Brothers provides an overview of The Self-Tormentor, discussing its relationship to its Greek source, its plot, and its characterization.]
It has long been part of scholarly practice to attempt to understand the relationship of the Roman comedies to their lost Greek originals, and to try to pinpoint the additions, omissions and alternations of the Roman dramatists and recover the original Greek form—to play, in fact, 'hunt the New Comedy' with...
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The Eunuch
Douglass Parker (essay date 1974)
SOURCE: An introduction to The Eunuch by Terence, translated by Douglass Parker, in The Complete Comedies of Terence: Modern Verse Translations, edited by Palmer Bovie, Rutgers University Press, 1974, pp. 147-52.
[In the essay below, Parker provides a survey of issues relating to The Eunuch, focusing especially on the influence of Plautus and Menander on Terence's work.]
Success dies hard. The Eunuch was Terence's most successful play during his lifetime, earning an immediate second production and a considerably increased royalty. It has yet to be forgiven this by critics who,...
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The Brothers
W. Ralph Johnson (essay date 1968)
SOURCE: "Micio and the Perils of Perfection," in California Studies in Classical Antiquity, Vol. 1, 1968, pp. 171-86.
[In the following essay, Johnson delineates the defects in the character of Micio in The Brothers, flaws which prepare us for his fall at the play's conclusion.]
In the manner of fine comedy, the Adelphoe's initial snarl is extremely neat: irascible and rigid, Demea has allowed his brother, the affable and marvellously sane Micio, to adopt his elder son, Aeschinus; his young son, Ctesiphon, he keeps with him and rears with the strictness which alone, he feels, will ensure...
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Further Reading
Amerasinghe, C. W. "The Part of the Slave in Terence's Drama." Greece and Rome XIX, No. 56 (June 1950): 62-72.
Contends that Terence continually rebelled against the dramatic convention of the wily slave and in so doing, sought "to liberate himself as an artist in such a way that he [could] make human action the significant result of character and situation rather than the mere sport of slaves."
Beare, W. 'Terence, an Original Dramatist in Rome." Hermathena, No. LXXI (May 1948): 64-82.
Analyzes Terence's adaptations of Greek plays in his comedies, concluding that it "is not Terence's borrowings...
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ADEN/SANAA, Yemen, March 4 (Xinhua) -- The Yemen-based al-Qaida wing said it captured 70 government soldiers after it overrun an artillery battalion during fighting with government troops early Sunday in the southern flashpoint province of Abyan, according to a statement obtained by Xinhua.
The statement came an hour after government officials said the battle against al-Qaida in Abyan left about 50 soldiers killed and dozens of others injured.
"We captured 70 soldier after we raided the government elite artillery battalion in Dovas, which was responsible for shelling Zinjibar and Jaar over the past months," the al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) said in the statement.
"The Mujahideen (holy warriors) also launched a string of attacks, including bombing an explosive-laden vehicle and explosive devices, against several targets of the government military units in al-Koud and Dovas towns, killing more than 50 government soldiers, while we lost two of our fighters and 13 others were injured," it said.
"During the battles today (Sunday), we seized from the enemy ( government troops) a large-scale of different heavy weapons, including a tank, anti-aircraft cannons, Katyusha-propelled vehicles, two ambulance cars and three military pick-up vehicles" it said, adding that they destroyed two tanks, three Katyusha- propelled vehicles and a large quantity of heavy weapons.
Earlier in the day, Yemeni officials said the death toll of the army from their battle with al-Qaida militants in Abyan on Sunday rose up to 50, while dozens others were wounded.
An official of the Interior Ministry told Xinhua on Sunday night that "the death toll among the soldiers has increased to 62. "
The battles erupted Sunday morning after twin suicide bombing attacks targeted two military bases of the Yemeni army forces in the outskirts of Abyan's provincial capital city of Zinjibar and in nearby coastal town of Dovas, off the Gulf of Aden.
The ongoing fighting came less than 24 hours after the resurgent al-Qaida wing launched deadly attacks against the government elite Republican Guards in the southeast province of al- Bayda and the Central Security camp in the southern province of Hadramout.
Local observers said the AQAP increased attacks against the army since newly-elected President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi was sworn in last week after the Feb. 21 presidential election. Several hours after Hadi was sworn in at the parliament, a suicide bombing attack against the presidential palace in Hadramout killed at least 30 Republican Guards.
Hadi was elected as new president in accordance to a UN-backed power transfer deal agreed by the opposition and former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, following a year of protests against Saleh's 33-year ruler.
However, the resurgent AQAP, known locally as Ansar al-Sharia ( Partisans of Islamic Law), seems to have taken advantage of the one-year-long anti-government protests against Saleh through expanding control over several lawless cities across the country's southern provinces.
Last week, the Yemeni government gave AQAP militants a seven- day ultimatum to quit the captured cities in Abyan.
"Al-Qaida is launching crazy separated attacks against government troops in several southern regions, aiming to disturb the government planned massive offensive against Zinjibar and Jaar towns," said a Yemeni intelligence official, describing al-Qaida's move as a "preemptive action."
"The AQAP's attacks reveal that the group is sending a message that it has the ability to launch several battles in many separated regions at the same time against the government troops... so this is a message telling the government troops to stop deployment near Zinjibar," he said, adding that "it seems that al- Qaida is afraid of the government planned attacks on Zinjibar and Jaar."
An army soldier told Xinhua anonymously that "up to 40 soldiers went missing after the battle (on Sunday)... we lost communications with them."
Yemen's military sent tanks and other reinforcement from the neighboring port city of Aden to Abyan, trying to regain the army post seized by al-Qaida operatives, witnesses told Xinhua.
Meanwhile, an army officer involved in the battles said that hours after many soldiers were taken captive by the terrorists, warplanes bombed al-Qaida militants, who quickly fled the army post.
"Army troops managed to regain control of the outpost," he told Xinhua on condition of anonymity, adding that "al-Qaida militants retreated from the whole region for fear of intensified air raids. "
The Defence Ministry said in a statement on its website that additional force from the Republican Guard and Special Forces took part in the battle against al-Qaida militants on Sunday, confirming that its troops regain control over the militants-held army barracks.
A local medic at the Bashuib military hospital in Aden told Xinhua that "more than 36 army soldiers who were wounded in the fighting with al-Qaida were brought back for treatment this afternoon."
The U.S.-backed Yemeni government forces have been battling AQAP militants in the south, leaving hundreds of people killed and thousands displaced.
Hadi has vowed to strengthen security and intelligence cooperation with the United States in combating AQAP, which has threatened the daily oil shipping routes in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.


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Investigation Continues After Gannon Student Dies
Abrielle Brynda was found unresponsive on Saturday afternoon outside of the building where she was last seen. The coroner reports there was no trauma to the victim that could have caused her death. An official cause of death is pending toxicology results. At a news conference today, police say no disagreements or evidence of wrong doing have been presented at this time. Family and friends searched for Brynda on Saturday before finding her just before 4 pm. The police are continuing to investigate. They have interviewed around 25 people who were inside at the party when Brynda went missing. Her last contact was reportedly at 3 am Saturday morning with her friends who were at the same party.
Gannon statement:
As classes resumed, we continue to grieve the loss of our student and classmate Abbie Brynda. Our hearts were warmed by the way that the
Pending final reports and lab results, the current information from the coroner's office strongly indicates that Abbie succumbed to the cold and her death was the result of hypothermia. We continue to hold in prayer the Brynda family as they come together to make arrangements for the funeral of their daughter.
The national organization of the Tri Sigma sorority put forth the following statement: "The Epsilon Delta chapter of Sigma Sigma Sigma is deeply saddened and heartbroken over Abbie's passing. We're thankful for the support of those who attended the campus memorial service held on Sunday morning in Abbie's honor. We will always remember her as a generous, caring member of Tri Sigma as Abbie was active in our efforts to promote service on campus and within the community. The chapter is composed of a group of strong women who together, will lean on each other for support as we attempt to overcome this devastating tragedy."
Echoing the above statement, I would add my thanks to all of the, students, staff, faculty and administrators, who came together in these days to bring support and comfort to one another. I know that you will continue to be a source of strength to those who have been touched by this tragedy, especially Abbie's friends, classmates and sorority sisters.
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At this point, the consensus seems to be that "Under Cover of Darkness" is a quality song. I haven't seen a bad review by any credible source to date.
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So what's pretty cool about "Under Cover of Darkness" is that it's both "complicated" and totally simple, playful, and loose. Most of it boogies and skips sunnily along, as if someone might start whistling at any moment — exactly the kind of shaggy, careless appeal the band's always been best at. (It'll sound great on an album people will be listening to in spring.) It's also got a bunch of funny dueling guitar leads, big changes, thought-out structures, and that wonderful trick where what you think is a decent chorus is just the lead-in to a great one — but in this case, instead of sounding like the band is trying too hard, it sounds like they're just having fun. (One of the guitar bends in the intro seems intentionally, heroically goofy; same with a hilarious falsetto chirp later on.) They've finally found a way to try interesting things and still seem rakish, sly, and unconcerned about it.
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Gay and lesbian singles need to understand what they hope to gain from their online journey in order to select the right dating site. The same online dating etiquette applies — be honest about who you are and what type of relationship you seek. If you are bisexual, the expectation would be that you list yourself as bisexual, even if do not have that requirement for a potential match. The principle is no different when listing whether you smoke or drink.
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It's a free site that connects LGBT singles. With a mass following, finding someone to grab a drink with at the end of the work week or to take to a wine tasting involves surfing profiles of members who live nearby with similar tastes.
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This site, which has 975,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members, does most of the work for you through strong personality matching results. Members of Chemistry.com are limited in their ability to search independently through profiles. The site caters mostly to relationship-driven singles over 35 using unique analytical questions, such as selecting a color to demonstrate your personality. Members on this site are serious about their searches for companionship since a six-month subscription costs $160.
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Match has approximately 650,000 LGBT members. Safety and discretion are important, so Match offers members a disclosure feature. This means that singles can reveal themselves only after they have accepted communications. However, the majority of the paying members keep their profiles visible, allowing for open searching. Match.com also offers suggestions in the "Daily Five" and in search functions. Members create profiles using a questionnaire that showcases their, interests, lifestyle and values. A six-month membership costs $100.
This the eHarmony solution for relationship-seeking LGBT singles. The site guides member communication before ever showing member profiles. Once two members complete the guided process, the relationship is moved to "open communication." This feature provides members with the ability to send emails to potential partners, while still keeping anonymity.
SPM has a better selection for LGBT individuals looking for mature singles. The site does not appear to have a six-month package and membership starts at $30 per month. While Match, eHarmony and Chemistry have mature members, this site is becoming a favorite for both straight and gay older singles.
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The Next Sparks for the Economy Could Surprise UsChris Farrell
The U.S. economy is slowly reviving, leaving behind with each passing month the worst downturn since the Great Depression. It goes without saying that an expanding economy is better than a contracting one, but the consensus outlook is far from cheery. Instead, it calls for years of muted growth and high unemployment.
It isn't hard to find pessimism that runs much deeper. The European sovereign-debt crisis is stoking fears that the heavily indebted American Empire is slouching toward a Greece-like fiscal calamity. The nation's opinion pages are full of warning that the U.S. may be increasingly caught in what Harvard University historian Niall Ferguson calls the "fatal arithmetic of imperial decline" with a federal deficit at a post-World War II record 9 percent of gross domestic product and a national debt at $13 trillion and climbing.
Taken altogether, from fears of toxic sovereign debts to a euro contagion to a growing federal Leviathan, all the risks appear to be on the downside.
"Black Swan" Revival?
Yet the gloom may be way overdone, as the seeds of economic revival may be sown in some unexpected places. By now you've probably heard of the "Black Swan." The provocative catchphrase comes from a best-selling book by author and investor Nassim Nicholas Taleb. A black swan is essentially an unpredictable outlier event that has a dramatic impact on the economy and society. It gives lie to the elegant quantitative and mathematical models most experts use to predict the future course of the financial markets and economy. It's almost comforting to know that the surprising twists of history can fool even the most highly regarded financial and academic eminences.
Black swans are popularly considered negative events, largely because the fearsome global credit crunch—missed by most mainstream forecasters—made many investors appreciate the phenomenon.
Yet there's nothing intrinsically bad about black swans. The unexpected can be positive. Case in point: Netscape.
The U.S. economy emerged sluggishly out of the recession of the early 1990s. It was a jobless recovery, with little sizzle. But the Silicon Valley startup Netscape—which popularized the Web browser that is now an essential part of everyday life—went public in 1995. The demand for the company's $28-a-share offering was so strong that shares shot up to $75 and closed at $58. The dot-com boom and the Internet Age were born that day—or at least a lot of people suddenly dreamed of creative opportunities and wealth creation.
The Mobile Web's Moment
It's still remarkable to consider just how quickly the Internet economy was established over the next few years. To be sure, plenty of pioneering Web outfits went bust, such as online grocer Webvan, wireless Internet company Metricom, and the online merchant Egghead.com. But many companies thrived, including brand-name companies like Amazon.com (AMZN), Google (GOOG), and eBay (EBAY). The economy soared from 1995 to 2000 at a 4-plus percent average annual rate, the unemployment rate reached a 30-year low of 4 percent, and productivity expanded at a 2.5 percent pace, significantly higher than the 1.4 percent rate of the previous two decades.
Game-changing technology breakthroughs were scarce during the decade of the 2000s. Instead, investment money poured into real estate and derivative finance. But a new cycle may be in the offing, signaled by Apple's (AAPL) stock reaching a greater market capitalization than Microsoft (MSFT). Could this be the "Netscape moment" for the mobile Internet market? The iPod, iPhone, and iPad are simply the visible symbols of the rapid embrace of wireless data—video, images, content, and communication—throughout the global economy. The competition is global and pacesetters are here and abroad, including America's Facebook, South Korea's Samsung Electronics (005930:KS), China Unicom (CHU), and Japan's Rakuten (4755:JP).
"The mobile Internet will create more wealth and destroy more wealth than the mainframe computer, the mini-computer, the personal computer, and the Internet, the four previous waves" of technological innovation, says David Darst, managing director and chief investment strategist at Morgan Stanley (MS) Global Wealth Management. "It will affect everything from Costco (COST) to Tesco (TESO), FedEx (FDX) to JPMorgan Chase (JPM)."
Alternative Energy Push
What's more, even as mobile Internet investment gains momentum, another technology may come into its own, thanks to a coming rise in the price of oil. Yes, oil is down recently with growing concerns about global economic growth. Nevertheless, with the global economy barely moving out of recession, it had risen some 30 percent from $67 a barrel in the fall of 2009 to $87 in April. It isn't hard to see oil climbing to some $100 a barrel with synchronous global economic growth. And Charles Maxwell, the dean of Wall Street energy analysts at Weeden & Co., sees even higher oil prices ahead. He predicts that world oil production will peak sometime from 2015 to 2020. Oil will reach at least $150 a barrel around 2015 and it could go to $300 by 2020.
"The biggest boom will be energy efficiency and conservation. That will get bigger and bigger," he says. "Energy technology will be like information technology was for the market over the last 30 years."
A number of oil industry companies will benefit. But so will companies like General Electric (GE). Almost everything the company does has a heavy energy component, such as compressors, train engines, and the like. Says Maxwell: "There will be a need to retrofit the capital infrastructure of the world and the U.S."
To be sure, the potential economic growth engines I've cited here may not be total surprises to everyone. (Perhaps we should call them Navy Blue Swans.) But the fact remains that economy-boosting innovations rarely take the shape we expect.
As Yogi Berra famously quipped, "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." Nuclear energy, nanotechnology, and biotechnology never quite lived up to their hype, for instance. Nevertheless, over the coming decade, the combination of the mobile Internet and the push for alternative energy could spark the next wave of creative destruction, economist Joseph Schumpeter's evocative metaphor for the process by which new technologies, new markets, and new organizations supplant the old.
Let's hope so.


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Parliament on Friday stood up for the right of people from northeastern states to live anywhere in the country in a move aimed at reassuring them that the government would ensure their safety and taking action against the miscreants.
In a rare show of support, both Houses set aside the question hour to discuss the fear psychosis amongst northeast people. "What is at stake is the unity of our country. What is at stake is communal harmony," Singh told Parliament, emphasising that it was their solemn obligation to restore normalcy.
Rajya Sabha — which suspended the Question Hour — ended the discussion with a resolution committing to the rights of people to live anywhere in the country. In the Lok Sabha, speaker Meira Kumar invoked her discretion to allow the discussion on the "serious and sensitive issue".
Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said the Intelligence Bureau was working to trace the source of the scare. "It is difficult but when they are tracked down, we will fix them," Shinde said in his concluding remarks in the Lok Sabha that complimented the BJP-ruled Karnataka government for its handling of the situation.
The Prime Minister too had echoed the government's commitment to act. "We must curb all the elements which are creating trouble on this sensitive issue," Manmohan Singh said.
In its resolution, the Rajya Sabha demanded a thorough probe into the spread of rumours of impending attacks against northeast citizens in the wake of the Assam violence.
Leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley had earlier pitched for safety of people from the northeast and stressed on the need to rise above party lines.
There were also demands for stricter control on the social media platform. SP's Ramgopal Yadav and BSP's Brajesh Pathak in the Rajya Sabha suggested some control over this media.


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Domaine de la Vougeraie Vougeot Premier Cru Le Clos Blanc de Vougeot 2009
Winemaker Notes
Critical Acclaim
Tasted out of the barrel at the Domaine. This has a very fine bouquet with well-defined notes of citrus lemon, hazelnut, a touch of orange zest and great mineralite. The palate is well balanced, the mineralite coming though again, touches of spice and walnut furnishing the entry, fanning out nicely across complex, Meursalt-like finish. Lovely.
One panelist compared the harmonic power of this wine to a night at the opera in the first row. The wine's energy has that sophistication and refinement, buzzing with limestone and mushroom earthiness, more focused on bass notes of umami and high-toned florals than any sweetness of fruit. Cellar this and you should be amply rewarded in ten years time.
A fresh and notably more elegant nose features mostly earth and soft floral notes where the earthiness also characterizes the concentrated, textured and utterly delicious middle weight flavors that possess good if not sensational depth on the dry, clean and linear finish. I like the sense of poise here.


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Raymond Pettibon (born 1957), Captive Chains (Lawndale, Ca.: SST Publications, 1978). Graphic Arts GAX 2010- in process.
California artist Raymond Pettibon has published forty-four zines, 120 fliers, and a variety of album covers, as documented in the 2008 exhibition organized by David Platzker at Specific Object. http://www.specificobject.com/projects/pettibon/index.cfm?project_id=18
The first, entitled Captive Chains (1978) has also been labeled an artists' book and/or a graphic novel, depending on who is reviewing the material. Pettibon's early work was published and distributed by SST Records, an imprint established by his brother, Greg Ginn, the guitarist for the punk band Black Flag. The band also used Pettibon's art for their fliers, album covers and T-shirts, as did other bands that joined the label, including the Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, the Meat Puppets and Sonic Youth.
Since that period, Pettibon has gone on to make a career for himself and his art apart from the California punk scene, including important exhibitions at The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
"But my drawing also came out of editorial-style cartoons I was doing at the time. Music was one thing and art was another, and there weren't really any standards for my art. If you look at old punk album covers they were mainly Russian constructivist or Heartsfield [sic] collages. There was no defined punk look or style. Not in art at least. Maybe in fashion. My work was just drawings, and basically drawings just as I would do now. They weren't done with any aspirations of becoming a part of that scene."
See the catalogue raisonné of Pettibon's artists' books: Raymond Pettibon: the Books 1978-1998 (New York: D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, c2000) Marquand Library (SA) N6537.P393 O3713 2000
Joel J. Rane, Scream at the Librarian: Sketches of Our Patrons in Downtown Los Angeles. Illustrations by Raymond Pettibon and Cristin Sheehan Sullivan ([Brooklyn]: Booklyn Artists Alliance, 2007). Graphic Arts Collection (GAX), 2008-0124N
"This is not autobiographical work, by any means. Even the emotions involved. If someone thinks they understand me and disagree, then okay. But there's something in the nature of comedy and especially in the element of caricature and cartoons that my work retains. An editorial cartoon is trying to be positive. It's usually really very cloying and sappy and there's no hook to it at all. I also don't like my humor to be in the service of making fun of people based on superficialities. People get picked on or looked down at. I'm conscious about that as a problem."


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Category: boy names 2012
What's with the fashion for fierceness in boys' names? We see it as a wish to recapture traditional male strength and power along with an impulse to leave conventional civilization behind. These names suggest old school bad boys in a brave new world, one in which boys still throw rocks and ride dirt bikes but also wear earrings and headbands.
Here are the fierce names we're hearing today:
Baby names that start with the letter A have been on the rise for several years now. with choices such as Ava and Aiden high on the popularity list, Asher and Adelaide rising fast, and names such as Abel and Aurora poised to take off.
In our last blog about names that start with A, we pointed out all the reasons parents love them: Besides their high fashion status along with other vowel names, studies show that children whose first names begin with A might earn higher marks in school, get into better colleges, and even live longer.
In that 2010 post, we listed A baby names on the Most Popular list along with those that were becoming more stylish. But the appetite for A names is so healthy that parents are searching for ever-newer and fresher varieties. Nameberry's behind-the-scenes popularity data shows a wave of unusual A names attracting interest from baby namers.
Hot new A names you might not have considered before include:
Megan , who lives just outside Philadelphia, is expecting her first boy after two little girls in June. Her daughters both have family names, but now her husband, Thomas IV, would like to continue the tradition of naming the boys in his family Thomas, making their son Thomas V. Problem is, mom's not too keen.
Can you help her find a family name everyone will agree on? Or should she give in to hubby's desire for a V? She writes:
"We are expecting our third baby and first boy in June. It was easy to name our daughters – Aubryn Elizabeth (age 4) was named for my maternal grandmother and Margaret Jane (nn: Maisie, age 20 months) was named for my paternal grandmother and my mother.
What are America's Favorite Baby Names? Not the top names on the Social Security List, not even Nameberry's own favorites, but the most well-liked names chosen by popular opinion.
Recently we collaborated with Huffington Post Parents to create a brackets challenge, asking readers to vote for America's Favorite Baby Name. We picked the 16 contenders for each sex from the ranks of Nameberry favorites, pitting Henry against James, Scarlett vs. Charlotte, Hudson against River (how could we resist?).
Through a series of elimination rounds, thousands of parents voted for their favorites. And today we have the winners! Read on to find out which the finalists were, and the identity of America's favorite baby names.
Yesterday you told us about the new baby names you've heard and seen; today we bring you Nameberry's newest baby names, those we've encountered over the past weeks and added to the Nameberry database.
It may seem odd to some people that after 25 years of writing about names, there are still new baby names to discover. But as you berries know, that's one of the best things about names: No matter how long you study them, no matter how much you read about them, there are always new ones out there.
Some of these, of course, are invented names, more and more every year as parents reach harder to come up with an appellation that's unique….or at least yooneek. Then there are those obscure names in the Old Testament or other ancient sources, names from around the world that haven't migrated beyond their native shores, new first names drawn from established surnames or place-names or nature sources.
We mentioned a couple of our new baby names in yesterday's blog and will offer others in future postings. Here, ten more of the newest names on Nameberry and where we found them:


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Trent Cassan of Medora is one of five candidates for the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's coach of the year award.
With two games remaining in the regular season, Cassan has led the Yorkton Terriers to a 35-13-1-3 record and a two-point edge on the Melville Millionaires for first place in the Sher-Wood Division.
Also on the ballot for SJHL media voting are Kevin White of the Notre Dame Hounds, Kevin Hasselberg of the Battlefords North Stars, Dean Brockman of the Humboldt Broncos and Doug Johnson of the Nipawin Hawks.
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State Fish and Wildlife Columbia River regional fishing rpeorts
Cowlitz River – No report on angling success.
Last week Tacoma Power recovered 76 coho salmon, ten coho jacks and 24 winter-run steelhead during four days of operations at the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery separator. During the past week Tacoma Power employees released 20 coho adults, six coho jacks and one winter-run steelhead into the Tilton River at Gust Backstrom Park in Morton and 45 coho adults and four coho jacks into Lake Scanewa above Cowlitz Falls Dam.
River flows at Mayfield Dam are approximately 8,220 cubic feet per second on Monday, January 27. Water visibility is ten feet.
Washougal River – 28 bank anglers with 1 hatchery steelhead kept and 3 wild fish released. 1 boat angler released 1 wild steelhead. Wild fish released were chrome bright 4-7 pounders.
The Dalles and John Day pools – Boat anglers are last year's summer run steelhead. Majority of the fish were wild and had to be released.
The Dalles Pool – Boat anglers are catching some legals.
John Day Pool – Slow for legal size fish.
Walleye and Bass
The Dalles and John Day pools – Bank anglers are catching some walleye in The Dalles Pool while boat anglers are catching fish in John Day Pool. No effort observed for bass in either pool.


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Gibbs House Fellowship Info Session
Monday February 27, 7:00 p.m. at the Office for Sustainability
The Gibbs House Fellowship provides a unique opportunity to work and live in a sustainability-focused cooperative living arrangement at the historic Gibbs House. Gibbs House Fellows receive "green jobs" positions at the Office for Sustainability (OfS) and are integrated into the OfS initiatives, programs, and projects.
Move-in is August 15 and move-out is July 15 annually. Program dues are $2,000, with half due at move-in and half due at the beginning of spring semester.
The Office for Sustainability accepts Gibbs House Fellowship applications on a rolling basis through March 30 annually. Acceptance letters for the following academic year will be emailed to applicants before the end of spring semester. Applications may be sent to email@example.com or submitted to the Office for Sustainability in hard copy.
Gibbs House Fellowship Application
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At the beginning of August 1914, the German army marched on Liège in Belgium. Barchon is a Belgian village in the province of Liège, near the German border. This photographic postcard depicts Belgian soldiers climbing up a hill.
There is often a fine line between information and propaganda. This especially applies for war postcards such as this one.


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Amazing product. I don't have super thin eyebrows, so I never though about using eyebrow products. I tried my friend's Benefit Brow Zings palette and I couldn't believe how much of a difference it made. I immediately went to Birchbox and bought the product. So happy I did!5


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A bidirectional association exists between couples' sleep quality and the quality of their relationship, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Wednesday, June 10, at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.
Results indicate that on a day to day basis, couples' relationship quality affects their sleep, and their sleep also affects their subsequent relationship functioning. For men, better sleep (as indicated by diary–based sleep efficiency) was associated with more positive ratings of relationship quality the next day. For women, negative partner interactions during the day were associated with poorer sleep efficiency for both themselves and their partner that night.
"When we look at the data on a day-by-day basis, there seems to be a vicious cycle in which sleep affects next day relationship functioning, and relationship functioning affects the subsequent night's sleep," said principal investigator Brant Hasler, clinical psychology doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona. "In this cycle, conflict with one's partner during the day leads to worse sleep that night, which leads to more conflict the following day. Although these results are preliminary due to the relatively small sample size and a subjective measure of sleep quality, the woman's perception of the relationship seems particularly important, as it impacts both her own and her partner's subjective sleep quality that night."
The study involved data from 29 heterosexual, co-sleeping couples who did not have children. Each completed sleep diaries for seven days. Each partner was asked to record the quality of interactions with their partner six times a day.
Hasler said that interventions directed at improving either quality of sleep or relationships may provide overall benefits, as the two directly impact each other. Hasler recommends that couples should resolve disputes before going to bed and avoid confrontational discussions on a day when one or both of them had a bad night's sleep.
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Fonderie Sime Format System 25 HE LPG LPG - Boiler Efficiency Ratings
Boiler Efficiency Rating
You can check your boilers rating by selecting it's make and model below. Ratings are based on the SEDBUK Rating which is an indicator of its efficiency when used within an average domestic household, it's a great benchmark for comparing new boilers and also assessing whether your current boiler would be better off being replaced due to low efficiencies.
For new boiler installations call British Gas Boilers on 0800 327 7119 for a no-obligation quote, alternatively visit Boiler Guide to request quotes from independent local and regional heating engineers.
Fonderie Sime Format System 25 HE LPG Efficiency
|SAP seasonal efficiency
|Rating band
|Fonderie Sime Boilers
|Format System 25 HE LPG
|Fuel Type
|Flue Type
|Open or Room-Sealed
|Fan Assisted
|Output (kW)
|22.7 - 22.7
|Boiler ID
|Manufactured From/To
|2004 - current
The Fonderie Sime Format System 25 HE LPG is an 'A' rated boiler which has an excellent efficiency of 92.2%.
The Format System 25 HE LPG is a Condensing Conventional boiler with a maximum power output of 22.7kw that uses LPG as its fuel source.
As this boiler is 'A' rated it will provide efficient heating and subsequently reduce fuel bills and carbon dioxide emissions.
Similar Fonderie Sime Boilers to the Format System 25 HE LPG
(Condensing LPG Conventional)
Results ordered by efficiency. Some models may be obsolete.
- Fonderie Sime Planet Dewy 110 T A (LPG) - 92.4% Efficient
- Fonderie Sime Format System 30 HE LPG - 92.4% Efficient
Most Efficient Conventional LPG Boilers
- Ideal Evomax 30P - 93.1% Efficient
- Dimplex System 18 - 93.1% Efficient
- Dimplex OV 18 - 93.1% Efficient
- Keston K 170P - 93.1% Efficient
- Ideal Evomax 60P - 92.9% Efficient


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