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People get the chance to play detective for the day as they help figure out how well native wood pigeons are doing in their area.
Kereru look for all the world like chooks perched on power lines in country areas and they seem to be everywhere. However, introduced pests like cats, rats and stoats are taking their toll on these beautiful birds. So keeping track of birds numbers in different areas each year is important.
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She says data will identify where there is a need for more pest control and ensure future development of green spaces supports boosting numbers of resident kereru.
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(April 22, 2014) -- As part of UTSA's Earth Week observance, the Earth Week Committee, sponsored by the Green Fund, will have shredding services for sensitive documents available 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Thursday, April 24.
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- Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
Main amenities
- 60 guestrooms
- On the beach
- 3 restaurants
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- Outdoor pool
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- Airport shuttle
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- 24-hour front desk
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Hotel size
- This hotel has 60 rooms
- Check-in time 2 PM-10 PM
- Check-out time is Noon
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- Minimum check-in age is 17
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- Children (12 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Babysitting/childcare *
- No pets or service animals allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
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- Airport shuttle (available on request) *
- Free valet parking (limited)
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- Free buffet breakfast daily
- 3 restaurants
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- Poolside bar
- 24-hour room service
- Beach sun loungers
- Beach umbrellas
- Outdoor pool
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- Fitness facilities
- Tennis on site
- Full-service spa
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- Beach towels
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- Conference space size (feet) - 323
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- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
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- Wedding services
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- Year Built 2002
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- Flat-screen TV
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Banyan Tree Spa has 8 treatment rooms including rooms for couples. Services include deep-tissue massages, hot stone massages, massages, and facials. The spa is equipped with a sauna and a spa tub. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy and reflexology.
DiningAu Jardin dEpices - Overlooking the ocean, this restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Saffron - Overlooking the ocean, this restaurant specializes in Thai cuisine and serves dinner only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
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On Site
- Fitness facilities
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- Kayaking nearby
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Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
This property does not have elevators.
For transfers, guests must contact the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
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You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
Deposit: EUR 200 per night
- Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per adult: EUR 188
- Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per child: EUR 100 (from 7 to 12 years old)
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per adult: EUR 188
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per child: EUR 100 (from 7 to 12 years old)
Optional extras
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of EUR 100 per vehicle (one way)
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Sorry about the irregular spacing of this week's blog posts. The Wednesday A Little Princess post may get kicked over into Friday, and Random Thursday may get skipped (or kicked to Saturday). I'm scheduled to deliver the completed manuscript of Mother of Souls...um...tomorrow. And while I'm still quite on track, I'm a bit busy.
During this morning's work session, I finished the final editorial read-through and mark-up. (I do this on the iPad with a pdf-markup app to avoid getting distracted by actually entering the changes.) Only found a couple of oopsies introduced when working on beta feedback. Like: a comment in the beginning of a chapter said, "But why doesn't this scene make reference to X?" So I added a reference to X. On re-reading, turns out X happened several pages later. Even beta readers can goof! Spotted a couple more places where I've done the same bit of exposition more than once. But mostly this pass was a matter of spotting typos, deleting unnecessary sentence-initial conjunctions, and spotting times when I'd used the same word twice in adjacent sentences.
To stay on track, all these mark-ups get added to the manuscript this evening. That leaves tomorrow for running the spell check, drawing up the reference vocabulary list for the proofreaders (i.e., anything not in the standard Word spell check dictionary), doing all the standard search-and-replace clean-up, and running through my formatting checklist.
This isn't my last chance, of course. There'll be a chance for more revisions when it comes back from my editor. But from past experience, this version may well be the one that goes out to pre-publication reviewers. So I need to be willing to have the book judged by it.
I regularly cover discussions of cross-dressing, gender disguise, and "passing women", but typically from an external point of view. The women are identified in the context of court cases, scandals, or as the subject of popular literature. This article looks at an entire genre of self-reported cases of women passing as men. The "autobiographies" are quite self-conscious, generally either written for economic advantage, or sometimes for didactic purposes. In many cases, they are ghost-written, especially if the subject is not well educated. And despite the frequency with which marriage to women, or sexual relationships with women feature in court records of passing women, such themes are nearly absent here. This may be because these stories are being voluntarily told by women who want to be perceived in a positive light.
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Jelinek has collected information about a surprisingly large number of gender-masquerade autobiographies, covering the 17-20th centuries and focused on the English-speaking world (likely due to the reseracher's own interests). The bibliography at the end lists 18 publications, covering 17 different individuals, of whom 13 are discussed in detail in the article. As a context for the material, Jelinek notes motifs of women disguised as men in literature , including several works by William Shakespeare and Margaret Cavendish. The motif was also popular in broadside ballads, such as The Female Highway Hector" and "The Woman Warrier" [sic], and the motif of dressing as a man to follow a (male) lover or husband to sea is echoed in some of the biographies. Also noted is the rise of women openly appropriating men's garments, in part or in whole, in the 19-20th centuries. But the focus here is on disguise.
The following are the people/texts that are discussed, with only a very brief summary of the context and consequences. If I have been able to find a copy of the relevant autobiography in Google Books, I've included a link, although not all of them are available as ebooks.
Almira Paul (b.1790), the widow of a sailor in Nova Scotia, determined to support her children by taking up her late husband's profession. She served on both British and American ships around the War of 1812. She reports having flirted with girls as "one of the boys" and even successfully proposed marriage to a woman "to test her disguise". (https://books.google.com/books?id=Npw4Aw
Charlotte Cibber Charke (d. 1760) is briefly mentioned, though her cross-dressing was often done openly and may have been tolerated from an actress. But in her autobiography, she notes several occasions when she passed as a man to take on male professions in a pinch. (https://books.google.com/books?id=Bl5ZAA
Deborah Sampson (1760-1827) served in the Americal Revolutionary war as "Robert Shurtleff". She did not write an autobiography but was the subject of a contemporary biography.
Ellen Craft (fl. 1848) used a combination of gender-disguise and her light skin to play the role of a white southern slave owner in order to enable her and her darker-skinned husband, William to escape slavery. Willian Craft describes the feat in his own autobiography.
Christian Davies (1667-1739) enlisted in an Irish regiment to search for her drafted husband, embodying one of the popular plots of gender-disguise ballads. She provides a detailed description of how she modified her clothing to disguise her anatomy. (https://books.google.com/books?id=IZ9CAA
Hannah Snell (1723-1792) may be one of the most famous women who enlisted in disguise. She, too, was looking for her husband, but in this case because he'd run off. Like many of the disgusied women who served, she had to fight for the right to her military pension. (https://books.google.com/books?id=9yEvHA
Ellen Stephens (fl. 1840) similarly disguised herself to go after a cheating spouse. She worked on a Mississippi steamboat rather than joining the military and worked her way up and down the river trying to track down the child her husband had taken from her. (no book listing)
Madeline Moore (b. 1831) had neither economics nor desperation driving her, only romance. The 18-y.o. heiress accompanied her lover, enlisting in disguise (including false beard and whiskers) under the name Albert Harville, without his knowledge. They fought together at the battle of Cárdenas in Cuba and when he was wounded she nursed him back to health, still unrevealed. And people say the broadside ballads with this plot are implausible! (no book listing)
Loreta Janeta Velazquez (b. 1842) similarly accompanied a lover in battle in disguise and after his death continued serving the Confederacy as a spy. The Cuban-born Texan provides a detailed explaination of both her physical and behavioral disguise techniques. (https://books.google.com/books?id=a3Z3AA
Emma Cole's motives were more purely economic. Orphaned at age 7 in the late 18th century, she went to sea in disguise at age 14 to avoid the alternative of prostitution. Her autobiography glosses over the practical details but tells of thrilling escapes from pirates and from hanging. (https://books.google.com/books?id=y_hLAQ
Lucy Brewer (b. 1793) ran away from her well-to-do home when she became pregnant as a teen, and after a stint forced into prostitution, accepted a sailor friend's offer of a spare uniform to escape and go to sea. The majority of her autobiography, however, is a polemic against prostitution. (https://books.google.com/books?id=Hym5nQ
Elizabeth Emmons (1817-1841) packed a lot into her apparently short life. A series of personal and familial calamities motivated her to disguise herself to work as a waiter on an Atlantic coast passenger ship. Later she spent a short time in the military in Florida but quit in disgust at the violence, then worked raising shipwrecks. (https://books.google.com/books?id=bYncGw
Lucy Ann Lobdell (b. 1829) didn't deliberately disguise herself as a man, though she was sometimes mistaken for one. She simply felt masculine clothing was more practical for her occupation-of-necessity deerhunting in New York. Her autobiography breaks off when she decides that she can make a better living genuinely passing as a man. (https://books.google.com/books?id=KTRFuA
If I made a list of the books I re-read shortly after finishing, ordered by the briefness of the delay in starting that re-read, the top five slots would all be occupied by books in Bujold's Vorkosigan series. While I have deep philosophical problems with some aspects of underlying socio-political messages of the stories, I will be one of the first to admire her ability to create a "good read".
I say all this to provide a context for my reaction to this latest Vorkosigan story. Meh. Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen follows the unexpectedly [to the reader] intertwined personal lives Cordelia Vorkosigan (Regent of the planet of Sergyar) and Oliver Jole (Admiral in charge of same) several years after the death of Aral Vorkosigan, Cordelia's husband and Oliver's long-term lover. Now that they are beginning to recover emotionally from the death of the man they both loved, Cordelia has plans for her future that offer Oliver some options that only this latest generation of Barayarans have any need or ability to take account of. Options that involve creative uses of reproductive technology.
GJ&tRQ isn't a romance in any sort of structural sense, but it is very much organized around personal, domestic concerns and consequences. Family dynamics. Relationships. Life choices. That sort of thing. And given that one of the things I've always loved about the series is the focus on those dynamics, one might think the love would carry over here. But…meh. All in all, it felt like nothing much happened. The dancers walked through the figures and returned to their places, a little flushed and out of breath, but nothing more. And the non-personal aspects of the plot revolve around the everyday logistics of running a colony planet. Early on in the story, the phrase "bureaucracy porn" popped into my head. I'm sure a thrilling novel could be built around diplomatic disasters and finding ways to turn the tables on dishonest contractors, but this novel wasn't it.
I joke that the series hasn't been quite as interesting since Miles became happy, but there's a definite correlation in my enjoyment of the books. A Civil Campaign was the last one that triggered an immediate re-read. About a third of the way through GJ&tRQ, I realized that if I put the book down and walked away, I wouldn't feel like I'd missed anything. It is a technical well-written story about interesting characters, but it feels like the butter is being scraped over too much toast at this point. I'm sure that Bujold can still write a book that would have me diving back to page one after I get to "the end", but I've come to the conclusion that such a book is likely to be outside the Vorkosigan universe.
Sorry about missing posting this yesterday. (Well, technically I missed writing it.) It's be a hectic week at work, and I haven't quite gotten into the rhythm of the new posting process yet. So you're getting the Princess Re-Read in place of a Random Thursday.
The second part of Chapter 8 (In The Attic) briefly touches on Becky's very practical support for Sara, which consists of giving her advice on how to behave in her new position (by the tactful means of explaining what her own behavior means: "Someone would be down on us if I did [say please and thank you]." Becky takes a few moments each day to help Sara dress and undress. It's an interesting echo of Mary Lennox's experience in The Secret Garden. Both Sara and Mary are accustomed to being assisted in dressing by servants. But while Sara's transition to doing for herself is eased by Becky's eagerness to play lady's maid, Mary is ridiculed for expecting someone else to help dress her.
Mind you, Mary is very much in need of some shock therapy to get her rebellious spirit working in productive ways. But I find the parallels between the two characters fascinating. Both come from financially priviledged British colonial families in India. Both lose their parents abruptly. (And although Mary didn't lose her mother at birth, in an emotional sense, she might as well have.) While both girls might be considered dreadfully spoiled, Sara has emerged with a happy and helpful disposition, while Mary is self-centered, rude, and exploitive of anyone she has power over. If we are to identify a cause of this, it would be that Sara was loved and knew she was loved, while Mary knew herself to be not only unloved, but essentially forgotten.
But we were talking about Sara. The majority of the rest of the chapter involves Sara's rapprochement with Ermengarde. Somewhat conveniently for the plot flow, Ermengade was temporarily taken out of the picture for family reasons just after the tragic birthday party. So by the time they see each other again, Sara has settled into her new life of service, and has gotten used to the expectation that she will no longer interact with the students as an equal. Her diffidence sends Ermengarde into awkward confusion when they next meet and Sara shows one of her few flashes of mean-spiritedness: she snaps at her friend's rather tactless question and drives her away. One expects that there's a bit of pre-rejection going on, so that Sara doesn't have to deal with Ermengarde snubbing her.
But Sara's friendship is so important to Ermengarde that she risks another rejection by going up to Sara's attic room to plead for forgiveness. It never, in any of her dealings with Sara, occurs to Ermengarde that her demands for continued friendship put Sara at a great deal of risk. Their relationship continues much as before, with Ermengarde gaining emotional and academic support, but now Sara does get something in return: she has one continuing relationship with someone who treats her as a social equal. (Becky doesn't treat her as an equal--Becky always and ever treats Sara as her superior.)
And Ermengarde gives Sara one more thing: she re-awakens Sara's imagination, transforming the garret into a cell in the Bastile or the Count of Monte Cristo's dungeon in the Chateau d'If. These transformations (and others) will enable Sara to manipulate her relationship with her environment and to re-negotiate her relations with the Minchin sisters, at least in her own mind.
The push to get the website finished distracted me over the weekend, but now I've almost finished processing all the beta-reader comments. Quick fixes are being taken care of immediately; more complicated things—like, "simplify and clarify Barbara's dealings in Turinz"—are being noted for the next phase. The next layer, that is. At this stage of revisions, I find it easier to isolate tasks into "patches" (small, specific tasks) and "layers" (taking one particular thing and going through the whole manuscript to address it). I find that approach less daunting, and it makes it less likely that I'll get distracted and forget some element within a larger set.
So the next layer will be to go through from the start and find the revision notes for those more complicated items and patch them. (This is where Scrivener is really helping my workflow. There's that little place to add notes to each scene) The layer after that will be a high-level read-through. For that, I need to trick myself in two ways: change the visual appearance (different font, different size) so that I can see it fresh, and export it into the pdf-mark-up app on my iPad so that I won't be distracted into doing actual revisions, I'll just be able to flag items to come back to. (This, of course, assumes I will remember why I flagged them.)
After that, it'll be time to export into Word for the layers of formatting, copyediting, final spell-check (and drawing up the vocabulary/names list), and then delivery. My beta-readers were good about noting all manner of copyediting things, but there are a few systematic issues that aren't worth addressing until the end, because they may simply get re-introduced. (The most annoying one is how the smart-quotes always go the wrong way when quoted speech trails off in an m-dash. One of my readers valiantly flagged every single instance. Sorry about that!)
Seems like a lot to get done in…yikes, nine days! *deep breath* No problem. I can do it. To be sure, the June 30 delivery date is arbitrary, given that it's unlikely to get editorial attention for a few months yet. But it's the date I promised, and I'd mess up my working habits if I started treating due dates as squishy.
Remember: Mother of Souls, due out in November! Opera! Magic! Evil sorcery! Literary salons! Duels! Scandalous novels! The founding of a women's college! What more could you ask?
This will be the first time when I publish a new LHMP entry directly to the new website. Maybe next week I'll experiment with setting up a post-dated publication date. Exciting adventures! [Alas, we haven't yet set up the automatic porting of the blog posts from the website to LiveJournal, so posts will appear somewhat differently in the two places.]
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Lardinois, André. "Lesbian Sappho and Sappho of Lesbos" in Bremmer, Jan. 1989. From Sappho to de Sade: Moments in the HIstory of Sexuality. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-02089-1
The association of the name Sappho and the word Lesbian with female homoeroticism is so well entrenched that the question is rarely asked: what evidence do we have that Sappho was a lesbian (in the orientation sense, rather than the geographic one)? And how would such an orientation have been understood in her age and culture? Lardinois addresses these questions from empirical (if scanty) evidence.
Lardinois notes that the first use of the word "lesbian" in the sexual orientation sense in English dates to 1890 (although other authors have noted much earlier uses in other languages, with the earliest examples dating to the Middle Ages). The question of whether the connection the isle of Lesbos and female homoeroticism has historic roots in Sappho's time has been long debated beginning in Antiquity.
The earliest source materials for Sappho's life are: the remnants of her poetry (mostly fragments quoted by later writers); an assortment of fiction, gossip, and facts about Sappho and her poetry found in the works of Classical authors; and circumstantial evidence regarding the socio-historic context in which she lived.
Sappho's body of work includes songs celebrating the beauty of young girls, ceremonial songs (cultic hymns, wedding songs), satires, and songs about members of her immediate famliy. There is also a fragment of an epic. It is the songs in praise of girls that form the primary evidence for Sappho's erotic interests, but the ceremonial songs provide important evidence regarding the social context. Sappho's authorship of cultic hymns demonstrates that she was an established and respected member of her community. Therefore if her songs in praise of girls is evidence of sexual interest, then that interest must have been acceptable to her community. Similarly, the satirical works that speak of rivalries and jealousies indicate that whatever relationships were involved, they were known and accepted by the community.
Lardinois discusses clues in Sappho's poems regarding social and political relationships on Lesbos and the respectable posision that both she and the girls she addressed held. And yet there is a pattern of references to named girls leaving Sappho, either with her consent or to her regret. The personal and individual nature of these references suggests they were works written for specific occasions. In contrast, her praise verses tend to be generic, not mention names either of the speaker or the subject. (Though it should be noted that most of what survives is fragmentary and we can't know what was in the parts not preserved.)
If one takes the content of these poems at face value, they suggest a context of female pederasty (in the technical, classical Greek sense), and one which was compatible with respected social standing. Over the centuries, these two observations have often been interpreted according to the prejudices of the interpreter.
Although Sappho's poetry never touches explicitly on sexual activity (with the possible exception of one fragmentary reference to a dildo, insufficient to determine the context), it does use the forms and tropes of erotic love poetry, and details activities associated with courtship (making flower wreaths) or that are suggestive of physical expression ("on soft beds...you would satisfy your longing"). For context, these themes should be compared to poems written in the context of male pederasty, which similarly avoid mention of sexual acts (but where no one doubts their existence).
Songs praising the beauty and attractiveness of girls--even when Sappho notes her own response to it--must also be understood in the context of their performance, often as part of marriage ceremonies. Themes of praise may be conventional rather than personal. Turning the argument around again, later male poets such as Catullus had no qualms about quoting Sappho's work to express their own erotic response to a woman.
Among the later "testimonia" regarding Sappho's life, the story used most prominently to argue against her homoeroticism (or at least to argue for her eventual and inevitable "conversion" to heterosexualtiy) concerns Phaon, the man for home she is said to have made a suicidal jump from the Leucadian rock. (The earliest surviving source for this is from Ovid, taking the form of a letter purportedly in Sappho's voice.) Sappho's work also refers to a daughter, and it is unlikely that she could have held the social position she did without being married (to a man). Can all these elements be compatible with homoerotic desire? References to that desire (albeit, often disapproving ones) are rife in later classical commentaries. Athenian comedies sometimes caricatured her, but never for homoeroticism, rather for heterosexual promiscuity. It can reasonable be supposed, however, that these authors were as unfamiliar with the historic context of 6th century BC Lesbos as more modern authors are. The only difference is that they most likely had a much larger corpus of Sappho's work available to the.
So, for example, when classical authors assert that Sappho had a daughter named Cleis, a certain amount of confidence can be placed on this (the name appears in fragments of her work, and she wrote about other family members) even though the fact could not be confirmed from what survives of her work today.
What, then, are we to make of the story of Phaon and the Leucadian rock? Lardinois suggests this is a mythic reference and a poetic trope. Phaon was one of the legendary beloveds of Aphrodite (who figures prominently in Sappho's songs), and it is possible that the story arose from a poem that was intended to be understood in the voice of the goddess. A near-contemporary poet of Sappho, Anacreon, mentions a "leap from the Leucadian rock" as a proverbial remedy against the pain of love. As love-pangs feature regularly in Sappho's work, it is not unlikely that she, too, may have made use of it as a rhetorical device. From such references, a later legend of Sappho's leap of despair for the love of Phaon could have been constructed by someone not familiar with the literary motifs.
Could Sappho's reputation for loving women also have originated in a mis-reading of poetic tropes? For this, such tropes would need to exist. And if they existed, then they would reflect prevalent and accepted practices. Did such practices exist? (And if they did, would they not be support for the historic plausibility of homoeroticism being compatible with Sappho's professional reputation?)
Sappho's sexual reputation in pop culture changed radically over time. Sappho flourished around the early 6th century BC. In Athenian comedies of the 4th century BC, she was satirized as excessively heterosexual. Snide references by Roman writers to her "disgraceful friendships" with women began appearing around the 1st century CE. Slang uses of the term "lesbian" (lesbis, lesbia) underwent similar shifts. It always had a primary sense of "a female inhabitant of Lesbos", but picked up a variety of erotic connotations. Aristophanes (5th c BC) used a verb with the same root to mean "to practice fellatio" and this sense continued through late antiquity. The first know explicit association of "lesbian" with female homosexuality comes from Lucian (2nd century CE) who writes, "They say there are women in Lesbos with faces like men, and unwilling to consort with men, but only with women as though they themselves were men." And there are Byzantine references to "lesbia" explicitly meaning a female homosexual.
Were the shifts in Sappho's sexual reputation a result or a cause of shifts in the senses associated with "lesbian"? Or is it entirely the wrong question to ask whether Sappho was homosexual, given that a categorical distinction and division between homosexual and heterosexual eroticism post-dates her era?
The final part of Landinois' paper turns to evidence for that historical context. The first consideration is the social institutions that brought young girls together in groups for the sort of education in song, dance, and other activities referenced in Sappho's works. The second consideration is the evidence in other parts of Greece of that era for institutions of female pederasty parallel with the more familiar male institutions.
There is copious evidence for organized institutions of young women who learned music, singing, dance, and other activities to "serve the Muses." In addition to serving as education for the girls, they would participate in religious and social rituals. This organization and activities are perfectly compatible with the many references in Sappho's poetry, including references to beautiful clothing and other adornments. Therefore the context of Sappho's interactions with the subjects of her poetry could easily be one of these institutions.
Although later Roman authors generally treated the subject of female homoeroticism with distaste and disapproval, they provide occasional references suggesting that earlier Greek attitudes were different. Plutarch describes a Spartan custom whereby "distinguished ladies" had sexual relationships with younger women/girls, in direct parallel to the pederastic relationships between adult men and youths. This claim is corroborated by other authors as early as the 4th century BC. The Greek poet Alcman, who wrote songs for Spartan "maiden choirs" in the 7th century BC (i.e., slightly earlier than Sappho) used the word "aïtis" for a girl in a sexual relationship, as a direct parallel to male "aïtas", which was the official term for a boy in a pederastic relationship. Alcman's songs for the maiden choirs include language that suggests erotic interactions (or at least desires) between the girls themselves. A vase from the Greek island of Thera ca. 600 BC shows two women in a stylized interaction similar to depictions of male erotic couples.
From all this, we can envision a scenario where a married female poet of high social status and impeccable reputation could enjoy and openly celebrate erotic relationships with the young women under her guidance. Such relationships could even have been an important part of extensive social and political networks. Only with the loss of that institution were later writers left with the need to try to make sense of Sappho's erotic expressions in the context of her life and times.
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Among the more ordinary artistic choices were using the contemporary Bay Area for set and costumes, and using gender- and race-blind casting (as well as their usual multi-role small-cast approach) such that a black female Hero is wooed by an Egyptian-American female Claudio. The lesser of the bold choices was not only to gender flip both Benedict and Beatrice, but to play them respectively as a butch woman and a rather sterotypically swishy gay man.
The larger of the bold choices was to give the play a framing story that begins with the caterers cleaning up after the double wedding. Several of the caterers begin explaining the lead-up to the event to the others, and they begin acting out the events. For the remainder of the play, there is a regular shift between the presentation of the main plot, and stage business that reflects the ongoing post-event clean-up. This shifting and merging also applies to the roles. The staff who portray Beatrice and Benedict are introduced as bickering co-workers (with History); the staff who portray Claudio and Hero are clearly engaged in a flirtation with touches of jealousy; and the wedding musician who believes he is being stiffed for half his fee rolls his grumpiness and anger directly into Don John.
The framing story involves a fair amount of original dialog, in enthusiastically rhymed couplets. This is why I consider it the bolder of the two choices: it takes a certain amount of chuzpah not merely to edit Shakespeare (which everyone does, of necessity) but to add your own lines to the existing work. And as a way of making the story fresh and interesting, I thought the frame worked very well. It brought in the sort of play-within-a-play found in several of Shakespeare's works, and the "rude mechanicals" motif seen in A Midsummer Night's Dream. I rather liked the way the personalities and interactions of the caterers merged softly into the Much Ado roles.
I found the particular implementation of the gender-swap for Beatrice and Benedict to be less successful. It wasn't the gender-swap itself, but the specific gender stereotypes used to implement it that just didn't work for me. James Carpenter's Beatrice lands so solidly on the stereotype of a swishy gay man that I had too hard a time imagining romantic chemistry with Stacy Ross's swaggering, dykey Benedict. This is no doubt in large part a failure of my own imagination. Fortunately, Denmo Ibrahim's Claudio and Safiya Fredericks's Hero had enough romantic chemistry to satisfy my greedy soul.
The theory is that you plant a few zucchini plants and then one day you turn around and find you need to surreptitiously leave bushels of zucchinis on your neighbors' porches to get rid of them. Interesting theory. I have yet to see it happen. Over the last several years, I think I've averaged fewer than one mature squash per plant. In discussing the behavior of the plants with various other amateur gardeners, the best diagnosis seemed to be a failure of pollination. The plants would flower, but the fruits would turn yellow and fall off rather than growing.
Since I've tried all imaginable combinations of location, sun exposure, and plant density, and since I don't seem to have any problem with other plants getting pollinated (see, e.g., my cucumber abundance), I figured the only thing left to try for diagnosis was artificial insemination. So now it's become a routine part of my near-daily garden tour to look for new female flowers on the squashes at the flowering stage. Keep in mind that I'm usually doing my tour in the evening, when squash blossoms have closed for the night.But it's fairly easy to tell a never-opened flower from one that has opened and closed again. (My, my, is it getting warm in here?)
Then it's just a matter of finding a male flower on the same plant (or at least on a very closely related variety), picking it, stripping it down to the sex organs, then teasing the female flower open enough to apply pollen. Stroking, and rubbing and...oh, yes, *ahem*, where was I?
It's hard to tell how effective it's being, I'll need a few more weeks to get a sense. I've picked one pattypan squash already. There's an acorn squash that has grown substantially but is withering a little and should probably be picked way too early if I don't want to lose it entirely. One hubbard that looks to be holding strong. There are a couple of spagghetti squashes that have definitely "taken". Half a dozen crooknecks that I'm still holding my breath on. And one plant that doesn't seem to have thrown off any female flowers yet.
The cucumbers, on the other hand, seem to be doing quite well on their own.
I feel that the first several paragraphs capture the trauma of Sara's sudden transition vividly: the physical discomfort, the emotional distress, the sense of being removed from herself and looking for something to hang on to, even if only the painful truth, "My papa is dead!" We get some foreshadowing of Melchizidec in the scampering noises she hears in the night. And then, the next day, it's as if her life as a student has been erased. Her belongings have disappeared from her old suite of rooms. Lavinia has reclaimed the position of honor closest to Miss Minchin. And Sara is assigned a task that actually suits her abilities perfectly: a sort of teaching assistant to watch over and coach the youngest students.
But beyond that, she is turned into something of a maid-of-all-work: cleaning, and shopping, and running errands, and anything else that the rest of the staff can dump on her. Anyone who has experienced a sudden change of occupation, and especially when the new one involves physical labor, can easily imagine how time would blur together as Sara simply tried to make it through each day. And yet she made time to continue studying on her own and she connects education with class very directly. If she doesn't hold on to the things she has learned, she fears that she will "be like poor Becky" and lose her upper class speech mannerisms.
Behavior is one of the few things Sara has control over. She now wears plain, shabby clothing that she is always outgrowing and that becomes an object of ridicule. And there is now an enormous social distance between her and the other students, even when she is interacting with them. Those interactions become more constrained when Sara is told to take her meals with the other servants. (For all of Miss Minchin's instruction that Sara's transition is to be immediate and complete, there does seem to be a more gradual withdrawal in some areas.)
In combination with Sara's decision to set the best, most hardworking example that she can, she survives emotionally through her role-playing. At first, she sees herself as a soldier like her papa. "Soldiers don't complain. I will pretend this is part of a war." It will be some time before she returns to the role of princess.


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News Corp always had its critics ("From what I've seen of Murdoch's papers," quipped journalist Mike Royko in 1983, "I don't know any self-respecting fish who would want to be wrapped in one!") but no one could doubt its proprietor's understanding of the newspaper business.
In Breaking News, Paul Barry quotes one of Murdoch's early editors: "We were doing things with newspapers that hadn't been done before; we were turning the world on its head."
Murdoch has always been a hands-on owner, phoning his staff at all hours, from anywhere in the world. Rodney Lever, who worked for News Ltd in Australia for decades, said: "At the first ring, people said: 'It's Rupert' and their face went white."
Those who displeased him did not last; as the former Australian editor, Max Newton said: "He's a tremendous sacker."
Most of the time such interventions weren't necessary, because his employees learnt to anticipate his wishes.
In his memoirs, former British prime minister Tony Blair likened liaising with Murdoch to Faust's attempts to "cut a really great deal with this bloke called Satan". Yet, as prime minister, Blair met 30 times with Murdoch protege Rebekah Brooks (to whom he sent birthday cards) and 31 times with Murdoch himself, even becoming godfather to one of Rupert's young daughters.
Likewise, British PM David Cameron's relationship with Brooks became so close he signed his text messages to her with "LOL" (apparently thinking the acronym meant "lots of love").
As MacKenzie put it: "The most incredible aspect I have seen in my lifetime is the queue of politicians anxious to kiss Rupert's backside."
That anxiety becomes less inexplicable when one considers how ferociously Murdoch's men pursued those perceived as his enemies.
According to the News of the Week's Neville Thurlbeck, when a British parliamentary committee began investigating hacking, the paper's staff were told: "Find out every single thing about every single member: Who was gay, who had affairs, anything we can use."
The Labour MP Tom Watson - an outspoken Murdoch critic - became a particular target, regularly described in the press as "poisonous", "a tub of lard" and "Two Dinners Tommy".
As the Sun's political editor told him: "Rupert never forgets."
The hacking scandal has, of course, embroiled News Corp's British operations in a world of trouble, at a time when print news seems in decline everywhere. Although Murdoch apparently wants to keep the business in family hands, it's far from clear who will take charge when he departs to the great editorial room in the sky.
Barry depicts the three heirs-apparent (Lachlan, Elizabeth and James) as deeply conflicted about their family. All have, in their own way, rebelled; all have been drawn, however reluctantly, back to their father's trade.
Barry says the old man regards all three as disappointments: "Lachlan because he isn't smart enough or tough enough . . .; James because he wasn't wise enough to avoid the hacking crisis; and Liz because she is a woman, who refuses to accept her place."
Indeed, the entire clan comes across as somewhat damaged, almost as if they've suffered collateral damage from their patriarch's single-minded pursuit of power and money.
Still, if there are moments when one feels a twinge of sympathy for the old monster, these dissipate quickly enough in the face of the industrial-scale criminality unearthed during the hacking scandal.
NOTW journalist Greg Miskiw was once taped explaining his paper's methodology to a troubled colleague.
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SHPG's presentation on the merger sums up the debt situation (I tried posting part of it but YHOO blocks it). Anyway, although leverage will go up, it is expected to be between 2-3X in fairly short order. Sure that's high relative to several large pharma companies I took a look at, but it seems quite manageable.. ABBV for example is running at ~1.5X.
With annual FCF forecast to be 6B (versus ~2B in recent years), the 18B debt related to the acquisition could potentially be paid off in as little as three years. The company plans to maintain an investment grade debt rating which will keep a cap on interest costs of debt going forward. So overall, I see no major concerns on the debt front.
The report I quoted suggests that PFE could gain from an acquisition of SHPG even if new tax codes means there are no inversion benefits gained. Government can discourage companies from doing inversions by negating any tax benefits, but the only way to stop mergers if there is no tax benefit involved is through anti-trust provisions. Do you think PFE-SHPG would fail on anti-competition concerns?
36 shares traded at that price, someone made a mistake
Another step forward by SHPG to maintain its dominance in the ADHD market space.
@ Lexington, Mass. - April 4, 2016- Shire plc today announces positive topline results from a four-week Phase 3, randomized, double-blind, multi-center, placebo-controlled, dose-optimization, safety and efficacy study, SHP465-305, in children and adolescents aged 6-17 years with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). SHP465 (triple-bead mixed amphetamine salts - MAS) is an investigational oral stimulant medication being evaluated in the U.S. as a potential treatment for ADHD, a therapeutic area with significant need for additional treatment options. The primary efficacy analysis of study 305 demonstrated that SHP465, administered as a daily morning dose, was superior to placebo on the change from baseline in ADHD-RS-IV (ADHD rating scale) total score, with a Least Squares (LS) mean difference from placebo at Week 4 of -9.9 (95% CI: -13.0 to -6.8, p
@ Overall Robust SHP465 Clinical Development Program to Support Class 2 Resubmission Including study 305 and previous studies, Shire now has a robust database of 15 clinical studies evaluating SHP465 in more than 1,100 subjects. Once the pharmacokinetic study and an additional safety and efficacy Phase 3 trial in adults currently under way are complete later this year, Shire plans to add these study results to its existing SHP465 data set to submit a Class 2 resubmission for FDA approval of the medicine for treatment of ADHD. SHP465 remains on track for potential U.S. launch in the second half of 2017. Protection for Shire's ADHD
@Franchise Extends to 2029 There are patents supporting Shire's overall ADHD franchise in the U.S. that extend to 2029. With a launch planned for the second half of 2017, Shire expects that SHP465, following potential FDA approval, will have three years of Hatch-Waxman exclusivity and at least three patents listed in the FDA Orange Book expiring as late as May 2029.
Was it a big mistake? Shìre is dropping like a rock. Any ideas anyone?
I've owned shpg for close to 20 years. It is one of my best investments with cb of $10.76/SH. If it pulls back more I'll pick up a few hundred more, although I have a pretty full position. Hang in there and you'll be happy.
Cannot believe the selloff today,well i guess down the road we will see how good buying baxalta was,in the meantime i will twiddle my thumbs.
Analysts have been pointing to a buyout of SHPG by the likes of PFE, AGN, etc for several years. Now that are talking about how a takeover of SHPG makes sense, even if a buyout does not gain the benefit of tax inversion.
@Another stock to bounce this week was Shire, on 13.7 times prospective earnings, below a 10-year median of 16.7 times and as much as 25 in 2014. The stock has fallen more than 20 percent over the last year, as some investors worried over its costly deal to buy U.S. peer Baxalta. DEAL OR NO DEAL Exane BNP Paribas analyst David Finch added Shire to its M&A Target list, noting: "Big Pharma in general has other reasons than tax efficiency to make big acquisitions." He cites Shire's cheap valuation, as well as favourable forex conditions and the unsustainability of share buybacks, as contributing to the case for Pfizer to bid for Shire. And even if Shire resists an approach, the stock's valuation meant that: "Deal or no deal, we think we will make money."
Some info and hang in there on Shire and buy more if it pulls back to $160-165.
Shire PLC (ADR) (NASDAQ:SHPG) shares are off by 2% after the company acquired the global rights for all indications to Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE)'s PF-00547659. The acquisition of the investigational biologic for the treatment of moderate-to-severe inflammatory bowel disease improves Shire's leading gastrointestinal unit. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. 49 funds in our system were bullish on Shire PLC (ADR) (NASDAQ:SHPG) at the end of the first quarter, up by nine funds from the end of 2015.
Under the merger agreement, Baxalta's shareholders will receive $18.00 in cash per share and either 0.15 of Shire's ADSs (American depositary shares) or 0.45 of Shire's common shares per Baxalta share. Baxalta's shareholders have yet to approve. Shire expects the merger transaction to be completed by June 3, 2016.
If you have Baxalta its $18 plus 15 percent of tomorrow's Shire price of about $190 or when said and done $46. Hope that helps.
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I think you can use the RAI buyout of LO last yeas as a reference. Here's the relevant part. I hope it helps.
2) As a LO shareholder, what will I receive as a result of the acquisition?
For every LO share, holders will receive $50.50 in cash plus 0.2909 shares of RAI common stock.
Pursuant to the merger agreement, any resulting fractional shares of RAI common stock will also be
redeemed for cash at the rate of $72.2977.
6) What is the cost basis of my new shares of RAI?
The cost basis for RAI shares paid to LO shareholders receiving those shares as a result of the
transaction is $72.15 per share. This was the closing price of RAI shares on June 11, 2015, the last
trading day prior to the date the transaction was completed.
7) What is the tax treatment for the cash and shares I receive?
The transaction is considered a taxable event for LO shareholders. The following information is
provided only as an example and for reference. By providing this example, Reynolds American Inc. is
not providing legal and/or tax advice. As everyone's situation is different, you should consult your
tax advisor to determine specifically how this transaction affects you.
This example assumes a LO shareholder held 100 shares of LO at the time of the merger on June 12,
2015. The total consideration received by the LO shareholder would be $7,148.86.
1) 100 shares of LO multiplied by$50.50 = $5,050.00 cash received
2) 100 shares of LO multiplied by 0.2909 shares of RAI = 29.09 shares of RAI received
a. 29 shares of RAI multiplied by $72.15 (closing price of RAI on 6/11/2015) = $2,092.35
b. 0.09 fractional shares of RAI multiplied by $72.2977 = $6.51 cash received
Total consideration received: $5,050.00 + $2092.35 + $6.51 = $7,148.86
Don't be such a nervous nellie. This is just big volume monkey games by all the big boys to maximize their trading profits pre-merger. What matters is that the merger closes. Then the stock will settle down and start to reflect the true value again.
Etrade messed up the cost basis for my holdings, but I'm not sure what they should be instead. Any help?
Bought 400 shares on 1/4/16 for total cost of $16,289.99 w/ commission
Received a cash dividend of $28 on 4/1/16
Received $7,200 cash, 59 SHPG shares on 6/3/16 and was charged a $20 fee. Theoretically I should also have received cash in lieu of the 0.28 fractional share, but I'm not seeing it anywhere.
SHPG was at $190.04 at conversion. I'm assuming I can't just use that price, right?
Thanks for your help
Buy great companies when they are slammed for non company related news. I'm looking to pick more up under $160 if it gets there. This is a long term investment that will pay. (20 year shpg shareholder)
Added today as i believe the coast is clear and the stock price will work its way the remaining part of the year to go higher,will stay long and enjoy the ride!
20 year Shire sh - they are qualified.
Also, remember that they are listed in London so a big European decline will mean lower stock price. On the positive, they just got 2 drugs deemed high priority (don't remember actual "term").
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*It's official. Beyoncé and Jay Z are heading back out on tour summer — this time, together.
Bey made the announcement today by posting a promotional poster on her website. The picture shows the "32-year-old singer and her rapper husband, 44, embracing and wearing ski masks. The "On the Run" tour begins July 15 in Atlanta, Ga., and concludes August 5 in San Francisco, Calif.
Beyoncé's fan club members will have access to an exclusive ticket pre-sale from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday. The general pre-sale continues through 10 p.m. May 1, and general tickets go on sale May 2.
Here's where the couple will be performing this summer:
July 15 – Atlanta, Georgia – Georgia Dome
July 18 – Houston, Texas – Minute Maid Park
July 20 – New Orleans, Louisiana – Mercedes-Benz Supderdome
July 22 – Dallas, Texas – AT&T Stadium
July 24 – Chicago, Illinois – Soldier Field
July 27 – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – MB Investors Group Field
July 30 – Seattle, Washington – Safeco Field
August 2 – Los Angeles, California – Rose Bowl
August 5 – San Fransisco, California – AT&T Park
Beyoncé finished her Mrs. Carter Show World Tour after 132 concerts in March. Jay Z, meanwhile, is scheduled to headline Budweiser's Made in America music festival over Labor Day weekend.
Rumors of a joint tour first surfaced in mid-April.
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