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Concise, brief reviews of books that I have enjoyed.
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HEART BERRIES
2018/06/03 2018/06/03 Posted in Abuse, Autobiographical, Bullying, Canadian, Discrimination, Family, First Nations, Friendship, Literature, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Racism, SexualityLeave a comment
THERESE MARIE MAIHOT
In a slender volume, Maihot's poetic memoir explodes with power. "How could misfortune follow me so well, and why did I choose it every time?" Her life is heaped with poverty, addiction, abuse and shame. Mailhot's grandmother went to a brutal residential school. So many children starved to death there, the nuns ran out of places to bury them so their bones were hidden in the walls of a new boarding school under construction. Her affectionate but absent mother brought home men who preyed upon her children. She had a child, and lost custody of him as she was giving birth to another. "I wasn't stable, but men don't usually care about that." About her husband she writes, "I wanted to know what I looked like to you. A sin committed and a prayer answered, you said. You looked like a hamburger fried in a donut. You were hairy and large."
"In white culture, forgiveness is synonymous with letting go. In my culture, I believe we carry pain until we can reconcile with it through ceremony. Pain is not framed like a problem with a solution." "I wanted as much of the world as I could take and I didn't have the conscience to be ashamed."
It's great to see a new voice in indigenous literature open with a powerful work.
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THE IMMORTALISTS
2018/05/21 2018/05/21 Posted in Family, Friendship, Gay, Literature, Romance, SexualityLeave a comment
CHLOE BENJAMIN
Would you want to know the date of your death? In the late 1960s, when all four Gold children: Varya, Daniel, Kara and Simon, bored from too much time during their summer vacation — decide to visit a fortuneteller famous for predicting when people will die. Only Varya is told she will live to old age. Knowing he will die young, Simon leaps into the late 1970s San Francisco gay scene "like a dog into water." He love the promiscuous lifestyle of sex and drugs. But it is through ballet he finds romantic love. He succumbs to the "gay cancer," which claims him barely out of his teens and before the disease is named. Had he not known he was to die young he would have stayed home and run the family business. Each sibling is followed in order of their deaths. Do they die on the augured date because it is their destiny, or because the prediction draws them into an altered pattern of life choices? Provocative question.
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JONNY APPLESEED
2018/05/18 2018/05/18 Posted in Abuse, Autobiographical, Bullying, Canadian, Discrimination, Family, First Nations, Friendship, Gay, Literature, Racism, Sexuality, SpiritualLeave a comment
JOSHUA WHITEHEAD
Jonny is a wild ride through reserve life and city life through the eyes of a "two-spirited, indigiqueer, NDN glitter princess." Jonny knew early on that he was different from most boys. He liked dressing up in his mother's clothes and putting on her makeup. When his step-father beat him to made him a man he had a loving kokum to run to for comfort, support and affirmation. She knew he was "2S" and told him stories of the old ways before colonization. Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. His best friend and sometimes lover Tias is a huge support for Jonny in the city. They grew up together and know each other like an open book. Jonny's step-father has died and Jonny needs to make arrangements to get back to the reserve. Memories flood his consciousness and make up most of the book. Memories of love, trauma, sex, kinship, ambition and the heartwarming recollection of his beloved kokum.
A powerful book.
"Funny how an NDN 'love you' sounds more like, 'I'm in pain with you.'"
"I figured that I was gay when I was eight. I stayed up late after everyone went to bed and watched Queer as Folk on my kokum's TV. She had a satellite and all the channels, pirated of course. At the time, my mom and I were living with my kokum because my dad had left us thinking he was Dolly Parton or Garth Brooks or something. Queer as Folk aired at midnight on Showcase; I muted the channel, added subtitles, and watched as four gay men lived their lives in Pittsburgh. I wanted to be like them, I wanted to have lofts and go to gay bars and dance with cute boys and blow and get blown in a Philly gloryhole. I wanted to work in comic shops and universities, be sexy and rich. I wanted that."
"If you say the word 'queerness' now, it always signals this idea of whiteness, especially of white cis males, shirtless, dancing at Pride festivals that are so heavily vested in corporations," he says. "For me, it was important to remove Indigenous queerness."
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THE SHOE ON THE ROOF
2018/01/24 2018/01/24 Posted in Abuse, Bullying, Canadian, Crime, Disability, Discrimination, Family, Friendship, Humour, Literature, Medical, Satire, Spiritual4 Comments
WILL FERGUSON
The Shoe of the Roof is a thought-provoking novel about faith and the thin line between madness and reality. Thomas Rosanoff is a brain-research grad student. His father, Dr Rosanoff, is a famous psychiatrist who gained his notoriety by studying his son's life in great detail and publishing in "The Boy in a Box." Having a famous father is a double-edged sword for Thomas: he gets away with a lot at the university, but he has to put up with a lot of ribbing. Using his father's name, Thomas kidnaps three patients from the mental hospital, who think they are Jesus. He wants to experiment with them to prove that bringing them together will cure them. He believes that they will sort out among themselves that three Jesuses can't exist all at once, and so at least two of them will have to cure themselves of their delusion.
You need to read Shoe to find out what the title means. Also, read Ferguson's 419; it won a well deserved Giller Prize. There was an excellent Peter O'Toole movie of a similar theme from 1972, The Ruling Class. O'Toole was a British lord who believed he was Jesus. I may be available online.
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2017/12/16 2017/12/16 Posted in Abuse, Bullying, Canadian, Disability, Discrimination, Family, Friendship, Gay, Hate, Historical, Literature, MedicalLeave a comment
DARREN GREER
Jacob lives with his mother, aunt and austere grandmother Millicent. "The grandmother of complaint and derision." His estranged uncle returns home because he is sick. His sisters are overjoyed. His mother is full of criticism and reproach. As he gets sicker and sicker the reader realizes that he has AIDS and in fact, he is the first AIDs victim in Nova Scotia. As rumour is spreading in the community Jacob loses the one friend he had because his friend's mother has condemned their relationship. Eventually, in the panic about his uncle's disease, Jacob is barred from school and most other places in town, and his family become pariahs just when they need community the most. Advocate is a well-written book about a sad time.
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HUM IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE WORDS
2017/10/17 2017/10/17 Posted in Africa, Bullying, Crime, Discrimination, Family, Friendship, Gay, Hate, Historical, Literature, Racism2 Comments
BIANCA MARAIS
Set in Johannesburg, HUM centres on Beauty Mbali and 9-year-old Robin Conrad, each of whom is impacted by the 1976 Soweto Uprising, in which white police officers opened fire on peacefully protesting black schoolchildren. Robin's parents are killed in the backlash, while Beauty's daughter, Nomsa, goes missing from her Soweto school after taking part in the uprising. Robin's liberal aunt is an airline hostess so hires Beauty, an educated Xhosa, as a caretaker for Robin so she can remain in the city and continue her quest to find her daughter. This is a difficult transition for Robin who is used to staff having a separate living unit, not using family plates and utensils and certainly not being treated as part of the family. As she bonds with comes to love Beauty, Robin withholds information about her daughter, Nomsa for fear of losing Beauty. The only criticism I have is that Robin's narration does not ring true for a nine-year-old girl.
"I didn't know what to say in a world where people were hated and attacked for not being the right colour, not speaking the right language, not worshipping the right god or not loving the right people: a world where hatred was the common language and bricks the only words."
"She speaks Zulu, but I am able to understand her. All our languages overlay one another like blankets of mist on a mountaintop."
"a river of blood in the streets and the children are floating in it… they are human debris swept along in a flood of destruction."
"Almost everyone who mattered most to me was in the same room…. Black, white, homosexual, heterosexual, Christian, Jew, Englishman, Afrikaner, adult, child, man, woman: we were all there together, but somehow that eclectic jumble of labels was overwritten by the one classification that applied to every person there: 'friend.' "
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INTO THE WATER
2017/09/23 2017/09/23 Posted in Abuse, Bullying, Crime, Family, Friendship, Hate, Historical, Literature, Romance, Sexuality, ThrillerLeave a comment
"Seriously: how is anyone supposed to keep track of all the bodies around here? It's like Midsomer Murders, only with accidents and suicides and grotesque historical misogynistic drownings instead of people falling into the slurry or bashing each other over the head."
The death of Nel Abbott in the Drowning Pool opens this overly complicated novel. Her teenage daughter Lena believes her mom committed suicide, but Nel's estranged sister Jules, returned reluctantly back to Beckford to care for Lena, believes it was something else. As Jules looks for answers, in her own past and among the locals, she finds that Nel has made a number of enemies while writing a book about the Beckford drownings, and that Lena's best friend, Katie, died a few months earlier in the same place. "Beckford is not a suicide spot. Beckford is a place to get rid of troublesome women," Nel wrote.
Once the cases are closed, the people of Beckford debate who is and is not a "good person." They apply the label forgivingly to men with excuses for their misdeeds but withhold it from the women who end up tangled in the weeds of the drowning pool.
It takes careful reading to follow all the twists and turns, and follow all the characters and clues, but in the end, it is worth the effort. This is Hawkins first book since she wrote The Girl on the Train.
"Yes, it is. It's, like, when someone has an affair, why does the wife always hate the other woman? Why doesn't she hate her husband? He's the one who's betrayed her, he's the one who swore to love her and keep her and whatever forever and ever. Why isn't he the one who gets shoved off a fucking cliff?"
"Some say the women left something of themselves in the water; some say it retains some of their power, for ever since then it has drawn to its shores the unlucky, the desperate, the unhappy, the lost. They come here to swim with their sisters."
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THE BEST PEOPLE
2017/09/15 2017/09/15 Posted in Abuse, Bullying, Canadian, Crime, Family, Friendship, Literature, Romance, Sexuality2 Comments
ZOE WHITTALL
Everyone loved George Woodbury. Ten years earlier he became a hero, tackling a gunman in the prep school where he taught. Year after year he won the Teacher of the Year award voted on by the students. He sat on many boards and committees in the town. Until he was arrest for sexual misconduct and attempted rape that was said to have happened when he was supervising on a girl's volleyball away trip. Five girls have come forward and made complaints. At this point, Whittall chooses to leave the perpetrator and the victims and follow the innocent bystanders: Joan, his wife and a well-respected nurse, Sadie, his daughter, an overachieving high school senior, and Andrew, his son, a lawyer who lives in New York with his boyfriend Jared. They become pariah, nobody wants to talk to them or be seen with them. They gossip about the mother, "How could she not have known?" Sadie refuses to visit her Dad and moves in with her boyfriend, Jimmy's family.
People is a page turner with a great ending.
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2017/09/01 2017/09/01 Posted in Abuse, Crime, Family, Friendship, Literature, SexualityLeave a comment
A sex scandal at a New England private school comes to light. There is a tape of three senior basketball players with a girl in a drunken bacchanalia. The trouble is the girl is only 14. The headmaster tries to deal with the matter internally but it escalates beyond his control: the police are called. The ramifications ripple into the community and beyond.The national press gets wind of the story. We become aware of other incidences that precipitated this assault. There is a death. Careers are ruined. Marriages end.
Shreve is a master of timeline manipulation, slowly painting the narrative as we read.
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THE INCEST DIARY
2017/08/27 2017/08/27 Posted in Abuse, Autobiographical, Bullying, Crime, Family, Hate, Memoir, Non-Fiction, SexualityLeave a comment
A horrifying and harrowing memoir of a daughter and her father. "We never kissed. …we didn't kiss when I was a teenager, we didn't kiss when I was eleven or ten or nine or eight or six or five or three."As a young girl, the sex would make her bleed copiously in the bathtub. Her father tied her to a chair and put her in the closet."He said he couldn't help it. He told me it was my fault. It must have been my fault. He said that he couldn't help it because I was so beautiful and it felt so good. He said he was a sick man. A weak victim of his desire. And I, too, felt desire; I felt my wildness."
"From the time I was very young, my father told me that we were one person, that I was just a part of him. I grew up with that inside me. I grew up with him inside me." "My father is my secret. That he raped me is my secret. But the secret under the secret is that sometimes I liked it. Sometimes I wanted it, and sometimes I seduced him."This prolonged sexual abuse continued throughout her childhood until she began to crave it. An important part of the book is how it affects her adult life and adult sexuality.
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THE LONELY HEARTS HOTEL
2017/08/10 2017/08/10 Posted in Abuse, Bullying, Canadian, Crime, Family, Friendship, Historical Fiction, Humour, Literature, Prostitution, Romance, Sexuality, Uncategorized4 Comments
Two abandoned babies are dropped off at the orphanage run by sadistic nuns. Rose develops a gift for humour and movement; Pierrot for music. When they were young adolescents they were sent to rich people's homes to entertain for generous donations to the orphanage. Escape seems possible, happiness imminent. They dream of creating their own circus together for fame and fortune. As the mother superior knows, though, happiness always leads to tragedy. Rose and Pierrot are farmed out as teens to separate homes, with no idea where the other has gone. And the Sisters make sure they never find each other. A good portion of the book is the two yearning for each other and almost crossing paths, so it is a delight when they find each other as adults.
Hotel reminded me of The Night Circus which was full of magic realism. O'Neill is a wonderful writer so Hotel is a page turner.
"Women were still strange and inscrutable creatures. Men didn't understand them. And women didn't understand themselves either. It was always a performance of some sort. Everywhere you went, it was like there was a spotlight shining down on your head. You were on a stage when you were on the trolley. You were being judged and judged and judged. Every minute of your performance was supposed to be incredible and outstanding and sexy.
You were often only an ethical question away from being a prostitute."
"All children are really orphans. At heart, a child has nothing to do with its parents, its background, its last name, its gender, its family trade. It is a brand-new person, and it is born with the only legacy that all individuals inherit when they open their eyes in this world: the
inalienable right to be free."
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A TWO-SPIRIT JOURNEY: An Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojbiwa-Cree Elder
2017/07/22 2017/07/22 Posted in Autobiographical, Bullying, Canadian, Crime, Disability, Discrimination, Family, First Nations, Friendship, Gay, Hate, Literature, Non-Fiction, Racism, Romance, Sexuality, SpiritualLeave a comment
MA-NEE CHACABY
No one should have to endure the shocking amount of sexual and physical violence this woman endured from childhood. As a child she had the support and guidance of her grandmother who saw the two spirits in her and knew she would have a difficult life. Her step-father taught her how to hunt, trap and survive in the wilds, yet ended up sexually assaulting her. Her abusive mother sent her to marry a man who would torture her for years. It is no wonder that she became addicted to drugs and alcohol. When she finally embraces her two-spirit orientation, she discovers that despite two-spirit teachings being a long-standing indigenous tradition, a new kind of abuse — virulent homophobia — soon comes her way, both from the aboriginal reserve community and from the white community residing nearby in Thunder Bay.
That all this sorrow and pain happened in this country is a national shame. The solution she puts forward, by the example of her exemplary life, is for our government and her own community to support the myriad of programs and teachings Ma-Nee Chacaby and women like her have introduced over decades. From groundbreaking and controversial AIDS awareness programs in the 1990s to the work she continues to do today, both with her own family and her extended reserve family, her life and this memoir ultimately serve as handbook of hope.
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2017/07/10 2017/07/10 Posted in Friendship, Gay, Hate, Historical, Medical, Non-Fiction, Racism, Romance, Science, SexualityLeave a comment
SETH STEPHENS-DAVIDOOWITZ
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz has written a fascinating book about social scientists using data collected by Google or Facebook in their research. Things to be learned from reading LIES:
Some people use search engines as confessionals. They type complete sentences like "I am sad." or open-ended questions like "Is my daughter ugly?"
People assume machines (like the Google search engine) will keep their secrets. For sensitive topics, Google may generate more honest data than surveys. There are many questions asked to Google that I'm sure people won't pose to a librarian.
Google searches for "Obama" is frequently paired with "kkk" and the "n" word. The prevalence of racist searches does not exhibit a North-South divide – it's East-West.
As President of Harvard, Larry Summers spent quite a bit of time brainstorming with Economics PhD students on how to beat the stock market using new data. (And they came up empty-handed, or so they say.)
Some economists found that going to Stuyvesant (a highly influential high school) conferred no meaningful benefit to one's career – at least, this is the case for those who attain a score close to the cutoff in the admissions test.
There are 6,000 searches on Google a year for "how to kill your girlfriend" while there are 400 murders of girlfriends.
"Big data" does not provide any insights that surveys can't at the aggregate level so people slice and dice the data to examine "micro" segments, which means they are analyzing a huge collection of small data sets.
I borrowed this interview from VOX's interview with author Stephens-Davidowitz.
Two weeks ago, I interviewed Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, author of Everybody Lies, a new book that uses data on America's Google habits as an insight into our national consciousness. Two findings from the book dominated the conversation: America is riddled with racist and selfish people, and there may be a self-induced abortion crisis in this country. But there was plenty more revelatory data in the book that we didn't cover. So I wanted to follow up with Stephens-Davidowitz to talk about some of the other provocative claims he is making. I was particularly interested in sexuality and online porn. If, as Stephens-Davidowitz puts it, "Google is a digital truth serum," then what else does it tell us about our private thoughts and desires? What else are we hiding from our friends, neighbors, and colleagues? A lot, apparently. Among other things, Stephens-Davidowitz's data suggests that there are more gay men in the closet than we think; that many men prefer overweight women to skinny women but are afraid to act on it; that married women are disproportionately worried their husband is gay; that a lot of straight women watch lesbian porn; and that porn featuring violence against women is more popular among women than men. I asked Stephens-Davidowitz to explain the data behind all of this. Here's what he told me.
Sean Illing
Last time we spoke, I asked you about the most surprising or shocking finding in your research. We talked about racism and the possibility of a self-induced abortion crisis in America. Here I want to dive into something a little lighter: sexuality and online porn. What did you learn about this?
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Porn is the biggest development in sexuality research ever. I don't understand how social scientists weren't begging Pornhub for their data. I was one of the only ones. I sent some of my results to some of the most famous sociologists and sex researchers in the world. Many of them had no interest.
Why does porn data offer such unique insight?
Well, to learn about sex, the main approach was to ask people. But people lie on sensitive topics such as sex.
You combed through the data — what did it say about us?
There's a lot of variation in what people like. Probably 30 percent of people exclusively watch stuff that you would find disgusting.
Why focus on sex? Were you initially interested in this, or did the data lead you to it?
It's a book about human nature. Sex is a big part of human nature. Some reviews of Everybody Lies have criticized me for being obsessed with sex. Everybody is obsessed with sex. If they say they're not, they're lying.
You point to some interesting data in the book about sexual orientation.
It's clear that a lot of gay men remain in the closet. In places where it's hard to be gay, such as Mississippi, far fewer men say that they are gay than in places where it's easy to be gay, such as New York. But gay porn searches are about the same everywhere.
This doesn't necessarily tell us how many people are gay in these areas, but it's a revealing data point.
I look at the data a whole bunch of ways and conclude about 5 percent of men are predominantly attracted to men.
Can you really draw concrete conclusions from this sort of data? People search for things for all kinds of reasons, right?
I think porn is a pretty good measure of people's sexual fantasies, even if they never act on them.
What's your response to people who are skeptical of inferring anything from this stuff?
I think watching a porn video is a lot more telling than answering a survey question. I agree you should be cautious in how you interpret it, though.
Let's talk about what married people are up to online.
The number one question that women have about their husbands is whether he is gay. And these questions are much higher in the Deep South, where my research suggests there are indeed more gay men married to women.
Do you think women are justified in their curiosity here? Is this a question they should be asking more often?
I think women are too obsessed with their husbands' sexuality. Women are eight times more likely to ask Google if their husband is gay than if he is an alcoholic and 10 times more likely to ask Google if their husband is gay than if he is depressed. It is far more likely that a woman is married to a man who is secretly an alcoholic or secretly depressed than secretly gay. About 98 percent of women's husbands are really straight. Trust me.
What are husbands secretly worrying about?
Whether their wives are crazy.
What should husbands be asking Google? What would they ask if they knew what their wives were Googling?
Whether their wives are more physically attracted to women than men.
Tell me about America's suppressed sexual desires.
There are still sexual preferences that people hide today, even in socially liberal places. About one in 100 porn searches are for the elderly. Hundreds of thousands of young men are predominantly attracted to elderly women. But very few young men are in relationships with elderly women.
I'm not sure what I think about that. Any theories?
It's interesting. Some sexual preferences I first learned about on The Jerry Springer Show,which featured really poor, uneducated people. People attracted to animals or family members or the elderly. But, now from seeing porn data, I realize those preferences also exist among wealthy, educated people. Wealthy, educated people are more cognizant of contemporary social norms, which means if you have such an attraction, you hide it.
I recall something in the book about the sexual preferences we hide largely for cultural reasons or for fear of being judged. Can you talk about that?
If you define being in the closet as picking partners based on what society wants rather than what you want, many people are in the closet. For example, I am certain a large number of men are more attracted to overweight women than skinny women but try to date skinny women to impress their friends and family members.
Porn featuring overweight women is surprisingly common among men. But the data from dating sites tells us that just about all men try to date skinny women. Many people don't try to date the people they're most attracted to. They try to date the people they think would impress their friends.
That says something truly awful about our cultural pathologies. People should be free to like whatever they want, but the pressures to conform are overwhelming — and ultimately unhealthy.
It's also inefficient. There are a lot of single men and single overweight women who would be sexually compatible. But they don't date, while the man tries and fails to date a skinny woman even though he's less attracted to her. And then there are women who practically starve themselves to remain skinny so their husbands won't leave, even though their husbands would be more attracted to them if they weighed more. The desire to impress people causes all kinds of inefficiency.
All right, give me a couple of unusual desires you noticed — one from men and one from women.
It is really amazing how much tastes can vary. There are women who just watch porn featuring short, fat men with small penises. There are men who just watch porn featuring women with enormous nipples.
How about other countries?
The number one Google search in India that starts "my husband wants …" is "my husband wants me to breastfeed him." Porn featuring adult breastfeeding is higher in India than anywhere else. In just about every country, just about every Google search looking for advice on breastfeeding is looking how to breastfeed a baby. In India, Google searches looking for breastfeeding advice are about equally split between how to breastfeed a baby and how to breastfeed a husband.
After I published this finding, some journalists interviewed people in India. Everyone denied this. But I am sure, based on the data, that there are a reasonable number of adult Indian men desiring to be breastfed. It is really amazing that this desire can develop in one country without ever being openly talked about.
Any other findings from countries not named America?
Japanese men have recently become obsessed with tickling porn. More than 10 percent of Pornhub searches by young Japanese men are for "tickling."
So basically all of humanity is united in its weirdness?
Yeah, basically. Some people respond to Indian men wanting to be breastfed and are like, "Indian men are so weird." That's not the right response. The data from porn tells us that everybody is weird. Thus, nobody is weird.
And yet we all feel weird because we assume (wrongly) that no one else is as weird as we are.
Sometimes I think it would be a good thing if everyone's porn habits were released at once. It would be embarrassing for 30 seconds. And then we'd all get over it and be more open about sex.
Any other surprising findings about women in America?
About 20 percent of the porn women watch is lesbian porn. A lot of straight women watch lesbian porn.
That's not very surprising.
Porn featuring violence against women is also extremely popular among women. It is far more popular among women than men. I hate saying that because misogynists seem to love this fact. Fantasy life isn't always politically correct.
The rate at which women watch violent porn is roughly the same in every part of the world. It isn't correlated with how women are treated.
Let me ask you this: Has all of this research changed how you think about sexuality in general?
I have always wondered how homosexuality made it through evolution. Like, isn't evolution supposed to make people desire heterosexual sex with fertile people? But after studying porn, I realized homosexuality is hardly the only desire that doesn't make sense from an evolutionary perspective.
Less than 20 percent of porn watched these days features vaginal sex to completion among two people who can conceivably have a healthy baby. Cartoons, anal sex to completion, oral sex to completion, foot sex to completion, incest, elderly porn, tickling, animal porn, sex with objects, etc.
Sex is clearly about a lot more than procreation, and I'd say a lot of needless suffering has resulted from our confusion about this.
I think the reason is we are growing up under very different conditions than we evolved under. Hunter-gatherer kids didn't watch The Simpsons. And hunter-gatherer adults didn't watch Simpsons porn. I think we are evolved so that if we grew up in hunter-gatherer conditions, just about all people would have an overwhelming desire for vaginal sex. But modern conditions take sexuality in all kinds of directions. I'm becoming more convinced of that the more data I look at.
So what's the future of online porn? Where is it going?
I think anal sex will pass vaginal sex in porn within three years. That's what my data models suggest.
Somehow that feels like a perfect point on which to end.
People should buy my book. There's a lot more!
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BLOOD, BONES AND BUTTER: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
2017/06/16 2017/06/16 Posted in Autobiographical, Family, Food, Gay, Humour, Memoir, Romance2 Comments
Even if you are not into food and cooking, read this memoir for the writing. The prose sings it's so fine. Hamilton writes vivid and precise descriptions of anything from a maggot-infested rat to a plate of beautiful ravioli. "You could see the herbs and the ricotta through the dough, like a woman behind a shower curtain." She starts with her childhood when her French mother spent her days at the stove cooking marvellous meals. "The lambs roasted so slowly and patiently that their blood dripped down into the coals with a hypnotic and rhythmic hiss, which sounded like the hot tip of a just-blown-out match dropped into a cup of water." After her parents divorced, when Hamilton was 11, she essentially went out into the world on her own, a precocious adolescent with a badass attitude. She began washing dishes in a hometown restaurant at 13, moved on to waitressing in Manhattan, and has worked, off and on, in professional kitchens ever since. In 1999, Hamilton has owned Prune, a 30-seat East Village bistro. The driving impulse behind her desire to open a restaurant, she explains, was to "harness a hundred pivotal experiences relating to food — including hunger and worry — and translate those experiences into actual plates of food," to reproduce the sort of hospitality she'd experienced travelling "from Brussels to Burma." The chapter on leaving her lesbian lover for the man who becomes her husband and fathers her children is priceless. When visiting her mother-in-law in Italy, cooking becomes the language of their communication. I only hope she continues writing.
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THE END OF EDDY
2017/05/25 2017/05/25 Posted in Abuse, Autobiographical, Bullying, Discrimination, Family, Friendship, Gay, Hate, Literature, Memoir, Sexuality, Uncategorized1 Comment
EDDY is an autobiographical novel of violence and brutality, racism, misogyny and homophobia. It is set in a small manufacturing town in northern France but it could have been in a mining town in Great Brittin or in the southern USA. Into this mileu of active and passive hate grew an unusual boy, Eddy Bellegueule (pretty-face) the birth name of the author, effeminate with a high pitched voice. He instinctively loathes the food, sexuality and clothes of his peers. In consequence, he is beaten, abused and terrorised. As a "faggot" or "homo" he is the lowest of the low; lower than women, lower than even an Arab, Jew or Algerian. He makes repeated attempts to assume the proper masculine role that his culture requires of him, but despite his brother's teachings, every time he fails, he assumes the fault is entirely his. He lives and breathes unqualified self-loathing. He describes his mother, "She was often angry. She'd take any occasion to voice her indignation, railing day in, day out, against the politicians, against new regulations reducing welfare payments, against the powers that be, which she hated from the deepest fibres of her being. And yet she would not hesitate to invoke those same powers she otherwise so hated when she felt ruthlessness was called for: ruthlessness in dealing with Arabs, with alcohol, with drugs, with any kind of sexual behaviour she didn't approve of. She would often remark that 'what we need is some law and order in this country.' " His father took pride in the fact that he didn't beat his wife but the walls were full of holes where he had punched the walls in rage. His older brothers didn't treat their girlfriends so kindly. "I would see my father, after one of our cats had a litter, take the newborn kittens and slip them into a plastic grocery bag and swing it against some cement edge until the bag was filled with blood and the meowing had ceased. I had seen him butcher pigs in the yard, and drink the still-warm blood he was collecting in order to make blood sausage (blood on his lips, his chin, his T-shirt). 'It's the best, the blood you get from an animal right when it dies.' "
EDDY is well written but not an easy read.
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2017/05/23 2017/05/23 Posted in Abuse, Bullying, Canadian, Crime, Family, Friendship, Literature, Sexuality, Thriller2 Comments
BARBARA GOWDY
Rachel is an usually beautiful nine-year old girl, dark skinned with "miraculous chromium yellow" hair. Celia is a single mother, working hard at two jobs to make ends meet. Luckily they have Mika in their lives. He is their landlord who gives them a great deal on their apartment but is also a friend and almost an uncle to Rachel. Ron is a nerdy appliance repairman who drives around town looking at young girls. One day he spots Rachel. "Yes, he said to himself, something happened. I fell in love. Only as he thought it did he realise it was true. A ripple of terror went through him … he began to see himself for what he was: a man gearing up for suffering." He began stalking Rachel. He created a back story for Rachel that her life at home was terrible, full of verbal, physical and sexual abuse. He convinced himself that she would be better off with him. Ron begins to convert the basement of his home into a girl's bedroom, awaits his chance while promising his baby-hungry girlfriend that they will adopt a child. The night of a blackout he gets his chance and steals her away. He convinces his girlfriend to help him care for Rachel.
I don't want to reveal more of the plot but Gowdy is an excellent writer. All the main characters are helpless in their own way. It's a great read.
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THE HUNGRY GHOSTS
2017/05/15 2017/05/15 Posted in Asia, Bullying, Crime, Discrimination, Family, Friendship, Gay, Hate, Historical Fiction, Literature, Racism, Romance, Sexuality, WarLeave a comment
SHYAM SELVADURAI
"In Sri Lankan myth, a person is reborn a peréthaya [hungry ghost] because, during his human life, he desired too much" When his father died,six-year-old Shivan's mother and sister moved with him into his maternal grandmother's house. Daya was an angry and demanding woman who refused to talk to her daughter. Shivan, the grandson, became the golden boy, the reason she would take the family in. While he soaked up his grandmother's recounting of ancient Buddhist tales about ghosts who haunt their future selves until past wrongs are redeemed, Shivan also chafed against her hold on him as he aged. He persuaded his mother to move the family to Canada, as much to get away from Daya as to flee the escalating conflict in Sri Lanka. Not that he could really escape—neither his grandmother nor his troubled country were anywhere near finished wreaking havoc in Shivan's life. On an extended visit back to Sri Lanka, Shivan was taking over his grandmother real estate business until his grandmother had his lover killed.
Ghosts is a well written book. But when Shiven's affair with Michael goes south I wanted to tell the young men to grow up. It could have used some paring down.
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2017/05/02 2017/05/02 Posted in Abuse, Bullying, Crime, Family, Friendship, Hate, Literature, Mystery, Sexuality, Young AdultLeave a comment
JAY ASHER
Having thoroughly enjoyed the show on TV I wanted to read the book and I wasn't disappointed. In many ways the book is more coherent than the show which gets caught up in too many time changes and flashbacks. Hanna Baker is a high school student who commits suicide. She leaves behind thirteen cassette tapes, each directed at one person, each giving a reason she had for killing herself. She talks about the rumours and the betrayals she suffered at the hands of people she longed to call her friends. She mails the tapes to Tony who supervises that they get sent on to the next person. Each chaper of the book is the contents of the tape with minimal backup from Clay the boy who tried but failed to befriend her.
The book is as gripping as the tv show. Maybe more so.
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SERIAL MONOGAMY
2017/04/20 2017/04/20 Posted in Biography, Canadian, Family, Friendship, Historical, Humour, Literature, SexualityLeave a comment
SM tells the stories of two relationships where the men fall out of monogamy with much younger accolades. The story is narrated by Sharon Soleymani, a writer of popular novels. She and her husband, Al, a professor who is a decade older than she is, have young twin daughters and an easy life until their marriage is shaken first by his admission of an affair with a research assistant and then by her diagnosis of breast cancer. When Al first hears of the cancer, he heroically returns home to look after Sharon and his children. Ironicly Sharon married Al only after his first marriage was destroyed by his affair with her. When her treatment finished, Sharon begins to write a serialized novel about Charles Dickens's affair with the actress Nelly Ternan, which began when Nelly was 18 and Dickens a married 45-year-old father of nine. Taylor balances the two stories well, alternating chapters. It is based on historic fact.
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COMPANY TOWN
2017/04/16 2017/04/16 Posted in Abuse, Bullying, Canadian, Crime, Environment, Family, Friendship, Hate, Literature, Mystery, Prostitution, Sci-Fi, Sexuality, Thriller2 Comments
Go Jung-Hwa is unusual. She is completely organic. No augmentations, as most people have added to their physical selves. Hwa is a skilled fighter and bodyguard for the sex workers' union but she hates her body because of a birthmark that stains her skin. Zachariah Lynch, one of the wealthiest people in the world, hires Hwa to protect his heir, his youngest son and genius, Joel. Joel and Hwa are stalked by an invisible serial killer who targets both them and the sex workers Hwa used to guard. How do you defend yourself against an invisible agent?
If you enjoy dystopian fiction, this novel is for you.
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UNDER THE UDALA TREES
THE PISCES
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Red Wings' Vrana Clears Waivers, Proving Wingers Hold Little Value
This week saw Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman do the unthinkable, placing Czechian sniper Jakub Vrana on waivers, free for any NHL team to pick up. The Red Wings fandom was in shambles for exactly 24 hours as it awaited the inevitable announcement of which team decided to take him off waivers.
Jakub Vrana, Detroit Red Wings (Jess Starr/The Hockey Writers)
Instead, fans collectively breathed a massive sigh of relief when it was revealed that Vrana cleared successfully, being passed on by every single NHL team. This move allows Vrana to remain in the American Hockey League (AHL) with the Grand Rapids Griffins for as long as necessary for him to be ready for NHL action again. It's clear that his current situation as a player returning from the Player Assistance Program in need of some serious conditioning time to get back into NHL shape played a big part in him clearing successfully, but it also reveals a weird truth about the current state of the NHL. Cap space is worth more than goals.
Why was Vrana too Risky for other NHL Teams?
Vrana has proven himself to be a very efficient goal scorer in his career thus far and has mostly been hindered by an inability to stay healthy for a long period of time. When it was announced that he was on waivers, stats nerds (myself included) flocked to our computers to look for a reason that Detroit wouldn't want him to play for them. What we found instead was a great number of reasons to keep him, and even to give him a bigger role.
From 2019-20 through 2021-22, Vrana had the second highest rate of 5-on-5 goals per 60 minutes of ice time (among players with over 1,000 minutes played), behind only Auston Matthews (via. Natural Stat Trick). That means he has been a more efficient even strength goal scorer than Connor McDavid, David Pastrnak, and even Alex Ovechkin or the last three seasons or so.
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You don't let a player of that caliber go for nothing, so it became clear that Steve Yzerman and co. had complete confidence that he would make it through waivers unscathed. Perhaps their reason for believing so was because of some secret NHL GM agreement to not claim players who are finally returning to play from the Players Assistance Program, but I think it's more likely that he wasn't picked off waivers because of his contract and the cap struggles that most NHL teams are facing several years into the flat cap era.
Vrana's contract runs through the 2023-24 season and has a cap hit of $5.25M/year. That is a lot of money to commit to any player on waivers, let alone one that has only managed to play 28 NHL games over the last season and a half. There are very few teams with the kind of cap space necessary to add Vrana off waivers without needing to make several other moves for cap purposes, and even then they clearly weren't convinced they'd get the full value of Jakub Vrana soon enough for it to be a worthwhile acquisition.
Vrana Isn't the First Great Winger with Zero Value
In the last year it has become clear to me that scoring wingers have very little trade value, and that additional cap commitments reduce their value further. Oliver Bjorkstrand is a great top-six winger who was a meaningful part of the Columbus Blue Jackets, but he was still traded last summer for just two draft picks (a third and a fourth) to the Seattle Kraken because Columbus was desperate for space to sign Johnny Gaudreau and extend Patrik Laine.
Max Pacioretty, former Vegas Golden Knights winger (Jess Starr/The Hockey Writers)
Then we saw Max Pacioretty traded from the Vegas Golden Knights to the Carolina Hurricanes for future considerations despite him coming off a season where he scored 37 points in 39 games and had just one final year on his contract worth $7M. Actually, Pacioretty had negative value as the Golden Knights were forced to sweeten the deal further, adding young defender Dylan Coghlan to make the deal work. This is the current NHL landscape, a six-time 30-goal scorer had negative value simply because he had one more year on his contract with a more than fair cap-hit. Teams have become desperate for cap space and are more wary than ever of committing to inefficient contracts.
How Should Detroit Handle Their Scoring Wingers?
This recent development means that it is likely best for Detroit to hold onto any scoring wingers until at least next season if they are looking to trade them because they are unlikely to net much in return at this point in time.
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One such player who has been brought up a lot over the last year or so is Tyler Bertuzzi who doesn't have a contract past the end of this season. I expect that his injury troubles this year will prevent any team from looking to add him at this year's trade deadline, but I also don't see Detroit being super excited about extending him long-term at this point. Unless the Red Wings are prepared for him to walk in free agency, I think the best course of action is another short-term deal, either one or two years, and then they can explore a trade again when the salary cap begins to increase.
David Perron was a great pickup for the Red Wings in free agency last summer, and it was clear early on that he could be a great acquisition just for the return that he could net Detroit if they were willing to move him. As we near the halfway point of the NHL season, it is gradually becoming more and more clear that Detroit is unlikely to make the playoffs this year and moving on from Perron could be a really helpful move.
David Perron, Detroit Red Wings (Jess Starr/The Hockey Writers)
However, since we know that scoring wingers don't have a ton of value, I'm not sure that Perron and his $4.75M/year cap hit would be worth too much at this year's trade deadline, even if Detroit agreed to retain 50% of the cap hit. I may be wrong because Perron is a solid two-way winger with tons of playoff experience rather than a one-dimensional offensive player, but I expect he will have even more value at this time next year when he is a pure rental, and the acquiring team won't need to commit any cap space to him past the current season.
When Will Wingers Be Worthwhile Again?
The flat cap era has forced GMs to re-evaluate how they distribute their cap dollars and unfortunately the biggest casualties so far have been offensively tilted wingers. If Vrana can pass through waivers untouched, then this has developed past my wildest expectations. He could realistically be a 40-goal scorer in a top-six role and every NHL team decided he wasn't worth the risk and the cap cost.
It's possible (though unlikely) that the NHL salary cap could increase by as much as $4M this coming off-season, and that would likely go a long way to re-establishing the value of wingers around the league, but the cap is much more likely to rise by about $1M again this summer, setting fans and GMs up for at least one more season of cap squeeze and low valuations for wingers.
Once the cap finally goes up again, we will likely see plenty of lavish contracts handed out to players who aren't quite worth it, as we saw in the 2016 offseason when NHL GMs made a ton of wild choices. All it will take for wingers to recoup their value is for the cap ceiling to rise, and the only thing they can do about it is wait.
Logan is the director of prospect coverage (including the World Junior Championship and NHL Draft) for The Hockey Writers, and he's also a part of the Detroit Red Wings writing team. He loves reading about statistics and advanced analytics, and discovering how they can enrich his hockey analysis and writing.
This article was originally published by Thehockeywriters.com. Read the original article here.
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Evolution of plug-in electric vehicle demand: Assessing consumer perceptions and intent to purchase over time
Sanya Carley, Saba Siddiki, Sean Nicholson-Crotty
The diffusion of plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) is a topic that has received substantial attention in recent years. In part, this heightened interest reflects rapid concurrent developments in policy, technology, and industry strategies designed to spur the uptake of this radical, emerging technology. Governments from all levels are enacting various monetary and non-monetary incentives to encourage PEV adoption; developments in battery technology are likening the performance of PEVs to conventional vehicles; and all major vehicle manufacturers now have a PEV offering. Ultimately, however, the effect of these developments is contingent upon consumer interest. Thus, in this paper we study whether, alongside technology and market developments, consumer interest in PEVs has changed over time. To answer this question, we evaluate the degree to which intent to purchase or lease a battery electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, respectively, has changed between 2011 and 2017, and how the factors that explain variation in such intent have also changed over time. Our data come from two national surveys of potential car buyers in the 21 largest American cities. Among the key findings that we derive from the analysis are that, among survey respondents, intent to purchase a PEV has increased between 2011 and 2017, and perceptions about the trialability, observability, network effects, and policies explain an increasing share of the variation in intent to purchase as time evolves.
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2019.04.002
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Carley, S., Siddiki, S., & Nicholson-Crotty, S. (2019). Evolution of plug-in electric vehicle demand: Assessing consumer perceptions and intent to purchase over time. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 70, 94-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2019.04.002
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Carley, S, Siddiki, S & Nicholson-Crotty, S 2019, 'Evolution of plug-in electric vehicle demand: Assessing consumer perceptions and intent to purchase over time', Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, vol. 70, pp. 94-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2019.04.002
Carley S, Siddiki S, Nicholson-Crotty S. Evolution of plug-in electric vehicle demand: Assessing consumer perceptions and intent to purchase over time. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. 2019 May;70:94-111. doi: 10.1016/j.trd.2019.04.002
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Progressive government policies on broadband infrastructure and an active regulatory regime have also contributed to Estonia having one of the highest broadband penetration rates in Europe. Broadband is available via a range of fixed-line and wireless technologies, with ADSL2+, FttP, cable, Wi-Fi, WiMAX and HSPA/LTE platforms widely available. The incumbent telco Telia Estonia is the dominant provider of DSL-based services, while cable broadband is the main competing platform. Telia is planning to end DSL-based services by the end of 2020, migrating customers to its G.fast and fibre networks. Elisa's consolidation with the principal cableco Starman in April 2017 has enabled the operator to offer a more comprehensive suite of bundled services, and so compete more effectively with Telia.
High broadband penetration has underpinned Estonia's emerging internet economy, with various e-commerce, e-government, e-education and e-health services available and widely used.
This report provides statistics and an overview of broadband market developments and trends in Estonia, as well as subscribers forecasts.
Report update includes operator data to Q4 2018, Statistics Estonia data to June 2018, regulator's market data updates and 2017 annual report, recent market developments.
Telia Estonia, Elisa, Starman, STV, Viasat, Levira, Baltic Broadband.


A recent editorial in Journal of Molecular Evolution highlights opportunities and challenges facing molecular evolution in the era of next-generation sequencing. Abundant sequence data should allow more-complex models to be fit at higher confidence, making phylogenetic inference more reliable and improving our understanding of evolution at the molecular level. However, concern that approaches based on multiple sequence alignment may be computationally infeasible for large datasets is driving the development of so-called alignment-free methods for sequence comparison and phylogenetic inference. The recent editorial characterized these approaches as model-free, not based on the concept of homology, and lacking in biological intuition. We argue here that alignment-free methods have not abandoned models or homology, and can be biologically intuitive.
We acknowledge financial support from The University of Queensland.


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HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1990s → 1998 → February 1998 → 5 February 1998 → Written Answers (Commons) → SOCIAL SECURITY
HC Deb 05 February 1998 vol 305 cc793-5W 793W
§ Mr. Burns
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his answer of 22 December 1997,794W Official Report, column 465, for the period 23 July 1997 to 23 January 1998, how many (a) letters were sent out to lone parents, (b) lone parents attended interviews or booked appointments, (c) lone parents agreed to continue to participate following an interview, (d) lone parents found jobs, (e) lone parents failed to respond to the initial letter sent to them and (f) lone parents declined to participate following an interview with a personal adviser. [27540]
§ Mr. Keith Bradley
Sufficient data to evaluate the results of the New Deal for Lone Parents are not yet available, and conclusions cannot be drawn from early figures. A full report of the New Deal for Lone Parents will be published in 1999. The impact of the first phase will be measured by comparing outcomes for lone parents in the New Deal areas with the outcomes for lone parents in a similar, but geographically separate, group of control areas where the New Deal service is not yet available.
Information on the operation of the New Deal for Lone Parents is available up to and including 31 December.
As at 31 December 1997: 16,311 first invitations had been issued to lone parents. 5,240 initial interviews had been arranged, and 3,404 lone parents had attended interviews. 2,728 lone parents had agreed to participate in the New Deal for lone Parents following initial interviews. 1,015 lone parents have found jobs following agreement to participate in the New Deal for Lone Parents programme.
Information on the number of lone parents who have failed to respond to initial letters is not available from the Management Information Statistics reports which are kept on New Deal for Lone Parents. However, Personal Advisers will follow up initial letters with further contacts.
676 lone parents have declined to participate in the New Deal for Lone Parents programme following an interview with a personal adviser.
§ Mr. Duncan Smith
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many lone parents through the New Deal for Lone Parents(a) have been sent letters, (b) have obtained employment and (c) of those who obtained employment were in full-time employment on 1 February. [27698]
Data for 1 February 1998 are not yet available. As of 31 December 1997, 16,311 lone parents had received initial letters through the New Deal for Lone Parents; 1,015 lone parents had obtained employment; of which 755 were in full-time employment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many lone parents who have obtained work through the New Deal for Lone Parents scheme are aged(a) between 21 and 25, (b) between 26 and 30, (c) between 31 and 35, (e) between 36 and 40 and (f) over 40 years of age. [27699]
The information requested is set out in the table.
Number of lone parents who have obtained work through the new deal for lone parent by age groups as of 31 December 1997
Age Group Number of lone parents who have obtained jobs
over 40 155
§ Mr. Sarwar
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is her estimate of the number of lone parents who are(a) in work and (b) not in work. [25648]
We estimate that there are around 730,000 lone parents in work and 930,000 out of work.
Notes: These figures are derived from the latest Department of Social Security estimates of the total number of lone parents in 1996–97, and from the Spring 1997 Labour Force Survey which suggests that around 44 per cent of lone parents in Great Britain are in work. In work" includes those lone parents who are employed, self-employed and in Government training schemes on a part-time or full-time basis. Figures rounded to the nearest 10,000.
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Tallinn, March 19, Interfax - The Russian embassy to Estonia has denounced the last Saturday's anti-Semitic verbal attack on the Estonian chief rabbi.
On March 16, while Estonian Chief Rabbi Shmuel Kot and his children were on their way to a synagogue for a Shabbat service on Saturday, a man approached them and started uttering anti-Semitic and Nazi statements in the Estonian language. The police launched an inquiry and detained a 27-year-old man, who pleaded guilty, in Tallinn on the same day.
"The Russian embassy to Estonia strongly condemns blasphemous anti-Semitic statements against Estonian Chief Rabbi Kot. We are especially indignant at the threats of repeating horrible crimes of the Hitler troops, which have killed millions of Jews, Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles and representatives of other 'non-Aryan' races at death camps," the diplomatic mission said in a statement on Monday.
"Estonia occupied by the Germans has also been affected. Monuments at the site of the former concentration camp in Klooga are a graphical confirmation to that," the statement reads.
"The Russian side has repeatedly warned Estonian authorities that abetment to the heroization of Nazi criminals and their accomplices, in honor of whom regular gatherings take place, memorial plaques and busts are unveiled, will bring its poisonous results sooner or later. This is disregarding this kind of shameful phenomena that brings about a feeling of going unpunished in supporters of reviving the Judenfrei regime in Estonia," the embassy said.
Meanwhile, Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas condemned this anti-Semitic incident. Urmas Viilma, the Archbishop of Tallinn and Primate of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, also sent an open letter to the chief rabbi to support him and apologize for the incident. The U.S. embassy to Estonia also denounced the anti-Semitic verbal attack on Monday.
In this connection, the Jewish community in Estonia expressed concern by the possible coming to power of the nationalistic Conservative People's Party, many members of which make statements hostile to ethnic minorities and divide the society into theirs and others.


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French telecom giant Orange plans to cut ties with Israel: CEO
Published June 3rd, 2015 - 07:18 GMT
The chief executive officer of a major European cell phone company said on Wednesday that he would gladly cut ties with Israel "tomorrow" if it wasn't so financially prohibitive.
French telecom operator Orange Chairman and CEO Stephane Richard told reporters in Cairo that his company wished to distance itself from its role in facilitating Israel's rule over the Palestinian territories.
Orange, which has an affiliate agreement with the Israeli firm Partner, is one of Israel's largest cellular service providers.
Human rights organizations in France have been pressuring Orange to cease its business operations in Israel in protest of Jerusalem's policies in the West Bank.
"Believe me I would cancel the contract tomorrow if I could," Richard said. His comments were reported by the Daily News Egypt.
Richard said that the language of Orange's contract with its Israeli operator precludes it from pulling out.
"We didn't renew the contract, we wanted to change the terms of the contract and include a termination date, as there previously wasn't a termination date, and gave us no possibility of leaving the deal," he said.
"We want to terminate this and to fix this, we don't want it," he said. "In the existing contract, it gives us the option to terminate this without exposing this to a huge financial risk. If you were the CEO of this company you would act the same."
The executive said that the company is in a legally disadvantageous position when it comes to Israeli law.
"The only other possibility would be to enter a dispute with the partner, and I'm sorry to say but entering a dispute when you have zero legal grounds in Israeli courts is not something I would recommend for my company," Richard said. "I am not willing to pay hundreds of millions of euros just because I have to take a risk in terms of penalties."
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Tres romanzas para oboe y piano, Op. 94 () es una pieza de música de cámara compuesta por Robert Schumann en diciembre de 1849 y publicada en 1851. Se trata de su única composición para oboe. Consta de tres breves piezas en forma de lied ternario y fue escrita durante lo que se especuló que pude ser uno de los episodios maníacos del compositor. La obra está dedicada a su amigo Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski.

El autor
Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Compositor y crítico musical alemán, fue uno de los principales exponentes del estilo romántico, cuyas principales características eran una elaboración más dramática de la melodía y el uso de tensas progresiones armónicas. Sus aportaciones más relevantes son su música para piano solo (Carnaval Op. 9, Kinderszenen Op. 15, etc.), sus Lieder (Dichterliebe) y su música de cámara para instrumentos de viento (Adagio y allegro Op. 70, Drei Fantasiestücke Op. 73), entre la que se encuadra la obra que trata este texto: Drei Romanzen Opus 94, para oboe con acompañamiento de piano. Schumann fue emocionalmente inestable (falleció en un sanatorio mental tras un intento de suicidio), y se cree que esta obra fue escrita durante un episodio maníaco del compositor, aunque su carácter se identifica mucho más con el de un período depresivo.

La característica más reseñable de la obra es, en lo referente al oboe, su gran exigencia física, siendo junto con el Concierto para oboe TrV 292 de Richard Strauss una de las pruebas de resistencia más duras de las que se encuentran en el repertorio para el instrumento, demandando al intérprete una gran capacidad para abordar largos pasajes con flexibilidad y dramatismo durante los quince minutos que dura la obra aproximadamente - cada movimiento ronda cinco minutos de fraseo casi ininterrumpido -. Así mismo, también presenta un gran reto tanto técnica como interpretativamente para el pianista, ya que el acompañamiento obedece a una escritura muy densa y compleja. Esto es porque Schumann tenía en mente las prodigiosas cualidades de su esposa Clara - virtuosa pianista - cuando escribía para este instrumento.

Historia
Drei Romanzen se traduciría al castellano como "Tres romances", aunque se ha popularizado su denominación como "Tres romanzas". Se trata de la única obra que Schumann escribió para el oboe, si bien ya le había confiado ocho años antes un valioso solo al comienzo de su Concierto para piano Op. 54, curiosamente en la misma tonalidad que las romanzas: la menor. Son, en esencia, tres Lieder ohne Worte (canciones sin palabras) escritas para oboe y piano durante los días 7, 11 y 12 de diciembre de 1949 en Dresde, a las que el compositor denominó como su "centésimo opusculum", y que fueron ideadas como un regalo navideño para Clara, aunque Schumann dedicó una copia de la obra a su amigo - y posteriormente primer biógrafo - el director de orquesta y violinista Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski, en parte a causa de que desde que se escribieron, estas piezas fueron tocadas también por violinistas. De hecho, la primera interpretación de la obra de la que se tiene constancia fue la que ofrecieron el violinista François Schubert - concertino de la Königlichen Kapelle - con la propia Clara al piano en un concierto privado en la casa de los Schumann el 27 de diciembre de 1849.

La influencia de las casas editoras
La obra fue probada por un oboísta - Friedrich Rougier, de la orquesta de Düsseldorf - en un ensayo cerrado con Clara al piano el 2 de noviembre de 1850, y enviada a la editorial N. Simrock el día 13 de ese mes para que procediera a su edición. Peter Joseph Simrock, en una carta fechada el 19 de noviembre de 1850, pidió permiso a Schumann para cambiar el subtítulo de la obra - escrito en la portada - que decía así: "para oboe, ad libitum violín o clarinete", proponiéndole editar tres versiones por separado con portadas dedicadas cada una exclusivamente a un instrumento, a lo que Schumann se negó, respondiéndole el 24 de ese mismo mes en otra carta: "Si hubiera escrito originalmente esta obra para violín o clarinete, sería una pieza muy distinta. Lamento no poder cumplir con tus deseos, (…)". Simrock mantuvo el título que mencionaba al oboe como instrumento más adecuado en la portada, aunque editó y publicó la obra en Bonn a finales de enero de 1851 con versiones alternativas para cada uno de los tres instrumentos, desoyendo la opinión de Schumann y obedeciendo a un interés comercial, pues el oboe no era un instrumento popular en aquella época, siendo mucho más rentable publicar obras para otros instrumentos que también se tocaran en el ámbito privado y no sólo en el orquestal. Tras la muerte de Schumann, su viuda realizó una edición completa de sus obras, y, dado que había interpretado las romanzas acompañando a violinistas, también incluyó una adaptación para violín en su edición, aunque omitió esta vez añadir otra para el clarinete, publicándose esta versión en 1878 por la editorial Breitkopf & Härtel. La edición mejor valorada en la actualidad es la de G. Henle Verlag.

Estreno en concierto
Schumann nunca vio la obra estrenada en público por ningún oboísta, pues no fue hasta 1863, siete años después de su muerte, cuando se programó en la Gewandhaus de Leipzig en dos conciertos - el 24 de enero y el 14 de febrero, respectivamente - corriendo la parte de oboe a cargo del danés Emilius Lund - oboísta de la corte de Estocolmo -, y la parte de piano a cargo del compositor Carl Reinecke.

Estructura y análisis
La obra consta de tres movimientos:

 I. Nicht schnell, en la menor
 II. Einfach, innig, en la mayor
 III. Nicht schnell, en la menor

Todos ellos siguen la forma de lied ternario, esto es, ABA, contando con largas codas al final de cada uno. Además, resulta muy interesante compositivamente hablando que los tres movimientos conforman una macroestructura ABA también, pues el primero y el tercero comparten carácter, tempo y tonalidad predominante, mientras que el intermedio es muy diferente al resto tanto armónicamente como en las indicaciones de tempo y expresión.

I. Nicht schnell
La primera romanza tiene como indicación Nicht schnell, literalmente "no rápido", o mejor traducido como moderato; siendo el compás de 3/4. Melódicamente encontramos un inicio anacrúsico que aporta mucho lirismo, en una primera sección A en la que el oboe y el piano dialogan en una dinámica piano, generalmente en torno a la tonalidad de la menor, aunque ocasionalmente flexiona a mi menor. Destaca la entrada del oboe en piano con un do sostenido grave por su dificultad técnica, tras la cual se comienza a modular a do mayor, dando paso a la sección B. Dicha sección contrasta fuertemente, estando escrita en forte, y armónicamente principalmente en do mayor, aunque en ocasiones flexiona también a mi menor. El scherzando nos marca con una creciente tensión la vuelta de nuevo a la sección A en la tercera sección, que viene seguida de una extensa coda en la que la melodía va descendiendo hasta el si grave del oboe, siento ésta la primera obra en la que el registro del oboe es expandido hasta ese extremo. Tras esta nota el oboe realiza una "cadencia escrita" que cierra el movimiento.

II. Einfach, innig
La segunda romanza, escrita en compás de compasillo, lleva la indicación Einfach, inning, que significa "sencillo, cordial". Comienza en la mayor con una melodía por terceras del oboe, donde el legato y el piano que se demandan requieren de una gran flexibilidad. El oboe dialoga consigo mismo, percibiéndose cambios de color por medio de breves flexiones armónicas. Finaliza la primera sección de forma plácida con una apoyatura (recurso que se observa a lo largo de todo el movimiento), dando paso súbitamente a la segunda sección, la más dramática tanto de esta romanza en particular como de toda la obra en general. Con una indicación de Etwas lebhafter, "algo intenso", el oboe articula grotescamente un do sostenido grave, nota de dicción muy tosca, rompiendo abruptamente la atmósfera calmada que existía hasta ese momento, y reiterando esta ruptura en el do sostenido medio y en el do sostenido sobreagudo (mediante saltos de muy difícil control) creando una gran tensión que se ve exagerada por los numerosos sforzandi, crescendi y acentos, así como por las entradas que el oboe realiza con los fa sostenido acentuados, situadas en la parte más débil del compás creándose un desfase métrico entre la melodía del oboe y el acompañamiento del piano, que adquiere una profundidad y rudeza inusitada. Toda esta tensión se rompe con una apoyatura que cadencia a fa sostenido menor, enlazando directamente con la tercera sección. Reseñable en la coda el cambio armónico que se da entre los acordes de do sostenido mayor y fa mayor, para continuar con la cadencia si, mi, la (fa es el segundo grado rebajado de mi mayor).

III. Nicht schnell
La última romanza recupera el espíritu de la primera, con su mismo tempo y tonalidad, aunque conservándose el compás de la segunda romanza. En la primera sección, que comienza en la nota mi (nota recurrente durante todo el movimiento), el oboe dialoga constantemente con el piano, encontrando por un lado momentos más melancólicos, y por otro lado momentos más lúdicos, en los que el salto descendente de octava en staccato presenta cierta dificultad técnica. El primer momento lúdico gira en torno a do mayor, mientras que el segundo se mantiene en la menor. El piano es quien introduce la segunda sección - dando un oportuno descanso al oboísta, que ya ha invertido mucha energía a estas alturas de la obra -, con una risueña melodía en do mayor que luego es cantada por el oboe, con una entrada de un do grave en piano que requiere de gran habilidad. Igualmente el piano introduce una nueva frase en la que el uso de tresillos otorga un carácter más sugerente, y la armonía es coloreada mediante la introducción del si bemol. El oboe realiza la nueva frase tras el piano, girando en torno a la nota mi, hasta que comienza la última sección. En la coda, el si bemol hace de nuevo su aparición, construyéndose un acorde de sexta napolitana que da paso a un tranquilo final en el que el oboe realiza un pedal sobre la nota mi, finalizando la pieza en la mayor.

Relevancia de la obra
Schumann utiliza numerosos recursos de armonía, dinámica, interválica, métrica, etc., así como el uso del piano de forma muy inteligente para conseguir un amplio abanico de sensaciones a lo largo de toda la obra. Lleva hasta el límite, dentro del estilo romántico, las cualidades expresivas del oboe, habiendo creado una pieza para el oboe en la que se explota el fraseo de una forma que nunca se había hecho antes. Es por ello que esta obra ha conseguido un puesto de honor dentro del repertorio del oboe desde prácticamente el día de su publicación, siendo habitualmente encontrada en recitales, concursos, pruebas de acceso a centros de enseñanza, o en las propias programaciones de dichos centros. Además, es de los rarísimos ejemplos de música romántica para oboe fuera del repertorio orquestal, lo que le otorga un valor añadido.

Selección de grabaciones
Para disfrutar de esta obra son recomendables las grabaciones que notables oboístas han realizado de ella como puedan ser la de François Leleux acompañado por Eric Le Sage para la discográfica Alpha, la de Ramón Ortega Quero acompañado por Kateryna Titova para la discográfica Genuin, o la de Albrecht Mayer acompañado por Markus Becker para la discográfica DECCA.

Repertorio del oboe
Junto con las romanzas se encuentran las siguientes obras dentro de lo más notable de su repertorio:

Barroco italiano
 Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751): 12 Concerti à cinque Opus 7 (1715), 12 Concerti à cinque Opus 9 (1722)
 Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Concerti per oboe

Barroco alemán
 Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745): 6 Trio Sonatas ZWV 181 (1722)
 Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767): Die kleine Cammer-Music TWV 41 (c.1716)
 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788): Oboe Sonata H 549 (c.1735)

Clasicismo
 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Konzert für Oboe und Orchester K 314 (1777), Quartett für Oboe und Streicher K 370 (1781)
 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): "La cì darem la mano" Variationen WoO 28 (1795)

Postromanticismo germánico
 Richard Strauss (1864-1949): Konzert für Oboe und kleines Orchester TrV 292 (1945, rev. 1947)

Expresionismo
 Paul Hindemith (1895-1963): Trio für Bratsche, Heckelphone und Klavier Opus 47 (1928), Oboe Sonata (1938), Englisch Horn Sonata (1941), Septett für Bläser (1948)
 Bern Alois Zimmermann (1918-1970): Konzert für Oboe und kleines Orchester (1952)

Escuela francesa
 Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921): Sonate pour hautbois Opus 166 (1921)
 Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959): Concerto pour hautbois avec petit orchestre H 353 (1955)
 Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): Trio pour hautbois, basson et piano FP 43 (1926), Sextet pour vents et piano FP 100 (1932, rev. 1939), Sonate pour hautbois FP 185 (1962)
 Eugène Bozza (1905-1991): Fantaisie pastorale Opus 37 (1939)
 Jean Françaix (1912-1997): L'Horloge de Flore (1959), Trio pour hautbois, basson et piano (1994)
 Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013): Sonate pour hautbois (1947), Les Citations (1990)
 Philippe Hurel (n.1955): Volutes (2021)
 Gilles Silvestrini (n.1961): Six Études (1984), Cinq Études russes (2012), Six Études pittoresques (2013), Six Études romantiques (2018)

Música programática
 Benjamin Britten (1913-1976): Six Metamorphoses after Ovid Opus 49 (1951)

Legado de Heinz Holliger
 Antal Doráti (1906-1988): Cinq Pièces pour le hautbois (1980), Duo concertante (1981)
 Luciano Berio (1925-2003): Sequenza VII (1969)

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