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h a p p y b i r t h d a y

Susan Sarandon

4 October 1946

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[pic: sarandon as sister helen prejean, dead man walking, 1995]

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Albert Prejean-Danielle Darrieux "Se acabó la crisis" (La crise est finie) 1934, de Robert Siodmak.

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my GOD this is incredible.

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Alibi (L’alibi) (The Alibi) (1937) Pierre Chenal

June 7th 2023

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Reblogging again to add some helpful links

The petition started by Sister Helen Prejean to demand the halting of Ivan Cantu's execution. It currently needs less than 20,000 signatures to reach its goal.

Contact information for the Collin County District Attorney's office

A recent article (originally posted on February 8th, 2024) from The Texas Tribune on Cantu's case and his current situation.

Mike’s instagram

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Devin James Prejean

Incarceration Date: 06/12/2023

Charge: SET ASIDE BOND (FEL)

Bond: 0$

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A recommended reading list of books I own and have read

A Demon in my View by Ruth Rendell

A Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell

A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett

A Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

A Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin

All Around the Town by Mary Higgins Clark

An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Bag of Bones by Stephen King

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Breaking Blue by Timothy Egan

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

Carrie by Stephen King

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean

Dead Run by Erica Spindler

Dream Girl by Laura Lippman

Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Every Breath You Take by Ann Rule

Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fatal Flowers by Rosemary Daniell

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison

Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule

Help the Poor Struggler by Martha Grimes

High Lonesome by Joyce Carol Oates

I Am the Only Running Footman by Martha Grimes

I Know You Know by Gilly Macmillan

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg

If You Really Loved Me by Ann Rule

In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Just Kids by Patti Smith

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

Menfreya in the Morning by Victoria Holt

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

My Sweet Audrina by by V.C. Andrews

Never Look Back by Alison Gaylin

Night Gaunts by Joyce Carol Oates

Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

Nowhere Like Home by Sara Shepard

Over Tumbled Graves by Jess Walter

Pearl in the Mist by V.C. Andrews

Petals on the Wind by V.C. Andrews

Pursuit by Joyce Carol Oates

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Ruby by V.C. Andrews

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

Slenderman by Kathleen Hale

Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule

Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke

Summer by Edith Wharton

Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

The 9th Girl by Tami Hoag

The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates

The Anodyne Necklace by Martha Grimes

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh

The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins

The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfeld

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Cutler series by V.C. Andrews

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware

The Deer Leap by Martha Grimes

The Doll Master by Joyce Carol Oates

The Elizas by Sara Shepard

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

The Female of the Species by Joyce Carol Oates

The Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray

The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Hudson series by V.C. Andrews

The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

The Logan series by V.C. Andrews

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Lying Game by Sara Shepard

The Old Contemptibles By Martha Grimes

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Prince of Lost Places by Kathy Hepinstall

The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence

The Right Hand of Evil by John Saul

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Shining by Stephen King

The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls

The Stand by Stephen King

The Strange Beautiful by Carla Crujido

The Sundial by Shirley Jackson

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Third Twin by Ken Follett

The Torn Skirt by Rebecca Godfrey

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

The Turn of the Screw & Daisy Miller by Henry James

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey

Vanish by Tess Gerritsen

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

Wait for Me by Sara Shepard

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Watching You by Lisa Jewell

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

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Kim K is probably the last person I expected to see talking about Ivan Cantu, but you know what? Good for her, glad to have her on board (and that she heard about him from Sister Helen is awesome). Maybe now something can be done to stop his execution

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With Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, inside of me are two wolves.

The First wolf: wow, what a chilling and heavy and nuanced piece about the extremities of redemption and empathy and spirituality regarding capital punishment that when done right presents it neutrally and showing Sister Helen Prejean as a woman of deep humanity in a difficult position and plus with the Met Opera’s production we get to see Queen Joyce Di Donato shine again.

The Other Wolf:

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A spicy, second chance, dark romance with an unhealthy splash of vigilante justice and organized crime.

"Saving Scarlett" by C.A. Varian weaves a tale of love and redemption, where an unlikely hero emerges from the shadows to rescue the woman he never expected to save.

In the vibrant heart of New Orleans, Scarlett Prejean's life, filled with beauty and ambition, is overshadowed by her abusive husband, Joshua. As the proud owner of a cozy bookstore, she seeks solace from the relentless cruelty of her marriage. However, fate takes a dark turn when Joshua hires Bane, an assassin bound by a relentless code, to end Scarlett's life tragically. What Joshua doesn't anticipate is the profound twist that awaits.

When Bane encounters the battered Scarlett, an overwhelming urge to protect her defies his assigned mission. Despite her scars from years of torment, Scarlett ends up under the care of her would-be executioner. In the intertwining of their lives, they grapple with an undeniable attraction, their backgrounds clashing starkly. Scarlett wrestles with her feelings for a man labeled as a killer, yet she glimpses the gentleness hidden beneath Bane's tough exterior.

Their love story unfolds against a backdrop of treacherous secrets and betrayals, guided by the brilliant hacker, Phantom, unraveling the intricate threads binding Scarlett's destiny to the criminal underworld. Their journey is a tumultuous blend of passion, danger, love, and vengeance. The burning question persists: will Bane and Scarlett find the love they desperately crave, or will those seeking their downfall ultimately triumph?

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#ElEscenarioDelMundo

🗣 Temporada Radial del The Metropolitan Opera ♬

🎼 Tardes de Ópera: “DEAD MAN WALKING”🎭

✍️ Compositor:Jake Heggie (Estados Unidos)

💥 Argumento: Mattew Poncelet es un condenado a muerte en Luisiana por el asesinato de dos adolescentes, aunque él afirma no haberlo cometido, dice que lo había hecho su compañero aquella noche. Con la esperanza de conseguir ayuda se empieza a escribir con la hermana Helen Prejean, quien faltando poco más de una semana para la ejecución, intentará que este consiga la absolución, con la ayuda de un abogado amigo suyo, y la paz espiritual, convirtiéndose ella en su guía. Basada en las memorias de la Hermana Helen Prejean.

👥 Elenco: Joyce DiDonato, Susan Graham, Latonia Moore y Ryan McKinny

🗣🎻 Coro y Orquesta MET (Estados Unidos)

📢 Dirección: Yannick Nézet Séguin (Canadá)

📅 Año: 2023

💫 Transmisión:

📆 Sábado 20 de Enero

🕐 1:00pm.

⌛️ Duración: 180 minutos

🎙️Conducción: Gonzalo Tello y Grete Arce

📻 Radio Filarmonia 102.7 FM

🌐 Web: bit.ly/filarmoniaradio

🙋 Acceso gratuito

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DESAINER BAJU LGBT UNTUK ANAK DI SUPERMARKET TARGET TERNYATA PEMUJA SETAN

Belakangan ini, supermarket Target menuai kritik karena menjual baju anak bertema LGBTQ dari jenama Abprallen. Protes kian bermunculan setelah desainer Abprallen, Eric Carnell, terungkap sebagai satanist atau pemuja setan.

Salah satu protes datang dari organisasi bernama The Battle Cry. Organisasi ini didirikan oleh tiga orang wanita bernama Carrie Prejean Boller, Brittany Mayer, dan Melissa O'Connor.

The Battle Cry didirikan untuk melawan ideologi woke seputar gender yang dipaksakan kepada anak-anak. Oleh karena itu, kerja sama antara Target dan Abprallen yang merilis baju anak bertema LGBTQ mengundang kemarahan The Battle Cry dan banyak orang tua lain di media sosial.

Salah satu produk baju anak bertema LGBTQ yang dirilis oleh Abprallen dan dijajakan di gerai-gerai Target adalah baju renang tuck-friendly. Baju renang anak perempuan ini didesain agar nyaman digunakan dan antiselip untuk anak laki-laki yang ingin menggunakan baju renang anak perempuan.

Tak hanya itu, Abprallen juga meluncurkan beragam merchandise pro LGBTQ yang ditempatkan di bagian anak pada gerai Target. Target bahkan memasang simbol-simbol pelangi dan LGBTQ di berbagai area toko, termasuk area anak.

Di sisi lain, Carnell juga dikenal sebagai sosok pemuja setan yang vokal. Tak jarang, Carnell menuangkan pesan atau gambar terkait pemujaan setan dalam produk Abprallen.

"Tampaknya Target bekerjasama dengan iblis dan bila Anda tak menyukainya, ini saatnya untuk bersuara lantang," ujar Mayer, seperti dilansir Fox News, Ahad (28/5/2023).

Mayer mengungkapkan bahwa langkah yang dilakukan oleh Target dan Abprallen jelas menjadikan anak-anak sebagai target. Hal inilah yang membuat The Battle Cry melakukan kampanye dan mengajak warga Amerika Serikat untuk memprotes Target.

"Kasih tahu mereka perasaan Anda dan pendirian Anda," kata O'Connor.

The Battle Cry juga telah meluncurkan sebuah challenge atau tantangan untuk Juni mendatang. Melalui Tantangan Juni ini, The Battle Cry mengajak orang-orang untuk menolak penggunaan pronoun atau kata ganti yang dibuat-buat, seperti penggunaan kata ganti "she" dan "her" untuk transgender wanita yang lahir secara biologis sebagai pria.

"Kami akan melawan sekte ini. Kami akan memenangkan peperangan ini, dan kami membutuhkan Anda sekalian, masyarakat, untuk bangkit dan berdiri bersama kami, dan memperjuangkan peperangan ini bersama para wanita di the Battle Cry," kata Prejean Boller.

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Risk factors that increase STD prevalence in elderly There are two health conditions that are specifically bad in nature plus bring many other health disorders with them too. These are obesity and aging. As a person gets older, his bones, immunity system, heart, and muscles become weaker. The elders can easily catch infections that take longer to be treated. Hence the aged people are more prone to getting sexually transmitted diseases or commonly known as STDs. Given a weaker recovery and immunity system, the treatment becomes lengthy and painful. STDs among elders have increased over last few years and if not dealt properly, the occurrence of STDs will rise among the elders which will be more costly too. It is therefore necessary to develop STD risk awareness among elders through nursing (Linley, Prejean, an, Chen, and Hall, 2012). Nurses can do a great job in preventing; protecting against and treating STDs for the elders therefore they should be trained and taught how to tell the elders about the risk factors that increase STD prevalence. Age and Sex The elders, like the children, are more prone to infections and diseases. The reason why elders cannot actively fight viral attacks, infections and allergies is that their T- cells get weaker that fight agents attacking body. The research conducted on the elders show that they are getting more STDs every year. With the rise in use of sexually helpful medication, the aged people are actively having relationships. About 80% of aged people between the ages of 50 to 90-year are actively involved in sex. The active sexual behavior automatically increases the risks of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia, as studied in America and England. About 900 cases were registered in year 2000 alone for syphilis in people between ages of 45 to 64 years. The number has grown to above 2,500 by 2010. Also there were 6,700 diagnosed cases of chlamydia in 2000 and 19,000 cases in 2010. People with HIV above age of 50 have doubled between 2000 and 2009. This shows how critical the situation is becoming. Risk for Elders The elders do not only have the right to make their personal life decisions but they are as prone to the negative consequences of this as are young people, and some suggest that they are even more vulnerable. Brooks, Buchacz, Gebo, and Mermin (2012) mention the results of a study by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in their research. They say that about 10.8% of 50,000 patients of HIV are above 50 years age. 5% of these patients were above the age of 60. Brook et. al also mentioned that major reason for getting the worst STD i.e. HIV was not using protection like condoms. 91.5% intercourse was carried out with use of condoms among the casual partners (Illa et al., 2010). It is discussed that another reason for getting more STDs and HIV is that the increasing rates of old age divorces emotionally weaken broken spouses and they do not realize the risks of unsafe intercourse hence they do not adopt safety measures with new partners too. Besides that, even after getting STDs, the elders show less motivation to join treatment and therapy sessions. Depression and STDs Often people are less careful about themselves that leads them to risky lifestyles and finally trapping them into diseases. Hutton, Lyketsos, Zenilman, Thompson, and Erbelding, (2004) have a belief, backed by their research on elder patients, that there is high occurrence of clinical depression among the elder people that have HIV. Their depression is evident form not adopting safe procedures, like condoms, for intercourse. Often aged people are stressful and what they are concerned with is to find company and stress releasing activities. They seldom care if their health is at stake or not. Although depression is not directly linked to HIV or STDs, yet it can pave the path for STDs by having a careless behavior towards themselves and their health. Psychological and Behavioral Correlation with STDs It is self-care and self-valuing behavior that motivates people to be careful about their physical and sexual health. The increasing rates of diseases that are mental, psychological, physical and sexual, are somehow interlinked. A study by Heckman, Sikkema, Hansen, Kochman, Suhr, and Johnson, (2008) focused on how the behaviors of people lead them to using or not using preventive tools for having safe sex particularly in old age. When people grow beyond 50 years of age, the sexual activity may drop but does continue. It was found that 38% of people above 50 years age were active in last three months. Out of this, 33% activity was found unsafe. It is sad to find that most of the STD and HIV awareness programs in America are directed towards youth and adult awareness (Cooperman, Arnsten, and Klein, 2007). The elders are either not part of target audience or not motivated enough to join these sessions. Low Acceptance of old age Sex The old age is so awkwardly associated with decency, elegance and grace that sex is not socially accepted by the aged people. It is therefore that these people find it hard to discuss the problems they face with having intercourse. Minichiello, Rahman, Hawkes, and Pitts (2012) submit that discussing STDs related to old age people is uncommon even in as liberal societies as United States and England. This embarrassment leads them to not buying protections, condoms and not to ask about having safe relationships. While on one hand the healthier lives, increased divorce rates and internet dating has increased the risks of STDs, there are insufficient programs for having safe intercourse in old age. Elder people are also shy joining such courses to maintain their 'grace' in the society. Minichiello et al. (2012) suggest that while there are 73% people above age 57 and below 64 having active life with respect to sex, they have rarely any idea what risks are involved with intercourse with strangers. State level Awareness Programs for Elders While nurses are engaged worldwide to tell patients and visitors how badly it is needed to adopt safe sex procedures, they are often not told that elder people are as prone to this problem as the youth. Orel, Wright, and Wagner, (2004) mentioned that public health agencies are offering nursing training and courses to have a system that communicates STDs risks effectively. They found that there are myths, social attitudes and biases behind the non-concern for elders while designing STD awareness programs. Less than 30% elder people aged between 55 and 64 said that they have testing programs for HIV and STDs for elders (Adekeye, Heiman, Onyeabor, O. And Hyacinth, 2012). States are found not only to offer awareness programs mostly to youth but also, the data and information recorded mostly pertains to the youth. Widowhood and STD Diagnosis A study is carried on by Smith and Christakis (2009) to find if the increased widowhood is the cause of low or late diagnosis of STDs. Cox Proportional hazard regression method help find the initial STD diagnosis. It was concluded that the widowhood causes STIs more in men than women. The elders often use medicine for erectile dysfunction without complete knowledge or guidance from nursing sector. Conclusion Preventing and treating STDs is as critical among elders as it is for youth. Brooks, Buchacz, Gebo, and Mermin (2012) suggest that the nursing practice can adopt many ways in which risks of STDs generally and HIV particularly can be decreased remarkably. These ways are to improve and enhance the behavioral risk assessment, the elders should be routinely screened for infections, and there should be better primary and secondary care conditions. The HIV prevention should be incorporated by testing for diseases in time. Most of the HIV and STD awareness initiatives target people below 50 years of age. Given their low motivation, the elder people should be offer more programs on the awareness and the risks associated with unsafe intercourse, say Heckman, Sikkema, Hansen, Kochman, Suhr, and Johnson (2008). Heckman et al. suggest that the psychological needs and limitations of elder people should be considered while designing awareness programs for them. It is recommended that the society should not feel embarrassed about the sex in old age and there should be guidance for elder people as well (Minichiello, Rahman, Hawkes, and Pitts, (2012). The elders should not be ignored simple on the basis of life expectancy. Orel, Wright, and Wagner, (2004) recommend that the state departments should take interest in developing HIV educational material for elders and there should be increased number of sponsors for conducting research and awareness programs on elders' sexual health. Smith and Christakis (2009) recommend that the nursing efforts should be focused to finding and treating sexual health issues among elder patients particularly those men that use medications for erectile dysfunction. References Adekeye, O.A., Heiman, H.J., Onyeabor, O.S., and Hyacinth, H.I. (2012). The new invincibles: HIV screening among older adults in the U.S. PLoS One, 7(8), n/a. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.fgcu.edu/10.1371/journal.pone.0043618 Brooks, J.T., MD, Buchacz, K., Gebo, K.A., MD, and Mermin, J. (2012). HIV infection and older Americans: The public health perspective. American Journal of Public Health, 102(8), 1516-1526. Cooperman, N.A., Arnsten, J.H., and Klein, R.S. (2007). Current sexual activity and risky sexual behavior in older men with or at risk for HIV infection. AIDS Education and Prevention, 19(4), 321-33. Hutton, H.E., Lyketsos, C.G., Zenilman, J.M., Thompson, R.E., and Erbelding, E.J. (2004). Depression and HIV risk behaviors among patients in a sexually transmitted disease clinic. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 161(5), 912-4. Illa, L., Echenique, M., Saint Jean, G., Bustamante-Avellaneda, V., Metsch, L., Mendez-Mulet, L., . . . Sanchez-Martinez, M. (2010). Project roadmap: Reeducating older adults in maintaining aids prevention: A secondary intervention for older HIV-positive adults. AIDS Education and Prevention, 22(2), 138-47. Linley, L., Prejean, J., an, Q., Chen, M., and Hall, H.I., (2012). Racial/Ethnic disparities in HIV diagnoses among persons aged 50 years and older in 37 U.S. states, 2005-2008. American Journal of Public Health, 102(8), 1527-1534. Lovejoy, T.I., Heckman, T.G., Sikkema, K.J., Hansen, N.B., Kochman, a., Suhr, J.A., . . . Johnson, C.J. (2008). Patterns and correlates of sexual activity and condom use behavior in persons 50-plus years of age living with HIV / AIDS. AIDS and Behavior, 12(6), 943-56. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.fgcu.edu/10.1007/s10461-008-9384-2 Minichiello, V., Rahman, S., Hawkes, G., and Pitts, M. (2012). STI epidemiology in the global older population: Emerging challenges. Perspectives in Public Health, 132(4), 178-81. Orel, N.A., Wright, J.M., and Wagner, J. (2004). Scarcity of HIV / AIDS risk-reduction materials targeting the needs of older adults among state departments of public health. The Gerontologist, 44(5), 693-6. Smith, K.P., and Christakis, Nicholas a, (2009). Association between widowhood and risk of diagnosis with a sexually transmitted infection in older adults. American Journal of Public Health, 99(11), 2055-62. Appendix Increasing median age for HIV (Brooks, Buchacz, Gebo, and Mermin (2012) Read the full article

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