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thebisquelady · 1 month

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MAJOR KRAUS AND BLADE FROM PRT 3?!!!

Blade doesn’t like Major Kraus (Kraus is bad guy)

Like Andre Toulon said, it is like looking in a mirror

#horror #slashers #blade the puppet #puppet master blade #puppet master #digiatal art #digital fanart #puppet master fanart #Major Kraus #Kraus #he is angy #digital drawing #fanart

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houseofbrat · 2 months

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Timeline of events, Part 2

[part 1]

01 MARCH 2024: Prince William ignores a “How’s Catherine?” question from someone at Wrexham during his St. David’s Day visit to Wales.

Thomas Kingston’s death revealed to be “catastrophic head injury” due to gunshot, i.e. suicide.

Victoria Murphy writes in Town & Countryabout the UK’s Editor’s Code of Practice prohibiting writing about the lack of information available to the public regarding The Princess of Wales’s condition.

02 MARCH 2024: Roya Nikkhah reports Queen Camilla’s annual March time-off as a sudden vacation instead of a regularly scheduled annual break she always takes at this time of year.

04 MARCH 2024: TMZ & Backgrid establish proof of life of The Princess of Wales and her mother.

UK media is pressured by Kensington Palace to *NOT* publish the photographs in the UK, even though everyone else in the world can see them online.

05 MARCH 2024: Richard Palmer notes that there is no legal reason why the pictures of Carole and Kate cannot be published due to them being on a public road.

The British Army is forced by Kensington Palace to amend their Trooping the Colour once the UK media started circulating stories about Kate’s appearance in June, which is two months after Easter.

Dominic Ponsford in the (UK) Press Gazette wrote about the media blackout regarding Carole & Kate’s driving pictures.

Kate’s uncle Gary Goldsmith briefly comments on the lack of Kate information on Celebrity Big Brother.

06 MARCH 2024: King Charles has a meeting with the Canadian PM and officially greets two ambassadors.

Kensington Palace “spokesman” to (US) People magazine: “His focus is on his work and not on social media,” a spokesman says.

Normal people on reddit notice this bullshit and comment on it.

Emily Andrews comments on the “invisible contract” between UK media and Kensington Palace, e.g. the "huge pressure" to not publish the photo of Kate & Carole.

London’s Air Ambulance Charity, whose gala benefit William attended on 07 February 2024, announced they did not receive enough government support.

08 MARCH 2024: King Charles photographed in a car on Windsor Castle grounds.

Prince William demonstrates proof of life when he visits The Oval in support of for-profit company, Notpla, and seaweed.

10 MARCH 2024: A Mother's Day photo is published and released to news agencies of Kate with George, Charlotte, and Louis.

Later that day, the Associated Press (AP), Agence-France Presse (AFP), Reuters, and Getty all "killed" the photo due to "manipulation."

11 MARCH 2024: Kate "apologized" for the photo manipulation on Twitter saying: "Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing. I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused. I hope everyone celebrating had a very happy Mother’s Day. C"

Kate is photographed next to William in a car leaving Windsor Castle.

Prince William attends The Commonwealth Day service with Queen Camilla and other members of the BRF while King Charles spoke to the service via pre-recorded video message.

International media goes wild with the revelation that Kensington Palace released a photo that was "manipulated" and rejected by major, international news outlets.

12 MARCH 2024: William attends the private funeral service for Thomas Kingston at the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace.

14 MARCH 2024: William visits WEST Youth Zone in White City, London.

Meghan Markle launches a lifestyle brand, American Orchard Riviera," on Instagram.

AFP Global News Director, Phil Chetwynd, states that Kensington Palace is no longer a "trusted" news source.

William attends The Diana Legacy Awards in London in the evening.

Jessica Reed Kraus, aka HouseInHabit, publishes a "source" saying Kate had "surgery on her bowel," yet the "source" did not know that that kind of surgery could be classified as "abdominal."

17 MARCH 2024: Forbes publishes an article with the rumor that the BBC has been told to be on alert for an announcement from the Royal Family regarding Kate's health.

Roya Nikkhah for The Sunday Times published an article whereupon a "royal source" said, "I can see a world in which the princess might discuss her recovery out on engagements. If she was going to do it, that’s how she would do it.”

Matt Wilkinson of The Sun publishes an exclusive that Kate was seen "out and about" in Windsor.

18 MARCH 2024: Video of Will & Kate shopping at the Windsor Farm Shop circulates on TMZ and The Sun. Kensington Palace doesn't complain about it publicly.

Russell Myers of The Mirror publishes an "exclusive" report regarding Kate's "return to public life."

The royal.uk website has some minor changes regarding The Duke of York and The Duke & Duchess of Sussex.

19 MARCH 2024: William visits Sheffield, England, as part of his Homewards program.

Russell Myers of The Mirror publishes an "exclusive" regarding allegations of Kate's medical records being breached at The London Clinic.

Kate Mansey of The Times publishes an article about how William does not collaborate or work with his father.

20 MARCH 2024: The London Clinic responds to the allegations of Kate's medical records being breached after 29 January 2024.

Daily Mail's Ephraim Hardcastle: Kate was unable to attend the Irish Guards' St Patrick's Day parade... But put £2,000 behind the bar for them instead

Daily Mail's Rebecca English's EXCLUSIVE: What William really thinks about the Kate conspiracy theories. And why it's been so heartbreaking for him to see her reputation trashed in the same way as Diana's

Prince William visits the Welsh Guards at Combermere Barracks, Windsor, where the photos were taken by the Ministry of Defence/Welsh Guards.

21 MARCH 2024: Hannah Furness of The Telegraph publishes an article stating: "The Princess of Wales has been working from home on her early years project to improve the lives of babies, as she eases back into normal life after her abdominal surgery. Kensington Palace confirmed that she had been kept up to date with her campaign and the “overwhelmingly positive” results of a study she inspired."

Tatler magazine publishes a cover story on Prince William by Wesley Kerr. "The burden of leadership is falling upon Prince William - but as former BBC Royal Correspondent, Wesley Kerr OBE, explains in Tatler’s May cover story, the future king is taking charge."

Daily Mail: Kate Middleton has been working from home on her early years project considered her 'life's work' as she recovers from abdominal surgery - amid hopes she will return to public life by Easter

People magazine repeats the Kate paid the bar tab story.

Jackie Annett, The Mirror: "Kate Middleton spotted out in Windsor again - this time with George, Charlotte and Louis" “…[Kate] comes here quite a lot, it’s on her doorstep and Adelaide Cottage is a couple of 100 yrds away. They were at the tennis on Sunday-my friend plays there & Kate was watching the children, they’re there all the time”

22 MARCH 2024: Kate announces she is undergoing "preventative chemotherapy" for cancer.

Lambrook's Lent 2024 term ends. School on break until summer term starts on 17 April 2024.

24 MARCH 2024: People magazine: Kate "wrote every word herself,” a palace source confirms to PEOPLE of the Princess of Wales' video speech, which was released on Friday and filmed two days prior in the gardens of Windsor Castle. A family friend adds, “She wrote the words herself, delivered it personally and wanted to decide when the time was right to hit the world with this news.”

28 MARCH 2024: Valentine Low says it's not clear when William pulled out of Constantine's memorial service--some say day of, others say two weeks prior to the service.

31 MARCH 2024: King Charles & Queen Camilla attended the Easter Mattins service at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

01 APRIL 2024: Daily Mail: "Princess of Wales was FORCED to reveal her cancer diagnosis after news threatened to leak: Sources reveal Kensington Palace was contacted about Kate's illness and needed to get ahead of the story… so who revealed her secrets?"

02 APRIL 2024: Natasha Anderson & Emily Jane Davies's story about Kate being "FORCED to reveal her cancer diagnosis" is deleted from the Daily Mail website.

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brothersonahotelbed · 3 months

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omg what r ur favourite books from ur library. like not necessarily anything you've read but just the stuff you think are really interesting and look fun, and also what is ur favouritest section with the most awesome books

i have waited my whole life for this moment.

queen of the cicadas and goddess of filth – v. castro

the saturday night ghost club – craig davidson

pet – akwaeke emezi

the library of the dead – t.l. huchu

frankenstein in baghdad – aḥmad saʻdāwī

literally anything by grady hendrix. i've read the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires and loved it because i felt it was a good mix of fun + scary + impactful. horrorstör and my best friend's exorcism look good too & they're on my reading list!

october – michael rowe. i always recommend this one even though i'm not 100% sure that it's Good Writing or a Good Story, but i thought it was very fun and has one of the craziest opening chapters i've ever read, i mean it.

voices: the final hours of joan of arc – david elliott

ace of spades – Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

kaleidoscope – brian selznick

too bright to see – kyle lukoff (this i found in the juvenile fiction section and read it in 1 day. don't be deceived though it fr changed my life)

they threw us away – daniel kraus. this one is also from the juvenile section and i haven't read it but it sounds fun.

infinite noise – laura shippen

gory details: adventures from the dark side of science – erika engelhaupt

currently i'm reading secrets so deep by ginny myers sain. it's crazy good. her writing style reminds me a lot of my own so maybe that's why i'm so drawn to it but it's reaaaallly good so far.

i haven't read most of these but i've read their synopses while working at the library and they all sound so good 🫶 a majority of them Are supernatural/horror fiction because that's kind of what i always find myself stumbling across during my rounds <3 hope you enjoy ily

okay as for my favoritest section of the library with the awesomest books i'd definitely have to say adult nonfiction in the 100s. paranormal stuff + books on demonology and aliens and stuff :]

#fatalismboyfriend

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daloy-politsey · 2 years

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Please help Joseph Kraus get the state-mandated secular education he never received at his ultra-Orthodox Jewish school.

We’re raising $5000 or more to pay for special tutors that will help him learn to read and write English and participate in society as an independent adult.

We are documentary filmmakers who have filmed his story and care about him.

Joseph Kraus left his Hasidic Orthodox home in Kiryas Joel, New York, in November 2020 because he wanted to get an education. He was 17 but could barely speak English and certainly couldn’t read or write it.

To educate himself enough to prepare for his move, Joseph managed to buy a smartphone. Hiding in the woods behind his home, he spent hours each day Googling and watching YouTube videos to learn about the outside world. He started blindly calling social service organizations, using his limited English, trying to find somebody who could help him.

The only person who responded was the supervisor of a suicide hotline, who spent hours on the phone with him answering his questions.

When Joseph decided he was ready to leave, the supervisor advised him to go to Old Navy, buy some clothes, cut off his beard and side locks at a barber and check into a youth shelter in nearby Middletown, New York. At Old Navy, he purchased a pair of women’s pants by mistake, because he didn’t know there was a difference.

He spent the next few months in a series of shelters during the height of the pandemic, learning English by watching television. When he tried to attend public high school in upstate New York, he found he couldn’t understand what the teachers said. He told me that he didn’t even know the alphabet.

When he heard that jobs were available in Texas, he went from airline to airline at JFK, asking for the cheapest fare. This looked so suspicious that he was picked up by the police and taken to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation. Somehow, he found his way to Houston, where he hid all his belongings in some bushes and started looking for a job. He came back to find everything stolen.

We caught up with Joseph when he was in a foster care home in Galveston, just before his 18th birthday. When we interviewed Joseph on two occasions, we found him remarkably articulate and insightful about his situation. And yet, his life at this point — the life of a refugee without a safety net — was total chaos.

At one point, somebody gave him a room in an upstate New York hotel under construction. When that ended after just a few weeks, he found himself in a Wal-Mart parking lot at 4 a.m. near his hometown of Kiryas Joel.

Now Joseph is settled in upstate New York but the road ahead is steep. It will likely take him months or years to learn what he needs to get his GED or to read newspapers.

Documentary filmmakers are supposed to be objective observers of their subjects, but we found ourselves trying to help him out. We contacted synagogues, asking for volunteers who might want to serve as this young man’s advocate as he works his way through the social service system — without much luck.

Now we’ve found specialized literacy tutors at a major NYC university who have promised to help him, but we need to raise $5000 or more to fund this literacy project.

Please give what you can!

#jewish #off the derech #education

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germanpostwarmodern · 1 year

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Within the first three decades after the end of the Second World War the majority of housing in basically all over Europe was constructed, a result not only of the repercussions of the war but also of growing prosperity, expanding welfare systems and a political will to improve the living conditions of the working and middle classes.

Together with students of TU Darmstadt Elli Mosayebi collected historic material of exemplary housing projects built between 1945 and 1975 with a particular focus on „second tier“ cities: Zagreb, Cologne, Oslo, Porto, Lyon, Athens, Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield were selected precisely because they were less subject to overbearing avant-garde ideals and therefore able to develop more specific and ultimately more diverse housing projects. Of the initial 94 projects identified and researched 54 were finally selected for the present volume which represents nothing less than an interrelated archive of European postwar housing: „The Renewal of Dwelling: European Housing Construction 1945-1975“, edited by Elli Mosayebi and Michael Kraus and recently published by @triestverlag. For cross-reference the catalogue of the 54 projects is tagged with 6 thematic fields that allow for pan-European comparisons and also highlight shared characteristics like a hidden skeleton, refined materials or balconies as extended living space. Each of the cities is then discussed in an essay that provides additional context to the buildings documented: in the case of Cologne Jasper Cepl et al. for example discuss O.M. Ungers’ contribution to the „Neue Stadt“ Chorweiler within the context of his theory of the Morphological City and the city as a work of art, Anne-Kristin Kronborg on the other hand provides a thorough overview of Norway’s postwar housing, the welfare state and public-private partnerships.

In combination with the extensive documentation of each project the book really succeeds in providing a pan-European perspective on postwar housing that will hopefully inspire additional cross-border research with regards to housing and the political circumstances in which it came about. Highly recommended!

#housing #apartment building #architectural history #architecture book #triest verlag #monograph #book #postwarmodern

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fanofspooky · 1 year

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365 horror movies day 246:

Puppet Master III: Toulon’s Revenge

“Now you can see what a small man you really are, Major Kraus”

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genuflectx · 2 years

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Terato/Exo Book List

Do you keep searching for that perfect novel? The one monster, alien, or non-human romance in a published work that captures you? But you just keep ending up on half-baked Goodreads lists curated by someone’s lonely mom who thinks changing a bodybuilder to the color purple is monstrous? Well look no further because I’ll read those books for you and rate them for an exophilia audience!

Right now the list is too short to be split into more categories, but as I add more I may include categories.

They read like this: Book name, author name: Brief synopsis and sometimes a comment on it’s content, themes, or my enjoyment. {Whether or not the love interest is monstrous/alien/etc, whether it ends happy, if there was romance/sex, sometimes include if there’s major death} (a rating of my personal enjoyment out from 1 to 10)

★★★Everything is in alphabetical order. LOOK OUT FOR SPOILERS★★★

✦ A Soul to Keep (Duskwalker Brides Book 1) by Opal Reyne: “Bad omen” Reia is offered up to the human-eating Orpheus, who only wants a human companion. Reia must decide whether to risk running away or learn to like him and stay. Multiple long and detailed sex scenes and pred-prey kink. Has romance but it’s sort of 2nd to the smut. Not great but not terrible writing. Has rape victim blaming in it though, and sadly some non-consensual touching a the beginning. {Skull-head monster/human, happy ending} (7/10)

✦ Be Kind My Neighbor by Yugo Limbo: Wegg, a drifting musician, comes to the town of Baths and meets the friendly neighborhood handyman, Mr. Neighbor. They grow closer as a string of mysterious murders continue to rise in number. This one is a comic. Cults, horror, goopy gay trans love, kinky sex scenes, gorgeous psychedelic art! Mr. Neighbor is a living cloth-man with some fun things underneath (wink) and Wegg is an egg-person. I’m ALWAYS a big fan of Yugo’s work! {They’re both human shaped but Mr. Neighbor is monstrous in his own right, romance and sex, happy ending} (10/10)

✦ The Last Hour of Gann by R. Lee Smith: Amber, her sister Nicci, and a group of about 40 humans are stranded on an unknown alien planet. With the help of a medieval alien lizardman named Meoraq they travel to a temple that the humans hope is an ancient transmissions tower or skyport. It’s 421k words long, full to the brim with rape, fatphobia, misogyny, misandry, emotional abuse, second hand embarrassment... first read some reviews if you want to consider this. {Humanoid alien lizard man, romance and sex, mostly a happy ending. But way too long and rape scenes seemed fetishy} (4/10)

✦ The Mabon Feast (Wheel of the Year #1) by C. M. Nascosta: A witch ousted by her community takes a tenant into her Victorian house in order to make ends meet and not feel lonely. Turns out the only tenant she can get is a mysterious and sickly drider. She almost never sees him. Over the course of a few months things change between them and an aphrodisiac-like scent permeates the house. Things come to a head and get spicy. Very well written but sometimes overwhelmingly flowery! {Non-human spider centaur- i.e. a drider- love interest, fun but somewhat extreme sexual acts, happy ending} (8/10)

✦ Noumena Series (Axiom’s End/Truth of the Divine/Book 3 TBA) by Lindsay Ellis: A first-contact story with serious themes of xenophobia (alien and human) and severe mental illness. Cybernetic insectoid raptor-shaped alien/human romance. No human/alien smut in books 1-2, book 3 yet to be seen but the author has implied they might have sex in it. I suggest reading trigger warnings for this series. {Very non-human love interest, very sad story especially book 2. Found the plot, themes, and writing to be engaging with a few small writing-style annoyances.} (9/10)

✦ The Shape of Water (tie-in book) by Daniel Kraus: A re-telling of the film The Shape of Water. It runs through different characters’ perspectives, including the fishman. It has vague descriptions of human/monster sex, which is still more than the film gave. Ends like the movie. {Human-shaped but monstrous fishman, ends bittersweet but they don’t die, romantic. Found the writing to be somewhat droll at times.} (6/10)

✦ The Scorpion's Mate (Iriduan Test Subjects #1) by Susan Trombley: A human gets abducted for alien government experiments and learns she’s meant to be a mutant scorpion alien’s broodmare. Very generic romance novel writing, not very romantic, but sex scenes hot with fun kinks like pheromones. Has an odd kink of eating food secreted out of a dick hole though. {Very non-human, vanilla sex but non-vanilla kinks, happy ending. Generic writing.} (6/10)

✦ Strange Love (Galactic Love #1) by Ann Aguirre: An alien accidentally abducts a human and her dog and she decides to go through challenges with him to prove they’re compatible mates. The alien is a non-humanoid insect-lizard thing with weird funky alien junk. Sex scenes are great, but I found the story and characterizations to be extremly lacking. {Very non-human love interest, interesting GNC sex scenes, bitter sweet ending. But the writing wasn’t too great. You get the sense that she was bored writing it.} (4/10)

✦{NOT WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING FOR}

✖ The Ender Saga by Orson Scott Card: Consists of Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind. Ender’s Game is the shortest, simplest, and imo best written. The first is a sci-fi classic worth reading, but is about a child with no romance. However, it’s sequels feature a multidimensional-controlling A.I. in it that eventually falls in love with a human, becomes human, and marries him. But romance is not a part of this series, these relationships are just sorta stated matter-o-fact. It’s not what you’re looking for and Card is a bit of a nasty person. The series also has weird focus on trying to paint colonialism and religious indoctrination into Christianity in a good light, and oddly has incestuous themes. (Insectoid aliens, “pig” aliens, multidimensional A.I./human.} (Ender’s Game: 8/10)

#terato #exophilia #monster boyfriend #monster girlfriend #books #novels #terato book list #book list #book review

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loneberry · 1 year

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The deed is done. I picked a publisher. For two years I’ve been agonizing over my “tenure book”—writing and rewriting my proposal, working with an agent, firing my agent because her vision for my writing career did not align with mine, finding a new agent, working with new agent on the proposal, then hours and hours of meetings with editors, agonizing over the decision. I made the best choice even though I had to walk away from a $50,000 advance offer from MIT (university presses usually offer $0). I would have liked to work with MIT, as they have great distribution and it was so pleasant to work with them through Semiotext(e). In the end, I went with the publisher that was safest for tenure and with the editor who was the most energized about my project. (I’ll announce it when all the paperwork is signed). Now the real work of revising my book manuscript begins.

The Alien Daughters book still needs more work, but today Robbie and I had our last meeting to discuss major structural edits to the last section. The tentative publication date is Nov 1, 2023. During our editorial session we talked for a long time about the history of Semiotext(e) and I felt truly blessed to be a part of the Semio family. Chris Kraus launched my writing career when I was a nobody autodidact living in a punk house. She asked me to write a book for Semiotext(e) when it seemed impossible that I could ever write a book. I’m eternally grateful. I can’t tell you how lucky I’ve been, to have been helped by so many people along the way. Thank you universe! Thank you fairy godmothers!

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gasparodasalo · 2 years

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Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-92) - Concerto for Viola and Orchestra in C-Major, I. Allegro maestoso. Performed by David Aaron Carpenter, viola, and Tapiola Sinfonietta.

#joseph martin kraus #classicism #classical music #viola #violist #viola concerto #concerto #strings #orchestra #string orchestra #woodwinds #band #rarely performed composers

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scotianostra · 1 year

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Happy Birthday Scottish operatic soprano Isobel Buchanan.

Buchanan was born in 1954 in Glasgow,and won a scholarship to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, where in 1974, she was awarded with Student of the Year prize. She also won the Governor’s Recital Prize that same year.

In 1975 she auditioned for Richard Bonynge and Joan Sutherland and was offered a three year contract with the Australian Opera. Her professional debut was in January 1976, singing the role of Pamina in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, one she was to repeat many times throughout the world.

She made her British debut at Glyndebourne in 1978, again singing Pamina, in the Cox/Hockney production and in 1981 she sang The Countess in Peter Hall’s production of The Marriage of Figaro, a role repeated for the 50th Anniversary of the company in 1984 with Bernard Haitink conducting.

1978 saw her as Micaela at the Vienna State Opera in the legendary production by Franco Zefirelli, with Domingo, Obratsova and Mazurok. Conducted by Carlos Kleiber, the performance was broadcast live throughout Europe and released on CD and DVD.

Isobel’s Covent Garden debut was in Parsifal, conducted by Solti. Among other roles, she went on to sing Sophie in Werther, with Alfredo Kraus and Teresa Berganza, later recording the opera with Jose Carreras and Frederica von Stade, Sir Colin Davis conducting. She has appeared in opera houses in Cologne, Paris, Munich, Santa Fe, Brussels,Hamburg,Sydney, Wellington Chicago (with Pavarotti and Bergonzi) and Monte Carlo (with Raimondi).

She has also appeared with all the major British orchestras and has collaborated with many of the world’s leading conductors, including Solti, Haitink, Andrew Davis, Colin Davis, Celibidache, Pritchard, Mariner, Kleiber and Menuhin.

Isobel has made numerous recordings and in 1981 the BBC made a documentary, La Belle Isobel, of her career up to that time. She has had her own television series and has also appeared on such programmes as Face the Music and The Michael Parkinson Show.

After bringing up her two daughters, Isobel has recently resumed her career singing recitals with Eugene Asti and Malcolm Martineau at St John’s, Smith Square, as well as performing Sheherezade with the South Bank Sinfonia and, most recently, Haydn with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Walton’s Façade with Jason Thornton and the Bath Phil at Longleat.

She also teaches voice privately, is a regular tutor for the Samling Foundation, gives master classes and workshops throughout the UK and teaches at the Guildhall School as a visiting professor.

I’m quite biased because this was my mums favourite Burns song, just listen to the clarity in her voice, Perfect….

#scotland #scottish #singer #opera singer #soprano #glasgow #glaswegian #happy birhtday #Youtube

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grandhotelabyss · 9 months

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I was out on a date last night, and the topic of Freud came up. My date, a medicine major, was adamant that he was a total hack. Me, a print major at an art college, kept insisting he held certain poetic truths. She had all these facts ready to go, while I struggled to put into words what I meant. But I still believe I have a point. There are certain universal truths that go beyond mere logic, no? What do you say in defence of Freud to someone so grounded in the sciences?

The irony here is that Freud was a materialist who (at least early on) thought biological correlates for the mental states he discussed would eventually be found. In that sense, he's being judged according to his own standard. We all know, though, that he was really a writer—winner of the Goethe Prize, no less—and, as I once called him, "the last Abrahamic patriarch and the last priest of Apollo."

His best defense is probably just the insufficiency of current psychology. They don't actually seem to know exactly why and how their drugs work—and anyway a material correlate of a mental state is just that, a correlate, which still leaves you wondering what came first—and "mental health awareness" appears to have precipitated a mental health catastrophe (as Freud's shrewd critic Karl Kraus, who called psychoanalysis the very disease for which it claimed to be the cure, i.e., a neurotic and disabling self-preoccupation, might have predicted). Even successful therapies, like CBT, are just mind-hacks derived from Stoicism and Buddhism. I don't mean that as an insult, because it is important to think good and productive thoughts; I'm just saying it doesn't redound to the credit of "science" necessarily.

Given all that, why not Freud's critical investigation of the literary and mythological record for models of how desire actually functions, models a bewildered modern world, deracinated from tradition, sorely needed? It seems silly to deny that all relationships have their root in the child's primordial relation to the parents, particularly the mother, and equally silly to deny, especially if one is a materialist, the preeminent place of desire in our psyches. And the death drive—surely that explains much of what is otherwise puzzling in our frequently and even gloriously self-destructive behavior.

I don't know what your date's objections were, though. There are fair critiques of Freud: his occasional medical malpractice, his biased (or even malicious) account of woman, his reductive approach to culture, the way his theory's built-in dismissal of its critics (i.e., any critic suffers from repression) is congruent with totalitarian politics. I see him as I see Nietzsche: a fascinating and generative writer in a line of fascinating and generative writers more than a master-thinker in the capitalized History of Thought.

Finally, if your date's a liberal and a reader, try Auden's astonishing elegy for Freud on her, a poetic account of the revolution he effected to which we all are heir whether we admit it or not.

#sigmund freud #psychoanalysis

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eclipsecrowned · 10 months

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thinking abt the lore w ferret's kraus*r about how he's really worried for the rookie because of his diabetes. and le0n looks at him like he's lost his mind but never corrects him, bc wow major.

and then he says he thinks it's really great ada is getting a handle on her health and trying to quit smoking. ada understands immediately what he's misinterpreting and is going to milk this.

#crack //#yes le0n's diabetes is out of control he needs a shot a week--#yes ada's been a chronic smoker since college she needs the patch or she loses OVER A DECADE of work.#the former is not gonna tell him bc he's uncomfortable with being outed.#the latter is not gonna tell him bc she thinks this is kind of funny actually.#(the punchline is small town closeted king doesn't realize two of his cohorts are t4t)

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fearsmagazine · 1 year

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The 2022 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) announced the Final Ballot for the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards®, an award they’ve been presenting in various categories since 1987 (see http://www.thebramstokerawards.com/)

Works appearing on this Ballot are Bram Stoker Award® Nominees for Superior Achievement in their Category, e.g., Novel. Congratulations to all those appearing on the Final Ballot.

THE 2022 BRAM STOKER AWARDS® FINAL BALLOT

Superior Achievement in a Novel • Iglesias, Gabino – The Devil Takes You Home (Mullholland Press) • Katsu, Alma – The Fervor (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) • Kiste, Gwendolyn – Reluctant Immortals (Saga Press) • Malerman, Josh – Daphne (Del Rey) • Ward, Catriona – Sundial (Tor Nightfire)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel • Adams, Erin – Jackal (Bantam Books) • Cañas, Isabel – The Hacienda (Berkley) • Jones, KC – Black Tide (Tor Nightfire) • Nogle, Christi – Beulah (Cemetery Gates Media) • Wilkes, Ally – All the White Spaces (Emily Bestler Books/Atria/Titan Books)

Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel • Dawson, Delilah S. – Camp Scare (Delacorte Press) • Kraus, Daniel – They Stole Our Hearts (Henry Holt and Co.) • Malinenko, Ally – This Appearing House (Katherine Tegen Books) • Senf, Lora – The Clackity (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) • Stringfellow, Lisa – A Comb of Wishes (Quill Tree Books)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel • Aquilone, James (editor) – Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50th Anniversary (Moonstone Books) • Gailey, Sarah (author) and Bak, Pius (artist) – Eat the Rich (Boom! Studios) • Manzetti, Alessandro (author) and Cardoselli, Stefano (artist/author) – Kraken Inferno: The Last Hunt (Independent Legions Publishing) • Tynion IV, James (author) and Dell’Edera, Werther (artist) – Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 4 (Boom! Studios) • Young, Skottie (author) and Corona, Jorge (artist) – The Me You Love in the Dark (Image Comics)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel • Fraistat, Ann – What We Harvest (Delacorte Press) • Jackson, Tiffany D. – The Weight of Blood (Katherine Tegen Books) • Marshall, Kate Alice – These Fleeting Shadows (Viking) • Ottone, Robert P. – The Triangle (Raven Tale Publishing) • Schwab, V.E. – Gallant (Greenwillow Books) • Tirado, Vincent – Burn Down, Rise Up (Sourcebooks Fire)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction • Allred, Rebecca J. and White, Gordon B. – And in Her Smile, the World (Trepidatio Publishing) • Carmen, Christa – “Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell” (Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror) (Wicked Run Press) • Hightower, Laurel – Below (Ghoulish Books) • Katsu, Alma – The Wehrwolf (Amazon Original Stories) • Knight, EV – Three Days in the Pink Tower (Creature Publishing)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction • Dries, Aaron – “Nona Doesn't Dance” (Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts) (IFWG Australia, IFWG International) • Gwilym, Douglas – “Poppy’s Poppy” (Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, Vol. V, No. 6) • McCarthy, J.A.W. – “The Only Thing Different Will Be the Body” (A Woman Built by Man) (Cemetery Gates Media) • Taborska, Anna – “A Song for Barnaby Jones” (Zagava) • Taborska, Anna – “The Star” (Great British Horror 7: Major Arcane) (Black Shuck Books) • Yardley, Mercedes M. – “Fracture” (Mother: Tales of Love and Terror) (Weird Little Worlds)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection • Ashe, Paula D. – We Are Here to Hurt Each Other (Nictitating Books) • Joseph, RJ – Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted (The Seventh Terrace) • Khaw, Cassandra – Breakable Things (Undertow Publications) • Thomas, Richard – Spontaneous Human Combustion (Keylight Books) • Veres, Attila – The Black Maybe (Valancourt Books)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay • Cooper, Scott – The Pale Blue Eye (Cross Creek Pictures, Grisbi Productions, Streamline Global Group) • Derrickson, Scott and Cargill, C. Robert – The Black Phone (Blumhouse Productions, Crooked Highway, Universal Pictures) • Duffer Brothers, The – Stranger Things: Episode 04.01 "Chapter One: The Hellfire Club" (21 Laps Entertainment, Monkey Massacre, Netflix, Upside Down Pictures) • Garland, Alex - Men (DNA Films) • Goth, Mia and West, Ti – Pearl (A24, Bron Creative, Little Lamb, New Zealand Film Commission)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection • Bailey, Michael and Simon, Marge – Sifting the Ashes (Crystal Lake Publishing) • Lynch, Donna – Girls from the County (Raw Dog Screaming Press) • Pelayo, Cynthia – Crime Scene (Raw Dog Screaming Press) • Saulson, Sumiko – The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry (Dooky Zines) • Sng, Christina – The Gravity of Existence (Interstellar Flight Press)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology • Datlow, Ellen – Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (Tor Nightfire) • Hartmann, Sadie and Saywers, Ashley – Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology (Dark Matter Ink) • Nogle, Christi and Becker, Willow – Mother: Tales of Love and Terror (Weird Little Worlds) • Ryan, Lindy – Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga (Black Spot Books) • Tantlinger, Sara – Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women in Horror (Strangehouse Books)

Superior Achievement in Non–Fiction • Cisco, Michael – Weird Fiction: A Genre Study (Palgrave Macmillan) • Hieber, Leanna Renee and Janes, Andrea – A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts (Citadel Press) • Kröger, Lisa and Anderson, Melanie R. – Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult (Quirk Books) • Waggoner, Tim – Writing in the Dark: The Workbook (Guide Dog Books) • Wytovich, Stephanie M. – Writing Poetry in the Dark (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Superior Achievement in Short Non–Fiction • Murray, Lee – “I Don’t Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)” (Interstellar Flight Magazine) (Interstellar Flight Press) • Pelayo, Cynthia – “This is Not a Poem” (Writing Poetry in the Dark) (Raw Dog Screaming Press) • Wetmore, Jr., Kevin J. – “A Clown in the Living Room: The Sinister Clown on Television” (The Many Lives of Scary Clowns: Essays on Pennywise, Twisty, the Joker, Krusty and More) (McFarland and Company) • Wood, L. Marie – “African American Horror Authors and Their Craft: The Evolution of Horror Fiction from African Folklore” (Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook for Middle and High School Students) (Conjure World) • Wood, L. Marie, “The H Word: The Horror of Hair” (Nightmare Magazine, No. 118) (Adamant Press)

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How the fear of missing out drives purchase intentions in the fast fashion industry is a research article conduced by Richard Bläse, Matthias Filser, Sascha Kraus, Kaisu Puumalainen, Petra Moog.

this research article researches the relationship between FOMO (fear of missing out) and how it effects consumer behaviour in fast fashion.

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Strikingly, most clothes are only worn seven or eight times on average before being discarded (Soyer & Dittrich, 2021)

fast fashion offers the latest fashion trends while flexibly responding to consumer demand at affordable prices (Caro & Martínez-de-Albéniz, 2015; Jin et al., 2012).

To meet increasing demands for clothing while keeping prices low, fashion companies often outsource production to low-wage countries, a practice that had serious environmental and social consequences locally (Niinimäki et al., 2020).

environmental sustainability in production, sustainable fashion referred to as “slow fashion”

Fashion boutiques, for example, have been moved to the virtual world, and influencers and social media marketing are driving attitudes among younger generations

fast fashion brands capitalize on this trend and the additional sales potential by setting up CSR departments and creating extra marketing to highlight green production

However, progress toward sustainability in the fast fashion industry is often prevented by their own business model

slow-fashion brands such as Patagonia are still not well known or are considered too costly compared to normal fashion for the vast majority of consumers.

slow-fashion customers is still relatively small compared to fast-fashion consumption.

FOMO has a significant impact on individuals, compelling them to conform to the behavior of the collective or group,

FOMO encourages followers to increase their social status by consuming the items preferred by their favorite influencer (Van Solt, 2019).

Consumers are more likely to seek information and advice from friends, other customers, and influencers when making purchasing decisions to reduce information overload on social media

H2. Fear of missing out has a positive effect on the purchase intention toward fashion.

convey emotions regarding the FOMO if not purchased (Dinh & Lee, 2021). FOMO triggers an individual's social surveillance system because of the perceived threat to social relationships

Empirical evidence suggests that FOMO, as an anticipatory emotion, can explain individual decision-making and corresponding behavior, including heavy media use (Hunt et al., 2018),

FOMO is associated with the feeling of being excluded from a desirable experience (social exclusion), their social status within the group.

FOMO may have a stronger tendency to conform to group norms in purchase decisions, as they might be inclined to buy items popular within their social group to avoid the feeling of missing out.

When consumers are faced with the choice of buying fast-fashion products, their desire to conform to their social group may override rational sustainability considerations,

As a result, rational considerations regarding sustainability may be given less weight in purchase decisions.

FOMO-based marketing can be highly effective

In other words, our data suggest that a major mind shift toward sustainable consumption is currently happening among customers, as customers consider sustainability standards for fashion products during their shopping.

our findings highlight the complex interplay between brand credibility, FOMO, and consumer behavior in the fashion industry.

FOMO has a major influence on customer decision-making in both fast and slow fashion.

the context chosen was the fast fashion industry as the gap between attitude and behavior seems to be the widest among customers

Individuals with low FOMO are more influenced by the motives of environmental sustainability and fair production, which is reflected in brand credibility, while individuals with high FOMO are less motivated by brand credibility in the fast fashion domain.

Interestingly, the results of Analysis 3 did not confirm this mechanism in the context of slow fashion. Because of the slow fashion movement, we report that FOMO may not compromise brand credibility.

Our study reveals that FOMO, a well-known trigger of frequently recurring buying behavior, has a significant negative moderating effect on the relationship between brand credibility and purchase intention toward fast fashion products

Bläse, R., Filser, M., Kraus, S., Puumalainen, K., & Moog, P. (2024). Non-sustainable buying behavior: How the fear of missing out drives purchase intentions in the fast fashion industry. Business Strategy and the Environment, 33(2), 626–641. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3509

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Women in the Night is a 1948 US film directed by William Rowland. The movie is also known as When Men Are Beasts. The movie s about a group of women being held by Nazis in Shanghai. They have developed a super weapon, a cosmic ray that is more devastating than the atomic bomb. Cast Tala Birell as Yvette Aubert William Henry as Philip Adams / Maj. von Arnheim Richard Loo as Col. Noyama Virginia Christine as Claire Adams Bernadene Hayes as Frau Thaler Gordon Richards as Col. von Meyer Frances Chung as Li Ling Jean Brooks as Maya Kathy Frye as Helen James Helen Mowery as Sheila Hallett Benson Fong as Chang Helen Brown as Angela James Frederick Giermann as Major Eisel Philip Ahn as Prof. Kunioshi Arno Frey as Field Marshal von Runzel Beal Wong as General Mitikoya Iris Flores as Maria Gonzales Frederic Brunn as Lt. Kraus Harry Hays Morgan as General Hundman Paula Allen as Nurse Joy Gwynell as Suicide Girl William Yetter Sr. as German Officer Noel Cravat as Japanese Officer Wolfgang Zilzer as German Doctor Home media Never miss a video. Join the channel so that Mr. P can notify you when new videos are uploaded: https://www.youtube.com/@nrpsmovieclassics

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The Role of the Smart Therapy App ‘Rejoyn’ in Treating Depression

In recent years awareness about mental health has gained significant importance including addressing impacts on conditions like Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Clinical depression also known as Major Depressive Disorder is a more severe and advanced form of depression. It is a mental health condition in which a person has a depressed or low mood and has no interest in any activities and makes to feel sad. It affects how you feel, behave, think, and act, leading to emotional imbalance and physical problems. Hence it is a disorder that will affect your daily life activities and needs popper treatment.

Therapists and professionals treat the condition of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) in different ways including prescribing anti-depressant tablets, psychotherapy, counseling patients, etc. Along with medication, the healthcare sector has evolved with advancements in technology accounting for this development of the Smart Therapy app ‘Rejoyn’, which has been deemed to be helpful in mental health management. In this article, we talk about the smart mobile therapy app which is recently been approved FDA, as an add-on treatment for depression that can be used in treating adults who are taking anti-depressants. This is also followed by the working and effectiveness of the Rejoyn app in treating MDD.

Rejoyn: Smart Theary App

Depression is observed to be one of the most common mental health diseases among adults in the US. Rejoyn is a smartphone app designed by Otsuka Pharmaceutical and Click Therapeutics that can be used as an add-on treatment along with anti-depressant medication. It can be suggested to people older than 22 years who are suffering and taking diagnoses for major depressive disorder. Dr. Jhon Kraus executive vice president and chief medical officer at Otsuka says “Rejoyn represents a novel and exciting adjunctive treatment option to address major depressive disorder symptoms that complements the current standard of care”.

The clinical trials for Rejoyn were done for 13 weeks where around 400 adults were observed and diagnosed with major depressive disorder who were between the age group of 22 and 64 and were already taking an antidepressant. Participants in the trial were randomly treated with the Rejoyn or Sharm app. People who were treated with Rejoyn saw improvement in symptoms of depression which was measured by asking some standard questions to the patient. After the completion of 1 month with a six-week treatment course with Rejoyn, participants continued using it and could see improvements in their condition with no side effects.

The course consists of three outcomes, where per week talking for 5 minutes, and cognitive-emotional exercise for 20 to 30 minutes with three clinical validations. For a week the total time given for treatment should be around 2 hours.

After all these clinical trial results and with its keen observation The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first perception therapy app and granted it to be used along with the treatment.

How does the Rejoyn works

The smart therapy app Rejoyn is a technology-based app that is mainly dependent on the Emotional Faces Memory Task (EFMT). In this technology, patients are asked to recognize emotion by looking at a series of faces, and for every face, patients need to identify the faces in previous series that had the same emotion, which helps in brain activity.

The Rejoyn app cannot be downloaded by anyone it needs a prescription and has not yet launched. The app will be available for people in 2024 based on news. Otsuka wants to try to make Rejoyn affordable and accessible but has not revealed pricing yet.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the advent of the Smart Therapy app ‘Rejoyn’ heralds a new technology in the landscape of mental health management, especially in treating major depressive disorder. The effectiveness of Rejoyn is something that remains in question. Dr. Torus says “We have effective depression treatments already, but not everyone responds,” and using an app cannot be a stand-alone treatment. There are so many apps that are currently available today for depression but Rejoyn is the first FDA-approved app for treating depression along with medication for adults. Apart from inventions and advancements, people should be very cautious when it comes to health and need to use the right and efficient tools in medication.

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