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A collection of cult and rare feature films, documentaries, short films, animations, cartoons and TV series, within the science fiction, fantasy, horror, thriller, noir, surrealist, arthouse and experimental etc, film genres. Some of these are complete films in one sequence, or are the best clips of full films online – in which case, click on the You Tube link, bottom right of each clip, to find the next or previous part of the film, where possible, on the main You Tube page. All of the clips are from feature films, unless otherwise stated, with relevant Wikipedia and similar links for further information, where possible; plus some of the clips are accompanied by a mini-review, or comments, written by myself: James DC. There are also some relevant audio-only interviews, radio dramas and SF/horror film soundtracks and music, etc.
The Velvet Vampire (Stephanie Rothman, 1971) and Scream of the Demon Lover (JL Merino, 1970)
Wacky Races (TV cartoon series, 1968 – 1969)
Santa's Workshop (Cartoon, Ub Iwerks, 1932)
Home (BBC play, based on JG Ballard's short story, Richard Curson Smith, 2003)
Bug (William Friedkin, 2007)
The Tomorrow People (TV series, 1973 – 1979)
Bride of the Monster (Ed Wood, 1956)
This wonderful film was directed by the brilliant and tragic Ed Wood. For those of you who 'don't get it', some B-movies are So bad that they are good. The octopus fight near the end of this film was re-enacted for Tim Burton's tribute film Ed Wood, and it's a hilarious scene, in both films. The fake octopus was meant to be powered by a motor but – apparently – when the crew tried to 'borrow' it from a big film studio, they ended up forgetting it, so Bela Lugosi later had to lie in the freezing water and try to make it look like it was attacking him, by flailing around in its rubber tentacles. If you haven't seen Tim Burton's version of Ed Wood's life, its his best film by a mile, and is hugely entertaining, poignant and informative about his crazy life and art. Its a good intro to Ed Wood, if his films themselves are initially too daunting for some of you B-movie novices out there!
Rollerball (Norman Jewison, 1975)
Pi (Darren Aranofsky, 1998)
Batman: Catwoman Goes to College (TV series, 1966 – 1968. This episode, 1966)
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes (documentary, 2002)
Soylent Green (1973, Richard Fleischer)
The Hitcher (Robert Harmon, 1986)
The Tenth Victim (1965, Elio Petri)
This fantastic, witty, psychedelic, bizarre and sexy film, based on the cult Robert Sheckley novel, was the inaugural film of the Atomic Bark Film Club, at Ryans Bar, in London, on 2/3/2011.
Magic (1978, Richard Attenborough)
The Omega Man (Boris Sagal, 1971)
Them! (1954, Gordon Douglas)
Dust Devil (1992, Richard Stanley)
Vamp (1986, Richard Wenk)
Cul-de-Sac (Roman Polanski, 1966)
The New Avengers: ('Dirtier By The Dozen', 1976)
The Presidents Analyst
(Theodore J. Flicker, 1967)
SLITHER (James Dunn, 2006)
The hype of this trailer is true. This is one of the most original, laugh-out-loud funny, thrilling, artistic, stylish, gruesome and inventive horrors in decades! Its pretty much a masterpiece of ironic, psycho-sexual body-horror.
I predict that, like many other cult films such as The Thing and Videodrome which were finally given the respect they deserved years down the line, everyone will eventually catch up and be raving about this film in the next few years. It's also got some of the best and most realistic combination of CGI and prosthetic special effects Ive seen in years.
Martin (George A Romero, 1977)
The Man With The X-Ray Eyes
(Roger Corman, 1963)
Blithe Spirit (David Lean, 1945)
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953, Eugene Lourie)
Joe 90 (Gerry Anderson, TV series, 1968 – 69. This episode: 1968)
Invaders From Mars (1953, William Cameron Menzies)
Mother Night (Keith Gordon, 1996)
Arena: Kurt Vonnegut (BBC documentary, 1983)
Arena: Salvador Dali (BBC documentary, 1986)
The Blood of a Poet
(Jean Cocteau, 1930)
Dada: Europe After the Rain (BBC Documentary, 1978)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
Woman In The Moon (Fritz Lang, 1929)
Fritz Lang interview (Documentary, 1975, William Friedkin)
House by the River (Fritz Lang, 1950)
A Sound of Thunder (Peter Hyams, 2005)
Idaho Transfer (1973, Peter Fonda)
The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)
Sapphire and Steel: assignment 1 (TV series, 1979 – 1982)
William Burroughs: Junky
(Reading, by the author)
William Burroughs: Ghost at number 9 (Short film, 1982)
William Burroughs interview (audio only, 1984)
William Burroughs:
The Making of Naked Lunch (Documentary)
This is a fantastic, 53 minute documentary (all in one piece on You Tube) about the history of SF Pulp magazines, writers and art….
Power and Control: LSD in the Sixties (Documentary)
Android (Aaron Lipstadt, 1982)
A very interesting SF film is this one, with another crazed performance from good old Klaus Kinski. In full on You Tube:
CYPHER (Vincenzo Natali, 2002)
A very good, dystopian mind-puzzle of an SF film. Subtle, stylish and cerebral
UFO: The third Reich, Alien Technology and the Vril Society (Documentary)
Ark (Short film)
Dancing on the Moon (Cartoon, 1935, Max Fleischer)
This is a beautiful old Max Fleischer animation I just discovered (he did the Popeye and Superman cartoons amongst much else) It's absolute GENIUS!
Phase IV (Saul Bass, 1974)
One of THE most sublime SF films of the 1970's, and one of the best ever – all in one chunk, on You Tube. If you havn't seen it yet, then get with the programme!
(Yoshiaki Kawajiri, 2000)
I saw the original Vampire Hunter D in the early 1990's and enjoyed it. This one looks pretty good, unlike a lot of very shoddy, rushed anime. The artwork seems finely crafted.
Donald Duck's Christmas (Cartoon)
Blood on Satans Claw (Piers Haggard, 1970)
Judge Dredd – the Bod TV Special
Doctor Who: Every Story 1963 to now
RSA Animate: The Divided Brain
A Time Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 (Isao Hashimoto)
Spider-Man fan film (1969, Donald F. Glut)
The Adventures of Lil Cthuhlu
Sandor Reisenbuchler: The Age of the Barbarians (1970
Rod Serling Interview (Previously thought lost, 1970, James Gunn, 1970)
An Evening With ray Bradbury (2001, full 54 minute talk)
Ray Bradbury: Story of a writer (full TV documentary, 1963)
Farenheit 451 (Francois Truffaut, 1966)
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On the day Meadowlark Lemon died I went that evening to watch the movie Creed, a continuance of the Rocky Balboa saga.
One had nothing to do with the other and yet everything connected; the real sports icon to the celluloid icon for me.
I was nine when my parents took me to see the Harlem Globetrotters. It would be the first of several visits over the years to watch these men in those red, white, and blue uniforms taunting, teasing and of course beating their traveling foils the Washington Generals, all the while amusing and amazing young and old alike.
No matter how many times I've seen the Trotters, even calling one of their games a few years back for HDNet, it's special. A large reason is that passage of time frozen in carefree delight for a couple of hours, nine years old forever in the moment.
There was no one like him. "The Clown Prince of Basketball." Meadowlark. I remember it as vividly as if it happened this morning, that first time I saw him making hook shots from mid court. Mid court! Swish the net snapped? More than one or two! So, etching in the neighborhood of six or eight. And behind the back passes long before anyone would hear of Pistol Pete Maravich or Magic Johnson, Meadowlark was a wizard with the rock.
When the act moved toward the stands and the cluster of us wide-eyed kids with mouths agape we all knew Meadowlark had personally given that wink and smile to me, not that other youngster. I swear he was looking straight at me. We all could make that claim, such was the terrific showman who had that "it" factor. Whatever "it" is, charisma; presence; command; charm, he had it all.
A few years later I walked into a darkened theater to see a movie about boxing. I was always skeptical about a sports movie, most tried too hard to manufacture the drama that is inherent if allowed to naturally evolve.
But more than any another boxing movie there was this actor, Sylvester Stallone, who I couldn't remember seeing before, delivering a nuanced character that ventured into a new level of empathy and evoked genuine moments of heart tugs even for the cynical. This, in spite of the unrealistic title match. Rocky was more about a guy, not a hero but a relatively ordinary man with relatable ordinary friends in an extraordinary moment.
Most of us left the theater wanting to drink eggs, run steps as dawn broke, and pound our fists into a side of beef. At lest for a few hours. Most of all we wanted to see this character once more, where would he go next? Take us along. Who knew there would be so many journeys?
Forty years later Stallone's creation still stirs emotions. Rocky is synonymous with fighting the odds for generation after generation. Even an aging Stallone and his Rocky touches all of us with a few more years on us.
We can't suspend time but there's nothing more rewarding than spending time with old friends, even those we never actually got to meet like a true legend Meadowlark or a fictious Rocky Balboa.
Even more so this time of year as another is hours away and reflection runs the gamut of sentiments. We seem to remember losses and wins more right now, we want lists and the best of this and that.
Years down the winding road life takes us, some will look back at their impactful sports figures in spaces such as this.
It might be about American Pharoah, the athlete who didn't speak, but had a nation talking with a Triple Crown triumph. Or the most talked about MMA fighter ever in Ronda Rousey being dropped cold by a soft spoken preacher's daughter, Holly Holm. It might be Tom Brady deflecting questions and tacklers winning a fourth Super Bowl or Serena Williams who defies age and dares opponents or Floyd Mayweather Jr, money until the end but will he really stop at 49-0?
Of course it could be about the gifted actor Michael B. Jordan reprising Adonis Creed yet again to surpass the Rocky record.
It's always about memories, and sports delivers every year.
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Excellent event! Interesting – this is not the first Account Based Marketing event that starts from the discussion of the definition of ABM, or, rather, definitions. And the definition will keep changing – if not in the understanding of the industry gurus, it will be not "settled" for quite a while in the understanding of the average marketer. Ah, our lovely interesting times… 🙂
At first Marketo targeted small businesses, and inbound marketing worked very well. Routinely, marketing was responsible for 80% of the sales pipeline. However, when the company decided to target larger organizations, including enterprises, the inbound approach was ineffective. New approach was needed.
ABM is a way of thinking rather than an initiative that marketing does next quarter. Marketing through the sales cycle and beyond the sales. It is not always understood as part of marketing – at one point, Marketo penalized vendors for bringing leads who were already existing customers.
ABM has highest ROI from all other marketing efforts. ABM is the hottest thing in marketing now.
Joe Chernov: "How do you know that two marketers are talking about ABM? Because their lips are moving."
ABM Principles
Account customization works very well, but does not scale. There are other approaches.
Alignment with sales is important – the same % of sales results should be expected from ABA as % of marketing efforts invested.
Let Sales pick accounts, but give reps data on the accounts in their territory to form their selection. If sales do not select specific accounts that seem attractive, ask why.
Example: one organization's marketing targeted users of the product when they moved to another company. The program was very successful in generation of appointments. However, sales did not find the appointments interesting, as these meetings were not with the organizations sales were targeting.
"Technographics" – what technology company uses.
Getting correct list of targeted accounts is the most important part of ABM success.
75% of executives will read insightful content… This percentage is higher than an average employee. This interest is explained by the nature of the executive's job – to understand how to take the company further.
Example of ABM: a company sends a box for an executive. The box contains an industry book and a personalized letter. Hopefully, the book will end up on executive's shelf. The box that contains the book is rather large and filled with fortune cookies -messages related to the problems company's products help to solve. Hopefully, the box and cookies will end up in the kitchen, where employees can eat them and read the messages.
ABM approach to programs starts with "who" rather than the promotion.
ABM can not scale, but it can be applied to different accounts in different flavors.
ABM challenge – traditional marketing metrics do not work. Pipeline takes time; what intermediary metrics can be used?
- Coverage – do you have data for accounts?
- Awareness – do targeted accounts come to our site – are they aware about us?
- Engagement – are right people at the account spend time with our company?
- Program Reach – what % of all people reached were from targeted accounts
- Program impact – how ABM activities improved sales outcomes, deal velocity, etc.
Can be abbreviated as "I Care" 🙂
MQA – Marketing Qualified Account
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A group of engineers got creative when they discovered three seagulls at the bottom of a pipe with no way out.
A video shared by ViralHog shows the men coming to the birds' rescue near a construction site in Juneau, Alaska earlier this month.
Read: Widow Takes Turkey on Flight For Emotional Support: 'She's Been There For Me'
"We started to come up with a rescue plan and began filling the pile with water," one of the men said. "But it wasn't clear if the water would completely fill the pile, allowing the seagulls to float to the top."
So instead, the men opted for "Plan B." They attached a long rope to a bucket, which they then dropped down into the pipe. One by one, they scooped up the birds and brought them to the surface.
It took a few attempts to get the last seagull - which looked pretty snug in the bucket when it was brought to the surface.
Read: Man Rescues a Lonely Pelican and Teaches Him How to Fish
The unharmed seagulls flew away and the engineers covered the open pipe with salmon fishing nets to prevent more birds from flying in. The pipes will eventually be permanently covered.
Watch: Kitten Trapped in Storm Drain Saved After 33-Hour Rescue Mission


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Dear Kim,
My job is to write grants for a San Francisco based nonprofit. Like many nonprofits, we are being adversely affected in terms of funding post 9-11. A few people I spoke with said they are mentioning 9-11 in their cover letters and some are including it in the need section of the grant. Are there guidelines or any consensus of opinion on post 9-11 grant writing that I should adhere to? What are your thoughts?
—Of Two Minds
Dear Two,
The problem with mentioning 9-11 or the economy in your cover letter is that you are approaching your funders with "We are writing to you because we need money." That is BIG YAWN for them because everyone who writes to them needs money and quite a few people who don't write need it also. It is pretty much the human condition. What you want to say is "We are writing you to because of your track record of funding projects like ours," and then tell them what you are doing. If what you are doing has changed in some way because of the attacks or because of the economy, then of course you can talk about that. Otherwise, focus on what your group does and how it makes a difference. Good luck.


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Current Newswire:
Network World: Mainframe Linux to get mgmt. boostAug 01, 2000, 08:15 (2 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Marc Songini)
"IBM, Computer Associates and BMC will announce products this week that should help customers manage Linux applications on mainframes."
"At the SHARE user conference last week, IBM gave details on a mainframe application that will let customers install hundreds of copies of Linux without requiring extensive mainframe programming skills, while CA and BMC will introduce software for managing S/390-based Linux applications, and security and storage functions."
"These announcements are a good sign that system management vendors are taking Linux in the enterprise seriously, says David Boyes, a Linux on mainframe user and engineer with Dimension Enterprises, a data center design and testing firm in Herndon, Va. "As more application vendors and enterprises embrace Linux, all the system management vendors will ultimately have to support the full range of their products - both clients and servers - on Linux. The announcements from CA and BMC are the beginning of that move."
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What's for dinner today?
… read a panel next to the cheetah enclosure. According to it, my 100-150 lb. weight bracket put me in the same class as the female warthog, and as a female warthog, I could be eaten within a half hour by lions and would be especially relished by hyenas. However, I would not have to fear cheetahs, because according to another sign, adult humans are too dense and heavy for cheetahs to eat. Instead, cheetahs prefer prey at or below 100 lbs., like a gazelle — which is "about the size of a sixth grader."
I feel for any sixth grader who is reading this blog or is familiar with that sign. All the same, some of those signs at the National Zoo were curiously hilarious.
Aside from humorous blurbs, the Zoo has other obvious treasures. Here are photos of a couple of them. First, the Fly River Turtle, or Pig-nosed Turtle. I prefer the former name, because it evokes images of a shoreside reptile sporting cool threads. Second, the White-faced saki, who looks rather like an old sage in this photo.
Now, I have a very cool story to share with you. Today, I ate chili cheese fries — surprise, surprise.
As you can see, the chili and cheese look good, but the fries look more like they've been microwaved than fried. I tried getting some ketchup in my basket to add a little flavor, but air pressure worked against any ketchup flow. An older man, maybe in his 50s or 60s, passed along his ketchup bottle, which worked just fine.
We both continued eating — I read a Chinese article while fries undoubtedly poked out of my mouth. He talked to the waitress about his hometown of Chicago and how he visited Sioux Falls, South Dakota last week. It was freezing there on Saturday, apparently.
Then he left.
And then the waitress told me that he paid for my meal and instructed her not to say anything to me until after he had left. That was all.
After that, I joined a photography group through a church I'm attending in DC. We took some photos around Union Station. Most of mine turned out bleh — a combination of poor shutter speed judgment, lens flare, and the fewer number of interesting subjects out at that time of night.
This one is decent, and even has the Capitol in the background. That little neon red light trail on the left is courtesy of her ciggy.


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After Paris, London, Berlin, Rome, Doha and thirteen other international cities, Montréal becomes for the very first time one of the prestigious cities hosting the Longines Global Champions Tour, an international showjumping competition featuring the world's best riders. Making a stop in just one Canadian city, this major sporting event will put Montréal, Québec and Canada in the spotlight. Competitions will be broadcast over three days in 59 countries by Eurosport and CNN as well as online.
To make the event accessible to everyone, admission is free for the general public.
From September 19 to 22, 2019
Event site hours: 8:00 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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One of the perks of being a garden blogger is that I am often given the opportunity to review newly published gardening books. I was given a free copy of "Grow for Flavor" in return for my honest review.
After having reviewed many wonderful books written on a variety of gardening subjects, Grow For Flavor immediately grabbed my attention by the unique way that it promised to "turn the tables on conventional gardening advice" by dispelling common garden myths such as "home-grown always tastes better" and "heirloom vegetables always taste better than hybrids".
The publisher promises that "this book contains tips, how-to's and recipes on how to increase the amount of flavor in home-grown food. For example, the author describes how you can make salad greens either sweet or fiery by choosing where and how you grow them, or how to use acidic soil to give strawberries better flavor. With recipes such as "Purple Sun" Carrot Cheesecake and Spiced Pumpkin, Tarragon & Marshmallow Soup, Grow for Flavor is the perfect book for a foodie-gardener."
I must admit to being intrigued at its premise and couldn't wait to discover more for myself.
Written by self-described obsessive botanist, James Wong, has based the book on over 2,000 scientific studies as well as his own taste tests has made the goal of this book to help home gardeners grow crops with maximum flavor and minimum labor.
The emphasis is growing plants for flavor rather than focusing on quantity, which can often decrease the flavor of homegrown vegetables.
One of my favorite parts is the author's description of cilantro, calling it the "The Herb of Evil". Studies have shown that "loving or hating cilantro is genetically determined." Either you enjoy cilantro's bright, citrusy flavor OR fail to understand why some people love a herb that tastes like soap. It turns out that it is all in a person's genes. One-fifth of the world's population has a gene that makes cilantro taste awful. As one of the one-fifth, it is nice to have an explanation as to why I hate a herb that so many people love.
The predominant emphasis of Grow for Flavor is to grow fruits and vegetables for maximum flavor using simple tips. It turns out that a plant's genes are the biggest factor in how they taste, but growing plants in full sun and taking care to NOT overwater can also help to maximize flavor.
Recommended varieties are included for many types of vegetables including my favorites – sweet corn and tomatoes including those that are best for salad and those that are ideal for cooking are also included.
Colorful photos make the book a visual treat coupled with many delicious recipes featuring fresh grown produce, wild food delicacies such as certain weeds, flower waters, vinegar, jam and syrups are also featured.
After spending a very enjoyable time reading through the book, I found the publisher's description described Grow for Flavor perfectly and I highly recommend it and it now occupies a prominent spot on my plant book shelves.
So, now for the giveaway…
You can enter to win a free copy of Grow for Flavor.
1. To enter, simply leave me a comment about what fruits and/or vegetables that you like to grow and eat.
(Be sure to leave your email address if it's not on your profile, or I won't have any way to contact you.)
2. For a bonus entry, like me on Facebook or follow me on Twitter – (be sure to let me know in your comment).
Let your friends know about this great giveaway and I will pick a random winner on Saturday, February 13th.
You can also order your own copy of Grow for Flavor by clicking here.
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This past weekend in Germany, a lawmaker from the opposition party suggested that German authorities should subsidize paid sex for patients in nursing care. The idea was controversial, obviously, although prostitution has been legal in Germany since 2002.
Elisabeth Scharfenberg, the spokesperson for Germany's Green party, told Welt am Sonntag she could imagine Germany "financing sexual assistance," and Welt said the system could mirror one in the Netherlands, were disabled patients can get such subsidies if they have medical need and can't pay for sex work otherwise. Sex has been shown to relieve chronic pain and reduce stress, and there are psychological benefits as well. But even if those in nursing care could prove medical need, the money would still come from government budgets, which arguably could be used to cover more basic needs, like nutrition and hygiene.
As a lawmaker from the governing party said Monday, "We don't need paid prostitution in homes for the elderly, and certainly not on prescription." But disregarding party politics and budget constraints for a moment, the suggestion does frame sex as a medical right, not a luxury, for German citizens, and that's an interesting concept.
Also, why shouldn't old people have more sex?
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Wow, what a long time it has been. I will forgive you all if you have all got up and left me all alone in this small corner of the internet as I have been AWOL for almost 3 weeks! What a 3 weeks it has been though so I do hope you will forgive me!
First of all we moved into our new house! It's great having a house that is all ours, we have so many ideas for decorating and layout but its a little overwhelming to know where to start. We decided to start with the main bedroom so whilst that is underway we are mostly still living out of boxes in the spare room.
2 days after moving house I started my placement so not only did I have a new house I had a new job aswell. To top this off it is too far away to commute daily so I am lodging nearby in the week and travelling at weekends so after only 2 days it was goodbye new house and hello to a different new house. Only this one is not mine and there are other people living there (but they are lovely so theres no problem there).
One good thing about staying away from home is that the evenings feel a lot longer when there are not all the little things to do hanging over you so in my first week away I managed to get a fair chunk done on my sunburst blanket…more on that to come later. I also came down with a cold – not what you need when your away from home and have just started a new job but I think with all the effort of moving it was bound to happen at some time.
So, in case you thought all of that was enough to have kept me occupied for the last 3 weeks you would be wrong…there's more! Last week I went to a conference in Spain. It was mostly just work stuff but I did have a bit of spare time to explore the city. The conference was held in Cordoba, a beautiful old city. In fact the old town is a UNESCO world heritage site. IT really is a beautiful place and filled with lots of inspiration. I really loved visiting the Mezquita which was originally a mosque and now houses a catholic cathedral. The contrast between the moorish architecture and the catholic art is really striking.
and I also found some Spanish craft shops…the first was a fairly normal fabric shop but the second seemed to sell everything from buttons, to yarn, to busts of the virgin Mary!
Hopefully the next few weeks will calm down a bit and I will have more time for the relaxing things in my life such as knitting and unpacking my sewing machine!


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I gravitated toward Kelly Link's new short fiction collection based on a compelling summary, thinking Link was a new name to me. But I dug around some, and was reminded of an older story of hers about a boy, the mother he lost, and the cat who tries to lead him to a new life. That was "Catskin" and it skirted deftly away from genre definition. Was it magical realism? Playful allegory? Just plain undefinable weirdness? I couldn't say.
The stories in this new group are all vaguely fantastical, and it's easy to see why the flap has supporting quotes from Neil Gaiman and Karen Russell. The opening story, "The Summer People," is a lovely tale about a teen girl who has a responsibility to a supernatural house out in the country. It's fascinating and unsettling, grounded yet mysterious.
Some of the stories that follow take a steeper trip into the dark, getting frank about ill-advised relationships. There are the ones about real superheroes ("Secret Identity" and "Origin Story") as well as ghosts ("I Can See Right Through You" and "The New Boyfriend"), and the unreal elements are subtle enough to serve the stories instead of knocking them off course. I can only think of one, "The Lesson," that could be read as straight up realistic, about a gay couple preparing for the birth of their child through a surrogate mother. It's still a vivid tale.
The book's title is a good guide to these stories, several of which feature women (often young) coming to terms with who or what they want to be. A few specific mentions of the phrase include:
But there was something about him, you just knew he was going to get you into trouble. The good kind of trouble.
People with two shadows were supposed to get in trouble. Supposed to be trouble.
Each story has to quickly orient you to its own little world, which takes some paying attention. Get in Trouble is a tough one to read with distractions. But the not knowing is part of the propulsion, and Link is clearly in control. Several of these could be expanded upon, which makes me wonder which story might become her first novel. Not that a novel has to be the ultimate goal of every writer, but she seems up to the task if one of her tales can't stay contained. I'd look forward to that book.
Or, let's get an illustrator to team up with Link, and she can pen a strange superhero ghost story with the enhancement of visual elements. Now that comic would deserve my dollars.
Levi C. Byers is a contributor to The Stake. You can find him at leviandlaura.wordpress.com and on Twitter @Leviathan_B.


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Are you content?
I find myself feeling less content as the time goes on, being no content to fill in the void in my day.
Here I sit, content to gobble content online all day with no boss and there is nothing here to sate my desire to be contented.
I hope this sparks others to contribute to their hearts content, knowing I spent three minutes writing something that you could do as well.


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Do you need to relate to a coming of age movie to like it? That would depend on your definition of the word "need." There are obviously ways to enjoy movies about the childhoods of characters who live lives pretty far removed from one's own. The ultimate coming of age movie is probably Francois Truffaut's The 400 Blows which is based on Trufaut's own experiences growing up in 1940s Paris, a milieu that would seem to be pretty different from where most modern American viewers would have grown up, and yet that hardly seems to matter because Antoine Doinel is such a well-drawn character and his ennui largely seems removed from his surroundings and on some level you can relate to the way that he responds to teachers and parents and the like. Then there are examples like Federico Fellini's Amarcord, which is set in a small town in Mussolini's Italy, but in that case the town is in many ways more the protagonist than the young man at its center and the fact that it's drawn from such specific memories of its director of this time and place makes it so everything that's foreign about it simply makes it more interesting. There are, however times when movies do lose some impact when your personal connection to them is a little more tenuous. For instance, Terrance Malick's otherwise immaculately made opus The Tree of Life ultimately never quite impacted me as much as I wanted it to, in part because I never quite connected to the nostalgia of its child protagonist and his rather specific experiences in rural 1950s Texas. Conversely there's a very good chance that the experiences I shared with the protagonist of Richard Linklater's Boyhood really multiplied the enthusiasm I would have had for the film by quite a bit. I bring this up because the protagonist of the highly acclaimed new film Call Me by Your Name is about as different from me on any level as someone can be and it in many ways puts to the test whether you can connect to audiences in situations like this and how.
The film is set in 1983 in a small town in Northern Italy and focuses on Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), the seventeen year old son in a Jewish American ex-patriot family that is in Italy because of his father (Michael Stuhlbarg) is an esteemed archeologist. The film begins with the arrival of Oliver (Armie Hammer), an American graduate student who has come to assist the father for the summer and will be staying with him at the villa. Elio has spent much of the summer reading, practicing his skills at the piano, and chasing after his girlfriend Marzia (Esther Garrel). There is, however, something about his relationship with Marzia that leaves Elio unfulfilled and there's something about this Oliver guy that he finds intruding.
Call Me By Your Name was directed by a guy named Luca Guadagnino, who previously directed a pair of films called I Am Love and A Bigger Splash, which were both movies with fairly different tones but the one thing they had in common was that they were both about rich people living decadent lives in Italy. A Bigger Splash in particular felt almost like "lifestyle porn" with its British and American expat characters frolicking around on a Mediterranean island while decked in expensive fashions and eating expensive food and seemingly not having a care in the world until someone gets murdered. Call Me By Your Name does not feel as decadent as that movie did but it's still very much a movie about rich ex-patriots who live cultured European lives. Because of this I found the first half of Call Me By Your Name to be a bit slow, in part because it mostly just felt like it was painting a portrait of Elio, who seems like the most privileged 17 year old who ever lived. This is a dude who is living as a citizen of the world in an idyllic Italian countryside with super chill parents who surround him with culture and who has friends and beautiful girls (who he seems fairly receptive to despite future developments) throwing themselves at him. His life is one that's so far removed from my own teenage experiences that simply witness it during its more mundane moments was not really giving me that thrill of recognition I often expect from these kind of movies, which isn't inherently bad but in the absence of story development I wasn't terribly interested.
The movie does, however, pick up in a big way once Elio and Oliver stop beating around the bush and commence with their affair. This development has become controversial in some quarters because of the age difference between the two characters. On paper Elio is 17 and Oliver is 24, which is kind of questionable to begin with but it's confounded by the fact that Timothée Chalamet is 22 but quite convincingly looks 17 while Armie Hammer is 31 and looks 31. The movie does go out of its way to make it clear that the attraction between these two characters is mutual and that Oliver isn't acting in a particularly predator manner and the movie does still eventually dig a bit into the reasons why a love affair between a high school student and a post-grad might not be an entirely healthy decision for either. Still, I get why people would be queasy about this relationship but also why people would be open minded about it under these specific circumstances. Regardless of the morality of the situation I do think Armie Hammer was a bit miscast here in terms of age and also because he never quite fit as this intellectual grad student and he never made it terribly clear to me why his character would be interested in this scrawny pretentious 17 year old. The movie is primarily from Elio's point of view so it's makes sense that his experience of these events would be clearer, but that half of this romance could have been explored a bit more.
I can't help but compare this movie to the year's other high profile coming of age movie: Lady Bird. Unlike this movie, the protagonist of that movie is incredibly relatable for middle class viewers from mid-size American cities. That movie also feels a lot more clear eyed about how youthful romances tend to play out, which is to say that it views them as misbegotten superficial things that get literally painted over by the end rather than as grand romances to be remembered forever. On the other hand this movie is hardly oblivious to the fact that the romance at its center is rare and out of the ordinary and the events of the film do feel increasingly meaningful during its last thirty minutes or so. That's the other big difference between this and Lady Bird: Gretta Gerwig's movie feels highly entertaining pretty much from the beginning but never quite seems sure how it wants to end while Call Me By Your Name has a nearly perfect ending but seems to spend an awful lot of time trying to set it up and that made the film's first half slow and uneventful. I'm glad I saw the movie in a theater because I suspect I would have lost patience with it and abused the pause button if I was watching it at home. It's certainly a well-made film, one that I respect quite a lot, but it's not necessarily the film for me or at least not the film that's going to knock my socks off.


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Behavioral Assessment of Correctional Inmates
Prison Systems
Unit S.M.A.R.T. Goal:
Students will be able to recognize the different correctional methodologies prisons around the world use when attempting to modify inmate behavior and formulate solutions to the weaknesses they identify in each system.
Today's Objective:
Students will utilize their digital reference materials during an initial inmate behavioral analysis in order to gather enough evidence to compare and contrast their mentalities and reasons for turning to crime.
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7 Key Theories on Why We Commit Crime
Organized vs Disorganized Killers Chart
Psychiatric Disorders Associated With Criminal Behavior (Version 3)
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Groundbreaking study reveals that transgender Americans encounter pervasive discrimination
The National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force have just released the results of a groundbreaking new study–"Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey." The study surveyed 6,450 transgender and gender non-conforming people from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The key findings of the study reveal that transgender and gender non-conforming Americans "face injustice at every turn."
From their childhood homes to their schools to their doctors—survey respondents experienced discrimination at staggering rates. 78% of respondents who expressed a transgender identity or gender non-conformity while in school experienced harassment; 35% were a victim of physical assault.
Transgender and gender non-conforming Americans often find themselves at risk in employment situations. An astonishingly high percentage (90%) of respondents reported having faced harassment, mistreatment, or discrimination on the job while 26% lost a job as a result of their gender identity or gender non-conformity. Survey respondents experienced unemployment at twice the rate of the general population, with rates for people of color reaching up to four times the national rate. 16% of respondents had been compelled to work in the underground economy for income (such as doing sex work or selling drugs).
Housing is another area where transgender and gender non-conforming people face difficulty. One-fifth of survey respondents experienced homelessness at some point in their lives while 2% were currently homeless. Respondents who have experienced homelessness were highly vulnerable to mistreatment in public settings, police abuse, and negative health outcomes. In fact, 22% of respondents who have interacted with police reported harassment, with much higher rates reported by people of color, and 46% reported being uncomfortable seeking police assistance.
Transgender and gender non-conforming Americans have unique health needs, and yet competent care is tough to find. 50% of survey respondents reported having to teach their medical providers about transgender care. 19% had been refused medical care due to their transgender or gender non-conforming status while 28% of respondents postponed medical care due to discrimination.
In the face of extensive institutional discrimination, family acceptance had a protective affect against many threats to well-being. 43% of respondents maintained most of their family bonds while 57% experienced significant family rejection. Those respondents who were accepted by their families were 17% less likely to experience homelessness, 8% less likely to perform sex work, and 19% less likely to attempt suicide.
The results of this study reveal a harsh reality: it is part of social and legal convention in the US to discriminate against, ridicule, and abuse transgender and gender non-conforming people within foundational institutions such as the family, schools, the workplace, and health care settings—every day. Not only does this report give us a true 360-degree view of the experiences of transgender and gender non-conforming Americans, it also calls us to action. We must work together—members of the LGBT community and allies—to eliminate the discrimination, harassment, and injustice that transgender people face, and we must begin now.
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text: Pamela Moberg Posted August 27, 2012 It is not often that I get to see a classical ballet live. The local company is modern and one has to rely on guesting companies. Well, here we were treated to Giselle with the Dutch National Ballet. Thank God, in the traditional style, and we are thanking God again, no canned music, the Gothenburg Opera Orchestra played, just a thing like that makes one's eyes full of tears. Giselle - Maia Makhateli Albrecht - Jozef Varga Myrtha - Sasha Mukhamedov, and to judge from the names, the corps was very international indeed. A very beautiful performance, here it must be admitted that I have seen better performances in my life, but this was surprisingly good. This is the only work I have seen with Dutch National Ballet, but I would certainly like to see them in other works, they do have a limited classical repertoire. Yesterday the Maryinskij guested the Stockholm Opera with "Little Humpbacked Horse" - I have read the reviews and I just wish I had been there! In October there will be guest performances of Swan Lake by something called, wait for it: The Crown Ballet from Moscow Theater. No, I am not making this up, but I have never heard of this company. Anyway, I have no plans of going to Stockholm for this. Has anybody heard of "Crown Ballet of Moscow"? Will I be missing something? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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The rising cost of pharmacovigilance (PV) tasks has been an ongoing challenge for the pharma industry. Many companies have chosen to shift these tasks to overseas vendors to take advantage of cheaper labor without compromising quality. However, as the benefits of outsourcing have increased so too have the costs, forcing companies to shift their operations from country to country in an ongoing quest to find cost-effective labor pools. We're starting to see this model hit its limits as companies can no longer find enough workers at desired cost levels in these countries to handle the PV workload.
At the same time, the volume of PV cases has steadily risen as regulators push doctors to report more incidences, and patients share their adverse event stories via chat groups, registries and social media. Regulators and industry bodies are also seeking more in-depth trend data that looks beyond individual cases to identify signal trend patterns across treatment categories and patient populations. They want to see companies increasing their use of AE reports to gain greater insights about safety and support future decision making.
The combined pressures of cost, volume and heightened demand for analytics are forcing the industry to embrace advanced technology to support their PV activities.