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It's Halloween night. Do you know what movies your children are watching?
It wouldn't be the most wonderful holiday of the year without a double- or triple-feature of scary movies to go with the tricking and treating. While there are plenty of R-rated slasher flicks to please big brother and sister in the other room, there are also a fair amount of PG-rated spookfests that provide good, clean fun (and scares!) for the under-13 crowd in the basement.
However, a few of these so-called "kids' movies" threaten to step over the line at any moment and become cinematic experiences that might be a little too troubling for their target audience. With honorable mentions to the formidably traumatizing "Little Monsters," the recent "ParaNorman" (pictured) and "Frankenweenie," "Beetle Juice" and "Jumanji," here are our top nine picks for movies most likely to inspire hiding under the covers.
9. 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' (1993)
Sure, the scare factor is announced right there in the title, but Tim Burton's creeptastic holiday vs. holiday war film "The Nightmare Before Christmas" earned a few unexpected spine shivers. How this animated flick got away with shoving poor Santa Clause into the sinister games at Halloweentown is beyond us. The movie's enough to make a kid glad to discover Father Christmas — er, spoiler alert? — is a figment of fantasy.
Even the "good guys" of this movie are undeniably unsettling.
8. 'Coraline' (2009)
Director Henry Selick and writer Neil Gaiman beat fellow spooktastic stories like "Lost" to the punch when it came to employing eerie parallel realities as a scare-and-confuse tactic in "Coraline." Even better (or worse, depending), he threw button-eyed moms and 3-D needle strokes into this strange stop-motion movie to give viewers an extra long-lasting case of the willies.
7. 'Alice in Wonderland' (1951)
Disney has a veritable catalog of trippy cartoons supposedly made for children (such as "Fantasia," "Sleeping Beauty," "James and the Giant Peach"), the most frightening of which is their translation of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland." From the Cheshire Cat's sinister smile to the suddenly melodic flowers to the Queen of Heart's truly terrifying "Off with their heads!" chant, this journey down the rabbit hole is freaky for any generation.
6. 'Labyrinth' (1986)
Plenty of '80s movies aimed to bite back at the era's disaffected youth, and the lessons of the nightmarish "Labyrinth" were pretty routine (teenagers need to stop being mopey brats all the time, David Bowie is the man, yada yada). But to get to the point, a selfish girl was forced to face the figments of her wildest imagination — basically a maze of malady filled with toothy goblins, a bog of eternal stench and impossible brain teasers.
Creepiest part? Two words: Helping Hands. Eek!
5. 'The Watcher in the Woods' (1980)
"The Watcher in the Woods" was so disturbing that its original ending had to be re-edited after initial screenings, and even then it still turned out scary as hell. It was labeled a family film, somehow, though it was anything but (in the movie, two innocent kids get wrangled into seances, alien encounters and ghostly possessions, for crying out loud). In fact, it was originally pitched as the potential next "Exorcist."
4. 'The NeverEnding Story' (1984)
The Nothing. Who could forget the Nothing? It was enough to give a girl nightmares for years on end.
"The NeverEnding Story" was on its surface a tale of overcoming adversity and combating the neighborhood bullies with brains (and a giant flying dog, if one's around). But as it played out, the poor kids of the story endured losing beloved pets to deathly quicksand, escaping sneezy, pissed-off mega-tortoises and battling freaky creatures... not to mention, the Nothing. Perhaps the most existential villain of all kid cinema, the Nothing began to eat away at the decaying world as one little boy with a quiver and a snake necklace tried to fight back. So. Screwed. Up.
3. 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939)
Getting sucked up by a tornado, thrust into a world with a rainbow horse, a glittery castle and super-odd townsfolk and then running across a scarecrow, tin man and cowardly lion along the way to see a middle-aged guy who calls himself "the Wizard" is scary enough. Throw in the cackling Wicked Witch of the West and her flying monkey brigade and it's all just way too much.
Also, does stealing footwear from dead people really seem like a good instance of problem-solving to anyone?
2. 'The Dark Crystal' (1982)
Jim Henson and Frank Oz might've just been the most devilishly crazy duo to ever make a so-called kids movie, and "The Dark Crystal" was their seminal skin-crawler — if for no other reason than those horrifying animatronic monsters. Even the central Gelflings were the stuff of any tween's nightmares. Like "Labyrinth," this movie seems more suited for college coeds with tapestries and glowlights than innocent youngsters... if you catch our drift.
1. 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' (1971)
The snozberries might taste like snozberries, but they're totally laced with hallucinogens. Or at least that's what it seemed like once the journey c0mmenced over at Willy Wonka's elusive chocolate factory. Perhaps the intent of this movie was to scare bad behavior urges out of the viewing youth, but there was no discernible moral to be drawn from that mind-melter tunnel scene. Not to mention those Oompa Loompas chanting in synchrony about the fate of the fallen children — who were either blown up, nearly drowned, reduced to molecules or shot down garbage shoots — are enough to make a kid really reconsider that visit to the candy shop.
Oh, and Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka (no disrespect to Johnny Depp) is inexplicable terror.
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In the world 'o Mormons, the ability to recognize other Mormons is known similarly as "modar". The following are a number of ways to detect a Mormon, and hone your modar.
The first way to detect a Mormon is to ask where they are from. If the answer is "Utah", you have an 80% chance that they are a Mormon. Similarly, if your are in Utah, than there is an 80% chance that any average Joe walking down the street is a Mormon.
Another way to tell a Mormon is by the things he/she is wearing. If any of their clothes say "BYU" on them, they have a 95% chance of being a Mormon. If they are wearing a CTR ring, they have a 99.7% chance of being a Mormon. A CTR ring looks like a shield and says "CTR" which stands for "Choose the Right". Also, married Mormons and Mormon males over 19 will often have an undershirt with a neck that swoops down over their chest, causing a crease known as a "Mormon smiley."
Language is a dead giveaway. Mormons will often replace curse words with more tame versions. The following are a few translations from common speak to Mormon speak:
Shit = Shoot, Shiz, Shat (past tense), crud
Ass = "A", Arse, butt, rear, booty
Fuck = Fudge, Frick, Fetch
Damn = Dang, Darn, "D"
Other Various Mormon Cuss words: Scrud, Gol, fudge puppy, blankety blank
Along with language is pronunciation. Utah has its own dialect of English, and if someone has the dialect, while maybe not Mormon, they have good chances. The most famous example is "Mountain", pronounced by an Utahan as "Mou-in". The "t" sound is actually replaced with a short pause or a beat from the back of the throat.
Names can sometimes be useful for finding out a Mormon. First name like "Mohonri", "Joseph Fielding", and "Brigham" are dead giveaways. Similarly, popular Mormon last names include "Jensen" (Pronounced Jent-siyn), "Smith", and "Christopherson".
Mormons will generally stand out from the crowd by their conduct in social situations. Mormons will usually not drink, cuss, drink caffeine (including coffee and tea), engage in premarital sex, wear revealing clothing, and will not generally tell crude jokes. Of course, there are always exceptions.
If you can't quite figure out ask a question like "Where did you serve your mission?" or "What ward are you in?" If they are not Mormon, these questions are easily recoverable with "I meant in that one video game," and "I thought you were crazy and belonged in the psychiatric ward," respectively.
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Yay! More knitting tutorials! I have so much of this yarn left over from my cable knit sweater that I just can't help but knit XD
Today we're making a knitted headband which is puffy and plaited.
To begin I cast on 24 stitches and knit 2 rows in stockinette.
The I put the first 16 stitches into another needle to work with later. I worked this in 3 sections of 8 stitches each.
Ignoring the other 16 stitches I knit the section of 8 in stockinette until it was long enough to wrap around my head without stretching it.
After the first 8 stitches it should look something like this:
I put those 8 stitches aside and then began to work the next 8.
And then the final 8 after that.
The point of that is that you need to have 3 strands of equal length to plait. Once I plaited them together I put all of the stitches back on the needles and knitted another 2 rows to finish it off.
To join them, I stitched the ends together and it looks quite seamless! 5 points to whoever can correctly guess where the seam is…
Looking good!
I love this more than regular headbands because it's so squishy and comfortable to wear.
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Ms Kapata said while most people had switched to less volatile land uses like agriculture, the ban had led to more encroachment, destruction and fragmentation of wildlife habitat.
"It must be borne in mind that the reduction of operational income to ZAWA arising from the prolonged suspension of hunting has put a strain on the government that has had to supplement ZAWA's shortfall in revenue," she said to Zambia Daily Mail.
The hunt in Zambia is conducted in some of the 35 Game Management Areas (GMAs) there is set aside principally to serve as buffer zones around the National Parks.
Next year there will again be big game hunting in those 19 GMAs where the hunt was suspended in 2013 due to inability to select outfitters in these blocks arising from a flawed tender process.
Ms Kapata explained that a quota setting roadmap shall be adhered to and quotas shall be revised by ZAWA by the middle of December each year for the following year's hunt.
Only the big cats are not on the hunting menu. The minister said the suspension of cat hunting shall remain in force until a survey to ascertain their sustainability is conducted.
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i'm a 20 something year old new nurse. I haven't smoked weed in a year and a half just for this career. I think it's ridiculous to not be able to smoke outside of work. I'm wondering if there is any place I could work where they won't randomly drug test. It's to the point that I'm considering picking a different profession because the quality of my life is more important to me than running around in a maze set up by corporate america trying to make a little bit of money. I heard even if i move to a state where it is decriminalized or legal I still may lose my license if I come up dirty on a random drug test. pre-employment tests are no problem.
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Specialty: critical careApr 16, '13I am not familiar with any job in healthcare that doesn't have the right to perform pre-employment drug screens as well as randomized drug screens. I would not chance it. Is smoking pot really more important to you than a job? I don't necessarily agree with the pot laws either, but I love nursing and there is no way I am going to jepordize my job.
For what it's worth I have known people that work in home health that are regular pot users that have never gotten caught. Still way too risky if you ask me as if their boss decides to crack down and they get caught they could have restrictions placed on their license or even lose their license all together.Apr 16, '13Even fast food places make you agree to random drug screenings. So I doubt a change of career will help. Even if they don't do a pre employment screen, almost all employers have something in your giant package of paper work saying you agree to submit to drug tests if requested, as a term of your employment.
If you moved to a state for it to be legal, it would depend on not only state BON but also facility, to let you smoke. Even if BON says its ok your facility can still test for it. You would have to search for their policy, obviously asking is a bad idea. Even a place that doesn't fire for marijuana might prefer a non smoker if all other aspects are equal.
Not to mention you would most likely need a script.
From what I've seen the only types of jobs that don't do drug tests are a few minimum wage jobs, under the table jobs, and upper management in some fields.Apr 16, '13You can't really smoke pot. It's basically that simple. I worked for years in the loose environment of casinos before I decided to pursue nursing... Couldn't smoke pot there either... Randoms, pre-employment, even sin city drug tests. Heck I once waited tables at a Denny's and I had to take a pee test to work there! It's the way of the world, employers like sober employees. Now I know tons of people find ways to get around it but in nursing it can really mess up your career (it can in casinos as well actually) to fail a test. Not so much at, say, Denny's or Taco Bell.Apr 16, '13Ridiculous or not, that's the way of the world. Many places test only for cause, but a positive result may result in a report to the BON.
Your an adult, if you really want to smoke weed that badly, maybe you need to look at why it's so important to you to be free to smoke.Apr 17, '13There's almost no workplace--especially in healthcare--that won't randomly drug test you. How often you get tested, who knows? You may go for long periods between tests, or you may be tested multiple times in one month. You may get advance notice, or you may be told one morning to immediately report to HR.
And even though THC may be legal in some states such as CA, even having a script will not protect you against disciplinary action from your employer for a positive drug test. They are entitled to deal with drug test results as they see fit...that's something that you agree to once you are hired. And BONs don't smile upon THC use, even here in CA.
I won't tell you to give up the wacky backy, nor will I pass judgement. But if smoking THC is that important to you, you may want to consider a career in another field.
Best of luck to you.Apr 17, '13Also none in some rural hospitals in Maine. I work in Maine and we don't have random testing nor did I have to pass one before I was hired. In Portland, ME, where the hospitals are much bigger it may be different. But in the smaller hospitals its not a requirement.Apr 20, '13I hope I never get sick in Maine or Canada. I can't imagine a health care employer not drug testing. I would hope that they would want clear minded/competent nurses on staff.Apr 21, '13Just because we don't have Big Brother watching our every move doesn't 't mean we all come to work high. We are still responsible professionals.Apr 21, '13Quote from duskyjewelAgreed. Is pot REALLY that much more important than your CAREER? Wow.Wow. I find this thread INCREDIBLY sad.
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I have nothing against Cisco (CSCO), the company or its products, for that matter. I do have a problem with the stock still being a part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI), however.
It would be nice if the 30 stocks in the Dow were kept a little more current and reflective of today's economy. If that were the case, maybe the Dow would be a lot higher than 13,000 at the current time.
It is bad enough that Cisco is so widely held and talked about in the financial press so often, but does it have to continue to be representative of the state of our nation's economy? I suppose most money managers like me would like to see duds like Cisco and Alcoa remain in the Dow -- it makes it easier for us to beat the index -- but I would much rather see fresher, more vibrant companies represent us.
We don't send our mediocre golfers to the Ryder Cup. We don't send our average athletes to the Olympic Games. Why then can't we pick a better team to represent corporate America?
What is wrong with Cisco you say? This $90 billion company helped take us from mainframe computers, to personal computers, to local area and wide area networks. Where is Kaypro? Where is Novell? I am not saying that Cisco's technology is obsolete, but it is obvious that its best days are far back in the rear-view mirror.
Let's look at the returns that the stock has delivered to its investors over the years:
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Over the last 10 years, the stock has underperformed the S&P 500 (^GSPC). While the index was delivering average annual total returns of just 2.6% per year, Cisco was dishing out 1.1% average returns. This is like a turtle passing a snail on the highway.
Over the last five years, the stock has really helped out money managers in trying to beat the Dow. Cisco has been going backwards by 8.2% per year, while the S&P 500 has been going in reverse by a much more palatable 1.9% per year.
What more does a stock need to do to become not so widely-held anymore? I talked with a listener of my radio show today. He told me that he has heard me bad-mouthing the stock, Cisco, for a long time. In fact, I have written many articles about the stock; here is just one. This gentleman went on to tell me that his money manager bought some more Cisco for him before yesterday's mediocre earnings report.
If you look at your portfolio and see Cisco in it, you may want to read my article on stocks of yesteryear. Why do names like General Electric (GE), Cisco, Merck (MRK), etc., etc., continue to litter almost every wire-house firm's portfolios? No wonder investors are leaving such firms in droves and moving to discount brokers!
What would you replace Cisco with? More relevant companies that better represent stocks of today as opposed to stocks of yesteryear. I can't think of a better example than Apple (AAPL). It is now the largest publicly traded company in America. Check out the returns of Apple during the same time periods as that of Cisco:
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Now, that is more like it? I am sure that some mathematician can do the math and figure out where the Dow would be today, had Apple and not Cisco been a member. I would be happy with the last five years when Apple began to really innovate and passed Cisco like it was standing still.
Is it too late to add Apple to the Dow? Are its best days are behind it? Oh, I think Apple still has quite a bit more room to the upside. Consider that the stock is currently trading at a 10.6 forward price-earnings ratio and is expected to continue growing its earnings by 19.7% per year over the next five years. Even I can do the math on that! The current PEG ratio is just 0.54.
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If I just take Apple's earnings estimate of $53.88 per share next year and extrapolate them out at 19.7% per year for five years, I come up with some pretty lofty numbers. Furthermore, when I apply a reasonable multiple to those earnings, I come up with a five-year target price that is significantly higher than where the stock is trading today.
I think the Dow will fare much better in coming years carrying Apple on the team than Cisco. There are only 30 spots on our roster, shouldn't they be the best?
Disclosure: At the time of publication, Bill Gunderson was long AAPL and did not own CSCO.
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