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We're big fans of horror films here at Giz UK, so much so we basically have a compilation of George A. Romero's greatest hits on in the office at all times. The accounts department think we're slightly deranged.
If you're looking for a film to watch this Halloween, we've got you covered. Forget about the ever-popular Exorcist, Scream, or Friday the 13th – these are some alternative films you may want to check out, and the streaming services they're available on.
Teeth (2007)
High school student Dawn works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality in the local chastity group. A stranger to her own body, Dawn discovers she has a toothed vagina when she becomes the object of violence, experiencing both the pitfalls and the power of being a living example of the vagina dentata myth.
Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Certificate: 18
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 79
Price: Free for Netflix subscribers, £6.99 pcm
The Babadook (2014)
Six years after the violent death of her husband, Amelia struggles to discipline her six-year-old son, Samuel, whom she finds impossible to love. Samuel's dreams are plagued by a monster he believes is coming to kill them both. When a disturbing storybook called 'The Babadook' turns up at their house, Samuel is convinced that the Babadook is the creature he's been dreaming about. Amelia is forced to medicate him, but when she begins to sense a sinister presence, it slowly dawns on her the Babadook may be real...
Director: Jennifer Kent
Certificate: 15
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 98
Price: Free for Netflix subscribers, £6.99pcm
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Noticing an increasing amount of strange behaviour among his friends and neighbours, a health inspector soon discovers that the population of Earth is being taken over by alien "pod people".
Director: Philip Kaufman
Certificate: 15
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 94
Price: Free for Netflix subscribers, £6.99 pcm
Amazon Instant Video
Eden Lake (2008)
In this thought-provoking survival movie Jenny and John go for a romantic weekend to an idyllic lake. All is well until their peace and quiet is turned into a bloody struggle for survival when a gang of kids provoke them and vandalise their car.
Director: James Watkins
Certificate: 18
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 83
Price: Free with Amazon Instant Video, £5.99 pcm
The Conjuring (2013)
Based on a true story, The Conjuring tells the suspenseful tale of Lorraine and Ed Warren, world-renowned paranormal investigators, who were called to help a family terrorised by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives.
Director: James Wan
Certificate: 15
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 86
Price: Free with Amazon Instant Video, £5.99 pcm
Street Trash (1986)
When a brand of cheap wine becomes the favourite tipple among a group of bums, they're unaware that it will cause them to melt into formless blobs of gunk. This film will most likely appeal to fans of pitch-black beyond-bad-taste comedy. Others may find it highly offensive.
Director: Jim Muro
Certificate: 18
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 67
Price: Free with Amazon Instant Video, £5.99 pcm
BFI Player+
Dead Ringers (1988)
Based extremely loosely on a true story, twin gynaecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart. That is, until Genevieve Bujold, a popular actress, selects the shyer of the two. The more aggressive sibling takes offence, setting the stage for the ruination of the brothers' relationship and careers…
You can watch the film with a special introduction from curmudgeonly Mark Kermode, if you so wish.
Director: David Cronenberg
Certificate: 18
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 83
Price: £4.99pcm
The Uncanny (1977)
In an attempt to sell his manuscript, a writer tries to persuade a prospective publisher that cats are ultimately evil by providing him with three different stories of kitty brutality in this anthology of horror.
Director: Denis Heroux
Certificate: 15
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 0
Price: £4.99 pcm
Now TV
Oculus (2014)
A malevolent mirror causes psychological havoc in two generations of the same family. Newly released from a mental institution Tim and his sister Kaylie seek to confront the death-dealing 'Lasser Glass' for one last time... and destroy it. However, it's not going to go quietly and the siblings find themselves entangled in a hallucinogenic maze...
Director: Mike Flanagan
Certificate: 15
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 73
Price: £9.99 pcm
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
A young mother-to-be fears that the outwardly nice old folk in her apartment block have diabolical plans for her unborn child. Hormones gone crazy or neighbours from Hell? Either way, she also starts to suspect that husband (played by John Cassavetes) has sympathy for the Devil too. As disturbing as The Exorcist, this is birth control in movie form.
Director: Roman Polanski
Certificate: 18
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 99
Price: £9.99 pcm
Zombeavers (2015)
A trio of sorority sisters (blonde bombshell Jenn, brunette Zoe and fiery-tressed Mary) head to a remote riverside cabin for a girly weekend. They find themselves joined by a gang of horny fratboys who fancy a few days of sex and debauchery. However, they don't bargain on becoming the targets of blood-crazed colony of zombie beavers...
Director: Jordan Rubin
Certificate: 15
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 67
Price: £9.99 pcm
Howl (2015)
A late-night train journey out of London turns into a hellish nightmare when the young guard and his band of commuters are forced into a fight for survival against a dark, malevolent and terrifying creature.
Director: Paul Hyett
Certificate: 18
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 63
Price: £9.99
Google Play
The Birds (1963)
Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. The characters' sense of security is slowly eroded by the curious behaviour of the birds in the area. At first, no more than a rogue sea gull, but things take an ugly turn when hundreds of birds converge on a children's party.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Certificate: 15
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 96
Price: Rent from £2.49, Buy from £3.99 (currently on offer)
Xbox Video
Ghostbusters 1 & 2
In case you didn't have a childhood, here's a rundown: a trio of university parasychologists lose their research grant and decide to open their own business, they call it Ghostbusters, and almost at once are summoned to investigate the strange happenings in a Central Park West apartment. What they discover is that all Manhattan is being besieged by other-worldly demons.
Director: Ivan Reitman
Certificate: PG
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 97
Price: £9.99
Curzon Home Cinema
Antichrist (2009)
A grieving couple retreat to 'Eden', an isolated cabin in the woods, where they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage – let's just say it isn't happily ever after.
Director: Lars Von Trier
Certificate: 18
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 50
Price: £2.00
Think we've missed out your favourite? Let us know in the comments!


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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — King Salman of Saudi Arabia is shaking up the leadership of the kingdom's military and internal security services, elevating younger officials at a time of increased military engagement abroad and sharp economic and social change at home.
In a series of royal decrees announced late Monday, the king discharged dozens of officials across the government, bringing in a new chief of staff for the Saudi military and new officials for security and economic policy.
A number of younger princes were named deputy governors and a woman was appointed deputy labor minister, a rare occurrence in the ultraconservative kingdom.
The personnel shifts come at a time of rapid change for the kingdom, propelled by the ascendance of the king's son, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 32.
Saudi Arabia remains locked in a largely stalemated war in Yemen, has imposed a blockade on neighboring Qatar, and it is looking for ways to push back against the influence of Iran, its religious and political nemesis.
Domestically, Prince Mohammed has consolidated tremendous power for himself while working to modernize the kingdom's economy and social life.
As is typical in the highly opaque kingdom, the leadership offered no explanation for the abrupt changes. But analysts said they appeared to be in line with the young prince's plans.
"There is definitely a move toward a younger generation," said Mohammed Alyahya, a Saudi analyst and nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington.
Over several decades, Saudi Arabia has spent hundreds of billions of dollars assembling an impressive array of military hardware from the United States, Britain and other countries. But the heavy spending never translated into an effective fighting force that would enable the kingdom to protect itself and engage in military ventures abroad.
Prince Mohammed has spoken publicly of his frustration over the gap between the kingdom's military spending and its capabilities, which has become clear during the war in Yemen. The new changes seem to be part of an effort to narrow the gap.
The military appointments fit into a wider reorganization of the kingdom's armed forces that seeks to make them more efficient and stronger players in the region, Mr. Alyahya said.
"The Saudi military is looking to become an organized, regional force on its own, and looking for more independence," he said.
Those changes included a new chief of staff, Gen. Fayyad al-Ruwaili, new leaders for the air defense and land forces, and a royal endorsement of a road map for developing the Defense Ministry.
The changing of the guard extended to the Interior Ministry, which has historically run the kingdom's internal security. Those forces had been led by Prince Mohammed bin Nayef until last year, when he was stripped both of his position as minister and his place as heir to the throne. The recently appointed officers appear to be replacing those tied to the ousted prince.
Three younger princes — sons of Talal, Sultan and Muqrin, members of the king's generation whose political careers have ended — were named deputy governors.
One of those, Prince Turki bin Talal, is a brother of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Saudi Arabia's most famous investor, who was detained recently in what the government called a crackdown on corruption. He was released last month.
The lone woman among the new appointees, Tamader al-Rammah, who was named deputy minister of labor, is not the first woman to hold such a rank in the kingdom but she is the only one to do so now. Her appointment adds to recent efforts to bring more Saudi women into the work force and to reduce societal restrictions on them.
In June, the government has said, it will grant women the right to drive.

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We live just around the corner from a major shopping mall. Like 100 meters around the corner. Step out the front door and you're there.
I'm not someone who is given to much shopping, window or otherwise, so the proximity of the mall doesn't have much effect on my daily routine. I do, however, have countless memories of days on the town with Renata and the girls in years gone by: as they wander from shop to shop I will find a bench somewhere and sit to watch passers by. I can remember my father doing the same thing on family shopping trips.
Every now and again, though, I do go out for a stroll in the mall, just to see what's new. The other day I found myself in the electronics superstore, working up a lust for large high definition televisions ("they're so clear!"), laptop computers ("they're so cheap!"), and electric back-rub seats ("they feel so good!"). I also looked at mobile (cell) phones, but really I have little interest in them other than to see what new features have been added lately (television). Eva, my 15-year-old, likes to ogle these phones regularly, but I'm happy with my 6-year-old model that lets me call people, send messages, and play Snake when I'm just sitting around (train, bus, dentist's office). I wonder if my bishop plays Snake on his phone during his many travels, as a small personal reward for having finished writing yet another article or book review.
What percentage of commerce would dry up if we were all suddenly satisfied with the number and quality of possessions we presently own? Obviously we need to replenish some things almost daily (food), and some other things regularly, as they wear out (shoes). But for much of what we buy, the reason we do so is because we're dissatisfied in some way with what we already have. Advertisers are always playing to this weakness and we happily go along. So, what portion of annual growth in GDP is attributable to being malcontents? Is it possible to have a recession caused by an epidemic of contentedness?
Renata doesn't buy much; she enjoys shopping, but not buying. She's frugal by character to begin with, a personality trait further bolstered by habits formed being raised in a Mennonite environment. Frugality is to her thinking clearly a virtue, good in and of itself. I, on the other hand, cannot claim to be frugal; my "frugality" is merely an expression of pragmatism, a much brighter star in my puny constellation of virtues. (Like almost every American, I am the unwitting disciple of William James and John Dewey.) I don't buy primarily because I don't have the resources to buy. Happily, this motivational difference between Renata and me rarely comes to the fore because we hardly ever have enough money left over at the end of the month to make it an issue. One less thing to worry about.
Last month I read a news story about an investment manager who had allegedly conned a bunch of people, spent their money on the high life, and tried to disappear by sending a may-day call from his airplane before jumping out with a parachute, letting the plane crash in a Florida swamp. The story itself was mildly interesting, but when I saw a photo of the man taken last summer, I thought: "to all appearances this is someone who completely bought into the lie that life consists in the abundance of one's possessions!" There he is, posing in the peachy glow of sunset on a summer's day, dark suit, with Barbie-like woman on his arm, his sleek, silver Lexus parked behind him, his doomed Piper Malibu airplane glinting softly in the dusk just beyond. This is no happenstance snapshot; this is a purposefully composed photo of a man who believes he has made it in life.
Honestly, I spent a good five minutes looking at the photo, maybe more. It is so surreal; so sad. Sad to see a woman being treated like an accessory; sad when possessions are believed to "make the man". How much better to learn to be content, to live in moderation. Or as St. Paul put it: "I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me" (Philippians 4: 11 – 13).
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West Baden Springs Hotel offers its guests a variety in dining experiences, including intimate, fine dining perfect for a cozy rendezvous or a casual setting for lunch where patrons can catch up on the day's events.
Explore the Dining Experiences at West Baden Springs Hotel:
- Sinclair's Restaurant - Named for one of the original owners of the West Baden Hotel, the signature restaurant offers an extensive wine menu and impressive dinner list bringing a slice of European sophistication to Southern Indiana.
- Table One - Truly an intimate fine dining experience, this unique restaurant is ideal for small groups where guests can watch the chef prepare their meal through a glass wall partition.
- Cafe at Sinclair's - This sophisticated and refined cafe sticks to the classics.
- Ballard's Bar - Named after Ed Ballard, another owner of the past, this alfresco-like experience is enhanced by the natural light from the atrium skylights.
- The Pete Dye Clubhouse - Located on the second highest point in Indiana, this golf dining experience offers guests cocktails and a lunch menu while overlooking the scenic golf course set against the Hoosier National Forest.
- Hagen's Club House Restaurant - Located on the Donald Ross Golf Course, this club house offers a hearty menu of BBQ ribs to steaks. Legendary gangster, Al Capone, is even rumored to have carved a message into the bar!
- Xanadu Coffee and Creamery - This upscale coffee shop lures customers in by the smell of their freshly baked goods and Starbucks coffee. They also serve deli-style wraps and ice cream.
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I've recently come back to the UK after six years in China. I never watched Chinese TV news, it being transparently propaganda (they call it "correct guidance of public opinion"). The English-language news channel CCTV9 was mostly lightweight content-free bullshit, but occasionally you got a glimpse of the iron fist behind the velvet glove – usually in relation to Japan, as mentions of Tibet, Taiwan and the Dalai Lama were verboten. I kept up on UK and Western news via the Guardian, people posting on Twitter, and blogs like Mike Tomasky. But I didn't see TV news at all unless I was staying in a hotel. Now I've come back and occasionally watch TV here (mostly the BBC and ITV: I've never liked Sky News), and I find the standard of journalism dreadful.
Maybe this is because in China I edited a magazine in which we regularly interviewed six, seven eight people per issue. So I got a lot of practise in. With the magazine targeted at managers, execs and professionals, I had to make sure I was interesting and pertinent, to avoid leading questions and to encourage the interviewee to open up. I would normally start by asking some background questions and then move onto aspects of their current post and the broader industry. This wasn't always successful (hotel general managers were generally the least forthcoming, for some reason), but I did some good pieces. I was the first editor to feature "the China-watcher's China-watcher" Bill Bishop (of Sinocism and the NYT) for example, while I'm quite proud of the one I did with economist Patrick Chovanec, to take two examples. In all cases, a good interview takes time and research.
These qualities seem to be completely lacking in the interviews I have seen recently. The most egregious are in the sports media. (Check this article for a good analysis of the reasons for this). Football hacks seem completely unaware of what a question actually is. Time and time again, they ask something to which the athlete or manager can only answer "Yes". (And that's before we get to Alan Partridge-level stupid sexism from John Inverdale, or the grotesque racial slur of Don Imus calling a women's basketball team "nappy headed hos"!) For example, I was listening to the Celtic vs Ross County game on the radio just yesterday, and in the pre-match interview manager Neil Lennon was asked if he hoped the new signing Derk Boerrigter "could provide a bit of excitement for the Celtic fans?" HOW COULD HE SAY ANYTHING BUT YES?
Most footballers go along with this shit-for-brains charade, but a glorious few cannot be bothered. Sir Alex Ferguson had little but contempt for most football journalists. Gordon Strachan has a classic array of sarcastic retorts to moronic questions:
Reporter: There goes your unbeaten run. Can you take it?
Strachan: No, I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe jump off a bridge.
Reporter: There's no negative vibes or negative feelings here?
Strachan: Apart from yourself, we're all quite positive round here. I'm going to whack you over the head with a big stick, down negative man, down.
Reporter: Welcome to Southampton Football Club. Do you think you are the right man to turn things around?
Strachan: No, I think they should have got George Graham because I'm useless.
Reporter: What is your impression of Jermaine Pennant?
Strachan: I don't do impressions.
Reporter: So Gordon, any changes then ?
Strachan: Naw, still 5ft 6, ginger and a big nose!
Gary Lineker: So Gordon, if you were English, what formation would you play?
Strachan: If I was English I'd top myself!
It's not just sport. Politics is a great example of where the facts can't be allowed to get in the way of a good story ("the narrative"), and interviewers will persist in a line of questioning to the point of absurdity. (Check out Max Atkinson's blog, where he looks in depth at political interviews, speeches and communications). Fox News made an ass of itself (yeah, really) demanding to know why a Biblical scholar wanted to write a book about Jesus Christ, given that he is a Muslim! Andrew Marr's asking whether Gordon Brown was on prescription drugs I found contemptible, like school bullies harassing an incompetent teacher. Paxman I admire, because he gets to the nub of an issue and goes after it with extreme tenacity; but gimps like Adam Boulton, Nick Robinson, and John Humphrys always seem to have an agenda (even if only their own self-promotion). On the other hand, I like Jon Snow, Ian Hislop, Eddie Mair, Khamel Amed, Michael White and Allegra Stratton, because you get the sense of them finding stuff out and thinking about things.
The sorry state of political discourse isn't entirely the media's fault: politicians often refuse to engage in debate if it's unprofitable for them. (No matter that the public fucking hate this). Ed Milliband's repetition of the same answer no matter what the question is sheer effrontery.
Simon Hoggart subjects political statements to what he calls "the law of the ridiculous reverse". If the opposite of what you were saying is absurd, there is no point saying it. Any politician saying "I want the best for British people" (you mean, you don't want them to be tortured?) should be laughed at. Henry McLeish tried to define himself as a "progressive pragmatist", but given that few would identify as ideological reactionaries (except maybe Nicholas Fairbairn), it just means nothing. Similarly, if a question is asked in which one answer would be absurd, it should not be asked.
Editors – get your thumb out, check what questions your journalists are asking and provide some rigour. Your laziness impoverishes the dialogue of the whole country.


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When word came out on Friday that the New York Jets were on the verge of signing Michael Vick, I thought to myself here we go again. The organization is two years removed from one of the craziest quarterback controversies in some time and now they are about to embark on another one. This move raises more questions than answers.
The Jets have made moves of late that just make you shake your head. When they signed Tim Tebow two years ago, most real fans and virtually all sports writers thought that they were nuts. Yes, they needed a reliable signal caller to back up and even perhaps challenge the incumbent Mark Sanchez. Many were of the mindset that Tebow wasn't the answer and that the Jets wanted the publicity that the former college phenom brought. Some saw this as an opportunity to steal the back pages from the then defending champions and MetLife Stadium co-tenants, the New York Giants, and/or sell t-shirts or jerseys.
As it turned out, the skeptics were right. From the beginning of training camp, it was obvious that Tebow could not make the standard throws and the Jets would have to change their whole offense in order to incorporate Tebow's unique skill-set into their game plan. Yes, he enjoyed some success in Denver, but that was helped by a tremendous running game and an even better defense. He had all of the intangibles but not the necessary tangibles. Two things were obvious regarding the Tebow experiment; the kid lacked what it took to be a successful quarterback in the NFL and the Jets had no clue on how to take advantage of his unique skill set.
Many believed, including yours truly, that Tebow's presence cast a cloud over Sanchez' psyche. Thi not only stunted the former USC quarterback's growth, but ruined his confidence.
Some say that the Jets are going down the same road with the Vick signing where it may stunt the growth of the incumbent quarterback Geno Smith, who is coming off of a roller coaster of a rookie year. I'm of the opinion that bringing in Vick raises the question on whether the Jets feel that Smith is their quarterback of future. Smith's inaugural NFL campaign was nothing to write home about. He showed some flashes of brilliance but he also made plays that made you scratch your head. In essence, he had a typical rookie year at any position, nevertheless quarterback. Smith's biggest problem was that he did not match initial success that Russell Wilson, Robert Griffin, III and Andrew Luck experienced during their rookie years. Wilson's, Griffin's and Luck's first year achievements skewed the scales for all rookie quarterbacks that will follow them.
Since Smith did not light up the NFL from the jump, does it surprise you that the Jets went out and signed a back quarterback who is looking for a place to start? Jets Head Coach Rex Ryan, who is on the hot seat, has never really endorsed Smith as the club's bonifide starter and stated that he is looking forward to a nice competition in training camp for the leading role. After his signing, Vick said all of the right things. "As of now, Geno is the starting quarterback for this football team," he said in a conference call with reporters. "From this point on, we're going to compete every day." Clearly the ex-Philadelphia Eagle and Atlanta Falcon is thinking that he can snatch the starting position from Smith. Do you think that despite all of his fault, a healthy Michael Vick is going to sit behind Geno Smith?
The Jets are bringing in one of the most electric and dynamic players of this generation. Since 2010, Vick owns the 11th-highest quarterbac rating. He is still capable of turning a busted play into a highlight reel. All he wants is a shot to show the world that he can still lead a team to victory. The only two questions one might have regarding Vick pertain to him making the right call in pressure situations and his ability to stay healthy for an entire season.
Since he joined Philadelphia after serving his sentence for the dog abuse charges, he has wowed the Eagles fans as well as disappointed them. He will throw for three touchdowns and scramble for several first downs in the first three quarters of a game and then cough the ball up or throw into triple coverage committing a costly turnover that results in his team losing the game in the final quarter. Vick giveths and he takeths away, all in the same game.
And we are not going to bring up the fact that Vick can't stay on the field. He has only made it through an entire NFL season where he has played in all sixteen games twice. Coaches value availability more than they appreciate talent. All of the talent and experience in the world will not serve a coach any good if the player spends more time in the training room's hot tub than on the field of play.
This is why I like the signing. If Vick beats out Smith during training camp, the young quarterback can sit back and learn from the crafty veteran, especially considering the mistakes Vick has made on and off-of-the field. Now if Smith goes into the tank because of Vick's presence, then he does not have the mental state of mind or the fight needed to be an NFL caliber quarterback. It is better to find out early in his career then three or four years down the road.
In the irony of ironies, guess who the Eagles are looking at this week? They are bringing in Mr. Sanchez for a look-see. That would be something if the Eagles sign Sanchez after we end up with Vick. It will look like the two teams made a trade for their beleaguered signal callers. You can't make this up.
This has the chance to be a win-win situation for the organization. If Smith beats out Vick at least we know we have a serviceable quarterback to back up the second-year pro. If Vick wins the job over Smith, then Smith will have a good mentor for a year or two and then assume the starting position in the not-so –distant future where he is not thrown to the dogs, no pun intended, right away. Moreover, if Smith can't handle the demotion, at least we know what we are dealing with and the organization can make future plans accordingly. No one knows for sure how this will play out. The one thing that we know for sure is that the Jets love a quarterback controversy.


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"Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon." — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I am a dancer. Well, I WAS a dancer. I have a BFA in Dance. OK, I graduated in 1991 but still, I do have the degree. I had a successful career for 20 years. I do not dance anymore. I don't exercise at all. I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was when I was working. It's all good, though. I'm OK. I have body dysmorphia, a mental condition that involves a belief that one's own appearance is unusually defective, worthy of hiding or fixing, while one's thoughts about it are pervasive and intrusive. I look in the mirror and see the woman I was at 28 years old. No problem!
My dog Henri and I like to watch yoga, cardio dance and exercise programs on TV. We actually feel like we did the class afterwards, even though we didn't. We're sweaty and thirsty. Can anyone relate to that? I think I'd call it exercise osmosis. I eat junk food, a lot of it. I don't sleep much. My spiritual life consists of watching "Oprah's Masters" show once in a blue moon while lying on the couch. Once in a while I do my own thing on the beach, a mix between dance stretches and yoga. I just turned 48.
We stumbled upon these two beautiful women on YouTube: (youtu.be/SQlH_pHSa24). They have a video called "Sweaty Betty's Boot Camp," an exercise workout for dancers. We watched a few minutes of the video and decided that we could do that. Now, could I keep up? The answer was "No." Three minutes into the video, during the warm up, when they got to the four jumps in the "first position" section, Henri quit, and I was dragging. I do have excuses, and I will use them.
I have arthritis in my metatarsal joint in my left foot. You don't know what that means? I have arthritis in my big toe. All those years of "releve" (a position in which the dancer rises from any position to balance on the toes of one or both feet) standing on tippy toe have obviously caught up to me. I can't wear high heels anymore, for example. Jumping up and down is something I can't do anymore, but I have tried. My 12-year-old son just bounced down the steps and started jumping next to me for inspiration. Thanks, James!
These pretty ladies in the "Sweaty Betty's Boot Camp" video do multiple series of arm positions and swings. However, I have a right shoulder injury that I will have for life. It flares up when I try to exercise, as in trying to follow the moves on this video. I'm sitting here now with a bag of frozen peas on my right shoulder as I write. (It would not help much if the peas were freshly picked.)
There was a time when I would have pushed through these exercises full-out in pain, my ego saying "Go, go, go!' which is why I'm all busted up now. Today I'm older and wiser, and I admit defeat easily. Did I quit? No way. (I have dancer ego PTSD.) I modified the exercises to suit my body. One of my favorite words is "modify." Say it a few times. It feels good.
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Orangutans Acting Wild: Building Nests, Making Friends, and Eating Upon Release into the Forest With the release of four orangutans, Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) has now released a total of twenty-seven individuals into the wild during 2017. Two females, Sindora and Sullivan, and two males, Scotch and Murray, were the most recent orangutan releases into […]CONTINUE READING
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I have a conifer about 25ft tall and about 7ft wide at the skirt, which I put in 27 years ago. It has been looking quite sad for a couple of years. I think it has suffered through dry summers. It is brown and dry under the fringes of green.I would be sorry to lose it as it softens the view of the side-street. Do you think it is beyond help, or would it help (or hurt) it if I took off the 'skirt' branches and left it with the trunk exposed? I bought it as a specimen tree, whatever that really means.
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A 'specimen tree' is one that is planted to make a statement or feature PF All big conifers are brown under the outer covering of green. So long as you still have green growing tips I would leave it alone, you could give it a good mulch though not right up to the trunk.
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thanks, Moongrower. I know most are brown in the centre of the tree but this does seem a bit extreme. Will mulch. I'm watching for any fresh growth--fingers crossed!
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I've taken the bottom branches off mine, bcause they were overhanging the path and making it difficult to get out of the car. It has changed the look of the tree but it looks OK.
If you don't like it as it is, try the mulch and if you are still unhappy then cut the branches off - if the alternative is replacing the tree you have nothing to lose.
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Thanks Moongrower and Steragram. I've decided to watch the tree this year and see what happens. Although it has an outer fringe of green, I can't say it's growing fresh tips, but maybe it's early yet. I keep trying to visualise the tree and area with the lower branches removed but would only need to take this step if it would help the tree by its having less foliage to support.
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NATIONALLY renowned and award-winning artists Kenny Hunter and Diane Maclean have been unveiled as the winners of a high profile competition to design new sculptures in North Berwick.
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The Watcher is Kenny's design
Kenny's life-sized metal figure, looking through binoculars out to the Bass Rock, would become an iconic landmark on the main approach to the award-winning Scottish Seabird Centre. Diane's metal arch would create a very impressive gateway to Anchor Green and the Centre from the town's historic harbour and vice versa.
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"We have really enjoyed working with each award-winning artist, who both have very different styles, and we sincerely hope that we can raise the necessary funding to ensure that we can create a dramatic and inspiring welcome for the many visitors to this high profile and historic site for many years to come."
Kenny Hunter said: "Coming originally from Musselburgh, it's great to be working on an artwork for a town I know so well. 'The Watcher' is a sculpted figure, with the binoculars looking out to the Bass Rock, representing those with an interest in the amazing birdlife of North Berwick; he is dressed in outdoor wear and there is an anticipation of his encounter with the gannet colony – he is with us in a physical sense but is also projecting himself out into nature and out into wildness."
Diane Maclean adds: "Working with the Seabird Centre has been a rewarding experience and it's fantastic to see the possibility of my design becoming a reality. My Gothic arch design is reflected by the arch in the Auld Kirk and in the whalebone arch on top of North Berwick Law, a pivotal part of the town's landscape, while reflecting the wonder of the 150,000 gannets that inhabit the world-famous Bass Rock. The local community and the natural world are central to the Seabird Centre's focus and both are embodied in my sculpture."


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It'll probably outlive the dog you get after the first one dies, too. The CSYS LED Task Light from Jake Dyson is able to last for upwards of 37 years, but it gets better. For what is essentially a desk lamp, the design is ingenious and should be very useful for just about anyone with a desk.
The Task Light resembles a construction crane. This shape allows the light to be moved up or down, which allows the user to concentrate light on one place, or give light to a wider part of whatever they are working on. The Task Light cuts down on light spill, hot spots, and glare, all while coming in a minimalist, unobtrusive design.
So, how does this thing last so long? Heat pipes conduct heat away from the light source, distributing it evenly across the heat sink to keep temperature down in all parts of the lamp, making sure that no parts or bulbs wear down too quickly. This combined with the efficiency of LED lights makes for a light source that is five times more energy efficient than a halogen bulb. The CSYS LED Task Light will go on sale shortly for £550.00 ($858 USD).


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Top 10 Scariest Rock Music VideosThese are the scariest and creepiest rock videos that have ever been released. If you plan on checking them out then be warned, they're not suitable for all ages.
The Top Ten
Watch at your own. Even worse than Forced Gender Reassignment.
This video is so scary, gory, and messed up that it's not even allowed on YouTube. I watched it myself and boy do I absolutely regret watching it.
This video is just pure evil. It's based on Edgar Allan Poe's The Conqueror Worm and it features a lot of creepy horror elements. What makes it especially creepy is that the music is black metal which is the darkest metal subgenre.
This one is just bizarre. In the video there's severed bodies, vomit, blood, weird sounds, and lots of strange images. It's so intense that YouTube blocked it for anyone under the age of 18.
I could've included every MM video ever but in my opinion, this video is probably the scariest Manson's ever done. It features a more twisted and sinister take on the tunnel scene from Willy Wonka and it's actually way more scarier than that scene from the movie. Something that would scare those who've seen the tunnel scene as kids to death.
Behemoth are known for their blasphemous and inappropriate videos and this one is no exception. It has imagery so satanic that it would probably give Christians a heart attack.
This one looks like someone's weird perverted fantasy. It features nude women, a live crucified monkey, and Trent Reznor in fetish gear. This is only good for people who love to jerk off to this kid of stuff.
This one made me feel uncomfortable because of how the people's facial expressions started to grow a littl. This is literally something you'd see on acid.
This one features a human-like doll undergoing abuse. This video was so unsettling that MTV stopped airing it.
The Contenders
This one features a woman being chased through a forest by a fat guy in his underwear wielding a machete. This is slasher film stuff which is already pretty scary.


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The Tradescapes Professional Edition offers extended analysis options for the financial professional:
Referential Tradescape Procedures (6)
Sentimentscape Procedures (5)
Book-Half Reverse Pyramiding Procedure (1)
Timed Exits Procedure (1)
Backtest Engine Customizations
Each of the options added to the professional version are designed to solve specific problems in entity selection and signal design that are particularly difficult or onerous to to address with any certainty.
Referential Tradescapes – Surrogate or Referential Signaling
There are two principal reasons to employ a reference as the target or source entity for trading signals that will be applied to a different traded entity. The first is where a basket of entities is traded using a signal derived from a single entity.
Basket Trading
Each Financial entity has its own unique historical signature in terms of sweet spots or time horizons where it can be effectively signaled. Certain entities will favor a faster signaler, others a more patient one. There will be those with little lag tolerance, especially for the more basic signaling algorithms, and others that may be quite forgiving. The idea behind using a single entity to trade a basket of securities is that the entity upon which the signaling is based will be stable, consistent, and as minimally prone to adverse fat-tail events as possible. This is often done with sector indices, or the major securities that often lead a sector.
One trades a basket of securities looking for an edge over the simpler process of trading the master entity directly. The problem here is the unique signature of the different components to be placed in that basket. Even though they may be represented in the overall index or entity, they may signal in very different places were they to be traded independently. Referential tradescapes are a way to determine which entities belong in a basket based on their historical trading landscapes as derived from the intended surrogate or master entity. They not only assess which entities will trade in synch with the overall entity, they will also highlight those whose chaotic behaviors have too little lag tolerance to be usefully placed in such a basket.
The Referential Tradescape procedure in the professional version is invaluable for finding meaningful surrogates and viable candidates that work with a given surrogate. This procedure can take a process that would require days of work, and leave you with no certainty afterward, to a process that can literally be accomplished in minutes, and after the fact you will know you have done everything you can to have the best possible match between surrogates and traded instruments. The Referential Trading Signal Analysis procedure will evaluate your own real-world signaling algorithm, applying it to the reference, and using those signals to trade the candidate entity selected. The performance is plotted atop the referential tradescape.
The above referential tradescape panel has XLB directly signaled in the first panel, and then in the following panels we see XLB's current components with at least 10 years data history and at least a 4% weight in the ETF, each traded using XLB as the source for the signaling. There are huge differences across the individual entities. Referential trendscapes are used to build baskets that are most likely to be successfully traded using a single surrogate.
Difficulty in Ordered Signaling
You may encounter instances where the entity that is being traded is too chaotic to work well with the algorithmic signaling systems you use for your trading. This is usually a product of fat-tail events that often work against any trade that may be underway. There are entities whose price movements to a new trading range occur abruptly. In such cases, algorithms are often fooled in terms of making unfavorable entries and exits. If you can find an entity that closely tracks the entity to be traded, without the chaotic movements, the additional lag tolerance may translate into a much more effective signaling, despite the additional 'fuzziness' the two entity system will add. In practice, this is a very challenging problem to solve. How do you select a surrogate? How can you know it is actually accomplishing its purpose? The referential tradescapes reduce a very difficult problem into a manageable one, and there will be a much higher degree of confidence in any solution.
Sentimentscapes – Two Stage Sentiment Signaling
In a two-stage sentiment signal, a slower time horizon signal is used to determine the direction of trade that is allowed, but does not actually initiate a trade. The faster signaler then executes only those trades permitted. The slower time horizon signal can be drawn from the traded entity, a type of confirmation signaling at two different time horizons, or it can be drawn from a more global entity, such as a market or sector index that would be a proper reflection of the overall sentiment currently in play for a given entity.
Two-Stage Confirmation Signaling
You will at times find two different time horizons within a tradescape where each could potentially be traded. Both may have a strong performance and good lag tolerance, and the progressive tradescapes may show both as being viable across time. When this occurs, it need not be an either-or choice. You can use the traded entity as the target for generating a signal at both time horizons and then the slower signals can open up the long and short (or out of market) trading windows, and the faster signaler will signal the entries and exits. Without using sentimentscapes, the two-stage tradescape technology, this type of signaling is almost impossible to implement with any confidence.
Two-Stage Sentiment Signaling
This adds another dimension of complexity. The slower signal that sets the allowed direction of the trades must be specified not only for this greater time horizon but also with the entity from which that sentiment will be drawn. The entire universe of financial time series is available. An overall market or sector index may be the obvious choice, but the sentiment may be better reflected in a different entity that leads the one you are trading. There will thus be less lag in the slower signal that sets the bands of allowed direction. This is a problem that most would deem close to intractable. A signal designer could literally spend weeks designing and carrying out the different studies. The amount of information that would have to be processed can be immense, even unmanageable if most of the backtests are inconclusive. Confidence after the fact will be hard to come by. Sentimentscapes offer the means to build such a signaler in an astonishingly short time, and with the maximum of confidence in the design. Overfitting isn't a factor.
BHP's single stage directly signaled tradescape is in the first panel. The sentimentscapes that follow increase the time horizon of the second sentiment signal, here based on the Hong Kong index. Note how the reward-pain and the lag tolerance at a very fast time horizon is markedly improved with the slower sentiment signaling.
Two-Stage Referential-Sentiment Signaling
Certain entities will simply be very difficult to signal. As a financial professional there may be considerations where such a challenging entity must be placed under active trade management. There may be instances where a surrogate signaler can be used for the primary entry-exit transitions and a sentiment signaler with yet a different entity from the entity under trade can be used to represent the overall market sentiment. In this unique case, we have two signals, the two entities to which they are applied, and the third entity that is the one actually traded. In the past, we would have regarded this problem as fully intractable. The amount of effort needed to reach a successful signaler would be prohibitive, and confidence would be close to zero. In a single procedure, the referential sentimentscapes in the professional version make this possible.
The Advanced Trading Signal Analyses procedure in the professional edition will evaluate your own real-world compound signaling algorithm against a sentimentscape or referential-sentimentscape.
Book-Half Partial Exits (Reverse Pyramiding)
Professional traders sometimes employ a strategy of booking a portion of the profit within a trade when a fixed percentage gain is realized. This is often a very simple and effective form of reverse-pyramiding. Booking half of one's profit at a fixed percentage gain locks in half the current return from the equity under trade and still allows a portion to continue in the trade. By having this function applied repeatedly within a long trend, the equity can be minimal at the point where the turn occurs. The return is diminished, but the pain, as defined by drawdowns or retracement can also be dramatically diminished.
The two panels above reflect 10 year EOD long tradescapes for SPY. The first has no book half algorithm and the second uses a 7% fixed book half level. In terms of reward-to-pain, as RRt, the lag tolerance improves as well the robustness across different time horizons.
The purpose of Book-Half tradescapes is to answer the question as to whether or not this type of reverse pyramiding can significantly improve reward-pain. If such occurs with the accurate signaling used within the tradescape, there is a fair chance it may be even more of value in real-world signals that have less accuracy in catching the turns. As one would intuit from the nature of this approach, entities that suffer chaotic behavior at the turns in the signal are those most likely to benefit.
Book-Time Exits
Professional traders sometimes employ a simple strategy of booking a trade at a fixed point in time if a stop does not otherwise occur. If an entity is particularly hard to signal in its exits, it is possible one can find a solution by exiting before the trade would on average typically turn. The principle is a basic one. There is a certain entry edge from the accuracy of the signaler's entry transitions, and this will be at a maximum some count of bars into the future. By trading a timed-exit one can significantly avoid the lag issue. One often exits before the turn even begins to occur. This may be inelegant, and it may miss a portion of the return, but the strategy can self-correct and re-enter if the signal is still favorable after a fixed count of bars following an exit.
While these types of exits tend to lack robustness, they can sometimes be surprisingly effective. The above are 8yr EOD long tradescapes for GLD. The left panel has the normal exit signal and the one on the right books all trades at 50-days with no re-entry until a fresh entry signal occurs.
The purpose of Book-Time tradescapes is to answer the question as to whether or not this type of exit can effectively deal with entities that are otherwise onerous to signal for exits.
Customizable Backtest Engine
The professional version exposes the backtest engine behind the various tradescape analyses. The standard version uses a single equity model no trading costs, no stops, and simple signaling on the close. The professional version offers the following customizations:
Starting Equity Amount and Equity Model
The backtest engine can be customized for three different equity models:
Amt is Initial Equity-All Equity Invested in Each Trade
Amt is Fixed Equity Invested in Each Trade
Amt is Fixed Shares Invested in Each Trade
Trading Costs
A fixed Cost Per Trade and a Spread/Slippage (%) can be specified.
Trade Timing
This is also another way to account inefficiency in execution:
Trade Close – Value and Execution Taken Just Before Close
Trade Close at Open of Next Bar – Value at Close, Execution Next Bar's Open
Trade Close at HL of Next Bar – Value at Close, Execution Midpoint of Next Bar
Trade Stops
A stop is set with the Risk % for Stop and a Cooling Period (bars) accompanies a stop out. There are six different types of stops:
Bar % Intrabar-An adverse % from Bar Open Signals Intrabar Stop
Static % Intrabar-An adverse % from Entry Price Signals Intrabar Stop
Trailing % Intrabar-An adverse % from HH or LL Since Entry Signals Intrabar Stop
Bar %-An adverse % from Bar Open to Bar Close Signals Exit at Close of Bar
Static %-An adverse % from Entry Price to Bar Close Signals Exit at Close of Bar
Trailing %-An adverse % from HH or LL Since Entry to Bar Close Signals Exit at Close of Bar
Trade Signaling
Signal is Based on Close of Bar
Signal is Based on HL of Bar
Signal is Based on HLC of Bar
Automatic EOD Portfolio Generation
Whenever incoming daily (EOD) data contains multiple entities, a equal weight portfolio of all entities (independent reference and sentiment entities excluded) can be automatically generated and made available to the backtest engine. In the various tradescape procedures that support EOD data, you may specifically select the portfolio, or for those options that generate a panel of different entities, the portfolio will be included as the last panel.
These backtest engine options offer the means to study the impact of these settings on the ideal signaler used in the tradescape system. In particular, we felt it a very useful approach for determining the most efficacious trade timing, stop levels and types, and signaling variable.
Overfitting and 'Touching the Data'
Experienced professionals understand the reality of random luck and the dangers inherent in overfitting. If you process a thousand different referential entities against an energy company, there is a certainty you will find a candy company or a health-care entity or another unrelated entity that tracks almost perfectly. The features we have included in our professional edition of Tradescapes acknowledge the importance of 'touching' the data to be traded as minimally as possible in the process of signal design. We consider it essential. In our tradescapes paradigm, we 'touch' the data 'one' time whenever we perform a full-accuracy trading map or a panel of such maps. Each tradescape analysis is designed to represent what we regard as a single 'touch' of the data.
You touch the data once to determine the time horizon to trade and to see how good you must be with your signaler in terms of the lag tolerance you are granted for that entity. That is often as far as you need to go. You must still find or build the real-world signal that delivers that time horizon and lag fraction, but the design is over after a single touch of the data. The direct-signaled options in the standard edition manage exactly this.
For more challenging signaling, you may again touch the data each time you explore a surrogate. You may touch the data a second time to explore a sentiment signal's time horizon when used in a composite signal. You must touch the data again for each sentiment entity, but an experienced professional is likely to know which entities can represent the overall sentiment of the entity under trade. You may touch the data once more to explore continuous leverage position sizing, or to see if the book-half strategy can improve reward-pain, or if a difficult to signal entity can be managed with timed exits, but in all cases, the count of touches will be small.
The tradescapes professional version offers advanced trading science, but we go out of our way to avoid the pitfalls of overfitting and overoptimization.


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Activity begins on the Mary Cairncross building upgrade
- Wednesday 06 April 2016
By the middle of next year, visitors will be able to enjoy an educational experience at the new Discovery Centre, with an elevated viewing platform and boardwalk, and meeting theatrette. The upgrade also features a conservation research area and offices and amenities for the hard-working volunteers and staff who run the information desk.
Once finished it will better deliver on the Thynne sisters' desire to conserve and exhibit the Reserve's stunning flora, fauna and scenery.
Division 5 Councillor Jenny McKay said delivering this project in an environmentally responsible manner is of the upmost importance to council.
"It's important to note that the construction work will be strongly guided by detailed environmental management plan which identifies all environmental risks and how they are to be managed, along with roles and responsibilities for ongoing monitoring and reporting," Cr McKay said.
"And that the footprint of the new building will remain within already disturbed areas at the reserve.
"Fences will be erected and early demolition works will begin after the Easter school holidays, with a few minor changes onsite for visitors to be aware of."
There will be some minor modifications to parking and vehicle movement throughout the construction period, which will be clearly signed.
The Forest Walk will remain open, however visitors are asked to please pay attention to onsite signage as the access point to the forest walk will be changed to provide a safe environment for visitors.
The volunteers and temporary visitor centre will be open as normal, except from April 11-13 to enable the transition from the current education centre to the temporary facility.
A temporary café will also be set up, but this may take a few weeks due to tendering and technical logistics.
Visitors will still be able to enjoy the remainder of the park and the BBQ and picnic area during construction.
Cr McKay said the project would never have reached this point without the on-going support of the community-based Design Advisory Panel, the Friends of Mary Cairncross and the dedicated volunteers.
"These groups have helped ensure the building upgrade was sensitively designed to fit in with the look and feel of the Reserve," Cr McKay said.
"Council's construction budget has been supported by $1 million from the Queensland Tourism Infrastructure Fund, an initiative under the Australian Government's Tourism Demand-Driver Infrastructure (TDDI) programme, administered by the Queensland Government through the Department of Tourism, Major Events, Small Business and the Commonwealth Games, and $250,000 in gold coin donations raised by the dedicated Mary Cairncross volunteers."
From 2014-15, the TDDI program will invest $43.1 million over four years – including $7.86 million in Queensland – to drive tourism demand through building capability and tourism infrastructure which will provide a boost to local attractions such as Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve, and the businesses that depend on them.
Minister for Tourism and Major Events Kate Jones said the project would help attract more visitors to the area, and provide for a better visitor experience.
"The Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve is a wonderful place for both visitors and locals to enjoy a picnic, take a hike, or even spot a pademelon and this upgrade will make it even better," Ms Jones said.
"Tourism is booming in Queensland at the moment, which is good news for tour operators, local businesses and the broader economy, and improvements like this will help ensure we make a good impression and encourage repeat visits.
"The Palaszczuk Government is committed to growing the tourism industry and working in partnership with industry and the Australian Government to deliver a shared vision for Queensland Tourism's future."
It is anticipated that the works would be completed by mid-2017.
Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve is highly recognised as a regional icon for its significant conservation values and has been a popular destination for residents and visitors for more than 50 years. It attracts about 200,000 people annually.


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Cardinal enter Thursday's game all banged up
Palo Alto, CA (Sports Network) – The Stanford Cardinal (8-7, 4-3 Pac-10) head
into Thursday's matchup with the Washington State Cougars (9-7, 2-5) riddled
by injuries to several key players.
Senior guard Chris Hernandez is questionable after missing the entire week of
practice with back spasms. If Hernandez were to sit, the Cardinal would be
without a strong scoring option (12.5 ppg) and their team leader in steals
(1.13 pg).
In addition to Hernandez, sophomore center and key reserve Peter Prowitt is
doubtful with a spinal bruise in his lower back.
The Cougars will also be impacted by injury and will be without guard Derrick
Low, who has missed the past five games with a broken foot. Prior to the
injury, Low had started all 11 games and was second on the team in points and