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If you can't win her heart, you can always eat it
R (Nicholas Hoult: X-Men: First Class) is a directionless 20-something. Unmotivated, grungy and introspective, R spends his days wandering the airport, speaking in grunts when accosted.
R is also a zombie.
But unlike many zombies, R feels conflicted about his blood lust. He's curious about the humans he feasts on and tries his best to remember what it was like to be a person instead of a predator. He collects objects that he deems especially human: magazines, records, toys.
In spite of his curiosity, the only way R can experience his lost humanity is through brains, his victims' brains to be exact. When munching on grey matter, zombies experience their dinner's memories and feelings, briefly feeling human again.
When R feasts on the brain of Perry (Dave Franco: 21 Jump Street), his world changes. Perry's memories are of his girlfriend Julie (Teresa Palmer: Wish You Were Here). R is smitten with the perky blonde who is blowing away his zombie brethren fighting for her life.
R takes a risk and saves the girl instead of snacking on her. As he gets to know Julie (by snacking on her now late-boyfriend's brain and through actual interaction), R remembers being human.
Can R rediscover his humanity? Can love conquer death? What's a girl to do when her boyfriend is literally rotten?
Warm Bodies is a funny and surprisingly sweet romantic comedy, considering one of the leads spends most of the movie smeared with blood. The film challenges most zombie mythology, making the monsters somewhat sentient and relatable. To some this will seem like sacrilege, but if you can accept R's inner monologue, you'll be able to appreciate the movie as a hilarious critique of many popular zombie tropes. It's better than sparkling vampires.
The ultimate reasoning behind the zombie apocalypse is a bit disappointing, but Jonathan Levine's (50/50) script is strong enough to distract you from the ridiculousness of the plot. Still, there are some frustrating inconsistencies.
Because these zombies are ultimately supposed to be appealing, they can't be as frightening as they are in The Walking Dead. Gone are the gory chunks of torn flesh and rotten patches of skin. Instead, the undead look down on their luck. Their skin is pale, their clothes are dirty and disheveled and pallid blue veins snake up their necks. For mobile corpses, they look remarkably good.
Performances elevate Warm Bodies from gimmicky comedy to true entertainment. Hoult is an able zombie lead, conveying his inquisitive nature and kind heart through his pale seemingly dead eyes. R could have been a joke, but Hoult makes his rigored limbs and pallor seem awkward and cute instead of menacing and rotten. As R's best dead-friend M, Rob Corddry (Escape from Planet Earth) gets most of the laughs with his dry wit.
Palmer is a capable heroine, with enough beauty and spunk to convincingly win the decaying heart of our leading man. She's able to convey a surprising array of emotions in a character that could easily be one-dimensional.
In a movie about zombies, it's surprising that the only person chewing the scenery is a human character. As Julie's father and the leader of the human survivors, Grigio (John Malkovich: Lines of Wellington) is gloriously over the top, snarling and threatening.
Warm Bodies isn't a love story for every audience, but it delivers plenty of heart and just enough undead humor to make it a surprisingly sweet love story for horror fans.


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Q: What steps should I do for a spring cleanout?
Carol – Beaverton, OR
A: Ice melting, sun shining, cabin fever driving you batty … yep, spring must be on its way. For water garden hobbyists, that means one thing: It's time to head outside and prepare the pond for spring. With some basic planning and a handy-dandy cheat sheet (like this one below), you will have your outdoor oasis cleaned up and ready for fun in no time.
Gather your tools, pull on your hip waders and gloves, and let's get cleaning!
- Evaluate the Pond. The first step is to take a look at the pond and determine what kind of work needs to be done. Did you do a great job cleaning out the pond last fall? Did you procrastinate too long and let those leaves build up? Is it time to give the water feature a top-to-bottom scrubbing?
- Minimal Work Required. If you adequately prepped the pond last fall and, after evaluating it this spring, discovered clear water and minimal debris, you'll only need to do some light cleaning. Scrub the rocks with Oxy-Lift™ Defense®, replace filter pads in the waterfall filter or skimmer box, and perform a 20 percent water change.
- Drain Pond, Relocate Your Fish. If a complete cleanout is necessary, you'll need to drain the pond. Siphon some of the water into a holding tank for the fish, and transport them safely to their temporary home with a pond net. Add some healthy oxygen to the water by submerging and turning on a bubbler or air stone in the tank.
- Check Tubing, Remove Debris. While you're draining the pond, don't forget to purge the water from the tubing and remove any large debris, like branches or dead foliage, by hand.
- Power Wash Away. To remove tough algae growth on rocks, liner and gravel, treat with Oxy-Lift™ Defense® and use a power washer to scrub away the debris if necessary.
- Skimmer, Waterfall Wash. Once the dirty water has been drained from the pond, clean out the skimmer and waterfall boxes using a garden hose, spraying away excess muck and buildup. If the filter media looks worn down, now's the time to replace it.
- Check Lighting, Aerator. With the water drained from the pond, you have a perfect opportunity to inspect any underwater lighting fixtures, check the bulbs and clean the lenses – or, better yet, add some new Pond Lighting for dramatic backyard effect. It's also a good time to check the aerator and make sure it's working properly.
- Reconnect and Reinstall. If you removed and stowed the filter, pump and ultraviolet clarifier last fall, pull them back out and dust them off. Reconnect the plumbing and filters, and reinstall the pumps and UV clarifiers. While you're at it, change the UV bulbs, too; they need to be replaced once a year for optimal algae-control effect.
- Refill, Prep the Pond. Once you're done with the spring cleaning chores, refill the pond with some fresh water. In addition, be sure to add some Stress Reducer PLUS , which removes chlorine, chloramines and heavy metal from tap water. Then acclimate the fish to the new water and add them back into the pond.
- Boost Your Bacteria. Keep the water clean and clear by adding some beneficial bacteria to the pond. Test the water temperature to be sure it's above 55 °F and add PL Gel to the filter media and Seasonal Defense® to the pond water to help jump start the growth of good bacteria.
- Add Aquatic Plants. Finally, be sure to add a variety of pond plants to the water feature. Bog plants beautify the circumference of the pond; floating plants, lilies and lotus provide shade and pops of color; and submerged plants release extra oxygen to the water. They all provide added all-natural filtration and habitat for all underwater pond dwellers.
A spring cleanout may seem like a daunting task, but the time and effort you put into it will pay off with a tranquil backyard oasis. Happy spring!
Pond Talk: How has this winter's wacky weather affected your pond or water feature? Will you have major work to do in the spring?
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Before the world seemingly came off its hinges (truth is the first casualty of war, not Democratic fundraisers), there was the matter of presidential linguistics – specifically, Barack Obama's overuse of the first-person singular.
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You can't judge a book by its cover, but you can judge an author by his or her book sales. In which case, Hillary Clinton has a problem on her pen-cramped hands.
This weekend saw the summer solstice and the longest day of the year. Tuesday – and a statewide election in Mississippi – brings to close another chapter in what may be the longest saga in Republican politics: rival party factions at war.
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DAD ART PERFORMANCE/HEALING COLLAGE is an opportunity for a willing community to see, learn about, interact with and experience aesthetically/performatively the old age, sickness and death of my father Henry Joseph Montano as life/art. In coming into contact with another person's life story and their eventual death, we will see, be reminded of and participate in the feelings associated with our own deaths. That is important work.
The video is a document of the time I took care of my father from 1998-2005 in Saugerties NY, after I left UT Austin.
Death, a tabooed subject and not always out of the closet of fear and dread, must be aesthetically exposed/experienced as the natural event that it is. Why? To prepare us courageously for our own inevitable deaths and help us all make some alliance and friend with that fact. We all share life and we all will experience the end game. Let us collectively help each other do that.
I have found that by opening doors to the SUBJECT of death, I am asking death for friendship and knowledge and understanding. In doing so,
my personal spiritual journey and curiosity are becoming educated to our natural and shared human situation. A good thing, I think..
1. One or two MC's. They will have/use a whistle or a suitable hand held/blown noise device so that they interrupt the "solemnity" of both the images on video and performative actions with a festivity/jesterlyness but dignified sacredness.
2. The secretary who writes down "letters to death" dictated by the audience members who come onstage and visit the secretary at their desk. The secretary can instruct the audience member what to do. The audience member talks, the secretary writes. All letters begin with DEAR DEATH……..
3. The water-giver. One person who offers water to audience members who come to them for healing "water." It can be a glass of water, a spritz of rose water from a spritz bottle, a bowl of water that the audience member drinks from or puts their finger in to bring to a place on their body that needs healing. The exact way the water person wants to share water is designed by them. The water giver instructs the audience member what to do.
4. Two grief counselors sit in front of empty chairs and when an audience member sits down across from them, they listen to stories of death told by members of the audience visiting them onstage at the death-counselor station. They can say," Do you want to tell me about death?" Then they just listen. No advice is needed from the counselors.
5. The audience members come to the mic to say the name of the person they are remembering who has died. Or the mic can be passed around in the audience by the MC's. They are welcome to say the names of people who have died who they want to remember. Or they can say this: IM SORRY…… I FORGIVE YOU AND I FORGIVE MYSELF. Their choice. The MC occasionally helps this to happen. If there is a written program handed out to the audience before the event, this will be written in the program so they can read it.
6. The singer. Montano will sing 7 songs, one every 20 minutes to honor and remember her father's love of music, his time in his band where he played trumpet. My mother sang in this band as well. The MC calls me to the microphone to sing 7 times at designated and equally spaced times, keeping track of the correct times to invite me to sing.
7. The parade leader will come up at the end of the performance and lead us all outside so we can burn the letters to death in a container. There can be many parade leaders. They also lead us in dancing ADDICTED TO LOVE via a boombox sound system after the burning of the letters. They can make festive parade "flags" or have sticks with yarn on them and other attractive things to bring attention to the parade's actions. Musical Instruments/singing can be included if they want. The parade person/persons come into the performance space and invite people to follow them via verbal instruction or if the mood needs they can use hand gestures/silence. If the atmosphere calls for it, all can walk out in silence. The parade person/persons need to be sensitive to the mood needed at the time. This instruction/invitation can also be included in the program notes.
All is happening simultaneously. There is no fixed focus. All can be talked over/interrupted. There are no mistakes possible in this experience because it is an event of natural occurrences/intensely seen and felt truths and over-lapping experiences. Collectively we will be supporting each other and learning together a new language.
FRONT STAGE/MID STAGE: The MC's will stand and move around and interact with the audience. They will either share a mic or there will be two mics for the MC's. The second or third mic will be set for reverb/digital delay for Linda when she sings and also for audience when they come up to say the names of their deceased friends.
TO THE RIGHT OF THE MC'S FACING THE AUDIENCE: There will be four chairs next to each other. The two grief counselors will sit in two of them, side-ways to audience. Audience members will sit in the empty chairs to talk with the grief counsellors who, by the way, are just listening to stories. They have no need to know how to counsel.
The MC's will see when there is a need for an audience member to come to a chair or go to the water station or to write a letter. They will keep the flow going but in a very scared and "ritualistic" manner.
BACK STAGE/ RIGHT BACK: There is a table. The letters to death secretary will sit with their back to the audience with a death mask on the back of their head. They face the person sitting in a chair while they write the letters. They need paper and a pen to write with. Table and two chairs.
BACK STAGE/BACK LEFT: The water giver is in back of a table. Standing. On the table are the things they choose to use to offer water to audience members.
LEFT STAGE/ FRONT: Microphone is there for audience members who want to honor their friends with their friend's name or do the I'm Sorry incantation. But also they can do this when the MC's pass their mic to the siting audience. I will use this microphone when I come up to sing so the mic has to be calibrated for my need to have reverb or digital delay.
Each station can be lit from above, shining down except for the MC's and singer . But lighting needs to be sufficiently bright enough so that it is possible for audience members to walk safely onto the stage.
There are 4 layers of sound:
1. Sound from the video.
2. Sound from the MC's mic on a mic stand.
3. Sound from my mic on a mic stand, adjusted for delay/reverb.
4. Sound for the "music" that I sing. I sing along with either a trumpet or a guitar accompaniment. I will bring a cd of this music. It is to be calibrated so whenever I get up to sing and indicate a signal to begin, the "next" song is played.
5. Sound for ADDICTED TO LOVE outside around the fire which can be a campfire if you wish. This sound can be on a boombox, or anything simple but loud.
As we walk onstage, there will be a you tube of bird sound/images, low volume already playing as people come into the theatre.
Each actor will go to the standing mic center stage and say their name and will simply say what they will be doing.
We go to our stations and perform the actions, not "paying attention" to the video onscreen because you will have seen it before the night of the performance via you tube or vimeo. It is important that everyone pay attention to their action and not to the screen or anyone else's action. This concentration will help make the energy of the performance more focused.
At the end of the video, after the credits, the parade people will come to gather each of us and we leave via the front door while humming one note. Parade people also gather the audience members and we all go outside, form a circle around the burning container and the secretary puts the letters one by one into the fire. After the LETTERS TO DEATH are burned, we then all dance to ADDICTED TO LOVE. THE END.
Please see Robert Graham's ADDICTED TO LOVE youtube before the performance. Please wear:
1. BLACK CLOTHES: As nice as possible. Everything black.
2. GREAT SHOES: In keeping with a "funeral home" look. Black. Don't buy anything but they need to look good/polished.
3. FABULOUS HAIR OR WIG: Very Glamour/Vogue. Cover all tattoos. Somber but Glam look.
4. EXCESSIVE MAKEUP: So it looks glamorous.
5. SUNGLASSES: Can be taken on and off, but walk out with them on/leave with them on. If you need to take them off to make eye contact with an audience member at your station, please feel free to do so. Healing contact is most important.
6. Please bring you costume to the rehearsal. More than one if you have a question.
1. Four chairs for grief counsellors.
2. Table and two chairs for secretary. Paper and pen for letter writing.
3. Table and water props for water giver.
4. Sound makers for MC's.
5. Festive things for parade leaders.
2. CD of trumpet/ guitar.
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The eyes of gamers would have lit up recently at rumours of a so-called PlayStation 4.5; possibly an upgraded version of Sony's hit console, with enough computing power to deliver better performance.
Nothing has been confirmed by Sony, but speculation has been rife on gamer forums over the course of the last week.
Here's what bloggers are saying:
The rumours are from a reliable source
Though the rumours have yet to be confirmed by Sony themselves, they do come from a pretty reputable source of gaming tech-heads.
Digital Foundry recently stated that it has independently verified a previous report, which said a new version of the PlayStation 4 console will have an upgraded GPU.
Though you can never be 100 per cent sure until these things come from the mouth of Sony themselves, we'd say it's a pretty safe bet to assume that some kind of upgraded PlayStation 4 is on the way.
Whether that comes in the form of a slightly more powerful machine or a simple 'slim' version remains to be seen.
It could have 4K gaming
The speculative new PlayStation goes under a couple of names. PlayStation 4.5 for those who like their decimals, and PlayStation 4K for those with their eye on graphical capabilities.
It seems like only yesterday we were ushering in the advent of HD gaming, but already 4K has come along and eclipsed the lot, offering unrivaled resolution that takes more powerful hardware to compute.
This is where the 'new' PlayStation allegedly steps in, reportedly offering boosted hardware to enhance the clarity of the machine's output in a number of ways, and help catch the consoles up to their PC brethren.
Though it might not offer a 'true' 4K experience
To get a little technical, according to Digital Foundry, although the hardware offers more graphical processing power, it is not enough to deliver a 'full' 4K gaming experience.
They speculate that the console may be able to produce "high-definition media" and some of the more technical aspects of 4K gaming, but the hardware upgrade currently isn't a step-up enough to handle full 4K gaming.
Still, the results should be noticeable enough.
There's a number of ways they could manage this
Digital Foundry are obviously a lot more technically minded than us, which is why some of the methods to achieving this new higher-definition goal have our heads spinning.
We'll try to simplify them as best we can:
Tweaks could be made to the existing hardware to minimise the size of the microprocessor while making it more powerful
The existing PS4 chip could be scaled up in terms of power, and features could be attached that allow for select 4K capabilities to be added on
A new, 'slimmer' version of the PS4 – much like we have seen with Sony's previous machines – could be given "minor boosts to functionality"
Microsoft are looking to respond
Obviously the so-called 'console' wars are just a big game of oneupsmanship, and with Microsoft always trying to compete with Sony's console, they'll no doubt have a response to the news.
In fact, even before rumours of the PS4.5 began swirling, Xbox's Phil Spencer teased plans for an upgradeable Xbox One, saying:
"You'll actually see us come out with new hardware capability during a generation allowing the same games to run backward and forward compatible."
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The Bank of Japan (BOJ) delivered its third dose of monetary stimulus in four months yesterday in a prelude to more aggressive action next year, as it faces intensifying pressure from the country's next leader for stronger efforts to beat deflation.
It also signaled setting a higher inflation target at its next meeting in January, when a new government will be in place ready to negotiate with the central bank.
Incoming Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, whose opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won Sunday's election by a landslide margin, has put the central bank's independence on the line by repeatedly calling for a binding 2 percent inflation target, double its current price goal.
Feeling the heat, the central bank expanded its asset-buying and lending program by ¥10 trillion (US$119 billion) to ¥101 trillion, a widely expected move that barely moved markets.
"Japan's economy is weakening further and is expected to remain weak for the time being," the central bank said, offering a gloomy assessment of the world's third-largest economy currently enduring its fourth recession since 2000.
With the latest move, the BOJ has expanded asset purchases five times this year, the most frequent activity during a single year in a decade. The last time it eased so many times was in 2001, when Japan was battling a domestic banking crisis.
The BOJ now has a 1 percent inflation target in place, and defines a range of zero to 2 percent consumer inflation as a desirable level of long-term price growth.
The central bank said it would review that guideline next month. It will probably clarify that after 1 percent inflation is in sight it will aim to achieve 2 percent inflation.
The yen has fallen almost 9 percent against the US dollar since September, as Abe's emergence as the likely next prime minister raised expectations of a more expansionary policy and further spending.
The US dollar briefly edged up to around ¥84.39 after the BOJ's decision, but quickly slid back down as markets perceived its action as unsurprising.
While Abe's prescription has had the desired market effect so far, pushing down the yen and driving the benchmark Nikkei stock average above 10,000 for the first time in more than eight months, analysts say pumping cash into the economy will only give it a temporary boost unless it is followed by efforts to lift Japan's growth potential and contain runaway debt.
Speaking at an LDP meeting, Abe, who is set to take over as prime minister on Dec. 26, said that he received a phone call from BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa earlier in the day informing him of the central bank's monetary policy decision.
"I take it as that the BOJ is carrying out what we sought during the election step-by-step," he said.
Shirakawa has consistently argued that setting a 2 percent inflation target would be counter-productive in a country that has not seen consumer inflation exceed 1 percent for most of the past two decades.
However, Abe made a rare, direct push for a higher inflation target when Shirakawa visited the LDP's headquarters on Tuesday, saying that the central bank must pay heed to the fact that he won an election campaigning for bolder monetary stimulus.
Abe also said that once he forms a cabinet next week he will instruct his ministers to begin working with the BOJ on setting a shared inflation target.


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Hostess Brands CEO said 15,000 workers will be immediately laid off after a judge ruled Wednesday that the Twinkie maker will be allowed to liquidate.
CEO Greg Rayburn told CNBC's "Closing Bell" that the company's 18,500 workers would be cut down to 3,500 today, with another sharp round of layoff in two months.
Rayburn said there is a great deal of interest in the company's brands, which include such household names as Ho Hos and Wonder Bread, and that proceeds from the sale of such brands could reach $1 billion.
Previous efforts to raise interest in the sale of the company were foiled by "potential pension liabilities," he said.
Judge Robert Drain of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved the 82-year-old company's plan to wind down over the next year, after Hostess failed to reach a deal Tuesday in mediation with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco and Grain Millers Union.
Rayburn said that the union's strike had blown too large a financial hole in the company to be mended.
"Bankrupt companies don't have a lot of margin for error, and to take a shot like that is pretty hard to come back from."
With that damage done, there was no financing solution, Rayburn said. "And the judge understood that."
(Read More: Hoard Twinkies?! Hostess Threatens to Shut Down)
The ailing company went to bankruptcy court Monday to seek permission to liquidate its business. But Drain urged the sides into a private mediation, prompted by a desire to protect the jobs at stake.
(Read More: Hostess Floats $200 Million in Cost Cuts to Exit Bankruptcy)
Hostess runs 33 bakeries, 553 distribution centers, about 5,500 delivery routes and 527 bakery outlet stores throughout the United States. Rayburn came to Hostess last February to try to turn around the already bankrupt company.
Bakery operations ceased last week, though product deliveries to stores continued in order to sell already-made products. The company has blamed union wages and pension costs for contributing to its unprofitably.
Aside from its unionized workforce, analysts, bankers and restructuring experts have said that a fleet of inefficient and out-of-date factories has also eaten up costs.
They have said the brand names were likely to be more valuable once they were separated from the factories and sold to non-union competitors.
Bankers have said rivals including Tastykake maker Flowers Foods and Mexico's Grupo Bimbo were very likely to be interested in some, but not all, of the brands. Neither company could be reached for comment. Private equity firms are also interested.
Sun Capital Partners is interested in bidding for all of Hostess, according to a source familiar with Sun's plans, and Metropolous & Co. is also interested, according to Daren Metropolous, a principal at the firm. Officials at Sun did not respond to requests for comment.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Diopter compensation corrects different prescriptions in the left and right eyes, to enable fatigue-free observation and a razor-sharp image in both.
To make the diopter setting, look through the binoculars with your left eye only and focus the left side with the center drive. The image on the right should then also be clear. If not, focus the right side using the setting wheel for the diopter compensation. It's as easy as that.
Please note the following:
a)If you look through binoculars while wearing glasses, the diopter compensation should be set to zero. Differences between the left and right eyes are corrected through the glasses.
b)If your prescription for both eyes is +2 diopters, the diopter compensation is also zero. The difference – and this is what matters – is in this case zero.
c) The diopter compensation is set once and corrects individual visual defects – and these do not change. For different distances, turn the center drive, the diopter compensation has nothing to do with this.
d)Simple prescription deviations – not astigmatism or other eye defects – can be corrected via the binocular settings. In this case, it is better to use glasses.
Therefore, do not forget: turn the eyecups so that the eye relief is restored and you can see the entire field of view.