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"Crazy Love" doesn't downplay the awfulness of what happened , but it also knows a good media circus when it sees one. Burt acted as his own lawyer, turned the trial into a carnival, was convicted, and got sent to Attica, where he was such a successful jailhouse lawyer for other prisoners he was put in solitary confine... |
Meanwhile Linda traveled to Europe and back, growing steadily lonelier with the years. When Burt was paroled in 1974, he used a TV interview to publicly propose to her; eventually she said yes. The tabloids swooped in once more. |
There the two are in headlines and on magazine covers; there they are on "The Mike Douglas Show " and "Geraldo ." Everyone wants to know one thing: Why? Why would Linda Riss take back the person who maimed her, the man People magazine called "America's Most Horrible Husband"? Why would she stick by him in 1996, when he... |
It's a mystery that "Crazy Love" never quite solves, perhaps out of respect for everything Linda has gone through. Klores, whose day job is running a successful PR firm, has emerged over the past few years as a documentarian of a distinctly New York tang. He makes barstool tales, the sort Joseph Mitchell or Damon Runyo... |
"Crazy Love" is echt Klores, and he tells it straight and sometimes too expansively. The director can't resist throwing in every last detail -- Burt, in full breakdown, playing the ukulele and singing the pop song "Linda" to his pet iguana -- but can you blame him when the details are that bizarre? We don't really need... |
The final scenes with Burt and Linda today are unexpectedly touching. The two bicker like your grandparents, with the same affection but considerably more poison flowing under the bridge. Linda's a taskmaster and a noodge, and when she says, "It's not easy being with me -- I figured this was the best revenge," the laug... |
She also says, when asked why she went back to Burt, "To him, I was still beautiful." Maybe it is as simple as that. Or maybe that's a classic victim of abuse talking. "Crazy Love" scrapes away the cartoon exterior around this story and peers into the unknowable murk of the human heart. |
Crazy Love |
Directed by: Dan Klores |
Co-directed by: Fisher Stevens |
Starring: Burt and Linda Pugach , Jimmy Breslin |
At: Kendall Square, West Newton |
Running time: 92 minutes |
Rated: PG-13 (language, sexual references, mature thematic elements) |
Nara Dreamland Henk van Rensbergen |
ANTWERP—Prosperous, bustling Antwerp is an unlikely place to discover decay and emptiness. On a Saturday afternoon, shoppers and tourists descend on chic boutiques and the diamond district near the city's recently restored rail station. Yet two blocks away, in an empty bakery just off the main shopping drag, there is a... |
"Abandoned Places 3," a temporary exhibition of Henk van Rensbergen's work tied to the photographer's latest book with the same title (Lannoo, 2012), shows his eerie photographs of spaces forsaken by people—for reasons environmental, economic or unknown. At the recent vernissage, Flemish art-lovers in high-fashion outf... |
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The shots in the new book are taken in locations as diverse as a former love hotel in Japan, where the ceiling is collapsing through the red velvet drapes of the room's kitschy décor; an empty cottage in Iceland with the kitchen table looking like the inhabitants could return any moment; and stacks of crumbling televis... |
"I used to be really fascinated by abandoned industry, but at some point I shifted to more human stuff where my aim is, even though I photograph empty spaces, to take photos about the people who used to live there," said Mr. van Rensbergen. "It's like they closed door for 20 years, time stopped, then I'm there taking p... |
From a coal-sorting plant built with Marshall Plan money in deepest Wallonia to a deserted tuberculosis hospital just south of Brussels, Mr. van Rensbergen seeks out eerie locations for his hobby. Their potential as the setting for dark adventures inspired British novelist Nicholas Royle to use several of them as backd... |
His photographic technique has developed from the early black-and-white shots of the detritus of coke factories and steel mills, as has the choice of locations, which now include more houses, hotels and residences. His website ( has pictures dating back to his very first explorations in 1989, a narrative of each visit,... |
Mr. van Rensbergen always explores on his own when possible—while taking sensible precautions. "I avoid danger in all possible ways—I like adventure, I like surprises—I don't like danger," he said. |
He started his website 15 years ago when he was one of a handful of people world-wide engaged in so-called Urban exploration. While the movement has exploded, because, he said, of the internet, where people who enjoy seeing photos of rusting chemical works can now find each others' work, having an ethical approach is m... |
"This is legal stuff you know, I don't break in. I don't invade anyone's privacy. I don't steal anything, leave anything, move anything," he said. "Places that I choose are clearly left behind. There's no more private items there, it's just really abandoned." |
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The First PS4 + Vita Bundle Isn't That Great |
Given the way both handhelds are able to interact, along with the fact their handheld hasn't been selling that well, it was inevitable that Sony would eventually start selling the two devices together. Which they now are. Only it's not that great a deal. |
Sony Europe have confirmed that a bundle including both the PS4 and Vita - rumoured earlier in the week - will be on sale as of today, priced at "a little under £500". As Eurogamer point out, however, that constitutes a saving of "around £10" on their individual prices, meaning it's not exactly a huge incentive if you ... |
Still, it's early days. I'm sure one day, someone, somewhere will make a game that uses both consoles together in a neat and compelling manner, and a bundle can come along that not only saves people some cash, but presents a decent argument for wanting to own devices in the first place. |
Sony confirms PS4 and Vita bundles for under £500 [Eurogamer] |
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I have two different mice (one is always used on the system, the other is wireless and moves between systems as needed). Unfortunately, the wireless one is much more sensitive than the wired mouse, and the mouse settings panel doesn't seem to have a way to set different settings for different mice. |
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You can have multiple hardware-specific configurations now, in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/, or http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html which has some more specific examples. |
If anyone is interested in helping improve X via wiki editing, a really easy thing to do would be to copyedit the directions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/ to be in the form of xorg.conf.d snippets instead of whole xorg.conf's. If not, us developers will get to it eventually, but it could save time that developer... |
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This would be a much more useful answer with an example (or a link to an example). – jbowtie Aug 12 '10 at 21:43 |
Sure, no prob. Really, it's the same format as xorg.conf so if you've ever had the fortune of editing xorg.conf, you'll know it. man xorg.conf serves as a good reference. Driver-specific settings can be had via their man pages, e.g. man intel, man evdev, man wacom, et al. – Bryce Aug 19 '10 at 19:06 |
You'll probably want to write a simple script that is run automatically or that you run whenever you switch mice. It'll need to simply swap out one config file for another, back and forth whenever it is run. |
I don't know which config files this info lives in, or if there's a hook to run scripts when mice are plugged in, but maybe that's a start. |
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have a look at xinput or udev rules. See wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input for more information – Tedil Aug 4 '10 at 19:23 |
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As the details emerge, there is little doubt that our efforts to keep the flotilla seeking to break the embargo on Gaza from succeeding have become an immense public relations disaster. Israel is being depicted as barbaric aggressors while Hamas and its fellow travelers are portrayed as valiant champions of human right... |
I have little doubt that when all the facts are assembled, this debacle will not reflect adversely on the IDF. However, the surprise ambush does imply a breakdown in our intelligence. After all, only one day before the confrontation, a female participant of the flotilla interviewed by Al Jazeera expressly predicted tha... |
The other principal failure was the government’s unpreparedness in presenting its case to the world in a timely and effective manner. The authorities did manage to convey that the flotilla rejected Israel’s offer to enable the transfer of the goods supposedly dispatched on humanitarian grounds to Gaza following inspect... |
Israel faced a no-win situation. It was entitled by international law to deny entry to a flotilla of boats seeking to breach a military embargo against an Iranian-backed terrorist entity which proudly boasts of its determination to destroy it. Hamas is indisputably a terrorist group whose evil charter explicitly calls ... |
However, it was only after the world media had been inundated with hair-raising stories about alleged Israeli atrocities, by which time most nations had already condemned Israel, that interviews with IDF soldiers depicting the events started to emerge and enabled Israeli journalists to begin presenting the case for Isr... |
It then became clear that all the casualties occurred on one boat, and that rather than the Gandhi-style idealistic pacifists portrayed in the media, Islamists under the control of IHH – a Turkish pro-terrorist group closely linked to Hamas – had ambushed, violently attacked and attempted to kill soldiers who had been ... |
IDF soldiers were shot with live ammunition, stabbed with knives, beaten with iron clubs and thrown off the boats. There is no question that they faced a life-threatening situation and had no other choice than to use weapons in self-defense. It is thus grotesque to relate to “proportionality” in the context of soldiers... |
This was alluded to in the early media statements by Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Regrettably, these press conferences were ineffectively presented and predominantly broadcast in Hebrew. This surely should have been an occasion for Israel’s most articulate spokesmen to marshal t... |
WE LOST the opportunity of conveying the case for Israel at the outset, when first impressions are critical. In the immediate aftermath of the interception of the flotilla, all coverage and testimony, including video feeds, were almost exclusively orchestrated by Hamas, Turkey, Al Jazeera and other hostile elements. It... |
It was also regrettable that no reference was made to the fact that the embargo against Hamas was also being implemented by Egypt, no friend of Israel, which is not keen about enabling weapons to flow from Gaza to their own Muslim Brotherhood terrorist factions. |
This is not the first time we face disastrous repercussions because of a delay in marshalling the facts. Again and again, we expose the lies to the world far too late, and only after the horse has already bolted. We should have learned the lessons from the devastating fallout following our failures to respond in a time... |
Although there have been calls for an independent inquiry, the footage released by the IDF speaks for itself. However, we do need an inquiry or commission to explain why our government continues to mishandle the crucial war of ideas. We need to know why more funds are not being set aside for this war, and why we are no... |
But we must, at the very least, make sure our case is clearly presented so that those who apply double standards against us are shamed and exposed. This can only be possible if we provide the tools to enable objective, fair-minded people to appreciate that we are confronting barbaric and determined enemies who represen... |
We face today yet another major effort by our enemies to delegitimize us. It is a time for unity, and full credit should be extended to opposition leader Tzipi Livni and Kadima, who have set aside politics to display solidarity with the state. Hopefully that will be extended to the formation of a unity government which... |
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Those who've gotten used to saying "OK Google" to their Moto X and KitKat-endowed handsets might wish that every device they have could be so obedient. Well, it appears that soon your Chromebook will be able to respond to that same voice command as well, if a new experimental App Launcher in Chrome's Dev Channel is any... |
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this might be wrong to ask here but Can anyone suggest me a tool to test a rails based RESTful API? I need to perform load or stress test on this API and also i should be able to write script i need. Basically what i need is a load test tool to test a rails based REST API with script. P.S.: it should be freeware also. |
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You can use AgileLoad to load test a RESTful API. It is free for scripting and small test, but have a license to be paid for more than 50 concurent users I think. The support team is quite proactive and can help you with advanced scripting features. They have also some tutorials and how to's available on their website. |
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Math Dice Game: Mmm Brains |
With Halloween right around the corner it seems only fitting that I bring up this game, Mmm Brains. It sounds gruesome, but it’s really just a dice game which requires addition and multiplication. It brings the kids running, so you can’t beat that, right?! |
This game has five dice with the numbers 1-5 and a brain on each side. Then there are lots of counters (red brains=5 and white brains=1). Finally, for the second phase of the game there are color cards. |
First Phase of the Game: |
In the first part of the game, players take turns tossing the five dice. The object is to gather as many points as you can. You have to collect one color numbers and as many brains (of any color) as you can. You get 3 rolls on your turn. |
Then you add the numbers together and multiply that by the number of brains you have: |
Here’s another example: If on your turn you collected a yellow 3 and a yellow 2 and three brains, they you would get 5 x 3 or 15 points. |
Or, if another player got a blue 4 and blue 3 and just one brain then he would get 7 x 1 or 7 brains. |
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During the second phase of the game each player chooses a color card. Players take turns trying to steal brains away from the other players. On Player 1′s turn he would toss the dice. He would then look at the dice and take that number of brains away from a player with the same color card. |
In the picture below DD rolled a green 1 and a green 3. She targeted ED who has to give her 4 white brains: |
The game ends when only one player has brains left or when Mom says it’s time to go!! |
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Seeing as I just did an article on my favorite NES game of all time, I felt it was time to do another one on a Playstation 1 game. The game I am writing about is Poy Poy for the PS1. |
This game from what I can gather was not a huge success nor is it well know. It came out near the end of 1997. I picked it up in a game store while I was in college. I can't really say what made me pick it up. The graphics were not the best at the time and it was not a hyped up game. I just remember seeing that it was ... |
To get back to the game, it was sort of like a party game. You would start out by picking a character. |
There were several characters to pick from, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. |
Once you picked your character you would pick a stage to play in. There were 7 different stages and some had stage hazzards. The object of the game was to knock out the other players and be the last one standing. You could use logs, rocks, ice blocks, and atomic bombs. These things were all over the stages and could be... |
There was also a single player game that was pretty fun to play but no where near as fun as playing with 3 friends. Each challenge in single player was for some sort of cup. After you beat a certain cup you would get even more characters to chose from. |
That year we must have played this game 7-8 hours a day. This was the best multiplayer game on the PS1 in my opinion. I still have my copy and will dust if off to battle it out with my son. |
If you can find it and want a good multiplayer game I suggest you pick up a copy. |
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We're trying to lock down our administrative site by requiring a password AND requiring that the request is coming from an authorized IP address. We've figured out how to do both separately, but can't figure out how to combine the two. |
AuthName "Restricted Access" |
AuthUserFile /usr/www/users/directory/.passwd |
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