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What is the Tiny Project?
The Tiny Project is my attempt to live a simpler, more conscious, debt-free life, and in doing so helping to set and example and educate the community about alternative, affordable, more sustainable ways of living.
My name is Alek Lisefski. In 2013 I built a 160 sq.ft. modern tiny house with my then long-term partner Anjali as a space designed specifically for us both to live… with our angel of a dog Anya, as well. After finishing building the house in Iowa, we then towed it over 2,000 miles to Northern California. We had a great time living together in the house for nearly 1.5 years, but in the spring of 2015 we parted ways. Anjali went on to pursue the next phase of education and life, and I continued to live in the house full-time with the dog. Recently, I've moved to Austin, TX, to be with my wonderful, new partner, Lee, and we both live in the tiny house together.
Who We Are
Alek is a freelance web designer and tiny house enthusiast (duh!). He's most at home trekking through the wilderness and is passionate about connecting people to the earth and to their wild, natural, loving selves.
Lee is happiest living outdoors and being in nature. She is full of love an compassion for friends, family, and the earth, and strives to bring greater love into the world, whenever she goes. She gives back to her community by providing low-cost legal services to those in need.
Anya is quite possibly the cutest shiba inu ever. She is 9 years old (no longer a crazy puppy), so she's mellow and really much more like a cat than a dog.
The main aspect of the Tiny Project is to dwell in a tiny house, thus shifting all aspects of life and lifestyle towards greater peace and sustainability. Inhabiting such a small space will encourage me to live in a simpler, more organized and efficient way. Without room to hoard things and hide away from the world, I'll be forced to spend more time outdoors, in nature and engaging with my community. This will foster better health and healthy relationships. With very low rent (for parking) to pay, I'll save money, allowing for a less hectic work life and more time and funds for health, leisure and travel. I won't be able to keep closets full of clothes or store 5 year old trinkets in a house so small. But I also couldn't possibly spend $100/month to heat the place, like I have when renting apartments in the past. Tiny house living has its trade-offs, but one thing is certain: While living in a such a small house, my space, and in turn each area of my life, will be simpler, less chaotic, and free from all but what is essential. That sounds really great to me!
This website chronicles my experiences in design, planning and construction of my own tiny house, and all of the joys,challenges and lifestyle changes associated such an endeavor. Now that I've been living full-time in the house for more than 2 years, I continue to blog about my experience, and share valuable info on tiny living, do's and dont's, product reviews and advice, and all other things tiny.
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What I believe about tiny houses
I believe that for our future housing to be sustainable it needs to return to human scale. Our homes should include what we need to feel comfortable on a daily basis, but not more. Less space means less stuff — fewer things to clean, to maintain, to fix. All this means more time for introspection, gardening, getting back to the simple things in life. A goal of mine is for this smaller dwelling to encourage me to be outdoors, to connect with my neighbors, and to foster collaborative, supportive community. It also acts as a reminder that any of us (even with no construction experience) can take the building of our own home back into our own two hands, if we so choose. Tiny living isn't without its sacrifices, but maybe that's a good thing? It's about time we took a good look at what we really need to be happy, to rethink what it means to be a homeowner and to be successful in life." – Alek Lisefski (https://tiny-project.com)
Now this is a plan I could live with! You did an amazing job." – Charlene
Our Modern Tiny House Plans Now For Sale!
We're excited that we are now able to offer complete construction floor plans for the Tiny Project tiny house! These tiny home plans include almost 40 pages of detailed diagrams and images, allowing you to build to the same specifications as our original modern tiny house on wheels featured on this site.Click here to view the plans
Well done! I love the design of this house. Everything is well thought out and has it's place. It just fits...This is the best layout I've seen!" – Kelly
What is a tiny house?
The tiny house movement is rapidly gaining popularity in the US and elsewhere around the world. Though no two tiny homes are identical, they share many core principles, and of course, they are all quite tiny! Though a tiny house can be built on a foundation, many people choose to build on a flatbed trailer, in order to make the house mobile, and to avoid minimum square footage requirements that most municipalities have in place for permanent structures. Building on a trailer means the house is considered more like an RV, and does not need to adhere to the same permits, codes, and rules associated with building a normal home. The trick with trying to live full-time in a psuedo-RV is where to park it. We'll save that conversation for a future blog post.
Tiny houses built on trailers have their own set of restrictions, mostly with regard to size. In order to easily move the house, to adhere to DOT regulations, the finished house can be no wider than 8.5 feet, and no taller than 13.5 feet. Length is not limited, though most people build on 16 or 20 foot trailers. With these general size restrictions, the typical tiny house will be well under 200 sq. ft., often including a loft area to add extra space for a bed.
No matter what tiny houses plans are used, no matter how the mini home is designed and constructed, tiny house owners tend to choose to do so for one of several reasons:
- Tiny houses are a more affordable option (compared to a full-size home) for debt-free living
- Tiny houses offer an alternative (especially for younger and older generations) to the increasingly difficult, traditional "American Dream" path to home-ownership.
- Building a tiny house is offers mobility and flexibility for anyone who does not wish to be tied to specific location.
- Tiny homes offer an incredibly simple yet all-inclusive form of shelter, perfect for out-of-the-way, off-grid living.
- Tiny houses are a great way to minimize environmental impact by living in a much more efficient and sustainable structure.
- Mini homes create simpler living — they are an easy to maintain, self-contained housing option for those of retirement age.
- Building a tiny house is a fun/challenging/rewarding and educational project used to share alternative housing options to the next generation of home owners/builders!
Author: Alek Lisefski


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'The Simpsons' cancellation possible as actors fight over pay
Springfield's first family may be seeing its end after 23 seasons.
The voice actors who portray The Simpsons, and have since the show's debut in 1990, and studio executives are squabbling over a reported 45 percent pay cut, The Daily Beast reports.
Reports say that if the actors who voice Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart and other long-running characters don't agree to see their salaries sliced, the first-run of the hit Fox show may end.
The actors currently make about $8 million each per season.
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TSPDT: They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1,000 Greatest Films (2013 revision)
February 2013 revision of the TSPDT list
Source: http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_all1000films.htm
This list is a compilation of worldwide critical opinion, using published polls and top lists, carried out by the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? website.
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This list is a compilation of worldwide critical opinion, using published polls and top lists, carried out by the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? website.
Note that a few films have multiple entries on imdb:
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Citizen Kane (1941)
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. (119 mins.)
Vertigo (1958)
A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her. (128 mins.)
Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest. (149 mins.)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau. (110 mins.)
Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély
Tokyo Story (1953)
An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city; but the children have little time for them. (136 mins.)
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Sô Yamamura, Setsuko Hara
8½ (1963)
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies. (138 mins.)
Sunrise (1927)
An allegorical tale about a man fighting the good and evil within him. Both sides are made flesh - one a sophisticated woman he is attracted to and the other his wife. (94 mins.)
Director: F.W. Murnau
The Godfather (1972)
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. (175 mins.)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton
The Searchers (1956)
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches. (119 mins.)
Director: John Ford
Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
Seven Samurai (1954)
A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves. (207 mins.)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre. (75 mins.)
Director: S.M. Eisenstein
Apocalypse Now (1979)
During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe. (147 mins.)
Director: Francis Coppola
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen. He and his son set out to find it. (89 mins.)
Director: Vittorio De Sica
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions. (110 mins.)
Director: Carl Th. Dreyer
Breathless (1960)
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy. (90 mins.)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound. (103 mins.)
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen
L'Atalante (1934)
Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy. (89 mins.)
Director: Jean Vigo
Stars: Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Michel Simon, Gilles Margaritis
Rashomon (1950)
A heinous crime and its aftermath are recalled from differing points of view. (88 mins.)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Taxi Driver (1976)
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, while attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process. (113 mins.)
Raging Bull (1980)
An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside it. (129 mins.)
Stars: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate. (202 mins.)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Andrei Rublev (1966)
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer. (205 mins.)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks. (216 mins.)
Director: David Lean
Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
Persona (1966)
A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personas are melding together. (85 mins.)
Man with a Movie Camera (1929 Documentary)
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention. (68 mins.)
Director: Dziga Vertov
Stars: Mikhail Kaufman
The 400 Blows (1959)
Moving story of a young boy who, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime. (99 mins.)
Director: François Truffaut
The Mirror (1975)
A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation. (107 mins.)
Ordet (1955)
Follows the lives of the Borgen family, as they deal with inner conflict, as well as religious conflict with each other, and the rest of the town. (126 mins.)
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
City Lights (1931)
With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically. (87 mins.)
Director: Charles Chaplin
Psycho (1960)
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother. (109 mins.)
Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
L'Avventura (1960)
A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other. (143 mins.)
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
La Dolce Vita (1960)
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering paparazzo journalist living in Rome. (174 mins.)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette. (95 mins.)
Touch of Evil (1958)
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town. (95 mins.)
Stars: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia
Some Like It Hot (1959)
When two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. (121 mins.)
Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft
The General (1926)
When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single-handedly and straight through enemy lines. (67 mins.)
Director: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
Stars: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley
Contempt (1963)
Screenwriter Paul Javal's marriage to his wife Camille disintegrates during movie production as she spends time with the producer. Layered conflicts between art and business ensue. (103 mins.)
Casablanca (1942)
In Casablanca in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate encounters a former lover, with unforeseen complications. (102 mins.)
Director: Michael Curtiz
La Grande Illusion (1937)
During the First World War, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are sent to a seemingly impenetrable fortress which seems impossible to escape from. (113 mins.)
Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery. (92 mins.)
Director: Charles Laughton
The Third Man (1949)
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. (104 mins.)
Director: Carol Reed
Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard
Rear Window (1954)
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder. (112 mins.)
Stars: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
Modern Times (1936)
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman. (87 mins.)
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
A screenwriter is hired to rework a faded silent film star's script only to find himself developing a dangerous relationship. (110 mins.)
Blade Runner (1982)
A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator. (117 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt. (117 mins.)
Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke
Ugetsu (1953)
A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century. (96 mins.)
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop. (95 mins.)
Metropolis (1927)
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. (153 mins.)
Director: Fritz Lang
Chinatown (1974)
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. (130 mins.)
Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez
Pather Panchali (1955)
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. (125 mins.)
Director: Satyajit Ray
Barry Lyndon (1975)
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England. (184 mins.)
Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger
Children of Paradise (1945)
The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan and the four men who love her. (189 mins.)
Director: Marcel Carné
Stalker (1979)
A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes. (162 mins.)
Playtime (1967)
Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction. (115 mins.)
Director: Jacques Tati
Stars: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden, France Rumilly
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government. (121 mins.)
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Stars: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Tommaso Neri
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Two young Swedish children experience the many comedies and tragedies of their family, the Ekdahls. (188 mins.)
Late Spring (1949)
Noriko is twenty-seven years old and still living with her widowed father. Everybody tries to talk her into marrying, but Noriko wants to stay at home caring for her father. (108 mins.)
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Two neighbors, a woman and a man, form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs. (98 mins.)
Director: Kar Wai Wong
North by Northwest (1959)
A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive. (136 mins.)
Shoah (1985 Documentary)
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors. (566 mins.)
Director: Claude Lanzmann
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad. (164 mins.)
Director: Sergio Leone
The Gold Rush (1925)
A prospector goes to the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more. (95 mins.)
Director: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman
The Wild Bunch (1969)
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them. (135 mins.)
Director: Sam Peckinpah
The Leopard (1963)
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860's Sicily. (186 mins.)
Director: Luchino Visconti
Wild Strawberries (1957)
After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence. (91 mins.)
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run. (110 mins.)
La Strada (1954)
A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way. (108 mins.)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality. (147 mins.)
Director: David Lynch
Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Jeanne Bates
Gertrud (1964)
In the elegant world of artists and musicians, Gertrud ends her marriage to Gustav and takes a lover, the composer Erland Jansson. (116 mins.)
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Nina Pens Rode, Bendt Rothe, Ebbe Rode, Baard Owe
The Apartment (1960)
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. (125 mins.)
Stars: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston
Journey to Italy (1954)
An unhappily married couple attempts to find direction and insight while vacationing in Naples. (85 mins.)
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Pickpocket (1959)
Michel is released from jail after serving a sentence for thievery. His mother dies and he resorts to pickpocketing as a means of survival. (76 mins.)
Stars: Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri, Dolly Scal
The Seventh Seal (1957)
A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague. (96 mins.)
Rio Bravo (1959)
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a cripple, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy. (141 mins.)
Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson
The Conformist (1970)
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident. (113 mins.)
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Viridiana (1961)
Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior. (90 mins.)
Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Silvia Pinal, Fernando Rey, Francisco Rabal, José Calvo
Blue Velvet (1986)
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child. (120 mins.)
Director: David Lynch
Close-Up (1990)
The true story of Hossain Sabzian that impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film. (98 mins.)
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975)
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. However, something happens that changes her safe routine. (201 mins.)
Director: Chantal Anne Akerman
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved. (88 mins.)
Stars: Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter
Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression. (124 mins.)
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Nashville (1975)
Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed. (160 mins.)
Director: Robert Altman
Jules and Jim (1962)
Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman. (105 mins.)
Director: François Truffaut
Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Vanna Urbino
Amarcord (1973)
A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town. (123 mins.)
Stars: Magali Noël, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia
A Man Escaped (1956)
A captured French Resistance fighter during WWII engineers a daunting escape from prison. (101 mins.)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado. (95 mins.)
Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Helena Rojo, Del Negro
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history. (163 mins.)
Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed. (130 mins.)
Director: Frank Capra
Satantango (1994)
Plotting on a payment they are about to receive, residents of a collapsing collective farm see their plans turn into desolation when they discover that Irimiás, a former co-worker who they thought was dead, is coming back to the village. (450 mins.)
Director: Béla Tarr
Greed (1924)
The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved. (140 mins.)
Director: Erich von Stroheim
Stars: Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Dale Fuller
Goodfellas (1990)
The story of Henry Hill and his life through the teen years into the years of mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his Mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the Italian-American crime syndicate. (146 mins.)
Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
The Mother and the Whore (1973)
In Paris, the pedantic Alexandre lives with his mate Marie in her apartment, an open relationship. Alexandre... (217 mins.)
Director: Jean Eustache
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home in Kansas and help her friends as well. (102 mins.)
Director: Victor Fleming
Stars: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr
La Jetée (1962 Short Film)
The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images. (28 mins.)
Director: Chris Marker
L'Eclisse (1962)
A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature. (126 mins.)
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal, Lilla Brignone
Annie Hall (1977)
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall. (93 mins.)
Director: Woody Allen
Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned. (136 mins.)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed. (123 mins.)
Director: John Ford
Stars: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin
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Newtown CT High School Goes Undefeated One Year After Sandy Hook
It's an amazing story. The Newton Nighthawks haven't won a title in over 21 years. It looks like that is about to change but there is more irony to it.
It's an amazing story. The Newton Nighthawks haven't won a title in over 21 years. It looks like that is about to change but there is more irony to it.
Southern California was one of the first to take what some think are drastic measures, to keep their schools safe. When it comes to keeping our children alive, is anything "too drastic?" The Fontana Unified School District are going to great lengths and had actually ordered their high powered rifles before the Sandy Hook shootings.
I wrote a story yesterday about Gene Rosen who many think is a "crisis actor" in some big government conspiracy in the Sandy Hook school shooting. Many wanted me to watch some video's proving it was all a hoax. So I did watch them, some twice. In fact, I was up till 2 AM doing research because there were many discrepancies that just didn't make sense. You'll be surprised at what I found out...
What has gone wrong in America? How did we get to where we are? As much as I love a good conspiracy, what has been going around about the Sandy Hook shooting is just going to far. Now one man, a hero to many that day, is now being portrayed as a villain. It's just makes me sick.
Today marked the first legal action taken in the midst of the tragedy that took the lives of 26 children and adults two weeks ago at Sandy Hook School in Connecticut. You may however be surprised at who is being sued and the reason why may shock you as well.


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A Bloody Good Time 04.05.12: Ranking The Amityville Horror Films
Opening Logo courtesy of Benjamin J. Colón (Soul Exodus)
Welcome to A Bloody Good Time.
Last week I defended the horror genre from some common criticisms. Let's see what you had to say in response.
Drew replied: I'll defend horror the same way I defend Heavy Metal, in particuler the extreme kind: Art is a medium to express yourselves and others to share, that doesn't mean it has to be positive. Books, Pictures, Video Games, Music, TV series and Films all are mean to let the dark side of people safely and let others share there feelings with it. That's my defense at least, might be too artsie for some people.
Well said. Although there are some people who would say it's not, in fact, art. But horror can be a macabre art of its own, at least if it's well-made.
Ant-LOX said: Horror is a great genre. Todays horror films show too much gore, it's very easy to imply violence and get the point across. The fact that a film can get people to toss and turn is a great indication of how effective the genre is.
You'll get no argument from me. I wouldn't be writing a horror column for five years (in October-ish) if I didn't love it.
DW added: Kudos for the "I saw the devil" mention. Great flick. Also the one picture you have of the teens is from "Tucker and Dale vs Evil" which is a horror spoof.
Yeah, I know it's a spoof. You don't have to tell me what Tucker and Dale is, I championed it on this column long enough! But I thought it was a good representation of the common stereotypes, since it was spoofing those same conventions.
APrince66 said: When some people find out my passion for horror, more than a few have given me a look suggestions, "this guy aint quit right". I have no intention of mimicking anything i see, nor do I get "aroused" by the violent images. Seeing real live violence, gore, blood, broken limbs, corpses, crime scene photo's etc, sickens and disturbs me to the point I avoid it like the plague. When it comes to my horror, I like the mild, to the more gratuitous the better. Its all in good fun, as long as it pretend. It doesn't make me a sicko IMO. I can separate the fake from the reality.
I'm paraphrasing here, but I was watching a documentary and someone on there (I don't remember who, but I want to say Joe Dante or John Landis) said that horror allows people to get whatever dark thoughts they have out in a safe and reliable medium, and as a result, most horror fans are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet. It's the people that repress the dark side that you want to watch out for.
Speaking of dark sides, there is a house in Amityville, New York that may have a dark side. Depending on who you talk to, it was never haunted but we're not getting into that. In fact, I've already talked about it when I covered the film series for the first time in 2009 (you can find that one here.)
This week is all about ranking all ten films in the series, just like I did for Friday the 13th and Puppet Master. The problem this time is that unlike those films, I don't really have a soft spot for the Amityville horror films. I can admit that while a movie about killer puppets or the latest Jason entry is bad from a conventional standpoint, I get a lot of enjoyment out of them. Amityville films are a different kind of bad. Most of the series is quite painful to sit through and at the worst of times, they're very boring. But unlike say, Children of the Corn, there are some that I do like. Not many, but there are a few.
So let's rank some haunted house (and haunted objects from that house) movies.
#10: The Amityville Haunting (2011)
One of these days I need to do a full retrospective of The Asylum, because they deserve a good beatdown. Then again, it's almost too easy to bash a company that puts out films just to make a quick buck off of big blockbusters that were just released. Which makes it confusing that they would release an Amityville movie six years after the last one, but I digress. In case you're wondering why MGM had nothing to do with this, it's because the actual Amityville house and town are public domain. It's a real house and a real town. The copyright is attached to the Amityville Horror name, which is why we have Haunting in the title here.
What can I say? It's a found footage Amityville film that, by the way, doesn't actually show the outside of the house in any shot and doesn't really mention the original case (by which I mean the Lutzes) at all. There are a few backhanded mentions but nothing substantial. It's supposed to be a family that moves in during 2008 and deals with some malevolent spirit. The movie is boring, which is its biggest problem. The second is that not a single person can act very well, and all of them are annoying. There's also zero scares and while most Asylum films feel cheap, this one feels like I could have shot it in a week with a camcorder. That may be slightly insulting, but I felt insulted when I was finished with this one. Tit for tat.
#9: Amityville Dollhouse (1996)
How do you keep the Amityville franchise going without involving the actual house? Well you could have the items of the house get sold off and have spirits connected to them. Or even worse, you could have a dollhouse modeled after 112 Ocean Avenue that somehow create evil forces out of nothing. Okay not nothing, as the fireplace seems to be a gateway to Hell, but what exactly does that have to do with the dollhouse? Nothing. Somewhere along the way I think this wasn't original an Amityville film, but became one because it could make a few extra bucks.
So it's Amityville in name only, which already kicks it off to a bad start. Another problem I have is why in the hell would demons use a dollhouse to channel their energy? For that matter, what makes this dollhouse so special that they can? Is it because it resembles a house where bad stuff happened once? Is that really it? While this movie is entertaining in it's own way (that being it's so bad it's laughable), it's the second worst in the franchise. You know a film is bad when the only way to dethrone it is for The Asylum to make a sequel.
#8: Amityville 3D (1983)
This would be the first actual sequel in the Amityville series, as Amityville II: The Possession was a prequel. A writer dedicated to exposing hoaxes moves into the titular house, and as you can imagine, Strange Things Happen (TM).
These things are really tame compared to what we know the house is capable of. Wind blows a lot, flies, pictures taken of the house catch on fire far away, random apparitions are seen. The movie is mostly boring and by the time it reaches it's explosive finale. What I find funny is that even though the house blows up (I'm not spoiling anything, because this movie sucks and you shouldn't watch it), it's standing again in Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes. Don't you just love continuity? This film's also an oddity for having an early appearance from Meg Ryan and Lori Laughlin…so enjoy that. Oh and Tess Harper is the most annoying actress in the history of acting. Ever.
#7: The Amitytville Curse (1990)
This film isn't the worst of the series from a technical standpoint, but it is the most boring. I've tried to watch this film three different times and only on the third was I able to finish it. Not because I had to turn it off, but because I fell asleep. That rarely happens with me. Some might say that's enough to send it all the way to the bottom, but you'd have to consider just how bad the previous films are before doing that.
Here's another problem I have. Is this spacious mansion that looks nothing like the Ocean Ave. house supposed to be the same one? I find that hard to believe. And if its not, why would they even add the Amityville name? Is the town haunted now? Maybe I'm putting too much thought into a generic haunted house movie, but if you can't get your story straight sequel to sequel why even bother? This is the last of the really bad films in the series, but it's not much better after.
#6: Amityville: A New Generation (1993)
This is the point in the rankings where the films aren't so much bad as they are completely forgettable. With the fourth entry in the series, the films became about haunted objects taken from the property that hold some of the evil and cause problems for a brand new family. This was a way to keep the series going without having family after family stupid enough to move into the infamous house. It makes sense to continue the series that way if you absolutely have to, but there probably wasn't a need for ten Amityville films, ever.
In this one, it's a haunted mirror that comes from the house. The mirror contains the spirit of a man who lived in the original house and murdered his entire family…but that man is not Ronald DeFeo. It's not even Sonny Montelli from Amityville 2. It's just some guy who apparently lived there at some point. You could tell they were really reaching for plots to keep this series going at this point, and considering Amityville Dollhouse was next, they were definitely scraping the bottom of the barrel. But still, compared to the rest, it's not too bad. Plus this one benefits from Terry O'Quinn, as most movies often do.
#5: Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes (1989)
This one opens with priests trying to exorcise the evil, and then a real estate agency has a yard sale when they think the spirits are gone. A woman ends up with a demonic lamp and we've begun the next stage of Amityville films. I think the idea of a possessed lamp is laughable, but at least the film attempts to do something with it. The animals go nuts, and the lamp itself can hurt people who just knick their finger on it.
But at the end of the day, it's a killer lamp. Horror's had quite a few evil household items that always make for a good laugh, and this is one of them. The movie ends a lot later than it should have when the lamp is thrown out of a window. Why no one thought to do this when the trouble started, I have no idea.
#4: Amityville 1992: It's About Time (1992)
This one I have a soft spot for. Not because it's actually very good, but because I like the concept and it features one of the dumbest, most hilarious horror movie deaths of all time. Plus it had some good makeup effects and it was directed by the same guy who made Hellraiser II, Tony Randel (there's another series I will rank soon). While the idea of a haunted clock may seem silly, the idea of a haunted clock that can mess with time is an idea for a cool horror movie. The only problem is that the film doesn't really use the plot to its full potential.
The movie follows the typical Amityville trend of bizarre and dangerous things happening because of an evil object. It could have done more with the fact the clock can seemingly manipulate time and age people, but it relaly doesn't. That makes this a disappointing waste of an interesting premise, one that isn't explored often. There really aren't enough horror films about time, which is a shame.
#3: The Amityville Horror (1979)
Yes, the original not only doesn't rank #1, it doesn't even rank #2. I can't help it. While the film does have some good moments and is certainly in the top tier of this series, I don't consider it to be very good. It's merely average at best, and mediocre at worst. James Brolin in particular hams it up quite a bit ("Oh God it's tearing me apart!") and the film moves at a lethargic pace that really doesn't accomplish anything when it should be building the story or characters.
But there are some creepy moments. The infamous "Get out" scene is very well done and one of my favorites in the franchise. I really enjoy Rod Stieger's role as the priest. I love the score for the film and think it fits the story. But in a series full of missed opportunities, you have to point to the original film as one of those. I think another remake should happen soon just to see if someone can get a film that can truly capitalize on the story's full potential.
#2: Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
I really don't want to repeat myself when I just mentioned this a month ago, so I'm going to avoid that by…repeating myself.
I've talked about this before, because it's one of the only films in the Amityville series that's worth watching. Well, this and the remake. Anyway, this film is a combination of The Amityville Horror and The Exorcist, taking the best parts of each. It's a prequel, set before the DeFeo murders (only here the family has a different name). The movie starts out with the family living a fairly normal life while one of them goes insane, and then becomes more about the exorcisms at the end.
What happens to the guy that becomes possessed? He gets really ugly and he has sex with his sister. He tries to seduce her and succeeds (that's the amazing part…she's not under the influence of ANYTHING). The seduction scene in general is very creepy. You know what else is creepy? Watching this guy kill his entire family with a shotgun, including the kids, and seeing their little bodies twitch after they've been shot. This movie easily gets under your skin and makes you feel dirty.
#1: The Amityville Horror (2005)
The remake is the best film in the series. There are those who hate it, there are those who hate everything Platinum Dunes does, but I really enjoyed this film. I think it's the closest this series has come to making the original story translate to film. There are a few problems I do have. I hate the two male children, as neither one does a very good job (the little girl is fine, probably because she's played by Chloe Moretz). I also didn't care for changing the DeFeo story to suit the need to have a ghost girl. Jodie was not a member of the DeFeo family, in fact in the original story "Jodie" was a pig-like monster that they saw with red eyes.
But there's a lot to like here. I think Ryan Reynolds does a great job as George Lutz. Does he have his moments of hamming it up, similar to James Brolin? You bet. It's hard not to chew the scenery a little bit in a role like this. But I think he still holds his own with the material and this was the first film that proved he can handle more dramatic roles in my eyes. I also think there are some scary moments here and there, even if it does rely on jump scares way too often.
That's it for me. What's your favorite Amityville film? Leave some comments here on or my Twitter. Next week, with The Raven coming out this month, I'm going to look at the works of Edgar Allan Poe that have been adapted for film.
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Durable goods orders posted the largest decline in three years in March, falling 4.2 percent from February. This is not at all good for the manufacturing sector, and should give pause to those anticipating continued U.S. economic growth. One data point does not a trend make, but we are beginning to see consistently softer economic numbers over the past month or two.
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A Radar-Assisted Collision
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Some folks are not as enthusiastic about marine electronics as I am. Thus I get the occasional letter that goes something like this, "Now you listen up, sonny; back when we all knew how to get around with just a paper chart and a compass, we were better navigators. Those gizmos get people in trouble!" Do electronics sometimes lead to problems? Absolutely yes, but you'd better examine the details before you jump to conclusions.
Thus it's useful that some nautical accidents are examined in astonishing detail. While not commonly done in the world of recreational boating, the commercial shipping authorities analyze mistakes with almost fetishistic intensity. The results are commonly called maritime casualty reports, and while they may sound a bit ghoulish, many professional mariners read them with the optimistic goal of learning from the mistakes of others. In fact, every issue of the fine magazine Professional Mariner includes extracts of current casualty reports.
We can learn, too, and these days many agencies like the U.K.'s Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) make its full reports conveniently available on the Web. That's where I found an investigation of a collision in the English Channel that vividly illustrates some realities of modern radar usage. The 58-page report, published as an illustrated PDF file, describes every aspect of the incident, including each vessel's equipment and crew, and then draws conclusions and makes recommendations. Though the writing style is "just the facts, ma'am" Sergeant Friday flat, it's a compelling read.
The 47-foot British sailing yacht Wahkuna set off from France toward home one clear morning in May 2003, but soon found herself motoring in thick fog. The owner, who had 40 years' recreational experience and Royal Yachting Association certificates of competency, was at the helm, which was equipped with a top-of-the-line Raymarine R70 radar. Four quite experienced crew were in the cockpit with him. At around 10:45 a large target appeared about six miles off the starboard bow. The illustrations on page 40 show each vessel's track and how Wahkuna's radar might have looked if the target echo was perfectly "trailed" for 15 minutes.
Actually, the Raymarine had features well beyond echo trails, like a Mini Automatic Radar Plotting Aid (MARPA) function, which might have plotted the target vessel's true speed and course, and the all-important Closest Point of Approach (CPA). Wahkuna also had a R80 radar down below at the nav station that one of the crew might have been working simultaneously. "However," MAIB notes, "during the events leading to the accident, only the display in the cockpit area was being monitored, and…neither the skipper nor the crew fully understood, or appreciated, the information that could have been provided by the equipment."
Meanwhile, the captain of the 908-foot container ship Nedlloyd Vespucci, who had just jogged slightly right for another target, had his Atlas ARPA radar plotting Wahkuna and had determined that she would cross his track almost a mile ahead. This man had 20 years of professional training and service, including three as master of this particular vessel type, and was so conscientious about the Channel run that he'd been on the bridge for 14 hours. He maintained his 25-knot speed.
Next page > Part 2: A mere 15 minutes after the incident began, Wahkuna's crew saw a wall of steel emerge from the fog. > Page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
This article originally appeared in the November 2004 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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Place of Death: County: Dickson, Civil Dist. 4, Village or City: (blank)
Reg. Dist. No. 222, Primary Reg. Dist. No. (blank), Reg. No. (blank), File No. 6
Full Name: Guss BECK
Sex: male Race: negro Marital Status: married
Date of Birth: 1862
Age: 55 yrs.
Occupation: farming
Birthplace: Dickson Co.
Name of Father: informant
Birthplace of Father: did not enter
Maiden Name of Mother: parents
Birthplace of Mother: not known
Informant: A Neighbor Address: (blank)
Filed: Oct. 1917 Mrs. J. E. Mathis, Registrar
Date of Death: 9/19/1917
The physician attended him from Mch. 1917 to Sept. 1917
and last saw him alive on the 15th day Sept. 1917
Death occurred at: 9 PM
Cause of Death: Lingering dropsy Malarial fever Duration: 5 mos.
Malaria Hem? Duraton: 7 mos.
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Place of Burial: family cemetery Date of Burial: 1917
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beta-3 is good stuff: There are lots of studies on Octopamine(norsynephrine) and the activation of beta3-adrenoceptors in humans.
With regards to topical fat-burners, an article can be found in issue number 3 of the online magazine, via this link ("The Science of Topical Fat Loss):
Feedback thus far, is sparse regarding Beta-3, which is not to say anything against it as it may make a rather nice adjunct to an ECA stack. Sensitizing the Beta-3 receptor may increase Insulin sensitivity, and may exert a partioning effect. There is a thread regarding this, several pages back.
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Thanks for the info. One more guestion. Eca stacks give me the jitters. So to use an affective fat burner without the jitters i could use beta-3 stacked with lipoderm-y? Or would i still get the jitters?
So to use an effective fat burner without the jitters i could use beta-3 stacked with lipoderm-y? Or would i still get the jitters?
Excluding the rare circumstance in which someone finds systemic effects from LipoDerm (jitters, etc), then no, you would fare fine. LipoDerm is delivering the Yohimbine to the Adipose tissue, thus bypassing the bloodstream (as opposed to taking Yohimbine orally), and (selective) Beta-3 agonists do not impact blood-pressure as ECA would.
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2)Caffeine (if tolerable): 600 mgs per day
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Originally Posted by jb1309' date='Jul 16 2002, 01:25 AM
Can you post some of these??
The only study I have seen on octopamine and humans, showed that it did not do much for lipolysis, in vitro. I have seen nothing in vivo.
Even with pharmaceutical beta 3's, I have only seen one study that showed selective beta 3 agonism (blocked beta 2) to increase lipolysis in humans, and it only worked at the highest dosing level.
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Par your right all the stuff i was looking at was for rodents and dog etc. not humans.
Specific stimulation of adipose tissue adrenergic beta 3 receptors by octopamine
Article in French
Galitzky J, Carpene C, Lafontan M, Berlan M.
INSERM U317, Laboratoire de Pharmacologie Medicale et Clinique, Toulouse, France.
A new subtype of beta-adrenoceptor (beta 3) has been recently characterized in human and rodent genome. This receptor can be stimulated with catecholamines or selective pharmacological beta 3-adrenoceptor agonists and it fulfils similar function of norepinephrine in rodent and dog adipose tissue. Octopamine but not tyramine or phenylethylamine activated lipolysis in dog fat cells as well as BRL 37344 (a beta 3-adrenoceptor agonist) or norepinephrine.The lipolytic effect of octopamine did not depend on beta 1-/beta 2-adrenoceptor stimulation since it was not suppressed by beta 1- or beta 2-antagonists. These results suggest that octopamine is a specific endogenous ligand for beta 3-adrenoceptors in mammals.In human fat cells, norepinephrine was lipolytic whereas BRL 37344 or octopamine were without effect.
PMID: 8106131 PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
The jitters go away after a while -- but, I have not been able to figure out if that is a good thing ...
No one
Try nicotine gum or bromo for that matter, add some caffeine and synephrine ( I get em really cheap at Vitamin World and comes by itself) and short burst refeeds and watch the fat melt off. Of course, assuming you are dieting ( I do very low calories) with weight training.
I have yet to do any cardio, which I will do once I chase after this stupid ass stubborn fat. Damn those love handles, damn them to an incinerating fire.
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Architecture, the most public of endeavours, is practised by people who inhabit a smugly hermetic milieu which is cultish. If this sounds far-fetched just consider the way initiates of this cult describe outsiders as the lay public, lay writers and so on: it's the language of the priesthood. And like all cults its primary interest is its own interests, that is to say its survival, and the triumph of its values – which means building. — guardian.co.uk
Old arguments that were stated much more eloquently decades ago: then with passion rather than presumption.
"Appointing architects to conceive places is like appointing foxes to advise on chicken security." Really?
I don't really understand how, in such a difficult time for writers and journalists, the editors at a respected newspaper like the guardian decided to hire someone with such unintelligent and unjournalistic arrogance.
And the bit about the beauty of decay. Ruin porn is really sexy in photos and really creepy in reality. Similar to a serial killers and ghosts being much more enjoyable on a screen that in a basement.
Besides, the writer is a white male. Doesn't he realize that he, like all other white males, is the one that's destroyed the entire world and enslaved everyone in it?
-said the white male architect.
Agree with you Save Western. The headline is simply link-bait. It's the only way for "journalism" to survive now days. It's "tweet this" journalism.
I couldn't agree more about the cultish nature of architectural academia, but rather than extracting the architect from the equation, I would flip what the Guardian writer said and call for the reforme of architectural schooling. This is a refreshing change of pace, especially from the British, which seemed locked in the perpetual swoon of the avant guard.
So who should shape them? Writers? I like the wasteland aesthetic too. And garbage can be beautiful if you're in the right frame of mind. When he goes on trips, exits the plane, I wonder if he'd rather walk to his rental car through a garbage-filled, rat-infested wasteland or an airport terminal. Provocative though. Especially the title. I mean, who but an absolute, total genius can come up with such a provocative title?!
When I read articles like this from the British press criticising the British Architecture establishment for being pompous arses it only serves to reinforce the pompousness of the British press itself. Going one step further, the British architectural establishment / scene / cult of personalities and the British press present facades of importance to make up for the lack of relevance they themselves possess. It is the last gasp grasp at once was whilst denying what is. The British culture is stilted and stifling which explains why the best of British architecture is practised elsewhere in other countries or so thoroughly hidden behind 'Georgian' facades and garden walls as to give the feeling of being ashamed.
you know who's really bad?
rocket scientists.
They dont even use real words to communicate. Its practically greek, or like, math. Whatever it is, its foreign to me and Ill be damned if Im gonna spend any time learning about it.
And the solution to all their problems: more damn rockets.
space is only good for getting rid of our junk anyway. I hope there is life on mars so the rover can kick sand in its face.
fuckin hate mars.
adolfo re: title, SEO, perhaps?
really? Architects are a cult??? its things like this, and people who say things like this, that just really piss me off, im sorry to say. but really, this guy doesn't know shit when its smashed at his face, excuse my vocabulary. its these arrogant people who don't see that what an Architect actually does, is far more than just simply put up old boring buildings. they are responsible for giving people a brighter way of living, a more organized way of being, and a greater sence of realization in who you actually are. if you were to step into a building that an architect had not designed and had not made sure everything was set up properly, then you would be going into a freinzed chaotic area, where there would probably be way too little lighting, which would set people off easier, there woud be no focused way to get around a building, which would piss people off more, and there would be no true organization, which is never fun. but, when you go into a place where there was JUST architects that designed the entire area, Just Architects that organized the walkways, and Just Architects that did everything besides build the buildings, then you would be on the Earth version of Heaven, with enough lighting where you wouldn't be blinded, enough natural bueaty around for you to take it in, and breathe healthily, a type of organized walkways where everyone would go smoothly whereever it was that they needed to go. point is: Architects are needed way more than you think. if you think an Architect is a part of a cult in orderr to make more money, think about an Architects salery, which is MIDDLE-CLASS. an Architect needs people to survive and to prosper. people need Architects in order to live the best way that the person can, in order to become the highest of their true potential. get your head out of your ass, and get it right. and truthfully, don't attack a field of study that you are not in. you just don't know enough about that field. you won't see me attacking a doctor, verbally (never am going to physically attack a doctor, thats just insane), because i don't know what they go through each day. think more about treating people ike PEOPLE, not like a machine.
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Yonny Hernandez Hoping To Ride At Sepang In Spite Of Dislocated Left Collarbone
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Blusens Avintia MotoGP is still waiting for Yonny Hernández to fully recover to know if they can count with their two riders at the G.P. of Malaysia. Yonny who has been suffering from a dislocation of his left collarbone and a hard blow on the sole of his right foot after he crashed in the first laps of the G.P. of Motegi hopes that he will have recovered to stand up for his third position in the CRT's in the general ranking. For his part Iván Silva wants to continue to improve and work on his bike's development on a track that he is familiar with as he took a pre-season test there.
Yonny Hernández: "I hope I'll be able to participate in this G.P. because I want to carry on fighting for my ranking in the CRT's. I am aching all over now but I think I'll be able to ride because actually I don't have any fractures. I'll have to wait for Thursday and Friday's medical check on the track but I am confident the doctors' diagnosis will be positive and I'll be on Sunday's starting grid."
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Naturalism: Late 1800s
Writers in this literary period tended to see humans as the "hapless victims of immutable natural laws" (The American Experience). They were also influenced by the industrial revolution.
We will read and explore one or more of the literary works by the featured author for this period:
Jack London
Links to Connections
The Jack London Collection - a great site with lots of links from the University of California-Berkeley.
Jack London - his life and books - an interesting site from the Jack London State Historic Park in California.
Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:
Audio Book/MP3
London's short story, "To Build a Fire", is available as "literature for your eyes and ears" through LoudLit.org!
We may also explore one or more of the following works...
My Antonia
Willa Cather
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Miriam Davis Colt
Links to Connections
Went to Kansas; Being a Thrilling Account of an Ill-Fated Expedition to That Fairy Land, and its Sad Results; Together with a Sketch of the Life of the Author and How the World Goes with Her by Mrs. Miriam Davis Colt - the full e-text from the Kansas Collection created by a retired professor of the University of Kansas.
Chief Joseph
Links to Connections
New Perspectives on The West: Chief Joseph - great resource from PBS
Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience - Selected Textbook Resources:
John Wesley Powell
Major John Wesley Powell - biographical information from the John Wesley Powell Memorial Museum.
Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound- from the Academy of American Poets, biographical information as well as links to some of his works.
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg: Chicago Poems - read the full e-text of Sandburg's Chicago poems here.
Carl Sandburg - biographical information and e-texts from the Academy of American Poets.
Carl Sandburg at Librivox- this link will lead you to all the Sandburg works available as MP3 files at Librivox.
Overall "Text to World" & "Text to Text" Connections for this Literary Period
American Masters: The American Novel Literary Timeline- a great site from PBS, this link offers lots of information on the various movements, periods, novels and authors of American literature.
American Memory Timeline - from the Learning Page at The Library of Congress, this link will help you connect American history to American literature.
Work Cited
The American Experience. New Jersey. Prentice Hall Literature, 1991.


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There are times in the history of an industry, which are characterized by a pessimist sentiment. Both energy crises are a clear example, when politics gave economics a powerful strike. Cars lined up for blocks with no end in the hopes of pumping a few gallons. In the first crisis, Iran's Islamic Revolution expropriated oil reserves and kicked out foreign investors. During the second crisis, a new chapter of the Arab-Israeli conflict would lead to the withholding of oil reserves by the Arab countries.
The consequence was the same in both cases: a reduction in oil supplies. While the 1980s and 1990s transited with small upheavals for the market, the events of September 2001 unleashed a chain of events with important consequences for crude oil exploration and production. Due to the great political instability in the Middle East, new reserves turned attractive in different locations as new technology became available. That is how unconventional reserves rose to importance, and Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE:PXD) found a very profitable opportunity.
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Offsetting Weak Performance
Referring to Pioneer Natural Resources specifically, analysts' recommendations arrived late. When financial institutions began to upgrade ratings on the stock at the end of the last quarter of 2013, market performance was pass its zenith. Nonetheless, as performance slowed down ratings adjusted accordingly. Today, analysts rate the "Neutral," "Hold," "Equal Weight," or "Market Perform." What should be emphasize here is the unanimity about the stock's prospects. Most important, there are no negative opinions on the stock, while target price remains above the $200 mark and $6 above current market value.
For the year of 2013, Pioneer Natural Resources reported a loss of $1 billion, where $897 million are attributable to continuing operations, while the remaining $145.4 million correspond to discontinued operations. One of the quick responses to the weak overall performance is the plan to sell Pioneer Alaska and the company's Barnett Shale field assets. Hence, there are great expectations to see whether the performance during the first quarter of 2014 meets the goals previously sat.
Besides the declining performance, Pioneer Natural Resources announced that added proved reserves totaling 141 million barrels oil equivalent during 2013 from discoveries, extensions, improved recovery and technical revisions of previous estimates. And in order to continue with this positive trend, the Company continues to shift drilling activity in the Spraberry/Wolfcamp play in the Midland Basin of West Texas from vertical drilling to horizontal drilling. It is believed that replacing vertical drilling with horizontal drilling will enhance ultimate resource recoveries and improve rates of return per dollar invested.
Looking forward, Pioneer Natural Resources expects production to average 166,000 to 171,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, with an average production cost of $13.50 to $15.50 per barrel of oil equivalent for the first quarter of 2014. Moreover, total expenses are calculated to be between $167 and $199 million for the same period. The information was announced to be made public by May 6. In the meantime, the company continued to move forward with its $3.0 billion capital investment for drilling operations, and an additional $285 million for the acquisition of equipment and property.
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Currently trading at 37.24 times consensus earnings, Pioneer Natural Resources' stock carries a 113% premium to the industry average. More, the company pays $0.04 in quarterly dividends, for an annual yield of 0.04%. Given the comparative high price, low reward and troubled business model, the gurus holding the largest positions have been dropping the stock throughout 2013. And you are recommended not to purchase the stock for a long-term investment.
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Editorial — Liberals fare well in federal byelections
The prime minister chose an odd day for four federal byelections — Monday, June 30. Voting day came in the midst of what was, for many people, a four-day long weekend. It also occurred on the eve of Canada Day.
Two of the byelections were in the Toronto area, and two were in Alberta. Turnout in all four was very low, much lower than in a federal election. One race in Alberta attracted just a 15 percent turnout — lower than in Langley municipal elections.
The highest turnout, about 33 per cent, was in downtown Toronto's Trinity-Spadina byelection, where Liberal Adam Vaughan handily won the seat that had been held by Olivia Chow of the NDP, widow of the late Jack Layton. Chow is running for mayor of Toronto.
A better turnout there isn't surprising. The seat was competitive and is considered a bellwether for the Liberals in urban Ontario. Justin Trudeau's leadership of the federal Liberals clearly resonates with the downtown Toronto mood.
One should not read too much into the byelection results, considering the low voter turnout. However, the Liberals fared very well, winning the two Toronto seats comfortably and placing second in the two Alberta races behind the Conservatives.
Trudeau's leadership has clearly helped keep Liberal supporters within the fold, and the party should do well in Ontario in the next federal election. That province may in fact be its strongest area of support, given that the provincial Liberals, who are much more closely allied to their federal namesakes in Ontario than in B.C., recently won a majority government there.
The Liberals will name their candidate in the new federal riding of Cloverdale-Langley City this week, and given that they will be the first on the ground with a nominated candidate, that should help them here as well. It will be a tough row to how though, given the strong traditional support in both Langley and Cloverdale for the federal Conservatives. That party has not yet set a nomination meeting date, but there are five candidates seeking the nomination, so it will be a closely-watched event.
The Conservatives have a good chance to retain government in the October, 2015 federal election — if the Liberal and NDP vote remains split. The NDP should do well in Quebec, but their ability to retain status as the official opposition may be in question, given that the Liberals seem to be building a significant amount of momentum.


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Train hits man in Durham and body in Greensboro
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GREENSBORO, N.C. - Officials say an Amtrak train en route from Raleigh to Charlotte was delayed twice after hitting pedestrians on the tracks in both Durham and Greensboro.
Officials say a man was struck around 12:30 p.m. Sunday on a railroad bridge in Durham by the Piedmont 75 train heading to Charlotte.
No one on the train was hurt.
The man's name has not been released.
Police say the same train later hit a body in Greensboro.
Greensboro police said a man was hit by an east-bound train around 4:15 p.m. Sunday on a track near Interstate 40. The body was hit moments later by the west-bound Piedmont 75 train from Durham to Charlotte.
His name has not been released while relatives are notified.
Police and Norfolk Southern Railroad are investigating the deaths.