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Olivia Wilde has the straight-shooting energy of a born rebel. She grew up listening to her parents, journalists Leslie and Andrew Cockburn, host dinner parties for such luminaries as Mick Jagger, before famously leaving home at age 19 to marry an Italian prince and live on a bus (really!). Now in her 30s with two young children, she's settled in Brooklyn with partner Jason Sudeikis—and now, she's channeling her energy toward creating positive change, from the campaign trail with her mother during her run for Virginia congress to petitioning the government for safer skin care standards.
"It's insane we're at this stage of research and development with products and we know what these harsh chemicals will do to our health, yet it's still so prevalent," she told mbg during a recent chat. She serves as the Chief Brand Activist for the rapidly growing nontoxic skincare brand True Botanicals (they just opened a San Francisco flagship). Wilde credits the brand for helping eliminate the hormonal acne that plagued her for years. "My chin was always a problem area," she said. "It was unpredictable, and I would really struggle with how to get rid of the scars after using really toxic stuff. My whole beauty routine became about problem-solving as opposed to the health of my skin." Wilde eventually revamped her entire beauty routine and diet, focusing on fighting inflammation at its inception rather than playing defense against surface level symptoms.
She tries to drink a lot of water ("I try," she said. "I tend to drink too much coffee, though") and is "thoughtful" about her meat and dairy consumption after a stint with veganism, which she stopped because she's pretty severely anemic. When talking to her, it becomes clear that Wilde is a collector of information—perhaps her journalist upbringing shining through. "I just consider myself kind of a constant student of all this stuff," she said. "I try to consume as much information as possible." She cites Hillary Peterson, the founder of True Botanicals, as one of the biggest forces of change in her purview. "Learning about things like nightshades causing inflammation, sugar causing inflammation, and all of that changed how conscious I am about what I consume," she said. "I also think it's important to listen to your own body. Like there's been this big movement against gluten, and I'm actually pretty tolerant of gluten—but for many people it can be pretty damaging to their skin and overall health."
The biggest change, though, came when she switched up and simplified her topical routine. "I use the True Botanicals hydrating cleanser, and then I use the Clear Face Oil, the Nutrient Mist, and that's about it in the morning," she said. She follows her skin care routine with meditation, which she says has been "totally transformative," crediting it for making her much less reactive.
"It gives you a five-second barrier between something happening and your reaction to it," she explained. "It helps me make better decisions, and it makes me more creative, because I reach into a wider pool of creative ideas." She doesn't think of meditation as a tool to clear her mind but rather to dive deeper into it. "It's about bringing consciousness to your mind," she said. "It's almost impossible to stop yourself from thinking."
She also relies on exercise to feel like her best self. "Any time I exercise, I am a better person throughout the day," she said. "There's a SoulCycle class in LA that is more like a motivational pump-up class with a workout." She laughed. "I leave almost too confident, almost overly confident."
When she's in New York, she goes to Forward Space, which she calls "the SoulCycle of dance—it's dark and you feel like you went to a dance party and got a workout."
Whatever she's doing is working—she glows from the inside out, as she changes the world, one strongly held opinion at a time.
Liz Moody is an author, blogger and recipe developer living in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated with a creative writing and psychology degree from The University of California, Berkeley. Moody has written two cookbooks: Healthier Together: Recipes for Two—Nourish Your Body, Nourish Your Relationships and Glow Pops: Super-Easy Superfood Recipes to Help You Look and Feel Your Best. She also hosts the Healthier Together Podcast, where she chats with notable chefs, nutritionists, and best-selling authors about their paths to success. Her work has been featured in Vogue, Glamour, Food & Wine & Women's Health.


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Arun Krushnaji Kamble (14 March 1953 – December 2009) was an Indian Marathi language writer, professor, Politician, and Dalit activist. Arun Kamble, President and one of the founding members of Dalit Panthers of India, worked as a Head of Marathi department at University of Mumbai. He was the National General Secretary of Janata Dal. He took many major decisions in favour of Dalit, Backward Class and Minorities.

Introduction

Kamble formed Dalit Panther of India as a social organisation alongside Namdeo Dhasal and Raja Dhale in 1976. Later Kamble became the National General Secretary of Janata Dal and worked with former Prime Minister V. P. Singh. He demanded the renaming of Marathwada University to "Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar University". Kamble, a writer, poet and editor, authored many books such as Cultural Struggle in Ramayana, Conversion of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, Cheevar, Vaad-Samvad, Yug-Pravartak Ambedkar, Chalvaliche Diwas, and Tarkateerth Ek Vadato-Vyaghyat. He was awarded with many accolades such as "The Prabuddha Ratna Puraskar", Life Time Achievement International Award. Some of his works have been translated into English, German, French, Gujarati, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Urdu (Dalit Awaaz) and Hindi (Suraj ke Vansh-dhar).

Biography

Early days

Kamble was born on 14 March 1953, in Mahar Dalit family of village-Kargani, Atpadi near Sangli. He was a follower of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar as Dr. Ambedkar was an inspiration to him. His mother and father both were School Headmaster in Sangli. His mother Shantabai Kamble and father Krushnaji Kamble have written autobiographies called Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha and Mi Krushna respectively. His father was a well known personality in Kargani district.

Education
His school days were in Athapadi and Dighanchi at Sangli. He completed B.A. (honors) from Willingdon College, Deccan Education Society, Sangli in 1974. Later he earned his M.A. from Siddhartha College in 1976 with distinction in "Shodhnibandh ani Shodhnibandhachi Lekhan Paddhati". His major interests were Dalit literature and Ambedkarite Movement.

Academic career

He joined Dr. Ambedkar College of Commerce and Economics, Wadala, Mumbai in 1976 as a lecturer of Marathi (1976–1985). Later he joined Kirti College, Dadar (W), Mumbai (1985–1989). In 1990 he joined the University of Mumbai as a "Reader". Until his death he was a PhD Guide in Marathi Department and also was Head of Phule, Shahu Chair in University of Mumbai.

Political and Social career
Kamble was the National President and one of the founding members of Dalit Panther. He was also the National General Secretary of Janata Dal, a member of the National Election Committee – Janata Dal (Parliamentary Board), and in charge of Election Committee of Bihar State. He successfully led the Namantar Andolan of Marathwada University as a president of Dalit Panther.

When the dispute arose on the book Riddles in Hinduism (Appendix, Riddles of Ram & Krishna) authored by Dr. Ambedkar, Kamble led an intellectual fight and a march with Ten Lakh people (January 1987) and the provision for reservation to Buddhist, Backward class, and minorities with Prime Minister V. P. Singh. He got promises and assurance to implement the Mandal Commission; Second Backward class Commission, with an immediate effect (1989).

Kamble resigned from Janata Dal on the issue of Dalit president of India. He led a march as a President of Dalit Panther during an Assembly Session at Nagpur on the issue of publishing Dr. Ambedkar's complete body of literature (1979). He later worked as a member of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Charitra Sadhane Publication which was borne by a march.

Kamble worked as an editor for the book Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings & Speeches. Maharashtra Government declared a decision to omit a part from the Appendix (Riddles in Hinduism, 'Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and Speeches' Volume 4). For this issue he left the editor's committee and filed a lawsuit in the High Court against the Maharashtra Government.

He inaugurated 'Manusmruti Cremation Conference' at Karur by Dravida Kazhagam, founded by Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1983). He also inaugurated and led a march to protest against the outrageous behavior on Dalit community at Karamchedu (1987). He led Samajik Nyay Jyoti (Social Justice Flame) with Ram Vilas Paswan from Chundur to New Delhi (1992). He was the Chief Guest at 'All India Dalit Writer's Conference' (October 1987) and worked as a convener of the 'All India Dalit Writer's Association. He inaugurated a Social Gathering of Dalit Literature at Bangalore (1986) and gave a speech at the conference of the Namantar-Mandal (1984). He inaugurated the 9th Marathi Conference at Badoda (1995) and gave a speech at the All India Dalit Liberation conference (6 December 1987). He undertook an editorial work for the periodicals Ambedkar Bharat, Shoonya, and Sangharsh.

Committee undertakings
Kamble worked as a member of National Police Commission and as a committee member for the advisory board of Special Department for Scheduled Caste & Scheduled Tribes at the University of Mumbai. He was a president of 3rd All India Conference on Dr. Ambedkar's Literature at Wardha and also a president at the World Conference on Buddha, Phule, and Ambedkar Literature at Kalyan ( 23–25 March 2002).

Major works

Poetical works
"Arun Krushnaji Kamble" (1983) Awarded Best Poetry Collection by Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad.
"Mudra"

Prose works

"Ramayanatil Samskrutik Sangharsh"- (Cultural Struggle in Ramayana)
Ramayanatil Samskruti Sangharsh by Prof. Arun Kamble
"Ramayanma Samskrutik Sangharsh"- Published by Subhash Palekar on 6 December 1993.
"Janata Patratil Lekh"(JanataDr.B.R.Ambedkar, Edited by Arun Kamble − 7 appendices and 47 pages preface) Published by University of Mumbai and Popular Publication, 1993.
"Cheevar"-(Essays on Literature and Culture), Ashay Publication, 1995.
"Yug Pravartak Ambedkar"-(Epoch Making Ambedkar) Ashay Publication, 1995.
"Chalvache Diwas"- (Reminisances of the Agitations), Ashay Publication, 1995.
"Vad Samvad"-(Debate and Dialog) an Intellectual Prose, Pratima Publication – 1996, Pune.
"Dharmantarachi Bheemgarjana" Conversion of Dr. B.R.Ambedkar) – Pratima Publication – 1996, Pune.
"Marathi Intellectual Prose", Edited by Arun Kamble and other, Text prepared for B.A. (University of Mumbai), Pratima Publication, 2003.
"Tarkateerth Laxmanshastri Joshi—Ek Vadatovyaghyat", Critical writing on Laxmanshastri Joshi, Ambedkar Bharat Publication, 1987.

Translations
"Priya Adarker" translated a selection of his poems into English under the title Arun Kamble: Arun Krushnaji Kamble, Poems.
"Modern Indian Poetry" Published by Pritish Nandy.
"An Anthology of Dalit Literature", Edited by Eleanor Zelliot and Mulk Raj Anand.
Poems published on the cover page, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Journals of Michigan University, USA 1978 & 1998.
"Some Aspects of Half Social Justice, Krishna Aiyar
From "[Untouchable to Dalit", Eleanor Zelliot (Carleton College, USA), Manohar 2005.
"Poisoned Bread" Edited by Arjun Dangle, Orient Longman and Co. 1992.

Speeches
 Speech at Panvel.
 Speech at Pandharpur
 Speech at Amaravati
 Speech at Parbhani
 Documentary on Dalits (Mumbai's Way: Il buddismo negli slum. Visita a Daharawi con il Dr. Arun Kamble).

Death
Kamble was found dead in a lake at Hyderabad. News of his suspected death in a mysterious manner came as a major shock to his friends in socio-political circles. Kamble had gone to Hyderabad on 13 December 2009 to take part in an international seminar at Birla Scientific Institute in Saifabad and went missing the next day.

References

External links

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1953 births
2009 deaths
Indian male poets
Marathi-language writers
Marathi-language poets
Dalit activists
Dalit writers
Marathi politicians
Janata Dal politicians
20th-century Indian poets
Poets from Maharashtra
20th-century Indian male writers

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Desmond Charles Henley, OBE (1927, Marylebone, London – 11 November 2005, Portsmouth) was an English embalmer.

Career
After leaving school, Henley joined the London company of funeral directors James H. Kenyon Ltd in 1941. Established in 1880, J. H. Kenyon Ltd were the undertakers to the Royal Household, and had in that role assisted in arranging the funerals of many members of the Royal Family. After training in all theoretical and practical aspects of embalming, Henley passed his professional examinations in 1948. Four years later he was appointed the company's chief embalmer.

In 1961, Henley became an examiner of the British Institute of Embalmers. He also taught embalming techniques, embalming fluid formulas as well as disaster management to funeral directors. In an interview published in 1998, Henley expressed doubts that the mummification of Lenin's body in Moscow was indeed as permanent as claimed by the Russian authorities.

Notable cases
In his role as chief embalmer  for J. H. Kenyon Ltd, Henley carried out the embalming of King George VI at Sandringham House in 1952, that of Queen Mary at Marlborough House in 1953, and that of Sir Winston Churchill at the latter's London home at 28 Hyde Park Gate in 1965.

Churchill's body was embalmed in the same room where he had died on the morning of 24 January 1965, a Sunday. When the process  was completed, the remains were dressed in his silk pajamas and dressing robe and placed back into his bed. Churchill would lie in repose in private at his Hyde Park Gate home until 9:00 pm Tuesday evening when Kenyon's staff transported his remains to Westminster Hall to lie in state and for the funeral at St Paul's Cathedral.

Four years later, Henley embalmed the remains of Mutesa II of Buganda; and when Idi Amin had Mutesa II's body returned from London to Uganda in 1971, Henley was requested to accompany it. In 1973, Aristotle Onassis had Henley flown to Athens in his private jet to embalm the body of his son, Alexander. Henley also oversaw the embalming of Judy Garland in 1969, Jimi Hendrix in 1970, Field Marshal Lord Montgomery in 1976, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma in 1979, Bon Scott in 1980, and Billy Fury in 1983.

In the time between 1963 and 1976, Henley also worked extensively in Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Benin and Malawi, and continued to advise royal families worldwide until his retirement from J. H. Kenyon Ltd in 1992, after 51 years of service.

Disaster management
After training in disaster management, Henley also served as head of J. H. Kenyon Ltd's emergency services mortuary team. In this role he was involved in the recovery and repatriation of bodies after numerous disasters, including the Kano air disaster in Nigeria in 1973, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster in 1987 and the Lockerbie bombing in 1988.

It was for this work at major disasters around the world that Henley was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire "for services in the aftermath of disasters involving the loss of human life"  in the 1997 New Year Honours.

Retirement and death
In retirement he lived in London and Portsmouth. His funeral was held on 23 November 2005 at St. Wilfrid's Church, Portsmouth, followed by cremation at Portchester Crematorium.

Honours
 1972: Freeman of the City of London
 1987: Fellow of the British Institute of Embalmers
 1997: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

References

External links
 Ian Harvey: The Macabre Connection Between Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland and Winston Churchill (2018, online)
 Desmond Henley: A Great Embalmer
 How Mutesa's body was returned from London for burial
 Desmond Henley receiving the OBE in 1997

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2005 deaths
Embalmers
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
People from Marylebone
People from Portsmouth


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ESSENTIALS: 24 Cult Films for Late, Late Nights
I feel like I should preface any list of "Best" cult films or "Most Important" cult films with the disclaimer that there is no list. The thing that makes cult films memorable is that they are a representation of a unique voice, and different voices appeal to different people. Plus, there are just so, so many movies out there, nobody can see them all. If you've got a film that you (or you and your friends) love and quote and everybody else thinks you're nuts, I think you're doing the thing right, and it doesn't matter if that movie's on a list anywhere or not.
The other key thing about cult films is that they are usually produced outside of the mainstream, so a lot of lists of "Best Cult Films" that I see online are rehashes of movies like The Big Lebowski or Office Space, which were box office flops, but gained a second life through word-of-mouth after their disappointing theatrical runs. I love both of those movies, and they certainly have cult followings — Office Space prompted Swingline to actually make a red stapler, and The Big Lebowski started a religion — but now they're so well-known I don't need to invoke them here.
Since I get to make this list, I wanted to focus on movies that didn't show up on the other lists. I also wanted to stay away from "The Worst Movie Ever" kinds of films (plus, I already covered that ground), and try to share movies that I think are legitimately good, or moving, or compelling, even if you can see their seams sometimes.
These are in no particular order, but they are all perfect for late nights or rainy days:
1. Carnival of Souls
After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival. - IMDb
Mistakenly thought to be in the public domain for decades and widely available in grainy, garbled versions, Carnival of Souls has a new blu-ray release from Criterion with restored picture and sound that really shows off this movie for what it is. It's a legitimately eerie movie, beautifully shot, full of evocative imagery and intelligent subtext. This movie also has special significance for me, because seeing the original Criterion Collection release of this movie alongside films by Renoir, Godard, Kurosawa, and Bergman was the first time I really understood that cult films didn't have to be a guilty pleasure. That release made me realize that there were other people like me who loved both art house cinema and outsider cinema and took them equally seriously.
2. Chimes at Midnight
The career of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff as roistering companion to young Prince Hal, circa 1400-1413. - IMDb
For many years, the crown jewel of my DVD collection has been a DVD-R of this movie, which was only briefly released on VHS and was extremely difficult to find and even more difficult to own. But this is another movie that Criterion has recently rescued from the pit of abysmal picture and sound quality. And good thing, too. This movie and the never-completed Don Quixote were Orson Welles' dream projects. Constructed from texts pulled from four Shakespeare plays, Welles made John Falstaff, who has more lines than any other character in Shakespeare, the tragic hero of his own movie. The larger-than-life Welles plays the larger than life mentor to Prince Hal, later King Henry, and the thread of wasted talent and unbridled excess that runs through the film cannot help but reflect on the former boy-wonder of Welles himself. It is a movie that was financially and logistically hard to make and it shows, but it is full of stunning images, and a truly heart-rending conclusion.
3. A Bucket of Blood
A frustrated and talentless artist finds acclaim for a plaster covered dead cat that is mistaken as a skillful statuette. Soon the desire for more praise leads to an increasingly deadly series of works. - IMDb
I will go to the mat with anybody who says Roger Corman isn't a good director. He's certainly known as a producer of exploitation films and for launching the careers of people who went on to be iconic directors, but his directorial work (which he pretty much stopped doing in the late-1970s) was extremely sharp, both in terms of visual style and intelligence. A Bucket of Blood is one of the best satirical take-downs of the art scene I think I've ever watched, and it wraps it inside the costume of a schlocky horror movie. It's funny, full of gentle social commentary, and has just enough of an "ick" factor to create some intentionally cringe-worthy moments. If you've ever wanted to see the Beat Generation get some comeuppance, this one's for you.
4. Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill
Three go-go dancers holding a young girl hostage come across a crippled old man living with his two sons in the desert. After learning he's hiding a sum of cash around, the women start scheming on him. - IMDb
I'm much more of a Corman guy than a Russ Meyer guy, but when it comes to exploitation films, you have to give Russ Meyer his due. Meyer is most closely associated with busty women with quick tops, but there's actually no nudity in this, his best-known movie. Busty women, sure, and car races, and inexplicable danger aplenty. This movie is also notable for being the source of most of the movie dialogue samples used in White Zombie's breakout album La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1. That's actually what got me to watch this movie in the first place.
5. Blacula
An ancient African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula himself, finds himself in modern Los Angeles. - IMDb
There are a lot of 1970s blaxploitation movies you can watch and have a pretty great time with, but the thing I love about Blacula is how William Marshall's performance really elevates this movie way past what you think it would be from the amazingly schlocky title. He was primarily a Shakespearean actor, plays the character of Prince Mamuwalde totally straight, and sells it. This movie is at its heart a love story, and despite some *ahem* lines that ring out particularly jarringly to modern sensibilities, the performances in this movie should earn it far more prominence among horror fans than I think it currently has.
6. Killer of Sheep
Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep him unresponsive to the needs of his adoring wife, and he must struggle against influences which would dishonor and endanger him and his family. - IMDb
This underground film shot in south Los Angeles in the early 1970s is not to be confused with a blaxploitation film. This is a poetic and deeply touching movie that went unseen for over two decades because of rights clearance issues with the music in the film. The picture of daily life in Watts that it shows is both stifling but also affirming and moving. When it was added to the National Film Registry in 1990, that helped raise awareness for the movie, and ultimately led to a limited theatrical release in 2007. It is now available on DVD.
7. I Bury the Living
Cemetery director Robert Kraft discovers that by arbitrarily changing the status of plots from empty to occupied on the planogram causes the death of the plots' owners. - IMDb
I came across this one on a Public Domain movies site years ago, and I was pleasantly surprised. What the description here doesn't include is that the director doesn't want to be killing people, and begins thinking that he's descending into madness. As this starts to happen, there are a couple of visual effects sequences that are really striking, and take on the air of a twisted re-imagining of Fitzgerald's "eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckelburg." The film suffers a little from a Scooby-Doo ending, but there are rumors that there was a different ending originally shot. That's going to have to be one for the angels, though, because in 1958 nobody was keeping alternate endings of B-pictures around for archivists to find later.
8. Billy the Kid vs. Dracula
Dracula travels to the American West, intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her fiance, outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her. - IMDb
I reviewed this movie before, and you can read that at your leisure, but for our purposes here I will simply quote one line of that review: "At some point in 1965 or '66, some actual human being must have had this thought: 'Let's get John Carradine to play a vampire again, but this time we'll stick him in the Old West, name the movie after two characters not actually appearing in the movie, and shoot the thing for a nickel in, say, my back yard in Encino!'" The IMDb description is actually not correct: Carradine is never identified as Dracula because they didn't want Universal suing them, and "Billy" in the film did not have a previous career as a notorious outlaw. So if this sounds like it's up your alley, it probably is. If it doesn't, man, you've been warned.
9. Plan 9 from Outer Space
Aliens resurrect dead humans as zombies and vampires to stop humanity from creating the Solaranite (a sort of sun-driven bomb). - IMDb
This is also an objectively bad movie, but Edward D. Wood Jr. deserves a place on this list if for no other reason than that Ed Wood is maybe the greatest movie ever made about movies. Plan 9 is also, and I don't know anybody who would argue with me on this, the closest Ed Wood ever got to making a decent movie. The idea of a bomb made out of the sun's rays is not the worst sci-fi idea ever, and the story is more or less coherent. As opposed to, say, Glen, or Glenda?. Plus, the reach of this movie has been remarkable, from the Tim Burton biopic to the name of Glenn Danzig's record label, so it's worth watching if you haven't actually seen it. May I recommend watching Ed Wood and then Plan 9 as a double-feature?
Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention. - IMDb
Of course, if you'd actually like to see a good sci-fi movie made for no money, you might want to skip ahead a few decades to Primer. This movie has a reputation for being quite a mind-bender of a time-travel movie, and it does not disappoint. I would argue that only with (many) multiple viewings and some graph paper could you actually untangle what's happening in all the different timelines, but at a certain point, it doesn't matter. The storytelling is dizzyingly complex, but you get the impression director Shane Carruth knows what's going on, and that he's going to take you somewhere worthwhile, so you go along. It's a tense and confusing ride, but I'm not aware of another movie like it. I actually prefer Carruth's poetic, disjointed follow-up Upstream Color, but start here.
11. It's Such a Beautiful Day
Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy. - IMDb
As long as we're talking about bending minds, let's also dip our toes into the animation end of the pool. Don Hertzfeldt bends minds with the best of them, and I am truly at a loss as to how he is able to tell such elliptical stories with stick figures and still elicit powerful emotional responses from me. I am a big fan of Don Hertzfeldt, and this re-packaged collection of three of his related short films is a perfect example of why. Bill seems to be emotionally falling apart, but then it seems like he's actually mentally falling apart. His journey yo-yo'ing closer to and farther away from "sanity" and "reality" is both tremendously imaginative and tremendously moving. Hertzfeldt's World of Tomorrow short film was absolutely robbed of an Oscar, too, for whatever that's worth.
12. Sita Sings the Blues
An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. - IMDb
Animator Nina Paley made this animated feature film on her own. By herself. Alone. Feature film. Bill Plympton does the same kind of thing, and I am simply in awe of these artists. Paley's movie tells the story of Sita and her lover Rama from the Hindu epic Ramayana, and intertwines that tale with the story of the dissolution of Paley's own marriage. It's simply a beautiful, enthralling piece of work that not only explodes with imagination, but is full of beautiful visual design, too. It blurs the line between myth, fiction, and documentary, and is set entirely to torch songs. What's not to love?
13. The Beaver Trilogy
It begins in 1979 with the chance meeting in a Salt Lake City parking lot where filmmaker Trent Harris is approached by an earnest small-town dreamer from Beaver, Utah. - IMDb
And speaking of blurring lines...man, this one's something. As quick as I can tell it: Trent Harris was working at a TV station in Utah when they got their first video camera, and he was testing it in the parking lot when a guy called "Groovin' Gary" spotted him and came over.Gary always wanted to be on TV, and had his car adorned with images of Olivia Newton-John. He invited Harris back to Beaver for a talent show that Gary wanted recorded. In it, Gary dressed in drag and performed *as* Olivia Newton-John, to the befuddlement and ridicule of the small, conservative town. That really happened. A couple of years later, Harris moved to LA, and fictionalized the story a bit, and shot it as a short film with a pre-Fast Times Sean Penn. A couple of years later, while at USC film school, he made another go at the same story with a pre-Back to the Future Crispin Glover. If you can't find this amazing, unique gem, track down the new documentary The Beaver Trilogy, Part IV, which tells the whole story in stunning fashion.
14. The Sid Saga
Spurred by house guests Bob Sandstrom and Karlene Sandstrom leafing through his scrap book and asking about photographs in it, Sid Laverents begins to tell his life story. - IMDb
This is simply one of the crown jewels of amateur cinema. I don't know how to find it, except UCLA shows it sometimes and it occasionally airs as part of the sporadic TCM Underground series. But it is truly unforgettable, with Sid Laverents taking viewers through a stunning, three-part filmic biography that not only tells the story of Laverents, but of 20th Century America, too. It begins in poverty and vaudeville, goes through World War II, the 1950s and Cold War, the aerospace boom and introduction of the space program, and finally the rise of amateur film and videography that put storytelling tools into the hands of everyday people. And it's all told first-hand from Laverents, who lived it all. I reviewed this film a couple of years ago, and it is absolutely worth tracking down.
15. Head
The Monkees are tossed about in a psychedelic, surrealist, plotless, circular bit of fun fluff. - IMDb
Whoever wrote this IMDb summary can suck it. This is anything but "fan fluff." This is the weirdest damn thing, and as far from the Monkees TV show as I can really imagine. It's a smart, self-indulgent, self-reflexive piece of meta-storytelling made by Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson, who would immediately after this project go on to collaborate on Five Easy Pieces, with Nicholson exploding into the mainstream world in Easy Rider in between. The Monkees got a bad rap at the time, and I think it persists, that they were just a slapped-together attempt by a record company to make an American version of the Beatles. That may have been their genesis, but their songs are great, the guys were interested in things beyond the show, which came through in songs like "Randy Souse Git" and this film, which was reportedly the first time Americans had seen the now-famous footage of the South Vietnamese Chief of Police executing a handcuffed Viet Cong prisoner. Fan fluff, right? This was Tor Johnson's final film, and also, in a restroom, Peter Tork gives Davy Jones the advice that, "Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor."
16. The X from Outer Space
The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. - IMDb
In the 1960s, the Shochiku studio in Japan, which was known for more serious, art-house films like those of Yashujiro Ozu, decided it wanted to get in on some of that sweet Godzilla money that Toho was pulling down, and this film was their attempt. In it, some swinging astronauts jet back and forth between Earth, the moon, and Mars for reasons that are clear, but don't make any logical sense. While exploring, they get some goo on the ship, which hatches into a giant space chicken called Guilala. The English dub of this movie is legitimately terrible, but the original Japanese version, subtitled, is wonderful. It is everything I love about silly, 1960s monster movies, and may even exceed some of the Godzilla movies with shady aliens in them.
17. Suspiria
A newcomer to a fancy ballet academy gradually comes to realize that the school is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of grisly murders. - IMDb
This movie, by Italian horror icon Dario Argento (who also co-wrote the unmatched Once Upon a Time in the West), is the real deal. It's creepy, scary, grisly, bloody, mysterious, and atmospheric. It hits all of my favorite notes of horror movies, and has an ending that is serious nightmare fuel. Emerging from the giallo scene in Italy, it took things a step farther, and is really not for the faint of heart. But man, this is such a great horror movie. I've written before about the line that connects certain films between the 1950s and early 60s, ultimately resulting in Rosemary's Baby, and I think Rosemary in turn made Suspiria possible.
18. Bay of Blood
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate. - IMDb
Staying in Italy with a giallo contemporary of Argento's, we have Mario Bava's Bay of Blood. Bava was making his mark a decade before Argento hit the scene, so a lot of what Argento would build on came from Bava. And it goes way beyond that. Because Bay of Blood is not a "proto-slasher" movie, it is a full-bore, perfect example of a slasher movie, made almost a decade before slasher movies were a thing. You could pretty much take the cliched rules laid out in Scream that govern slasher movies and apply them one-for-one to this movie, but if that's the case, that means this movie invented those rules. I don't know if American filmmakers in the early 1980s looked at this movie and drew inspiration, or if Bava was simply ahead of his time, but this movie is about as good as straight slashers get, and it accomplished that while creating the lexicon, so I think that's one hell of an achievement.
19. The Wicker Man
A police sergeant is sent to a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl whom the townsfolk claim never existed. Stranger still are the rites that take place there. - IMDb
When I was in college and found 1) the Internet and 2) a pair of amazing video stores near my dorm, I spent some time combing a bunch of lists to find movies to rent. The Wicker Man consistently showed up on lists of "the scariest movies ever made" and that sort. So I rented it and I thought it was stupid. But I just sort of missed it — there's something sticky about this movie. Even though I didn't think I liked it, something made me want to revisit it, and when I did, a switch flipped and I fell in love with this movie about the collision of modern life, Christianity, and very, very old pagan beliefs that have still never really gone away. It's a movie with a lot going on under the surface, and which was also plagued for decades with a "the movie that could've been" legend that told the tale of how we never got to see the director's real vision of the movie. That has since been solved, despite the original camera negatives being used as fill underneath the M1 motorway connecting London to Leeds. And for what it's worth, my copy of The Wicker Man DVD actually came in a wicker box.
20. Equinox
Four friends are attacked by a demon while on a picnic, due to possession of a tome of mystic information. Told in flashbacks by the sole survivor. - IMDb
To be honest, this movie is mostly remarkable because of the people that worked on it. As a film on its own, it's only ok, and the present-day framing device of a police detective interviewing a survivor of all that went down is...clumsy at best. So you've really got to have some patience to get to where the movie begins to cook. This film was created by friends who met through Forest J. Ackerman (Uncle Forry), who founded Famous Monsters of Filmland in Los Angeles, and decided to make their own film. These friends, including Jack Woods and Dennis Muren, went on to become transformational figures in Hollywood through their contribution to sound and visual effects. It's truly remarkable to see their first film, knowing that they went on to redefine the modern cinematic language. No hyperbole. There are entire passages of The Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 that are cribbed directly from this film, and while the humans-talking-to-each-other portion of the movie is clunky, the finale, made from stop-motion, rotoscoping, and glass mattes, is legitimately badass.
21. Incubus
On a strange island inhabited by demons and spirits, a man battles the forces of evil. - IMDb
You notice how vague the plot summary for this movie is? That's about right. I mean, what I remember from this movie is William Shatner and some girl hiding in a barn, and then I think they ran for a bit...and maybe one of them was briefly possessed, but I couldn't swear to that. This movie is totally forgettable except for one kinda important thing: it was spoken entirely in Esperanto. You know what Esperanto is, right? It's an invented language that blends elements of the Romance languages, English, and probably a few other languages into what was hoped to be a universal language. Created in the 1880s, it took almost 100 years to make a movie in the language, and that was Incubus. So if you want to watch a movie where Bill Shatner speaks a made-up language, this is your only option, folks. Who gives a shit if it is entirely, and utterly, forgettable otherwise? But look: I have friends who have learned Swedish to watch Bergman movies in the native language, and friends who have learned Japanese to watch anime in its native language (I have undeniably awesome friends), so if you want to be able to turn the subtitles off in Incubus, you can currently learn Esperanto in the free language-learning app Duolingo on your phone.
22. Venus in Furs
A musician finds the corpse of a beautiful woman on the beach. The woman returns from the dead to take revenge on the group of wealthy sadists responsible for her death. - IMDb
This is definitely an outsider kind of film. I haven't seen any other of Jesus "Jess" Franco's films, but from what I know, a number of his films have veered into the more hardcore elements of mixing sex and cinema. Venus in Furs certainly has sex and nudity, but what it has more of, and in spades, is atmosphere and intrigue. The story is told through the eyes of Jimmy, a jazz musician, who sees a beautiful girl at a swanky party, then finds her merdered body on the beach, then sees her again, walking around. There's a wonderful current of I Spit on Your Grave-style cosmic retribution for sexual violence that runs through the movie, but mainly it's just sort of out-there and entrancing. Like the jazz musician at the center of the movie, you're never quite sure what's going on, and you're kind of ok with that because it's a unique ride you want to get to the end of.
23. The Masque of the Red Death
A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land. - IMDb
To be honest, I didn't realize this was my favorite of the Roger Corman/Vincent Price/Edgar Allan Poe movies until I wrote songs about a bunch of horror movies, and the one I wrote for this one turned out to be my favorite. Like in Bucket of Blood above where Roger Corman is a good director, and in Blacula where performances can elevate an otherwise straight exploitation film, for me Hazel Court makes this movie. There are a number of wonderful things in this one, from the dwarf circus performer who murders a friend of Prince Prospero (Vincent Price) to avenge an insult to a girl he loves, to the amazing set design that was the apotheosis of the Corman/Price/Poe look, that if I have to let this one movie stand in for all the wonderful films in this series of movies, I'm happy to do so. If you can only watch one Roger Corman movie this Halloween season, I recommend this one.
24. Perversion for Profit
This anti-porn short film shows a flood tide of filth engulfing the country in the form of newsstand obscenity. - IMDb
This is maybe a bit of a cheat. This isn't a narrative film or documentary, but I guess you could say it's a sort of outsider cinema. This instructional film was created in 1965 to warn America of the dangers of the secret filth hiding in the newsstands in the form of comics, men's, and women's magazines. This film is amazing in many ways. There's the slice-of-life sense of giving the modern-day viewer a picture of what life was like in the mid-1960s, and what people could see walking into the corner drug for a magazine, but mainly it's a totally un-self aware look at the hypocrisy of the morality police. The fact is that this movie is a half-hour of words talking about how terrible the "smut" problem is in America, while showing the "smut" in question in full detail. There are very tiny black bars over nipples or eyes, but it's clear to see that this film became, in a sense, exactly what it beheld. By damning pictures of nude women while showing pictures of nude women, today this seems like a way to get soft-core porn into the hands of moral crusaders who could only enjoy nude bodies if they felt they were also condemning them. This movie is a really interesting artifact that says a lot more about the people who made and watched it than it does about they people they were trying to denigrate. It's a fascinating time-capsule that conveys a very different message these days than it was originally meant to.
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Ok, I am a big fan of Game of Thrones so personally I am happy to write this homage to the fantasy series although I REALLY WISH GEORGE RR MARTIN WOULD FINISH THE NEXT BOOK!!!! Sorry about that lapse, let me get back on track. This January's cold snap in Mississippi and Louisiana really brought this topic into focus but I have been delayed in getting this article out the door.
I might as well start with a confession that I am a Global Warming doubter. I think Al Gore, Barack Obama and other politicians vested in making money off carbon taxing our way of life back into the stone age would call me a Global Warming denier. When Michael Mann, the "scientist" who developed the hockey stick model of global temperatures that Al Gore famously referred to in his "An Inconvenient Truth", suddenly says that the recent cold temperatures in the United States are signs of global warming – I am thinking the science is not "settled" and he is sounding a little desperate. I recommend you read Mark Stein's "Disgrace to Their Profession" for a great discussion on the Climategate e-mails and why Michael Mann's hockey stick graph is more appropriate for lining the bottom of your bird cage or rolling into a wick to light a fire in your fireplace this winter as you heat your home (while Mikey prattles on about his imagined greenhouse gas induced run-away temperature crisis).
But I hope you will indulge me for a few pages while I discuss why I think that we are more likely to see colder climates in the immediate future and more importantly what we as Preppers should do to prepare for this contingency.
I recently watched one of TheGreatCourses.com's lecture series "How the Earth Works" by Professor Michael E Wysession Ph.D. Dr. Wysession is a professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Lectures 38-41 are on factors that do affect climate such as variations in the earth's orbit (called the Milankovitch cycles) and plate tectonics over the long term and solar cycles, ocean current fluctuations, and volcanos in the short term. To be fair, he does mention that human activity can be tied to small changes in regional and global climates. He is a very engaging lecturer and this is interesting stuff. If we for a moment discount the impact of Al Gore's Gulfstream spewing carbon into the atmosphere as he jets from conference to conference, the eleven-year solar cycle has the largest impact on our climate. Along with volcanos, the solar cycle can be attributed to significant historical events such as the rise of the Roman Empire in a warm period 0-100 AD, the Medieval Maximum around 1000 AD which saw the rise of Western Europe out of the Dark Ages, followed by the Little Ice Age during the Maunder Minimum which devastated the population and led to a labor shortage and the development of capitalism and industrialization.
Since scientists started monitoring sun spot activity, we are at the end of Solar Cycle #24 which is expected to bottom out in 2019 or 2020. So if you look at John Casey's book "Dark Winter" – he is predicting that we are in for harsh winters and cool summers over the next fifteen to thirty years. While many scientists say that a 0.1% decrease in energy output will not significantly impact on Earth's climate, John Casey cites some studies that disagree. Pick up a copy and see if you think he makes his case.
1-orient the home to maximize receipt of solar energy (long axis of the house is east west and south face of the home has large windows to permit sun light in). The north face has smaller windows that permit natural light but minimize window surface area and have a lower U factor (or higher R factor) for better insulation. Windows on the south side should have a high solar gain (permit more heat to pass in).
2-design eaves to shade the southern side during the summer and not block sunlight into windows during the winter.
3-place heat sinks like stones where sunlight impacts on the walls and floor, the heat sink warms during the day and radiates heat throughout the evening.
4-maximize insulation in your home (add insulation to the attic, insure good seals on doors and windows to prevent drafts). You can add drapes and curtains to further insulate windows and walls, opening them when the sun falls on them to let heat in and closing them when the sun goes down.
5-take advantage of a ground heat exchanger to bring warmer air from underground (warmer than outside ambient air).
6-it might come down to bundling up even indoors and spooning (sharing body heat). I am not ashamed to say that I spooned with my Ranger buddies on patrol back in January 1984. That was a very cold year…. Hopefully your survival buddy will be someone you prefer spooning with but when you are cold – gimme a hug!
But these methods really require additional energy to keep your house warm (and prevent your pipes from freezing – which can cause pipes to burst making your home uninhabitable or simply deny you running water) especially when the sun in not shining.
You might find that you have to close off certain areas of the house as in not heat them at all and collapse down into a small area where you live, sleep and prepare food.
But you also need redundancy in your heating systems. As we saw recently, the Dallas area in the cold snap had the largest demand for power they had ever experienced and they were quite proud that they did not have to institute rolling blackouts – they were able to meet all the demand. But what if they weren't able to meet all the demand? If you rely solely on electricity for heat and the grid goes down (for any reason), you will need another source of heat.
I recommend you install a wood stove – preferable Ben Franklin or pot belly or other design that has a large surface area to radiate heat into the room. Remember we mentioned a heat sink earlier? You want to place stone or brick behind your stove and under it. These materials will absorb heat and radiate it back into the room as the fire dies down. You might even consider some bed warmers, place them under the fire during the evening and transfer them under your bed when you go to sleep – heat rises and you will love it.
You can improve that heat transfer by moving air around and over the stove and the stove pipes or exhaust manifold. We had a pot belly stove in the back room of our house (the one furthest from the furnace). Before we installed that stove it was frigid in that room, after installation it was tanks tops and flip flops, even in the dead of winter. That room was toasty with just a small fire going in it (but it was a small room also).
But we get to our last point that no matter what type of heating systems you have as your primary and alternate – they need to be sustainable for a longer period of time. In the case of a year without summer (yep, they had those in 1816 after Mount Tambora erupted and again in 1863 after Krakatoa erupted) how many cords of wood would you need to heat your home (assuming a fairly well insulated 2000 sqft home)? Lots of variables but plan on 3-5 cords for a normal winter and get more if you think you are in for a harsh winter. Certainly don't want to run out. Any excess you have will continue to "season" and can be used the next year as long as you keep it dry. And don't forget cutting and splitting wood is hard work. But all in all, that might help you stay warm doing the exercise.
Last comment – safety: any open flame heating device needs to be properly vented. You don't want a build up of carbon monoxide to make one cold night your last one on earth. And of course, there is the risk of fire, so insure your stove is properly installed to not ignite the rest of your home. Burning down your house puts you out in the cold for the rest of the winter.
So I hope while we wait for George RR Martin to finish Game of Thrones, at least you can stay toasty warm in the winter – whether it is a result of a solar minimum or just your regular North American variety.


This is a 280 sq. ft. luxury tiny house designed and built by Chris Heininge Construction.
It's 10′ x 20′ and 15′ high. Inside you'll find a living area, kitchen, full bathroom, and upstairs sleeping loft.
This tiny cabin is built with 2×4 framed construction and plywood. Please enjoy and re-share below.
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lovely. This is one I would live in. Stairs make all the difference. I like the interior finishes. great Job.
THE BEST UNDER 400 SQUARE FOOT HOME I HAVE SEEN!!!!!
I agree 100% Love this tinyhouse.
Love it! So well done and thought out.
It's amazing! However I don't see any wheels. Is it up to code?
I love this; are there any plans available?
I hear you Bill. That's a lot of money. Smaller homes are always going to cost more per sq. ft. because they still have all of those expensive core elements that all homes do. But if anything, just take away the free ideas within to Do-It-Yourself someday for a lot less.
Yes. There are a lot of ideas to take away from this posting. For instance: the cabinet doors would be easy to build and there are less expensive countertops that would serve very well and look good. I like the stairs with railing too. I could handle those, and I'm nearing 70. This looks like a rather simple DIY build compared to many I've seen.
BTW, I agree about the window over the tub.
Love the house! Great design and no ladder!
But I respectfully beg to differ with your comment, Alex, that smaller homes are "always going to cost more per square foot." My husband was in the construction business for 25 years and he just shakes his head whenever people make this argument. There is absolutely no reason that a tiny house should cost more per square foot than any other-sized house with similar fixtures and finishes, etc. People are charging more per square foot because they can. I would *never* pay someone to build my tiny house who tried to tell me it was going to cost more per square foot than the going rate for a larger house. Look at the average prices per square foot of comparable 2000- versus 3000-sf homes. They aren't different. (I know this because I did it for the upscale homes here in Portland.) The math of "tiny homes cost more" just doesn't work out, and I wish we could all take a role in stamping out this idea and stop paying exorbitant prices for tiny houses.
Hello, I have to respectfully agree with Alex on this. I too have been in the construction business for 25 years and my experience is that GENERALLY speaking a "Tiny house" will cost more per square foot. Here is the logic. All rooms must at a minimum be framed, sided drywalled and roofed so that cost won't change no matter how big. Now you add the cost of a kitchen and bathroom which is a higher percentage of a "tiny house" than a "standard house". The area of fixtures, countertops, cabinets etc. is a higher percentage of total area. Even if you want to say bigger houses have bigger kitchens the ratios still don't approach what you see in a "tiny house". Most people with a 2,000 sq. ft. house don't have 1,000 sq. ft. kitchen but in a "tiny house" it's not in common to have a kitchen half of the total square footage, and you know how expensives kitchens are! The ratios HAVE to be different! After all a typical "Tiny house" is 10 times smaller than a typical house. There are things that CAN'T get much smaller when building for human sized people. To keep the cost per sq. ft. the same you'd have to shower in a cereal bowl.
Bill, you miss a very salient point. This is a LUXURY Tiny house.
But, beats me why they have a stupid (to me) faux electric fireplace.
Lovely….this person understands form and function…..beautiful design.
This is absolutely perfect! Such planning. I have never seen such a layout. You didn't miss anything. All the little touches are there too. Oh I would love to live here!
Love this home especially the gas stove under the stairs!
Beyond well done. Incredible!! Love it!
Beautiful. Is the bathroom up or down?
The bathroom is on the lower floor…go to the photo with the staircase and the 'fireplace'…the next photo shows the left side of the kitchen and the door shown is the door to the bathroom…I presume since the window is the same round one.
I love this tiny house. Just when I think the perfect tiny house has been shown there is another one. This one is so clever and it looks from the photos that there is a lot of storage and every single inch that could be used for storage has. I love the roof idea, so ingenious for travel. Just love this entire concept. A wonderful side note is the loft stairs. This can help the elderly that have no issues with stairs and I love the storage beneath the stairs along with the fireplace. This is just so creative. Love, love, love it.
Is the bathroom on the ground or first floor?
The design is simple beautiful!
I would so live in this one. Love it!
Best ever! Love the asian influences and all the great storage and lighting choices. I agree that the window (and the tub for that matter) wouldn't be my choice but then its not my house! In the meantime someone put some amazing thought and craftsmanship into this and for that they deserve applause!
First comment ever, for the best tiny house I have seen. Love everything about it, only I would go for a heat pump.. Heat/air. This is amazing! Love the tub!
Thanks for sharing this info ! The recessed integration of the staircase into the loft area is simple, yet brilliant; thereby reducing the floor space used on the first level.
I agree with the person who said just when you think you've seen the best, we see another submission of something beautiful. Love it, love the simplicity. This is a work of art!
Out of every tiny home I have seen, this is the one I would really want. Main reasons: the idea of stairs to the loft and the full bathtub. Well done!!!
Wow! Nicest tiny house I've seen so far! Good job!
I so love the Asian flavor this home has… I could happily call this my last home.
I to love most of this little home. I agree I would have to have a washer & dryer ,a real fireplace, & a reg. size ref/freezer. ( then I wouldn't have to go out except for Church.
This is one of the better themed tiny houses I've seen. It has many of the same elements of other Japanese structures, but has managed to capture the warmth and charm of this ethnic style. Very nicely done.
I do have an issue with the placement of bathrooms so close to food preparation areas. That aside, this is a really nice interior and quite possibly the most attractive loft bedroom I've ever seen.
I've never seen such an interior this perfect. The wood stains and colors are so right. I like this home so much, it's hard to put it into words. Congratulations to the builder(s), and thanks for letting us all get to see it.
What a beautiful tiny home. I like everything about this. The only thing I would change is a shower instead of a tub but, even that is nice the way they have it set up. I also like the port windows. Would like to know more on costs of doing this. Nice job all the same.
I just love this, think we will see a lot more of these in the future.
This tiny house is my favorite.
How about putting the tub under the stairs?
If you click on the link it sold for $59900. That's pretty good. Has a Jacuzzi tub after all.
Very elegant and well designed, for sure. But it is in a park or development? I see another house next door. Do people now not mind living in glass houses with no window treatments? Eh, okay where I live – in the woods with no neighbors near, but in a development??? I'd have to have blinds/shades/curtains!
I showed it to an architect friend and said… this is my favorite house, but I need it as a THOW, with the usual modifications one wants to make! I now have a beautiful custom design, ready to build.
I like this one a lot ! Great job and looks really professionally built, and quality finishes. I would change one thing, and that is to simply push the wall out 10 ft where the built-in seating is and add a room that would be the living room. Would be simple to do, and would really add to the space Then I would add a deck all around, and really use the outside space. At that point, you could consider French doors leading outside too. But this is really nice, especially the stairs !
In this case, they added on a green house and patio using an additional trailer. In my case, I think I'd put my office there!
I am glad you showcased this again Alex. This is my all time favourite, the Salsa box being second.


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Quantum Internet (Qi), one of the last surviving pure-play application service providers in Australia, has been placed in voluntary administration and is likely to have its assets sold off.
Qi, like so many of its ASP peers, was a business built on an IT vision that never became a reality. There was a time in the not-too-distant past where any sceptics of the ASP model were shouted down. The model's evangelists were certain that a one-to-many approach was not only technically and economically feasible, but also in demand among Australia's legions of small businesses.
Qi had been the spending habit of ASX-listed investment group Sun Capital for many years. The demise of Qi has hit the investment company hard -- Sun Capital's share price has dropped significantly in the last six months, from 12 cents a share to its current trading price of 5 cents.
Wayne Kernigan, Sun Capital's chief financial officer, said most of the $8 million that the company reported as an accumulated loss at the end of the last financial year was attributed to providing for its investments in IT companies such as Qi. "We spent a lot of time and effort getting them there," he said.
As late as November last year, the investment group was still placing its bets with the ASP model, contributing an additional $1.85 million into Qi, confident of its future during one of the IT industry's darkest periods. This confidence may have been due to the fact that the man who was CEO of Qi until very recently, Stephen Moss, was also a director of Sun Capital.
Sun Capital is a secured creditor of Qi and claims it is owed $850,000, which it expects to be recoverable should all or part of the business be sold by the administrator.
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Qi was a founding member of the local branch of the ASP Industry Consortium - an industry organisation that promoted the virtues of the ASP model to the wider community. The two founders of the Australian branch, Qi's Colin Lim and Peakhour's Michael Ellies were once the most vocal evangelists for the ASP model in Australia, but have both resigned their posts in the last 12 months. Lim now works for hosting provider Hostworks and Ellies for a marketing/advertising firm.
Peakhour got out of providing ASP services some time ago, choosing to wholesale its technology to large businesses instead.
A look at the other members of the sunken consortium paints a clear picture of what happened to the ASP industry in the last 12-18 months. Many players, such as Solution 6 and Peakhour, divested their direct ASP services altogether. Pureplay ASPs such as Qi and Cavillon went out of business. Hostworks acquired Interpath. Tequinox was brought back into the Mincom fold and like the ASP business at Unisys, was re-branded as a "managed services" division.
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It appears that there really isn't a magical "floating meditation" technique.
Well, we just posted a video of a group of women that we thought were performing a "floating meditation" technique, but unfortunately it doesn't look like it's true.
All of our dreams of reaching the stage at which we would be able to reach this state of meditation are crushed!
Just kidding we knew it had to be some sort of a trick, but have always wondered how it's done. It appears there's a little case of hide and seek going on.
This video shows how this trick is pulled off and unfortunately there is no real "floating meditation" technique :(.


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The adverts will run on over 80 satellite channels including Sky, Sky Movies, Sky Sports, UK Gold and ITV2, reaching an audience of around 7 million people.
The fast paced advert features live footage from a range of events around Scotland including the Dundee Flower and Food Festival, the British Superbike Championships and the Perth Festival of the Arts.
Alan Graham, VisitScotland Fife Area Director, said: "Tourism is one of the most competitive markets in the world, with Scotland competing for visitors with over 200 other countries.
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Cuttlefish can delay gratification alongside humans, chimps, and some birds (so far)
Teach me your secrets, cuttlefish.
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A new paper reports on the first documented instance of a non-social animal showing self-control in the marshmallow test. They also join humans, chimps, parrots, and crows as the only known species capable of delaying gratification.
Image credits David Sim.
The Stanford marshmallow test is an experiment that checks for an individual's ability to delay gratification. It's usually performed with young children and involves, surprisingly, a marshmallow (or another type of sweet temptation). The child is told to not eat the treat before the researcher has' to leave for a short period. If the child can resist the sugary bait by the time the scientist is back, it's safe to assume that they have ample capacity for self-control and delay gratification.
Both of those traits are relatively reliable indicators of success later in life, as we need self-control to resist distractions and the ability to delay gratification so we can put the work in first. But it also seems to be an indicator of intelligence, since you need some cognitive capacity to understand that giving up some food now is worth a greater reward later on. And now, a new species has passed the test.
The cuttlefish and the marshmallow
"We used an adapted version of the Stanford marshmallow test, where children were given a choice of taking an immediate reward (1 marshmallow) or waiting to earn a delayed but better reward (2 marshmallows)," says lead author Alexandra Schnell of University of Cambridge, UK.
"Cuttlefish in the present study were all able to wait for the better reward and tolerated delays for up to 50-130 seconds, which is comparable to what we see in large-brained vertebrates such as chimpanzees, crows, and parrots."
The cuttlefish in this study showed that they can wait for a better meal even if it means giving up one that's right in front of them. This is the first time this link between self-control and intelligence has been underscored in a species other than humans and chimpanzees. The study was carried out at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Cuttlefish were trained to associate a particular visual cue with a reward, in the form of food. These cues were markings placed on chambers with different foods inside. One marking, for example, meant that the door would open the moment food was placed inside. Another, that there would be a delay before the door would open. One cue was meant to give them more trouble: it meant that even if food was placed in the chamber, and the door opened, there would be an extra wall of plastic preventing them from reaching the reward.
At first, the cuttlefish would attack the rewards immediately. Over time, however, they started learning the rules of each symbol — they would stop approaching the walled-off chambers entirely, for example.
After this, the experiment was restarted but with an extra condition. The researchers would place the animal's favorite reward in the delay chamber, and a second-best option in the immediately-opening chamber. The control measure put the favorite reward in the "immediate" chamber, but it was also walled-off and marked as such.
"We wanted to see if they were able to exert self-control in a flexible manner depending on the context," said Dr Schnell."They could see their preferred food in the unobtainable chamber, but they could never get to it – so they needed to make a decision whether to attempt to, or just take the immediate option."
They typically waited for the preferred prey if given the option, the team notes, being able to maintain delays of up to 130 seconds in some cases.
As to why cuttlefish have developed this ability is still relatively unclear. For us humans, a very social species, the ability to delay gratification is probably tied to our need to prevent conflict and strengthen bonds inside the group. Waiting for your partner or children to eat first, before you do as well is a good example of how such behavior can benefit us socially and the species as a whole. It could also be tied to our history as tool-makers and hunters (we had to wait for the tools to be ready and the animals to show up before we ate). Birds likely developed it for similar reasons.
Cuttlefish, however, do not share these traits. They're smart but not very social, and they don't build tools (as far as we know). The authors believe that their ability to delay gratification is tied to their ability — and need — to use camouflage. Motion is very easy to spot, so an impatient cuttlefish risks getting chewed on, no matter how good their camouflage is.
"Cuttlefish spend most of their time camouflaging, sitting and waiting, punctuated by brief periods of foraging," Schnell says. "They break camouflage when they forage, so they are exposed to every predator in the ocean that wants to eat them."
"We speculate that delayed gratification may have evolved as a byproduct of this, so the cuttlefish can optimize foraging by waiting to choose better quality food."
The findings are exciting in themselves, but they're especially exciting since the cuttlefish is the first animal that we know can delay gratification outside of the primate and bird families. The authors explain this is a great example of convergent evolution, where completely unrelated lineages develop the same trait or behavior.
The paper "Cuttlefish exert self-control in a delay of gratification task" has been published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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My favorite is the blue one with the leaves.
Another great collection. I like the little door and the arched door in the upper right the most. I also like the one with the dog (who appears to be admiring the door).
I don't seem to see that on my tablet. I'll check again on my laptop.
Oh, thanks for telling me. It's in the captions. But I can't see why I wouldn't write it out separately as well.
I do like that !
Thanks, joey 🙂 I cannot not be shooting them.
My fav is the door with the white doggie on the door and the cat sleeping on the mat!, great captures!
Thanks, Sylvia, I like this one very much too.
I don't tell you enough how much solace I get from your Thursday Doors. So, I wanted to tell you now. Besides being someone with a "door thing," there is a continuity of life that your Thursday Doors posts give me in a world that has gone a bit erratic for me of late. So, thank you for being my "It's Thursday. You've made it another week." voice. Blessings.
🙂 This is really good to hear, Robin. And we must thank Norm for this challenge. Every Thursday my ear rings and I just have to deliver. I'm really glad to provide a structure for you!
Another wonderful collection of doors, and I love the accompanying verse. Well done.
Quite a creative post, well done.
This brings me great memories of my trips to Slovenia and Croatia. Love this places! Great pictures!
Oh, I have a lot of Slovenia (and some Croatia) on here, since I'm Slovenian. Welcome aboard!
Good! It seems that the flags are working in this site! Have a nice weekend Manja!


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In addition to the Moai, this square has other sights: wonderful views of the sunset, near the city centre, near Nizza Restaurant and near the school. This is a fully renovated moai with a group of smaller moai and a group of whites. The most interesting thing here is the harbour area, where you can see how they took ships in and out of the sea without the island's bother.
Though this site has only six moai, the visitors can see the pristine marina, a sculpture with dead eye and obsidiana and one with a small rock knot. Mulloy, the scholar who found and renovated many of the sculptures on Easter Island, is also near by. Peacefully and quietly, near the small local history gallery, we went there several visits, as it was near our place of residence.
Here are three hoo with Moai upright. It' very near the town ('20 minutes walk') and you can watch the sunset behind the statue.
You have to see the number 1 on Easter Island. The" birthplace" of the Moai. The largest moai (more than 20 meters) stays where it was made. Although the other sculptures were quite impressing, they reminded me of most of the Indiana Jones films, the reasons why I came to South America to realize my child-wonder.
Jorge, our leader for that particular event, also gave some important facts about the place, such as that most of the giant sculptures were moving without the help of bicycles, large beasts, or overhead travelling equipment. A very beautiful place to get to know an interesting and mystic civilization. It was a very good place to get near the Moai and the leaders were very good.
Be cautious when visiting this place, because with the National Park entrance paying on your arrivals it is only once permitted to enter this place. The Moai and Motherland! Many moai, sitting, standing, lying..... and breathtaking view of the inner pond, the distant ocean, the landscape!


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Zjaneta Ilieva (bulgariska: Жанета Тошева Илиева), född den 3 oktober 1984 i Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgarien, är en bulgarisk gymnast.

Hon tog OS-brons i rytmisk gymnastik för trupper i samband med de olympiska gymnastiktävlingarna 2004 i Aten.

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