Picture Of The Day

Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez, better known as Fray Tormenta, priest who wrestled to feed orphaned children. Inspiration for Nacho Libre movie.

Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez (May 29, 1945) is a Mexican priest who supported an orphanage for 23 years as a lucha libre wrestler.

While performing, he wore a red and yellow mask and used the ring name Fray Tormenta. He made only sporadic in-ring appearances in the 2000s before retiring completely from wrestling in July 2011, but still wears his mask even in his duties as a priest.

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Homeless man builds wooden house ‘on wheels’ on Hollywood Boulevard

On Wednesday, FOX 11 spoke with “Q,” the man who built the home. FOX 11 asked for an inside tour but Q politely declined, saying he didn’t have a chance to clean up.

Q explained he previously lived in a tent but grew frustrated with the city’s crews asking him to clear the area and take down the tent every two weeks.

“I had an idea to build something on wheels so that we wouldn’t have to,” Q said.

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When “The Blair Witch Project” was released in 1999, many thought it was much more than a horror movie. In the first example of viral marketing for a movie, the film’s producers sold their fake documentary as a real one — complete with a website that featured faux police and news reports about the story’s missing victims. The movie’s IMDB page even listed its three actors as missing or presumed dead.

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Building in Detroit being built from the top down, from a company called LIFTbuild

The main theoretical advantages are efficiency, safety and accessibility. It’s much easier, more efficient and arguably safer to build each module on the ground, then raise it into place versus having your iron workers, framers, etc. working at height.