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Texas Oil Boom Gives Boost to RV Park Operators
January 16, 2012 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Texas Oil Boom Gives Boost to RV Park Operators
Camping experience comes in handy these days for Dave and Elaine Matney.
Dave, a senior engineer with Petrohawk Energy Corp., and his wife have lived in the Lazy Longhorn RV Park in Victoria, Texas, since June. "We're experienced campers, so this is basically an expansion of that," said Dave.
According to a report by the Victoria Advocate, the Matneys are among those drawn to the area by the oil and gas activity who have set up residence in RV parks. New RV parks have popped up in and around Victoria, dotting the landscape with residential accommodations for those working the Eagle Ford Shale.
From larger commercial enterprises to landowners with a couple of spare acres, RV parks are the domicile of choice for thousands of new-to-the-area residents.
In Yorktown, at least four privately owned RV parks have opened outside the city limits, including two owned by local businessman Pete Dlugosch.
Jim Reidel, owner of the 70-space Paradise Key RV Park on state Highway 72 in Cuero, said opening his park about eight months ago was simply a matter of being observant.
"I just saw what was happening between Karnes City and Cuero – the need for more places to accommodate these workers – and decided to put something in," he said. "Cuero is very accommodating, very pro-business."
Reidel said nearly all of his tenants are oil and gas industry workers, with about 80% pipeliners.
Cuero city manager Raymie Zella said the growth is proving beneficial for the city. Prior to the oil and gas boon, Cuero had two RV parks with about 50 spaces between them, Zella said.
"There have been three new ones and one of the original has added on, so there are approximately 300 new spaces between those," said the city manager. "One just outside the city limits has about 25 spaces and there is another one under construction with 60 something spaces. Nearly 400 RV spaces have been added or are under construction."
In 2011, the Cuero City Council passed an RV park ordinance, regulating the size of a park, trailer size and parking among other requirements. Zella said the growth of RV parks has increased the city's utility revenues.
"We treat the RV park as one commercial customer," he said. "They pay us for all of the electric, water and wastewater as any commercial customer in Cuero would."
In Victoria, the city-owned RV park at Riverside Park, brought in more than $21,000 in revenue during the 2010-11 budget year, an increase of more than $7,000 from the previous year, according to figures provided by the Parks and Recreation Department. The 18-space park has already brought in more than $9,000 since Oct. 1.
At the Dec. 20 city council meeting, Councilman Joe Truman hinted at expanding the park observing, "there appears to be room to do more."

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It is also much less expensive than the F-35 while still having some stealth capabilities. I wish they didn't pick the F-35 at this point; it caused enough problems for the US during development. I'm no expert on the issue so I talked to my father about it since he worked on the FX program before Korea adopted the F-15. My dad isn't particularly sold on the whole idea of stealth aircraft in the first place and he seemed to be leaning torwards the Eurofighter. My dad was pushing for the Eurofighter back then and I remember him being pissed at the US for pressuring the ROK government into adopting the F-15, although he seems to have changed his stance a bit since then. I'm concerned the US might do the same again with the F-35 especially to reduce production costs. This article talks more about that. http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/544679.html My dad didn't seem too worried about that this time although apparently Lockheed Martin contacted him and some people he works with to publish a study on why the F-35 is the best pick for the ROK AF. I'm kind of skeptical of Lockheed Martin not allowing ROK pilots to fly the aircraft but still pushing us to buy it. Although I do love the idea of being able to hit anywhere in North Korea without them seeing it coming (and I'm sure the'll raise a fit about our stealth capabilities), I'm not convinced the F-35 will be cost-effective enough. Back to top SteelrailsJoined: 12 Mar 2009Location: Earth, Solar System Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:27 pm Post subject: Jeez...last I heard the U.S. was trying to sell ROK on F-15SE instead of F-35s because they were worried about technology theft and such. Now this? That kinda makes me nervous about it being a bloated piece of junk. A modern B-36. The articles didn't mention the other competitors. Seems like the F-35 and F-15SE are in it...what's the third? Eurofighter? No Rafale or Gripen? Back to top fermentationJoined: 22 Jun 2009 Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:51 pm Post subject: The article mentions the Eurofighter. It's those three, Eurofigher, F-35, and the Silent Eagle. I am not sold on the idea of the F-35 at all. Not for the US and especially for Korea with our tiny defense budget. Back to top young_clintonJoined: 09 Sep 2009 Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 5:02 pm Post subject: The technology is not likely to remain that new for long anyway. More money from sales means more money for further designs and even better planes. Korea is staunch American ally, I say sell them the F-35's. It also puts a lot of pressure on China. The US wants and needs money and I can't think of a better country to sell the planes to. 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I'll keep this plain and simple.
I don't like Matt Holliday.
I'll keep this plain and simple.
I don't like Matt Holliday.
Baseball is a game of giving 100 percent effort at every moment of the game between the first pitch and the final out. You don't have to be perfect, you don't have to be the most amazing player in the world. If you show that you're trying, show that you're battling to play and help your team win, you're an appreciated ballplayer.
Matt Holliday isn't one of those players. He's good when he wants to be and just a Plain Jane in Cardinals lineup the rest of the time. He displays no desire to play baseball. From my vantage point he looks like some guy who's trying to find the quickest way to have his three-hour, nine-inning work day done as quickly as possible. That's not a model employee, that's certainly not a baseball hero; that's a waste of time and money.
He doesn't hustle in the outfield anymore. He won't do whatever it takes to quickly retrieve a ball and get it in to hold the runners. He won't even dive and turn a simple base hit into an out.
At the plate, Holliday swings at bad pitches, doesn't use power when he should (even though he's a power hitter) and doesn't make any kind of adjustment in his at-bats to pull off a base hit. He simply pokes the bat at the ball and if it's a fat pitch and he knows he can launch it he will — even though he has the experience, power and know-how to lead the league in home runs and extra base hits he seems to just not care.
Most ballplayers would be mad at themselves if they have a bad plate performance or don't play a ball right in left field, but Holliday just treats it like another day at the office, like it's no big deal.
Tom Pagnozzi was the same way. He could've been one of the best catchers in baseball, certainly an impact hitter when he wanted to be, but he only gave effort when he felt like it.
I've said it before and I've said it again, ever since Matt Holliday got his seven-year, $120 million contract he has been nothing more than just another face on the team. But I suppose when you make that much money and get paid either way, you don't have to put too much effort into your job; even though there are hard working people who make less in a year than he makes in a month coming out and spending money at Busch Stadium to see him play.
It's pitiful. If you're in the lineup, you're good to go and are expected to play like a veteran with 100 percent effort every time. Complaints about something hurting don't fly. If something's hurting you need to sit out until you're healed. Those hard working people, some of whom are lucky to be earning a salary just below $30,000 annually (which is less than a public school teacher), would get in trouble with their jobs, or worse lose them, if they didn't give any effort or work to their full potential. Why is Matt Holliday different? Because he plays professional baseball?
I don't need hear anything about numbers either. He puts those numbers up to look good and then just slacks off — thus proving my point that Holliday is good when he wants to be.
Word is that Matt Holliday chose No. 7 because No. 5 was taken by Pujols and because Mickey Mantle was No. 7 and is also from Oklahoma. Holliday is from Stillwater, while Mantle is from Commerce.
I got news for you Matt, it's highly documented that Mickey Mantle played hard everyday because there was a high possibility that someone in the ballpark (home or road) was there seeing him for the first time.
What's your excuse?
You're certainly not playing for the fans, you're just there to do a half-donkey job in the game most of us can only dream of playing.
Bring on Adron Chambers and put him in the outfield. He's got the speed, shows the effort and works hard.


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RonK wrote:queequeg wrote:in terms of percentages, I get around 60% of pedal who either can't hear the bell due to earphones or traffic noise, or they simply choose to ignore it. on more than one occasion I have been dinging the bell on approach until I am adjacent to the pedestrian and they still haven't heard me, then as I crawl past at 6km/h they jump 6 ft in the air from fright.
You need to take into account that everyone's hearing degrades with age and the higher frequencies (such as a bicycle bell makes) are simply inaudible to many.
Perhaps the earphones have damaged all the teenagers hearing, as that is the age group I have most trouble with. The older folks I rarely have issues with, just the occasional daydreamer.


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Kovalchuk 'happy I'm back' with Devilsby Dan Rosen
NEWARK, N.J. -- Ilya Kovalchuk officially and finally ended the mini-drama about his return to North America on Wednesday when he stepped back on the ice with the New Jersey Devils.
"The NHL is the best league in the world and I'm excited," Kovalchuk said.
Kovalchuk, who spent the lockout playing in his native Russia for SKA St. Petersburg, missed the first three days of NHL training camp in order to play in the KHL All-Star Game on Sunday and travel back to New Jersey with his family.
Initially, there were reports that despite an agreement to honor contracts between the NHL and the KHL, Kovalchuk was thinking about staying in the KHL for the duration of the season. Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello squashed those rumors Sunday when he gave the details of Kovalchuk's return to New Jersey.
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Kovalchuk had 42 points in 36 games as the captain for St. Petersburg. He also was named a captain for the KHL's West Division All-Star Team, and said he felt he owed it to the fans to stay in Russia and play in that game Sunday, the day NHL training camps opened.
After speaking with Kovalchuk on several occasions, Lamoriello said he understood Kovalchuk's desire to stay in Russia to play in the All-Star Game and, though he couldn't grant him official permission due to potential injury, he was OK with it.
"He's one of the national heroes right now in hockey over there, they have an All-Star Game, they appoint him captain in the division and fans are expecting that," Lamoriello said. "So, yes, sympathetic would be a good word, but understanding more than sympathetic. We spoke on several occasions and it was important to him. End of case. It's no issue here and we go forward. After today hopefully there are no more questions."
Kovalchuk, who said he spoke "straight" with Lamoriello about his desire to play in the All-Star Game, appreciated the fact the Devils did not attempt to stop him from playing, which was his way of thanking the Russian fans for the way they treated him during the lockout.
"The president of the [KHL], he asked us to play. We thought that would be important to the fans," Kovalchuk said. "They already bought the tickets to see us play there. We just decided to stay and it's good that Lou and the ownership, they understand me and they accept it. I really appreciate it."
With Kovalchuk back, the Devils are almost whole heading into their season opener Saturday against the New York Islanders at Nassau Coliseum.
Adam Henrique is still out, rehabbing his surgically repaired thumb. Lamoriello said Henrique was given the clearance to start skating Wednesday but is still a couple of weeks away from playing.
On the other hand, Kovalchuk has been playing regularly for the past three months, so he returned to New Jersey in game shape and, despite his jet lag due to the nine-hour time difference between New Jersey and St. Petersburg, was at times a step ahead of the other players during the scrimmage Wednesday.
He had a goal and an assist in a 4-1 victory.
"He looked good. That's what we expected," goalie Martin Brodeur said. "With him playing overseas for that many games, it's probably like a walk in the park for him to play, especially when we played against an American Hockey League team too. But he looked good. He looked like he was really happy to be here. That's all good for us."


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BRISTOL, Tenn. – It may not always be pretty, but coaches can't complain when they win conference matches. The King University women's volleyball got off to a slow start on Friday night, but got a spark from Lauren Willoughby off the bench to come back and defeat Barton College 3-1 at the Student Center Complex.
King (28-4, 16-1 CC) fell behind early in the first set, and were never able to recover as Barton took the frame 25-19 to take a lead in the match. The Bulldogs (13-13, 9-8 CC) scored the first two points of the second set as well, but Maribeth Kern and Summer Kremer sparked the Tornado offense with back-to-back kills. Kern followed with an ace to give King a slim 3-2 advantage. King then scored seven of the next nine points to take a 10-4 lead a force a Bulldog timeout.
However, Baron came back and took a 14-13 lead before Willoughby ignited the offense with her first kill of the match. With the score knotted at 16, Olivia Underwood gave King the lead for good with one of her four kills in the match to start a 7-1 run that was capped by a pair of Blair Fields service aces. Willoughby gave King a shot at match point before Jordan Baty hammered home a thunderous kill that brought the Student Center crowd to their feet as King evened the match with the 25-19 win.
The offense continued to roll behind Willoughby in the third frame as she registered six kills in the set. Kelsey Griffitts scored the first point of the set with one of her nine kills in the match, and Grace Underwood gave King a 9-4 lead with a service ace. The score was again tied late in the set, this time at 15 when the Tornado gained separation. Willoughby and Baty teamed up for consecutive kills, giving King an 18-15 lead, and forcing a Barton timeout. Fields served up a pair of aces after the break to cap the 5-0 spurt as King took the frame 25-18.
The King offense only improved in the fourth set as they hit a match-best .414 in the final set. The Tornado jumped out to an early 7-3 lead as Olivia Underwood forced a Barton timeout with a kill. Willoughby sparked a 5-1 run with another kill before Griffitts, Olivia Underwood and Kremer all hammered home consecutive kills to force Barton's second timeout of the set trailing 17-9. Kremer capped the run with a kill out of the break as the Tornado cruised to the 25-14 set win to take the match 3-1.
Kremer led King with 15 kills, including six in the decisive set. Both Griffitts and Willoughby chipped in with nine kills apiece while Baty accounted for five kills off the bench. Olivia Underwood dished out a match-high 37 assists while Payton Tipton led King with 17 digs. Casey Williams also reached double figures in digs with 10.
With the win, King moves to 16-1 in Conference Carolinas play with one match left. The Tornado take on Mount Olive College at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday in Student Center Complex with a chance to clinch a share of their first conference title since 2008, and first since joining Conference Carolinas. The Tornado close the regular season with a match against Virginia Intermont College at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday in the Student Center Complex.


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Liverpool striker Luis Suarez is reportedly keen to link up with fellow Uruguayan Diego Lugano, who plays for French league leaders Paris St Germain.
Suarez, who has scored six goals in 21 Barclays Premier League appearances for the Reds this season, is reported by French sports website 10 Sport as telling the Canal Football Club television programme on Canal Plus that he "could come" to PSG.
Suarez is reported to have said: "I would love to play at the same club as him (Lugano). Yes, I could come to Paris, like lots of other clubs. There are lots of big clubs with such a reputation who want to build a strong team and Paris are one of these teams who buy to strengthen their side."
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Leonard S. Spector is deputy director of the Institute of International Studies' James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, and leads the Center's Washington D.C. office. Mr. Spector joined CNS from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), where he served as an assistant deputy administrator for arms control and nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration.
His principal responsibilities at DOE included development and implementation of DOE arms control and nonproliferation policy with respect to international treaties; US domestic and multilateral export controls; inspection and technical cooperation activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency; civilian nuclear activities in the US and abroad; initiatives in regions of proliferation concern, including the canning of plutonium-spent nuclear fuel in North Korea and Kazakhstan; and transparency provisions of bilateral agreements with Russia covering the purchase of weapons-grade uranium and the cessation of plutonium production. Additionally, he managed the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention and the Nuclear Cities Initiative programs.
Prior to his tenure at DOE, he served as Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Director of its Nuclear Non-Proliferation Project. He also established the Program on Post-Soviet Nuclear Affairs at Carnegie's Moscow Center. Before joining the Carnegie Endowment, Mr. Spector served as chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Energy and Proliferation Subcommittee, where he assisted in drafting the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act and the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. He began his career in nuclear nonproliferation as a special counsel at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Mr. Spector has served on senior advisory panels at the Sandia National Laboratories, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the National Research Council of the American Academy of Sciences. He has also served as secretary and member of the Board of Trustees of the Henry L. Stimson Center, and is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Washington, D.C. Bar.
Mr. Spector is the author or co-author of six books and numerous articles on nonproliferation and comments frequently on this subject in the media. His current research focuses on strategies to challenge proliferant states' continued possession and use of illicitly procured dual-use nuclear goods and implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action limiting Iran's nuclear program, with particular attention to financial sanctions.
Mr. Spector's recent work includes Combating Nuclear Commodity Smuggling: A System of Systems (Monterey, CA, and Washington, D.C.: James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, 2014), co-authored with Egle Murauskaite, and, with co-editors Matthew Bunn, Martin Malin, and William Potter, Countering Black Market Nuclear Technology Networks (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
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Since I'm busy elsewhere during MoFo month, I asked some special friends to help out over here. I like this next enthusiastic kitty so much I wear a pin with his likeness on it. If you went to Vida Vegan Con, you know what I mean!
Guest Post: Yummers
Friend: Amey, Vegan Eats & Treats!
Listen up now, I've got some important advice for any of you kitties out there who might be interested in getting in on the People Food action.
It's Yummers Potatoes here. You might remember me from Amey's blog. Today, I'd like to talk about a subject that's very dear to me, People Food. People Food is pretty good stuff… I've had the honor of eating such delicacies as tortilla chips, ice cream, and crackers. But most of all, I love the veggies. Back in the day I was into raisins and mango, but once I discovered veggies, there was just no going back. My favorites are the green veggies, like kale and spinach, broccoli and asparagus, and green beans, but I also really love corn, which is not green.
Here's how you can get involved in eating People Food: My tactic was to start off by being very standoffish. When Amey and Matt first adopted me, I was sure to keep my distance. Anytime they tried to pet me, I would scamper off. When we all sat down on the sofa, I would sit three or four feet away. I called this "long distance snuggling." Soon enough, they were becoming increasingly desperate for snuggles, and they started to offer me tasty little bits of People Food to see if they could draw me in closer. Don't give in too quickly, friends! Take the morsel and run off again.
Once you have established a pattern of people giving you People Food, you need to learn how to ask for it more aggressively. As soon as you smell the broccoli cooking on the stove top, run into the kitchen and start meowing like crazy. This will send the message that you are interested. When they sit down to eat, jump up on their chair, or on the sofa next to them and look super cute. It might be a good idea to meow some more as well. If you are still not getting any broccoli handouts, you will need to be more proactive. As soon as they lift their fork from the plate, stick out your little paw and try to knock the broccoli off the fork! If it falls to the ground it will be all yours!
Best of all, those annoying dogs aren't allowed to have people food, so I get to enjoy my asparagus and gloat over it while those poor saps stand by and watch. Mwahahahaha!
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Orphanage, The (UK - BD)
Scott McKenzie checks out this scary movie presented by Guillermo del Toro
The Orphanage tells the story of Laura, who buys her childhood orphanage and moves in with her husband Carlos and son Simón with the intention of opening a home for handicapped children. Simón tells Laura that he has invisible friends, which she assumes are products of his imagination, but he vanishes and six months later she starts to suspect that the house may be home to more than just her family. It becomes clear to her that events from her childhood at the orphanage are having an effect on her life in the house and she hopes the clues she finds will lead her to her son.
Opening with an inventive credits sequence, what I noticed early on was that The Orphanage is very carefully constructed. This is partly down to the screenplay, where valuable pieces of information are given to us about Laura's past and Simón's disappearance, but also due to the way the film was edited and (if you watch the included deleted scenes) what was left out. We're given just enough information to move us from one scene to another but the way forward is never signposted and for once I think the number people who can predict the twist of what happened to Simón will be few and far between.
This method of storytelling is most evident in the treasure hunt scenes, where Laura and Simón (and then Laura on her own) follow clues around the house that take them from room to room towards a goal that makes them suspect all is not right in the orphanage. I thought this worked incredibly well to keep the viewer engaged because I felt like I couldn't take my eyes off the screen for a second in case we get another vital clue. We're made to feel like we're piecing the clues together along with Laura and it's testament to the writer that I only discovered certain things when the characters on screen did, rather than shouting at the screen when everyone can't get a grip of something blindingly obvious, as is the case with many lower quality movies of this type.
At its core The Orphanage is a story about a mother coping with the loss of her son, but the melodramatic aspects of the plot don't overshadow the horror elements. There are some really good scares and some slightly gory moments, which are more shocking due to the fact that the way these scenes were filmed makes you think you're not going to see everything. The use of creepy noises around the house is particularly unsettling and, as I'll discuss more in the audio section further down the page, the detail in the sound editing is very impressive.
The character of Laura is central to the plot and Belén Rueda's performance is very convincing, as she treads a fine line between grieving mother and scream queen. Roger Princep was a good find by the casting director as the young Simón, whose character ranges from innocent child to a possible bridge between this world and the next. Simón's father Carlos takes a back seat so there is less for Fernando Cayo to work with in this role, although this was undoubtedly the intention since the focus is firmly on Laura throughout the film.
It's easy to make comparisons between The Orphanage and other great scary movies like The Shining and The Others, but I also noticed elements of Alien. A sequence of shots of empty rooms around the house early on to show that the orphanage is empty just before a large number of people arrive reminded me of the sequence in Alien on board the Nostromo just before everyone wakes up. This is also used towards the end of The Orphanage to great dramatic effect. With his name above the title on the posters, Guillermo del Toro's presence looms large over this film, but I have to say I'm looking forward to seeing more from director Juan Anonio Bayona, who has constructed an intelligent, scary and dramatic movie in The Orphanage that will keep you thinking about it long after the credits have rolled.
The Orphanage is presented in 1080p at a ratio of 2.35:1 and this visually rewarding movie is not let down by the video quality on offer here. Darkness is very important to drawing the viewer into the movie and thankfully I failed to pick out grain or compression artefacts in the dimly lit scenes, where I may have expected to find them. The purposely muted colours are well represented and black is black, not dark grey. The detail in the picture wasn't apparent until the editor cuts to wide external shots, which is where I have found high definition releases have impressed me most since I have been reviewing the formats.
The soundtrack plays a major part in setting the mood and providing the scares in The Orphanage and I'm pleased to report that the transfer does the audio justice. This disc comes with two tracks—Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, which I sampled for this review. The detail in the sound edit is impressive and the surround channels are given a good workout by the creepy noises around the house. The loud bangs that occur at key moments are powerful enough to give anyone sitting by a rear speaker a good fright. Silence is important to building the tension and I could not detect any interference on the track to take the viewer out of the experience. Fernando Velazquez's score adds a lot to the movie, adapting the tone to match the changing mood in certain scenes. Overall, the quality of the track is incredibly difficult to fault and this is definitely a movie that uses its soundtrack to immerse the viewer in its universe.
The first extra feature in this decent selection is a forty-minute Q&A session with the director, hosted by the Elvis-coiffed Mark Kermode. Bayona talks about his desire to make a film that delivers on what it promises, given that he has tired of the state of movies where comedies don't make him laugh and horror movies don't scare him. There are nine deleted scenes that come with director's commentary, including an alternative opening and ending. Bayona is honest about the reasons for their exclusion and it makes this a set of deleted scenes that are actually worth watching.
The featurettes all focus on the production, each from a different perspective. 'Making of' is the longest of the bunch at twelve minutes and reveals a lot about the screenplay. Guillermo Del Toro is on hand to say that it was the best genre screenplay he had read in a long time and the cast all discuss their characters. 'The Set' looks at the house that provides the base for most of the action and reveals that the ceilings were computer generated. 'The Sound' features interviews with the sound designers and they also provide commentary over the séance scene.
There is a longer interview with del Toro and Bayona, where they discuss the similarities between The Orphanage and Pan's Labyrinth and the dramatic need to digitally change the skies from sunny to cloudy. 'Lighting the Darkness' includes more interviews with Bayona, where he discusses the mix of horror and melodrama and his desire to make a film that is both shocking and moving. 'Casting' focuses on exactly what you think and shows us the audition that got Roger Princep the role of Simón. 'Shooting the Credits' gives us behind the scenes footage of the work that was done with a group of children to create the clever opening title sequence.
Next up is a set of comparison of storyboards with three key scenes—the séance, the treasure hunt and the appearance of Tomas. 'Animatics' isn't the 3D sequences you might be expecting, but a sequence of storyboards edited together, along with commentary from Bayona again who tells us how useful they were in planning these scenes. Finally we get the full length versions of the projector reels that make an appearance in the movie and three different trailers for The Orphanage.
We're only just half way through the year, but The Orphanage is right up there as one of the best movies I have seen in 2008 and I'm confident it will still be up there by December. The movie looks and sounds very good on this release and while the DVD release will almost certainly be of a relatively similar standard, this is definitely a disc that could be used to show off the presentation potential of Blu-ray. Unfortunately there aren't any BD-exclusive extra features, but what is here adds a lot of value to the viewing experience so this package as a whole gets a big 'thumbs up' from me.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page.
Review by Scott McKenzie
Vin Member Join Date: June 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 11
Astonishing film, this.
Utterly terrifying in places, to boot.
Utterly terrifying in places, to boot.
Fabricio De Zuasnabar Member Join Date: July 2005 Location: United States Posts: 1,350
this wasnt as scary as everyone said it was... actually not scary at all...
all the those quotes are pointless
all the those quotes are pointless
legalbeagle Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 118
only 5.1 DTS HD track on this disc? glad I've got the US one in that case as it has a full blown 7.1 DTS HD mix on it... UK shafted once more
llama Member Join Date: February 2008 Location: United States Posts: 503
This movie is brilliant if you don't think of it as horror. It was an astonishing supernatural drama, great movie, but not scary.
Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 21st July 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English
Extras: Q&A with Juan Antonia Bayona, Making of Featurettes, Deleted Scenes, Storyboards, Animatics, Projections Featurette, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Juan Antonia Bayona
Cast: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera
Genre: Drama, Horror and Thriller
Length: 105 minutes
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CH Reynolds Achieves Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization From Cisco U.S.
Jan 10, 2013, 01:00 ET
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CH Reynolds announced today that it achieved the Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization from Cisco on Dec. 18, 2012. This specialization recognizes CH Reynolds as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, design and deploy comprehensive Cisco® Data Center solutions.
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The specialization provides role-based training in three essential areas: Unified Fabric for optimizing data and storage needs; Unified Computing for streamlining data center resources and uniting network, computational, storage and virtualization platforms; and Unified Network Services for advancing the way application delivery and security services are provided in the data center network or computing environment.
"CH Reynolds has enjoyed a long successful relationship with Cisco Systems as an Electrical and Low Voltage Systems vendor helping build out the original campus in San Jose, CA. I am pleased to see the evolution of our relationship with Cisco Systems into the IT Managed Service space. Achieving the Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization demonstrates our commitment to our rich history, and promotes mutual respect and growth. This Specialization is a perfect complement to our current Data Center Construction and Power Management Service offerings, allowing us to bring end to end Data Center solutions to existing and future customers." – Robert Macias, VP CH Reynolds.
"As a Cisco Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialized Partner, CH Reynolds has made a significant investment in the training required to help customers accelerate their business growth, reduce the total cost of ownership, and extend the life of its current infrastructure by making its data center more efficient, agile and resilient," said Ralph Nimergood, vice president of data center architecture for the worldwide partner department at Cisco.
The Cisco Resale Channel Program provides partners with the training required to build sales, design and technical talent and then validates their skills through a third-party audit.
About CH Reynolds
CH Reynolds was founded in 1983, primarily as an Electrical Contractor. In the ensuing years we have expanded our competencies to accommodate the changing needs of our customers to include Low Voltage Systems, Power Management and Managed Services divisions. Our goal is to build trusted relationships with our clients through flexible solution offerings and absolute accountability in solution delivery. Today we offer a range of services through Layer 1 IT infrastructure implementations to Managed Services specializing in the Data Center and IT Infrastructure space.
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Netflix is getting some new superheroes.
The streaming service has struck a multi-year agreement with Walt Disney Co. for several new live action series based on Marvel characters.
"This deal is unparalleled in its scope and size, and reinforces our commitment to deliver Marvel's brand, content and characters across all platforms of story telling," said Alan Fine, president of Marvel Entertainment.
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The partnership deepens the relationship between Netflix and Disney. Last year, Disney reached a deal to sell its theatrical movies to Netflix starting in 2016 that is valued at several hundred million dollars.
The Marvel shows will start to debut on Netflix in 2015. The characters getting their own shows are "Daredevil," "Jessica Jones," "Iron Fist" and "Luke Cage." Each will have their own 13-episode story arc, followed by a mini-series based on Marvel's "The Defenders" franchise.
The competition for the Marvel project was intense among cable channels and streaming services when Disney initially started shopping it this fall. For Netflix, which has found success with adult fare such as "House of Cards" and "Orange Is the New Black," getting in business with Disney and Marvel will give it more original content to appeal to kids and families.
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"Marvel is a known and loved brand that travels," said Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, who noted "Iron Man" and "Marvel's The Avengers" are two of the streaming service's strongest performers around the globe.
For Marvel, the push is its biggest expansion yet into television production, which was one of the goals of Disney when it bought the company for $4 billion in 2009. ABC Studios will co-produce the programs with Marvel.
While Disney has many platforms that also could have housed the content, there is no shortage of Marvel shows on Disney-owned outlets. Disney XD, its cable channel aimed at boys, has three Marvel animated series. Also, ABC's biggest new show this season is "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
CBS profit jumps 26% with strong ad sales, higher license fees
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Marseille's Souleymane Diawara says he is motivated by the opportunity to play against 'world-class' Zlatan Ibrahimovic in Wednesday's Coupe de France round of 16 match against Paris Saint-Germain.
The 34-year-old Senegalese defender has only made 11 first-team appearances this season but would relish the chance to pit himself against the former AC Milan and Barcelona striker.
"I like to face world-class players." Diawara told reporters, "When you're defending and you have the chance to play against players like that it sure is motivating."
Ibrahimovic has scored 22 league goals for the Ligue 1 leaders this season. yet the former Bordeaux defender has no special plans for the 31-year-old Swede.
"If I have the chance to play, for sure I will prepare," he said. "But I'm not going to do any special training just for Zlatan."
Marseille will be hoping the outcome in the second clash of their double header against les Parisiens is different after they succumbed to a 2-0 defeat in Ligue 1 on Sunday.


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On 9th October, Thursday, 12:30pm, Alexander Stremitzer, Assistant Professor at UCLA Law will be discussion on his paper "Promises and Expectations," joint with Florian Ederer.
Before joining UCLA's faculty in 2011, Alexander Stremitzer was assistant professor of economics at the University of Bonn and visiting assistant professor at Yale Law School and in Yale University's economics department. He also spent extended research visits at ETH Zurich and Columbia University's Center for Contracts and Economic how to use az screen recorder ract theory, and comparative law. In addition to works in German, Professor Stremitzer's recent scholarly work in English has been published in several journals including the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, The Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, and The Yale Law Journal.
Professor Stremitzer earned a Masters' degree in International Management at HEC-Paris in 2000, and in 2003, received a Ph.D., with distinction, in Business Economics from Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Professor Stremitzer earned a J.D. in 2006 from the University of Vienna.


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If you don't know who Nate Silver is, you quite obviously hate politics. (And who can blame you?) The statistics wunderkind accurately predicted all 50 states in the presidential race, drawing rave reviews. He's back today with an analysis of the Big Ten's latest aggressiveness, which came in the form of adding Maryland and Rutgers yesterday and today; I wrote yesterday that, given the conference's addition of Nebraska and flirtations with so many others, why not make a move that will add to each school's coffers even more? After all, lacrosse, fencing and swimming certainly don't pay for themselves. (Detractors, of course, said that each school's existing $25 million or so take from the Big Ten Network was plenty to fund those other sports.) Silver, meanwhile, says the conference's addition of those schools might not necessarily mean all the eyeballs those TV markets might suggest. He writes: Although Rutgers and Maryland are in densely populated areas, they also compete against a number of other Division I football programs for fans and attention. Moreover, affinity for college football is considerably lower on the East Coast than it is in the Midwest or the South. Thus, the schools have fewer fans than most other current Big Ten members. Silver goes on to again cite his study last year that estimated fans of each Division I-A college's football team by using Google search results: By that measure, Rutgers would measure 32nd nationally and Maryland 58th, the latter being the worst among D-1 schools. An interesting analysis, as usual, by Silver, and worth a read.
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Columbus Business First reports that tickets for this weekend's Ohio State-Michigan game are going for as much as $1,000 on the secondary market and start at $200 — which actually isn't all that abnormal. From the newspaper: Such secondary-market prices are pretty much the going rate for a typical Buckeyes-Wolverines game, they said, even though Ohio State University is trying to complete an undefeated season under new coach Urban Meyer, facing University of Michigan coach Brady Hoke for the first time. The exception would be the 2006 game at Ohio Stadium when tickets to watch the game between the country's top-ranked teams sold on average for $650 and cost $2,500 at the high end.
Icon Sports Management, a Stow-based representative of various PGA Tour golfers including Ian Poulter, said in a news release last week that it had signed Ryan Moore, who currently stands 41st in the World Golf Ranking. "Not only has Ryan proven himself to be among the best players in the world, but he's also demonstrated that he's a perfect fit for our corporate marketing program," Icon president R.J. Nemer said in the news release. "We're thrilled to be able to help represent a player of his caliber." Moore is one of only six players to ever earn their PGA Tour card without going through qualifying school, joining fellow Icon client Bud Cauley. Here's our story from April on Icon.
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