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The issue: Some raw foods can cause listeriosis, salmonellosis, and other illnesses that may lead to miscarriage or serious health problems for your baby.
What's okay: Well-done meats, poultry, and fish; vegetarian sushi; deli meats (cold cuts) and hot dogs that have been reheated to steaming in a microwave; canned or shelf-stable pâtés and meat spreads.
What to avoid: Any of the above items that have not been cooked to the proper temperature; raw sprouts (including radishes); raw shellfish; raw eggs.
The issue: Certain fish may contain high levels of mercury, which can contribute to developmental delays. Farm-raised fish may be contaminated with PCBs (cancer-causing agents) and other toxins.
What's okay: You can safely consume up to 12 ounces a week of wild salmon (not farm-raised), sea bass, shrimp, sole, snapper, flounder, catfish, cod, haddock, sardines, tilapia, ocean perch, and pollack. Restrict tuna consumption to the "chunk light" canned variety and no more than six ounces a week. Canned or shelf-stable salmon is safe.
What to avoid: Swordfish, shark, king mackerel, tilefish, and fresh (as well as canned albacore) tuna; raw sushi and raw shellfish; refrigerated smoked seafood such as lox, trout, and whitefish (unless cooked as an ingredient in another dish).
Cheese and dairy products
The issue: Raw and unpasteurized dairy products can cause listeriosis, salmonellosis, and other foodborne illnesses.
What's okay: Pasteurized milk and yogurts; well-cooked (that is, not runny) eggs; hard cheeses.
What to avoid: Raw milk and any dairy product (cheese, yogurt) made with raw milk; soft cheeses such as Brie, feta, Camembert, Danish blue, Roquefort, and Mexican-style queso blanco and queso fresco (unless they're clearly marked as pasteurized); uncooked foods made with raw eggs (such as salad dressings and protein shakes).
Caffeine/herbal teas
The issue: Caffeine can cross the placenta and affect fetal heart rate and respiration. Certain herbs cause adverse reactions, and some teas are not regulated, so you can't be sure of the herb's concentration.
What's okay: Up to 300 mg of caffeine a day (an 8-ounce cup of coffee has about 150 mg, a 12-ounce can of soda has 35 to 50 mg, and an 8-ounce cup of black tea has about 40 mg); flavored decaffeinated teas in filtered bags (citrus, ginger, peppermint).
What to avoid: Teas made with goldenseal, black or blue cohosh, ephedra, dong quai, feverfew, juniper, pennyroyal, Saint-John's-wort, rosemary, or thuja.
Artificial sweeteners
The issue: They cause no known harm to babies in utero. Still, some experts caution against them.
What's okay: Saccharin, aspartame and Splenda in moderate amounts.
What to avoid: Drinking lots of nutritionally void diet drinks instead of healthier ones like water and juice.


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In addition, there are no longer subsidized rates for newly purchased property, property where flood insurance was deliberately allowed to lapse, property that has experienced repetitive loss, businesses, non-primary residences, substantially damaged property and property that has been at least 30 percent improved.
What does all of this mean for local residents?
Resident who live in either the A or V zones — which cover virtually the entire South Shore of Long Island, including Oceanside and Island Park, will need flood insurance. Banks will require it. Should there be another flood, those without flood insurance will get no help from federal agencies such as FEMA.
Under the law, building elevation in the A Zone is measured at the top of the lowest floor in the home. Elevation is the V Zone is measured at the bottom of the lowest horizontal structural member.
If, for example, the curb in front of your home is four feet above sea level, then your living area, including your utilities, should be seven or eight feet above that. The only way to be sure is to have a surveyor with a knowledge of your community come and study your home.
The law requires that a home's living area, as well as utilities such as water heaters, boilers and electrical service boxes, be several feet above what the law calls "mean high tide," but is usually referred to as "sea level." This means that basement bedrooms and offices will not be covered by flood insurance.
The government subsidies that reduced the cost of flood insurance ended with Biggert-Waters. For some, that means that insurance that now costs up to $3,000 a year will cost nearly $10,000 five years from now, as the incremental raises under the law take place.
Only one small portion of the 63-page act speaks to affordability. Under the law, FEMA is mandated to study the affordability of raising homes above the required level. The law says that FEMA has to "establish an affordability framework" for the required insurance, including targeted assistance, if necessary.
On April 4, FEMA promulgated guidelines under Biggert Waters for all the homes impacted by Sandy.

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- US Department of State
- Nixon Center
- Center for National Security Studies
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Many UCD majors and minors incorporate credits earned while completing an internship and/or an independent research project. Students in some programs have been able to use their Washington Program Internship (WAS 192) and Research Seminar (WAS 199) credits as substitutions for their major or minor requirements.
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Blues get past Blue Jackets
St. Louis, MO – David Backes scored the game-winning goal late in the second period as St. Louis posted a 3-1 win over Columbus at Scottrade Center.
Chris Stewart and Patrik Berglund also rippled the net for the Blues, who have won three in a row since dropping four of five.
"The best player on the ice was our captain," said Blues coach Ken Hitchcock regarding Backes. "He needed to step up with everything that's gone on here and he really stepped up."
Jake Allen snagged the victory thanks to 26 saves.
Artem Anisimov provided the lone offense for the Blue Jackets, whose three- game win streak came to an end.
"It was a tough game on the corners," said Columbus center Ryan Johansen. "It was a battle tonight. It's too bad we couldn't converge on a couple more of our chances."
Sergei Bobrovsky stopped only 16 pucks in the setback.
Anisimov tied the game, 1-1, with 1:24 left on the second-period clock, but St. Louis moved ahead for good after the ensuing faceoff.
Alex Steen controlled the puck along the boards near the Columbus blue line, skated up the right wing and dished between the circles, where Jaden Schwartz briefly touched the puck before Backes knocked it home on the backhand while sliding on the ice.
Columbus outshot St. Louis by an 8-3 margin in the final period but couldn't reduce its deficit.
The Blue Jackets skated 6-on-4 in the final moments after Blues defenseman Barret Jackman was sent off for hooking, but Berglund put the insurance marker into an empty net with one second to play.
Stewart snapped the scoreless tie on a power-play marker with 4:02 left in the second, tipping in a centering feed from Alex Pietrangelo.
Game Notes
Jay Bouwmeester recorded a pair of assists in his home Blues debut ... Anisimov snapped a three-game goal drought, while Marian Gaborik assisted on the tally, giving him three points in two games since his acquisition from the New York Rangers on Wednesday.


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Three bedrooms are on the ground level. The first has a double bed and an en-suite bathroom with Jacuzzi bath and handheld shower, an additional walk-in shower, and twin wash basins. The second and third bedrooms both have twin beds and each has an en-suite shower room. Patio doors lead from all bedrooms out to the garden.
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=== Cell-free circuit breadboard ===
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A biomolecular breadboard is a system that is designed to allow certain features of a circuit to be tested in a carefully controlled setting. These breadboards can be used to implement, debug, and characterize a wide variety of circuits, including both in vivo and in vitro devices. This page contains an overview of different biomolecular breadboards that are available.
The figure below provides an overview of the basic breadboarding process. At the left is a circuit that we wish to implement and transform into a cell or other bimolecular chassis. Rather than try to directly get the circuit working in the cell, which requires time consuming iterations and difficult debugging, we instead use a sequence of simpler test environments ("breadboards"), where we can do much more rapid iterations between experiments, modeling and design.
Cell-free circuit breadboard
The cell-free circuit breadboard family is a sequence of in vitro protocols that can be used to test transcription and translation (TX-TL) circuits in a set of systematically-constructed environments that explore different elements of the external conditions in which the circuits must operate. This breadboard is based on the work of Vincent Noireaux at U. Minnesota. The transcription and translation machineries are extracted from E. coli cells (Shin and Noireaux, 2010). The endogenous DNA and mRNA from the cells is eliminated during the preparation. The resulting protein synthesis machinery is used to program cell-free TX-TL gene circuits in reactions of 12uL. The gene circuits are engineered in the laboratory using standard molecular cloning techniques.
Breadboard features:
- The cell-free expression breadboard uses the E. coli housekeeping transcriptional machinery (σ70 and core RNA polymerase) to express all the other transcription factors, therefore providing all of the E. coli DNA regulatory components.
- The reaction buffer is entirely custom-made from pure chemicals. The concentration of ATP and other nucleotides, ions, amino acids, molecular crowding agents, and other chemicals can be adjusted, as well as the pH of the reaction, over a wide range of concentrations.
- The breadboard can express proteins from either circular (plasmid) or linear DNA.
- No antibiotic resistance markers are required, allowing multiple plasmids with similar origins of replication to be included. The concentrations of different plasmids can be independently modulated.
- Approximate cost: $0.01/ul. Typical reactions are 12 ul ($0.126 per reaction)
Papers describing the use of the TX-TL breadboard:
- Biomolecular resource utilization in elementary cell-free gene circuits, 2013 American Control Conference (submitted).
Artificial cell breadboard
DNA origami breadboard
A second breadboard family that we are developing explores the role of spatial localization and single molecule effects. For this, we are using DNA origami to spatially organize, study, and optimize existing in vitro transcription circuits such as oscillators. There are two kinds of spatial organization that can be effected by DNA origami. The first kind of organization, local patterning is intrinsic to the DNA origami themselves. For example, a rectangular origami provides a roughly 100~nm x 70~nm surface onto which other molecules can be positioned with a resolution of about 6 nanometers.
A second kind of spatial organization afforded by DNA orgami is that of global placement. We are developing a method for placing individual DNA origami at lithographically-patterned sites on a silicon dioxide surface: sticky patches in the shape of DNA origami are created by e-beam, origami are washed over the surface, and they bind and orient on the sticky patches. Because of the regular placement of origami, we expect to eventually be able to observe up to 1600 (40 x 40) origami localized circuits in parallel to achieve good statistics.
TX-TL modeling library
Although not strictly breadboard, we are also developing a modeling library that is a companion to the breadboards above and allows simulation of circuits, including effects of resource limits.


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Despite a U.S. economy moving forward at snail's pace and Europe teetering on the brink of collapse, oil prices surged past $100 a barrel in New York Wednesday. Feeding the price action was Enbridge's acquisition of the Seaway Pipeline from ConocoPhillips and its announcement that it would reverse the pipeline's direction, easing oversupply caused by a bottleneck in Cushing, Okla., the national price point for crude oil.
Reversing the Seaway Pipeline would bring an additional 150,000 barrels of crude oil per day to the Gulf Coast, where ConocoPhillips, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, BP, and others have refineries, Enbridge said. The company bought Conoco's 50% interest in the Pipeline for $1.15 billion on Wednesday, and along with now partners Enterprise Products, are expecting the reversal to occur by the second quarter of 2012. By early 2013, they expect the capacity of the reversed Seaway Pipeline to reach 400,000 barrels a day following pump station additions and modifications.
Oil's sharp rise Wednesday reflects the expected shift in Cushing's limited capacity to move crude oil to major refiners, many of which are located on the Gulf Coast. Oversupply at Cushing is one of the major factors behind the spread between U.S. oil prices, measured by the West Texas Intermediate contract, and Brent, the international benchmark, as reported previously.
The spread, which reached $27.88 on October 14, narrowed to less than $9 during the day, as front month WTI contracts rose 2.7% to $102.04. Brent crude, which is much more responsive to global demand, fell 0.5% to $111.68 by 2:32 PM in New York.
Oversupply at Cushing was supposed to be eased by the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would run from the oil sands in Alberta, Canada, through Cushing, and to the Gulf Coast. The construction of the pipeline was halted by the Obama administration after environmentalists from Nebraska suggested the proposed path of the pipeline threatened a freshwater aquifer that provides drinking water for 1.5 million people, according to Bloomberg.
TransCanada, the company that was building the pipeline, suggested it was looking to build only one part of the extended pipeline now, connecting Cushing to the Gulf, before waiting for approval for the full project. TransCanada is still awaiting regulatory approval, but the construction of that portion of the pipeline would also ease oversupply and put further support under crude oil prices.
Gasoline prices are one of the major drivers of overall consumer prices and inflation. On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report showing the consumer price index fell 0.1% in October, but rising WTI crude prices would put upward pressure on CPI. As Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has made clear on several occasions, high gasoline prices hurt both consumers and manufacturers, increasing transportation and input costs.
The addition of further transport capacity from Cushing to the Gulf is a positive catalyst for WTI crude oil prices. Citi's analysts suggest the Brent-WTI spread will probably converge to $4 to $5 per barrel by next summer. With Brent set to average $115 in 2012, it does seem like higher oil prices are here to stay. (Below is a chart of USO, an ETF which tracks the spot price of WTI light, sweet crude oil).
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Top 6 Words: Life
For this entry in the Top 6 Words series, I asked my friend ThePhan to pick a word for me. She chose the word "life," apparently because she (at the time she chose the word back in March!) has seen 11 "life" movies, including a few favorites.
My favorite movies with the word "life" in the title follow the jump, but try thinking up some "life" titles on your own before peeking. Chime in with your own list in the comments section.


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Shares of London-based Pearson (NYSE:PSO) rose about 1% to $17.90 Friday morning on a report that News Corp.'s (NASDAQ:NWSA) Rupert Murdoch and Abu Dhabi's state media group are exploring an acquisition of the Financial Times Group.
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A report from The Edge Review, a digital magazine based in Malaysia, said Murdoch was in talks with Abu Dhabi Media Group to buy Pearson's business news unit for $1.2 billion, citing financial executives familiar with the talks. A deal could be completed as early as next week, the report added.
The purported deal would give Abu Dhabi Media Group a 75% stake in the venture, while Murdoch would control the remaining stake. However, the report said Murdoch is looking for an additional 25% stake.
A News Corp. spokeswoman said the report is "completely untrue."
A spokesman for Pearson said The Financial Times is not for sale, and the company "is not in any talks to sell it." He added that the FT is an important part of Pearson's strategy to "tap the substantial market for learning among globally minded business people."
The report comes just before News Corp., the parent company of FOX Business, officially splits into two companies after markets close Friday.
One company will retain the News Corp. name and include publishing and education assets, such as The Wall Street Journal, New York Post and HarperCollins. The other, 21st Century Fox, will include television and film assets.
Pearson has long been rumored to eye a sale of The Financial Times, a move that would allow the company to focus on its core education business. Speculation became more rampant last year when John Fallon, Pearson's leading executive for its education business outside the U.S., was named Chief Executive.
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Sunday night's Emmy telecast had us seeing red — but not in a bad way! The night's biggest stars arrived at the show in a slew of gorgeous gowns, ruling the red carpet in dramatic shades of scarlet.
Glee's Lea Michele was among the first to set the trend in a bright Marchesa gown with embellished shoulders. Winner Kate Winslet followed suit, flaunting her famous curves in an Elie Saab dress. Red-hot Modern Family star Sofia Vergara went for a bombshell look with her dress (and makeup), slinking into the show in Vera Wang. Meanwhile, presenter Kerry Washington brought some sparkle to the Emmys in her Zuhair Murad gown, while Vampire Diaries actress Nina Dobrev stunned in her mermaid-style Donna Karan dress.
Other stars who had us on red alert? The Office's Angela Kinsey, nominee Mireille Enos and pre-show hostesses Nancy O'Dell and Giuliana Rancic. Naturally, they all looked lovely in their crimson gowns, but we want to know: Which look was your favorite?


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The violent tornado that ravaged Joplin, Mo., killing at least 117, had hospital employees rushing to transport patients to safety at the last few minutes and forced others into refrigerators for shelter. There was 20 minutes of advance warning provided by the emergency sirens, so why did some appear to be caught off-guard?
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1983 Honda CB650SC Nighthawk. Owner: Bob Duncan, Atascadero, California.
This Nighthawk was truly a marvel of good looks and efficiency when it appeared in 1983. Good lines, good paint, cast alloy wheels, megaphone-styled exhaust and 65 horses out of an all-new 655cc in-line four. This middling-sized engine sported 16 valves, two overhead camshafts and hydraulic control of valve lash. With six gears connected to a trouble-free shaft drive. It seemed that checking tire pressures, occasionally changing the oil and keeping the bike looking shiny was all the maintenance an owner had to do.
?But wait!? cries a somber voice from a dark corner of the library. ?Honda?s own ?Motorcycle Identification Guide? says there was a 1982 CB650SC as well.? Truth. So maybe we better start a little earlier. Like back in 1979, when the Japanese manufacturers were still wondering about what cylinder sizes sold best. Since the old Brit-bike 650s had sold well and were quite popular, the Big Four (Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Suzuki) were all offering 650s?twins and fours. Honda came out with a very nice CB650C four-banger, 627cc, with single overhead camshaft, two valves per cylinder, and five-speed gearbox with chain final drive.
Just look at that '80s-awesome dash!
After three years the marketing department felt the model needed a little more pizzazz. And a catchy new name?Nighthawk. But this 1982 Nighthawk used the old CB650 engine and chassis, with a new tank, bodywork and saddle. Would the new name and styling work" No time to find out, really, because within a year an entirely new CB650SC Nighthawk appeared, which had obviously been in the planning when Honda gilded the old CB650 lily for the 1982 model year. It actually seemed that this was not a smart move, because the minor attention given to the styling gave the alphanumeric designation a hint of boredom. However, the 1983 model put the lie to that, getting rave reviews from everyone, everywhere.
Dual slash-cut chrome pipes looked sporty.
As noted in the opening paragraph, the new 650 doubled the number of camshafts and valves. Each of the four cylinders had a slightly oversquare bore of 60mm, stroke of 58mm. For those interested in the minutia, the valves had an included angle of 38 degrees, with the intakes (28mm) enjoying 18 degrees, the exhausts (22.5mm), 20 degrees. For the average layman, these are just numbers, while for the engineer, these are essential for maximizing intake and output charges. And Honda made sure that the critically minded (motojournalists) knew all about this. Fuel was fed in via four 29mm Keihin CV carburetors.
The starter (operating through a self-adjusting chain running to the crankshaft) and alternator (discreetly cooled by a fan) were mounted behind the cylinders in order to minimize engine width?which was 16 inches, almost four inches narrower than the previous 650. Nothing stuck out to touch the ground should a sporty type want to see how far he could lean?unless he f...
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Considerably less publicized but no less significant is the United Methodist Church, which now almost uniquely among liberal-led, old-line denominations continues to affirm orthodox teachings on marriage and sexual ethics. The traditionalist stance, dismaying to its liberal elites, is thanks partly to the denomination's growing African membership. Unlike the U.S. Episcopal Church, which is almost entirely U.S. members plus some small dioceses from Latin America and Taiwan, United Methodism is more fully international, with about one third of its members in Africa. Amid growing United Methodist churches in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria, among others, and a U.S. church losing about a 1,000 members weekly, the 11.4 million denomination likely will soon be majority African. At the church's next governing General Conference in 2012, probably 40 percent of the delegates will come from outside the U.S., even further diminishing liberal hopes.
Liberal church activists are reluctant to acknowledge that African Christianity has a firm mind of its own, preferring condescendingly to portray it as primitive and easily manipulated by conservative U.S. religionists. It is true that much of African Christianity is new, somewhat similar to fast growing, early American frontier revivalism in its earnest faith, populism, and strong sense of the supernatural. According to the World Christian Encyclopedia of 2001, Africa was less than 10 percent Christian in 1900 but was over 45 percent Christian by 2000. (This compares to Islam's growth in African from 32 percent to 40 percent.) About 20 percent of the world's Christians now live in Africa, and rates of active church attendance are higher in Africa than in much of old Christendom. One Congolese bishop estimated that more Congolese are in a United Methodist Church on a typical Sunday than in all the United States.
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Condescension towards African Christianity guided a recent United Methodist attempt to sideline growing African churches by creating a new, U.S. only regional conference that would potentially create its own rules while excluding the Africans. Ostensibly this exclusion would empower the Africans by releasing them from concerns about the U.S. church. Endorsed by the church's Council of Bishops and a two-thirds vote at the denomination's governing General Conference in 2008, the restructuring required ratification by two thirds of the voters at local annual conferences last year. Mournfully, the bishops released the voting results early this month. (See my assistant Connor Ewing's article.) Almost without precedent, over 60 percent of the nearly 50,000 United Methodist voters at conferences around the world rejected the bishops' plan. Most revealingly, over 94 percent of African voters, evidently not wanting this kind of "empowerment" by exclusion, voted no.
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Anti-choice protestors of all ages gathered at the demonstration, using the slogan "Seville, capital of life." The demonstrators shouted "murderers" at the FIAPAC conference's participants and carried banners with phrases such as "No to abortion, yes to life," the Agence France Presse reports. Right to Life, an anti-choice organization, commented in a statement, "Seville is not the center for an international meeting of murderers. It is a city full of color and life...We do not want to mingle with butchers, we do not want them at our sites, sharing our tables in bars, with our children in the park or sleeping in the beds that we offer our guests...they are not welcome."
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In 1998 Hideo Nakata directed a film version of Koji Suzuki's evil cassette tape novel, Ringu. The film was enormously successful in and out of its native Japan and virtually spawned a new genre of film. This led to a plethora of sequels, knock offs and remakes, including a successful Hollywood version, which in turn led to the Hollywood optioning of almost every J-horror title since. Now the time has come for Japan's resident David Lynch for hire, Takashi Miike, to take a crack at the formula.
Heroine Yumi (Kou Shibasaki) is a college student who, like most college students, has a cell phone and a group of friends. While chatting in the ladies restroom, Yumi's friend gets a mysterious phone call from herself, dated three days into the future. The brief message left is punctuated by an eerie scream. Assuming it's a prank, she goes about her business, only to find herself careening off a bridge to her death three days later.
Yumi, upset beyond simply losing a friend, suspects a supernatural murder plot. Her fears seem justified when her other friends begin dropping like flies, every one of them warned by mysterious phone calls. Yumi begins a personal investigation, unravelling a twisted tale of child abuse and wrongful death. Then one day Yumi realises she too... has One Missed Call (scream!).
The similarities between Ringu and One Missed Call are many. The Ringu mythology utilises a ghostly telephone warning in correlation with its cursed video and the theme of haunted technology is prevalent in both features. Both films feature female leads that take it upon themselves to solve the supernatural crimes with the assistance of a single male sidekick, who is previous to the unnatural events of the film a total stranger. Of course, like every post- Ringu J-horror presentation, the murderous ghost is a pale-faced girl with long black hair that moves in very unnatural ways.
The advantage One Missed Call has over the other countless Ringu clones is Miike in the director's chair. As he demonstrated in Audition, quite possibly the scariest film of the last five years, Miike has mastered the ability to lull his audience into a false sense of complacence, only to attack them viciously when they're off guard. The silly and clichéd scares peppered throughout the film's final forty minutes actually work. I'm ashamed to say they worked quite well. Miike successfully wrenches every ounce of creepiness the formulaic story can muster. When the pale-faced girl slowly appeared in a closet behind Yumi, my neck hairs were appropriately raised. I'm also shocked to say that Miike is quite conservative with the onscreen bloodshed and if released in the States, One Missed Call could easily score an R rating.
This praise does come at a cost, as the film is in the end just another throw away Ringu cash-in. Just because Miike could do this better than almost any living filmmaker, doesn't mean he necessarily should have. I know I personally need another pale-faced ghost girl like I need a hole in my head. Unfortunately I wasn't particularly fond of the original Ringu in the first place, the constant imitation is getting a bit old.
This Hong Kong release is of average video quality. There is quite a bit of grain and digital noise but no action is ever obscured or confused by it. I'm sure that like most Miike quickies, One Missed Call was shot on a meagre budget and the film quality reflects that. There is an overall darkness to the entire film but this is in keeping with most of Miike's more serious work. Nothing to get too picky about here.
There are two quality but underutilised surround tracks on this disc, one Dolby Digital EX, the other DTS ES. The DTS track is of slightly better quality, as it is generally cleaner. The Dolby track is surprisingly quite, but works fine. The surround channels are not often utilised but when they are, they go a long way in selling a scare. By the end of the film I realised that the subtlety of the sound was instrumental in the films successes.
There are no extras on this barebones release, unless one considers static menu systems an extra, which I do not.
To tell the truth, I actually found One Missed Call scarier and more entertaining than the original Ringu. I know, I'm nuts. Miike's assured direction and a truly thrilling final act make what could have been total garbage a slightly above average genre time-waster. Fans of J-horror and Miike might want to check this one out. In the end, you may find yourself pleasantly surprised.
You can purchase this title for $11.99 from top retailer Yes Asia.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Yup Great review and I wholeheartedly agree with your comments - apart from One Missed Call being scarier and more entertaining than the original Ringu. That's more blasphemous than your previous blasphemous comments!!
I'm a Miike fan but I didn't know this was a Miike title when I watched it. This is great because it allowed me to form an un-biased opinion of the film.
Ok, so it had zero originality factor, the jumps were probably quite cheap. However it was reasonably entertaining and I'd be lying if I said I didn't find it chilling and eerie (at parts).
Slightly above average Ringu clone I think.
I'm a Miike fan but I didn't know this was a Miike title when I watched it. This is great because it allowed me to form an un-biased opinion of the film.
Ok, so it had zero originality factor, the jumps were probably quite cheap. However it was reasonably entertaining and I'd be lying if I said I didn't find it chilling and eerie (at parts).
Slightly above average Ringu clone I think.
I was thinking I should've added that to my Blasphemous statements postings. Sorry to say, that as a rabid horror fan, and a fan of Asian cinema in general I was dissapointed in both Ringu and Ju-On (and Suicide Circle, and Tome, and almost every other new wave J-horror flick). I'm not sure why. The one that I loved and recommend is Uzumaki. It was something very different.
Hmmm, weird, never heard of Uzumaki, think I'll give it a try. So far I've resisted buying One Missed Call due to various comments I've read on the web.
It's cheap as hell at DDDhouse:
Very cheap, but DDDHouse seem to have screwed up the link to their credit card processors. Their site seems to be running really, really slowly at the moment, shame as they are one of my favourite retailers.
If they need a new shopping cart system then I'm happy to help, provided I get to stay over there.
If they need a new shopping cart system then I'm happy to help, provided I get to stay over there.
Where? In Hong Kong? I'm assuming you really liked it there.
Yeah, it is a nice city, like a UK city but hot, modern and a bit unusual. Since the place was handed back to the rightful owners though, it seems next to impossible to work there unless a company is interested in doing a load of paperwork.
I'll try DDDHouse later, both that DVD and one missed call came out at about £6 + P&P... keep forgetting how cheap region 3 discs can be.
I'll try DDDHouse later, both that DVD and one missed call came out at about £6 + P&P... keep forgetting how cheap region 3 discs can be.
I'm guessing it's a little cheaper to ship to the UK than the US, right?
God, I hope you like them now. I didn't realize the Webmaster would take my advice. If you hate them, you'll never trust me again!
God, I hope you like them now. I didn't realize the Webmaster would take my advice. If you hate them, you'll never trust me again!
Yep, that's no more review copies for you if they prove to be pants!
I don't mind if they are awful to be honest, I ended up buying the Korean version of Ringu even though I was warned by multiple sources that it wasn't exactly enjoyable.
I don't mind if they are awful to be honest, I ended up buying the Korean version of Ringu even though I was warned by multiple sources that it wasn't exactly enjoyable.
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Release Date: 27th September 2004
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 6.1 EX Japanese, DTS 6.1 ES Japanese
Subtitles: Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English
Extras: None
Easter Egg: No
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Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Shibasaki Kou, Tsutsumi Shinichi, Fukiishi Kazue
Genre: Horror
Length: 113 minutes
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Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
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Chanhassen, MN — Snap Fitness CEO and founder Peter Taunton denied a recent report stating that Snap Fitness is for sale. However, at least one industry observer maintains that the company is for sale.
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"I have no desire to sell a majority share of our company," Taunton says. "[I've] never been in dialogue with anyone. We're very well capitalized, and we're a very profitable company."
Taunton added, however, that if he found the right strategic partner, he would entertain a sale.
"I've always left that door open," he says. "If I didn't, it would be very irresponsible on my part as a founder and CEO. After all, I've got hundreds of franchisees that depend on me to make good decisions."
A recent story in an industry publication stated that Snap Fitness sent a "teaser note" to potential buyers, saying the company has 508 open clubs and 1,230 sold locations. Taunton says Snap Fitness, founded in 2003, has about 700 clubs open and 1,460 locations sold. He did acknowledge that some of the figures in the story, including one that reported that company revenues were $19 million in 2007 and are projected to be $30 million this year, are "in line."
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Hilton HLT, +0.21% is forecast to post earnings of 17 cents a share in the fourth quarter. "We are buyers of HLT ahead of 4Q13 numbers given; 1) muted expectations, 2) beatable Consensus estimates, 3) what we believe will be healthy guidance, & 4) shares that have lagged peers," said Carlo Santarelli, an analyst at Deutsche Bank, in a note.
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Baidu Inc.'s BIDU, -0.77% U.S. shares jumped 7% after hours. The Chinese search engine posted a 50% increase in total revenue, topping its projections, and gave a rosy sales forecast. Shares could hit a record high on Thursday.
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VANCOUVER — One night Vancouver forward Alexandre Burrows takes a bite out of Bruins center Patrice Bergeron's finger, three nights later he takes the bite out of the Bruins with two goals and one assist in a 3-2 overtime win in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final.
In between, Burrows avoided suspension after a hearing with the league. The league deemed there was no conclusive evidence to prove Burrows purposely bit Bergeron's finger.
If the league had YouTube and would've watched the video, maybe Burrows gets a ban and doesn't burn the Bruins tonight.
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LAS VEGAS — Online attacks are "the most significant threat we face as a society," and the key to defending against them is to take the fight to the attackers, according to former FBI official Shawn Henry.
"Intelligence is the key to all of this," Henry said July 25 at the Black Hat Briefings.
There is a major stumbling block to that approach, however. Those with the access to the intelligence are not sharing it. "The majority of what is happening is not heard outside of the classified environment," Henry said.
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Henry, a recently retired executive assistant director who headed the FBI's response to cyber crime unit, said government is ready to change that.
"Government gets it," he said. "They understand the threat. But the legislation, the policies, those issues are complex." Creating a working environment with two-way sharing is a long-term process, but agencies have begun the process," he said.
Henry, who now is president of Crowdstrike Services, echoed a common refrain in cybersecurity circles. "You've got to assume the adversary is in your network," he said.
Effective security requires spotting intrusions and taking the fight to the adversary rather than merely responding to incidents. Although Information Sharing and Analysis Centers and other vehicles for information sharing have improved the use of information, they operate at human speed and critical information needs to be shared at network speeds to enable useful collaboration and response.
Despite the government's interest in the problem, in the near term the private sector is largely on its own. The National Security Agency defends the .mil domain, the Homeland Security Department defends .gov, but "nobody has authority to defend .com," he said.
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Arthur, name a single right that you had in 2008 that you don't have now. Ignoring cyber threat puts this nation at far greater risk than your imaginary threat.
No. The "most significant threat we face as a society," is NOT "online attacks".
The most significant threat we face as a society is the government taking away our rights.
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NHL Team Offers 'Bid On Your Own Price' Season Tickets
from the modified-name-your-own-price dept
Apparently, one NHL franchise is willing to test some of this out as well. The Florida Panthers are letting fans bid on their own price for season tickets. It's not name your own price, but more of a bidding system. You pick the seats you want, and then propose what you think those seats should cost on a per-game basis. Within 24-hours someone from the team will get back to you and let you know whether you got the seats.
If anything, the setup sounds a bit more like Priceline's system for flights and hotels -- which actually makes me wonder if Priceline might get a bit upset. If I remember correctly, Priceline used to brag about its patents on such auction-like name-your-own-price setups, and threaten to sue anyone who did anything similar.


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There are 30 NBA teams.
Pick one and pick your map and settings.
Some teams are uptempo, they might play Freestyle.
Some teams are rebuilding, they might play BETA maps
Some teams just make poor decisions at the end of games, they might play Nuclear.
Some teams have all their money invested in one player, they might play Manual.
Everything is allowed!
Premium players only because of the amount of games to be played.
*If you don't pick your map you will be assigned Random for your map.*
*If you don't pick your settings, they will be:
- Automatic
The normal regular season is 82 games, but we will play 76 games to make the schedule a little more even.