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Pokémon Snap
HAL Laboratory
Pokémon Snap News
July2019
News A Sequel To Pokémon Snap Won't Happen Unless There's A "Very Unique Twist"
It's not going to happen in a snap
One of the most requested Pokémon games of all-time is a sequel to the 1999 Nintendo 64 title, Pokémon Snap. Will it ever happen, though? While fans have been hoping for a follow-up for two decades, according to Game Freak's Junichi Masuda, it's going to need a very unique twist. During an interview with Metro's...
Sun 7th Jul 2019
Anniversary Pokémon Snap Turns 20 Years Old Today
And we still don't have a sequel
Twenty years ago today, on 21st March 1999, Pokémon Snap was first released in Japan. A Nintendo 64 exclusive, Pokémon Snap follows the adventures of Todd Snap, a Pokémon photographer who is tasked with taking perfect shots of the adorable critters and showing them to Professor Oak for inspection. It features 63...
Thu 21st Mar 2019
Video A Look At Pokémon Snap's Cut Stages, Pokémon, Sequel Ideas And More
"Wonderful!"
Pokémon Snap stands out as one of the most memorable experiences on the Nintendo 64, especially if you're a fan of Game Freak's hugely popular monster-catching franchise, and was also one of the best-selling games for the system, too. It would appear that a considerable amount of content was cut from the final version of the game,...
Pokemon Snap
News Live Out Your Pokémon Snap Sequel Fantasies With GO Snapshot
"You were close"
If there's one thing we've been clamouring for over the last few years ("we" meaning "at least one of us"), it's a direct sequel to Pokémon Snap. The 3DS seemed like a perfect opportunity with its camera functionality, but nothing, and the Wii U's GamePad seemed even more suited as you'd be able to line it up with the TV, but nope...
Tue 12th Feb 2019
News Grab Discounts On Classic Pokémon Titles With The Latest North American My Nintendo Rewards
The North American My Nintendo Rewards site has updated with a new batch of discounts for games on Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. This time around, the focus is on Pokémon, Pokémon, and a little bit more Pokémon. The pocket monster theme has been established in celebration of the latest digital distribution taking place in Pokémon...
Fri 17th Aug 2018
January2017
Nintendo Download 5th January (North America)
Pokémon Snap! Spheroids! Quiet, Please! More!
It's the first Nintendo Download Update of the year in North America, and the headline release is a much-requested N64 title on the Wii U Virtual Console. Beyond that there are some interesting Indie options to consider, so let's get to it. Missed the European Nintendo Download Update? No need to wail...
Thu 5th Jan 2017
Wii U Virtual Console
News Pokémon Snap Listed for North American Wii U eShop Release on 5th January
One common topic that's come up in North American Nintendo Download comments sections has been "where's Pokémon Snap?" It arrived on the Wii U Virtual Console in Europe back in August 2016, so there's been an unsurprising desire to see the much-loved N64 title in NA. Well, the wait seems to be almost over, with Nintendo's game page...
Wed 4th Jan 2017
Nintendo Download 18th August (Europe)
PONCHO, Pokémon and lots of discounts!
There's a whole smorgasbord of Wii U and 3DS eShop goodies for you to feast on this week. If one of the many new releases doesn't grab your fancy, there are tons of tempting discounts to consider also. Let's get to it! Wii U eShop: PONCHO (Rising Star Games, €8.99 / £7.99) - Explore an open world full of...
News Pokémon Snap Confirmed For Wii U Virtual Console Release This Week
Todd Snap is back in business
One of the most beloved entries in the Pokémon series is finally making its way to the Wii U Virtual Console this week. Originally intended for the 64DD add-on, Pokémon Snap launched in 1999 (2000 in Europe) on the Nintendo 64 and for many fans presented the first look at Pocket Monsters in 3D. The game plays like an...
News Pokémon Snap Comes Into Focus for Wii U Virtual Console Release in Japan
Centre frame
Whenever there's a conversation around Pokémon and desired games, it naturally turns to a new entry in the Snap series. In the current day it's questionable how relevant such a release would be, especially when the likes of Pokémon Go will have us pointing our smartphone cameras into the real world to catch pocket monsters. In any...
Video Kids React to Pokémon Snap In Rather Interesting Ways
Where's that darn Z button?
It's oddly fascinating when young gamers get given a retro game to play, which helps to partly explain the huge success of the REACT channel. Yes, it covers people of all ages reacting to all manner of things, but when you hand a kid a retro controller the results can be - in their way - educational. The latest episode...
Feature Five Nintendo 64 Games We'd Love to Play on 3DS
And plenty we'll never have
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D has now been in stores for over a week, joining compatriots The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D and Star Fox 64 3D on Nintendo's portable system. In some ways it's also the beginning of the home-straight for the handheld - if its generation is to be 5-6 years, we're perhaps...
News Junichi Masuda Talks Pokémon Snap and Listening to Fans
Get your Game Freak on
In a recent interview about Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire, director of the Pokémon games Junichi Masuda talked about the fans' desire to see a new Pokémon Snap game. Masuda-san was clear to point out that the N64 cult classic "wasn't originally developed by Game Freak", although it does seem that he has a certain...
Video Pokémon Snap Gritty Reboot Spoofs Jurassic Park
"Welcome to Pokémon Island!"
The Gritty Reboot team — which did such a fantastic job on Harvest Moon earlier this month — are back with another Nintendo-related trailer, this time based on the N64 title Pokémon Snap. The clip boasts the same astonishingly high production values as it predecessor, and this time spoofs the Hollywood smash-hit...
Feature The New Dimensions of Pokémon
Snap and Dream Radar change the perspective
Trading cards and anime episodes aside, the Pokémon series is known for a long-lasting line of handheld RPGs. You've almost certainly played one or two of them — and we suspect that quite a few of you are already getting into Pokémon Black & White 2 — most likely followed by an obsessed state of...
News Surprise EU VC Release - Pokemon Snap + worldwide Photo Channel update
As some of you might have already noticed this morning, everybody's favourite blue Wii light was flashing. If you turn on your Wii you'll have gotten a message from Nintendo alerting you that the Wii Shop gift feature is now available (After a Wii Shop update). But that's not all!
Nintendo of Europe also saw fit to release Pokemon Snap together with the new feature, instead of Friday (It's anyone's..
EU releases
Wii channels
News US VC Releases - 10th December - Pokemon Snap
The first Pokemon game hits VC in the US today! It's the strange but fun Pokemon Snap for Nintendo 64, where instead of capturing Pokemon in Pokeballs, you capture them on film. The game itself is good fun, but as an overall package it is a bit lacking. Still, if you're a Pokemon fan, better make do with this, because this will most likely be one of extremely few Pokemon titles to come to VC (We think the only other one will be Pokemon Puzzle League). Another thing worth considering is that this version of Pokemon Snap has a VC-exclusive feature!
Mon 10th Dec 2007
US releases

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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package echowand.object;

import echowand.common.ClassEOJ;
import echowand.common.EOJ;
import echowand.logic.TooManyObjectsException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;

/**
 * ユニークなEOJの生成管理
 * @author Yoshiki Makino
 */
public class UnusedEOJGenerator {
    private HashMap<ClassEOJ, Byte> usedEOJMap;
    private HashSet<EOJ> usedEOJSet;

    /**
     * UnusedEOJGeneratorを生成する。
     */
    public UnusedEOJGenerator() {
        usedEOJMap = new HashMap<ClassEOJ, Byte>();
        usedEOJSet = new HashSet<EOJ>();
    }

    private boolean isValidInstanceCode(byte instanceCode) {
        return (1 <= instanceCode && instanceCode <= 0x7f);
    }

    /**
     * 指定されたClassEOJに属するEOJで、利用されていないEOJを返す。
     * @param ceoj ClassEOJの指定
     * @return まだ利用されていないEOJ
     * @throws TooManyObjectsException EOJをこれ以上生成できない場合
     */
    public synchronized EOJ generate(ClassEOJ ceoj) throws TooManyObjectsException {
        byte unusedCode = 1;
        Byte b = usedEOJMap.get(ceoj);

        if (b != null) {
            unusedCode = (byte)(b + 1);
        }

        for (;;) {
            if (!isValidInstanceCode(unusedCode)) {
                throw new TooManyObjectsException("too many generated eojs for " + ceoj);
            }

            if (!usedEOJSet.contains(ceoj.getEOJWithInstanceCode(unusedCode))) {
                break;
            }

            unusedCode += 1;
        }

        usedEOJMap.put(ceoj, unusedCode);

        return ceoj.getEOJWithInstanceCode(unusedCode);
    }

    /**
     * 指定されたEOJを利用済みとして登録する。
     * @param eoj EOJの指定
     */
    public synchronized void addUsed(EOJ eoj) {
        usedEOJSet.add(eoj);
    }

    /**
     * 指定されたEOJが利用済みであるかを返す。
     * @param eoj EOJの指定
     * @return 利用済みの場合にはtrue、そうでなければfalse
     */
    public synchronized boolean isUsed(EOJ eoj) {
        Byte b = usedEOJMap.get(eoj.getClassEOJ());
        if (b != null && (eoj.getInstanceCode() <= b)) {
            return true;
        }

        return usedEOJSet.contains(eoj);
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


GPS splitters are used in wireless or over wire networks to split and supply RF signal to multiple repeaters, users or terminals (GPS receiver). The choice can be made between modular or rack-mount build form splitters (see "Types of Housing" on the right side). Modular splitters are available with 2, 4 or 8 outputs, rack-mount splitters up to 32 outputs. Splitter can be passive (with up to 4 outputs) or active components (all splitters).


The Spirits Business is on the hunt for the drinks industry's top writing talent with its Alan Lodge Young International Drinks Writer of the Year 2019 Award.
Launched in memory of The Spirits Business's late deputy editor, Alan Lodge, the award is open to journalists, columnists and bloggers under the age of 35 who cover the wine, beer, spirits and cocktail sectors.
Entrants have until Monday 15 April to submit up to three pieces of writing, published online or in print between 1 January and 31 December 2018. Please also send a few sentences outlining your professional background and writing interests.
The entries will be judged by an objective panel of experienced judges.
Submissions should be sent as a URL or PDF to Núria Puertos Ahuir – nuria@unionpress.co.uk.


We are giddy with anticipation to share the passage we've selected for this activity. Puns aside, though, paper & pencil collaborative activities just aren't quite...collaborative. Our students are Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram users. When they have something to share, they share it in a manner that will allow others to see it and possibly react to it. Their collaborative class discussions should not be the exception.
In today's passage, the narrator starts off by sharing what her name means in English as well as what it means in Spanish. What does your name mean? Begin by thinking about what you know about your name. Maybe you were named after a family member, or it was your mother's favorite name. Next, think about what your name means to you. What ideas come to mind when you hear your name? Finally, head on over to Behind the Name, a neat search engine that will search the web for your name's meaning. Get there by clicking on the link below. Share your answers to these questions in a single comment, and check out what your classmates have to share about their name, too. Let them know what you think by commenting on their comment.
What does your name mean? According to Behind the Name, my name means wisdom. My name's day is tomorrow, September 17!
At first I didn't know much about my name or why I was named that except that my father wanted a name that came from our Mexican heritage. To this day I love my name and I still do believe it symbolizes my Mexican background. When I was younger I always used to think it was unique, now a days, not so much.


Marnie Finlayson was appointed as the General Manager of Rio Tinto's subsidiary in Serbia, Rio Sava Exploration in charge of Jadar Project, in September 2018.
Prior to her current role Marnie Finlayson was the Head of the Operating Model programme based in Perth and was responsible for the development and implementation of a revised group operating model to support delivery of the Rio Tinto group strategy. Up to date Marnie spent her career managing operations across a range of mining commodities including salt, iron ore, diamonds, base metals and coal.
Marnie held a number of Operational General Manager positions with Rio Tinto, including General Manager Operations - Dampier Salt Limited and General Manager – Port Maintenance with Rio Tinto Iron Ore. In both these roles, she led significant change efforts and under Marnie's leadership, the teams significantly enhanced productivity and safety with a strong focus on engagement and local communities. She actively mentors both men and women within the mining sector and believes that this provides her with an opportunity to leave a lasting legacy in an industry that she is proud to work in.
Marnie is a qualified Minerals Processing Engineer living in Serbia with her husband and two children.


I love what I do, and what I do is make art for my clients. Photography, like any art form, can be beautiful, provocative, and serve a practical purpose as well. Like painters of old, I create portraits and document grand events so that you can have something beautiful and engaging to remember it by.
I am a full time professional photographer, with several hundred weddings to my credit, as well as a college professor, and have been working as an artist and photographer in the Cleveland area since 1988. I have a BFA in photography from The Cleveland Institute of Art, where I also studied painting, printmaking, and video.
Although I come from a family of professional and amateur photographers, art of the drawing and painting variety was my first interest. It wasn't until I attended the Cleveland Institute of Art that I developed an interest in the camera as a byproduct of the video work I was doing at the time. Already having a familiarity with the darkroom process from spending time as a child in my brother's darkroom, it was a relatively easy transition to creating images with the camera and realizing those images under the glow of the amber light in the lab. Although most of the work I do today is digital in origin, the creative process–from composing images, making technical choices about focal lengths and exposures, to digital post processing–is essentially the same. The traditional process is not completely gone, however, as I still maintain one of the last professional B&W darkrooms in the Cleveland area, where I process and print my own work, as well as the work of other professionals and hobbyists.
I am also owner and operator of Mastroianni Photography and Arts, a photographic studio and art gallery in the historic Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, where I feature not only my own work, but the work of other area artists as well.. The studio is located at 2687 W. 14th St; hours are by appointment as well as the second Friday of every month for the Tremont Art Walk.


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Tips & shafts
By George Fels
Consulting Editor George Fels has been writing for Billiards Digest since 1980, and his "Tips & Shafts" column is usually our readers' first stop when they crack open the magazine. For better or worse, pool has been his only mistress for 40-plus years.
Best of Fels
• THE QUESTERS
• BROOKLYN JIMMY TEACHES
• THAT CLUB WAS TRUMP
• THE GUNNER
• BITTER LEMONADE
• THE LAMBKILLERS
• NICK AND IZ
• INVITATIONS
• HOW GOOD IS GOOD?
• THE P.H.
January: For The Elite
One of THE first routines that stamped the then-young Bob Newhart as a stand-up comic genius was a dialogue between a smartass game manufacturer and Abner Doubleday, the inventor of baseball. The businessman gave Doubleday an extremely hard time as to how his game's rules came to be constituted. (The cackle Newhart breaks into as he intones, "Wh ... wh what's a 'ball,' Mr. Doubleday?" is still with me after 40-plus years.) And yet baseball has nothing on the cue games when it comes to creative invention.
No one knows quite how front-to-back one-pocket and rail-first three-cushion billiards originally came to be. One-pocket, as chronicled by our peerless historian Michael Shamos in the June 2002 issue, is way older than you'd think it is, and was not even invented in America. Until 1967, the Billiard Congress of America resisted including conventional one-pocket in its rulebook, as the game existed as a gambling medium only. You won't find front-to-back in anybody's rulebook.
Few will argue that the game seemed to begin with the late Jack "Jersey Red" Breit, which is not to say that he personally created it. Maybe Red became acquainted with the form at the black poolroom near the home of his youth in Newark, N.J. There was absolutely no dispute that, at his peak in the 1950s and '60s, he was unbeatable at one-pocket, especially on the 5-by-10-foot tables of that era. Possibly he volunteered to take a back pocket when no more competition could be found for him in the game's orthodox form.
Front-to-back works like this: Player A takes a back corner pocket, diagonally opposite to the front pocket of Player B. A would customarily receive a handicap of half the game plus the break (8 to 4, 10 to 5, 12 to 6, etc.). The break is a one-rail kick behind the stack, which seeks to stick the cue ball back there while loosened balls come up-table. From that point on, the game is played pretty much as if the table had been turned sideways. In regular one-pocket, each player battles to land object balls on his half of the table, divided the long way. In front-to-back, the table is divided the short way instead, and any object ball passing the side-pockets line, no matter where it stops, must be considered a threat by Player B. And either competitor can leave his opponent long merely by keeping the cue ball in his own half.
But when Red played front-to-back, he was so creative and aggressive playing a back pocket that it was he who wound up giving handicaps to his front-pocket opponents. His only real competition at the game was a man named Bob "The Destroyer" Myers, probably the second-best regular one-hole player in New York City. Myers drew his moniker not from any propensity toward violence, but from his constricting style of play. He didn't just leave you behind object balls nearest your pocket; he left you frozen on those balls, and usually on the worst possible edge of them. It took all your skill just to get out of his traps, let alone create any threats of your own, and that can be quite enervating on an inning-by-inning basis. Red was the only player Myers could not beat. While Myers' visualization abilities and creativity were probably even more heightened than Breit's, Red's edge in shot-making and banking made him the better player. In that era, however, with the broad, broad spectrum of both top players and their suckers/customers, Myers was able to give out many handicaps that Red could not. The matches most worth seeing, though, were not those between player and sucker, but rather those matching up two real players. "That's where the last two years of my high-school education went," recalls one-pocket and three-cushion author Eddie Robin, a New York native. "Up at 711, watching those guys play front-to-back."
Rail-first three-cushion billiards cannot even be traced to a single competitor. The great Chicago room Bensinger's, in its last downtown incarnation, had a single floor devoted to caroms. It seems odd, in this day and age, to speak of a single room housing 40-plus billiard tables, but Bensinger's did. Of the city's top three-cushion competitors, I would estimate perhaps a dozen were familiar with rail-first; most considered it billiards' response to bank pool. In either game, the player who scores successfully on the opening break continues to shoot but receives no score for the break shot. All billiards must be scored by sending the cue ball to at least one rail before it contacts either object ball. You could watch two good three-cushion players compete for close to a week without seeing any attempt at an "umbrella shot" (two rails/ball/rail/second ball); they're absolutely commonplace in rail-first. Leaving the three balls in the table's center, with decent intervals between them, yields juicy options in conventional billiards; in rail-first, that's just what you'd want to leave. Because of the game's difficulty, it was common to play just 5 points, sometimes 10.
I haven't seen either front-to-back or rail-first played since the '60s, and the last time I did, it was the same competitor trying both: Robin, back in his road-player days. He did not get significant action in either form, and broke about even with the local players who were willing to dabble with him.
Chess hustlers in New York's Washington Square Park and elsewhere play blitz (move in 10 seconds or less or forfeit the game). Very good gin-rummy players compete at concentration gin, in which you see your hand at the deal but play it face down thereafter. Those games came to be because their proponents had become too good at the orthodox forms and had run out of action. No doubt that's how front-to-back and rail-first were originally hatched too.
But I frankly doubt you'll see either one again. Even conventional 3-C is fighting for its life in this country; as for front-to-back, one-pocket action is still fairly widespread, but, thanks in good measure to casinos and computers, the range of customers is vastly diluted. The two games were initially created for the best of the best. And time has seen to it that there just aren't that many bests anymore.


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package com.github.rholder.fauxflake.provider.boundary;

import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;

public class FlakeEncodingProviderTest {

    @Test
    public void notImplemented() {
        try {
            new FlakeEncodingProvider(1).encodeAsLong(1, 1);
            Assert.fail("Expected UnsupportedOperationException");
        } catch (UnsupportedOperationException e) {
            Assert.assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("Long value not supported"));
        }
    }
}


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import java.util.*;
import java.util.function.Predicate;

abstract class Test {
  public long countTweetsLongerThan(int numberOfChars, final List<String> tweetList) {
    //numberOfChars = 100; //TODO uncomment to show it must be effectively final

    long totalByFor = 0;
    for (String tweet : tweetList) {
      if (tweet.length() > numberOfChars) {
        totalByFor++;
      }
    }

    final ArrayList<String> guavaList = newArrayList(filter(tweetList, new Predicate<String>() {
      @Override
      public boolean test(String tweet) {
        return false;
      }
    }));
    final long totalFromGuava = guavaList.size();

    final long totalFromLambda = tweetList.stream()
      .filter(t -> t.length() > numberOfChars)
      .count();

    if (totalByFor != totalFromLambda | totalByFor != totalFromGuava) {
      throw new RuntimeException("");
    }
    return totalFromLambda;
  }

  abstract <E> ArrayList<E> newArrayList(Iterable<? extends E> elements);
  abstract <E> ArrayList<E> newArrayList();
  abstract <E> ArrayList<E> newArrayList(E... elements);

  abstract <T> Iterable<T> filter(Iterable<T> unfiltered, Predicate<? super T> predicate);
  abstract <T> Iterable<T> filter(Iterable<?> unfiltered, Class<T> type);

}


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Discussion in 'News & Announcements' started by Dr Ray, Apr 17, 2019 at 1:43 AM.
Man in Victoria (south east mainland Australia) was attacked by his pet deer when he went to feed it.
He subsequently died from injuries. The species of deer is unknown but probably a Sambar deer. These deer are big can weigh around 230 kgs (over 500 lbs) and in fact are heavier than a male lion.
Just shows you that these animals can never be truly domesticated.
I also hear that the mans wife was injured and saved by their son who hit the deer with a lump of wood.
Depending on which news service one listens to, the deer was either a red deer or a red deer / wapiti cross. In the published photos it looks more like a red than a cross. Most people with experience know that male deer in particular can't be domesticated and become highly aggressive during the rut. Being raised as a pet they have no fear of man. Sadly, all too many people with no idea buy a hobby farm and come to grief one way or the other.
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Allison Temple led the Bruins with a 7-over 79 in Monday's opening round.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -- Led by sophomore Allison Temple, the Bellevue University women's golf team is currently in 12th place in the 19-team Susie Maxwell Berning Classic being played at the 5,900-yard, par-72 Lincoln Park Golf Club.
Host Oklahoma City University leads the field after shooting a team score of 7-over par 295. Texas Wesleyan is seven strokes back at 302. The Bruins recorded a team total of 332, paced by Temple's 7-over 79. Temple is currently tied for 32nd in the 108-player field.
Kim Moore carded an opening round of 8-over 80, putting her in a tie for 37th place.
Bri Stagge and Madison Brooks both finished with 10-over 82's on the day, good for a tie for 53rd place.
Murray State's Brooke Irion leads the individual field at 1-under par. William Penn's Elisa Warne is one stroke back at even par.
Tuesday's final round will begin with an 8 a.m. shotgun start.


Sarah Dorothy Lynch is a sophomore at Marist College studying Journalism and Public Relations with a passion for writing, travel, and bread (all varieties). If she ever met Emma Stone, she would likely keel over.
Meghan Markle: a Princess in More Ways Than One!
These four household names have clearly and unequivocally declared, through their actions and words, their respect for women.
It should be National Dress Your Pet in a Raincoat Day everyday.


Yuzu Sushi Co. in Royal Oak is Michigan's first sushi burrito and poke concept restaurant. The restaurant marked its one-year anniversary last month. Owner and chef Mario Gojcaj says he is looking for a second location to expand.
The sushi burrito and poke bowl concept was first inspired by California restaurants in 2012. More than 200 restaurants in California now serve sushi burritos and poke bowls. This type of menu is everywhere now — in the Middle East, France and New York.
Yuzu Sushi Co. is 100 percent Mario's creation. "All this artwork has been designed by me. The menu, the signage, the logo, the name; literally, I have done every single thing," he says.
The name Yuzu comes from a citrus fruit imported from Japan that is used in the signature sauce. The place is clean, fresh and new. It looks like a franchise operation, but the food is a dead giveaway that this is not your typical fast food. It is well thought out with quality ingredients put together to suit each guest's taste. The menu is tight, but diverse, with offerings like the Lox Roll with smoked salmon and cream cheese, chicken satay or unagi with BBQ eel.
The sushi burritos are the same as the rolls you are familiar with except they are about 12 ounces, cut in half and eaten by hand, like a burrito. This is a great "hand-held" option to satisfy your sushi craving when you are on the go.
Rice bowls are another fresh option; they include the same ingredients as the large rolls only in a bowl. Yuzu Sushi also specializes in several different styles of poke bowls. You choose your protein and customize it, and Mario puts that on of a bed of romaine lettuce, adds a serving of rice, and garnishes of thinly sliced radish and pickled ginger. The sushi burritos, rice bowls and poke are all made to order.
I tasted the Hawaiian poke bowl with a sampling of raw tuna and salmon and steamed shrimp, and I was surprised by the big taste and satisfied by the portion.
Mario was born and raised in Michigan, but went to culinary school in Manhattan. He has been the sous chef for some of the best chefs in the world, and all his experience is in fine dining.
He eventually moved back to Michigan and worked in high-end restaurants in Birmingham, Rochester and Grosse Pointe before opening Yuzu Sushi Co.
Do you have a food allergy? Mario happens to be somewhat of an expert in creating dishes for people with food allergies. Come in and talk with him about your specifications; he is almost always there.
"I think any restaurant requires a ton of devotion," Mario says.
Yuzu Sushi Co. offers dine-in, carry-out and catering options for customers and can be available for off-site events with timely notification.


If you are operating a wood processing plant, then one of the key things that you need to look for is the machine wear parts. For the wood grinder to operate effectively, you need to the condition of cutter tools. Among these tools is the hammer mill hammer. This is one of the parts that do the actual shredding of the wood to produce finer chips. Whether you are buying a replacement or buying new hammer mill hammers, there are key things that you need to look out for. These are the features that make a hammer mill hammer.
The first and the most critical thing that you need to consider when it comes to hammer mill hammers is the construction material. That is because it is the part of the machine that does the actual cutting of the wood to produce chips. Therefore, the kind of the material used for the hammer must withstand the high impact. The material must also with the high rate of wear and abrasion which common with wood grinder wear parts.
The best material for the hammer mill hammers is the alloy steel for the body and the tungsten carbide for the tip. These are special types of metals that offer the machine with incredible strength and hardness. That why hammer mill hammers constructed from these materials are incredibly durable. That is because they offer high resistance to abrasive wear.
If you have a small budget, but you still want to get the most out these tools, then you need to consider other alternatives that offer greatly quality. One of the best alternatives that you can pick from is the tungsten carbide hardfaced hammer mill hammers. These are the kind of hammers that are constructive from relatively lower quality material but are coated with tungsten carbide. This is the kind of hammer that will give you the same services and are chipper.
The last of the three features is the size of the hammer mill hammers. This is important especially for those going for replacements. You must ensure that you are gotten the correct size for your grinder. Check the user and technical manual to ensure that you are getting the right tool. That is a critical factor that will determine the effectiveness of your machine.


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Rubella Diagnosis
Diagnosis of rubella infection in nonimmune individuals.
Pregnant woman who is exposed to rubella or who develops signs and symptoms of rubella infection.
For those without documented immunization, serological screening is not recommended.
Serological testing before or after immunization is unnecessary and not indicated.
Woman without a prior record of immunization who are tested and found to be non-immune serologically should be vaccinated with one dose of rubella-containing vaccine (MMR) in the immediate post-partum period and before discharge from hospital. They need not be screened for rubella antibodies either after immunization or in subsequent pregnancies, since they are likely protected against congenital rubella syndrome.
IgM, IgG Enzyme-Linked
Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA)
Rubella IgM
Rubella IgG
Human sera or EDTA/heparinized/citrated plasma
Container/Tube: Plain, red-top tube(s) or serum gel tube(s)/ Serum
separator tubes
Specimen Volume: 0.5 mL of serum
Specimen Minimum Volume: 0.5 mL serum
*The samples should be stored for not more than 14 days at 2-8°C.
**For longer delay remove from clot. Red blood cells or separator gel and freeze at < -10°C and transport on dry ice.
Specimens other than Serum (EDTA, Heparin, Citrate) or plasma
Hemolysis OK, gross REJECT
Rubella, or German measles, is an acute exanthematous viral infection of children and adults. The clinical illness is characterized by rash, fever, and lymphadenopathy and resembles a mild case of measles. Although many infections with the agent are subclinical, this virus has the potential to cause fetal infection, with resultant birth defects like congenital heart disease and mental retardation, and (uncommonly, but especially in adults) various forms of arthritis.
Antibody levels developed in response to earlier generations of rubella vaccines declined over time but this may not have clinical significance since any detectable antibody generally protects against viremic infection, thereby protecting the fetus. Rarely, transient viremia can occur in people who have natural disease or prior immunization, but transmission to the fetus in this circumstance is believed to be rare. Subsequent to the introduction of two-dose MMR vaccine, failure is predicted to be less than for earlier monovalent rubella vaccines. Infection in a previously immune mother (secondary vaccine failure) is rare.
Since introduction of the rubella vaccine in 1969 and the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine in 1972, rubella incidence is rare. A total of 9 cases of rubella were reported to the CDC in 2004, and only 4 cases of congenital rubella syndrome were reported between 2001 and 2004. Due to the success of the national vaccination program, rubella is no longer considered endemic in the US. Despite the possibility of worldwide rubella eradication, rubella remains endemic in many countries.
Rubella was first described in the 18th century and was accepted as a disease independent of measles and scarlet fever in 1881. A number of small, enveloped viruses having the same overall genetic organization and replication strategy as rubella virus exist, and they are grouped into the Togaviridae family. The Togaviridae family consists of the Rubivirus genus, containing only rubella virus, and the Alphavirus genus, containing about 25 other viruses, all of which are transmitted by arthropods (e.g., western equine encephalitis virus). Rubella virus has a restricted host range and appears to infect only humans.
Non-immuneindividuals: NONREACTIVE
Immuneindividuals: REACTIVE
The Rubella IgG test is standardized to the World Health Organization (WHO) 1st International Standard (RUBI-1-94) for anti-rubella immunoglobulin.
Rubella IgM Reactive: A reactive result may occur with rubella infection or after vaccination. Possible cross-reactivity with primary EBV, CMV or hepatitis A cannot be excluded.
Non-reactive: A non-reactive result does not exclude early active infection. If clinically indicated submit a follow-up specimen.
Anti-rubella IgM may not be detected in previously vaccinated infected individuals. To confirm active infection virus detection is recommended.
Indeterminate: Specimen produced results near the cut-off (indeterminate), please submit a follow up specimen 1 – 2 weeks to resolve.
≥ 10 IU/ml is REACTIVE/considered protective for rubella infection.
NOTE: Any rubella IgG titer, if previously vaccinated, is sufficient for preventing CRS. There is no need for further evaluation.
< 10 IU/ml is NEGATIVE/considered not protective for Rubella
Abbott. 2009. Architect System Rubella IgG: package insert. Abbott Laboratories, Wiesbaden.
Bellini, W. J., and Icenogle, J. P. 2007. Measles and Rubella Viruses, p. 1378-1391. In Murray, P. R., Baron, E. J., Jorgensen, J. H., Landry, M. L., and Pfaller, M. A. Manual of Clinical Microbiology, 9th ed., vol. 2. ASM Press, American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC.
Canadian Paediatric Society. Prevention of congenital rubella syndrome. Paediatr Child Health 2007;12(9):795-797.
Clinical Practice Obstetrics Committee. Rubella in Pregnancy. J Obstet Gynaecol Can 2008;30(2):152-158.
Gershon, A. A. 2010. Rubella Virus (German Measles), p. 2127-2132. In Mandell, D., Bennett, J. E., and Dolin, R. Principles and practice of infectious diseases, 7th ed., vol. 2. Churchill Livingstone, Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA.
National Advisory Committee on Immunization. 2006. Canadian Immunization Guide, 7th Ed. Public Health Agency of Canada.
Status Days Analytic
Time Maximum
Routine Mon, Wed, Fri 24h 72h 1 month
Quantitative chemiluminescent microparticle immunoassay (CMIA)


Mick has had a couple of rough years with injuries. But in-between those injuries he's come through with some great footage for this video.
Jack was invited to the China X-Games this year so this morning he is jumping on a plane and spending a week there for the comp. Best of luck brother, enjoy!
The crew at Backbone have been hard at work filming for their DVD for the past 3 years and it's all coming to completion very soon.
Be sure to hit up the ACT JAM in June for a great weekend and the premiere of the dvd. A large portion of the Colony Team will be in town for the weekend, should be a blast !!
You should know that Nick Richardson is the man behind iconic Colony signature products like the Bloody Oath Frame & Bars & the Gnarkill Frame & Bars. Since leaving the BMX world a few years ago, he has been killing it with his own brand – Tide Apparel.
I for one, am so stoked to see Nick have great success from his hard work over the recent years with the brand. Bloody proud of ya Richo !!
Check out this interview below about what he has been up too the last few years. Go give him a follow on Instagram @tideapparel & grab a shirt or two on his website here now.
Clint Millar recently put together a prototype 2016 model Prody Frame for his brand of mini ramp riding.
There a few changes on this Prody Frame over last years special limited edition release. Namely chain stay mounted brakes being the biggest change but still plenty of room with 25-9T gearing for brakes. The production frames will have a few small changes again from this sample here giving a different look in detail again.
New items like the 2016 Prody Frame & the Cadiz Sprocket will be available worldwide from August onwards.
Nathan and myself have some images on DIG from the pool missions we did whilst I was in California recently, hit the link to see the gallery.
Brandon is all healed up from his crash in California recently and back on the bike! This Instagram video shows he is definitely back on it.Follow him on Instagram for more clips and epic scenery shots.
I traveled to Adelaide for the Easter long weekend to hang out and ride with some interstate friends from Eat Children Crew. I got to ride a few parks and street spots that I hadn't ridden before which was a treat and hanging out with those dudes is always a good time. I also filmed a bunch of clips with Rhys, Doug and Moz and some little instavideos which you can see below.
Thanks to Rhys, Liam, Tony and Moz for letting me stay at their houses and driving me about to ride!
Follow @bobbiealtiser on Instagram for more video's and randomness from his life in Missouri.
Good to see Alex back killing it in this FOX video that dropped today, loved the tooth to tuck he does at Bondi, so awesome!
Just wanted to check in on what has been going down the last month. Cooper was over in the states with Polly and we did a really fun trip to Fresno. Had a blast doing a Jam at the Fresno park with a good solid amount of locals showing up. Threw out some Colony, Division Brand and Locals Only product. I definitely get a little crazy when it comes to product tosses! ( Hahaha ) The last week Cooper was in the states we went on crazy pool missions and started an IG official pool crew! The SBPBOYS! Also finished filming for a new Colony edit that I'm very excited about and should be dropping in the next month. Did a fun project with my best friend and room mate Matt Cordova that I'm super stoked on too! Lots going on always and more to come in the next months!
Just wanted to check in and let everyone know that I'm heading up north to Sydney for a week over the Easter break. I'll be traveling for a few days from Melbourne riding around and then riding around parks in Sydney and the outer suburbs. After that it's onto Canberra to catch up with friends and ride some parks.
If you see me, don't be shy and come say hello and have a ride. I'll be tripping solo so company for a ride is always awesome.
Can't wait to catch up and have some good sessions!
Our last limited edition colour of frame, fork, stem & headset kits for the 2015 season, is Neon Green. Only 2 of each of these were made for the planet. One of each being available in Australia now & the other one of each model, in the USA in a couple weeks. Jump to it fast if you want some brightness in your life.


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RSF Author Catherine Lee Discusses the Role of Families in U.S. Immigration Policies, Past and Present
Today, roughly 70 percent of all visas for legal immigration are reserved for family members of permanent residents or American citizens. Family reunification—policies that seek to preserve family unity during or following migration—is a central pillar of current immigration law, but it has existed in some form in American statutes since at least the mid-nineteenth century. In her 2013 RSF book, Fictive Kinship: Family Reunification and the Meaning of Race and Nation in American Immigration, sociologist Catherine Lee delves into the fascinating history of family reunification to examine how and why our conceptions of family have shaped immigration, the meaning of race, and the way we see ourselves as a country.
In a new interview with the Foundation, Lee discusses some of the groundbreaking research from her book and offers recommendations for future immigration policies. To learn more about Fictive Kinship or to purchase a copy, click here.
Q. As you point out in your book, family reunification has long been a guiding theme of U.S. immigration policy and has significantly influenced the changing demographics of the country. Can you give some examples of how family reunification policies have shaped the way we think about race and ethnicity in the U.S. today?
Family reunification—that is, provisions aimed at preserving or supporting family unity during or following migration—has been a constant in American immigration history, even before there were official policies in place. When family reunification was denied to earlier immigrant groups, the absence of permanent family settlement emboldened the view that they were inassimilable or un-American. Since passage of the Hart-Celler Act in 1965, which ended national origins policy and emphasized family reunification, family-sponsored immigration has become the central pathway to legal immigration to the United States, representing about two-thirds of total documented immigration. When family members of skilled immigrants and diversity lottery winners are included, family-sponsored immigration represents an even larger percentage of total legal immigration. Family reunification also has changed the racial and ethnic make-up of the United States by altering the demographic streams of entry. Although Europe was the dominant continental source of immigrants for much of U.S. history, the majority of family-sponsored immigrants today come from Asia and Latin America. In addition, for the first time since the United States began counting immigrants in 1819, immigrants from Africa outnumbered Europeans from 2008 to 2011. These changing immigration patterns are transforming our ideas about what a typical American is or about what minority and majority mean.
Q. In immigration debates, people don't often focus in-depth on gender, but you argue that gendered labor shapes how we understand the relationship between family and nation. Can you elaborate on how women's reproductive work has historically played a role in immigration policies?
Women's reproductive work has played important physical and figurative roles in immigration policies and debates surrounding them. I discuss the historical significance of this in chapter three of the book. In the 19th century, traditional ideas about gender roles and marriage tied women's nationality first, to her father and second, to her husband, denying them an independent nationality. Politicians, intellectuals, and moral reformers at the time both idealized and demonized women's reproductive role in the family and the nation. They revered women's work in producing proper citizen children if the women were white and middle class and castigated them for propagating too many children and overrunning the nation if they were racially undesirable. These sorts of claims helped politicians to pass exclusionary laws against Asians and Europeans from southern and eastern Europe. We see similar cries against Latina women today for birthing what exclusionists argue are "anchor babies." Such rhetoric helps to fuel policies that shape, amongst other matters, access to healthcare provisions for poor immigrant women.
Q. You argue that family is fictively constructed, and that the definition of family has changed over time, with consequences for immigration policies. What are some historical examples that show how the meaning of family has shifted along with immigration policy?
When I argue that family is fictively constructed, I mean that there is no one "true" definition of family. Its meaning, like other concepts of relatedness such as race or nation, is socially constructed. How we define family has a tremendous effect on a broad range of social policy issues. For policy purposes, the U.S. government has defined family with some variability so that we have had at times more multi-generational ideas about family to more nuclear conceptions. There is a dynamic relationship between definitions of family and immigration policies affecting families. As I state above, traditional ideas about gender and marriage tied women's opportunities to immigrate to their husbands. Since the Hart-Celler Act, the United States has provided a separate preference status for brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens. Many Asian and Latino immigrants and their advocates have argued that their definition of family is broader than a nuclear one and therefore includes siblings and parents. More recently, heteronormative ideals about marriage and family prohibited gays and lesbians in same-sex relationships from sponsoring their partners for immigration. The Supreme Court's decision in 2013 to strike down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which blocked federal recognition of same-sex marriage, was a legal coda to the shifting political and social views about gay marriage over the last two decades. For immigration purposes, family now includes same-sex marriages, and gays and lesbians may sponsor their same-sex spouses.
Q. The U.S. has just concluded a year marked by record deportations and a Congress deadlock on immigration reform. How is the notion of family guiding current immigration debates?
The notion of family plays an important emotional role in current immigration debates, like it has in previous ones. Regardless of the policy supported or legislated, no politician has ever opposed supporting families. Of course, the details are important. How will we address the needs of families seeking to reunite and face challenges in other areas of the current policy, including ensuring continued migration of skilled workers, fulfilling needs for regular flows of agricultural workers, and bringing the estimated 11.7 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States out of the shadows?
The bipartisan bill passed by the Senate on June 27, 2013 proposes to change the current immigration policy emphasizing family reunification to one that balances merit-based immigration and family reunification. Currently, 480,000 visas (about 70 percent) a year are reserved for family reunification and 140,000 (about 20 percent) for employment-based immigrants. The Senate bill would maintain the annual worldwide level of family-based immigrant visas at 480,000 a year and allocate between 120,000 and 250,000 visas for merit or skill-based point system. While the bill would expand the category of "immediate relatives" by including spouses and children of legal permanent residents, it would reduce the annual floor of family-based immigrant visas from 226,000 to 161,000 and eliminate the visa category for siblings of U.S. citizens, forcing many immigrants with family ties in the United States to apply through the merit-based system.
These are just the proposed policy changes. As it has in previous debates surrounding immigration reform, how politicians talk about family—what it means and what roles it ought to play in our changing nation—will undoubtedly shape the parameters of the debate and the policies that are ultimately forged. Stories about separated families are helping to frame the current immigration system as broken. For example, because of over-subscribed visas, there are legal permanent residents who have waited years to be reunited with their spouses and children. Thus, there is widespread support for altering the current family preference categories—to limit, for example, sponsorship to immediate family members identified as spouses and unmarried children under 21 of legal immigrants already in the United States, thereby altering the definition of family to a nuclear one by dropping current family sponsorship categories for siblings.
In addition, supporters for providing a pathway to legalization for unauthorized immigrants have stressed that these immigrants' unauthorized status leave them and their families vulnerable, including the estimated 16.6 million persons who live in mixed-status families—households that include members who may be citizen, legal permanent resident, or unauthorized. More than 80 percent of the children in such families are U.S. born citizens—an estimated 4.5 million children in 2011. Offering a path to legal status for unauthorized immigrants would have a huge impact on a significantly larger number of individuals, including many who are legal residents and citizens.
Q. House Speaker John Boehner recently indicated that he might be willing to strike a deal with Democrats on immigration reform in 2014. What are some of the most meaningful changes the Obama administration could implement to benefit immigrant families?
First and foremost, President Obama could change the administration's policy on detention and deportation. He can direct Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop detaining and deporting noncriminals and minors, many of whom have been ensnared by administration-supported programs like Secure Communities, which conducts immigration checks on individuals arrested by state and local law enforcement agencies. The Obama administration has deported around 400,000 persons per year, more than any previous administration. These actions separate families and leave those left behind in the United States especially vulnerable. Between 2010 and 2012, 200,000 parents of U.S. citizen children were deported, and over 5,000 children are now in foster care. By 2016, more than 15,000 children are expected to join them. With his record pace of deportations, President Obama has been able to claim that he has been tough about security and border control. It provides political leverage against conservative lawmakers who want to see stricter border enforcement prior to expanding immigration or offering a pathway to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants. Obviously, the problem is that these deportations separate families, many of which include citizen spouses and/or children.
The administration can also ensure that immigrant families, particularly those with children, are receiving social benefits to which they are entitled. Research shows that many legal immigrant families and mixed-status families avoid accessing social welfare programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program out of fear that they will attract unwanted attention from immigration officials. In addition, as Americans sign up to participate in the health insurance exchange made possible by the Affordable Care Act, the administration can help to sign up individuals who qualify, including eligible children who are U.S. citizens but whose parents are unauthorized immigrants.
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My Paper Crafting.com: CWC #117: Bundle up, Baby!
CWC #117: Bundle up, Baby!
Happy Wednesday and welcome to our weekly "Crafts With Cutters" Challenge! This week we're all bundled up, 'cause baby, it's cold outside! Our fabulous Design Team members have created projects featuring winter attire -- mittens, scarves, boots, etc.
Here is what they created . . .
Check out the super cute "wobble" action on this card!
Close up of snow"girl" paper piecing.
Thanks so much for joining us for our weekly challenge. Don't forget to click on the Designer's name to travel to their blog for more details on their fantastic projects and to leave an encouraging word or two. We hope you'll join us Friday for our weekly Digi Desserts Fridaze!
Cute projects DT!! It's gonna be super cold here this week brrr!


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Mission: Impossible (film)
For other uses, see Mission: Impossible (disambiguation).
Mission: Impossible is a 1996 American action spy film[4] directed by Brian De Palma and produced by and starring Tom Cruise. A continuation of both the original television series of the same name and its revived sequel series (and set six years after the latter show), it is the first installment in the Mission: Impossible film series. Its plot follows Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his mission to uncover the mole who has framed him for the murders of his entire Impossible Missions Force (IMF) team.
Paula Wagner
Screenplay by
Robert Towne
Steven Zaillian
by Bruce Geller
Henry Czerny
Emmanuelle Béart
Stephen H. Burum
Paul Hirsch
Paramount Pictures[1]
May 22, 1996 (1996-05-22)
$80 million[3]
$457.7 million[3]
Work on the script had begun early with filmmaker Sydney Pollack on board, before De Palma, Steven Zaillian, David Koepp, and Robert Towne were brought in. Mission: Impossible went into pre-production without a shooting script: De Palma devised several action sequences, but Koepp and Towne were dissatisfied with the story that led up to those events. U2 band members Larry Mullen Jr. and Adam Clayton produced a dance rendition of the original theme music, which became a top-ten hit in the US (receiving gold record certification) and six other countries and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.
Mission: Impossible was a commercial and critical success upon its release, eventually becoming the third highest-grossing film of 1996 along with a mostly positive response from critics. Its success spawned the Mission: Impossible film series.
Jim Phelps and his latest Impossible Missions Force (IMF) team are dispatched to stop the theft of the CIA non-official cover (NOC) list from the American embassy in Prague. Their mission fails: the list is stolen, Phelps is shot, his wife Claire dies in a car bombing, and the rest of the team except Ethan Hunt are eliminated by unknown assassins and supposed tech malfunctions. Meeting with IMF director Eugene Kittridge, Hunt reveals his awareness of a second IMF team sent to monitor them, and learns the job was a setup to lure out a mole within the IMF, who is believed to be working with an arms dealer known as "Max" as part of "Job 314." As Hunt is the only member left, Kittridge suspects him of being the mole, and Hunt flees.
Returning to the Prague safe house, Hunt realizes "Job 314" refers to Bible verse Job 3:14, "Job" being the mole's code name. Claire arrives at the safe house, explaining she escaped the bomb after Phelps aborted the mission. Hunt arranges a meeting with Max, and warns her that she has been given a fake list on a disc equipped with a tracking device. He promises to deliver the real list in return for $10 million and Job's identity. Max and her agents escape, taking Hunt with them, just before a CIA team raids their location.
Hunt and Claire recruit two disavowed IMF agents: computer expert Luther Stickell and pilot Franz Krieger. They infiltrate CIA headquarters in Langley, steal the real list, and flee to London. Kittridge, detecting the theft, has Hunt's mother and uncle falsely arrested for drug trafficking. He provides media coverage of the arrest, forcing Hunt to contact him from Liverpool Street Station. Hunt allows the CIA to trace him to London before hanging up, but is surprised to find Phelps nearby. Phelps recounts surviving the shooting, naming Kittridge as the mole. Hunt realizes Phelps is the mole, having stolen a Bible with a Gideon stamp from Chicago's Drake Hotel during a previous assignment known to Hunt's team. Hunt also suspects Krieger as the one who killed the other IMF members in Prague, having recognized his distinctive knife; however, he is unsure whether Claire was involved. Hunt arranges with Max to exchange the list aboard the TGV train to Paris the next day and secretly sends tickets to Kittridge.
On the train, Hunt remotely directs Max to the list. Max verifies it and directs Hunt to the baggage car, where he can find both the money and Job. Hunt calls Claire and tells her to meet him there. Meanwhile, Stickell uses a jamming device to prevent Max from uploading the data to her servers. Claire reaches the baggage car, finds Phelps and tells him Hunt will arrive shortly. She questions the idea of killing Hunt, since they will need a fall guy, but Phelps reveals himself to be Hunt in a mask, exposing her as a co-conspirator. When the real Phelps arrives and takes the money at gunpoint, Hunt dons a pair of video glasses that relays Phelps' image to Kittridge, blowing Phelps' cover as the mole.
Phelps threatens to kill Hunt, but shoots Claire instead when she intervenes. He climbs to the roof of the train, where Krieger is waiting with a helicopter and a tether. Hunt connects the tether to the train itself, forcing the helicopter into the Channel Tunnel after the train. Hunt places an explosive chewing gum on the helicopter windshield, killing Krieger and Phelps. Kittridge arrests Max and recovers the list, then reinstates Hunt and Stickell as IMF agents. Hunt is unsure about returning to the team, but on the flight home, an attendant uses a coded phrase to ask him if he is ready to take on a new mission.
Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt
Jon Voight as Jim Phelps
Emmanuelle Béart as Claire Phelps
Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell
Vanessa Redgrave as Max
Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge
Jean Reno as Franz Krieger
Kristin Scott Thomas as Sarah Davies
Emilio Estevez as Jack Harmon
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė as Hannah Williams
Karel Dobrý as Matthias
Marcel Iureş as Alexander Golitsyn
Rolf Saxon as CIA analyst William Donloe
Olegar Fedoro as Kiev agent
Dale Dye as Frank Barnes
Development and writingEdit
Paramount Pictures owned the rights to the television series and had tried for years to make a film version but had failed to come up with a viable treatment. Tom Cruise had been a fan of the show since he was young and thought that it would be a good idea for a film.[5] The actor chose Mission: Impossible to be the first project of his new production company and convinced Paramount to put up a $70 million budget.[6] Cruise and his producing partner, Paula Wagner, worked on a story with filmmaker Sydney Pollack for a few months when the actor hired Brian De Palma to direct.[7] They went through two screenplay drafts that no one liked. De Palma brought in screenwriters Steve Zaillian, David Koepp, and finally Robert Towne. When the film was green-lit Koepp was initially fired with Robert Towne being the lead writer and Koepp being brought back on later.[8] According to the director, the goal of the script was to "constantly surprise the audience."[7] Reportedly, Koepp was paid $1 million to rewrite an original script by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz. According to one project source, there were problems with dialogue and story development. However, the basic plot remained intact.[9]
The film went into pre-production without a script that the filmmakers wanted to use.[7] De Palma designed the action sequences but neither Koepp nor Towne were satisfied with the story that would make these sequences take place. Towne ended up helping organize a beginning, middle and end to hang story details on while De Palma and Koepp worked on the plot.[7] De Palma convinced Cruise to set the first act of the film in Prague, a city rarely seen in Hollywood films at the time.[6] Reportedly, studio executives wanted to keep the film's budget in the $40–50 million range, but Cruise wanted a "big, showy action piece" that took the budget up to the $62 million range.[9] The scene that takes place in a glass-walled restaurant with a big lobster tank in the middle and three huge fish tanks overhead was Cruise's idea.[6] There were 16 tons in all of the tanks and there was a concern that when they detonated, a lot of glass would fly around. De Palma tried the sequence with a stuntman, but it did not look convincing and he asked Cruise to do it, despite the possibility that the actor could have drowned.[6]
The script that Cruise approved called for a final showdown to take place on top of a moving train. The actor wanted to use the famously fast French train the TGV[6] but rail authorities did not want any part of the stunt performed on their trains.[7] When that was no longer a problem, the track was not available. De Palma visited railroads on two continents trying to get permission.[7] Cruise took the train owners out to dinner and the next day they were allowed to use it.[6] For the actual sequence, the actor wanted wind that was so powerful that it could knock him off the train. Cruise had difficulty finding the right machine that would create the wind velocity that would look visually accurate before remembering a simulator he used while training as a skydiver. The only machine of its kind in Europe was located and acquired. Cruise had it produce winds up to 140 miles per hour so it would distort his face.[6] Exterior shots of the train were filmed on the Glasgow South Western Line, between New Cumnock, Dumfries and Annan. Most of the sequence, however, was filmed on a stage against a blue screen for later digitizing by the visual effects team at Industrial Light & Magic.[10]
The filmmakers delivered the film on time and under budget, a rarity in Hollywood, with Cruise doing most of his own stunts.[5] Initially, there was a sophisticated opening sequence that introduced a love triangle between Jim Phelps, his wife Claire and Ethan Hunt that was removed because it took the test audience "out of the genre", according to De Palma.[7] There were rumors that the actor and De Palma did not get along and they were fueled by the director excusing himself at the last moment from scheduled media interviews before the film's theatrical release.[5]
Main article: Mission: Impossible (soundtrack)
The film uses Lalo Schifrin's original "Theme from Mission: Impossible". Originally, Alan Silvestri was hired to write the film's score and had, in fact, recorded somewhere around 23 minutes of the score.[citation needed] During post-production, due to creative differences, Silvestri's music was rejected and replaced with new music by composer Danny Elfman.[citation needed] According to some sources, the decision to replace Silvestri was made by producer Tom Cruise.[11]
U2 bandmates Larry Mullen, Jr. and Adam Clayton were fans of the TV show and knew the original theme music well, but were nervous about remaking Schifrin's legendary theme song.[12] Clayton put together his own version in New York City and Mullen did his in Dublin on weekends between U2 recording sessions. The two musicians were influenced by Brian Eno and the European dance club scene sound of the recently finished album Passengers. They allowed Polygram to pick its favorite and they wanted both. In a month, they had two versions of the song and five remixed by DJs. All seven tracks appeared on a limited edition vinyl release.[12]
The song entered the top 10 of music charts around the world, was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance in 1997, and was a critical and commercial success.[citation needed]
MarketingEdit
Apple Computer had a $15 million promotion linked to the film that included a game, print ads and television spot featuring scenes from the TV show turned into the feature film; dealer and in-theater promos; and a placement of Apple personal computers in the film. This was an attempt on Apple's part to improve their image after posting a $740 million loss in its fiscal second quarter.[13]
Original television series castEdit
Several cast members of the original television series that ran from 1966–73, reacted negatively to the film.
Actor Greg Morris, who portrayed Barney Collier in the original television series, was reportedly disgusted with the film's treatment of the Phelps character, and he walked out of the theater before the film ended.[14] Peter Graves, who played Jim Phelps in the original series as well as in the late-1980s revival, also disliked how Phelps turned out in the film.[15]
Martin Landau, who portrayed Rollin Hand in the original series, expressed his own disapproval concerning the film. In an MTV interview in October 2009, Landau stated, "When they were working on an early incarnation of the first one — not the script they ultimately did — they wanted the entire team to be destroyed, done away with one at a time, and I was against that. It was basically an action-adventure movie and not Mission. Mission was a mind game. The ideal mission was getting in and getting out without anyone ever knowing we were there. So the whole texture changed. Why volunteer to essentially have our characters commit suicide? I passed on it ... The script wasn't that good either!"[16]
Mission: Impossible opened on May 22, 1996 in a then-record 3,012 theaters, becoming the first film to be released to over 3,000 theaters in the United States, and broke the record for a film opening on Wednesday with US$11.8 million, beating the $11.7 million Terminator 2: Judgment Day made in 1991.[17] The film also set house records in several theaters around the United States.[18] Mission: Impossible grossed $75 million in its first six days, surpassing Jurassic Park, and took in more than $56 million over the four-day Memorial Day weekend, beating out The Flintstones.[19] Cruise deferred his usual $20 million fee for a significant percentage of the box office.[19] The film went on to make $180.9 million in North America and $276.7 million in the rest of the world for a worldwide total of $457.6 million.[20]
Critical responseEdit
Mission: Impossible received mainly positive reviews from critics. The film has a 63% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 57 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10, with the critical consensus reading, "Full of special effects, Brian De Palma's update of Mission: Impossible has a lot of sweeping spectacle, but the plot is sometimes convoluted".[21] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 59 out of 100, based on 29 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[22] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[23] Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars and wrote, "This is a movie that exists in the instant, and we must exist in the instant to enjoy it."[24] In his review for The New York Times, Stephen Holden addressed the film's convoluted plot: "If that story doesn't make a shred of sense on any number of levels, so what? Neither did the television series, in which basic credibility didn't matter so long as its sci-fi popular mechanics kept up the suspense."[25] Mike Clark of USA Today gave the film three out of four stars and said that it was "stylish, brisk but lacking in human dimension despite an attractive cast, the glass is either half-empty or half-full here, though the concoction goes down with ease."[26]
However, Hal Hinson, in his review for The Washington Post, wrote, "There are empty thrills, and some suspense. But throughout the film, we keep waiting for some trace of personality, some color in the dialogue, some hipness in the staging or in the characters' attitudes. And it's not there."[27] Time magazine's Richard Schickel wrote, "What is not present in Mission: Impossible (which, aside from the title, sound-track quotations from the theme song and self-destructing assignment tapes, has little to do with the old TV show) is a plot that logically links all these events or characters with any discernible motives beyond surviving the crisis of the moment."[28] Writing for Entertainment Weekly, Owen Gleiberman gave the film a "B" rating and said, "The problem isn't that the plot is too complicated; it's that each detail is given the exact same nagging emphasis. Intriguing yet mechanistic, jammed with action yet as talky and dense as a physics seminar, the studiously labyrinthine Mission: Impossible grabs your attention without quite tickling your imagination."[29]
Awards Circuit Community Awards Best Film Editing Paul Hirsch Nominated
Best Sound Rob Bartlett
Christopher Boyes
Shawn Murphy
Gary Rydstrom
Tom Bellfort Nominated
Best Visual Effects Andrew Eio
John Knoll
Joe Letteri
George Murphy Nominated
Awards of the Japanese Academy Best Foreign Language Film N/A Nominated
BMI Film & TV Awards BMI Film Music award Danny Elfman Won
Golden Raspberry Awards Worst Written Film Grossing Over $100-Million David Koepp
Robert Towne Nominated
Golden Screen Awards N/A N/A Won
MTV Movie + TV Awards Best Action Sequence For the train-helicopter chase Nominated
MTV Video Music Awards Best Video from a Film "Theme from Mission: Impossible" Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen, Jr. Nominated
Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards Favorite Movie Actor Tom Cruise Nominated
Online Film & Television Association Awards Best Adapted Song "Theme from Mission: Impossible" Adam Clayton
Larry Mullen, Jr.
Lalo Schifrin Nominated
Best Sound Mixing Ron Bartlett
Gary Rydstrom Nominated
Best Sound Effects Editing Tom Bellfort & Christopher Boyes Nominated
Producers Guild of America Awards Most Promising Producer in Theatrical Motion Pictures Tom Cruise & Paula Wagner Won
Satellite Awards Best Film Editing Paul Hirsch Nominated
Saturn Awards Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film N/A Nominated
Mission: Impossible was released by Paramount Home Video on VHS on November 12, 1996 and DVD on January 17, 1998. The film was released on DVD again on April 11 2006, as a special collector's edition. A Blu-ray release followed on June 3 2008, a 4K UHD Blu-ray version was released on June 26 2018, offering upgraded picture and audio.[30]
SequelsEdit
Main articles: Mission: Impossible 2, Mission: Impossible III, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, and Mission: Impossible – Fallout
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