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Quinlan made me a mother.
She was a surprise from Day One. I'd only been married for twelve short weeks and I spent a Sunday afternoon at a baby shower for my friend Colleen. Now maybe there was something in the punch, but it seemed every one there was pregnant or toting a little tot around. At one point, someone joked that I was the only one left without a baby and when would I be getting started? I waved the comment away and laughed but in my mind I knew something was off.
I'd felt funny for a couple of days and anyone who is freshly pregnant knows what "funny" means. Funny that I was telling people we wanted to wait a while before having kids, funny that as I played Baby Bingo I was thinking about that generic pregnancy test in my bathroom cabinet. Funny, funny, funny.
I told Justin before I left for the shower that I thought I might be pregnant and being the level-headed man that he is, he barely flinched. I promised I'd take the pregnancy test when I got home from the shower and before my brother and his girlfriend arrived for dinner that night. So when I arrived home in my green tank top on a hot day in August, I went straight to the bathroom cabinet and fumbled with the wrapper and promised myself it would be negative.
It wasn't. Not even close. Those pink lines were so dark they may as well have been a flashing neon sign.
I stood there for a moment or two before my hands started shaking. I stared at that blessed peed-on pink stick and the fact that my brother would be arriving any second and where the heck is Justin at a time like this? (Upstairs.) I walked to the bottom of the steps and called for him and apparently the tone of my voice led him to believe I'd cut off a finger so when he realized I had all my extremities, he casually asked what was going on. I didn't even want to say it out loud, it felt crazy, it felt like pretend. I finally forced the words, "I'm pregnant," out of my lips and a huge, devilish grin graced my husband's face.
He looked positively delighted with himself. I burst into tears.
I told him I didn't want a baby right now and we'd only been married a couple of weeks and I wasn't happy about it. I woke up the next morning to two name-brand pregnancy tests, a card reminding me that children are a gift from the Lord, and a bottle of prenatal vitamins on the bathroom sink. Both tests were positive. Undeniably positive.
There were plenty of days where even pregnancy felt like a trick, like there really wasn't a baby kicking around in there and it was all in my head.
But after forty-one weeks and one day, my Quinlan arrived. She was really real. A real baby, a real person, and really mine.
It still feels like I'm playing house most days. Like perhaps she is someone else's baby and I'm just filling in until the real Mommy comes back from vacation. But every morning when I wake up and I hear her and smell her and kiss the very soft skin on the back of her neck, I'm so grateful for that hot August day when I became a mother.
I'm grateful for her at three a.m. when we're awake for another nursing session. I'm grateful for her on weekend mornings when I can bring her into the big bed and we all snuggle together. I'm grateful for my husband who made her with me and who tackles dirty diapers with gusto. I'm grateful for my own mother who is teaching me how to be a mother, because really, there's no one better at it than her.
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The show, airing at 10 p.m., will take viewers along as Butts and his team — who weld in all types of conditions, including underwater — put their lives on the line as they battle the elements and race to get jobs done on time and under budget.
And, since this is a reality show, it wouldn't be complete without the requisite supporting cast.
Here, the crew includes welder Scottie; Cooper, an ex-Marine who's returned to his native Alaska to seek his fortune; rookie welders Dean and Jameson; diver Duke; and George, a pipe-fitter who's considered "the brains" behind the entire operation.
In the first episode of the three-part series, "Dead in Water," Butts and his crew work around the clock to prepare Kodiak's fleet of boats for a new fishing season — with a huge storm lurking on the horizon and underwater welder Duke braving the icy waters to make his repairs.
The team is also called to the local cannery when it unexpectedly shuts — with a problem worse than expected and Quality Marine is relied on to save the day.
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When you take out a mortgage on a home, your lender will likely give you an amortization table or schedule. This document shows the amount of interest and principal included in each payment as well as the balance remaining after each payment. You can also calculate the remaining balance on your mortgage yourself if you know the annual percentage rate and the number of payments you have already made. The equation is a little complex, so it is easier to break it down into manageable pieces.
Divide the APR by 12 to get the monthly interest rate. Add one to the result and label this value "A."
APR = 6 percent
0.06/12 = 0.005 monthly interest rate
Raise "A" to the "nth" power, where "n" equals the total term of the mortgage in months. If you have to, multiply the term in years by 12 to get the term in months. Raise "A" to the "pth" power, where "p" is the total number of payments already made.
Assume 100 payments made.
30-year term = 30*12 = 360 months
A^n = (1.005)^360 = 6.02258
A^p = (1.005)^100 = 1.64667
Subtract A^p from A^n. Divide the result by A^n - 1.
A^n - A^p = 6.022575212 - 1.646668492 = 4.37590672
4.37590672 / (6.022575212 - 1) = 4.37590762 / 5.0225575212 = 0.871247624
Multiply the result by the original loan value to obtain the current loan balance.
Loan value = $250,000
Balance = 0.871247624 * 250000 = $217,811.91
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- Scientific or financial calculator
- If you want to evaluate the entire formula at once or program it into a calculator or spreadsheet, it is B = L[(1 + c)^n - (1 + c)^p]/[(1 + c)^n - 1], where "L" is the original loan value, "c" is the monthly interest rate, "n" is the term of the loan in months and "p" is the total number of payments made.
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By David Greenberg
Is too much stress being put on students these days to perform well on the SAT and ACT? Are standardized tests monopolizing real learning and education?
Theoretically the answer is no; realistically, the answer is yes.
How are college admissions officials supposed to evaluate schools' report cards? It would be impossible to accurately rate the difficulty of each schools curriculum and assess students' grades accordingly. Colleges are forced to use a system that
measures students abilities on a single plane.
Standardized tests allow colleges to see how students fare relative to one another. Advanced Placement (AP) Tests and SAT II Subject Tests give students the opportunity to shine in their particular fields.
As the application process becomes increasingly competitive, admissions counselors are going to place more emphasis on candidates' profiles and less emphasis on their test scores.
"Admissions counselors want to see a well-rounded, yet specialized individual," explains Ari Smith, regional director of Parliament Tutors. "Great SAT scores are essential; however, science students should be sure to take and excel in the
standardized science exams. Math students should do the same with math, and so on and so on…"
Parliament Tutors is one of the nation's fastest growing tutoring companies covering all subjects and levels from Kindergarten through the MCAT. They take pride in their state-of-the-art technology to better diagnose student strengths
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More and more students are looking to third parties to get help preparing for the SAT and other standardized exams. Take advantage of all the resources around you and make sure to Practice, Practice, Practice.
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David is an NYU Graduate and a tutor for Parliament Tutors in New York City.
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The Secret to better customer service
by Heidi Miller, Social Media/Online Community Manager
When Jason Fitzpatrick over at the awesome Lifehacker blog attacked customer service, he took a nontraditional tack: to get better customer service, he proclaims, become a better customer.
Oddly enough, he didn't go with a traditional definition of "better customer," either. No advice to keep your temper under control, lose the sense of entitlement, keep your voice calm or being generally polite to the customer service agent you're speaking with. (Although one would assume those are all actions practiced by the good and patient customer.)
No, Lifehacker's blogger advised keeping good records. You know, like your dad taught you to keep regarding your car's oil changes and tire rotations. Those are all in the file neatly marked "Auto–Maintenance," so why would we make less of an effort to straighten out our issues with Comcast or Nicor? He posits that "documenting all your interactions is important across the board." And it's helpful even when your experiences aren't all that negative–let's be honest; sometimes you remember that the rep said you'd get the service for $24.99 a month, but isn't there the chance that she actually said $34.99 a month, and your memory was just a bit faulty, with some wishful thinking thrown in?
If you document the call yourself, you don't have to call back a month later when you get the bill. No need to get a bee in your bonnet; you could just look up your own reference to the call with the promise of $24.99 and save yourself a call to the contact center entirely.
What do you think? Has being a better customer worked for you?
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Undercover FBI Agent Faith Timberly is close to breaking the case she's been working on for months. The last thing she needs is a blast from the past coming back to distract her, but Greg 'Cowboy' Robertson is hard to resist. Long ago they'd shared one kiss that she's never been able to forget. With a promotion on the line, she will do everything she can to ignore an attraction that years apart hasn't dulled.
Navy SEAL Greg Robertson is ready to spend time with his family when he finds out a former teenage crush is competing at the Houston Livestock and Rodeo Show. Faith's beauty ignites a fire in him and he doesn't want to douse it. But Faith is acting strange. When he discovers she's an FBI Agent and working a case, he knows he should keep away…but he can't. Not when Faith's life is in danger.
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Mercedes Lewis Hamilton beats Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and Mercedes teammate Valterri Bottas to his 6th consecutive pole position as Antonio Giovinazzi crashes heavily at the end of Q1.
Antonio Giovinazzi is the first car out on the track and is the first to complete a lap time of a 1:35:437. Renault's Nico Hulkenberg goes quickest on a 1:34:453 which is beaten by Lewis Hamilton on a 1:33:333. Romain Grosjean spins at the final corner with 11 minutes to go which holds up Hamilton. His lap time would have been a bit quicker if the Frenchman hadn't of spun. Grosjean's tyres are badly damaged and a fresh set will be needed. Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen are next with both on the Soft tyres. Vettel goes quickest on a 1:33:078 with Raikkonen on a 1:33:314.
Max Verstappen says on his Red Bull team radio that "something is not right with the engine". The clock ticks down and Stoffel Vandoorne cannot improve and he is out. Giovinazzi comes out of the final corner and loses the rear of the car. He tries to save it but the car hits the barrier on the left hand-side of the track. The yellow flags are out and that means that ruins the opportunity of Esteban Ocon, Jolyon Palmer and Verstappen to improve. Vettel ends the session quickest ahead of Hamilton and Raikkonen.
Out: Vandoorne – 16th, Grosjean – 17th, Palmer – 18th, Verstappen – 19th and Ocon 20th.
The second part of Qualifying is delayed due to the marshals clearing up the debris and Giovinazzi's wrecked Sauber car. Jolyon Palmer and Romain Grosjean, who were eliminated in Q1 are under investigation for failing to slow down under yellow flags. The session gets going with Lance Stroll being the first car out on track. Kimi Raikkonen sets a 1:32:602 with Sebastian Vettel going quickest on a 1:32:391. Lewis Hamilton slots into 2nd behind Vettel on a 1:32:406 with Valterri Bottas slotting into 3rd on a 1:32:552.
The chequered flag falls with Nico Hulkenberg managing to get his Renault car into the top 10. Daniil Kvyat improves and stays in the top 10 as Marcus Ericsson fails to get into the 3rd part of qualifying. Kevin Magnussen also fails as Stroll secures his place in Q3. Sergio Perez improves as Carlos Sainz Jr doesn't along with Fernando Alonso. Raikkonen headed out for an extra lap and set a lap time of a 1:32:181 which is a new lap record. He ends the session quickest ahead of Vettel and Hamilton.
Out: Sainz – 11th, Magnussen – 12th, Alonso – 13th, Ericsson – 14th and Giovinazzi – 15th (no time)
Q3 starts with Nico Hulkenberg setting the first competitive lap of a 1:33:580. It is soon beaten by Lewis Hamilton and Valterri Bottas on a 1:31:902 and a 1:32:265. The Ferrari's of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen are next on a 1:32:086 and a 1:32:616. Raikkonen is complaining of "very bad grip, and the rear is not good – are the settings different" he asks his team. Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll are the only drivers to have not set a lap time.
The final runs are being produced with Hamilton improving to a 1:31:678. A far better lap time that his previous earlier in the session. Bottas also improves to a 1:31:865 but it's not good enough to beat Hamilton. Vettel is next and goes 2nd on a 1:31:864. He's piped Bottas by just one thousandth of a second. Perez ends up 8th after his only run with Stroll in 10th. Pole position for tomorrow's race marks Hamilton's 63rd career pole and gives Mercedes their 75th pole in only 100 GPs.
Top 10: Hamilton – 1st, Vettel – 2nd, Bottas – 3rd, Raikkonen – 4th, Ricciardo – 5th, Massa – 6th, Hulkenberg – 7th, Perez – 8th, Kvyat – 9th and Stroll – 10th.
Qualifying Result
1.Hamilton 2.Vettel 3.Bottas 4.Raikkonen 5.Ricciardo 6.Massa 7.Hulkenberg 8.Perez 9.Kvyat 10.Stroll 11.Sainz 12.Magnussen 13.Alonso 14.Ericsson 15.Giovinazzi 16.Vandoorne 17.Verstappen 18.Ocon 19.Grosjean* 20.Palmer*
Grosjean* and Palmer* were each given a 5 place grid penalty after the Stewards found that the duo failed to slow sufficiently for double waved yellow flags in the first part of qualifying.


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The introduction of the new South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) in 2009 marked the beginning of a new phase in senior secondary education in South Australia.
The aims of SACE are to -
To gain the SACE, students complete about two years of full-time study which most students spread over three years. There are two stages -
Each subject or course successfully completed earns 'credits' towards the SACE, with a minimum of 200 credits required for students to gain the certificate.
Students will receive a grade – from A to E – for each subject. For compulsory subjects, they need to achieve a C grade or better.
The compulsory subjects are -
The remaining 90 credits can be gained through additional Stage 1 or Stage 2 subjects or Board-recognised courses of a student's choice.
Credits - Each subject, depending on its depth and length will be awarded credits towards the (New) SACE. A semester subject will generally award 10 credits on completion, while a 2 semester subject generally will award 20 credits.
Performance standards: Performance standards describe 5 levels of student achievement, A to E.
SACE - South Australian Certificate of Education.
SATAC - South Australian Tertiary Admissions Centre.
Scalable subject - Stage 2 subjects that are awarded a score out of 20 (Community Studies is the only subject that is not scalable).
Semester Unit - semester (half year course).
SACE Board - South Australian Certificate of Education Board of SA.
Stage 1 - First level of SACE Certificate.
Stage 2 - Second level of SACE Certificate.
TAS - Tertiary Admissions Subjects, are nominated by the universities and TAFE SA as the only SACE/NTCET subjects that can be used in the calculation of the TER or TAFE SA Selection Score. For university entry you will normally need 80 credits of TAS, and for TAFE SA entry you will normally need 60 credits of TAS.
TER - (Tertiary Entrance Rank): University entrance points are calculated using a procedure called 'scaling' and are used to select students who will be offered places in particular courses.
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Kong: Skull Island (2017)
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Kong: Skull Island is a 2017 American giant monster film produced by Legendary Pictures that serves as an origin story for King Kong, and is the second entry in the MonsterVerse. The film was released to American theaters on March 10, 2017.
In 1973, during the closing days of the Vietnam War, the U.S. government approves a joint expedition between Landsat and the scientific organization Monarch to the newly-charted Skull Island. Accompanying the scientists are a military escort headed by Colonel Preston Packard, ex-British SAS tracker James Conrad, and anti-war photographer Mason Weaver. After successfully reaching the island via helicopters and dropping seismic charges to map the island, the expedition is brought down by the island's self-appointed guardian: the 100 foot ape known as Kong. The survivors navigate the perils of the island and encounter stranded World War II pilot Hank Marlow and the native Iwi people, while Packard plans to take his revenge on Kong by salvaging weapons from a downed chopper. But the greatest danger on the island lies in the vile Skullcrawlers; voracious reptilian predators which have been drawn to the surface by the seismic charges. Now Conrad and his allies must save Kong from Packard's vengeance lest the largest and most powerful of the Skullcrawlers, the Skull Devil, rises again.
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- 2 Plot
- 3 Staff
- 4 Cast
- 5 Appearances
- 6 Production
- 7 Gallery
- 8 Soundtrack
- 9 Alternate titles
- 10 Theatrical releases
- 11 Reception
- 12 Awards
- 13 Video releases
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- 15 Trivia
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"The year is 1973. Somewhere in our world, it is said that there exists a wondrous island unspoiled by man – a land shrouded in mystery, where myth runs wild. Uncharted and undiscovered.
When the secretive organization known as Monarch identify this destination as the origin point for mysterious new superspecies, they mount an expedition to discover its secrets.
What they find on Skull Island is an adventure beyond any human experience. An exotic paradise of wonders and terrors, where flora and fauna have fused together into an Eden of otherworldly jungle creatures.
As one group fights to escape and the other declares war on Kong, we discover that the mighty primate is at the center of a battle for dominion over the island, locked into a 'survival of the fittest' face-off with the terrifying apex predators responsible for wiping out his kin.
Driven by vengeance, Kong will become nature's fury, and fight to take his rightful place upon the throne of most powerful beast on the island, revealing the story of how Kong became King."[2]
After crash-landing on Skull Island in 1944, American fighter pilot Hank Marlow and Japanese pilot Gunpei Ikari engage in a fight to the death. After Ikari gains the upper hand and prepares to fatally stab Marlow with a dagger, a colossal ape appears over a cliff, leading the two shocked men to end their struggle.
In 1973, the scientific organization Monarch organizes an expedition to Skull Island, escorted by the Sky Devils helicopter squadron led by Lt. Colonel Preston Packard. Once the helicopters carrying the expedition members clear the storm cell surrounding the island and begin flying over land, they immediately begin dropping seismic charges onto the ground below, allegedly to map the island. The explosions draw out Kong, the giant ape who Marlow and Ikari had seen years earlier, who responds by throwing a tree through one of the choppers. The remaining choppers form a perimeter around Kong and open fire on him. The bullets do little more than irritate Kong, who proceeds to rip the Huey helicopters out of the sky and smash them, although Kong suffers several painful wounds to his right arm and hand after he attempts to grab the CH-53 Sea Stallion by its rotor blades. After downing all of the choppers, Kong wanders back off into the jungle. Kong eventually reaches a river, where he notices the wounds he had sustained from the choppers' rotor blades. Kong winces in pain briefly before beginning to drink from the lake. Suddenly, Kong realizes that a Mire Squid is in the water and grabs one of the creature's tentacles. The Mire Squid then attacks Kong with all of its tentacles, trying to strangle him to death. Kong is able to crush the creature's head under his foot and kill it, then proceeds to eat several of its tentacles. Kong then grabs the squid's carcass and drags it away, presumably back to his lair.
After meeting Marlow, some of the surviving expedition members are brought back to the village of the island's indigenous tribe, the Iwis. There, Marlow explains that Kong was perceived as a god by the islanders, and generally acted as a guardian on the island that kept the most dangerous creatures there under control. He states that the reason Kong attacked the helicopters was because the seismic charges they dropped had drawn creatures he called Skullcrawlers to the surface. According to Marlow, Skullcrawlers are the most vicious and dangerous animals on the island, and are responsible for killing Kong's family. At this time, Kong is being attacked by two Skullcrawlers, but is able to easily dispatch the two smaller creatures. One of the expedition members, Mason Weaver, finds a Sker Buffalo pinned underneath a downed helicopter and tries to free it, only for Kong to arrive and free the buffalo himself. Kong gives Weaver an indifferent glance and simply wanders off.
After surviving an encounter with a Skullcrawler and several Leafwings, Weaver and James Conrad stand atop a cliff and look out over the island, only to witness Kong approach them. To their surprise, Kong does not seem violent or aggressive at all, and even allows Weaver to place her hand on his face. Suddenly, explosions appear over the distance, and Kong immediately races toward them. Weaver and Conrad know that Packard and his men are setting a trap for Kong, intending to kill him. The two of them, joined by Marlow, rush to the scene to try and save Kong. When Kong arrives at the scene of the explosions, he sees Packard and his men in the distance. As Kong crosses a lake to reach them, Packard ignites the napalm he had dumped into the water, causing the entire lake to erupt into flames. Kong swings his arm angrily at the water, causing the flaming napalm to hit some of the soldiers, before collapsing onto the ground. Packard places leftover seismic charges around Kong, preparing to finish him, but Weaver, Conrad and Marlow arrive and aim their guns at him, demanding for him to stop. Packard refuses, and is prepared to detonate the charges and blow them all sky high, when suddenly a gigantic Skullcrawler erupts from the lake. Everyone except Packard flees, while Kong regains consciousness and promptly smashes Packard under his fist. The Skullcrawler attacks Kong, and the humans are forced to leave the giant ape to his fate.
The following morning, as the surviving expedition members near the extraction point on the north side of the island, they are confronted by the giant Skullcrawler. Fortunately, Kong arrives and smashes the monster in the face with a boulder. Kong engages in battle with the Skullcrawler, buying time for the humans to get to safety. The weakened Kong simply is not a match for the Skullcrawler, and is knocked into an old shipwreck and entangled in its anchor chain. Weaver manages to reach a vantage point and fires a flare into the Skullcrawler's eye, enraging it and drawing it away from Kong. Kong finally breaks free of the chain, and manages to create a makeshift flail when it becomes entangled with the ship's propeller. Kong swings the flail at the Skullcrawler, embedding the propeller into its back. Kong pulls the propeller out and slices the creature across its throat, seemingly killing it. During the struggle, the cliff where Weaver is standing is destroyed, and she falls into the water below. Kong pulls Weaver out of the water and takes a second to stare at her in his hand, only for the Skullcrawler to get back up and clamp its jaws onto his arm. Kong battles the Skullcrawler again, trying to keep Weaver away from its mouth, but the beast uses its prehensile tongue to pull Kong's hand, with Weaver held in it, down its throat. Mustering all his strength, Kong pulls his hand free of the Skullcrawler's gullet, ripping out the beast's innards and killing it instantly. Kong gently sets Weaver down on the ground, while Conrad immediately runs to her to ensure she is okay. As Weaver regains consciousness and embraces Conrad, Kong looks back at the two of them before walking away. Once the survivors are finally rescued from the island, Kong stands triumphantly in his domain, beating his chest and letting out a mighty roar.
Marlow is reunited with his family in Chicago, where he finally meets his son. But before Conrad and Weaver can go home, they are interrogated in a Monarch facility where fellow expedition members Houston Brooks and Lin San show them photographs of old cave paintings depicting Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, and King Ghidorah as proof that Kong is not the only ancient monster who still walks the Earth.
A transcript of Kong: Skull Island's end credits is available on SciFi Japan. Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.
- Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts
- Writers Dan Gilroy, Max Borenstein, Derek Connolly
- Story John Gatins
- Producers Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Mary Parent, Alex Garia
- Executive Producers Edward Cheng, Eric McLeod
- Music Henry Jackman
- Cinematography Larry Fong
- Edited by Bob Murawski, Richard Pearson, Christian Wagner
- Production Design by Stefan Dechant
- Special Effects by Tosin Akinwoye
- Director of Photography Larry Fong
- Animation Supervisor Scott Benza
- Visual Effects Supervisor Jeff White
- Costume Designer Mary E. Vogt
- Sound Designer Al Nelson, Pete Horner
Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.
- Tom Hiddleston as Captain James Conrad, mercenary
- Samuel L. Jackson as Lt. Col. Preston Packard, commander of the U.S. Army "Sky Devils" helicopter assault squadron
- Brie Larson as Mason Weaver, antiwar photographer
- John C. Reilly as Lt. Hank Marlow, former U.S. Naval Air Force pilot
- John Goodman as William "Bill" Randa, Monarch geologist
- Corey Hawkins as Houston Brooks, Monarch geologist
- John Ortiz as Victor Nieves, head of NASA Landsat field mission
- Jing Tian as Lin San, Monarch biologist
- Toby Kebbell as Maj. Jack Chapman, Sky Devils deputy officer / Kong (facial reference)
- Jason Mitchell as Warrant Officer Glen Mills
- Shea Whigham as Capt. Earl Cole, Sky Devils member
- Thomas Mann as Warrant Officer Reg Slivko, Sky Devils member
- Eugene Cordero as Joe Reles, Sky Devils member
- Marc Evan Jackson as Steve Gibson, Landsat satellite data collection investigator
- Will Brittain as Young Hank Marlow / Marlow's son
- MIYAVI as Gunpei Ikari, Japanese Imperial Navy Mitsubishi A6M Zero pilot
- Richard Jenkins as Senator Al Willis
- Allyn Rachel as Secretary O'Brien
- Robert Taylor as Athena Captain
- James Michael Connor as General Ward (voice)
- Thomas Middleditch as Jerry (voice)
- Brady Novak as Base guard
- Peter Karinen as Chinook pilot
- Brian Sacca as Chinook co-pilot
- Joshua Funk as Seismic soldier
- Daniel Malone, Glenn Kiwi Hall as Boat captains
- Garreth Hadfield as Crew chief
- Shannon Brimelow as Kamikaze pilot
- Jon Quested as Dead pilot
- Korey Williams as Sunglasses pilot
- Dat Phan as Bar thug
- Cynthy Wu as Thug's girlfriend
- Beth Kennedy as Marlow's wife
- Bryan Chojnowski as Chicago taxi driver
- Terry Notary as Kong (motion capture)
Japanese dub
Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.
- GACKT as Captain James Conrad
- Nozomi Sasaki as Mason Weaver
- Akihiko Ishizumi as William "Bill" Randa
- Hideaki Tezuka as Lt. Col. Preston Packard
- Keisuke Ishida as Lieutenant Hank Marlow
- Kenji Sugimura as Houston Brooks
- Shizuka Ito as Lin San
- Atsushi Goto as Victor Nieves
- Kazuaki Ito as Steve Gibson
- Fuminori Komatsu as Major Jack Chapman
- Gotaro Tsunashima as Capt. Earl Cole
- Kunihiro Kawamoto as Warrant Officer Glen Mills
- Kentaro Yamazaki as Warrant Officer Reg Slivko
- Togi Makabe as Joe Reles
- Yutaka Nakano as Senator Al Willis
Weapons, vehicles, and races
- Main article: Kong: Skull Island/Development.
- Main article: Kong: Skull Island/Gallery.
- Main article: Kong: Skull Island - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
Alternate titles
- King Kong: Giant God of Skull Island (キングコング:髑髏島の巨神 Kingu Kongu: Dokurotou-no-Kyoshin, Japan)
- King Kong: Skull Island (金剛:骷髏島 Jīngāng: Kūlóu Dǎo, China)
Theatrical releases
View all posters for the film here.
Premium Formats
- RealD 3D (post-converted)
- Dolby Vision and Atmos
- 70mm
Kong: Skull Island currently has a 77% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 286 reviews.[3] The site's Critical Consensus reads, "Offering exhilarating eye candy, solid acting, and a fast-paced story, Kong: Skull Island earns its spot in the movie monster's mythos without ever matching up to the classic original." On Metacritic, it has a score of 62, indicating "generally favorable reviews."[4]
|Academy Awards
|Best Achievement in Visual Effects
|Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza, Michael Meinardus
|Annie Awards
|Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in a Live Action Production
|Jance Rubinchik, Adrian Millington, Alberto Martínez Arce, Kyle Winkelman
|Golden Trailer Awards
|Best Teaser Poster
|Warner Bros., Concept Arts Studios
|Best Action
|Warner Bros., Trailer Park
|Best Sound Editing
|Warner Bros., Trailer Park
|Best Fantasy/Adventure TV Spot
|Warner Bros., Trailer Park
|Best Action Poster
|Warner Bros., Concept Arts Studios
|Best Fantasy / Adventure Poster
|Warner Bros., Concept Arts Studios
|Teen Choice Awards
|Choice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi
|Tom Hiddleston
|Choice Movie: Sci-Fi
|Warner Bros.
|Choice Actress: Sci-Fi
|Brie Larson
|Visual Effects Society Awards
|Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature
|Jeff White, Tom C. Peitzman, Stephen Rosenbaum, Scott Benza, Michael Meinardus
|Outstanding Animated Character in a Photoreal Feature
|Jakub Pistecky, Chris Havreberg, Karin Cooper, Krishnamurti Costa (for Kong)
|Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature
|Florent Andorra, Alexis Hall, Raul Essig, Branko Grujcic
|Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature
|Nelson Sepulveda, Aaron Brown, Paolo Acri, Shawn Mason
Video releases
Warner Bros. DVD/Blu-ray + DVD + Digital copy/Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + Digital copy/4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital copy (2017)
- Region: Various
- Discs: 2
- Audio: English, Latin Spanish, Canadian French, Brazilian Portuguese (Dolby Atmos for 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray 3D, and Blu-ray; Dolby Digital 5.1 for DVD)
- Subtitles: English, Latin Spanish, Parisian French, Canadian French, Brazilian Portuguese
- Special Features: Audio commentary by director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, deleted scenes, six featurettes ("Creating a King: Realizing an Icon," "Creating a King: Summoning a God," "Monarch Files 2.0," "Tom Hiddleston: The Intrepid Traveler," "Through the Lens: Brie Larson's Photography," and "On Location: Vietnam")
- Notes: The listed audio and subtitle options are for the U.S. releases. Brazilian Portuguese is not an option on the DVD. The Target Blu-ray bundle includes a seventh featurette, titled "A Terrifying Paradise: Creating Skull Island."
Jordan Vogt-Roberts recorded a second, more comedic audio commentary with actors Jason Mitchell, Thomas Mann, Eugene Cordero, and Marc Evan Jackson, which is available exclusively through iTunes.
- Main article: Kong: Skull Island/Videos.
- According to director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, the first script of the film that he read took place in 1917. Vogt-Roberts later conceived the idea of setting the film during the Vietnam War after talking with Legendary Pictures. When he pitched the idea, Vogt-Roberts told Empire that he thought Legendary would "laugh [him] out of the room," but to his surprise Legendary liked the idea and the setting was changed.[5]
- Max Borenstein's script also gave the expedition to Skull Island a different motive: the brother of Tom Hiddleston's character was marooned there while searching for a "Titan Serum" capable of curing all disease.[6]
- Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts did not want there to be any living dinosaurs in the film because, in his words, "Jurassic World owns that as far as I'm concerned, and Peter Jackson's version did such a great job with that V-Rex fight. So I don't want to retread on that at all."[7]
- Kong: Skull Island is the first King Kong film released in 3D, although like Godzilla it was not filmed in 3D, but post-converted.
- One IMAX poster for this film is patterned after the poster for the film Apocalypse Now. In addition, the character James Conrad is most likely named after Joseph Conrad, author of Heart of Darkness, the novella upon which Apocalypse Now is based, while the character Hank Marlow is most likely named after Marlow, the book's protagonist.
- Kong: Skull Island was the first major motion picture to film a significant number of scenes in Vietnam.[8]
- The beached ship repurposed as an Iwi shrine to Kong, the S.S. Wanderer, is named after the boat that travels to Skull Island in the novelization of the original 1933 film.[9] Hank Marlow states that the Wanderer came to the island about a decade before his own arrival in 1944.
- The names of the U.S. Senator and his secretary that Randa and Houston Brooks meet with at the beginning of the film are Willis and O'Brien, respectively, a reference to Willis O'Brien, who created the stop-motion effects that brought Kong and the other creatures to life in the original 1933 film.
- One of the documents that Randa presents to Senator Willis mentions "Cooper Schoedsack," named after the original King Kong's co-directors, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack.
- Kong: Skull Island marks the first official appearance of Godzilla in a non-Godzilla kaiju film. However, it is not Godzilla's first ever appearance in any non-Godzilla film, as Godzilla made a cameo in Toho's Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 in 2007.
- Kong: Skull Island also marks the first ever appearances of Rodan, Mothra and King Ghidorah in a film not produced by Toho.
- One version of the film's post-credit sequence involved the characters watching Godzilla surface in the Arctic Ocean.[10] It was rejected because Godzilla stated that he had not been sighted since 1954.
- Kong: Skull Island is the first American-made live-action King Kong film where Kong is not killed or seemingly killed at the film's end.
- This is also the only live-action King Kong film where Kong never leaves his island and is brought to a modern civilization.
- The version of Kong in this film is the largest incarnation of Kong featured in an American film, standing 104 feet tall, while past incarnations have either been around 50 or 25 feet tall. The only incarnation of Kong that is taller is the Kong from King Kong vs. Godzilla, which stood approximately 147 feet tall.
- The attire worn by Randa in this film is reminiscent of that worn by Carl Denham in the original 1933 film.
- The patch and slogan on the back of Hank Marlow's jacket in this film are a reference to the character Dr. Steve Brule, who is portrayed by John C. Reilly in Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! and Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule, as well as the jacket worn by Kaneda in Katsuhiro Otomo's manga AKIRA and its 1988 anime film adaptation.
- The design of the Skullcrawlers in this film was inspired by the Two-Legged Lizard from the original King Kong. Other influences included Sachiel from Neon Genesis Evangelion, No Face from Spirited Away, and Cubone from Pokémon.[11]
- The Mother Longlegs creature in this film may be inspired by the crab-spiders from the infamous lost spider pit sequence from the original King Kong.
- The Mire Squid that Kong briefly battles in this film is a reference to the Giant Octopus he fought in King Kong vs. Godzilla. Kong's use of a tree as a weapon in the final battle with the giant Skullcrawler may also be a nod to his famous use of a tree against Godzilla in the film.
- During the film's final battle, Kong appears to attempt to pry open and break the Skull Devil's jaws. This is a reference to Kong's preferred tactic of breaking an opponent's jaws, which he demonstrates in the original film, King Kong Escapes, and the 1976 and 2005 remakes.
- Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts has said that the filmmakers intentionally tried to differentiate the Kong design in this film from the design featured in the 2005 film directed by Peter Jackson. Rather than making the design resemble a gigantic silverback gorilla that walks on all four limbs like in Jackson's film, the designers chose to have Kong stand upright like a human. A major reason for this was to show that Kong is his own species that has its "own set of rules, so [the filmmakers] can do what we want and [they] really wanted to pay homage to what came before...and yet do something completely different."[12]
- The helicopters that Kong destroys early in the film are UH-1 Iroquois, the same type of choppers that seemingly killed Kong in the climax of the 1976 remake.
- The Japanese fighter pilot who befriended Hank Marlow, Gunpei Ikari, is named after the late Japanese game designer Gunpei Yokoi and the character Shinji Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion.[13]
- Many creatures were conceptualized and designed for Kong: Skull Island that do not make an appearance in the finished film. Some of these creatures, such as the Magma Turtle, Sirenjaw, Death Jackal, Swamp Locust, and Psychovulture, were ultimately featured in the film's official tie-in comic, Skull Island: The Birth of Kong. Even more creature designs appeared in the film's Chinese marketing and the "Monarch Files 2.0" bonus feature on home video releases, like the Icarus Tigris and the bat-like Cave Fishers.[14]
External links
- Official site
- Official Twitter page
- Official Facebook page
- Offcial Instagram account
- discoverskullisland.com - Viral marketing campaign site
- Official site (Japan)
- Production notes
- List of firearms used in the film
- Official character bios
- Tie-in products which will be sold in theaters
- Entertainment Tonight set report
- Moviefone set visit
- Nerdist set visit
- Google Maps listing for Skull Island
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Append Leading Zero to return value of SQL Select Statement
Append Leading Zero to return value of SQL Select Statement.
My SQL table contains USA Zipcode's stored in a numeric format. I have notice that Zipcode with numeric lenght less than 5 has leading zero's.
Here is few example of zipcode containing leading zero's
Rochester, MI 4
Aguadilla PR 603
Caguas PR 726
Ponce PR 731
Belmont MA 2478
Andover NJ 7821
Metuchen NJ 8840
Vernon CT 6066
I want to display correct zipcode every time i fetch value from the database.
So, I want to display zipcode number to always be 5 digits in length. The database might returns a incorrect zipcode, either single digit or up to 4 digits, but I always need enough leading zeros added to the zipcode in order to fit the 5 digit requirement.
Example it should return above zipcode's in following form (Append Leading Zero)
Rochester, MI 00004
Aguadilla PR 00603
Caguas PR 00726
Ponce PR 00731
Belmont MA 02478
Andover NJ 07821
Metuchen NJ 08840
Vernon CT 06066
Solution for displaying leading zero while returning values from SQL Select statement
If your column datatype is Varchar than use following
SELECT City, State, Right(Replicate('0',5) + Zipcode,5) from Location
If your column datatype is Numeric than use following
SELECT City, State, Right(Replicate('0',5) + convert(varchar(6),Zipcode ) ,5) from Location
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- Unknown said...
Hi!, i want to do the same thing exactly.but when i run this query it doesnt work.i dont know to use replicate query but saw some articles regarding this and it seems i have to use some thing else also to use replicate query.could u plz help me.
- March 16, 2010 at 6:52 AM
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At about 1:30 pm firefighters were alerted to a house fire in the 470 block of Mann Street in Capitol Heights. Firefighters arrived to find fire showing from the basement of a single family home. The fire was extinguished within 20 minutes of arrival. Smoke alarms in the house activated when triggered by the smoke. The family escaped without injury,
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Hello and welcome Jean mate some system specs would be very helpful we cannot help if we do not know just what we are working with System Info - See Your System Specs
Now my first thought is that you need to update the USB drivers - assuming you are using a wired mouse?? but without the specs we are not able to direct you to where you can find them
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On the mouse, there is a name, such as GMX-1
When plug into USB, there is no connection
Google and find an USB driver, install and it works.
But another laptop, without installing that USB driver (.exe file), this mouse work
So it all depend on the laptop.
Btw, both laptops are using Windows 7 Pro 64 bit.
Laptop = Toshiba -> unable to detect; Sony is able to detect, without driver or .exe file.
So, this do happened.
Google and search for the driver or .exe file to activate the mouse.
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|20 Aug 2016
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Yes Eric but I was more interested in the specs because we don't know what that machine is and I think the OP needs to update or redo the USB / chipset set up.
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Important 18th century map of the Red Sea.
1794 (dated) 20 x 27 in (50.8 x 68.58 cm) 1 : 1720000
When this map was issued, the most active maritime trade route in the Red Sea lie between Mocha (Moka) and Geddah. Mocha, today part of Yemen, was the world's largest exporter of coffee and is the source of the modern term 'mocha.' Geddah (Jeddah), further north was and is the maritime gateway for the Islamic Hajj to Mecca.
Insets illustrate Shake Omar, Gedan, Goofs, Suakem (Suakin, Sudan), Matuza (Massawa, Eretria) and Arkiko (Arqiqo, Eretria). A serious of curious annotations in the upper right quadrant offer insight into the history of this chart. It was originally prepared from a manuscript drawn by Mr. Dodwell. It was assumed, post-publication and based upon French reports that the map's situation of the coffee center Moka (Mocha) was off by some 15 minutes. Subsequent explorations by the Danish navigator Niebuhr confirmed that the location of Mocha as presented here is actually correct to within a minute.
This chart is cartographically derived from Jean-Baptiste d'Apres de Mannevillette's similar chart issued for the 1745 Neptune Oriental. It was twice reissued by Sayer and Bennet, and again, in this updated version by Laurie and Whittle, who acquired the Sayer and Bennet printing plates. The present Laurie and Whittle example is notable for several important updates based upon survey work conducted by the Danish navigator Mr. C. Niebuhr in 1762-3.
Laurie and Whittle (fl. 1794 - 1858) were London, England, based map and atlas publishers active in the late 18th and early 19th century. Generally considered to be the successors to the Robert Sayer firm, Laurie and Whittle was founded by Robert Laurie (c. 1755 - 1836) and James Whittle (1757-1818). Robert Laurie was a skilled mezzotint engraver and is known to have worked with Robert Sayer on numerous projects. James Whittle was a well-known London socialite and print seller whose Fleet Street shop was a popular haunt for intellectual luminaries. The partnership began taking over the general management of Sayer's firm around 1787; however, they did not alter the Sayer imprint until after Sayer's death in 1794. Apparently Laurie did most of the work in managing the firm and hence his name appeared first in the "Laurie and Whittle" imprint. Together Laurie and Whittle published numerous maps and atlases, often bringing in other important cartographers of the day, including Kitchin, Faden, Jefferys and others to update and modify their existing Sayer plates. Robert Laurie retired in 1812, leaving the day to day management of the firm to his son, Richard Holmes Laurie (1777 - 1858). Under R. H. Laurie and James Whittle, the firm renamed itself "Whittle and Laurie". Whittle himself died six years later in 1818, and thereafter the firm continued under the imprint of "R. H. Laurie". After R. H. Laurie's death the publishing house and its printing stock came under control of Alexander George Findlay, who had long been associated with Laurie and Whittle. Since, Laurie and Whittle has passed through numerous permeations, with part of the firm still extant as an English publisher of maritime or nautical charts, 'Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson Ltd.' The firm remains the oldest surviving chart publisher in Europe.


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March 8, 2019
Alabama Family Finds Care for Blood Vessel Disorder
For most of his life, Forrest Daniell thought there wasn't anything threatening about the frequency with which members of his family experienced nosebleeds.
Then, the 18-year-old son of a cousin died of a ruptured arteriovenous malformation (AVM) in his brain. Another relative survived a similar AVM rupture but has never fully recovered.
That's when the Alabama man and his wife, Emma, decided to send blood samples from their three sons and one daughter to a Utah firm for testing. They wanted to know if the children might have hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT). Those tests came back positive and started the Daniell family on a journey seeking specialized care that eventually brought them to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) HHT Center.
The Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Foundation International recently designated UAMS the 13th HHT Center of Excellence in North America. UAMS was credited for assembling a team of specialists knowledgeable in the care and treatment of HHT, a genetic condition that causes abnormal blood vessel formation in the skin, mucous membranes or organs such as the lungs, liver or brain.
The disorder can cause nosebleeds, internal bleeding and other problems depending on the location of the abnormal blood vessel formation. For the children — Emalyn, Judson, Ethan and Josiah, the malformations have appeared mostly in the lungs.
Daughter Emalyn had a troubling one elsewhere. Five years ago when she was 6, a scan of Emalyn's brain revealed an AVM near her speech center. She underwent an operation in Arizona that successfully removed the AVM, which turned out to be fragile and likely to rupture.
Earlier this year, Emma Daniell began searching for a place in the region where all of her children could receive care for HHT. She found it at the HHT Center at UAMS.
It was close enough to their home near Mobile that the entire family in October was able to come to the center for consultations with Mollie Meek, M.D., an interventional radiologist and an assistant professor in the College of Medicine. With Michael Beheshti, M.D., she serves as co-director of the HHT Center.
"Most people know if there is a strong history of nosebleeds in their family," Meek said. "If they say, 'Everyone in my family has nose bleeds or every other person has nose bleeds. That's just who we are.' Well, that's not right or normal. People don't normally have nose bleeds. In people with HHT, the nose bleeds generally are present around the time they are 12 or 13, puberty. Things sometimes get worse with puberty, problems with lungs and brain aneurysms."
Genetic testing like the kind the Daniell family had done can determine whether a person has the gene that causes HHT.
HHT can cause brain abscesses, strokes, severe headaches, small clots that cause transient ischemic attack (TIA) strokes, shortness of breath and fatigue.
Judson, 7, has HHT-related anemia that can be treated with iron IVs. Scans found he also had some AVMs in his lungs that are too small yet for surgery. Josiah's lungs and brain were fine despite his nose bleeds.
Meek said she will check the lungs of all the children every few years to make sure no new problems surface and to deal with them if they do.
With proper monitoring at the HHT Center, the Daniell family has a "wonderful prognosis," she said.


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In one week, the clocks here will change, officially heralding autumn. When I arrived here, we were in the full throws of autumn, although all I remember are dazzling blue skies and the force of the sun in my eyes every day. I felt some dismay when I realised this. A part of that is knowing that those sweltering days, day after day of the late 30s, watching the huge orange stone of the sun dropping into the ocean at Arpoador, only to see the same thing happen again the next day, and the next day… all that is going to be over soon.
Someone told me last year that winter in Rio de Janeiro is beautiful, and it is – not even the occasional grey sky will take away the drama of the mountains or the lushness of the vegetation on them. At that time, everything was new for me. Now, I am going to be following the inevitable pattern I am already familiar with. The pattern of the seasons that shrinks time, so it is impossible to forget what happened this time last year, what usually happens at winter, what's been lost and how long you will have to wait for that state to change. It's like the boat in The Great Gatsby, pulling you back into the past (even the recent past).
I think that's what makes me anxious about it, more than just the loss of the hot beach days. Everything was new when I arrived, an unending horizon. Now, I am a slave to routine again without perceiving when that change took place.
On the upside, that means I am no longer on the treadmill I was on when I first arrived. I know where to get nice food for less money, I can get around and I've got friends, all the things that I didn't have during the exhilirating (and sometimes really difficult) first six months.
Many's the time I've missed things in life even when I knew full well they were actually awful at the time. The approach of a year here, and the reverting of the seasons back to the one I arrived in, has made me realise just how long it's been. A certain type of person will always look back at the past like this and I definitely am one of those. I think today I realised I was just content, it's home here now, and I didn't even notice that happening. Bye bye summer, roll on autumn.


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Maddy Spier's been in love with the boy next door forever. As his figure skating partner she spends time in his arms every day. But she's also seen his arms around other girls—lots of other girls. How can she make him realize that they can be partners off the ice as well? Gabe's relationship with Maddy is vital. He can't imagine skating with anyone else, and together they have a real chance at gold–maybe even making it to the Olympics! So he's decided to think of her as a sister. After all, family is forever, but he's never dated anyone for more than two weeks.
Then their coach assigns a new romantic skating program, and everything changes. Will this be the big break that Maddy's been hoping for or the big break-up that Gabe has always feared?


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Borealys, Montreal based independent studio, introduces its first video game: Mages of Mystralia. For that reason they chose Takeoff Creative to improve the in-game introduction. In the mystical world of Mystralia, the new mad king prohibits the usage of magic. Thereby, the hero, Zia, is sent into exile after the discovery of her magic potential. Moreover, this adventure and puzzle game has a complex and unique crafting system.
In order to immerse the players in the magical atmosphere, so our team improved the game introduction video. That is why we used our skills in motion design and animation until we produced a fascinating parallax video.
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Pacific Northwest, Cascadia Rising Exercise: June 7-10, 2016
On June 7-10, 2016, Tribes of the Northwest are partnering with FEMA Region 10, and all levels of government within the states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho to participate in a multi-state exercise. The exercise named Cascadia Rising, consists of a scenario involving a 9.0 magnitude earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ), located off the coast of Washington, with a resulting tsunami. The simulated complex disaster scenario is meant to test the Pacific Northwest's ability to respond and recover from a devastating event. FEMA has projected that such an event would kill 13,000 people and injure another 27,000 as a result of the quake and the following tsunami. Six core capabilities will be tested during the Cascadia Rising Exercise Operational Communications, Public Health, Medical Services, Mass Care Services, Situational Assessment, Critical Transportation, and Operational Coordination. The purpose of the exercise is to improve joint operations, reveal planning gaps and resource limitations. Follow the event #CascadiaRising
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Trekking and what you need to know
Now that you have your heart set on going on a trekking trip, there are obviously essentials that you need to know about trekking, before you embark on that exciting journey.
The right gear: This seems to be the most appropriate place to start. The right clothes are essential and you will have to know the terrain and weather conditions you could expect to encounter. You'll need:
- Jacket to keep you from the heat of the sun, the rain or the cold wind in the winters. Check the weather updates and get a jacket that fits the season and the area. Make sure to get a waterproof one and one that is made of breathable material.
- You need a thermal or a cotton layer inside your jacket to absorb all that extra heat and perspiration. Get one that is durable and doesn't tear easily. Test it out before you take it trekking.
- Trousers need to be comfortable and spacious to store things. You can even look for waterproof ones for added comfort and security.
- For long-distance trails, trekking shoes are more appropriate than boots. So know the terrain.
- Socks should be durable, dry quickly, keep your feet warm, or cool, depending on the weather.
- Carry a hat and sunglasses to shield you from the harsh afternoon sun and pack gloves.
- A tent that is also waterproof and light and large enough for 2 people. Depending on the weather, it should reflect sunlight to keep cool or attract warmth in the cold. NEVER trek alone.
- Carry water based soups and plenty of energy bars to keep you going. Cover your food, while cooking to save on the energy.
Other essential gear should include:
- A Sleeping Bag and sleeping mat
- A Hiking Rucksack
- A cell phone with charged battery
- A Flashlight with new batteries
- Map & Compass
- Waterproof Matches
- First Aid Kit and Mosquito Repellent
- Walking Poles
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- Plan your Trek with a partner or partners and know the area.
- Tell someone specifically where you are going and what time you expect to return.
- Check the Weather
- Bring a camera for photos!


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And, from the kitchen this weekend we have for you a lovely Link Salad, with leaves of history and science, garnished with a healthy dose of whimsy. But first, I begin with a special treat for my free-wheeling brewer friends. Beer has always been a problem in space — not… Continue reading


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- Emma Goldman
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So much for the pre-holiday planning for how I would spend this Saturday after Thanksgiving.
I left in the morning not long after sunrise, bound for the folks' place in Covington. Usually one is happy to travel to parents' home during the holidays, but today's trip was born of unhappy circumstances.
Not long after I left, driving along Hwy 190 through Acadiana, I heard the report on the New Orleans radio:
"State police continue to investigate a fatal crash that occurred on the North Shore yesterday afternoon."
Before the announcer finished details of the report, I reaffirmed in my thoughts the reason for this journey. Hearing the news report of my own brother's death broadcast to the airwaves was strange.
The announcer didn't name him, but the details were unmistakable: a 1997 Ford minivan, drifted across the center lane, alcohol suspected, etc.
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There are plenty of reasons to incorporate plain lowfat Greek yogurt into your diet. Not everyone loves the tart flavor, though, even dressed up with the typical toppings like fresh fruit, nuts and granola. Fortunately Greek yogurt is also incredibly versatile, so here are 5 easy ways to incorporate more Greek yogurt into our diets, leaving your taste buds happy, as well.
Benefits of going Greek:
- Ounce-for-ounce, Greek yogurt has 2x protein than 'regular' yogurt, with a fraction of carbs and sugar
- Good source of calcium and vitamin D
- Six-ounce carton has potassium equivalent of a banana
- Rich in probiotics
- Low in lactose
Smoothies: Think of Greek yogurt as your protein powder replacer to build a smoothie that's perfect for an afternoon pick-me-up for a breakfast on the run. Blend plain Greek yogurt with fruit (fresh or frozen). Add a bit of your sweetener of choice (optional), and experiment with add-ins like herbs and spices. Some of my favorites: Mango with chipotle. Blueberries with basil. Pineapple with cilantro. Almond butter with cocoa powder. You really can't mess it up!
Butter substitute: Use plain, low-fat Greek yogurt in place of half the amount of butter called for in a recipe. For example, instead of one cup of butter, use half a cup of butter and half a cup of Greek yogurt, and save 725 calories and 60 grams of saturated fat.
Sour cream swap-out: Use a dollop of Greek yogurt to top lean chili, tacos, or a taco salad. Same tart creaminess, for a fraction of the calories.
Mayo: Use it in your favorite chicken salad, tuna salad, deviled eggs or 'potato' salad made with grilled cauliflower or sweet potatoes instead of white potatoes
Cheese sauce: No kidding, this really works. Melt equal amounts of shredded reduced-fat shredded cheese and plain Greek yogurt over low heat, and you've got a deliciously savory cheese sauce that's perfect paired with veggies, grilled fish or baked chicken, or make a good-for-you mac & cheese with fiber-rich pasta like Banza chickpea pasta.
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Happy Anniversary to the Las Vegas Natural History Museum!
The Natural History Museum will be celebrating this special occasion with lots of great activities. Check out their website for more information or just take a drive down to the Cultural Corridor to see them for yourself!
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