Hi, everyone. This is Donna Prosser, Chief Clinical Officer for the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. I'm here today to bring you an update on what's happening with COVID-19. I'm very excited today to be joined by Dr. Arjan Srinivasan from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia. Hi, Dr. Srinivasan. Welcome. Hey, Donna. How are you? Thank for giving me this chance to talk to the folks in the Patient Safety Foundation. Bill, thank you so much for joining us. Can you tell us a little bit about your background and what you do there at the CDC? Absolutely. So I'm an infectious disease specialist by background and training in healthcare epidemiology. I am an infectious disease physician by training and I still do practice. I see patients on the infectious diseases console service at the VA hospital a couple of times a year. And I am in a group at CDC called the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. And our mandate is to improve healthcare safety and quality and also healthcare, safety for healthcare workers. Wonderful. Thank you. Well, excellent. We're so glad to have you here with us today. I wonder if you could tell me a little bit about what you see happening in the United States right now. Where are the hotspots and where are the hotspots we can anticipate in the future? It's a great question. And I think everybody is probably very aware of what's going on with COVID activity in the United States. There's so many news outlets and stories and websites where that information is being tracked. So I think probably everybody knows right now the major hotspot in the United States is the New York area. It's where they're seeing a lot of activity. But of course the situation has evolved now as I heard someone say today, there's really no corner of the country that has been spared COVID in any way that bears activity now in all 50 states. And I think one thing that is important for people to understand and remember, and I think most people know this, is that this is a fast moving issue and it's changing on a regular basis. And it's important for people to understand that what is a hotspot today may not be a hotspot tomorrow. And perhaps more importantly, areas that are not hotspots today could become hotspots. So really important for all of us to be following our local recommendations from our health departments and from local and state health authorities. If there are recommendations to be staying at home, they're looking at activity in your area and making those recommendations based on that. So please do follow those recommendations. It's very hard to know where the next hotspots are going to be. But one thing I will emphasize is that this is not something that's going to be limited to cities. And I think there was some rumors going around and people saying, oh, well, if I live in a less populated area, then I'm not at risk. And that's not true. This is a problem in both urban and rural areas in the city and in the countryside. So all of us need to be paying attention and doing our part. Great. Thank you very much. You know, one question that a lot of people have is regarding PPE, personal protective equipment. There's a lot of concern out there that there might not be enough PPE and equipment for healthcare workers to adequately care for patients. Can you talk just a little bit about what could we maybe say to healthcare workers to help them to feel safer in this situation? You know, I think part of it is that we do have to acknowledge that there is a challenge. There's not enough PPE in every place in the country for all of our healthcare workers to have what they need. And that is a reality and it's not news to anyone. We see those reports of the healthcare workers who can't get the PPE that they need that's recommended to take care of patients. And this is an issue that is front of mind for everyone who's involved. It's, you know, I'm on calls with the task forces that are working on this and the new FEMA task force that's been stood up in personal protective equipment is absolutely at the top of everyone's list. And I know that there are all sorts of things that are being done to increase the PPE supplies. As I mentioned, CDC does have recommendations on our websites for ways that people can extend the use of personal protective equipment. It's not something we would normally do, but we recognize that when supplies are short, there are steps that you have to take to extend those supplies. And in some situations, there are steps that have to be taken to prioritize certain types of PPE in certain situations when supplies get quite short. And a good example of that is the issue of the N95 respirators versus the surgical masks that are being used in healthcare. You know, our recommendation, our preference is for the use of N95 respirators for healthcare workers who are providing direct patient care to patients who are known or suspected to have COVID because they do provide respiratory protection. We know in some places they don't have enough N95 respirators for that to be the case for all healthcare interactions. And so they are prioritizing those N95 respirators for the higher use interactions or higher risk, I'm sorry, interactions. But we really do hope that supplies will begin to expand so that we can make sure that every healthcare worker has the protection that they need. And I have to tell you, it is truly humbling to see what healthcare workers in this country are doing. So many of them showing up to work every day. Despite these concerns and the issues with PPE and the limited supply, it just I think it humbles all of us as a nation to see what our healthcare workers are doing. And I think, you know, we owe them a debt of gratitude that we can never repay. That is so very, very well put. I absolutely agree. It really, it warms my heart to see what our profession is doing right now. So very well said. I wonder if we could talk just a little bit about the visitor policies and hospitals. Now, obviously, in an effort to prevent spread of disease in their facilities, hospitals are really significantly reducing visitation. Can you help people to understand why that is and what are some things that families can do to mitigate not being present when their families really need them to be an advocate? Yeah, such a good question. You know, something I think we all struggle with. I mean, if my wife was in the hospital, I would want to be at her bedside the entire time that she was there. And we know, though, that some of the challenges are is that people who are very minimally symptomatic or even asymptomatic can transmit COVID. And if we walk into a hospital into a health care facility, the issue is that of course we're not just coming into contact with our loved one who's there. We're coming into contact with all of the health care providers and in potentially coming into contact with other patients, some of whom may have very fragile immune systems. So the recommendations to really try to curtail visitations in hospitals and in nursing homes is an effort to protect the health care workers and the other patients that are in those facilities from getting exposed to people who might be carrying COVID and might be transmitting the infection, even though they themselves may not have symptoms that they would think to say, oh, I don't feel well, I shouldn't go to the hospital. The good news, I guess, is that we live in an age where we do have some other options. And one is like what we're doing here today, right? You can use all of the different types of a social media applications and real time streaming to try to connect with your loved one and FaceTime and all those other things. And I think we all have to acknowledge, again, in the interests of full transparency and disclosure is to say it's not the same. You know, it's simply not the same. But we have to acknowledge that we're doing this out of an abundance of caution to try to protect not just your family member who's there, but all of the other people who were there in the hospital. And so we're asking people to make that sacrifice as a way to try and help with some of this. And, you know, our guidance really is intended to be flexible. We recognize that there are some situations when the family member or a loved one just has to be there. And so, you know, there is an encouragement that people handle this on a case by case basis. And in situations where you it's an end of life or a situation where you really need the family to be there, that you work to find ways to make that possible. Yes, speak with you and you have really given our network a lot of information to think about. I appreciate that. And I hope we'll get an opportunity to speak with you again soon. I hope so. I'd love to be back anytime. Well, thank you so very much. Have a wonderful rest of your day.


Coach, how were you guys able to take control of the game in that second half? We just kept, you know, kept with our principles, kept with our habits, and I'm just really pleased with the defensive performance. You know, they got out early, made some tough shots, but we liked where we were in terms of our tactics.  I thought our defense gave us a chance. And we talked pre-game about it being the perfect storm in that Miami game, first game after a long road trip, plus still a little bit of the emotion from the Karris thing. Does this win in the way you guys played feel like an exhale? Yeah, no, it feels good because of those circumstances, and you want to confirm that you can, you know, we can still be a good team. We love Karris, we miss him, but you know, we got some good players in that locker room. You know, now it's to confirm whether we can handle it back-to-back and we haven't handled it well so far. So, you know, going in and getting after this Clipper game tomorrow would be important for us. After, well, in the second quarter you're giving up about 60% shooting and then a four or five-minute stretch, defense just took hold of the game. I mean, was there anything that you did tactically to change that? No, we didn't really change. We just stuck with what we were doing. And those are the moments as a coach. You have to say, hey, we're going to stay in our kind of normal defense. We're going to change. We started to stay with, we stayed with it, hoping that they'd start missing and they started missing. And then having Jared Allen back, you know, his room protection just changes the equation. I thought we're, you know, excellent defending the rim tonight. For him, and I know this, you may say that too much is made of this, but for him to perform the way he did coming back off an illness and against that guy who's, you know, kind of had his number on several occasions, I mean, how important is that?  I thought his energy was great. We played him more minutes than we thought we would. So excellent performance by him and offensively rolling to the rim. You know, all those lives we were getting, that's, you know, that's very welcome. Do you keep Dinwiddy with the bench because of the scoring element? Because the bench had 56 points tonight, outscored him a ton. Do you have to have him there for the bench? And then when he was out there with D.O., they seemed to do well. Yeah, and we changed up the rotations a little bit. It was a subtle change and put Shabazz with D'Angelo a little and separated D'Angelo and Spencer a little bit, but they also played together. But we did, you know, it's one game and we're tinkering with lineups. But I thought it was good tonight. I thought it worked out well. Do you feel like your team has grown in terms of when you get a big lead holding on and kind of keeping the team from getting back in? Yeah, holding a big lead up 16 against a very, very talented team. I don't think we win this game last year or the year before. I just don't. I think, you know, they make plays and we kind of shoot ourselves in the foot, but I think we're a more experienced team in these situations. Coach, not a lot of action for the Wizards from 3-point distance tonight. Were you guys doing a good job of running them off the line or were they just not making that shot a priority? We're first in the league and we give up the least trees in the league. So there's obvious, and they shoot a ton of threes. I was worried about their 3-point shooting coming in. I know they've made an adjustment there. And when you watch it, they're definitely more aggressive from the 3-point line. But that's just our general philosophy. We like to limit 3-point shots and, you know, I thought we did a good job tonight. Did you like the little cameo that you got from Rodie off the bench tonight? Oh, man, you know, it's early, but I'm excited. I think he can help us.  Very, very pleased with his. I'm not sure we win without him tonight. I know it doesn't seem like, you know, when you look at the stat sheet, it probably doesn't seem like I'm not sure we do. Thank you. Thanks, everybody.


So the atomists, the Simpson-Democratists, are telling us that to respond to the problem, nothing, as given by primitities, to talk about the space or something that does not exist, and they talk about nothing as incoherent. Yeah, they agree with primitities, they talk about nothing as incoherent. Luckily, there's space that's between material object spaces, the non-material receptacle for matter. Okay, great. Does that answer work? Does that answer succeed?


Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you Escape! Escape, designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.  Listen now, as Escape brings you Walter Brown Newman's story, two and two make four. Head hurt. I sat up and opened my eyes. Fog all around, thick and close and still. I could see trees and a few yards of dirt road. My watch was gone and my wallet rolled, slugged and rolled and dumped. But where? I scrambled to my feet and I stood there in the ditch, suddenly worried about the time. It would be bad to be late going aboard. As for the ship sailing without me, I stepped onto the road. Which way led back to Calais? Someone was coming. Hello? Qui est là? Why don't you answer? I can't see. Down the road then across a field alongside a brook, I ran till I thought my lungs would burst. I stopped to listen, but the blood was pounding, but to be sure I wasn't followed. I ran some more. The brook went under a small bridge. On it, leaning against the stone wall, looking down at me was a girl with a knapsack on her back. I climbed up the bank. Mademoiselle, c'est vous plait mademoiselle? I'm sorry, I don't speak French. Did you hear those shots?  You should tell the police or something. I have to be going. I have a long way to go. Wait a minute. No, no, no. Wait, wait. What time is it, please? Not quite quarter to seven. The way it looks now will have fog at least until noon. Noon? You mean it's a quarter of seven in the morning? Yes, of course in the morning. Well, I've got to... Hold on. Hold on. Which way is Calais? Calais? Well, that way, about 20 miles. Calais? I've got to make my ship. You mind if I walk along with you? Well... My name's David Parker. Mine's Haydoc, Emily Haydoc. I'm in the Merchant Marine, second mate on a freighter. Do you want a walking trip or something? That's right. I figured. The knapsack. American? Yes. Me too. I thought you were French at first. Why was that? Took it for granted. Most people in France are. Well, I don't understand. We're in England, not France. Why should you think that you're... What do you mean, England? Didn't you just tell me we were 20 miles from Calais? Yes, but Calais is somewhere out there across the English Channel in France. And where do you say we are? You and me now? In England, of course. About two miles from Dover. No, no, no. Look, look, look, look. I've been robbed and dumped out here in the countryside and shot at. So please don't make jokes. I'm not. What's today, quick? Thursday, 10th of July. Why? Then we're in France. Look, I tell you... When I registered at the hotel in Calais last night, I noticed the date. It was the 9th of July. Now, look, you asked me where we are, and I told you. England, near Dover. I suppose I didn't see the sunrise in Calais just an hour ago. Sunrise? Sunrise, sunrise. What sunrise? I've been up since five. There's been no sun for a week. It's one of the worst fogs they've ever had. Oh, drop it, drop it. I tell you, I saw it.  No, no, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. No more of that lying, that crazy deer here. No more of that crazy. What else am I to think when you say you were shot at? You saw the sun, sun today. And you insist you're in France when you're in England. All right, Miss Haydock, turn around. Now, what do you see alongside the road? Gate. Stone wall. Yeah, yeah, and in front of the gate. A mailbox. Why? And what does it say on the mailbox? Villa Mon Bijoux. I don't know what Bijoux means, but it's French, French. What do you say now? We're in England. You don't know where to stop, do you? All right, all right. I'm going into this villa, whatever it is, and phone for a taxi to take me to my ship. I was going to offer you a lift, but now I'd sooner cut my tongue out. How do you like that? Oh, go to the devil. Well, for sure. Parley Anglais. D'Anglais Compris. Say, is there anyone here who speaks English? I speak English. Oh, good, good. May I use your phone to call a taxi? Of course. Won't you come in? Thanks. I have no money on me, Mr... Putney, Dr Putney. I haven't a penny with me, Doctor, but I'll be able to get some from the clerk at the hotel and I'll send you whatever the call costs with the taxi driver. Oh, not at all, not at all. There's the phone. Thanks. Hello? Hello? Oh, come on. Service is always a bit slow at this hour. I'm sorry, the fact is, I got angry with a silly girl out on the road. Did you? Yeah, you tried to kid me. Well, the joke will be on her when she's trudging along the road and sees me riding in my ease to Calais. Oh, come on. Riding to Calais? In a taxi. I wouldn't have minded if she'd let the joke drop, but no, she went on and on about this being England and that I was crazy to think otherwise. I'm afraid I don't understand the joke. I mean, this is England. Look, I don't find it funny, Doctor. I thought I made that clear. The next one who tells me I'm in England when I know I'm in France, I swear I'll take... You know you're in France? Yes. Yes. Sit down, young man. Isn't this France? England, near Dover. How can I show you? Here, here's a copy of the London Times yesterday. Wednesday, July 9th. But the name on the mailbox, Philo, what's this? That's French. Most of the villas have names like that. Mont-Bichaud, Saint-Sucie. Still, it's England. Sit down. I'm a physician, and I'd like to ask you... Oh, no, no. Young man! Young man! Two and two make four.  When you feel unsure of yourself, remember, two and two make four. There's an explanation for everything. Don't doubt yourself. After a while, I stopped trembling. I opened the gate and went out onto the road. And there was the girl. Oh, everything all right? Did you come back to say I told you so? No, I... Well, I thought you might need help. I thought that... Watch out. There's a truck coming. There's an inn just around the curve. Get down! Get down! You might shoot again. Get down! Mr. Parker, please, that was a backfire. That's all it was. A backfire? Of course. What else could it be? There's an inn just around the curve and I have money. Wouldn't you like to have breakfast there and talk? Oh, I... I'm all confused. Anyone would be after a blow on the head? No, no, it's not just being slugged. I wish it were only that, but with a case like me that... You're not a case. Oh, that's just it. I am. About six weeks ago, unloading cargo, a crate hit me on the head, scrambled my memory. They sent me to the hospital and the ship sailed without me. I was due back in Calais this afternoon. I was to report aboard if the treatment proved successful. They told me it was successful and discharged me yesterday. Maybe it wasn't yesterday and none of it happened and I'm imagining it all. Try not to worry. It'll all come back to you. Yeah, but suppose what comes back never really happened. That's the point. You see, that's the point. I remember a lot about yesterday, but what if I only think I remember and it's all in my... Now relax. We'll have breakfast in here. If you remember, you remember. Ah, yeah, but do I? I recall leaving the hospital and going to a hotel. Then I went to an all-night restaurant and I remember leaving a bar at daybreak. Oh, sit down, Miss Haydark, please. I remember all that clearly. But an hour later I'm in England and that's impossible. Well, you might have wandered aboard a channel steamer.  It's a two or three-hour trip by boat. Well, an airplane then. Oh, excuse me. I thought perhaps you'd like your coffee now while waiting for breakfast. Miss, is there an airfield nearby? Oh, yes, sir, but it's not an object of interest for tourists today. Our churches is very nice, though. How far away is it, the airfield? Oh, you won't see no planes coming or going, sir. The BBC broadcast said no air traffic in or out at Dover for the sixth straight day. Oh, good morning, Mr Smith-Travers. Breakfast rose in. Oh, yes, sir. Anything else for the present, sir? No, no, no. No air traffic, six days in a row. You'd think that would teach him, but will it? I beg your pardon. I'll leave it to you. Is there any reason for maintaining this undependable method of transportation? A method absolutely at the mercy of the elements. When there's a cheaper, better, less bothersome, simpler and always certain way of crossing the channel. You mean the boats? No, no, of course not. The tunnel, the channel, tunnel. Tunnel? Yes, of course. Rosie, I want coffee now. All right, Mr Smith-Travers. The channel tunnel. 20 miles through solid impermeable chalk in the Dover out at Calais. Less than an hour's drive, no fuss. I never heard of it. Is it something recent? Recent? Oh, you're strangers here. Touristly. Yeah. Well, you heard of Napoleon Bonaparte. Oh, yeah. He had it done. By the sixth corps of the engineers of the Imperial Army. Took them three years. All done in secret, of course, for a surprise attack on England. You mean to say there's actually a tunnel beneath the English Channel in use? Certainly it's in use. I've been through it scores of times. Business, you know, import, export. Just drove back from Kelly a few hours ago. Morning, Doctor. Good morning, Smith-Travers. Just advising them to go by way of the tunnel if they want to get to Kelly. Yes, of course. Much the best way. I did it in 23 minutes this morning. A new carburetor, you know. Well, good morning to you, sir. I must have seemed like a lunatic, Doctor, not knowing I was in England. You see, I was in Calais and an hour later I was in England and I didn't understand how that was possible. I didn't know about the tunnel beneath the channel. Try not to excite yourself, my boy. Everything will soon be all right. What? I've brought someone with me. Constable. This poor fellow? Poor fellow. You mean... Oh, you do think I... But I told you... I didn't know about the tunnel. I must have gone through the tunnel. He didn't know until Mr. Smith-Travers told him. Yes, I heard. But Mr. Smith-Travers is also of the firm conviction that we British are descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel that Shakespeare never existed and that after a bit more research we'll be able to transmute base metals into gold. We know him and like him and humor his eccentricities. Come along, Mr. Parker. I think it in the public interest that you'll not be on the public streets. Yeah, come along. No, no, no. Listen, listen. I was in Calais at sunrise. I can prove it. I just remembered the name of the hotel. The Hotel de la Mar phoned them to tell you that there's a David Parker registered there. They have my passport at the desk. Let me go.  I was in Calais. I was. Two and two make four. Two and two make four. Two and two make four. You are listening to Two and Two Make Four, tonight's presentation of Escape. Keep listening for the climax and tonight's exciting story on Escape. And listen tomorrow for CBS Radio's exciting world music festivals concert. Three excerpts from Albin Berg's tragic opera watch deck will highlight the program. That's tomorrow daytime on most of these stations. And now back to Escape and the second act of Two and Two Make Four. They took us to a room in the town hall. Dr. Putney, it turned out, was not only a physician. He was the local magistrate as well. For more than three hours he questioned Miss Haydock and me and Terny, made us repeat our stories endlessly, where she met me, how I behaved, what I said, what she said, and all the rest of it. It was almost noon before he was finished. And watching the clock on the wall, my ship coming nearer to Calais with every tick, I was almost beside myself with anxiety. I need care, my boy, rest and help. Now we have a fine institution in Folkestone near here which can give you that care. Two weeks, possibly days. Institution? Look, I've got to get to Calais. Miss Haydock, will you try to convince him it's for the best? There's nothing wrong with me. I'll try once more to show you reality, Mr. Parker. You say you were in France at sunrise. I do, I was. And you insist you were in England an hour later. Look, please, please, call the Hotel de la Mer in Calais. I checked in there. There's bound to be a record of it. That will prove I'm telling the truth. And if the call is made and it doesn't prove you're telling the truth, will you take my advice about the institution? Yes. Constable, put through a call to the Hotel de la Mer in Calais. If the hotel bears out Mr. Parker's story, you'll let him go? Miss Haydock, if it turns out that Mr. Parker is right, but how could he be? Two and two make four, two and two make four. Oh, what's that? I have the hotel, sir. Use the Constable's phone, Mr. Parker. I'll listen in on my extension. Um, hello, Des Clerk. Hello, hello. Hello. Is there a Mr. Parker registered there, David Parker? Parker? David Parker? Oh, we there was, but he has checked out since two hours ago. But I mean, he couldn't have, you're mistaken. No, sir, I am not. Not if you mean that Mr. Parker is an American seaman. I returned his passport personally when I paid his bill. I have the... I'm not even who I thought I was. All right, Dr. Putney, I'll go with you. No, wait. Before you do, let me speak to you in private, please. May we doctor? Would it be all right? I'll give you two minutes. Constable, we can arrange for an ambulance to Poston. Yes, sir. Mr. Parker. No, no, no, that's not my name. Two and two make four. Yeah. Two and two make four. You must have faith in yourself. If you're convinced you were in France one moment in an England an hour later, then that's the way it was. But it's a physical impossibility. No, it's not. You could have come through the tunnel. There is no tunnel. If a tunnel is the only explanation for what happened to you, then there is a tunnel. Two and two make four. Do you really believe my story? I believe you. All right then. All right. What do I do now? You tell me. Come on. You know the answer. I find the man in the restaurant. The man who said there was a tunnel. Smith Travis. Right. Open the window. All right. I'll go first and I'll help you down. Come on. Here's my knapsack. I got it. Got it. Now you. Time's up. I'm afraid. Miss Haydock. Come back here. Miss Haydock. Mr. X, whatever your name is. Constable, stop them. I'll do my best, sir.  We dodged around corners, then stopped at a garage and looked up Mr. Smith Travers' address in a directory.  There was no answer when we knocked at the door, so we waited. And before very long, Mr. Smith Travers drove up in a light truck. The police. I left at the hotel in Calais. He's got it. Good afternoon. I'll take that. Oh, yes, yes, yes, of course. Yeah, my passport too, please. Yes. I see you've concluded the tunnel doesn't exist. That's right. Blast you're the first to ever have. It's a bit of bad luck for me, that is. If I hadn't had a flat tire halfway through, the passport and police would be in ashes by now. You phoned the hotel in Calais. Yes. Yes, yes, I thought you might. I heard you shouting at the inn about the hotel, so I drove over and... Didn't it make you doubt your senses when they told you checked out? Oh, you have no idea. Yes, I was counting on that. Yeah, it rocked me, but only for a minute. How the devil did you get in my machine in the first place? Well, the way I figure I was knocked on the head by some thug and robbed this morning in Calais. Whoever did it may have thrown me in your truck to get me out of sight. I was never so surprised in my life. I mean to say, I skidded near Dover, side-swiped a tree and heard the back door bang open. When I stopped and went back there, you were lying with a bolt of my silk in your arms. Took my breath away. When you started to groan and sit up, I was beside myself. I... What's the matter? It just occurred to me. You're not English. Hmm. Bad thing to have someone not in the government and a foreigner to boot to know about the tunnel. Security, you know. Do you mean the British government knows of the tunnel? No, it doesn't. No, I've sent letters to every Prime Minister since MacDonald, telling them about it. Charts, diagrams, descriptions. Useless. They think I'm a crank. I can't blame them. What would Mr. Eisenhower say if you told him there's a tunnel between London and New York? You see what I mean? Got acknowledgement just once. CID man came around and blabbed the whole story to everyone. Told him to keep an eye on me as a dangerous lunatic. The only way to protect the secret after that was to ride it like a mania, so I told everyone too. Best security measure ever devised. And now, however, there are three of us who rarely know about the tunnel. It's awkward. I don't know what to do. Oh, I can tell you exactly. You're gonna take me back to Calais and now otherwise I'll beat you to a pulp. I ought to anyway, making me doubt myself as you did. Taking you into the tunnel, that might be the best way. We'd never tell anyone, I swear it. Yeah. I don't want you to see the entrance and exit though. You will have to wear blindfolds. Agreed. Now let's get going then. Here's, taking you into the tunnel is the best way. Say how much longer before we're in the tunnel? You can take off the blindfolds now, we're in it. Oh, wonderful. Oh, the tunnel? Yes, they did a fine job, the sixth core. Fat lot they got for it. Boney flung them in the Russian campaign when they'd finished and sorted with they all died. Best way of keeping a secret, eh? How did you learn of it? Reading in the British Museum. I was broke and unemployed. I found an old diary by one of the engineers. Investigated and found it was true. I wrote to the government, told them about that. Well, it was too good to let it waste, so I set up a small import-export business. Cheaper transportation gives me an edge on my competitors. Are we in Calais? Well, no, but it's as far as you go.  I can't let you live. It's too dangerous now that you know. The shotgun failed me twice today, perhaps. Get out of the truck, please. Unless you want your blood all over the young lady, please. All right. Now, perhaps...  Listen. Oh, come now, no temporizing. Just take it. Yeah! Oh, dash it all. I think I'm going to faint. Help me get him back into the truck, huh? Just let me sit here for a moment. Yeah. David, we'll tell the authorities the truth about the tunnel and all. Everyone ought to know. It's too good a thing and makes travel and trade and communication so simple. We've no right to keep it a secret. Check. We'll tell the authorities. We came to the end of the tunnel at exactly two o'clock by Miss Haydeck's watch. Time and to spare in order to board my ship. We left Mr. Smith Travers in the truck and made our way into what was apparently a small warehouse. And from there, through a door. We found ourselves on the corner of a street, much like any other street in Calais. A fog had rolled in since sunrise as thick as the one we'd left in England. One moment. I want to make a note of this street or we'll never find the tunnel again. You got a pencil? Mm-mm. Oh, never mind. I have one. There's no street sign. No, up there on the side of the building. They don't put them on lampposts like we do on the States. All right, I've got it. Say, uh, when do you get back to the States? September 1st. School term starts on the 10th. I teach kindergarten in Baltimore. Oh, we're supposed to put in at Baltimore Christmas week? Well, that's marvelous. We could have Christmas Eve together. Yeah, in New Year's too, maybe. I'll look forward to that. You'll write, meanwhile, won't you? Oh, of course. You know, I'll never be able to thank you enough for what you did. What made you believe in me so strongly? Oh, I don't know. You see, I... What's the matter? I'm not sure. We're walking toward the harbor. That's a trouble with a foreign city.   Well, let's try this way. Would that be a policeman in the doorway? Where? Oh, yes. Yes, it is. Parley Anglais. A little. Which way is the harbor? Turn at the next corner to the left and walk four streets. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Oh, how do you pronounce the name of the street I've written here? Street? There's no street. A street? What does it say? In English, this way to the air raid shelter. We have put them on almost every building in Calais. Air raid shelter? Then we'll never be able to find our way back to the tunnel. Shandong, are you sure? But of course, as sure as I am, that two and two make four. Escape, produced and directed by David Friedkin and Morton Fine, has brought you Two and Two Make Four, a story by Walter Newman. Featured in the cast for Shep Mankin, Joyce McCluskey, Tutor Owen and Richard Peele. Also heard were Betty Harford, Dick Ryan, Melissa Milo and James Barrett. Your announcer, Bill Anders. The special music for Escape is composed and conducted by Leith Stevens. Next week. You're on a cat sailing the coral seas, snaking your way through the tricky channel toward an island of black pearls. While on the shore, waiting for you to land, is the man who has sworn your death, and from whom there is no escape. So listen next week. When Escape brings you Robert Talman's story, The King of Ono Two. Stay tuned now for Night Watch, which follows immediately over most of these stations. Erica listens most to the CBS Radio Network.


who wants to play a game with me? That's the first question. The second one is who wants to help us make a game that we will all play together? Who wants to be a game designer? So the first question is who wants to play this game with me to help us decide what kind of game we should play or make together to play together? What is this game? This is called Elvenar. If you just want to check it out, go to us.elvenar.com and the link will be down there in the description below. And if you want to play with me, then you must choose the right server and that is Kelanar. So if you, I'll hide myself because I'm hiding part of this window, if you want to play with me, choose Kelanar and that will take you to us4.elvenar.com slash game. And then you need to join the MGM guild. How do you do that? Well, you just search for the MGM or just MGM. When you have the option to join a guild, they call them fellowships, not guilds.  Now there's only 25 people who can join a fellowship. So it's the first 25 people. Now what is this game? This is a casual browser-based game. It's free to play. What that means is you don't have to pay anything, although you can if you want to, buy these diamonds. They're the virtual currency. And the game is really a strategy game where you need to plan what to build and what order to maximize your army size, as well as the growth of your gold and your resources. So it's a resource management browser-based game. Now the second question, if you remember, was who wants to work with us to design a game that we will all play together? So we'll talk about that in another video. But in this video, I really want to get a sense for this type of game because they're easy to make. This isn't a World of Warcraft, guys. Of course, it's not going to be as fun as a Diablo 3 or a Blizzard game. But it is a simple game to build. So if we do make a game together, we need to make one that's easy to make. So let's see if this is a game that you will enjoy. Try it out with me. Remember, only 25 people. And let's see how it plays. So there's quests here. I'm told I need to have a main hall of level 2 or higher and I need to have two glorious statues, which I've built. So now I get these rewards, the 10 planks, marble, and steel. And those are special resources in this game. Now I'm going to build a few more residences because they give me gold. So I'll put one here. Now you'll notice it has a little circle with a line through it, meaning I need to connect it with a road. So I'm going to place a road here. And that lets my residences operate. Now this one will be constructed in three seconds. Everything has a timer in this game. And the residence just got built. So you can also produce different kinds of items. It's all based on time. So in five minutes, this will produce four resources. In 15 minutes, this will produce 11. And in an hour, this will produce 29. So depending on how often you want to come back to check on the game is what kind of time you'll choose. So I just fixed a missing street connection. I got 2000 gold as a reward. And this guy is telling me to negotiate three encounters. So let's take a look at combat in this game. So combat in this game is in the world map. Here I can go attack the neighboring provinces and collect more relics, which you can use to get bonuses and other perks. So let's go to this province. And I see that this province has four sets of bandits of two each. Each bandit has certain stats. There is a three movement and a four range. So this guy is an archer. Now the quest said I need to negotiate three encounters. So negotiation means we're not going to fight. We're going to we're going to give them things. So let's give them these. So I got the gems and the knowledge point. A knowledge point is for research. And now I need to negotiate two more encounters. So this one is a lot of gold. I don't want to spend so much gold. This one is about the same. But this one is much cheaper. But it uses one of these special planks. But that's okay. We can make the planks later. So I'll negotiate one and then one more. This one. All right. So let's go back to town and let's get my reward. And it said our next step depends on your decision. Will you research the barracks and discover more about warfare? Or will you focus on town building? Now I prefer to go into combat because combat is a faster way to progress in this game. So I'm going to build a barracks next. And I would recommend you do too if you play with me. So let's go build a military barracks. But I need to unlock the technology. So the technology is from here, the research. These knowledge points are used to research technology. So this is like a tree of technology similar to civilization if any of you played civilization five. So I'm going to use seven points. Now we're missing one point. So we need to get one more point and we can get that by combat or by negotiation. So let's go to one of these provinces and let's see who we can negotiate with. I will negotiate this one because if I fight, I only have 25 of these ax barbarians, which is not enough to defeat these without taking some losses. I need to build up my military first. So instead I'm just going to negotiate to get that extra knowledge point. And now I can research the barracks. And it's done. Plus I have to activate it, which costs additional resources. And now we have unlocked the barracks. And now we can get this reward. Now it's going to ask me to probably, I need to finish the first province, which means I have to conquer the first province. And I have to start to beverages. Okay. So the beverage is here in my workshop, which will give me in five minutes for four of these hammers, supply storage. And now I'm going to collect my reward. And now it's asking me to build a barracks. Okay. So now let's build the barracks here. Now wherever I put it, it has to be connected with a path with a little road. So I'll just put it here for now. But you can always move things. So I can move this statue, which gives us culture. And culture helps us increase our productivity. Right now we're at 100%. But I would like to get it to 170%. So I need to build culture buildings. So let's move this one into the little corner here. And then let's make a path to connect him with I'll have to fix that later. But this is the most efficient way to do it. I can. So it's going to be done in one minute. So we have to wait for that. In the meantime, let's reorganize our, our structures here to be more efficient with the space. And as you can see, we've lost. Okay, there we go. So now I would like to build a path. Hmm. Yeah, there's several ways we could do this, but let's worry about it later. We don't need the path there. The paths are free at this level. So we don't need to worry about building them or not building them. Okay, 15 seconds to go. Now we can collect all the gold we've accumulated so far. And it's always a good idea to upgrade your residences, at least to level two right away. It takes an away. This one is already level two. My bad. You can see the little star that shows it is level two. So I would like to upgrade this one to level two. I would like to. Oh, so we have the barracks now. Great. They gave us to have more warriors and 200 supplies. And now it's telling us to train one axe barbarian. So let's train just one axe barbarian. It'll take only two minutes. And this will help us build our army. Let's build a barrier here. And we need to finish the first province and we need to train one axe barbarian. So while that's happening, let's, oh, and we're not, we don't have any music playing. Let's turn on the music. It's very nice music. So let's get a residence because gold is actually one of the hardest things to collect in this game. Even though it looks like we have a lot right now, we will run out of gold very quickly because upgrading structures does take a lot of gold. For example, see it's a thousand gold and only 130 supplies, roughly a 10 to 1 ratio. So I like to keep building residences. And you can see we only have three builders here. So we can only build three things at a time. You have to wait for them to finish. This barbarian will be done very soon. So I'll make one more residence here. I will upgrade this one. And I will upgrade this one. Oh, we have to add a builder, which means I have to wait for construction to finish before I can upgrade residence. Also, upgrade after we finish. Oh, we already have three upgrades going. So let's wait for that. This barbarian will be done in 46, oh, nine seconds, eight seconds, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, done. Here we go. Trained one axe barbarian. Now it's asking us to fight and win and encounter. All right, let's go do that after we start this upgrade. Now we will also need resources in addition to residences. And here we have two little residences or resources that just got finished. Now these workshops are also important to upgrade. So let's do that right now. We have three workshops, we probably need to five seconds and that'll take an hour. So now we can build a workshop which is here. As soon as this finishes, done. So we also would like to upgrade our residences a little further. You can see it's now 3000 gold and 390. This will take an hour. So let's go ahead and upgrade that. Now we're really running low on gold and resources. So let's just build one more workshop or residence. What do you say guys? Workshop or residence? We have one, two, three, four, five workshops and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten residences. I think we should build another residence because as you see we're running low on gold. All right now we should upgrade every residence to level two. I think these are all level two. Yes they are. That one is going to be level three when it finishes in an hour. This one is level one so let's upgrade him. Oh we can't afford it. We're very close so all we need to do is wait for one of these residences to finish generating gold and then we'll be able to upgrade this residence. We need to fight and win the account. So we should train more of these units which cost simply resources. Here is our goal plus six. That puts us over a thousand so now we can upgrade this. Oh how come? Culture. Aha. So we forgot to build culture buildings. Sorry about that. Let's build some of these culture buildings and let's make room by moving the chairs. So this will be done in 30 seconds but we have no more builders waiting for us to do something else. Now we can expand our city limits. Later on we'll be able to buy these expansions. We need to conquer a province first before it lets us 50 percent or 60 percent and that means we will be gaining more of these pieces of gold as well as supplies if this has a higher multiple. So we want to wait until we hit 170 percent and we're so close. We just need one more but we have no room. The everything is full. We can't do that yet. So let's go cancel this. Upgrade. Get back. It's 100 percent refund and now we're at 170 percent. You can see why we did that. That's why this is a strategy game guys. You really have to think on how to maximize your growth. What to do in what order. So let's conquer that province. The last one here that we were told to do. Now let's fight these guys. So there's eight of them. They are bandits and let's put on all of our units. Here is combat. This is how combat looks in this game. So I will hide myself so you can see the full combat. So this guy you can see he's locked. Now he can walk through here. Oh no he can't. I guess we have to walk down this way or up there. So let's see which direction he goes. I'm just going to remember he can attack for a range of four. So one two three four. So I can safely go here. I won't be able to hit me. One two three. Okay so I can safely go here. I think I can safely go. What's this movement again? Three. So you can walk three one two three four. So I can safely go here. So he'll be able to move one two three and then he'll have an attack range of four. So one two three four. So I have to back up a little bit. I think one two three one two. I have to go up here. All right so now I can come attack him. But I can't really reach him. Three I don't have any range. So that strategy I still will get hit. Oh my guys I can't reach him. I still can't reach him. All right we're doing this pretty badly guys. All we can do is try to squeeze through this and he's going to of course run away. So hopefully we can now reach him and I just needed one hit for units. So that was not cool. So each of these battles have a different battleground and let's see what this one will. So in this battleground wow it's again got a lot of areas that are locked. So let's just try to get out of our already hit me. So bad. It's not really. Now we've defeated our first province.  So we have one the encounter. We got special relics. We also achieved finish the first province. So now we need to train at least 12 units which we are doing so in 15 minutes. And we can train more. Two workshops at level two or higher. So two workshops at level two. This one. So let's make this one. We have lost 10 percent of our production. But that's okay because we can now expand. So let's build an expansion. And where should we build the expansion? I think right here. A culture of course. Should we build one of these? Yes because they're more efficient. This only gives 21 culture for a one by one. So times three would be 63 but this is 67. So we get a bonus four. Culture. But of course we have to have a three by one spot. And sometimes it's hard to find three by one spots. But that's okay. Let's build it anyway. That'll be done in a minute. That means we can also upgrade our residence here. Oh but we can't afford it. This is Quest. Complete another province for 5000 gold. Train at least 12 units. So I will upgrade. The next one is 14,000 gold. So you can see why we need so much gold. So these residences are all level two. Can we upgrade one to level three? We can. So we're still level one. We should upgrade here. We're still level two. Now let's step away from the game for about 15 minutes. Sure. So I will choose 15 this set of production. But I would like to upgrade the workshop. Well maybe not yet. Because those are expensive. I would rather upgrade the residences. Which I would like to buy more residences. Because we have room. So let's do that. Buy more residences. We're done very soon in just a few seconds. We should also make use of the research points. Residences. Upgrade all of these to level two. We are going to run out of money soon. Because we have residences that'll help us make more money. How about culture? We have a lot of culture. Which is great. Because we built this. We should give us 67. We have 8 seconds. So we've set everything to 15 minutes. Soldiers, that will be done in 10 minutes. And then we can go make another video. So I will end this video here. So you have a good sense of what this game is. I guess we should first maximize our research. So city expansions are very important. I will do that one next. So that we can keep accelerating our gold. Now the gold you don't have to collect right away. That will keep accumulating until it reaches a maximum of 1190. But these resources you do have to the workshops. That's the residents of the workshops. You do have to collect. They don't continue accumulating while you're waiting. So just make sure you maximize your culture bonus at 170%. You maximize space that you have allotted for growing your city. And that's how you progress faster in this game. So we're already ranked 8,584 on the server. Out of how many people? Out of, let's see, out of 36,393. So we're doing quite well I think. And of course we are part of the fellowship, the MGM. The MGM is the multi-gaming network, as we all know. Let's see if we can fill out this membership of 25 people quickly. On the server us4.elvinr.com. All right. Who am I? I am George, CEO and founder of Freedom. And you've been watching. And we will grow together as a family because this is the Freedom family. You are part of it. We are all part of it. And we're all growing together. So grow with us and partner with Freedom. That play now button right there on the video bar is all you need to click to get started.


Citizen science is a rapidly growing field that involves people's participation in data collection, analysis, and decision-making. It has been defined as a form of public participation in scientific research, and a collaborative effort between professional scientists and volunteer citizens. The terms used to describe citizen science vary widely, including public participation in scientific research, civic science, volunteered geographic information, community-based monitoring, participatory environmental monitoring, citizen observatories, citizen science initiatives, citizen science projects, and citizen science programs. These terms have different implications and connotations, which can lead to confusion when trying to understand the scope of citizen science. To address this issue, we propose a set of terms that could be used to better define citizen science and its participants. This article was authored by M. V. Itzel, Jessica L. Cappadonna, Chris Santos-Lang, and others.


CHAPTER XXV. THE IDLE OF GOLD. FORWARD! cried Tom Swift. WHERE? asked Mr. Damon, hanging back for an instant. Bless my compass, Tom. Do you know where you're going? I haven't the least idea, but it must lead to something, or the ancients who made this revolving stone door wouldn't have taken such care to block the passage. Ask Goosele if he knows anything about it, suggested Mr. Damon to the Professor. He says he never was here before, translated the savant. But years ago, when he went into the hidden city by the cave we left yesterday, he saw doors like this which opened this way. Then we're on the right track, cried Tom. If this is the same kind of door, it must lead to the same place. Ho for Cousin and the Idol of Gold! As they passed through the stone door, Tom and Professor Bumper tried to get some idea of the mechanism by which it worked, but they found this impossible, it being hidden within the stone itself or in the adjoining walls. But in order that it might not close of itself and entomb them, the portal was blocked open with stones found in the passage. It's always well to have a line of retreat open, said Tom. There's no telling what may lie beyond us. For a time there seemed to be nothing more than the same passage along which they had come. Then the passage suddenly widened, like the large end of a square funnel. Upward and outward the stone walls swept, and they saw dimly before them in the light of their torches, a vast cavern, seemingly foreign by the falling in of mountains, which in toppling over, had met overhead in a sort of rough arch, thus protecting in a great measure that which lay beneath them. Cousil who had brought with him some of the fibre bark torches, set a bundle of them aflame. As they flared up, a wondrous sight was revealed to Tom Swift and his friends. Looking out before them, as though they stood at the end of an elevated street, and gazed down on it, was a city. A large city, with streets, houses, open squares, temples, statues, fountains, dry for centuries, a buried and forgotten city, a city in ruins, a city of the dead, now dry as dust, but still a city, or rather the strangely preserved remains of one. Look! whispered Tom. A louder voice just then would have seemed a sacrilege. Look! Is it what we are looking for, asked Ned in a low voice? I believe it is, replied the Professor. It is the lost city of Curzon, or one just like it. And now, if we can find the idol of gold, our search will be ended, at least the major part of it. Where did you expect to find the idol, asked Tom? It should be in the main temple. Come! we will walk in the ancient streets, streets where no feet but ours have trod in many centuries. Come! In eager silence they pressed on through this newly discovered wonderland, for it was a wonderful city, or had been. Though much of it was in ruins, probably caused by an earthquake or an eruption from a volcano, the central portion, covered as it was by the overtoppling mountains that formed the Eriching Roof, was well preserved. There were rude but beautiful stone buildings. There were archways, temples, public squares, and images, not at all beautiful, for they seemed to be of man-monsters, doubtless ancient gods. There were smoothly paved streets, wondrously carved fountains, some in ruins, all now as dry as bone, but which must have been places of beauty where youths and maidens gathered in the ancient days. Of the ancient population there was not a trace left. Tom and his friends penetrated some of the houses, but not so much as a bone or a heap of mouldering dust showed where the remains of the people were. Either they had fled at the approaching doom of the city, and were buried elsewhere, or some strange fire or other force of nature had consumed and obliterated them. What a wealth of historic information I shall find here! murmured Professor Bumper, as he caught sight of the many inscriptions in strange characters on the walls and buildings. I shall never get to the end of them. But what about the idol of gold? asked Mr. Damon. Do you think you'll find that? We must hurry on to the temple over there, said the scientist, indicating a building further along. And then we must see about rescuing your rivals, Professor, put in Tom. Yes, Tom, but fortunately we are on the ground here before them, agreed the Professor. Undoubtedly it was the chief temple, or place of worship, of the long-dead race which the explorers now entered. It was a building beautiful in its barbaric style, and yet simple. There were massive walls and a great inner court at the end of which seemed to be some sort of altar. And then, as they lighted fresh torches and pressed forward with them in their electric lights, they saw that which caused a cry of satisfaction to burst from all of them. The idol of gold! Yes, there it squatted, an ugly, misshapen figure, a cross between a toad and a hila-monster, half-man, half-beast, with big red eyes, rubies, probably, that gleamed in the repulsive golden face, and the whole figure, weighing many pounds, seemed to be of solid gold. Eagerly the others followed Professor Bumper up the altar steps to the very throne of the golden idol. The scientists touched it, tried to raise it, and make sure of its solidity and material. This is it, he cried. It is the idol of gold. I have found—we have found it, for it belongs to all of us. Hurray! cried Tom Swift, and Ned, and Mr. Damon, joined in the cry. There was no need for silence or caution now, and yet, as they stood about the squat an ugly figure, which in spite of its hideousness was worth a fortune intrinsically and as an antique, they heard from the direction of the stone passage a noise. What is it? asked Tom Swift. There was a murmur of voices. Indians cried Professor Bumper, recognizing the language, a mixture of Spanish and Indian. The cave was illuminated by the glare of other torches which seemed to rush forward. A moment later it was seen that they were being carried by a number of Indians. Friends! murmured Goosele, using the Spanish term amigos. They are our own Indians, cried Tom Swift. I see Tolpec, and he pointed to the native who had deserted from Hisinto's force to help them. How did they get here? asked Professor Bumper. This was quickly told. In their camp, where, under the leadership of Tolpec, they had been left to do the excavating, the natives have heard, seen, and felt the effects of the storm and the earthquake, though it did little damage in their vicinity. But they became alarmed for the safety of the Professor and his party, and at Tolpec's suggestion, set off in search of them. The Indians had seen, passing along the trail, the uprooted trees, and had noted the footsteps of the explorers going down to the stone passage. It was easy for them to determine that Tom and his friends had gone in, since the marks of their boots were plainly in evidence in the soft soil. None of the Indians was as much wrought up over the discovery of Curzon and the Idle as were the white adventurers. The gold, of course, meant something to the natives, but they were indifferent to the wonders of the underground city. Perhaps they had heard too many legends concerning such things to be impressed. That statue is yours. All yours, said old Goosele, when he had talked with his relatives and friends among the natives. They all say what you find you keep, and we will help you keep it. That's good, remembered Professor Bumper. There was some doubt in my mind as to our right to this, but after all, the natives who live in this land are the original owners, and if they pass title to us, it is clear. That settles the last difficulty. Except that of getting the Idle out, said Mr. Damon. Oh, we'll accomplish that, cried Tom. I can hardly believe my luck, declared Professor Bumper. I shall write a whole book on this Idle alone, and then— Once more came an interruption. This time it was from another direction, but it was of the same character, an approaching band of torch-bearers. They were Indians too, but leading them were a number of whites, and at their head was no less personage than Professor Beecher himself. For a moment, as the three parties stood together in the ancient temple, in the glare of many torches, no one spoke. Then Professor Bumper found his voice. We are glad to see you, he said to his rival. That is glad to see you alive, for we saw the landslide bury you, and we were coming to dig you out. We thought this cave, the cave of the buried city, would lead us to you easier than by digging through the slide. We have just discovered this Idle, and he put his hand on the grim golden image. Oh, you have discovered it, have you? asked Professor Beecher, and his voice was bitter. Yes, not ten minutes ago. The natives have kindly acknowledged my right to it under the law of priority. I am sorry, but— With the look of disgust and chagrin disappointment on his face, Professor Beecher turned to the other scientists and said, Let us go. We are too late. He has what I came after. Well, it is the fortune of war and discovery put in Mr. Hardy, one of the party who seemed the least ill-natured. Your luck might have been ours, Professor Bumper. I congratulate you. Thank you. Are you sure your party is all right, not in need of assistance? How did you get out of the place you were buried? Thank you. We do not require any help. It was good of you to think of us. But we got out the way we came in. We did not enter the tunnel as you did, but came in through another entrance which was not closed by the landslide. Then we made a turn through a gateway and a tunnel connecting with ours, a gateway which seems to have been opened by the earthquake, and we came here, just now. Too late, I see, to claim the discovery of the idol of gold went on Mr. Hardy, but I trust you will be generous and allow us to make observations of the buildings and other relics. As much as you please, and with the greatest pleasure in the world, was the prompt answer of Professor Bumper. All I lay so acclaimed to is the golden idol. You are at liberty to take whatever else you find in Curzon, and to make what observations you like. That is generous of you, and quite in contrast to the conduct of our leader. I trust he may awaken to a sense of the injustice he did you. But Professor Beecher was not there to hear this. He had stocked away in anger. Humpf! grunted Tom. Then he continued, that story about a government concession was all a fake, Professor. Else he'd have put up a fight now. Contemptable sneak. In fact, the story of Tom Swift's trip to the underground land of wonders is ended. For with the discovery of the idol of gold, the main object of the expedition was accomplished. But their adventures were not over by any means, though there is not room in this volume to record them. Suffice it to say that means were at once taken to get the golden image out of the cave of the ancient city. It was not accomplished without hard work, for the gold was heavy, and Professor Bumper would not, naturally, consent to the shaving off of so much as an ear or part of the flat nose, to say nothing of one of the half-dozen extra arms and legs with which the ugly idol was furnished. Finally it was safely taken out of the cave, and along the stone passage to the opening formed by the overthrown trees, and thence on to camp. And at the camp a surprise awaited Tom. Some long-delayed mail had been forwarded from the nearest place of civilization, and there were letters for all, including several, for our hero. One in particular he picked out first, and read eagerly.  I should say it is, and then some. Look here, Ned, this is a letter from... I know. Mary Nestor. Go on. How'd you guess? Oh, I'm a mind-reader. Ha! Well, you know she was away when I went to call to say good-bye, and I was a little afraid Beecher had got an inside edge on me. Had he? No, but he tried hard enough. He went to see Mary in Fayetteville, just as you heard, before he came on to join this party, but he didn't pay much of a visit to her. No? No. Mary told him he'd better hurry along to Central America, or wherever it was he intended going, as she didn't care for him as much as he flattered himself she did. Ned cried, Ned. Shake, old man! I'm glad! They shook hands. Well, what's the matter? Didn't you read Oliver Letter? asked Ned when he saw his chum once more perusing the epistle. No. There's a post-script here. Sorry, I couldn't see you before you left. It was a mistake. But when you come back—oh, that part isn't any of your affair!—and blushing under his tan, Tom thrust the letter into his pocket and strode away, while Ned laughed happily. With the idol of gold safe in their possession, Professor Bumper's party could devote their time to making other explorations in the buried city. This they did, as is testified to by a long list of books and magazine articles since turned out by the scientist, dealing strictly with the archaeological subjects, touching on the ancient Mayan race and its civilization, with particular reference to their system of computing time. Professor Beecher, young and foolish, would not consent to delve into the riches of the ancient city, being too much chagrined over the loss of the idol. It seems he had really promised to give a part of it to Marion Esther, but he never got the chance. His colleagues, after their first disappointment at being beaten, joined forces with Professor Bumper in exploring the old city and made many valuable discoveries. In one point Professor Bumper had done his rival an injustice. That was in thinking Professor Beecher was responsible for the treachery of Hisinto. That was due to the plotter's own work. It was true that Professor Beecher had tentatively engaged Hisinto, and had sent word to him to keep other explorers away from the vicinity of the ancient city, if possible. But Hisinto, who did not return Professor Bumper's money, as he had promised, had acted treacherously in order to enrich himself. Professor Beecher had nothing to do with that, nor had he, with the taking of the map, as has been seen, the loss of which, after all, was a blessing in disguise, for Curzon would never have been located by following the directions given there, as it was very inaccurate. In another point it was demonstrated that the old documents were at fault. This was in reference to the golden idol having been overthrown and another set up in its place, an act which had caused the destruction of Curzon. It is true that the city was destroyed, or rather buried, but this catastrophe was probably brought about by an earthquake, and another great idol, one of clay, was found, perhaps a rival of Quetzal, but it was this clay image which was thrown down and broken, and not the golden one. Perhaps an effort had been made, just before the burying of the city, to change idols and the system of worship, but Quetzal seemed to have held his own. The old manuscripts were not very reliable it was found, except in general. Well, I guess this will hold Beecher for a while, said Tom, the night of the arrival of Mary's letter, and after he had written one in answer, which was dispatched by a runner to the nearest place when some ale could be forwarded. Yes, luck seems to favour you, replied Ned. You've had a hand in the discovery of the idol of gold, and—yes—and I discovered something else I wasn't quite sure of, interrupted Tom, as he felt to make sure he had a certain letter safe in his pocket. It was several weeks later that the explorations of Curzon came to an end, a temporary end, for the rainy season set in, when the tropics are unsuitable for white men. Tom, Professor Bumper, Ned, and Mr. Damon set forth for the United States the valuable idol of gold safe on board. And there, with their vessel plowing the blue waters of the Caribbean Sea, we will take leave of Tom Swift and his friends. CHAPTER XXV END OF TOM SWIFT IN THE LAND OF WONDERS


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If you're wondering what one of our favourite movie stars from the past Tara Reid has been up to these days, so have I. It turns out the starlet has been working on her Hollywood comeback for a few years now and has been residing in sunny Los Angeles in a stunning and convenient condo. In these videos we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. Former American Pie actress Tara Reid actually began her career as a child actor back in the early 80s on the television series Child's Play. A 7-year-old from New Jersey, her name is Tara Reid. Tara please. Amos I ever get and then they were like, why didn't I ask her that? From those humble beginnings Tara would work her way up the Hollywood ladder on her way to becoming one of the industry's biggest stars in the late 90s with appearances in films like The Big Lebowski, Cruel Intentions and National Lampoon's Van Wilder. In that movie, she starred alongside a super young Ryan Reynolds. At the peak of her popularity, Tara would earn herself a net worth in the $2 million range but unfortunately her party girl exploits and other questionable choices began to outweigh her potential future earnings as an actress. Tara would eventually blame her failed career on a number of poor decisions like, say the one season of her travel series, Teradise. Then there were her numerous botched plastic surgeries and complete inability to avoid a good party. By 2008, Tara was checking herself into rehab and would later re-emerge ready to embrace her D-list celebrity status. From 2013 to 2018, she'd starred in six different installments of the Sharknado franchise and over the past couple years of pandemic inspired lockdowns, she's been planning her big comeback from the comfort of her own home. A two bedroom apartment that she's been living in since her Hollywood heyday. Hey guys, it's Cara back with another exclusive house tour here on Famous Entertainment today checking out the home of Tara Reid. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and follow me over on Instagram to chat. Now let's get into this video. Tara Reid purchased her Hollywood condo back in the year 2000, fresh off the biggest hit of her career, American Pie. And after negotiating what was no doubt a major pay hike for the soon to be released American Pie 2, located in one of the most secure and sought after buildings in Tinseltown, known as the Hollywood Versailles Tower. Tara's 1087 square foot home is located on the 10th floor, and it comes with all the killer views you could ask for it, especially for a home that only costs the actress a paltry 266K. Of course, there's a reason the place was a steal and according to Tara herself, the home only comes with two rooms, an open concept living room and a kitchen combo as well as a master bedroom. But hey, at least there's also two bathrooms with tons of custom granite in here, because living with just one bathroom is a definite no-no, trust me. Having lived that way for a while, I know how important two bathrooms can be. Now without a doubt, the best part of Tara's unit are the city and ocean sightlines that bring to mind a peaceful serenity anytime you view them from the 10th story balcony, which also just happens to feature some stylish Chinese earth slates. Returning back to the kitchen for a second, it boasts elegant granite countertops, custom maple cabinets, wall-to-wall mirrors, beautiful hardwood floors, and a killer breakfast bar with some equally stylish bar stools. Meanwhile, Tara's also got an extremely large and interesting art collection, the feature of which is definitely a gigantic portrait of Marilyn Monroe that was gifted to Tara for Christmas a couple of years ago. Now about eight years after moving into the home, Tara would actually list the place for $885,000 right around the time that her professional life was more or less falling apart. Unfortunately, she never found a taker. 13 years later, Tara would find herself still living here when the pandemic came crashing down on all of us. During the worldwide lockdowns, Tara's already small house would become even more crowded. That's because not only did her new boyfriend Nathan move in, but she also invited her good friends and former big brother housemates, Irish musical act, Jedward to join her as well. Speaking with page six, Tara told them about the living arrangement. We've all been locked in our houses for months. It's not easy. I have a small apartment. It's two rooms, so it's not easy. The other guys I'm also quarantining with are my two best friends that I've grown up with. Right now, to have them in my life here, they truly have made this experience so much better than it would have been for me. Also known as John and Edward Grimes, these two are famous for starring in the UK version of X Factor, as well as further performances in the Eurovision Song Contest. Tara would meet the twins in 2011 during the filming of Celebrity Big Brother, and they became so close that she would later stay with them in Ireland for two months, living in their grandmother's home. Speaking of that time in their life, Jedward told Too Fab. Our granny thought she was Marilyn Monroe. She had like all simers. The trio would reunite in 2020 with the big haired brothers joining Tara at her home in March, a day after St. Patrick's Day. Once they got there, the brothers immediately got to work, writing songs, performing on her balcony, and even cleaning Tara's windows. As for what Tara would get up to with Nathan, well, they also liked to cook and clean with one another. And when they weren't doing that, they were binge watching series like Vikings in the Span of About a Week. I did that too. Of course, that doesn't mean it's always fun in games. Sometimes with this many people living in such close proximity, it can be very hard. Tara told Page Six. You're always in each other's faces. I'm doing so much business for my films and my boyfriend's doing business as well. He has mortgages. It's been difficult. We're trying to make the best of it, but we're doing the best that we can. And make the best of it, Tara ultimately did. All this free time on her hands enabled Tara to totally take back control of her own career. After spending the better part of the decade as something of a cautionary tale, Tara is ready to become a big time producer and has been lining up over nine projects to create over the next few years. Speaking with Too Fab about her upcoming slate, When this time came I was like, how can I do this? I went on LinkedIn and started doing research, contacting different directors and writers. I've been involved with all that and helping them with my connections with distribution. It's just been an incredible time in a certain way that this lockdown has given me the chance to do this.  Also set to star Vivica A. Fox, Billy Zane and Beverly Dangelo. Tara can't wait for this film to finally see release and she has hopes of it turning into a big temple franchise. Will that actually happen and come to think of it, will Tara Reed ever find a buyer for her two room condo? I guess we'll hop to see. Well, that wraps up our Tara Reed house tour. After seeing her condo in LA and what she's been up to lately, what did you guys think? Be sure to let me know down in those comments. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram and I will see you all in the next video. Bye.