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'Hello, is that Mr Carter?'
'Yes, what can I do for you?'
'I am from the Australian Federal Police, calling from the airport. We have a man here who has you listed as his primary contact in Australia. Do you know a Conan Tom Carter? He is from the UK, Cornwall, and claims you are his uncle.'
'That's sort of correct, I had heard that he was coming over here.'
'He has been arrested for illegal importation of narcotics and therefore we will be requiring your co-operation with some further details.'
Tom's wife stopped her dish washing mid-scrub of a saucepan; listening to her husband's faltering but concise answers which gave out their phone numbers, address, work-places … she could guess this had something to do with the twenty-four hour disappearance of Conan but there was a look of anxiety on Tom's face as he gave out more and more information. For a couple of months now his relatives, who lived over in a wealthy beach side suburb, had been proudly touting their position of close communicants with the overseas relatives in regard to the plans being made for Conan's visit. Tom and Kay weren't really bothered as they were too intent on enjoying the weekend away from their jobs in front of classes at the local high school.
Conan was a 'friend' on Facebook for all those nephews and nieces who had endless hours free to spend on the internet chatting about his arrival but when the morning had eventually come to do something in the real world they phoned Tom to ask if he would drive to the airport to do the pick-up. Kay was irritated by this imposition, after all the strut and swagger those kids had flaunting their close connections with the UK relatives, poking fun at Tom and Kay's ignorance of social media. She put her foot down and Tom agreed, after all Conan should know how to use a taxi at his age. Then strangely, Tom's sister Angela phoned and told Tom to ignore her kids' request, in fact she was quite adamant that Conan should not be collected.
Hours after the flight had landed Talan called Tom from Penzance with concerns that his step-son had made no contact yet and that his travel companion had not even gone on the flight. According to Talan this mate was from a wealthy family and had paid for Conan's ticket, a Christmas present, so they could go on a trip together, but at the moment of their departure from Gatwick he had unexpectedly abandoned him at the gate.
'Well there's really nothing to worry about. Conan has money, even if he's on his own he may have decided to have a night in the city before he comes out here to the suburbs. After all he's not a child.'
Conan was in fact in his thirties but he had not 'settled down yet' as everyone euphemistically referred to his lifestyle, which was one that revealed upon closer inspection an immature and self-indulgent personality. He had left school as soon as it was legally permissible and with no attempt to gain qualifications in any field at all, the only jobs he ever held were part-time short –term positions with family businesses, opportunities offered to him in a spirit of what could be called charity. In an effort to support Talan with his new extended family, the relatives running their own shops or factories would give Conan a chance to earn a bit of money. Such kindness only encouraged the sense of entitlement that became more and more visible in the young man's attitudes so that he became expert at spotting and negotiating freebies, to him this was a talent he was proud of: house sitting instead of renting accommodation; borrowing cars; freeloading for meals. His engaging manner worked in his favour and his scrounging ways were forgiven often because he could be surprisingly entertaining. As long as he moved on quickly enough and left a decent space between visits so as not to wear out the welcome mat he could create a circle to transit regularly and repetitively, and his track became global.
Somewhere along this pathway Conan came across the credit card concept but instead of picking up on the responsibility that using this entailed, his reaction was that of stumbling over a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Unhappily laying his fingers on seemingly unlimited finance coincided with the discovery of drugs. Even more unfortunate was the link between this commodity and a rough criminal element which could prey on Conan's lazy innocence. The surprising thing was that he was clever enough to be deceitful, covert and furtive thus masking this particular evolution in his lifestyle from everyone except eventually his own mother. It took a couple of years before the gang had a noose of blackmail around his neck and then tweaked it tight with the demand that led to Conan's role as drug mule.
Talan certainly worried that Conan seemed a bit aimless but he was supportive of his step son and admired him for his popularity, always ready to party – Talan had been shy, even awkward socially when he was young. He certainly never imagined that Conan could do anything reprehensible and felt confident that Tom would look out for him, even enjoy getting to know him on this trip to Australia. He had mentioned this hope to Tom when they had briefly spoken recently. So Tom felt a twinge of guilt on two counts: he had not collected Conan from the airport as first asked and he didn't tell his brother about that. He consoled himself with the thought that although the terminal was only about forty minutes from his home, on a hot summer weekend morning it was a battle through the traffic best avoided if possible, and furthermore his sister and wife were both advocating doing nothing.
'I saw Conan's friend in the village,' Talan explained, 'he ran off when he noticed me approaching so I drove over to his dad's mansion and had to beat on the door for ages. Finally the father opened the door and just said his son had an emergency to deal with here and had cancelled his plans. He shut the door in my face. I couldn't find out any more so I left.'
Thus Monday evening's phone call from the police was not totally out of the blue, but the staggering news of arrest and drug charges hit from left field. Tom rang Angela and told her he had no specific details about the crime but they agreed some legal assistance would be needed to help Conan who was surely innocent. One particular aspect of the police information unsettled Tom: why had Conan given his name as the preferred contact point? He had been completely uninvolved in the buzz surrounding his visit, in fact he had never communicated with the guy. The only thing they had in common was the name which Conan had taken on when he was adopted formally by Talan after the marriage to Tegan.
Tuesday morning Kay picked the paper up from the grassy verge and tore the cling wrap off, unrolling the tight wad as she walked up the driveway, glancing at the various headlines. She sat down at the table where Tom was just placing her second cup of coffee.
'Oh my God, look at this!
Australian Federal Police have detained Conan Tom Carter at the Airport on Saturday. He was attempting to smuggle two kilograms of cocaine into the country with a street value of over $2 million. The illegal goods were concealed inside two suitcases …
'Great, that's my name splashed all over our local press, just what I need when I am going for a promotion! I bet he used me as his visa sponsor because that would get him through customs in the fast lane.'
Into Kay's mind the word "wrecking" flashed. Part of Cornish folklore, the term is connected to legends about ships deliberately lured into danger by displaying false lights. Conan was showing just such cunning in the manner he had attempted to duck and weave his way into the country. His careful cyber-grooming of the young cousins, the secretive use of a name-sake to cause confusion at immigration and the last minute ditching of his travel companion. He was truly living up to Dr Johnson's old definition of a smuggler being 'a wretch who in defiance of justice imports contraband'.
Tom decided he would have nothing to do with any of it. He was not going to be drawn towards danger. This fellow was actually using an assumed name, his name. The more naïve cousins on the other hand were full of sympathy and pathos. Even Angela seemed strangely partisan, claiming the 'poor boy' needed support. She began weekly visits to the prison and became an expert on the regimes of a correctional centre. Over the next few months a trial was held and Conan was sentenced to eight years jail. Despite being sent to a country town prison at least four hour's drive from them, curiously Angela continued to disrupt her life by tripping back and forth; she even chastised Tom for deciding not to visit with her and withholding his sympathy now that Conan was doing his time.
A year went by and Conan's mother dutifully made the long journey from England to visit her son. Tom maintained his refusal to discuss the matter and made no effort to contact Tegan. This was enough to ignite Angela. She verbally whipped Tom with endless text messages and voice-mails when she could not actually harangue him in person. And that was how she let slip in one of her tirades a seemingly insignificant phrase:
'He promised he would never say anything which could implicate the children'
It just popped out midst other claims of the prisoner's contrition, the new leaf he'd turned over, his fine reputation with the guards, social work with indigenous inmates, a new interest in gaining an education … each item another indicator of his underlying goodness.
Angela's children, Conan's step-cousins, were both in their early twenties, leading what Tom in his old fashioned terminology could have described as 'hippy' styled beach-side existences, indulged by their parents so that any work was lucky to be a holiday job at best. Tom had long suspected the pair of them were using marijuana, perhaps even ecstasy pills, because as a teacher he had attended information sessions on the tell-tale signs of drug use. Those kids almost lived in that pool cabana at the back of their parent's hibiscus clad tropical garden and for the last few years Angela had boasted proudly of the constant trail of friends wandering through the front gate to call in momentarily. She praised the stamina they gained by attending all night 'dance parties'. Tom and Kay shook their heads at her guileless interpretations, raising their eyebrows at Angela's unsophisticated dismissal of what was on her own door step; ironically her head was in the sand.
Angela had little time for Tom's strong antipathy of drug pushers, misunderstanding a dedication to his profession with its role of mentor and protector that drove this stance. Needless to say he had watched his students flourish or perish depending on the contact they had with drugs. Wasted youth, he couldn't abide it. He became torn; should he investigate and perhaps reveal the criminality of his own niece and nephew in order to prove to Angela that Conan was indeed a villainous 'wretch' willing to use his friends and family, betraying them for his own gain. He had a suspicion that she knew this but she could not face the truth, she had turned her face to the wall.
Tom joined Facebook under a pseudonym; on a whim he used Robert Mark's name; this infamous smuggler from Polperro had at least repented before being shot for his crimes. The profile page allowed Tom to choose interests that he knew would attract his unsuspecting relatives and soon enough he had liked them as 'friends' giving himself access to their posts and even pages from the time before Conan's fateful flight. Tom noticed that the kids had a habit of referring to various drugs types by giving them female names and then writing news of these products' location and characteristics as though they were girlfriends. It was a fairly simplistic linguistic game: Cathy (cocaine) will be at the party by 9pm, she is coming with Max; Ellie (ecstasy) wants $40 (cost per tablet) when she gets to the beach on Friday. Damningly they also recorded their conversations with Conan, including news of a certain "Cathy" and her proposed trip to Australia, cryptic reference to her carry-on baggage weight, the cost of her luggage and the date of her arrival with Conan. The cousins were to arrange places for "Cathy" to stay and payments in advance to cover her expenses. The most sinister paragraph revealed a plan to use Tom Carter as a referee for Conan debarkation form on arrival at the airport and much mirth was had at how this would exploit Uncle Tom's clean slate character. Their cryptic comments on the felicitous change of Conan's birth name of Copinger, when his mother married Talan Carter, also caused amusement. Tom could send this information to the Federal Police.
Although many beacons shine their beam on the truth, they can be lost in a sea of fairy lights splashing about among the swells and waves, distracting our eyes and limiting our view of the true shore-line. Tom, in an attempt to navigate his way to the real story, had picked up the right clues and justified his stance. He avoided being wrecked on the rocks. Was his sister's dedicated visiting regime and vehement loyalty to Conan purely driven by what she claimed Tom should be feeling – the unconditional love that one must have for family? He thought not.
The great dilemma perched him on the cliff face behind the safety fence, watching the young ones on the beach. The preventive man. His red shirt caught their eyes and they waved up at him innocently, carefree. Tom turned to Angela and hesitated to give any hint. In that moment they exchanged their pardons wordlessly. In accordance with Cornish historical records the lighting of a fire or any other form of signalling to assist smuggling was a severely punishable offence but in Tom and Angela's case, although the officers might have been highly suspicious, they could hardly summons someone for not making a signal.


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text: Review: Out of the Cage (Park Theatre) JohnnyFox January 23, 2015 Reviews, Theatre The story is fascinating, perhaps more for me than most because I live on the site of the TNT factory in Silvertown where Out of the Cage follows the women 'munitionettes' who worked packing bomb shells during the first world war, campaigning for better pay and conditions right up to the terrible moment on 19 January 1917 when in the biggest explosion the country had ever seen, the wooden factory became a fireball visible from a hundred miles away We are on ground made over-familiar by TV dramas – women struggling to make ends meet on low wages, in rank conditions and with exposure to toxic chemicals – and the script is a compound blend of The Matchgirls, Made in Dagenham and even (as Henry Hitchings from the Evening Standard reminded me on our tube home) the Park Theatre's opening piece last year These Shining Lives set in a radium dial watch factory. Sometimes the speeches of the firebrands calling for strike action sound too modern, at other times lost in dialect and bizarre idiom. Apart from the Irish troublemaker and the posh one, characters are indistinguishable, which is probably why they call each other by their full names all the time, Annie Castledine. I liked the staging: even in its 90-seat studio, the Park doesn't stint with production values and there's beautifully-sawn carpentry and clever under-stage lighting to suggest the factory structure, and some inventive movement and mime coordinated by Simon Pittman against a neat soundscape by John Chambers to evoke the sense of hard industry and urgent moments in the drama when there really are acting fireworks. There's good close harmony singing, too, and you do derive the impression this piece is struggling to be a musical. Worked for Titanic, set in the same period, so why not? It's an ensemble piece with the feel of a feminist collective, but Tegen Hitchens stands out as the poisoned worker desperate to keep her job and protect her children, with nice turns from Katherine Tozer as the statutory upper class woman supporting the commoners, and Jill McAusland as the overlooked youngster whose pay has been unfairly docked. Although over-long, you care about the outcomes though the campaign for equal pay in the years before women got the vote is even more hopeless than it was in 60's Made in Dagenham, women didn't earn equal pay until 1972. There is more to the history than Alex McSweeney includes in his play: Sir John Brunner, a Liberal politician, grandfather of the Duchess of Kent, and benignly paternalistic owner of the sodium carbonate factory never wanted to make TNT but was coerced by the War Ministry into doing so. Despite the devastating accident, Brunner Mond was one of the richest companies in the business, a founder of ICI, and still operates as part of Tata. An enquiry suggested negligence of workers' welfare, but the government suppressed its findings until 1950 when it would have been too late to compensate those affected.


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Wow, my non-activity reaches a new record.
Let's see, updating on things talked about last time:
NaNoWriMo is obviously over by now. It was a lot of fun, and the first time I've ever been able to actually reach The End of a writing project! For that reason alone I may be taking advantage of the offer for winners ("winner" meaning writing 50K words or more) to get a free proof copy of my novel. To have something I wrote as an actual book would be incredibly cool, though I'm not sure if I can stand to put something so obviously imperfect into such a final form. The offer is good through June, so I have time to do some editing. Not sure if I'd be able to get it to the point where I'm satisfied, though. We'll see.
Still working at Borders. Despite feeling really burned out the week before Christmas, when I was scheduled 6 days in a row during the craziest time of year, it's been a lot of fun. Feels good to be getting out of the house and doing something worthwhile, and most everyone I work with is great. It's still up in the air whether or not they can keep me past seasonal help, but I should know that in the next week or two.
Aside from working, mostly what's been filling my time is reading. Working at a bookstore hasn't really affected that much; I have a feeling this is what I'd be doing with my time regardless. Almost a year ago I discovered the site GoodReads.com which has really influenced my addiction. It was tough trying to remember everything I've read before so I could add it to my list -- of course, being a perfectionist, I couldn't stand the idea of it being incomplete -- and, even so, it's not quite accurate. But, accurate enough, according to the rules I gave myself. My list includes everything that I've read for pleasure, on my own, in my "adult" years. Books read for school are not included (I never actually read half of them anyway), and books I read as a child are not included (I'd never be able to remember them all). Whether I didn't have time, or school just beat the desire out of me, I really didn't read much -- if anything -- on my own from about the ages of 12 to 21, so picking up Wicked part-way through college seems as decent a starting point as I could hope to get. At any rate, I'm pretty sure I've remembered everything (all fiction anyway, I don't read enough non-fiction to fret over it), and gotten the dates roughly correct.
Obsessive compulsive tendencies taken care of, it was great to start keeping track of what I'm reading now . . . and trust me, I'm getting use out of it. I haven't read this much since I was a child, and it still seems that no matter how many books I read, my "to-read" list just keeps getting longer. To try to help that, I've joined a group on that site with the challenge to read 75 books in a year.
According to my GR bookshelf, I read 44 books in 2009. So it may seem that 75 is an overly ambitious goal, especially considering that I was unemployed for most of the year and hopefully that will not be the case this year. However, I also spent a lot of time re-reading books I'd already read before, plus the fact that I really didn't start getting into reading again until April. So it should be doable. At least, one book every 4 or 5 days is doable. Keeping up that pace for an entire year . . . that's where it gets tricky. Especially when I'd really prefer to only count new books for this challenge, and there are still quite a few I'd like to re-read as well (part of that perfectionist thing again, I hate the fact that I'm really just guessing on several of my 1- to 5-star ratings on this site). But we'll see. Whether I actually reach it or not, it's nice to have a goal.


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Well, not really. I'm not really crying over it, however I was expecting that the fast-rising of the unemployment rate was going to hit me one way or the other. The sad part about this is that this is the time where being choosy at a job you feel most qualified for is no longer an option. Once you see something that's not exactly something you enjoy you may have to go for it just to make your ends meet.
I scored my first job interview on Monday though I'm a bit skeptical. This is a job position as an agency owner with Farmers Insurance. I have a feeling this is an insurance sales agent job and frankly, I am not very fond of sales (more like I have no skills for it) and insurance is a very complicated subject. I'm told that I would be trained with pay but still… I decided to check it out anyway.
Hopefully with my brand-new Facebook account I can use it to look for a job. Networking… someone help me… :(


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I post about this soup/hearty meal every year, but here it is again I know people appreciate it 😘 It is a whole chook in the slow cooker, or on the wood stove for me these days, with the aromatic vegetable trimmings from celery, leek, carrot, onion, garlic, parsley stalks, tomato ends. I collect the trimmings from my cooking, I was trained during my chef apprenticeship old school style nothing was wasted so there was always a, impossible to lift, stock pot or two on the back of the stove to add trimmings to as you chop but at home I put them in a bag in the freezer. So when I want to make a stock I grab a few handfuls you can read more about how I make my stocks at home on this website, add some bay leaves, thyme and peppercorns and any veg that may be missing form my trimmings and cover the chicken with water. Simmer in the slow cooker for around 4-6 hours its ready when all the meats falling off the chicken. Strain the chicken and keep the stock and pull all meat from the bones, this meat can be used in salads, wraps or sandwiches or just back into the soup.
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2 onions
3 cloves garlic
2 cm piece ginger
2 stalks celery
cup cabbage
pinch chilli
teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon garam masala
splash oil
1 cup brown rice
4 cobs corn (or a tin of creamed corn)
kaffier lime leaf
splash soy and fish sauce
extra veg such as spinach, peas, zucchini, broccoli, corn, bok choy, kale, capsicum, mushrooms
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Peel and mince the garlic and ginger. Peel and dice the carrots, celery, onion and saute them all in a heavy based pot with the oil, ginger and garlic and the spices and chilli.
***remember to keep all your peelings and trimming to go back into the bag in the freezer for the next to make stock!!!
Ad the rice, corn that has been taken from the cob and blitzed in a food processor, kaffier lime leaf and stock, fish sauce and soy to the pot and gently simmer until the rice is nearly cooked. Now ad any extra veg that doesn't require to much cooking. I was cleaning out the crisper in the fridge when I made this so broccoli, cauliflower and zucchini chopped into a small dice and some frozen peas and season well with salt and pepper. Easy, super economical and delicious! The stock smells amazing when cooking and its so nice to have a delicious meal to come home to on a late, cold dark evening after kids activities. My kids also love this, its full of veggies and they love Italian version with beans and pasta from the same stock. It would be on our weekly meal plan pretty much every during the school term. We had one evening meal and 2 lunches in the thermos from this batch. Or I could have frozen one meal rather than the lunches.


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We all know the importance of getting where you want to go when you want (and need) to go to our sense of independence and freedom.
Imagine if you are an older adult trying to get to the doctor or pharmacy to get essential prescription medications but you can't get there.
For our senior loved ones, it isn't that same as a joy ride in the country to view the fall leaves or going to the ice cream shop for an ice-cold treat. It's your life and health.
Accessible transportation – or the lack thereof – is important to seniors' ability to successfully age in place.
Depending on others for a ride when they need it, including family caregivers or senior transportation that can be undependable, isn't a perfect solution for many seniors. In some instances, paying for transportation to get basic needs met is out of reach for many older adults.
What is the solution?
For many seniors, ridesharing companies that have spread like wildfire across the nation can help them do what needs to be done and more.
Impact of Ridesharing
It is estimated that in 2015, 54% of seniors had difficulty accessing transportation, even in cities such as New York with wide ranging public transportation systems. In fact, 40% of rural people (37 million) living in 1,200 counties across the nation have no public transportation.
It is amazing to learn that as many as 20% of seniors (nearly 7 million people) over 65 don't drive at all.
One solution to this problem is exploring how ridesharing can fill the void providing seniors with dependable transportation.
A study by AARP found that 20% of seniors over 75 use ridesharing and 40% of those over 85 do as well.
In collaboration with United Healthcare, the AARP Foundation gave a $1 million grant to Keck Medicine of USC to test the impact of providing free Lyft rides on the health of elderly USC patients within the greater Los Angeles area.
Researchers showed how unlimited free Lyft rides (ridesharing) can improve seniors' quality of life by 90%. The research was part of a pilot program between Lyft and the University of Southern California Center for Body Computing, which studied and connected senior citizens with this form of transportation.
Seniors in the study were tracked using a wearable device to determine their behavior. They used a smartphone app or were able to call for a ride. All the seniors had transportation barriers and lived alone.
Benefits to Seniors Demonstrated
Given unlimited free access for three months, the older adults averaged taking a ride daily. They showed an increase of 35% in out of the home activity over the time studied. Not only did they go to medical appointments but began socializing, visiting friends and engaging in the community. 74% reported an increase in social visits.
An added bonus, 97% of the respondents reported getting more comfortable with the technology, actually 'embracing' it, and were using smartphones with apps at the end of the study.
The cost of the rides averaged about $400 per month, which is more than many seniors could afford, according to researchers. Lyft promises more partnerships to meet the needs of elders and to determine how best to meet these needs economically.
It's true that millions of older adults miss their scheduled doctor appointments due to lack of transportation according to these researchers. But, more importantly, the lack of independence and mobility to move around their communities for any reason inhibits a senior's quality of life.
Socialization is a key determinant of successful aging in place. Staying home and not interacting with others because of inaccessible transportation can negatively impact seniors' lives.
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Many seniors struggle to connect with ridesharing companies because they are unable, untrained, or unwilling to use an app to call for a ride.
Some seniors, especially rural ones, may not have broadband service or a smartphone yet.
Others may not be comfortable using an app or remember how to do it. Some seniors still shy away from this technology in case they should 'break' it. Others are fearful of security breaches with an app like this.
It is up to family caregivers to help facilitate this process and help senior loved ones get connected with ridesharing.
Older adults don't have to use a smartphone to call a ride. Both the major ridesharing companies can be called using a computer instead of a smartphone app. Family caregivers can set up a computer to be used to get a ride, show the senior how to do it, and establish an account for them.
Lyft Concierge has made it possible to get a ride using the telephone, with no need for a smartphone or a computer. They have partnered with community-based companies to provide rides. For many seniors, picking up the phone and making a call to get a ride may give them more confidence than using an app or the computer. These rides can be on demand or scheduled for appointments.
Caregivers near or far can also call to set up rides for their senior loved ones using this program. Payment is made via credit card so no money is required.
Ridesharing Changes Lives
Ridesharing companies are working together with senior living communities to make ridesharing more accessible for seniors. If your older adult is in a facility, you may want to discuss connecting your senior with this service.
Helping seniors remain as independent as possible and engaged in the community by focusing efforts on obtaining adequate transportation services unquestionably will improve the quality of their aging in place experience.
This will ultimately benefit family caregivers too!


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The 3rd Social Priority Colloquium took place in Kolkata on the 8th and 9th of December, 2016 at the Institute Of Cost Accountants and Management of India. This initiative was undertaken by SOCEO, in collaboration with the Institute Of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI).
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Oscar-winner Tom Hanks thinks America is going to be just "fine" if Donald Trump earns the GOP presidential nomination — though he adds it will be a "hilarious" and exhausting general election season if the billionaire candidate wins the Republican nomination."Look, America's going to be fine," the 59-year-old actor, who supports Hillary Clinton, said in an appearance on CBS This Morning on Thursday. "We're the greatest, most resilient nation in the history of all of civilization. We'll be fine. We've worked ourselves out of holes many, many times over and over again." "I have no powers of clairvoyance like you geniuses in the news media," Hanks added. "I'm not saying he's going to be president of the United States… What I'm saying is we are going to have the most hilarious September, October and first week of November in a very long time. And you people [the media] are going to be exhausted." Finally a Hollywood star even one of the top dogs in Tom Hanks showing us he will not be manipulated by the Liberal Hollywood agenda. Will Tom Hanks get more roles after coming out and stating America will be fine with Trump as president. The sad thing is probably not, and he might just become a target of the mainstream media. The funny thing is that he told the truth about basically how the mainstream media in America exhaust themselves with constant Trump bashing. Leave it to a Hollywood actor who didn't grow up in Libtard Hollywood, to basically tell us America will be quite alright if Trump is president. In the coming days we might see the mainstream news come out with headlines such as Forest Dump and other things. For the mainstream media is basically at war with Trump and his supporters, because he doesn't fit the Liberal agenda and exposes it every day. Now we have Tom Hanks basically calling out the media on their lies by stating they exhaust themselves with Trump news that bashes Trump on a daily basis. Good job Tom clap clap.
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Lost at Comic-Con - Final season secrets revealed!
Story by Jack Foley
THE creators of Lost attended Comic-Con at the weekend to promise that the show's final season WOULD answer all the questions surrounding its many mysteries.
Speaking at the San Diego fan convention, executive producer Damon Lindelof also revealed that show favourites Elizabeth Mitchell (aka Juliet Burke) and Jeremy Davies (Daniel Faraday) will return for the final year despite having apparently perished towards the end of the fifth season.
He also promised the return of several other characters who haven't been seen since the show's first season – but stopped short of revealing who that includes.
Other revelations to emerge from the hour-long Lost session at Comic-Con included…
A new narrative device that's unique to the final season.
Further revelations about Jacob.
The solving of the mysterious Dharma food drops – even though there won't be much about the Initiative itself in the final season.
Another of the show's executive producers, Carlton Cuse, also said that the final season will resemble the first season in many ways, without invalidating some of the interim years.
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To which Lindelof added: "The time travel season is over, the flash forward season is over – we're going to do something different…
"[Basically] everything that matters we're gonna answer."
The most recent season of Lost finished with the castaways detonating a bomb on the island in the hope of re-setting the past several years of their lives.
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The Walking Dead Q&A – Andrew Lincoln (Rick Grimes) (Spoilers)
Andrew Lincoln, who plays Rick Grimes on AMC's The Walking Dead, talks about Rick's new world and fulfilling Deanna's dying wish.
Q: You've walked through a herd smothered in guts before, but was it any easier during the second time around? What are those guts actually made of anyway?
A: It's always easier the second time around, but it was just as unpleasant. [Laughs] The only bonus was that there were all these new people who were just as uncomfortable. You'd have to ask the wizards at KNB EFX what the meat ponchos are made of, but after five hours of sweating, it could really be zombie flesh.
Watch: The cast and crew on what it's like to cut open a walker.
Q: What was it like reuniting with Lennie James on set this season and shooting with him as part of the group for the first time?
A: It's a blast. Lennie has such a strong presence on set and he's a leader in his own right. He's vastly talented. It's quite good to have someone who is an ally, but also someone who challenges Rick. It's an unusual relationship. Rick hasn't really been challenged publicly since Shane, which didn't end particularly well… for Shane… [Laughs]
Q: We asked Lennie if he thought Morgan could take Rick in a fight with his new stick-fighting expertise. Who would you place your bet on?
A: I think, without a doubt, Morgan would take Rick out with that stick. I mean, Lennie has taken out pretty much every stunt guy with that stick. He's lethal. [Laughs] He's going to be so angry that I said that! It is a funny joke, though. I've been counting the number of stuntmen he's hit and I'm on my toes now. He's like a Tasmanian devil.
Q: Where does Sam and Jessie being devoured rank for you among the most painful moments for Rick?
A: When I read the script, I just laughed. Sam gets killed, Jessie gets bit, Ron takes a shot at me and ends up shooting my son's eye out and then Michonne stabs him. Are you kidding me?! It was bananas! We could have done that scene over four episodes! It was an awful day. The whole sequence took about eight or nine hours because the episode is so big. Saying goodbye to great actors and friends is always painful, but with this particular relationship between Jessie and Rick – she unlocks a part of him that hadn't been touched since the death of Lori. She was hugely important in the rebuilding of Rick and his future at Alexandria. Also, what Alexandra Breckenridge created with this character in a relatively short time was just brilliant. It was hard on so many levels. We keep getting these brilliant performers on our show, and unfortunately, we keep killing them.
Q: Is it fun to film Rick's bad-ass moments, like the walker killer spree he goes on after Carl gets shot?
A: In my experience with this guy, he can't bear it when he doesn't have control over a situation. He had to hand over what he thinks is his dying son and it's unbearable for him. The trauma and the grief that's happening after Jessie just turned into absolute white anger. He's so wrecked by grief. It's the only way to get rid of this paralysis. He just turned it into rage and what he does is insane.
Q: I was kind of worried for a minute…
A: Hey, don't be concerned for Rick! Be concerned for those zombies! [Laughs]
Q: Were you surprised that the Alexandrians came out and supported Rick's stand against the herd?
A: The Alexandrians have proven themselves to Rick. They saved his life and they saved the community. For the first time, everyone comes together in the battle for Alexandria. It's fueled by trauma and the one man standing alone before everyone joins him. Deanna's challenge to Rick comes to fruition. She said, "They're your people now" and sure enough, everybody stands side-by-side to win back the community.
Q: After Carl gets shot, Rick shares with us his desire to show Carl "the new world." What do you think his new world consists of?
A: I think it's the first time he really sees a viable future. It's the first time that he feels hope since before the apocalypse – it's not spoken of, but it's absolutely there. He feels he can start again and the community can build a real civilization. It's everything that Deanna had been talking about – which he didn't believe until everybody stood together and showed themselves to be warriors. It's pure hope. Everything else has been pure survival. He also realizes he's been wrong. It's a big turning point in his evolution as a leader.
Q: We went back and read our very first interview with you where you mentioned some of the things you'd bring with you during an apocalypse – a tennis racket, your swimming trunks and a gun. Have your top picks changed now that you know what's out there in that world?
A: I would definitely take my golf clubs rather than the tennis racket. That's the only thing I'd change.
Q: [Laughs] So swimming trunks are still essential?
A: Speedos and my cowboy boots are two essential items.
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Screenwritng/marital team Joe Syracuse and Lisa Addario (Surf's Up) are currently working on the script for Imaginary Enemies at DreamWorks Animation, intended as a twist on the traditional notion of the "imaginary friend." Here's how Risky Business describes it:
The new project will be told from the point of view of the imaginary friends who had long been used as scapegoats by unscrupulous children looking for someone else to blame for their misdeeds. Eventually fed up, those imaginary people come looking for some payback when the kids are grown up.
At first glance, this sounds like it's cut from the same cloth as the ghost-centric DreamWorks flick Boo U. But Enemies could employ a technique that would distinguish it from not only Boo U, but all DWA films up to this point. Excited by the possibilities of the divide between the real world and the imaginary realm, the studio is seriously entertaining the notion of Imaginary Enemies as a live-action/CG hybrid. More after the jump:
That idea gets me much more excited about Enemies than your average DWA project. The justification of the hybrid approach seems so very organic given the subject material — moreso than, say Alvin & the Chipmunks. Plus, DWA head Jeffrey Katzenberg has been one of the pioneers behind the modern 3D movement, a company objective which manifested itself most spectacularly in the flying sequences of How to Train Your Dragon. If they integrate 3D into the format with just the right balance, we could be in store for a collection truly stunning visuals.
Obviously, this film is a ways off. Probably no earlier than 2013, if that. And they haven't committed to the live-action/CG hybrid idea. An there's no guarantee that the story is worth telling. In fact, it sounds a bit hokey. But there is an iteration of Imaginary Enemies that is an excellent film. Of that I am convinced.
One final interesting note from the report: the conceit behind the film reportedly originated at DreamWorks retreat a few years ago. Reminded me of the famous Pixar lunch that launched A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, and WALL·E. As if DreamWorks wanted their own iconic meeting that was one day talked about in hushed tones by animation geeks.


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The 6th India-UK Science &Innovation Council (SIC) Meeting was held in New Delhi on 26th July 2018. Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Science & Technology, Earth Sciences & Environment, Forests and Climate Change, India and Mr. Sam Gyimah, Minister for Universities,Science, Research and Innovation, UK led the Indian and UK delegations respectively.
The Two Ministers reviewed bilateral S&T cooperation between the two countries since last SIC meeting atLondon in June 2016. Both Ministers pleased to note the success of the Newton Bhabha partnership through which India and UK are jointly delivering cutting edge science and Technology solutions to societal challenges. The Ministers also welcomed the suggestion of setting up a Newton-Bhabha award to recognize the impacts delivered through this joint partnership.
Ministers agreed to work together on the UK India tech partnership announced by Prime Ministers Modi and May during PM's Modi's visit to the UK in April. Both Minister welcomed the India UK FutureTech Festival scheduled for Delhi this year.
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And opening your mouth in general
Though I'm relatively young, I've done a decent amount of speaking to small and large groups of people (and solo speaking if you count talking to yourself). It is 100% something that you will get better at with practice,so if you feel like you stink at it, don't get down on yourself. I've outlined three of the main points that I believe help me the most when addressing a crowd or executing a presentation. These may not work for everyone, but for what it's worth, I swear by them.
Nerves are good, learn to love them — I still get nervous when addressing groups of people, and if I didn't I'd be worried.
Many people think that the reason they bomb is because they're nervous. You're wrong. You bombed because you didn't deal with your nerves properly. Address the fact that the nerves are there, and that they're good. They keep you on your toes and if you use them the right way, they'll keep you sharp. Acknowledge that they're there and use it! Realize that everyone has nerves and that they aren't going anywhere. I get nervous before every presentation or public speaking event, and I love it. It's a rush of excitement, I'm about to intrigue people and excite them! And if you bomb, so what? We all bomb. Ask any successful comedian and they'll tell you that bombing is a part of learning. I remember losing a crowd on multiple occasions. Ya, you feel like a moron at the time, but you learn from it and move past it (not to mention that those end up being the best stories you tell people).
Control your breathing — This goes right alongside with nerves, but I put it as a seperate point because I think it's one of the most important things to do when speaking.
When you get nervous your heart beats faster and your breathing rate increases. When it gets out of your control, you're in trouble. The sweats, shakes, cracky voice, short term memory loss, all are effects of out of control breathing. Focus the 5 or 10 minutes before you speak on just your breathing, that's it. Don't go over what you're going to say or do, focus on your lungs. Control it to a pace that is calming. At first it may feel like your heart is beating out of your chest, but that's fine, keep your breathing rate down. It will make you speak more clearly and will curb shakyhands–syndrome. Take some time and FOCUS, I guarantee this will calm you down.
Remember, it's just a conversation — When we talk to crowds, we're talking… that's it.
You're not operating on a brain or talking someone off a ledge. Keep in mind that you are simply having a conversation with people who are interested in what you have to say. Don't be overly technical and don't be afraid to speak from the heart. People appreciate honesty. If you're up on stage or at a podium or in front of the members of the board, you're up there speaking for a reason. You know what you're talking about, so act like it. Be confident and speak openly. I feel that people sometimes get lost in the fact that they're in front of everyone, they forget that all they are doing is simply having a conversation. Don't turn the situation into something that it's not.
There are many more tricks and tips to being a successful public speaker, but many of them you will need to find out on your own. The only universal solvent for improvement is practice. If you practice you WILL get better, you can take that to the bank.
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SB 404: Stronger Parental Rights for Minor's Abortion
Bill Status
Signed by the Governor.
Bill History
2/28 Passed Indiana Senate (36-13)
1/10 Introduced by Sen. Houchin
Executive Summary
SB 404 would prohibit a person from transporting a pregnant minor to get an abortion without the consent of a parent or guardian. The bill would tighten up Indiana's parental consent law by forcing an abortion provider to maintain a copy of the pregnant minor's birth certificate, a copy of a parent or guardian's driver's license and a notarized written statement from a parent or guardian giving his or her consent for the abortion provider to end the life of the minor's unborn child.
The bill would also mandate that if a pregnant minor has asked a judge to be legally emancipated, so that she can get an abortion without a parent's consent, the parents must be notified and given the opportunity to submit evidence with the court before emancipation can be granted.
The bill would allow disciplinary actions to be taken against an abortion doctor who fails to report child abuse or sexual trafficking to authorities. It would also mandate that abortion doctors who perform abortions against state law or fail to report abortions performed on young mothers under 16 years of age within 3 days of the abortion will lose their medical license.
For many years it has been known that Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers have been circumventing Indiana's parental consent laws by urging pregnant minors to cross state lines and get an abortion in a state (like Illinois) that doesn't require parental consent before a minor may purchase an abortion. Here is an example of Planned Parenthood right here in Indiana being caught video doing that very thing (starting at 3:40):
Because of federal interstate commerce obstacles it has been difficult to strike at the root of this problem. However, SB 404 would attempt to move Indiana in the right direction. This bill would allow a parent or guardian to sue an individual who takes their pregnant child to have an abortion without their consent. For example, this bill would allow a parent to sue a 50 year old man who has impregnated their 15 year old daughter, posed as the parent and driven the minor to an abortion clinic to get an abortion without her real parent or guardian's consent.
This legislation would also strengthen Indiana's parental consent law by assuring that the parent truly has given consent. Currently an abortion provider needs a written statement. If SB 404 becomes the law the abortion provider would need to have proof that the person whose name is on the written statement truly is the parent or guardian by requiring the abortion provider to keep a copy of the parent or guardian's driver's license and a copy of a document proving that that person truly is the parent or guardian of that minor, such as a copy of the minor's birth certificate.
Finally, SB 404 would mandate that an abortion provider who fails to report to the state within 3 days after performing an abortion on a minor less than 16 years of age will lose his or her medical license.
The parent-child relationship is a sacred one that deserves respect. Parents must have the right to parent their minor children as they see fit without unnecessary interference from government or corporations like Planned Parenthood who have a financial interest in separating child from parent. SB 404 appropriately gives parents the legal support they need and deserve while also holding bad actors within the abortion industry accountable.
IFI supports SB 404.


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VALDOSTA, Georgia, March 6, 2018 – Less than 20 minutes north of the Florida border, Valdosta holds the dubious honor of being the last stop in Georgia for sunshine-hungry travelers heading south for summer vacation. The city has long since grown used to the throngs of tourists, expanding its lineup of attractions, shopping and restaurants to meet the demand for entertainment. That means it should be much more than a stop-off on your drive. Take a day to explore some of what this southern town has to offer.
Start off at Wild Adventures, a theme park that combines roller coasters, animals and a water park into one. They even have a performance series with entertainers like Jeff Foxworthy and 3 Doors Down in their 2018 lineup.
It's far and away Valdosta's most popular attraction and plenty busy during summer weekends. Get there when they open to beat the crowds and enjoy shorter wait times.
You'll also find traditional fair fun like a carousel and arcade and, new this year, MEGABUGS, an exhibit with oversized models of bees, butterflies, a cockroach and others, many animatronic.
Animal enclosures are scattered throughout the park: lions, capybara, monkeys. Be sure to visit Shirley, the world's oldest elephant on record. She turns 74 this summer.
Depending on your group, you may want to play longer at Wild Adventures. But if you just have one day in the city, head out in the afternoon to see the rest of Valdosta.
A perfect fall foliage day in the North Georgia Mountains
For a late lunch, try Empanadas & More. The Latin fusion restaurant opened in 2013 and serves arepas, chorizo, yuca, plantains and a host of South American favorites at a brightly colored cafe in an otherwise unassuming strip mall. Of course, their specialty is the empanada, stuffed with chicken, cheese, beef or any combination of the above. The affordable and fresh-tasting lunch combos bring in mostly locals and the occasional out-of-towner lucky enough to find this hidden gem.
It's all good, but their crisp empanadas are the stars. Order at least two.
"Normally, in our culture, empanadas are a snack. Here, it's an entree," said owner Alberto Sanchez, who hails from Colombia. Hence the Colombian flavors on much of the menu. "We are not fancy people, but we make sure that what you get at the table is the best."
After your meal, stroll the romantic grounds of "The Crescent," a neoclassical home built in 1898 and now on the National Register of Historic Places. The building gets its name from its curved front porch punctuated with 13 columns, one for each of the original colonies. It's the most notable landmark in the city. Anyone can visit, free of charge, for a tour of the stately interior between 2 and 5 p.m. weekdays.
To round out your afternoon, head downtown. Valdosta's Central Avenue strip is pleasantly walkable and filled with boutiques and emporiums perfect for casual window shopping or serious bargain hunting. While you're there, stop into the Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts. Exhibits include everything from African masks to musical instruments and totems to European antiques and fine porcelain.
Evening in Valdosta
You have your pick of restaurants for dinner downtown. But if you want classic Southern comfort food, the locals will tell you that you can't go wrong with Steel Magnolias. Their signatures are warm service, farm-sourced ingredients and reinvented down-home cuisine, like grits swirled with blue cheese and blackberry marmalade.
The day isn't over yet. Keep the energy going at Epic Escape Rooms. This family-run venue offers six themed adventures where you and your group can try to escape from a locked room with puzzles to guide you to freedom. Ask for clues if you need help, but look sharp; there's more than one twist in the game. For a highly unusual room, take on The Mad Hatter. You'll have to outsmart a trickster villain who won't let you leave Wonderland.
Whether you make it out in an hour or come close, you'll be surprised how much fun you have trying and you'll marvel at how long the experience stays with you. Odds are, you'll be talking about it, along with the rest of your Valdosta day, as you head to your next destination — wherever that may be.
Valdosta hotels
If you want to extend your stay in Valdosta, here are some options for lodging:
Drury Inn & Suites
1327 N St. Augustine Rd, Valdosta, GA
Popular for its bar, breakfast buffet and free around-the-clock soda, milk and popcorn
Fairview Inn Bed & Breakfast
416 River St, Valdosta, GA
A charming B&B in a restored home walking distance to downtown
Holiday Inn Express & Suites
1330 St Augustine Rd, Valdosta, GA
Situated just off I-75 on the west side of the city near restaurants and shopping
While Empanadas & More and Epic Escape Rooms hosted my visits, all opinions expressed are my own.


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Events are being held around Switzerland on Saturday to mark the 30th anniversary of the 'Read and Write association, whose courses have helped 25,000 adults. September 8 is also International Literacy Day.
According to UNESCO, International Literacy Day celebrations have taken place annually around the world since 1967 "to remind the public of the importance of literacy as a matter of dignity and human rights".
The Swiss Reading and Writing Association says that despite Switzerland's advanced education system, 800,000 people still struggle to read and write and around 400,000 have problems with simple calculations. The small Alpine nation has a population of around 8.5 million
Most illiterate people in Switzerland have completed compulsory education but have missed numerous classes. Others have simply lost the basic skills through lack of practice over the years. Some 30,000 of those with difficulties live in canton Valais, southwest Switzerland, where the department of economics and training has set aside CHF600,000 ($615,700) for an information and training campaign. It is one of ten Swiss cantons targeting the problem.
Swiss public television, RTS, spoke to a mother who overcame illiteracy with the help of the 'Read and Write' non-profit organisation.
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