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Maui County's visitor arrival numbers surpassed 2.3 million in 2012, according to statistics released Thursday by the Hawaii Tourism Authority.
The 2,340,226 visitors by air were 5.8 percent more than 2011's 2,211,413, continuing a steady yearly climb since the county hit bottom with 1.9 million visitors in 2009, which was when the islands' visitor industry felt the full brunt of the Great Recession.
Last year, Maui was more than 180,000 heads short of reaching its record annual visitor arrival figure of 2,522,043, set in 2007. The county's 2012 figure ranks as the third-highest visitor arrival mark in the last 10 years, topped only slightly by the 2,346,480 visitors who came in 2005.
Looking at tourism authority statistics dating back to 1990, Maui County routinely saw more than 2.3 million visitors annually from 1992 to 2000. The figures dipped to 2.1 million visitors yearly from 2001 to 2003, and then the county saw 2.2 million in 2004, 2.3 million in 2005, nearly 2.2 million in 2006 and then the record-breaking 2.5 million visitors in 2007.
The county's percentage in-crease in 2012 trailed the growth reported on the state's other major islands. Oahu had an 11.1 percent jump to nearly 4.9 million visitors.
The Big Island saw an 8.8 percent increase to 1.4 million visitors, and Kauai had a 7.3 percent rise to nearly 1.1 million visitors, tourism officials said.
Statewide, total visitors went up 9.2 percent to 7.8 million.
Last year, Maui County's international visitors by air grew 13.4 percent to 388,437. Lanai saw a 13.8 percent increase to 14,973, and Molokai's international tourists grew 4.2 percent to 11,859.
Maui's arrival figures have been leveling off because in the last two years the county has recovered airline seats to the islands, also known as "airlift," that had been cut back during the recession, said Terryl Vencl, executive director of the Maui Visitors and Convention Bureau.
"The other islands are just getting their airlift back," she said in a cellphone call from Oahu. "Ours came back a little sooner.
"We are very much back to the airlift that we had before the recession," she said.
Not all of Maui's visitors arrived by air. The number of cruise ship visitors to Maui County rose 15.9 percent to 271,926 for the year, the Tourism Authority reported.
Vencl pointed out that Maui did "very well" in terms of growth in visitor expenditures in 2012, seeing an 18.8 percent increase in tourist spending to $3.62 billion. Maui's greater visitor spending was slightly better percentagewise than the state's overall, which was up 18.7 percent to $14.3 billion.
On Maui island, daily per-person spending grew 12.4 percent to $195 last year. Per-visitor spending on Molokai rose 9.5 percent to $119, and on Lanai it went up 5 percent to $320.
Maui's strategic plan for visitors has "always been less numbers and maintaining high expenditures," she said.
Moving forward, Vencl said, those promoting visitor travel to Maui need to make sure not to have all their "eggs in one basket," without forsaking the island's bread-and-butter market of North America, particularly the West Coast.
Maui tourism officials are working to develop the promising Asia market in countries such as Korea, Taiwan and China and in Oceania, which includes Australia and New Zealand, she said. Promoters also want to entice more first-time visitors to Maui, she added.
Hawaii Tourism Authority President and Chief Executive Officer Mike McCartney called 2012 "the best year on record for Hawaii's tourism economy."
"I am proud of how our visitor industry has worked together since 2009 to make this happen," he said.
In 2009, daily visitor spending hit a low of $27 million in the state, McCartney said, while there was $930 million in state tax revenue and 133,000 visitor industry jobs.
"Today, just three years later, daily visitor spending has topped $39 million (an increase of $12 million), state tax revenue reached $1.58 billion ($650 million more), and tourism is supporting 167,000 jobs," an increase of 34,000, he said.
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With the epic Wimbledon match between John Isner and Nicholas Mahut STILL going on after ten hours, and Colorado Rockies starter Ubaldo Jimenez losing his minuscule ERA after letting up six runs, it's evident that historic sports events can happen at any moment.
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Tony Accurso has lost another round in his bid to avoid having to testify before the Charbonneau Commission.
The Quebec Court of Appeal has rejected the construction boss' latest attempt to dodge having to go before the Commission.
Accurso was subpoenaed a year ago, but has spent that time in the courts, launching several legal challenges.
Accurso is facing criminal charges, including tax fraud, and charges relating to several municipal contracts. His name has come up routinely at the Commission's hearings, and many politicians and civil servants have been photographed on his former yacht The Touch.
He suggests being forced to testify at the Commission's hearings might put him in a compromising position.
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SEO work is a nice way to bring your website higher than others. Doing this requires that you learn the techniques to become an SEO whiz. In this article, you will learn the difference between effective and defective SEO strategies.
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Be certain that your website is well-coded when you are working on optimizing it for search engines. When search engines see coding that is not well done, they will pass it up. Flash files can't be viewed at all, so make sure to give them descriptive tags.
Consider how long they have been in business, and their experience. You need the best information and knowledge of risks to make an informed decision.
Using a robots.txt file in your root directory can help you to tuck away content might hurt your search engine ranking. txt file that needs to be inserted into the main directory. This makes certain files found on your website inaccessible to the search engine.
You need to get more visitors to your website and keep them there to increase your page rank. It is believed that the time your visitors stay on your site will influence your ranking. This trend has been established through metrics like Quantcast scores. Message boards and forums are a good way to keep customers coming back to your site.
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To reach your SEO goals, use meta description tags to describe every page on your website. These description tags are a great value, as they are easy to add and improve ranking. It is important to write meta tags which are short but informative. This will draw more guests into your website.
You can get a little more SEO performance by taking your website into the blogging world. Start a blog of your own, and get involved with other blogs that cover related topics. Blogs get ranked easily since search engine algorithms prefer highly-structured data and new content. Search engines look very highly upon websites with a lot of backlinks.
Providing transcripts for any media content on your site will make it more accessible and make it visible to search engines. When you give a transcript, the search engine will find it as well.
Make sure that you have a good description tag, so that search engines will direct your target customers to your website. The content in this area shouldn't exceed 30 words. You should never go higher than 100 KB on the page.
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Consider creating a site map which includes your keywords. A site map is an easy to read, easily accessible directory of every area on your website. It gives users a simple way to find what they're looking for on your site. A site with a good site map will be given a higher ranking by the search engines to reflect the importance of easy accessibility.
Putting your website in a prime place to be found is what search engine optimization is all about. The article you have just read gave you multiple tips on how to make this happen for you. Applying these simple tricks will get your website noticed in no time, so increase your traffic today!


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Andrew Wiggins is having himself a week.
Last Saturday, the number-one-rated recruit in the Class of 2013 celebrated his 18th birthday. On Monday morning, the Canadian sensation learned he'd been named the Naismith High School Player of the Year. Less than 24 hours later, internet video broke of him throwing down the dunk to end all dunks against a school in Gainesville, Florida.
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This Is a Harried Mom? No, This Is Hollywood, and Problem Child's Amy Yasbeck Hits It Big Against Type
A strong neck and a light touch, says co-star Ritter. "She's the funniest woman I've ever worked with," he declares. "She would always make my jaw drop." Adds young Oliver: "She's nice. She even made a sweatshirt for me."
Unfortunately, along with Yasbeck's first meaty role in a hit movie ($10 million at the box office its first weekend) has come some unsought media attention. Before Problem Child hit the theaters last month, a tabloid linked her romantically with Ritter. Both Ritter, the husband of actress Nancy Morgan and the father of three, and Yasbeck vehemently deny the rumors. "I don't want to be a potty mouth," says Yasbeck. "But it's total bulls—-."
Yasbeck knows that tangling with the tabs goes with the Hollywood territory. After all, the 27-year-old actress lost her showbiz illusions long ago. The Cincinnati-born fifth child ("the caboose") of butcher John and housewife Dorothy Yasbeck (the name is Lebanese), Amy was chosen in 1968 by a toy manufacturer to grace the box of its kid-size stove. The 6-year-old showed up at the photo session just in time to see "an actual chef baking these cakes for display in an actual-size oven," says Yasbeck. "It was like when Dorothy discovers who the Wizard of Oz is."
But the cake fake didn't faze young Amy. "I just loved it," Yasbeck says of her first brush with fame. "I couldn't believe you could actually get off from school for something like that."
After attending a Catholic girls' school, Yasbeck enrolled in the theater program at the University of Detroit. Before her sophomore year, her father died of a heart attack at age 60. For her, "it was a crushing, crushing heartache." She left school a year later and set off for New York City. "I was having a brave moment," she says. "I act on those because if you're going to be chicken, you might as well be chicken in a new city where you can reinvent yourself."
But "one year, six months and 10 days" after her father died, her mother passed away from lung disease. Amy returned to the Big Apple after the funeral and within two months had snagged an agent; he had noticed her at the restaurant where she was a hostess. "I guess he liked the way I showed him to a table," she says.
Yasbeck moved to L.A. in 1985, joining Arsenio Hall in a comedy troupe that did bits for the revival of Love, American Style. Her next role was as an adulteress on Days of Our Lives. "They couldn't decide if my character was good or bad," she says. "So they shot her."
But Yasbeck was reincarnated in the Daryl Hannah mermaid role in the 1988 TV movie sequel Splash, Too. There she was romanced by a tiger shark. "I had an orange tail, I looked like a giant lox," she says. "[The shark] was swimming around with capers and cream cheese just waiting for me to come into his territory."
Soon, Yasbeck was working steadily and landed a role as the wife of Richard Gere's attorney in this year's blockbuster romantic comedy Pretty Woman. This fall she'll be in an ABC TV movie, Dillinger, with Mark Harmon. Meanwhile, her friends are encouraging her to throw her cap of red curls into the ring for the female title role in the upcoming CBS TV movie Lucy and Desi: Before the Laughter. Getting the part "would be an honor," she says. "But it would be very hard to come across as believable." Her ultimate showbiz fantasies are doing stand-up comedy and "singing in front of a big band, Doris Day style, with a silk dress and a flower in my hair."
To Yasbeck, who ended a five-year romance with L.A. real estate broker Jay Ginsberg last year, life at her two-bedroom L.A. condo is now a single sensation. She seems a little burned by romance but is certain that "there's somebody out there who will love me as much as Dad, in that unconditional way." When she ventures out, Yasbeck enjoys dancing and dining at vegetarian restaurants. She spends a lot of her solo time painting and composing songs for the guitar.
Parenting Problem Child's home-wrecking Oliver hasn't discouraged Yasbeck from wanting her own children someday. Flo "has absolutely no mothering instincts, so I just denied all of mine," she says, adding, "I know I'd be a great mom." And she doesn't think the movie should turn off other prospective parents. "It's just entertainment," she says. After all, "they made a movie called Airplane! and people are still flying."
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Washington, D.C. – Today, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke at the Center for American Progress about how relief from No Child Left Behind can spur the use of expanded learning time as a school improvement strategy. Last week President Obama announced that states may be released from certain requirements of No Child Left Behind in exchange for taking on certain reforms, one of which includes increasing learning time.
Cynthia G. Brown, Vice President for Education Policy at the Center for American Progress, issued the following statement regarding the flexibility to expand learning time:
Expanded learning time, done well, is a proven strategy to increase student achievement in our lowest-performing schools. States should use their waiver flexibility as an opportunity to expand learning time so that their schools are redesigned for the 21st century.
States should be thoughtful as they work to expand learning time in their schools. Simply adding time to the end of the day, or end of the year, is a recipe for more of the same. The additional time should be used as a catalyst for redesigning the schedule and turning around low-performing schools.
Secretary Duncan's continued support of expanded learning time is crucial to ensure more schools have the chance to implement expanded learning time. We commend the secretary for his unrelenting drive to improve our lowest-performing schools using demonstrated strategies such as expanded learning time.
At the event, the Center for American Progress also released a new column by Isabel Owen on this unreported opportunity to use funds from the federal 21st Century Community Learning Center program to expand learning time.
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Amarillo has been selected as the launch city for the Benefit Bank of Texas, a statewide program designed to help poor people file for federal assistance programs such as Medicaid.
Community leaders are scheduled to announce the program at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Amarillo College Washington Street Campus.
The Benefit Bank is a project of the Texas Health Institute, an Austin-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve the health of Texans and their communities through education, research and health policy development, according to its website.
The Benefit Bank is being launched in Amarillo because community leaders wanted to start the project in conjunction with the Partners for Postsecondary Success Initiative, said Camille Miller, president and CEO of the health institute, which will manage the program throughout the state.
"There was a realization on the part of leadership in Amarillo that this could really make a difference in the lives of people in the Panhandle," she said.
The Don and Sybil Harrington Foundation will provide $277,000 to start the Benefit Bank, said Charlotte Rhodes, Amarillo Area Foundation vice president of regional services.
The Benefit Bank will be available at 11 organizations throughout the city, including Amarillo College, Amarillo Independent School District and several churches and nonprofit organizations. More than 70 counselors at the Benefit Bank sites have been trained to help guide people through the application process for the programs, Rhodes said. People can use the program beginning Wednesday, but the Benefit Bank's full services won't be available until Feb. 24, she said.
Educational institutions are important to the project because education is a key to helping people escape poverty, Rhodes said.
Amarillo College Vice President of Academic Affairs Russell Lowery-Hart said the college's research through focus groups and surveys shows most of the college's dropouts leave school because of issues like transportation or child care problems that could be addressed through some federal aid programs.
"We might have normally said, 'This student's not academically prepared for college because they're not performing well in class,'" he said. "What we're now starting to learn is the reason they are not performing well in class is they couldn't find reliable transportation to get there, they're hungry, they're homeless, things of that nature."
Rhodes said the Benefit Bank is an important part of the Partners for Postsecondary Success Initiative, a three-year demonstration program funded partly through a $1.3-million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The initiative is part of the Gates strategy to double the number of young adults who earn degrees or certification beyond high school nationwide by 2025.
The Benefit Bank is not funded with any Gates money, Rhodes said.
Miller said Texas will be the 10th state to use the Benefit Bank program, and the institute has based much of its program off what states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and South Carolina have done.
Tricia Richardson, director of the Benefit Bank of South Carolina, said the South Carolina program began in January 2010, has helped about 18,000 people and brought $45 million in benefits to people in the state. It is also funded through private grants, she said.
She said people who needed help often became frustrated with long applications that could include as many as 30 pages.
But the Benefit Bank program along with a counselor's help simplified the process, Richardson said.
She said some of the challenges the program faced when it began included getting agencies proper technology, as well as getting organizations to work together.
"It's amazing what we found in this process and how much duplication of services are going on out there, and how one organization on this end of the town might not be communicating with an organization on the other end of town," Richardson said.
Miller said the Texas program is close to completing contracts in other cities across the state such as Houston, McAllen, San Antonio and Corpus Christi.
"Once we can show the first couple of months of reports of what's happened (in Amarillo), I think it will be like wildfire," she said.


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Queso DipServes 4
1 (12-oz.) jar roasted red peppers
½ cup heavy cream
2 cups (8 oz.) shredded Monterey Jack cheese
3 tbsp. thinly sliced sun-dried tomatoes
1 pickled jalapeño pepper, thinly sliced
Corn tortilla chips
Grilled chorizo sausage, sliced (optional)
Grilled fingerling potatoes (optional)
1. Thinly slice ½ cup roasted red peppers.
2. Pour cream in an 8-in cast-iron skillet. Add peppers and shredded cheese to skillet.
3. Broil 6 in. from heat 8 to 10 minutes or until cheese melts and is golden brown. Sprinkle with sun-dried tomatoes and jalapeño peppers.
4. Serve immediately with corn tortilla chips, as well as grilled chorizo sausage and fingerling potatoes, if desired.
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LISBON - Clarinda Marie Cloud (Linda), 71, has gone to be with our Blessed Father in Heaven Friday, July 6, 2012 at home.
Born September 26, 1940 in Fredericktown, she was a daughter of the late Ervin Earl and Audrey Ruth (Masters) Cronin.
She worked at Setto's in East Palestine and at the 7 and 14 and Penn-Ohio truck stops for many years as well as cooking for Opportunity Homes for 10 years, but her greatest contribution was the love and support she gave to her family.
Mrs. Cloud was a member of St. Clair Avenue Church of Christ and a former member of the Rogers Fire Department Auxiliary.
Survivors include four daughters: Lorri L. Ensell of Lisbon, Tresa M. (Bob) Rupright of Alamoso, Colo., Lisa M. (Mark) Werts of Dillon, Colo., and Jaime (Ben) Carman of Salineville; and a son Larry E. Cloud, Jr. of Lisbon; grandchildren: Sean Ensell of Rogers, Anthony (Randi Lynn) Ensell of Lisbon, John (Christine) Ensell of Rogers, Kurt Ensell of Columbiana, and Caleb Ensell of Lisbon, Brandy (Jesse) Moore of Navarre, Joshua Dent of Leetonia, and Brandi Finch of Lisbon; 16 great-grandchildren and several nieces and a nephews and a cousin Karen Susan McCormack.
In addition to her parents George and Audrey O'Hanlon, she was preceded in death by a brother K. James O'Hanlon, a sister Jeannine Cronin, grandchildren Crissie Ensell and Steve Finch, and great-granddaughter Zoe Cloud.
The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Weber Funeral Home with Evangelist Will Montgomery officiating. Burial will be in Columbiana County Memorial Park. Calling hours will be 2-5 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
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Turkey blocks website of its first atheist association
It took less than a year for a Turkish court to block the website of the country's first official atheism association.
According to News.AZ, the Atheism Association, the first of its kind in any Muslim-majority country, was officially founded in Istanbul's Asian-side neighborhood of Kadıköy in April 2014, Hurriyet Daily reports. However, the Gölbaşı 2nd Civil Court of Peace in Ankara has finally moved to block the association's website, according to the group's statement on March 3, 2015.
As of March 4, Turkish internet users could not access www.ateizmdernegi.org without using tools to bypass blockings, such as a VPN.
The court ruling cites Article 216 of the Turkish Penal Law, which forbids "provoking the people for hate and enmity or degrading them."
The association has issued a statement to criticize the blocking. "Three months ago, the European Space Agency managed to put Philae on a one-km wide comet named 67P, which has a speed of 135,00p km/h, after a 3,907-day-long journey to a location 500 million km away. Meanwhile, courts in Turkey are still busy blocking websites, citing laws with vague expressions and trying to make a certain belief dominate the others," it stated.
The Atheism Association also described the court's decision as "a historic example of accumulating legislative, executive and judicial powers in one hand," claiming that Turkey is "drifting away from the level of modern civilizations as fast as its judiciary system drifts away from reason."


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Excellent in every way.
Great experience on this tour. Our guide was very energetic and managed the tour very capably.
very nice
Great experience to see the country sides with good guide
Loved trip to Lucerne. Great way to spend a day.
This tour was amazing!
Great guide, great service, good value for money.
Luzern trip was excellent, the tour lead was a teacher before and he was fluent in many languages, so explained the tour in great details. His photography was good as well, took nice photos of us on my camera for remberance. Boat trip was quite relaxing with photoscenic views of mountains, blue sky, lovely weather. Viator had organised it well.
Outdoor eating places were fantastic. I will recommend the trip to anyone, everywhere there were spring cool water on fountains where we filled our plastic bottles. Water was so tasty coming from top of mountains, we hated any soft drinks.
Brilliant day tour from zurich! Just right if you want to spend the day in luzern
Very short tour of Lucerne but the city itself is so beautiful it was easy to spend the time walking around it and the lake. Drive to Lucerne was picture postcard perfect. Guide was very friendly.
Very nice every thing is good guide and driver soo friendly and very good manners
Everything I wished for the day was amazing from start to finish. Coach driver was great informing us of all points of interest along the way. Will book with your company in the future. Many thanks. Petra Atwell
Maria T. USA
Very knowledgeable and nice tour guide. Gave us excellent guidance and suggestions of things to do during our six hours of free time in Lucerne.
Lucerne is a very beautiful city. We had six hours of free time to do as we chose, which was great. We were not being rush through the day. We enjoyed the day very much.
We took the right decision to spend the day at Lucerne, we had a lot of sights to see, we took the city tour it was very nice with all the details about it. We enjoyed the old bridge with the paintings inside.. We went to an old restaurant near the Lion monument, we spent time walking in the old town, we visited the Church... If you take with some bread you will have all the swan of the lake around you!
Nice tour and great tourist guide.
Excellent tour guide that was really very helpful also with my luggage! He has great knowledge of the country which was really entertaining and very interesting!
Reba A USA
Superb day!!!! Most people went on to Pilatus, but I stayed in Lucerne and took a cruise, walked everywhere, and saw two beautiful art museums. 'Truly moments to treasure!
My husband and I loved Lucerne! It was beautiful and the weather was great, it rained a little but remained clear for the most part. The drive to Lucerne was beautiful as well. Lucerne is truly a gem and a must see for all the visit Switzerland!
Ellen M USA
Beautiful tour simply because Lucerne is so lovely. We were combined with a Spanish group which was a bit disconcerting. However the guide managed it all.
Sharif A Jordan
One of the best tours I ever had, it is amazing and very nice tour, specially going on the top 2130 Meters with this nice 75 years old train, and lurcene was an amzaing cool city and the walk was enough for us to discover many things and to make nice shopping, highly recommended
Ashwinder Singh C India
It was an awesome trip! We a family of 5 adults all thoroughly enjoyed the entire trip. The drive down from Zurich to Lucerne was simply beautiful! I would surely recommend others to go for it. The duration of the trip is more than enough to experience everything en-route as well as in Lucerne. Stay at Zurich, and take such day tours to all the locations. One can enjoy the best of everything!
Boris C Canada
Very well organized tour, and excellent and friendly tour guide.
Carolina Australia
Being off the main roads and going through the countryside is an added bonus. The day in Lucerne was wonderful and the commentary was exceptional from our tour guide. The day was perfect and we leisurely saw the old town of Lucerne. If you come to Switzerland, this is one place that should be on your itinerary.
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If we go back to Switzerland we want to stay in Lucerne. Amazing town, beautiful lake, great shops. I think this tour was probably an hour or 2 too long. We ended up sitting around waiting for the bus because the bus moves on to other places after it drops you off. The tour guide takes you to go see the Lion statue then you're on your own with the other tourists for an hour. After that hour the people who purchased the other tours move on and you stay in the city. Buy your chocolates, food, water etc. at COOP grocery store. I bought chocolate at this one tourist shop and paid 26 francs when I could have bought it for 18 at COOP. They have the same stuff all the tourist shops have but for less. Same in Zurich, go to COOP to buy all your items. Lucerne is a beautiful city with all the shops and cafes on the river. Totally worth the money.
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TYT : Is Assange being set up?
Wheather you agree with what he's doing or not it seems to be an obvious set-up
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for what? the Nobel Peace prize?
like his buddies Yasser Arafat & Barack Hussein Obama?
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Oh come on, Miss B. Read it and weep for the supidity
Interpol has issued an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for "sex crimes".
Everyone assumed it was for rape.
But it turns out it was for violating an obscure Swedish law against having sex without a condom.
Interpol is involved because a condom fell off? Holy shit, I'm in trouble now!
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Looks like Interpol should have looked into this
before issuing a RED ALERT
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Sure looks like it.
Understand that I'm not in favor of what the Wikileaks people are doing, but I have to admit that I think the authorities are going to do whatever they can to take this guy down. It's too obvious, and typical of political dirty tricks.
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Adolescents are often thought of as the healthiest age group. However, habits formed during the teen years will likely affect your teen's health well into adulthood. For example, helping an overweight or obese teen reduce his or her weight can prevent diabetes and heart disease in later years.
For teens, annual "well care" visits don't involve many laboratory screening tests. Rather, the emphasis is on preparing for teen health issues, such as accident and injury prevention, sexual health, and avoiding substance abuse. Preventive medicine for teens should emphasize healthy lifestyle choices that help protect against diseases that occur in adulthood.
The menu above links you to articles on the few conditions and diseases for which teens 13 to 18 years old may be screened. The articles summarize the recommendations from various authorities on screening tests for teens, and there is consensus in many areas, but not all. Therefore, when discussing screening with your teen's health care provider and making decisions about testing, it is important to consider your teen's individual health situation and risk factors.
For more information on what happens at your teen's medical exams, see Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents, Pocket Guide.
For more information on preventive medicine and steps you can take to keep you and your family healthy, read Wellness and Prevention in an Era of Patient Responsibility.
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American Academy of Family Physicians. Preventive services for healthy living. Reviewed/updated 2/10. Available online through http://familydoctor.org. Accessed April 2012.
American Academy of Pediatrics. Recommendations for preventive pediatric health care (policy statement). Dec 2007. Pediatrics 120(6);1376. Available online through http://pediatrics.aappublications.org. Accessed Jan 2008.
Hagan JF, Shaw JS and Duncan PM, eds. Bright Futures Guidelines: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents (3rd ed.). 2008. Elk Grove Village, Ill: American Academy of Pediatrics, Pp. 211-218.
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When did I become un-cool?
Last time I checked, I was still rocking the latest fashions, listening to the hottest music and hanging out with all the right people in all the right places. Well, news flash, mom, apparently I haven't been "cool" for a long time now, according to my teenage daughter, and I can almost hear her rolling her eyes at me as I write this.
As far as I knew, I looked and acted relatively hip for my age. That is, at least until my 13-year-old started telling me what a dork I was about a year ago. It seems my clothes are mom-ish (not really sure what that means) and forget about my dance moves. Those rank right up there with the foxtrot and the waltz on the teenage cool scale.
Yes, as goes the common mother-daughter relationship, my daughter and I disagree on just about every subject we possibly can - clothes, hair, shoes, makeup, radio stations, boys, etc. I tend to be of the "old school" variety generally favoring conservative styles and believing "less is more" concerning makeup and accessories. My daughter, on the other hand, as she should be at her age, is struggling to find her own style and personality that fits who she is and wants to be. She loves bright colors, skin-tight "skinny" jeans and dark eye makeup.
Unfortunately, as I strive to keep her young and innocent, the media keeps trying to tell her that if she doesn't hurry up and start looking and acting like she's 25, she's going to be left behind the "cool" and "popular" people she constantly sees in magazines and on television. As you can imagine, these polar opposite influences create for her an internal conflict and are making her already difficult middle-school experience more trying.
I just want my little girl to stay young and safe. Is that so wrong? I can't imagine that I'm the only parent to feel this way. If I am, please let me know and I'll start setting appointments for my "get with the program" lessons.
With all of our differences, one thing my daughter and I definitely agree on is our passion for music. She prefers anything with a techno beat and slick lyrics that I usually can't understand as I still love to rock to classic KISS songs and some of the heavier stuff like Saliva (thanks to my nephew, Kevin) or Metallica.
She did do my old mom heart well the other night upon returning home to find the dog had chewed her earphones. She posted on Facebook that she was upset she couldn't listen to her MP3 player because "music was her life." Ah, as long as we always have that in common, there's hope for the rest.
I suppose, as us 40-somethings go, I still consider myself to be somewhat cooler than average. I really do try to keep up with what the teenagers are doing, watching and listening to, but increasingly catch myself shaking my head in disgust and wondering what the heck the younger generation is thinking.
Have I become my mother already? Is it possible that I've turned into one of those middle-aged moms who thinks they're "with it" but isn't nearly as cool as they think they are?
Nah. I'll keep wearing my rock-'n'-roll T-shirts and sneaking my daughter's sparkly pink eye shadow when she's not looking. You're only as old as you act.
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The numbers are staggering. Dean Karnazes just finished running 3,000 miles across America in 75 days, averaging 40-50 miles a day. How important was his crew to the success of the adventure? How cool was it to meet Michelle Obama and run to the White House with 150 kids? And, most importantly, how did he stay healthy while stringing together 300 mile running weeks?
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Study Abroad
Once you finish collage or during one summer or whatever, there is always the desire of leaving, finding something new, new faces, new views, new streets... You simply just want to leave, learn English, meet new people, learn about a different culture, a different country. It's all overwhelming.
Here is a web page that a friend of mine sent me, she is now in the U.S working and I asked her how she got to go to the U.S with a scholarship and is now there for a year.
So she gave me different web pages, and told me all about it, so that I could get an idea of the various options there are if you're interested in studying abroad. Anyways, I had a look and it helps a lot to situate yourself, of what steps and what requirements you need if wanting to go to the States.
To go on an Erasmus in Europe is much easier, and therefore there are more possibilities to find ways to leave even if you have no money or no English. But going to the U.S is usually not that easy and is left as something impossible.


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Enlightenment (Doctor Who)
|127 – Enlightenment
|Doctor Who serial
Docking at the home of the Enlighteners
|Barbara Clegg
|Fiona Cumming
|Script editor
|Eric Saward
|John Nathan-Turner
|Executive producer(s)
|Incidental music composer
|Malcolm Clarke
|Production code
|Season 20
|4 episodes, 25 minutes each
|Originally broadcast
|1 March 1983 – 9 March 1983
Enlightenment is the fifth serial of the 20th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which aired on BBC1 in four twice-weekly parts from 1 March 1983 to 9 March 1983. The 127th serial of the series,[note 1] Enlightenment was the third of three loosely connected serials known as the Black Guardian Trilogy. It was written by Barbara Clegg and directed by Fiona Cumming.
In the serial, alien time traveller the Doctor (Peter Davison) and his companions Tegan Jovanka (Janet Fielding) and Vislor Turlough (Mark Strickson) encounter a group of god-like immortals who are racing historical Earth sailing vessels through space, crewed by humans they had plucked out of time, in an attempt to win the prize of the titular enlightenment. Turlough is under the control of the Black Guardian (Valentine Dyall), but struggles with the Guardian's orders to kill the Doctor.
The serial's production was beset by problems caused by industrial action taken by electricians at the BBC during filming. It was eventually finished three months behind schedule, but the unavailability of several actors for new filming dates forced the production team to recast their parts at short notice. Enlightenment averaged of 6.8 million viewers per episode on its first transmission and received generally positive reviews from critics. The story was novelised by its writer, Barbara Clegg, as part of the ongoing Target Books range in 1984 and was released on video and DVD in 1993 and 2009 respectively.
- 1 Plot
- 2 Production
- 3 Themes and interpretation
- 4 Broadcast
- 5 Reception
- 6 Commercial releases
- 7 Notes
- 8 Bibliography
- 9 References
- 10 External links
Following interference from the White (Cyril Luckham) and Black (Valentine Dyall) Guardians, the TARDIS materialises in what appears to be the hold of a ship. The Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) leaves companion Tegan (Janet Fielding) in the TARDIS while he and Turlough (Mark Strickson) leave to explore.
The Doctor discovers the crew remember nothing of coming aboard, have been below decks the whole time, and that the ship they are on has been entered in some sort of race. Tegan leaves the TARDIS and encounters the ship's first mate, Marriner (Christopher Brown), who offers to take her to her friends, while the Doctor and Turlough encounter Captain Striker (Keith Barron). In the ship's wheelhouse, the Doctor sees a map of the racecourse, complete with "marker buoys" which he recognises as the planets of Earth's solar system. Marriner then operates anachronistic electronic controls and a viewscreen activates to show the other contestants — a Greek trireme, a 17th Century pirate ship, and other vessels from other times, all floating in deep space and using solar wind propulsion.
The Doctor discovers that the ship's officers are Eternals, beings who live in the "trackless wastes of eternity," as opposed to the Doctor and his companions, who are "Ephemerals." When one of the other ships explodes the Doctor begins to suspect sabotage. Tegan feels ill, so Marriner escorts her to a room, which contains items from the TARDIS and her rooms in Brisbane and realises Marriner has been reading her mind.
The Doctor discovers that Eternals use Ephemerals for their thoughts and ideas. The Eternals have lived for so long that they are unable to think for themselves and need human minds to give them existence. The prize for winning the race is Enlightenment, the wisdom to know everything. The TARDIS is discovered by the Eternals, who make it vanish. Trapped on board the Edwardian ship for the moment, the Doctor and his companions go on board deck in space suits. Turlough hears the voice of the Black Guardian taunting him and unable to take the strain, he leaps overboard into space.
Turlough is rescued by the Buccaneer, the pirate ship commanded by Captain Wrack (Lynda Baron). Wrack sends her first mate to present one of the other competitors with a jewelled sword, and to deliver party invitations to the other captains. Marriner offers to escort Tegan and the Doctor to the party as one of the ships draws level with the Buccaneer. Wrack shows Turlough a locked chamber with a vacuum shield, and he hears the voice of the Black Guardian through the door as the rival ship explodes, apparently hit by an asteroid. The Doctor again suspects foul play as the ship was also challenging the Buccaneer.
Arriving on board the Buccaneer, the Doctor and Tegan mingle while Turlough sneaks off to examine the locked chamber. Following Turlough, the Doctor discovers a device he believes that Wrack uses to transmit power to destroy the other ships, using some sort of focus. The pair recall that the captains of both destroyed ships had received red crystals as gifts from Wrack, leading the Doctor to believe that the crystals are the focus. Before they can act on it, however, they are captured by Wrack's first mate. Meanwhile, Wrack has managed to lure Tegan away from the party to her wheelhouse and freezes her in time while she plants a crystal in her tiara.
Confronted by Wrack, Turlough accuses the Doctor of being a spy and claims he was trying to capture the Doctor. The Doctor, Tegan and Marriner return to their ship but Wrack reads Turlough's mind, discovering he is lying, and is about to kill him, only for Turlough to tell her that he, too, serves the Black Guardian. As the ships near the crystalline space station of the Enlighteners, the Buccaneer pulls level with the Edwardian Ship, and Wrack takes Turlough into her chamber, this time letting him witness her summoning the power of the Black Guardian. The Doctor, seeing the Buccaneer pull close, discovers the crystal in Tegan's tiara. The Doctor smashes it, but only manages to multiply its power by the number of fragments.
The Doctor hurls the pieces overboard as they explode. Suddenly, the wind dies, and Wrack pulls ahead of the Edwardian ship. The Eternals return the TARDIS to the Doctor and he travels to the Buccaneer. He tries to reason with Wrack, but her first mate shows up with Turlough, and she orders that the Doctor be thrown into space. As Tegan watches from the Edwardian ship, two bodies are ejected into space, and the Buccaneer reaches the finish. The human crews of the ships vanish.
The Enlighteners are the Black and White Guardians, and the winner is the Doctor, who brought the ship in with Turlough's help when Wrack and her first mate met with an "accident." The Doctor, however, refuses the diamond crystal containing Enlightenment, and the White Guardian dismisses Striker and Marriner, who vanish back into eternity. As Turlough helped the Doctor, he is entitled to a portion of the prize. The Black Guardian reminds Turlough of their bargain, and says that he can give up the diamond, or sacrifice the Doctor to gain both Enlightenment and the TARDIS. Turlough hurls the diamond at the Black Guardian, who vanishes in screams and flames. The Doctor points out that Enlightenment was not the diamond, but the choice itself.
To commemorate the show's anniversary, every story during Season 20 included the return of an enemy from The Doctor's past. During this trilogy (begun in the serial Mawdryn Undead, and concluding with Enlightenment), the enemy was the Black Guardian, who was last encountered by the fourth incarnation of the Doctor at the conclusion of The Key to Time saga in the 1979 serial The Armageddon Factor.[1] The story also saw the return of the White Guardian, who had also not been seen since 1979. To date, neither character, nor the Eternals, have appeared in the show again.[1][2]
Conception and writing[edit]
After penning a number of radio and TV scripts, including episodes of Crossroads and Waggoner's Walk, Barbara Clegg submitted a story idea to Doctor Who script editor Eric Saward, an acquaintance from the BBC drama department.[1] Interested in writing for the series, Clegg had been inspired when distant relatives had stayed with her and demanded constant entertainment during their visit, basing the character of the Eternals upon them. Initially titled The Enlighteners, her submission involved ships racing through space that, with the addition of the Black Guardian sub-plot, eventually evolved into the story as screened. Saward and series producer John Nathan-Turner liked Clegg's ideas, and they commissioned the script in September 1981. The first episode was delivered by Clegg in October and the three following episodes arriving in January 1982.[3] The serial was now scheduled to conclude a three-story trilogy featuring the Black Guardian, and Clegg duly wrote the recurring characters into her scripts.[3] By May 1982 there were problems with a script by Pat Mills, Song of the Space Whale, which had been intended to open the Black Guardian trilogy. Mills' script was eventually dropped and the production team considered moving The Enlighteners forward in the season to replace it, necessitating considerable re-wites. Peter Grimwade was eventually commissioned to write Mawdryn Undead to replace The Song of the Space Whale, and The Enlighteners was confirmed as the fifth serial of the season.[4] The first draft of Part One did not contain any of the material concerning the Guardians, and Turlough was a peripheral figure, with the script focussing on the relationship between Marriner and Tegan.[5] With pre-production underway, Saward changed the story title to Enlightenment in September 1982, a title he felt was more enigmatic.[3] Saward also rewrote portions of the script pertaining to the story-arc, particularly the final confrontation scenes at the end of Part Four.[6] Peter Moffatt had been originally scheduled as the serials director, but following the problems with the Space Whale script he was asked to helm its replacement due to his experience, and so Fiona Cumming was asked to take over Enlightenment.[7]
Once production began it became apparent that Part One and Part Two were under-running so more dialogue was written to fill in the time.[4] It was originally intended that the character of Jackson would not reappear after the second episode, but during filming Saward became concerned that it appeared that he had been executed and so he and Clegg rewrote Part Three to include him.[2] Part Three also looked to be under running so scenes from Part Four were brought forward and the final scenes with the Guardians were extended to compensate.[4]
Cumming came up with the idea that the Eternals would not blink and cast actors who she believed could provide detached performances.[4] Cumming recalled Peter Sallis had played a similarly detached character in the 1974 BBC drama The Pallisers, and cast him in the role of Striker. Sallis was present during the rehearsals for the serial but when production was delayed he was unavailable for the new filming dates, being committed to filming Last of the Summer Wine and was forced to drop out of the production, being replaced by Keith Barron.[7] Lynda Baron was cast as Captain Wrack, having previously participated in Doctor Who in the 1966 serial The Gunfighters, as the voice that sings the "Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon" heard throughout that story.[8] Tony Caunter, who had previously played Thatcher in The Crusade and Morgan in Colony in Space was given the role of Jackson, with Christopher Brown and David Rhule being cast as Marriner and Wrack's sidekick Mansell respectively.[5] Similarly to Sallis, David Rhule was unavailable for the revised filming dates in January, so singer Leee John replaced him at short notice, despite having no previous acting experience.[6]
Valentine Dyall had originally played the Black Guardian in the 1979 serial The Armageddon Factor, the character's first appearance in the series, and reprised the role for season 20, appearing in Mawdryn Undead, Terminus and Enlightenment.[1] Similarly Cyril Luckham reprised the role of the White Guardian, that he had previously played in the 1979 serial The Ribos Operation.[1]
The interior sets of the boats were not built specifically for the programme, but were pulled together from stock items from various prop warehouses.[9] Cumming had originally hoped to simulate the rocking of the ships by mounting the sets on rollers but the idea was dropped due to costs, with the effect achieved by moving the cameras instead.[1] The photo of Tegan's Aunt Vanessa, one of the items created by Marriner from the contents of her mind, was shot specifically for the filming, requiring Dolore Whiteman (who had played the character in Logopolis) to be contracted for a one-day photoshoot.[4] The models of the boats, used in the racing sequences, were props sourced by visual effects designer Mike Kelt following extensive research at the National Maritime Museum.[4] The ships were mounted on rods for filming, while the oars were battery operated. The model of Davey's ship remained intact, with explosion being a filmed effect that was edited into the sequence.[4] Kelt was shocked by the dilapidated state of the TARDIS console prop, and was worried about damaging it while filming the explosion from Part One, and asked producer John Nathan-Turner if he could replace it but was told there was no money available.[4]
The anachronistic wetsuits on the Edwardian ship were actually heavy-duty overalls that had been painted black.[5] Janet Fielding struggled with the low cut ball-gown she wore during filming as it threatened to expose her breasts on a number of occasions.[8] The ball gown worn by Baron was made especially for the serial and was the most expensive costume on display.[8] The newspaper found by the Doctor in Part One was a reprint of The Times from September 1901,[4] while the food and drink served during the party scenes was all real.[8]
The serial began principal filming in early November 1982, with filming divided into two main blocks.[6] The first block was shot on film at Ealing Studios between 3–5 November and consisted of the deck scenes and a number of model shots. Actor Mark Strickson was injured while filming the scene of Turlough throwing himself overboard, when the Kirby wire he was suspended from broke, leaving him only able to walk with difficulty for several weeks.[4] The studio work was scheduled to run from 6 November until mid December and consisted of all the interior scenes and those in the TARDIS.[6] By mid-November however the electricians union the EEPTU, had begun strike action which disrupted the filming of a number of BBC productions including Enlightenment and potentially meaning the final three serials of the season would have to be abandoned.[3] The electricians dispute was settled by December, but it had badly affected the series recording schedule. The crew were able to shoot the following serial The King's Demons on schedule, meaning that there was only one recording block left for the part-completed Enlightenment and Eric Saward's season finale; The Return.[7] With some filming already completed, and its importance in concluding the Black Guardian story-arc, it was decided that Enlightenment should take precedence and so it had its second production block moved to January 1983,[6] while The Return was abandoned.[7] Due to the delays, the serial only finished filming around a month before its transmission date, meaning that composer Malcolm Clarke only received the first episode for scoring a week before broadcast,[7] having to rely on musical cues he had recorded weeks earlier without having seen any footage.[8]
Themes and interpretation[edit]
Writer Barbara Clegg based the Eternals on a wealthy group of her relatives, who upon visiting her had demanded constant entertainment, treating other family members almost as "lesser beings".[4] Clegg also drew inspiration from the Bible's Book of Genesis, deriving the prize of enlightenment from The Tree of Knowledge within it, while having read about Solar winds she decided to use them as the basis of propulsion for space vessels.[4] Clegg highlighted the nature of enlightenment, showing it not to be knowledge, as the Eternals believe, but wisdom, as demonstrated by Turlough's rejection of the Black Guardian.[10]
The episode makes use of a regular trope from science-fiction: bored, god-like beings playing with the lives of mortals for the purpose of amusement.[11] In their book About Time, Lawrence Miles and Tat Wood liken this to a prevalent strand of children's fiction, where magical worlds are held together by the rules of the children who visit them.[12] Miles and Wood also highlight the political elements of the story, likening the portrayal of the Eternals to the view of the upper classes as "effete parasites feeding off the labour (and in this case the imagination) of the proles." The Doctor then, acts as part of the class struggle, helping the workers gain freedom while the gentry get their comeuppance.[10]
In his essay Love is a Stranger, published in the first volume of the Doctor Who Magazine — Special Edition, David Bailey highlights the central idea that "...the lives of little people are precious, special and worth fighting for... ...the Eternals may have unimaginable power at their fingertips but they lack, and are jealous of, one thing: the ability to live, and die."[13] The hollowness of immortality was a thread that ran through Season 20, with the earlier story Mawdryn Undead showing Mawdryn trapped in an endless cycle of painful regeneration, while in The Five Doctors, Borusa's prize of immortality results in little more than a living death.[13] The horror of eternal life is brought home when the Black Guardian threatens Turlough with immortality as a punishment for failure, something that drives him to try and commit suicide rather than face eternity.[13]
Enlightenment was first broadcast in a twice-weekly slot on BBC One during the first two weeks of March 1983. The story episodes averaged 6.8 million viewers, with the highest viewing figures being 7.3 million for the final episode.[3] The episodes averaged 67.5% on BARB's Appreciation Index, with Part Four once again achieving the highest figures.[3]
|Viewing figures
|"Part One"
|BBC One
|March 1, 1983
|6.55 pm
|24' 12"
|"Part Two"
|BBC One
|March 2, 1983
|6.46 pm
|24' 23"
|"Part Three"
|BBC One
|March 8, 1983
|6.55 pm
|24' 38"
|"Part Four"
|BBC One
|March 9, 1983
|6.46 pm
|24' 34"
- Episode = The episode title
- Channel = The TV channel on which the episode was first broadcast
- Date = the date of first broadcast
- Time = The time of day of the first broadcast
- Duration = the length of the transmitted episode
- Viewing figures = The number of viewers in millions
- Position = The episodes ranking in the weekly TV viewing chart published by BARB
- AI = Appreciation Index, viewer satisfaction score as measured by BARB
The BBC holds all four episodes on D-3 tape, recorded from the original two-inch broadcast tapes.[4]
Reviewing the story for Doctor Who Magazine's 200 Golden Moments special edition, Jeremy Bentham described it as being epic in scale, suggesting it played to the original strengths of the series; "performance, period set design and claustrophobic mood...". He likens Enlightenment to the work of Stanley Kubrick, saying "...it felt grand, it felt lonely, and yes, it felt epic."[15] On reappraising the story for the same magazine following its release on DVD, Gary Gillatt was equally as effusive, calling it "...one of Doctor Who's finest serials." He highlights the performance of Keith Barron as Captain Striker as being "a master class of under-stated menace" and "pitch perfect", juxtaposing this with the over-the-top pantomime villainy of Lynda Baron as Captain Wrack, with the two captains balancing each other out perfectly.[16]
Writing for the Radio Times, Mark Braxton was less enamoured of some of the performances, suggesting that Baron and Valentine Dyall turn in 'hammy' interpretations of their characters, while Leee John "...makes heavy weather of the simplest activities: helming the ship seems to require the most bizarre posturing." He had mixed views on the story as a whole, saying that "Enlightenment has promising components that come together and briefly create a little magic, then vanish again, like ships that pass in the night."[17] DVD Talk's John Sinnott had similarly mixed views on the serial, although conceding that "...While it doesn't all succeed, they give it a good try and more things work than don't." Sinnott also singled out the performance of Keith Barron for particular praise, along with the relationship between Marriner and Tegan.[18]
In their book About Time, Lawrence Miles and Tat Wood have equally mixed feelings about the serial, praising the setting and the performances of Barron and Brown, and suggesting that it "...carries on the tradition of putting symbols from the world we know into disconcerting environments... ...(it) completes the grand illusion of making the history and the fantasy feel like part of the same continuum." They are less complimentary about other elements however, citing the conclusion as feeling "rushed and tacked on" with too much emphasis on the Guardians and little on the fates of the Eternals. They also dismiss the reveal of enlightenment as being the nature of Turlough's choice, as coming "perilously close to tweeness" and accuse it of being "cod-mythologic moralising".[19]
Enlightenment was placed in 72nd position in Doctor Who Magazine's Mighty 200 reader survey in 2009, which ranked every Doctor Who serial to that point in order of preference.[20]
Commercial releases[edit]
In print[edit]
|Barbara Clegg
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A novelisation of this serial, written by story author Barbara Clegg, was published by Target Books in May 1984, with a cover by Andrew Skilleter, and was numbered 85 in the ongoing range.[21] It was the first Doctor Who novelisation to be penned by a woman.[21] On its publication Doctor Who Magazine was underwhelmed by the book, claiming in their review that "In many ways, it falls into the familiar Terrance Dicks pitfalls, being a straightforward reworking of the script with "said" following all the speeches. For all its faults, Enlightenment remains a good read, simply because of the strength of the story..."[22] The book was repackaged as part of The Sixth Doctor Who Gift Set later in 1984, along with three other Doctor Who novels; The Dominators, Mawdryn Undead and The Five Doctors.[21]
Home media[edit]
Enlightenment was released on VHS in February 1993.[23] It was subsequently released on DVD as part of the Black Guardian Trilogy, along with preceding stories Mawdryn Undead and Terminus on 10 August 2009.[24] The second disc of the DVD includes a "Special Edition" version of the story; a movie-style edit featuring new CGI graphics throughout, with a newly recorded introduction by director Fiona Cumming.[25] Doctor Who Magazine was not enthusiastic about the new edit suggesting, that "...what is special about it is up for debate." The reviewer disparaged the new special effects, stating that "...this is ironic as there are few Doctor Who stories less in need of replacement effects than Enlightenment. The original model work is gorgeous, while this substitute material is crude and unsophisticated in comparison."[16] Alongside the special edition, the DVD contained a number of extra features, including a Making of... documentary and extended interviews with director Fiona Cumming, writer Barbara Clegg and actor Mark Strickson, a documentary on the Guardians plus an excerpt from the Russell Harty Christmas Party TV special featuring Peter Davison.[25] This serial was also released as part of the Doctor Who DVD Files in issue 57 on 9 March 2011.
- ^ From the Doctor Who Magazine series overview, in issue 407 (pp26-29). The Discontinuity Guide, which counts the unbroadcast serial Shada, lists this as story number 128. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system.
- Miles, Lawrence; Wood, Tat (2004). About Time – Volume 5: 1980–1984. Mad Norwegian Press. ISBN 0-9759446-4-9.
- Bryher, David (March 2013). "Enlightenment". The Fact of Fiction. Doctor Who Magazine. Panini Magazines (458).
- ^ a b c d e f Bryher 2013, p. 60.
- ^ a b Bryher 2013, p. 64.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Enlightenment". A Brief History of Time (Travel). Retrieved 30 March 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Pixley, Andrew (May 2002). "Enlightenment: Archive Extra". Doctor Who Magazine — Special Edition. Panini Magazines (1): 38–39.
- ^ a b c Bryher 2013, p. 63.
- ^ a b c d e Bryher 2013, p. 61.
- ^ a b c d e Miles & Wood 2004, p. 226.
- ^ a b c d e Bryher 2013, p. 65.
- ^ Bryher 2013, p. 62.
- ^ a b Miles & Wood 2004, p. 223.
- ^ Miles & Wood 2004, p. 222.
- ^ Miles & Wood 2004, pp. 222–223.
- ^ a b c Bailey, David (May 2002). "Enlightenment: Love is a Stranger". Doctor Who Magazine — Special Edition. Panini Magazines (1): 38–39.
- ^ a b c d Miles & Wood 2004, p. 225.
- ^ Bentham, Jeremy (May 2009). "Enlightenment". Doctor Who Magazine — Special Edition: 200 Golden Moments. Panini Magazines (22): 86.
- ^ a b Gillatt, Gary (16 September 2009). "The Black Guardian Trilogy". The DWM Review. Doctor Who Magazine. Panini Magazines (412): 57–59.
- ^ "Doctor Who: Enlightenment". Radio Times. 6 February 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
- ^ Sinnott, John (10 February 2010). "Doctor Who: The Black Guardian Trilogy". DVD Talk. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
- ^ Miles & Wood 2004, pp. 224–225.
- ^ Griffiths, Peter (14 October 2009). "The Mighty 200!". Doctor Who Magazine. Panini Magazines (413): 20.
- ^ a b c "Enlightenment". On Target. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
- ^ "Enlightenment". Off The Shelf. Doctor Who Monthly. Marvel (87). April 1984.
- ^ Bryher 2013, p. 67.
- ^ "Doctor Who: Black Guardian Trilogy (DVD)". BBC Shop. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
- ^ a b "The Black Guardian Trilogy — DVD". Doctor Who Restoration Team. 28 June 2009. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
External links[edit]
|Wikiquote has quotations related to: Fifth Doctor
- Enlightenment at BBC Online
- Enlightenment at Doctor Who: A Brief History of Time (Travel)
- Enlightenment at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- Enlightenment reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
- Enlightenment reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide


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Last month I discussed a new federal law, the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, which allows trademark owners to bring lawsuits against anyone, who in bad faith, registers or uses a domain name that is identical or confusingly similar to a distinctive trademark. Because litigation can be expensive and time-consuming, many trademark owners take advantage of an alternative procedure for resolving domain name disputes which is more streamlined.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the policy-making body which oversees domain name registers. In 1999, ICANN adopted a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). All parties that register domain names must consent to UDRP. When a registrant registers a domain name, the registrant warrants that the domain name does not infringe upon or violate the rights of any third party and that the domain name was not registered for an unlawful purpose.
Under UDRP, all registrants agree to submit to an administrative proceeding to determine the status of the domain name if a complaint is filed. The complaining party must prove the following: (1) the domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights; (2) the holder of the domain name has no right or legitimate interest in the domain name; and (3) the holder of the domain name is using the name in bad faith.
There are no hard and fast rules for determining bad faith. Bad faith is likely to be found if the domain name was registered for the sole purpose of selling the domain name to the trademark owner or to prevent the trademark owner from using its trademark in its own domain name. Proof of bad faith can also be demonstrated where the domain name is registered primarily to disrupt a competitor's business or to unfairly divert Internet users from the trademark owner's website.
The holder of the domain name can retain the name by showing rights or a legitimate interest in the name. If the holder was commonly known by the domain name before the dispute, or the holder uses the name for a noncommercial purpose, the holder is likely to prevail.
UDRP provides an exclusive remedy which is to transfer the domain name to the complainant or to cancel the domain name registration.
UDRP is designed to be a cost-effective and efficient alternative to litigation. Disputes are typically resolved within 45 days after filing the complaint. If the trademark owner seeks a limited remedy in a short amount of time, UDRP can be an effective tool to combat troublesome domain name registrations.
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Children invited to stay and play at Edinboro Arts and Music Festival
Kids with spring fever are welcome and encouraged to drag their parents to the children's venue at the Edinboro Arts and Music Festival this weekend.
The festival, which will take over the town with live local music, an art show and sale, as well as food at classic Edinboro eateries, is open to revelers of all ages, but families simply can't miss the stuff for kids.
The children's schedule is booked solid from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and it's all free at Goodell Gardens, 221 Waterford St. in Edinboro.
Kathy Travis, a former member of the art department at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, has packed in creative talent in the form of several ex-students now working as art teachers in public schools.
The teachers will run classes during which kids can learn to draw caricatures, build rain sticks, work with clay and learn "crayon resist," where light-colored crayon drawings are painted over with dark paint that will resist the crayon and reveal the image.
Travis will be showing kids how to sculpt flowers from empty rolls of bath tissue.
"We expect about 15 per class," Travis said.
But families don't need to race the clock to meet a schedule. While workshops take place at certain times, kids can drop in whenever they wish to create clay-pot bird feeders, paint terra-cotta pots and fill them with live flowers. Kids can also paint jars and fill them with sand and drop in a tea-light candle.
A "hula hoop artist" will show kids how to decorate hoops and how to use them.
"We did that for the first time last year, and it was a riot," Travis said.
The venue will also feature storytelling, antique rope making, juggling and face painting.
"Lots of parents bring their kids and then want to stay all day," Travis said.
The kids' music alone is worth the short drive down Waterford Street. Local musicians will lead singalongs, and children and adults can learn how to play fiddles, banjos and dulcimers.
"We have phenomenal musicians coming in from all over the country," she said.
It's enough to make the whole family want to get up and dance a jig.
JENNIE GEISLER can be reached at 870-1885 or by e-mail. Visit her food blog at GoErie.com/blogs/loaves. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNgeisler.


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Stock and Inventory
When a round begins, you'll have to choose your own set of weapons: Primary, Secondary and Support. Your choices should be based on your skill with the weapon, the current map, and the amount of people. For example, on a map like CUS, choose a weapon which allows you to fight in close quarters and long-range (like the AK for XM). Choose your Secondary depending on whether you'll be playing for kills or for the mission objective (Chaffs on RES/CAP, Frags on TDM). However, try not to set a specific inventory for each mission or map. Try experimenting. Stuns on KHC cap is a good idea, as well as Chaff.
Also note that shooting someone in the arms and legs is limb damage (the lowest amount of damage you can do with a firearm), and body shots are shots to the body, naturally (the medium amount of damage that can be done). Headshots, therefore, give the strongest amount of damage done with a single bullet.
U - Indicates item that can not be dropped
S - Indicates item that can be suppressed (R2 + O on weapon)
A - Indicates item that must be used while standing still
B - Indicates item that player begins with
T - Indicates gun with toggle abilities (R2 + Triangle on weapon)
Z - Indicates gun that can be zoomed/looked down the barrel
Primary weapons
Scorpion (T): The perfect gun for beginners. The laser sight helps show newer players where their bullets are going. They can use this to learn how to make quicker headshots. The recoil is about the same as the XM16, maybe a little lower, and the power of this weapon is way below the AK and M16. 151 rounds from the start.
XM16E1 (STZ): Standard rifle. More accurate than the AK, but lesser power and capacity. Firing type can be toggled between auto, burst, and single shots (but you're better off just tapping the shoot button as opposed to holding it, to reach these effects without changing the fire-type). 101 bullets from the start.
AK-47 (TZ): The assault rifle the GRU used in Snake Eater. Not as accurate as the XM, but power and capacity are increased. By crouching, you'll be able to sustain most of the recoil and get a good shot on your opponent. You can also try firing in short bursts to take your enemy down faster with auto-lock. 121 rounds of ammo from the start.
M37: The community-defined "noob cannon" of MGO. When up close, not only do you do about half damage, you also knock your opponent off their feet and onto the ground. They have no chance of getting up unless you manage to miss your next shot or find yourself in the position of needing to reload. From medium range, you're hitting at about 25% and causing their character to step off balance. Any further gets 10% damage and no special after-effects. 17 rounds of ammo from the start.
SVD (Z): The only true sniper rifle in the game. It's damn strong, and there really is no reason to go in-depth as far as limb or body damage goes. Just aim and shoot like crazy. You'll take an enemy down this way faster and easier then shooting them in the head. The recoil is the real threat here, as you'll find yourself aiming into the sky after you send off a clip (unless you're proning). 41 rounds of ammo from the start.
Mosin (Z): The same tranq sniper rifle used by The End in Snake Eater. Shooting in the body or the head usually results in an instant stun, while a limb shot is about 50% of your enemies' stamina down the drain. Recoil is not so bad, just the downtime between shots. 21 rounds of darts from the start.
Secondary weapons
M1911A1 (US): Standard issue pistol. Not a whole lot to say. 36 rounds from the start, with no chance of any spare ammo during a round (must respawn).
SAA (UZ): Ocelot exclusive. Carries six bullets, with no ammo to pick up on the field. You'll have to wait until you die and respawn if you need more. Shoot against the wall, ceiling, or floor and your bullet will seek out the enemy. The less ammo you have, the faster Ocelot will reload. Rotate the right analog stick to trick with your gun. This can also take away stamina from an enemy or teammate when you have the gun aimed towards them and you trick it. You can aim with one hand by pressing the L1 button, which allows better shots but slows the amount of shots down. 30 bullets from the start.
Mk-22 (US): A handgun that stuns! Shots take a little longer to go out as opposed to the M19. The character needs to pump the top of the handgun back. Three body hits will do the trick. Roll into your opponent, shoot once, and then roll into them as they stand up for a quick stun. Comes with 33 bullets, and no chance of acquiring ammo on the battlefield.
Support weapons
Grenade: Standard frag grenade. Hit the enemies with burst damage. Doing so will cause them to drop any mission related items they're carrying with them. Comes in groups of 3, and does 50% damage. Throw two with a second between each grenade to keep your enemy in place for a guaranteed kill.
Chaff grenade: Disables all players' chat and radar. Comes in groups of 1.
WP grenade: Flame grenade. Damage varies. The first hit will knock any mission items a struck opponent was carrying to be knocked out of their reach. Damage dwindles over time. Equip the box to extinguish flames.
Stun grenade: Grenade which impairs enemy sight and hearing. Takes around 3 grenades to stun an opponent. While inside a cardboard box, you are not subject to stun grenade stamina loss, but you will still suffer from a small amount of sound and sight impairment. Comes in groups of 5.
Smoke grenade: Blocks enemy view and prevents auto-targeting enemies beyond the field of smoke. Smoke grenades have a habit of causing the game to slow down, so when the game is suffering frame-rate problems like this, headset audio has a chance of coming out or going through with an odd echo effect. Comes in groups of 1.
Claymore: Limited range mine. Place on ground by holding square and moving the analog stick. Takes a second or two to activate (allowing you to run through it in close areas). Does 50% damage. Can carry 3 at once. Crawl over a claymore to pick it up, or damage it from a far range to cause it to destruct.
Book: Keeps an enemy in place while they stop to ogle at a scantly clad girl. Keeps them in position for about 10-15 seconds. Does not stay in place forever. Disappears after 30 seconds or so. Comes in groups of 3. Can affect teammates regardless of whether FF is on or not. Use the box to move over these or to hide one from view.
Special Weapons
Flamethrower (A): Randomly spawned on each map. Infinite ammo. If you aim too close to a wall, then the flames will not extend to the point where they can do damage. When an enemy enters your range of fire, they will become engulfed in flames and drop any mission item they're currently carrying. Takes around 2-3 direct hits to finish a foe off. Good for holding an enemy out of an area.
RPG-7 (ZA): Standard rocket launcher. Cannot move while equipped with it. Hold the L1 button to zoom with the scope. Burst damage does 50% of damage, while direct/close hits do about 75%. Carries one rocket at a time and comes loaded with over 15 rockets.
M63: A very heavy machine gun. Character screams while shooting it. While standing, recoil is high. Use while crouching or prone. 5-6 hits to legs, 4-5 to body, 1 to head. 401 bullets.
GA-KO: Mission related item for Rescue Mode. Must be taken to blue spawn. To drop, press X while viewing the GA-KO in your inventory.
Kerotan: Mission related item for capture mode. Place in your goal and protect it for the set amount of time. To drop, press X while viewing the Kerotan in your inventory.
Scope (UB): Item that allows the player to see across the maps. While using it, hold down triangle to zoom or square to zoom out. The harder you press, the faster the zoom/unzoom. Can be used to gain headshots by viewing an enemy's head right in the middle and quickly unequipping and aiming with a pistol or other firearm.
Box (UB): Item that covers the player in a box that looks just like the randomly spawned boxes set through-out the map. Can be used to run faster up slopes and other oddly-shaped ground. While inside, player takes more damage and the headshot area is increased. Can also be used to disable auto-aiming in some cases. When an enemy or teammate bumps into you while you are wearing your box, you'll be knocked out of it.
Monitor (UB): Used in GGL - MTN. Player can look at the map through various cameras set around the area. Runs on a battery and must be recharged over time. Good for Rescue and Sneaking missions.
Thermal Goggles: Item spawned randomly on the map. While equipped, the player sees their surroundings in an odd color. Bright objects are usually of importance, such as enemies, weapons, or items. Can be recharged with green rations. In some cases, can prevent the effects of the Book item.
Stealth (UB): Item that Snake and Sokolov begin with. Sokolov's stealth is shorter then Snake's by 35 seconds or so. When using this item as Snake, the enemy can not auto-target you. Can be recharged with green rations.
Sonar (UB): Gives positions of teammates and Snake. Used only in Sneaking Mode.
Map (UB): Indicates goal position and mission-related item position. Displays entire area on a 3x3 grid. Marks dropped/special weapons with an X.
Do not forget that when hosting a game, you can also turn off whichever weapon group (primary, secondary, support) you would like, or set a limit on weapon groups you want to allow (except for removing the knife). We suggest keeping all the weapons on unless you're playing a special game (pistols only, knife only). Always keep any support items on, as some teams need them to get by.
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People inside the fitness center of the El Dorado Center campus of Folsom Lake College were evacuated on Monday, after someone found a small pipe taped to the outside of the building, investigators said.
A bomb squad was checking the item around 5:45 p.m., trying to figure out more.
Law enforcement officials, including ones with the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department, were called as a precautionary measure about 3:30 p.m., investigators said.
No other buildings were evacuated and classed have not been affected. The campus is still functioning, officials told KCRA 3.
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Ticket #65 (closed task: fixed)
Fedora Creative Commons Content repository
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Would it make sense for us to have a Fedora repository solely for Creative Commons content?
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comment:2 Changed 8 years ago by bpepple
- Cc stickster@… added
- Owner set to bpepple
- Status changed from new to assigned
FESCo voted to escalate this topic to the Board.
Will leave this ticket open for now, until the Board has a chance to add it to their agenda.
comment:3 follow-up: ↓ 4 Changed 8 years ago by pfrields
Do we need to have this repository established before the freeze? I ask only because I'm trying to fit a very large agenda into tomorrow's meeting and would like to tackle this March 3 if possible.
comment:4 in reply to: ↑ 3 Changed 8 years ago by bpepple
Replying to pfrields:
Do we need to have this repository established before the freeze? I ask only because I'm trying to fit a very large agenda into tomorrow's meeting and would like to tackle this March 3 if possible.
No, I don't think the repo would need to be established before the freeze, so it should be fine to push to your March 3rd meeting.
comment:6 Changed 8 years ago by jstanley
- Keywords meeting added
Per the board meeting this was discussed at:
Creative Commons Repo
- http://bpepple.fedorapeople.org/fesco/FESCo-2009-02-20.html is the meeting at which this was discussed by FESCo
- http://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/65
- Should the board permit the Fedora name (trademark) on a potential CC-content repo.
- Board took an incomplete vote on using the Fedora name for this initiative
- Further discussion showed that the board is not clear what FESCo plans to do with this approval
*# Determine exactly what FESCo is requesting and what they plan to do *# Discuss further at a future board meeting
comment:7 Changed 8 years ago by jstanley
- Status changed from assigned to closed
- Resolution set to fixed
While FESCo believes this to be an interesting idea, they're not sure that this belongs under the Fedora umbrella for a variety of reasons, including:
- Not being a "core competency" of Fedora (sorry for the suit-talk there).
- Technical specifications are unclear/undefined
- Content acceptance specifications undefined.
- No one to actually implement such a thing has stepped forward thus far
FESCo is going to attempt to drum up some cross-distro interest in order to create something actionable.
For now, I'm going to close this ticket. It can be reopened if required.


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The Slaughter Axe 'Naturebane' (5d7) (+31,+27)
+3 to STR, DEX
Slay Elemental, Animal
Resist Acid, Lightning, Fire, Cold, Poison, Shards, Nexus
Sustain STR
Activates for dispel animals (300) every 200+d200 turns
Level 70, Rarity 25, 30.0 lbs, 61500 Gold (Gumband 2.2.3)
The Slaughter Axe 'Naturebane' (5d7) (+31,+27)
A huge axe, the sort used for slaughtering animals, this weapon is
unusually deadly against natural creatures.
Used by the orcs in their battle at Dagor Bragollach against the elves,
this axe has a bloodthirst for nature.
It can be activated for dispel monsters (300) every 200+d200 turns if
it is being worn. It increases your strength by 3. It is especially
deadly against natural creatures. It sustains your strength. It
provides resistance to shards and nexus. It allows you to levitate.
It drains life. It cannot be harmed by acid, cold, lightning or fire.
Level 70, Rarity 20, 30.0 lbs, 28400 Gold (T.o.M.E. 2.3.5)
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