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DURHAM -- 5th Annual Community Skate Day, Sunday, Dec. 30, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., Whittemore Center Arena, 128 Main St., Durham; To benefit the Cocheco Valley Humane Society. $10/$3 Tickets at the door. Hayley Parsons, 603-862-4057, email@example.com, www.whittcenter.com.
PORTSMOUTH -- Guided Historic House Tours, Sunday, Dec. 30, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Strawbery Banke Museum, 14 Hancock St., Portsmouth; Guided tours of five decorated historic houses at Strawbery Banke Museum. $15,$10 Tickets at the door. Info: 603-433-1100, firstname.lastname@example.com, www.strawberybanke.org.
PORTSMOUTH -- West Fest Phyzgig Festival South, Sunday, Dec. 30, at 2 p.m., Pontine Theatre, West End Studio Theatre, 959 Islington St., Portsmouth; Phyzgig Festival features a variety of New Vaudeville performers. $15 Marguerite Mathews, 603-436-6660, firstname.lastname@example.com, www.pontine.org.
SOMERSWORTH -- 12 Hours of ParTEAing, Sunday, Dec. 30, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Teatotaller Tea House, 109 Main St., Somersworth; Teatotaller First Year Anniversary Party. Emmett Soldati, 603-692-0220, email@example.com, www.teatotallerteahouse.com.
DOVER -- Family New Year's Eve Celebration, Monday, Dec. 31, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Children's Museum of New Hampshire, 6 Washington St., Dover; Daytime New Year's Eve Celebration for families includes ball drops, party hats, ginger ale & more. $9/$8 Heidi Duncanson, 603-742-2002, email@example.com, www.childrens-museum.org.
DURHAM -- Celebrate Recovery, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Durham Evangelical Church, 114 Dover Road, Durham; Life's hurts, habits and hang-ups don't take a holiday. Free. Durham Evangelical Church, firstname.lastname@example.com, durhame.org/ourministries/celebrate-recovery/.
NEWMARKET -- Meditate for Peace Day, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., Aryaloka Buddhist Center, 14 Heartwood Circle, Newmarket; Aryaloka Buddhist Center's annual meditation event promoting world peace. Free. Aryaloka Buddhist Center, 603-659-5456, email@example.com, www.aryaloka.org/2012/11/12/meditate-for-peace-day-2013/.
PORTSMOUTH -- NH First Day Hike, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion State Historic Site, 375 Little Harbor Rd, Portsmouth; Get outside, excercise, enjoy nature and welcome in the New Year. Free. Prior registration required. Johanna Lyons, 603-271-3556, firstname.lastname@example.com, www.nhstateparks.org/whats-happening/first-day-hike/.
DOVER -- 1967 Film 'Bedazzled', Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Dover Middle School Renaissance Room Theater, Central Avenue, Dover; Dover Film Education Class is screening Bedazzled starring Dudley Moore and Raquel Welch. Free. Joe Hill, 603-969-2968, firstname.lastname@example.com, www.angelfire.com/me/soujourner/page12.html.
NORTH HAMPTON -- Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., United Church of Christ, Atlantic Ave., North Hampton; For anyone struggling with anorexia, bulimia or overeating. Free. Laura, 603-964-7036.
PORTSMOUTH -- Transitions...The Memorial Bridge, by photographer Bill Moore, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Hall-McGee Realtors, LLC, Buyers Brokers of the Seacoast Office, 33 Deer St., Ste. 4A, Portsmouth; Bill Moore has compiled a wide range of images of the Memorial Bridge during its transition. Free. Carolyn McGee, 603-436-6636 x 101, firstname.lastname@example.com, hallmcgee.com/more/OfficeGallery/TheArtists.aspx.
BARRINGTON — TOPS stands for Take Off Pounds Sensibly and its purpose is to help people who want to lose weight to do so wisely and healthily. This chapter meets every Tuesday night basically from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. at the Restoration Church on Rte. 125 next to the Federal Savings Bank. Both men and women (and children) are welcome to join. Patricia Newhall, Weight Recorder, 664-2816.
DOVER/ROLLINSFORD — Knitting For World Peace is a group of volunteers who knit, crochet, quilt and use fiber to create items for community members in need. They meet at Panera Bread, Dover, on Wednesday, 6:30-8 p.m.; and Sun Moon Stars Herbals, 38 Front St., Rollinsford, Sundays 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Call Lin Richard at 603-337-5124 for more information.
The Seacoast Community Garden Network website can be found at www.SeacoastCommunityGardenNetwork.org and is on Facebook at "Seacoast Community Garden Network." For more information, contact Jenny Isler, SCGNetwork@ gmail.com, 207-809-3102.
DOVER — Create a peaceful world by sustaining our future. For over 5 years a multimedia discussion series has explored building community and sustaining the earth's resources through sessions on renewable/nonrenewable energy, food issues, economic, financial and health issues. Wednesdays, 7 p.m., Dover Friends Meeting, 141 Central Ave, Dover.
DOVER — The GFWC Dover Area Woman's Club meets the second Wednesday of each month at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, 6:30 p.m. The organization is looking for women 18 and older to join. The club strives to enhance the lives of others through community service. For more information call 603-842-4654.
DOVER — Dover Duplicate Bridge Club games are held on Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. in the McConnell Center on Locust Street. Games are open to players of all abilities and are stratified. Coffee and desserts are served. The cost is $5 per person. Contact Carl Vancelette at 664-7129 or e-mail email@example.com for more information.
DOVER — The Widowed Support Group of Southern New Hampshire meets at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, 2nd floor auditorium, second Sundays of the month. For information call Toni, 742-0208.
KENNEBUNK, Maine — The Astronomical Society of Northern New England (ASNNE) meets on the first Friday of the month at the New School, 38 York St. (Route 1) in Kennebunk. Beginning Astronomy classes start at 6:45 pm. Regular meeting at 7:30 pm Please see the club's website for details (asnne.org).
KINGSTON — The Sit 'n' Stitch group meets every first and third Tuesday from 5:30-7 p.m. in the children's room of the Nichols Memorial Library, 169 Main St., Kingston. 603-642-3521.
LEE — The Lee Firemen's Association meets on third Tuesdays monthly at 7 p.m., at the Lee Safety Complex. For more information, call Barbara Gingras at 659-3919.
NOTTINGHAM — Do you love horses? Have you always wanted to learn to ride? Join the 4-H Deerfield Riders Horse Club. The club is open to ages 8 and up and will focus on horses, horse management, and styles of riding. You do not need to own a horse to join! For more information, call Kim Gilman at (603) 509-7366.
OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine — The Zonta Club of York County meets the second Thursday of the month, September through June, at 6 p.m. at the Captain's Galley Restaurant in Old Orchard Beach. For more information, contact the club president, KT Snyder, at firstname.lastname@example.com or at www.zontadistrict1.org.
PORTLAND, Maine — The Maine Good Sam RV Club, area chapters throughout Maine focus on family friendly RV fun, as well as activities that "give back to the community." For information go to www.MaineGoodSams.org or firstname.lastname@example.com.
PORTSMOUTH — The Knit-Wits have changed their name to Sit 'n Stitch and now welcome all needle crafters. Meeting every Wednesday from 10-Noon, the Sit 'n Stitch gathering offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lap work. It's a time to pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and ages welcome! The meeting is held in the Hilton Garden Room on the second floor of the library at 175 Parrott Avenue.
For more information please contact librarian, Lisa Harling at 603-766-1713 or via email, email@example.com.
PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth Area NAACP Unit holds its monthly meetings on the first Monday of each month, unless the first Monday falls on a holiday weekend or there is extreme inclement weather in which case the meeting will be held on the second Monday. The general membership meeting begins at 7 pm. The meeting location is: One New Hampshire Avenue Portsmouth, (Pease Tradeport) 03801. Meetings are held in the third floor conference room, take the elevator. For more information contact Fred Purnell at 603-749-6362 or visit www.seacoastnaacp.com.
PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth Toastmasters club meets from 7-9 p.m. at the United Methodist Church on Miller Avenue in Portsmouth on the first and third Thursday of every month. Guests are always welcome. Contact bessette. email@example.com. Visit www.toastmasters.org for more information.
PORTSMOUTH — Great Bay Duplicate Bridge Club meets at 10 a.m. every Monday at First United Methodist Church, 129 Miller Avenue in Portsmouth. You may come without a partner. Refreshments available. Short break for lunch. For information visit www.greatbaybridge.com or call (603) 436-8357.
ROCHESTER — Rochester Humane Lodge 21 was constituted March 1810 and Chartered in 1811. It has a long history of chartitable fund raising and local community involvement and is located at 31 Hanson St in Rocheser. Our meetings are held several times a month. For more information or membership contact Secetary Jeff Brown at 603-320-7010.
ROCHESTER — All are welcome at the monthly Healing Circle in the Community & Education Center next to Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester. We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
WAKEFIELD — Community String Band in Wakefield: Come Join the Fun! Come and learn to play traditional music with others (jigs, reels, hornpipes, waltzes and other tunes) in a very supportive and fun atmosphere! No previous experience needed. All instruments welcome. Thursday evenings at the First Congregational Church of Wakefield, 2718 Wakefield Rd., across from the Wakefield Inn. A group for beginners starts at 6, and a mixed levels group begins at 7. Classes are $10 and are taught by wonderful multi-instrumentalist Seth Austen. Call 522-3189 for more information.


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After ten years of sacrificing everything for his country as a Navy SEAL, Bishop is looking for salvation, and something more permanent in his life, something good. Angel, a pretty kindergarten teacher, thinks she's just what he needs. Their chemistry is instant, and explosive, only Bishop has trouble letting go of his commitment to his country. It's up to Angel to prove there's room for her in his life.
Sometimes you come across a gem of a story with rough edges that need a little polishing to make it shine. This is one such story.
Take one emotionally scarred, tortured hero, add a sassy, likeable heroine who knows what she wants, mix in chemistry that sizzles and sex scenes that threaten to burn up the pages and you have one hot book.
I totally loved Bishop—more so because he was a man who didn't think twice about defending his country as a Navy SEAL, yet he thought he didn't deserve Angel. From their first scene together I could already feel the butterflies fluttering in my belly:
Without warning, he reached up and turned on the reading light at the head of the bed. How did he know that was there? Meeting eyes the color of blue topaz, everything in Angel froze, including her breath. Oh God, I know those eyes! She didn't know the man personally, but she knew of him from the pictures on the fireplace mantle downstairs. He was Diana's older brother, and Navy SEAL Bishop Strong. Suddenly everything made perfect sense.
After six years, he'd finally come home!
My only beef with this story is that it could've been crispier and tighter in certain places (less of the telling and more of the showing) especially since I found out this was the author's 20th book.
All-in-all, I loved this book. It had everything I look for in an erotic romance novella. Would I recommend it? Yes. Would I read this author again? Yes. I hope there are more books in this series as I'd like to read about Bishop's SEAL team mates.
Disclaimer: This book was provided by the author/publisher in exchange for an honest review.
"The police are on the way, ma'am. Where is the intruder now?" the operator asked.
Angel listened for a moment. "He's still in the kitchen."
"Is the intruder male?"
"No, no!" Angel said, and then quickly lowered her voice when she realized she'd spoken too loud. "I don't know if it's a woman or a man." She'd been too afraid to look when she had the chance. Movement coming from the kitchen told her the intruder was still there, but for how long? She was crouched at the end of the couch, too afraid to turn around, frightened that at any moment she would be discovered. "Please hurry!"
"They're on their way. Stay calm and—"
"I think he's in the room with me!" Angel's eyes rounded with fear when she sensed
someone moving up behind her.
"Ma'am stay on—"
Angel knew the intruder was behind her now. She stood up, whipped around, and slammed her phone into the side of his head with a piercing scream. All she could make out was a tall, dark outline.
"What the fuck—" a male voice boomed.
Angel let out another scream and slammed her hands against a massive chest, shoving him away from her as hard as she could. Her only thought was making it back upstairs to the safety of her room until the police arrived, but the second her palms landed on the man's rock-hard chest she knew she was in trouble. He stumbled back but she had a feeling it was due more to her catching him by surprise than the force of her push.
She scooted around him but suddenly his hands were on her and for a moment they
struggled against each other. Angel was hyped up on adrenaline and a strong sense of survival, and she used her nails and teeth on the naked arms and powerful hands trying to subdue her. It gained her enough freedom to make it to the stairs but halfway up she found her ankle being grabbed, she fell, and then she was pinned beneath a heavy weight.
"No!" she cried out, struggling wildly against him. But she was no match for his superior
strength and the honed muscles she felt beneath her hands. In no time his hands had wrapped around her wrists, and she was pinned against the stairs.
"Who the hell are you?" he demanded, his face too close to hers.
"Who the hell are you?" Angel demanded right back, twisting beneath him. It was then she felt cool air in places that she shouldn't, reminding her that all she had on was a thin nightshirt and a pair of bikini panties. Judging by the super hard pecks she felt pressed against her breasts; her shirt had come undone, too. An insane thought crossed her mind, why wasn't he wearing a shirt? She wiggled wildly, unintentionally scraping her nipples across his flesh.
"Stop before you get hurt!" he warned. In an effort to subdue her, he pressed his body against hers.
"Then get off me!" Angel hissed, arching her body in an effort to dislodge him. His muscled thighs and powerful legs flexed against hers, easily holding hers still.
"Not until you tell me who you are," he grated in a rough voice.
His warm breath slapped her in the face. "I live here," Angel said without hesitation, glaring up into his shadowed face. She was aware there was no way he could see her because it was too dark.
"The hell you do."
How did he know that? "The police are on their way so I suggest you let me up and get out of here." Her energy was beginning to wane. He was too strong and big, and the longer they remained like that, the more she began to feel uncomfortable with their intimate proximity.
"Good. Then we can get to the bottom of this."
That wasn't the kind of response an intruder would make if he were caught in someone
else's house. Maybe he was delusional or something. Angel decided to switch tactics.
"These stairs are hurting me," she said weakly. Things grew still between them and she sensed his silent contemplation, as if he were wondering if he should believe her. She whimpered a little for good measure.
"Okay, I'm going to let you up, but don't try anything stupid," he warned.
The second he released her and lifted off her body, Angel got to her feet and dashed the rest of the way up the stairs.
"Son of a bitch!" he cursed behind her.
Angel slammed and locked her bedroom door in his face. She didn't know what she hoped to accomplish, except to get away from him until the police arrived. What was taking them so long? She ran to one of the windows and opened it. Maybe she could push out a screen and—
Without warning her bedroom door was kicked in. She screamed and made a beeline for her connecting bathroom.
"Oh, no, you don't."
A muscular arm wrapped around Angel's waist and she was lifted off her feet. "Let me go!" She wiggled and kicked, very much aware that her butt was against a very intimate part of his body. Burning heat replaced the fear flowing through her blood because his cock wasn't as flaccid as it should have been.
"Look," he slammed her down onto the bed and for the second time she found herself
pinned beneath his superior strength. "Before this goes any further I think we need to talk."
"You can talk to the police," she panted, twisting beneath him.
"I intend to," he said without hesitation. There was a confidence in his tone that surprised her.
Without warning, he reached up and turned on the reading light at the head of the bed. How did he know that was there? Meeting eyes the color of blue topaz, everything in Angel froze, including her breath. Oh God, I know those eyes! She didn't know the man personally, but she knew of him from the pictures on the fireplace mantle downstairs. He was Diana's older brother, and Navy SEAL Bishop Strong. Suddenly everything made perfect sense.
After six years, he'd finally come home!
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EDITOR'S NOTE _ An occasional look at political promises and how well they are kept.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the final weeks of Mitt Romney's term as Massachusetts governor, a small team of aides combed through statehouse filing cabinets. They filled more than 630 cartons with papers destined for the state archives as the primary documentary legacy of his administration. One floor, though, was almost completely off limits to them: Romney's inner sanctum, his third-floor office.
The former legislative affairs director who headed the archiving effort, John O'Keefe, recalls that his team was given a stack of Romney's public schedules spanning four years and a limited variety of other documents from the governor's executive office, but not much else. "We were told we were not in charge of archiving the third floor," he says.
Three weeks before Romney left office in January 2007, O'Keefe's team turned the cartons culled from the statehouse over to archives officials and left 290 more boxes — mostly leftover bulk records from prior administrations — that were authorized for shredding. But the Massachusetts Republican's personal gubernatorial records — including emails exchanged with his aides, private calendars and other materials — were unaccounted for, say O'Keefe and others who worked in the Romney administration at the time.
"They were either left with the governor or were left behind," said O'Keefe, now city manager in Manchester, Vt.
The mystery deepened when the chief legal counsel for Romney's Democratic successor, Gov. Deval Patrick, said recently that just before Patrick took office, material on a state government web server that housed Romney's emails was erased. Top Romney aides also bought and removed their state-issued computer hard drives, and remaining leased computers were replaced. Romney said he followed the law in authorizing the purge, and his campaign aides said their actions were based on a 1997 Massachusetts court ruling that all governors' records are private.
Romney's selective policy toward public access and preservation of his executive records raises stark questions about how transparent his administration would be if he were to become president.
He's not alone. Other leading candidates for the presidency — incumbent Barack Obama and Texas Gov. Rick Perry — have touted their commitment to transparency. But their administrations also have been selective at times in the records they disclose. They have limited, stalled or denied access when it suited their purposes.
"What I wish Americans could expect is a politician who talked a good game and walked a good game, too," said Ken Bunting, executive director of the nonpartisan National Freedom of Information Coalition. "The reality is everybody gives lip service to transparency and accountability."
Romney's submission of paper documents to the Massachusetts archives was made "in the interest of transparency and to help provide a record of his time in office," said Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior campaign adviser. But the holdings in the archives are far from comprehensive. An Associated Press reporter sent from Washington earlier this fall spent a week examining the Romney archives, but did not find paper copies of any emails to or from Romney or any internal calendars or in-house memos — all commonly used by governors. There are no state archives records accounting for what happened to those materials.
A self-described champion of open government, Obama signed an executive order committing to transparency the day he took office in January 2009. In September his administration issued a "national action plan" requiring all agencies to take detailed steps to improve openness.
His administration's performance has bright spots but has not nearly fulfilled Obama's pledges. The federal government responded to fewer records requests in 2010 even as the numbers of requests grew, according to an AP study earlier this year. Agencies often frustrate requests with delays — such as the administration's slowness in responding to the AP's requests for records related to government loans to the now-bankrupt solar company Solyndra.
Perry has touted his decision ordering Texas state agencies to post electronic data online, but he has also curtailed access to his private calendars and travel records. As Perry revved up his presidential bid last September, his chief of staff, Jeffrey S. Boyd, sent emails to the governor's staff, warning them of growing records requests and ordering, "Do not utilize email unless it is essential to do so."
The growing use by government agencies and political campaigns of new channels of electronic communication, including text messages, online videos and social media services, has opened new dimensions in the availability of public records. But candidates haven't been especially transparent.
Newt Gingrich agreed to release payment records of his consulting work for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation only after the news service Bloomberg revealed details of his role with the government-sponsored agency. Rep. Michele Bachmann's staff declined AP requests for receipts and other records that would show how she spent millions in government money to cover payroll and other expenses, instead offering only limited information already published by the House.
The administration of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who decided not to enter the race, told the AP it would cost $30,000 to provide comprehensive electronic and paper files from his second term. And the office of Minnesota's Tim Pawlenty, who ran but then dropped out, estimated a cost of $1,150 to provide the AP with records of just one of dozens of out-of-state trips he took while governor.
Romney's purge of electronic records is matched by the Perry administration's policy of deleting all inter-office emails older than one week — a policy started by his predecessor, former President George W. Bush. Perry spokeswoman Allison Castle said Boyd's email warning was simply "to remind employees to only use email when necessary."
"There's the potential for a lot more raw information than in the past as emails and other electronic communications replace phone and face-to-face conversations," said Peter Scheer, executive director of the First Amendment Coalition, a nonprofit public interest group. "The problem is we're seeing officials and governments moving more and more to shield those materials from public access."
Only about one-quarter of the 630 cartons of Romney paper records are available for inspection at the Massachusetts archives. State legal officials have yet to say whether the 1997 court ruling allows access to the other material. Even if they do, Assistant State Archivist Michael Comeau said, staff shortages and time-consuming redaction checks could extend delays close to the 2012 election. More than 75 cartons examined by the AP revealed staff and legislative documents but no internal materials written to or from Romney himself — except for ceremonial bill-signing and official letters.
As governor, Romney's careful line on providing records was based on a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that "the governor is not explicitly included" among agencies covered by the state's Public Records Law, which generally requires agencies to submit to records requests. Other governors since 1997 have interpreted the ruling similarly.
Archived records from Romney's communications office — among the few third-floor materials that were saved — show that between 2003 and 2007, his administration at times provided documents requested by media and others. But in many cases, Romney officials either turned down requests or offered partial responses, saying the requests were "overly broad" or that disclosure "would not serve the public interest."
"It's the discretionary nature of the responses that's worrying," said Gavi Wolfe, legal counsel for the Boston office of the American Civil Liberties Union. "If they're in the public interest and don't impinge on privacy or investigations, records should be made public."
The AP submitted detailed questions to Romney about how his administration handled public records when he was governor, but the campaign provided only a brief statement: "The governor's office in Massachusetts is not subject to the state's public records law. As a legal matter, it is not required to disclose any documents."
Fehrnstrom, Romney's chief spokesman during that era, said the Romney campaign does not possess any remaining gubernatorial records outside of the Massachusetts archives.
Theresa Dolan, who was director of administration under Romney and six previous governors, said prior administrations had engaged in limited electronic house cleaning, but the selling of hard drives to Romney's aides was not common practice.
After The Boston Globe first reported that his aides had purged electronic files, Romney defended the move, saying the deleted files might have contained confidential medical, judicial or personnel records. Still, when Romney's archive team found hundreds of Social Security numbers and other confidential files at the end of his administration, they separated those materials from thousands of other documents that were turned over to the archives. O'Keefe recalled that anything "confidential in nature" was turned over to a private vendor for shredding. That shredding, O'Keefe said, was approved by the state's Records Conservation Board.
The board's files do not mention any purged electronic files. While Massachusetts governors are not subject to disclosure requirements, they are still obliged to preserve both electronic and paper records, said Laurie Flynn, chief legal counsel for Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin.
Suggesting that Romney's Massachusetts administration "deliberately sought to delete public records" in advance of his 2007 presidential run, the Democratic National Committee has pressed three separate Massachusetts public records requests for more background on the purge. Romney's campaign has responded with its own request to Patrick's office asking for any evidence of collaboration between his staff and Obama re-election officials.
Wolfe, the ACLU lawyer, said the electronic purge set an "alarming" precedent: "I would be concerned about the chief executive wanting to shield the actions of his administration from public scrutiny." Romney has waved off those concerns, saying that if elected, his presidential administration "would do what's required by the law and then some."
In three years in the White House, Obama set an even more ambitious standard. Obama signed an executive order on his first day in office, committing publicly to improving transparency and setting clear goals for federal agencies to respond quickly and expansively to records requests. His directive led to the opening of White House visitor logs and plans to improve response times and declassify outdated secret documents. Earlier this year, the administration followed up with an "open government partnership" aimed as a template for other world governments.
"The president has set a historic standard when it comes to openness," said campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt.
But many of Obama's broad pledges have not been met. In the face of criticism, the Justice Department abandoned a proposal that would have allowed officials to pretend that some government files didn't exist when people asked to see them. And the government completely turned down records in one-third of all records requests in 2010 — even censoring 194 pages of internal emails about Obama's Open Government directive.
The White House and Energy Department have been selective about turning over records related to the GOP-led congressional investigation of Solyndra. The AP pressed three separate appeals for records in September, but Energy Department officials said they would take months because of the number of documents and requests to read them. In early October, as Congress threatened to issue subpoenas, administration officials quickly released thousands of pages and DVDs filled with emails.
White House officials would not comment on the sudden shift, but LaBolt said, "The president and this administration are changing the ways Washington works in terms of transparency."
In Texas, Perry has made similar claims, pointing to broad swaths of data now available online — from state agency payments to death certificates. But Perry's administration has blocked viewing of expenditures for his security guards when he travels. He also barred access to his reviews of death penalty cases and to his private calendars — even though former President Bush made both available when he was governor.
"The people of America aren't seeing the real Rick Perry," said Keith Elkins, executive director of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas. "They may get a glimpse of him on the campaign trail, but the real record has been hidden and carefully parceled out."
Associated Press writers Brett J. Blackledge, Matthew Daly and Jack Gillum contributed to this report.
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Dear Wave Systems,
When I bought my Dell Latitude D820 laptop, I went through and deleted a certain amount of the shovelware that was preinstalled, but some of it, to be honest, I didn't know what it did. I tried to work out what EMBASSY Trust Suite did, and it seems to be something to do with the Trusted Platform Module in the system. Encrypting files using the TPM key, or something like that.
Charles Petzold wrote an article yesterday commenting on random number generators, and I added a comment earlier on mentioning in passing the reported flaw in CryptGenRandom. I decided to see if this seemed to be the case in XP SP2. My answer was inconclusive, as the assembler was hard to follow. By chance I was debugging Internet Explorer with WinDBG (easiest way to force the RSA Enhanced Cryptographic Provider, rsaenh.dll, to load so I could disassemble it) and noticed an odd number of access violation exceptions occurring when I accidentally did a search in the instance of IE I was debugging. That's weird, I thought – where am I on the stack?
In wxvault.dll. The stack trace was:
0012c888 100065ee wxvault+0x7967
0012cac4 42f8c769 wxvault+0x65ee
0012cadc 42f8cdc9 IEFRAME!PathFileExistsW+0x24
0012cb14 42f8ccf7 IEFRAME!HelperForReadIconInfoFromPropStore+0x97
0012cb98 42f78e53 IEFRAME!CInternetShortcut::_GetIconLocationWithURLHelper+0x156
Looks like we're trying to get the favourite icon for the address bar. But how is IEFRAME calling into wxvault? Microsoft can't know that this library exists. Is there something on the stack that somehow isn't being included (can happen if a function was compiled with the Frame Pointer omitted and no symbols are available to get FPO data [which tells the debugger how to fix up]). Let's disassemble around PathFileExistsW:
42f8c75e ff7508 push dword ptr [ebp+8]
42f8c761 8bf8 mov edi,eax
42f8c763 ff152c13ef42 call dword ptr [IEFRAME!_imp__GetFileAttributesW (42ef132c)]
42f8c769 83f8ff cmp eax,0FFFFFFFFh
That's weird, we called into GetFileAttributesW. How did we end up in wxvault?
0:000> u kernel32!GetFileAttributesW
7c80b74c e965ae7f93 jmp wxvault+0x65b6 (100065b6)
Evil! They patched the running instance of kernel32! What else have they patched?
7c810760 e9d0587f93 jmp wxvault+0x6035 (10006035)
Note how they've failed to rebase the DLL, using the default 0x10000000 base address, making it collide with everything ever which also uses that default address.
Needless to say this is going to get uninstalled as soon as I take a full backup of the laptop! In my book, this is a user-mode rootkit. I don't use the feature, so it's going.
How should they have implemented this? Well, I'd start by seeing if it's possible to change the algorithm for the Encrypting File System. It should be, it's implemented using the Cryptographic API and CSPs (involving callbacks into LSASS in usermode!), so I would have thought that simply providing your own CSP would be sufficient.
If that's not possible, my next port of call would be a file system filter driver. That would have the downside (like this) that every file system call would go through it, rather than the tiny amount of calls which actually target a file encrypted in this way.
The access violation looks like it might ultimately be caused by a bug in IE – it looks like IE tried to pass the URL to the favicon to GetFileAttributesW, which I would hope would fail (or would it try to invoke WebDAV?)


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First Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology
The Ottawa Convention Centre
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
July 6-10, 2012
Welcome to the site of the First Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology (aka 'Evolution 2012'), to be held in Ottawa, Canada's capital city. This landmark event will bring together five of the world's largest academic societies devoted to the study of ecology and evolutionary biology: the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE) the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). This event merges the traditional 'Evolution' meeting, the joint annual meeting of the ASN, SSE and SSB, with both its European and Canadian counterparts (the biennial ESEB congress and annual CSEE meeting). This will be the first time that these five societies have met together, creating a truly international event that spans the fields of ecology and evolution. The meeting will be the premier showcase in 2012 for the presentation and discussion among peers of the latest, leading-edge research in ecology and evolution, and will also be an important forum for outreach and education.
The congress will follow the traditional format of an 'Evolution' meeting, meaning that all attendees will have an opportunity to present their research as a talk or a poster. These are scheduled during regular 'contributed talks' sessions or general poster sessions (sorted by topic using keywords chosen at the time of talk or poster registration). Although each society does sponsor two symposia, speakers for these were prearranged by the organizers and, unlike the tradition of ESEB meetings, one cannot apply to speak in one of these.
The third annual meeting of iEvoBio (Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution and Biodiversity) will be held jointly with Evolution 2012, on July 10–11. Consult the iEvoBio website for more information. iEvoBio brings biologists working in evolution, systematics, and biodiversity together with software developers and mathematicians. Once again there will be a Challenge Prize.
Latest News
July 4:
An update of the pdf Program has been posted, along with a summary of the changes made since the June 30 program. No further updates of the pdf will be made. Looking forward to seeing everyone in Ottawa. Weather forecast suggests it will be hot and sunny!
June 30:
The final pdf version of the congress program has been uploaded that includes chairs for all sessions and a small number of cancellations from the June 28 version.
June 28:
The conference program has been updated. This version indicates session chairs for almost all general talk sessions–please check to see if you are chairing your session. We are working hard to identify chairs for those few sessions currently missing them.
June 27:
A non-conference event that may be of interest: A rally to Parliament Hill has been organized by DeathOfEvidence. Their website is here.
June 22:
The conference program has been updated.
Please also check out the user-friendly mobile app (http://eventmobi.com/evo2012/) on any smartphone, tablet, or computer!
June 13:
The full conference program, including talk and poster schedules, is now available under the Program link above. The website for uploading talks should be available soon. Presenters will receive instructions by email. (You can also upload during the meeting, but we encourage you to beat the rush of your 1300 colleagues.) We're working hard to get the mobile app version up as soon as we can.
May 20:
Baba Brinkman will be giving a special live performance of the "The Rap Guide to Evolution" on Monday evening after the poster session. The event is open to congress registrants only and is graciously sponsored by both Cell Press and Oxford University Press. See here for more details.
May 19:
Poster registration closes on May 25; this is also the deadline for receiving a refund if you cancel your registration. Registration to attend the meeting remains open and hotel space is still available at the Delta. Check out our various pre- and post-conference tours here. Space is still available in the 'Communicating Science to Society', 'R for Biodiversity Analysis', and 'Mathematical modelling in evolutionary ecology' workshops. More details here.
May 1:
Registration is still open, although the early discount has now ended and applications for student travel grants and awards are no longer being accepted.
***Capacity for talks has been reached and we are no longer accepting oral presentations.*** However, you can still register to give a poster; please consider doing so. The two evening poster sessions will be held in spacious, air conditioned surroundings with food and drinks. Just before the meeting, poster presenters will also have the opportunity to invite, via an online system, several congress attendees of their choice to visit their poster (as was so successfully done at ESEB 2011).
Apr. 30:
Check out our congress blog for lots of useful information. Travel (airline and train) discount codes available on our travel pages.
Please book your accommodations now using the congress registration process.
Apr. 10:
Non-shared University of Ottawa residence accommodation (i.e. Stanton and Marchand – single room with single bed: $56.00) are now SOLD OUT. However, shared residence accommodation is still available. For more information, consult the 'Accommodation Info' page by following the 'Registration' link.
Mar. 28:
Separate registration for several optional pre/post congress workshops is now open (see our workshop page under 'Programs'). Additional optional pre/post congress tours have been added, and our blog site is now up and running as a location for providing up-to-the-minute information. Detailed travel information has been added to our Travel page for getting to Ottawa, including a discount code for Star Alliance partner airlines and information about parking a vehicle.
Feb. 3:
Registration is now open and can be accessed via the 'Registration & Accommodation' link in the main menu above. On this site you will also find detailed information on accommodation options and registration fees. Registration for the main meeting, satellite events, talk/poster submission, accommodation booking, and daycare sign-up, are all done via a single registration process. Detailed travel information can be found under the 'Travel' menu above.
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A big thanks to my great friend Kelly Cockshaw, whom I met at our childrens' preschool. Her family just got back from Disney World, and she graciously offered to share some very fun activities that she did with her boys:
A while back, Colleen wrote a blog post about the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique in Downtown Disney. Because I have two rough-and-tumble boys, she suggested that we try the Pirate's League in the Magic Kingdom. It was a great suggestion! As soon as we entered the Pirate's League, the cast members made the boys feel like they had joined a secret pirate crew. They were given real pirate names ("Ned Bladecutter" and "Joseph Bluefish") and were transformed into their choice of pirate. With face paint, a sash, tattoo, eye patch, kerchief, earring and sword, they were then "sworn in" to the pirate's league, and ushered into a back room for their pirate initiation and photo.
The price is very reasonable – $29.95! Of course they have options to upgrade your pirate costume and accessories, but keep in mind you will want to buy the adorable picture they take, which is an additional $15.00.
Here are a few tips for making the most of your pirate adventure:
- Make your reservations well in advance (407-WDW-CREW), especially if you have more than one child and want them to go at the same time.
- Try to get an appointment early in the day, or later in the afternoon. Our appointment was mid-day, and it really interfered with us getting around the Magic Kingdom in a timely fashion.
- Have the kids wear a plain, solid shirt – it will look more authentic under their pirate sash!


text: Vampire bats are common in Central and South America, where they feed on livestock and sometimes people. Michael & Patricia Fogden/Corbis hide caption toggle caption Michael & Patricia Fogden/Corbis Shots - Health News Bites From Rabid Vampire Bats May Not Be A Death Sentence August 1, 2012 Challenging the view that rabies is always fatal, scientists have discoverd a group of Peruvians who show signs of surviving rabies from vampire bats, despite never being vaccinated for the virus. The findings suggest that some people may become resistant to rabies after they're exposed to it over time.


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Dir: Ed Gass-Donnelly. US. 2013. 88mins
Somewhere deep inside The Last Exorcism Part II may lurk an intriguing idea for a character-based horror movie follow-up, but it never manages to quite tease it out. Ditching both the mock-doc framework of the original 2010 possession film (which was inventive but undone by some thunderously stupid editorial choices in the third act), as well as its flashes of dark humor, this technically efficient but wholly pointless follow-up fails to expand on its mooring mythology in as compelling a fashion as in something like the Saw and Paranormal Activity franchises.
Absent the relative resourcefulness of its predecessor, this effort feels like an off-key cover tune.
Powered by a savvy ad campaign and a $20 million opening weekend, The Last Exorcism eventually pulled in $41 million domestically and another $26.7 million abroad — more than 30 times its production budget. Accountant projections no doubt gerrymandered a financial recoupment for this effort, but genre fans beguiled by the original movie are unlikely to supply it the affection and word-of-mouth necessary to deliver anything approaching those previous box office totals.
Picking up months after the first film left off, this movie finds rural Louisiana teenager Nell Sweetzer (Ashley Bell) the lone, terrified survivor of a Satanic ritual in which she seemingly birthed the child of a demonic spirit known as Abalam. With most of her memories of the past several months erased, Nell is transferred to a girls' home where she's watched over by caretaker Frank Merle (Muse Watson). She starts to psychologically mend, making friends with Gwen (Julia Garner) and even nursing a crush on a guy, Chris (Spencer Treat Clark). Soon, however, Nell's beset by unsettling hallucinations, including visions of her dead father (Louis Herthum). Convinced there's still a piece of Abalam left inside her, she agrees to submit to another exorcism.
Taking over from Daniel Stamm, director Ed Gass-Donnelly trades in subdued methodology for much of the movie's running time, with out-of-focus background elements and long takes. In terms of creating little pockets of mood, this approach intermittently works.
But whereas The Last Exorcism had easily recognisable undercurrents of faith, doubt and burgeoning sexuality to match the white-hot urgency of its telling, this sequel chucks those in favor of extraordinarily clichéd foreboding and, finally, a frenzied and desultory final act.
Part of this obviously has to do with the conceit; there isn't the is-she-or-isn't-she uncertainty of the first film with regards to Nell's possession. But the supporting characterisations here never amount to much, and the sequel-friendly denouement feels cheap and under-explored.
Ergo, lacking much in the way of narrative invention and honestly built tension, Gass-Donnelly instead just decides to cash out on the premise in an orgiastic display of jump-scares (he also edited the movie) and clamorous aural cues, the latter abetted by composer Michael Wandmacher.
With her severe countenance, Bell's performance is also marked by look-at-me intensity; even her moments of vulnerability and relief seem laboriously constructed and telegraphed. Mostly, though, The Last Exorcism Part II is a failure of storytelling. Absent the relative resourcefulness of its predecessor, this effort feels like an off-key cover tune.
Production companies: Strike Entertainment, StudioCanal, Anton Capital Entertainment, Arcade Pictures
Domestic distribution: CBS Films
Executive producers: Gabrielle Neimand, Patty Long, Olivier Courson, Ron Halpern
Producers: Eric Newman, Eli Roth, Marc Abraham, Thomas Bliss
Screenplay: Damien Chazelle and Ed Gass-Donnelly, based on a story by Damien Chazelle and characters created by Huck Botko & Andrew Gurland
Cinematography: Brendan Steacy
Editor: Ed Gass-Donnelly
Production designer: Merideth Boswell
Music: Michael Wandmacher
Website: www.TheLastExorcism2.com
Main cast: Ashley Bell, Muse Watson, Julia Garner, Spencer Treat Clark, Louis Herthum, David Jensen


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AUSTIN, Tex. — UCSB freshman designated hitter Robby Nesovic drove in four runs and sophomore left fielder Luke Swenson added three hits of his own, but the duo's exploits with the bat could not overcome an offensive explosion from Texas, who claimed Sunday's series finale by a score of 11-6 en route to their second weekend sweep of the season.
The Gauchos, who were swept for the first time this season, fell to 8-7 with the loss while Texas improved to 10-5.
The Longhorns offensive surge started right away, as freshman outfielder Ben Johnson led off the bottom of the first with a home run to right field. That would be the only hit that UCSB starter Andrew Vasquez allowed, however control problems from the sophomore lefty allowed Texas to manufacture scoring threats regardless. After the home run, Vasquez sandwiched a walk with two hit by pitches to load the bases. A Jeremy Montalbano sacrifice fly stretched the score to 2-0 before the side was retired.
Vasquez would walk two more batters in the second inning, but was not punished as freshman righty Kenny Chapman came into the game, picked off a runner at first, and then got Taylor Stell to line out to end the inning. Chapman would not escape his outing unscathed however, as he surrendered RBI singles to C.J. Hinojosa and Madison Carter in the third inning to give the Longhorns a 4-0 lead.
The Gauchos scored their first run in the fourth inning by taking advantage of a Texas mistake. Sophomore first baseman Tyler Kuresa was able to reach on an error by Texas first baseman Codey McElroy, advancing to second base before the Longhorns could collect the ball. Kuresa would come around to score after advancing on back-to-back groundouts, with Nesovic picking up the first of his four RBI's and making the score 4-1.
That would be as close as the Gauchos would get however, as Texas broke open the game with a five run fourth, including a three run homerun from Montalbano.
Nesovic would chip in RBI singles in the fifth and seventh innings to keep the Gauchos afloat, but Texas's Corey Knebel came in to shut the door at the end of the game, allowing just one baserunner over the final two innings. Nathan Thornhill had a respectable start for the Longhorns, allowing two earned runs and five hits over four innings pitched. Cameron Cox earned the win by throwing 1.2 innings of two-run ball, pushing his record to 1-1.
The Gauchos return to Caesar Uyesaka Stadium for a four game homestand this week, hosting the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. and then facing the Sacramento State Hornets in a three game series from Mar. 15-17. Tickets for all home games this year can be purchased here.


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Baluch, Bahman (1993) Lexical decisions in Persian: a test of the orthographic depth hypothesis. The International Journal of Psychology, 28 (1). pp. 19-29. ISSN 0020-7594 (doi:10.1080/00207599308246915)
Billah, M. B., Khan, Hafiz T. A., Banu, K. and Rahman, M. S. (1993) Analysis of split-plot design with unequal cell variances. The Dhaka University studies. Part B, 41 (2). pp. 289-293. ISSN 0259-7365
Boylan, P., Corbett, Kevin and Smith, C. (1993) HIV/AIDS: a positive response (continuing education credit). Nursing Standard, 7 (15-16). pp. 9-16. ISSN 0029-6570
Brink, N. S., Chopra, R., Perrons, C. J., Ring, Christopher J., Garson, Jeremy A., Briggs, M., Goldstone, A. H., Linch, D. C. and Tedder, Richard S. (1993) Acute hepatitis C infection in patients undergoing therapy for haematological malignancies: a clinical and virological study. British Journal of Haematology, 83 (3). pp. 498-503. ISSN 0007-1048 (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2141.1993.tb04677.x)
Carter, Paul G., Iles, Ray K., Neven, Patrick, Davies, A. Prys, Shepherd, John H. and Chard, Tim (1993) The measurement of urinary beta core fragment in conjunction with serum CA125 does not aid the differentiation of malignant from benign pelvic masses. Gynecologic oncology, 51 (3). pp. 368-371. ISSN 0090-8258 (doi:10.1006/gyno.1993.1305)
Clark, Tony (1993) A basic model of KBS software. Technical Report. GEC-Marconi Research. .
Copcutt, Robert Charles (1993) Investigations of gaseous electrochemical reactions on zirconia electrolytes using amperometric sensors. PhD thesis, Middlesex University.
Copp, Gina and Dunn, Virginia (1993) Frequent and difficult problems perceived by nurses caring for the dying in community, hospice and acute care settings. Palliative Medicine, 7 (1). pp. 19-25. ISSN 0269-2163 (doi:10.1177/026921639300700104)
Corbett, Kevin (1993) Developing reflective practice through focus group methodology within the outpatient sexual health setting. In: Fourth Annual Conference of the European Association of Nurses In AIDS Care, September 1993, Budapest, Hungary., September 1993, Budapest, Hungary.
Corbett, Kevin (1993) Long-term survival:a case study using Jean Watson's carative factors. In: Fourth Annual Conference of the European Association of Nurses In AIDS Care, September 1993, Budapest, Hungary., September 1993, Budapest, Hungary.
Corbett, Kevin (1993) The implications of advances in the care of clients in the community with HIV/AIDS (invited paper). In: The Implications of Advances in the Care of Clients in the Community with HIV/AIDS. A Department of Health Two-Day Workshop Organised by The Royal Brompton National Heart & Lung Hospitals and The Royal Marsden Hospital, March-October 1993, London, U.K..
Corbett, Kevin (1993) The role of the lecturer-practitioner in a department of genitourinary medicine (sexual health). In: Lecturer-Practitioners - The Vital Link?, April 1993, The Nightingale Institute, King's College London (Normanby College).
Corbett, Kevin, Meehan, Lynn and Sackey, Veronica (1993) A strategy to enhance skills: developing intravenous therapy skills for community nursing. Professional Nurse, 9 (1). pp. 60-63. ISSN 0266-8130
Corbett, Kevin, Parker, Norman and Livingston, Justin (1993) Community case study of long-term survival with oesophageal candidiasis: a primary healthcare nursing study of support for a patient receiving home self-administered intravenous amphotericin. In: First International Conference on Home Health Care For AIDS Patients, October 5th to 8th 1993, Palais des Congres Internationaux de Lyon, Lyon, France.
Corbett, Kevin and Sharpe, Brian (1993) Collaborative community care management enhancing homecare for people with advanced HIV disease: care planning between nursing and social care consultants, London, United Kingdom. In: First International Conference On Home Health Care For AIDS Patients, October 5th to 8th 1993, Palais des Congres Internationaux de Lyon, Lyon, France.
Costley, Carol (1993) Music and gender at Key Stage Three (11–14): an action research project. British Journal of Music Education, 10 (03). pp. 197-203. ISSN 0265-0517 (doi:10.1017/S0265051700001753)
Cowell, David James (1993) A social definition of young people in care. PhD thesis, Middlesex University.
David, Jiri (1993) Emissions from a gas-burning pulse combustor. DProf thesis, Middlesex University.
Durant, Alan and MacCabe, Colin (1993) Compacted doctrines: Empson and the meanings of words. In: William Empson: the critical achievement. Norris, Christopher and Mapp, Nigel, eds. Cambridge University Press, pp. 170-195. 9780521118866. (doi:10.1017/CBO9780511552816.006)
Durant, Alan (1993) 'Making one's language as one goes along': Wong Phui Nam's 'Ways of Exile'. In: Ways of Exile: Poems from the First Decade. Nam, Wong Phui, ed. Skoob Pacifica Series . Skoob Books Pub Ltd, London, pp. 145-157. 9781871438093.
Evans, C.D., Meek, Brian L., Walker, R. S. and Hopkinson, Alan (1993) User needs in information technology standards. Butterworth-Heinemann. 9780750615594.
Fillery-Travis, Annette, Gunning, P. A., Hibberd, D. J. and Robins, M. M. (1993) Coexistent phases in concentrated polydisperse emulsion flocculated by non-adsorbing polymer. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 159 (1). pp. 189-197. ISSN 0021-9797 (Accepted/In press) (doi:10.1006/jcis.1993.1311)
Georgiadou, Elli, Karakitsos, George, Sadler, Chris and Stasinopoulos, Dimitris (1993) An experimental examination of the role of re-engineering in the management of software quality. In: Software Quality Management, 31 Mar - 02 Apr 1993, Southampton, UK.
Gibb, Lorna (1993) Marimei taboos. Lore and Language: The Journal for the Centre of English Cultural Tradition and Language, 13 (1). pp. 73-76.
Gibb, Lorna (1993) Marimei taboos. Lore and Language: The Journal for the Centre of English Cultural Tradition and Language, 13 (1). pp. 73-76.
Hopkinson, Alan (1993) CDS/ISIS information [1993]. Information Development, 9 (1/2). pp. 24-26. ISSN 0266-6669
Hopkinson, Alan (1993) Computers in art librarianship: the standards that support them. Computers & the History of Art, 3 (2). pp. 3-12. ISSN 1048-6798
Hopkinson, Alan (1993) International Information System on Cultural Development model database for cultural development on CDS/ISIS: manual and accompanying diskette: first experimental draft. Manual. UNESCO, Paris. .
Hopkinson, Alan (1993) Standards for information and the control of information. In: User needs in information technology standards. Evans, C. D., Meek, Brian L. and Walker, R. S., eds. Butterworth-Heinemann. 9780750615594.
Islam, M. M and Khan, Hafiz T. A. (1993) Pattern of coital frequency in rural Bangladesh. Journal of Family Welfare, 39 (2). pp. 38-43. ISSN 0022-1074
Jones, Simon (1993) Crossover culture: popular music and the politics of "race". Stanford Humanities Review, 3 (2). pp. 103-117.
Jones, Simon (1993) Musik und Symbolische Kreativitat, 1990. In: Literatur, Lekture, Literaritat: Akustiches, Visuelles, Literarisches. Dvorak, Johann, Stagl, Gitta and Jochum, Manfred, eds. OBV, Vienna, pp. 38-40. 3215076403.
Khan, Hafiz T. A., Billah, M. B., Rahman, M. A. and Khan, H. M. R. (1993) A study on socioeconomic and intermediate variables on fertility. Medicine today, 5 (1). pp. 11-14. ISSN 0025-8032
Khan, Hafiz T. A. and Islam, S. M. S. (1993) Influences of selected socioeconomic variables on fertility: a multivariate analysis. Proceedings of the Fourth National Statistical Conference .
Khan, Hafiz T. A., Islam, S. M. Shafiqul and Khan, H. M. R. (1993) Factors affecting fertility in a rural Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Scientific Research, 11 (1). pp. 21-26. ISSN 0253-5432
Khan, Hafiz T. A., Islam, S. M. Shafiqul, Khan, H. M. R. and Bari, R. D. (1993) Fertility differentials in rural Bangladesh. The Dhaka University Journal of Science, 41 (1). pp. 83-89. ISSN 1022-2502
Lange, Thomas (1993) Waking up to reality: the labour market in Eastern Germany. Journal of European Industrial Training, 17 (6). pp. 20-25. ISSN 0309-0590 (doi:10.1108/03090599310038587)
Lazar, Gillian (1993) Literature and language teaching: a guide for teachers and trainers. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 9780521406512.
Livingston, J., Parker, N. and Corbett, Kevin (1993) Home care for intravenous treatment of HIV-related candidiasis. AT HOME: The Newsletter for Homecare Therapy Initiatives, 5 . pp. 6-7.
Maclean, L. A. H. (1993) The structure of manganese dioxide-hydrogen insertion compounds and some related stability studies. PhD thesis, Middlesex University.
Makris, M., Garson, Jeremy A., Ring, Christopher J., Tuke, Philip W., Tedder, Richard S. and Preston, F. E. (1993) Hepatitis C viral RNA in clotting factor concentrates and the development of hepatitis in recipients. Blood, 81 (7). pp. 1898-1902. ISSN 0006-4971
Massey, Anne (1993) Interior lifestyles. In: Biba: the Look, the Lifestyle, the Label: Exhibition Catalogue. Tyne & Wear Museums. 9780905974590.
McIlroy, John (1993) Community, Labour and Raymond Williams. Adults Learning, 4 (10). pp. 276-279.
McIlroy, John (1993) Tales from smoke-filled rooms. Studies in the Education of Adults, 25 (1). pp. 42-64. ISSN 0266-0830
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Mordin - Old Blood part 4
Walkthrough - Mordin - Old Blood part 4
Moving forward from the medical kit, you'll eventually find a downward-sloping pathway on your left. You should find a few flamethrower-equipped Vorcha running up towards you as soon as you spot the path, so kill these guys from afar. It's integral that you don't let them get near you, or you're going to be in for a serious world of hurt, as their flamethrowers can rip through your shields and health in no time at all. Following their deaths, but before running down the ramp, be certain you pillage the box nearby for valuable and rare Iridium. Then, run down the ramp, go forward, and swing rightward. You're now at the entrance to the hospital, but first, you'll need to blaze your way through the final enemy forces outside of the building. Vorcha, Varren and Krogan again make up the fighting force here, and since you're fighting in a far more constrained location, you need to be smart about how you go about things here. Flamethrower-equipped enemies should again be filleted from afar, but you can go about your business with the other enemies as you normally would. Before hacking the door open into the hospital, be certain you pillage the combustion manifold off of the crashed vehicle on your right. Doing so is the next step in the side quest called Tuchnaka: Combustion Manifold. More information on that can be found in the Side Quests section of this guide.
Once inside the hospital, you'll see a staircase leading downward directly adjacent to your position. At the foot of the stairs, you'll spot a human body. Examine it, and a cutscene will ensue. Dr. Solus will examine the human body and quickly come to the realization that the Krogans have been using human subjects (and perhaps others) to do testing. Humans are much-sought after scientific test subjects the galaxy over because, as the Salarian doctor explains, humans have the most genetic randomness, with the most permutations. It makes them great in a lab. Following this cutscene, you can move further down the stairs. You'll see a door on your right, which you must take to proceed onward with this quest. Before you do, however, be certain you raid even more rare Iridium out of the small box on your right.
As soon as you go through the door, another cutscene will ensue. Here, you'll be met by another crew of Krogans. These guys aren't like the Krogans you were dealing with earlier; the Blood Pack are vicious, and they mean business. This clan, called Weyrloc, has sent out a messenger to deliver... well... a message to you. Instead of outright killing you, the Blood Pack has decided to let you flee the scene, so that you report what you found here at the abandoned hospital to anyone you meet. Of course, you're not going to want to take the deal (nor could you). Paragons will want to remain patient here, exploring possible amicable and peaceful ways out of this. Renegades can quickly catalyze a fight here with few words exchanged. There's even a quicktime event available here for Renegades that will allow you to detonate an explosive container underneath the Weyrloc messenger, thus killing many of the Krogan who've come to meet you here instantaneously. Regardless of how you get through this conversation, the inevitable is still going to occur. Get ready for a fight.
If you took the Renegade option to kill the messenger and his friends, then the enemies you meet here will be far thinner in number than they otherwise would be. Paragons and neutral players will find themselves otherwise inundated with enemies. Because they will be attacking from the balcony above and on your left, you may feel comfortable taking refuge behind the crates near you when you regain control, but that won't do much for you once the enemies begin to pincer your position from the other end of the room. Therefore, the best cover here is actually one of the support beams in the room. Remember that Vorcha can heal themselves quickly, so if you're going after one, be persistent until it's dead. The Krogan you meet here are all heavily armored, so you're going to have a lot to chip away at. Ultimately, when this enemy confrontation has concluded, you can scour the room for ammunition. You'll find more Iridium here, as well, and even another medical kit, if you find yourself in need of Medi-Gel.
Once you've advanced into the next room, you'll finally stumble upon one of the Krogans' laboratories. Here, you can gather all sorts of items. You can salvage some parts (for credits), you can find even more Iridium (I guess it's not so rare here after all), and even a gear update via a hackable computer. But ultimately, this entire area is about catalyzing two specific cutscenes between the doctor and Shepard. One is catalyzed by examining a computer terminal, the other by examining a dead female Krogan lying on a table. In both, you have the opportunity to score Paragon or Renegade points, depending on how you respond to what Mordin Solus is saying. Paragons are actually going to have to be mean to the doctor, letting him know that the genophage was wrong, and that he was complicit in wholesale murder. Renegades will get to agree with the doctor, letting him know that what he did was right, and there's nothing wrong with it. Either way, one thing becomes clear here -- our Salarian doctor friend is certainly struggling inside with what he did to the Krogan.
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| Hungry for the Good Life!
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Japanese themes
Hungry for the Good Life! (Japanese: ウラヤマさんちの大食いウリムー! The Gluttonous Urimoo at Urayama House!) is the 84th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 550th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on July 3, 2008, with DP085 in a one-hour special. It first aired in the United States on December 6, 2008.
|Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.
Ash and his friends are saved from a sudden rainstorm when Monica, a housekeeper, invites them to stay at Mr. Backlot's mansion. Old Mr. Backlot is a wealthy man who's turned the area into a Trophy Garden for his Pokémon—and people who love to see his Pokémon! Mr. Backlot's Cleffa, Pichu, and Azurill join everyone for a delicious Poffin snack, which attracts a wild Swinub that gobbles up the food. Mr. Backlot laughs it off and invites everyone to dinner, but Team Rocket has secretly spied on the entire scene and crossed Swinub off the target list. The rest of Mr. Backlot's Pokémon are a different story, of course.
Dawn uses the mansion's kitchen to cook up more Poffin, which Swinub seems to like. The next day, she brings out even more Poffin for Swinub and all the Pokémon to eat while enjoying the garden, but then Team Rocket swoops in with a new giant flying machine that steals all of Mr. Backlot's food and everyone's Pokémon to boot! Dawn manages to jump onto Team Rocket's machine and get inside while it makes its escape. As she tries to rescue Piplup and the other Pokémon, Swinub runs off to eat Team Rocket's stolen food. Seeing this, Team Rocket promptly ejects Dawn and Swinub in mid-air to protect the delicious loot.
Dawn manages to get Swinub to track Team Rocket's ship for her. When she catches up to the crooks, Team Rocket tries to attack but Swinub uses Ice Shard to stop James' Carnivine and Jessie's Yanmega. Swinub then saves the day a second time by breaking open the ship so all the Pokémon can escape. Dawn has the situation well in hand, but Ash and the others catch up just in time to help her send Team Rocket on their way. Mr. Backlot is delighted that his Pokémon are safe again, and Dawn asks Swinub if it wants to come with her. Swinub agrees, so now Dawn has a new Pokémon friend!
As Ash and his friends are walking down Route 212, a Cleffa pops out of a bush and Dawn checks it on her Pokédex. Monica comes from behind a tree, glad that she found Cleffa. Brock becomes infatuated with her and the gang walks up to them. Monica tells Ash and friends that Mr. Backlot's mansion is close to where they are and the gang begin to introduce themselves. Brock does his regular flirting and Croagunk stabs Brock from behind with Poison Jab. Lightning flashes and it begins to rain. The gang then hurry to the mansion, where they are welcomed by Mr. Backlot. Monica brings out a cart with Poffins on it. She calls the Pokémon and Igglybuff, Pichu, and an Azurill come down. The Pokémon gather around the bowls of Poffin and the group decide to let all their Pokémon out.
Pachirisu, Ambipom, Buneary, and Piplup are eating their Poffins and a Swinub comes running and eats the Igglybuff, Pichu, Cleffa, and Azurill's Poffin, then runs over to Dawn's Pokémon Poffins. The Pokémon are speechless as they watch the Swinub eat their food and Mr. Backlot orders Monica to get Swinub's bowl. After Swinub is done, Dawn's Pokémon are about to attack the Swinub until Pikachu stops them. Monica sets down a huge bowl of Poffin and Swinub eats them quickly as Ash and Brock let out a breath of relief. Swinub finishes its meal and lays down. Dawn walks up to eat and says how cute it is. Mr. Backlot explains that unlike the other Pokémon, Swinub doesn't belong to him but often visits from the forest nearby. Meanwhile, Team Rocket are spying on the mansion thinking of a new way to steal Pokémon.
Then, the group are sitting at a table and Monica ask Dawn if she would like some tea. Now the group are in the kitchen, about to make Poffins. Monica sets down Berries and the group becomes excited about making Poffins. Monica instructs Ash and the group on their stirring and Dawn's Pokétch goes off telling her time is up. A plate of Dawn's Poffins are set on the table and Piplup is ready to dig into them. Swinub smells them and rushes towards the plate. Swinub starts eating them and Piplup goes devastated. Dawn grabs the plate stopping Swinub from eating them all. Ash sets his Poffins on the counter but Swinub decides not to eat them since they smell bad. Ash tastes one of his Poffins and falls to the ground with his face blue as if he's been poisoned. Dawn sets down the plate to let Swinub eat the rest and Piplup complains. Dawn reassures it that she'll make some more and Piplup bounces in joy.
The next morning, the group is out in the Trophy Garden and the Pokémon are playing with each other. Dawn comes out with Poffins and Swinub begins to run towards them. Swinub jumps in the air and lands in front of the bowl about to eat the Poffins but Dawn sets down a huge bowl of Poffins just for Swinub. Dawn yawns from sleepiness and the ground collapses. All the Pokémon fall into a hole and Team Rocket fly out of it in their new machine performing their motto. Monica tells Mr. Backlot that all the Berries are gone and the Pokémon beg for help. As Team Rocket is about to fly off, Ash and Dawn jump on the machine but Ash falls down. Dawn climbs up to the dome where the Pokémon are being held and descends in the machine. Team Rocket then smoke the area and fly off.
Dawn tries to find a way to let the Pokémon free and finds a lever. She pulls it and the dome disappears. Swinub smells some Berries and uses Take Down to smash through the wall. Dawn follows it and then fall out of the machine through the floor. Dawn grabs Swinub as they fall and land on a bush. Team Rocket fly off and Swinub smells something. Monica is driving in the plains and speeds through the forest. Dawn follows Swinub only for it to have just found Berries. Swinub smells something and runs and uses Take Down on a tree. Apples fall and Swinub eats them. Dawn yells in disappointment and Swinub gives Dawn an apple. Piplup's face projects around the round object and tears start to form in Dawn's eye as she may never see Piplup or her Pokémon again. Swinub sees this and tries to pick up Team Rocket's scent. It runs off somewhere and Dawn follows it.
Team Rocket is eating and Swinub runs and uses Take Down on the machine. They all fall and a pile of food lands in front of Swinub. Swinub begins to eat it and Dawn confronts Team Rocket. James sends out Carnivine but it bites him on the head. Jessie sends out Yanmega and it uses Steel Wing while Carnivine uses Bite. Swinub jumps and uses Ice Shard. The attack freezes Yanmega and Carnivine and they fall back towards Jessie and James. Dawn tells Swinub to use Take Down and it breaks through the machine letting the Pokémon free. The Pokémon run towards Dawn and Ash and the group arrive. Carnivine uses Bullet Seed and Yanmega uses SonicBoom. Swinub uses Ice Shard and collides with the attacks. Dawn tells Piplup to use Bubble Beam and Ash tells Pikachu to use Thunderbolt. The attacks hit Yanmega and Carnivine and they fall back towards Team Rocket blasting off. Dawn thanks Swinub for its help and Swinub welcomes her. It then sees a pile of food and runs towards it. Dawn watches Swinub as it's eating and walks up to it. Dawn ask Swinub if it would like to go with her, surprising Ash and the group. Swinub blushes before saying Yes and Dawn takes out a Poké Ball. She hits it against Swinub and catches it. Dawn does her pose confirming she's caught Swinub. Dawn tells the rest of the Pokémon they have a new friend and the Pokémon cheer.
Back at Mr. Backlot's mansion, Ash and the group are about to head off. Monica tells Dawn that the next Pokémon Contest is in Celestic Town and Dawn seems ready for it. Dawn thanks Monica and the group says their goodbyes before leaving. Brock makes one last move on Monica but Croagunk stabs him from behind again. The group wave goodbye and head off onto the next destination.
Major events
- Jessie's Yanmega is revealed to know Steel Wing.
- Dawn catches a Swinub.
- Dawn learns that a Pokémon Contest will be held in Celestic Town.
- For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the timeline of events.
Pokémon debuts
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Piplup (Dawn's)
- Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
- Mime Jr. (James's)
- Staravia (Ash's)
- Turtwig (Ash's)
- Chimchar (Ash's)
- Buizel (Ash's)
- Gligar (Ash's)
- Buneary (Dawn's)
- Pachirisu (Dawn's)
- Ambipom (Dawn's)
- Swinub (Dawn's; new)
- Sudowoodo (Brock's)
- Croagunk (Brock's)
- Happiny (Brock's)
- Yanmega (Jessie's)
- Carnivine (James's)
- Cleffa (Mr. Backlot's)
- Pichu (Mr. Backlot's; ×3)
- Igglybuff (Mr. Backlot's; ×2)
- Azurill (Mr. Backlot's)
- The original version of Message of the Wind replaced the PokaPoka-VERSION variant as the Japanese ending theme.
- Details of this episode were made known in K-Zone, a children's magazine, before any official Japanese episode listing.
- Instead of Professor Oak's Big Pokémon Encyclopedia, the end of this episode featured a special trailer for Giratina and the Sky Warrior.
- Pocket-ering Monster-ing, as well as music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, and Jirachi: Wish Maker, are used as background music.
- Lisa Ortiz returns to the series to voice Monica (having previously left with the majority of the voice actors when the dub switched from 4Kids to Pokémon USA).
- This is the first time Dawn catches a Pokémon since Buizel, exactly 50 episodes ago.
- During the Diamond & Pearl series, Ash, Dawn, and Brock each have owned a Generation II Pokémon; however, this episode (after Dawn caught Swinub) and the next episode (before Gligar evolved) are the only times in the series in which all three have a Generation II Pokémon with them: Ash is with Gligar, Dawn with Swinub, and Brock with Sudowoodo.
- The fact that it is raining when Ash and his friends arrive at Backlot's mansion may be a reference to the fact that it always rains on Route 212's southern leg, just south of the mansion in the games.
- In the English dub, James says, "Maybe striking a famous dance pose might give you a clue." This may be a reference to John Travolta's classic dance move.
- In this episode, Team Rocket uses a variation of their motto.
- This is the first episode to have Croagunk not pulling Brock away from the scene after using Poison Jab.
- Also, Croagunk's laughter is different from the past episodes.
- Swinub can be seen as a parallel to May's Munchlax. Both have an unending appetite, both favored their Trainer's cooking (May's Pokéblocks and Dawn's Poffins), both were their fourth capture and fifth Pokémon overall, and both weren't very used to battles at their time of capture.
- Swinub is also Dawn's first capture without battling the Pokémon first, not including Ambipom, who was traded.
- After getting out of Team Rocket's machine, the color of Buizel's collar is the same as the shade of yellow of some of the other Pokémon (most notably on Ambipom, Buneary and itself).
- In the Latin American dub, like in Malice In Wonderland!, Monica calls Dawn "May".
Dub edits
In other languages
|Mandarin Chinese
|Hladový cti netratí
|En god og sund appetit
|Zin in het goede leven!
|Hyvä ruoka, iloinen mieli!
|European French
|Une faim de Marcacrin !
|Ein liebenswürdiger Vielfraß!
|Un Pokémon insaziabile!
|먹보대장! 꾸꾸리 좀 말려줘요!
|Hungrer etter det gode liv!
|Głodni wrażeń i Pofinek
|Famintos Por Uma Vida Boa!
|Com Fome de Boa Vida!
|Голод — не тётка! *
|Latin America
|¡Hambrientos de la buena vida!
|¡Hambrientos de una Buena Vida!
|Sugen på det goda livet!
|This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of the Pokémon anime.