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Regional lockout
A regional lockout (or region coding) is a class of digital rights management preventing the use of a certain product or service, such as multimedia or a hardware device, outside of a certain region or territory. A regional lockout may be enforced through physical means, through technological means such as detecting the user's IP address or using an identifying code, or through unintentional means introduced by devices only supporting certain regional technologies (such as video formats, i.e. NTSC and PAL).
A regional lockout may be enforced for several reasons, such as to stagger the release of a certain product, to hinder grey market imports by enforcing price discrimination, or to prevent users from accessing certain content in their territory because of legal reasons (either due to censorship laws, or because a distributor does not have the rights to certain intellectual property outside of their specified region).
Disc Regions[edit]
The DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and UMD media formats all support the use of region coding; DVDs use 8 region codes (Region 7 is reserved for future use; Region 8 is used for "international venues," such as airplanes and cruise ships), and Blu-ray Discs use 3 region codes corresponding to different areas of the world. Currently, most Blu-ray discs are region-free.
On computers, the DVD region can usually be changed five times. Windows uses three region counters: its own one, the one of the DVD drive, and the one of the player software (occasionally, the player software has no region counter of its own, but uses that of Windows). After the fifth region change, the system is locked to that region. In modern DVD drives (type RPC-2), the region lock is saved to its hardware, so that even reinstalling Windows or using the drive with a different computer will not unlock the drive again.
Unlike DVD regions, Blu-ray regions are verified only by the player software, not by the computer system or the drive. The region code is stored in a file and/or the registry, and there are hacks to reset the region counter of the player software. In stand-alone players, the region code is part of the firmware.
For bypassing region codes, there are software and multi-regional players available.
Some features of certain programs are/were disabled if the software is/was installed on a computer in a certain region.
In older versions of the copy software "CloneCD," the features "Amplify Weak Sectors," "Protected PC Games," and "Hide CDR Media" were disabled in the United States of America and Japan. Changing the region and language settings in Windows (e. g. to Canadian English) and/or patches could unlock these features in the two countries. SlySoft decided to leave these options disabled for the USA for legal reasons, but, strangely enough, in the program "AnyDVD," which is also illegal according to US law, no features were disabled. The current version of CloneCD (184.108.40.206) is not region-restricted anymore.
The newer versions of the copy software "DVDFab" (126.96.36.199 and higher) come in a US version (no Blu-ray-ripping feature), which is downloaded if the homepage dvdfab.cn identifies a US IP address, and a non-US version (with working Blu-ray-ripping feature). Some webpages allow the download of the non-US version also from the US (They store the non-US version directly and do not use download links to the developer's homepage).
Some programs, e.g. games, are/were distributed in different versions for NTSC and PAL computers. In some cases, to avoid grey market imports or international software piracy, they are/were designed not to run on a computer with the "wrong" TV system. Other programs can run on computers with both TV systems.
Kaspersky Lab sells its anti-virus products at different prices in different regions and uses regionalized activation codes. A program bought in a country of a region can be activated in another country of the same region. Once activated, the software can also be used in and download updates from other regions as long as the license is valid. Problems may arise when the license must be renewed, or if the software must be reinstalled, in a region other than the one where it was bought. The region is identified by the IP address (there is no activation possible without Internet connection), so the use of VPN or a proxy is recommended to circumvent the restriction. The Kaspersky regions are:
Region 1: Americas
Region 2: Western Europe and Israel
Region 3: Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia) and Turkey
Region 4: Near East and Africa
Region 5: Asia and Pacific region
Especially for copyright reasons, some websites, especially video platforms, can be accessed only from certain regions. For example, Hulu.com is only available in the United States of America. Some other websites, such as YouTube.com, are generally available worldwide, but block individual files for users from certain countries.
Here is a link to a website that can show in what countries blocked YouTube videos are available: http://polsy.org.uk/stuff/ytrestrict.cgi
Some governments also practice Internet censorship and block foreign—and sometimes also domestic—websites.
However, there are possibilities of Internet censorship circumvention, which can also be used to bypass region restrictions.
Some e-mail providers, e.g. Web.de, allow their users to create "rules" for arriving e-mails, including the rule, "Delete all arriving e-mails with e-mail addresses ending in... ." Like that, the users can create a regional lockout for e-mails sent from certain countries.
Some websites accept only e-mail addresses of certain regions for registration.
Video games[edit]
Regional lockouts in video games have been achieved by several methods, such as hardware/software authentication, slot pin-out change, differences in cartridge cases, IP blocking and online software patching. Most console video games have region encoding.
The main regions are:
- Japan and Asia (NTSC-J)
- North America (NTSC-U/C)
- Europe, New Zealand and Australia (PAL region)
- China (NTSC-C)
Nintendo was the first console maker to introduce regional locks to its consoles. Games for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) were locked through both physical and technical means; the design of cartridges for the NES differed between Japan and other markets, using a different number of pins. As the Famicom (the Japanese model) used slightly smaller cartridges, Japanese games could not fit into NES consoles without an adapter (and even with that, they could still not use the extra sound functionalities of the Famicom due to their differing hardware). Additionally, the NES also contained the 10NES authentication chip; the chip was coded for one of three regions:
- NTSC (North America)
- PAL-A (United Kingdom and Italy)
- PAL-B (other European countries)
A game's region is recognized by the console using the 10NES chip. If the chip inside the cartridge conflicts with the chip inside the console, the game will not boot. The 10NES chip also doubled as a form of DRM to prevent unlicensed or bootleg games to play on the NES. The redesigned NES console released in the 1990s lacks the 10NES chip, and can play PAL games, although Famicom games still need a converter. The Famicom does not include a 10NES chip, but is still unable to play imports due to the aforementioned size difference.
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and the Super Famicom use differences in cartridge cases. A Super NES cartridge will not fit in a Super Famicom/PAL SNES slot due to its different shape and two pieces of plastic in the SNES slot prevent Super Famicom cartridges from being inserted in the SNES (both PAL and NTSC). PAL SNES carts can be fully inserted in both Japanese and American consoles, but a similar chip to the 10NES, called CIC, prevents PAL games to be played in NTSC consoles. While physical modification of the cases (either console or cartridges) is needed to play games from the different regions, in order to play games of different TV systems, a hardware modification is also needed. Regional-locks could be bypassed using special unlicensed cartridge adapters such as Game Genie. The Nintendo 64 features similar lockout methods as the Super NES. The GameCube, and Wii are all region-locked. The regions are:
- NTSC-U (North America, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines)
- PAL (Europe and Oceania)
- NTSC-J (Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan)
- NTSC-K (South Korea)
The Game Boy and Nintendo DS product lines do not use regional lockouts for physically distributed games; however, software specific to the Nintendo DSi are region-locked, and cartridges released by iQue in China can only be played on DS models produced by iQue (although they remain compatible with other DS cartridges). The Nintendo 3DS line however, does enforce region locking for 3DS-specific software,[1] with the exception of Nintendo 3DS Guide: Louvre, which is region-free.
The Wii U and the Wii U GamePad are also region-locked.[2][3]
The PlayStation and PlayStation 2 consoles are region-locked.
All PlayStation 3 games, except for one, are region free.[4][5] Even though publishers could choose to region-lock specific games based on a mechanism that allows for the game to query the model of the PS3, none did so during the first six years after the launch of PS3.[6] The first game to be region-locked on the PS3 is Persona 4 Arena;[7] publisher Atlus declined to reverse its decision despite substantial outcry by some of their fanbase. The decision was made to avoid excessive importing, because all versions of the game share the same features and language support, but have differing price points and release dates in each region. They did, however, decide not to apply region-locking to its sequel.[8] Way of the Samurai 3 is also region-locked but only on Slim models. There is region locking for backwards-compatible PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games, as well as DVD and Blu-ray Disc movies. Additionally, some games separate online players per region, such as Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. The PlayStation Store only contains content for its own country. For example, the EU store will not supply usable map packs for an imported US copy of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. In addition, downloadable content for the PlayStation 3 systems is region-matched with the game, so you need to buy DLC from US PlayStation Store to use it in a US game. More specifically, the PS3's file system includes region-of-origin, so DLC cannot be shared between different region games much like save files cannot. Also, the PSN Store is tied to each user's PSN account, and payment methods for PSN is also region-locked. For example, a user with a Japanese PSN account will only be able to access the Japanese PSN store despite owning a US PS3, and can only pay for a game with a Japanese PSN gift card or Japanese credit card. However, with a few rare exceptions, notably Joysound Dive,[9] downloaded content from each PSN store are also region free, as are PSOne and PS2 classics offered on the store.
Although PlayStation Portable has no region locking for UMD games;[10] UMD movies are locked by region.[11] However, Sony has confirmed that it is possible to implement Region-Locking on the PSP, and the firmware will disable features based on region. For example, Asian region PSPs will not display the "Extras" option on the XMB despite having been upgraded to the US version of Firmware 6.20, preventing owners of such PSPs from installing the Comic Book Viewer and the TV Streaming applications. Sony's states that the "Extras" function will remain disabled on Asian PSPs until the features are officially launched in the region and gives no reason for the option being disabled aside from that it is not yet launched. Nevertheless, this prevents Asian PSP owners from using the above-mentioned applications on Asian PSPs, as the applications are installed through a PC; and users from the region are not blocked from downloading the application, allowing installation on non-Asian PSPs that have been imported into the region.
The PlayStation Vita and PlayStation Vita TV have no region-locked games thus far. Sony has confirmed however that it is possible for developers to do so.
As per its predecessor, PlayStation 4 will not be region-locked, although it is still possible to develop region-locked games. Sony's official stand is that they discourage developers from region-locking and will only relent on special cases (as with the PS3 Persona 4 Arena exception mentioned above).[12] However, their official position is only part of the story. The following examples highlight how in practice regionalisation isn't as clear cut as Sony makes it out to be. For example, a game purchased online from the USA will not necessarily function with content from a PlayStation Store from another region. A second example, is another game bought in the US and a season pass purchased in the UK PlayStation Store will not always work together due to regionalisation. And finally, a game purchased in the US did not allow multiplayer content at all in Europe. Large numbers of users have taken to the official PlayStation forums to express their concerns about how often out of region games do include some form of regionalisation. Many forum users are recommending that customers be very careful when buying discs abroad. [13] Another significant limitation of games purchased out of region is that all DLC (downloadable content) is regionalised. This was also the case with the PS3 and Sony has made no attempt to remove regionalisation for DLC. Customers who enjoy accessing such content should be aware that DLC is only available for locally purchased games. Much of the feedback on the PlayStation forums has been critical of Sony and its widely publicised policy on regional-locking, with many arguing that in practice, Sony does region-lock games because so many games have some part of the content regionalised.[14]
Japanese Sega Mega Drive cartridges have a different shape and will not fit in the Genesis or PAL MD slot. Japanese Mega Drive systems have a piece of plastic that slides in a place of the cartridge when the power switch is turned on, thus, inserting a Genesis cart will make it impossible to use on a Japanese MD (though minor modifications to the plastic locks in the systems will bypass the regional locks). The console main board, however, was designed with language and frequency jumper sets which originally activated features in the same ROM for the different regions. This feature was later used to enable software-based regional locks that display warning messages that prevent the game from being played. Switches, instead of the jumpers, were used to bypass the locks. In region-locked games, if there is a multiple language feature, it can be changed with the switches after the game has booted-up (as with the case of Cyber Brawl/Cosmic Carnage for the Super 32X).
Sega Mega-CD games are region-locked. The region can be changed when making CD-R copies but it's not always possible (i.e. Sengoku Denshou in American consoles will hang in the Sega license screen with a region-changed CD-R copy). Furthermore third party accessories exist that allow booting any regional Sega CD BIOS off a flashcart adapter in the main console's cartridge slot.[15]
Most American Sega Saturn discs can be played in Japanese consoles, but most Japanese games are locked for American and European consoles. Like in the Mega Drive/Genesis, the use of a switch will circumvent the region-lock but won't change the language. In addition, the use of certain unlicensed backup/RAM cartridges will also allow a console to play games from different regions, except for games that use proprietary ROM-RAM carts. Games from different television systems may have graphical problems.
Sega Dreamcast GD-ROM discs were region-locked, but this could be circumvented with the use of boot discs.
The original Xbox as well as the Xbox 360 were region-locked, although it was up to the publisher if a game is region-free or not. A number of games are region-free and will play on a unit from any region. Digital content through Xbox Live are also region-locked, such as DLC, movies, and apps.
The Xbox One was initially planned to have a region blocking policy that would have prevented its use outside its region in an effort to curb parallel importing. However, Microsoft later reversed the policy and the final retail version of the console was not region-locked.[16] It is reported, though, that the console is region-locked in China.[17]
The Philips CD-i and the Panasonic 3DO are region-free.
The Neo Geo Pocket line is also region-free, however, most Color-only games will lock with a warning message on B/W systems and some games do not have dual language code.
Amongst PC games, regional lockout is more difficult to enforce because both the game application and the operating system can be easily modified. Subscription-based online games often enforce a regional lock by blocking IP addresses (which can often be circumvented through an open proxy) or by requiring the user to enter an national ID number (which may be impossible to verify). A number of other games using regional lockout are rare but do exist. One of the examples of this is the Windows version of The Orange Box, which uses Steam to enforce the regional lockout.[18] Steam also enforces a form of regional lockout in adherence to German law by offering special versions of some games with replaced banned content - most notably Swastikas - to German users.[19]
Hewlett-Packard print cartridges have been regionalised since 2004.[20] Thus they do not work in printers with a different region code, unless the user calls technical support for the device to be reassigned to the appropriate region.[21]
HP printers have four regions:
Region 1: Americas, Greenland, Australia, New Zealand, North/South Korea, Mongolia, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, East Asia
Region 2: Western Europe, Turkey
Region 3: CIS, Africa, Near East, Japan
Region 4: China (except Hongkong and Taiwan) and India
The region can be changed three times; then, the printer will be locked to a region.
Lexmark printers use different region-coding systems:
a) e.g. OfficeEdge Pro4000, OfficeEdge Pro4000c, OfficeEdge Pro5500, OfficeEdge Pro5500t, CS310, CS410 Color Laser Printer
Region 1: Americas
Region 2: Greenland, EU, EFTA
Region 3 (in CS310, CS410 Color Laser Printer called Region 8): Former Yougoslavian states and rest of world (East Europe, Africa, Near East, Asia, Australia)
b) e.g. MS710, MS810 Monochrome Laser Printer
Region 1: USA, Canada
Region 2: Greenland, EU, EFTA
Region 3: Asia, Australia, New Zealand
Region 4: Central and South America
Region 5: Former Yugoslavian states, Eastern Europe, Turkey, Near East, Africa
Canon print cartridges for the Pixma MP 480 will not work in printers of that type with a different region code either (even when listed on the packaging of the Canon printer cartridges in question).
Epson ink cartridges are also use region-coded.
Xerox also uses region codes. Their printers are shipped with neutral "factory" ink sticks with no region coding. Upon the installation of the first new ink stick after these factory sticks, the machine will set a region code based on the installed ink stick and will only accept ink stick for that region from that point forward. Common region settings are:
NA (North America)
DMO (developing markets, such as Asia and South America)
XE (Europe).
One method to bypass printer-region-coding is to store empty cartridges from the old region and refill them with the ink of cartridges from the new region, but many modern ink cartridges have chips and sensors to prevent refilling, which makes the process more difficult (but not impossible; on the Internet, there are refill instructions, chip resetters and other utilities available).
The best solution for persons who travel much and need a printer during their trips seems to be to avoid such printers.
Some manufacturers of regionalized printers also offer region-free printers specially designed for travelers.
In September 2013, it was reported that the packaging of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 in America and Europe contained a warning label stating that it would only operate with SIM cards from the region. A spokesperson clarified the policy, stating that it was intended to prevent grey-market reselling, and that it only applied to the first SIM card inserted.[22]
See also[edit]
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Regional coding. |
- PAL region
- Regional converter
- Fan translation
- Trusted Platform Module
- Modchip
- Parallel import
- Parallel importing in video games
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Girl #1: Wow, my rain poncho is longer than my skirt.
Girl #2: That's because you're a slut.
–Bard High School Early College
Archive for the 'Girls' Category
The Search for Meaning Is Making Me Tired
Chick: Do you ever wonder if we'll get tired of being so rich? You know, like what if later in life we randomly, like, decide to renounce our possessions or something drastic and move to Africa?
Man: What, are you saying you don't enjoy our lifestyle anymore?
Chick: I don't know… hey, do you wanna get some coke later?
–82nd & 1st
Overheard by: chuzzle in space
The Secret Is to Keep the Volume Down
Girl: What do you think he would do if I pushed his cart over?
Hobo: Bitch, I don't care if you're a girl, I'll beat your ass.
–Carroll St & 7th Ave, Brooklyn
At Least You'll Double Your Income
Frantic Chick: Where's my bag? All my clothes were in there. Oh God, I have to dress like a whore for the next two weeks! –Costume Party, Dumbo
And They Can Afford to Breed With You
Female law student in interview suit: I just get along with older white guys. We click. Women, younger guys, no so much.
Fellow law student: That's because you're fertile.
–Fordham Law School
That's What They Call a "Dildon't"
Girl #1: How's your va… [inaudible].
Girl #2: Shhhh.
Girl #1: Your vagina!
Girl #2, flustered: Shhhh!
Girl #1: Didn't your vibrator break?
[Everyone turns around to stare.]
–Butler Library, Columbia University
Alanis Is Not Alone In Her Misunderstanding Of Irony
Girl #1: I think I'm gonna cut his class today.
Girl #2: Yeah, me too, it's just going to be some dumb lesson on women's rights.
–Frank Sinatra High School
Why, Thank Ye Kindly, Grizzled Prospector Gal
Boy doing Chinese worksheet: This is so hard.
Friend: That's what she said!
(five minutes later)
Girl doing Chinese worksheet: Oh my god, this is so hard.
Friend: That's what she said!
(five minutes later)
Another boy doing Chinese worksheet: Dude, this is so hard.
Friend: That's what she said!
Girl at front of room: The next person to make that joke gets a pickaxe through the brain.
–Bard High School, Queens
Overheard by: Sunny
Wednesday XXX-Liners
Overly flamboyant gay guy on phone: There is no way he can put himself through law school doing hardcore gay porn!
Overheard by: Anastassia
Gay boy to another: Pornstars make good money.
–L Train
Girl: He wants to make money, but all his plans involve me being in porn. You know how long it takes to make a $1000 in porn? Three months!
–Destination Bar, 13th & Ave A
Overheard by: erkala
Heavyset dude to chick watching the Olympics: So I was watching curling porn the other day…
–Lucky Jack's bar, Orchard St.
Overheard by: Ladle
Guy to friend: I saw that girl in a porn video last night. She has a cock.
–William & Cedar
Overheard by: Laura
They Were Rescued By a Search Party of Investment Bankers
Girl: Yeah, we followed him off the bus and got lost, and that's why I swore I'd never leave Manhattan again.
–Port Authority Bus Termnal
Overheard by: J. Tro

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Pluripotent cells can help regenerate tissues and maintain long life—and they may also help animals jumpstart drastically new lifestyles.
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Researchers identify the signaling program that enables finger and toenail stem cells to direct digit regeneration after amputation.
In avian species, a gene induces programmed cell death during development in the area where a phallus would otherwise grow.
Encouraging different thought processes, even those typically classified as "abnormal," can be a great boon to the research enterprise.
In the fruit fly, the ability of neural stem cells to make the full repertoire of neurons is regulated by the movement of key genes to the nuclear periphery.
Researchers track DNA modifications and gene expression in stem cells as they differentiate.
Researchers find zero evidence for Lyme-induced autism.
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Thursday 18 April 2013
Robert Fisk: Beware wishful thinking. Assad isn't going soon
The West has an odd habit of assuming dictators we don't like will simply disappear
Syrians who settled down to listen to Bashar Assad's independence day speech two nights ago were sorely disappointed. He didn't exactly offer blood, sweat and tears. Just more war, and the assurance that he would win. Up to 7,000 prisoners would be released to celebrate Syria's freedom from French rule 67 years ago – which goes to show how many prisoners are still held in the country's jails – but Assad wanted to assure his people that this really was a war. As if they didn't know. It was not sectarian. Foreign news media were portraying a lie: that "a president was holding on to his seat against a population who want him gone, but that is not the case". France still regarded Syria as its colony. Western nations wanted the Arabs to submit to them. "We saw their humanitarian intervention in Iraq, in Libya, and now we see it in Syria."
But Assad had a point. London, Paris and Washington love exiles. Into Iraq, we tried to inject the ghastly and wealthy exile Ahmed Chalabi. And we all know how reliable he turned out to be. We pretended that Libya's freedom fighters were Homeric warriors; and now they control their little Islamist fiefdoms in Benghazi and Tripoli (having done away with the US ambassador), courtesy of Nato air strikes against Gaddafi. If Algeria was not such a loyal ally of Syria, Assad might have pointed out that the French handed their colony over to the Algerian exiles who had largely avoided the war of independence – and who produced the autocratic and vicious state which slaughtered its own people in the Islamist struggle of the 1990s and which remains a corrupt and corrupted regime to this day.
And then we have the Syrian "opposition", insofar as it exists, with its endless fraternal arguments and juvenile infighting – what on earth does dear leader Khatib think he is doing? Has he resigned or not resigned? – and its alliance with the very same al-Qa'ida groupuscules that are supposed to be the centre of jihadism in Mali. Remember Mali? This was the centre of world terror back in January. Now the centre of world terror is supposed to be in northern Syria – fighting on "our" side against the hated Assad. And we brave Westerners are worried, supposedly, that Bashar's chemical weapons will fall "into the wrong hands" – being presumably in the "right hands" (Assad's) now! It makes you wonder who writes the Assad speeches. Can't they do better than the curmudgeonly interview that Assad gave on Wednesday night?
But we still don't understand the autocracies of the Middle East, both those we love – Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other well-known freedom-loving, pro-American democracies – and those we loathe – Syria, Iran, possibly a future Iraq (if it doesn't obey our orders) and potentially Egypt (unless the army takes over and returns the country to a Mubarak lookalike). Never will I forget the fantasist Daniel Pipes' suggestion that what Iraq needed in the aftermath of Saddam was "a democratically minded strongman". Isn't that what Assad would claim to be?
And all the while, we are content to see Arab nations ganging up on the Syrian regime, pushing more and more weapons into the war – which is indeed, contrary to what Assad says, more and more sectarian – even though the Islamist al-Nusra movement is now by far the strongest among the rebels. Yet we are outraged that Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah might be involved – in Hezbollah's case, there is no "might" about it – in the same war. Up to 40 Hezbollah fighters are now said to have died in the Syrian conflict, most in Shia Lebanese villages on the Syrian side of the border. In Qusayr last week, at least five Hezbollah fighters were killed. One of them, Assad Ali Assad – and here we have a name, in case anyone cares to deny the story – was buried in southern Lebanon at the weekend.
But Hezbollah's involvement is important because Iran and its allies are also part of the reason for this conflict. And it remains a fact, even though Assad did not – could not – mention this in his independence day speech, that Iran is the target of the Syrian war, the overthrow of Assad part of our plan to destroy his Iranian ally – just as it was part of Israel's plan to deconstruct Iran by fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006. Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?
We have, in London, Paris and Washington, an odd habit. We believe that those dictators we don't like will actually go – "step down", "step aside", lose the war, whatever phrase we like to use – because we want them to go. Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either – though that's probably because he actually has nuclear weapons, as opposed to Iran which might or might not be trying to acquire them and thus remains on the Israeli-American target list. And here's some bad news for Assad's foes.
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Ben Gieske
Holiday Greetings (hic)
(written some years ago for my co-workers
inserting all first and last names)
'Twas the day before Christmas
And all through the four regions
Not a field rep was stirring.
All work was out of season.
You could see the Rams eat ivy.
Little foxies snuggling in their den
And the spider's Webb glistening.
A lone Bowman stalking through the glen.
Up high in the sky
The Geese (hic) sped by,
Flying 'Edwards south to Florida Keys.
And down on the slopes
The boys ski by
Passing buckets of Sapp from maple trees.
The Robin had long since left and flown south.
The fishing boats were rocking idly in the bay.
There Hadley (hic) hardly was a soul seen out and about.
The horses in the barn were eating their Fay (hic) hay.
Round the table decorated red
With Poindexters, sweet Williams and Simms,
All the children happily were fed
On Pam (hic) hamburgers, listening to hymns,
Anticipating imagined joys
While waiting patiently for their Foy (hic) toys.
In the fireplace the embers were crackling,
Older children dancing to tunes of Scarborough Fair.
By the chimney the Stocktons were hanging,
Some of the folks dancing in twos as loving pairs.
There was Carolyn at ev'ry house
As folks went cheerfully about
Drinking sherry and Weinsapp to toast.
A Happy New Year they noisily would shout.
There appeared from a distance quite far
A sleigh with eight little reindeer too,
Flying over the gravel (hic) corry (hic) quarry
Past Mason's and Vanmeter's it flew.
Down Gregory lane it came
With a great clatter and din
Right over the Yates (hic) gates it came.
Some thought it was just the wind.
Santa hopped out all dressed up
In a Velda red suit.
Snow Bells flopped up like golden cups
From each shiny black boot.
"So very fancy! ",
..............Responded Nancy.
"A legendary myth! "
..............Retorted Meredith.
"It's not true.",
..............Chimed in Sue.
Would I lie?
Just ask Y.
Oh, and his nose was so bright,
as Red as a cherry.
It made such a wondrous sight
And ev'ry one Mary.
Until best of all,
Besides his visit Byas all,
From his face did fall,
"Surprise to us all", said Duvall.
A beard so long and gray white,
The longest I've ever seen
Of anyone that was yet born.
Imagine that? Pat Osborn.
Annette (hic) yet that face I'd seen before.
That smile was familiar I swore.
Why, the longest
In all the wide west.
"To say the least, "
..................Exclaimed Denise.
"A Mary Christmas, " he did cry
With laughter shining in his eyes,
................"To Betty and Debbie,
..................Not to mention Jeri,
..................To Kathy and Dorothy,
..................To Rhonda and Mona,
..................To Roxanne and Joanna,
..................To Brenda and Cynthia.
And to all the rest of ya.
To all a Happy New Year too.
From your KFP and Guess who? "
But then away he speedily sped
Alaughing "Ho, Ho, Ho" in his sled.
.................."Ben a fine year! "
............................We could all hear.
As over the Walkers and past the Robertson's he did soar,
And leaving behind him all kinds of gifts of fun on the floor.
Then suddenly I knew.
................."Still can't be true, "
..................Said the other Sue.
'Twas Ronald now I knew.
(Hic) B J G
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Doors at 7:30. Presentation at 8:30.
Free. Cash bar.
Rick Bahto
Ben Boatwright
John Burtle
Nikki Darling
Alexis Disselkoen
Paul Pescador
Paul Waddell
Organized by Paul Pescador
Stupid Pills presents Gulp, an evening of performance art. Seven performers will each be given 5 to 7 minutes to present their individual piece back-to-back. Each performance explores issues of sonic, verbal and visual language across a spectrum ranging from small and simple gestures to loud theatrical gestures.
Although each artist's approach varies (including action-based performance, creative writing, experimental dance, experimental film, and sound art), they will all use performance as a tool for social engagement and spatial intervention.
April 21, 2014. Small New Films, at Redcat.
Mon April 21 |8:30|
Jack H. Skirball Series
$10.00 [members $8.00]
Small New Films
Since 2002, the Echo Park Film Center (EPFC) has been an influential proponent of small-gauge film, particularly Super 8mm and 8mm. This survey of handmade films affirms the independent spirit of the EPFC community in an aesthetically eclectic range of works from personal diary films to cross-disciplinary collaborations, from documentary portraiture to hand-processed abstraction. Drawing on young experimenters from the center's education and residency programs as well as artists commissioned to make brand-new films for EPFC's 12-year anniversary, the program includes films by Rick Bahto, Ursula Brookbank, Kate Brown, Paul Clipson, Hayley Elliott, Marilyn Hernandez, John Palmer, Ellie Parker, Chloe Reyes, Martine Syms, Penelope Uribe-Abee, and Pablo Valencia, all projected from Super 8 or 8mm camera originals.
In person: by Rick Bahto, Ursula Brookbank, Kate Brown, Paul Clipson, Hayley Elliott, Marilyn Hernandez, John Palmer, Ellie Parker, Chloe Reyes, Martine Syms, Penelope Uribe-Abee, and Pablo Valencia
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April 15, 2014. EPFC Invades SFAI.
Tuesday, April 15
San Francisco Art Institute
Lecture Hall
7:30 pm
A program of films made by artists involved with the Echo Park Film Center. Program: Compositions 1 (2013, 16mm) by Rick Bahto, Vulgarians 1, 2, 3 (2012, 3X16mm, shown today on video) by Cosmo Segurson, Passive Anarchy (1998, 16mm) by Paolo Davanzo, Smudge Series (2013, 16mm) by Eve LaFountain, Breather (2013, 16mm) Lisa Marr, Amani and Rae (2014, Super 8, shown today on video) by Ellie Parker, Them Oracles (2013, 16mm) Alee Peoples, Four Films (2012, Super 8, shown on video) by Pablo Valencia, and LA Rising–fm (2012, 16mm, shown today on video) by Walter Vargas.
Sunday, April 13. Mysterium. San Francisco.
Mysterium: music/film conversations between Rick Bahto & Paul Clipson
Sunday, April 13, 2014 at 8 pm
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA
$7 – $10
An evening of experimental films, music videos, and works by Rick Bahto and Paul Clipson that feature their collaborations with sound artists and musicians. A conversation between the filmmakers will follow the screening.
Program will include:
Marienbad (2012) Rick Bahto, 6 minutes, 35mm slides & 2 x 8mm on HD video, music: Marienbad by Julia Holter
Other States (2013) Paul Clipson, 6 minutes, Super 8, color, sound by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
Finale (2013) 8 minutes, Super 8, b/w, music: Tragedy Finale by Julia Holter
Light Years (2013) Paul Clipson, 9.5 minutes, 16mm, music by Tashi Wada
World (2013) Rick Bahto, 5 minutes, Super 8, color & b/w, music: World by Julia Holter
Difficult Loves (2013) Paul Clipson, 3.5 minutes, Super 8, color & b/w, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.
Maxim's I (2013) Rick Bahto, 6.5 minutes, Super 8, b/w, music: Maxim's I by Julia Holter
Absteigend (2012) Paul Clipson, 6 minutes, Super 8, b/w, music by Evan Caminiti
For Paul Clipson (2011) Rick Bahto, 12 minutes, Super 8, color, silent
Void Redux (2013) Paul Clipson, 6.5 minutes, Super 8, color


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Author: | Leong, Eng Choon; Rahardjo, Harianto |
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Abstract: | Unsaturated hydraulic conductivities were measured in the laboratory and the field for two compacted fine-grained soils used as barrier layers in landfill final covers. The instantaneous profile method was used for the laboratory and field measurements. Results of the tests show that similar unsaturated hydraulic conductivities exist in the laboratory and field for both soils. Furthermore, results of laboratory tests conducted with specimens prepared at different molding water contents and compactive efforts show that the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity function is insensitive to molding water content for matric suctions exceeding 20 m, but is strongly affected by compactive effort. Specimens compacted with modified Proctor effort had unsaturated hydraulic conductivities approximately one order of magnitude lower than those compared with a standard Proctor effort. It is also shown that estimated unsaturated hydraulic functions based on parameters describing the soil-water characteristic curve underpredict the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity functions of these barrier soils. |
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I was disappointed on reading the editorial on the Supreme Court verdict barring any person in jail or police custody from contesting an election ("Judicial overreach," July 12). While the court has taken away the time allowed for filing an appeal from a convicted MP or MLA, it does not say what his fate will be if he is finally acquitted. Will his membership be returned to him from the date he was convicted by a lower court? On the other hand, if an MLA or MP is allowed to continue till the final verdict is delivered and his conviction is upheld (by which time he would have completed his tenure), will the privileges enjoyed by him be recovered?
It is in this context that the latest verdict is significant. If a person in lawful custody for an offence is barred from contesting an election, such issues will not arise. As for the apprehension that the ruling party can misuse the verdict, it is unfounded as there is no single party ruling across the country. A ruling party in one State is in the opposition in another. The chances of misuse are neutralised.
B.C.U. Nair,
The editorial argues that the verdict may be misused by ruling parties against their opponents, as the law-enforcement authorities are notorious for carrying out the orders of their political bosses.
If elected representatives can do these things and are, in fact, doing the very same things, is it not necessary to stop them from coming to power in the first place? It may look like the chicken and egg story but in a nation where politics is reeking of corruption and crime, it is necessary for institutions such as the Supreme Court, the Election Commission and the CAG to act independently and in defence of the Constitution.
N.K. Raveendran,
When our electoral rules say that a person cannot vote under some circumstances even though he is a citizen, the logical step is to deny him the right to contest an election. The judgment has come at a time when the political class has conscientiously allowed the 'free-for-all-syndrome' to play out to its full potential in governance.
An action generates many reactions. The necessity to deal with them will educate us on devising adequate mechanisms to deal with the notorious law-enforcers the editorial refers to.
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Fringe flap gets ugly
Actress contacts police as anger hits close to home
I had a conversation with the Virgin Mary Monday.
Of course, millions of people of faith around the world talk to the mother of Jesus every day.
But this one talked back.
And, after we spoke, she was hoping to have a similar chat with the Winnipeg Police Service.
To explain:
As you have no doubt gathered, this Virgin Mary isn't the true-to-the-Bible one. She's more of a Mary, Mary most contrary. A playwright's imagined Mary, really. An actress who plays a controversial, even blasphemous version of the most revered female in Christianity. As such, this Mary is the centrepiece of a play at the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival that has the performer who portrays her being variously called a "slut," "whore" and "blasphemer."
Not to her face. On her face.
That face of Mary -- a.k.a. local actress Theresa Thomson -- is featured on a poster of the provocatively titled Lies of a Promiscuous Woman.
What's it about?
Well, it portrays Mary as a woman who has to invent the Immaculate Conception as a way of protecting herself from being killed because of being pregnant out of wedlock.
There's more to the story, of course, but at its core, Theresa suggests it's about misogyny, not religion.
Which brings us back, ironically, to the anonymous people who have been stalking Theresa using the language of misogyny.
Over the course of the last week, she's heard those same three hateful words hurled at her by men hiding out of sight as she walked to her car after recent performances.
Then on Sunday after spending the afternoon watching another play and lunching with friends in the Exchange District -- blocks away from the University of Winnipeg where she's performing, Theresa found "slut" scrawled above the door handle of her car.
"So I'm being watched a lot more than I thought. I'm being targeted directly."
Now you might understand why she wanted to contact police Monday.
And why Theresa said other members of the production, including the play's writer and director, Audra Lesosky, aren't interested in having their faces in the newspaper with her already-prominent one.
Before we get to the issues involved here, some background.
It started last Tuesday, she said, before the first performance.
That's when Theresa said she initially came across "slut" smeared on her poster in front of the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre.
I asked how she felt when she saw it.
"It's hard not to take it personally," she responded. "Because it's in my face."
And, playing Mary, she is the face of the 50-minute play that is largely a one-woman show.
At first, though, Theresa thought it might be just some passerby kid with a Sharpie.
She took a picture of the poster and posted it on her Facebook account.
The online insults started -- slut, whore and blasphemer -- along with "Our Lady is not promiscuous."
And then, more recently -- and perhaps not coincidentally -- two adult men approached Fringe Fest general manager Jason Neufeld outside the theatre centre where Theresa first saw a defaced poster last week.
No doubt identifying Neufeld by his name tag and title, they told him the play should be pulled.
I don't know exactly how Neufeld explained the principle of not interfering with artistic freedom, but by way of example, he could have referred to last year's Fringe Fest play in which a pair of male actors participated in a performance that featured an onstage mayonnaise enema.
And that show went on.
Anyway, Theresa has family members who are people of faith, Roman Catholics among them.
"And we've chatted about whether shows like this should exist."
But they have all come to see it, she said.
"They loved it."
"They don't agree with it," Theresa acknowledged. "And neither do we. We're not presenting it as truth. It's a play. We are not trying to attack."
But obviously that's how it's being interpreted by some, who have retaliated by using cowardly intimidation to attack her.
Lies of a Promiscuous Woman may not be in the same literary league as The Satanic Verses, and Theresa Thomson isn't Salman Rushdie.
The issue, nonetheless, is disturbingly similar.
Religious extremists trying to restrict the rights of all of us to think and speak for ourselves.
Players from the fringe of a different and truly dangerous kind.
Should Fringe officials close a play in reaction to complaints? Join the conversation in the comments below.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition July 22, 2014 B1
Updated on Tuesday, July 22, 2014 at 6:38 AM CDT: Replaces photo, adds question for discussion
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Pumphouse Creamery is, without a doubt, one of my favorite ice cream places ever. They're located at 48th and Chicago, and they have amazing ice cream flavors and favor local ingredients. Their "house made waffle cones are made with local and organically grown whole grains and seeds from Whole Grain Milling Company in Welcome, MN." Continue reading
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