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Asimow, Paul D. and Hirschmann, M. M. and Ghiorso, M. S. et al. (1995) The effect of pressure-induced solid-solid phase transitions on decompression melting of the mantle. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 59 (21). pp. 4489-4506. ISSN 0016-7037. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20120821-120111971


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Work at Dan Klores Communications (public relations firm in NYC). Graduated from Manhattan College 1980. Played basketball and baseball at St. Mary's HS, Manhasset (LI), NY. Will help promote "Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks" is a new film from Peabody Award winning director Dan Klores ("Black Magic" "Crazy Love" "The Boys of Second Street Park" "Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story"), to be telecast in primetime on March 14, 2010 on ESPN.
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Lifehouse is an American alternative band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1999. In 2000, Lifehouse entered the recording studio to record their first major label release. Five of the twelve tracks from Diff's Lucky Day were remixed and released on No Name Face. Because of frontman Jason Wade's charisma and talent, DreamWorks Records focused their sights solely on him, and by the time the debut album was released on October 31, 2000, Wade and Andrade were the only remaining founding members. Shortly after recording the first album, Rick Woolstenhulme Jr. replaced Jon Palmer on drums. On Halloween of 2000, Lifehouse released their debut album entitled No Name Face. It spawned several singles which include "Hanging by a Moment", "Sick Cycle Carousel" and "Everything". The song "Everything" was also used in both the pilot and first-season finale episodes of the future hit WB drama, Smallville, and would go on to be placed on the series' first soundtrack . This began the long-standing affair between the band and the series, as Lifehouse would go on to have seven songs played during the series' first four seasons, ending with a live performance in the fourth-season prom episode, and landing yet another song on Smallville. Lifehouse has since produced three more albums; Stanley Climbfall in 2002, Lifehouse in 2005 and Who We Are in 2007.
Josh Groban
Josh Groban was born February 27, 1981 in Los Angeles, California. He was born to a Jewish father and a Norwegian mother. His father converted to Christianity upon marriage, and Josh Groban was raised an Episcopalian. In late 1998, the 17-year-old Groban was introduced by his vocal coach to Grammy-winning producer/arranger David Foster. Groban worked for Foster as a rehearsal singer on a series of high-profile events, including the 1999 Grammy Awards — where, as a stand-in for Andrea Bocelli, he rehearsed Foster's "The Prayer" with Céline Dion — and the January 1999 inauguration of Gray Davis as governor of California. Josh Groban left Carnegie Mellon school after only four months into his first semester when he was offered a recording contract at Warner Brothers Records. In 2001, he released his self titled debut album. The track "You're Still You" charted at #10 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and "To Where You Are" charted at #1 on that chart as well. Josh Groban then went on to release his sophomore studio album, Closer. The album debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, selling about 375,000 copies in its first week. He has since released three more albums which include "Awake" in 2006, "Noel" in 2007 and "A Collection" in 2008. In December 2008, Groban appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. He performed a duet with Only Men Aloud! at the Royal Variety Show at the London Palladium for the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall.
LL Cool J
LL Cool J is the stage name of James Todd Smith. He was born on January 14, 1968 in Queens, New York. At age 16, LL Cool J produced and created demos using a mixing table purchased by his grandfather at Sears. He then sent them to various record companies, including Def Jam Recordings. Def Jam released his first record, the 12″ single "I Need a Beat". The single sold over 100,000 copies and helped establish LL as a rapper in the music industry. The success of "I Need a Beat" helped lead to a distribution deal with Def Jam and Columbia Records in 1985. Soon after, LL Cool J dropped out of Hillcrest High School to record his debut album, Radio. The album earned considerable Billboard chart success and sold in excess of 500,000 copies within its first five months of release. On April 19, 1989, it was certified platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). LL Cool J has since released thirteen records which include Bigger and Deffer (1987), Mama Said Knock You Out (1990), Phenomenon (1997) and Exit 13 (2008). He now resides in Manhasset, New York with his wife and four children. The couple has also adopted several times.
Brad Paisley
Brad Paisley was born on October 28, 1972 in Glen Dale, West Virginia. Brad Paisley graduated from John Marshall High School in Glen Dale, West Virginia, studied briefly at West Liberty State College (WV), and later was awarded a full-paid ASCAP scholarship to Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee (from 1993 to 1995). While in college, he met Frank Rogers, a fellow student who went on to serve as his producer. Paisley also met Kelley Lovelace, who became his songwriting partner. After graduating from Belmont, Brad Paisley signed a songwriting contract with EMI Music Publishing and he wrote David Kersh's top 5 hit "Another You", as well as David Ball's 1999 single "Watching My Baby Not Come Back". In 1999, he released his debut album, Who Needs Pictures. It features four singles, "Me Neither", "Who Needs Pictures", "He Didn't Have to Be" and "We Danced". All of which became hit singles. Brad Paisley has since released seven albums. All of his albums certified gold or higher by the RIAA. In addition, he has charted twenty-three singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, fourteen of which have reached Number One. His style crosses between traditional country and pop-rock, and his songs are frequently laced with humor and pop culture references.


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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs this week introduced a new application that enables disability compensation claims to be processed more quickly, in a more end-to-end electronic environment--and it's urging veterans and their representatives to use it to get speedier decisions and help reduce the backlog of claims, according to an announcement.
The joint VA-Department of Defense web portal, known as eBenefits, integrates with the internal Veteran Benefits Management System (VBMS), which VA officials say has been fielded at all 56 regional offices ahead of schedule.
Last week, Thomas Murphy, director of the VA Compensation and Pension Service, said at a hearing of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee that the agency has made "significant progress" in trying to work through its backlog of more than 800,000 disability claims, cutting the number of claims by roughly 74,000. Outcry over the backlogs came to a fever pitch at the end of April.
The VA aims to completely eliminate the backlog by 2015. Much of the progress, to date, has been credited to the automated VBMS.
"eBenefits allows Veterans to upload digital images of records and evidence to support their claims, bypassing the need to physically mail in personal records and wait for confirmation of receipt," the announcement states. "VA is advising Veterans to gather and submit all relevant medical records and file a Fully Developed Claim (FDC) in eBenefits, which entails entering all available evidence at the time the claim is submitted and verifying to VA that they have no more evidence to submit."
Registered eBenefits users also can track their claim status, and get information on pension, education, health care, home loan eligibility, and vocational rehabilitation and employment programs.
To learn more:
- read the announcement from the VA


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Assessing racial prejudice technique topic of talk by alum, professor
October 27, 2004
The departments of Psychology, Marketing, and Sociology and the Office of Multicultural Affairs will sponsor a colloquium, "You May Not Be Racist After All: A Psychometric Reanalysis of the Implicit Association Test of Racial Preferences," by Hart Blanton at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5, in Pamplin Hall 30.
Blanton's colloquium will take a critical look at one of the most popular modern techniques for assessing racial prejudice, the Implicit Associations Test.
Blanton is associate professor of psychology at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he also serves as director of the Graduate Program in Social Psychology. Blanton received his bachelor's in psychology at Virginia Tech and his Ph.D. in social psychology from Princeton University. His paper "Deviance Regulation: A Theory of Action and Identity" was co-winner of the 2002 Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Blanton's talk is free and open to the public. For further information, contact Susan Anderson in the Department of Psychology at (540) 231-9627.
Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college, Virginia Tech has grown to become among the largest universities in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Today, Virginia Tech's eight colleges are dedicated to putting knowledge to work through teaching, research, and outreach activities and to fulfilling its vision to be among the top research universities in the nation. At its 2,600-acre main campus located in Blacksburg and other campus centers in Northern Virginia, Southwest Virginia, Hampton Roads, Richmond, and Roanoke, Virginia Tech enrolls more than 28,000 full- and part-time undergraduate and graduate students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries in 180 academic degree programs.


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Robots have been essential for keeping industrial manufacturing in Europe. Most factories have large numbers of robots in a fixed setup and few programs that produce the exact same product hundreds of thousands times. The only common interaction between the robot and the human worker has become the so-called "emergency stop button". As a result, re-programming robots for new or personalized products has become a key bottleneck for keeping manufacturing jobs in Europe. The core requirement to date has been the production in large numbers or at a high price. Robot-based small series production requires a major breakthrough in robotics: the development of a new class of semi-autonomous robots that can decrease this cost substantially. Such robots need to be aware of the human worker, alleviating him from the monotonous repetitive tasks while keeping him in the loop where his intelligence makes a substantial difference.
In this project, we pursue this breakthrough by developing a semi-autonomous robot assistant that acts as a third hand of a human worker. It will be straightforward to instruct even by an untrained layman worker, allow for efficient knowledge transfer between tasks and enable a effective collaboration between a human worker with a robot third hand. The main contributions of this project will be the scientific principles of semi-autonomous human-robot collaboration, a new semi-autonomous robotic system that is able to: i) learn cooperative tasks from demonstration; ii) learn from instruction; and iii) transfer knowledge between tasks and environments.


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General Motors is recalling 4,304 Chevrolet Malibus from the 2013 model year to reprogram a component of the car's airbag system. Under hard braking, the sensing and diagnostic module (SDM) could reset, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports.
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Teaching in a participatory culture
One of the projects I used to teach on voice, had my students reading remixes of the story of the 3 Little Pigs. When I started this project back in 2007, we only had the desktop lab, but I started having students respond in less traditional paper and pencil kind of ways. I would read 3 different versions of the story to my students. We would start out with the classic version, followed by The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka and lastly The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig, by Eugene Trivizas. I used these books to show my students that good writers get ideas from other people's work. I had the students follow up the reading by creating a blog as one of the characters, from one of the stories we read. They had to fill in their about me page and add a couple of posts as their character. I encouraged my students to respond to the original story by filling in the "holes".
Here is a link to an example I showed my students the first year (http://bigmomma-christine.blogspot.ca/).
Here are some student samples (http://atriptograndmashouse.blogspot.ca/ & http://myownstoryofthethreelittlewolves.blogspot.ca/)
I have not done this project on the 3 Little Pigs in a few years. Now that I have more access to iPads and laptops, I have my students creating things like movie trailer responses, vlogs, Telligami's (avatar's), Toontastics, Storybirds, Animotos, ToonDoos (comics) and more. Looking back, I could do this project again, but on my students' blogs they could respond in more ways than adding just images and text like we did back then. Now they can use the tools available to them to respond in many different ways and of their choice. Pretty much anything they create using an app or web 2.0 tool can be embedded to their blog. If they choose to create something more hands on (not digital) they could then video tape a reflection about their piece or use a screencasting tool like Educreations or Explain Everything and that could be embedded to their blog.
In the beginning, I only used blogs for publishing their language arts work. Since 2007, my students' blogs have evolved into a portfolio of their work across subjects. It is no longer limited to writing. The apps and web tools mentioned above can be used to represent learning across subjects. Let your students be creative and then upload their work to their blog. Use Tellegami to let your students take on the role of someone else for social studies. Have them create a commercial on why people should visit Alberta or Canada (thinking about social studies again) using Animoto or WeVid. Video record them explaining how they worked out a math problem. Let them video record their group doing a skit or role play. You are probably doing some of these activities already with your class. Just think though how can you make them digital and then students can share them on their blog or any other web publishing platform for that matter.
The commenting feature on blogs lend themselves nicely to getting feedback. Not only can classmates be giving feedback, but parents and families can be encouraged to engage by commenting on student blogs too. I have found that opening up my blogs publicaly also allows students to get feedback from others students and people from anywhere. I started doing this by connecting my class to another same grade class in our division. We created links to each others blogs and our students began connecting and reading each other's work. We talked about giving constructive and positive feedback to each other. My students were so motivated by this. They loved hearing what others had to say about their work and they really took what the other students had to say, to heart. It was no longer only me saying the same things over and over to my students. Other people were giving them the feedback and they seemed to take this more seriously. A bit annoying for me but it worked! Later on I added more classrooms to our blogroll. This included classes across our province and throughout Canada. You could even open this up to classrooms anywhere in the world. In grade 5 students learn about Canada. Why not connect your class to students blogging across Canada? Where do you find these connections? Start with teachers or people you know or try Twitter. There are so many educators on Twitter looking for classes to connect with. Search the hashtag #comments4kids to find people blogging with students.
Blogging is one way I am able to get my students engaging in the participatory culture we live in. How do you do this with your students? Please add your suggestions in the comments section...I would love to hear them;)
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So many questions
Questions are key components of all aspects of life. We use questions to gather information from the people around us. We use questions to make sense of our environment. As I am at the beginning of my new assignment as a collaborative lead teacher, I find that I have many questions…and I am worried that I may not be asking the right ones, or in the right way.
In education, there are many different kinds of questions and purposes:
I have spent years trying to improve my questioning strategies. It always intrigues me when a student comes up with an unexpected response to a question…and causes me to look again at the question itself. How did the student arrive at the unexpected interpretation? What could I do to frame the question with greater clarity?
As I start collaborating with teachers on the wide spectrum of topics they are interested in, I have discovered (and re-discovered) some questioning resources I thought I would share:
If you are considering having students come up with questions in your class, here is a blog post from MindShift that discusses why (for students) the question is more important than the answer from the book, Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions. http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/10/for-students-why-the-question-is-more-important-than-the-answer/ "We've been underestimating how well our kids can think." Rothstein said in a recent discussion on the talk show Forum. "We see consistently that there are three outcomes. One is that students are more engaged. Second, they take more ownership, which for teachers, this is a huge thing. And the third outcome is they learn more – we see better quality work."
And for those of us who prefer to view rather than read, two videos on questioning:
As I start this new adventure called 'collaborative lead teacher' I am finding a whole new level of questions. In addition to those we work on with students, teachers have questions that guide their work, especially as we attempt to navigate curriculum re-design.
I look forward to finding the answers through working with you.
By Christine Quong
Recently, I had the chance to visit Michael Strembitsky School. Something that stood out for me was their celebration of their "Epic Fails". For the past 2 years and a bit, their school has been on a journey to make Inspiring Education come to life. There is a focus on cross curricular planning and inquiry based learning at their school. They are the first to admit that it is not perfect and failing is where their best learning occurs. Stories of failed projects involving grade 5's sewing their own winter clothing were shared. Each and every failure teaches them something. They celebrate their failures as a staff and keep moving forward! As a teacher that tends to be an early adopter this was encouraging to see. Their admin team expects and supports their faculty as they take risks and try new things.
Is this the culture of your classroom or your school? With the curriculum redesign on the horizon, teachers may need to make changes to the way they have always taught. This is not an easy thing to do. They may need to take risks and that can be uncomfortable. Over the past 2 years, I have been thinking more deeply about my own teaching practice. I believe that students need to have choice in their learning and how they demonstrate their learning. However, my summative assessments did not always match this. Many times at the end of a unit I would give a written test. Why did I do this? I felt like I had to. There was a feeling of pressure from parents and other teachers to give tests the way we always have. I did not I feel like I could take a risk and not give a test. Not that I asked my admin or discussed this with my colleagues. Maybe I should have asked these questions, but I did not. It wasn't that I did not feel supported by admin but I guess the freedom to fail was not as blatant. Our failures were not shared, celebrated and reflected on as a staff.
But what if they were? What would you do differently? If you were brave enough to try one new thing in your teaching practice this year, what would it be? What if it fails? What is the worst that could happen? What if your students took more risks in their learning? What would they accomplish? If they fail would it be the end of the world? Or would they learn from that failure and keep moving forward?
This blog and resources website has been developed through the work of various AISI coaches in PHRD. The lead collaborative teachers for the 2015/2016 school year, Cheryl Frose, Christine Quong and Tammy Tkachuk will continue to update this site. If you have resources you would like to share or would like to contribute to the blog, please contact us.
May 2016
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"People using these resources to plan ahead can determine which of the transportation options make the most sense for them," said Dave Ziegler, principal engineer for the project. "Traveling to and from the peninsula won't be easy, but we hope people will be patient and are reassured by the fact that in about six weeks they'll have a wider, safer, more reliable bridge."Transportation options include:
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- A Sunday through Thursday reservation-based car ferry between Port Townsend and Edmonds to assist freight haulers and drivers
- A fare-free, reservation-based medical bus service that will transport people to and from the Olympic Peninsula, Kitsap County and Seattle
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WSDOT is helping travelers "know before they go" by regularly updating its Web site, blog and project information line 1-877-595-4222, sending regular e-mail updates, and providing the latest views of the highways via traffic cameras. Drivers can get up-to-the-minute information on incidents that affect traffic by calling 511, listening to WSDOT's highway advisory radio, getting text message updates, or viewing signs along the highway.The Hood Canal Bridge retrofit and replacement is now 91 percent complete. For more information, visit www.HoodCanalBridge.com.


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Noah remains excited and resilient.
He's super-brave. A tough guy. Just ask Noah's mom, Amy, about him, and that's what you'll learn. These are not just a proud mom's words. Noah has been through 24 surgeries so far. More surgeries and more medical procedures will always be part of his life.
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Before he even left, though, real-life versions of his "Emergency!" heroes made time to meet him in his own community of Burlington, Vermont. Police, fire and rescue personnel offered him some pre-wish training to prepare him for Los Angeles. One of the fire captains fully understood the importance of Noah's wish: His son also received a wish experience in 1989.
On to Los Angeles
When Noah looks back at his wish years from now, he'll probably think back to his time on the driving course. Camera footage from inside the car is a hit with Internet viewers who love watching his enormous grin as a police officer spins them around 360 degrees. Afterward, he shouted "This is the ride of my life!"
That wild ride at the Los Angeles Police Academy was just one item on a long list of activities the police and fire departments planned for Noah. He also enjoyed a helicopter ride, meeting the canine team, trying on all the equipment and blaring a fire truck's siren.
"It's pretty moving to just see so much preparation, attention and anticipation just based on the things he loves in the world," Amy said.
Noah gets in a ride in some old-school firefighting hardware.PHOTO: Julie Richards Photography
It's helicopter time for Noah.PHOTO: Julie Richards Photography
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Looks like MRs predictions of still and video photography merging were right on the money! Looks like a great camera, and if I hadn't sold my Nikon lenses back in the day when I got rid of my F4 kit I would have orded one ASAP. Now all I can do is hope that Canon will follow suit.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=217597\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Canon certainly has the means to do so. I've been tempted to haul my XH-G1 along and record some of the more fantastic scenes I've seen through the lens of a 1Ds and 40d. But that's more setup and gear than I care to deal with, or even have time should I bother during precious minutes as the sun sets, the animal leaves the scene, or the moment is lost, etc.How sweet it would be to just rotate a dial or press a button and just shoot even a few minutes of footage! That alone would be a boon to some of you whom already shoot stock for istock and want to include a revenue source for video. A complete package.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=217638\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
And who needs video without autofocus ? Sry I don't. Interesting idea, but it would not be a buying decision on a DSLR.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=217642\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
People seem to forget that Canon, Sony, Panasonic, Samsung..are all into their camcorders. If you expect the all in one wonder device to appear and for these makers to dump their product lines..think again. Why sell 1 device when 2 makes more money.Camcorders will always be better at video than still, and stills cameras will be better at their native format. I have no problems with a video mode, could be handy. However, its not a major factor for me in a buying choice. The sound quality on most cameras is a weak point..I would expect this to be the same, decent enough I would think, but not camcorder quality.Simply a case of economics[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=217675\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Does the 5 minute limit have nothing to do with the capacity of the memory card? Do they mean, 5 minutes, then that's a clip, then you shoot another 5 minutes, and that's a separate clip, and on, and on, instead of continuous shooting for more than 5 minutes?If that's true, hell, most hollywood movies could be shot with a 50 second per "clip" limit. 5 minutes ain't so bad. [{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
The five minutes is just an individual clip limit - apparently the sensor gets warm. But you can string as many of those as you can fit on a 32 GB card, which is approx. 80 minutes of high def. video.
... Canon, Sony, Panasonic, Samsung..are all into their camcorders. If you expect the all in one wonder device to appear and for these makers to dump their product lines..think again. Why sell 1 device when 2 makes more money.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=217675\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Sensor overheating is what's floating around as the reason for the limit, but I find it hard to understand without further explanation. Why isn't there a limit in Liveview mode and why the limit is like 20mins in lower than 720 resolutions? Also, apparently, you can shoot sequential 5min clips so what happens with the sensor heat then?EU tax issues regarding what is classified as 'Video' cameras vs. 'Still' cameras and possible file size limitations have also been speculated but nobody has come up yet with a full explanation for the 5min limit.Edit: File size limitations might be very real given the FAT32 filesystem. If recorded size is anything like 400MB / min then the max. size would be reached at 5mins (Edit: Or would that be 10?). If this is the case then this is the reason for the 5min limit and not sensor heating.Anybody has any real info about average expected filesize / min for 24fps 720p mjpeg recording?In any case, file size, EU legislation or anything else, I don't believe it's the heat that imposes the 5min limit.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=217766\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
from Simon Joinson in response to your dpreview question on the 5 minute limitation..."We asked this question and were told it's a tax issue, nothing else. The fact you can take 5 mins, pause a second then do another 5 mins ad infinitum seems to support this.SJ "[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=217827\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
This is plausible since there exists such a discrepancy in EU import tax legislation (don't know the details though about when a camera is classifed as a videocam). It would beg the question though why not have separate firmware versions (and maybe model numbers) for EU and the rest of the world.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=217831\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]


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The Afghan campaign / Steven Pressfield.
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In words that might have been ripped from today's combat dispatches, Pressfield, novelist of ancient warfare, returns with a recreation of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Afghan kingdoms in 330 B.C., a campaign that eerily foreshadows the tactics, terrors, and frustrations of contemporary conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. 2,300 years ago an unbeaten army of the West invaded the homeland of a fierce Eastern tribal foe. This is one soldier's story ... Matthias, a young infantryman in Alexander's army, this book explores the challenges, both military and moral, that Alexander and his soldiers face as they embark on a new type of war and are forced to adapt to the methods of a ruthless foe that employs terror and insurgent tactics, conceals itself among the civilian populace, and recruits women and boys as combatants.
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varungupta posted a topic in Bug ReportsPlayback unresponsive i.e. scroll bar would continue showing that the media is playing but in reality its not. (i.e. the timer goes on) Wont play until, I pause the playback , wait few seconds and then play again - then the playback starts. This sometimes would happen also after changing few songs as well, randomly. checked the device for bluetooth issues as well as the speakers. problem not happening with any other app except this. occuring on - Brand new oneplus 8 device. using latest Poweramp full version as on 17th June 2020. Oxygen OS 10.5.8
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Adi711 posted a topic in Bug ReportsPhone: HTC U12+ (Stock ROM) Android: 9 BT Headphones: Bang & Olufsen H9i with touch controls Hi guys, I've recently bought the B&O H9i headphones with touch controls and I've discovered that Poweramp is going a bit crazy when using the touch controls. As we will see a rise in touch controlled headphones soon I think it is viral that this issue is fixed. So the problem araises when I try to use the touch controls in anyway. You swipe backward or forward on the earcup to change the track, this works well in other music apps, but in Poweramp it changes the track and pauses the music, after the track change, I've experimented with different button responses in settings, but it only makes the problem worse. On single press setting it changes a track and pauses it. on the double/truple setting it skips 1,2 or 3 tracks and pauses it, same happens on long press setting, this makes using the touch controls unbearable. Also I have noticed that Poweramp goes crazy on its own without touching the touch controls when double/triple press setting is enabled, skipping tracks randomly pausing music, skipping tracks again. Please ask me for any more info if needed, hope this can be quickly resolved, as Poweramp is my most facourite app for years and the B&O Headphones are one of the best out there so they should be compatible with the app. I do not experiance similar issues with the n7 player or tidal. I would hate to have to swap to n7 its s%$t! xD Looking forward to your help Adi
Hi there, really hoping somebody can give me a secret-sauce recipe to fix my problem. Samsung Galaxy S4, recently updated itself to kernel 4.3 When playing techno or Pink Floyd where the songs are intended to blend together, Poweramp inserts a brief "pause" command when switching from one track to the next. I know it's a "pause" command because my car stereo is showing the command and then it quickly disappears as Poweramp moves on to the next track. This behavior does NOT occur with headphones plugged in. Strangely, I have seen Poweramp not insert the pause on a couple of occasions where the next track came up, but then the next couple songs come along on the gapless album and the pauses just come right back. Having it avoid the pause is the rarity, the brief pause is the dominant behavior about 19 times out of 20 (or worse). I tried messing with various lock settings, BT metadata, and even tried uninstalling random apps that I thought might have some access to Bluetooth. The only thing that I know for certain is that this problem started immediately after my phone updated from 4.2x to 4.3. Wish I could go back... Help, please? Tom


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If you come across a lot of creative, over time certain things you see or hear will trigger a sense of déja vu. Like in those memory-games you played as a kid where you'd try to find matching pairs, something pops in your memory that says "hold on a second…I've seen this before!"
Now, this notion is nothing new in advertising or in any art form, because inspiration and ideas always come from somewhere.
But it's also obvious to a careful observer that not all of these "déja vus" can be classified into one single bucket: they range from crazy coincidences, to straight-up creative plagiarism. If we don't make this distinction, it's impossible to have a constructive conversation about what is right and what is wrong. Because believe me, there are grey areas like you wouldn't believe!
Since this can get fairly subjective, let's enlist the help of the infallible, scientific, quantum-powered, Commonsense-o-meter™ to help us classify some examples into buckets that make a little more sense. This brilliant machine has come up with 5 buckets:
1. Elements in common – These aren't really close to each other on the whole, but they share a common element which triggers a pairing in your mind. The similarity is anecdotal, but it points out how often certain variables are used (and re-used) in advertising.
Commonsense-o-meter™ says: I tell you, some things keep popping up over and over. Fine with us as long as they work – but it's not bad if anyone pushes to be original every now and then, ok?
The examples below both feature: hair braids. The first is from Argentina for H2O! soft drinks, and the second is from China, featuring the usual surrealism for Skittles.
2. Cosmic coincidence – These seem like clear ripoffs at first, but for one reason or another chances are reasonably good that there was no connection between the two. You're left shaking your head at the craziness of the universe!
Commonsense-o-meter™says: Wow. What an amazing coincidence! Just…wow.
Let's start with two car commercials…one for VW from Tribal DDB Berlin, the other for Peugeot from Euro RSCG Paris. Both aired at the same time (this is what makes me want to believe in a cosmic coincidence)
And how about these: both are about Detroit, both feature a poem "See it Through" by Detroit Poet Edgar Albert Guest, both feature gritty urban images of the city, and they were both uploaded on the very same day. One is for Chrysler. The other is a video done for Boat Magazine. If it sounds too amazing to believe, you can read more about it here and here.
3. Homage – Here is where the imitation is by design. The idea is purposefully reminiscent of past work.
Commonsense-o-meter™says: Interesting that they chose to go down this road once again, I can see what they were trying to do. It works for me (or doesn't). Very cool. Carry on.
This German viral film for Dirt Devil was a hit a couple of months ago, right in time for Halloween. I don't need to tell you that it was a lift from the movie "The Exorcist", but below is the original trailer, in case you've forgotten. But in addition, you'll see that they most likely built upon an idea first done by BBH in 1997 (Aspirateur 1997). Call it a double-homage!
4. Copycat – This is when you're borrowing an idea and perhaps secretly hoping people won't notice. Enough elements are the same so that it's clearly not a coincidence, yet small tweaks are made to maintain plausible deniability.
Commonsense-o-meter™says: Nope. I know you changed the end, but it still feels like copy. You know it, we know it, your momma knows it. Why don't we all just admit it, and move on.
Now click here, to watch a TVC for Chinese underwear brand Lightness, featuring famous star Li Bingbing. You'll be amazed
And here is an example of a Nescafe (coffee) ad from Mexico that you'll recognize as a previous "Ad of the Day", and a Carte Noire (also coffee!) ad from France. They both aired two months apart. Ummm, yeah. A little too close for comfort.
And finally, here's a 2010 example from McDonald's by Heye & Partners Munich, and the follow-up in 2011 for Red Robin, by Periscope Advertising in Minneapolis. Hmmm…
5. Rip-off – Flagrant copying so exaggerated and obvious that it baffles the mind a bit. I mean, come on, it's exactly the same! Did you think nobody was going to notice? In today's digital world? Couldn't you have made it a little less obvious? Come on..!
Commonsense-o-meter™says: Some explanations are in order, my friend. It's not that I don't believe you, but…I don't believe you. Seriously, what were you thinking? Did you think we wouldn't find out?
Let's warm up with two mobile phone network ads, both touting the provider's fantastic coverage. The first is for AT&T, from 2010 by BBDO NY. The second is for MTC in Ukraine, done a year later by JWT. Seriously? Come on, guys!
And here is a great example of an idea done not once, not twice, but three times, by different agencies and for three different car brands! (I know Nissan and Renault are under the same umbrella company, but still…)
The first is from 2009, done on spec for Mitsubishi by a production house in Germany.
And then, two years later, we get these two ads airing at the same time. The Renault ad is by Publicis and the Nissan ad by TBWA\Chiat Day. Really, guys? Come on! (you can read more about this case here)
Oh boy. Before I get too depressed, let's start wrapping this up. What are we to make of this? A couple of thoughts:
- As I said before, this is nothing new. Check out some of the links at the bottom if you're interested in seeing just how widespread this is in all art forms.
- To be creative, you need to absorb the world around you. And it's inevitable that those impressions are later poured back out as an idea, an executional element, or a design choice.
- Also, creatives move around from agency to agency, ideas that get rejected at one place can get resurrected at another, etc. There may well be reasonable explanations for many of these.
- But in today's interconnected and digital world, we need to be more proper than ever about attribution. You can't expect to "borrow" an idea you saw while vacationing in the Philippines and not get caught.
- Let's remember that not every similarity is created equal:
- If you hit "cosmic coincidence", "subtle influence" or "homage" in the Commonsense-o-meter™, my default position is that there's no harm done. Enough people are working on enough similar briefs around the world these days that it's not unlikely for there to be a crazy coincidence.
- Once you hit "copycat" or "rip-off" in the Commonsense-o-meter™ you become guilty in my eyes until proven innocent by means of a convincing explanation. Explain to me why this is not a rip-off, I want to believe. "Honey? Sit down, we need to have a talk…" (oh shit!)
What do you think, dear reader? Does it shatter your faith in humanity to see great "original" ideas that were actually first done years before? Or is it an inevitable part of the creative process? Where are your boundaries between imitation and plagiarism?
Thanks for reading.
Speaking of attribution, I took many of these examples (including the rabbit header image) from a great web site that has tons of these look-alikes for you to look through and gasp/laugh. http://www.joelapompe.net/
The "J'Adore" copycat example was from a fabulous site about Chinese advertising called "Little Red Book".
Additional links:
- If you're interested in this topic, you should watch a great series of videos called "Everything is a Remix" that trace the amazing similarities/outright copying in everything from music, to movies, to fashion. Here is the link to part 1 (con subtitulos en Español!) http://youtu.be/nxrjsHSbHkY
- On the right hand column you will find parts 2, 3 and 4. And be sure to also view the ones focusing exclusively on The Matrix and Kill Bill.


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Told their task by Big Brother in the Diary Room, Dettori and Clark looked distinctly uncomfortable but said: "Somebody's got to do it."
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Next Dettori and Clark had to decide who was more "fake" out of Neighbours actor Ryan Maloney, who has played Toadfish in the Australian soap since 1995, and ex-EastEnders and Footballers Wives star Gillian Taylforth, and sent Maloney to the basement.
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One absentee is comedian Jim Davidson who had been due to appear but was dropped after being arrested and questioned by detectives over allegations of sexual offences, which he denies.
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Dettori enters the house just weeks after he was given a six-month ban from his sport after a positive drugs test.
Hamilton found fame after starring in a VW ad campaign, but went on to have a problem with drink and drugs. She dated music and TV mogul Simon Cowell when she was in her teens.


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"The shepherds heard the angels—and it scared them to death. That's one thing that angels do—they frighten people."
~Ray Pritchard (from "Could Other People See the Angels?")
Today's Answer
Why Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh?
Alfred Edersheim
When taken as gifts for a newborn king, the items that the Magi brought appear inappropriate, especially the frankincense and myrrh. Gold fits the idea of kingly wealth, but perfumes would not have met the same standard.
We must, instead, imagine the gifts as offerings of foreign dignitaries. Just as diplomats from other countries often bring gifts representing their cultures, these magi brought the products specific to theirs. They honored the King of the Jews in a way that fit their nationality. In this way, in fact, they stood in as representatives of all the non-Jewish nations. Their acknowledgement presaged the offer of grace to all peoples of the earth, and their gifts hinted at the coming of Gentiles to offer themselves to Christ.
The ancient church also understood the gifts to symbolize aspects of Christ's life and ministry, the work He would do. The gold, as mentioned before, suggested His royalty as King of the Jews and Lord of lords. In the frankincense, they saw His divinity. The myrrh represented His humanity—and that to the fullest extent because myrrh suggests death and burial. Thus, the gifts came to show Jesus as King, God, and Man.
Adapted from The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim (Book II, Chapter VIII).
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Why Was the Star Significant to the Wisemen?
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- ½ 6-lb. baby seedless watermelon
- 2 Tbsp. fresh lime juice
- 1 Tbsp. fish sauce
- 1½ tsp. sugar
- 2 sprigs basil, plus leaves for serving
- ¼ cup salted, dry-roasted peanuts
- 2 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
- Flaky sea salt
Recipe Preparation
Slice off both ends of the watermelon, then stand it upright on a flat side. Cut away rind in long curving strokes.
Halve melon crosswise. Working with one half at a time with the cut side facing up, slice off irregular bite-size pieces. Continue making your way around the melon, turning it as you work (standing it on the round side makes it easier to maneuver).
Stir lime juice, fish sauce, sugar, and 1 Tbsp. water in a large bowl until sugar is dissolved. Lightly crush 2 basil sprigs by scrunching up in your hand and add to dressing along with watermelon; toss gently until coated.
Transfer watermelon salad to a platter, leaving basil sprigs behind. Top with peanuts and basil leaves, drizzle with oil, and season with salt.


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Sitka Spruce is an industry standard, tough and well suited for soundboards. Our current selection is old growth, originally harvested from the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State during the mid 1900's, processed into soundboards, and then stacked in storage for over 30 years until we acquired it. The wood is tight grain with strong medullary rays in most sets and a bit of curl and bearclaw as well. Photos below are taken without moistening the wood.
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This high elevation Trans-Sierra High Route tour is one of the ranges' most spectacular tours and a rite of passage for any California, backcountry skier. As the route weaves its' way from Wolverton ski area in Kings Canyon National Park to Shepherd Pass on "the other side of California," it treads over seven passes of 12,000 ft. or higher. Each one with a superb ski run off the "back" side. True to its name, once through the first pass the tour stays above treeline until the descent to Owens Valley Desert Floor near Independence, CA. Near the halfway point at Triple Divide Peak we'll stop and sample the incredible bowls of Cloud and Deadman Canyons. Two miles up and over two miles across these giant glacial cirques are the skiers pot-of-gold at the end of the rainbow. A rolling tour through the Kern Plateau and descent downShepard's Pass bring us down again to the tree line and the conclusion of the tour. We have skied the High Route many times and have organized this trip from West to East; we feel this is the best direction, can get in the snow within a few miles of the Wolverton trailhead, as opposed to hauling your skis 5,000 vertical feet up Shepard's Pass. The descents are excellent especially with the spring sun warming the eastern slopes for our mid-morning runs down the east sides of the passes. Join us for a ski or snowboard adventure of a lifetime! Our tour is a very physical undertaking with a reward well worth the effort. For this reason, skiers and snowboarders should be in excellent physical condition and capable of skiing steep terrain in almost any condition. Call Tim today to reserve your spot 888-797-6867 or firstname.lastname@example.com
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Try as I might, I doubt I'll ever fully comprehend Lions Gate Entertainment's business philosophy. The gaggle of marketing geniuses working behind-the-scenes are ready and willing to thoroughly promote some of the worst genre pictures to ever grace this miserable excuse for a planet, leaving their stronger acquisitions to flounder and disappear within the bottomless pit of the direct-to-video graveyard.
Granted, not every Lions Gate release is a cinematic bomb, but the vast majority of their more popular titles pale in comparison to the films that, for whatever reason, failed to garner support from those in charge of such decisions. It makes you wonder if they understand horror at all.
Director Joel Schumacher's insanely underrated action/horror hybrid "Blood Creek" (aka "Town Creek") is another unfortunate title that has been mistreated and neglected by one of the most opportunistic studios operating today. Everything about the picture is lean, mean, and bloody, punctuated by one of the most threatening horror villains to grace my television in years. Sadly, "Blood Creek" arrives on DVD without a lot of fanfare, a fact which perplexes me to brink of white-knuckled frustration. Is originality such a four-letter word that anything creative, inventive, or imaginative is immediately moved to the bottom of the totem pole? It's the only theory that makes any sense.
Powered by a script from up-and-coming scribe David Kajganich ("The Invasion"), "Blood Creek" utilizes Adolph Hitler's obsession with the occult as a backbone for a strong and supremely creepy story. In the months before World War II, the Nazis have become enamored with several mysterious Viking runestones that have been unearthed along the eastern edge of the United States. Sent to investigate these potentially dangerous relics is a German historian who secretly understands the magnitude of their power, though he's not exactly offering up any specifics to the kind rural family who have agreed to provide the creepy bastard with room and board for the duration of his stay.
Decades later, the horror wrought by the Nazis insatiable desire for world domination has forced two estranged brothers (Dominic Purcell and Henry Cavill) to embark on an impromptu mission to stop a reclusive family from abducting anyone who wanders too close to their property. What these trigger-happy siblings don't know, of course, is that the Germans were nearly successful in harnessing the power locked inside the rune stone, and the monster created by this unspeakable evil is now on the loose. If this unstoppable killing machine is able to consume enough blood before the looming lunar eclipse, his third eye will pop open and the world as we know it will come to an end. Nifty.
Although the central premise exudes hokeyness and the storyline is more than a little hard to swallow, Schumacher's breathless pacing and the Lovecraftian nature of Kajganich's intelligent script helps soothe and cool the film's goofier aspects. As slick, professional, and well-crafted as it may be, "Blood Creek" is, essentially, a B-grade action flick dressed up in glossy production values. It has the air of a serious-minded grindhouse comic book, where the plot is ludicrous and the characters are paper thin and the action is beyond gory. However, the true beauty of the feature lies in its violent simplicity.
Dominic Purcell, an actor I've never been too crazy about, gives an impressively intense performance, as does his square-jawed on-screen brother Henry Cavill. Their tumultuous relationship makes sense despite the somewhat limited amount of characterization we're given. And while the somewhat misguided approach to their mutual problem is more than a little empty-headed, you really can't blame the guys for acting on a knee-jerk reaction given the circumstances. Had this relationship faltered in the slightest, the picture may not have worked as well as it does.
"Blood Creek" is sure to be a cult item once it brutally worms its way into the horror community's meaty vernacular. It's hard to fault a movie that features demonic Nazis, resurrected animals, an assortment of blood-soaked kills, and a grotesque villain that would make Pinhead quiver in his leathery garb. Shame on the confused folks at Lions Gate for not giving Joel Schumacher's decidedly savage little gem a leg to stand on. It outclasses the vast majority of their dodgy DTV output, and, in my opinion, should have had a healthy theatrical run with an appropriate amount of promotion. In a world saturated in cheap, second-rate horror pictures, "Blood Creek" is the real deal. Invite it lovingly into your home.


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by Rio Helmi
My days blur by under Mt Agung, the clouds swirling around it, and inevitably as November creeps up on us, the rains have started to pelt the inner zones – sporadically, but heavy enough to cause minor landslides. On the back roads gravel and dirt collect on dips and corners. On these small winding roads, if one is in hurry (in emergency evacuation mode) this will be a hazard.
A few days ago I paid a quick visit to the camps in Tembok on the northeastern coast of Bali. In Tembok you have 7,000 evacuees to a permanent local population of 4,000+. It could be a disaster, but they have organised themselves really well, and the evacuees are pro-active and self-reliant: they have their own clean-up crews, people are delegated into different tasks, they rotate shifts – they are active.
In camps where they just sit around it's not that great. The sooner people are engaged in work and economic activities the better. It's also important to preserve community social structures. Meanwhile I check out the simple bamboo structures that the evacuees have put up and they are nice in a rustic way. I find a few people sitting in the newly built supply hut – "It's nice and cool in here!" I'm hot outside here; I can't imagine what it's like for mountain people.
As I sit and discuss strategies to bring down the 3,500 odd people still up on the volcano slope with Dewa Komang, the Tembok village head, he quietly points out that 600 more went back yesterday up to their farms. Clearly having a camp where they can easily get to their livestock, feed and water for the animals is what is needed. It's like having to build a village in a week. I feel daunted but we need to press on. At least the Department of Agriculture's livestock services have approved a site, and allegedly have contracted an independent construction company to build shelter and a shed for the feed.
More small miracles are needed – we are going to have to scrape together another 350 million Rupiah (about US$ 26,000) for housing for people. Somehow when I think of it in dollars it doesn't seem like a lot to save 3500+ lives. Oh, make that 4,100.
I take my leave and race up the road to Ban in the red zone. It's getting late and there is a monstrous dark cloud wrapping itself around the volcano. There are people coming down from their farms (typical evacuee pattern now, spending the night in the camp and the day up on at their farms). But there are also people in full ceremonial gear. Ah it's Anggar Kasih Julung Wangi, yet another Balinese holy day. I spot Nengah Alit, a pemangku (priest) from Temangku. We chat at the fork on the road to Ban, Pempatan and Besakih. Despite the rain clouds and the late hour I take the right fork just to see.Mangku Nengah Alit
The road goes up steeply, and I'm glad for the 650cc Kawasaki effortlessly taking me up higher. I come to a small, clustered hamlet. A little further on I nearly meet my nemesis: the road suddenly disintegrates into red, muddy, sharp rubble on a steep slope. Here a 650cc twin is suddenly a liability, a heavy beast. Lots of fun turning the beast around on a steep slope covered in huge, sharp, rocky gravel – and so not wanting to pick up 220kg of bike plus load here in the rain. I manage, just. Down at the hamlet people huddle away from the rain. They tell me half of them still live up here. I take stab at the distance from the crater: I'd say 3.5 kilometers.
I swing back on to the Ban-Pempatan-Besakih road. It plateaus out in the middle section, at around 900 to 1000 meters above sea level. Wedged at the bottom of a steep river gully, the road runs alongside a dry river bed. Then it crosses it. I stop and assess. The river comes straight down from the volcano, only some 2,100 meters above me. There is no other way out of the valley except back or forward to the other end. It's at least 2 kilometers either way. As our Merapi local expert Pak Sukiman explained to us during a presentation, pyroclasic flow comes straight down these types of gullies at speeds of up to 750 km/h.
My mind swings back to the presentation that Pak Sukiman from Merapi gave the other day, with videos of these 'hot clouds' (pyroclastic flow in colloquial Indonesian) flashing down the mountain at the speed of sound. And as I stop at the fork to Cegi, the traffic is constant. Bikes with families aboard, cars full to the brim (even some local tourists taking selfies), trucks laden with rocks sneaking through this un-policed road.
Since my last post, much has happened, but perhaps the most significant thing is that we've established a working rapport with the official task force in Tanah Ampo through the commander, Lt.Col. Fierman Sjafirial Agustus, who was handed the job right at the end of his command duty as the commander of Karangasem regency. Initially, the Bupati or regent was automatically in charge. She then handed it off to her vice-regent, who then turned around and handed it to Pak Fierman. All of this in a matter of days. As very little substantial planning took place in the weeks when the alert level was 2 (Waspada) then 3 (Siaga), suffice it to say that he inherited quite a tangled ball of yarn. I don't envy him at all, but he is doing his level best. Luckily he is quick to assess various courses of actions, thinks laterally, is open minded and makes decisions with deliberation, but rapidly.
Lately he's been discussing the need to clamp down on traffic through the red zones, which in the last week or so has gotten out of control. It's not a popular decision with some local politicians, but the flow of traffic is getting ridiculous. I send him some videos from the Cegi crossroads. I was at the operational center in the morning, and he has already ordered members of the elite Raiders battalion to help man the roadblocks. He's still treading softly but it can't last forever, and this route is a liability.
Further down the road (where a couple of days ago I gently but firmly ushered out a Russian couple on a scooter on their way to Amed who had no idea about the volcano; it didn't show up on their interactive map). I find a new roadblock set up by locals. Not that it's doing much.
Days later, the roadblocks are still 'open' but the Task Force commander has assigned one soldier from the elite Raider battalion to accompany local babinsa, village non-commissioned military officers. There is a bit of confusion as to how they are supposed check the numbers of people going by but at least they are at it. The idea is to get a reasonable estimate of how many people are in the red zones during the day vs the night.
The potential of thousands of casualties is very real.
A few days ago, the governor of Bali makes a few statements that are aimed at having the alert level reduced. It's a bit puzzling, this obsession with saving the tourist industry and government projects over the safety of the population around the volcano, especially after the level of unpreparedness the provincial and sub-provincial governments showed in these last weeks. Hardly any planning during the level 3 phase, and complete panic at the announcement of level 4, and now this. Is it not clear that the alert level is the jurisdiction and prerogative of the volcanologists, the national volcanogical center for the mitigation of geological disaster (PVMBG)? In any case yesterday in a press statement, the PVMBG clearly stated that they were not bringing the alert level down merely because of a temporary reduction in frequency of tremors, and that there were other important factors to take into consideration, and these factors do not indicate a reduction in the danger. The level remains at level 4 "Awas" (more or less "great caution"). They even went as far as to state, "It is not we who (arbitrarily) determine the alert level, it is the mountain's activity that determines it." Hopefully the message gets through.
The river Unda where it runs through Dukuh in Sidemen valley.
On Thursday, on the way back from checking the numbers at various checkpoints, I have a hunch and head to small tucked-away evacuee camp in Br Dukuh, opposite Sidemen, halfway down the valley below Sangken Gunung. I'm also concerned at how close they might be to the river Unda, where all locals bathe. It runs straight down from the volcano – a cold lahar or pyroclastic highway? I'll have to consult with an expert. Meanwhile at the camp the situation has definitely improved: the tarps provided by the Gunung Agung Relief group are keeping out rain and wind, and they have mats though not enough mattresses, and bins to store their personal belongings. But I'm glad I dropped in. There are now around 100 evacuees, almost double the original number, and they have 50 kilos of rice left between them. The next day I take the pick-up and with supplies from the Gunung Agung Relief post at Kopernik. Cat and I drop them off. They are so sweet, all the kids coming out and we have a great chat with them all. They all come out and wave us off.
Yesterday, Saturday 21st, despite having decided to cut down on these nearly daily 200km rides, I find myself blasting to Budakeling, to attend a socialization talk to evacuees and the local community who is refusing to evacuate. I find that the talk has been cancelled, and the head of the village drags me into the hall where there are a handful of evacuees from high up on the slopes of Bebandem district, the local district officer, the head of the local police sector and the Babinsa. "Could you please talk to them?" he pleads. I'm a bit taken aback at this sudden turn of events, but I'm trapped. I do my best, translating into my median level Balinese (No way I'm even going to try High Balinese in Karangasem!!!!) whatever I have learned over the last weeks from the volcanologists that I have interviewed, from Pak Sukiman's talks. It seems to work, and the evacuees seem resolved to move on to safer ground.
The local community however, is proving to be more difficult. The officials and I have a long discussion, and I emphasize to them that they need to organize evacuation well, working out destinations and contacting those destination villages, working out camp sites according to the basic needs, setting timetables for the move (they had previously agreed with Manggis but as they didn't move in time, other villages took their place, and again this happened in Padang Bai). Evacuation routes need to be planned well and confirmed with the BNPB/BPBD disaster mitigation bodies, etc etc. I get the feeling that they aren't exactly on top of it. On the brighter side of things, I receive news from one of the Babinsas in Rendang that more than half of the inhabitants of Pemuteran in the danger zones have re-evacuated (after going back) to their sister village Pengotan in Bangli and also to a camp in Rendang.
The Klian of Br Galih and an evcauee's "stall" in Br Kreteg, Sibetan
On the way back from Budakeling, by chance I discover a camp from Galih in the Banjar Kreteg, Sibetan. I find the Klian or headman, Pak Made Sumartana among a group of men sitting around idly. He is the only one in full traditional Balinese dress. There are 400 people here in an open wantilan pavilion. Rain will definitely be a problem. Many of them have gone back up and fetched belongings; one woman has even brought all her goods from a small shop she ran, and they sit in a pile in the middle of the pavilion. There doesn't seem to be much other effort at earning money – they tell me there is no work to be had there. Pak Made takes me to see their main kitchen with a wood fired stove. I notice their one and only water filter looks a tinge moldy, it's exposed to sunlight, and one of the filter candles seems badly installed. Ewa from Kopernik tells me over WhatsApp that we need to replace it and re-train them.
A warung (food stall) lunch in Duda, a quick gawk at construction which has restarted on the local market place despite it being in the red zone, then past the check post where I see really high numbers on their tally – high school kids whiz through a corner of the red zone to get to school in Sidemen, and a high priest's cremation is coming up in couple of days here so devotees are coming up from Denpasar. In Selat I find locals are finally taking things into hand. They are blocking sand trucks from going up to the quarries, a group of about 10 pecalang (local security) and some other local men have set up a partial barricade. We chat and I watch. A couple of drivers try to slip them money but they refuse. Hopefully it's not just because I am there but they do seem pretty determined. In any case it's certainly more than the police are doing. On the next radial road I find a chilling sign: "Any thieves coming into Padangaji Village will leave dead".
Above: construction of a market pushes on despite being in the red zone. Below : pecalang action in Selat. Bottom: a sign in Selat
I manage to catch the task force commander at the local military post in Menanga/Rendang on my way home. He is briefing the local Koramil commander (hard bitten man), babinsas, and the local district officer. We exchange notes, and he is pleased to hear about Selat. He tells his men: "We can't order the people to do this or that, we have to work with them. If they knock down barricades (which they did a few days ago) you don't have to pschase them down, just fix it. The people have to be the ones doing preventative measures, we are only here to help and to make them aware, so you have to be able to reach out to them. I don't want to hear about how hard that is." Finally I take my leave and head up to Suter, Penolakan and home. I check the bike's clocks. Damn, another 200 km day.
Feature image, taken by drone, provided courtesy of BNPB. All other photos ©Rio Helmi


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