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Petitioners seeking to name Beaver High football field in honor of pilot killed in Vietnam War
Written by Jeff Richards
Snow covers the football field at Beaver High School, Beaver, Utah, April 11, 2019 | Photo courtesy of Marla McMaster, St. George News / Cedar City News
CEDAR CITY — Hundreds of Beaver County residents have signed a petition asking the local school board to name Beaver High School's football field "Jimmy Low Field" in honor of James Bernard Low, a 1969 graduate of Beaver High who died in combat less than two years later during the Vietnam War.
High school yearbook photo of James "Jimmy" Bernard Low (1951-1971). | Photo courtesy of the Low family, St. George News / Cedar City News
"Something like this is long overdue," said Keith Cartwright, one of Low's closest friends and a member of Low's graduating class at Beaver High. "If this actually comes to be, and I believe that it will, it will show our unsung heroes from Vietnam that their sacrifice and valor is very much recognized and appreciated."
Cartwright told Cedar City News this week that at least 686 signatures had been gathered, with a yet-unknown number of additional signers on other petitions throughout the communities of Beaver, Minersville and Milford.
A group of petitioners initially presented the field-naming proposal to the Beaver County School District's Board of Education on March 27 and plan to follow up at the school board's next meeting on April 24.
"We will present them with the results of our petitions, to include any comments left by petition signers," Cartwright said.
Cartwright noted that Low was an accomplished athlete who played on the Beaver football team's offensive line all four years of high school.
"His position was that of center, and he was the best there was," Cartwright wrote in a biographical sketch he authored about Low. "(In) many of the pictures that we have of Jimmy he is dressed in his football uniform. Jimmy was truly a team player."
Low was well-liked among his high school classmates, Cartwright added.
High school yearbook photo of James "Jimmy" Bernard Low (1951-1971). Efforts are under way to name Beaver High School's football field in Low's honor. Photo courtesy of the Low family, St. George News / Cedar City News
"His friends remember Jimmy as a fun loving young man who always wore a smile and who you just wanted to be around. He was that sort of person, someone who seemed to bring the better part of you out with just a friendly smile on an otherwise gloomy day."
Born in Cedar City on June 13, 1951, Low was the oldest of six children born to Beaver residents James Allen "Jim" Low and Yvonne Anderson Low. Some members of the Low family still reside in the Beaver area.
At Beaver High, Jimmy Low was actively involved in school politics and served as junior class president. He was also chosen to attend Boys State, representing the local American Legion Post in his hometown.
"This most certainly instilled in him a measure of patriotism and pride, which later influenced his decision to serve his country after graduation from high school," Cartwright said.
"Jimmy decided that he didn't want to burden his family with the expense of his college education and instead decided to volunteer for the U. S. Army, choosing to train as a helicopter pilot with the certain knowledge that he would see action in Vietnam. That aside, he realized that his aviation skills would give him a useful skill for employment after his time in the service."
After going through basic training in Louisiana and graduating from flight school in Texas, Low was deployed to Vietnam at the end of 1970, officially starting his tour of duty on Jan. 7, 1971, Cartwright said, noting that Low was assigned to C Troop, 7th Squadron, 17th Cavalry, 1st Aviation Brigade, who were known as the "Ruthless Riders."
On March 31, less than three months after starting his stint in Vietnam, Low was critically injured in action while flying a AH-1G Cobra helicopter during Operation Lam Son 719 in the jungles of Laos. After the aircraft was shot down, a couple of his fellow pilots tried to extricate Low from the wreckage.
Military photo of U.S. Army helicopter pilot James "Jimmy" Bernard Low (1951-1971). Efforts are under way to name Beaver High School's football field in Low's honor. Photo courtesy of the Low family, St. George News / Cedar City News
"Unable to remove Jimmy from the crash, they tied a rope around him and used the rescue helicopter to pull him clear of the wreckage," Cartwright wrote in his account. "Because the helicopter that Major Allen was flying that day was under constant enemy fire during the rescue, he was unable to gain altitude and Jimmy was dragged through the trees for some distance before being secured on board the aircraft.
"A number of Jimmy's fellow airmen visited him at a hospital the next day. They said that they were unable to recognize him at first because he had suffered burns over 70 percent of his body. It was only after he spoke to them that they recognized their friend."
Low was later flown to Japan for treatment, but he died of his injuries on April 3, 1971, just a couple months before his 21st birthday.
Fellow warrant officer Tom Dunn, who was flying with Low in the helicopter, survived the incident and later recounted the valiant efforts made to save his life, along with Low's and numerous others.
"Jimmy was a really nice kid and it's a shame that people like him have to die in wars, but we were soldiers and unfortunately that was our jobs," Dunn was quoted by Cartwright as saying.
Cartwright said that should school officials agree to name the field in honor of Low, he and other supporters plan to conduct a fundraiser to help pay for new signage to be installed at the stadium.
"Our youth today need to understand that freedom is not free, and sometimes good people such as Jimmy may have to pay the ultimate price for that freedom," Cartwright said. "Beaver has a long history of veterans who have given service to our country and that service needs to be recognized beyond the memorial in the City Park and flags flown on Memorial Day at our cemetery. Visitors to this community will see the pride, the patriotism, and that military service means something here in this part of Utah."
Scoreboard on the corner of the football field at Beaver High School, Beaver, Utah, April 11, 2019 | Photo courtesy of Marla McMaster, St. George News / Cedar City News
"Jimmy Low spent a great amount of his time during the later part of his short life playing football on that same field that we now feel should bear his name," Cartwright said, adding that naming the field in honor of Low would also serve as "a tribute to all the sons and daughters of this community who have answered the call in times of need."
Kristi Hurd, who is Cartwright's daughter, said the support she has seen among Beaver High students and alumni has been overwhelmingly positive.
"The thing we heard over and over was, 'Beaver couldn't pick a better role model to name that field after,'" Hurd said, adding that the petition drive exceeded its signature-collecting goal. "Students were quick to sign once they heard who he was and what he did."
Link to online version of petition, where supporters may sign electronically.
James Bernard Low's memorial page on The Virtual Wall, a Vietnam Memorial website.
Beaver High School Memorial Facebook page.
Jeff Richards, a native of Salt Lake City with family roots in Panguitch, lived in Moab for 20 years before joining St. George News in 2017. Jeff is a longtime journalist and secondary school teacher. He and his wife Penny are the parents of five daughters. They also have two young grandsons. Jeff and his family enjoy swimming, camping, sightseeing, reading, and taking pictures.
Twitter: @stgnews@moabjeff@stgnewssports
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Being judgmental, Current topics, Fighting depression, Movies / By Tanvi Sinha
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A more modern and elegant living area is found indoors, furnished with a gorgeous, L-shaped sofa that faces a Smart TV equipped with Wi-Fi access and Netflix. You can definitely kick back and relax while watching your favourite movies and TV shows. The room is air-conditioned and leads directly to the gardens. Classy and sophisticated décor owing to caramel-coloured walls, selective artwork, and a few indoor plants truly brings out the opulence and comfort in the room.
The space is shared with a dining area featuring a bench-style dining table equipped for plenty of guests. You can easily indulge in a feast with loved ones, digging into delicious Thai offerings. There is a swanky, all-white kitchen that is fully-equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and appliances for your use.
Under the management of kind staff members, the villa remains spotless, maintained, and as good as the first day you checked-in. With CCTVs around the property, you can rest assured of your safety, and housekeeping ensures the proper upkeep of the villa. A Thai chef can be appointed as per your request if you wish to enjoy delicious local food. Sea Kayaks are there for your use so you can take them out when you choose.
The villa is conveniently located on Laem Sor beach, close to many exciting beach clubs and restaurants in the area. There are, of course, a plethora of water activities you can indulge in or you can explore neighbouring islands like Koh Matsum and Koh Tan that can be reached on long-tail boats! Head to the fishing village of Thong Krut for an initiation into the Thai culinary scene.


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FiberFix: The $6 tool every overlander should have
Gear, Tools, Recovery and Safety
Chris Cordes / May 4th, 2016
The modern four-wheel drive enthusiast carries many tools, but few are as cheap or versatile as a good old roll of duct-tape. From repairing hoses and reattaching broken parts, to the crazy extremes of patching an airplane, this silver miracle can almost always find a way to get you home, or at least to the repair shop. There's no doubt that it has been the absolute king of odd-ball fixes since its invention, but now a new product is poised to usurp the throne. It's called FiberFix, and with a touted strength more than 100 times that of duct-tape, it is finding its way into tool boxes across the nation.
So what the heck is it? Simply put, FiberFix is a fiberglass based resin tape that is activated when soaked in water. It is resistant to temperatures up to 300° F, sand-able, paint-able, impact resistant, and even water-proof making it perfect for patching just about anything you could break off-road. Each package comes with a repair wrap, a set of gloves, strips of vinyl, squares of sand paper, and a set of instructions. The application is easy, requiring you to only wet the wrap and wait ten minutes for it to cure.
The original variety is available in three sizes, 1″ wide, 2″ wide, and 4″ wide rolls to address your various needs, however a rigid square patch version is also available. With successful repairs completed on items like powerboats and bicycle frames, we're beginning to wonder what field repairs we couldn't tackle with these. From fixing a cracked steering component to patching a hole in a differential, it would seem that many problems are now just ten minutes from a solution. Heck, it is even safe for potable water once cured!
Our one big reservation was high-heat applications, but it would appear that they thought of that too. FiberFix now offers an airtight waterproof roll rated up to a scorching 850° F, making it a perfect solution for cracked exhaust pipes or problems close to the engine block. We are particularly interested to see how this product performs, so we will be testing it on an exhaust leak currently plaguing our 300Tdi Discovery II. Look for that report in the next few months.
Unfortunately, there is no good solution for removing FiberFix once it has been used. The company states that they have tried everything from bench grinders to acetylene torches and it usually ended with them destroying the product they had fixed. So, needless to say that you'll want to think twice before throwing one of these repairs onto your truck. It will definitely be harder to remove than the sticky crud left over from duct-tape.
Although individual small wraps can be purchased for as little as $5.99, we would recommend picking up a pack of all three sizes for $21.19 from amazon here. The heat wrap is also available online, and costs just $8.85.
Duct-tape will always hold a special place in my heart and in my tool box, but for those big jobs where a heavy hitting solution is required, I think I'll be trying FiberFix.
The three types of FiberFix mentioned above are available at most major hardware stores, however Amazon has an affordable package deal and some lower prices.
FIBER FIX – Super Adhesive Tape – 3 Rolls: 1″, 2″ & 4″
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Like most Louisiana parents, you probably take your commitment to your children seriously. This includes your financial obligations. Even so, sometimes paying child support becomes a burden that you can't keep up with each month due to a variety of circumstances. Simply ignoring that obligation comes with some serious penalties that might jeopardize your work and personal life.
What could happen if I don't pay?
The amount you owe plus any overdue amounts could be taken out of your paycheck (a garnishment).
The state could seize your federal and state tax refunds.
The state could seize your property.
You could face suspension of your driver's license while you have overdue payments.
If you are a professional such as a doctor, lawyer or teacher, you could face suspension of your professional license.
If you have some sort of business license, the state could suspend it.
The measures taken to collect past due payments often depend on the amount you owe. In extreme cases, the court could sentence you to jail time. Fortunately, most jurisdictions are sensitive to the fact that you can't pay child support from behind bars, so courts often use this as a last resort.
Even if you don't live in the same state as your children or as the court that issued the most recent order, you could face these penalties.
As soon as you know that you can no longer make your payments in accordance with the order, you should go to the court to seek a modification of your current child support order. For instance, if you lost your job, you could ask the court to reduce or suspend your payments, at least until you obtain comparable employment to the job you lost. If your circumstances won't improve anytime soon, the court could permanently change the amount you owe.
It's crucial that you don't wait until you already have past due payments to seek help. A modification of your child support order only applies to future payments. You remain responsible for the payments you missed. You should also know that withholding child support due to a denial of visitation will not sway the court. Your financial obligations to your children remain separate from any issues you have with the other parent and your right to see your children.
If you file bankruptcy due to your financial situation, you can't discharge your past due child support payments. Your best course of action is to petition the court for relief if you can't make your payments. In order to do so, you need to prove a significant change in your circumstances. Having an attorney to advocate for you could increase your chances of proving to the court that you need help meeting your financial obligations to your children.


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Jesus's Burial and the Meaning of the Empty Tomb—John 19:38-20:10
Studies in John's Gospel—Lesson 43
by Reta Halteman Finger
A park just outside Jerusalem contains a first-century tomb with rolling stone. Photo by Reta Finger.
The burial of Jesus received such short shrift in our last lesson that I decided to highlight ancient Israelite burial customs as a way for us to better understand the meaning in John 19:38–20:10 of Jesus's burial and consequent resurrection "on the third day."
As noted before, Jesus's execution by crucifixion was thoroughly ignominious and shameful, attended only by peasant disciples, mostly women. But now, Joseph of Arimathea, a secret disciple of higher class and greater political clout, intercedes with Pilate for permission to bury the body (19:38). All four Gospels note the essential role of this Joseph, but Matthew alone says the tomb belonged to him (Mt 27:57-60). In contrast, John places the tomb in a garden near the site of crucifixion (Jn 19:41).
Joseph's companion is Nicodemus, the uncomprehending Pharisee from John 3 who later became a believer (see 7:50-52). By now Nicodemus is so convinced that Jesus is the son of God (3:16) that he brings a hundred pounds of myrrh and aloes—enough spices for a royal burial! (19:39-40).
Burial customs in first-century Palestine
We can learn much from biblical scholars who use insights from archaeology, anthropology, and sociology to better understand our texts in their first-century cultural context. Material on burial customs in the next three paragraphs is drawn from the Social Science Commentary on the Gospel of John by Bruce M. Malina and Richard L. Rohrbaugh (pp. 276-77). (see note below)
If they could afford it, Judeans buried their dead in a lengthy process. The first stage happened quickly, however. Between the last breath and sundown, the body was washed and anointed with spices, usually by women, and then laid on a shelf in a tomb cut out of the limestone bedrock around Jerusalem. Rites of mourning would begin at that time and continue for a full year. During that time, the flesh would rot away, leaving only the bones by the end of the year. This decomposition was necessary as a way for the person's sins to be expiated. "One's evil deeds were thought to be embedded in the flesh and to dissolve along with it," say Malina and Rohrbaugh (p. 276).
Mourning rites stopped at the end of a year, and the bones of the dead person were collected from the shelf in the tomb and placed in a "bone box," called an ossuary. These boxes were the length of the longest thigh bone, similar to a box for scrolls, so they could be easily stored.
In the first century, Jewish people thought that the bones retained the personality of the deceased, and that God would use the skeleton on which to support new flesh at the time of resurrection. (See a visionary description of this in Ezekiel 37:1-14.)
Though not all Jews believed in bodily resurrection at that time, it had become a common hope for many—especially after so many righteous, law-observant Jewish soldiers had been killed in the Maccabean War 200 years earlier (see Daniel 12:2 and 2 Maccabees 7:1-41). Even the bodies of executed criminals were placed in a special tomb set apart by the court for that purpose. Their bones were then returned to their families after a year. The rotting of the flesh signified the payment of the debt for their crimes so that their bones could become eligible for resurrection.
Tomb-robbing or divine intervention?
Example of a burial shelf inside a tomb cut into limestone rock.
Though no one knows exactly where Jesus was buried,
this photo (by Reta Finger) is from inside the Garden Tomb
in Jerusalem, Israel.
With this background, we can understand Mary Magdalene's consternation when she comes to the tomb and finds that the stone blocking the entrance has been rolled away (Jn 20:1). She immediately assumes that "they"—Jesus's opponents—have stolen the body so that it could not properly decay and thus be eligible for resurrection. She runs to Peter and "the other disciple" with the news. (The two men probably distrusted the testimony of a woman, but at least they ran to see for themselves! [20:2-4].)
In the next lesson we will focus more on the actions of these two male disciples, and especially on Mary Magdalene as the first witness to Jesus's resurrection. For now, let's just notice John 20:9, where these three disciples who see the empty tomb "did not understand the scripture that he must rise from the dead."
Although they did not understand, with hindsight we as readers can see the importance of Jesus's bodily resurrection "on the third day." Decay is already in process after the fourth day, as Martha tells Jesus at the tomb of Lazarus (John 11:39). But the body of Jesus did not need to putrefy in order to atone for his actions. Since God intervened before rotting started, God was revoking Jesus's death sentence! "To say that Jesus was raised is to say that God overturned the judgment of Israel's chief priests," write Malina and Rohrbaugh (p. 277). Thus God condemns "the rulers of this world" and vindicates everything that Jesus had said and done throughout this Gospel.
Further questions for discussion and reflection:
1. John's Gospel says nothing about Jesus's death as atonement for the sin of others, (although other NT writings suggest this, i.e., Hebrews 9:27-28). How does the theory of substitutionary atonement differ from this Gospel's vindication theology? Which explanation is more familiar to you? Can both contain truth?
2. Our burial customs are different today. Does that change the meaning of Jesus's life, death, and resurrection for us? Why or why not? What does it mean for you personally?
Note: For more information on Israelite burial customs, see L. Y. Rahmani, "Ancient Jerusalem's Funerary Customs and Tombs." Parts One, Two, Three, and Four are in the Biblical Archaeologist (Summer, Fall, Winter 1981, and Spring 1982). (return to body of text)
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gary February 12, 2015 at 10:45 pm
Jesus' resurrection after his death is the ultimate and defining proof of Jesus' divinity. Just about everyone knows the story, which is summarized in the Apostles' Creed. Jesus was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell. On the third day he arose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.
There is only one way for Jesus to prove that he rose from the dead. He had to appear to people. Therefore, several different places in the Bible describe Jesus' appearances after his death:
•Matthew chapter 28
•Mark chapter 16
•Luke chapter 24
•John Chapter 20 and 21
1 Corinthians 15:3-6 provides a nice summary of those passages, as written by Paul:
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
As you can see in this passage, Jesus appeared to hundreds of people a number of different times.
Being like Paul: When we look at these Bible passages, there is a question that comes to mind — why did Jesus stop making these appearances? Why isn't Jesus appearing today? It really is odd.
Obviously Paul benefitted from a personal meeting with the resurrected Christ. Because of the personal visit, Paul could see for himself the truth of the resurrection, and he could ask Jesus questions. So… Why doesn't Jesus appear to everyone and prove that he is resurrected, just like he appeared to Paul? There is nothing to stop Jesus from materializing in your kitchen tonight to have a personal chat with you.
And if you think about it, Jesus really does need to appear to each of us. If Paul needed a personal visit from Jesus to know that Jesus was resurrected, then why wouldn't you? It is an important question for the following reasons:
•We are told by the Bible that Jesus appeared to hundreds of people.
•We therefore know that it is OK for Jesus to appear to people — it does not take away their free will, for example.
•We know that it would be easy for Jesus to appear to everyone all through history, since Jesus is all-powerful and timeless.
•We know that, if Jesus did reappear to everyone, it would be incredibly helpful. We could all know, personally, that Jesus is resurrected and that Jesus is God. If Paul (and all the other people in the Bible) needed a personal visit to know that Jesus was resurrected, then why not you and me?
Yet, we all know that Jesus has not appeared to anyone in 2,000 years.
THINK, folks! Which is more likely: A dead man walked out of his grave 2,000 years ago, ate a broiled fish lunch with his fishing buddies and then 40 days later levitated into outer space, or, this entire story of a Resurrection is a legend: a legend based on false sightings and/or visions and hallucinations, of well-intentioned but uneducated, illiterate, hope-shattered, superstitious Galilean peasants, desperately trying to keep alive their only source of hope in their miserable, first century existence?
gary April 30, 2015 at 6:30 pm
Jesus' Tomb was not Guarded or Sealed the entire First Night!
Holy Grave Robbers!
I had never heard of this until today: How many Christians are aware that Jesus' grave was unguarded AND unsecured the entire first night after his crucifixion??? Isn't that a huge hole in the Christian explanation for the empty tomb?? Notice in this quote from Matthew chapter 27 below that the Pharisees do not ask Pilate for guards to guard the tomb until the next day after Jesus' crucifixion, and, even though Joseph of Arimethea had rolled a great stone in front of the tomb's door, he had not SEALED it shut!
Anyone could have stolen the body during those 12 hours!
The empty tomb "evidence" for the supernatural reanimation/resurrection of Jesus by Yahweh has a HUGE hole in it!
"When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus. 58 He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus; then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. 59 So Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth 60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock. He then rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb and went away. 61 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb.
The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate 63 and said, "Sir, we remember what that impostor said while he was still alive, 'After three days I will rise again.' 64 Therefore command the tomb to be made secure until the third day; otherwise his disciples may go and steal him away, and tell the people, 'He has been raised from the dead,' and the last deception would be worse than the first." 65 Pilate said to them, "You have a guard[a] of soldiers; go, make it as secure as you can."[b] 66 So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone."
So when did the guards show up to the tomb? Early the next morning or late in the afternoon? If late in the afternoon, the tomb of Jesus had been unguarded and unsealed for almost TWENTY FOUR hours!
The empty tomb is NOT good evidence for the resurrection claim. The most plausible explanation, based on the Bible itself, is that someone stole or moved the body!
gary June 18, 2016 at 6:11 pm
Are our pastors telling us the truth?
Are Christian pastors honest with their congregations regarding the evidence for the Resurrection? Is there really a "mountain of evidence" for the Resurrection as our pastors claim or is the belief in the Resurrection based on nothing more than assumptions, second century hearsay, superstitions, and giant leaps of faith?
You MUST read this Christian pastor's defense of the Resurrection and a review by one of his former parishioners, a man who lost his faith and is now a nonbeliever primarily due to the lack of good evidence for the Resurrection:
-A Review of LCMS Pastor John Bombaro's Defense of the Resurrection-
(copy and paste this article title into your browser to find and read this fascinating review of the evidence for the Resurrection)
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Arizona to require 100% carbon-free electricity by 2050
by Lisa Ellwood October 30, 2020 March 4, 2021
CLEAN ENERGY: Arizona regulators approve a measure requiring utilities to get all of their electricity from 100% carbon-free sources by 2050, with a benchmark of 50% by 2035. (Arizona Republic)
• Some advocates are concerned that an aggressive federal climate push could derail bipartisan progress on clean energy in states like Colorado. (Utility Dive)
• A Colorado utility says it remains committed to its 100% renewable energy pledge despite considering a plan for a new natural gas plant. (Mountain Town News)
• Western projects are included in Xcel Energy's plan to invest $1.4 billion in renewables initiatives between the end of 2020 and the second quarter of 2021. (S&P Global)
• Puget Sound Energy, facing pushback from regulators, calls off the sale of its share of the Colstrip power plant in Montana; a spokesperson says the utility is still committed to "get off coal as quickly as possible." (Billings Gazette, Seattle Times)
• The EPA approves a revised haze plan for Utah coal plants that advocates say will do nothing to reduce pollution. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Colorado regulators propose stopping the practice of natural gas flaring at oil wells by early 2022, a move that is supported by large producers. (Denver Business Journal)
• A Colorado county wants state regulators to suspend an extraction company's permits in a bid to prevent the drilling of new wills on protected lands. (Gillette Tribune)
• Oil industry spending on an Alaska ballot initiative aiming to increase oil taxes has reportedly reached more than $25 million. (Anchorage Daily News)
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• Nevada conservationists are concerned about how easy it is for corporations and individuals to secure oil and gas leases in the state. (Reno Gazette-Journal)
• PG&E warns shareholders it could be facing significant financial losses from California wildfires, four months after exiting bankruptcy. (Sacramento Bee)
• A former Cal Fire chief believes there will be many more deaths from wildfires caused by PG&E in the future, and says the utility's negligence with its equipment is "truly a crime." (ABC10)
TECHNOLOGY: The University of California San Diego is awarded a $39 million grant to improve the integration of distributed energy sources into the grid. (Green Car Congress)
ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Representatives of industries impacted by California's zero-emission vehicles mandate say they should have had more input into the process. (Sacramento Journal)
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Finding employment after college proved difficult for him though.
"No one wanted to hire me. I couldn't even get the jobs I didn't want," says our frustrated interloper who turned to English-teaching to make ends meet.
"But I wasn't cut out to be a teacher. I'm not a very outspoken guy you know." It was then when Kingsley decided to go back to school, pursue a master's degree, and follow his sempai's advice of entering the wondrous world of tech.
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Kandel steht für:
 Kandel (Pfalz), Kleinstadt in der Südpfalz im Landkreis Germersheim, Rheinland-Pfalz
 Verbandsgemeinde Kandel, Verbandsgemeinde mit Sitz in der Stadt Kandel

 Kandel (Berg) (1241,2 m), Berg im Mittleren Schwarzwald nahe Waldkirch, Landkreis Emmendingen, Baden-Württemberg
 Kandel (Weserbergland) (?? m), Höhenzug westlich der Weser bei Holzminden, Landkreis Holzminden, Niedersachsen

 Kandel (Abfluss), im süddeutschen Raum die Bezeichnung für einen (Wasser)-Abfluss
 Kandel (Rinschbach), Aquädukt zur Wiesenbewässerung im Tal des Rinschbachs (zur Seckach) südöstlich von Schlierstadt, Stadt Osterburken, Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg

Kandel ist der Familienname folgender Personen:
 David Kandel (~1520–~1590), Grafiker der Renaissance
 Denise Kandel (* 1933), US-amerikanische Sozialmedizinerin und Epidemiologin
 Eric Kandel (* 1929), US-amerikanischer Neurowissenschaftler österreichischer Herkunft
 Isaac Leon Kandel (1881–1965), US-amerikanischer Vergleichender Pädagoge
 Johannes Kandel (* 1950), deutscher Politikwissenschaftler und Historiker
 Lenore Kandel (* 1963), US-amerikanische Lyrikerin rumänisch-jüdischer Abstammung
 Norbert Kandel (* 1955), deutscher Journalist und Autor
 Sonja Lahnstein-Kandel (* 1950), deutsche Volkswirtin, Initiatorin und geschäftsführende Gesellschafterin von step21 – Initiative für Toleranz und Verantwortung

Siehe auch:
 Kandell

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Galaxy on Fire 2 HD Available for Blackberry Tablet
by Garv on July 5, 2012 at 11:41 pm
The game is already available for the iPad, and actually pretty fun, so now Blackberry Tablet owners can play as well. Pick up the game for $9.99.
Galaxy on Fire 2™ HD, the mobile science fiction benchmark on the App Store, is now also available for the latest tablet by BlackBerry®. In the course of the keynote of the BlackBerry World™, Galaxy on Fire 2™ HD had first been showcased on the BlackBerry® Playbook™ and is now available for that device for the price of $9.99. Due to its unique depth and quality, Fishlabs' epic outer space adventure is without doubt one of the undisputed top titles of the "Gaming" category of the BlackBerry App World.
With its complex 3D models for all space ships and space stations as well as its handmade backgrounds in High Definition and spectacular special FX, Galaxy on Fire 2™ HD offers an unprecedented gaming experience to the BlackBerry® gaming community. Since its release on iOS in October 2011, the action-packed space trader has become a worldwide bestseller on a variety of platforms and systems. Fans and media alike have written raving reviews for Galaxy on Fire 2™ HD and praised the title's extraordinary gameplay and state-of-the-art visuals.
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The Hobbit Film Trilogy Thread
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Peter Jackson comments on a movie version of The Hobbit. The short story: he doesn't expect the lawyers to work out a deal that'll let the movie be made in less than 4 years. Sounds like lawyers. :roll:
The Hunger Games Movie Series Thread
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I guess I'll start one. I think it's the best "blockbuster" style movie of the year. One where you can actually take the stakes seriously and care about what happens and make you feel something coming out of the cinema. The actors are all top notch and you can see everyone gave it their all to elevate the movies It can be accused of being a " teen romance" movie not worthy of older people's attention, but the Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies also had romance as central elements of the films .Personally, I do not think Hunger Games has anything to do with the Twilight franch
The Amazing Spider-man 2 (2014 Film)
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The villain will be Electro played by Jaime Foxx, and Harry Osbourn will be in the movie as well http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/25693/foxx-dehaan-confirmed-for-spider-man-2
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014 film directed by Bryan Singer)
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This movie doesn't have its own thread, but Fox has set the original X-Men director Bryan Singer to direct after X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn bailed... again. The film will come out July 2014. First Class cast members James McAvoy (Xavier), Michael Fassbender (Magneto), Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), and Nicholas Hoult (Beast) are reprising their roles in the sequel. Returning in supporting roles from the original X-Men trilogy are Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan. Hugh Jackman will also be involved, as are Anna Paquin, Shawn Ashmore, and Ellen Page. No word yet on whether Halle
The Battle of the Five Armies SPOILERS ALLOWED Discussion Thread
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So, since reviews are coming in, I thought a film discussion thread would be appropriate.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Underwhelming Prequels
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Which, in your opinion, is the most lacklustre entry out of the three most recent franchise prestige damaging movies? I would say AUJ by a considerable margin. Not only is it a shoe-in for the most visually repellent big budget movie of all time, but it also went out of its way to out-bloat the entire LotR EEs and King Kong put together. Never has there been such redundancy in moving pictures and such disrespect for the art of editing. And on top of all that you have a regurgitated and tedious score which makes James Horner look like Morrissey. Edit: I've changed my mind to Battle of the Fiv
Interstellar (2014 film directed by Christopher Nolan)
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After years of planning, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) launched in 2013. Institutions from around the United States contribute to the DPLA through regional "service hubs," entities that aggregate digital collections metadata for harvest by the DPLA. The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center has been one of these service hubs since the end of 2013. This article describes the technological side of being a service hub for the DPLA, from choosing metadata requirements and reviewing software, to the workflow used each month when providing hundreds of metadata feeds for DPLA harvest. The authors hope it will be of interest to those pursuing metadata aggregation, whether for the DPLA or for other purposes.
The Digital Public Library of America is a national digital library that aggregates digital collections metadata from around the United States, pulling in content from large institutions like the National Archives and Records Administration and HathiTrust as well as "service hubs" that compile records from small and large collections in a state or geographic area. This aggregated data is then available for search, and for reuse through the DPLA API. To date, over 7 million records are available — this number grows every month.
This article describes the technological side of working with the DPLA, specifically the process used by the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, which is the DPLA's service hub in North Carolina. It outlines what the Center discovered while choosing metadata requirements and reviewing software, as well as the workflow for providing hundreds of exposed OAI-PMH metadata feeds as a single stream for the DPLA. The authors hope it will be of interest to those pursuing metadata aggregation, whether for the DPLA or for other purposes.
Different states have created DPLA service hubs in different ways. North Carolina's DPLA service hub is the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, which was approached by the DPLA because the Center already served as a hub of sorts. Since 2010, the Center has provided digitization and digital publishing services to institutions throughout the state. Content from over 150 partners — from public libraries to local museums to large universities — is available on DigitalNC. In addition, North Carolina boasts a number of institutions hosting their own rich digital collections, and the Center has working relationships with many of these. Finally, the Center is supported by the State Library of North Carolina with funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, and by the UNC-Chapel Hill University Library. Charged by the State Library with providing statewide services and with statewide connections, the Center was a likely fit as a service hub. After a number of conversations with the DPLA and interested data providers, the Center began working as a hub in September 2013.
The DPLA's technical requirements for participation are straightforward: it asks that service hubs commit to being a "metadata aggregation point" for their community, and to "maintaining technology or technologies (such as OAI-PMH, Resource Sync, etc.) that allow for metadata to be shared with the DPLA on a regular, consistent basis."1 To begin sharing that metadata, the Digital Heritage Center had to evaluate, choose, and implement metadata schemas and encoding standards, workflows, and software that would fulfill this part of the hub agreement.
Harvest feeds from data providers on a monthly basis, and expose that metadata to DPLA in a single stream.
Figure 1 presents an overview of the current technical workflow used by the Center to share metadata from data providers around the state to the DPLA as a result of the steps just mentioned. It is this workflow which will be discussed individually for the remainder of this paper.
Figure 1: Workflow for contributing content to the DPLA.
Table 1: Minimum fields required by the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center for DPLA participation.
The DPLA, however, accepts and encourages a larger group of fields, in part because its user interface exposes and leverages fields like date, subject, and geographic coverage. Further, if provided by hubs, the DPLA in turn exposes fuller metadata records through its API — a service that features prominently in its mission.
The Digital Heritage Center began evaluating which fields it would require from data providers in light of the DPLA's requirements and recommendations. In making this decision, the Center also factored in its previous experience taking part in a local metadata aggregation project, NC ECHO. During that project, which took place in 2012, a handful of partners created a single search of digital collections metadata from across North Carolina. While describing that experience is outside of the scope of this paper, Center staff learned during that process that despite seeing high quality metadata, for each additional field included, aggregation, end-user display and data provider participation became exponentially more challenging. Balancing this lesson with the DPLA's requirements and interface features, the Center decided to keep required and recommended fields to a minimum, and to make additional core fields optional.
Next came the evaluation of metadata schemas to determine what type of metadata the Center would accept from data providers, as well as what it would pass on to the DPLA. The DPLA can and does accept a variety of schemas — Simple Dublin Core, Qualified Dublin Core, and MODS are the most frequently used to date. In addition, information about what other hubs had already chosen and their crosswalks was made freely available during planning. Through informal conversations, reviewing collections online, and due to work with NC ECHO, the Center knew that many of the digital collections around North Carolina provide metadata in Dublin Core (DC). CONTENTdm, OCLC's digital collections software, which supports Qualified DC, has a large market share in North Carolina. To help keep the barrier for participation low, Dublin Core was considered the best first choice for the schema the Center would ask institutions around the state to provide.
Digital Heritage Center staff then had to determine whether or not it would pass DC on to the DPLA, or transform DC to an alternative. There was some concern whether DC would be extensible enough if the Center ever decided to accept other formats. MODS, the Library of Congress' Metadata Object Description Schema, allows more detailed encoding of metadata. The Library of Congress' MODS site also provides a convenient crosswalk for MODS to DC. The Center was also able to take advantage of the work already done by the Boston Public Library, which was also providing metadata via MODS and whose crosswalk was shared with Center staff. For all of these reasons, it was decided that MODS instead of DC would be the schema used for the outgoing metadata stream from North Carolina.
Below is a table listing the crosswalk from Dublin Core to MODS, with all of the per-item metadata currently provided to the DPLA from North Carolina.
Table 2: Dublin Core to MODS crosswalk for metadata contributed to the DPLA.
These few additional required fields are either automatically derived from the provided metadata feeds or hard-coded by the Center.
Table 3: Additional MODS elements provided for each metadata record contributed to the DPLA.
Schedule harvesting and record updates.
In addition, the Center targeted standalone software solutions for evaluation. Aggregation solutions exist for Drupal and Wordpress — two content management systems used by the Center — but were less attractive because the Center was in the process of moving between content management systems both for web and repository content at the time it became a hub. A standalone system could remain divorced from the Center's own collections and web presence, and any changes those might undergo.
Finding available options was a complicated process; many content management systems can approximate an OAI-PMH harvester by allowing bulk import, then acting as an OAI provider. There are libraries for OAI-PMH harvesting alone available for a large number of programming languages, including PHP, Java and Perl, and a corresponding set of helpers for building an OAI-PMH provider on top of existing data. Some solutions are intended for use as a repository in their own right.
It was determined that REPOX, originally developed by the Technical University of Lisbon to help institutions aggregate data for the Europeana Digital Library , was the "best bet." As a self-contained Java application, REPOX presented a good fit for existing server architecture and in-house expertise and offered functionality most in line with requirements.
Table 5: Fulfillment of functional requirements by NCDHC-evaluated software.
As institutions around the state began providing their OAI-PMH feed addresses, it became clear that evaluating metadata for minimum requirements using the raw OAI-PMH output would be tedious and time consuming. Digital Heritage Center staff were interested in a way to quickly assess (1) the presence of required, recommended and optional fields and (2) the baseline quality of different metadata collections. In response, staff developed a "DC Mapping Checker" tool (See Figure 2). Upon inputting an OAI feed address and selecting an available set, the tool parses field data into columns for easy perusal. This helped staff determine if institutions had mapped fields correctly (for example, was dc:type incorrectly showing dc:format terms, a common discovery), if any anomalies like inappropriate special characters or markup were present in the metadata, and whether or not required fields were blank. Metadata quality beyond mapping accuracy and absence or presence of required fields was not rigorously reviewed. In some instances, basic observations were noted (such as missing optional fields) but only for future discussion and not as a barrier to initial ingest. Missing required metadata or anomalies were reported to the different data providers for evaluation and correction.
 A data-provider-specific stylesheet that incorporates  or .
For example, the Center's own feed, provided by CONTENTdm, would make use of the base CONTENTdm stylesheet  as part of its own "ncdhc" file . Figure 3 shows this concept graphically.
Figure 3: The two-tier stylesheet system, with examples from different types of data providers.
Base stylesheets  simply map the starting data format to the end-use data format (MODS). A simple DC (oai_dc) to MODS base stylesheet would, for each simple DC field, designate which MODS field to output — i.e., "when I come across a 'date' field, output a MODS 'dateCreated' field with the corresponding data."
Base stylesheets for specific content management systems  take the base stylesheet one step further, attempting to account for any platform-specific idiosyncrasies in output. For example, in CONTENTdm OAI-PMH feeds, multiple values for the same field are concatenated into one XML entry with semicolons in-between. The base oai_dc CONTENTdm stylesheet would say, "when I come across a 'date' field, separate semicolon-delimited values and output a MODS 'dateCreated' field for each."
A data provider's specific stylesheet  is used to insert data into all of that data provider's MODS records. This covers data that either doesn't exist in the original metadata records for good reason, or is stored in the original metadata record in a way that is particular to that provider. A good example of this is the DPLA-required "Owning Institution" field, as most institutions either do not provide this as a part of their records, or provide it in a field specific to the nature of their relationship to the physical materials. Once the appropriate stylesheets were created, they were added to REPOX.
REPOX has an in-browser graphical user interface. The view is organized by "Data Providers" (OAI-PMH feeds), under each of which is listed the data set(s) that have been added for aggregation. (See Figure 4.) Other details about each set are included: a user-defined set name, which schemas are applied to the set, how that set is ingested, the date and time of last ingest, the number of ingested records, and an icon that shows at-a-glance if the last ingest was successful. If ingests are scheduled, this date and time also appears.
Data providers are added first, followed by each set that the provider would like harvested. To do this, the OAI-PMH URL is included and the appropriate set(s) chosen. Each set is given a unique Record Set name and description. Finally, the appropriate stylesheet is applied.
Figure 5: Screenshot of the window used to add a data set.
Once all of the data provider's feeds have been added, Digital Heritage Center staff ingest the records. REPOX harvests the DC metadata and transforms it using the assigned MODS stylesheet. The MODS output is reviewed when the ingest is complete, to make sure all of the Dublin Core fields are represented correctly.
About a week before the DPLA wants to harvest the single stream of metadata from the North Carolina service hub, Center staff go through and re-ingest each set to make sure the hub provides the most up-to-date metadata. Any new collections requested by the data providers are also added. When the DPLA has finished its harvest, Center staff spot check the results on http://dp.la to make sure newly harvested content shows up correctly. This process occurs regularly on a monthly basis.
The Digital Heritage Center's success as a service hub to date is due in part because its feed is built expressly for and supplied only to the DPLA; it isn't a multi-purpose or publicly available feed at this time. Having a single consumer in mind made it easier to scope requirements. Also contributing to its success as a hub is the high quality and uniform nature of the largest digital collections in North Carolina. The decision was made to treat being a hub less like a professional sports team and more like intramurals: metadata requirements were set relatively low to encourage participation by all types of institutions. The idea was that representation should be as robust across the state as possible, leaving conversations about metadata enhancement for later dates.
Requiring few fields was a good decision for encouraging participation, however going forward it remains to be seen how much data providers would be interested in improving their metadata in more substantial ways (normalizing vocabulary terms across sets or institutions, clarifying rights statements, adding location data, etc.). Sharing metadata side-by-side with other institutions can lead to a bit of metadata anxiety; several institutions have held back sharing their "legacy" collections until they can make sure it's up to their current standards. Some have even used DPLA participation as an impetus for correcting metadata, like remapping fields to other Dublin Core elements or updating rights statements. In the end, MODS and Dublin Core were good choices because they are extensible and popular in North Carolina. States interested in accommodating a broader variety of metadata schemas or in requiring a larger number of fields would have to invest more time in creating stylesheets, and may also face reticence in sharing as dirty data comes to light.
REPOX has worked well for the Center. For those who have a working knowledge of OAI-PMH, simply adding and managing feed ingest is simple. Creating stylesheets requires expertise, however it should be noted that REPOX includes an XSLT "mapper" tool called XMApper, that purports to allow a drag-and-drop capability for creating stylesheets. Added functionality facilitating batch ingests and edits to sets would be helpful; right now most activities like scheduling harvests have to be done on a set-by-set basis. Finally, REPOX appears to only add new and remove deleted records on harvest. If a data provider edits an existing metadata record in their content management system and exposes it in the OAI-PMH feed, REPOX does not seem to pick up those changes. It's necessary to dump existing data and do a complete reharvest each month. The Center has approached REPOX developers about implementing some of these changes.
As a hub with 12 data providers, representing over 150 institutions, the Center is now both maintaining its current responsibilities as well as beginning to work with those in North Carolina who may not have an OAI-PMH feed exposing their metadata. In several cases these are large institutions with homegrown repositories and the technical expertise to create feeds from scratch. In other cases Center staff are talking with smaller institutions about the possibility of adding their metadata in other ways: REPOX can harvest data from local file systems or Z39.50.
The Center is looking forward to exploring some of the promise the DPLA offers with big data, both using North Carolina content as well as content from the DPLA as a whole. It is also looking to the DPLA to help drive conversations about metadata improvement and enhancement, in situations that seem appropriate and worthwhile for data reuse and consistency. In some ways, providing metadata as a hub may only be the beginning.
1 See DPLA, Become a Hub.
2 May require a plugin; plugin support for OAI-PMH and OAI PMH Static Repository XML is provided.
3 PKP-OHS natively supports crosswalking from arbitrary formats into Dublin Core; other crosswalks are possible with a non-native XSL implementation.
4 The REPOX UI has options that suggest that scheduling record updates is possible, but it doesn't seem to work in the Center's installation. Deleting and re-ingesting a data set refreshes the data (see "lessons learned" section).
5 A command-line harvesting utility is provided and may be run via cron job.
Lisa Gregory is the Digital Projects Librarian for the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, where she oversees digitization, metadata creation, and online publication of original materials contributed by cultural heritage institutions throughout North Carolina. She also serves as the Center's liaison to the Digital Public Library of America. Prior to the Digital Heritage Center, Gregory worked for the State Library of North Carolina's Digital Information Management Program.
Stephanie Williams is the Digital Project Programmer for the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, housed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She maintains the statewide digitization program's web site and digital object repositories and builds tools to aid digitization, description, and public service workflows. She completed an MSLS from the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008, with a focus on digital collections.