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Economic & Community Development
Reducing Emissions
Capturing CO2 with Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs)
Driving energy innovation with CCS solutions
Efficiently strip more than0of carbon dioxide emitted by natural gas-fired power plants
A new family of materials could help transform how the world reduces emissions.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and ExxonMobil have developed a new material called metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. Research is still in the early phase, but if commercialized, these MOFs could help capture more than 90% of the carbon dioxide natural gas power plants produce to generate electricity. That's quite an achievement, because CO2 in these natural gas streams is greatly diluted compared to that of exhaust streams from coal-powered plants, so removing these molecules can be challenging.
Research results have been peer reviewed and published in Science, one of the world's leading scientific journals. And it's yet another result of ExxonMobil's diverse portfolio of research focused on carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies.
CCS describes a collection of technologies that can remove CO2 emissions before they reach the atmosphere. That CO2 is then safely and permanently stored in depleted oil and natural gas reservoirs deep underground. One potential use of CCS is to capture emissions in the exhaust streams of power plants, which account for around 25% of global CO2 emissions.
Alongside renewables like solar and wind power, low-emission fuels and hydrogen, CCS is critical to helping reach society's goal of a lower-carbon energy future. The International Energy Agency has reported that the emission-reduction targets in the Paris Agreement cannot be met without CCS.1 And a recent Princeton University study concluded that the expansion of power plants – coupled with carbon capture and nuclear power – is key to forging affordable pathways toward net zero.
CCS is not new. ExxonMobil is the global leader in CCS technology, having captured more than 120 million metric tons2 of CO2 over the past 30 years. But what's new about the Berkeley-ExxonMobil breakthrough is the unique molecular structure of this porous material, which could be tailored to work in a wide range of facilities that emit CO2.
While promising, the MOF work is in its early stages and is part of longer-term research into fundamental science to support lower-emission technologies. ExxonMobil's focus on fundamental science – part of the company's industry-leading R&D portfolio – includes research led by the company's in-house scientists and with universities, national labs and other corporate partners.
Overcoming challenges to sustainable energy access and consumption
U.S. and Europe
This year alone, new natural gas-fired power plants in the United States and Europe will generate 31 gigawatts of electricity.
Another 10 gigawatts will come online from natural gas-fired power plants across Asia.5
Natural Gas power production
In India, where rolling blackouts impact millions of people6, plans are in development to boost power production by doubling the share of natural gas in the country's energy mix.7
By 2040 global electricity demand is projected to rise by 60%
Demand for energy – including electricity – will increase as communities recover from the pandemic and living standards continue to improve. In fact, by 2040 global electricity demand is projected to rise by 60%,3 and cleaner-burning natural gas will generate a growing portion of that new output. But with power generation accounting for a quarter of the world's GHG emissions,4 the challenge is meeting that demand for safe and reliable electricity while mitigating the risks associated with climate change.
To live up to its promise, CCS has to capture more CO2 with less energy, and that's the challenge researchers at Berkeley and ExxonMobil are working to meet with their ongoing research of this breakthrough MOF.
For more on the scientists and their carbon-capturing MOF, scroll down.
What are MOFs, and why could they be a powerful climate change solution?
For more than eight years, two scientists – Jeffrey Long of UC Berkeley and Simon Weston at ExxonMobil – and their teams have tested and retested their hypotheses of using MOFs' porous structure to capture CO2 efficiently.
The MOF is...
LARGE AND POROUS
At a molecular level, MOFs have some of the largest internal surface areas known to man. Unfolded, a gram of the material, roughly the weight of a paper clip, could cover an entire football field. The MOF's honeycomb structure of nano-sized pores can capture CO2 emissions like a sponge, and the high surface area-to-volume ratio makes it a potentially ideal material to support and improve current CCS technology.
VERSATILE & REUSABLE
MOFs can be designed using chemistry to create highly customizable materials that show promise in many applications, including CCS. At low temperatures, the molecules in the MOF form a solid bond with the CO2. Moderate heat then strips the CO2 molecules away to be collected and stored. Once cleared of the CO2, the MOF returns to its original state, making the material reusable even after repeated contact with the heat and steam that sweeps out the captured emissions.
MIRRORED BY NATURE
The MOF's pores are also lined with specific amine molecules that grab CO2 selectively through a unique mechanism. This capture mechanism resembles RuBisCO, a key enzyme found in plants that's responsible for one of the most effective carbon capture processes in nature: photosynthesis.
Mirroring a naturally occurring process known as cooperative binding, capturing a single CO2 molecule makes it easier for the MOF to bind other CO2 molecules until they are fully saturated. The capture process is also energy efficient, since collecting the CO2 off the material only requires steam that's already widely available in natural gas-fired power plants.
The research continues, but Long and Weston show that energy-efficient CCS by using MOFs may be possible.
The journey to researching a sustainable energy solution
The prospect of a "eureka moment" wasn't what drove Long, Weston and members of their teams to become scientists. Like many of their peers, they set out to build on their predecessors' work to contribute to understanding complex chemistry issues. While Long and Weston hoped their contributions would pave the way to a major discovery, they knew this line of work often takes years, if not decades.
So, when their work led to a discovery that could help solve one of the world's most urgent environmental challenges, it made for a truly life-changing moment.
Watch Weston, Long and Eugene Kim, a member of Long's research team who played a critical role in helping drive this discovery, explain what science means to them. Also, learn more about how the MOF they helped develop could turn natural gas into an even lower-emission fuel.
The chance to work on climate change, on CO2 capture specifically, and knowing that it could make a big difference to the world is an amazing opportunity.
- Simon Weston
Senior Research Associate, ExxonMobil
More research is required before the scientists and their teams can use their MOF at a prototype plant to test its performance in a real-world environment. Accelerating the deployment of CCS also requires the right set of regulatory and policy frameworks, including fiscal incentives, to spur investments in widespread CCS infrastructure.
Still, Long and Weston's research confirms that science and its deliberate process will continue to drive the world's transition to a lower-carbon energy future.
Learn more about how ExxonMobil is reducing operational emissions across the world.
1. International Energy Agency (IEA), "The world needs to build on the growing momentum behind carbon capture" https://www.iea.org/news/the-world-needs-to-build-on-the-growing-momentum-behind-carbon-capture
2. ExxonMobil, Exxonmobil.com https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/Energy-and-innovation/Carbon-capture-and-storage
3. International Energy Agency (IEA), "Electricity Market Report – December 2020" https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-market-report-december-2020/outlook-2021
6. Council on Energy Environment and Water (CEEW), "State of Electricity Access in India – October 2020" https://www.ceew.in/sites/default/files/CEEW%20-%20India%20Residential%20Energy%20Survey%20-%20State%20of%20Electricity%20Access%20%2005Oct20.pdf
7. International Energy Agency (IEA), "India Energy Outlook 2021" https://www.iea.org/reports/india-energy-outlook-2021
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A new addition to our Smiles Are Free bag of tricks, courtesy of Mike Abshier, is a virtual background system. I was put in charge of the equipment, and asked to test it out. Being the skeptic I was doubtful this would work, and be a viable piece of equipment. Although I have to admit, I was intrigued with the concept.
How it works — you place a 2.25″ slide transparency in the machine and it projects the image onto a special screen. The lamp works like a strobe, so you never see the image until it's exposed. There is a modeling lamp, but the only way to preview it through the lens. This allows you to alter a pose or reposition your model. The screen is about the same size as an 9′ backdrop. Your subjects stand a few feet in front of the screen. Miraculously, the background appears in your shot. There are some issues. Your strobes must be feathered away from the background. Any spill will wash out the background image.
The setup is involved and requires a lot of calibration to align all of the components.
Test 3, with me in the scene. One beauty dish with strobe, on low power. f/4 at 1/160, ISO 100.
The system works. Do I love it? Uh, not so much. Does it have possiblities? It might. I don't like locking my camera into a machine that can't move easily. This can be solved with more expense, but you are still limited in movement. I'm not a tripod shooter when I do portraiture. I like to move around and be spontaneous. This system locks you in. The backgrounds they offer are cheesy-wiz schmaltzy. It comes with about 22 backgrounds. You can buy more and they sell hundreds, or you can shoot your own film. This opens up some possibilities. I'll shoot some more and post soon. There may be one or two they provided that might have some merit, but most of them I don't like very much.
It's a very controlled system. Your lighting needs to be spot on and gelled to match the lighting in the projected image, otherwise, you look cut-and-pasted into the scene, as I do in the un-gelled example above. This takes some doing and a lot of experimentation.
Portability – the screen weighs a ton. It's actually two screens, sandwiched together. A silvery backing and black mesh in front. It rolls up into it's own holder and mounts to standard background stands. The projector mounts to heavy gear-head tripod. This thing also weighs a ton and has a fragile glass – beam-splitter mounted to it. It will need to be broken down and packed in an optional hard case, to be portable. It's a big deal to move it, set it up and transport. Not very practical.
If you are looking for a way to minimize Photoshop collage work (I happen to love Photoshop colgaging!), and like the idea of instantly changing a background scene, and providing a customer a quick, on-the-spot instant photo, there is a business model here. It reminds me of a mall photo studio where moms bring their babies. Ugh. In reality, you could actually make a business out of this thing. Is it creative? it could be, if you shoot your own backgrounds, have a wardrobe of accessories, makeup artists, costumes… whatever. Will I use it? Hmmmmm. For Smiles Are Free…, I might, since we now own it. For my own work or anything else… no.
THESE ARE TEST SHOTS ONLY and NOT indicative of my photography, creativity or skill. The background scene of a velour couch in the ugliest room I've ever seen, came with the system. It is absolutely awful. The shot is tilted…because i'm still figuring out how to align… and the color is off… no correction gels were used yet.
Check back again for more test shots.
Way technical for me. I Love your T-shirt!
Thanks Kendra! It's actually really easy to use. It's the initial setup, alignment and calibration that's difficult.
Once I got going with it, I had so much fun changing out the slides and getting an instantly new background in my photos.
I'm still forming an opinion, and part of me wants to like it. But when I look at the final images, they look contrived.
I do think there's potential to be creative. You can shoot your own film and project it. Could be cool.


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Getting Started | On Beyond Darwin - Chapter 1
I taught university-level Physics for over twenty years. During that period a new discipline, Computer Science, grew up and I was part of the pioneering development in this new field. Although my university work was then taken up completely with Computer Science, I still could not get Physics off my mind.
My Ph.D. degree in Physics at the University of Toronto involved making numerical calculations to try to understand the behavior of complex atoms. It was the need to do numerical calculations that first led me into the fascinating world of computers. Although electronic computers had been designed and built in the late forties, by the time I got my doctor's degree in 1949 I really had not heard anything about them.
Then, in 1952, the University of Toronto acquired one of the first two electronic computers ever marketed commercially. It was a Ferranti Mark I computer, a copy of the one at the University of Manchester. In a short space of time I was up to my ears in writing programs, designing operating systems, and developing a new programming language so that more scientists could take advantage of this marvellous new tool for research.
In the process, I got distracted from my own Physics research calculations and was caught up in the birth pains of a new science. Because Computer Science did not become a discipline, recognized by the University of Toronto, until 1964, I remained in the Department of Physics and taught courses in Physics exclusively.
My research interests lay in Computer Science, but as a Physicist, my main role was that of a teacher. In that role I had the good fortune to collaborate with Professor Donald G. Ivey in some very exciting projects in Physics education. This activity ran in parallel with my computer work.
Just as computers were a technological development I knew nothing about until I had finished my formal education, another electronic advance, television, burst upon me quite unexpectedly. In Canada, television was just in its infancy in 1958 when Dr. Ivey and I were invited to prepare and present a series of twelve half-hour programs on Physics for a general audience. I suppose you would call it educational TV. It was to be broadcast, as an early-evening series, on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) station in Toronto. The programs were recorded on film by a process called kinescope. This meant that a movie camera—black and white, of course—was aimed at a tiny TV screen and the program recorded. The film was not to be edited, so the performance was effectively live on film . It was a fantastic experience. To be allowed complete control over the content and presentation for twelve half hours of—local—prime time television was quite a challenge! We loved it; and, as it turned out, the audience loved us.
In the summer of 1959, Don Ivey and I went live over the entire CBC network and most of its affiliated stations, at 10:30 at night, in a second twelve-week series called Two for Physics . Again, the two of us had complete charge of content and presentation. What an opportunity for us! Presenting our subject to an audience larger than any professor could hope to meet in a lifetime of teaching. What a responsibility—to the scientific community and to the University of Toronto!
We tried to present science, and by that I mean physical science, as a human activity that every reasonably well-educated person should know something about. Physics is complicated, and it is not easy to reduce all the technical terminology and mathematical formalism to terms that are accessible to anyone with an open mind. But, our goal was to do our damnedest. Somehow our public, which remember was a minority audience, understood what we were trying to do. They often wrote to us saying "We don't understand everything you say, but don't stop trying."
We really tried to explain Physics in ordinary words and that meant that we had to rethink it for ourselves. No longer could we hide behind terms like kinetic energy or impedance and expect successful communication. Formulas were used only occasionally. We presented Physics without all the paraphernalia that goes with it in an ordinary university course.
Our television work was rebroadcast over the Public Broadcasting System in the United States and, on a Boston channel, caught the eye of Stephen White who was working with the Physical Science Study Committee (PSSC) in its films for high schools program. This led to our making four movies for PSSC. The first of these, Frames of Reference , was given the Edison award as the best science education film for 1962. Another, Random Events , got a silver medal from the Scientific Institute in Rome.
The experience with PSSC, and particularly with masterminds like Professors Jerrold R. Zacharias and Francis L. Friedman, gave us a whole new insight into Physics education. They were rethinking what was to be taught in high schools. Tradition be damned; everything must be rethought; nothing taken for granted. It had really never occurred to me that I could rethink Physics—perhaps the presentation of physics, but not the subject itself. It was an overwhelming sense of responsibility that it gave us, and an unbelievable feeling of freedom. I had never really questioned fundamentals in Physics. Now I can't stop. I sympathize with Descartes, the founder of analytic geometry, who believed in the maxim of doubting everything that had up to his time passed as established truth! I became an inveterate doubter.
As I continued to teach Physics, more and more of the established textbook material seemed suspect. Ernst Mach in his unconventional textbook on Heat , published near the end of the nineteenth century, catches my mood as he writes:
Many a reader must have had the experience that, relating generally accepted viewpoints with a certain enthusiasm, he suddenly realizes that the matter no longer comes from the heart. Quiet considerations afterwards usually lead to the discovery of logical discrepancies that once admitted become unbearable.
After we had finished with our television and film work which lasted six years, Dr. Ivey and I launched into a very ambitious project—to write a university-level textbook in Physics. The text—actually in two volumes—was to be based on the PSSC philosophy of questioning, rethinking, and reworking fundamental physics, this time for serious university students in the physical sciences and engineering.
Many of the logical discrepancies I found in Physics have been worked through in our text. We had, as in our television programs, the idea of presenting Physics in all its complexity, not simplifying it just so that it could be easily digested. We presented it in as organized and systematic a way as we could so that a maximum understanding would be possible. The book was published, received excellent reviews, but was not a runaway best seller.
Our job as university professors is to pass along accumulated knowledge so that it can be used by the next generation of scientists as they approach research or apply the information in industrial situations. Well-understood half-truths will not do, unless you believe that a truth half-understood is no better. But, there is the chance that some bright young students will go well beyond half-understanding and that is why we wrote as we did.
Truth is a dangerous word. First of all I am limiting the word truth to the realm of science. I am referring to scientific truth rather than philosophical truth which is a much more general idea encompassing a much broader view of reality. By scientific truth, I mean "the best available interpretation of facts that we have at the moment." This permits the possibility that we will have a better interpretation of presently available facts, or that we will, in the future, have more facts which may precipitate a reinterpretation. All scientists recognize the tentative character of their scientific knowledge.
This meaning of scientific truth is relative to the current situation, not absolute scientific truth. There might even be two competing interpretations of available facts with no more merit in one than the other. Then to me both interpretations are "true".
We, as scientists, live in a constantly changing world and our science —or knowledge of the world—is constantly evolving. As Mach puts it, we know we are not finished and we live with the idea:
The highest philosophy of the scientific investigation is precisely this toleration of an incomplete conception of the world and a preference for it rather than an apparently perfect, but inadequate conception [1].
Some scientists believe that there is an absolute scientific truth and that our present scientific truth is coming closer and closer to this absolute. But, I really believe that the notion of an ultimately knowable absolute scientific truth is not appropriate. The idea that we are coming closer, by degrees, toward a true truth is no doubt encouraged by the fact that many of our scientific interpretations—or theories—are evolved from earlier ones. But, there are many counter examples to this idea of a gradual approach to scientific truth. Some abrupt changes in theory have been more revolutionary than evolutionary. Some of them might have been more revolutionary than they needed to be. For example, the quantum theory of the atom was a complete break with scientific tradition. The traditional is sometimes referred to as classical , the revolutionary view of quantum theory as modern .
But theories, call them classical or modern, are interpretations of certain observed facts about the world. These interpretations depend on what facts just happen to be known at any particular time and on the personality of and influences on the scientist. As Thomas Kuhn, the modern philosopher and historian of science, puts it in his book on scientific revolutions:
An apparently arbitrary element, compounded of personal and historical accident, is always a formative ingredient of the beliefs espoused by a given scientific community at a given time. [2]
As science develops, it seems to evolve or revolve on the chance discoveries of fact and the chance nature and influences of the people interpreting the facts. But from these chance events emerges a kind of pattern, an orderliness that some people call the scientific method. Although what this method is I cannot describe concisely.
Most scientists are engaged in what Kuhn calls "normal science," adding to and evolving what is already there. The results of their experiments or theoretical analyses are published in learned journals so that other scientists need not waste time duplicating the same work. And so the body of knowledge grows. Most of this publication is virtually inaccessible to the public. It is written for an entirely different audience. Much of it is inaccessible to scientists outside the narrow field of specialization, and people live in scientific compartments separated from—if not alienated from—other scientists even in the same discipline, such as Physics. This specialization has become a way of life, since each separate area is extremely complex and often requires a lifetime of concentration to make significant advances.
But there are breakthroughs, often from outside the scientific establishment. Commenting on Einstein's revolutionary paper published in 1905 on what is known now as special relativity, C.P. Snow notes that its style was not what is normally wanted in scientific journals. Einstein, he said, had a strange poetic freedom and very little mathematics. It would probably not be accepted in today's journals. But who is to say?
If one has an idea which departs in a major way from the current scientific model, or paradigm, of the world, it is often vigorously resisted by scientists practising normal science, the establishment. And so it should be. We cannot afford to have the orderly development of knowledge sent this way and that like a ship without a rudder every time some crackpot has an idea. Most ideas, like most mutations in biological evolution, are not viable. But, some ideas are viable, Einstein's for example.
By this time, you can probably tell that I have an idea. It evolved over a period of twenty years. Pieces of it I unsuccessfully have tried to publish in journals—a fact that proves nothing one way or another. My only recourse is to put the case as clearly as I can in a book, a book that is accessible to as many people as possible. This is somewhat of a scientific no-no. As Kuhn points out:
No longer will his [a creative scientist's] researches usually be embodied in books addressed like Franklin's Experiments… on Electricity or Darwin's Origin of Species , to anyone who might be interested in the subject matter of the field. Instead, they will usually appear as brief articles addressed only to professional colleagues, the men whose knowledge of a shared paradigm can be assumed and who prove to be the only ones able to read the papers addressed to them.
Today in the sciences, books are usually either texts or retrospective reflections upon one aspect or another of the scientific life. The scientist who writes one is more likely to find his professional reputation impaired than enhanced. [3]
The state of my reputation will have to take its chances! I have this idea and would at least like someone to give it a hearing. I am encouraged by that old saying "The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent." I cannot remain silent any longer.
But what is the idea? Can I not state it in so many words? Obviously, I must come at it several different ways but let me make a first attempt. The subtitle of this book is called By Chance or By Design and it refers to the universe. Is the present state of the universe the result of chance or design?
I believe that physical science, as it is practised by the establishment, is based on the premise that there is a design in the universe and that the design is discernible by man. I will argue that this widely held premise has its roots in theological thinking and, if closely examined, cannot be supported by actual evidence. It is my thesis that whether or not there is a design is what we in Computer Science call an undecidable question. From our position inside the thing that we are studying, I believe that it is—and always will be—impossible to decide whether it is by chance or design—or even by a mixture of chance and design—that we are here.
What is more important, the assumption that there is discernible design in the universe stops scientists from investigating beyond a certain point. They accept the laws that they have discovered—or contrived—as sufficient explanation of the way things are, and are inclined not to examine them as critically as they ought. In the end, this may hold them back in their attempt to accumulate knowledge about the universe.
For me, general laws imply design and I will try to show that there are no discernible general laws. I will describe how, in the process of looking at laws differently, I was led to a serious reappraisal of many of the well-established ideas in physical science.
Let me quote Charles Darwin in a letter to his friend Joseph Hooker:
I have been now ever since my return [from the voyage on the Beagle] engaged in a very presumptuous work, and I know no one individual who would not say a very foolish one… At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. [4]
Darwin said species are not immutable. By this statement, he was refuting the idea that each species had been designed to fit neatly into its own special place in the overall scheme of creation. But, Darwin still believed that behind evolution there lay laws that govern that evolution. In particular he believed that laws, such as the law of gravity, govern the behavior of the physical world. My thesis is that the evidence of design in the physical world that we have through the existence of laws is an illusion; that there is no evidence of a plan of creation or unity of design in any scientific knowledge that we have.
I return to Darwin, this time from The Origin of Species which was first published in 1859:
Although I am fully convinced of the truth of the views given in this volume under the form of an abstract, I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists whose minds are stocked with a multitude of facts all viewed, during a long course of years, from a point of view directly opposite to mine. It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the "plan of creation," "unity of design," etc., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact. Anyone whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of a certain number of facts will certainly reject my theory. A few naturalists, endowed with much flexibility of mind, and who have already begun to doubt on the immutability of species, may be influenced by the volume; but I look with confidence to the future, to young and rising naturalists, who will be able to view both sides of the question with impartiality. [5]
Scientists see order in the world; without order there could be no science. This order stems, most say, from the existence of laws that govern the behavior of all matter. Some will say instead that the laws describe the behavior, not govern it; but the result is about the same. General or universal laws that describe—or govern—the behavior of a large class of different objects seem to indicate design. But, I claim all these general laws, when closely examined, can be shown not to be general laws.
In this chapter I have introduced myself as a somewhat unconventional scientist, not without credentials. I have indicated some of the influences on my thinking because I believe that it is important to be aware of the environment of scientific thought. One of my principal points later on is that we have too often ignored the environment, in say a physical interaction between two objects, as if it did not matter. Surely, one of the major points of Darwin's theory of evolution is that the environment matters. Darwin, in several important ways, is a starting point for me and in the next chapter I will show how my ideas about the inanimate world are a logical extension of his ideas about the animate world.
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Military Monday- 761st Tank Battalion
Levi G."Yogi" Bough (1921-2008) was the son of Julius C. Bough and Caroline Gasper-Bough, and my mothers' brother. Born on St Croix, US Virgin Islands, later migrated with his family to New York City and enlisted with the US Army in April of 1942. My uncle was a member of the 761st Tank Battalion an independent tank battalion of the US Army, known as the Black Panther Tank consisting of mainly African-Americans. Their motto was "Come out Fighting" The tank unit trained at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, and Camp Hood, Texas. During the Battle of the Bulge Germany, the 761st was assigned to General George S. Patton, Jr. Private First Class, Levi Bough was a member of the 761st fine Orchestra as well as worked with the communications section.
After the war, Levi enrolled and graduated at St. Francis College, NY. In 1950, his family settled in Switzerland. Once there he attended the University of Lausanne and ultimately became a Swiss citizen. Levi's many years in Europe somewhat isolated him from the happenings of his army buddies. Although my uncle had taken very few trips to the states, he had not connected with the 761st members.
Thanks to the internet we "stumble upon" the 761st web site. In 2006, I made a contact with the 761st Tank Battalion Historian Wayne D Robinson and put him in contact with my Uncle. I could hear the excitement in Robinson voice to learn about a surviving member of the 761st. He spoke with Levi often and wished for him to come to the states for the reunion that year. After reconnecting and speaking with Wayne Robinson, much of his conversation was about the 761st he spoke about the particulars, playing the violin in the orchestra, and the battles of racism.
My Uncle began sending me many articles about his life, pictures, including the book "Come out Fighting which I treasure. Wayne wanted him to attend the Reunion in Texas, by 2006; my uncle was too weak to travel stateside. Oh how much I wish he could attend the 761st reunion because I know how proud and how much that part of his life meant to him. I can only imagine how it would have been seeing and discussing the activities of the members of the 761st after over 50 years. Although he was not at the 2006 reunion his heart and mind stayed on the event.
In May of 2008, Levi G. "Yogi" Bough died and was buried in Lugano Switzerland. He was 87 years old.
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As I continue to search out my history, I am discovering how much I did not know. The more information disclosed about my ancestry, the more I learn and understand how I am the person that has evolved today. My family's research efforts have taken me on an enlightening journey back through the past in the U. S. Virgin Islands (formerly Danish West Indies) and Coastal Georgia. As with most people of Afro-Caribbean descent, my ancestry stems from peoples brought together by colonialism and conquest; it stems from people thrown together, albeit forcibly, by the throes of enslavement. As a result, my DNA tells me that my people originate in Africa, Europe, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Lesser Antilles, and Leeward Caribbean Islands. Two collections made my dream to research my ancestors in the Danish West Indies a reality. I have conducted extensive research using the St. Croix Population Database 1734-1917, a St. Croix African Roots Project product, and a research and document transcription effort sponsored by the Virgin Islands Social History Associates (VISHA). The other catalyst has been accessing the extensive photo, manuscript, and microfilm collections at the Library and Archives of the St. Croix Landmarks Society at Estate Whim in St. Croix. My heartfelt thanks go to all my cousins, extended "cousin-family," friends, and research colleagues from the St. Croix-based Virgin Islands Ancestry Discovery Group, for their input and collaboration. I also want to thank the UJima Genealogy Group in Coastal Georgia and GlynnGen.com; webmaster Amy Hendrick has introduced me to Southern History and its people. This site allows you to transform yourself to a time during the Danish period (1734-1917) when life was both complex and straightforward. If you have any questions, comments, or need assistance searching for a Danish West Indies ancestor, I invite you to drop me an email. Its.sheldew@gmail.com I especially appreciate the followers' encouragement.
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claimingkin says:
Shellye I thoroughly enjoyed reading about the military life of your uncle- Levi "Yogi" Bough!! I love his name sis!!
I am so glad you shared his legacy with us today as we celebrate Veterans Day! That 761 Tank Battalion was a force to be reckoned with!!! I also understand why your uncle made the decision not to come back to the US after serving this country too! As you know, my father did not like the segregated US Army . . . but to serve his country the way he did to return back to a Jim Crow way of life in the South was difficult!
shelley@minkyadoo says:
I remember the tribute you gave to your Dad for his military service. From that post I knew that he like my Uncle experienced the struggle of proving their worth in the segregated US Army.
Louella Smith-Rabsatt says:
What a wonderful story about your uncle!! I'm sure great memories for you, the family, friends, and those who served with him. Also, happy that there's a book, with the story, for other generations to read and for those who served to share with all of us. Thanks for the post….I'd love to read the book!
It has been a pleasure to share this story, For the book 'Come out fighting" you can probably get some information on their website http://www.761st.com By the way Kareem Jabar the basketball player wrote a book on this tank unit as sell. Thanks for your visit.
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James Joyce: A Life
by Edna O'BrienEdna O'Brien
"Joyce fans should thank their lucky stars." -The New York Times
Arguably the most influential writer of the twentieth century, James Joyce continues to inspire writers, readers, and thinkers today. Now Edna O'Brien, herself one of Ireland's great writers, approaches the master as only a fellow countryman can. From Joyce's adolescence through his travels abroad to the publication of Ulysses-the scandalous masterpiece that was initially banned in the U nited States but later hailed as one of the most brilliant novels of the twentieth century-O'Brien traces the arc of Joyce's remarkable life. Her biography is a tribute, at once affectionate and stern, from a contemporary writer to one of our most significant literary ancestors.
Edna O'Brien is the author of numerous books, including The Country Girls Trilogy, The Light of the Evening, Byron in Love, and House of Splendid Isolation. She is the recipient of the James Joyce Ulysses Medal. She lives in London, England.
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nbmars on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
James Joyce, the phenomenal Irish writer, was born in 1882 and died in 1941 at age 59, probably a great accomplishment considering the amount he drank in his lifetime. Joyce lived mostly in poverty, partly because of the impoverishment of the family in which he grew up, and partly due to his own alcoholism and extravagance. As an adult, there were many times when he could only pay rent by the day. His life partner and later wife Nora Barnacle would sit in a café or park all day holding their first child, waiting to hear where they could sleep. (And yet O¿Brien characterizes Barnacle as morose and mopey and castigates her for ¿weakening [Joyce¿s] natural cheerfulness.¿) Once Nora delivered a letter to Joyce at his workplace complaining about their circumstances and he responded by blowing his nose in it. [Why she didn¿t leave him seems like a very interesting topic to me, but O¿Brien did not address it, perhaps because her sympathies are unquestionably with Joyce.]Joyce borrowed incessantly from everyone he could, alternately begging, flattering, and abusing would-be lenders. Somehow, he always found people willing to let him take advantage of them. Joyce, O¿Brien observes in understatement, ¿loathed responsibility.¿ Later in life, Joyce found a patron, a Miss Weaver, who loaned him close to a million dollars in today¿s money. O¿Brien writes approvingly that Miss Weaver never asked for anything in return, whereas she seems rather disgusted that Sylvia Beach (of the famous bookstore Shakespeare and Company) who helped Joyce get published ¿wanted a share in the glory¿¿Joyce¿s romantic relationship with Nora began on June 16, 1904, and the date of their first liaison is now celebrated around the world as Bloomsday, as it is also the date Joyce used for his circadian masterpiece featuring Leopold Bloom, Ulysses.Of Ulysses O¿Brien writes: "Language is the hero and heroine, language in constant fluxion and with a dazzling virtuosity. All the given notion [sic] about story, character, plot, and human polarizings are capsized. By comparison, most other works of fiction are pusillanimous.""He said he had all the words, it was simply a question of putting them in the right order. He would pore over each word not only for its rhythm, its sense, its aptness, its beauty, its vulgarity, its myriad associativeness, but sometimes for its prophetic core. Every word, like every image, was up for investigation. Even then he was dissatisfied. He wanted a language above all languages, he refused to be enclosed in any tradition. He wanted to be God.""He would astound his readers. he would bring them to a pitch of consciousness where they had not gone before. Not for him the 'experimentation' of Marcel Proust, of whom he said: 'Analytic still life. Reader knows end of sentence before him.' He would breach unknown frontiers."O¿Brien is merciless with detractors of Ulysses. As she points out, it took Joyce ¿seven years of unbroken labor, twenty thousand hours of work, havoc to brain and body, nerves, agitation, fainting fits, [and] numerous eye complaints ¿.¿ There is certainly no question that Joyce put a great deal of work into his book, but I don¿t think his sufferings in that regard automatically disqualify any criticisms. However, O¿Brien's sensitivity pales next to Joyce's, who not only craved flattery and appreciation, but never forgot an insult, penning the offending persons into his books as unflattering characters. O¿Brien also talks a bit about Finnegans Wake, suggesting correctly that ¿If Ulysses had angered people, this new work would send them into paroxysms¿ with each reader needing ¿to make a daring leap to construe meaning¿ from the text. In writing this book, O¿Brien said of Joyce that ¿he was determined to break the barrier between conscious and unconscious, to do in waking life what others do in sleep.¿ But when O¿Brien calls one of the characters in the book ¿the most
mt256 on LibraryThing More than 1 year ago
James Joyce was an author who could easily have been classified as mad or brilliant or perhaps both. Edna O'Brien gives us a glimpse into James Joyce's unconventional life in her novel, James Joyce: A Life. I wanted to read this book because James Joyce is on my list of authors whose books I need to read. I've had Dubliners sitting on my shelf unread for the longest time. However I have managed to read a few of his works so I didn't feel totally unprepared. Edna O'Brien touches on various points in Joyce's life from birth to death. From Joyce's dysfunctional family life to his volatile marriage to his wife, Nora. O'Brien includes many interesting facts about Joyce's rise to fame. His peculiar tendencies and his prideful nature.I think if I had read more of Joyce's novels before hand it would have helped me to decipher and make the character connections even more so. O'Brien did a fairly good job in trying to correlate the influences in Joyce's life to the characters in his novels. This is also a short biography so it doesn't go into great detail about Joyce's life. However this is a great introduction to James Joyce. Overall this is a good read. It's an insightful look into one of literature's treasures. This biography is really enjoyable and I'm so glad that I read it. Now it's time to dust Dubliners off the shelf.
Marcie77 More than 1 year ago
James Joyce was an author who could easily have been classified as mad or brilliant or perhaps both. Edna O'Brien gives us a glimpse into James Joyce's unconventional life in her novel, James Joyce: A Life. I wanted to read this book because James Joyce is on my list of authors whose books I need to read. I've had Dubliners sitting on my shelf unread for the longest time. However I have managed to read a few of his works so I didn't feel totally unprepared. Edna O'Brien touches on various points in Joyce's life from birth to death. From Joyce's dysfunctional family life to his volatile marriage to his wife, Nora. O'Brien includes many interesting facts about Joyce's rise to fame. His peculiar tendencies and his prideful nature. I think if I had read more of Joyce's novels before hand it would have helped me to decipher and make the character connections even more so. O'Brien did a fairly good job in trying to correlate the influences in Joyce's life to the characters in his novels. This is also a short biography so it doesn't go into great detail about Joyce's life. However this is a great introduction to James Joyce. Overall this is a good read. It's an insightful look into one of literature's treasures. This biography is really enjoyable and I'm so glad that I read it. Now it's time to dust Dubliners off the shelf.
literarymuseVC More than 1 year ago
Emotionally bereft, haunted by poverty, cynical of religion and politics, James Joyce spends his whole life determined to grasp every experience to its dregs. Edna O'Brien masterfully conveys how these attitudes and consequent behaviors both attracted and repulsed professional and consumer readers throughout Joyce's stressful, conflict-ridden life. In the beginning of his life, he moves from being an ardent Catholic to one who projects his hatred of his own lusts upon the priests who formerly inspired him. A fluctuating love-hate relationship exists between him and the predominant political leaders of his time as well. Yet O'Brien doesn't allow the reader to forget that he passionately loved the land he was to reject for most of his tortured life, condemning them as he wrote, "Poets were the keepers of spirituality and priests the destroyers and usurpers." Ibsen is Joyce's first love, sharing with him a hatred of hypocrisy and falsity. Joyce read voraciously throughout his whole life, and it is that knowledge as well as every facet of his own world that will fill the pages of Ulysses, the work he is most famous for crafting. Support and rejection fluctuate from Joyce's family, including his closest brother Stanislaus. O'Brien calls the relationship with Joyce's mother, as with all brilliant writers, "the uncharted deep." For Joyce it was an association of the Host of Catholicism, the prostitutes and his mother's tenderness," hardly associations yielding a good connection to family, romance, and religion. He will wed Nora Barnacle and their marriage will be full of attraction and repulsion as life becomes more ordinary when the writer can revel only in the extraordinary, unique, and almost frenetic moments that give purpose to his understanding and writing. Memory and exile are the elements fueling the pages of his novels and stories, to which one must add knowledge. O'Brien takes us through each work Joyce constructed, the reactions of individuals and Ireland and the difficulties in publishing Joyce knew, chiefly because of what was perceived to be criticism highlighted with the most obscene language and images. Sexual passion continues to fuel his life with Nora, a woman who pleased him in this one way but could never even come close to understanding his mind. His family life is even more stressed later on with the mental instability of his daughter, Lucia, a woman who finally is committed yet who remarkably resembles her father in so many of her ramblings and associations. While many know the highlights of James Joyce's life, Edna O'Brien presents her knowledge and analysis with aplomb, implying with depth the undercurrents of Joyce's mind and soul, while stating the obvious; interpreting and making connections that the average reader might miss while again implying that so few truly understood what drove Joyce's scurrilous and debasing depiction of life's grand and sordid aspects. Brief but potent,O'Brien's biography of James Joyce is a phenomenal read about an unfathomable writer - both are brilliant, indeed!!!
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Edna O'Brien is a truly outstanding writer, and she has a great subject which she certainly has a great deal of enthusiasm for. I thought therefore that this book would be terrific. It was good, but it fell short, and in the end did not give me personally any great insight into Joyce the man, or Joyce's work. I years ago read what I believe is still the best biography, Richard Ellmann's and so know much of the story. I also know Joyce's work fairly well. O'Brien lets down here the most . I did however learn a couple of important things about Joyce's life I had not known.One is how much his connection with his father meant to him, even in the years of exile. The second is the high intensity of his sexual relationship with Nora. The book says very little about Joyce's relation to his son, Georgio. It does tell the story of Joyce's painfully sad relationship with the daughter Lucia. O'Brien again is an excellent writer with a great feel for the language. But here too I was disappointed as she did not cite so many of the truly great Joyce passages, and instead selected those ( even in Finnegan's Wake ) which it seems to me are of lesser importance.And this as if to indicate that one of the anticipated pleasures of reading a biography of a writer whose work one knows is the opportunity to meet again familiar passages, and take pleasure in them. Where in this book is ' forge in the smitty of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race' or ' epiphanies on green oval leaves ' or that most moving ending of ' carry me along taddy like you done at the toy fair 'and the great close of ' a way a lone a last a long the ' The great poetic beauty of the Joycean flow , and its riversong is however brought out in her reading of Anna Livia Plurabelle. Nothing of substance is said about 'Dubliners' or ' Portrait of the Artist' and she does not tell his story as it might be told in terms of the career in creation of his works.


A Brazilian flamingo will no longer have to stand on just one leg.
Zookeepers at the Sorocaba Zoo in southeastern Brazil fitted a Chilean flamingo with a prosthetic leg, which was donated by a local prosthesis manufacturer after the 6-year-old bird fractured it a month ago.
"To prevent an infection from setting in and spreading to the rest of his body, which would have killed him, we decided to amputate the leg and give him the prosthesis," said the zoo's veterinarian, Andre Costa, who performed the surgery on the bird.
The zookeepers have never heard of another bird getting a prosthetic leg, so they believe that this is the first time the operation has been performed.
Costa wasn't exactly sure how the bird injured his leg, but he blames aggressive cranes, which tend to be territorial, or a clumsy pelican, both which share an enclosure with the flamingo.
Although flamingos are known for standing on just one leg, zookeepers say that the bird would have little chance of survival without both legs. But the bird still needs to be accepted back into the flock, which contains 28 other flamingos.
"The other birds might see the prosthesis as an object to be attacked, not as a leg," said Costa. "They may shun or attack, and even kill him."


Imagine defending a goal wearing up to 22kg of equipment? Or stopping a frozen rubber puck which travels at speeds of up to 160 km/h? Goalies are superbly conditioned athletes, both physically and mentally. The reaction time of an ice hockey goalie can determine the outcome of the game.


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Video Captures Fistfight Between Passengers On Flight to Los Angeles
CNN/Stylemagazine.com Newswire | 5/2/2017, 2:05 p.m.
Incident occurred on plane before flight left Japan for LAX.
By Donie O'Sullivan
(CNN) -- One minute passengers were settling into their seats for the 11-hour flight from Tokyo, Japan, to Los Angeles.
The next they were scrambling out of the way as a male passenger became irate and began throwing punches at another man seated in the row behind him.
"No one provoked him -- he was cool up until a few minutes before he started hitting the guy," passenger Corey Hour, who videotaped the confrontation, told CNN. "He started verbally abusing and intimidating people. Nothing triggered him, it just happened."
The "air rage" episode occurred Monday night on All Nippon Airways (ANA) Flight NH6 from suburban Tokyo's Narita International Airport to LAX.
Hour, from Phoenix, Arizona, used his phone to capture the moment a man in a red Hawaiian shirt began punching another passenger on board the plane before it departed.
"The airline staff did what they could to defuse the situation, and they reacted appropriately," Hour told CNN.
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Calendar Event - EVENT: The UK's New Trade Policy - What does an inclusive approach look like , 9 June 2022
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EVENT: The UK's New Trade Policy - What does an inclusive approach look like
Date: Thursday 9 June 2022
Location: Pierhead
Description: We are delighted to invite you to a joint launch event between the Trade Justice Wales project (TJW) and the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP). Join us on 9 June in person at the Pierhead Building in Cardiff Bay to meet team members from both projects and to discuss how the UK can move towards an effective, equitable and inclusive trade policy that is joined up substantively across policy areas and geographies.
Open to the public: Attendance at the event is by invitation only however the Senedd and the Pierhead will remain accessible to the public during our normal opening hours.
Rt. Hon. Elin Jones MS
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"Hello to Hollywood" Kilgen Organ performance featuring Rob Richards
April 20, 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive Oklahoma City, OK 73105
The Oklahoma History Center is pleased to announce a Kilgen Organ series performance featuring Rob Richards (tentative). The theme will be "Hello to Hollywood." This performance will be Monday, April 20, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for Oklahoma Historical Society members and $20 for nonmembers, and may be reserved by calling 405-522-0765. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
The conference is Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
Sequoyah State Park, 19808 Park 10 Hulbert, OK 74441
Join the OHS and our host, the City of Wagoner, at Sequoyah State Park April 22–24, 2020. The theme is "Connecting Cultures: Exploring the Three Forks." The Oklahoma Historical Society presents an annual conference in April. Each year the conference focuses on a different theme pertaining to Oklahoma history, preservation, and culture. Conference sessions are presented by historians, authors, and scholars from around the state and country. The conference also includes the annual meeting of the OHS membership. Optional activities…
Blacksmithing Demonstrations
April 27, 5 p.m.–7 p.m.
An event every month that begins at 5 p.m. on day Last of the month, repeating until December 28, 2020
Cherokee Strip Museum and Rose Hill School, 2617 West Fir Street Perry, OK 73077
Visit the Cherokee Strip Museum in Perry on the last Monday of each month for Blacksmithing Demonstrations in the blacksmith shop. The demonstrations will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Guests can enjoy watching the craftsmen work and will have an opportunity for hands-on experiences. This educational event is free to attend, but donations are appreciated. For more information please call 580-336-2405.
Milliner (hat-making) class
May 2, 10:30 a.m.–4 p.m.
Learn the history of Edwardian milliners and create your own hat in the Oklahoma History Center's Milliner class on Saturday, May 2, from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. This class is recommended for ages twelve and up. Registration is $50 for OHS members and $70 for nonmembers, and includes all supplies. Registration opens on March 21 and closes on April 15.
Quilting workshop with Martha Ray
May 9, 9 a.m.–11 a.m.
This workshop is on the second Saturday of the month.
Sod House Museum, 4628 State Highway 8 Aline, OK 73716
Visit the Sod House Museum southeast of Aline for a quilting workshop on Saturday. The workshop will take place from 9 to 11 a.m. with instructor Martha Ray, and the cost is $5 per person. For more information, please contact Director Renee Trindle at 580-463-2441 or sodhouse@okhistory.org.
"Feasts and Festivities: Cultural Foodie Celebrations" Brown Bag Luncheon Lecture by Amy Johnson
May 13, 12 p.m.–1 p.m.
Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center, 507 South 4th Street Enid, OK 73701
The Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid will host a free Brown Bag Luncheon Lecture on Wednesday, May 13, at noon. This month's program will be "Feasts and Festivities: Cultural Foodie Celebrations," presented by Amy Johnson. Attendees are welcome to bring their lunches and learn something new! For more information please call 580-237-1907.
May 25, 5 p.m.–7 p.m.
Photographing the Plains: Farm Security Administration, 1935–1945 exhibit closes
Chisholm Trail Museum, 605 Zellers Avenue Kingfisher, OK 73750
From February 1 to May 30, 2020, the Chisholm Trail Museum in Kingfisher will host Photographing the Plains: Farm Security Administration, 1935–1945, a traveling exhibit from the Oklahoma History Center, curated by Curator of Exhibits Jim Meeks. This exhibit highlights a collection of black-and-white photographs taken by six Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographers who visited Oklahoma or photographed displaced Oklahomans looking for work during the Great Depression. Roy Stryker was hired in 1935 to head the Historical Section of the…
June 13, 9 a.m.–11 a.m.
Soul of a People: Writing America's Story film screening
June 27, 1 p.m.–3 p.m.
Eighty-five years after the implementation of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) by President Roosevelt, the Oklahoma History Center and the Smithsonian Channel are excited to present a screening of Soul of a People: Writing America's Story. This screening will be held on Saturday, June 27, at 1 p.m., and is included with paid admission to the Oklahoma History Center. In the grip of the Great Depression, unemployed men and women joined an unlikely WPA program to document America in guidebooks and interviews…
Historic Preservation Review Committee Meeting
July 16, 1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
This committee meets quarterly.
The Oklahoma Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), is pleased to announce the Oklahoma Historic Preservation Review Committee's (HPRC) meeting schedule for calendar year 2020. The governor appoints the members of the HPRC to advise the SHPO about nominations to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and other preservation issues. Current HPRC members include Ron Frantz (architect, Oklahoma City); John Hartley (prehistoric archeologist, Norman); Shirley Ballard Nero (historian, Clearview); Jana Phillips (architectural historian, Stillwater); and, Charles Wallis (historical…
"America the Beautiful" Kilgen Organ performance featuring Brett Valliant
July 20, 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
The Oklahoma History Center is pleased to announce a performance in the Kilgen Organ series featuring organist Brett Valliant. The theme will be "America the Beautiful." This performance will be Monday, January 27, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for Oklahoma Historical Society members and $20 for nonmembers, and may be reserved by calling 405-522-0765. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
July 27, 5 p.m.–7 p.m.
National History Day Boot Camp
July 30, 10:30 a.m.–4 p.m.
Teachers, would you like to bring project-based learning and critical thinking skills into your classroom? Come to National History Day Boot Camp to learn about this adaptable curriculum for students grades 6 to 12. This program will be held Thursday, July 25, from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Registration is $10 for OHS members and $15 for nonmembers. Registration opens June 18 and closes July 14.
Back to School Bash
August 6, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.
Educators, get ready for resources galore! Come to the Oklahoma History Center on Thursday, August 6, from 6 to 8 p.m. Find out about free resources covering everything from science to social studies from museums and organizations around the state. Door prizes will be awarded throughout the evening. This event is free, but we ask that you preregister.
August 31, 5 p.m.–7 p.m.
OkNHD Library Day
September 24, 10:30 a.m.–4 p.m.
Join us for our annual OkNHD Library Day at the Oklahoma History Center on Thursday, September 24, from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Students will research in the Research Center and attend workshops for in-depth instruction on History Day fundamentals. OkNHD Library Day is free for teachers, students, and chaperones! Registration opens August 13 and closes September 17.
September 28, 5 p.m.–7 p.m.
October 15, 1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
October 26, 5 p.m.–7 p.m.
"Cemetery Symbols: Carved in Stone" program
Join us as we explore the meaning behind historic gravestones on Saturday, October 31, from 1 to 3 p.m. Gravestones and cemeteries are rich in a language of symbols. Symbols can be difficult to interpret because their meaning changes over time. By examining the grave markers, one can learn more than just the person's name. This class will provide the skills necessary to investigate the past through tombstones. The cost is $5 for OHS members and $10 for nonmembers. Registration…
November 30, 5 p.m.–7 p.m.
December 28, 5 p.m.–7 p.m.


This study will provide tools to develop and pilot an intervention for Functional Abdominal Pain (FAP) using a ten session intervention with children ages 5-8. Investigators will train the subjects to be "Feeling and Body Investigators". During treatment phases the following will occur 1) gather clues (learn), 2) investigate (experience: perform interoceptive mystery missions to explore a body sensation), 3) organize body clues (contextualize: recall other contexts that evoke similar sensations), and 4) go on increasingly daring missions (challenge: decrease avoidance and safety behaviors). The FBI intervention will be developed and refined in 26 child-caregiver dyads during the current R21 phase. In the R33 phase investigators will randomize 100 subjects with FAP to FBI or an active control group in order to conduct a pilot-test of the feasibility, acceptance, and clinical significance of FBI. Young children with FAP who complete the FBI early intervention will learn to experience changes in the viscera as fun and fascinating, rather than scary, and will develop new capacities for pain management, adaptive functioning, and emotion regulation. For the R21 Phase (assessing initial feasibility) investigators hypothesize that ≥ 80% of participants enrolled in FBI will complete treatment and that ≥ 80% of participants will complete home-based practice assignments.
Investigator's ten session intervention trains children to be "Feeling and Body Investigators". Half of the sessions will be done in clinic and half at home via web-camera to facilitate generalization. During the treatment child/caregiver dyads will 1) gather body clues (Learn), 2) investigate (Experience: perform interoceptive mystery missions to explore a body sensation), 3) organize body clues (Contextualize: recall other context that evoke similar sensations), and 4) go on increasingly daring missions (Challenge: decrease avoidance and safety behaviors). If successful, young children with FAP who complete the FBI early intervention will learn to experience changes in the viscera as fun and fascinating, rather than scary, and will develop new capacities for pain management, adaptive functioning, and emotion regulation.
identify strategies with unique patterns of neural circuit maturation associated with early visceral pain on the gut-brain axis: adapt acceptance-based behavioral strategies used to address psychopathology in older children to younger children; incorporate caregivers as role models and facilitators based on attachment research.
Inclusion Criteria: - Child is between 60 and 107 months old. - Parent/legal guardian is present at the clinic visit who speaks English - Child screens positive for recurrent abdominal pain by having: 1) 8 episodes of abdominal pain over 2 months (based on Rome III criteria), or 2) 2 or more episodes of abdominal pain which are causing an incapacity greater than or equal to 25% of the time in the past two months). - Based on pediatric medical assessment, child meets criteria for functional abdominal pain (FAP) based on absence of other organic causes of recurrent abdominal pain. - Consent given by caregiver and assent by child to participate. - Presence of internet access, including that accessed by cell phone with video capabilities. Exclusion Criteria: - The index child being known to have mental retardation (IQ < 70) or other pervasive developmental disorders. - Subject has a sibling who is already enrolled in our study. ***Possible Exclusion*** - Parent/ guardian who would be participating in the study is pregnant.
To access (FAP) subjects will participate in: 10 therapy sessions; and the following treatments: 1) identify strategies with unique patterns of neural circuit maturation associated with early visceral pain on the gut-brain axis: 2) adapt acceptance-based behavioral strategies used to address psychopathology in older children to younger children; and 3) incorporate caregivers as role models and facilitators based on attachment research.


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Q: Visual Studio Inline Rename feature, is there a good reason not to also rename symbol files? Going through the new features introduced with the latest Visual Studio they included an update to the Rename tool. There is the option to include; comments, strings, and symbol files. I understand why one may not want to rename comments and strings but can not think of a use case for not including symbol files, can someone give me a good reason not to include them?
While I have been developing for a number of years, there are areas I am woefully lacking in understanding, thanks for the help!

A: It doesn't rename "symbol files", it asks to rename the "symbol's file", "symbol" being a type name.
C# doesn't necessarily have the "one type per file" dogma. You can group related classes, records, structs in one file.
You could for example have a file Orders.cs, containing the symbols Order, OrderLine and OrderAddress. In that case you don't want to rename the file when renaming either symbol.

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2) Pick a game development team that is passionate about your project and has made serious games before and will listen to the target group.
3) Involve your target group at every step of the process. They will keep you on the right track of making a game that the target group will ultimately accept. Makes sense, right? Hardly anybody does it.
4) Do QA on your serious game. Apparently, it is rarely done on serious games. And when you do, it is critical that members of the target group are part of your QA team.
5) If you want to make money off your game, engage a business person at the BEGINNING of the project, as well as the end. Make sure they know EVERYTHING about your target group (what they like to do in their spare time, what their disposable income is, what their demographic is, what they don't like, etc.).
6) Figure out who will buy the game. If an individual (e.g., parent) or organization (e.g., insurance company) will buy it and give it to the target group, listen to them and make sure you cater to them. But remember that ultimately, you have to make the target group happy.
7) If you ever have a conflict between researchers, business people, developers, artists, etc., go with what the target group wants.
8) See if you can actually hire a representative from the target group to work on the game.
9) Cherish input from the target group.
10) Thank all the members of the target group who helped make your game possible when your game is released.
I'm serious about this list. Any questions?
Click HERE to access an article on how to gather information from your target group.
Over the last several weeks I have been researching the serious game design and development process. I wanted to go beyond the typical GDD template. I am closer to the end that to the beginning of the research, and the 10 tips you mention both affirm what I have and fill in some missing or weak sections. Thanks.
P.S. Have you considered activating the "Follow Blog via Email" or RSS widget? Remembering to visit periodically is a challenge at my age.
Hi Bill, Glad I could help you with your research.
Thanks for the feedback (you are my target group!!!!). I added an RSS widget to the bottom of the pages and a "follow blog via email" on the sidebar. I'm always up for making my target group happy! Thank you again for the helpful feedback. I really appreciate it.
p.s. I also followed your blog and I look forward to reading it.
Great tips. I am in the unorthodox position of being the representative of the target group who is attempting to deliver a solution that is sorely needed. As above, your words have validated some points I knew intuitively and identified shortcomings. Good luck to you, Mr. Braun. Thanks for the advice, Dr. Kato.
Hi Samuel, If you are in the target group and therefore in a position of power in making your solution, congratulations! You'll keep everyone in line and you'll hit the target! You have a military background (I peaked at your FB profile) so you'll have good leadership skills. Now the next challenge is finding partners who will listen to you and other members of the target group and respond appropriately. Hopefully I can post some tips on finding good partners but you're past a HUGE challenge. Good luck and please let me know how the game turns out when it's done. Safe serious games journeys!
Your item (4) is huge, and even understates the problem. Game design and development is necessarily iterative. You do something, you try it out, you change it, you try it again, you change it again, …. There are reasons why this is often a particular challenge for serious games — perhaps the most prominent are lack of experience with the iterative nature of game design coupled with funding sources which don't anticipate or support iterative development. Another is a tendency (on the part of designer/developers) to get too attached to game elements — you have to be willing (ruthless?!) in removing things which don't work.
Hi Steve, Aren't you talking about (10) instead of (4)??? If so, I think the issue you are talking about is an issue of game development and not about finding a game developer. I agree 100% with what you are saying. Sounds like I need to do a top 10 of "how to work with developers and get the !@#$ game out." BTW, I 1000% agree that a HUGE problem is getting too attached to game elements that don't work on the part of developers and probably non-gamer researcher/educators getting to attached to game ideas that are outside the core game mechanic of the game. So yes, I am understating the problem in (10) to the extent that I'm not adequately addressing issues of iterative game design and development.
I probably need to reword how I stated it. What I don't want first time non-gamer people to do is to think that they can develop along the way. I was in a project where we were like, "OK, we made part of the game and it's great but we have absolutely no game ideas now to even try to carry out the rest of our learning goals." D'oh! I blame myself for getting us into that situation because the game team was panicking with the design process was taking so long at the beginning so we barreled our way into rapid prototyping what we had. They weren't used to making a serious game and panicked when it was taking a long time to design. I gave in and then paid for it mid-development when were in an even worse panic. I believe that rushing into production before you really flesh out your learning goals and come up some great game mechanics is a bad idea. Development teams want to get on with developing and getting paid but us researcher/education types need a final product that WORKS. I am seeing lots of examples now of designing on the fly and it often leaves the researcher/educator out of the equation because it basically implicitly needs to be initiated by the game developer. Personally, I think it pays off in the long run to have a really good design document up front and then be willing to let go and adjust at you do your agile, scrum, rapid prototyping, iterative design/development process. I think it is particularly important for people who have never been involved in a game development process before because they tend to get panicky (like I did my first time around) when they feel like they don't know what's coming next.
Oy, that was a long response! Thank you for your listening! Did I address your issues?
Great list to reference and ponder… thanks for posting!
I'm working on a not-so-serious game (with serious implications) called ZED.TO – it's an immersive narrative adventure into the collision of advanced biotechnology and lifestyle marketing… this is great food for thought!
Thanks, Trevor! I'll check out your game!