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Check showtimes to see when Amanpour is on CNN where you are. Or watch online.
By Mick Krever, CNN
How do we know what is in the mind of a mass murderer? How about getting them to re-enact those crimes?
That is exactly what documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer did with several men who participated in mass killings in Indonesia decades ago.
"It's tempting to look at them through the lens of sort of fiction storytelling, where you have good guys and bad guys, good guys and then cackling villains," Oppenheimer told CNN's Hala Gorani, sitting in for Christiane Amanpour, on Monday.
"When you're a non-fiction filmmaker, you have to look at the real people you meet."
Few people outside of Indonesia have heard of the death squads operating there in 1965 and 1966. Human rights groups say these groups killed between 500,000 and a million accused communists.
Oppenheimer constructed a unique and strange narrative about this period in his new film, The Act of Killing. The film has just won a BAFTA for best documentary, and is nominated for an Academy Award.
He had originally sought to make a film about victims of the death squads, but says the Indonesian military forbade him from doing so. The victims' families urged him to try to talk to the perpetrators.
To his surprise and horror, they were enthusiastic. They agreed to make a movie about how they killed and allowed him to film the process.
The result is a mind-bending movie within a documentary, by turns emotionally revolting, beautiful, and bizarre – one of the mass killers appears, as often as not, in drag. It is rarely entirely clear what is 'acting' and what is genuine.
"When you ask a killer initially just why did you kill these people, they will answer with ideology," Oppenheimer said. "They'll say, 'Oh, we were opposed to them because they were Communists or because they were Marxists.'"
When you dig further, you discover that "the ideology was always an excuse they told themselves afterwards to justify their crimes."
Because the perpetrators have "remained in power," and the U.S. and UK among others supported the Indonesian regime at the time, Oppenheimer said, the death squad leaders have never been forced to truly account for their sins.
It is astonishing to watch the protagonist of the film, Anwar Congo, who is rumored to have killed as many as 1,000 people, demonstrate with proud how he bloodlessly killed by wrapping a piece of piano wire around his victims' neck.
"Rather than admit what they've done is wrong, and open themselves to the tormenting effects of guilt, I think they've clung to a victor's history that they've written celebrating what they've done as glorious."
Nonetheless, he said, the perpetrators are and remain human, so they do know that what they did was wrong, and are "desperately trying to deny it."
"Somehow their very humanity is involved in the mechanism of evil, because once they've won and tell themselves a lie, justifying their actions and cling[ing] to that lie, maintaining that lie, maintaining that excuse – that victor's history inevitably leads to further evil."
In the film the perpetrators make about their killing – the film within the documentary – Anwar Congo plays one of the very victims he so mercilessly murdered.
"I think in some ways the reason he's participating in the film is because he's somehow trying to run away from the horror of what he's done by making a movie about it," Oppenheimer said.
"It's as though if he can make, as he says at one point in the film, 'If I can make a beautiful family movie about what I've done, I can' – it's as though he's feeling he can put it right for himself. And of course he can't."
By the end of the film, Congo has an intensely physical reaction, it seems to recounting the horror of his acts.
"Knowing Anwar, I don't think he has the capacity or the courage to day in and day out say to himself look what I did was wrong and to acknowledge the consequences of it."
"But I think that – I think that Anwar regrets what he's done," Oppenheimer said. "And when he leaves the film, the final scenes of the film, we see a man who's destroyed himself."
Having spent so much time in the company of self-professed mass killers, Oppenheimer is better placed than most to know what drives someone to such horrors.
Mass killing of course continues to this day – whether in Syria or Central African Republic to name just two. What, Gorani asks, drives a person to commit these acts?
"I would hope, if I grew up in his family in 1950s Indonesia that come 1965, come the genocide, I would make different decisions," Oppenheimer said. "I know that I'm extremely lucky never to have to find out."
"Because they keep happening again, we have to deal with the reality directly – the unpleasant reality, the frightening reality – that it is human beings who do these things to each other."
"And unless we look directly at that frightening fact, we have no chance of preventing these things from occurring in the future."
Did they look at the angle of racial violence. It was said anti-insurgency in Malaysia and Indonesia killed insurgents, suspected supporters and sympathizers that were mostly of Chinese descent. Over a million was reported to have died.
Racism might have complicated. It could have made violence of massive scale to occur that easy.
Its happening right now in North Korea and no one wants to do anything about that either. We say that what we ignore in history will repeat itself, but why is this being allowed to happen......
Because China has veto power and we are economical dependent on China's cheap labor. Keep in mind South Korea doesn't want the millions of uneducated North Korean's that would storm the border. Per a Chinese student and a South Korean student they both say the same thing, they simple don't have the resources in their respective country's to handle such a massive welfare population. It would drain every public resource and devastate their economy.
Are Americans supposed to police the world? Is anyone supposed to police the world?
CNN, you don't need to go all the way to Indonesia, to find proud people of their killings. Try some Vietnam US veterans that spread napalm over Vietnam ... It is indeed terrible but judgemental America is so cynical!
Spread napalm over vietnam? You are an idiot. They where fighting a enemy that entrenched itself with civilians. War is an ugly thing, I served as an 11b in iraq. Accidents in war are often fatal. Do not speak on things you know nothing about.
come on man,go watch oliver stone's untold history of america,,the US is the number one country in killing the highest number of people in the world (millions more than nazi germany),,u cant dispute historical facts
Boy! you sounds very American do you? get the facts in before you write nonsense. I bet you are in food stamps .using and abusing the system, living in your mama basement drinking alcohol ,smoking pot ,only a person like you with a iota of mentality can said that stupid remark really! you are very Anti-American indeed!
I served in Viet Nam. My main objective was to stay alive and help my fellow servicemen stay alive. I doubt very much you have served in the armed forces and much less experienced what being in a combat zone is truly like.
Pablo if you ever get to read this,
THank you so much for your service , I'm Australian and in my early fifties and I know a few men who served there,the horrors they faced and they come back and try to get back into civilian,life is harder than being in the actual war.
I really am grateful for you and all the people who served.Thank you again!
Do you really think Indonesia would have been better off under the Communists? Look to Cambodia to see how Communists in this part of the world behaved themselves. In terms of lives lost, Indonesia got off LIGHTLY as things are, and those men who kept the Communists from power should be congratulated. Poisonous enemies should be dealt with in the same way one deals with poisonous snakes.
same way as china stopping the muslim insurgence in xinjiang by killing them.You correct,killing is the only solution against your enemy
So you think killing people is ok
If someone wants to kill you, would you also be ok with that?
If someone disagrees with your oppinions are you ok with them killing you?
My friend, pacifism means only the 'bad' guys end up with the guns. You cannot live as a pacifist for very long until the tyrants take over. Yes, you need to use force with ethical foundations to deter those who would decimate your home, rape your wife and daughter and ruthlessly kill everything.
CNN to me looks desperate by putting the drag queen part of the story in the headline. Not that i care, I have watched about 10 mins total of CNN on TV the last few years. Just come to the website to see if there's anything interesting to see. Which is about 1% of the time. This is part of the 1%.
I am 100% sure that these things would only be horror stories in the future. IF and IF we start educating our children from very young age (2 / 3) to love HUMANITY and Fellow men and women. We need only to abolish seeing others different from us. HOW CAN WE NAME OURSELVES HUMAN WHILE EVEN THE ANIMALS DO NOT KILL EACH OTHERs, ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFERENT. THEY KILL OHER ANIMALS ONLY TO SATISFY THEIR HUNGER. This is very important subject and those responsible for the world should work on it, I am happy and ready to work with them for bringing about at least the preamble of it, withe my 4 grand children who are the lovers of mankind.
You're right, we should only kill to feed ourselves. Those 500,000 to 1 million killed could have fed all of Africa!
Oh, so naive. Many animals kill for territory and to establish themselves as the alpha of the herd, or school, etc. So too do humans and we will continue to do so in a world of limited resources. Utopia does not exist people, never has, never will. Do just a little research on say, gorillas, chimpanzees, orcas, aka killer whales, dolphins, lions, wolves, even domesticated dogs will kill to protect their own owners from perceived threats of harm. You anti-war believers and folks who have never served in the military, or think it is not a necessary part of securing a free state, may want to watch the movie "The Big Red 1" with Lee Marvin portraying a military non-commissioned officer (nco) over the course of two wars. It might just give you some small insight into how a soldier must think and act to both do his job and support his country.
America the Beautiful clings to a victorious history – founded on the massacre of millions of men, women, children, babies.
Dear Geronimo this is what I am taking about. We r not children any more. we r grown up, we as humanity cannot say ho ho yesterday you did that and now i do this. As mature grown ups do forget the past forgive the past and go on to be friends and allies we also as individuals and as the world should do the same to change the world for better and with lasting peace. Geronimo please read my message above and tell me if the idea is a good idea. with respect
"demonstrate with proud"
You suck.
If you have not seen this movie I highly recommend it. It is one of, if not, the most disturbing film I have ever seen. Even more disturbing than the worst horror fiction. It is will leave you equal parts sad, repulsed and infuriated. It does not have a happy ending, but is important for everyone to see.
As Miham B. Ram says, ALL CHILDREN SHOULD BE TAUGHT LOVE, RESPECT, MORALS AND ETHICS, in the first years of life. Spend as much QUALITY time with family and neighbors. I've also come to understand the negative impact on a person's psyche, killing has. Regardless of justification. I am impressing on us to discourage pro-creation with anyone, who has taken a life in any manner. These person's are marked for judgement that will pass on to your children. As a veteran, my actions were indirect in killing other humans, however I carry a judgement for supporting the war machine. Now older, I've come to experience first hand how it comes back to you. I've had to do some soul searching and ask for forgiveness to a higher being, and myself. Now at peace, I speak these truths to you, so you may also find peace within yourselves and stop being a pawn in someone else sick agenda. It's time we all run our own destiny's of peace.
Free will can have terrible results. Once a decision is made that its alright to murder a person and his/her children because of racial, religious, political, philosophical or other reasons the sin of evil wins. I think that a War is different somehow than civilian 'death gangs' rampaging through neighborhoods.
Correct David. However war should only be fought for the right of self preservation! The moment we justify it with reasons as you listed, then we violate the first two sacred commandments. If we want to reach that Christ like personification, then fearing no death, and showing love towards your enemy has an everlasting positive effect, which only a few have attained. Jesus, Buddha, Gandhi, MLK, etc... Funny, how people always remember the non-violent saints throughout history. Maybe that's what Jesus meant, "those that are willing to lose their life will gain it. Those that seek to preserve their lives will lose it"!
That first picture is hot.
Only a pervert would say or think that...
Your brain doesn't process sarcasm very well, does it?
Exactly what the right-wing kooks stateside want to happen when you hear them talking about "socialism" and guns.
And this is what the libs call normal...perverts who dress like a**holes and think it is a good thing...
They are living free right now after committing genocide due to 3 main reasons: 1) US was supporting this, financial, equipment and logistics, and up to this moment, the world pretty much controlled by US still. 2) The victims are not white/western people, they are mainly native Indonesian and Chinese, which US, UK and its western allies mostly close one eyes. 3) These guys such as Anwar Congo were the foot soldiers, the real force behind this killing is Indonesia army and moslem organisation, both are the 2 main political forces in Indonesia right now, they of course will not ruin their own reputation or punish their own people. That is why Oppenheimer said he can't go back to Indonesia because it is no longer safe for him, the Indoensia military will probably kill him.
Why on earth would these people feel remorse? They think they're heroes! The U.S. Army soldiers who helped wipe out the native populations in America thought of themselves as heroes. Nixon bombing Cambodia killed 150,000 civilians and I'm sure he went to his death thinking he was a great guy. They still aren't sure how many civilians Bush killed with his pointless war in Iraq. Bush clearly thinks he's neat! I'll bet he would re-enact how he gave the order. Why not? He's a hero!
ho hum..,just more death due to human beings and their insane geopolitics and those pesky big banks and corporations that rule the outcomes and who cares as long as they allways maintain a good percentage and margin on the investments in war making and population control.
The name of this story was very misleading. The guy dressed in drag – for a part of the "movie within a movie" where they depict killing a woman – was not one of the mass murderers from the 1960s. He is too young. He is a modern day gangster/thug who seems part of the actual murderers' gang – but he wasn't the mass murderer. Did the author see the movie? I thought this was pretty clear from watching the movie. The guy in drag then runs for government office and is excited about how much money he can extort from citizens if he can get on the right committee. He's a pig. But too young to have murdered "Communists" in the early 1960s.
This is the world largest genocide that the victims remain hidden and unknown, and the murderers walk free and the entire world know about it. There is no justice in this world.
When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises
When it knows good as good, evil arises
Thus being and non-being produce each other
Difficult and easy bring about each other
Long and short reveal each other
High and low support each other
But I have to say this country loves to glories war figures. Genghis Khan for one as an example. He was the biggest mass killer but America loves/fascinated by him.
This is horrendous. they even participated in the reenactments of their evil crimes. what are they thinking? have they lost their morality? are they really that evil to live everyday of their lives without a conscience? without repentance of having to murder hundreds of people?
What are you talking about? They are heroes! They saved their country from Communism. At least, that's what they believe. Like how Americans engaged in genocide against the native populations because they believed (or chose to believe) the land belonged to them by divine right (manifest destiny).
90% of Indonesians are Muslim. Were the victims also 90% Muslim, or perhaps 90% "other"?
Milgram Studies
What a disgustingly TRANSPHOBIC example of click-bait. Shame on whoever wrote that headline.
Despite some of the bizarre posts, this is an excellent film, and I'm glad to see CNN covering it. Would be better to have more follow-up on the issues raised by the film, to see why the culture of impunity continues to thrive in Indonesia.
Cold-bloodied killing is not new, starting with Cain who murdered his brother Abel almost 6,000 years ago.(Gen 4:8) The ancient Assyrians were well known for being cruel, in which Insight on the Scriptures (Vol 1, pg 201, published by Jehovah's Witnesses) says that "reliefs often show their captives being led by cords attached to hooks that pierced the nose or the lips, or having their eyes put out at the point of a spear. Thus, sadistic torture was a frequent feature of Assyrian warfare, about which they shamelessly boasted and which they carefully recorded. The knowledge of their cruelty doubtless served them to an advantage militarily, striking terror into the hearts of those in their line of attack and often causing resistance to crumble. Assyria's capital, Nineveh, was aptly described by the prophet Nahum as a "lair of lions" and as "the city of bloodshed."(Nahum 2:11, 12; 3:1)
One of their warrior kings, Ashurnasirpal II, boasted of his cruelty (reigned 884-859 B.C.E.), saying: "I made a pillar of the living, and another of heads, and I bound their heads to posts (tree trunks) round about the city. The young men and maidens I burned in the fire.....Twenty men I captured alive and immured (imprisoned) in the wall of his palace."(Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, by D. D. Lukenbill, 1926, Vol 1)
The atrocities by human governments over the millennia of their existence shows that they are indeed cruel, cold-bloodied in their desire for expansion or within their own borders. The Bible describes all earthly governments under the expression of a "wild beast" (Rev 13:1, 2), whereby each political sovereignty has performed wicked, murderous, cruel deeds to retain their position among world governments.
The assassins of the Khmer Rouge regime are no different than the Assyrians, having no conscience, no love for people, but merely to establish and keep their power and control over the masses. Anwar Congo is a merciless, wicked murderer, just as was Ashurnasirpal II, who has passed out of existence, possibly to never see "the light of day" again, to not be among the billions of mankind that are to be resurrected by Jesus (John 5:27-29) during his "thousand year" reign that will begin in the near future.(Rev 20:6, 13; Luke 23:43)
It seems Mr. Oppenheimer has, deliberately or not, made a movie about original sin. I have not seen the movie yet, but I imagine that the most disturbing thing about it is that the men involved are not cartoons but real people, capable of real evil. The truth is that we are all capable of doing horrible things, and that's what original sin is. Mr. Oppenheimer says as much when he talks about liking to think that if he had grown up in Indonesia in the 50's and 60's, he would have made different choices from these men, but immediately afterwards says he's grateful not to have to find out! Very insightful.


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IBM's Digital Analytics Benchmark, a Cloud-based analytics platform that tracks e-commerce transactions, analysing raw data from 150 retailers it the UK, also found that mobile shopping traffic made up a quarter (24.2 per cent) of all online sessions on retailers' sites.
Mobile shopping hit a record high of 33.6 per cent on Christmas Day itself.
IBM's findings also show a strong November, where online retail sales were up 13.7 per cent over the same period in 2011. iPad-based traffic in November tripled year-on-year, according to the data, growing more than 200 per cent.
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Voyages and Visions: Early Photographs from the Wilson Family Collection
Los Angeles--In early 1839, the world woke up to the arrival of an entirely new way to make pictures--photography. Voyages and Visions: Early Photographs from the Wilson Family Collection features selected works dating from the emergence of this new medium through the golden age of photography in the 1850s. The exhibition, on view from October 24, 2000, through February 18, 2001, highlights photographs acquired over the past 20 years by prominent collectors Michael and Jane Wilson. Voyages and Visions explores four regions--Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America--through photographs by artists including William Henry Fox Talbot, Roger Fenton, Édouard Baldus, Dr. John Murray, Ernest Benecke, and Desiré Charnay.
As photographic methods were refined and materials improved, photographers ventured further afield in their attempts to document the world. International travel in the mid-19th century required arduously long journeys by road, rail, and ship--especially demanding for the traveling photographer carrying equipment that makes today's cameras seem miniature by comparison. The Getty exhibition includes a mammoth plate camera (nearly 4 feet long by 2 feet square), of the size used to make many of the photographs being shown.
For those who trekked to remote regions in North Africa, China, and Mexico, photography was both a physical challenge and a source of artistic inspiration. The photographers were keen to record man-made and natural monuments, like places of worship and rock formations, as well as people and scenes of daily life--not only as a personal record of their own journey, but as visual resources for the public who could not travel.
Collectors Michael and Jane Wilson, based in London and Los Angeles, have one of the world's finest private holdings of photographs from the first decades of the new art. Michael Wilson is an acclaimed screenwriter and best known as a producer of James Bond films. During their travels to scout film locations, the Wilsons became aware of the rarity of photographs made before 1860 outside the European capitals, and began to acquire the best examples they could find.
Voyages and Visions presents over 80 photographs from the Wilson Family Collection, complemented by several examples from the Getty Museum department of photographs for purposes of comparison. "This exhibition captures Michael and Jane Wilson's great interest in the photographic process and its impact on how people and places are perceived," explains Weston Naef, curator of the Getty's department of photographs. "Through the Wilson Family Collection, visitors will have a wonderful opportunity to see rare and beautiful photographs, many exhibited for the first time since their creation more than a century ago."
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Thursday, October 26, 7 p.m.
Harold M. Williams Auditorium
Michael Wilson chronicles his 20 years of collecting photography and discusses the exceptional aspects of one of the world's finest private holdings of photographs.
Point-Of-View Gallery Talk
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Museum Galleries
Stephen Berkman, a Los Angeles-based photographer, will discuss background and techniques with using the mammoth plate camera. Space is limited to 25 people per talk; sign up beginning at 10:30 a.m. at the Museum Information Desk.
Concurrent Exhibition
Mexico: From Empire to Revolution
Part I: October 21, 2000-January 21, 2001
Part II: February 24-May 20, 2001
This two-part exhibition of photography taken between the 1850s and 1920s captures the political struggles and everyday life of Mexico. Part I focuses on the empire of Maximilian in the 1860s and the concurrent documentation of the ruins of ancient pre-Hispanic empires by foreign photographers. Research Institute Exhibition Gallery.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Testing 1-2-3
We've come to that time in every homeschooler's life (at least the ones in North Carolina) that bring fear and trepidation: Standardized Testing.
I wish I could say that I'm cool, calm and collected. But the reality is that it is a bit stressful for me.
Its not hard, really. Its just that these are the benchmarks that let me know if the goals I made for my students at the beginning of the year have been met.
I have done my best to keep on a standard course of study (as compared to a national standard) but the truth is that homeschooling isn't like traditional school -- no matter how hard you try to make it so.
Home educators have opportunities that reach far beyond what a conventional classroom can offer. We can get more done in less time, or we can take opportunities to spend more time on subjects of interest.
For example, when we go on a nature hike for science and we see a small snake, that might lead us down a herpetology trail. We might come home and learn about snakes in our area, which may lead to a study on reptiles of North Carolina, and so on.
Learning in this way is fantastic (even when its about snakes), but there are only so many hours in a day. When you seize every opportunity as a teachable moment you do so knowing that many things we learn will not be "testable" material.
We have chosen to educate our children in this way because its how I want them to approach the rest of their life -- always seeking to learn, not because it means we'll have higher test scores but because its fulfilling, enjoyable -- its what we're meant to do.
Standardized testing is a great tool. I would do it even if it wasn't required by law. Most things in this life are measured by test taking, and the skills they learn while filling out bubble sheets are also going to serve them as they enter the world.
However, I must remember the test is here to serve my students educational purposes, not for them to be its survey-able slave.
On days like today, as I hear pencils scratching across bubble sheets, I must remind myself that the world may measure educational gain by standards of testing, but being well-trained for life-long learning can never be measured by rank and score.
In our homeschool, success is largely immeasurable (even by the teacher) and for that I am thankful.
To my homeschooling, and traditional schooling, test takers: May you do well...and learn more!
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Labels: homeschooling, testing
14 comments:
- Tanya (In the Dailies) said...
Up here the Christian schools have to do it to prove they meet public school standards. Ellie started her testing yesterday. I can't believe they make kindergartners fill in those little circles! It's very stressful, but so far they seem to be doing well. Her teacher said a day without tears is a great success. Only six more days of this ...
- April 14, 2010 6:30 AM
- Blue Skies said...
I was really nervous about doing it last year, but was pleasantly surprised about how well they did. We did the practice books, but I think what really helped is that they are "smarter than the test" since they are learning to think and not just spit out answers. I love your post - spot on observations about the beauty of homeschool. I'll be praying for them to be confident as they test! P.S. - We haven't talked in FOREVER!
- April 14, 2010 8:56 AM
- Tracey said...
What a wonderful post!
So this is what God has been trying to tell me for two days but I haven't been listening.
Thank you for letting Him use you! You are a blessing!
- April 14, 2010 9:08 AM
- Amber said...
Really? You get to test your own? Wow...we have to send ours to a testing site.
And this was beautifully said.
Except when you started talking about snakes. Because if we ever saw a small snake on a nature walk, there wouldn't be any schoolin' going on...there would only be running and hollerin' on part of their teacher.
- April 14, 2010 9:14 AM
- Kristin said...
YOu'll have to celebrate with some yummy treat when it's all done!
- April 14, 2010 9:55 AM
- Carpool Queen said...
I have to stop and remember that my child does not have to make the highest grade in his class on his tests just because that was MY desire as a child.
Deep breaths.
- April 14, 2010 10:00 AM
- Becca @ My Crazy Good Life said...
Good luck!
I am surprised that the kids are taking the tests at home.. I think they make them come to the school or a testing center here. I was actually just thinking about that this morning, how taking them out of their learning environment isn't the best scenario.
- April 14, 2010 10:22 AM
- Anonymous said...
The fact that our best public schools here teach to the test was one of the many reasons that we chose the school for our kids that we chose...and one of the reasons we're considering homeschooling again when we move this summer.
You are exactly right. I think the tests were created to help educators judge whether or not they were meeting the goals they set. Now it seems that the goals educators set are the standardized tests themselves.
I love what Blue Skies said about being "smarter than the test" and this is where we as parents, whether we homeschool or send our kids to school, need to be vigilant. It's our responsibility to see that our children are learning how to think and not just what to think.
Good post, Kellie! Hope the testing goes well so you can move on to whatever the La Vida Dulce Academy sets out to accomplish!
- April 14, 2010 10:32 AM
- O Mom said...
You wrote this so beautifully! I get all nervous myself this time of year, but I have to remember that this is why I chose to homeschool too, so that they wouldn't have to always learn at somebody else's idea of what they should know.....Again you say it so much better than I.
I gave you a little award on my blog today! :)
- April 14, 2010 11:20 AM
- Rachel said...
Next year our oldest will start the standardized testing, YIKES! I'm nervous already.
I'm sure you kiddos will do great!
- April 14, 2010 11:49 AM
- His Girl said...
you just impress me to no end. Love your heart, your dedication, and your awesomeness.
what? that's a word.
though probably not on one of them fancy tests.
hee hee
- April 14, 2010 12:25 PM
- Anonymous said...
I hope today went smoothly and I know that your kiddos did great because they are smart cookies :-)
- April 14, 2010 3:50 PM
- lisa@littlesliceoflife said...
I think I'm weird. I LOVE standardized tests. I loved taking them when I was a kid and I love test week now that my kids are in school. No homework! And I love getting their scores.
I may change my tune this fall when I'm homeschooling my 9th grader.
- April 14, 2010 8:38 PM
- Gretchen said...
I love the testing privacy "wall". J has her testing next week or the week after. I'm not a fan if the test is given an inordinate amount of weight (compared to the important process of learning & studying). But we d. Need standards. That's real life, as in jobs & pay grades. So I think it's good to have exposure, if nothing else.
You're an incredible teacher, & a superb mother. Those kids are going to FLY! xxxooo
- April 17, 2010 1:45 AM


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I was listening to NPR this week and heard a story on the use of Adderall and Ritalin on college campuses by students who purchased the drug from other students as a study enhancing device or as a "mind enhancer." At first I was worried that my ADHD patients were taking part in selling their ADHD meds. Then I began thinking about why Adderall and other ADHD meds were being used liked this and the mechanism of action for these meds.
It is true that the use of stimulant medication in non-ADHD people will help them hyperfocus. However, isn't it interesting that we do not hear of the non-ADHD person using this medication to go to the grocery store, or to go to work? These college students are enhancing a property that they may already have, i.e. ability to concentrate. They just want a little more enhancement to make their life a little easier when it comes to studying.
People who have ADD or ADHD struggle with distractibility and lack of focus in all aspects of living not just studying. This can include motivation in getting up and getting started with the day, doing the laundry, taking out the trash, cleaning their room, going to school or to work. The fact of the matter is that stimulant medications SLOW down hyperactive people as opposed to SPEEDING up the non-ADHD person. In the process of slowing down, the ADHD person is able to look around and notice things that otherwise would be flying by them. This slowing mechanism is needed for everyday life not just for studying. Sure an ADHD person will have to study and that feat alone can be an almost impossible task if the person is not taking ADHD medication. Studying and prolonged concentration for the ADHD patient is similar to trying to hold in your stomach muscles for hours at a time; impossible for most of us!
These college students who have not been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD and take Ritalin and Adderall to get through their studies are simply getting extra help. My message to these students selling or giving their ADHD meds away would be to stop! It not only can harm those without the condition but may propagate the idea that these medications are harmful for you, the ADHD patient. These "mind enhancers" or as some call it cosmetic neurology for non-ADHD people is NOT why I prescribe ADHD meds. My role as a physician for ADHD patients is to determine how to help these patients live their lives as normal as possible and in many cases ADHD medication is necessary not an option.
What are your thoughts on the subject? Do you know of anyone who has taken ADHD meds without a prescription?
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Andrea B. was 4 years old when her parents divorced.
"I remember feeling scared and uncertain and helpless, like my world was falling apart," she says. Neither of her parents explained the break-up to Andrea, who was first plagued by nightmares, then by guilt. "As much as my head might tell me my parents' divorce wasn't my fault, deep-down, I felt like it was," she says.
Andrea kept in contact with her father, but lived with her mother. She initially overcompensated for her loss by becoming a super-responsible perfectionist, "partially because of an unconscious fear that if I wasn't good enough perhaps my mother would leave me, too," she explains. As Andrea grew older, she overcame most of her fears, yet she still battles shyness and the deeply rooted belief that her father left because something was wrong with her.
Research suggests Andrea's response to her parents' divorce is not uncommon. Psychologist Judith Wallerstein and colleagues offer surprising and controversial conclusions that even seemingly well-adjusted children of divorce can suffer from its impact long after childhood.
"Parents need to know what a radical change divorce brings to their kids no matter how carefully they plan," says Julia Lewis, PhD. Her 25-year study of 93 children concludes that when parents divorce, children are more likely to grow up with continued fears of loss, change, conflict, betrayal, and loneliness. Even those who had no obvious problems with grades, friends, or inappropriate displays of aggression faced emotional after-effects during adulthood, Dr. Lewis says.
Experts say that how parents communicate with their children about the divorce and the impending changes in the family can be as challenging as it is essential, and they recommend the following ways of easing the transition:
Many parents find it easier to avoid talking about the divorce completely, while others fabricate stories to appease their children for the short-term, but a child's future sense of trust in relationships hangs in the balance. Give them enough information to prepare for changes that are coming, and be as truthful as possible. Children don't need to know the whole truth, especially if it involves hurting another parent. As your child grows older or as they ask more questions, you can start to fill in some blanks. Think about your child's age and capacity to understand before you start giving them too much information. Be prepared to answer questions and give reassurance.
Parents who try to assure their children with comments like "everything will be fine" or "you'll be able to see Daddy whenever you want" may put their children's sense of trust at risk.
Parents have to find a way to understand what's being communicated through their child's behavior. That means looking carefully for any repeated variations out of their normal range of behavior, but not interpreting every temper tantrum as a sign of emotional scarring from the divorce. Toddlers may regress or become more needy and clingy. School-aged children may get lower grades or act out aggressively in anger. Teens may experiment with drugs, sex, or gangs to feel like they belong. Children who show no signs of change should also be carefully observed.
There are many resources available for divorced parents and their children—from classes to support groups to therapists. If parents suspect their children may not be adjusting well to life after divorce, consider getting professional help from one of these resources.
If you are getting divorced, it is important to put your children first in the following ways:
Even though you're divorced, you're still parents. It is still very important that you work together.
Despite the challenges of successful co-parenting, many divorced parents handle their parenting roles well. Strong bonds can grow as long as parents give their children some sense of control over their futures through honest talk and careful listening.
Andrea, now a divorced mom with a 2-year-old son of her own, knows that while the effects of her parents' divorce will always stay with her, so will the resilience that helped her grow beyond its impact. She hopes to pass that strength on to her son and that her own experience will help her meet his needs with openness, honesty, and love.
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Kids Health—Nemours Foundation
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Children and divorce. American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychology website. Available at: http://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Families_and_Youth/Facts_for_Families/Facts_for_families_Pages/Children_and_Divorce_01.aspx. Updated December 2013. Accessed September 26, 2017.
Helping your child through a divorce. Nemours Kids Health website. Available at: http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/talk/help_child_divorce.html. Updated January 2015. Accessed September 26, 2017.
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Nearly 90 prisoners are on the run from an open jail, including some who have been missing for years, it has been revealed.
HMP Ford near Arundel, West Sussex, with some other open jails, has been at the centre of a number of high-profile cases recently.
This week it emerged that a public appeal by Sussex Police to help trace murderer Robert Donovan, 57, had only been made four years after he walked out from Ford.
The disclosure that 89 Ford inmates are at large comes as it emerged that violent robber Simon Rhodes-Butler, 37, handed himself into police last night after fleeing from the jail last month.
And in another case, it was revealed last night that an armed robber serving a life sentence has become the latest criminal to go on the run from HMP Ford.
David Blood, 48, who police said may pose a threat to the public, absconded from the Category D prison some time between 8.30am and 1pm yesterday.
It is thought to be the second time he has absconded from an open prison after going missing from HMP Sudbury in Derbyshire in April 2012.
Local Conservative MP, Nick Gibb, has raised concern at the number of inmates convicted of serious offences going missing from HMP Ford.
Mr Gibb, the MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, said: "I'm worried about how prisoners are chosen to be sent to Ford open prison, and that too many are absconding.
"The theory is that these are prisoners who are coming to the end of their sentences and therefore should no longer be at risk of absconding.
"The risk assessment of prisoners who are being sent to Ford open prison is clearly not vigorous enough."
Sussex Police said the average number of prisoners who have absconded from HMP Ford in recent years stands at 23 annually, but that currently 89 are at large.
Of those 89 still missing, eight have convictions for violence.
Superintendent Lawrence Hobbs, of Sussex Police, said: "I want to reassure people that we recognised some time ago that our processes needed improving.
"We have taken some really positive action and have a team working on this issue.
"We are confident that in the main the risk to the public is low, as that's why they were in an open prison.
"Of the 89 outstanding, only eight have convictions for violence and we are prioritising our efforts to trace and arrest them.
"We value the support of the media and the public in helping us to find these absconders and we are absolutely determined to find all those still at large."
Mr Hobbs added: "I must stress that we do not pro-actively seek the help of the public or the media on every occasion that a prisoner absconds.
"We consider each case individually, taking into account the risk the prisoner poses to the public and the likelihood of them re-offending.
"If we believe people need to be told about someone, or we have information that an absconder could be in a particular area, we would make an appeal."
The Ministry of Justice said Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has ordered major changes to tighten up temporary release processes and open prison eligibility.
It was the case of "Skullcracker" Michael Wheatley which prompted ministers to launch a major review of the case, including a broader assessment of the release on temporary licence (ROTL) process.
He was jailed for life for a raid on a building society while on the run from HMP Standford Hill in Kent, the second time he has been jailed for holding up the same branch.
Most recent Ministry of Justice figures show there were 1,242 indeterminate sentenced prisoners - that is, those serving life and imprisonment for public protection sentences (IPP) - as at December 31 last year. This includes 643 lifers and 599 IPP inmates in open prisons.


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Stuttgart/Portland – Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) today announced a comprehensive plan to adjust and strengthen company operations in response to continuing depressed demand across the industry and structural changes in the company's core markets. "It is a principle of our 'Global Excellence' strategy to strive for benchmark profitability and to address structural market changes in a timely and consequent way", said Andreas Renschler, Member of the Board of Management of the Daimler AG, responsible for Daimler Trucks; "We are confident that this forward-looking strategy for DTNA is the right measure to address the challenges in the North American market." The measures to be implemented address three key areas of DTNA's operations: Focus on a two brand strategy: discontinuation of the Sterling Trucks product line The Sterling Trucks brand will be discontinued effective in March 2009. Additions to the Freightliner and Western Star product ranges will be made to address market segments that have been served exclusively by Sterling offerings in the DTNA stable. By concentrating the company's considerable technical and marketing resources on a more focused model line-up, DTNA expects to drive an even more attractive program of innovation in safety, environmental impact, and user productivity that will further strengthen the leadership position of Daimler Trucks in the North American commercial vehicle market. Consolidation of manufacturing plant network and alignment of network capacity with market demand As a result of the decision to discontinue the Sterling brand, the St. Thomas, Ontario, plant will cease truck manufacturing operations in March 2009, concurrent with the expiration of the existing agreement with the Canadian Auto Workers members employed there. The plant currently manufactures Sterling medium and heavy-duty trucks. DTNA will also close the Portland, Oregon, Truck Manufacturing plant, in June 2010, when current labor contracts expire. Western Star commercial production will be assigned to the company's Santiago, Mexico plant, while production of Freightliner-branded military vehicles will take place at one of the company's facilities in the Carolinas by mid-year 2010. Start of production at DTNA's new Saltillo, Mexico manufacturing plant will occur as planned in February 2009. The plant will produce Freightliner's new flagship Cascadia model. Expected annual earnings improvements of $900 million by 2011, with estimated program costs of $600 million As a result of the measures cited above, DTNA expects to achieve annual earnings improvements of $900 million by 2011. The EBIT effects amount to $600 million in total: approx. $350 million against the fourth quarter of 2008 (including approx. $300 million, which are primarily related to employee and dealer separation), $150 million in 2009 as well as expenses of $100 million in 2010 and 2011 in total. An estimated 2300 workers in the St. Thomas and Portland plants will be affected by mid-2010, on timelines related to the plant closures noted above. This figure includes 720 workers at the St. Thomas plant to be laid off in November 2008 as already announced in July. The company also plans to reduce its salaried workforce by approximately 1200 positions, with over half directly related to the Sterling brand. A voluntary separation program will be available as well as other measures to offer flexibility and choice to affected employees.
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Spie Press BookDesign and Implementation of Autostereoscopic Displays
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Autostereoscopic (glasses-free) displays provide perspectives of images according to the position of the observer. This book introduces various autostereoscopic technologies, from the fundamental principles of the parallax-barrier method to the latest multi-projection, super multi-view displays. Display basics and fundamentals of 3D displays are presented first, followed by descriptions of multi-view system configurations. Because the technological advancement of conventional 2D display affects the development of 3D displays, the book also covers the basics of 2D displays, including flat panel and projection-type displays. For readers with some knowledge of 3D display technologies, detailed explanations of advanced display technologies such as the slanted lens technique and multi-projection system are also included. The book is suitable for readers ranging from undergraduate students to display manufacturers in the industry.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 Fundamentals of Autostereoscopic 3D Displays
- 1.1 Basic Geometric Optics
- 1.1.1 Thin lens model
- 1.1.2 Depth of field
- 1.2 Human Visual System
- 1.2.1 The human eye
- 1.2.2 Spatial resolution and pixel density
- 1.2.3 Spatial frequency
- 1.2.4 Brightness and contrast
- 1.2.5 Temporal frequency
- 1.3 Display Basics
- 1.3.1 Flat panel displays
- 1.3.2 Projection displays
- 1.3.3 Display size
- 1.3.4 Display resolution and aspect ratio
- 1.3.5 Photometry
- 1.3.6 Frame rate
- 1.3.7 Contrast ratio
- 1.3.8 LCD structure
- 1.4 Light Field Representation
- References
- 2 3D Display Systems
- 2.1 History of 3D Display Technology
- 2.1.1 Classification of 3D displays
- 2.2 Depth Perception
- 2.3 Autostereoscopic Displays
- 2.4 Comparison between Multi-view and Integral Imaging Displays
- 2.5 Other 3D Display Techniques
- References
- 3 Design and Implementation of Autostereoscopic Displays
- 3.1 Design of Multi-view Displays
- 3.1.1 Concept of the view image
- 3.1.2 Number of views
- 3.1.3 View interval
- 3.2 Design of Integral Imaging Displays
- 3.2.1 Design of parameters
- 3.3 Implementation of a Lenticular 3D Display
- 3.4 Implementation of a Parallax-Barrier Display
- 3.4.1 Implementation
- 3.4.2 LCD monitor disassembly
- 3.4.3 Alignment
- 3.4.4 Calibration
- References
- 4 Acquisition of 3D Information
- 4.1 Acquisition via Computer Graphic Objects
- 4.1.1 A simple program with OpenGL
- 4.1.2 Camera pickup using OpenGL
- 4.1.3 Generating an elemental or base image with OpenGL
- 4.1.4 3D model import
- 4.2 Acquisition of 3D Information from Real Objects
- 4.2.1 Elemental images for 3D reconstruction
- 4.3 Calibration of Acquired Information
- 4.4 Light Field Camera
- 4.5 References
- 5 Advanced 3D Display Issues
- 5.1 Moiré
- 5.2 Lens-Slanting Technique
- 5.2.1 Example system 1
- 5.2.2 Example system 2
- 5.3 Implementation of a Slanted Lenticular Display
- 5.4 Slanted Pixel Technique
- 5.5 Crosstalk
- 5.5.1 Crosstalk of a stereoscopic display
- 5.5.2 Crosstalk of a multi-view display
- References
- 6 Multiplexing Techniques in Autostereoscopic Displays
- 6.1 Spatial Multiplexing Techniques
- 6.1.1 Multi-projection based on integral floating
- 6.1.2 Principles of projection geometry
- 6.1.3 Viewing characteristics
- 6.1.4 Example systems
- 6.1.5 Multi-projection systems based on integral imaging
- 6.1.6 Principles of projection geometry
- 6.1.7 Example systems
- 6.2 Implementation of a Multi-projection System
- 6.2.1 Selection of a projector
- 6.2.2 Operational system
- 6.2.3 Preparing 3D content
- 6.3 Other Multiplexing Techniques
- 6.3.1 Compressive light field display (CLFD)
- 6.3.2 The DepthCubeTM 3D volumetric display
- 6.4 Super Multi-view Displays
- 6.4.1 Measurement of accommodation response of SMV condition using an autorefractometer
- 6.4.2 Accommodation response of the SMV system
- References
- Appendix Raspberry Pi System for Driving a Multi-projection Display
- Index
Since the early 2000s, flat-panel displays have advanced exponentially in both multi-user and personal applications. Color expression and the resolution of images provided by the state-of-the-art displays are beyond the perceptible range of human eyes and virtually indistinguishable from the real world. However, display technologies can go further to provide an immersive and realistic experience. In order to achieve those goals, a three-dimensional (3D) expression of a display is an essential factor because we live in a 3D world and perceive it as 3D information.
3D displays are beneficial compared to two-dimensional (2D) displays because the process of observing images is more similar to the natural experience than that of 2D displays. However, the technological limitation of 3D displays limits the popularity of 3D display applications. Current applications of 3D displays are mostly focused on the entertainment area such as movies and games due to the fixed viewing positions of observers or the use of viewing aids and the ease of generating 3D contents using computergraphics technologies rather than picking up 3D images from real objects. If the viewing conditions of 3D images and acquisition techniques of 3D information are developed enough, we can expect many other 3D display applications in addition to entertainment applications. A 3D video call or 3D teleconference can be good examples. Virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) can also have more effects on real-life applications with 3D displays. Moreover, a 3D visualization of scientific results in medical, biological, or other technological fields will be beneficial to academic analysis and education. 3D displays will be also helpful for industrial development. The prototyping of a product will be accelerated, and the training of employees will be done much more effectively with 3D displays. Consequently, many applications that currently use 2D displays may potentially use 3D displays instead.
For those purposes, one of the barriers that current 3D displays must overcome is glasses. Glasses-free, or autostereoscopic, displays provide perspectives of images according to the position of an observer. For providing perspectives, various optical elements are used in autostereoscopic systems. Although autostereoscopic technologies encompass various display technologies, a multi-view-based method is the current mainstream of 3D displays because of its compatibility with flat-panel displays. This book introduces various autostereoscopic technologies from the fundamental principles of the parallax barrier method to the latest multi-projection super-multi-view displays.
The beginning chapters explain the process of the observation of 3D images from a light source to an observer. In the real world, light emitted from a source is reflected or scattered at an object, collected by eyes and, perceived as an object. The observation of 3D images through a 3D display includes more steps: capturing, processing, and display. Instead of directly observing a real object, the information is captured by an imaging device and processed, then it is reconstructed by a 3D display. For those new to display technology, the overall background of 3D display technologies is introduced in Chapter 1. Chapters 2 and 3 focus on directional-view-based 3D displays, including multi-view and integral imaging displays. The practical guide to fabrication of each display system is provided for understanding of the basic principle of each display method. Chapter 4 deals with the acquisition of 3D information from computer graphics and real objects using an optical method. Later chapters cover further details of multi-view technologies and introduce recently reported advanced 3D display technologies.
Possible readers of this book range from undergraduate students to display manufacturers in the industry. Display basics and fundamentals of 3D displays can be a practical guide to those who do not have any background knowledge of display technologies. Examples of multi-view systems will help readers understand the configuration of basic 3D display systems. For readers with some previous knowledge of 3D display technologies, detailed explanations are also provided for advanced display technologies, such as the slanted lens technique and multi-projection systems. The References will be helpful for further study.
We tried our best to cover a wide range of autostereoscopic displays from its conceptual beginning to recent research. Because the technological advancements of conventional 2D displays affect the development of 3D displays, we also tried to cover the basics of 2D displays, including flat panel displays as well as projection-type displays. We believe that this book will help readers improve their comprehension of autostereoscopic displays. We hope that our book contributes to more active research on autostereoscopic 3D displays to realize a world of 3D displays in the near future.
We appreciate the effort of our supporters for the publication of this book. We thank Dr. James A. Harrington for his suggestion and support of the publication. We also thank SPIE staff Tim Lamkins, Tyler Koshakow, and, especially, Dara Burrows for their helpful advice, encouragement, and copyediting efforts. We acknowledge the support of our colleagues in the Optical Engineering and Quantum Electronics Laboratory, Seoul National University. Jae-Hyun Jung, Jiwoon Yeom, Chang-Kun Lee, Jonghyun Kim, Jinsoo Jeong, Changwon Jang, Youngmo Jeong, Jong-Young Hong, and Matheus Miranda helped us with researching a wide range of background technologies, illustrating conceptual diagrams of technologies, and the fabrication of example systems. The writing of this book is based on our long-term study. We especially acknowledge recent support by the IT R&D program of MSIP/KEIT (fundamental technology development for digital holographic contents) and The Cross-Ministry Giga KOREA Project (Development of Super Multi-View (SMV) Display Providing Real-Time Interaction) of The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, Korea.
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BAYOU CORNE, LA (WAFB) - Authorities are investigating what is causing the seismic activity reported Wednesday at the giant Louisiana Sinkhole in Assumption Parish.
According to the Assumption Parish Police Jury blog, seismic monitoring detected elevated fluid and gas movement in the sinkhole Tuesday and Wednesday, and an isolated seismic event that was "comparatively stronger" to most resent signals happened Wednesday mid-afternoon.
Work within the containment berms and directly on the sinkhole continues to be suspended as a precaution while new safety protocols are finalized. Work has been suspended since the giant sinkhole swallowed a large area of trees on August 21 and 22, 2013. The Assumption Parish Police Jury released video of two slough-ins on August 21 and August 22. The entire event was caught on camera. (See video in player above or click here http://bit.ly/1a9WPu2).
Bayou Corne Police Jury President Marty Triche and Parish Jurors are hosting a gathering of public officials on Thursday, September 12, 2013. The public is invited to attend. This is an opportunity to visit with representatives from all levels of government and to give a testimony to how residents have been affected by the sinkhole.
Doors open at 8:30 a.m. and the meeting will begin at 9 a.m. at the Assumption Parish Community Center which is located at 4910 Highway 308 in Napoleonville, La.
The sinkhole opened up in August 2012 and was roughly 1/24 of the size it is now. The sinkhole formed when an underground salt cavern collapsed.
In the past, seismic activity is reported, then the sinkhole burps up debris and then a slough-in happens. Burps occur when air and gas from deep in the sinkhole bubbles up. It can cause debris and an oily substance to float to the top. A slough-in is when the sinkhole swallows trees and land that is on the edge of the sinkhole.
Berms were placed around the sinkhole shortly after it opened up to keep the oily, debris filled water contained to the sinkhole area so it would not contaminate the area bayous.
It has been a year since hundreds living near the giant sinkhole were forced from their homes.
Bubbles were spotted in Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou in June 2012. Two months later, the ground opened up and left what is now a 24-acre sinkhole. Residents were evacuated and the most affected residents began receiving weekly checks from Texas-Brine in the amount of $875 per week. Texas Brine owns the salt cavern that collapsed, causing the sinkhole.
On August 2, Gov. Bobby Jindal and Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced the state will be suing Texas Brine for environmental damages caused by the failed Texas Brine cavern.
Parish and Texas Brine officials agree the situation is far from over. 3D seismic surveys show the sinkhole itself it beginning to slow and stabilize, but the recovery is focused on another danger; natural gas gathering underneath a nearby aquifer.
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Preliminary Guide to the Frank K. Kelly Papers
Preliminary Guide to the Frank K. Kelly Papers, 1907-2008 [bulk dates 1950s-1970s]
Collection number: Mss 279Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff; latest revision D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- Mar. 10, 2011
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
Scope and Content of Collection
- CSDI= Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
- FKK = Frank K. Kelly
- NAPF = Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
- Ashmore [Harry S.] Collection, ca. 1940s-1997. Addresses and speeches, awards, biographical information, correspondence, writings, photographs, audiotapes and videotapes of the newspaperman, writer, editor-in-chief of Encyclopaedia Britannica, and executive for the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Awarded the first double Pulitzer Prizes in history for distinguished service in the Little Rock school integration controversy of the 1950s. (Mss 155).
- Ashmore [Harry S.] Oral History. Interviews with Ashmore, about his life, with an emphasis on his days with the Santa Barbara-based Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. (OH 11).
- Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions [CSDI] Collection, 1950-1991 [bulk dates 1961-1987]. Records of the internationally renowned Santa Barbara-based think tank, emphasizing issues such as education, freedom of the press, international relations, public policy, religion, and science and technology in modern society. Included are materials relating to CSDI leaders such as Frank K. Kelly. (Mss 18).
- Hutchins [Robert M.] Collection, ca. 1960-1991. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, programs, and other materials mainly regarding Hutchins' role as founder and long-time chief executive officer of the Center for Democratic Institutions (CSDI). (Mss 154).
- Kelly [Frank K.] Oral History. Interviews re Kelly's days as a speechwriter for Harry Truman, and work with the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI), as well as the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. (OH 123).
- Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Collection, ca. 1980s-2003. Annual reports, bulletins, newsletters, published studies, programs, audiotapes, ephemera, artifacts, material relating to the Distinguished Peace Leadership Award and World Citizen Award, and files of Dean Babst. (Mss 203).
- Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Oral History. Mainly interviews with Frank Kelly and David Krieger.
- Mitchell [Maurice B.] Collection, ca. 1945-1990. Correspondence, reports, and other, relating to his work with Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and other foundations and institutions such as the Annenberg. Also contains material relating to his interest in the history of printing. (Mss 160).
- Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions / Princeton University Files, 1957-1969 [bulk dates 1962-1965]. (Mss 253).
- Wheeler [Harvey] Oral History. Interviews with Wheeler re his life - before, during, and after his days with the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI). (OH 102).
- Wheeler [Harvey] Papers, ca. 1940s-1990s. Correspondence, writings, and administrative files, mainly relating to Wheeler's long-term association with the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. (Mss 201).
- Harry S. Truman Library & Museum. Oral history interview with Frank K. Kelly, by Niel M. Johnson, Spr. 15, 1988.
Scope and Content Note
Scope and Content Note
"Bless the Beasts and Children" - photos re the film
Catholic Welfare Bureau, 1968
Ecumenical Matters
Genealogy - copies of documents, lists, notes, and related
Khrushchev, Nikita S. - re interview of Khrushchev by Marshall McDuffie, 1956
Mandigo, Barbara - wife of FKK
Missouri University (KC) Alumnus Award, July 1974
Nieman Fellows Dinner, 1958
Oral History - Kissing Joy as It Flies: Living in Eternity's Sunrise: The Life Story of Frank King Kelly, edited by David E. Russell (UCSB Oral History Program, 2008)
Park College
Photographs - a few recent color prints, FKK and family
Science Fiction - Mar. 1930 issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science
Tile - entitled "Feel Free," with circle around initials F. K.
Ireland, May 1966
Washington [D.C.] Guide, 1907
Tribute to FKK - Glenn G. Gooder, July 30, 1975
Trinity Church (Santa Barbara)
Scope and Content Note
General - arranged by year, includes substantial CSDI-related material, 1933–2000, n.d.
Kelly, Barbara (Mrs. Frank)
Kelly, Terence - Harvard
Kelly, Vincent
Annual Report on Mankind
Barr, Stringfellow
Belk, Samuel E., III
Bierer, Joshua
Buck, Jerry
Camara, Archbishop Helder
Charno, Mrs. George
Ginsburg, Norton
Gray, Katharine (Mrs. Horace)
Houlihan, John C.
Hutchins, Robert M.
Interesting Persons
Kogan, Julius
McCall, Tom (Governor)
Moos, Malcolm
PHP magazine
Parten, J. R.
Reeves, Thomas
Roper, Elmo
Sabatino, Rev. William
Saturday Review editors
U Thant
Speeches / Talks, etc.
Scope and Content Note
Adult Education Lectures, 1960-1961
"American Reflections and Projections"
"America's Great Future"
"Bias and the Press"
"Can Students Remake Society?" - also appeared in published form
"Can We Have Peace on Earth? The Ways of Providence, and the Center's Convocation on Pacem in Terris"
"Can We Survive without Transcendent Beliefs?"
"A Case against Unilateral Disarmament - And Some Views on Ways to Peace"
"A Catholic Layman Looks at Politics"
"Choosing the President"
"Communication and Coexistence"
"Communication and Democracy"
"Communication in a Free Society"
"Communication in the Age of Change"
"The Communications Revolution, the Center, and Democracy's Future"
"Continuing Criticism of the Press"
"Democracy Is Rooted in the Heart of Man"
"Everything Depends upon the Individual Person"
"Faith, Religion, and Society"
"The Humanities and the Future"
"Looking for a President: What Kind of President Do We Need? How Can We Get the Right Candidate?"
"Needed: Millions of New Hearts - World Poverty and the Christian Conscience"
"Peace on Earth"
"Photojournalism: Its International Responsibility"
"The Possible Emergence of a New Man"
"The Possibilities of Transformation"
"The President's Roles in Conflicts and Conflict Resolutions"
"Prospects for the American Democracy"
"Rejuvenation and Renewal of Democratic Institutions"
"Restoring Confidence in Government"
"Statement about Catholic Social Services Agency"
"Technology and Jobs"
"The Transformation of Humanity Is Underway"
"Values and Processes in Education: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?"
"We the People Must Save the Republic"
"Welcoming the Future in Good Order: An Assessment of the Tugwell Model Constitution"
"Whither Santa Barbara"
Address to Compton College, 1960
Address to United Nations Association, Los Angeles
Writings – by FKK
Scope and Content Note
The Bold, the Bright, and the Free: A History of the Fund for the Republic - typescript, n.d. ( Court of Reason: Robert Hutchins and the Fund for the Republic was published in 1981)
Days of Brown - correspondence, 1971
The Doors Fly Open - typescript, title page only, n.d.
Harry Truman and the Human Family - Capra Press blurbs
Now Where Are You O'Mara? - related correspondence, 1975
Year of the Big Promises: 1912 (typescript, n.d.) - published as The Fight for the White House: The Story of 1912 (1961)
Your Freedoms: The Bill of Rights (typescript, contract, ca. 1962-1963) - published 1966
Your Laws (handwritten and typescript drafts, some related correspondence, permissions file, review) - published 1970
Shorter Works - incl. magazine and journal articles, occasional papers, some science fiction
"Can Students Re-Make Society?" Bulletin of the Association of College Unions, Apr. 1968
"The Case against Cynicism" - typescript
"The Continuing Struggle for Constitutional Government" PHP
"Could We Lose Our Bill of Rights?" - typescript
"A Council for Humanity" - typescript for PHP, and related
"A Counselor General for Big Brother?" ( The Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, July/Aug. 1974)
"The Day We Lost Our Bill of Rights" - typescript, ca. 1962
"Dynamic Programming - A New Way of Planning for the Future" - typescript, 1973
"H.S.T." - re Harry S. Truman; handwritten and typescript draft, n.d.
"The Hunger to Know and To Grow" ( Athene Magazine, Spring 1962)
"In Which Krank Felly Goes to Ireland" - typescript, humorous piece
"John and Paul: The Hunger for Holiness" - typescript
"Letter to Ten Thousand Americans" - typescript, 1961
"The Lives in a Day of a Center Man" - typescript, n.d.
"The Loneliest Man in the World: The President, Representing Every American. A Story Outline" - typescript, n.d.
"Looking for a President" - mainly correspondence re publishing article, ca. 1973-1974
"The Mass Media and the Future of Constitutionalism" - Background Paper for the Conference on Constitutional Principles: Their Validity and Vitality Today, Dec. 1973
"Mr. Truman and Mrs. Kelly" (typescript, copy of article, 1962)
"1996: Where You Can Go When You Can Go Anywhere" - College & University Business - incl. related correspondence, Sept. 1971
PHP: A Forum for a Better World - Japanese publication, with articles by FKK; also some drafts of articles for PHP, 1972-1974
"The Possibilities of Transformation: A Report on the State of Mankind: 1970" - incl. related correspondence ( Saturday Review, Mar. 7, 1970)
"A Proposal for an Annual Report on the State of Mankind," Los Angeles FM & Fine Arts, Feb. 1968
"Rainbow Rhapsody" - broadside poem
"Sparks from an Anvil" - series of articles
"Star Ship Invincible and Other Tales of the Space Age" - typescript, n.d.
"State of Mankind: Lift-Off and Beyond" - typescript and related correspondence, ca. 1970
"Thoughts on Man's Nature" - typescript/handwritten draft, n.d.
"Trees Grew in Brooklyn" - Robert M. Hutchins interviewed by Frank K. Kelly - print copy, n.d.
"The United States Academy of Peace: A Long Step toward Real Security" (National Peace Academy Foundation, 1983)
"What Kind of President?" - series of articles
"Who Owns the Air? Testimony before the Federal Communications Commission" (CSDI Occasional Paper, 1960)
"Why Conservatives Should Vote against Proposition 14" - typescript
Newspaper Articles / Columns
Gazette-Citizen Features Syndicate - contract to do column, 1966
Santa Barbara News Press Series on the Presidency (typescript and printed copies), 1960
Book Reviews
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) / Fund for the Republic
Scope and Content Note
Scope and Content Note
CSDI, 1960-1976, n.d. - includes press releases, minutes of board meetings, reports, and other relating to Center activities
Fund for the Republic, 1952-1977 [the Fund created the Center in 1959] - includes minutes of Board meetings, press releases, and reports
American Traditions Dinner, 1957
Blacklisting Project
Boulding, Kenneth - "ALMA MATER for the C.S.D.I." (poem), 1962
The Center and Social Criticism
Center Location
Center Promotional Activity
Center Publications
Center Reorganization, 1973-1974
Center Reorganization - notes by FKK
Center's Impact, Mar. 20, 1975
Clippings - re various activities of the Center and its participants, 1955, 1959-1976, 1981, n.d.
Correspondence - re Center programs and other activities, 1964, 1969-1970, 1973
Douglas, William O.
Eisenhower Letters - re letter from Eisenhower that FKK had received [original not in folder]
Hoffman, Hallock
Houston Report
The Hutchins Chair - A Proposal
Hutchins Commission
Kelly, Frank K. - biographical information, much re Center activities
Kennedy, John F. - incl.copies of letters to JFK, and Center reaction to assassination
Kuchel, Sen. Thomas H. - "Feel Free: The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Congressional Record," Feb. 26, 1964
Laucks, Eulah
Mass Media
Medical Malpractice Conference, 1975
New Perspectives Quarterly - note list of CSDI chair, vice chair, and board of directors (Summer 1993)
Papal Encyclical, 1961
Participants in the Publications of the Center and the Fund - ten year bibliography, [ca. 1969]
The Presidency
The Press and the People
Prospects for Democracy 1963-1973 - CSDI Symposium
Proxmire Statement - Resolution calling for United Nations State of Mankind Address, Congressional Record, Jan. 18, 1968
Public Relations and Continuing Education
Reece, Rep. B. Carroll - "The Ford Fund for the Republic," Congressional Record, July 21, 1955
"Report of the [CSDI] President," 1958/1959-1965/1967
Statement of Current Projects, 1952-1961
Storke, Thomas M.
Birch Society
Lauterbach Award
Stringer, William - editorial re "State of Mankind" address, 1968
Supreme Court Computer
"Survival and Freedom" - series of 13 interviews by Mike Wallace
"Survival of the Wisest: Are We Entering a New Epoch?" - broadside for series of discussions with CSDI fellows and others, n.d.
Tenth Anniversary Convocation, Dec. 7-8, 1963
Tugwell Constitution
U. C. Santa Cruz - Oakes College, 1974
Williamsburg International Assembly, 1972
Wilton Park
World Order and Freedom Conference - Athens, Greece, 1961
World Union (India), 1968
World Union Focus
World Veterans Association
Photographs - mainly black/white, of FKK and programs and other events at CSDI
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF)
Scope and Content Note
1987-2000, n.d.


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NEW YORK (AP) -- Carmelo Anthony's All-Star game start could be in jeopardy after he received a deep bruise in his right arm that caused numbness.
Anthony says he wants to play Sunday in Houston but is ''not going to force it.''
The New York Knicks forward says, ''As bad as I would want to play in the All-Star game, participate, if I can't go, I can't go. Nothing I can do about that.''
Anthony was hurt early in the Knicks' 92-88 loss to Toronto on Wednesday when he tried to step in front of a driving DeMar DeRozan and took an elbow to his biceps. Anthony says it created a contusion and left him battling a ''dead arm'' throughout the game.
Anthony finished with 12 points on 5-of-24 shooting.


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Those Old Chinese Faces on Products
Recently I just realized something – some products, especially Chinese ones, have a face as its logo/trademark/whatever you call it.
So I wondered – why the black and white face?
Even the yummy Mo Far Kor has a face on its case. To be honest, the faces look like those dead people on the obituary section.
The manufacturers must be thinking: "Ah gong, since you're dead, I'm gonna use your face on my products. You will be always remembered!".
How thoughtful, but I find it quite awkward and weird.
I was told that one of the reasons of including the face is that the customers will remember and recognize the item easily. Customers address the Windy Oil as "Ah poh yao" which means "Grandma oil".
Seems convenient right? They even came up with a "younger" version of the medicated oil.
They call this boy the grandma Windy's grandson – looking blue-ish and dead.
And Siangpure Oil's face looking as strict as Singapore.
Anyway, usually middle-aged people and old timer buy and use the same brand because they trust the products. But what about the youngsters?
Therefore, I've came up with my own modifications of these items. Definitely can remember easily.
Saw Hong Choon skin ointment (I wonder why the name in the first place) should be replaced with the Hulk's face. Since it's for fungal infections, the Hulk (which is green) is totally suitable.
Besides that, people will remember Spiderman better than that old strict uncle. Spidey is much cooler too!
With so much hype about Ip Man, I think his face should replace the old grandma face. Renaming it to "Ip Man Oil" will be so much appropriate too.
I think Donnie Yen will use the medicated oil after every fighting scene.
And instead of the bubbly fat kid as the grandson – he should be replaced with Bruce Lee, since Bruce is Ip Man's student. Hee-yah!
Oh yeah, besides all these products, there's also the famous hair shampoo Bawang.
The uncle in the logo is so not suitable for the product – why is an almost bald uncle used to represent the hair care shampoo?
And also, why the name "Bawang"? Onion? What is the relevance? I have no clue…
Therefore, I propose a modification!
Change to my face (coz got more hair than that man) and rename it to Bawooi (which I have no idea why)!
Seconder please!


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Furlough Days Planned at SIU Carbondale
Employees at the Southern Illinois University campus at Carbondale will be facing four unpaid furlough days during the current school year.
Chancellor Rita Cheng's office announced this week that an agreement has been reached with several unions on campus that will allow for the furlough days, as one way to close a budget shortfall. Cheng says other suggestions --- like requiring more furlough days for higher-income employees had been discussed as a way to make their burden more equitable --- but the idea was ultimately turned down.
"For example, if someone makes $30,000 (a year), a day is about $100," Cheng said. "For someone who makes $300,000, a day is $1,000. So there will be a difference of what people contribute, based on scaling of a day, rather than taking a flat rate from everyone."
Six unions on the Carbondale campus are still holding out for more information and options to avoid the furlough days. Leaders of those unions --- including ones for faculty and civil service employees - announced Tuesday night they would work together against the furloughs
Faculty Association President Randy Hughes said six campus unions are united in their intention to fight the furlough plan.
"All six of us will work to protect the rights of others to negotiate, to be free from any sort of unilateral or illegal action on the part of the university to impose administrative closures without bargaining in good faith," Hughes said..
The planned closure days are scheduled during student breaks in November, December, January and March, and won't affect classes. The university's student employees are exempt from the unpaid days.


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Peanuts Celebration
Valleyfair's Peanuts Celebration, an all-new event uniquely dedicated to celebrating the beloved Peanuts characters, invites guests to step inside the pages of a Charles M. Schulz comic strip as the characters take over the theme park for the very first time. The newly introduced event will take place on weekends beginning June 8 through June 30. This limited time celebration invites fans of all ages to join in on the fun by introducing new ways for guests to play and interact with the Peanuts Gang throughout the park. The event will feature special Peanuts inspired décor, new social media worthy comic strip photo ops, new character experiences, live shows, exclusive merchandise and deliciously themed treats to complete this whimsical celebration.View Website »
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Trisha Yearwood (Feat. Kelly Clarkson), 'PrizeFighter'
Trisha Yearwood's 'PrizeFighter' is her first single in six years, and admittedly she had some catching up to do as far as recording and promoting new music in a digital world. Empowering songs that feature two of the top country vocalists of all time always win -- that's something she learned decades ago.
'PrizeFighter' is an event as much as it is a song or message to the downtrodden. Kelly Clarkson joins Yearwood on this one, harmonizing and adding backup vocals before being narrowly featured toward the end. For fans of pure country vocalists, this is the bacon sundae of country songs.
"When you see them shake their heads / That's when you start seeing red / From your head down to your toes / You find your glory, strength and hope," Yearwood sings during the second verse. Jessi Alexander, Sarah Buxton and Ross Copperman penned the inspirational ballad.
"Come on, come on comeback kid / Show 'em how you never quit / You're gonna rise from the pain / And like a hurricane …"
The chorus is the strength of the song, partly because that's when Yearwood and Clarkson's collaboration truly begins to shine. 'PrizeFighter' is a song that will mean different things to people in different difficult situations. Those with problems as fleeting as a bad day at work to those facing more difficult life situations — domestic violence, maybe? — will find a line in the song to pick them up. "Look at you smiling with a shiner, standing higher, prize fighter," she sings. Is that a figurative or very real shiner? It could be both.
"When you hit the ground / You find your wings / You go one more round / When that bell rings / You say you're done but here you come / You're a hammer hitting, spitting fire / Prize fighter."
During a recent interview, Yearwood acknowledged taking steps to ensure her first single since the President Bush administration was sonically similar to others on the radio. There's no greater death knell than a track that instantly sounds old, especially for a female vocalist pushing 50. Whether she's succeeded at that will ultimately be decided by not her fans, but the casual radio listener and radio programmers.
Why Fans Will Love It: 'PrizeFighter' is inspiring, but beyond that, the two women turn in great vocal performances.
Key Lyrics: "When you're sweating from the fear / You're looking it in the eye / Turn the sound of defeat into your battle cry / Stakes are down, you're out of luck / Look at you smiling with a shiner / Standing higher / Prize fighter."
Did You Know?: Remember that duets album Yearwood and Garth Brooks have been talking about forever? It's coming. The singer says it's part of her short-term plan now that the two are touring together and both signed to the same label.
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