In the third installment of our series, The History of Civil Liberties in Canada, with The Democracy Fund's (TDF) Historian in Residence, Conrad Black, we featured the acclaimed guest speaker, Canadian media personality, clinical psychologist, author, and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, Dr. Jordan Peterson.
Conrad Black and Dr. Peterson discussed the topic of civil liberties in Canada from both a present-day and historical perspective focusing on the issue of constitutional rights and freedoms in Canada.
This third installment of this series took place on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, at Canada Christian College in Whitby, Ontario.
About Jordan Peterson:
Raised in Alberta and a long-time resident of Toronto, Dr. Jordan Peterson has become the most recognized academic in the world. Dr. Peterson is well known for his defence of free speech and objection to coerced language. In 2016, Dr. Peterson rose to unprecedented international prominence as a public intellectual and educator.
Dr. Peterson is a clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. From 1993 to 1998, he served as an assistant and then associate professor of psychology at Harvard.
Through his best-selling books and media appearances, Dr. Peterson has impacted humanity significantly. His YouTube channel has almost 6 million subscribers, and he regularly hosts fascinating discussions with lead intellectuals worldwide.
His book, "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos," was published in 2018 and has sold over 4 million copies internationally. The sequel, "Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life," was released on March 2, 2021.
About Conrad Black:
Conrad Black is a financier and an esteemed columnist, writer, and radio and television commentator who is well known for creating a media legacy and one of the world's largest newspaper companies, Hollinger International. He was also the founder of Canada's National Post and has written books on Canadian and American history, as well as acclaimed biographies of figures such as former premier of Quebec, Maurice Duplessis, and US presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon and Donald Trump.
About The Democracy Fund:
Founded in 2021, The Democracy Fund (TDF) is a Canadian charity dedicated to constitutional rights, advancing education and relieving poverty. TDF promotes constitutional rights through litigation and public education. TDF supports an access to justice initiative for Canadians whose civil liberties have been infringed by government lockdowns and other public policy responses to the pandemic.


Children’s ‘Little Book of Travel Tales’ launched by East Midlands Airport to mark the start of the summer season
- Short stories and poems about travel have been written by local school children for a new book published by East Midlands Airport
- Books also include a range of fun puzzles and activities and will be handed out to children travelling through East Midlands Airport during the Easter holidays
A cheeky parrot at the airport, dreaming about idyllic holiday settings, ambitions to be a pilot and flying above the clouds, are just some of the themes explored by children who have written short stories and poems for a new book published by East Midlands Airport called the ‘Little Book of Travel Tales’.
Earlier this year, East Midlands Airport invited children from schools across the region to submit stories and poems to be included the book. The airport received 76 entries from 12 schools. The final edition of the book includes 12 stories and poems written by children from seven local schools, which are:
- Asterdale Primary School
- Chellaston Academy
- English Martyrs Catholic Voluntary Academy, Long Eaton
- Fairfield Spencer Academy
- Landau Forte College, Derby
- Newcroft Primary Academy
- Shardlow Primary School
The authors whose stories made the final edition were informed on World Book Day last month, and received £50 book vouchers for their school libraries. But, today, (Wednesday 5 April) the children visited the airport and handed out copies of the books to passengers flying away for Easter.
The Little Book of Travel Tales, which also includes puzzles and fun activities, is for children and their families who use the airport thio summer.
The story writing initiative is part of EMA’s programme of education and outreach which is delivered through the airport’s Aerozone. This bespoke on-site education facility runs a programme of events throughout the year designed to inspire and enthuse young people about the airport, aviation and future careers within the sector. The airport has a strong relationship with local schools and works with them on projects ranging from skills development to environmental projects.
East Midlands Airport’s Head of Education, Skills and Employment, Marcella MRabety, said: “We were blown away by the quality and variety of entries we received for the ‘Little Book of Travel Tales’ and are very grateful to participating schools and their pupils.
“Literacy is a vital skill and we’re delighted to have played a role in encouraging children to discover the joy of reading and writing. Through our education programme, we were able to tap into youngsters’ enthusiasm for travel and adventure. I know the pupils involved all had a great deal of fun writing the stories and poems, and I hope our passengers get just as much enjoyment from reading them.”


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Amereki Kum, Escape From Dubai
Dir. Matt Johanning (USA 2017)
Monday, May 28
You will not believe this true story!
Amereki Kum, Escape From Dubai is the true story of Chicago CPA, Ted van der Zalm, who escaped from the Middle East by mailing himself to Amsterdam in a wooden crate.
Ted van der Zalm was born in the Netherlands during World War II and emigrated to the United States with his family as a teenager. He grew to love the United States and eventually became a US citizen. Ted worked hard to learn the language and customs. He served in the Army, went to college and became a CPA. He raised a family in Chicago in the 70s and 80s.
In the late 1980s Ted was offered a once in a lifetime opportunity to join a real estate development team with plans to build an all-inclusive resort in Belize. The belief among investors was that Belize was destined to be the next vacation hot spot; the next Cancun. His role was to pitch the project to wealthy individuals and secure financing for the project. Eventually the search for financing led the team to open an office in Dubai. This is where the plan unraveled.
In the end Ted was left with the option of spending the rest of his days in and out of a Dubai jail or finding a way to escape from the country.


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Leeorah was an everyday housewife with two daughters and a loving husband when her world started to unravel. She couldn’t stop painting monsters, and a deep dark secret she had bottled up inside her was starting to leak out. When it broke , her realisations took her on a journey of self discovery. As Leeorah blossomed in her spiritual understanding, she also experienced a sexual awakening, crossing the heights of bliss she never dared dream possible.The world was bigger than she had imagined and sexier.Come with her now on a voyage of discovery, and let her story blow a breath of life into your world.
PUPPETS ON STRINGS
This is a true account of a group of people who were lured to Romania under the guise of starring in a feature film.
A wise woman said that the internet is like a spiritual web letting like- minded people meet. it is also a fertile place for evil people to snare their victims. These people do not feel the effects of their crimes as the victims feel the guilt and trauma on their behalf.
Leeorah and Amy, cousins, a generation apart, living on different continents. One is obese, the other anorexic and bulimic. Both are fighting a war against their body. Through email communication, they start to examine the reasons behind their respective eating disorders. In this journey of discovery and healing, their frank and sometimes brutal honesty provides insight into their battles which are so different yet so similar. Leeorah, an internationally-acclaimed healer, uses some of her techniques in a desperate attempt to save Amy. This is a fascinating account of the “why” behind obesity and anorexia/bulimia, and how healing can begin if you are willing to open your mind to new possibilities.
FINDING MY DELICIOUS
Leeorah lived a charmed life and was an avid traveler. This all changed when the pandemic hit. She like the rest of the world was consequently grounded.She used this time to go deep within to face her biggest monsters.This is the inspirational memoir of overcoming childhood trauma, repressed memories and food addictions. Leeorah worked with a Kitchen Therapist to face the past nightmares, allowing harmonic back into her life.


“It was the possibility of doing a purely cinematic film. You have an immobilized man looking out. That’s one part of the film. The second part shows what he sees and the third part shows how he reacts. This is actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.” —Alfred Hitchcock
François Truffaut: To my mind, ‘Rear Window’ is probably your very best screenplay in all respects. The construction, the unity of inspiration, the wealth of details.
Alfred Hitchcock: I was feeling very creative at the time, the batteries were well-charged. John Michael Hayes is a radio writer and he wrote the dialogue. —François Truffaut, Hitchcock
Read, learn, & absorb: John Michael Hayes’ screenplay for ‘Rear Window’ [pdf]. (NOTE: For educational purposes only)
When it came to his career, John Michael Hayes experienced the heaven and hell of Alfred Hitchcock. The four films they made together in a remarkably short period of time during the mid-1950s—‘Rear Window,’ ‘To Catch a Thief,’ ‘The Trouble with Harry,’ and ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’ (1956 version)—would seem to provide the defining moments of Hayes’s résumé. But an initially harmonious working relationship turned sour. According to Hayes, Hitchock nurtured the fledgling screenwriter only to betray him ultimately. —John Michael Hayes: Qué Sera, Sera, interview by Susan Green
Based on a Cornell Woolrich short story, the screenplay for ‘Rear Window’ was Hayes’ first project with a major director. A keen writer of dialogue, Hayes quickly understood that because Hitchcock grew up in silent films, he had a tendency to rely on the camera as much as possible. He later recalled: “I caught some of that spirit. Hitchcock taught me about how to tell a story with the camera and tell it silently.” The critic Chris Wehner takes up this idea in a 2002 interview with John Michael Hayes in which he discusses the writing of ‘Rear Window.’ It provides a fascinating insight into Hayes’ working methods and his relationship with the great director. —John Michael Hayes: On Writing Rear Window
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Saturday, 7 January 2012
West Indies, U.S.A.
West Indies, U.S.A. by Stewart Brown
Born 1951 in Southampton, Stewart Brown is a poet, editor and critic. He studied art and literature at Falmouth School of Art, the University of Sussex and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He spent periods teaching in schools and universities in Jamaica, Nigeria, Wales and Barbados. Since 1988 he has taught in The Centre of West African Studies at the University of Birmingham, where he is now Reader in African and Caribbean literatures. He has travelled widely through West Africa and the Caribbean in relation to both his research and creative writing, and lectured for the British Council in both regions. As a poet he received a Gregory Award in 1976 and has subsequently published four collections of poetry.In the 70s he had several one–man–shows of paintings in Jamaica and the UK, and he continues to make visual images. He has edited or co-edited several anthologies of African and Caribbean writing and critical studies of the West Indian poets Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite and Martin Carter.
In this poem, the poet records his impressions of the Islands from a view, thirty thousand feet above. He sees some of the islands as more prominent than others. Some are more culturally and economically developed as can be seen in his impression of Puerto Rico, with “silver linings in the clouds” and the glitter of San Juan. But to him, each country has its own distinctive features and characteristics, which are highlighted at its terminal.
Against these islands, the poet sees the influence of the United States on Puerto Rico: he sees Puerto Rico as a representation of the United States - “America’s backyard”. Stringent laws are enforced at its terminal to prevent passengers from entering without legal documentation. The fear of foreigners who sneak into the island and tarnish the image of the land is well noted by the poet. He notes the influence of American culture and lifestyle in Puerto Rico. The glitter of the cities pulsating with life is well captured in the “polished Cadillac’s” and “Micro chips”.
Answer these Questions
1. What is the theme of the poem?
2. (a) Select the simile in the first two lines of the poem.
(b) Explain why the poet makes the comparison,
(c) Do you find it interesting and original? Why?
3. What is the distinctive feature of each of the following terminals?
(a) Port au Prince (b) Piarco (c) Vere Bird
4. Why are all passengers other than those embarking at San Juan, required
to stay on the plane?
5. What do you think is “that vaunted sanctuary”?
Why is it considered a vaunted sanctuary?
6. Select three pieces of evidence which show America’s influence on the
lifestyle of Puerto Rico.
7. What do you think is the mood of the poem?
8. What is the tone of the poet?


ILLYRICUM SACRUM ~ A multi-volume historical work written in Latin dealing with history of the Catholic Church in the Illyrian Peninsula.
The first five volumes (issued 1751-1775) were authored by Daniele Farlati; the volumes 6 (1800) and 7 (1817), were coauthored by Jacopo Coleti, who also published the last volume in 1819, with the ninth tome printed in the period 1902-1919, as an appendix to Frane Bulić’s, Bulletino di archeologia e storia dalmata.
The part of the work Illyricum Sacrum (ILIRIA KRISHTERE) that deals with church history within the territory of the Albanian state, was tranlated in Albanian (finished in 1963) by Monsignor Frano Ilia. The volume VII aligns the Christian history and links it with the civil one of the Metropolies of Djoklea, Tivar, Shkodra, Durrës and Sirmi and the suffragans or deceches that depend on them. From this volume and forward, have also been translated the parts that belong to the internal borders of Albania, that is, to Shkodra and Durrës and their suffragans, where the foundation of cities and counties are described, and the Christian and civil history of those places is well linked. The volume VII itself, covers the historical lands up to the beginning of the XVIII century, when it was also published.
Note: Monsignor Frano Ilia (in the photo, 1943) was born in the village of Juban in Shkodra, on February 21, 1918. He was ordained a priest on December 18, 1943, and served in Tirana, Shkodra, Milot and its surroundings. In 1967 he was arrested by the sinful communist regime of Albania, and on April 25, 1968 was sentenced to death, which was later commuted to life imprisonment and forced labour. He served as the first Archbishop of Shkodra of the post-communist Albania. He was appointed Bishop of Shkodra and ordained by Pope John Paul II, during his visit to Albania on April 25, 1993.
Monsignor Frano Ilia passed away on this day, 14 years ago (October 22, 1998). May his soul rest in eternal peace.
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4 May In , The Long Walk was published. It was the story of a good and gentle man caught up in the savageries that followed Germany’s invasion. The Long Walk, by Slavomir Rawicz, purports to be the true story of an heroic flight to freedom. He claims to have been a Polish officer grabbed by the Russians. In , Slavomir Rawicz escaped from a Soviet Union gulag (prison camp) with 6 other inmates. Over the next year they traveled on foot through the frozen.
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I certainly enjoyed reading the book whether or not it was a completely true re-telling of Rawicz’s experiences or not. The journey takes them on a year long escape to India via the Gobi desert, the Himalayas, etc As Chief of Police Ed Kapenash digs into the best man, the maid of honor, the groom’s famous mystery novelist mother, and even a member of his own family, the chief discovers that every wedding is a minefield – and no couple is perfect.
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We looked at the United States in My Father’s World Exploring Countries and Cultures. Lentil is a FIAR book we added to our studies.
Lentil takes place in Alto Ohio. It’s a cute story about a boy who learns of a talent he has, and his harmonica playing saves the day.
Big Ladybug did a Lentil lapbook. We looked at Ohio and the national anthem, pledge of allegiance, and other patriotic songs.
She just so happened to be learning to play “Comin’ Round the Mountain” which fit in nicely with this row. She had fun playing and singing it.
The kids also had a great time wondering around the house
fighting over playing the harmonica.
We discussed architecture and looked at buildings in our town.
The pictures in the book are all black and white drawings, so I purchased some charcoals for our art project. We were going to sketch a building, but she passed on that and chose to draw the dog in the book.
We discussed sound and how it moves through vibration. The kids had fun playing with the tin can telephones we made.
We read up on the great state of Ohio.


José Luis Munuera was born in 1972 in the south of Spain. After studying fine arts at the University of Granada, he illustrated “historietas”, as they say in Spanish. But, like the print media, the comic book sector is going through a difficult period in the 1990s, and José Luis left to Angoulême.
There he meets Joann Sfar who writes for him the three stories of the Potamoks (Delcourt). Faced with the lack of success, the two authors decide to propose their work to another publisher: Dargaud. This is how the adventures of Merlin, the famous magician always accompanied by Tartine the ogre, and Jambon the pig, are born. The series finds its audience, and when Sfar no longer has the time to write the stories, Jean-David Morvan succeeds him. It’s the beginning of a long artistic collaboration.
Munuera and Morvan then embark on the delirious Sir Pyle S. Culape (Soleil), then, with Philippe Buchet, they imagine Nävis (Delcourt), a fantasy series for children.
Meanwhile, the two partners are contacted by editions Dupuis who offer them to tell, in turn, the adventures of one of their favorite heroes, Spirou: Paris-sous-Seine is published in 2004. Since then, Munuera has been successful with series for adults – Sortilèges (Dargaud, written by Jean Dufaux) or Fraternity (Dargaud, written by Juan Diaz Canales) – but also for the youth – Walter the Wolf (Dargaud ), Les Campbell (Dupuis) or P’tit Boule & Bill (Dargaud), a tribute to the master Jean Roba.


Focus: Students will practice mechanics of writing well developed paragraphs and gain confidence in their own writing abilities. Units 1 and 2, as described below, will be presented as the foundation for paragraph writing. Units 3 and/or 4 will be presented to expand skills relevant to classroom writing assignments.
Unit 1: Note Making and Outlines
- Students will:Choose and record key words which will help them remember a complete idea and use a
basic outline format.
- Communicate the main ideas from something they have read by using their own key word
- Choose selections, read them, create key word outlines independently, and orally retell the
basic ideas to another person using only the outline.
Unit 2: Writing from Notes
- For students to retell in writing short stories or articles by using key word outlines.
- To provide content for students to use while learning the writing and rewriting process.
- For students to become independent in the process of:
- choosing a source and making a key word outline
- rewriting from their own notes (without copying from the source)
- dressing-up their summaries and rewriting a final draft
Unit 3: Retelling Narrative Stories
- Identify the story sequence in a narrative story.
- Make outlines based on the Story Sequence Chart.
- Summarize stories from outlines and internalize the components of a well constructed story.
- Know that each paragraph has a purpose.
Unit 4: Summarizing a Reference
- For students to learn to use the classroom or home library and ultimately the main library, find reading material on a topic, take notes, and write a summary. (For purpose of summer clinic, the reading materials will be provided.)
- To introduce the topic sentence and concluding sentence.
- For students to be able to use one reference, taking key word outline notes on a specific topic from a reference, and write summary from the outline.
- For students to document their references and report orally or in writing on what they found and where they found it.
Elizabeth Hipwell, M.Ed.
Certified Barton Reading & Spelling Tutor


About the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation
We are thrilled that the Houston Grand Opera has adapted The Snowy Day into this splendid production. The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation is proud to steward Ezra's books and legacy but this is only a part of what Ezra hoped his foundation would accomplish. Ezra wanted to "do good". To achieve that goal. the work of the EJK Foundation is to foster children's love of reading and creative expression by supporting arts and literacy programs in public schools and libraries and by cultivating new writers and illustrators of exceptional picture books that reflect our diverse population.
Our three major programs: the EJK Bookmaking Competition, the EJK Mini-Grant Program and the Ezra Jack Keats Award were designed to offer the kind of encouragement Ezra received, from his public school days to his career as an author/illustrator. Since a portion of his royalties fund our work, his books inspire children and also support these programs showing authors, illustrators, students and educators that their efforts are valuable and appreciated.
The Ezra Jack Keats Bookmaking Competition, currently an annual activity in public schools in New York and San Francisco, is open to children (grades 3 through 12), to write, illustrate and construct their own books. Over and over we hear what a life changing experience this is, for avid and reluctant readers.
Through the Ezra Jack Keats Mini-Grant program approximately 70 grants are awarded to public school teachers (preK -12) and public librarians. in 30 to 40 states, each year. The grants, of up to S500, fund a wide range of imaginative science, art and literacy programs in and out of the classroom. In addition to enriching curriculum these grants honor the educators.
Through the annual Ezra Jack Keats Award, the Foundation recognizes a new illustrator and writer of outstanding children's picture books that celebrate the diversity of our culture and the universality of the childhood experience. We aim to support the Ezra's of tomorrow!
The EJK Foundation works for inclusivity and diversity in children's literature and for quality public education. Ezra imagined a better future-our work is to help make it real.
We hope you'll visit us at: www.Ezra-Jack-Keats.org


The newest Star Wars tie-in teases the actual strength of Rey & Kylo’s Greatest Force Power, the Force Dyad. It was overlooked in the second trilogy. When Rey and Kylo Ren (aka Ben Solo) stood before Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, their hidden relationship was finally out. They are famous as a Force dyad by the Dark Lord of the Sith. It is a phenomenon that the Sith cherishes but have not seen in years.
The Force Dyad is gradually understandable through Star Wars tie-ins. The most recent contribution coming from the book Secrets of the Sith. Its purports to be extracted from Emperor Palpatine’s notebooks. It has a section dedicated to the mythology, with a lovely depiction of the Force Dyad depicting how it appears in the Force. Although the Emperor’s information is ultimately incomplete—Rae Carson’s novelization of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker reveals Palpatine was ignorant that the competition required contestants to be strong in both the light and evil sides of the Force. His insights are noteworthy nonetheless.
Rey & Kylo’s Greatest Force Power
They also claim that Rey and Kylo Ren have never-before-seen abilities. The Emperor confirms Rey’s Force abilities. He says, “Members of a dyad were believed to be capable of transferring their life force to heal others”. Members of a dyad have exclusive access to healing power. “Some could even pass objects through time and space in an instant.“ he continued. There’s a famous example of this at the end of The Rise of Skywalker. Rey effortlessly gives a lightsaber to Ben instead of killing the Emperor. But this new revelation goes much further, implying that the two may pass objects through time as well as space.
Star Wars has a reputation for being careful of time travel concepts. Some books explored the idea in the old expanded universe, such as Paul S. Kemp’s novel Crosscurrent. It featured ancient Sith transported to the present day, and the Legacy of the Force series, which featured a power called flow-walking. It could potentially rewrite history. But these were non-canon after Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012. Only Star Wars Rebels has dabbled with time travel since then, when it introduced the World Between the Worlds, a parallel universe accessible only through the Force. As witnessed when Ezra intervenes to save Ahsoka from Darth Vader, any attempt to influence the past through the World Between Worlds was already existing into the pattern of history.
To yet, the only way to enter the World Between the Worlds has been through Force Vergences at particular Jedi Temples. Force Dyad’s two members may have intuitive access to it, allowing them to move objects beyond space and time. When Ben Solo died on the Sith planet of Exegol, Rey may have lost these powers. But it’s also possible that they were intact because Ben transferred all of his life essences into her. If this is the case, future Star Wars storylines could see Rey expand on her abilities and perhaps get entry to the World Between the Worlds.


Most of the paper dolls on this site are from newspaper archives. All newspaper items have been copied in black and white. I have added color to some of the paper dolls. All of the coloring contests for movies and from ads were found searching through newspapers.
Monday, August 24, 2009
ELIZABETH ANN Paper Doll by Laura Brock, 1933
ELIZABETH ANN, another addition to the Laura Brock Paper Doll Family that appeared in newspapers in 1933 and 1934. Elizabeth Ann was published in August of 1933.


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I also have an EPSRC CASE-funded PhD studentship with the Ordnance Survey (the national mapping agency for the UK) looking at automatically generating imprecise regions using information gathered from online sources (2006 - 2009).
We are acting as consultants in the Search25 JISC-funded project to evaluate the effectiveness of the existing InforM25 service and the new system under development: Search25. Read about our contributions to the project on the Search25 project blog.
The PATHS project aims to support information exploration and discovery through digital cultural heritage collections. This project aims to implement various user models to provide a mechanism for users to create and share pathways through information spaces for learning and knowledge discovery. Personalised access to digital cultural heritage resources will be provided by adapting suggested routes to the requirements of individual users and groups, such as students/teachers, professional archivists and historians and scholars. A prototype system will provide search assistance and capture user- and expert-generated paths through digital information spaces to provide personalised and contextualised information access. I am Scientific Director of this project and leader of the Work Package on user interfaces.
Key publication: Clough, P., Ford, N. and Stevenson, M. (2011). Personalizing Access to Cultural Heritage Collections using Pathways. In Proceedings of PATCH 2011.
User-Centered Design of a Recommender System for a 'Universal' Library Catalogue
The goal of this project is to increase our understanding of the applicability of the recommender concept to the domain of the library catalogue and better understand the criteria, requirements, preferences and reactions of library catalogue users. Rather than focusing on a single institution we will experiment with making recommendations for WorldCat, the worlds’ largest and most comprehensive bibliographic database and 'universal' library catalogue. This resource is managed by OCLC Inc. and provides a unique source of evidence upon which to base recommendations. This is funded by the AHRC under the Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) programme.
Key publication: Wakeling, S., Clough, P., Sen, B. and Connaway, L. (2012) "Reader's who borrowed this also borrowed ...": Recommender Systems in UK Libraries, Library Hi-Tech, Volume 30(1), pp. 134-150.
The IFF@TNA project (Improving Information Finding at The National Archives) aimed at improving access to data managed by TNA. The project involved analysing TNA's main web server logs to establish the range of subjects being searched by online visitors to their archives. Additionally the project analysed separate server logs of the UK Government Web Archive to establish the range of subjects of interest to online visitors and to determine any common patterns of user behaviour. An evaluation methodology was also developed for TNA based on crowdsourcing that allows them to evaluate their existing and future search products and services.
TrebleCLEF is an EU-funded Coordination Action (CA) designed to bring together investigators working in the field of evaluation for multilingual information access to consolidate and promote best practice. The project seeks to build upon and extend the results already achieved by the existing Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) and continue the development and dissemination of resources for evaluation of multilingual information system. The specific target for this project is the European digital library community. The project is due to begin 2008.
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The Memoir project is investigating the technology, ethics and psychology of storing and accessing a life-time of personal information. The project aims to carry out research into new techniques to organise, store and retrieve personal information that focus on user-centric concepts and methods investigating how technology can help people create and manage long-term personal memories. Memoir is funded by the EU under a Marie Curie Fellowship for the Transfer of Knowledge (ToK) Development Host Scheme and runs until 2008. My personal interests in the memoir project are related to personal multimedia management, particularly photos (e.g. how do we collect multimedia data, what do we collect and why, what is the role of audiovisual material within personal social structures such as the family?) A presentation outlining my initial work can be found here.
Key publication: Steve Whittaker: Why do we want memories for life? Memories For Life Workshop panel. The British Library, London. December 11th, 2006.
The MultiMatch (Multilingual/Multimedia Access to Cultural Heritage) project aims to enable users to explore and interact with online accessible cultural heritage content, across media types and language boundaries. Users will be able to search across languages (having queries automatically translated), search for webpages, audio, video, and images simultaneously, and explore connections and relationships between creators, creations, time, and place. MultiMatch is funded by the EU (IST-FP6) and runs until 2008. I am leading a workpackage on the design of the user interface. A short presentation describing the project can be found here.
Demos: first prototype system [Flash demo]
Key publication: Carol Peters, MultiMatch Multilingual/Multimedia Access to Cultural Heritage, paper presented at the 2nd Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Management Systems 2007.
The SPIRIT (Spatially Aware Access to Information on the Internet) project was engaged in the design and implementation of a search engine to find documents and datasets on the web relating to places or regions referred to in a query. The project created software tools and techniques that can be used to produce search engines and websites that display intelligence in the recognition of geographical terminology. In order to demonstrate and evaluate the project outcomes, a prototype spatially-aware search engine has been built and is serving as the platform for testing and evaluation of new techniques in geographical information retrieval.
Demos: prototype system [Flash demos]
Key publication: Purves, R.S., Clough, P., Jones, C.B., Arampatzis, A., Bucher, B., Finch, D., Fu, G., Joho, H., Khirini, A.S., Vaid, S., and Yang, B. (2007), The Design and Implementation of SPIRIT: a Spatially-Aware Search Engine for Information Retrieval on the Internet, International Journal Geographic Information Systems (IJGIS), Volume 21(7), January 2007, pp. 717 - 745.
The Eurovision project explored the cross-language retrieval of images via their captions. The aim of the project was to build and test an image Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) system, where users could search for images via their captions in languages they have no knowledge of. In a picture archive, images are described by their captions and users want to retrieve from the collection regardless of the language they speak. For any vendor of an image library, use of CLIR offers the opportunity of broadly expanding the range of potential searchers of their library.
Demos: prototype system [Flash demo]
Key publication: Clough, P. and Sanderson, M. (2006) User Experiments with the Eurovision Cross-Language Image Retrieval System, In Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) Special Topic Section on Multilingual Information Systems, Volume 57(5), pp. 697 - 708.
The Measuring Text Reuse (METER) project, funded by the EPSRC (the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) and sponsored by the PA (the British Press Association), aimed to investigate the issue of automatically detecting and measuring text reuse, focusing on the domain of journalism. In this project, various NLP/LE techniques were investigated including n-gram approaches, a visual dot-metric approach (the dotplot), various methods of string matching, sentence alignment techniques and machine learning classifiers. We envisaged that, in order to efficiently deal with the METER issue, various approaches would need to be incorporated to form a system. If obtainable, such a system would be useful in various areas such as text reuse/plagiarism detection, information extraction/retrieval, multi-document summarisation etc.
Demos: tools [website]
Key publication: Clough, P., Gaizauskas, R., Piao, S.L. and Wilks, Y. (2002), METER: MEasuring TExt Reuse. In proceedings of the 40th Anniversary Meeting for the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-02), pp.152-159, 7-12 July, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
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Alcohol, Surveillance and the LCBO 1927–1975
In this critical study of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, Scott Thompson and Gary Genosko expose the stakes and consequences of the enormous bureaucracy behind the administrative surveillance of alcohol consumption in Ontario. Since its inception in 1927, the LCBO subjected alcohol consumption to its disciplinary gaze and generated knowledge about the drinking population. This book details how the LCBO tracked all alcohol consumption and capitalized on technological advances in order to generate categories and profiles of individuals so they could “control” drinking in the province. While this is a historical project, it also investigates how categorical treatment of populations like First Nations helped to develop and foster stereo-types around addiction that persist to this day.
Introduction • Temperance, Business and Surveillance at the Birth of the LCBO • Self-Control and the Panoptic LCBO • Accountability: Reconstructing the Fragmented Present • A Kind of Prohibition, Part I: Social Sorting in Ontario • A Kind of Prohibition, Part II: The Application of the LCBO’s Interdiction List • Regulation of Gender Performances and the Interdiction List • From Indigenous to Indigent: Legal and Prototypical Classifications of First Nations • The Politics of Alcohol Surveillance
About the Authors
Gary Genosko is Canada ResearchChair in technoculture in the Department of Sociology at Lakehead University. He is the author of Félix Guattari (2009), editor of The Semiotic Review of Books and co-editor of Deleuze Studies.
Scott Thompson is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Victoria. In addition to his publications regarding liquor control, he has published material on National Registration in Canada and the UK.
Review of Punched Drunk
by Dean Tudor, Wine Writer
PUNCHED DRUNK; alcohol, surveillance and the LCBO, 1927-1975 (Fernwood Publishing, 2009, 222 pages, ISBN 978-1-5526-6319-6, $19.95 Canadian paper covers) is by academics Scott Thompson and Gary Genosko. It was published in late 2009, and to my knowledge, it has been ignored by the popular press, especially in Ontario. Indeed, it was not even published in Ontario. Conspiracy theories, anyone? Sure, it’s an academic book, but really, how many times does a book about the LCBO get published, especially one that slags the bureaucracy that is behind its “moral” and “regulatory” nature. It’s also a book about early computer technology, to wit, the punched (or IBM Hollerith) card, which arose out of the necessity of tabulating the US Census of 1890. In 1944, punched cards were used to track Permit holders and purchases, among other things. The LCBO was established in 1927 to regulate the sales of alcohol after prohibition ended. But “if the government was expected to be returned at the next and succeeding elections they had to make their law effective”. The government of the day could not permit “it to be shown that revenue was being generated from the ruination of families or creating drunkards.” Thus was born the Interdiction List, from 1927 to its official end in 1990. A total of 79,000 names were on this list. These people had all been sent a letter from the LCBO: their privilege to purchase liquor had been revoked. Any purchase or possession of alcohol on their part would be considered a criminal act. These people now had a new status: known drunkard. However, they did NOT know that copies of these letters were going out to every police station, bar, beer store and LCBO in their region! And their names and descriptions were being added to a province-wide circulated “drunk list”. It was a secret list, and once you were on it, you couldn’t get off unless you died. It’s an early example of citizen surveillance by the state. By 1944, the list had moved over to the punched card. They were indeed punched drunk. In 1927, the LCBO also established the green Permit book to track individual bottle purchases. My father had one: hey, it proves that he was NOT a drunk! By 1962 the Permits were gone, and by 1975 nobody was being added to the List anymore (although the frozen List was still around in 1990). Ontario was not alone here: there were similar laws and regulations clear across Canada, in parts of the US, and in other countries. Thompson and Genosko also wrote a couple of interesting sections here detailing treatment of women and First Nations drinking. It’s an academic book with some arcane scholarly references, graphs, and charts, appendix (Interdiction records regression analysis, 1953-1975), end notes, and the like. The book can be tough slogging if you are not an academic, but an index could help pull out all kinds of references for easier retrieval and reading. What a shame that there is no index, it would have been extremely useful. But there is also much more material at their website www.puncheddrunk.ca and here you can do a word search to pull out all kinds of interesting facts and documents.
Audience and level of use: historians of bureaucracy, consumer profilers, First Nations, hose who enjoy histories of alcohol, libraries.
Some interesting or unusual facts: From the LCBO Annual Report 1928-29: “Strict sobriety and clean living is not only essential to business success, but also worthwhile citizenship”.
The downside to this book: there is no index, which is a shame.
The upside to this book: there is a wealth of information about interdiction and attitudes. Also, the book serves as a partial history of the LCBO and its bureaucracy
Quality/Price Rating: 95.


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Competence Atlas of Environmental Technology and Resource Efficiency Baden-Württemberg
The new edition of the Competence Atlas of Environmental Technology and Resource Efficiency Baden-Württemberg will provide a detailed picture of Baden-Württemberg’s corporate landscape and it’s capacities in the field of environmental technology and resource efficiency. The Competence Atlas provides companies an ideal platform from which they can describe and present their products, processes and services that they have to offer on the environmental technology and resource efficiency market. The Competence Atlas allows users to access appropriate search functionalities and leads potential customers straight to suitable suppliers. Furthermore, the Competence Atlas can ease the process of finding partners, for example for common research projects, or forming consortiums as part of the aquisition process in the future.
IUWA is currently preparing the relaunch of the Competence Atlas of Environmental Technology and Resource Efficiency Baden-Württemberg on behalf of Umwelttechnik BW – Technology and Innovation Centre for Environmental Technology and Resource Efficiency Baden-Württemberg and Baden-Württemberg International – bwi, Society for international economic and scientific cooperation. In order to create high-impact corporate profiles and descriptions, as well as structuring service offers from participating companies, IUWA has developed a web-based questionnaire, which will collect information on both companies who were included in the original version of the Atlas, as well as the partner companies of Baden-Württemberg international. In order to ensure that the instrument can be marketed and used internationally, IUWA also offers translation services. In the future, the new Competence Atlas will also be available in English, Spanisch and Chinese.


Here is the earliest picture I have of my father. My grandmother marked it on the back sometime later. Note how she calls him John Babish, even though the picture was presumably taken in Omaha in 1917 when he was still Libero Butera. I can't figure out whether she intended the date to read, July 18, 1937, or July 18, 1917, which is when my father would have been eight months old. Perhaps she was writing on the photo in 1937, and mistakenly wrote that year.
This is John Babish in his army uniform. It is stamped on the back, November, 1938 or 9 (the last digit of the year is not clear). John served in the U.S. Army from October 25, 1937 until March 15, 1940. He spent World War II working in war related industries in New Jersey.
This is a picture of my father taken in July 1940. It is marked, "Avon-by-the-Sea," on the back. He and my mother, Grace (Hamill) Babish, had been married about seven months when the photo was taken.
The final picture is my mother and father taken in May, 1983, near their retirement home in Lakewood, New Jersey.
Source: Babish Family Photographs original photographs; privately held by Daniel Babish, Columbia, Maryland, 2013.


Numerology has always fascinated me, and I’ve read as many books on the subject as I could find. I worked out my life path number quite a few years ago (it’s a 3 by the way) and found the description of a three-person to be pretty spot on for me.
When Hay House brought out their ‘Hay House Basics’ series, I jumped at the chance to add their version of Numerology to my growing collection. Numerology: Discover Your Future, Life Purpose and Destiny from your Birth Date and Name by Michelle Buchanan is just one book in a growing catalogue of back to basics mind, body, and spirit books ranging from Angels to the Qabalah, and Astrology to Tarot.
The author, Michelle Buchanan is a numerologist and Certified Law of Attraction Practitioner who studied numerology for more than 20 years. She was formerly the spiritual counselor for Woman’s Day magazine in New Zealand, as well as the resident numerologist for Television New Zealand’s Good Morning. Michelle has a numerology show, Numerology Guidance, on Hay House Radio and provides personal readings, workshops, and seminars to clients all over the world. She is also a talented singer/songwriter and dedicated mother of two based in Auckland, New Zealand. You can find Michelle on her website HERE.
With a difficult couple of years behind me, I’m had periods of feeling out of sorts, and a bit lost. I am still trying to find my way and recapture that passion and drive that has motivated me for so long. Using numerology to discover my life purpose and destiny seemed like a good place to start! Would it show me an alternative route, or confirm that I’m still on my proper path? Armed with a notebook to jot down the relevant dates and corresponding numbers I began.


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We are pleased to announce that Alan Karass has been appointed as NEC’s new Director of Libraries,
starting Monday, 2 February 2015. For the past 20 years, Alan has served as Head of the Music Library
at the College of the Holy Cross, and as a lecturer in their Music Department since 2004. He was also
the librarian for the college’s Rehm Library, the primary public space for the institution’s Center for
Religion, Ethics, and Culture. He is an active member of Music Library Association (MLA), the New England Music Library Association (NEMLA), Boston-area Music Libraries (BAML), the American Library Association (ALA), and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML).
Alan also has a performing background, actively playing as a clarinetist and saxophonist while an undergraduate at Clark University. He discovered a love for early music in graduate school, resulting in an MA in Historical Musicology from the University of Connecticut. He is a founding member of FloraMusica, a recorder and early music ensemble and past President of the American Recorder Society. Alan earned an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons College (even having a class with our own Jean Morrow), and is just completing a PhD In Ethnomusicology, specializing in music from Tunisia.
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After working for Head Start in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area as a Education, Mental Health and Disabilities Coordinator, she moved to the northwest Minnesota region 12 years ago. There she was the Branch Manager and Youth Librarian for the Crookston Public Library. Tammy moved to Duluth and joined the NRRI team in July of 2018. She is a member of the central admin team.
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Yoga in the Music Studio (Oxford Press, 2020)
The ancient practice of yoga, which has exploded in popularity in the United States over the past two decades, has the potential to help music students learn to practice more mindfully and reach peak performance more quickly. This book explores how professional musicians and music teachers of all instruments and levels can use yoga postures (asana) and breath work (pranayama) to enhance artistry. It begins with an overview of yoga philosophy and history before delving into principles of movement, alignment, anatomy, and breath. Following a research-oriented chapter illustrating the cognitive, physical, and emotional benefits of yoga, each chapter explores the unique benefits of yoga for a particular population of students, describing specific poses, modifications, sequences, and sample curricula that teachers can immediately implement into private lessons or group classes.
Chapter Four describes the developmental benefits of yoga and music education in early childhood and includes a sample eight-week preschool music curriculum. Chapter Five on the adolescent student explains how yoga can alleviate stress related to social and performance anxiety, enhance mindfulness, and increase peer support in a music studio. Chapter Six, for professional musicians and college students, describes how yoga can prevent or alleviate repetitive stress injuries and other physical symptoms. The final chapter offers ideas for appropriate modifications for the retired adult along with a sample eight-week curriculum to combine yoga with Recreational Music Making. Throughout the book, yoga is presented as a tool for reducing physical tension and anxiety while simultaneously improving body awareness, enhancing cognition, and helping music students to achieve peak performance.
The Balanced Musician: Integrating Mind and Body for Peak Performance.
(Scarecrow Press, 2012)
For musicians to attain the level of peak performance that they know is within their reach, they need to do more than spend time in the practice room. The most accomplished and healthiest musicians lead a balanced and satisfying life in which they place equal emphasis on three areas of musicianship: physical technique (body); analysis and knowledge (mind); and musicianship and creativity (soul). By integrating all of the parts of this triangle, you can learn to communicate creatively and with seeming effortlessness during performance. Organized into four main parts, this book first explores the mind-body connection and then separately discusses the mind, body, and soul of musicians, scholars, performers, and teachers of all voices and instruments.By delving into research literature in both sport psychology and music, you will learn to use mental rehearsal and imagery away from your instrument and deliberate practice at your instrument. You will also learn such relaxation techniques as meditation, centering, stretching, and deep breathing.
Drawing on findings from scientific studies, particularly in the area of sports medicine, McAllister offers practical tools for your practice, performances, and daily routine. By learning these techniques, you will also find enhanced confidence, concentration, endurance, and control over your own music-making.With terms, questions for reflection, and assignments at the end of each chapter, this book may be used as a textbook for a course or as a supplement to music lessons. Both novice and experienced performers alike will learn ways to meet career demands and reach their full potential. Appendixes at the end of the book contain worksheets, scripts, questionnaires, self-evaluation forms, and journal entries that help you to individualize your work. Every musician who spends countless hours practicing deserves to learn these techniques, which will forever change the way you approach both practice and performance.
McAllister, Lesley. "The Language of Awareness: How Cueing and Breath Work Impact the Music Lesson." American Music Teacher 72, no. 6 (June/July 2023): 18-23.
McCrary, J. Matt, Sara Ascenso, Paola Savvidou, Séverine Schraft, Lesley McAllister, Emma Redding, and Eckart Altenmüller. "Load and Fatigue Monitoring in Instrumental Musicians Using an Online App: A Pilot Study." Frontiers in Psychology Vol. 13 (November 2023). https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1056892/full
McAllister, Lesley. “How Can I Promote Regular Exercise Within Students’ Daily Lives?” College Music Society Newsletter (online, August 2022).
McAllister, Lesley. “Arts Integration in Healthcare Environments: The Work of Todd Frazier and Mei Rui at Houston's Center for the Performing Arts.".” American Music Teacher 70, no. 4 (March/April 2021): 44-48.
McAllister, Lesley. “Adolescents and Anxiety: Five ‘Quick Tips’ for Performance.” American Music Teacher 66,
no. 4 (October/November 2019).
McAllister, Lesley. “Preparing Students for Peak Performance through Centering Practice.” Clavier Companion
McAllister, Lesley. “’Eine Kleine Yoga Musik:’ An Early Childhood Music Program Utilizing Yoga Postures and Breath Work.”
American Music Teacher 66, no. 4 (February/March 2017): 16-20.
McAllister, Lesley. “Playing Healthy, Staying Healthy: Bringing it Together: What Are the Key Wellness Principles for the Music Teacher?” American Music Teacher 4, no. 3 (April/May 2015): 9-11.
McAllister, Lesley. “This and That: Effective Motivation Strategies and Techniques.” American Music Teacher (June/July 2015).
McAllister, Lesley Sisterhen. “Keeping the Fire Burning: How Overworked, Underappreciated Teachers Recover From Burnout.” Clavier Companion (May/June 2012).
McAllister, Lesley Sisterhen. “Positive Teaching: Strategies for Optimal Learning with ADHD and Hyperactive Students.” American Music Teacher 61, no. 4 (February/March 2012): 18-22.
McAllister, Lesley Sisterhen. “Should Music Lessons Be Fun?” American Music Teacher 59, no. 4 (February/March 2010): 16-19. (Awarded the “2010 Article of the Year” award by the Music Teachers National Association.)
McAllister, Lesley Sisterhen. “The Benefits of Stretching for Musicians.” MTNA E-Journal 1, no. 2 (November 2009). http://digitaledition.qwinc.com/publication/?i=26940&p (accessed July 17, 2010).
McAllister, Lesley Sisterhen. “Evaluating Teaching Effectiveness in Applied Music.” American Music Teacher 58, no. 1 (December/January 2008/2009): 14-17.
Sisterhen, Lesley. “Teaching Musicality in Group Piano Classes.” Piano Pedagogy Forum 10, no. 2 (July 2007) http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/keyboard/ppf/10.2/10.2.PPFSisterhen.html (accessed July 17, 2010).
Sisterhen, Lesley. “Enhancing Your Musical Performance Abilities.” American Music Teacher 54, no. 1 (August/September 2004): 32-36.


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Maj. Clinton Wright, the assistant adjutant-general assigned to the staff of Maj. Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines, died on February 23, 1818 when a keelboat struck a sawyer and pilled into the rocks of the Flint River near today’s Newton, Georgia. His body was laid to rest at Fort Scott 200 years ago this month.
This article continues a special series that commemorates the 200th anniversary of the First Seminole War. Please click here to see the complete list of stories in this series.
The story of Maj. Wright touches the heart even after the passage of two centuries.
Clinton Wright was the son of a hero of 1776. His father, Gov. Robert Wright, commanded a company of Maryland militia during the American Revolution. The senior Wright later served in the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate and as the 12th Governor of Maryland.
His son entered the army from Virginia on January 19, 1813, accepting appointment as a cornet in the 2nd Regiment, U.S. Light Dragoons. The U.S. Army eliminated the rank of cornet in 1815, but during the War of 1812 referred to a tier of commissioned officers that was below the level of lieutenants.
Cornet Wright was on his way to the northern frontier when Maj. Gen. William Henry Harrison defeated the British and killed the great Shawnee leader Tecumseh at the Battle of the Thames, but did serve in the fighting on the Niagara frontier. A promotion to 3rd lieutenant came on April 19, 1813, and to 2nd lieutenant one year later.
The 2nd Light Dragoons were dissolved at the end of the War of 1812 but Wright showed great promise as an officer and was offered service as a 1st lieutenant in the 4th U.S. Infantry. He was promoted to major and assistant adjutant-general on April 29, 1816, becoming the key staff officer to Maj. Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines. The young general was a hero of the war and assignment to his staff meant that Wright’s star was on the rise.
Like many young officers of his day, Maj. Wright was brave to a fault and sometimes reacted violently when he felt that his honor was impugned. In 1816, for example, he argued over a blacksmith with Capt. James Harvey Hook at Fort Hawkins in today’s Macon, Georgia. Words and anger got the better of both men and they decided to settle their disagreement with an “affair of honor” or duel.
These deadly encounters were fought under an extremely formal set of rules or code. Each man had a loaded single-shot pistol, they paced off an agreed distance, turned, aimed and fired. In some cases the participants chose to fire in the air. In other instances, though, they aimed to kill. Vice President Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in such an affair.
The duel between Maj. Wright and Capt. Hook was especially bloody. The latter officer gained the advantage on the first fire, wounding Wright so badly that he could not stand. The major, however, was unwilling to give up the fight and – over the objections of others present – demanded that the two combatants fire again.
This time Wright’s bullet struck its target, passing through Hook’s lung and lodging in his spine. Capt. Hook was partially paralyzed and walked on crutches for the rest of his life. He remained in the army, however, and eventually achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel. Whatever his personality at the time of the 1816 duel, he later became known as one of the “most genial gentlemen” in the army. Curiously, he also came to own the ostrich feathers, turban, silver gorgets, belts and other items worn by Osceola. Capt. Pitcairn Morrison of the 4th Infantry gave these to Hook. [I]
Maj. Wright recovered from his wound and continued to serve on the southern frontier. He was at Fort Scott in November 1817 when Gen. Gaines ordered the U.S. attacks on Fowltown that sparked the Seminole Wars. He was also still there when news reached the fort that chiefs and warriors from the area had retaliated by destroying the command of Lt. Richard W. Scott on the Apalachicola River.
Wright accompanied Gaines on his mission to Amelia Island in December 1817 and then commanded Georgia militia forces that responded to a series of Seminole attacks along the Ocmulgee River. He was back with his general on the night of February 23, 1818, as Gaines attempted a desperate keelboat run down the Flint River to carry badly needed supplies to Fort Scott. The boat struck a sawyer and then smashed into rocks near present-day Newton. Gen. Gaines and most of those on board survived the disaster, but Maj. Wright and three other men drowned in the dark, turbulent waters. (Please see U.S. Army meets disaster on the Flint River).
The body of Maj. Clinton Wright was not recovered until May 1818 when a company of Tennessee Mounted Volunteers found it while on the way from Florida back to Fort Early. Capt. Francis Ellis and his men buried the unfortunate major and notified Gen. Gaines that they had done so:
…I feel greatly indebted to Captain Ellis of the Tennessee Volunteers for his attention to the remains of my unfortunate young friend Major Wright and to you my dear general [i.e. Andrew Jackson], for your communication upon that subject. The watch, the dirk, knife and buttons are received, and I have delivered them, with the other effects of the Major ‘s left at Fort Scott, and just arrived at this place [Fort Gadsden] to Mr. Randolph P.M. who promises to forward them safely to Governor Wright, and I shall lose no time in communicating to him the intelligence which you have been so kind as to give me, of the interment of his son, by Captain Ellis and the generous proposition of that worthy officer to return from Tennessee should it be desired, to point out the place of interment. [II]
Gen. Gaines, moved by the thought of his unfortunate friend and aide being buried alone in the wilderness, arranged to have the body moved to Fort Scott on what is now Lake Seminole in Decatur County, Georgia. Regular U.S. Army troops carried this out 200 years ago this month in June 1818 and Maj. Wrightwas reburied in the post cemetery with proper honors. [III]
Wright’s father outlived his son by eight years. So far as is known, he never retrieved the major’s remains from their resting place in Georgia.
Maj. Clinton Wright was the highest ranking U.S. officer to lose his life during the First Seminole War.
This series will continue.
To learn more about the history of Fort Scott, please consider Dale Cox’s book Fort Scott, Fort Hughes & Camp Recovery: Three 19th Century Military Sites in Southwest Georgia. It is available in both print and Kindle formats. You can also learn more in this free documentary from Two Egg TV:
[I] For more on these artifacts, please see Patricia Riles Hickman, Osceola’s Legacy, Fireant Books, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, 2006.
[II] Maj. Gen. Edmund P. Gaines to Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson, May 17, 1818, Jackson Papers, Library of Congress.
[III] Hallowell Gazette (Maine), June 24, 1818.


We've all been there. A boy in your care looks earnestly into your eyes, rabid with excitement; he's found a critter and he wants to catch it. What do you do? Eric Heil, Lower School Natural History teacher, offers his thoughts on how to guide our sons to both handle and appreciate the creatures they encounter in the wild.
We are a liberal arts school, but we embrace contemporary literature that leads our students to the good, the true, and the beautiful. Not all of it does, though. And, even those moderns that are positively formational often accomplish by leaning, in some way, on the older great authors of the older great books. Contrary to the notion that we are hiding great moderns from our students, we are, instead, curating a selection of books that liberates the mind in the tradition of the liberal arts. How do we pick our moderns? Why do we still favor the classics? Listen in to learn why from a man with over 30 years of experience teaching at The Heights.
Arthur Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute, joins us for a conversation about college that will benefit students, parents, and teachers. He challenges the assumption that every prep school grad should attend college right away at any cost, and he offers fantastic insights about the entire college experience–from college choice, to choice of majors, to engagement with students and faculty who think differently.
Our students and sons start learning the moment they set foot on campus. Every time we greet a boy in the hallway, we are teaching him. Every time we are late to class, we are teaching him. Tone is a powerful teacher, and Alvaro de Vicente shares his thoughts on how to foster a positive tone, both at school and at home. Your students will forget 90% of what you teach them, but will likely recall 90% of the tone you set. For schools, and school leaders, a good tone is both obligation and opportunity. Listen in to hear how to make the most of it.
Tom Longano spends an episode unpacking his recent webinar on how to anchor summer reading in leisure. Can a 3rd grader actually achieve this? Yes. How? Listen in. You might pick up a tip or two for your own reading as well.
Don't just make your son read to "get it done"; nurture his desire to read for living!
Happy summer, and if you'd like to view the webinar, click here.
Heights teacher, Joe Breslin, discusses the problems with the contemporary approach to writing, and offers his strategy for raising craftsmen of letters. By turning your classroom into a workshop, you can engage your boys and train them in the arts of observation and effective communication.
Lower School Head Colin Gleason continues a discussion with Tom Cox and Austin Hatch on Prudence, as presented by Josef Pieper. Often we understand this virtue as nothing more than a cunning tactic, when in reality, prudence is far more. The virtue encompasses a capacity for silence, a understanding of reality, and an ability to make right decisions. Prudence is a virtue for the magnanimous. Listen in to learn more.
Find out why Dr. Mehan believes that "a healthy politics requires a healthy poetics." He discusses the importance of poetry in the formation of leaders. It's not all fun and games, at The Heights, when our boys are memorizing. They are both memorizing and readying themselves for prudential statesmanship. Dr. Mehan pulls it all together for us, and offers an introduction to his forthcoming children's poetry book that Hamlet should have read.
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Lower School Head Colin Gleason leads a discussion with Tom Cox and Austin Hatch on Prudence, as presented by Joseph Pieper. Often we understand this virtue as nothing more than a cunning tactic, when in reality, prudence is far more. The virtue encompasses a capacity for silence, a understanding of reality, and an ability to make right decisions. Prudence is a virtue for the magnanimous. Listen in to learn more.
Tom Longano and Pat Love run a successful drama program for lower and middle school boys at The Heights. With their play coming up next week, they discuss the founding of The Tower Fools, what makes an effective show and what the fruits of drama are to the young liberal arts mind–and their audience.
Psychologists and social commentators are decrying the high levels of stress experienced by the typical American teen. By most reports, more than half of teens are suffering from excessive stress, and many of those young people are prone to slip further down this path into anxiety and depression. Headmaster Alvaro de Vicente draws on his decades of experience as a teacher and mentor to unpack some of the reasons why boys nationwide are "stressed-out." Turns out many of the factors are well within our parental control.
The prose is beautiful, but sometimes we gloss over the full impact of the Bard's writing. Join Mr. Joe Bissex and a few of his students for a discussion of what students can learn from a well-led production of Macbeth.
Heights Headmaster Alvaro de Vicente presents his vision of education for boys. Hear our headmaster discuss the role of parents, faculty, and school in the raising of "men fully alive." Sometimes we fall short, but this is our aspiration.
Join CFO Phil McGovern and Director of Annual Giving James Kolakowski for a discussion on smart giving. The new tax laws, stock market, and end of year present interesting opportunities for donors and schools alike. Listen in to hear more about how to make the most of your gifts!
Jeremy Tate, President and Co-Founder of the Classical Learning Test, and Kirby Hartley, Director of Outreach, join us for a conversation about the new SAT. The revised SAT is easier, aligns (and promotes) the Common Core, and has proven less helpful to top students than previous versions of the test. Learn how the CLT presents an alternative route to college entry that supports the mission of schools like The Heights.
Lower School Head, Colin Gleason, offers a Heights Lecture on integrity. He shares how honesty requires far more than merely telling the truth; our boys must learn to live the truth.
Boys need mentors. We know this intuitively from our observations of young and older boys alike. But why? Join Mr. Joe Cardenas (Head of Mentoring) and Alex Berthe (7th Grade Core Teacher) for a conversation on why boys–and their parents–need mentoring.
Hillsdale College Dr. Matt Spalding continues his conversation with us about American History, and the theory of education in 20th century America.
If you haven't listened to Part I of the episode, listen here.
Dr. Spalding's most recent book is We Still Hold These Truths.
Matt Spalding discusses the importance of studying history, and the problems with the contemporary approach.
Dr. Matthew Mehan unpacks the liberal arts. We can throw the term around to describe our school, but do we really understand what we mean? Is it more than a list of good books? Dr. Mehan explores what it means to be a student of the "arts of liberty"–a life long pursuit. For all of us.
Dan Lively joins us for a podcast on Systems for Athletic Success.
Why Sytems and not Goals?
Scott Adams, "How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big."
Systems for Athletic Success
Systems for Commitment and Communication
Do sports always build character?


COVID-19 Resources for Seniors & Food Access and Resilience in Light of COVID-19
We round out Women’s History Month with a special episode featuring interviews with two incredible local women. First, Susan Pacheco, Executive Director of the Cambridge Council on Aging provides vital information and health resources for Cambridge’s vulnerable senior population. Then, Jessie Banhazl, Founder and CEO of urban farming solution Green City Growers, tells Judy about their work to help families and organizations increase control over their access to nutritious fresh food.
The second in our series of remote-recorded episodes, our goal is to provide useful, relevant information and insightful stories from the frontlines of this crisis that
will give audiences useful tools to make it through the pandemic.
The Cambridge Council on Aging website: https://www.cambridgema.gov/DHSP/programsforadults/seniorscouncilonaging
More Information for Cambridge seniors during COVID-19: https://www.cambridgema.gov/covid19/Seniors
Learn more about Green City Growers here: https://greencitygrowers.com
Green City Grower's Book: https://greencitygrowers.com/shop/the-urban-bounty-book/


The library is one of the pieces of furniture that should not be missing from any home; here are a few affordable home library ideas. You may think that such a part should not or cannot receive a new design. But this is false.
The library is the space specially designed to be able to store books or even other essential things for you. You can use the library to store prizes won at various competitions, diplomas for completing the studies you are proud of, documents, small decorative gifts received from close ones, and even some devices. The body of the library may not be beautiful, but in this article, you will find ideas for arranging this piece of furniture.
If you want to read comfortably, and have easy access to your entire collection of books, place the library in a place near the bed, sofa, or corner. Or, if you want the library to occupy another space, you can place a comfortable armchair next to it.
Affordable home library ideas for cozy library
Never place a library near a window. The only exception is where the library does not have a height higher than the lower end of the window. Wind, rain, and snow can affect the objects on the shelves and even the library body itself. You can place the library in one corner of the room, delimiting that space from the rest of the room, especially if it is a small space. However, never place it behind the door, on the wall to which it opens. To ensure enough light for reading, you can add other luminaires than existing ones, such as lamps or lamps.
Chose the library model
Once these basic principles are known, you can proceed to the next step: selecting the library model.
Choosing a library with a unique design: in terms of design, the library can have many styles, such as classic, modern, industrial, etc. Many of their design allows you to fit a TV so that you can save space.
Affordable home library ideas
Many of the library models of today have a unique design, to play the functional role, but also the aesthetic one.
If you want to take the design part further and you do not need room to sit the TV, you can choose simpler models. And if you are a creative person who loves to read, there are specific design variants that you might like.
To be able to highlight the library even more visually, you can place it on a wall statement, this being a different wall from the others, having a different color or decoration that immediately attracts. It means that the library will receive the same attention.
Home library layout ideas
Decorating the library is not as difficult as it may seem now. Tou can achieve quite easily.
Some ideas from which you can inspire yourself to arrange the library:
- Please choose the color of the library different from that of the wall next to which you place it. For example, if the walls are white, the library can be black, brown, or other bright colors, and if the walls are colored, you can choose a library in neutral tones, to make a contrast and to stand out quickly).
- A different method of decoration, but which refers to the space near the library, is the decoration of the wall with pages or even whole books. This trick works wonderfully in libraries with a small height.
- If you want to have a wall-size library, choose colors like black, white, red, yellow, etc. The library body will play the role of the statement wall.
- Try to organize your books in color to create a significant visual effect.
- Use lights around, above, or behind the shelves of the library to keep an exciting look even in the absence of natural light.
- Decorate with plants, placing pots on a few shelves of the library.
Modern home library
Frame photos from the most beautiful moments and place them on a few shelves in the body of the library. If you like the model of a library, but you don’t like its color, or you want to place it in a room where the dominant colors are neutral, try painting the shelves with different colors yourself. Affordable home library ideas help you to make your house welcoming and attractive.
You don’t want to paint the library, but do you want a similar effect? If this piece of furniture has plywood in the back, you can remove the shelves and stick wallpaper with any model you think fits.
For large houses, libraries can find their place in the attic, and next to them, you can create the perfect corner for reading – intimate and quiet.
Home library design
In the living room, the library comes in like a glove. You can create an original space by arranging the shelves in unique shapes. Narrow and tall as close to the ceiling or medium height as not to create the impression of suffocation of space.
The library can also hold other objects like statuettes or small pieces of art such as ceramics that can fit on shelves without problems. For art lovers or hardcore collectors, art objects collected from vacations and beyond find their place in the library, either among books or on stand-alone shelves.
An exciting style is where the library appears as a long shelf at the top of the room, towards the ceiling, possibly above a door or window. Such an arrangement fits in large rooms. For added style, you can arrange a ladder that you can use to reach the shelves and which, in turn, can be a stand-alone piece in the décor.
Modern home library
The classic can be combined with the contemporary to arrange an eclectic library. Current trends in space optimization place shelves for books, even in the space below the stairs or on an interior hallway that connects rooms. There are also invisible shelves that allow you to fasten the books so that they create the impression that they are floating.
As you can see, it’s easy to set up a library. All you need is the imagination and the courage to try something else than what you saw around you. We hope this article has inspired you.


For the past few weeks, we have been studying informational text. Students have been reading nonfiction books during Readers' workshop and are learning about the different text features in a nonfiction passage. Today, students read an informational text with a partner. They then wrote a response in their reading journals about what they learned from their book. We are learning some interesting facts about all kinds of things! What a fun learning filled day we had in Readers' workshop!
Here is a sample of one student's response.
Dear Mrs. Shaffer and Mrs. Nelson, 2-4-13
When I was partner reading with Ava, we read the informational text called Birds by Nicola Davies. It is about birds and how they use their feet to grab stuff and much more.
While reading, I learned
1. That some birds' skeletons are lighter than all their feathers. This makes it easier to fly.
2. Some baby birds are born with no feathers but grow them later.
3. The Toucan's bill is long and light because it is hollow.
I recommend this book to students who enjoy learning about birds.