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Retailers are seeing growing numbers of customers using smartphones in their stores, but just 11% see 'showrooming' as a threat to revenue.
Given the publicity around showrooming, and ongoing threat to offline retailers posed by ecommerce, this is somewhat surprising. Especially as recent stats from Columbia found that 70% of 'mobile assisted shoppers' viewed products in-store, and then made their purchases online.
These new stats are from the new Econsultancy/BuyDesire Mobile Marketing and Commerce Report 2013, which also explores the extent to which companies are committed to mobile, the channels and technologies they are using, and the challenges they face in improving their capabilities.
It is based on a global survey of more than 500 Econsultancy users from companies and agencies, carried out in July and August 2013.
Let's take a look at some of the report findings...
What is showrooming?
I think it's useful to define what we mean by showrooming, as it's a term which has been taken to mean different things by different people.
It sometimes covers the very act of using mobiles to compare prices, check reviews and product details when in stores, though not necessarily purchasing online instead.
However, in Columbia Business Schools recent report, and elsewhere, showrooming means to actively choose to buy online after comparing prices, product details etc on mobile.
Perception of in-store use of mobile and showrooming
Although 67% of companies acknowledge that the number of customers using smartphones in-store is increasing, only 11% believe that showrooming poses a threat to their business.
Perceptions of in-store use of mobile and showrooming (retail respondents):
Tactics to 'combat' showrooming
The below picture has been circulating around the web as an example of how not to deal with showrooming.
It's an extreme example, but the point is that retailers cannot attempt to prevent it. Instead, they have to embrace the use of mobile and attempt to turn it to their advantage.
Our report finds that very few retailers appear to be blocking consumers from using the internet while in-store. This is counter-productive because shoppers are often looking to check things online before making a purchase.
Retailers can implement mobile apps that help a user in various different ways while they are in a store, for example by taking advantage of geo-location features and offering incentives to share information socially.
According to BuyDesire's Co-Founder Denique Ogilvie:
Mobile marketing can be integral to in-store commercial activity if we make it so. Commerce, from the client side, is about choice, which makes it about information. It's also about opinions and shared experiences. Weaving technology into the traditional retail landscape brings fun, relevant information to the consumer, where and when they want it.
Customers are using mobiles in store, and retailers need to adapt to this and use it to help create a better experience for shoppers. This includes things like providing in-store wi-fi, prompts and offers for smartphone users, and directing customers to their own mobile site.
The latter point is very important. If customers are going to be using phones for research, it's better that they do this on the retailer's own site, rather than a competitor's.
Indeed, Walmart, which has focused heavily on mobile apps and optimised sites, is seeing the benefits from this strategy. It seems to be working as an 'anti-showrooming' tactic, with 12% of its online sales now coming from consumers who are standing in a Walmart store, using the customised version of its mobile website.
Marketers ready to take the plunge with mobile
The findings from the report also suggest that marketers will be taking significant steps to improve their mobile offering across their customer experience.
Seven out of 10 companies will be increasing their mobile budget over the next 12 months, with companies aiming to increase their budget by a global average of 29%.
Are you (or your clients) planning to increase the mobile marketing budget in the next year?
Many brands are planning to venture into unexplored territory over the next year, with 29% more companies planning on using 'tablet-specific websites' compared to this year's usage and significant increases in the proportion of companies planning on using location-based marketing technologies and mobile commerce sites (22% and 20% respectively).
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In some cases, they may even find that the price the retailer is offering is the best price available - resulting in them making the purchase.
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Jennifer from Big D & Me made some Star Wars decor for her boys:
Snickerdoodle cupcakes? Yes please! Thanks to Todd & Lindsey for this recipe:
Sarah from Adventures and Asides made these pretty blueberry swirls:
Meredith from Haute to Sew did a makeover on her bathroom. Since replacing the wall tile is expensive (not to mention messy!), she worked around it to create a whole new look:
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This weekend, Apache 1.3.27 was released. I'll quote part of the announcement:
The Apache Software Foundation and The Apache Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 1.3.27 of the Apache HTTP Server. This Announcement notes the significant changes in 1.3.27 as compared to 1.3.26.
This version of Apache is principally a security and bug fix release. A summary of the bug fixes is given at the end of this document. Of particular note is that 1.3.27 addresses and fixes 3 security vulnerabilities.
CAN-2002-0839 (cve.mitre.org): A vulnerability exists in all versions of Apache prior to 1.3.27 on platforms using System V shared memory based scoreboards. This vulnerability allows an attacker who can execute under the Apache UID to exploit the Apache shared memory scoreboard format and send a signal to any process as root or cause a local denial of service attack. We thank iDefense for their responsible notification and disclosure of this issue.
CAN-2002-0840 (cve.mitre.org): Apache is susceptible to a cross site scripting vulnerability in the default 404 page of any web server hosted on a domain that allows wildcard DNS lookups. We thank Matthew Murphy for notification of this issue.
CAN-2002-0843 (cve.mitre.org): There were some possible overflows in ab.c which could be exploited by a malicious server. Note that this vulnerability is not in Apache itself, but rather one of the support programs bundled with Apache. We thank David Wagner for the responsible notification and disclosure of this issue.
We consider Apache 1.3.27 to be the best version of Apache 1.3 available and we strongly recommend that users of older versions, especially of the 1.1.x and 1.2.x family, upgrade as soon as possible. No further releases will be made in the 1.2.x family.
Apache 1.3.27 is available for download from
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For some strange reason, the affliction of jet lag has never enjoyed the same status as a 'serious' illness as have most other challenges to one's health and wellbeing. Until recently there has been little formal research into jet lag cures, and so a profusion of quackery and unscientific 'cures' that have little apparent grounding in medical science have appeared.
Some are strange, some are silly, and some are just plain impractical.
Possible alternatives offered to travelers range from a 'do it yourself' acupressure kit, to a special light enhancing visor that apparently helps your body respond to the new daylight time and is sold as part of a 'combat kit' along with a pair of dark glasses for when you are supposed to be avoiding light!
Other solutions range from simplistic to an amazingly complex 'everything included' scheme (the StopJetLag plan) that requires you to regulate your (attempted) sleeping hours, your exposure to light and dark, the type of food you eat and when you eat it, and supplement all this with Melatonin and caffeine. Wow!
Cures that require you to exactly control when you are exposed to bright light (or when you keep yourself away from light) may not fit in with your sightseeing or business meeting plans.
Cures that require a complicates series of alternating protein and carbohydrate meals at exact times may not fit in with the food that you just plain want to sample and enjoy while on vacation, or the food that is served in business settings.
For most travelers, the best type of cure is something that is very simple and easy, not something that is complicated and bothersome.
With more and more people traveling longer and longer distances, medical science is finally starting to focus on a better understanding of what exactly influences the body's clock and how to speed its adjustment to a new time zone.
It appears that the body's clock is influenced by the secretion of an amino-acid derivative hormone, Melatonin. This is made by the pineal gland in response to the lack of light. Stated simply, when it is dark, the pineal gland makes Melatonin, and the rest of the body responds to the Melatonin, saying, 'ah – Melatonin. That means it must be time to go to sleep.' (If you'd like a more scientific description, this site is a good one to visit.)
Understanding the interaction of light and melatonin is the key to a really simple two part strategy to speeding up your body's adjustment to jet lag.
Melatonin is freely available in the US without prescription, due to it being a natural substance.
It is recommended for adults to take between 2mg and 5mg in the evening as a jet lag remedy (vary your dosage between these limits depending on your weight – the lighter you are, the less you need, the heavier you are, the more you should take).
Note that Melatonin does not eliminate jet lag, it merely reduces it and speeds up the rate at which your body adjusts to the new time zone. Studies have suggested that Melatonin doubles the speed at which your body adjusts to the new time zone.
For that reason, take Melatonin for half the number of days as time zones you crossed, plus one. For example, if you travel six time zones, take Melatonin for (6/2)+1=4 days, with maybe just a half dose on the last day. Start taking the Melatonin from the day you arrive at your destination.
I can certainly say that, in my own experience, and based on reports from others that also use it, it is close to miraculous and really makes a tremendous difference on the first few days of a journey (and on the first few days after coming home again too). I used to dread the first few days and nights of an international journey, and now it is close to no bother at all.
It makes it easier for me to sleep at night, and I feel more alert during the day.
Melatonin is not universally acknowledged as being a guaranteed cure for jet lag, and neither is it universally considered to be harmless and safe. For a while in the mid 1990s there was a large group of 'experts' proclaiming Melatonin as a 'wonder drug' that would prevent aging, treat cancer, improve one's sex life, and also cure jet lag, but this enthusiasm seems to have tapered off.
Melatonin may or may not work for you. If you are taking other medicines, it might be prudent to check with your doctor or pharmacist to ensure there are no interactions between Melatonin and the other drugs.
However, all 'science' to one side, I can truly report that Melatonin surely does work for me!
I find I'm becoming increasingly interested in homeopathic cures. This winter I've successfully fought of a series of colds, coughs, and other winter ailments by the use of an incredible homeopathic medicine I bought in Russia out of desperation, due to not being able to find any Coldrex or other recognizable cold medicines on sale! To my surprise, this remedy banished every threatened onslaught of winter time ills on an almost miraculous basis, and with no side-effects at all. An amazing, unexpected (!) and very gratifying experience. (The product is called Oscillococcinum and actually comes from a French company with a name something like 'Buaron Laboratories' and is reportedly available in the US as well).
Without debating the potential value of homeopathic cures, let me just record the existence of a homeopathic anti-jet lag remedy that was developed in, of all places, my own home country of New Zealand. I've never tried this myself (I'm so pleased with Melatonin that I don't feel the need to try anything else), but some people say that it has worked for them. Going by the name of No Jet Lag it can be purchased at Magellan's for the minimal cost of $9.85 for a pack of 32 tablets, and $9.25 when buying two or more. Buy two packs - if two of you are traveling, you'll probably need both packs.
Scientists in Australia have recently (July 02) developed a special device with glowing blue and green lights, mounted on the frame of a pair of eyeglasses. They say that the glasses should be worn for at least three hours a day for two days prior to travel, and another three hours during the long international flight. Little more is known about this, and the device has not been made commercially available to the traveling public - probably just as well!
One reader wrote in to recommend Provigil - she said 'it is absolutely the best thing'. She did not disclose her own experience or medical qualifications, and did not provide anything further in support of this comment. Intrigued - and slightly embarrassed at not already knowing about this product, we researched Provigil, with this site providing some authoritative information, and this site providing some less scientific user feedback.
From what we can gather, it seems Provigil attacks the problem of jetlag from the other end - instead of helping you sleep and adjust to the new time zone, it helps you to stay awake and alert when you'd otherwise be drowsy and nodding off. But this is not helping you to adjust to the new time zone or reset your body clock at all, and it is unclear how much of the chemically induced state of alertness is real and how much is perception.
It seems to be a powerful drug with potentially scary side-effects, including addiction, and so we feel completely unable to recommend it at all, and urge you to get formal medical advice before considering this drug.
Yes, water! Drink lots of water on any flight - a generous cup of water every hour would be ideal. The dry atmosphere on a plane causes accelerated dehydration, and one factor of jet lag is just the body's stress response to drying out on the plane. Drink as much water as you can.
And, on the rare events that you get a hot moist towel handed to you, do what I do. Immediately start breathing through it - this brings wonderful warm moist air into your lungs and helps rehydrate that part of you as well.
Marilyn from Marilyn Can Travel points out another advantage of drinking lots of water. She points out that it will cause you to go to the bathroom more regularly, and the forced exercise will reduce your risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis at the same time! :)
She is actually doubly correct. Extra water will stop your blood from thickening up, so that gives double protection against DVT as well as reducing one factor of jet lag.
Here's an interesting article about a new theory which suggests if you don't eat food for 16 hours (and then presumably eat according to your new time zone schedule) that might speed up your adjustment.
But the article doesn't really say if you should starve yourself and then start with a breakfast or a lunch or a dinner meal, making it of dubious help at present. Probably it is another idea that is great in theory but useless in practice.
Now for the bad news. Three things that don't help jet lag, and which may actually slow down the body's adjusting process, are alcohol, caffeine and sleeping pills.
Sleeping pills will put you to sleep, but they don't help restore the natural cycle of day and night, but rather use a 'brute force' approach that often leaves you feeling poorly rested when you wake up.
And both alcohol and caffeine don't help the body adjust to the new environment, but rather are more likely to slow your adjusting down.
Finally, to close on an amusing note about what is a definitely serious subject, here is a very strange device – a 'Jet Lag watch' that supposedly helps you to 'psychologically adjust' to the new time zone.
Alas, the largest part of jet lag is not psychological but rather physiological; and so the watch is almost certainly close to useless. It might make a great gag gift to give to 'the person that already has everything' in your life, but give them a bottle of Melatonin as well!
People who say 'I don't suffer jetlag' run the risk of self delusion in a manner similar to that of a drunk person or a diver too deep with the wrong air mixture, and may not realize that they are not acting as intelligently as they normally could.
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What is it that's said about the irresistible force?
Anyone encountering an engineer named Yukihiko Yaguchi might just find out first hand, for he's an irresistible force that's created a highly movable object.
Yaguchi is a very convincing, compelling guy, but he's also quiet and self effacing. Once he gets hold of you, you not only can't help but like him, you can't help but want to help him accomplish whatever it is that he's up to.
In order to understand the IS F and its genesis, the first thing that you have to understand is that Yaguchi is an enthusiast, a performance hard case who loves to drive fine, responsive equipment.
For the 30 years he's been at Toyota, he's wanted to build a car he wanted to drive, a car he'd love to own. During his tenure at Lexus, Yaguchi has worked on the first and second iterations of the Lexus LS luxury sedan, the turbocharged Toyota Supra and the first Lexus GS sport sedan. But none of those cars, however excellent, scratched his peculiar performance itch.
For the past 15 years, he's been thinking in terms of nothing less than an all-wheel-drive supercar with huge horsepower, racetrack-inspired handling and enormous stopping power.
What he had in mind was a take-no-prisoners premium sport sedan that would offer comfort, sophistication and performance to equal or beat the best of the class from Europe.
Finally, he got tired of waiting. He decided that he'd just go ahead and figure out a way to build it.
Yaguchi was ideally placed to ramrod such a project, as he was working at TMC's Lexus Center in the Brand Strategy department in preparation for the Lexus brand to expand globally.
Lexus is of course a well-organized company with carefully proscribed procedures for getting things done. But Yaguchi, the irresistible force, turned procedure on its head.
To begin with, in Lexus' careful way, it's not the engineers who make the decisions to design and develop a vehicle. It's the Product Planning Department. The experts there want to be sure that there's actually a market for a proposed vehicle, and that the finished product will fill the needs of that market.
So instead of the Product Planning people going to Yaguchi and saying something like, "Look, Yaguchi-san, we think that the market is ready for a high-performance sport sedan," it was the other way around. Yaguchi pitched his concept to Product Planning. Incredibly, after much convincing, he received Product Planning's approval to proceed.
But just because the project got the green light from Product Planning, that didn't mean that it had resources and budget allocated to it. It didn't. But that wasn't enough to derail Yaguchi. He developed the IF S when he wasn't busy with his Brand Strategy responsibilities, working informally, on the side, beginning in 2004.
Most chief engineers, when they are tasked to develop a new Lexus model, typically have between 1,500 and 2,000 people on their development teams. That didn't happen here. Instead, Yaguchi had between 100 and 300 people at any given time on the IS F development team. He designed and built the IS F with a team that was a fraction of the size of the usual engineering and development staffs.
Working outside the confines of Lexus' usual carefully planned corporate program, Yaguchi cherry-picked the very best people, folks he thought might want to have a hand in creating this special car. Because it wasn't possible to get them assigned full-time to his team, he convinced them to contribute their ideas and skills in their spare time, when they weren't working on their regular projects.
This approach didn't just apply to individuals. Yaguchi worked his wiles on whole departments.
He pitched the idea to the division's leadership, and they went for it. The result is an engineering marvel with special aerodynamics, an 8-speed Sport Direct Shift transmission with paddle shifters and its own special performance profile, Brembo disc brakes that feature huge, 14.2-inch cross-drilled discs and six pistons per caliper up front, 19-inch wheels and a specially tuned suspension system. Indeed, Technocraft's participation in the IS F project marks the first time the division has worked on the design of an entire production car.
But Yaguchi's determination didn't end there. He went so far, in fact, as to take his requests for help outside the company's confines. He knew that the IS F was going to require a really spectacular engine. So he went to Yamaha, which has a history of making engine components for Toyota and Lexus.
Eventually, none of this was done in secret. So well known did the project become, and so legendary was Yaguchi's persuasiveness, that the whole experience came to be known as Yaguchi-Go. In Japanese, today "go" is a suffix referring to a car, but originally it characterized a ship, the equivalent of a vessel making its unstoppable way forward. So this was Yaguchi and his project cutting a swath, and leaving a wake, through Toyota and Lexus. In this way, "Yaguchi-go" constitutes recognition of his leadership of, and ownership of, the IS F project.
To be certain they got the IS F exactly right, Yaguchi and his team tested the IS F at racetracks that count, at tracks that have challenge and heritage. Those test tracks include the legendary Nurburgring Nordschleife, in Germany's Eiffel Mountains; Circuit Paul Ricard, in the South of France; Circuit Zolder, in Belgium; Laguna Seca Raceway, in California; and Fuji Speedway, in Japan.
In fact, Fuji Speedway is the IS F's home circuit and its many turns the inspiration for the F-logo design.
In fact, by the time testing was concluded, there'd never been a Toyota or a Lexus production car that had been so heavily tested at race tracks all around the world.And that means that Yaguchi can stop thinking about exactly the car he'd most like to drive. He can actually begin driving it… and so can every other enthusiast.
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Special equipment: 4 cups wood chips, such as hickory or mesquite, soaked in water for 30 minutes and drained
1. For the brine: In a large stockpot, bring 6 quarts water, 1 1/2 cups salt, brown sugar, coriander, ginger, and bay leaves to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer 10 minutes, stirring occasionally to make sure the salt and sugar are dissolved. While the brine is simmering, fill a bucket (or pot) big enough to hold a turkey with the ice. Pour the brine over the ice. When the brine has cooled, add the turkey. Place a heavy object like a plate or lid on top of the turkey to keep it submerged in the liquid. Brine in the refrigerator for up to 8 hours.
2. For the sauce: Heat the vinegar and granulated sugar in a medium saucepan over medium heat until the sugar dissolves. Off the heat, stir in the ketchup, honey, 1/4 cup salt, red pepper, and black pepper. Reserve 1 1/2 cups for passing at the table.
3. For the turkey: Prepare an outdoor grill with a medium-high fire for both direct and indirect grilling. Position a drip pan under the grate on the indirect side of the grill. Sprinkle the cavity of the turkey with salt and stuff with the celery, lemons, onions, and parsley, then tie the legs. Place the turkey breast-side up over the drip pan. Toss 1 cup of the soaked wood chips onto the coals. Cover the grill and rotate the lid so that the vent holes are directly over the meat. To maintain a medium-low smoky fire, add about a dozen pieces of charcoal and another cup of wood chips to the fire whenever the fire dies down. Rotate the turkey about every 45 minutes to prevent the side closest to the coals from overcooking.
4. After 1 hour, begin basting the turkey every 20 to 30 minutes with the remaining 2 1/2 cups of sauce. (Keep the grill covered between basting.) Cook until an instant-read thermometer inserted in the thigh, not touching the bone, registers 165 degrees F, 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Transfer to a cutting board and let rest 15 minutes before carving.
Serves: 8-10 (analysis done for 10)
Nutrition Information (per serving):
*Sauce for passing included
Calories: 1109
Total Fat: 50 grams
Saturated Fat: 14 grams
Total Carbohydrates: 23 grams
Protein: 132 grams
Sodium: 2009 milligrams
Cholesterol: 503 milligrams
Fiber: 0.5 grams
Serves: 32
Nutrition Information (per 2 tablespoons):
Calories: 28
Total Fat: 0 grams
Saturated Fat: 0 grams
Total Carbohydrates: 7 grams
Protein: 0 grams
Sodium: 56 milligrams
Cholesterol: 0 milligrams
Fiber: 0 grams
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Identity Theft is when someone uses your name, social or other identifying information without your permission.
With a scam, the individuals are attempting to gain your personal information from you to later commit identity theft. There are many different ways in which they attempt this:
How Do ID Thieves get your information or scam you: Spammers send unsolicited emails to huge mailing lists, and these may contain viruses or hackers, and even advertisements.
Spoofers and phishers create a replica of an existing web page to fool us into submitting personal, financial or password data. Visit phishinginfo.org for more information.
Pharming is where you are redirected to an illegitimate website instead of the website you want.
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Go Figure with Figurative Language - It Helps with Predicting!
Lesson 7 of 8
Objective: SWBAT predict events in the story using story structure; SWBAT use figurative language, digital tools, and illustrations to write a story.
Big Idea: Figurative language and illustrations carry SO MUCH MEANING - let's take a look at how they help students predict!
- Sound Effects App for Ipad (free app)
- Ipad for each group (or individual if possible)
- My Daddy Snores by Nancy Rothstein
- White paper and colored pencils/crayons for each group
- Set up the whiteboard
- Onomatopeia prompts (I cut these apart and mounted them for multiple uses)
- Lesson vocabulary words from the Reading/Writing word wall: onomatopoeia, predict, simile, beginning, middle, end, figurative language, literature
This book had GREAT examples of onomatopoeia and the story was perfect for predicting. I chose this app because it had appropriate sounds (some of the apps had really inappropriate choices, including guns) and it was easy to use.
This is one of the last lessons in my unit on predicting. I have used several of the strategies for reading comprehension, story structure, and figurative language in the other lessons. Here are links to those lessons for your reference: Peek Inside and Predict (Lesson 1 of 2), Peek Inside and Predict (Lesson 2 of 2), Predict the Ending - It Goes Around and Around, Predict the Ending and Use the Characters' Voices, Making Shadows with Foreshadowing While We Predict, Predict Using Characters' Action and Rhythm, and Tie it Together with Transition Words.
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Get Excited!
Underlined words below are lesson vocabulary words that are emphasized and written on sentence strips for my Reading & Writing word wall. I pull off the words off the wall for each lesson, helping students understand this key 'reading and writing' vocabulary can be generalized across texts and topics. The focus on acquiring and using these words is part of a shift in the Common Core Standards towards building students' academic vocabulary. My words are color coded 'pink' for literature/'blue' for reading strategies/'orange' for informational text/'yellow' for writing/'green' for all other words.
Explain the task
- "Today we are going to do some listening and imagining! Sounds and images attach meaning to certain events for us. They help us to imagine how something looks and what we might hear. Authors use sounds and images to bring meaning to stories. These sounds and images are called figurative language." (put up the word)
- "Listen to my short story and try to put an image in your head as I play the sounds. I have a beginning, middle and end to the story." (The kids will make a short story later so mention how the story has these parts.)
- "The beginning is...I walked up the house that looked like a giant scary face and" play doorbell sound. "The middle of my story is...Then I saw a big black dog in the window as big as an elephant and heard "play bark sound.
- "The end of my story is...The door creaked open and there was man who looked like a skeleton and I heard" play insane laugh "and ran away as fast as I could."
- "Did the images that I said and the sounds help you imagine the story?"
As students read and listen to stories, the Common Core State Standards encourage them to analyze the structure of the text and how the parts relate to each other. Realizing that the overall structure contributes to meaning, the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action will help them visualize that the parts of the story relate to and make up the whole. (RL.2.5)
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Teachers' Turn
My goal in this part is to have students identify figurative language and make a prediction at the end, based on the clues from the text.
Introduce the concepts
- "The book we'll read today has lots of figurative language. The author adds sounds, called onomatopoeia, to give meaning to the story."
- "The author also uses similes in this story. These are phrases that compare one image to a another image using the word 'like' or 'as' to compare."
- 'the dog was like an elephant' and 'the man was like a skeleton'
- "The story has 3 parts that we'll look at for figurative language. The beginning introduces the action, the middle shows the problem, and the ending has the conclusion that solves the problem." Reference the chart on the whiteboard.
Modeling and Guided Practice
- "Let's make a list of the figurative language in the beginning and middle of the story." Read the story using expression and emphasizing the similes and onomatopoeias and add ideas on the chart. Here's our completed Beginning/Middle/End chart that we created together.
- Pause after the page that says, On Sunday night...'
- "We're at the end of the story. What clues have we seen at the beginning and middle so far that help us predict? What can we add that we know? Did anything that we read help us predict?"
- I'll make a prediction. I'll write it up on the board and we can verify or check to see if it's right." Take ideas and then read and verify.
- "Was there more figurative language at the end of this book? Why does the author use this? Does it make it easier to understand the story?" Prompt with the idea that the author purposefully uses this figurative language to add tone and meaning to the story. Plus, it's more fun to read.
As we discuss this figurative language, students are learning to describe how words and phrases supply meaning and in a story. (RL.2.4) They are interpreting words and phrases as they are used in a text and analyzing how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. I am carefully constructing situations to allow students to identify how an author uses the figurative language and allow them to use in in their own story. This has been a new focus for me as we transition to the Common Core State Standards toward student discovery and practice in situations and lessons created by the teacher to allow for more student led facilitation of the learning process versus dissemination of the information by the teacher.
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Students' Take a Turn
My goal in this part of the lesson is for students to use the figurative language they have learned to write their own story.
Demonstrate the project
- "Let me show you how we can use an app that has onomatopoeia to create a story with a good beginning, middle and end."
- "I'll fold the paper into 3 sections vertically to show the three parts of the story."
- I'll take a look at the onomatopoeia choices on the app and pick three that would make a good story. Write a simile at the bottom of each page to tell the story."
- "Then I'll sketch an idea in each part - a beginning, middle, and end. The story has to MAKE SENSE."
- "Now I'll read my similes that make the story and then play the onomatopoeia on the app.
- Here's a video my lesson demonstration and my sample project.
Writing pieces with an emphasis on story structure and element familiarity (W.2.3) is a focus in the Common Core State Standards. Students should be able to demonstrate literary knowledge to weave that structure into grade level work demonstrating an understanding of reading and writing knowledge.
Students make the project (put in groups if you are sharing iPads)
- "Now its your turn to create a story in a group. Let's think about the group rules that we had at the beginning of the year and the Ipad Rules.docx ."
- "Take a look at the sounds on the app and choose 3 sounds that your group would like to use. Brainstorm how you could create a beginning, middle and end to a story. "
- "You have 10 minutes. Be ready to share your story when we're done."
- This is what one of my group's stories looked like.
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Show What You've Learned
Explain the task
- "Now let's share the our stories. Use the sound app to show your onomatopoeias and make sure to use expression when you read your figurative language."
- Here's one example of a student reading her story.
Students created these audio recordings of stories and added drawings to share ideas, thoughts and feelings. (SL.2.5) Using the iPads helps me make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to help students express information and enhance understanding of their presentation. Then kids LOVE using these digital tools, but we need to incorporate the activities as part of a larger learning experience. It takes some planning and practice, but digital tools, which will be an integral part of our students' lives, can be educational and fun.
- "You guys did a great job today using figurative language to write a great story!"
- Ask some questions are you reflect as a class and use their answers as formative assessment.
- "What did you like about creating a story?"
- "What was easy and what was difficult?" Several students commented the it was hard to have a story make sense without putting in lots of details.
- "Did the app give you ideas about onomatopoeia?"
- "When you read books in the future, is it helpful for the author to add this figurative language? Why?" A few students really honed in and shared that the figurative language adds meaning to the story. I followed up with the idea that it adds tone as well.
Scaffolding and Special Education: The lesson could be used for students with more or less language ability.
Make sure to mix groups with students of varying abilities. Since the students are working together, they should be able to compensate for each other weaknesses and strengths. Some students are more creative, some students draw well, some students are skilled in writing so using mixed groups allows for students to share their talents.
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If you want to focus on more onomatopoeia, here's a cute video that has lots of great examples. I didn't have time to show it, but next time, I'll use it at the end for a fun reward for all of their hard work!


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Syracuse, Boeheim ready for new challenge as Orange move into ACC
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Jim Boeheim is about to embark on territory he's only visited one other time in his long tenure at Syracuse — playing in a new conference.
He and the Orange have officially walked away from the Big East — and those heated rivalries — and entered the Atlantic Coast Conference, where Duke will become the new Georgetown on the schedule.
"It's a good conference with tough teams," Boeheim said. "It's the same as it's always been — difficult. I think it's a little different, but we've been preparing for this for so long. This has been a two-year process."
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Last year, Syracuse made its fourth appearance in the Final Four since Boeheim took over in 1976. The Orange finished 30-10 after a heart-wrenching loss to Michigan in the national semifinals.
Despite losing three starters — guard Brandon Triche and sharpshooting forward James Southerland graduated, while point guard Michael Carter-Williams left early for the NBA — Syracuse has reloaded and is ready to challenge again.
The Orange are picked to finish second to Duke in the ACC preseason poll, as Boeheim, 68, enters his 38th season.
"Obviously, whenever you lose three starters, that's a concern," said Boeheim, whose 920 career wins rank second only to Duke's Mike Krzyzewski. "We have guys who played, we have veterans, but we're very young in the backcourt losing the two starters. That's a big area we've been working on. We have to really bring the backcourt along."
Forward C.J. Fair, the team's leading scorer last season and preseason ACC player of the year, returns for his senior year along with classmate Baye Moussa Keita, who's demonstrated a deft shooting touch in practice. Boeheim said forward Jerami Grant was making great progress, and he really likes his freshmen — Tyler Ennis, Tyler Roberson, B.J. Johnson and Ron Patterson.
Ennis is expected to take over at the point.
"He's a solid player. He's a freshman, so he's going to have a learning curve," Boeheim said. "He's a smart player. He understands the game, and I think he'll be fine stepping into the role."
The Orange also have guards Trevor Cooney and Michael Gbinije, who sat out last season after transferring from Duke. Both are ready to assume bigger roles.
Boeheim says he's expecting a lot from Keita, Dajuan Coleman, and Rakeem Christmas. Coleman is healthy again after missing eight games with a knee injury last season and has returned in better shape with an improved game down low.
"Our frontcourt is very experienced, very physical. We have good depth there," Boeheim said. "We have some good young players in the front line, so I think overall the balance is very good."
Syracuse and Georgetown, charter members of the Big East when it was formed in 1979, are working on a deal that will continue their long and storied rivalry. In the meantime, since the Orange faithful won't have the Hoyas to razz — Georgetown remains in the Big East and is not on this year's schedule — they're ready for something new. Ticket sales are soaring in anticipation of home games against Duke and North Carolina in the new year.
Expect those rivalries to be as heated as any.
"Any time you're in a league, there's always going to be fierce rivalries because you're all competing for something that everybody wants," Boeheim said. "I think it'll be very competitive right away, without question. Whoever's at the top, whoever's playing well, those are going to be the big games. That's the way it always is."
In this day and age, dreams of making a Final Four aren't so far-fetched for a lot of teams, and the Orange, who open the season Nov. 8 vs. Cornell, will be thinking about another run there.
"The college basketball landscape has changed," Boeheim said. "Any team that's in the top 20 can go to the Final Four. Any team in the top 30, probably. We're one of those teams. The ACC's wide open. There's a lot of good teams.
"It'll be an interesting year."


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NEW YORK (AP) — Select quotes by Chinua Achebe, the pioneering African writer, government critic and advocate for African storytelling:
"Okonkwo's fame had grown like a bush-fire in the harmattan. He was tall and huge, and his bushy eyebrows and wide nose gave him a very severe look. He breathed heavily, and it was said that, when he slept, his wives and children in their houses could hear him breathe." — from the 1958 novel "Things Fall Apart."
"The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a whole chapter on him. Perhaps not a whole chapter but a resonable paragraph, at any rate. There was so much else to include, and one must be firm in cutting out details. He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: 'The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.'" — from "Things Fall Apart."
"'Heart of Darkness' projects the image of Africa as 'the other world,' the antithesis of Europe and therefore of civilization, a place where a man's vaunted intelligence and refinement are finally mocked by triumphant bestiality," from "An Image of Africa," a 1975 lecture that became a widely printed essay.
"The point of my observations should be quite clear by now, that ('Heart of Darkness' author Joseph) Conrad was a bloody racist. That this simple truth is glossed over in criticism of his work is due to the fact white racism against Africa is such a normal way of thinking that its manifestations go completely undetected." — from "An Image of Africa."
"She looked at each in turn with a strained smile on her countenance. 'Truth is beauty, isn't it? It must be you know to make someone dying in that pain, to make him ... smile. He sees it and it is ... How can I say it? ... It is unbearably, yes unbearably beautiful.'" — from the 1987 novel "Anthills of the Savannah."
"After a war life catches desperately at passing/hints of normality like vines entwining a hollow/twig; its famished roots close on rubble and/every piece of broken glass." — a poem from the 2012 memoir "There Was a Country."


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Morocco on Sunday became the second Arabic-speaking country to be eliminated from the CAF Africa Cup of Nations, but unlike their Maghreb neighbours Algeria, who lost both their opening AFCON matches, the Atlas Lions were knocked-out without having lost a game after three draws. Their coach Rachid Taoussi tells FIFA.com that it was - nevertheless - a positive campaign.
After drawing their two opening matches in South Africa, Morocco took on the hosts in Durban, knowing that only a victory or a high-scoring draw would be enough to see them through to the knock-out stages. They took the game to Bafana Bafana and twice led through goals by Issam El Adoua and Abdelilah Hafidi, only to see the hosts come back to snatch a late 2-2 draw. That would have been good enough though had the other Group A game in Port Elizabeth between Angola and Cape Verde, which was being played simultaneously, ended in a 1-1 draw.
However, fate dealt Morocco a cruel hand as Ramos Heldon scored the winner for Cape Verde in the last minute to send the Blue Sharks through and Morocco home. "We walk out with dignity and honour," said a tearful Taoussi after the game. "I am very happy with the team. They played well and they improved from match to match. All the games were very good and the balance sheet is very positive as a whole. I am very happy with our performance."
Taoussi, who previously coached the Moroccan U-17, 20 and 23 sides, only took over the senior team in September. "That did not give me a lot of time, but we have not lost a match since then. I now look forward to taking the team into the World Cup qualifiers against Gambia and Tanzania. I know the strategy I have taken is just the first phase focused on preparing for the World Cup qualification. If we get maximum points against Tanzania and Gambia, we have a chance to qualify. We will then go to Abidjan to defend our colours against Côte d'Ivoire, who are two points ahead. I think we can beat them and we have the capacity to qualify for Brazil 2014. Qualifying for the World Cup is our short-term goal, the long-term one is the 2015 AFCON finals in Morocco."
Against South Africa we had most of the game, but because we were looking for more goals we had to open up and we ended up conceding goals.
Looking ahead in hope
The 53-year-old said that he was confident that he would remain in charge of the side after the event. "I do not think that we have been eliminated here will be a problem. On the contrary, the competition in South Africa was good preparation. It will be positive. The head of the Moroccan Football Federation called me, and said he trusted me to continue with this team. I am a man for challenges. I have had a lot of success with a lot of national youth teams. I only took over the side a few months ago and have not had more than 20 days on the pitch with the players.
"But you can already see that the team has taken shape. The average age of the side is only 24, with our second scorer on Sunday just 20. I call on all Moroccan coaches to continue developing young players. Against South Africa we had most of the game, but because we were looking for more goals we had to open up and we ended up conceding goals."
Taoussi said that he did not think Algeria and Morocco's elimination from the competition was an indication that football in the Arab-speaking world was in decline. Between 2004 and 2010, Arab-speaking countries won four straight titles at the showpiece event of African football and Morocco was a losing finalist in 2004. "I do not want to speak about other teams, but you could see that our team played well. I respect all Maghreb teams and players and their coaches. I would have liked to see Algeria make it to the last eight, as this team is higher than Morocco in the FIFA ranking. After the Gabon setback in 2012 [Morocco were also knocked out in the first round of the AFCON after losing to Tunisia and Gabon] and all the bad memories of that campaign, a new Moroccan team has been born. It is on the brink of success, as we improved game after game, and we will be even better in the future."


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Newtown falls to Lauralton Hall in girls basketball matchup of two previous SWC champions
NEWTOWN -- For the second time this season, the Newtown High girls basketball team fell to Lauralton Hall. In a matchup of the last two SWC tournament champions, the Crusaders visited the Hawk's Nest Friday night and walked out with a 50-44 victory.
The loss marks the fifth defeat this season for Newtown (6-5) -- two more than their total in last year's state championship season.
Newtown came out strong and grabbed an early lead, led by senior captain Erin Kenning's seven points and three blocks in the first quarter.
But by the end of the first, Lauralton (8-1) was able to take the lead and hold onto it for the remainder of the contest.
The Crusaders' matchup zone allowed Newtown to get the kind of open looks that head coach Jeremy O'Connell wants, but the shots were not falling for his Nighthawks.
"We got a lot of good looks tonight," said O'Connell. "We're a streaky team -- when we're hot, we're really hot; when we're off, we're ice cold. Tonight we were off."
The missed shots turned into transition baskets for the Crusaders, as Newtown was not able to set their full court press.
However, when the press was executed, the Nighthawks made the Crusaders work hard for their points.
Lauralton Hall point guard Michelle DeSantis had to overcome a stifling full-court defense to score her game-high 22 points.
"Credit the Newtown defense," said Lauralton coach Amanda Forcucci. "They're a great defensive team, but we were able to grind it out and come out of here with a win."
Newtown cut the Crusaders' lead to four in the fourth quarter thanks to a clutch a 3-pointer from senior captain Maddy Good.
Despite the Nighthawks closing the gap, DeSantis was able to connect on eight straight free throws to seal the victory for Lauralton Hall.
"We come out every night with a target on our back," said O'Connell. "After winning the state championship last year, we are still the team to beat, and we need to play like that."
Expectations are high for the Nighthawks for the rest of the season as they set out to defend their state title.
Kenning believes that her team has something to prove. She's confident there'll be a turnaround in the second half of the season.
"Games like tonight make us work harder," said Kenning. "We know what we need to do, and we will improve."
Kenning and the Nighthawks look to bounce back from this loss on Tuesday as they play host to Brookfield. Lauralton Hall will travel to Oxford.
Emma McCarthy 4 2-5 11; Maggie Salandra 1 0-1 2; Laurel Sell 0 0-0 0; Carly Fabbri 3 0-0 6; Michelle DeSantis 4 13-16 22; Maureen Connolly 2 0-0 4; Bianca Robertson 1 0-0 2; Tanisha Clark 0 0-0 0; Emily Bonzagni 0 0-0 0; Joycelyn Dos Santos 0 0-0 0; Emile Menendez 0 0-0 0; Olivia Levey 1 1-2 3. Totals: 16 16-24 50.
Kristie Voswinkel 0 0-0 0; Carley Ferris 0 0-0 0; Cassie Ekstrom 2 0-1 4; Samantha Steimle 1 0-0 2; Maddie Good 3 1-2 8; Erin Kenning 6 0-1 13; Kristiana Engler 0 0-0 0; Mary Jo Rossi 0 1-2 1; Sarah Lynch 3 0-2 6; Bridget Power 1 7-10 10; Mali Klorczyk 0 0-0 0; Emily Chochlak 0 0-0 0; Eliza Eggleston 0 0-0 0. Totals: 16 9-18 44.
3-pointers: LH -- McCarthy, DeSantis; N -- Kenning, Power, Good.


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Top HIV/AIDS-Related Clinical Developments of 2010
December 8, 2010
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As an action-packed year for the HIV/AIDS community draws to a close, TheBody.com takes stock of 2010 in a new series of articles, "HIV/AIDS Year in Review: Looking Back on 2010 (and Ahead to 2011)." Read the entire series here.
The first year of a new decade, 2010 could have been the year of hope. Political spin masters dangled it before our eyes -- luring us, a divided nation, to come to their side -- only to cause more division. As the economic crisis continues to put the hammer to life as we know it, hope is all that many of us feel we have left as we try to make do with less.
In HIV-land, we also hope -- for better therapies for those living with HIV and for the beginning of the end of an epidemic that is just getting old. This past year, we saw some bright glimmers of success where before there was stagnation. A series of remarkably positive results in HIV prevention promises to move us into a new era of interventions designed to stop people from giving each other HIV. In HIV therapeutics, the pipeline of new antiretrovirals has spurted again and additional coformulation of these and older medications will mean even more convenient choices for patients.
Such developments made for a better year in HIV than many could have expected given the grim headlines. They signal, as we move through the tweens to the teens of this decade, that the prevention of new infections and the care for those who acquire HIV will continue to advance; that HIV research will continue to be a marvel of medicine; that there is good reason to hope.
CAPRISA: A Home Run (or at Least a Base Hit) for a Microbicide
A review of:
Controlling the spread of HIV has been a vexing and complex public health challenge. The physical mechanics are really not the problem: Keeping one person's virus-laden fluids away from the vulnerable cells of another is something most with a well-developed frontal cortex can figure out how to do, technically speaking. But latex barriers -- despite their colorful names, choices of textures, and fruit-inspired flavors -- have just not cut it, and efforts that rely heavily on getting men to put on condoms can be summed up with a word: failed.
There have been a number of different creative approaches to the whole keep-your-virus-off-my-cells approach, including protective and therapeutic vaccines, male circumcision, pre- and post-exposure prophylactic treatment and microbicides. However, with the important exception of circumcision -- which has demonstrated modest success in preventing HIV transmission, but has its own drawbacks and limitations -- these strategies have had poor efficacy, leading to much head hanging and dour faces at HIV prevention conferences.
One can therefore understand the ebullient and triumphant response that greeted the first public report of the results of a Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) trial this year at the XVIII International AIDS Conference held in Vienna.
CAPRISA 004 was a South Africa-led trial of a 1% tenofovir (Viread) vaginal gel that enrolled HIV-uninfected women 18 to 40 years of age at two clinical sites in that country, one urban and the other rural. The trial was a double-blind study. Participants were provided with pre-filled vaginal applicators (those that contained the study gel were indistinguishable from those that contained a placebo gel) and instructed to insert the assigned gel within 12 hours before sex and a second dose of gel as soon as possible within 12 hours after sex (the so-called "BAT24" approach, short for "before and after sex within 24 hours"). All participants received HIV counseling services, condoms and sexually transmitted disease screening and treatment at entry and each subsequent study visit. The enrolled women also received assistance in learning to use the gel to increase comfort and adherence.
During a maximum of 30 months of follow-up (mean was 18 months), 38 of the 445 women assigned to the active gel versus 60 of the 444 assigned placebo became infected with HIV. The HIV incidence rate in the tenofovir gel arm was 5.6 per 100 women-years (confidence interval [CI], 4.0 and 7.7) compared with 9.1 per 100 women-years (CI, 6.9 and 11.7) in the placebo gel arm (IRR = 0.61; CI, 0.40 and 0.94; P = .017). Therefore, at the primary endpoint of 30 months follow-up, the incidence rate for women receiving tenofovir gel was 39% lower than for the placebo-assigned women.
Adherence to the gels was assessed carefully; the investigators even requested that women return used applicators, which were then inspected for signs of use. Remarkably, over 95% of applicators were returned. Women in both study groups reported a mean of approximately 5 sex acts per month. Self-reported condom use was high at around 80%. When looking at adherence and efficacy, it was observed that among those with greater adherence, the effect size increased: Even fewer women in the tenofovir arm acquired HIV relative to the control arm. Elegant studies led by Dr. Angela Kashuba looking at levels of tenofovir in the cervical-vaginal fluid corroborated this finding. Interestingly, the effectiveness of the tenofovir gel seemed to wane over time, with a greater effect observed early in the study. However, this may reflect a decrease in adherence to the gel over time, rather than a flaw with the gel itself.
Overall, the gel was found to be safe, although there were some complaints of the compound being a bit on the messy side. There was more diarrhea reported among those on the active gel, but otherwise tolerability was no different between the study arms. For those who did seroconvert while receiving active tenofovir gel, there was no impact seen on plasma viral load or demonstration of tenofovir resistance.
A fascinating aspect of the trial was the observation that the rate of herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 2 seroconversion during the study was less among those assigned to the tenofovir gel. A lesser-known fact is that tenofovir has activity against HSV, but only at high concentrations of the drug. It is possible that the gel achieved high enough levels in the genital tract to protect some women against HSV acquisition.
The Bottom Line
The cheers that greeted the CAPRISA trial findings were not for the modest 40% reduction in infection with tenofovir gel -- a result that would send a vaccine back to the drawing board. It was a response by a community of researchers and advocates hungry for any success of a microbicide. Prior studies of earlier compounds found not only a lack of effect but, in the case of nonoxynol-9, what actually appeared to be an increased susceptibility to HIV.
The triumph of CAPRISA 004 is a starting point. There are aspects to tweak, including the timing of applications and formulation. In addition, the trial was rigorous in describing the association between adherence and efficacy of the gel and the need to develop interventions to support women using this compound. Lastly, it is unclear whether a combination of antiretrovirals (for instance, a gel containing tenofovir plus emtricitabine [FTC, Emtriva]) would offer better protection.
There are additional studies underway and planned. Meanwhile, the prospects of a woman-controlled HIV prevention method seem much closer now than just a few months ago. Score!
This article was provided by TheBody.
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Britney Spears has embarked on a legal affair - her new boyfriend is an employee at a top law firm.
The Toxic hitmaker ended her engagement to her former manager Jason Trawick in January (13) and it appears she isn't wasting time to find a new man in her life.
Reports suggest she's dating lawyer David Lucado.
The couple enjoyed separate outings to a golf course and spa, and the singer is simply smitten with her new man, according to sources.
One tells People magazine, "Since meeting David, Britney has been in the best mood... They've spent almost every day together."
And the singer has even introduced the Virginia native to her conservator dad Jamie and sons with ex-husband Kevin Federline, Preston, seven, and Jayden, six.
An insider adds, "It was a big step. She's very excited... The boys think of David as a fun play pal."


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WHEN CORNWALLIS Junior High was renamed Halifax Central Junior High earlier this year, I felt opinion swelling in my throat. From my front-row seat as a journalist, I have covered the controversy over Halifax's founder, Edward Cornwallis, from naming a school after him to erecting his statue.
Opinion bubbled up to my lips and was about to spew into the world when a little voice in my head asked me: What do you actually know about this man?
I could think of a few things: he founded Halifax in 1749 and he issued a scalping proclamation against Mi'kmaq people. And that he . . . Um. He was born in . . . Er. How long did he live in Nova Scotia? What else did he do? Uh . . .
I felt the pinprick of fact deflating the bubble of opinion. I figured before I judged the man, I should at least get to know him. I headed to the Nova Scotia archives and the Halifax Public Libraries and spent the next few months reading the letters Cornwallis wrote and received in Halifax, the minutes of his council meetings, and the handful of articles and books containing references to him.
Surprisingly, no one has written his biography.
Cornwallis was born in England in 1713. He was the sixth son of Lord Charles, the fourth Baron Cornwallis, and Lady Charlotte Butler, daughter of the Earl of Arran. His family was rich and influential. In addition to expansive estates in Suffolk, they kept a house at 14 Leicester Sq. in London.
His first job came at 12 when he and his twin brother Frederick were appointed royal pages to King George II. "This little appointment . . . explains why the Hon. Edward was so well looked after in later times of great emergency and difficulty," writes historian James MacDonald in an 1899 paper.
Cornwallis studied at Eton College and entered the military in 1730. Lingering in London garrisons, he became a lieutenant, then captain, then major. He took the family's seat in Parliament when his older brother died. "Up to this date, Cornwallis appears to have lived in an atmosphere of court favour and officialism," MacDonald says.
The first "difficulty," as MacDonald put it, arose from his service in 1745 at the Battle of Fontenoy. Cornwallis's commander died at the start of the Belgian fight and Cornwallis was put in charge. The battle was a disaster for Britain. Some 2,000 troops died, including 400 under Cornwallis's command. The best historians could make of it was that Cornwallis helped with the retreat. The streets of London greeted the army with scorn.
Despite the setback, Cornwallis won a prestigious post as groom of the king's bedchamber.
In 1745, he was placed in charge of a regiment dispatched to the Scottish Highlands. The Jacobites under Bonnie Prince Charlie had raised a massive army and advanced to the outskirts of London before retreating to Scotland. Cornwallis was part of the British forces sent to crush the rebellion.
The final battle came April 16, 1746, at Culloden. The professional British soldiers quickly routed the rebel Scots and killed 2,000 Highland warriors before pursuing them off the battlefield. The slaughter that followed was called the Pacification.
It became illegal to wear a kilt or tartan and an offender could be summarily executed. The ancient clan system was to be dismantled by force.
Cornwallis was in the thick of it. Michael Hughes fought with him and wrote a tract called A Plain Narrative and Authentic Journal of the Late Rebellion. It tells how Cornwallis led 320 men to destroy the house and lands belonging to a rebel leader.
Hughes notes Cornwallis's "great humanity and honour" during
the systematic hunting down of any man, woman or child displaying any Jacobite sympathies. Such "traitors" were shot dead or burned alive in their homes. Properties were looted and claimed for King George. Patrols
were sent "rebel hunting."
"From hence the party marched along the seacoast through Moidart, burning of houses, driving away the cattle and shooting those vagrants found about the mountains," Hughes writes. The army returned in glory to London.
The historian MacDonald says 1748 found Cornwallis in poor health and his regiment in a "mutinous state." He resigned his command. His benefactor George Montague Dunk, Lord of Halifax, secured him a job as governor of Nova Scotia.
The Fortress of Louisbourg was being returned to the French and Britain needed a fortress to offset it. To that end, Cornwallis was dispatched to found Halifax in the spring of 1749.
The site he selected was in Mi'kmaq moose hunting territory and the sawmill that followed at Dartmouth sat on their vital water highway, the Shubenacadie. Both sides made overtures of peace but both sides clashed. Mi'kmaq warriors, outgunned by the soldiers, launched a guerrilla campaign to contain the English.
Cornwallis saw only one solution. "Without force and without money, nothing can be done," he wrote. London urged him to engage the natives in trade and keep the peace with France, but Cornwallis did not trust the restive province.
He fretted constantly that the Mi'kmaq and their French allies would destroy the nascent settlement. He sent soldiers and the infamous Rangers into the woods to drive them away. Newborn Halifax was heavily fortified.
In October, he issued the scalping proclamation. "To declare war formally against the Micmac Indians would be a manner to own them a free and independent people, whereas they ought to be treated as so many banditti ruffians, or rebels, to his majesty's government," he wrote.
Cornwallis implemented the tactics of the Scottish Pacification: terror, brutality and mass killings. The scalping campaign, which paid settlers and soldiers to kill any Mi'kmaq adult or child, was designed to drive the rebels from the land claimed by his king.
"The Board of Trade rebuked him for aggression and still more for overspending," says his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
John Grenier, author of The Far Reaches of Empire, describes how Nova Scotia descended into a brutal, Vietnam-like war. Despite the official peace, superpowers France and England clashed in the remote province, while the Mi'kmaq and Acadians were chewed up in the middle.
"The war had bankrupted the colony," Grenier writes. "Parliament had authorized £39,000 for Nova Scotia in 1750, but Cornwallis had spent nearly £174,000."
The settlers were still largely confined to Halifax. Little farmland had been developed and the province relied heavily on supplies from England. The province was an expensive boondoggle — an "ill-thriven, hard-visaged and ill-favoured brat," as one critic later described it.
By 1752, Cornwallis was fed up with defending himself and sick of life in the colonies. He pleaded with London to let him come home. "At my setting out for this province, two or three years at most was the time I was to continue," he reminded his bosses.
He asked that "his majesty would be graciously pleased to allow of my resignation of the government and grant me the liberty of returning home."
He got his wish and left the war-torn province in the fall of 1752.
Cornwallis married in 1753, but his wife died a few years later without having any children. He spent his time with the "Corinthians," a dandyish troop of high-born bachelors. "In London, (Cornwallis) was well known as a leading man of fashion," MacDonald writes.
Duty beckoned and in 1756 he was ordered to join Admiral John Byng on a British fleet to relieve the garrison at Minorca, which was besieged by France.
The ships arrived, but didn't like their chances.
"To the horror of the brave garrison . . . the fleet sailed away, leaving them to their fate," MacDonald says.
Britain lost Minorca. "Cornwallis shared the odium," MacDonald writes. Byng was arrested and executed. Cornwallis was "almost torn to pieces by the populace" and burned in effigy. His high-placed friends saved him, but the ridicule continued. Newspapers ran cartoons lampooning Cornwallis as more concerned about fashion than fighting.
In 1757, he was ordered to join an expedition to attack the French port Rochefort. The mission faltered. Some saw the French as too strong and wanted to go home. Others said a bold attack could win the day. "Cornwallis unfortunately voted with his superior . . . and the expedition failed," MacDonald says.
This retreat brought more shame, but Cornwallis's royal connections again saved him. In 1762, he was dispatched to Gibraltar, the "most unhealthy station in Europe," MacDonald says. Over the coming years, he wrote letters to his friends in London, asking for promotion back to England. "No notice appears to have been taken of his request," MacDonald writes.
Cornwallis was only relieved of his post in 1776 when the war office marked him "DD" — discharged dead.
His family titles are extinct — the barony erased in 1823 and the earldom in 1852. "His name is fast coming under the category of 'Britain's forgotten worthies'," MacDonald concluded in 1899.
A century later, Cornwallis continues to fade.
Jon Tattrie is a freelance journalist and author.


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Kit McElwee, 32, and Richard Favinger Jr., 33, Pottstown residents, met three years ago on Oct. 17, 2009. Both remember the details of the evening. They agree if they didn't have a little help from others, they may never have gotten together.
The couple smile as they tell a visitor about their unplanned meeting that led to their marriage on Oct. 6, 2012.
Favinger, 33, legally blind since birth, has lived an active life despite his disability. He graduated from Pottstown High School and now works as a part-time photographer specializing in youth sports. He also holds a 1st degree black belt in judo and is the youth instructor for the Pottstown judo club.
"I can see quite a bit, but I can't see detail. It's like I have severe nearsightedness. I can see Kit has a reddish sweater on-but I can't see the design of her earrings," explained Favinger. About the only limitation the active young man has is that he is restricted from driving. But that hasn't altered his mobility. He uses public transportation, walks with his white cane, mostly so other people will see him. He is grateful for his mother, who has always driven him to places where there is no public transportation.
In fact, the evening Richard met Kit, his mother had accompanied him to a Dive Fest event, a get-together, at a local dive vendor's facility. The program, sponsored by the International Association of Handicapped Divers (IAHD) included a short presentation by Kit, their first local, certified blind SCUBA diver, followed by a demonstration in the pool. Richard was excited to find out more about this sport, available to those with disabilities.
McElwee, who became totally blind in 2007 due to the extremely rare Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD), was not feeling well that evening. She was just getting over a case of shingles and couldn't go into the water. It was a cold and rainy night in October. Kit didn't want to participate in the program, but she had promised the vendor she would be there.
"Her comments were brief — 'You're going to get wet and you're going to be breathing underwater,' Favinger recalled — but I knew she wasn't feeling well and I couldn't blame her."
However, later when Richard and his mother checked out the diving equipment in the store, they met up with Kit again. The two talked for about an hour about things they had in common. Richard remembered seeing Kit interviewed on the Philadelphia NBC10 news about her diving accomplishments.
The two laugh when they recall they didn't exchange phone numbers that night. Fortunately, they both had the same Orientation and Mobility instructor, who helped connect the two. They talked on the phone for several hours on their first remote date. They knew they wanted to get to know each other better — and so they did. After dating for six months, Kit moved in with Richard and his mother in Pottstown.
Kit's blindness, unlike Richard's developed, quite suddenly, the result of ECD. It results when histocytes, cells that are normally involved in fighting infection begin to overproduce and accumulate in the connective tissue of many organs and produce a wide range of signs and symptoms related to the organ damage. No one to date has identified a cause for the disease.
Kit grew up in Norristown, graduated from Methacton High School and Millersville University. In 2005, she was living at home with her parents and working with children in a daycare program. She woke up one day and noticed a lump on her head. At first she thought she might have hit it on her wooden bedframe. When the lump didn't go away for two weeks, Kit decided to see her family physician.
The family physician ordered a CAT scan first and then an MRI. Still unable to come up with a possible diagnosis, Kit was referred to a neurologist and his two partners, who thought the scans might indicate cancer.
"I told these doctors, 'I don't want to hear cancer, No way. I'm only 25,'" Kit vividly remembers.
At this point, Kit was referred to a neurosurgeon at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, who removed the tumor and ordered another MRI that revealed a growth behind Kit's eyes. Eventually, an ophthalmology surgeon performed the surgery, biopsied the tissue and immediately knew Kit had ECD. The compression of the optic nerve was the cause of her blindness that began in April 2007.
Six months later, her blindness would be total. For many with ECD, it takes much longer to make a definitive diagnosis.
Adjusting to her blindness within a short time was difficult, Kit admitted. Her mother had learned about the IAHD handicapped SCUBA program and enrolled Kit in the program.
"When I was 28 and at my lowest point, I decided to take up SCUBA diving — and I loved it. I was an avid swimmer in my younger days," she said.
She realized there was still a lot of living for her to do, despite having more surgeries and treatments like "a laundry list of medications" and more medications to prevent the side effects of the other drugs.
It has been three years since Kit has been in remission for ECD and she is off just about all of her meds.
"The cause of ECD is not known. It's not genetic or environmental. It's just random," summarized, Favinger, who has been involved in learning about his wife's disease since they met.
"Some experts will say ECD is cancer-like, but it isn't really cancer. Some patients are treated with chemotherapy and do respond positively," according to Favinger and the scant medical literature and studies available.
Only 350 cases of ECD have been recorded, and for this reason it is included in the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), an international, voluntary organization dedicated to helping those diagnosed with conditions that affect fewer than 200,000 Americans. Through its donations, those with ECD and other rare conditions are helped through education, advocacy, research and service.
Kit and Richard are also well connected to the Erdheim-Chester Disease Global Alliance. They chat online with others around the world who have been diagnosed with ECD. In fact, they refer to these contacts as their friends. From their friends they have learned about other problems associated with ECD and they have become the experts of the disease.
"It is so frustrating to try to talk to doctors about ECD and have them tell you they will have to go and look it up," said Favinger. There are just so many unknowns about the disease, echoed McElwee.
About 50 percent of those with ECD have severe bone pain in the long bones of their arms and legs that requires large doses of pain medication for relief. Fortunately, Kit is not affected with this symptom. Every person with ECD had different symptoms, emphasized Favinger.
Currently, the main obstacle in the couple's life is that because of recent budget cuts, Kit has not been able to get more Orientation and Mobility Instruction from the Pennsylvania Bureau of Blindness and Visual Services (BBVS).
"Her life is on hold until she can learn more household skills — like cooking cream of wheat without burning herself and getting off the bus at the right stop for Kmart," said Favinger, who has lobbied for Kit to get the training for almost two years.
However, Kit thinks Richard may just be a little too protective these days. "I have been doing more on my own these days. I'm doing fine," she said.
On Nov. 25, Kit will travel with her mother to Bethesda, Md., to the National Institutes of Health to be part of a large medical study, "Clinical and Basic Investigations into ECD." The study is being conducted by the Office of Rare Disease Research. Kit is excited about participating in this study that hopefully will benefit her and the other individuals who have the disease.
Favinger said he just wanted to let others know about his incredible wife.
"Our small community of Pottstown and its medical community are blissfully unaware of the rarity of this lovely lady I call my wife."
Kit and Richard said the advocacy and social support they receive from the Erdheim-Chester Disease Global Alliance is invaluable in learning about resources. Unfortunately, the organization has not been able to fund many studies for treatment, according to Favinger.
If you wish to learn more about Erdheim-Chester Disease you may visit the Erdheim-Chester Disease Global Alliance website at www.Erdheim-Chester.org


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- Find individuals through the campus directory
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- Use the campus map to find locations on campus
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Academic Affairs (Provost)
Administration Building, Room 511
Administration (President)
Administration Building, Room 510
Administration Building, 1st Floor
Advancement (Development)
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Contact an individual school for advisors.
Alumni Engagement
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Athletic Department
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Power Center
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Contact information for members of the leadership team
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Arkansas farm and grain commodities report
Soybean Comment
Soybean futures collapsed yesterday on news that Argentina received beneficial rains this week. March has violated trendline support near $12.70. Additional support is seen between $12.56 and $12.33. Longer-term the market will begin to become more focused on the 2014 U.S. crop. The current ratio for corn and soybean prices is at 2.5, anything above a 2.2 favors planting more soybeans.
Wheat Comment
Wheat prices set new contract lows yesterday. Large global supplies and weak U.S. export demand continue to weigh on this market. This combined with weakness in the soybean market forced wheat prices lower. While prices remain oversold, they will likely need some type of positive fundamental news to spur any kind of significant rally.
Grain Sorghum
No comment.
Corn Comment
Corn prices closed the yesterday with modest losses; given the losses in the soybean and wheat markets. A good export inspection report on Monday continues to provide underlying support for this market. Today's export sales report will be key for this market, as it will set the tone heading into the first full week of the new year. This market still faces a USDA report next Friday that is expected to raise production, and could potentially lower domestic demand as the first quarterly stocks report will be released that same day. The market continues to hold support at nearby lows of $4.10 and resistance at $4.30.
Cotton Comment
Cotton futures closed mixed, as the nearby contracts closed lower and the deferred contracts held onto recent gains. This is a market that is poised for correction as recent gains have the market in an overbought situation. Next week's USDA report will likely give us a look at the direction for this market in the near-term as we will get our final look at the 2013 production numbers, which may see yields adjusted lower again. Strong support for this market begins at 80.29-cents and resistance holds at 85-cents.
Rice Comment
Rice futures posted solid gains today. March is testing resistance in the $15.50 area, closing yesterday at $15.51. A close above that level would break the market out of the consolidation range that has capped the market for the past couple of weeks. The market continues to be wary of large world stocks.
Cattle Comment
Cattle prices were higher today. Traders are concerned about forecasts for more severe winter weather in the Western Plains which will limit marketings and hurt performance.
Hog Comment
No comment.
Shell Eggs: Daily Midwest Regional Eggs Comment
Midwest delivered asking prices for next week are 23 cents lower for Extra Large and Large, and 11 cents lower for Medium. Daily producer prices are 4 cents lower for Large, 2 cents lower for Medium, and 3 cents lower for Small. The undertone is weak. Demand is moderate. Offerings and supplies are moderate to heavy. Market activity is slow. Breaking stock prices are steady to lower. The undertone is lower. Demand is moderate to fairly good on moderate to instances heavy offerings. Supplies are moderate to heavy. Market activity is slow to moderate.
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Council to consider city manager applicants
The Big Spring City Council will hold a special meeting Tuesday evening which is expected to include interviews with candidates currently vying for the municipality's city manager position, as longtime manager Gary Fuqua prepares for retirement.The meeting was called for by the Big Spring City Council during its June 11 meeting, part of an ongoing effort to fill the position currently being handled by Interim City Manager Todd Darden.The council held an executive session to discuss the matter during the June 11 meeting, as the city administration worked to bring newly elected Mayor Larry McLellan and District 5 Councilman Raul Benavides up to speed on the matter.According to McLellan, the field of candidates has gone from nearly three-dozen to just three vying for the position."When this search started out, we had between 33 and 34 candidates," McLellan said. "A committee was able to get that field down to about about seven or eight people. During the last meeting (June 11) we held an executive session and our goal was to get that list down to what the council felt was the three best candidates. By the end of the meeting, all seven members of the council agreed they could hire any of the remaining three."McLellan declined to name the candidates, although he did confirm one of them is Darden."I can tell you all three live in Texas and all three are very well qualified for the position," McLellan said. "We'll meet with each of them and conduct an interview, probably about 20 to 30 minutes long, and then we'll deliberate on the matter."