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Robert Walser’s Schoolboys

Walser Schoolboys Diary

Time seemed to stand still because it had to stop and eavesdrop on all the beauty and all the evening magic.  Everything dreamed because it was alive, and everything lived because it was permitted to dream.  [“The City,” 1915]

Is there any writer who seems more clinically optimistic than Robert Walser?  His deliciously confounding narrators – many of which are children or servants – instinctively grasp that ignorance is a precondition to certain types of happiness and wisdom, just as they understand that it is often the so-called unimportant things that really matter. Read more

Jelinek Plays with Walser

Cahiers 18 cover

Sylph Editions and The Center for Writers & Translators at the American University of Paris continue their outstanding collaboration with their Cahiers Series 18, Her Not All Her: on/with Robert Walser, a play by Elfriede Jelinek.  The only stage direction in the play is this: “A number of people to each other, all very friendly and well-behaved (perhaps lying in bathtubs, as was once the custom in mental hospitals),” which obviously provides wide latitude for producing the piece on the stage.

There are no characters or voices identified; instead, the play is written in paragraphs, just like a short story or essay.  Without the clue provided by the stage direction, it would be eminently reasonable to read straight through Her Not All Her as if there was but a single voice that probably emanates from Walser.  “Would you like to hear the novel of my life?”   But on closer inspection, it becomes less and less clear who might be speaking at times.  In some paragraphs the first-person narrator seems as if it could be no one but Walser.  At other times it appears that someone else might be addressing Walser; or, it could well be that Walser is addressing himself in the third person – a not unreasonable possibility.  But even when it seems like it might be Walser speaking, it isn’t always discernible which Walser is speaking – the young Walser-as-successful-writer or the elderly Walser who spent the final three decades of his life in a mental institution, where he wrote but meagerly.

Memory is a hardware store where writers try to help themselves to something for free until all of the suffering falls on their heads because they pulled the bottommost plank out of the pile first.  So now I garb myself in delicate absentmindedness and no one can ask anything of me now, I’m dreaming, or temporarily dead at the moment.

Who speaks?” asks Reto Sorg in an afterword to the play.  “This question returns insistently in modernity…”

What Jelinek’s play highlights is that the act of literary confession, striving for self-determination, is always also an attempt to free oneself from just this obligation to have any identity at all.

To be sure, an overriding attribute of this play is uncertainty.  Her Not All Her forces the determined reader – and even more so, the stage director – to invent distinctions in and contexts for the text.  As Jelinek says in a statement about the play:

Robert Walser is one of those people who do not mean themselves when they say “I.”  It is true he never stops saying “I”, but it’s not him.

The title Her Not All Her is an English adaptation of the German original (Er nicht als er), which itself is a wordplay built out of the German syllables of Walser’s name, as if Walser was himself was a literary construction.  There are several brief, but extremely evocative videos of a 2011 production of Er nicht als er at Meetfactory in Prague under the direction of Katharina Schmitt here and here and here, which show one approach to producing this on stage.  For anyone who wants still more, there is a CD horspiel of the play available here, spoken by Bruno Ganz.

Cahiers 18 inside

This is the first time the play, which premiered in 1998, has appeared in English.  The 40-page pamphlet also includes a brief statement by Jelinek, an essay on Jelinke and Walser by Reto Sorg, Director of the Robert Walser Centre, and reproductions of thickly impastoed paintings of faces by British artist Thomas Newbolt.   The translations are by Damion Searls.  I previously wrote about Cahiers Series 14, Animalinside by László Krasznahorkai.

[Photographs courtesy Sylph Editions.]

The View from Midstream

The whole brook seems as busy as a loom: it is a woof and a warp of ripples; fairy fingers are throwing the shuttle at every step, and the long, waving brook is the fine product.  The water is wonderfully clear.  Sept. 4, 1851

I’ve waded into The Journal of Henry David Thoreau and I don’t really want to leave soon.  Thoreau’s polymath curiosity is infectious and best taken in small doses.  I’ve been using a newly published abridgment of The Journal to float on Thoreau’s stream for two months now and, at 667 pages, I made be reading Thoreau for a very long time.

But there is something unsettling about The Journal.  The product that ultimately emerges as The Journal dramatically shapes our sense of Thoreau.  As Damion Searls, who abridged this volume down from the original 7,000 pages, writes in his fascinating Introduction, “The Journal is not literally what Thoreau wrote each day: he often wrote up entries days later, from notes,  and … he would also go back years later and make further additions and connections.”  So when we read in consecutive paragraphs  (as we do on February 3, 1852) about Thoreau’s visit to libraries in Cambridge and Boston, musings on the nature of sunsets, an evening walk, a quick investigation into the origins of the word “selenite” (a stone), questions about the color of the night sky, and a final paragraph about the nature of a “forcible writer,” it’s easy to see this not as the flow of a single personality but the facets of a many-dimensional puzzle.  Moreover, Thoreau’s aphoristic tendencies can be maddening.  He crafts  fabulous, pithy sentences (is any writer more quotable than Thoreau?) that are blunt, self-assured, disconcertingly without context or nuance, and ultimately ambiguous.  Truth with a capital T.

Thoreau had a mind ideally suited to an era (the tail end of an era, really) when it was still possible to pursue real science through observation, questioning, and a broad knowledge that could be largely self-taught.  If he had been more sociable – and British – he would have fit well in with the people who populate two recent and highly engrossing books: Richard Holmes’ The Age of Wonder (2008) and Jenny Uglow’s Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World (2002).  (Brief aside: the original British subtitle was The Friends Who Made the Future, 1730-1810.  Must US publishers always tweak book titles?)

But the truth is, it’s hard to conceive of Thoreau blending in with a circle of like-minded colleagues.  The dislike of nearly all mankind is one of the constant themes of The Journal and Thoreau would make us believe that he prefers his own company to that of any other person. When it suits his purposes, he can idealize the hard-working common man: “I like better the surliness with which the woodchopper speaks of his woods, handling them as indifferently as his axe, than the mealy-mouthed enthusiasm of the lover of nature.”  But most of the time Thoreau simply dismisses “the rabble” just as he dismisses cities (“so strange and repulsive”).

One final thought.  If Thoreau appears to like anything less than the rabble, it is government.  While The Journal (so far) only gives hints of the philosophy contained within his Civil Disobedience, it’s not hard to see him being adopted as a mascot by the current Tea Party movement in America.  “It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know,” he writes.  In an earlier post I briefly touched on some relationships I saw between Thoreau and W.G. Sebald.  But the differences are equally compelling.  Unlike Thoreau, Sebald is not interested in pithy aphorisms or general truisms of any sort.  His long, often convoluted sentences are filled with context, history, nuance, complication.   For Sebald, there are few Truths and an infinite number of truths.

Six and a Half Cents

EBay has morphed into a place to buy and sell just about anything, but I have to admit I like the idea of using eBay to distribute new writing and raise a few (very few) dollars for the author or for a charity.  Tp be honest, the project, run by, is not really about money; it’s an experiment in significance (to quote from their fun website) :

  1. The experiment’s curators purchase objects — for no more than a few dollars — from thrift stores and garage sales.
  2. A participating writer is paired with an object. He or she then writes a fictional story, in any style or voice, about the object. Voila! An unremarkable, castoff thingamajig has suddenly become a “significant” object!
  3. Each significant object is listed for sale on eBay. The s.o. is pictured, but instead of a factual description the s.o.’s newly written fictional story is used. However, care is taken to avoid the impression that the story is a true one; the intent of the project is not to hoax eBay customers. (Doing so would void our test.) The author’s byline will appear with his or her story.
  4. The winning bidder is mailed the significant object, along with a printout of the object’s fictional story. Net proceeds from the sale are given to the respective author. Authors retain all rights to their stories.

This has been going on since last July, but I just learned about it from Damion Searls, (more about Damion here).  He has a great story and a nice red teapot up for sale on eBay through April 25 (13:18:01 Pacific Daylight Time, to be precise).  To judge from the bidding so far, Damion has added $33.00 worth of significance to this teapot with his story, or a little more than six and a half cents a word.

Just for the sake of comparison, here’s what seven and a half cents would buy in the 1954 Broadway musical Pajama Game:

I figured it out
I figured it out
With a pencil and a pad I figured it out!
Seven and a half cents doesn’t buy a hell of a lot,
Seven and a half cents doesn’t mean a thing!
But give it to me every hour,
Forty hours every week,
And that’s enough for me to be living like a king!
I figured it out

With a pencil and a pad I figured it out!
Only five years from today!
Only five years from today!
I can see it all before me!
Only five years from today!
Five years! Let’s see..thats 260 weeks, times forty hours every week, and roughly two and a quarter hours overtime.. at time
and a half for overtime! Comes to exactly.. $852.74!
That’s enough for me to get
An automatic washing machine,
A years supply of gasoline,
Carpeting for the living room,
A vacuum instead of a blasted broom,
Not to mention a forty inch television set!

A Traveller

July 2, 1851.  A traveller!  I love his title.  A traveller is to be reverenced as such.  His profession is the best symbol of our life.  Going from  _____  toward  _____  ; it is the history of every one of us.

It takes but little distance to make the hills and even the meadows look blue to-day.  That principle which gives the air an azure color is more abundant.

To-day the milkweed is blossoming.  Some of the raspberries are ripe, the most innocent and simple of fruits, the purest and most ethereal.  Cherries are ripe.  Strawberries in the gardens have passed their prime.

I am savoring Henry David Thoreau’s The Journal 1837-1861, as recently edited by Damion Searls for NRYB.  (Savoring is code for reading slowly during the interstices between other books, hoping the book will never come to an end – and, at 667 pages, it seems like it may never end.)  Thoreau is a writer to linger over.  His wide-ranging curiosity and persistent, clear powers of observation come as a real tonic to a 21st century reader.  Thoreau represents one of the paths America set out on more than two centuries ago – scientific minded, rational, passionate, ethical.  A person who brought very few preconceptions to the table.  Thoreau’s quiet direction is still part of the American ensemble, but it’s a voice easily and sadly drowned out.

W.G. Sebald, who, in so many ways, seemed like a man of the 19th century, and Henry David Thoreau both grapple with questions of scale.  Within the scope of the infinite universe and an earthly history far longer than any one person’s existence, what is the proper scale of a single individual in a single lifetime.  And for both, I think, this topic was essentially a struggle toward a proper ethics.

Mind the Gap – Reading Literary Condensations

At my grandparent’s house there were hundreds of books that ranged from rose gardening to Scottish poetry to three-decker novels by Bulwer-Lytton, all nestled in the arts and crafts bookcases that adorned nearly every room.  Every year I spent entire days at their house reading and absorbing new subjects and consuming 19th century novels.  By contrast, my parents had only several shelves of unread Reader’s Digest Condensed Books and an encyclopedia set that I refused to consult.  Even as a young child with a library card and a voracious appetite for books I remember thinking it was somehow wrong to reduce a book’s wordage, although I couldn’t articulate what my rationale was at the time.  So perhaps it was inevitable that I would become a literature major as an undergraduate as a way of sorting all this out for myself.

I hadn’t given condensed books much thought for, well, let’s just say several decades, until Penguin announced in 2005 the posthumous inclusion of something called Young Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald in its series of seventy titles celebrating the 70th anniversary of their Pocket Penguins series.  I was horrified at the mere idea of Austerlitz reduced to 68 pages.   Young Austerlitz, it turned out, much to my relief, was not an really an abridgement, but a word-for-word – and illustration-for-illustration – excerpt from Austerlitz.  In 2005, as part of the celebrations of its 70th anniversary, Penguin (which owns Sebald’s British imprint Hamish Hamilton) issued excerpts from 70 titles spanning its publishing history. Austerlitz was chosen to represent the year 2001 and so a 58-page excerpt from Austerlitz was published in a slim paperback under the title Young Austerlitz.  The excerpt covers pages 44 to 96 in the American edition, in which Austerlitz describes part of his childhood in Wales.

Rachel Whiteread, Untitled (Stacks), 1999, plaster, polystyrene and steel. (Image: Anthony d’Offay Gallery)

I was reminded of this episode with Young Austerlitz sometime last year when the Summer 2009 issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction landed in my mailbox and much to my delight and puzzlement the cover announced a “Special Fiction Issue” devoted to “Herman Melville’s ; or The Whale“, edited by Damion Searls.  In his playful Introduction, Searls explains that “; or the Whale is a lost work from Herman Melville’s major period (1851), never before published … until 2007.”  In truth, ; or the Whale is a reverse abridgement of a 2005 publication called Moby-Dick in Half the Time, which is part of a series from Orion Books called Compact Editions – “Small(er) is beautiful”.  Like a Rachel Whiteread sculpture, ; or the Whale is an exploration of the negative space that occurs when a novel is condensed.  What Searls had done was to painstakingly construct yet another condensed version of Melville’s novel by including only the bits cut out by Orion Books, using as his title the deleted half of Melville’s original title Moby Dick; or The Whale.

Reading Searls’ loving reconstitution of Moby-Dick was surprisingly fun.  But rather than writing up my own response, it seems only fitting to simply steal the press release issued by the publisher of The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Dalkey Archive:

Moby-Dick in Half the Time, an abridgment by Orion Books which Adam Gopnik notoriously described in The New Yorker as “all Dick and no Moby,” has now called forth an spirited rebuttal. In an act of arguably Ahabian obsessiveness, writer Damion Searls has pulled together every chapter, word, and punctuation mark that Orion’s abridger cut from Melville’s original Moby Dick; or The Whale. The result—inevitably called ; or The Whale—has been published as a book-length special issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction, making it the first contemporary fiction by Herman Melville to appear in almost 150 years.

“I have nothing against abridgments, I make them myself,” says Searls, who holds a Ph.D. in early American literature.  His one-volume abridgment of Henry David Thoreau’s 7,000-page Journal, produced with traditional methods, will be published by NYRB Classics later in 2009. “After all, the original is still there for anyone who wants it. I just think we should ask what we value, what we want to abridge for. Orion went for a straight-ahead story with a clear plot arc, but what makes Melville Melville is digression, texture, and weirdness. If you only have time to read half the book, which half the time is more worth spending?”

In a cover story for The Believer magazine (“Carving the Whale,” September 2009), Searls describes Melville’s new novel as a good read, filled with humor and  unexpected poetry. Chapter 62 consists of a single word, “hapless”—the only word Orion’s abridger cut from the chapter, trimming a 105-word sentence to 104; the book’s first sentence is “methodically”; the final hunt for the white whale dissolves into pure punctuation. And the emotional arc of the book is the same as in Melville’s original, because Melville’s excess comes at moments of emotional intensity, and that excess, trimmed from Half the Time, is what makes up ; or The Whale. Searls describes it as like watching a DVD on fast forward, and it may get you closer to what Moby Dick is really like than the other abridgment does.

Bringing readers closer to others’ works is the goal of many of Searls’s efforts. He translates from German, Norwegian, French, and Dutch, bringing classic writers like Proust and Rilke and less known writers like Ingeborg Bachmann and Jon Fosse to American readers. His new book of short stories, What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going, is a collection of “cover versions”: present-day stories inspired by Nabokov, Hawthorne, and other writers from around the world. For the Review of Contemporary Fiction, though, ; or The Whale is not just a version of Moby Dick but a work of literature in its own right: “Otherwise we wouldn’t be publishing it,” insists editor Martin Riker. The quick cutting and narrative elisions are very 21st Century, irrespective of whether the author wrote 19th Century classics too.

Author Herman Melville could not be reached for comment.

For example, here is Searls’ version of Chapters 10 and 11 in their entirety:

      CHAPTER 10

A Bosom Friend

      It may seem ridiculous, but

      He made no advances whatever; appeared to have no desire to enlarge the circle of his acquaintances.

    If there yet lurked any ice of indifference towards me in the Pagan’s breast, soon thawed it out, and
      CHAPTER 11

      what little nappishness remained in us altogether departed, and

    imposed                                   and I no more felt unduly concerned for the landlord’s policy of insurance.

Damion Searls, by the way, is the translator of Melancholy by Jon Fosse, which I have written about earlier.

If it seems like the posts on Vertigo have been few and far between lately, it is because a pair of monster-sized books are really slowing me down.  I’m making my way through Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, which alternates between fabulous moments and long dry spells.  And I’m reading yet another abridged title for which Damion Searls is responsible: a newly  edited version of The Journal by Henry David Thoreau, which nevertheless comes in at 667 pages.  More on Thoreau later.


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Finding Biotech Value In All-Time Highs

by: Altum Research

Biotech has been on fire since the summer.

I've taken the sidelines as some big names have rallied, bringing the whole sector up.

I bring some tickers to view that look undervalued currently.

Altum Research is about finding value. While I am definitely not complaining that biotech has rallied, some very interesting companies (SAGE, FATE, PIRS, CBAY, SGMO, etc.) are just too high in price for me to put money in. However there is always value in biotech, sometimes it is just difficult to find! I'm putting up some preliminary names that I'll be following up on in the weeks and months to come. Let's take a look.

Applied Genetic Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:AGTC)

This is a gene therapy company working on some rare diseases. Like most gene therapy companies around, it uses AAV vectors to deliver genes that repair unfunctional or mis-functional genes.

Chart AGTC data by YCharts

Why this company is interesting is it has (as of Nov. 2017) ~$125 million in cash, but its market cap is sitting at $77 million. If it were trading at cash value tomorrow, that would give us a 60% upside! So what is the deal - why is this trading significantly below cash value?

Tah-dah: In its lead candidate trial for CNGB3-associated achromatopsia (ACHM B3), the drug showed very little efficacy. The company oddly has decided to decrease the dose as well as have a single surgeon prepare a protocol for the procedure of injection into the eye. It seems like perhaps the company knows what is going wrong, but will this solution be able to fix it?

Given the low ~$10 million cash burn per quarter, AGTC is well funded for the next 1.5 years at minimum, and that doesn't include additional milestones that may come in from Biogen (NASDAQ:BIIB) (yes, they are partnered). Together, this makes the downside fairly shallow, with any potential efficacy improvements giving us a large upside.

When can we expect new data? Around 3Q '18 - possibly into the fourth quarter. The company will likely PR that the last patient is dosed in this important trial, and the readout is six months following. So stay tuned while we dig further.

OvaScience, Inc. (NASDAQ:OVAS-OLD)

This is one seriously depressed stock:

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Now trading under a dollar, the once $55 stock has cratered. The company is not seemingly healthy, especially within the last 1.5 years. In December 2016, the CEO and COO resigned, and the company restructured to lay off 30% of its workforce. Then, this last summer, it decided to reduce its workforce by another 50%. Then... again, in January, causing that recent drop from ~$1.40 to the now sub-$1 stock it sits at today.

So what does the company do? I find it rather interesting - it finds female egg "precursor" cells from the mother-to-be, which they call EggPCTM, and grow these into fertile adult cells and replace them into the uterus, therefore giving women with low or no fertility a chance to bear children. Does it work? Well, it seems like it does:

Image taken from company website

The graph above is Live Birth Rate (LBR) of OvaScience (green) technology versus other reported results in scientific journals. Are they statistically significant? Who knows. But there's clearly a trend for OVAS being better than other reported fertility trials.

Why I'm really interested in this stock though is that there isn't much downside. The company has around $100 million in cash right now; its quarterly burn rate is <$10 million and it has continually cut back on staff headcount, meaning that may diminish even further. This paints a cash runway into 2020. This doesn't happen in clinical stage biotech very often.

With a market cap 33% of the company's cash and equivalents, this is quite a safe bet that something good might be discovered in the future. We shall continue to dig further into this company as time goes on.

Affimed (AFMD)

Affimed is an interesting company, with a recent slideshow presentation you can check out here. It also recently presented some new data which can be viewed here (causing nearly a doubling of the stock).

Chart AFMD data by YCharts

From the recent data:

This ORR of 89% compared favorably to the historical ORR of Keytruda (58-63%) as monotherapy in a similar patient population.

Hence, we can see why the stock has been moving quite positively. The reason AFMD has been hit hard is due to weak potency so far to date, but perhaps this combo therapy could bring AFMD to a more appreciated market cap. It currently sits at just $100 mln, giving plenty of upward potential if this efficacy continues. In general, NK-focused therapies haven't proven as potent as other biologics like CAR-T, and thus there isn't a high optimism with AFM13, which recruits NK cells to target tumors.

Unlike the other companies, AFMD has a fairly sizable cash burn which won't last more than a year, therefore we can expect to see a capital raise in the near future. When that happens, that will trigger us to potentially buy this stock. I have long liked AFMD, but due to the low market cap but fairly differentiated pipeline, I haven't taken a very close look. Before the third quarter starts, expect a full investment thesis on AFMD.

Chart XOMA data by YCharts

Here's a name I never thought I'd look at. I heard of it a long time ago, and because of the person's history that told me, I discounted this company as nothing much. However, it's recently come back into view because of three reasons:

  1. Low float: 8.2 million shares outstanding
  2. A decent cash position with lots of partnerships
  3. Lots of shots on goal with a $220 mln mcap

The company is mostly structured to do licensing deals with others - both out-licensing in-house products as well as in-licensing other companies' technology. Thus the company is difficult to value as there are lots of non-recurring revenues via milestone payments, and there's simply >20 pipeline candidates moving forward.

While a full analysis is yet to be done by us, it seems possible that XOMA could be funded through these milestones well into 2019, giving this company a decent margin of safety.

Other Catalysts

We still sit here twiddling our thumbs for Cidara (NASDAQ:CDTX) and Marinus (NASDAQ:MRNS) data to be read out. Word on the street is CDTX may not be until March, while MRNS could be any day. Speaking of, perhaps some of you clever followers noticed that my MRNS article has pregnanolone in the binding pocket, not allopregnanolone. This was an oversight, but lucky for us this doesn't dent the thesis and the previous article can be read as is.

Meanwhile, we wait for the 2016 Altum picks of CymaBay, Pieris, and Fate to die down somewhat into more buyable territory, and given the current volatility, other things have caught our attention as well - Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ONCE) and Clovis Oncology (NASDAQ:CLVS) are both sitting in a buy zone for us.

Onwards, friends! Check back soon for some in-depth due diligence on these tickers.

Disclosure: I am/we are long AFMD, CLVS, ONCE, AGTC. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

Editor's Note: This article covers one or more microcap stocks. Please be aware of the risks associated with these stocks.

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The Ultimate American Roadtrip

I’ll be honest, I’m linking this article just so I can remember for the next time I have enough money to do something crazy like this. The article is How to Really Drive Across the U.S. Hitting Major Landmarks and it manages to hit every continental US state and nearly every major landmark you’d want to hit like the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Mount Rushmore, and a host of others. I plan to use it as a basis for my next big roadtrip, should I ever have the spare cash to do that. :) Here’s a map route and a list of the destinations…

roadtrip2The landmarks you’ll hit on this epic roadtrip,

  1. Grand Canyon, AZ
  2. Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
  3. Craters of the Moon, ID
  4. Yellowstone National Park, WY
  5. Pikes Peak, CO
  6. Carlsbad Caverns National Park, NM
  7. The Alamo, TX
  8. The Platt Historic District, OK
  9. Toltec Mounds, AR
  10. Elvis Presley’s Graceland, TN
  11. Vicksburg National Military Park, MS
  12. French Quarter, New Orleans, LA
  13. USS Alabama, AL
  14. Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL
  15. Okefenokee Swamp Park, GA
  16. Fort Sumter National Monument, SC
  17. Lost World Caverns, WV
  18. Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center, NC
  19. Mount Vernon, VA
  20. White House, Washington, DC
  21. Colonial Annapolis Historic District, MD
  22. New Castle Historic District, Delaware
  23. Cape May Historic District, NJ
  24. Liberty Bell, PA
  25. Statue of Liberty, NY
  26. The Mark Twain House & Museum, CT
  27. The Breakers, RI
  28. USS Constitution, MA
  29. Acadia National Park, ME
  30. Mount Washington Hotel, NH
  31. Shelburne Farms, VT
  32. Fox Theater, Detroit, MI
  33. Spring Grove Cemetery, OH
  34. Mammoth Cave National Park, KY
  35. West Baden Springs Hotel, IN
  36. Abraham Lincoln’s Home, IL
  37. Gateway Arch, MO
  38. C. W. Parker Carousel Museum, KS
  39. Terrace Hill Governor’s Mansion, IA
  40. Taliesin, WI
  41. Fort Snelling, MN
  42. Ashfall Fossil Bed, NE
  43. Mount Rushmore, SD
  44. Fort Union Trading Post, ND
  45. Glacier National Park, MT
  46. Hanford Site, WA
  47. Columbia River Highway, OR
  48. San Francisco Cable Cars, CA
  49. San Andreas Fault, CA
  50. Hoover Dam, NV

The cool thing about their route is you can hop on at any point and just keep driving and you’ll come right back home…eventually!

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One way to become a victim of this ransomware infection is to open spam mail with a malicious attachment in it. Usually spam mails go in campaigns and they infect users on a massive scale. This particular threat may feature a message pretending to be from a well-known recipient such as Windows, Apple or someone important. The message may contain several attachments, one of which may be the malware itself, in the following file extensions:

.bat, .exe, .bin, .html,

Another way of getting this ransomware is via targeted attacks by social media or other software as well as physical access to the victim’s computer. What is more, this particular ransomware may also come in malicious links in case the user has a browser hijacker or other unwanted adware causing redirects to third-party sites.

DecryptorMax Ransomware – More About It

Once activated on the user PC, the ransomware may create several files that may be with .dll and .exe extensions in the following folders:

Once it has created all the necessary files to infect the user PC, a ransomware trojan may create registry values to make them run on start up. This can happen by creating an entry in the following key:

After executing its files, the ransomware may have a lot of features, such as firewall and antivirus disabling and others. The main feature however may be its scanning mechanisms that look for files with all sorts of extensions, main of which may be:

.doc, .docx, .pdf, .jpg, .mp3, .mp4, .avi, .txt, .vdi

Once discovered, the ransomware may encrypt thousands of files with a strong encryption algorithm, the ransomware may leave a ransom note, reported by virus researchers to be the following:

“Your documents, photos, databases and other important files have been encrypted with a military grade encryption algorithm.
The only way to decrypt your files is with a unique decryption key stored remotely in our servers.
All your files are now unusable until you decrypt them. You have 24 hours to pay the release of your decryption key. After 24 hours have passed your decryption key will be erased and you will never be able to restore your files.”

Some affected users have also reported to see instructions on how to pay online anonymously. Either way security engineers recommend not to pay the ransom and to seek other alternatives such as the removal and decryption instructions after this article.

Removing DecryptorMax Ransomware

In order to remove this ransomware, you should follow the step-by-step tutorial provided after this article. It is highly advisable to use an advanced anti-malware program that will discover every file associated with this malware and to scan your PC in Safe Mode in order to isolate the threat and remove it before starting to decrypt the files.
It is also recommended to copy the encrypted data to another device before scanning with anti-malware scanner since the malware may have scripts that could damage or delete the files after it has been removed from the user PC.

1. Boot Your PC In Safe Mode to isolate and remove DecryptorMax Ransomware
2. Remove DecryptorMax Ransomware with SpyHunter Anti-Malware Tool
3. Remove DecryptorMax Ransomware with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
4. Remove DecryptorMax Ransomware with STOPZilla AntiMalware
5. Back up your data to secure it against infections and file encryptions by DecryptorMax Ransomware in the future

Restoring Your Files

There are several methods to restore files encrypted by ransomware. One of them is to use one of Kaspersky`s decryption software:
Another and more tech savvy method is to use python and cado-nfs in Linux:

NOTE! Substantial notification about the DecryptorMax Ransomware threat: Manual removal of DecryptorMax Ransomware requires interference with system files and registries. Thus, it can cause damage to your PC. Even if your computer skills are not at a professional level, don’t worry. You can do the removal yourself just in 5 minutes, using a malware removal tool.

Ventsislav Krastev

Ventsislav has been covering the latest malware, software and newest tech developments at SensorsTechForum for 3 years now. He started out as a network administrator. Having graduated Marketing as well, Ventsislav also has passion for discovery of new shifts and innovations in cybersecurity that become game changers. After studying Value Chain Management and then Network Administration, he found his passion within cybersecrurity and is a strong believer in basic education of every user towards online safety.

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We go to Kyrgyzstan November 3-15, 2012

November 3-15, 2012

First I want to thank you for all the prayers on our behalf. The 4 of us were the ones to go-but-you all were the hearts to send. Thank you!

Saturday- Nov 3- After a week of ticket changes (I know many at the United ticket counter)- we are finally tagged, bagged and ready to go. This is my 5th day at the airport. I am glad I live close –plus- many many hours on the phone with United and Turkish Airlines. So in about 16 hours flying and 6 hours layovers we will be in Bishkek.

Sunday-Nov 4- My first question is always- “how has God prepared you for this trip?” For all of us it was trust & obey. Each from a different perspective. For Nicki, a funeral of a friend in Kentucky on Monday the 29th. Tom (her husband) really wanted her to go. God’s ways are not our ways. For Tammy, her mother died on Monday the 29th & the funeral was Wednesday the 31st- again God’s ways are not our ways. For me-God confirms over & over we cannot mess up His plans- His purpose- His will! He knew when He wanted us there. No fear-just trust! So- my biggest fear is not the travel but that I will miss hearing His voice. I need to be still & listen so I can hear & receive His direction. My footsteps are ordered- I should step into them.

Monday-Nov 5- After settling in- Nicki & I at Anya’s flat & upstairs Tammy & Dave with Tracy & Zhenya. We showered & went to Jed and Renee’s for dinner & Christmas. HAHAHA! I call it that because they open all the duffels & their faces are all lit up & eyes sparkle. The children aren’t the only ones excited. Funny what a box of coco mix will do for a smile—Our first night & we are off to English Club. Not sure how much help we will be—3 hours later –now tired from the 22 + hours journey we go back to our flats to sleep.

Tuesday-Nov 6- Oh Lord, remind me of my purpose. Give me your strength to be all I can for you & for others. Complete in me what you have begun Lord. Please Lord, continue pouring out your grace & love on & through me. Help me to be obedient & humble. Today we shopped at the market- it is nothing like going to Kroger’s–& exchanged money- All the fruits, vegetables & breads are so rich- no preservatives-so we will shop daily. Only take what you eat today. We went to the University and handed out invitations to English Club. Dave went with Jed to do errands & get ready for Club with a movie to discuss. It was a great time of discussion considering it was our American election—This was a great opportunity to share our trust & faith in God not in our government. That word again “trust”.

Wednesday-Nov 7- We woke up to another beautiful day-cold but sunny. If it doesn’t rain I am always happy. We helped at the church; washed toys -windows-swept & did a few repairs. They are purchasing this facility-it has 8 rooms & good storage. This is a plus & it is on a very busy street. Renewal is what they call the church. Of course we had English Club again. I’ve seen this in Ukraine & it is a great way to advertise the church & to share Jesus. Even the Muslims listen & ask questions. Fill me full of you holy Spirit- make me decrease & you increase, in my thoughts, actions, words & heart. This was the 3rd night Alenia came & during cookies & tea she asked very good questions. We talked for 15 minutes about Jesus. She is open & seeking truth – please Lord let her find you!!

Thursday- Nov 8- Dave’s B-day!! Jed, Renee, kids and us went to the Golf club (HAHAHA) for lunch. Yes the Golf club. The kids loved it and so did Dave—what a birthday. We had real hamburgers and fries. They were delicious and huge. Jed cleaned up all the left over fries. We went back to the apartment to have cake and a special time before last night of English club. We played games, laughed and talked while Dave took a cat-nap. Our verse for the day was Jeremiah 18:2-6 –God is the potter and we are the clay. We are marred and He continues to make us into what He designs. Trust & obey! Again.

Friday- Nov 9- up early-shop-pack—today we leave for Karakol region. 6 hour drive north in the mountains by Isakul Lake. They have churches there that Jed and Paul have been serving. Guiding the pastors in expository teaching. They are so hungry for the Word & the truth. So many of the churches are hiper-faith or Orthodox or Muslims. There are 13 of us going. Outside of the city in the villages we see cattle & sheep crossing the roads with no fear of the vehicles. Funny how things are so primitive & yet a dude riding his horse herding the cattle on a dirt road –while talking on a cell phone-something not right with this picture. After Renee did a bible study I shared about the love God has for us with the women of the church. It was a precious time. Tammy served with Anna & Lizzy sharing with the kids. After service we divided into 3 homes. There hospitality was gracious. Homes in the village was not like the flats in the city. The time in history was in the late 40’s early 50’s. Clean, neat 4 or 5 room houses and yet no plumbing or very little. Running water and electricity but no bathrooms like we know them. It was like when I was growing up in Brown County on the farm. I felt right at home.

Saturday- Nov 10- Isaiah 55: 6-9 Today we were up in the mountains hiking & looking out over the Isakul Lake. We were between China (about 80 miles and 3 mountains to our east) & Kazakhstan (about 40 miles and 1 mountain to our west). Only God could create such beauty!! The horses running through the valley and the mountain stream (pure snow water) rushing down from the top! Thank you Lord for being near! As we shared this moment of bliss one of the local ladies and her husband (the game warden) prepared for us a feast. The table was a cloth on the side of the mountain on the ground. We gathered around for Turkish tea & jam as well as salads & waited for the lamb on a stick being grilled in the open air over a pit he had made in the ground. What a grand day –we felt like kings and queens of the heavenly realm! What a precious surprise from our God. On the side of a mountain in Kyrgyzstan praising God with singing!! Even the rocks sing out!

Sunday- Nov 11- Church & then our Women’s brunch. Tammy, Nicki and I each shared with the ladies. Tammy’s loss & God’s faithfulness, Nicki’s heart for ladies who have experienced abortion and me of how God has truly become my husband and His love for me and for others. Not a dry eye in the room. After- we prayed for individuals in line for over an hour. So many hurting women. Please Lord let us stand in the gap for those who are hurting, for those that needs your love. Back to Jed and Renee’s. Games & laughter to finish the day! Pizza & ice cream for the treat of the day. The kids return to school tomorrow. Our time is winding down.

Monday- Nov 12- Finish shopping & gathering things for the out reaches left. We had women from Sunday ask for special prayer and times. Tammy had a lady who is starting a “nursing home” in her house and wanted to ask her questions. Nicki had 2 ladies that had experienced abortions and wanted to see what their next step was. I had a lady whose life paralleled mine and wanted to talk and pray. God filled our day with His healing heart and words of encouragement. We serve an awesome God. He knows the perfect time and the words of life each lady needed to hear. Please Lord bless them and draw them near to you. Help them to let you love them.

Tuesday- Nov 13- Today we met up with the team from church to visit the Children’s Cancer Hospital. They came from all over the country. The hospital was filled with children from 6 months to 12 years. A parent or guardian was with most of them. The staff is low and the help is appreciated. The group started with clowns, balloons, games, stories and ended with pictures. Tammy was a big hit with the camera!! Just like the other former soviet union hospitals I have been involved with –the parents have no pictures of their dying children. This is why it is so important to send them their own photos. Even the staff joined in. We all went out to eat and share the time we had left.

Wednesday- Nov 14- Today we finished packing-purchasing last minute chocolate- and gathering apples, candy and trinkets for the orphanage. Jed was gracious and took the day off to spend with us. He drove the 1½ hours to the Institution so we would not need to go on transport. What a blessing that was. The orphanage was unlike any I have ever seen. The buildings were drab and it was more like an institution than an orphanage. I soon found out that 80% of the children had relatives and only about 20% were true orphans. It seemed each child had some type of disability or handicap. In most countries they are sent away and left for the state to take care of them. They were ages 5-15 and the older ones seemed to bully the weaker, younger ones. It took a while and a few clowns later before they would get eye contact and smile. I sat on the floor with a group and of course made faces and stuck out my tongue—only to have them start to giggle. That was the beginning of the joy I saw in their eyes. They sparkled. If only a smile we can bring for a lonely moment in time for these little ones. Suffer not the little children. After the stories with the love of Jesus-now the real test came—out of the corner room ran spider man!! The kids (especially the older boys) went crazy—-I lost it and almost had to run to the out-house—-it was Jed in full body suit!! HAHAHAHA! I will never see Spider Man in the same light again. The only thing funnier than Jed in full suit was the look on Renee’s face when we told her what he did. It was priceless!!!

Thursday- Nov 15- Jed picks us up at 5 am and off to the airport for out next 25 hours. It took a while to get our tickets because it seems they never confirmed my reservation-only the other 3. I had to pay additional $$ but will request a refund when I return home. From the moment we planned this trip until even now—well—it seems the enemy did not want us to go. All I know is we were ordained for this trip and at God’s timing not ours and that we have no idea of the impact it has on our lives as well as the Missionay families and the nationals. God will bless the words and the love that He gave us.

Thanks to all of you for the prayers, finances and the love. It reached around the world from our hearts to theirs. May God continue to bless you all!!!

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A few weeks back, Nina Stössinger asked on Twitter:

Isn’t it odd that the percent sign looks like “0/0” rather than, say, “/100” or “/00”?

This, it turns out, is a very good question. Like Nina, I had assumed that the percent sign was shaped so as to invoke the idea of a vulgar fraction, with a tiny zero aligned on either side of a solidus ( ⁄ ), or fraction slash. That said, something about those zeroes had always nagged at me. Specifically, as you divide any non-zero quantity by a smaller and smaller number the result tends ever closer to infinity (or rather, ±∞ as appropriate), until finally, when dividing by zero itself, you reach a mathematical singularity where the result cannot be computed — a numerical black hole of exotic properties and mind-bending implications. Throw in another zero as the numerator and you have a thoroughly nonsensical fraction. Though this is all terribly exciting from a philosophical point of view, it is not an especially useful situation to be in when trying to communicate the simple concept of division into hundredths. Either the ‘%’ had stumbled, blinking, from some secret garden of esoteric mathematics and into the real world, or there was more to the story. And so there was.

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My New Favorite

Reviewing: Tul Mechanical Pencils  |  Rating:
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I like using mechanical pencils in my bookkeeping job because pencil is the only way to go when you have to make alterations to things you've already written, which happens to be the case all the time for me.

These mechanical pencils came two to a package. I bought them one day when I discovered someone had "borrowed" my old mechanical pencil from my office. I was mad that I had to spend so much, but I really don't like the cheap ones so decided to take a chance. I didn't really think I would like these pencils because they don't have a fat barrel like I'm used to. But it turns out I was wrong about that!

I think the barrel is a little larger than most pencils, but the thing I like most about them is the weight and balance. This makes them easy to hold and use throughout my work day.

The eraser is pretty good, too. It is good and long and twists up as you need more of it. No more running out of eraser before you run out of pencil!

The Tul pencils have .05 sized lead in them which is what I like for fitting all the numbers in the small spaces I have to put them in. The lead is refillable, too, which means I can keep these pencils around for a long time. Well, that is, until someone steals them!


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Archive for December, 2012

Speaking about the Unspeakable

There was a time, before Columbine, when school shootings were unimaginable; the very definition of an evil so unspeakable as to be in our minds essentially impossible.

I have never forgotten the seriousness with which my  fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Jackson, defined “evil”. An educator nearing the end of her career, Mrs. Jackson captivated my imagination with the detail, nuance, and emotion with which she conveyed tales of how her family survived the Great Depression. She often had substantive conversations with us about topics connected to character and values. With all she shared, it was her definition of “evil” that most shaped my world views. In response to our class’ use of the term “evil” as slang, dramatizing minor, annoying behaviors, Mrs. Jackson sat us down for one of her serious chats. “Evil,” she said, “would be a terrorist entering a school and shooting children.” The image horrified; representing what we could not imagine as even conceivable. I never again used the word “evil” for anything short of the mass murder of defenseless people.

Then came Columbine. The inconceivable occurred; only at the hands of troubled youth, not terrorists. And this Friday, the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

After Columbine, as a relatively new educator and new mother, I was painfully unprepared for the fear of my students and their parents. Hearing students speak about where they would hide if armed attackers entered our school, I recognized the need for reassuring conversation, yet I had no idea what to say. I hastily directed teachers, similarly unprepared, to speak to their students about the tragic event. Sending teachers into a panic and understandably angering our school’s guidance counselor, who recognized how ill-equipped we all were, I was swayed to reverse my directive. We would say nothing. It was the best we had at the time. It wasn’t enough.

This monday will be different. Never prepared to speak of the unspeakable, sadly, we have more experience. Since the days and weeks after September 11, 2001 school psychologists have rallied with a plethora of resources to help. Compilations of resources guiding parents and educators include: Resources for Talking To Children About Traumatic Compiled by Michael Fisher of Digigogy and Resources for Talking to Children About Traumatic Events Compiled by Edutopia.

Our school’s educational leadership will spend much time this weekend planning ways of supporting our children physically and emotionally. In preparation for our children’s return to school, our faculty will meet at 7:30 AM monday morning. We will support one another in finding ways of shepherding our children through the difficult emotions we anticipate. We will be in close communication with our on-site security and our security consultants, who quickly on Friday patrolled the perimeter of our campus and stood in close supervision of teachers and students playing outside during recess. We will be in contact with our local police department; who rushed to our school on Friday after news of the shooting to patrol, on high alert. The officer who arrived, visibly emotional, shared that it was his privilege to be able to be present with us and his hope that there was also police presence at his own children’s school.We will  be guided by the wisdom of our school psychologist concerning age-appropriate conversations. We will be supported by our school rabbi who will listen to our pain and provide us with prayers to express the deep emotion we experience. We will grieve. We will express gratitude for the privilege of being alive. We will do our best to strengthen one another so that we may be fully present for our students.

As quickly as we can, we will return our students to comforting routines. Soon, on the surface, school will look as it always has. Students, parents, and teachers will again be concerned about academic challenge, social difficulty, and the range of normal upsets and tribulations that are part and parcel of growing up and of life in schools. And yet; the unimaginable has occurred and the scars will remain. We’ll study our emergency plans more carefully; consider more thoughtfully how to explain lock down drills to our students; and deliberate on what we as schools and as society can do to keep our children safe. I can’t anticipate what our conversations as a school and as a nation will bring. We will do what we can to bring comfort, knowing that we live in a world in which the unimaginable has occurred. We’ll do what we can to find the words to speak about the unspeakable.

Dreams From The Dojang

Dreams from the Dojang:
On Less Teaching, More Feedback, and Goals of Consequence

First published in Mr Brett’ Clark’s Education Dreamer: 12 Days of Dreaming Series

I am in training to become a martial artist.
In this goal I will face many challenges.
I dedicate myself to face them with honor, respect, and modesty.
I pledge that on this journey not only will I train my body to be strong, agile and flexible but
I will focus on being a Taekwondo practitioner with self-control desire and discipline.
These ideals and all aspects of my training are my responsibility to learn.
Student Oath, Master P.L. Edwards, Exceptional Taekwondo Center, White Plains, N.Y

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Some of my best professional learning happens at the Taekwondo Dojang. As I train, I learn – not only about martial arts, but also about education, or more accurately, about learning. I’m not the strongest, the most agile or the most flexible – not by a long shot. Most of the other students are younger and more physically fit than I. Yet, with perseverance and good humor, I have earned my black belt. I have learned.

My successes are a direct result of a learning environment with less teaching, more feedback, a focus on core values, and a plethora of meaningful learning activities, serving both as practice and then as formative assessments that demonstrate to me progress toward my own goals. Some of my goals are significant (to become a martial artist); others are of ultimate consequence (to strive for excellence in all areas of my life), while many are small and specific (i.e. to turn my hip more to extend my reach in a kick.) Achieving my goals involves much more feedback than teaching and the responsibility for learning is entirely my own, although I benefit both from the skilled coaching of the master instructors and from the collegial support of the other students. It’s a learning environment I dream about for our K-12 schools.

Less teaching; more feedback, recommendations offered by Grant Wiggins in Seven Keys to Effective Feedback sounds simple on the surface, yet I believe represents an educational paradigm shift of potentially seismic proportions. Indeed, Everything you know about curriculum may be wrong. Really., Wiggins declares in his blog. He advocates a focus, not only on content knowledge, but rather on learning to perform in the world and even more, on learning “not just to know things – but to be a different person – more mature, more wise, more self-disciplined, more effective, and more productive in the broadest sense.” Performing well trumps content knowledge and striving to fulfill core values and make a positive impact is ultimately what performing well entails.

The shift to a focus on less teaching and more feedback grounded in core values will require thoughtful reflection. Synthesizing more than 900 educational meta-analyses, researcher John Hattie has found the average effect size of feedback to be a remarkable 0.79, which is twice the average effect of all other schooling effects. Indeed, Hattie found feedback to be among the top ten influences on achievement. But there is a caveat. While feedback is among the most powerful influences on how people learn, its effects vary considerably. (Hattie, John. Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning. Taylor & Francis. Kindle Edition)

To give effective feedback, we’ll need to understand what effective feedback is and what effective feedback is not. The insight may surprise. Feedback, according to Grant Wiggins in Seven Keys to Effective Feedback, isn’t grades for students. It isn’t evaluations for professionals. It isn’t praise. It isn’t constructive critique. It isn’t advice. Rather, “feedback is information about how we are doing in our efforts to reach a goal.”

I am dreaming of a K-12 educational system that functions more like the Dojang with less teaching, more feedback, and goals of consequence. The journey toward fulfilling that dream will not be easy. Much will shift and change. Yet, at the same time much will remain the same.

We’ll need to envision education anew – shifting our focus from teaching to learning; from curriculum to feedback on practice; from standards to core values. These shifts will require us to think differently about potential ways of utilizing learning spaces, schedules, personnel, student groupings, and technology in order to improve the quality of learning. The possibilities are limited only by our imaginations and will require collaborative, creative exploration and dreaming.

We’ll need at the same time to consider what must not change, but instead remain grounded in enduring core values. It will be vital to set goals of ultimate consequence connected to our core values and to identify clearly many specific benchmarks along the way to these aspirational goals. The journey will stretch us beyond standards and move us from a primary focus on what students need to know, or even on what students need to be able to do, to an emphasis on who students are becoming – individuals of character and moral grounding prepared to strive to make a positive impact in their communities and in the broader society.

I am dreaming of less teaching, more feedback, goals of consequence, and the society children who emerge from such an educational system will together be able to create. I invite you to dream with me and share your perspectives on ways of moving forward.

What’s the point of homework?

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CC licensed image shared by flickr user Svadilfari

A curious thing appears to have happened at my school. Over the course of the past two years, it seems we’ve decreased the amount of homework we give. At least, I think we have. We haven’t had an official policy change, or even any recent formal discussions as a faculty about homework. But there’s been informal collegial reflection.

My information to date is only anecdotal. Yet, it appears potentially significant. A growing number of teachers have reported parental gratitude for reduced homework loads. I’ve received far fewer calls from parents complaining about too much homework; indeed only one or two in the past year and a half. And, very recently I’ve heard from several parents wondering why there isn’t more homework, concerned that perhaps the lack of work assigned at home reflects a lack of rigor in our school. After conversation, the few parents who have expressed to me their concern about what they perceive as too little homework have come to understand and respect the increasing quality of learning experience and achievement at our school resulting from intensive recent attention given to revisions in curriculum and assessment. Homework, I’ve explained, is not the way to evaluate what is occurring in school, but rather educational quality must be judged based on evidence of student learning. Quite, fairly, some thoughtful parents have recommended that we clearly articulate our school’s approach to homework. What we have written in our parent handbook, crafted with the active collaboration of our entire faculty, has not been revised recently and is a remnant of practices of years past, no longer accurate or reflective of our approach.

I have indirectly addressed homework in posts on our school blog in the past; The Homework Parents Give Me: A Deepening Dialogue Between Home and School; May 13, 2011 and Making Homework Meaningful and Manageable; September 8, 2011. Although those posts hint at conversations that were occurring among teachers and parents about homework, they are neither sufficiently recent nor sufficiently clear and direct. They are merely glimpses into a more quiet, yet potent, shift. Parents, or at least some of our parents, long for and deserve more. So do many of our teachers, having a strong sense of what their colleagues believe, but not a comprehensive understanding. Providing parents and teachers with the clarity they appropriately seek cannot be my task as principal alone; but must represent a shared faculty understanding and vision.

I wonder whether my perception that there is less homework assigned in my school than in past years is accurate. And, if there is less homework, I wonder how this reduction has come to be. I wonder how homework is integrated with school learning and how we can evaluate the impact of homework on quality of student learning. I imagine that serious dialogue and reflection among teachers during the last few years about what does and what does not positively impact student learning has led to shifts in practice in many areas, including homework.

But, how can I know? Well, certainly I can ask.

We will be conducting a survey of our teachers on what and how much homework they assign. We’ll share survey results with the entire faculty at a morning “breakfast and brainstorming” (our version of faculty meetings, focused not on administration or even on professional learning traditionally defined, but rather on dialogue as a faculty on topics that impact student learning). We’ll consider our own perspectives and reflect on some of the available research. Homework: What The Research Says Brief, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is a concise, balanced brief quoting respected studies. Worth reading, the brief concludes that there is experimental evidence that homework for young children can improve scores on unit tests involving simple mathematics skills such as learning place value, but that homework does not appear to have much impact on broader measures of achievement for young children. John Hattie’s research is also of note. Synthesizing more than 900 educational meta-analyses, Hattie has found that the effects of homework are small, and close to zero in elementary school. Of 138 influences on learning included in Hattie’s expansive study, homework scored 88th. [Hattie, John (2012-03-15). Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning (Kindle Location 408). Taylor & Francis. Kindle Edition.]

Hattie urges teachers to utilize the finding on the minimal impact of homework as an invitation to try something new.  He shares that many schools in New Zealand did not abandon homework because too many parents judge the quality of a school by the mere presence of homework and get upset if there is none, but instead tried different approaches. One school worked with students and parents to create a website of various ‘home challenges’ and evaluated the effects of this new policy on student motivation, achievement, and parent involvement with their children’s learning. [Hattie, John (2012-03-15). Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning (Kindle Locations 382-393). Taylor & Francis. Kindle Edition.]

So, what’s the point of homework? What learning makes sense to extend from school to home or alternatively from home to school? And, what processes might you suggest for a faculty to come together and determine collaboratively the role of homework, or perhaps more poignantly the role of home learning connected to school learning? What processes might you suggest for including parents, and even elementary school students, in that conversation? I welcome your input.

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Duelling proverbs

Duelling proverbs:- A pair of proverbs, contradictory to one another.
I came across this while searching for rarely used figure of speech…. This is nothing to do with figure of speech but found it interesting. Few proverbs makes lot of sense while few don't. I would like to list few of the provebs:

   1. Pen is mightier than the sword but actions speak louder than the words.
   2. You are never too old to learn but you cannot teach an old dog new tricks.
   3. Clothes make the man but never judge a book by its cover.
   4. Look before you leap but he who hesitates is lost.
   5. Knowledge is power but ignorance is bliss.
   6. Good things come to those who wait but the early bird that gets the       worm.
   7. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth but beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
   8. Empty vessels make the most noise but the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
   9. The best things come in small packages but the bigger the better.
  10. Birds of a feather flock together but opposites attract.
Hey select few proverbs You know well and find its match which contradicts it,  isn't fun?

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“Coastal Life”

A beautiful depiction of a day at the beach!

Life here on Alabama’s beautiful Gulf Coast has always been such a blessing to me and my family. We’re originally from Tennessee, moved to the coast back in 2006 after eight years of vacationing at the location.

It’s definitely a different world than from where we’re from, but everything has been such a wonderful change. We don’t have any actual family here, but the close friends that we’ve made while living here have without a doubt become our family. Even though they aren’t blood relatives, they are all special parts of our lives. All of whom we hold very dear to our hearts!

Living on the coast, there’s a sense of wonderment that still captivates me and I wanted to capture that moment so I could share it with you. A day at the beach offers serenity for any and all who appreciate the blissfulness that the coast has to offer.

My artwork simply titled, “Coastal Life” can be found at Fine Art America…… prints, phone chargers, towels, blankets and so much more!

Get a copy of my novel, The Spirit Within on Amazon!

~ Sheila Renee Parker on Twitter: @sheilarparker.

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~ Sheila Renee Parker on Instagram: @sheilareneeparker

~ Art by Sheila Renee Parker available at: https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/sheilarenee-parker.html

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Shelton Glass Artist Creates On The Cutting Edge

Michael Skrtic cutting glass at The Glass Source in Shelton Photo Credit: Meredith Guinness
One of Michael Skrtic's creations at The Glass Source Photo Credit: Meredith Guinness
A lamp at The Glass Source of Shelton Photo Credit: Meredith Guinness
Glass restorer Michael Skrtic, of The Glass Source in Shelton, stands in front of one of the panels he restored at the Plumb Library. Photo Credit: Skip Pearlman

SHELTON, Conn. — Michael Skrtic, owner of The Glass Source in Shelton, sees himself as part artist, part modern-day Sherlock Holmes.

The intricate glass restoration and preservation projects that make up most of his business mean intense hours — sometimes days — spent trying to understand each unique window, lampshade or panel before his work even begins.

“There’s a lot of detective work to it, trying to find out what they had done to create something 100 years ago,” he said. “I like the mystery of it.”

Skrtic likes almost everything about his career in glass, which he started 22 years ago when he was just 15 years old.

The teen apprenticed under master glass artist Mary Pillsbury, who owned the studio when he started. He learned the business end of things from Debbie Briether, who took over when Pillsbury died, just days before Skrtic left for classes at the Art Institute of Philadelphia and then Paier College of Art.

“I’ve learned so much in this studio,” he said, looking around the bright space in the Conti Building in downtown Shelton.

The Glass Source has grown into a full-service business, offering both restoration and repair work, as well as a small gallery filled with fanciful plates, bowls and decorative pieces that Skrtic creates.

“That’s the stuff that’s just for fun,” he said.

But it’s exacting work that can require several trips to the kiln and careful shaping of a delicate medium that Skrtic finds both challenging and rewarding.

“It gives a layer of depth that painting doesn’t give you,” he said.

Over the years, Skrtic has gained a reputation as a restoration expert. He’s well known for his masterful work with stained glass and leaded windows for Shelton’s Plumb Memorial Library, Yale University’s School of Law, and many churches and private residences in the region.

The shop also offers a full line of classes and workshops for those who would like to try their hand at cutting, grinding and firing their own creations.

“Stained glass is very popular,” said Skrtic, whose staff offers classes nearly every evening. “When the economy turns down a bit people take classes to do things themselves.”

The Glass Source is located at 415 Howe Ave. in Shelton. The studio is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. For more information on services and classes, visit the website.

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Love Your Hands - Arbroath, Scotland

Date: Sunday 12thAugust 2018

Time: 2 – 5 pm

Venue: Arbroath Physiotherapy & Well-Being, 53 Lordburn, Arbroath DD11 1JD

Presenters: Jane Torvaney - Physiotherapist at Structural Harmony & Laura Hoy - Essential Oil Consultant at Essential Oils & You.

Details: A fun, educational, workshop. Jane & Laura invite you to deeply appreciate the delicacy and intricate detail of your hands in this practical ‘hands on’ workshop. Experience the wonder of your body and the power of moving in a way that honours this.

Make & take home your own bespoke hand balm made with the finest quality ingredients including essential oils tailored to you personally.

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The Live Your Dreams Bracelet inspires you to live your dreams and live them out loud! Follow your dreams they know the way. Dream so big the only thing you can do is move towards it with all your heart! Your dreams are worth chasing. Your dreams are you!

Lapis lazuli gemstone works to empower your thoughts and manifest your dreams and is a symbol of your spirit and vision.

📿Affirmation: I create a vision for my life, unbound and limitless.

Your bracelet will come with a beautiful intention card, tucked in a woven bag.

Handcrafted Live Your Dreams Bracelet:
▲ 8mm blue Jasper gemstone beads
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▲ 20-25mm Lapis Lazuli gemstone pendant bead
▲ High quality stretch cord, double stranded for support
▲ Silver plated jump ring
▲ Stainless steel intention charm

↠ if you'd like to choose another intention for your bracelet, we would love to customize this special to you. Simply choose your unique intention above 🧡 Charm shape and size varies with each intention.

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Take a loose tape measure and wrap around your wrist. Keep in mind that if you plan to wear several pieces at a time you may want to pick a size up for the ones that will be worn higher on your arm.

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Size Exchange Policy: In cases where you measure your wrist and receive your bracelets but decide you like them to fit tighter or looser, we are happy to exchange sizes for you provided you ship brand new bracelets back to Fierce Forward and include $5 to cover shipping back to you. Please email us first.

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Couture sunglasses inspired by „Flintstones-glamour“. Black handcrafted acetate frame with the effect of hand-formed matte clay. Matte finished frames, as well as the black lenses, have a contemporary „anti-bling-bling“ spirit. Signature „W“ letter made as one part with the left temple.

Each frame is handcrafted of Italian acetate. Signature FAKBYFAK x WALTER VAN BEIRENDONCK case and pouch are included. Limited edition collection.

The most recent collaboration between Walter Van Beirendonck and Russian fashion eyewear label FAKBYFAK resulted in 4 fantastic sunglass styles called: "Thunder & Lightning, Donder & Bliksem“.

The glasses were designed as the key accessory for Walter van Beirendonck’s FW’18 ready-to-wear collection: "Worlds of Sun and Moon". Donder & Bliksem glasses are the symmetrical version of Thunder & Lightning\ styles. The idea was to create masculine glasses with a brutal beauty look, steeped in the spirit of „Flintstones-glamour“.

Handcrafted acetate frame surface looks like as if it’s made of hand-formed matte clay. Matte finished frames, as well as the black lenses, have a contemporary „anti-bling-bling“ spirit. Signature „W“ letter made as one part with the left temple.

The collection consists of 4 styles and presented in 8 colour combinations: Black, Military Green, Zinnia Orange, Purple, Brown, Petrol Green, Neon Yellow & Neon Orange.

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Tags: Sunglasses FAKBYFAK Walter Van Beirendonck Couture sunglasses Lightning THUNDER LIGHTNING DONDER BLIKSEM

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Brand FAKBYFAK x Walter Van Beirendonck
Brand SKU 09/11/01
Prescription Ready Suitable for sunlens only
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Welcome to Clean-N-Simple Tips and we are going to talk about how to pick the right wax and the differences between them.

Picking the right wax can seem like voodoo or black magic sometimes.  If you ask 20 people, you will get 20 different answers.   Just take a look at your local store in the wax and care aisle and you will see the choices are overwhelming.

So lets talk about what a wax actually is, what it does, and the different types out there.

First off, when we refer to wax for our boat or car we are really discussing putting a coat of protection on the surface. This protection is used to help sheet water off and delay the natural oxidation of the surface caused by the environment and UV rays of the sun.  Years ago all protectants were WAX based and that is why we refer to the process as waxing.  Today there are many forms of surface protection and many do not have any wax in them at all.

Wash & Wax – This category of products claims to wash and wax the surface at the same time.  In my opinion, this is just marketing as no real effective protection is left behind.  You are much better off finding a Wash Soap that cleans well, protect the environment, and does not prematurely degrade your protective coating.

Cleaner Wax – This category of protectants includes a mild abrasive in with the protectant.  It provides some very light stain removal at the same time you are waxing.  Many of these products do work well, unfortunately when you use these you are doing this cleaning action to the entire boat even when and where it does not need it.  There is a finite amount of gelcoat or clear cote on your surface, so I always recommend only to use abrasive product when and where they are needed.

Straight Paste Wax – These are the traditional forms of Wax protection.  Requiring some elbow grease of hours of buffing these products have been up graded over the years to be a bit easier to work with.  In doing so, non-productive fillers such as talc have been added to the formulas.  Buffing out these waxes results in the use of multiple towels to remove this powdery filler.

Polymer Wax – This is the latest category of protectants.  Most are fully synthetic and actually have no natural wax in the formula.  These liquid cream like products are very easy to work with allowing you to protect your finish in about half the time.  Polymer protectants also have the benefits of the latest in technology additives.  These formulas bond better with the surface, last longer and include true UV inhibitors.  Additionally, there is no benefit of two or more coats in one session with polymers.  Think of it like reapplying sun block.  Save your second coat for later in the season.  In northern climates with a shorter season look to do the surface twice.  In southern and tropical areas 3-4 times per year would be better.

The next time you find yourself in a sea of Waxes, you will know to look for a good quality Polymer Protectant with UV additives, or just ask for a bottle of Shurold’s Pro Polish.

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JMSN – Beautiful Torture

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JMSN makes his second appearance today (the first on Rochelle Jordan’s “Lowkey” remix) by adding vocals to Soulection producer ESTA.’s 2013 instrumental "Beautiful Torture." JMSN’s melody and lyrics complement ESTA.’s sultry production.

The Michigan-bred singer/songwriter is currently working on an upcoming LP Blue Album.

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