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Prior, 22, a first-time All-Star, finished the first half 8-5 with a 3.01 ERA and ranks second in the Major Leagues in strikeouts with 150 behind teammate and fellow All-Star Kerry Wood.
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By Andra Stefanoni
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PITTSBURG, Kan. —
If asked to roll up his pants to the knee and show his titanium legs, Chuck Harper will gladly oblige.
But he was a little embarrassed Thursday to be getting so much media attention — first from a television station, then a newspaper, then a radio station — on the eve of his graduation from Pittsburg State University.
"I don't want people to feel sorry for me," the 45-year-old Fort Scott man said of a double amputation that was performed before his last year of college. "This isn't about me."
What it is about, Harper said, is determination, faith and attitude.
"I could have just rolled over and said 'I quit,' and that's what would have happened," he said. "Just because of something that is dealt to you doesn't mean you have to give up and quit. I've got a lot of things left I want to accomplish."
One of those things is to walk on those titanium legs across the stage Friday night to pick up his diploma. It will be a 56-foot journey that he said was 25 years in the making.
Harper graduated from high school and then community college in Fort Scott. When he began working on a bachelor's degree in business at PSU in 1987, he was married and had children, but he hadn't yet found his passion when it came to a career.
"I hadn't found what I wanted to do," he said.
He quit school and devoted himself to his family and full-time employment — first in the restaurant business, then customer service and sales at a printing company, and finally in insurance.
He and his wife, Connie, raised four daughters and began serving as foster parents. They found it rewarding, and after many hours of training and approval, they currently count two adopted children, two foster children and three children for whom they are the custodial parents among their household.
Harper's first health scare would surface in 2009, when pains in his arm and fingers — which eventually turned purple — landed him for a week of testing at what now is Mercy Hospital in Joplin, Mo. He was diagnosed with Raynaud's, a disease in which smaller arteries that supply blood to the skin narrow, limiting blood circulation and causing discoloration of the fingers and toes.
Harper eventually rebounded, but life changed again drastically for him and his family in June 2010 when he was laid off.
He learned that a federal grant was available to pay for two years of college education, but he was unsure which discipline to pursue. When advisers at KansasWorks learned that he was a foster parent, they encouraged him to try social work.
He began his pursuit of a bachelor's degree in PSU's social work program in January 2011.
"I had always wanted to go back to school," he said. "It seemed like another chance."
But as the semester progressed, Harper began experiencing pain in his legs. For the avid bowler who competed nationally, his condition reached a zenith in April 2011 at a tournament in Reno, Nev.
"By the time I got there, it was so excruciating I couldn't participate," he said.
He returned home — barely able to make it from the car to the house — and doctors upped his pain medication and gave him crutches. His wife began driving him back and forth to class each day in Pittsburg.
On the night of Harper's last final in May 2011, his wife arrived at Russ Hall to pick him up, only to find him sitting on the steps in tears because of the pain.
"It was unbearable," Harper recalled. "Just too much."
His wife rushed him to the emergency room at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott, and the next morning a helicopter flew him to the University of Kansas Medical Center.
"My left leg and foot were purple, and I had lost all feeling," Harper said. "I couldn't bear weight. It was painful just to touch."
He underwent a series of operations, first in an attempt to save the limbs, but the blood clotted too quickly. Then doctors told him they feared the same thing would happen to his right leg in the months that would follow, and they advised amputation of it too.
He was in the hospital for 45 days, then transferred to Fort Scott for four days of rehabilitation. Although he acknowledges there occasionally were days during which he felt sorry for himself, he said he made a decision to not just walk and bowl again, but to finish what he had started: his college degree.
It was a daunting challenge. He had no job, no insurance, and medical bills totaling $500,000. He began tackling the list one item at a time. Hospital social workers helped him apply for Medicaid to cover the medical bills. His wife offered him encouragement and, sometimes, a "kick in the pants." A friend who had lost a leg in an accident gave him moral support.
One of his instructors, Kristen Humphrey in the Department of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences, said Harper's positive attitude throughout his ordeal was inspirational.
"He has been such an inspiration and role model to his fellow social work students," Humphrey said. "His grades and attendance have been excellent. He has a positive attitude and never complains."
When Harper returned to school last August, he was in a wheelchair, but he told his classmates and instructors that he would be walking by the end of the semester. And he was.
"After my wounds healed, I used a walker, and then eventually a cane, and then in finals week last December I made it a goal to walk into class without any aids," he said. "I felt pretty proud."
He also bowled on his new legs for the first time, although he was discouraged at going from a 200-plus average to a 120. He insisted on learning to drive with his new legs using a five-speed clutch instead of hand controls.
And he finished up his college education with a 3.49 grade-point average overall, with a 4.0 in his social work discipline. Harper already has a job with TFI Family Services, a nonprofit agency that provides foster care and adoption services throughout Kansas. He completed a practicum there last week, and after licensure he will become a case manager.
"I also am offering my support to others who might go through an amputation," he said. "I want them to know the challenges that lie ahead, but also that they can do it, as long as they are determined and have the right attitude."
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This section of the forum has been dead. Also planting season is only a few months away. I was just wondering how much land most people have to farm. Like 10acres, 20acres, and so on.
I currently farm around 200acres. However I have learned that I made more money when doing less acres. I had less equipment and less expense. Now I work twice as hard and don't bring home half the money when it is all said and done. I am currently looking hard at redefineing my crops and acres farmed. I want to put the fun back into farming and not have my wife chewing butt about money.
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We have 137 acres,--had to cash rent it out for a couple reasons!--My spine gave out,had to hire custom guy to do some of the work.----VERY costly!---the price of fuel/equipment/supplies/etc. got sky high!---the price of grain got lower and the inputs got higher,so we cash rented it to a neighbor, not much better off, but I don't have to worry about the crops anymore!
We have 5-1/2 acres that we try to garden and grow food to survive. most folks would not live like this, but we have no choice!---we make do!
The garden produce fills 3 freezers that we use all winter, plus some that we can!--still have potatoes in the basement, (whites and sweets), we save our own seed, make our own equipment for the small tractors to use in the garden! thanks; sonny
36 acres. Timber and pasture. Not good for anything else. Spend most of my time reclaiming overgrown pasture and trying to kill of multifloral rose.
I have planted black walnut and black cherry trees since they grow well in this area. Have somewhere around 300 fruiting black walnut trees on the property. Previous year sold black walnuts. This year only a few walnuts picked up for personal use. Downed trees and black locusts are harvested for fire wood.
I have an excuse. CRS.
Presently I only have 5 acres, half of which is yard and garden, the rest I let a neighbor pasture. We used to own 145 acres, and rented another 140, but as time progressed we let the rented part go and when Dad's health got bad we cash rented the remaining (pasture and woodland). Last January we sold the farm to the man who had rented it for the last 22 years, with part of the sales agreement being that Mom could live there as long as she wanted. she said that after having lived there 44 years she did not want to move, and being able to stay in the house was a pivotal point of the sale.
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I own 7800 square feet in the heart of the City of La Crosse, WI! Or should I say the bank owns it until I pay it off? I would love to look for land to live on, but it is REALLY dear up here! It is fun driving a tractor in the city...people look at ya funny!
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2 acres which is enough for me and the family. One is lawn, the other garden.
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If I did the math right. If you get a 60in. belly mower for the cub. It should only take about 10 minutes to cut the grass in first gear.
I understand now that I am married I no longer live on the farm so I have a house in town on an 100x80 lot. I took the neighbors awhile to get use to seeing a tractor parked in the front yard in the summer
Good math! Actually, by the time I would have to make all the twists and turns, it probably would take me more like an hour to get a decent job. Plus I have a fence that divides my "private back yard" from the "public front yard," so I would have to drive around the block to get the front done...Oh well...more seat time!
I really need to move to the country!
Mike in La Crosse, WI
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Okay Mike that is post #3 with a reference to moving. It won't be long and you and the bank will have a place in the country where Merlin(cub) can roam free.
We have 5 1/2 acres that is mostly grass. we have about 6,000 sq feet of garden, 4,500 sq feet of barn, a 1,200 sq foot shed and the house. Plenty of room for the "Barnyard Bash" and more than enough to keep me busy.
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I have 15 acres at the house and another 60 down the road of witch about 45 is in pines planted in 1972
we raise about 3 or 4 acres of corn and garden. We use to rase 30 acres of tobacco when Dad was living.
All others pay cash
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Last year I bought 12 acres with a house and large veggie stand out front.Had a good crop this year,but the previous owner hadnt done anything for about 8 years and trying to get customers back.I think people have gotten used to fast food and microwave meals and just dont make time to cook anymore.Did ok with corn,potatoes and pumpkins,but had to throw away green beans,peppers and lots of summer squash.Called food bank but they didnt want it,for lack of storage. Gonna try strawberries next year. Mike
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Mike fresh vegtables is a tough row to hoe. Plant enough that you can always have fresh before the public and not feel bad about a 30 or 40 percent recycled through meat to a profit. After a while with the right stuff you will gain sufficient customers if you keep it always fresh. A cage or two of rabbits for the mothers little darlings to coo after never hurts either. You don't really care if mommy needed food or the little darlings wanted to see the rabbits when the cash register goes clang. I know this sounds harsh, yet I don't mean it to be. You want to make it an experience even more a trip to the store. Do you have a wife or as they say today a significant other that can supply value added items. Goat cheese, and specialty soaps are possible added items as well as a supply of straw bales for Halloween or Thanksgiving decorations, corn stalks and Indian multi colored corn can be money makers as can pumpkins in the fall. There are many more things you can do too.
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Sweet corn sells well, very well, in the Midwest. The problem with the other items, except strawberries, is that when they are in season - everybody has them.
I have an excuse. CRS.
The wife and I have 4 and a half acres. 2 of it in pasture for the horses, 1.5 in lawn and the house. The rest is where I plan to have a garden, and where my manure pile is.
I need more land already! More pasture, and I would love to eventually bale my own hay............
By the way, anyone need some manure for their gardens in the spring let me know!
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by Dave Lobeck
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— Today's column focuses on a fantastic wrap that is easy to make, healthy, inexpensive and most importantly, delicious. In fact, I've been fixing them on the weekends so my wife and I can take them to work for our lunches. It is refreshing with a bit of a bite delivered from the broccoli slaw.
Say what?
You heard me. Broccoli slaw.
Let's begin.
Most importantly, to allow these wraps to reach their full potential, it is important we review how to properly grill chicken breasts. The danger with grilling chicken breasts is that there is a small range of time where the chicken goes from undercooked, to perfectly cooked, to leather. And in this case, we use boneless and skinless chicken breasts, so the margin of error is even tighter. If grilled over direct heat, the outside becomes rubbery or leathery by the time the chicken is fully cooked (160 degrees Fahrenheit)
We did this recipe on a gas grill. The first thing I did was preheat all areas of the grill on high heat. While that was happening I sprinkled my pork rub on the breasts (recipe below, though you can use any sort of seasoning you like.) Once the grill is hot, I turn off one of the flame sources on the left or right. If I am using charcoal, I use indirect heat.
Place the breasts on the end of the grill that has no flame underneath it. We cooked four breasts which yielded 8 wraps. Close the lid and allow the chicken to cook for 7 to 10 minutes. Flip and allow to cook for another 5 minutes. Now move the chicken to the area of the grill that is over the flames. Finish cooking over the direct heat to provide the chicken with the outdoor grilled texture, turning occasionally. Bring in the chicken and let it rest.
Broccoli Slaw Recipe
Cut the chicken in thin strips lengthwise. Place two or three strips on a tortilla (we like whole wheat) and place a couple spoonfuls of broccoli slaw on the chicken. You can add cheese as well, but I don't think it is needed. Fold up the corners and then roll and wrap tightly. Then wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate. Crunchy, cool, spicy, delicious and affordable. What's not to like?
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Dave Lobeck is a barbecue chef from Sellersburg, Ind., who writes the "BBQ My Way" column for CNHI News Service. Visit his website at www.BBQ-My-Way.com.


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By Katie Roiphe
NEW YORK — There has lately been a rising backlash against the ubiquity of personal writing. Hamilton Nolan's anti-confessional diatribe in Gawker claims that journalism students are now taught only to write about themselves, which I can say as a full-time faculty member at a journalism school is patently absurd, but he raised some interesting points about the dubious rise of confessional writing over the last two decades and the market pressure, especially on younger writers, to make a splash, or at least publish something somewhere, by turning to their own, possibly limited, life experience. And then, of course, there were recent critiques of Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of "Prozac Nation," babbling incoherently about her pure heart in New York Magazine.
All of which leads me to believe it may be time to think methodically about what separates good confessional writing from bad confessional writing. It's dangerously cartoonish to say all personal writing is bad, and to automatically attack every writer who dares to delve into his own experience, but there are a million different ways to write personally and some of them are undoubtedly better than others. Here, then, are some basic principles I have come to over the years as both a professor and a writer:
1. The writer should turn her fierce critical eye on herself. (One of the great masters of this is Mary McCarthy, who was terrifying and brilliant in her critiques, even of her own pretentions and snobbisms.) It is always satisfying to read a writer who sharply and deftly attacks the hypocrisies and delusions of the world around him, but we trust that writer more completely when he also attacks himself, when he does not hold himself to a different standard, or protect himself from scrutiny. Take David Foster Wallace's famously dazzling essay, "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again." He obsessively, comically, gorgeously dissects everything around him on the cruise ship, but does not exempt himself from his high level satire:
All week, I've found myself doing everything I can to distance myself in the crew's eyes from the bovine herd I'm part of, to somehow unimplicate myself: I eschew cameras and sunglasses and pastel Caribbean wear. . . . But of course all of this ostensibly unimplicating behavior on my part is itself motivated by a self-conscious and somewhat condescending concern about how I appear to others that is (this concern) 100% upscale American. Part of the overall despair of this luxury cruise is that no matter what I do I can not escape my own essential and newly unpleasant Americanness. . . . I am an American tourist, and am thus ex officio large, fleshy, red, loud, coarse, condescending, self-absorbed, spoiled, appearance conscious, ashamed, despairing and greedy: the world's only known species of bovine carnivore.
2. Personal writing should seem honest. The reader likes personal writing to feel "honest." (This does not mean that the memoir is "honest" — who knows how the writer really felt about something that happened 20 years ago, or yesterday. It just needs to feel honest.) The reader is as adept as Holden Caulfield in detecting phoniness, fakeness, posturing and is as allergic to them. If the reader senses the writer is lying even to himself, or using the essay as a piece of propaganda, a forwarding of his own personal mythology in too clumsy or transparent a way, she will react against it.
3. Personal writing should entertain the reader. (And by this I do not mean the voyeuristic train wreck entertainment that one gets from reading, say, Naomi Wolf's account of losing the Technicolor "Wizard of Oz"-like effects of her orgasms. It should be deliberately entertaining, not accidentally funny.) Most readers don't care about the writer and are distracted instead by small things like their own lives, and so it is incumbent upon the writer to make them care or draw them in by being fascinating or funny or unusually observant.
The writer does not have to take on huge dramatic subjects to engage the reader's interest, though there is of course a natural interest in huge important subjects (See Christopher Hitchens' excellent "Mortality," or Harold Brodkey's "This Wild Darkness.") A brilliant or resourceful writer like Gary Shteyngart can entertain his reader with a subject as inherently plotless and unexciting as a plane delay. The subject, with apologies to hopeful suffering young writers, doesn't have to be inherently extreme.
4. In fact, even if your subject is extreme or shocking, it won't be interesting in any but the most prurient terms, unless it is written well, and surprisingly. For instance, the novelist Darin Strauss' "Half a Life" is an excellent reflection on his experience of killing a girl in a car accident in high school. But it is excellent because it is controlled, because the details are as carefully selected, the pacing as carefully moderated as that of any novel. The reason the book is so good is that he manages to tell the reader something she doesn't know or can't imagine; he gets beyond the generic, the cliché, which a surprising number of published personal writers never do. There is one moment when the teen-age Darin, on the roadside after the accident, in shock, leans down on the ground, with his head in his hands, like an Olympic athlete overcome with emotion, to impress some pretty girls who happen to be standing there too. His inclusion of vivid, unsettling, surprising moments like this lifts the book to its higher plane of observation, its position as art rather than sheer confession.
5.The standards of craft in personal writing should not be lower than in fiction. There is no reason why something true should be sloppily or boringly written. Many writers seem to feel that they are "expressing themselves" if they just get their feelings down on the page, but expressing yourself is not enough. Toward this point, Joan Didion, one of the most admired personal writers in American prose, said this extraordinary thing in a Paris Review interview: "When I am working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm. Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting. At the end of the day, I mark up the pages I've done — pages or page — all the way back to page one." She is not, in other words, dashing things off. She is not mistaking writing for therapy — the salient difference between the page and a therapist's office being that not every thought in your head, every tiny moment of heartbreak, every fleeting fantasy or disappointment, is interesting to your reader.
Roiphe, a journalism professor at New York University, is the author most recently of "Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages," and the forthcoming "In Praise of Messy Lives."


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this was last summer I just got the strenth to tell
Uh Steve..................................... the dirty side goes down.
Seriously, I hope no one was hurt. This just points out the necessity of those wedges between the front axle and the bolster.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem.
My wife says I don't listen to her. - - - - - - - - Or something like that!
I hope and pray no one was hurt Cubs can be mended.
Maybe you can write a "How NOT To Jack Your Tractor
Glad no one suffered any injuries.
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I have an excuse. CRS.
Yep.... without the wedges they sure are tippy! How do I know that????
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Glad you were not hurt. I think Donny has a point and it would be an asset to the How To Section... let me know what you think about it please.
Confusion breeds Discussion which breeds Knowledge which breeds Confidence which breeds Friendship
Well that is one easy way to adjust clutch fingers. Now you can get right at the hand hole.
I had almost the same experience minus landing on the floor.
How did the cub flip over?
Did you have the rear tires off and it was leaning and than flipped over?
Did you take the right side tire off and than it flipped over?
The story could be helpful to virgin flippers and of course the experienced flippers (like my self) could get a reminder of what not to do.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment.
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I was taking wheels off had left side on jack stand with wheel off, right side on jack stand, and when i pulled that wheel off it had wheel weights on it shook the tractor and the left jack stand kicked and down it went. I don't know if wedges would have helped but I will use them from now on.
Steve the truth sall set you free glad no one was hurt. i know it made you sick to see your cub like that
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Hey Steve...GLAD YOU'RE O.K. Jack Stands Are Good, but they're NOT 100% Reliable.
If your Cub's rearend was up on blocks, and the front was wedged between the bolster...I don't believe she would have flipped over
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Mine almost went over.I was down in the barn did not know to wedge it.I was down there holding it for fifteen mins when Tracy finally heard me.She was going to let me stay in the barn.can you belive that!!!Sorry to see your tractor sleeping on its side!Ketcham
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Mets pick up 2013 options for Wright, Dickey
Move comes amid talks of long-term extensions for third baseman, pitcher
NEW YORK -- In a necessary administrative move, the Mets on Tuesday exercised the 2013 contract options of third baseman David Wright and right-hander R.A. Dickey, according to a source, as they work to hammer out long-term extensions for the pair.
Wright is slated to earn $16 million next season and Dickey will earn $5 million, both on team options. But general manager Sandy Alderson said last month that his club's top offseason priority will be ripping up those options in favor of long-term extensions for both players.
For Wright, that could mean the largest deal in franchise history, potentially seven or eight years approaching $150 million. For Dickey, a new contract could be in the neighborhood of three years and $40 million.
Alderson initially said that he, Wright and Dickey could complete negotiations by the end of the World Series. Instead, talks for both players will continue into November.
Wright, 29, is coming off a bounce-back season that saw him hit .306 with 21 home runs and 93 RBIs in 156 games, breaking the franchise record for hits while also demonstrating marked improvement on defense. The Mets signed him to a team-friendly six-year, $55 million contract extension back in 2006, which included the $16 million 2013 team option.
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Unschoolers weigh in on how their lives have evolved, including college, career, and overall happiness.
Overall, 83 percent of the respondents had gone on to pursue some form of higher education. Almost half of those had either completed a bachelor's degree or higher, or were currently enrolled in such a program; they attended (or had graduated from) a wide range of colleges, from Ivy League universities to state universities and smaller liberal-arts colleges."
Lou Salza's insight:
I found this article about the research done by Peter Gray ( Boston College) and Gina Riley fascinating and provocative. If this research is a fair sampling of how students learn unfettered by the requirements and conventions of school, then we have much to re-think, re-view, and re-do regarding school and classroom design. Peter Gray's TEDx about the importance of play in normal development is a key topic in this discussion. --Lou Excerpt:Can Unschoolers be "College and Career Ready"?
Several themes emerged: Getting into college was typically a fairly smooth process for this group; they adjusted to the academics fairly easily, quickly picking up skills such as class note-taking or essay composition; and most felt at a distinct advantage due to their high self-motivation and capacity for self-direction. "The most frequent complaints," Gray notes on his blog, "were about the lack of motivation and intellectual curiosity among their college classmates, the constricted social life of college, and, in a few cases, constraints imposed by the curriculum or grading system."
Most of those who went on to college did so without either a high school diploma or general education diploma (GED), and without taking the SAT or ACT. Several credited interviews and portfolios for their acceptance to college, but by far the most common route to a four-year college was to start at a community college (typically begun at age 16, but sometimes even younger).
None of the respondents found college academically difficult, but some found the rules and conventions strange and sometimes off-putting. Young people who were used to having to find things out on their own were taken aback, and even in some cases felt insulted, "when professors assumed they had to tell them what they were supposed to learn," Gray says.
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From the folks at Edudemic! Education is woefully under-resourced just about everywhere in the USA, so a list like this can not be ignored! Feed the children!--Lou
Dr. Elizabeth Laugeson:Help kids with LD Make and Keep Friends Monday, August 25, 2014, 7pm @lawrenceschool
Watching children navigate peer relationships can be stressful and emotional. Some kids seem to instinctively know the rules of friendship while others struggle to feel accepted. One child gets invited everywhere, but another is routinely left out. As adults, how do we know when to step in or stay silent? Our guest speaker will guide us through this maze and offer evidence-based techniques and strategies for helping adolescents learn how to make and keep friends.
Lou Salza's insight:
Important opportunity for parents and educators in NE OH--Lou
About Dr. Elizabeth Laugeson:
As the creator of the PEERS (Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills) model of social skills intervention, Dr. Elizabeth Laugeson is a licensed clinical psychologist and assistant clinical professor in the department of psychiatry and bio-behavioral sciences at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She is the founder and director of the UCLA PEERS clinic, a program providing parent-assisted social skills training for adolescents and young adults with ADHD, depression, anxiety and other social impairments.
Both the SAT and the ACT tests will be optional for high school applicants to Wesleyan University starting next fall, President Michael S. Roth announced this w
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Common sense at last in the competitive college admissions world!--Lou
Both the SAT and the ACT tests will be optional for high school applicants to Wesleyan University starting next fall, President Michael S. Roth announced this week.
The tests, given annually to about three million students in 170 countries, have been part of the Wesleyan admissions process for many years. Wesleyan has required either the SAT with two subject tests, or the ACT. Now the university joins several hundred institutions, including many of its peer colleges, in making the tests optional.
While students' academic records will continue to be most important in Wesleyan's admissions decisions, as they always have, applicants may choose whether or not to submit test scores.
"We've always been most concerned about the day-to-day work of our applicants, in a rigorous academic program," said Nancy Hargrave Meislahn, Wesleyan's dean of admission and financial aid. "This option provides students more control over their applications, how best to present themselves to the admission committee."
Have you looked into your family history? What have you found? Many times the link can be hidden because people don't like to admit to struggles, and sometimes people with mild to moderate dyslexia find ways to hide it.
Lou Salza's insight:
In my generation and older it was not at all unusual for individuals to be unaware of their dyslexia. Perhaps one indication of our progress is the increasing numbers of young adults who describe being identified and helped while they were in school by special education regulations and programs. --Lou
"Researchers say that dyslexia likely has a genetic link, but that connection isn't always apparent. When one Mom blogger was cleaning out her closet (literally), she was surprised to find the link in her own old school records..."
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No one likes getting criticism. But it can be a chance to show off a rare skill: responding to negative feedback well.
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Lou Salza's insight:
Love the advice here--and the graphic is instructive. If the goal is better performance for our students, then we need to be willing to deal with feedback. Kids handle feedback all the time! What's good for the goslins is probably good for the goose and the gander as well!--Lou
"....It is a skill that requires practice, humility and a sizable dose of self-awareness. But the ability to learn from criticism fuels creativity at work, studies show, and helps the free flow of valuable communication.
Tempering an emotional response can be hard, especially "if you're genuinely surprised and you're getting that flood of adrenaline and panic," says Douglas Stone, a lecturer at Harvard Law School and co-author of "Thanks for the Feedback...."
"....Some people distort feedback into a devastating personal critique. Mr. Stone suggests writing down: "What is this feedback about, and what is it not about?" Then, change your thinking by eliminating distorted thoughts. "The goal is to get the feedback back into the right-sized box" as a critique of specific aspects of your current performance, he says...
Mark Dhamma's curator insight, June 29, 12:45 PM
Criticism is feedback, feedback improves performance- Embrace!
Philip Powel Smith's curator insight, July 29, 8:04 AM
Criticism is always a difficult pro-active action that educators have to give. Criticism without ridicule and shame is what students need to hear and an explanation of how to make the changes to be better learners and communicators.
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Combine the traditional escape and enrichment of summer reading with social media resources for sharing discoveries with like-minded educators and readers.
Lou Salza's insight:
Model reading behavior for our kids; use AT if you find print difficult--but read, and then talk about what you are reading--it's good for us!--Lou
"...... some ideas for sharing your summer book reads with friends and family, ideas that might help you to get out there and grow your own interests even farther. Here are three suggestions to get you started on your summer reading travels, even if you're on a "staycation...."
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Aaron Carapella couldn't find a map showing the original names and locations of Native American tribes as they existed before contact with Europeans. That's why the Oklahoma man designed his own map.
Lou Salza's insight:
For teachers and students who want to study First People in North America.--Lou
"For more than a decade, he consulted history books and library archives, called up tribal members and visited reservations as part of research for his map project, which began as pencil-marked poster boards on his bedroom wall. So far, he has designed maps of the continental U.S., Canada and Mexico. A map of Alaska is currently in the works.
What makes Carapella's maps distinctive is their display of both the original and commonly known names of Native American tribes, according to Doug Herman, senior geographer at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C..."
American Academy of Pediatrics to Recommend Reading Aloud to Children From Birth By MOTOKO RICH, NYT
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With the increased recognition that reading to children enhances vocabulary and other important skills, the American Academy of Pediatrics is asking its members to become advocates.
Lou Salza's insight:
For parents of babies: Put down the iPads, and pick up the books ( at least 20 minutes each day!) Doctor's Orders!--Lou
"With the increased recognition that an important part of brain development occurs within the first three years of a child's life, and that reading to children enhances vocabulary and other important communication skills, the group, which represents 62,000 pediatricians across the country, is asking its members to become powerful advocates for reading aloud, every time a baby visits the doctor.
"It should be there each time we touch bases with children," said Dr. Pamela High, who wrote the new policy. It recommends that doctors tell parents they should be "reading together as a daily fun family activity" from infancy.
This is the first time the academy — which has issued recommendations on how long mothers should nurse their babies and advises parents to keep children away from screens until they are at least 2 — has officially weighed in on early literacy education..."
"The pediatricians' group hopes that by encouraging parents to read often and early, they may help reduce academic disparities between wealthier and low-income children as well as between racial groups. "If we can get that first 1,000 days of life right," said Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, "we're really going to save a lot of trouble later on and have to do far less remediation.."
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New research shows it's possible to pick up some of the signs of dyslexia in the brain even before kids learn to read. And this earlier identification may start to substantially influence how parents, educators and clinicians tackle the disorder.
Lou Salza's insight:
Is it just me--or do others find this sort of journalistic "hook" somewhat deceptive? We really don't need any more multi colored fMRI pictures beside promises of potentially remarkable new approaches to "tackle" dyslexia. Better perhaps to invest these funds now being used to run kids through fMRIs and invest instead in programs in schools. Let's "tackle" schools and curriculum that refuse to apply the data we already have paid for to alter teaching approaches to address the needs of dyslexic kids. Just sayin'!--Lou
Excerpt:Using cutting-edge MRI technology, the researchers are able to pinpoint a specific neural pathway, a white matter tract in the brain's left hemisphere that appears to be related to dyslexia: It's called the arcuate fasciculus.
"It's an arch-shaped bundle of fibers that connects the frontal language areas of the brain to the areas in the temporal lobe that are important for language," Elizabeth Norton, a neuroscientist at MIT's McGovern Institute of Brain Research, explains.
In her lab, Norton shows me brain images from the NIH-funded kindergartner study, called READ (for Researching Early Attributes of Dyslexia).
"We see that in children who in kindergarten already have strong pre-reading scores, their arcuate fasciculus is both bigger and more well organized," she says. On the other hand: "A child with a score of zero has a very small and not particularly organized arcuate fasciculus."
She says we're not quite ready to simply take a picture of your child's brain and say "Aha, this kid is going to have dyslexia," but we're getting closer to that point.
The topic of college readiness is likely the most discussed topic in the education community today. While the United States high school graduation rate has recently topped 80 percent , this does not mean that 80 percent of our high school graduates are college-ready. …
Lou Salza's insight:
Sarah Manix offers us common sense and a dash of data! Three Keys: 1. Start in Kindergarten. 2. Look beyond grades and test scores to student engagement. 3. Use technology to integrate and apply knowledge assessment data to keep students on track.--Lou
"While it may be presumptuous to predict the college readiness of a kindergartner, it is possible to begin to track areas of strength and weakness. We suggest focusing on elementary predictors of middle school success, middle school predictors of high school success, and high school predictors of college success. In this way, ongoing evaluations give educators the ability to identify any issues a student may have and provide ample time to intervene and help the student get back on track. This is important as the closer students get to high school graduation, the more difficult it becomes to correct course. In fact, according to the ACT report, College and Career Readiness: The Importance of Early Learning, "students who were far off track in eighth grade had only a 10 percent chance in reading, 6 percent chance in science, and 3 percent chance in mathematics of reaching the ACT College Readiness Benchmarks by twelfth grade. In higher poverty schools, those numbers were 6 percent, 3 percent, and 3 percent, respectively....."
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When I first started teaching English with 1:1 iPads, I was really jealous of the science and fine arts teachers. They had all of the most engaging apps, and I was left with a lowly word processor and an instant thesaurus. …
Lou Salza's insight:
Robust, Nimble, Mobile and Practical! Any questions!? --Lou
"Fortunately, so much has changed. I now have the flexibility to duck in and out of my students' papers as they write and leave them comments on drafts in progress. I have the resources to connect them with a real-world network of readers who authentically guide them to books they will enjoy through reviews and ratings. As a class, we can collaborate on a challenging text, asking questions of each other in shared annotations.
During the research process, students have tools to keep their ideas organized, and their resources available to others with similar interests. What follows are my top ten picks for apps that support the writing process, reading engagement, critical reading skills, and research in the humanities."
Parth Gandhi, PhD, a clinical neuropsychologist who specializes in the clinical assessment of adolescents and young adults, explained how Executive Function skills can determine if a young adult will be successfully independent.
Lou Salza's insight:
From our good friend and colleague Lon Woodbury!
An emerging adult is one that has either turned 18 or is an adolescent growing toward adulthood. As a neuropsychologist focusing on assessments, Parth looks at young adults 18 and over who are not functioning well and question why? "I think we have less expectations for young adults now and we've become softer, less willing to let them fail," he said. "Yet, these kids need to learn from failure and they need earlier training from their parents. Kids aren't being challenged and they need those challenges to learn and grow from. When we protect them, we take away their skill building. I think it is a cultural issue and a family issue, but working with your children needs to be strategic.
- See more at: http://www.strugglingteens.com/artman/publish/WRI-K4HD_140602_-2.shtml#sthash.W52Mxasl.dpuf
Barbara Hunter's curator insight, June 16, 4:49 AM
Good information! We can't wait to see if EF skills are in place, parents and professionals must guide growth. By "guide growth" I mean, understand the processes of EF, assess strengths and challenges in children very young, as they are emerging, and engage in metacognitive, direct, and strategic support.
Poor students don't just need teachers. They need social workers.To Keep Poor Students in School, Provide Social Services By Daniel J. Cardiniali, NYT Op-Ed
Dan Cardinali has led Communities In Schools since 2004. Under his leadership, the organization has developed and embraced an evidence-based model of integrated student service provision and has launched a national growth strategy to increase the organization's impact on improving public education. Cardinali's background as a community organizer has helped the organization continue its steady and measured growth, establish its voice in national education policy debates, and launch an organization-wide quality improvement campaign.
Lou Salza's insight:
Thoughtful OP-ED in the NYT this week from Dan Cardinali, Pres., of Communities in Schools.--Lou
My favorite lines from Dan's piece:
"...The key is to put dedicated social-service specialists in every low-performing, high-poverty school, whether they are employed by the school district or another organization. This specialist must be trained in the delivery of community services, with continued funding contingent on improvement in indicators like attendance and dropout rates.
Putting social workers in schools is a low-cost way of avoiding bigger problems down the road, analogous to having a social worker in a hospital emergency room. It's a common-sense solution that will still require a measure of political courage, something that all too often has itself been chronically absent.''
By Dan Cardiniali
his new book, "How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens," author Benedict Carey informs us that "most of our instincts about learning are misplaced, incomplete, or flat wrong" and "rooted more in superstition than in science."The traditional advice on learning has been to "study hard," in a quiet place and with the same routine, yet that doesn't say much about what to specifically do. But pupils today can change the way they study to exploit the brain's quirky learning processes, using the strategies revealed by memory and learning research. While that science is still maturing, "it's at a place now where it can give you a specific tactical plan," Carey said. Students can tailor their preparation with techniques targeting different kinds of content or skills, and manage their schedule to optimize their time. "That's a powerful thing, because we go through our whole lives never knowing that," he said."
Lou Salza's insight:
Schools and schooling have changed too little over the years compared to the way kids actually learn and the way the marketplace now operates. What Carey's Book offers is encouragement to young people to find their way—(not ours!) and acquire the tools that will help them succeed in the new digital world in which they are immersed ( not the world that most teachers and school administrators succeeded in!).
And let's be clear: this is not about getting higher GPAs and scoring higher on the SAT or the ACT. It is about learning and achieving using tools that didn't exist ten years ago in order to succeed at jobs that won't exist for another ten years. ---Lou
For example:
– Breaking up and spacing out study time over days or weeks can substantially boost how much of the material students retain, and for longer, compared to lumping everything into a single, nose-to-the-grindstone session.
– Varying the studying environment — by hitting the books in, say, a cafe or garden rather than only hunkering down in the library, or even by listening to different background music — can help reinforce and sharpen the memory of what you learn.
– A 15-minute break to go for a walk or trawl on social media isn't necessarily wasteful procrastination. Distractions and interruptions can allow for mental "incubation" and flashes of insight — but only if you've been working at a problem for a while and get stuck, according to a 2009 research meta-analysis.
– Quizzing oneself on new material, such as by reciting it aloud from memory or trying to tell a friend about it, is a far more powerful way to master information than just re-reading it, according to work by researchers including Henry Roediger III and Jeffrey Karpicke. (Roediger has co-authored his own book, "Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning.")
Ultimately, the value of these learning strategies isn't just about earning better grades, Carey said. In the modern jungle of society, learning is still about surviving: For young people, it's about sussing out what they're good at, what rings their bell, and what they want to do with their lives. "It's informing you of: Who am I? Where do I place my bets? Do I major in physics or do I major in architecture or design, or do I major in English? Do I belong here at all?" Carey said. Those are important decisions. "Being self-aware about what's effective learning and how it happens, I think, gives you a real edge in making those choices."
Technology maybe 'agnostic' but the presence of digital devices has made some huge cracks in traditional curriculum walls--The iPad as a 'Trojan Mouse'
"In the best circumstances, the iPad is a Trojan Mouse. The outside is shiny and attractive, all the better to lure our unwary colleagues into opening the gates to their black box. Those of us interested in meaningful change in teaching and learning need to make sure that the shiny exterior of the Trojan Mouse is stuffed inside with serious questions about practice, student relationships, assessment, a shared language about pedagogy, and a shared vision for our students."
Lou Salza's insight:
I love this metaphor--technology in the hands of teachers and students--unsequestered by tech lab walls--in the classrooms and learning centers has thrown open formerly closed gates of the curriculum and crossed the moat that was once used to control which textbooks, and which information got included in students' learning
Technology doesn't magically change teacher's practice. You can have students use iPads in much the same way that they once used slate boards. But what new technologies like tablets or laptops can do is open new avenues for conversation. In schools where every child has a portable, multimedia creation device, what can we do differently? What is possible now that wasn't possible before?
Cuban argues pursuasively that the most powerful practice for meaningful reform in schools is teacher professional development in learning communities:
"What promises to increase the worth of districtwide professional development, especially if based within schools and involving teachers in the planning, are those efforts concentrating on prevailing beliefs among teachers about teaching and learning, current norms in the school community, and classroom practices. When teachers work together to examine student work and analyze classroom lessons, they figure out collectively what works and what doesn't, and they build a culture of learning across grade levels in elementary school s and within departments in secondary school. They build and share pedagogical capital—a scarce resource because isolation is endemic to age-graded schools"
When we talk about how our education system is failing our students, there are a lot of different options presented on how to 'fix' it. Everyone has an answer, a promising new way of thinking, a potential magic bullet. Inevitably, we also examine school systems that are working as a part of investigating what to do or not to do with our own.…
Lou Salza's insight:
The research in the US is murky at best, but commonsense and the data suggest we put too much emphasis on compliance with excessive homework requirements. Grading practice problem sets in math for example troubles me because practice should not be evaluated except as it proves an effective path towards mastery. Likewise, giving students failing grades for failing to hand in homework when they have mastered subject matter is irrational. --Lou
Excerpt:" ....And one of those that is working and is almost always mentioned is Finland. Their students regularly top the charts on global education metrics despite a lack of homework and more away-from-the-desk time during the school day. No homework is a pretty drastic measure in most people's minds, so how does it work?
The handy infographic below takes a look at why homework doesn't seem to be a necessity given the structure of the rest of the system. Do you think a Finland-esque education system would work here in the US? Why or why not? Weigh in by leaving a comment below, mentioning @Edudemic on Twitter or leaving your thoughts on our Facebook page.
Chambers has dyslexia and he's a role model and spokesperson for the learning disability. But he still finds it painful to talk about it.
Lou Salza's insight:
I so appreciate the balanced perspective taken in this article. --Lou
"By anyone's standards (even his own), Cisco CEO John Chambers has a great and enviable life.
He's fabulously wealthy (paid $21 million last year alone), flies around in his own private jet meeting with presidents and kings bringing tech to rich nations and impoverished countries alike.
But sometimes, he remembers being a young child whose teachers thought he wasn't smart and wouldn't go to college.
Chambers has dyslexia, a learning disability, and, years ago, he accidentally became a public spokesperson for it...."
For dyslexic children, what begins as an educational problem can quickly descend into an emotional problem.
Lou Salza's insight:
According to Thomas Mann: "Everything is politics".
According to the former Speaker of the U.S. House, Tip O'Neill: "all politics is local". Thank you to the folks at Decoding Dyslexia all over the USA for their remarkably strong, successful efforts at advancing advocacy for dyslexics in State governments!--Lou
".....School reading or writing assignments may serve as triggers for intensely negative emotions of fear, stress, and anxiety, which in turn lead to memory and attention disruptions, which lead to physiological manifestations of that unease—and in some cases, catastrophic thoughts. By considering these cascading effects, we can understand why depression and, sadly, suicide rates for dyslexic children are higher than for the general population.
This sort of cycle is well-known in psychology, with the "anxiety cascade" being taught over many decades, even in basic psychology courses. The diagram included in this article adapts that cycle to specifically address the pattern observed in dyslexic children.
Because of this "Vortex of Dyslexia," early intervention for children is critical. Dyslexia is in many ways an invisible struggle. If dyslexic children are not properly evaluated and treated what may seem to outsiders as "simple" reading and writing difficulties can grow into far more significant psychological or physiological problems..."
Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the U.S. Took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans
From www
This interactive map, produced by University of Georgia historian Claudio Saunt to accompany his new book West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, offers a time-lapse vision of the transfer of Indian land between 1776 and 1887. As blue "Indian homelands" disappear, small red areas appear, indicating the establishment of reservations. (Above is a GIF of the map's time-lapse display; visit the map's page to play with its features.)
Lou Salza's insight:
Powerful teaching tool!-Lou
"...While the time-lapse function is the most visually impressive aspect of this interactive, the "source map" option (available on the map's site) offers a deep level of detail. By selecting a source map, and then zooming in to the state you've selected, you can see details of the map used to generate that section of the interactive. A pop-up box tells you which Native nation was resident on the land, and the date of the treaty or executive order that transferred the area to the government, as well as offering external links to descriptions of the treaty and of the tract of land..."
Lawrence School: Where Differences are not Disabilities and where Great Minds Don't Think Alike"
Lou Salza's insight:
We are proud of our students, parents, and teachers at Lawrence School : 7 minute video!-Lou
Lon Woodbury's curator insight, June 25, 7:15 PM
This short video is a good demonstration of the confusing world students with LD are faced with that creates a negative self-image, and how proper attention to their individual learning needs can change their self-image dramatically. -Lon
Report Identifies 'Intuitive' Technology, Hybrid Learning as Emerging Ed-Tech Trends By Danielle Wilson
From blogs
Hybrid learning models, motion-based technology and the use of open resources are all expected to become more prevalent in the coming years, according to a new report.
Lou Salza's insight:
While this article divides these emerging technologies into three categories based on predicted adoption rates, these are all happening somewhere right now. That leads me to ask, how long can it really be until we find these changes and innovations happening in our students' homes and gaming environments? And once that happens, our traditional classrooms are rendered not only obsolete which they are already--but anachronistic-- which is an embarrassment.---Lou
"Trends expected in five years or more:The rapid acceleration of "intuitive technology" is providing a learning experience where learners interact with devices entirely by using natural movements and gestures, the authors of the report say. Motion-based technology through smartphones, tablets, and even game systems allow learners to engage freely. Examples given in the report refer to children using multi-touch walls and interactive displays at museums, and teachers in Virginia using games with motion-based technology improved social and verbal communication skills of students with autism spectrum disorders. Overall changes in the structure of schools are aimed to create innovative school designs and restructuring school schedules to allow more flexibility and cultivate student creativity. The report notes that the multi-disciplinary nature of project-based learning and other models requires subjects to be linked to one another, without the restriction of bell schedules and classrooms. Students at Venture Academy in Minneapolis go to school in a repurposed printing plant without structured classrooms and at High Tech High in San Diego students work freely throughout the school building, designing structures and producing multimedia..."
From blogs
A neat visualization of the verbs associated with Bloom's Taxonomy.Bloom's Taxonomy gets an active makeover in this infographic, which provides a way to think about how the actions involved in a class assignment might be categorized in the schema. Mia MacMeekin made this and many other interesting infographics, which can be found on her website, An Ethical Island.
Lou Salza's insight:
Cool and useful!--Lou
Scientists and engineers (S&E) with LDs is not unheard of: approximately 0.9 percent (311) of all (34531) S&E doctoral recipients in 2011 self identified as having one or more learning disorders. I wish these numbers were higher despite the extensive amount of reading or computing necessary for completion of these degrees and within a career. I wish I could say that individuals with LDs are more likely to succeed than their coworkers without LDs, but I honestly have no idea how LDs correlate to 'success' in S&E.
Lou Salza's insight:
Share this message of resilience and success with students who are print challenged in school. School is not forever! The system in schools may be rigged against children with dyslexia; while the marketplace focuses on what you can do and accomplish. Hang in there!--Lou
"I hope schools will become more cognizant of identifying and helping students with LDs. I hope research program admission committees can look beyond test scores and GPAs when accepting new students (I was rejected from 7 out of 8 I applied for). I hope students are able to be open about their LDs with their bosses, working together to find the most efficient and helpful ways to have meetings, write papers, perform experiments and present results. I hope that no scientist or engineer with LDs feels like they're alone. But most of all, I hope struggling students and adults with LDs are able to feel good about who they are."
From www
Lubbock, Texas (PRWEB) June 15, 2014 -- Merinda K. Condra, CEO of Generation Covenant, announces Groundbreaking to Begin Construction of New Location of The Institute for Creative Learners. The Institute for Creative Learners fosters a life long love of learning in children by combining art, cutting edge technology, science, and multisensory instruction to help each child obtain academic success while celebrating each child's gifts. -- 3302 67th Street, Lubbock, Texas -- June 17, 2014 10:00 AM
Lou Salza's insight:
Love the sound of this!-Lou
The Institute for Creative Learners is focused on assisting those students who struggle with learning as a result of Dyslexia and other learning differences. However, rather than focus only on the challenges associated with Dyslexia, the Institute seeks to capitalizes on their inherent creativity and artistic ability.
According to Ms. Condra, "These children are 'out-of-the-box' thinkers. They are the innovators, inventors, entrepreneurs, and artists of their generation. In fact, more than one third of successful US entrepreneurs are reportedly dyslexic."
Further, Ms. Condra states, "The children we serve are full of amazing potential that is only limited by what they believe they can do. Without intervention, (the earlier the better) these children can suffer a hit to their self-esteem that can be irreparable. Without intervention, our world can be deprived of their spark – deprived of the next great inventor, artist, or entrepreneur -- deprived of innovations that can make our world better. At the Institute, we help these children see their own potential. We foster their strengths while we address their needs. We nurture their spark."
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Rick Santorum won both Alabama and Mississippi last night. Now that he has a new revitalized momentum shift in his favor, Santorum is more than ever determined to stay in this race to the very end. At the same time, Gingrich is suggesting he will stay in as well.
First off, it is not a surprise to me that Romney lost both Alabama and Mississippi. These are deep south states and Romney has not done well in the previous deep south states of South Carolina and Georgia. But the Alabama and Mississippi primaries did show a huge momentum shift not for Santorum, but for Romney.
Compare the other deep south results to what happened last night. Romney lost by 12.6% in South Carolina and 21.3% in Georgia. Last night Romney lost by 5.5% in Alabama and 2.6% in Mississippi. That is a massive swing towards Romney in the deep south. It shows that more and more people, even in the deep south, are starting to accept Romney as the candidate to run against Barack Obama.
Regardless of the fact that it is becoming more and more improbable for Santorum or Gingrich to win the nomination before the convention, they are both saying they are going all the way to Tampa and want to have a brokered convention and battle it out there. This would be very bad for the GOP! The last time someone won coming out of a brokered convention was in 1932 when FDR won the presidency. Do you think any of the Republican candidates are the next FDR?
Going forward, I can see a slight momentum shift for Santorum in future primaries, but I cannot see him winning the nomination unless he stops Romney from gaining the delegates needed to secure the nomination before the convention, and then somehow convinces delegates to switch their votes to him. If that does happen, expect a landslide loss in November with Obama winning comfortably against Santorum.