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HLG believes that there is an increasingly good chance that the retrogression is solved in next 3-4 months via Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR). The approximate time frame would be this: the House announced their CIR proposal (called Strive Act) in March.We have heard from several sources that the Senate is set release their version in early May. Their version (like the Senate's) is a broad proposal and has bi-partisan support. The Senate has formally set the last two weeks of May aside for immigration debate. There is a very good chance that the Senate actually passes a bill in late May/ early June.And that's where it gets trickier. The key is that the House continues the momentum and pushes through a bill in June. If they do, Congress will have to take both bills to committee, which is the process whereby the Congress irons out the differences between the bills. The expectation is that the differences will be minor. The President will surely sign the bill since he's been a CIR proponent since Day One of his presidency.Putting all of this together it is more likely than not that we have a CIR bill in July/August. All of that having been said, we're not only relying on CIR. There is a continuing push for a "bridge," which is a small piece of legislation to immediately, but temporarily, end the retrogression and bridge the gap until the full CIR can get passed into law. The odd-reality is that the more likely CIR looks, the less likely the bridge looks.
From: Hammond Law group
Monday, April 30, 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Incidental Report
Tuesday......A day before our scheduled culmination day for the psychiatric exposure.
I arrived around 6 am only to know that some of my students are still asleep ......Grrrrh!
What should be the best thing to do? should I get a bucket of water? should I pull them over? or should I approach them and calmly wake them up.....?
What is your guess?...... Nope i did'nt drenched them with water nor pull them out of the bed! .
With a calm voice I requested these guys to WAKE UP!.......
My temper was rising..... Knowing that the students from other schools are having their formation for their exercise.......So as i feared, only half of my students were able to join the exercise!
Huh! its a bad day to begin with!..... But I conditioned my mind that I will not let this event spoil the rest of the day! ....... for I will still Join a PARTY in a short while! did i say PARTY? yeah! cool!
8:30 - the party begins...Our concept for the day is birthday party.. So all the patients have to wear their party hats...they were given the chance to blew their birthday candles and make a wish!
It was magical!.... the emotion we all have expereince is so imense!
Well thats the postive side....When the magic all ended, its time for me evaluate today's activity!
So I rate their therapy as 9 ( excellent) out of 10. Yet I was also honest with them that their behavior early in the morning ( them being late for the activites- exercise) was totally unacceptable , so i told them that for those people concern they have given me no choice but to demand an incidnetal report!..... The people concern were all shock yet were able to accept their fault and made no further comments except for One. . He blurted out in anger! lashing out intimidating words! .......I stood my ground firmly. I explain my side calmy but to be frank its very hard to maintain my composure especially when the student question your credibility as the instructor....then suddenly the scene was shifted when one of the students tried to pacify the "overheated" discussion....The teacher - student discourse now turn as the intergroup argument.... This time its my time to pacify them!......Their was still no complete resolution over the situation... yet I maintained my stand that they have to explain their side by wrting an incidental report!.. in this case I have to write my own incidnetal report too.... But I gues if I have a point to raise in the report it is the way we handled the situation. We were able to raise and clarify the right issue.... were able to control our emotions .. we did not allow our defensive- reflex mode to take over the incidient!....Well In 72 hours ..i will submit my incidental report!- goodluck
I arrived around 6 am only to know that some of my students are still asleep ......Grrrrh!
What should be the best thing to do? should I get a bucket of water? should I pull them over? or should I approach them and calmly wake them up.....?
What is your guess?...... Nope i did'nt drenched them with water nor pull them out of the bed! .
With a calm voice I requested these guys to WAKE UP!.......
My temper was rising..... Knowing that the students from other schools are having their formation for their exercise.......So as i feared, only half of my students were able to join the exercise!
Huh! its a bad day to begin with!..... But I conditioned my mind that I will not let this event spoil the rest of the day! ....... for I will still Join a PARTY in a short while! did i say PARTY? yeah! cool!
8:30 - the party begins...Our concept for the day is birthday party.. So all the patients have to wear their party hats...they were given the chance to blew their birthday candles and make a wish!
It was magical!.... the emotion we all have expereince is so imense!
Well thats the postive side....When the magic all ended, its time for me evaluate today's activity!
So I rate their therapy as 9 ( excellent) out of 10. Yet I was also honest with them that their behavior early in the morning ( them being late for the activites- exercise) was totally unacceptable , so i told them that for those people concern they have given me no choice but to demand an incidnetal report!..... The people concern were all shock yet were able to accept their fault and made no further comments except for One. . He blurted out in anger! lashing out intimidating words! .......I stood my ground firmly. I explain my side calmy but to be frank its very hard to maintain my composure especially when the student question your credibility as the instructor....then suddenly the scene was shifted when one of the students tried to pacify the "overheated" discussion....The teacher - student discourse now turn as the intergroup argument.... This time its my time to pacify them!......Their was still no complete resolution over the situation... yet I maintained my stand that they have to explain their side by wrting an incidental report!.. in this case I have to write my own incidnetal report too.... But I gues if I have a point to raise in the report it is the way we handled the situation. We were able to raise and clarify the right issue.... were able to control our emotions .. we did not allow our defensive- reflex mode to take over the incidient!....Well In 72 hours ..i will submit my incidental report!- goodluck
Monday, April 23, 2007
Delusion
I started my day with the usual routines and rituals.
Today is Monday and it is my students turn to perform the "dreaded" exercise for the residents of the behavioral clinic we are assigned.
As i was on my way to the clinic i was thinking if they have prepared well coz the last time we had our exercise was a mess........
And the rest was history.....they have not failed me this time! Whew !
I am the Instructor of a group of student nurses.... We are in the Psychiatric unit to help the residents regain their mental state. That is what we believe in. Or so it was. We are there to help those who are detached from the reality.
But as we learn more about our client's life and behavior, it seems like it is them who brought us back to reality. They help us face our labile mood, at times our violent behavior and most of all our DELUSIoNal Thinking. The fixated belief that we are all normal, that we are more fortunate than them coz we think we are more rational than them. The reality is, if we are infact rational and sane how come that our world is in the state of dis array? a world filled with intollerance ? a world full of hate? How come that our regard to others is still influence by their color.... religion...belief... race... and orientation? Or in a simplier terms, why is it hard to say sorry or to forgive a friend, a loveone? How come that brothers or perhaps couples allow time to be in between them without talking and fixing their differences?
DELUSION a state of fixated false Belief!
.....The short time I spent with the residents along with my students gave me the opportunity to think again about life.....my purpose .... my goal.... For I dont want wake up someday and realize that I am in fact living a life in DELUSION.
Today is Monday and it is my students turn to perform the "dreaded" exercise for the residents of the behavioral clinic we are assigned.
As i was on my way to the clinic i was thinking if they have prepared well coz the last time we had our exercise was a mess........
And the rest was history.....they have not failed me this time! Whew !
I am the Instructor of a group of student nurses.... We are in the Psychiatric unit to help the residents regain their mental state. That is what we believe in. Or so it was. We are there to help those who are detached from the reality.
But as we learn more about our client's life and behavior, it seems like it is them who brought us back to reality. They help us face our labile mood, at times our violent behavior and most of all our DELUSIoNal Thinking. The fixated belief that we are all normal, that we are more fortunate than them coz we think we are more rational than them. The reality is, if we are infact rational and sane how come that our world is in the state of dis array? a world filled with intollerance ? a world full of hate? How come that our regard to others is still influence by their color.... religion...belief... race... and orientation? Or in a simplier terms, why is it hard to say sorry or to forgive a friend, a loveone? How come that brothers or perhaps couples allow time to be in between them without talking and fixing their differences?
DELUSION a state of fixated false Belief!
.....The short time I spent with the residents along with my students gave me the opportunity to think again about life.....my purpose .... my goal.... For I dont want wake up someday and realize that I am in fact living a life in DELUSION.
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