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The Study of Different Treatment Programs for Patients With Frozen Shoulder
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01249040
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified September 2004 by China Medical University Hospital.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : November 29, 2010
Last Update Posted : November 29, 2010
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The purpose of this study is to investigate and compare different treatment programs for frozen shoulder by evaluating changes in pain scale and shoulder range of motion(ROM) before and after treatment.
The investigators define frozen shoulder as shoulder pain with ROM limitation,shoulder arthrography demonstration of at least two of the following criteria:(1)reduced joint volume under 10ml; (2)irregular capsular margin;(3)diminished or absent axillary recess.
Afer define diagnosis of frozen shoulder ,patients are randomly assigned to different Subgroups for different treatment programs.Each subgroup consists of ten patients.
Each treatment program performed for 6 consecutive courses with each course consists of 6 days.Total 36 treatment days.
The treatment programs and grouping as follow:
Group 1:Physical modalities + therapeutic exercise Group 2:Physical modalities + therapeutic exercise+ intra-articular injection of steroid Gouup 3:Therapeutic exercise Before treatment,after each consecutive course (6days) of treatment,and at the end of treatment program, the investigators evaluate the range of motion and muscle strength of shoulder flexion,external rotation,abduction and internal rotation. Severity of shoulder pain also evaluated by pain scale before and after treatment program.
The ROM before and after treatment program is compared by paired t-test.The ROM change before and after treatment in different groups compared by analysis of variance(ANOVA). The ROM change after consecutive treatment courses(6 days) are compared by multivariate ANOVA.Pain scale before and after treatment is compared by paired t-test.
|Condition or disease
|Frozen Shoulder
|Procedure: Physical therapy Procedure: steroid intraarticular injection
|Not Applicable
(A) Diagnosis: Patients with shoulder pain onset within 6 months are included in our study to evaluate shoulder range of motion (ROM) in flexion, external rotation,abduction and internal rotation by goniometer(9).Restriction in ROM is noted.Cases with possible diagnosis of frozen shoulder is arranged to receive shoulder arthrography(10,11,12)which is performed by the administration of contrast media(2ml) into joint space,followed by injection of air.Injection is discontinued when resistance is felt.The joint space capacity is defined as the total volume of contrast media and air that could be injected without resistance.All procedures are conducted by the same well experienced radiologist to keep measurement reproducible.The arthrographic findings should met at least two of the following criteria for final diagnosis of frozen shoulder:(1)joint space capacity less than 10ml;(2)irregularity of capsular margin; (3)diminished or absent axillary recess.Once frozen shoulder is confirmed,the patient is randomly arranged to receive a specific treatment program.
(B) Treatment program:
The treatment program and grouping arranged as follow:
Group 1:Physical modalities + therapeutic exercise Group 2:Physical modalities + therapeutic exercise+ intra-articular injection of steroid Gouup 3:Therapeutic exercise
(C) Sample size estimation: We assume α=0.05,power=1-α=0.95,from previous literature(10),change of ROM in flexion, abduction, external rotation, internal rotation before and after treatment was estimated as 40,40,40,20 degrees respectively,,standard deviation was 10,15,10,10 degrees respectively.Therefore,standard effective size was 4,2.6,4,2 respectively.From applied linear statistical models(13)fourth edition,1996,if α=0.05 sample size estimated as 5,7,5,10 Respectively.Therefore,sample size in each group is estimated as 10.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|30 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|The Study of Different Treatment Programs for Patients With Frozen Shoulder
- assess the pain scale and range of motion within 6 weeks
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|25 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with shoulder pain and range of motion limitaiton
Exclusion Criteria:
- Rotator tear
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01249040
|Contact: Sui-Foon Lo, MD
|+886-4-22052121 ext 7390
|Contact: Hsiu-Chen Lin, MS, PT
|+886-4-22053366 ext 3117
|Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, China Medical University Hospital
|Taichung, Taiwan, 404
|Contact: Sui-Foon Lo, MD +886-4-22062121 ext 7390 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator:
|Sui-Foon Lo, MD
|Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, China Medical University Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01249040 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|November 29, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|November 29, 2010
|Last Verified:
|September 2004
Frozen shoulder
pain scale
range of motion(ROM)
muscle strength
shoulder arthrography
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The New York Times is reporting that Spirit, everybody's favorite* presence on another planet, is finally to be abandoned. After exceeding the wildest expectations of its builders, Spirit finally gave up the ghost a little over a year ago. Nasa has been sending a daily call since then, with no answer, and tomorrow will be the last call. It is exceedingly unlikely that spirit will give any sort of response, but NASA will be listening through the end of the month.
I remind you of XKCD's homage to Spirit (click through–the pic is too big for my lousy layout, and it is one which brings tears to my eyes), and repost my own verse from January 2010:
Why do we care about poor little Spirit?
A robot is shutting down; why all the fuss?
My theory, assuming you might want to hear it—
It's not just a bot: it's a real part of us.
For over six years, I could wander a planet;
This rover named Spirit would act as my eyes!
Much more than suspected, back when they began it,
So, yes, I'll be sad when the poor creature dies.
You say, "it's a robot—it never was living!
It's metal and silicon, lenses and gears!
Exploring the surface of Mars, unforgiving,
Controlled from a distance, for over six years!"
Of course, this is true. It's a robot, just driving;
It just blindly does what it's programmed to do.
But it does so where I have no hope of surviving,
And when it shuts down, then I'm blind on Mars, too.
I think it is good that the "death" of this rover
Is met with emotion—a tear, or a frown.
We all hit the off-switch, when our time is over…
I hope you'll feel likewise when I power down.
*We cheer for underdogs. Spirit's twin, Opportunity, is still up and running, improbably and wonderfully.

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Lighting butter lamps in their Kathmandu home. They lost a husband and a son, Dorjee Khatri, to the April 14th Everest ice fall avalance.
Shared this home with her only son before he died working for an Everest expedition in 2014.
His father died supporting an international expedition on Mt. Everest in 2012.
At home in Phortse where she lives with her two sons after losing her husband on an Everest expedition.
Lost her husband in 2006 in an icefall collapse on Everest while pregnant with their first child.
Here with one of her two children, Menuka lost her husband Ashbadur in the 2014 Everest icefall avalanche.


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|XP is just a number
Re: How do you critique another person's code?by chromatic (Archbishop)
|on Dec 20, 2001 at 03:01 UTC ( #133312=note: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??
If I were you, I would rewrite the sections in question. I might say something like, "The existing code relies on side effects and undocumented assumptions. It is fragile and could be made more clear. Here is my suggestion for an improvement."
If you lay them out side by side, it'll be obvious... assuming the other people know sufficient Perl.
I'd leave the issue of comments alone. Again, assuming the other people have a decent grasp (graps?!) of the English language, they'll likely come to the same conclusion you did without having to be told how to feel about them.
If you're in a politically charged position, you may be better off leading people to your opinion than presenting it as an opposing position -- especially if the existing code is already in place and doing its job. (For what it's worth, the only problem I have with the substr code is the need to assign to $_. That's useless.)
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Eventually this austerity bullshit being promoted by liars, frauds, and the people who believe in them will pass.
You know if we got a GOP president (Romney) and more Tea Party types in congress to ensure a majority, we would have things like CISPA/PIPA muscled thru and we would be back in Afganistan 'building a future'. Tax cuts for the rich would continue and we would see more cuts in areas like OSHA, the Departments of Energy, Education, the EPA and FDA. Downsizing would be pushed through no matter the cost but whatever we downsized would be opened for privatizing when and where possible. We, the average consumer, would take it in the shorts while our debt increased to a reduction in taxes from the rich and corporations while our protections would continue to diminish. Yet, I am willing to bet corporate protection would increase many times over.
We're going to get that regardless of which party is in power. Both are corporate whores.Only collapse is going to remove America's nose from the corporate rectum and get actual change going.
True.. but with the GOP all in power..we'd also get all sorts of fun like entire departments of government downsized/shut down. I'm going to bet that within a five years someone in the GOP will announce that we can 'save' the post office by privatizing it. Bets? I mean in a serious way, not the idle talk that it is now. Also willing to bet that more and more of the DoD assets will be privatized if the tea pot types have there way. I imagine under Romney and a GOP dominated Congress we'll see a lot of things get cut/privatized. My student loans will go away, as in I won't have access to them or they will be privatized more and I'll be in debt even more to get my education. The different is the Dems aren't AS bought and sold.. they want to supplement the corporate types with government support/payola whereas the ones buying the GOP want to buy out the government and eliminate any and all regulatory authority they can.
Greece needs to leave the Euro. I'm of the personal opinion that the Euro was a bad idea, and ignore Greece for a second - look at Spain and Italy. These two countries were models of fiscal responsibility, and now they're being told to suffer because they're not as productive as Germany.
But Italians and Spanish can't just up and move to Germany, even if the EU's laws say it is so. The reason the US functions with a single currency is that someone from Washington can move to Florida to find work, and expect to be able to speak the same language, participate in the same culture, etc. A Spaniard who doesn't speak German? Out of luck.
Ultimately, by tying everyone to the same currency, you are requiring that everyone be equally productive. Not on an individual scale. Not irrespective of industrial development. Don't have as many factories as Germany? Too bad. Not as many people? Too bad too.
Greece isn't the only country suffering from the Euro. The PIIGS aren't the only ones. It's nearly every single Eurozone nation except for Germany that is paying the price.
It's legally impossible to leave the euro and it's the worst possible solution for Greece and I'm not even saying what would that cause to other countries, like the UK which would go into recession for two years in this scenario. The only thing that Greece needs to do is make the elections as quickly as possible and get a strong government, like Spain.
Reality trumps the law. Sorry, but it's only the truth. The people of Greece have made clear they are not going to accept years and years of recession alternating with depression so the bankers' balance-sheets balance. And they're right. The debt situation is out of control. Austerity simply means economic contraction, which means lower tax receipts, which in turn means more deficits, which in turn means more austerity, which contracts the economy further, which lowers tax receipts, and so on. The Greeks went along with it for a time, but now they're saying they don't want their economy ratcheted down into the Third World to pay debts. So what now?What needs to happen is Greece needs to default. The bankers need to take their losses from the bad bets they've placed. The man with the croupier stick needs to rake their chips off the table rather than everyone pretending nothing has happened. There is life after sovereign default. Greece can then re-introduce the drachma, and reboot its economy. Yes, there will be pain, but I think you'll get a lot more buy-in from the Greek people for austerity if it is self-imposed and not done to pay debts to non-Greeks.
Regardless of which party comes out, we're headed for collapse. Our energy resources are going into depletion, and even if we had another three decades' worth of cheap oil to pull out of someone's ass, no nation has gone as far down the debt-to-fund-empire road as America has without going through collapse. The USSR had its turn. We're next. We're already far enough in debt to take us down, given that economic growth as we know it has come to an end.Of course, it doesn't have to be this way. We could wind down the American Empire in an orderly manner. We could take some of the money we keep borrowing and invest in a new Manhattan Project to harness thermonuclear fusion for cheap, virtually unlimited energy.I think Callie made some excellent suggestions too--I don't agree with all of them out to the thirteenth decimal place but as a whole the concepts Callie laid out are sound. Tell the rich they're going to need to pay more. End the war on drugs--especially cannabis. Tax it and regulate it. End free trade. Make it harder for companies to sell things here that aren't MADE here.But in reality, none of this is going to happen. America has its collective nose surgically attached to the anus of Big Business. Utterly convinced that anything that prevents the rich from getting richer is horrid socialism or communism. Most of the lumpenproles out there will sit and wait forever (or at least as long as the food and toilet paper holds out) for the Forbes 400 to push some scraps off their table to them.So I say "fuck 'em." Let the collapse come. Darwin in action. If people are too fucking stupid to look after their own self-interest and see they're getting screwed, it's not my fault.
It's legally impossible to leave the euro and it's the worst possible solution for Greece and I'm not even saying what would that cause to other countries, like the UK which would go into recession for two years in this scenario. The only thing that Greece needs to do is make the elections as quickly as possible and get a strong goverment, like Spain.
This is completely false.
Spaniards have a long story of working in other countries, especially in Germany and France, are they/we are very valued. Furthermore it's now very common to move to Germany and find job in a few months, less if you went in one of the recent work plans, companies in Germany offer German classes to learn the basics of the language although usually english is more than fine to start off. More than half of my classmates are all over Europe and they don't know a bazillion of languages, so yes, they can freely move and work to any other countries within the European Union.
It's not about people or factories, if that was true then I guess that the northern countries are doomed due to their low population, and they're more than obviously not doing bad at all.
Germany is doing its job, like Spain and I hope that the rest of the EU will soon do the same thing, and in particular the constitution modification that those two countries have already done.
That's ok, theoretically they could ignore laws. But then what happens if Greece does so and goes back to the Dracma?~ Going back to the dracma, their old coin, would cause an extreme devaluation as soon as it was done. Furthermore, the euro being their neighbour coin would weaken Greece's finance to the maximun level.
~ Building Greece's economy with a completely devalued coin in contrast with Greece's neighbours would practically be impossible. Greece built itself towards a global economy so it would have to go back to what it had been doing for many years now. In short, they'd have to go back a decade and reconfigure their financial system from scratch.
~ Dracma's trust would be very little or null. There would be banking-panic and the coin wouldn't have any level of reliability on an European level, much less worldwide.
~ Some economists talk about a total collapse in the Greek monetary system, and what's worse, without exterior help they wouldn't have much, if any, possibilities of fixing the situation.
~ If the Greek collapse happens, if their authorities decide to go back to the European group of 27, there would be quite some difficulties in being accepted again. There are quite some requirements for being accepted in the eurozone and they would have to evaluate if Greece is able to meet them.
~ The total isolation of Greece could also cause strong social issues, with already several violent incidents in the country. Some voices even speak about the possibility of a coup d'etat.
We have an entire political party willing to wreck this country for it's own power. Will they do it yet again by performing brinksmanship on the debt itself, again? Any sane, honest, and historically aware person would call this political party by the same term we called other 'power at any cost' parties. Of course, they'll happily use this term for their opponents.I'm pretty sure they believe it, too. Authoritarians tend to think that 'the enemy' thinks like they do.We have another political party who counters the above by agreeing with them for the most part, and otherwise being generally impotent. Too many political cowards to actually state, out loud, what needs to be done.
As usual, Callie has made some very good points. Special interest groups need to be kicked out on their asses, and those in office need to be smacked upside the head, ordered to stop the pissing contest, and be reminded that they are supposed to represent us all, and not just those that can give them lots of money. That's pretty much it in a nutshell. It's a big mess. Neither party is willing to do what needs to be done. From what I can tell, President Obama is actually trying, but the GOP and their making him a one-term president kick is making it impossible to get anything done. Republicans have the majority, and bad things tend to happen to Republicans who don't tow the party line. The way they're turning on each other in political ads makes me sick. They are seriously fighting over who is more conservative...If I had to guess, I'd say the reason the jabs are being made because people are frustrated and angry. My problem is with the morons in office and positions of power. I lean more toward the Democratic side, but I think Callie, a conservative, has made some very good points in this and other conversations. It's just this party loyalty bullshit that's screwing everything up. It really has become Republicans vs. Democrats and they're fighting for control. George Washington warned that nothing good could come of a 2 party system. Such a shame nobody listened to him.
Okay, so; Republicans basically suck, Democrats suck almost as hard. Gotcha. :)I am neither a Democrat or Republican, so I can't really take personal offense over such harsh comments, but I do wonder, what is the point of making such comments around here? Why is this kind of harsh criticism so often directed at those particular targets on these message boards? And it's not always just Vekseid or any other particular person who says stuff like this -- I don't mean this as some personal attack on any individual. Rather, it seems to me that there's an atmosphere in which these kinds of comments seem to be welcome and encouraged. At least it looks that way to me, from what little I've seen; I could be wrong.
Yes, a member state's exit from European monetary union, without a parallel withdrawal from the EU would be legally impossible, still, while voluntary withdrawal is legally not possible, expulsion is conceivable.
By strong government I meant one with a majority or at least a solid pact between parties, so that it's stable and can apply its measures without more delays.
It's still false by the way and also a bit unfair. Germany can't absorb such a massive amount of unemployed people, no country can, much less in a immediate time period.
Spain's high unemployment rate is not related to the debt global crisis,
in fact Spain's debt is lower than Germany or France. Also a life changing move can't be done in many cases due to other responsibilities. Regardless, unemployment rate in Spain is expected to go down in the coming years but it takes time.
Iceland is not in the EU, it's a pending candidate. It also has a population of 300.000 habitants which it's less than the city I live in. Those losses are not a big hit to other countries, much unlike Greece's possible losses if it left the euro.Spain has taken more measures in this 4 months and a half than in the past eight years, I don't see it doomed at all, it is in fact making its job to move the euro forward.
Yes, Spain modified its Constitution to limit the public deficit in August 2011. It had 316 yes votes and only 5 against it.
We're talking about a 60% devaluation and that's only as soon as they take their new coin, further devaluation is very likely to happen. Inflation would also go sky high, specially in the long term, much like Argentina which is now between 25-30%, the unofficial one that's it.
I think that comparing Japan and China to Greece is very unfair, don't you think?
Without outside help they would have no investors, the interests would simply be way too high and no country no matter how big or small can survive in a global economy while being isolated, much less grow or fix such an economical meltdown.
I don't think that the eurozone is an abomination, but then again I don't think that the USA is one either, please refrain from using those adjectives to keep this civil and respectful.
Greece supposedly falsified its economic statistics in order to gain EMU entry. I think that it's unfair to blame the EU for its troubles when it's actually them the ones that are trying to save Greece.
I have been reading a lot of John Dean and Barry Goldwater of late. There are several points that both of them make. It's not the conservative movement that is the problem, it's the authoritative leadership of the GOP who have subverted it and re-conned a lot of history to make themselves look good. In fact it was one of the ret-con attempts that got Dean out of his business outlook after Watergate. (He was legal counsel for the President at the time).If you look at it.. Modern Conservatism is very recent.. it grow out of opposition to the New Deal.. which I'm split on.. building infrastructure is good and some of the other things that came out of it isn't. Liberal/Progressive thought is much older, and in fact it could be argued that a LOT of the intent behind the Constitution and Bill of Rights came out of Progressive thought and philosphy. I'm not so much conservative (by current terms) as more 'fiscally' minded. I see too many loop holes being put in. When a company makes BILLIONS in profits but earns a tax credit for hiding most of their cash overseas.. it's not fair or right. Particularly when at the same time they destroy something like 2,000 US jobs a year. That is why I'm not happy with Mitt Romney.. he's made cash off of that process and is still doing so. I have see the democratic segment covering his 'Steel' mill closing left out one important fact.. He'd left leading Bain by then. He practiced those actions. He profited from it. But in the case of the 'Steel' ad, he wasn't directly involved. He doesn't see anything wrong about the rape, pillage and burn business model though. That tells me enough. The problem I have with the GOP is they (the Authoritarian leaders) have sold their souls to the culturally and moral conservative fringe. And see nothing wrong in leading them around by a leash to ensure they get to carry on business as usual.
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Web Search by the people, for the people
YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of web pages. It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index. We want to achieve freedom of information through a free, distributed web search which is powered by the world's users.
Imagine if, rather than relying on the proprietary software of a large professional search engine operator, your search engine was run by many private computers which aren't under the control of any one company or individual. Well, that's what YaCy does! The resulting decentralized web search currently has about 1.4 billion documents in its index (and growing - download and install YaCy to help out!) and more than 600 peer operators contribute each month. About 130,000 search queries are performed with this network each day.
There are already several search networks based on YaCy: the two major networks are the 'freeworld' network (which is the default public network that you join when you load the standard installation of YaCy) and the Sciencenet of the Karlsruhe Institut of Technology which focuses on scientific content. Other YaCy networks exist as TOR hidden services, local intranet services and on WiFi networks too.
Installation is easy!
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Disruptive passenger diverts plane to Nashville
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An American Airlines plane flying from Dallas to Boston was diverted to Nashville after a passenger became disruptive and allegedly ran toward the plane's cockpit.
American Airlines spokesman Kent Powell told The Associated Press on Sunday that Flight 2214 landed in Nashville around 9 p.m. Saturday.
Powell did not identify the passenger or provide details about what she did. However, according to WKRN-TV, police identified the woman as 55-year-old Mary Lentz of New Mexico.
Police said she ran toward the cockpit of the Boeing 737 aircraft, and allegedly kicked several officers during her arrest.
Lentz was charged with three assaults on an officer, assault bodily injury, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
She was being held in the Davidson County Jail on $30,000 bond. Jail records did not list an attorney for Lentz.
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Okay, so you're a writer. But what about the times you don't feel like writing?
Hello friends.
First, a cute baby elephant picture to start off with since, well, they are adorable and people need to STOP POACHING THEM. I digress–a conversation for another time.
(I might be this excited around water as well…)
So, I thought of this post while I was cleaning the house, and decidedly NOT writing. It's something I've pondered in the last few months (while ALSO not writing), and I thought it's something to discuss. Because I've seen a lot of posts about:
how to write,
what to write,
how to build characters,
how to build worlds,
etc. etc. etc., (all informative and wonderful, by the way)
but not as much about
what to do to keep yourself from not wanting to write!!!
So for a long time, I thought that maybe I didn't really want to be a writer, because I wasn't dedicated enough, I didn't wake up at 3:30 a.m. every morning to write (YES, I spoke with a mother of numerous children who said that's when she would wake up to work!). If I woke up at 3:30 a.m. to do anything, this is what I would look like:
and if anyone approached me, I would do this:
So, this leads me to my point, that everyone works differently when it comes to their art. Some people can wake up before the world exists (because in my eyes, if the sun ain't up yet, it's a literal crime to be conscious), some people get an idea and work obsessively on it, no food, no water, no sleep, peeing into a cup (but what about the other functions? THAT is not something I even want to explore…).
I do think though, that for a lot of writers, it is not something they always want to do, it does feel like work sometimes (or a lot of the time, depending on what else is going on in your life), and that you shouldn't feel ashamed for not wanting to write every second you have free time.
Because that's how I felt (and still feel) since I began to realize about a year ago that I really wanted to do this whole writer-writes-a-book thingy.
And back then, I would write in spurts, pulling out the old drafts I'd puttered on when I was 18, reading them over and being like "hey, these aren't half-bad, I'm pretty fucking awesome and talented!!!!!"
So then I would start to read them over and tweak them, editing, re-wording, looking up really cool words online that made me sound super smart and that I only sort-of understood the meaning of, and guess what?!
I got super bored, super quickly and left that draft unfinished to watch some Real Housewives of whatever city was on at the time.
So the first lesson I've learned, and want to impart to other budding authors (since seasoned ones have long left this mistake in the dust), is this:
1) Don't re-read your drafts until they are done.
Yes, you can read the last few paragraphs to refresh your memory of what is going on, but to start from the beginning of that chapter, or the beginning in general, is a sure-fire way to make you not want to write anymore. Why? Because of a few reasons:
-You are inevitably going to find things that you want to change, fix, re-word, etc.
-And because when you read that first draft chapter over again, you will most likely get caught up in how "terrible" or "amateur" it is, and lose confidence in your art, which is the ultimate killer for aspiring writers.
-So just KEEP WRITING, read your stuff at the end, don't bother looking up words in the thesaurus (I just put the word that comes to me in my manuscript with a * next to it so I can change in the following draft), and finish it. It can all be fixed in the 2nd draft.
2) Priorities.
You may have seen something around social media that said something like: "a female writer either has a finished book, or a clean house. Not both." (I can't find the exact quote, maybe someone can comment with it?).
This bums me out, because it is mostly true, in my experience. When I was working full-time (which I'm not anymore, until I run out of money), I only had two days a week to do most of my errands, clean the house, buy groceries, etc. I would spend most of my Saturday cleaning, and by the time Saturday afternoon came around, I was too tired to write. Can anyone relate with this frustrating conundrum?! So what did I do?
–Priorities. And to me, a clean house and well-stocked fridge for the week were priorities. But so was writing. And I found that I had more of an incentive to clean than to write, so what did I need to do first on Saturdays and Sundays? Write!
Once my couple thousand was on paper, then I had half a day to do the other things I wanted/needed to do, and they were things I knew I would complete. Because, like I said, I need a clean house to feel okay with life and obviously, the boyfriend and I need to consume food.
It took me awhile to learn this, and maybe I'm just slow, but to keep yourself from not wanting to write (or rather, to force yourself to do it), make writing the first "priority" when you have free-time on weekends/other days. Because I can assure you–if you don't get it done first thing, it's probably not happening at all that day.
3) Systems and Rewards
Stephen King says in "On Writing" (the bible for writers, please go get a copy if you haven't already) to write at least 2,000 words a day. Having a word count is great, to give you a gauge, a goal, and also because that is a considerably large number and will get you to the end more quickly. But 2,000 words?! That's, like… a LOT!
And it felt like a lot to me when I was working full-time (not so much right now when I'm not exhausted and stressed and my creative energies have been zapped by the corporate world). And it probably feels like a lot to you.
So what did I do?
I did set up a word count, 500 on weekdays, and 2,000 one day of the weekend, 1,000 the other. One "cheat" day a week.
Setting up a schedule, and making it something that I was ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH, was huge. Because for ME, 2,000 words was just TOO MUCH and the large number scared me away. So that I wrote zero words every day for a long time.
So set up a realistic schedule for yourself, follow it, and give yourself little goodies when you complete it!
-For me, rewards are TV shows are little desserts. So when I had completed my word count for the day, I could have some ice cream, watch a Total Divas episode (embarrassing, I know), and socialize with the boyfriend.
And in my opinion, you are STILL a writer, and a good one, if you have to give yourself motivation to do it.
That was the thought I've struggled with most, as mentioned before–that the fact I was putting it off meant that I didn't really want to be a writer. But writing is like having another job. It is using your brain muscle, it can be difficult at times, and it takes discipline. Don't feel bad if you're not jumping out of bed in the morning, ready to write the next scene of your sci-fi-steampunk-erotica-love story (Yes, that is seriously what my current WIP's genre looks like right now) with aplomb.
And I know that not everyone can do this (most people can't, and I might not be able to much longer), but I can vouch for how much easier writing becomes when you are not working full-time somewhere and you have the time and the creative energy to write your stuff. Before, I was lucky to get 1,000 words on the page on any given day.
Now, I am expecting myself to write 3,000 words a day on my WIP (I'm expecting to release Part 1 mid-July, but I may have bitten off more than I can chew with that one). And it has been pretty damn easy for the most part. So it wasn't that I wasn't inspired, or creative, or really wanted to be a writer… it was because I was so fucking tired all the time.
And you probably are too. So don't get down on yourself about it. You have the talent. You have the skills. You have (some) time.
Try to steer clear of the mistakes I've listed above, and feel good about yourself knowing that you have a dream, you are an artist, and you are creating a work of art that very well may change someone's life when you're done.
Thank you everyone for the support and reading this. I am learning all of this stuff just like you, and we are not alone. Tweet me @AshleyRCarlson1 and tell me about your own tips for writing when you don't want to write. Share this post on Facebook so we can spread love and confidence, and the reminder that writing is HARD WORK. I can certainly use the help, as we all can.
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It's a waste of time to try and convince soccer haters of the excellence that tomorrow's el Clasico between Ronaldo's Real Madrid and Messi's Barcelona potentially offers. It's also unnecessary to remind fans of the 2:55-ish p.m. EST start.
I'll just say this: The matchup features some of the world's best at what they do and present 10 minutes of highlights of Clasicos Past...
... and two promo reels.
For what it's worth, I smell a 2-1 Barca win cemented, just like the World Cup, with a late Iniesta goal. But I had the Netherlands winning the Cup, so what do I know?
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"This is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man" (Moses 1:39).
Many of the difficult choices a young woman has to make become easier when she understands the plan of salvation. Knowing that she lived with her Heavenly Father before she was born and that He sent her here with a divine purpose can help her view her trials and challenges with an eternal perspective. Knowing that being a woman is part of her eternal identity can help her develop her divine gifts and prepare for her future. Knowing that agency is a gift and that she will be accountable for her choices can inspire her to make decisions based on eternal principles.
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Note to the Teacher
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Consider how you can plan activities that connect with what the youth are learning. The Church's Youth Activities site is available to assist you. Many of the learning activities in these outlines could also serve as effective Mutual activities. Work with class presidencies to select and plan appropriate activities that reinforce what the young women learn on Sunday.
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The GTA series is known for its parodies of everything relating to pop culture. An early mission in the latest instalment has you wandering through the offices of "Lifeinvader", who are practising "full on, weapons grade, red alert, world domination".
Lifeinvader is GTA's version of Facebook, that conveniently happens to be located in Los Santos. The CEO is a clear take on Mark Zuckerberg, to the point where characters even comment on how he stole the site from his partners.
If nothing else, they got the motto right:
The imagineering room seems to be where they come up with new ideas, including a note for "Backdoor J.I.S.M. access".
Some more motivational posters:
If you hang around, you can catch a meeting where the CEO asks for new ideas (they're already working on a chip that records all of your thoughts):
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1 Trillion Gallons of Water
April 01, 2017
1 Trillion Gallons of Water.
Sometimes when we hear numbers that large, it's hard to really conceive of what they mean. How much water is 1 trillion gallons, really?
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- the amount of water in about 40 million swimming pools.
- the amount of water in about 24 billion baths.
- the amount of water in Florida's Lake Okeechobee (669 square miles).
- the amount of water used in one year by 11 million homes.
- the amount of water wasted every year by household water leaks. Washington Post
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Dale Arnold Jarrett (born November 26, 1956 in Newton, North Carolina) is a former American race car driver. He is the 1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Champion and the son of two-time NASCAR Grand National Champion Ned Jarrett. He is the younger brother of Glenn Jarrett, a former NASCAR driver himself and pit commentator. He is also the father of former Busch Series racer Jason Jarrett. Upon graduation from Newton-Conover High School in 1975, he was offered a full golf scholarship from the University of South Carolina, which he declined. He is a cousin of Todd Jarrett, the 1996 International Practical Shooting Confederation World Shoot Champion. Beginning in 2007, Jarrett joined the ESPN/ABC broadcasting team as an announcer in select Busch Series (now Nationwide Series) races.Broadcaster Schedule In 2008, after retiring from driving in racing events following the 2008 Food City 500, Jarrett joined ESPN permanently as the lead racing analyst replacing Rusty Wallace.
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Q: Why change?
A: It's been many years since The Fresno Bee redesigned its website. Our goal: To make the site faster, easier on the eyes and simpler to find the stories, events, photos and videos you want read. The home page, Sports and Living & Entertainment sections now serve up digests of the day's top stories to make browsing more enjoyable.
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Associate in Occupational Studies Degree, Career Program
The Associate in Occupational Studies degree program is for students who have a keen interest in the construction of the automobile. Welding, refinishing and frame repairs are strongly emphasized with a goal of returning a damaged automobile back to factory specifications. Students may specialize or seek a comprehensive course of auto body study. Students will learn how to make repairs on any make automobile or material. They will be able to refinish any material applying the latest auto body procedures and refinishing products. Students will have various career opportunities with titles that include: auto body repairer, auto body electrician, auto body mechanic, collision technician, welder, frame man, industrial welder, assembler, industrial painter, automotive painter, paint mixer, auto glass installer, job estimator or damage appraiser.
Students admitted to the Auto Body program are required to meet with an auto body adviser each semester to plan their program of study. Space is limited in these classes so preference is given to auto body and automotive matriculated students who are prepared to enter MATH 1230 and ENGL 1010 or higher. Students will be required to attend an advisery session, sign a student code of conduct and maintain a valid driver's license. All students are required to own and supply their own approved hand tools; proof of tool ownership is a requirement for final acceptance into the program (proof of purchase will be accepted.) Students will be able to purchase these tools at a discount. Prior to and during attendance student must have and maintain a valid driver's license.
High School or equivalent preparation required. While not specific program requirements, in order to graduate from this program students must demonstrate the writing skills necessary to enter ENGL 1010, College Composition I and the math skills necessary to enter MATH 1230, Elements of Applied Mathematics I. Based on assessment, students may need to successfully complete ENGL 0960, Basic Writing Skills and MATH 1015 Introductory Algebra to fulfill the graduation requirement. It is essential to discuss this with an adviser.


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Think Small: A New Housing Model
Recently, the story broke that foreclosures were at the lowest level since 2007. That sounds like great news—we're finally cleaning up the mess from the real estate bubble. Except for one thing: RealtyTrac.com, a marketer of information on foreclosed real estate, noted in April that the number of short sales (where a bank allows an owner to sell for less than is owed on the mortgage) were up by 33 percent from last year. In other words, there's still plenty of distressed real estate; the banks are just using a different method to get rid of them.
The fallout from the bubble and the associated financial meltdown continues to cause pain for a lot of people. The standard question among economists is, "What can we do to get things back to the way they were?" But it's not clear why we'd want to do that. There's no point in trying to return to inflated prices that have everything to do with speculation and nothing to do with real value. There's nothing to be gained by recreating a market where everyone buys the biggest house they can afford—and maybe a bit more.
Why not ask, instead, what we can do to create a different model for housing—one that embraces the best of tradition and the best of new thinking. Since 1950, the average size of a new house in the United States has more than doubled, even as average household size has decreased by nearly a quarter. The average American now has living space just shy of 1,000 square feet—nearly the size of the average house in 1950. Have our needs really changed that much in six decades? Or have we been sold something we don't really need?
While not a scientific survey, here's an interesting data point: One of the perennially popular articles on the YES! Magazine website is the story of Dee Williams' tiny house. Williams moved from a 1,500-square-foot house to an 84-square-foot house she built herself for $9,000. That's extreme, for sure, and no one expects the majority of Americans to go that far. But the continued interest in the concept says that people are realizing that smaller is better.
A return to smaller houses has many advantages. They're less expensive to build, so you don't have to get the biggest mortgage you can afford to own one—and your chances of ending up as a foreclosure statistic are lower. They're easier to heat and cool, saving both dollars and resources.
Not everyone is going to build a new house, and there's a huge stock of existing larger houses. But those, too, offer the opportunity for living smaller. An increasing number of people are "doubling up," living with friends or family—whether out of economic necessity or desire to downsize both living space and expenses. The nearly 18 percent of existing housing stock that's larger than 3,000 square feet could be divided into multiple dwelling units.
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The Summer 2012 issue of YES! Magazine.
The Census Bureau estimates that more than 18 million houses stood empty during 2011, even as hundreds of thousands of people were homeless. Millions more are insecure in their housing because they're burdened with underwater mortgages or because they're renting.
The real solution to the wrecked state of U.S. real estate is not to try to get things back to where they were. It's to find creative ways to match supply with demand, to change the way we finance housing, and to recognize that owning the biggest house on the block could be the American nightmare rather than the American dream.
How have foreclosures transformed the layouts of Detroit, Las Vegas, and other cities? Artist Kathryn Clark's mapped it—in quilts.
A glitch in PNC Bank's online payment system meant the Cruz family's home fell into foreclosure, putting it at the center of a committed community stand-off.
Small, supportive, affordable, recycled—and you can build your own.


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How Employers Get Away With Firing Pregnant Women -- Legally
As a driver for UPS, Peggy Young sometimes had to lift up to 70 pounds on the job. When she got pregnant, her doctor said that probably wasn't a good idea and Young should stick to packages 20 pounds or less. Even though UPS routinely assigns "light duty" to injured or disabled employees, it put Young on unpaid leave. She lost her medical coverage.
Young sued in 2008. She lost, and joined the many other women who have tried, and failed, to prove their case in the courts. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received 5,800 pregnancy discrimination complaints in 2011, up from 4,000 in 1997. Complaints of pregnancy discrimination have become so common that the EEOC even held a hearing on the subject last month, examining how best to get employers to comply with the law.
Six states -- California, Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Michigan -- currently have laws that require employers to provide pregnant women some accommodations. New York is considering its own bill to do the same.
Many legal advocacy groups, like Legal Momentum, A Better Balance: The Work & Family Legal Center, and the National Association of Mothers' Centers, are pushing for pregnant women to receive "reasonable accommodations" in the workplace, just like workers with disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
In a recently published paper in the Boston College Law Review, University of Dayton law professor Jeannette Cox argues that the act should actually be amended so that the ADA includes pregnancy. In other words, she wants to redefine pregnancy as a disability covered under the law.
Under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, it's illegal for employers to fire, demote, reassign, or refuse to hire a woman for being pregnant. The law says that pregnant women should be treated just like any other employee, but that doesn't mean that they should be given any kind of special accommodation. Only Americans with disabilities are entitled to that.
The ADA defines a disability as an impairment that "prevents or severely restricts the individual from doing activities that are of central importance to most people's daily lives." In 2008, George Bush approved an amendment to the ADA, which means even more disabilities will be covered under the law, including more conditions linked to pregnancy and "episodic" impairments. Pregnancy itself, however, remains merely a "serious health condition."
In the Young case, UPS said that it didn't discriminate against her for being pregnant. UPS employees were entitled to "light duty" if they had been injured on the job, injured off the job and failed a Department of Transportation medical exam, or fell under the ADA.
None of these things were true for Young. She wasn't forced to take leave because she was pregnant, the judge ruled. She was forced to take leave because she couldn't do her job. UPS' rules were "pregnancy-blind."
Should Employers Be "Pregnancy-Blind"?
Despite the ADA and Pregnancy Discrimination Act, women have long been pushed out of their jobs due to their pregnancies; employers insisted they were "pregnancy-blind," and the courts agreed, upholding the dismissals.
- A Lord & Taylor's saleswoman was fired because she was repeatedly tardy due to severe morning sickness. The court sided with the store.
- A real estate company eliminated the position of a woman who was on maternity leave, receiving treatment for post-partum depression. The firm said it was easier to lay off someone who wasn't there, and the court said that was OK.
- Norton Company placed a pregnant lab technician on unpaid leave, because her work involved exposure to toxic chemicals. The court dismissed her lawsuit.
"It is unconscionable that, nearly 35 years after passage of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, women are still being forced to leave jobs, being denied basic and reasonable accommodations that would allow them to continue to work during pregnancy, and being paid less than other workers because of pregnancy and motherhood," said Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), who is currently drafting legislation to address the problem.
Cox thinks re-classifying pregnancy as an impairment is one solution. If that happened, all the above incidences would be illegal, because they'd violate the ADA.
Pregnancy Redefined As A Defective State
Many women's advocates grimace at the idea of labeling pregnancy a disability, and sending the message that being with-child is a physically defective state. After all, that seems to feed into the stereotypes of pregnant women as incapable, fat, lazy and sick, which discrimination laws are there to protect against.
Cox says disabled people have long faced this problem. The ADA, she says, "forces them [disabled individuals] to acquiesce to the majority view -- that your body is defective -- in order to challenge the majority view that you can't work."
But the outcome, she says, has ultimately been positive. "Many think of the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) as a civil rights statute," says Cox, "empowering people with disabilities, and enabling them to challenge barriers that exclude them."
Many women over time have also feared that special legal protections in the workplace, beyond mere equality statutes, would backfire. They'd make it seem like women truly were the weaker sex, in need of coddling. They also run the risk of making women more expensive to employ.
"It's a debate internal to feminism," says Cox. "Do we want our laws to treat us equally, exactly the same? Or to give us equal employment opportunities, which account for our physiological difference and a history of exclusion?"
The question is likely to gain greater urgency, as more pregnant women remain in the workforce. Between 2006 and 2008, two-thirds of women pregnant with their first child worked through it.
Cox thinks defining pregnancy as a disability doesn't mean being pregnant is actually a condition like a slipped disc or a pacemaker. Rather, she believes disability under workplace law should be defined socially, and not just physically. The way pregnancy "interacts with the architecture and rules of the workplace," she says, makes it function like a disability in practice.
The ADA's purpose, according to Cox, is to reshape the workplace to allow the previously excluded to work like anybody else. And if the government wants to be true to the spirit of this statute, Cox believes pregnant women should be included in its project.
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Is your life touched by the heartbreak of having a missing or sexually exploited child?
Team HOPE is a group of ordinary people who one day were forced to live every parent's nightmare. They know the pain, fear, frustration and loneliness that comes with having a missing or sexually exploited child. With this knowledge and experience, they offer peer support to families of missing and sexually exploited children.
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Don't wait to report child sexual exploitation or a missing child. Immediately call your local law enforcement agency. Then call NCMEC at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678).
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Team HOPE was established in 1998. In 2004 the group officially became a part of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
Team HOPE volunteers are mothers, fathers, siblings and extended family members who have had, or still have, a child who is missing, recovered or has been sexually exploited. These volunteers have demonstrated the ability to turn their personal tragedies into vital lifelines of support for other families. Team HOPE volunteers are passionate about extending their hearts, time, experience, knowledge and wisdom to those who have a missing or sexually exploited child.
If there is a child in your life who is missing, has been recovered or has been sexually exploited, please call us toll free at 1-866-305-HOPE (4673) to be matched with a Team HOPE volunteer who will provide you with telephone peer support. You are not alone. We care about you and we are here to help.


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This climate climate zone covers from about 44°N to 50°N latitude mostly east of the 100th meridian in North America. However, it can be found as far north as 54°N, and further west in the Canadian Prairie Provinces and below 40°N in the high Appalachians. In Europe this subtype reaches its most northerly latitude at nearly 61° N. Areas featuring this subtype of the continental climate have an average temperature in the warmest month below 22°C (22°F). Summer high temperatures in this zone typically average between 21-28°C (70-82°F) during the daytime and the average temperatures in the coldest month are generally far below the -3 °C (27°F) mark.
The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Dfb". (Warm Summer Continental Climate).
The average temperature for the year in Chautauqua is 48.5°F (9.2°C). The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of 70.9°F (21.6°C). The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of 25.9°F (-3.4°C).
The highest recorded temperature in Chautauqua is 100.0°F (37.8°C), which was recorded in August. The lowest recorded temperature in Chautauqua is -19.0°F (-28.3°C), which was recorded in February.
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Chautauqua is 42.4" (1077 mm). The month with the most precipitation on average is September with 4.5" (114.3 mm) of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is February with an average of 2.3" (58.4 mm). There are an average of 155.0 days of precipitation, with the most precipitation occurring in January with 17.0 days and the least precipitation occurring in June with 10.0 days.
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Goodlatte floats path to legalization
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte recently threw a curveball into the immigration debate by floating what has been anathema to House Republicans — a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
The Virginia Republican's idea: legalize the 11 million undocumented immigrants and allow them to apply for citizenship using ways that already exist — including marriage to a U.S. citizen or sponsorship by another relative or an employer.
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As chairman of the committee with primary control over immigration matters, Goodlatte is a key point man for House Republicans on immigration policy. It's unclear whether his comments reflect the larger view of House Republicans, many of whom are flat-out resistant to the idea of allowing a pathway to citizenship to those here illegally.
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But the chairman's July 11 comments have piqued interest among immigration advocates. Reformers want to hear more about what the powerful chairman is thinking. Many are encouraged that Goodlatte is seeking solutions for undocumented immigrants. But others note that Goodlatte's proposal could be legally unworkable.
"Are they trying to create space for a Republican version of legalization with a citizenship option for some but not all? Or are they trying to pretend that they want a solution as they gear up to get to 'no'?" said Frank Sharry, the executive director of the pro-reform group America's Voice. "I genuinely don't know."
Goodlatte has said on multiple occasions that he does not support a "special" pathway to citizenship, meaning that he opposes a new legal category created especially for immigrants who came to the United States illegally. The Senate Gang of Eight bill includes a 13-year pathway to citizenship for such immigrants, but they would essentially have to go to the back of the line of those who are waiting to obtain green cards before they, themselves, could become permanent residents.
In a C-SPAN interview earlier this month, Goodlatte said he and other House Republicans were "open-minded" to a path to legalization. After obtaining that status, those immigrants could then apply for green cards, and ultimately citizenship, through methods already available to other immigrants.
"All of those are ways that they could then eventually find themselves permanent residents and ultimately citizens, but none of those would be special ways that have been made available only to people who are here illegally because that's the Senate's approach," Goodlatte said in the interview. "We don't agree with that approach."
The pathway is the source of a major divide between House Democrats and Republicans. Democrats have said any legislative remedy that falls short of a shot at citizenship would unfairly create a second-class tier of U.S. residents. House Republicans are split: Many are uncomfortable with a path to citizenship but are open to some avenue to a legal status. Some support a path to citizenship, and still others oppose legalization altogether.
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a key member of the Senate Gang of Eight, indicated that he is open-minded to Goodlatte's proposal. He and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) met with Goodlatte last week on immigration and discussed how the two chambers can agree on reform.
"What the Democrats have said and I have said is that a path to citizenship is the game breaker," McCain said. "So if he can find other ways to reach that goal, we'd be glad to discuss it."
"I think the fact that he's trying to solve the problem is very encouraging," Graham added. "I like Bob Goodlatte. The fact that he's trying to be practical and reject self-deportation is a good start."
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Still, some immigration law experts said Goodlatte's proposal would not be allowed under existing statutes.
Under provisions in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, it would be essentially impossible for immigrants who had been in the country illegally for more than 180 days to apply for legal status using existing avenues, they said. Congress would have to revise the 1996 law to make Goodlatte's plan possible.
"It's a simplistic response to the current situation, or it shows a lack of understanding of the current immigration system and how immigration law is so complex and unfortunately, it requires a complex solution," said Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center.
David Leopold, past president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said the main problem with Goodlatte's plan is that it would exclude a significant swath of current undocumented immigrants.
"You still have a system that does not accommodate people with no family ties or employment ties," he said.


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On Friday, in a quiet ceremony in Beverly Hills, Charlie Sheen got married to Brooke Mueller. The night marked the third weddding for Sheen who has also been married to model Donna Peele and in 2002 he married Denise Richards, with whom he is now having very ugly and very public fights. Sheen and Mueller […]
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