pandamania!!!!

Once again I thought this was a vice magazine email....

PandaMania VBS Kick-Off Party

Hello friends! We would like to invite all volunteers and your children to join us for a matinee screening of Kung Fu Panda 2. It will be a fun way to kick off the PandaMania experience.

We do not have a show time yet, but please save the date:

Friday, June 3rd at Rio Cinemas in Kerrville

Patti Hutte and I appreciate your willingness to help us teach so many children about God’s incredible Love this summer. Kerrville FUMC wants to thank you by paying for half of your movie ticket. Matinee shows are $5 and we would like to pay $2.50 for each volunteer and each of their children.

I hope to see you all there!

Thanks so much!

Tara Sweet

VBS Director

VBS Children's event

I swear I thought this was an invite from Vice magazine for a Panda themed event... Too bad I was wrong. :(


Hello PandaMania Team!

It is so exciting to know that VBS begins in less than two weeks. I know each of you have been working very hard and praying for vbs and it will be fantastic!

Some quick notes:
v Please register your kids if you haven’t already, even if they will be in the nursery.
v Kerr Screen has offered to put the transfers on the kid t-shirts for $4.50 including shirt. If you need a transfer for your child, contact Patti at 257-0808.
v Special treat!! Friday, June 3, the team is invited to go see Kung Fu Panda 2 at the Rio 10 theater during the afternoon. Cost will be $2.50 per person. This should get us in the panda mood. Watch for email next week on the movie time.
v The church nursery is open again this Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. It will also be open on June 3 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and Sunday, June 5, from 12 noon to 3 p.m. for vbs set-up/work days.

Thanks for supporting this amazing children’s event by volunteering and bringing your children to participate. It is a truly an event that children will remember throughout their life.


We can't tell you how much we appreciate all your help!

Patti Hutte, Tara Sweet and Heather Farrell

Have a happy birthday mark!

Too bad I'm not mark..nor is it my birthday...

MARK,

JUST WANTED TO SAY HAVE A WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY..........................


STEPHEN REESE
Product and Leasing Specialist
ARDMORE TOYOTA SCION
610-645-5000
610-645-6510 - fax
sreese@ardmoretoyota.com

still trying to buy a house

Transaction regarding Buyer(s): Vanessa Perez

Loan & Appraisal Contingency Expires: Wednesday June 1st, 2011

Close of Escrow Date: Wednesday June 15th, 2011

Your contact information was provided to us as the lender on this file. Please see attached copy of fully executed contract and Escrow information. Also provided is a list of improvements done to the above referenced property. We have found it useful to provide this letter to appraisers, underwriters, etc. Please use as you deem necessary.

I am the transaction coordinator on this file and will be your point of contact for the Listing office. Please be sure to send updates to me once a week if possible.

I look forward to working with you.


Luisa Zepeda (Bello)

Maxim Properties



866.640.3040 x131

702.446.6767 eFax

lzepeda@wedgewood-inc.com

buying a house...

HI MICHAEL

VANESSA PERRY DEAL ACCEPTED ON A SHORT LEASH TO GET FINAL APPROVAL OF THE LOAN

PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHEN APPRAISER GOING SO THAT THEY INSTALL A STOVE A FEW DAYS BEFORE TO COMPLY WITH FHA

THANKS CHEEEEERIO

Malcolm

MALCOLM BOOT

702-444-9888

702-444-9824 (FAX)

702-610-7604

EMAIL: BOOTGROUP@COX.NET

From: Malcolm Boot [mailto:bootgroup@cox.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:20 AM
To: 'vanessa.perez88@yahoo.com'
Subject: FW: 1622 Phillips Avenue - Fully Executed Purchase Agreement



HI VANESSA

YOU GOT THE DEAL GREAT

CONGRATULATIONS

ESCROW IS BEING OPENED AT NEVADA TITLE IF YOU CAN MAKE NEW CHECK FOR $2000 payable to NEVADA TITLE WHICH I WILL SWAP FOR THE OTHER ONE

PLEASE CALL ME ASAP.

THANKS

CHEERS

Malcolm

MALCOLM BOOT

702-444-9888

702-444-9824 (FAX)

702-610-7604

EMAIL: BOOTGROUP@COX.NET

From: Brad Farr [mailto:bfarr@wedgewood-inc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 10:13 AM
To: bootgroup@cox.net
Cc: Luisa Zepeda; Diana Fitzpatrick; Monica Ruiz; APeterson@nevadatitle.com
Subject: 1622 Phillips Avenue - Fully Executed Purchase Agreement

Malcolm, I am emailing you on behalf of Luisa Zepeda, please read her email below. Thank you!

Hello Malcolm,

Your offer for the above referenced property has been accepted. My name is Luisa Zepeda (LBello@Wedgewood-inc.com), I will be the transaction coordinator for this file and will be your main point of contact from this point forward through closing.

Attached is your copy of the fully executed RPA. I have also attached a cover sheet with Escrow information and other contact info you will need. Your escrow officers are copied on this email so you can be in touch regarding the earnest money deposit.

We will need to have complete lender contact information on file so please be sure to confirm Buyer’s lender and send contact information to us via email as soon as possible. Please ensure sure they have my contact information as well.

Please expect to receive disclosures & HOA resale packet status (if applicable) within the next 3-5 days. Please note HOA Resale Packages (if applicable) will be ordered upon confirmation the earnest money deposit is at Escrow. Please be sure to send me any disclosures that are required by your brokerage.

We show all utilities are ON at the property per our system. Please be sure to stop by the property prior to setting up your inspections as we cannot guarantee they are fully functional at the properly.

I look forward to working with you. Feel free to contact me with any questions.

NOTE: Email is the quickest form of communication for our office due to the high volume of transactions.

Luisa Zepeda (Bello)

Maxim Properties

866.640.3040 x131

702.446.6767 eFax

lbello@wedgewood-inc.com

got an appointment...

Hi Mark,

Hope this email reaches you doing well. I wanted to confirm our appointment tomorrow at 12pm to come check the location. Melanie will also be joining us.

Hope your day is going well!

Nicole Pisoni

Catering Department

Piazza Market Catering

627 Vallejo St

San Francisco, CA 94133

P: (415) 981-9881

F: (415) 981-9885

www.piazzamarket.com

web content specialist...I wants a job!

Maybe you should email the right person then.


Hey Mark,

Here's the job posting Web Content Specialist - DSDG35908 and I attached my resume in word or pdf document. Feel free to read if you have a chance and let me know if you have any suggestions to make it look more appealing.

Looking forward to catching up on some card games!!

Best, Chris

Speech help

Hi M***,

I will be out of town this Friday. Is there another day you or Karen could bring her in?

I have openings tomorrow morning at 8:00, 8:30, 9:00, 9:30. Thurs. at 8:30. Monday is a holiday, but you could bring her in Tues. at 8:30.

Thanks for your flexibility and please let me know if any of these days/times would work for you. Or, if I should contact Karen.

Cheryl
Cheryl Ware, M.Ed., CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
Twin Hickory Elementary School
c******@henrico.k12.va.us

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This one was sent by Mark Perry. I'm not sure if it's him, or someone else...it didn't say. It was sent in a blank email. Enjoy the image. :)

mentally and physically challenged

Hola Jovencita,

Finally got around to checking the email. It was my morning for el Centro de Crecimientos. Physical therapy for my shoulders. Among my maladies appears tendonitis. The gout has a life of its own, which at the moment I chose to ignore. Luckily it is letting me do so. The center seems very professional in a shabby sort of way. I do like their cheeriness in the face of adversity. Rehab for the mentally and physically challenged. Currently I qualify in all categories. Monday, Wednesday, Friday for a week or two, guien sabe.

The 14th sounds good to me. Roger still is not walking very well. Nonetheless we can catch a cab and he can hobble from the corner after all it is all down hill. Does that sound like some one with issues?

I went to the gym this morning...one wonders why...to do cardio on the stationary bike. On the way home, I passed the Ortman's bedroom window just as John said, "Carol did you say something?" I responded, "I said nothing, Are you naked in there." John zipped back the curtain. He was not. "I knew it was you!" Their last day in the house.

Hope all is well.

Love ya, clint

Mia Perry's final exam

Someone sent their final exam to me. I can add Professor to my list of current mistaken occupations.

Mia Perry

SW 601-002

Final Exam

1. Karen is the mother in a family experiencing an array of problems. It is Karen's concern about her daughter Amy that has brought her to the agency for help. For that reason, I would prioritize intervention into Amy's problems first. According to Karen's description, it seems that Amy is quite depressed and perhaps suicidal; she has disordered eating and is a victim of childhood sexual abuse. My chosen intervention for these problems would be dialectical behavior therapy. My second priority would be to help Karen with the problems she is experiencing as a victim of domestic violence and as a mother to children suffering from significant emotional distress. I am prioritizing helping Karen over intervening in Mark's abusive behavior and drinking because we can't rely on intervention into Mark's problems to put an end to them, and maintaining Karen's ability to function regardless of Mark's behavior is essential to improving the well-being of her family. I would use group therapy to help Karen. My third priority would be Michael's behavioral and academic problems at school; those are problems likely to get worse over time if they aren't addressed promptly. Left unchecked, fighting and poor grades may have long-lasting impact on Michael's educational outcome. Even though it seems likely that Mark's negative behaviors are factors helping to create Michael's problems, I am prioritizing Michael because we can't count on Mark making changes that would trickle down into improvements for Michael. Michael's adjustment problems can be treated with a combined therapy and environmental change approach. My fourth priority would be to address Mark's abusiveness and drinking because they create a significant negative impact on the rest of the family. I would use an integrated therapy approach in helping Mark. Fifth, I would target Mark's unemployment, because it is a source of stress for the whole family, limits the family's access to resources, and may play a significant role in Mark's behavioral decline. Career counseling or getting Mark additional training in his field are the interventions I would select for Mark's employment problems. While the problems of Anne's dementia and Joey's stress are not insignificant problems and would ideally receive intervention, they are less emergent and so are not included in my top five.

2. The three interventions I chose to present are dialectical behavioral therapy for Amy, cognitive behavioral therapy and environmental change for Michael, and an integrated therapy approach for Mark.

Amy

According to her mother's narrative, Amy was a child victim of sexual abuse and is currently suffering from depression, exhibiting symptoms of anorexia, and self-harming through cutting. Eating disorders are frequently comorbid with mood disorders, especially depression (Karatzias et al., 2010). Likewise, self-harming behaviors are often associated with depression and with histories of trauma, including sexual abuse (Lang & Sharma-Patel, 2011). Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) has been established to be an effective treatment for eating disorders, for survivors of sexual abuse and for self-injury (Lang & Sharma-Patel, 2011). Amy's mother reports that Amy may have some suicidal ideation, and DBT has also been effective as a treatment for reducing suicidal behavior among high-risk adolescents (Sunseri, 2004). For these reasons, I feel DBT is a good choice of treatment for Amy.

In dialectical behavioral therapy, teens are taught the concepts and skills of mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness (Dyl, 2008). Therapy is designed to help the adolescent learn how to deal with the negative feelings that are part of their daily lives. Given that Amy has grown up in a family troubled by everything from sexual abuse to domestic violence and alcoholism, it makes sense that she would be overwhelmed by hurt feelings and that treatment aimed at improving her ability to cope with those feelings would be helpful. In one study of 62 suicidal teens, those treated with DBT had better outcomes following two weeks of treatment than a control group assigned to traditional psychotherapy (Katz et
al, 2004). Outcome measures were scales designed to measure depression, hopelessness, and suicidal ideation.

Another study supporting the efficacy of DBT in treating adolescents is Rathus & Miller's 2002 investigation of DBT for treatment of depressed and suicidal teens. The DBT protocol in this study was designed specifically for adolescents and included 24 therapy sessions during a 12-week period for the teens, and multi-family skills-training sessions for participants' families (Rathus & Miller, 2002). Outcomes were measured using the Life Problems Inventory, Scale for Suicidal Ideation, Positive Symptom Distress Index and Global Severity Index. At post-test, the DBT treatment group had significantly improved scores by all measures. A potential limitation of this study is that participants were not ruled out of the DBT group because they were
taking medication, and so 21% of subjects were concurrently receiving psychopharmaceutical treatment. However, for teens as distressed as Amy appears to be, it wouldn'tt be unusual to treat with both medication and therapy, so the results of Rathus and Miller's research are still worth consideringg, and if an initial trial of dialectical behavioral therapy did not seem effective in alleviating Amy's high level of distress, treatment with medication in addition to DBT would be a logical next step.

Michael

According to Karen, Michael has recently begun to do poorly in school and he has been getting into fights there. He is not compliant at home and is easily angered. Due to the recent onset of these problems and the fact that they may be a response to Mark's increased drinking, anger, and abusive behavior, I would regard Michael's problems as an adjustment disorder. An adjustment disorder arises out of emotional distress when an individual is faced with adapting to a significant life change or stressful life event (Sarkar & Kruger, 2007). Environmental factors, such as conditions in the home, are recognized as significant factors in causing adjustment disorder and removing or reducing the impact of those factors where possible is suggested as the first line of treatment (Casey, 2009). For Michael, the stressful life event or negative environmental condition may be his father's return to drinking and abusive behavior. After removing or reducing the stressor causing an adjustment disorder (when possible) the treatment of choice for adjustment disorder is psychotherapy (Casey, 2009), and I would therefore treat Michael with a combined approach of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and environmental change. I would work toward environmental changes through extracurricular involvement by getting Michael involved in programs and activities that would be less stressful for him than his home environment and where he would encounter adults who would both encourage his self-control and demonstrate positive regard for him. Examples of activities that might meet these criteria would be team sports, martial arts, school clubs, Junior Achievement, Big Brothers, 4-H, etc., according to their availability in the family's area and Michael's preferences.

Research has demonstrated that participation in structured activities outside of school is associated with higher functioning and greater well-being for young people (Kort-Butler & Hagewen, 2011). Self-esteem, pro-social behavior and academic achievement are all enhanced through both the skills attained through the activities and the positive peer associations they promote (Kort-Butler & Hagewen, 2011). Studies by Blomfield and Barber (2009) and by Harrison and Narayan (2003) indicate that students participating in a mix of extra-curriculars (e.g. both sports and non-sport clubs) have the highest levels of self-esteem, and those participating in neither type of activity had the lowest. Kort-Butler and Hagewen conducted a study using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, tracking self-esteem growth and extra-curricular involvement over the course of five years and found that adolescents who participated in a mixture of sports activities and non-sport clubs (e.g. French club, student council) had higher self-esteem than those who participated in sports alone, and that self-esteem was higher for students with extra-curricular involvement than for those without.

Accordingly, I believe providing Michael with the opportunity to experience the self-esteem enhancing benefits of extracurricular involvement , along with the fact that they will reduce somewhat the amount of time he spends in the stressful environment of his home, will help to counter the devaluing messages he is encountering at home.

As for the psychotherapeutic element in Michael's treatment, I think CBT is a sound treatment option because it is demonstrated to be effective with anxiety and depression in young people, and anxiety and depression are often at the root of the behavioral problems seen in adjustment disorders among children and adolescents. Michael needs improved coping skills and anger management skills, and CBT has been demonstrated to be effective in helping young people improve in these areas (Chu & Harrison, 2007). Several studies have demonstrated the efficacy of CBT in improving functioning of children and adolescents (e.g. Kaufman et al., 2005; Khan et al., 1990). A 2005 study by Kaufman and others indicated that CBT is more effective at reducing depression and negative thinking among 93 adolescents with comorbid depression and conduct disorder than an active control group given life skills intervention (Kaufman et all, 2005).

Accordingly, I believe that in conjunction with the environmental changes already described, CBT will have a positive effect for young Michael.

Mark

According to his wife Karen, Mark has a history of substance abuse, for which he has attended rehab and AA in the past. He also has a history of abusing Karen. Recently unemployed, he has started drinking again, has increasing anger problems and has again become violent with her at least once. Research has shown that treating offenders for substance abuse alone often results in fewer incidents of domestic violence only for as long as the person refrains from substance use (Easton et al, 2007; Klostermann, 2006). It seems to be the case for Mark that once he relapsed into drinking, his interpersonal violence behaviors are on the increase. Because Mark currently has problems with both domestic violence and alcoholism, I would recommend an integrated therapy designed for people experiencing both.

Easton and others conducted research into the efficacy of such an integrated approach in their 2007 study of alcohol-dependent men with histories of arrest for domestic violence. Seventy-eight subjects were randomly assigned to either a CBT program targeting both substance abuse and domestic violence or to a 12-step group geared toward addiction alone. Those in the joint substance abuse-domestic violence group showed significantly fewer violent incidents following the 12 week CBT program, and longer periods of abstinence from alcohol (Easton et al., 2007).

Other research examining the efficacy of behavioral couples' therapy for both substance abuse and relational functioning found an integrated approach to be more beneficial to couples than traditional therapy targeting only the substance abuser's substance use (O'Farrell & Fals-Stewart, 2002). These CBT-based interventions have the benefits of being time-limited, which may increase the likelihood of Mark completing the entire therapeutic course. However, they aren't a silver bullet, and while they work better than the single-problem approaches traditionally used in both substance-abuse and domestic violence intervention, neither Easton et al., nor O'Farrell & Fals-Stewart (nor any other known treatment) has been able to reduce drinking or violence
among subjects to zero. At post-test, 10% of Easton et al's subjects continued to have episodes of violence (Easton et al., 2007). Even a 90% reduction in incidents of domestic violence is not really meaningful if you are on the receiving end of the remaining 10%, and it is for this reason that I did not prioritize Mark's treatment more highly in ranking interventions from 1 to 5. As a social worker, I would believe that Mark could change and would work toward that happening, but if I had to choose between helping him and helping the people victimized by his behavior, particularly his children, I would treat them first because the rates of improvement for substance abuse and domestic violence just aren't that comforting.

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awww look they found a desk

We found a perfect desk... Great story. Great price ... We will call after school xo thank you for supporting goldies good study habits... Xo
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Grammy and poppy replied back to them with:

Thrilled. Looks like a great choice!

We love you all,

Grammy and Poppy

Mauree Jane
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